August 12, 2024 • 63 mins
In the first part of episode 20 the group take on the Rope Run and meet Everett Mendle at his stall 'Mendle Mends'.
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Previously on The Dragon's Veil. Welcome to the Alum Saturnalia Carnival of Dreams.
A bit of an odd question. Do you have any candy floss? My friend here has not tried any before.
Oh, you haven't tried any candy floss? Okay.
Would you like to try some? This is spiced by myself.
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I find that the carnival candy floss is not really to my taste.
So you can try some of this.
If you get tied to that wheel, I am throwing extra hard.
She actually does take you to the wheel. Now just step over here, my darling.
And she begins to, now put your arms up. I'm just going to tie you to this.
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I hope that your friend is a very good shot.
And Kate just says, ah, shit.
William is like, ah, shit. Yeah.
Music.
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Signing off for this episode of Dragon's Veil. This is our homebrew.
Oh my God. I always fuck this up. You've got this. I've got this.
This is our homebrew D&D game where we tell the story about four companions
on a little bit of a quest to save the world.
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Is that what we're saying? I thought we were going to get candy floss.
I'm going to get candy floss in the process, which is where they are at right
now. The carnival of the Loom Saturnalia.
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I can do this.
On Instagram at the Dragons Vale. Yeah, that's it. And the website is?
Oh, and the website. God damn it.
TheDragonsVale.co.uk TheDragonsVale, all one word. And our Vimeo? No, I'm joking.
I'm sorry. What about our SoundCloud? Our TikTok? What was our profile song on MySpace?
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I only have so much time in the day. Yeah, hopefully we'll branch out. Bring it back.
MySpace. MySpace, yeah, man.
You could pick your favourite friends on there. Bebo. I never did Bebo.
Oh, yeah, I didn't do Bebo. I did MySpace.
MySpace, you could decorate your page. Oh, yeah. Set your own music and have
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your favourite friends on there.
I'd be super passive aggressive but like these are my favourite friends yeah
these are my favourite friends these are just my friends yeah there's a few
and when you have an argument with your friends you move them down that's useless exactly.
Well none of the simpler times I'm fear time,
cool so let's just jump into our game so I believe last time you had explored the,
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Mr K and Miss L's quick throw yes That was fun. And sore.
Fun and painful. And you guys had gone off to... I actually didn't get myself
a list, but I do have a list here. We smashed the Shadow Pit game.
You played Shadow Pit. You two did so well. You were on fire.
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We also did the wrestling and made a grown man nearly cry.
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We ended on getting Eva's poison, didn't we? That is correct.
Oh, I haven't added that to the thing yet, but... Excellent.
I put 1D4 hours. Paralyze. I spelt Paralyze very wrong. I spelt it.
Who relies? Very lies. Can you pass me my notebook, please?
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My young one. 1D4 worth of peri-peri sauce. I mean like ornandos what.
Okay medieval ornandos were we gonna head to the rope run yes because Eva needs
to burn off sugar oh yes candy flavored energy Eva's got the zoomies,
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and she's bought a second bag nice so where are you guys are you guys heading
straight there are you going anywhere else now yeah Yeah, that's what we did.
Head right there. And I'm going to burn off the energy.
On our way to the rope run. Okay, cool. So this area over here is the rope run.
As you approach it, you see it's just on the left of the kind of main road into Kern.
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So this carnival is bands across these two, like, very wide, grassy areas.
And as you approach, you see a number of wooden platform structures of different
heights. You see some that are roughly around about 12 foot.
You see some that are like half that, six foot.
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And they are kind of scattered, kind of square shape.
And you see various different rope bridges that span between some of these platforms.
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You see one kind of younger gnomish lady who is trying to be quite light-footed
as she kind of scrambles across this rope.
And you see as it rocks from side to side, kind of trying to climb past it.
But you actually see as she gets to the middle, the rope bridge slackens off
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quite a bit in the middle.
And you see her topple over and she falls.
And you see that she falls into a big vat of some kind of goop.
Oh and she
you see she like um slaps the goop and it like
splatters everywhere oh no and you
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see a small male figure who kind of has a very you would call it elvish but
it was slightly more pure elvish uh features never mind i'm so sorry you didn't win but maybe next
time and you see there's like a queue of
people kind of like a crowd of people sorry just kind of
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peering in to like see if they will have a go so do
you want to do you want to have a go then i think i can do this i think i've
got this i want to go anyone else joining who is up next who wants to go on
my magnificent rope run well you're a dexterous party i'm i don't like the the idea of whatever that,
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stuff is, but I can avoid that. Yeah, let's do this.
I see you approach the elvish gentleman. Yeah, shall we?
Yeah, I'll go and follow as well. Just saying stuff that I don't need to carry.
Like your armour. Yeah, armour.
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He's still got the armour from back when we were doing...
Yeah, you do, that's right. Do you take your armour off like a cat that's got
something on its back? walk backwards like slide out.
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So there's two on either opposite platforms to where he kind of leads you to
start from and there is two on the the further platforms that actually don't
have any rope bridges going to them.
Judging from where you are you can see they're probably around about between
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five and seven foot away from each other you've got the 12 foot platform and
then you can see there's a They drop down to a six-foot platform and then another
12-foot platform further away.
So he leads you to the platform where there is a little metal ladder that you can climb up.
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So when you go, when I say go, you will have to collect all four treasures.
Now, the one person who brings me all four tokens will win.
And we are going at the same time? You are going at the same time.
Against? And you will go against each other. So go?
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And he kind of turns around to the crowd.
What happens if one of us already have a couple before the other?
Is it whoever gets the most wins?
Well, you have to bring me all four. But if you have more than he does,
then you will win. It's a race.
If you are ready and if you are brave, you can. I'm just going to reach over and grab them all.
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However, you will get to go first. As you kind of take that hit from Sugar,
you are off as soon as he says go. Bloody roadrunner.
So, which way are you going first? Which one are you going for?
She wants to do the couple here on the jumps.
On the jumps. Okay, so you are going to have to make an acrobatics check for this.
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So, as you kind of run and leap off this platform to this larger 12-foot platform in front of you. 19.
Yeah, you get to this next platform here. That does end your turn,
though. You get that one movement.
William? I want to go to greeny, please. To green?
Yep. Okay, so moving across the ropes, this counts as difficult terrain.
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Okay. So you'll only move half
your movement, but I need you to make an athletics check for me, please.
Oh, damn. Yeah, same dice as well, see? Yeah, it's not hot tonight. That's eight.
Wow, okay, so as you kind of scramble over this rope, you immediately begin
to wobble as it sags beneath you.
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And make a dexterity saving throw, please. Oh, boy.
Oh, that didn't work! That didn't work! That's a nine.
William, the rope actually turns around.
Oh. and you unfortunately let go and you fall into the goop. You got gooped!
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Can I use my rogue bonus action to hide?
Just go full submerge and try and swim. No, actually, I don't want to do that.
You don't want to drown yourself in goop? No.
So I will allow you a chance if you want to try and run back to the platform,
but you can do that on your next turn. Can I bonus action dash?
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You can dash, but you can't get onto the platform.
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That's just enough so you jump down to this platform and you can pick up this
treasure yes that's whatever it does there you go that's true piece of candy piece of candy,
william i'd like to get back on the rope and have another bash if i can please
okay so you climb up to the platform win okay which way are you moving to the
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green yeah okay so again once more with feelings.
I've got feelings wet in his mama's socks.
So 15 feet of movement. If you can make an athletics check for me,
please. Imagine the squelching.
Athletics. 12.
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You get to the exact same place and unfortunately the rope bridge is just not as secure.
It's very loosely woven and you put your foot straight through.
So I need to make you to make a dexterity Saving Throne, please.
Nine. That's a nine again. I'm running out of dice here, guys.
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You want literally anything else. You'd like to choose another dice.
William, you're back in the goop. And this time you are prone as you fall on your butt.
I don't want to cringe all the way. I don't understand this game.
I thought if anyone would be able to do it, it would probably be William, but...
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Either of the platforms the tall one or the
short one that ever was just on so yeah you're in the group you have
to drag yourself out the group and then go kind of across
the field a little do i think i'll be able to get to and get
up either of those to get out the group i'll say it'll be half your movement
because you're well you're prone so we have your moment to stand up and then
you could do half your movement and you would technically you're like under
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here but i can't put your mini under there then it's 20 foot to the 20 foot
to the little little platform or 10 foot to the bigger platform.
