E26: Bal Masqué

After much anticipation, the Runts attend a Masquerade ball! Who might they run into at such a fanciful yet romantic event?

Episode Transcript

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More about. Oh all right you guys welcome

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back to run pack goes plain walking episode 26.
Oh God, that one was a squirter.Let's get it.
Oh, last time. We opened up with damos
reconnecting with Volker. His old Mentor who is currently
the court wizard of what a deepest moved up on the world.

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He was shocked, they most had left the plane of kings and
informed demos that the tear he had created to leave was
allowing magic back into the plane of the Kings, which is
very dangerous as powerful. Magical entities had been
imprisoned there and folker's words, the plane was sealed for
a reason. Um, we also learned that Volker

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had met or Affairs is Ghost friend Abel who we've learned
recently broke out of prison. Our mutations had levels up very
exciting. Malice and Samir had a big fight
over Maui's. Stinky actions.
Hello um Samir continued workingon on petrifying, the man, we

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found in the minds of you know couldn't the fucking done with
that RFS or if it's improve thatwhole situation or face.
Also constructed his new artificer, infusions received
upon the level up Deimos snuck out late at night to
participate. In the Weeping ritual at the
cult of mystra, which have the cost of the ritual to revive

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hires brother and make him no longer Undead as well as made it
only take eight minutes. Do love a company, hit him.
Of course and got to watch the whole nightmarish like currants.
The next morning, we went shopping.
Let me just run by our outfit for the fancy.
Fancy masquerade ball dude. Featured in a red leather suit

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and Clockwork mask, Jaya with a bolo.
The green suit hat, of course? That of course also was a
matching hat gem to the bolo tieand of course, yeah, of course,
Davos had some fancy robes with a black goat, mask, or a face

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with an oversized black suit. And a mask to made to look like
bee Wings Pelicans a Green Goblin mask and suit of Samira.
Of course, full body drift cosplay, head to toe, you know,
looking their best. If you ever want to not be

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attracted to a man anymore, you should just imagine him wearing
a long straight white wig. It's crazy experiment with many
people now works across the board.
Oh no, I'm glad that we got to kill sex appeal of characters,
so quickly with that. Because now it's gonna start
coming up, more and more. But not least, I was frog is a

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frog frog. That's it.
Just as a product. And the head has like a foot
tall to fit the snow and it's important.

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All right, that's very important, but Like probably one
and a half. Here.
Car fashion higher giant Davos departed to sell off, some of
our goods and get some money to go towards the Monte
ramification foot. Um still a magazines.

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We're cranking it out in the workshop, make it some masks
Oro. Got a great haircut from valgus
and Neelam smear and higher. Revived the paralyzed guy, who
lured Archibald Brooke, it was kind of an asshole.
I don't know. He left, we made him, leave.
We fucking hated his pussy and lovely.

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No, fuck that face love dating. I got, lastly, we arrived at the
masquerade ball. It was beautiful lavish with
warm light. Trickling across thick Indigo,
curtains drive to cross. Every Wall Alive band playing
couples and groups touring across the dance floor, and of

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course, a crier at the main entrance calling out titles of
the individuals based upon theircostumes.
For example, entering now the Frog Of a second black goat
masked man. Watched today, most of the cross
the bar to First proposition himintroducing himself as Samson.

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And ordering them, lots of drinks, malice and Gia.
Ditched us to go get hammered atthe bar.
Giants is kids Malaga? Has no kids, but would miss them
if he had them. And, of course, malagos, sort of
gotten a fight, um, Aura, dulum and smear and higher are

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searching the dance floor for oro's, friend Abel, and lastly,
a hush rippled across the ballroom.
As a masked, Lord, arrived namedthe dark King in a full suit of
black armor and unnaturally tall, orophea recognized, this

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man and then we ended last session.
So there it is. Alright.
That was an excellent recap, thank you or a face.
You're welcome. So this does remind me as the
start of our next episode. If any of our players have any
magic items that they want to becrafted in the Orpheus of

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Wonders, That we can send those over.
We've already got an input from Jaya on one which is Big so we
can touch upon that in a second here.
What you More immediately is thesituation at hand.
You all see this great extremelytall nightly looking figure