Would I be able to get to the bigger platform and climb up it?
You can climb up it as your action, yeah. I would like to do that.
Okay, so you pull yourself out of the group, and then you run the 10 foot to
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the platform, begin to climb, make a athletics check for me.
I didn't know there'd be tests. Jesus, I'm not good at tests apparently.
Oh, 30, 20. Okay, that's enough.
You managed to climb up to the platform at 10 so you'll get you almost get to
the top of the platform you're not quite on there yet because of the movement
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the platform's 12 foot tall so you're literally like hanging on the edge okay
we'll see i'll put your money there for now but that's you you're on that platform.
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Distance i believe it's like 5 10 15 20
25 30 roughly about 30 between
30 and 35 feet i think that one's a
bit closer just yeah i think because this
one's longer it shouldn't really be longer to be fair i just uh so it's like
yeah it should be a square like a large square okay uh yeah so she won't be
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able to jump that you've got to come back through me if i'm going in the goo
you're going in the queue. Oh, Will's upset. He's forgetting about the queue.
Yeah, so, yeah. She assesses, see if she can eye up the jump for them to see
if she can just go straight for the tokens rather than go back the way she came.
But seeing as it's not really doable, she'll jump back.
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She can't go from high platform to high platform. It'll have to be high, low, high platform.
Yeah, I think looking at it, you would need a longer run up than the kind of
size of the platforms there.
Yeah, so she'll start making her way back then.
Cool. Okay, so make a athletics check for me to jump.
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Athletics? No, acrobatics. Sorry.
I think you're getting your wish. Three. What was that?
Three on acrobatics. Three. Okay, make a dexterity saving throw for me, please. You can do it.
Oh. Six. Oh. ever as you kind of leap off and you're like I'm gonna make it
you fall just short and you actually fall there's so like the whole thing is like a.
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Big goop thing so yeah you fall into the goop you fall prone,
yeah you're a goop like goop I just had my third please oh yeah that was like
yesterday right That was yesterday. Just yesterday.
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Sure roll for me acrobatics check please with these dice right with whatever
dice you choose well okay 13,
roll a dexterity saving throw please choose your dice wisely 11 well are you
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sure you don't want my one okay so William you run to jump on this rope So you
actually land on the rope. Nice.
Except the rope turns upside down and you go immediately underneath and into
the group. Back when you started.
Okay. Where's the rest of the party? They are laughing their asses off.
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I was literally about to say, like, Zag will be howling. This is hilarious.
They are, let's... Are they within snowball range?
They can see you. They're just laughing at you right now.
There's going to be some goop coming your way, guys. I honestly thought Will
would have been fantastic at this, but I guess I grossly overestimated him. What are they doing?
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Her eyebrow is just like through the roof.
It's really slippery.
I don't think the goo is your problem. It seems to be the rope. It's in my ear.
Okay, Ever, what is it that you wish to do? She wants to stand up.
She looks like one of those drowned cats.
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She's got a super skinny bone structure.
Yeah, because she's poofy. She is poofy. And she will probably climb back to
the nearest one, which one she tried to jump onto, the smaller one.
Yeah, that's super simple because it's a much lower platform.
So yeah, you can just climb up. It will use five foot of movement, but yeah.
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And what she'll do once she gets up there, she'll shake her back
feet well her her feet like a cat shakes her
back feet wipes the um goop off
of her paws yeah because otherwise there's no traction and she'll try and make
a jump for the high platform cool okay so what was your what's your total movement
uh 30 30 okay 15 20 it's seven foot away because i have 10 seven um so yeah
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so make a athletics check for me.
Acrobatics, sorry, I keep saying that, acrobatics, athletics, and strength.
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Is it above me? It's not too high. Those platforms are like six foot.
So it's probably about not even seven foot. Okay. I'm going to grab up some underneath.
Pull myself up so I'm still underneath.
And I'm just going to spider climb underneath my way up to... Okay.
Nice. Using smarts now. Third time's a charm. Fourth time.
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How long is the time for this game? It's not long, unfortunately.
I was going to say like when he was finally figuring it out and then like the
buzzer goes so half you're moving to stand up and then the other half to kind
of climb underneath rope monkey climb monkey spider monkey climb spider monkey
climb yes bonus action dash,
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you can bonus action dash if you want hell yeah but you'll just stand on the
platform for now because you managed to get there you can have a treasure yay,
finally got one I might just dolphin dive in the goop to get to the other one
you know you have to go via the platforms you can't just walk across the goop my plans are foiled.
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Okay so as you guys are collecting some of these treasures last treasure left you see the,
elfish man who kind of was is running this carnival attraction you see him moving
some kind of counters that are on like a long wooden pole and you see him moving
some to the other side and you see there's only probably about two turns left each.
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So let's think about this.
So, Ever, what is it that you are going to do? She wants to get back to the
start platform. So you have to go via the other platforms.
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No no no come back she could use my feline agility you can so you can get up
the ladder so this is uh this counts as five feet and then you got five ten
fifteen twenty twenty-five,
thirty so you can get to there can she as
she goes along that she wants to use her
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feet claws to basically help put her
claws in the rope okay um to give that bit of extra grip okay in this case i
will lower the dc for that if you can roll a athletics check for me please no
acrobatics god damn it acrobatics why why can you just stick saying athletics that's an 11,
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um make a dexterity saving throw for me please,
by now we're like goop goop goop goop
goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop unfortunately
just not enough so yeah as you are you're trying to move quite quickly over
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this rope and trying to dig your claws in but unfortunately it's just not steady
enough you don't end up completely in the goop.
So the rope bridge flips upside down. Your feet claws are still attached,
but your whole, like, front half of your body is in the goop.
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I'm stuck in it upside down. You are literally just dunked a biscuit.
Oh no, this is how she drowns!
Okay, I can't balance your mini, but that's what we'll see happens.
William? I would like to drop down to underneath the bridge and spider climb
on my way back to the first platform.
Okay, I will get you to make an athletics.
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No, acrobatics. God damn it. Every time. Every time. 16.
That is actually the DC, so lucky. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Is your movement 30? Yeah.
You can get to here. Bone section dash.
5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
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But you need to make another athletic acrobatics check. Fuck's sake.
16. I think my brain just replaced that word. Same old 16. 16.
That's enough. So that's where you get to for your dash. Actual action dash.
So you want to dash with your action. Okay. You need to make another athletics check.
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Acrobatics check. Acrobatics. 19.
We got this. Okay. Okay. Okay. So you run past. You run past the wall.
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Music.
Music.
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So ever, it's your turn and you're... Yeah, so she will use,
just use her strength and get herself like swinging so she can pull herself up. Yeah.
And she'll literally, like a cat, foreclose it. Okay, cool.
So yeah, you pull on the rope and you kind of swing your body and you go and
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try and grab that rope bridge.
This time make an athletics check god that was really hard,
I could see your brain like churning like what word is it what's wrong insert word,
14 okay that's enough you pull yourself up and onto the rope,
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that is likely going to be your action though because you're pulling yourself
so do you move across the bridge yeah move across the bridge Like I said,
she's kind of on fours to give herself a bit of extra stability rather than
just running on her feet.
Yeah. So you go cat-like, and you start running across the bridge.
Are you taking your own quickly or slowly?
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She might be a little bit quick. A bit quick. Okay. It's the zoomies.
They've still got hold of her.
So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It's 30, right?
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Oh, jeez. So you actually managed to run quite a distance on the rope before
you feel William starting to make his way back.
As he also stands on the rope, the rope begins to wobble from side to side.
And unfortunately, you can't hold on as you're kind of mid-run and you fall
just short of the platform.
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Into the goop. At this point, Kate is like, Come on, William!
Now is your chance! I'm trying to shout back my face is just go warm,
you are covered ever is covered you're still looking like very,
bedraggled good thing that you took off like your armor and all oh god yeah
William you've got goop in your armor that's fun so what are you doing well
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yeah right um I will use the plan that is working so you're gonna go back under
and spider monkey coffee okay,
make a athletics no acrobatics god
damn it like it's like my brain has just
gone blank word insert this other word
seven okay i i would like to do something incredibly cheeky sure during all
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of this can say i could brought out the puppet yeah i'll say that yeah okay
cool cool i would like to use telepathy on will and make a funny voice implying it's the puppet okay.
I might have to change winning this game What are you saying with this voice?
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That's 21. It's not very intimidating. It gets the voice, you see.
Yeah, you hear the voice in your head and it doesn't shake you as much as you
think, but you can see the puppet out and that's kind of fucking weird.
I'm glad the general consensus at this table is the puppet's fucking weird.
The puppet's so weird. Why is it out of the bag?
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But you did feel your acrobatics. Yeah, I did. So you are back in the goop.
Nice. nice and as you're back in the group you
hear you maybe not you because you're busy but pointing and laughing yeah as
you as you stand up ever you see the alpha man put the last counter on this
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wooden pole next to him and he shouts that is it time is up please return to me,
so i'm gonna put the puppet back in his bag and pretend like nothing happened
cool put that back in and he's like what does that mean no one got there,
So, what do you do? You return?
I would like to throw a handful of goop at the back of Zag's head, please.
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Okay. Or just at Zag in general. Make an attack roll.
18. Oh yeah, that's going to hit. I don't have a class of 18.
As you turn to put the puppet back in the bag, you feel a dush on the back of
your head and suddenly it's wet and gross and slimy and cold.
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Very cold. Oh, that's not nice That was for the puppet It begins to slide down
near the back of your neck As those words I, I, in telepathy And the fun's only just beginning,
I'd like to just have a handful of goop Is it like Ghostbusters 2?
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Am I like covered in it? Can I like flick it?
Oh, you can flick it, yeah It is definitely like Ghostbusters 2 And it's luminous as well Oh,
delicious Can I also like just because there's sheer fun of it and just laughing
at Will once Will stands up can she try and like swipe his legs out from beneath him? Yeah.
And before like when she's done that she'll just run off towards the elf and
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leave him in the game. Make an attack roll please.
25. Oh Jesus. Will you can make a dexterity savings roll if you'd like.
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I would like to empty my water skin and fill my water skin with goop.
Okay. Because vengeance plus patience.
Sure. Are you doing it selfily? Yeah. Make us a fan check, please.
That's an actual one. Four.
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Six. Okay. I feel like it helps. Just staring directly at Zag as he pours out
the food. They're making eye contact.
Yeah. As you fill, as you pour your water out to the scoop, there's a horrible
kind of fizzing sound to it and a little bit of smoke comes out.
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And then, yeah, you fill your, you think you filled your... I'll do my best. Yeah. You tried.
It's like filling a whoopee cushion. Yeah. I'm trying to pull the parts,
the two ends, the two sides of the water skin apart, trying to suck it in. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. It feels full. cool so you get out of the goop and do you approach the man I have two as well,
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aha a tiebreaker I see well it
seems that you are both owed credits then but
we'll split the main price and he
goes let me just check you each get ten credits well done well done i hope you
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enjoyed yourself and uh you should probably get cleaned up okay who's next and.
He kind of goes into the crowd of people,
where would you get cleaned up i was just thinking that like why would you say
you should go away get cleaned up now and there's nowhere to do that that's
not why they got a free shout yeah like where's a towel or something,
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like yeah go get cleaned up live my carnival.
Leave your dirty hole,
ever at this point after the I haven't heard that phrase in a while the night is young.
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I'm glad that I didn't go with my chain mail that was a bit awful I think the
worst part is definitely in my boots definitely in my boots,
I'm going to be honest with you you may as well throw your socks away because
it's going to be like between the I can't be with my socks anymore Zach do you
have socks that William can borrow?
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You know what? I think I have a I could do with some pants as well I have a
shirt that you could borrow It's that set that you could buy for me. It's fine.
Apparently my clothes are collectively our clothes. Communal clothes.
Did we walk past a tent that had mending on it? Maybe this could be sort of mended away.
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Fingers crossed. There was that tent that said something about long rests.
Maybe they might have something like that.
Do you have a short rest shower?
There was a Mendel's men's to mend what's broken. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Mendel's men's. Yeah. Well,
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there's the needlepoint seamstress and tailors could find new clothes.
That's the point. I could give Zach's shirt back if I buy myself new clothes.
I might do that, actually. Oh, I miss it when it was our shirt already. Anyway.
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Which way are we going now? i'll just let's try and find somewhere to get you guys,
gesticulate wildly and try and flick goo over the people and
you hear it
hit the ground i mean let's find somewhere to get you guys cleaned up and then
we can maybe have a look at the fortune teller fortune oh yeah yeah yeah and
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i want to do do everything honestly I won't lie I want to go to see the we'll
do the fortune teller we can go to.
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It next,
I'm yeah where Mendel men yeah see if their men were all broken okay what's
broken dirty counts as being broken yeah we'll find out I don't have oh I don't
have Mendel where is he oh he's there oh thank god can I have um cool axe dude or hammer dude or,
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one of the above old cool guy old cool
guy that's what we call him oh he is cool he's just got a cool stance yeah he's
a cool dude it's pretty it's pretty right actually he's gonna be like let me
see let me see let me see let me see so basically guys he's this very cool tall
wizard dude with the most wholesome beard gray beard with a pipe he's got a
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really pointy yellow hat,
he's very cool he's got he looks like a tall no you need to put this on instagram this is very
cool i like this it's painted by a resident
painter over here oh yeah definitely well it
looks so good it's like you know there's those gonks around a lot at the moment
do you know what i mean by gonks i hate them but basically they're like this
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little gnomey thing no why it's just a big round nose and all beard oh and it's
they're kind of like yeah like a cross between santa and A troll.
I've not seen those. But basically, this dude looks like a fucking awesome gonk.
But how they should, what's actually cool is what I'm getting at, basically.
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Anyway, I digress. He's very, very cool. He's painted beautifully.
Does he have a grenade?
He might. Oh, is it a little round pouch? It's a little violin. Oh, cool.
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Awkwardly because i want to get more goo on myself it's already covered in goo,
like goo is just dripping and you've trailed glue all the way here um you and
ever ever you're just looking a little bit like you're the fur is starting to
get a little bit puffier because you have like tried to shake it out but it's
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still kind of bedraggled because ever has white fur Has it tinged her fur?
She's looking a little luminous. No.
We're not going to lose her in the mines. Anything that's kind of lighter coloured
on you has got this horrible yellowy green tinge to it.
You've been on the rope runs, I see. Mostly off.
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You're a funny one. What can I do for you?
Do you know how we can clean the goop off? Hi, you want to be spiffy?
Yeah I get that I get that I in return.
Do you why that hurts real hard,
well let's see now the two of you,
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clean you up that'll be about hmm let's
make that two gold no problem well that'll still mean any of the tinting on
my fur will also go ah yeah we'll be able to get that off thank you I don't
want to be a luminous green cat you are looking a little green I must say are
you feeling okay? oh no wait it's the goop right?
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It's the goop yes I'm not such a new adventurer,
it just takes some time don't you worry Lassie I'll get you cleaned up you see
him like take his staff and you see him cast he's going to cast Thermiturgy
and just give you a little clean make you spruce you up a little bit and so
like all that kind of luminous staining all the goop is gone,
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that'll be two gold please Please, if you don't mind. Aye, thank you.
So what's a bunch of adventurers doing on the road front? To be honest, it looks amazing.
That's what they all say. It just looks fun and I've had a lot of sugar. It's like fun.
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He just pouts a little bit and he still eats it,
cool you eat some more of that candy floss sugar sugar sugar how about you so
what does your stall do oh I just come and go really,
sometimes I meet up with the circus I know the owner,
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and I just do a little bit of work here and there and then I go
off again I like the rope run because it
brings a load of people to me I cannot fathom why like yeah i got rid of fair
well i did get rid of the goop but it may be in a few hours you're going to
want to take a bath because it doesn't get rid of the smell oh good good advice thank you,
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i'm thinking we should go to that spa again if we
get an opportunity to do so i think so i think that's
a good plan hi the silver raven yeah yeah i've been to cairn a lot and especially
around these areas and that is the best spa around here in fact probably the
only spa it was very nice having a lovely shiny coat for one day.