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making their way into the ballroom.
The figure is inhumanly tall with wide shoulders and long
flowing. Robes that seemed to spew out
from the back of this full plate, mail armor or a face.
You recognize this figure. And as for the rest of you guys,
you've spent some time now, exploring and looking around

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more specifically demos. You're still pulled aside by
this gentleman wearing, what looks to be a similar goat mask
to yourself, Jaya and Malaga have gone off to the bar
themselves and had a few drinks put in them.
Do I believe you've been following around seeing?
If you could find anyone closer to ground level and higher, I

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imagine you are doing about the same.
So what would you guys like to do or Ducks down beneath the
crowd for mentally? Besides you right now or a face
Doom, came along with you and Samir.
Did anyone else want to travel with this little bossy?
You guys are the team that was looking for a large prison

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escapee, right? Yeah.
We were looking for the largest man at the party.
Yeah. You now definitely see him.
It is this gentleman wearing thearmor who's just been introduced
as the dark King, he walks more strides into the ballroom and
people make way as he passes through, the crowds of people,

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he seems to be making his way towards sort of the center of
the room. Shaking hands.
As he goes, several people seem to be very interested in him and
begin crowding around. You know, this as well.
He seems to have a security detail of two, other masked
individuals behind him. They don't have any adornments
with their masks and said, it's a very simple black mask that's
form-fitting to the face. The band plays on after the

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introduction of this individual and a brief Round of Applause,
met with the introduction of themasked, Lord of waterdeep, from
what little you guys know of thecity.
You know, that this individual is likely extremely wealthy and
sort of a celebrity in a way. So I'm getting to know them
would be a lot of people's priority.
So there's a bit of a crowd forming.
Okay. First thing I want to take off

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my mask and slide it into my suit jacket.
Okay, off your mask I can't havehim.
That's it's not a good person then sort of the worst.
They can't recognize me. I need to change.
Oh fuck. Do you guys think Abel's really
here? There should be just call it off
and leave. I'm not sure you recognize that

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person who is that? That called that same year in
Valhalla? Um there's a leader of Yost and
high that's the faction. The biggest faction that opposes
were to see I Don't show how they're here.
I don't know why they're here. I it can't be good for us

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though. If I had to guess, since Regency
wants me to stay here, I'd say their probably here to kill me
and say to me back Valhalla, butI won't go to Valhalla anymore.
Wouldn't they know way back? At least that.
I know that's what you wanted right?
To go back home. It is but I I think that if

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they're here, they probably knowabout red cities plan with
Iceland and so they probably want, since really wants Iceland
to stay, they probably want Iceland to go and they probably
thinks the best way to do it to be by killing me.
I really can't. I don't want to go back to that
the falling place. I don't know if they could send

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you that without killing you andwhat if I I don't think that
would be such violence in such apublic space like this.
I mean, look around and you guysare almost pressed shoulder to
shoulder with those around you. It would be pretty difficult to
get away with anything. It's such a large crowd, I mean,
list of poisoning. I don't think that the only way
for him to hurt you and we you know what are you doing right

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there, everybody Okay, so you think I should talk to them then
or to face? I don't know.
This person. It is your choice but you need
to show some initiative or relieving, or are we staying?
You're right. We're staying, it's foolish to
run away. I beat them before.
I could do it again. I put my mask back on.

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Give me one of those. I want to try to take one of
samira's costume swords and slide it through my belt loop.
All right? You take us to the sword and
slide it and it's sort of a floppy tipped foam sword is a
twinkle. Or yeah.
Which one do you take basil? That's the twinkle actually
glow. I know.
They're both simple. Fake swords.

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She couldn't afford it. Hello.
It was very expensive. Yeah, I actually use one of my
magical tinkering to make it emit.
A five foot radius like, oh my God.
Before he go in though, shouldn't?
We Gather our people, the crew, they could just in case it does

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get violent. We should all be in the same
place. Here's my thinking.
If it does get violent they'll be able to get to us.
And if it doesn't, then we'll have more people whose face Ymir
hasn't seen. Well, we don't want you to die.
What a face, you just said. Yes.
But it would be safest if we were all sort of with you.