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Yeah yeah been here a lot have you ever ventured into the mines,
oh i'm not a miner myself i've not had any reason to although i've heard some
some cool stories i I mean, traveling around these parts, you get to hear a lot.
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You know, I don't know if you know the history of Kern. It's obviously a mining
town, but the way that Kern is right now, never used to be like that. It was...
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With city ruins and things from when the city was first built.
And is there access to this city?
I've heard there's access somewhere in the mines, but I mean,
those are just folk stories, right?
Was it like a human city or? No, no, a dwarfish city.
Oh, that makes sense. It was the first Kern.
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Industry comes in, people, travelers, they settle here and then you need more
space. So, you know, they leave the old city behind.
Wow. They build the mines. Build the mines on top.
So they covered it and then made mines and then continued building upwards.
Well, as far as I understand it, the mines were kind of already part of the old city.
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Ah. And then as time goes on, as it does, you know, people move on, like the land changes.
But now we have this cairn and it does pretty well so if the mines were part of.
The old city then huh i
mean some of them that i've heard the mines if the old city is real oh yeah
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i mean it's folklore well folklore or not it would have had a name what was
it called oh that's lost to the ages unfortunately i'm not privy to that but
you know it's just what i hear from travelling around.
But there are plenty of stories everywhere. I mean, you must have had some stories.
You're adventurers, right?
Yeah, this one time I fell in goo again and again and again and again.
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He kind of looks puzzled at you. You're adventurers, right? Yeah.
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Play a question when are we supposed to be going into the mine tomorrow,
oh we had like some time to prep oh yeah we did we got to give us some money
in time to prep so wasn't it like he said yeah he said one to two days yeah
I think it was just to get the stuff to your hotel well I guess hotel yeah Merth Mill yeah,
to get like you some stuff so he said like one to two days we should like go
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to the library and find out what is more about this folklore of like the city underneath.
Because I'll bet you there's some kobolds living in that city, yo.
Like, that's where they all are. You're going to kill them and cook them.
Doing something to dodge.
Yeah. I mean, there's, you know, like there's plenty of old cities around.
Like, there's ancient cities, I'm sure.
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What do you do when you're not running the stall then? You said you do this
and that and here and there. I just travel mainly.
Just go out, maybe find something to kill and sell the hide.
Make a little bit of money, travel some more And what's your daily cost for that?
What, to... Well, I mean, we're scheduled to go into the mines in the next couple
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of days You look like you'd be pretty handy to have around Oh,
you're talking about hiring me Interesting Depends what your prices are Why
are you going into the mines?
Well, this town seems a bit suffocated
They can't use the mines They're struggling We thought we'd help,
There's a bit of coin in it but you know helping out what was the stories that
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I've heard about the mines though recently they've having yeah people go missing
they go down they don't come back sounds like fun I mean I mean it does sound like fun.
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I like it. I'm glad that we're all being shady as fuck.
I noticed there's quite a lot of silence and staring at each other.
We don't really know how much coin we're going to get.
Always find out before you take a job. That's my recommendation.
I don't think there's a big pile of treasure at the bottom kind of thing.
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I think it's more just getting the town back to making their own money, you know?
I mean, it's for a noble cause, I'll give you that.
But always find out how much you're getting before you take a job.
Well, like you said, you're here for a few days, so... I am,
I am. The name's Everett.
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Everett Mendel, I had to look at his last name. And he passes you,
like, quite a large hand. He's quite a tall, big-boned guy.
And yeah, he passes you out a hand and starts shaking, welcoming you.
A pleasure to meet you. and you are William William and I'm Keith nice to meet
you Keith ever watchful ever watchful,
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Zagreus Zagreus and you and Decker Zag the name's Decker yeah it is.
Decker okay okay well I'm here if you need anything I can do some low level
mending at this stage and any more cleaning up if someone ends in the goop again.
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Yes I'm here as long as you pay me two gold I will clean you I will clean you
up right here that sounds okay thank you.
And he blushes a tiny bit and then goes back to puffing on his pipe genuine
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pleasure I hope we cross paths again soon Aye, laddie, I think we will.
Remember, I'm here. See you soon.
Okay, it says, before turning. Shall we head to the fortune teller first? Yeah.
Yeah. So I was thinking, like, for maybe 50 gold or so, we've got a guy who can help.
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Who can help men when we break ships.
This is a great idea, William. More than 50 gold is 50 platinum pieces.
That's what I was thinking, for like 50 gold.
I was straight up going to offer him that but he wouldn't give me his daily rate.
I think it's good. I think we come back tomorrow and we say,
look, we thought about it and we found out we're going to be earning this much.
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I mean, or we just say, look, this is what we can afford. We don't know if we're going to get any more.
How about this? Without sounding rude, do not mean to sound funny,
the 50 gold will not entice this man.
He's charging two gold apiece to clean you. Oh yeah, that is a good strength.
He's going to make more than that just today from the group store. Precisely. A deco?
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It was huge. Yeah, he's seen some, like, his armour's seen some wear.
He's definitely experienced, at least. And that was a strong grip.
Yeah. The guy said he just goes places, finds something to kill.
I mean, that's what we want, right?
Yeah. I mean, it doesn't seem like the type to ask any questions.
I should have insight checked him a bunch. I didn't do any of it.
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You didn't do it. You were just like, this nice man.
You were charmed by his old man, Miles. The old man charm, it got you.
It tranced us
all that northern accent you can take a look like you take a look behind you
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as you're kind of leaving and he just sat on the barrels puffing his little
pipe not not really doing too much i mean at least he was
honest he was like yeah like 10 of whatever
you're earning and it's quite
expensive but actually it should be useful actually if he's going to mend things
for us if he's going to fight for us 10 it's not so bad i mean it's not it's
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not bad and we also we don't know what we're walking into precisely this is
true without knowledge of what we have he's it's really a safety buffer.
What we're paying for is that extra security of...
It's 10% for a flash shield, basically. That's exactly what I was thinking.
If we need to get away, he's old, you know?
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This has got to fit it up. I don't think I've seen this side of you, Tekka. Oh.
Hi. My name's Tikka.
How far away are we from him right now? I was assuming we were continuously walking.
I'm assuming that you're off. If you're having a conversation that turns this
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dark, I'm assuming that you're walking and talking.
Is he still, so he's out of 30 foot? No, he'll be within 30 foot of range,
but you're kind of getting towards the end of it.
Ever would like to cast Detect Evil and Good. Ooh. Ooh.
For the duration you know if there's an aberration, celestial,
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elemental, fae, fiend, or undead within 30 feet of you as well as where the creature is located.
Similarly, if you know there is a place or object within 30 feet of you that
has been magically consecrated or desecrated.
Feet. It's a radar. It lasts 10 minutes as well. It lasts 10 minutes.
Okay, nothing's pinging on your radar.
While we were looking at him, I don't want to retroactively insight check him,
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but I would like to have looked at his armour and his weapon.
Okay. And how do they look? Yeah, there's wear on his armour and his weapon.
His weapon, although there is divot out of the edge of the axe, it still looks sharp.
It looks like it's taken care of, but it is well used.
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And he could be lazy and not clean his own shit that's true or he could have
mended it multiple times and it's,
he did care about hygiene he was saying like you know you are going to want
to have a shower soon because although you look nice you're going to stink,
so he cares about and he knows of the silver raven spa yeah and that's also
true he needs his hat coin at times and also I do got the pop I'm not surprised I'm getting more,
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evil vibes neither evil or really good so yeah it might just be well I mean
I think he was quite chill not exactly that's what I'm saying interesting,
let's fortune teller let's go okay so you head off to the fortune teller and
then we're gonna do some fortune fortune fortune fortune fortune,
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and with that we will cut to our long rest thank you so much for listening we
hope you had a good time we had a great time telling this story and we'll see you in.
Music.
Previously on The Dragon's Veil. Welcome to the Alum Saturnalia Carnival of Dreams.
A bit of an odd question. Do you have any candy floss? My friend here has not tried any before.
Oh, you haven't tried any candy floss? Okay.
Would you like to try some? This is spiced by myself.
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I find that the carnival candy floss is not really to my taste.
So you can try some of this.
If you get tied to that wheel, I am throwing extra hard.
She actually does take you to the wheel. Now just step over here, my darling.
And she begins to, now put your arms up. I'm just going to tie you to this.
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I hope that your friend is a very good shot.
And Kate just says, ah, shit.
William is like, ah, shit. Yeah.
Music.
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Signing off for this episode of Dragon's Veil. This is our homebrew.
Oh my God. I always fuck this up. You've got this. I've got this.
This is our homebrew D&D game where we tell the story about four companions
on a little bit of a quest to save the world.
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Is that what we're saying? I thought we were going to get candy floss.
I'm going to get candy floss in the process, which is where they are at right
now. The carnival of the Loom Saturnalia.
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I can do this.
On Instagram at the Dragons Vale. Yeah, that's it. And the website is?
Oh, and the website. God damn it.
TheDragonsVale.co.uk TheDragonsVale, all one word. And our Vimeo? No, I'm joking.
I'm sorry. What about our SoundCloud? Our TikTok? What was our profile song on MySpace?
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I only have so much time in the day. Yeah, hopefully we'll branch out. Bring it back.
MySpace. MySpace, yeah, man.
You could pick your favourite friends on there. Bebo. I never did Bebo.
Oh, yeah, I didn't do Bebo. I did MySpace.
MySpace, you could decorate your page. Oh, yeah. Set your own music and have
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your favourite friends on there.
I'd be super passive aggressive but like these are my favourite friends yeah
these are my favourite friends these are just my friends yeah there's a few
and when you have an argument with your friends you move them down that's useless exactly.
Well none of the simpler times I'm fear time,
cool so let's just jump into our game so I believe last time you had explored the,
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Mr K and Miss L's quick throw yes That was fun. And sore.
Fun and painful. And you guys had gone off to... I actually didn't get myself
a list, but I do have a list here. We smashed the Shadow Pit game.
You played Shadow Pit. You two did so well. You were on fire.
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We also did the wrestling and made a grown man nearly cry.
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We ended on getting Eva's poison, didn't we? That is correct.
Oh, I haven't added that to the thing yet, but... Excellent.
I put 1D4 hours. Paralyze. I spelt Paralyze very wrong. I spelt it.
Who relies? Very lies. Can you pass me my notebook, please?
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My young one. 1D4 worth of peri-peri sauce. I mean like ornandos what.
Okay medieval ornandos were we gonna head to the rope run yes because Eva needs
to burn off sugar oh yes candy flavored energy Eva's got the zoomies,
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and she's bought a second bag nice so where are you guys are you guys heading
straight there are you going anywhere else now yeah Yeah, that's what we did.
Head right there. And I'm going to burn off the energy.
On our way to the rope run. Okay, cool. So this area over here is the rope run.
As you approach it, you see it's just on the left of the kind of main road into Kern.
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So this carnival is bands across these two, like, very wide, grassy areas.
And as you approach, you see a number of wooden platform structures of different
heights. You see some that are roughly around about 12 foot.
You see some that are like half that, six foot.
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And they are kind of scattered, kind of square shape.
And you see various different rope bridges that span between some of these platforms.
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You see one kind of younger gnomish lady who is trying to be quite light-footed
as she kind of scrambles across this rope.
And you see as it rocks from side to side, kind of trying to climb past it.
But you actually see as she gets to the middle, the rope bridge slackens off
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quite a bit in the middle.
And you see her topple over and she falls.
And you see that she falls into a big vat of some kind of goop.
Oh and she
you see she like um slaps the goop and it like
splatters everywhere oh no and you
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see a small male figure who kind of has a very you would call it elvish but
it was slightly more pure elvish uh features never mind i'm so sorry you didn't win but maybe next
time and you see there's like a queue of
people kind of like a crowd of people sorry just kind of
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peering in to like see if they will have a go so do
you want to do you want to have a go then i think i can do this i think i've
got this i want to go anyone else joining who is up next who wants to go on
my magnificent rope run well you're a dexterous party i'm i don't like the the idea of whatever that,
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stuff is, but I can avoid that. Yeah, let's do this.
I see you approach the elvish gentleman. Yeah, shall we?
Yeah, I'll go and follow as well. Just saying stuff that I don't need to carry.
Like your armour. Yeah, armour.
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He's still got the armour from back when we were doing...
Yeah, you do, that's right. Do you take your armour off like a cat that's got
something on its back? walk backwards like slide out.
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So there's two on either opposite platforms to where he kind of leads you to
start from and there is two on the the further platforms that actually don't
have any rope bridges going to them.
Judging from where you are you can see they're probably around about between
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five and seven foot away from each other you've got the 12 foot platform and
then you can see there's a They drop down to a six-foot platform and then another
12-foot platform further away.
So he leads you to the platform where there is a little metal ladder that you can climb up.
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So when you go, when I say go, you will have to collect all four treasures.
Now, the one person who brings me all four tokens will win.
And we are going at the same time? You are going at the same time.
Against? And you will go against each other. So go?
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And he kind of turns around to the crowd.
What happens if one of us already have a couple before the other?
Is it whoever gets the most wins?
Well, you have to bring me all four. But if you have more than he does,
then you will win. It's a race.
If you are ready and if you are brave, you can. I'm just going to reach over and grab them all.
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However, you will get to go first. As you kind of take that hit from Sugar,
you are off as soon as he says go. Bloody roadrunner.
So, which way are you going first? Which one are you going for?
She wants to do the couple here on the jumps.
On the jumps. Okay, so you are going to have to make an acrobatics check for this.
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So, as you kind of run and leap off this platform to this larger 12-foot platform in front of you. 19.
Yeah, you get to this next platform here. That does end your turn,
though. You get that one movement.
William? I want to go to greeny, please. To green?
Yep. Okay, so moving across the ropes, this counts as difficult terrain.
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Okay. So you'll only move half
your movement, but I need you to make an athletics check for me, please.
Oh, damn. Yeah, same dice as well, see? Yeah, it's not hot tonight. That's eight.
Wow, okay, so as you kind of scramble over this rope, you immediately begin
to wobble as it sags beneath you.
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And make a dexterity saving throw, please. Oh, boy.
Oh, that didn't work! That didn't work! That's a nine.
William, the rope actually turns around.
Oh. and you unfortunately let go and you fall into the goop. You got gooped!
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Can I use my rogue bonus action to hide?
Just go full submerge and try and swim. No, actually, I don't want to do that.
You don't want to drown yourself in goop? No.
So I will allow you a chance if you want to try and run back to the platform,
but you can do that on your next turn. Can I bonus action dash?
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You can dash, but you can't get onto the platform.
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That's just enough so you jump down to this platform and you can pick up this
treasure yes that's whatever it does there you go that's true piece of candy piece of candy,
william i'd like to get back on the rope and have another bash if i can please
okay so you climb up to the platform win okay which way are you moving to the
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green yeah okay so again once more with feelings.
I've got feelings wet in his mama's socks.
So 15 feet of movement. If you can make an athletics check for me,
please. Imagine the squelching.
Athletics. 12.
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You get to the exact same place and unfortunately the rope bridge is just not as secure.
It's very loosely woven and you put your foot straight through.
So I need to make you to make a dexterity Saving Throne, please.
Nine. That's a nine again. I'm running out of dice here, guys.
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You want literally anything else. You'd like to choose another dice.
William, you're back in the goop. And this time you are prone as you fall on your butt.
I don't want to cringe all the way. I don't understand this game.
I thought if anyone would be able to do it, it would probably be William, but...
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Either of the platforms the tall one or the
short one that ever was just on so yeah you're in the group you have
to drag yourself out the group and then go kind of across
the field a little do i think i'll be able to get to and get
up either of those to get out the group i'll say it'll be half your movement
because you're well you're prone so we have your moment to stand up and then
you could do half your movement and you would technically you're like under
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here but i can't put your mini under there then it's 20 foot to the 20 foot
to the little little platform or 10 foot to the bigger platform.
Would I be able to get to the bigger platform and climb up it?
You can climb up it as your action, yeah. I would like to do that.
Okay, so you pull yourself out of the group, and then you run the 10 foot to
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the platform, begin to climb, make a athletics check for me.
I didn't know there'd be tests. Jesus, I'm not good at tests apparently.
Oh, 30, 20. Okay, that's enough.
You managed to climb up to the platform at 10 so you'll get you almost get to
the top of the platform you're not quite on there yet because of the movement
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the platform's 12 foot tall so you're literally like hanging on the edge okay
we'll see i'll put your money there for now but that's you you're on that platform.
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Distance i believe it's like 5 10 15 20
25 30 roughly about 30 between
30 and 35 feet i think that one's a
bit closer just yeah i think because this
one's longer it shouldn't really be longer to be fair i just uh so it's like
yeah it should be a square like a large square okay uh yeah so she won't be
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able to jump that you've got to come back through me if i'm going in the goo
you're going in the queue. Oh, Will's upset. He's forgetting about the queue.
Yeah, so, yeah. She assesses, see if she can eye up the jump for them to see
if she can just go straight for the tokens rather than go back the way she came.
But seeing as it's not really doable, she'll jump back.
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She can't go from high platform to high platform. It'll have to be high, low, high platform.
Yeah, I think looking at it, you would need a longer run up than the kind of
size of the platforms there.
Yeah, so she'll start making her way back then.
Cool. Okay, so make a athletics check for me to jump.
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Athletics? No, acrobatics. Sorry.
I think you're getting your wish. Three. What was that?
Three on acrobatics. Three. Okay, make a dexterity saving throw for me, please. You can do it.
Oh. Six. Oh. ever as you kind of leap off and you're like I'm gonna make it
you fall just short and you actually fall there's so like the whole thing is like a.
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Big goop thing so yeah you fall into the goop you fall prone,
yeah you're a goop like goop I just had my third please oh yeah that was like
yesterday right That was yesterday. Just yesterday.
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Sure roll for me acrobatics check please with these dice right with whatever
dice you choose well okay 13,
roll a dexterity saving throw please choose your dice wisely 11 well are you
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sure you don't want my one okay so William you run to jump on this rope So you
actually land on the rope. Nice.
Except the rope turns upside down and you go immediately underneath and into
the group. Back when you started.
Okay. Where's the rest of the party? They are laughing their asses off.
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I was literally about to say, like, Zag will be howling. This is hilarious.
They are, let's... Are they within snowball range?
They can see you. They're just laughing at you right now.
There's going to be some goop coming your way, guys. I honestly thought Will
would have been fantastic at this, but I guess I grossly overestimated him. What are they doing?
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Her eyebrow is just like through the roof.
It's really slippery.
I don't think the goo is your problem. It seems to be the rope. It's in my ear.
Okay, Ever, what is it that you wish to do? She wants to stand up.
She looks like one of those drowned cats.
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She's got a super skinny bone structure.
Yeah, because she's poofy. She is poofy. And she will probably climb back to
the nearest one, which one she tried to jump onto, the smaller one.
Yeah, that's super simple because it's a much lower platform.
So yeah, you can just climb up. It will use five foot of movement, but yeah.
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And what she'll do once she gets up there, she'll shake her back
feet well her her feet like a cat shakes her
back feet wipes the um goop off
of her paws yeah because otherwise there's no traction and she'll try and make
a jump for the high platform cool okay so what was your what's your total movement
uh 30 30 okay 15 20 it's seven foot away because i have 10 seven um so yeah
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so make a athletics check for me.
Acrobatics, sorry, I keep saying that, acrobatics, athletics, and strength.
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Is it above me? It's not too high. Those platforms are like six foot.
So it's probably about not even seven foot. Okay. I'm going to grab up some underneath.
Pull myself up so I'm still underneath.
And I'm just going to spider climb underneath my way up to... Okay.
Nice. Using smarts now. Third time's a charm. Fourth time.
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How long is the time for this game? It's not long, unfortunately.
I was going to say like when he was finally figuring it out and then like the
buzzer goes so half you're moving to stand up and then the other half to kind
of climb underneath rope monkey climb monkey spider monkey climb spider monkey
climb yes bonus action dash,
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you can bonus action dash if you want hell yeah but you'll just stand on the
platform for now because you managed to get there you can have a treasure yay,
finally got one I might just dolphin dive in the goop to get to the other one
you know you have to go via the platforms you can't just walk across the goop my plans are foiled.
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Okay so as you guys are collecting some of these treasures last treasure left you see the,
elfish man who kind of was is running this carnival attraction you see him moving
some kind of counters that are on like a long wooden pole and you see him moving
some to the other side and you see there's only probably about two turns left each.
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So let's think about this.
So, Ever, what is it that you are going to do? She wants to get back to the
start platform. So you have to go via the other platforms.
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No no no come back she could use my feline agility you can so you can get up
the ladder so this is uh this counts as five feet and then you got five ten
fifteen twenty twenty-five,
thirty so you can get to there can she as
she goes along that she wants to use her
(27:12):
feet claws to basically help put her
claws in the rope okay um to give that bit of extra grip okay in this case i
will lower the dc for that if you can roll a athletics check for me please no
acrobatics god damn it acrobatics why why can you just stick saying athletics that's an 11,
(27:35):
um make a dexterity saving throw for me please,
by now we're like goop goop goop goop
goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop goop unfortunately
just not enough so yeah as you are you're trying to move quite quickly over
(27:56):
this rope and trying to dig your claws in but unfortunately it's just not steady
enough you don't end up completely in the goop.
So the rope bridge flips upside down. Your feet claws are still attached,
but your whole, like, front half of your body is in the goop.
(28:17):
I'm stuck in it upside down. You are literally just dunked a biscuit.
Oh no, this is how she drowns!
Okay, I can't balance your mini, but that's what we'll see happens.
William? I would like to drop down to underneath the bridge and spider climb
on my way back to the first platform.
Okay, I will get you to make an athletics.
(28:40):
No, acrobatics. God damn it. Every time. Every time. 16.
That is actually the DC, so lucky. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Is your movement 30? Yeah.
You can get to here. Bone section dash.
5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
(29:02):
But you need to make another athletic acrobatics check. Fuck's sake.
16. I think my brain just replaced that word. Same old 16. 16.
That's enough. So that's where you get to for your dash. Actual action dash.
So you want to dash with your action. Okay. You need to make another athletics check.
(29:24):
Acrobatics check. Acrobatics. 19.
We got this. Okay. Okay. Okay. So you run past. You run past the wall.
(29:54):
Music.
Music.
(30:21):
So ever, it's your turn and you're... Yeah, so she will use,
just use her strength and get herself like swinging so she can pull herself up. Yeah.
And she'll literally, like a cat, foreclose it. Okay, cool.
So yeah, you pull on the rope and you kind of swing your body and you go and
(30:45):
try and grab that rope bridge.
This time make an athletics check god that was really hard,
I could see your brain like churning like what word is it what's wrong insert word,
14 okay that's enough you pull yourself up and onto the rope,
(31:08):
that is likely going to be your action though because you're pulling yourself
so do you move across the bridge yeah move across the bridge Like I said,
she's kind of on fours to give herself a bit of extra stability rather than
just running on her feet.
Yeah. So you go cat-like, and you start running across the bridge.
Are you taking your own quickly or slowly?
(31:30):
She might be a little bit quick. A bit quick. Okay. It's the zoomies.
They've still got hold of her.
So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It's 30, right?
(31:59):
Oh, jeez. So you actually managed to run quite a distance on the rope before
you feel William starting to make his way back.
As he also stands on the rope, the rope begins to wobble from side to side.
And unfortunately, you can't hold on as you're kind of mid-run and you fall
just short of the platform.
(32:22):
Into the goop. At this point, Kate is like, Come on, William!
Now is your chance! I'm trying to shout back my face is just go warm,
you are covered ever is covered you're still looking like very,
bedraggled good thing that you took off like your armor and all oh god yeah
William you've got goop in your armor that's fun so what are you doing well
(32:47):
yeah right um I will use the plan that is working so you're gonna go back under
and spider monkey coffee okay,
make a athletics no acrobatics god
damn it like it's like my brain has just
gone blank word insert this other word
seven okay i i would like to do something incredibly cheeky sure during all
(33:13):
of this can say i could brought out the puppet yeah i'll say that yeah okay
cool cool i would like to use telepathy on will and make a funny voice implying it's the puppet okay.
I might have to change winning this game What are you saying with this voice?
(34:11):
That's 21. It's not very intimidating. It gets the voice, you see.
Yeah, you hear the voice in your head and it doesn't shake you as much as you
think, but you can see the puppet out and that's kind of fucking weird.
I'm glad the general consensus at this table is the puppet's fucking weird.
The puppet's so weird. Why is it out of the bag?
(34:32):
But you did feel your acrobatics. Yeah, I did. So you are back in the goop.
Nice. nice and as you're back in the group you
hear you maybe not you because you're busy but pointing and laughing yeah as
you as you stand up ever you see the alpha man put the last counter on this
(34:54):
wooden pole next to him and he shouts that is it time is up please return to me,
so i'm gonna put the puppet back in his bag and pretend like nothing happened
cool put that back in and he's like what does that mean no one got there,
So, what do you do? You return?
I would like to throw a handful of goop at the back of Zag's head, please.
(35:15):
Okay. Or just at Zag in general. Make an attack roll.
18. Oh yeah, that's going to hit. I don't have a class of 18.
As you turn to put the puppet back in the bag, you feel a dush on the back of
your head and suddenly it's wet and gross and slimy and cold.
(35:37):
Very cold. Oh, that's not nice That was for the puppet It begins to slide down
near the back of your neck As those words I, I, in telepathy And the fun's only just beginning,
I'd like to just have a handful of goop Is it like Ghostbusters 2?
(35:58):
Am I like covered in it? Can I like flick it?
Oh, you can flick it, yeah It is definitely like Ghostbusters 2 And it's luminous as well Oh,
delicious Can I also like just because there's sheer fun of it and just laughing
at Will once Will stands up can she try and like swipe his legs out from beneath him? Yeah.
And before like when she's done that she'll just run off towards the elf and
(36:22):
leave him in the game. Make an attack roll please.
25. Oh Jesus. Will you can make a dexterity savings roll if you'd like.
(37:21):
I would like to empty my water skin and fill my water skin with goop.
Okay. Because vengeance plus patience.
Sure. Are you doing it selfily? Yeah. Make us a fan check, please.
That's an actual one. Four.
(37:43):
Six. Okay. I feel like it helps. Just staring directly at Zag as he pours out
the food. They're making eye contact.
Yeah. As you fill, as you pour your water out to the scoop, there's a horrible
kind of fizzing sound to it and a little bit of smoke comes out.
(38:03):
And then, yeah, you fill your, you think you filled your... I'll do my best. Yeah. You tried.
It's like filling a whoopee cushion. Yeah. I'm trying to pull the parts,
the two ends, the two sides of the water skin apart, trying to suck it in. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. It feels full. cool so you get out of the goop and do you approach the man I have two as well,
(38:32):
aha a tiebreaker I see well it
seems that you are both owed credits then but
we'll split the main price and he
goes let me just check you each get ten credits well done well done i hope you
(38:53):
enjoyed yourself and uh you should probably get cleaned up okay who's next and.
He kind of goes into the crowd of people,
where would you get cleaned up i was just thinking that like why would you say
you should go away get cleaned up now and there's nowhere to do that that's
not why they got a free shout yeah like where's a towel or something,
(39:16):
like yeah go get cleaned up live my carnival.
Leave your dirty hole,
ever at this point after the I haven't heard that phrase in a while the night is young.
(40:01):
I'm glad that I didn't go with my chain mail that was a bit awful I think the
worst part is definitely in my boots definitely in my boots,
I'm going to be honest with you you may as well throw your socks away because
it's going to be like between the I can't be with my socks anymore Zach do you
have socks that William can borrow?
(40:22):
You know what? I think I have a I could do with some pants as well I have a
shirt that you could borrow It's that set that you could buy for me. It's fine.
Apparently my clothes are collectively our clothes. Communal clothes.
Did we walk past a tent that had mending on it? Maybe this could be sort of mended away.
(40:44):
Fingers crossed. There was that tent that said something about long rests.
Maybe they might have something like that.
Do you have a short rest shower?
There was a Mendel's men's to mend what's broken. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Mendel's men's. Yeah. Well,
(41:06):
there's the needlepoint seamstress and tailors could find new clothes.
That's the point. I could give Zach's shirt back if I buy myself new clothes.
I might do that, actually. Oh, I miss it when it was our shirt already. Anyway.
(41:27):
Which way are we going now? i'll just let's try and find somewhere to get you guys,
gesticulate wildly and try and flick goo over the people and
you hear it
hit the ground i mean let's find somewhere to get you guys cleaned up and then
we can maybe have a look at the fortune teller fortune oh yeah yeah yeah and
(41:53):
i want to do do everything honestly I won't lie I want to go to see the we'll
do the fortune teller we can go to.
(42:29):
It next,
I'm yeah where Mendel men yeah see if their men were all broken okay what's
broken dirty counts as being broken yeah we'll find out I don't have oh I don't
have Mendel where is he oh he's there oh thank god can I have um cool axe dude or hammer dude or,
(42:52):
one of the above old cool guy old cool
guy that's what we call him oh he is cool he's just got a cool stance yeah he's
a cool dude it's pretty it's pretty right actually he's gonna be like let me
see let me see let me see let me see so basically guys he's this very cool tall
wizard dude with the most wholesome beard gray beard with a pipe he's got a
(43:17):
really pointy yellow hat,
he's very cool he's got he looks like a tall no you need to put this on instagram this is very
cool i like this it's painted by a resident
painter over here oh yeah definitely well it
looks so good it's like you know there's those gonks around a lot at the moment
do you know what i mean by gonks i hate them but basically they're like this
(43:37):
little gnomey thing no why it's just a big round nose and all beard oh and it's
they're kind of like yeah like a cross between santa and A troll.
I've not seen those. But basically, this dude looks like a fucking awesome gonk.
But how they should, what's actually cool is what I'm getting at, basically.
(44:01):
Anyway, I digress. He's very, very cool. He's painted beautifully.
Does he have a grenade?
He might. Oh, is it a little round pouch? It's a little violin. Oh, cool.
(45:11):
Awkwardly because i want to get more goo on myself it's already covered in goo,
like goo is just dripping and you've trailed glue all the way here um you and
ever ever you're just looking a little bit like you're the fur is starting to
get a little bit puffier because you have like tried to shake it out but it's
(45:31):
still kind of bedraggled because ever has white fur Has it tinged her fur?
She's looking a little luminous. No.
We're not going to lose her in the mines. Anything that's kind of lighter coloured
on you has got this horrible yellowy green tinge to it.
You've been on the rope runs, I see. Mostly off.
(45:56):
You're a funny one. What can I do for you?
Do you know how we can clean the goop off? Hi, you want to be spiffy?
Yeah I get that I get that I in return.
Do you why that hurts real hard,
well let's see now the two of you,
(46:17):
clean you up that'll be about hmm let's
make that two gold no problem well that'll still mean any of the tinting on
my fur will also go ah yeah we'll be able to get that off thank you I don't
want to be a luminous green cat you are looking a little green I must say are
you feeling okay? oh no wait it's the goop right?
(46:39):
It's the goop yes I'm not such a new adventurer,
it just takes some time don't you worry Lassie I'll get you cleaned up you see
him like take his staff and you see him cast he's going to cast Thermiturgy
and just give you a little clean make you spruce you up a little bit and so
like all that kind of luminous staining all the goop is gone,
(47:02):
that'll be two gold please Please, if you don't mind. Aye, thank you.
So what's a bunch of adventurers doing on the road front? To be honest, it looks amazing.
That's what they all say. It just looks fun and I've had a lot of sugar. It's like fun.
(47:34):
He just pouts a little bit and he still eats it,
cool you eat some more of that candy floss sugar sugar sugar how about you so
what does your stall do oh I just come and go really,
sometimes I meet up with the circus I know the owner,
(47:54):
and I just do a little bit of work here and there and then I go
off again I like the rope run because it
brings a load of people to me I cannot fathom why like yeah i got rid of fair
well i did get rid of the goop but it may be in a few hours you're going to
want to take a bath because it doesn't get rid of the smell oh good good advice thank you,
(48:20):
i'm thinking we should go to that spa again if we
get an opportunity to do so i think so i think that's
a good plan hi the silver raven yeah yeah i've been to cairn a lot and especially
around these areas and that is the best spa around here in fact probably the
only spa it was very nice having a lovely shiny coat for one day.
(48:45):
Yeah yeah been here a lot have you ever ventured into the mines,
oh i'm not a miner myself i've not had any reason to although i've heard some
some cool stories i I mean, traveling around these parts, you get to hear a lot.
(49:05):
You know, I don't know if you know the history of Kern. It's obviously a mining
town, but the way that Kern is right now, never used to be like that. It was...
(49:30):
With city ruins and things from when the city was first built.
And is there access to this city?
I've heard there's access somewhere in the mines, but I mean,
those are just folk stories, right?
Was it like a human city or? No, no, a dwarfish city.
Oh, that makes sense. It was the first Kern.
(49:52):
Industry comes in, people, travelers, they settle here and then you need more
space. So, you know, they leave the old city behind.
Wow. They build the mines. Build the mines on top.
So they covered it and then made mines and then continued building upwards.
Well, as far as I understand it, the mines were kind of already part of the old city.
(50:18):
Ah. And then as time goes on, as it does, you know, people move on, like the land changes.
But now we have this cairn and it does pretty well so if the mines were part of.
The old city then huh i
mean some of them that i've heard the mines if the old city is real oh yeah
(50:41):
i mean it's folklore well folklore or not it would have had a name what was
it called oh that's lost to the ages unfortunately i'm not privy to that but
you know it's just what i hear from travelling around.
But there are plenty of stories everywhere. I mean, you must have had some stories.
You're adventurers, right?
Yeah, this one time I fell in goo again and again and again and again.
(51:06):
He kind of looks puzzled at you. You're adventurers, right? Yeah.
(51:41):
Play a question when are we supposed to be going into the mine tomorrow,
oh we had like some time to prep oh yeah we did we got to give us some money
in time to prep so wasn't it like he said yeah he said one to two days yeah
I think it was just to get the stuff to your hotel well I guess hotel yeah Merth Mill yeah,
to get like you some stuff so he said like one to two days we should like go
(52:04):
to the library and find out what is more about this folklore of like the city underneath.
Because I'll bet you there's some kobolds living in that city, yo.
Like, that's where they all are. You're going to kill them and cook them.
Doing something to dodge.
Yeah. I mean, there's, you know, like there's plenty of old cities around.
Like, there's ancient cities, I'm sure.
(52:27):
What do you do when you're not running the stall then? You said you do this
and that and here and there. I just travel mainly.
Just go out, maybe find something to kill and sell the hide.
Make a little bit of money, travel some more And what's your daily cost for that?
What, to... Well, I mean, we're scheduled to go into the mines in the next couple
(52:48):
of days You look like you'd be pretty handy to have around Oh,
you're talking about hiring me Interesting Depends what your prices are Why
are you going into the mines?
Well, this town seems a bit suffocated
They can't use the mines They're struggling We thought we'd help,
There's a bit of coin in it but you know helping out what was the stories that
(53:11):
I've heard about the mines though recently they've having yeah people go missing
they go down they don't come back sounds like fun I mean I mean it does sound like fun.
(54:22):
I like it. I'm glad that we're all being shady as fuck.
I noticed there's quite a lot of silence and staring at each other.
We don't really know how much coin we're going to get.
Always find out before you take a job. That's my recommendation.
I don't think there's a big pile of treasure at the bottom kind of thing.
(54:45):
I think it's more just getting the town back to making their own money, you know?
I mean, it's for a noble cause, I'll give you that.
But always find out how much you're getting before you take a job.
Well, like you said, you're here for a few days, so... I am,
I am. The name's Everett.
(55:06):
Everett Mendel, I had to look at his last name. And he passes you,
like, quite a large hand. He's quite a tall, big-boned guy.
And yeah, he passes you out a hand and starts shaking, welcoming you.
A pleasure to meet you. and you are William William and I'm Keith nice to meet
you Keith ever watchful ever watchful,
(55:29):
Zagreus Zagreus and you and Decker Zag the name's Decker yeah it is.
Decker okay okay well I'm here if you need anything I can do some low level
mending at this stage and any more cleaning up if someone ends in the goop again.
(55:54):
Yes I'm here as long as you pay me two gold I will clean you I will clean you
up right here that sounds okay thank you.
And he blushes a tiny bit and then goes back to puffing on his pipe genuine
(56:14):
pleasure I hope we cross paths again soon Aye, laddie, I think we will.
Remember, I'm here. See you soon.
Okay, it says, before turning. Shall we head to the fortune teller first? Yeah.
Yeah. So I was thinking, like, for maybe 50 gold or so, we've got a guy who can help.
(56:35):
Who can help men when we break ships.
This is a great idea, William. More than 50 gold is 50 platinum pieces.
That's what I was thinking, for like 50 gold.
I was straight up going to offer him that but he wouldn't give me his daily rate.
I think it's good. I think we come back tomorrow and we say,
look, we thought about it and we found out we're going to be earning this much.
(56:58):
I mean, or we just say, look, this is what we can afford. We don't know if we're going to get any more.
How about this? Without sounding rude, do not mean to sound funny,
the 50 gold will not entice this man.
He's charging two gold apiece to clean you. Oh yeah, that is a good strength.
He's going to make more than that just today from the group store. Precisely. A deco?
(57:32):
It was huge. Yeah, he's seen some, like, his armour's seen some wear.
He's definitely experienced, at least. And that was a strong grip.
Yeah. The guy said he just goes places, finds something to kill.
I mean, that's what we want, right?
Yeah. I mean, it doesn't seem like the type to ask any questions.
I should have insight checked him a bunch. I didn't do any of it.
(57:54):
You didn't do it. You were just like, this nice man.
You were charmed by his old man, Miles. The old man charm, it got you.
It tranced us
all that northern accent you can take a look like you take a look behind you
(58:19):
as you're kind of leaving and he just sat on the barrels puffing his little
pipe not not really doing too much i mean at least he was
honest he was like yeah like 10 of whatever
you're earning and it's quite
expensive but actually it should be useful actually if he's going to mend things
for us if he's going to fight for us 10 it's not so bad i mean it's not it's
(58:43):
not bad and we also we don't know what we're walking into precisely this is
true without knowledge of what we have he's it's really a safety buffer.
What we're paying for is that extra security of...
It's 10% for a flash shield, basically. That's exactly what I was thinking.
If we need to get away, he's old, you know?
(59:06):
This has got to fit it up. I don't think I've seen this side of you, Tekka. Oh.
Hi. My name's Tikka.
How far away are we from him right now? I was assuming we were continuously walking.
I'm assuming that you're off. If you're having a conversation that turns this
(59:26):
dark, I'm assuming that you're walking and talking.
Is he still, so he's out of 30 foot? No, he'll be within 30 foot of range,
but you're kind of getting towards the end of it.
Ever would like to cast Detect Evil and Good. Ooh. Ooh.
For the duration you know if there's an aberration, celestial,
(59:47):
elemental, fae, fiend, or undead within 30 feet of you as well as where the creature is located.
Similarly, if you know there is a place or object within 30 feet of you that
has been magically consecrated or desecrated.
Feet. It's a radar. It lasts 10 minutes as well. It lasts 10 minutes.
Okay, nothing's pinging on your radar.
While we were looking at him, I don't want to retroactively insight check him,
(01:00:11):
but I would like to have looked at his armour and his weapon.
Okay. And how do they look? Yeah, there's wear on his armour and his weapon.
His weapon, although there is divot out of the edge of the axe, it still looks sharp.
It looks like it's taken care of, but it is well used.
(01:00:44):
And he could be lazy and not clean his own shit that's true or he could have
mended it multiple times and it's,
he did care about hygiene he was saying like you know you are going to want
to have a shower soon because although you look nice you're going to stink,
so he cares about and he knows of the silver raven spa yeah and that's also
true he needs his hat coin at times and also I do got the pop I'm not surprised I'm getting more,
(01:01:10):
evil vibes neither evil or really good so yeah it might just be well I mean
I think he was quite chill not exactly that's what I'm saying interesting,
let's fortune teller let's go okay so you head off to the fortune teller and
then we're gonna do some fortune fortune fortune fortune fortune,
(01:01:34):
and with that we will cut to our long rest thank you so much for listening we
hope you had a good time we had a great time telling this story and we'll see you in.
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