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What if we just get this urgent and higher and we sort of
circulate near you okay? Okay.
Yeah. So he doesn't know so they don't
know who's with me, right? Yes.
Okay, it's well lit. So we'd be able to see we could
perhaps Place someone at the topof the stairway and he gestures
up to the stairs that lead to the Inn rooms above.
But perhaps, we could set someone up there to watch to see

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if anything looks sketchy. I could go up or we could and,
you know, I could watch and you and do them and the rest could
go and interact with them. It could be sort of like it
might make you feel safe. Or if you know that you have
friends around you. It's all right.
Just circulate in the crowd nearme, but don't talk to me.

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Okay. Do you want to get to the others
at all? Start approaching them really
casually? Would you go find the most
somewhere and higher? I think I know what i is sure
thing. All right through the Grand you
just dodged the crab. Could you give me an
investigation check please? Oh yeah or perception.

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I suppose is probably better. But whatever you want you can
choose. I'm nice like that.
Well, so kind A 19. All right, cool.
You dodged through the crowd a little bit.
I it's it's a wonderful thing tobe able to dodge through as a
small book, but you're able to slip through legs pretty easily,

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and eventually you find your wayto demos this leg.
You find demos seems to be talking with another tall
gentleman. The two were close, almost
touching elbows at a bar demos. You are still face to face with
this gentleman who's buying you around after round, you guys
have been here for about half anhour now and he's just been

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asking you innocuous questions about where you're from.
And what you do is this kind of thing when I answer honestly
like he goes. So what's do you practice?
What is your trade? Ah, My trade, you know, I
dabbled in Magic. You know, no big deal.
Oh, a magician. Or you wanna print, is do you

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have your own Tower yet? Touches your shoulder.
Oh no. But I love to see your Tower.
Oh my well I suppose that could be arranged but unfortunately
I'm not much of a magician myself.

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You see I practice in a more physical art to the art of
money. Why you could consider me?
Something of a banker others consider to be something of a
loner. Regardless, I have my fingers
and all areas of this great City.
Just ask and I can pull a coupleways At This Point, Dume you

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find them. All right, I'll try to talk on
demos. Oh the most sort of like
crouches down for a second. What do you need?
I'm kind of busy here. Ah, sorry, RFS is in need of
assistance. Oh, what?
Oh, at this point does does demos notice these this new

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imposing figure and the party? You you definitely heard of.
They stopped the music to introduce this character.
So you and your your conversation partner would have
likely stopped talking in both turns to see the person.
So yes, through the crowd you see this large tall armored
individual. Okay does did Samson seem to

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have looking interesting reaction to this at all or
goodness you remembered my name seeing the figure come in.
He just had a simple sort of slice smile on and giggled
slightly when he saw the large sort of overblown outfit that
this person walked in with, but beyond that.
Can you give me a Insight check 18.

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Okay 18. Um, you were able to sort of
over the over your shoulder, notice more minutiae reactions
that he had to disfigure entering the room.
Simpson had a small twinge of stress.
You saw a bit of anxiety, come over when saying this figure

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come in almost as if he knew of them.
But that's all you got and it was for a brief second, it
disappeared quickly after Who was your friend here?
Oh. Is that a?
An automaton? What an excellent costume you
have my friends. Thank you.
I like the good theme. Mmm.
Thank you. Your friend here.

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Certainly does as well. Um, gosh, I'm so sorry but it
seems Seems my friends are in need of me right now.
Right. You know, lost sheep.
Always have a way of finding their way back to me.
Oh, well, I hope I am shepherdedtowards you.

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One day in the future, then Right then off you go perhaps.
I'll see you in the masked competition for best costume.
Oh yes you off and watches. You go top.
Top to bottom. Oh, I can't believe you would go

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to orifice right now. Misplaced what?
Um, on the flip side, Jaya, you are approached by Samir you
recall. You and Malice have been down in
a couple and Malik has been sortof talking to you, you know.
And another thing it's just really cool that you have kids,
man. You know, it's just like, we've

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got a really diverse group and it's like, you know, old people
can be adventurers, too. I get it now, I didn't feel that
way before, but I get it now. Progress.
Oh, and actually die is not hereright now, it's AFK.
So excuse me. Um, higher.
Where are you about this time? Um, I assume higher is gonna

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probably take the, the idea of like you know, everyone else can
talk someone probably needs to watch the party.
So I'm just trying to find like a not like a corner but like
someplace where I can kind of like try to watch like the scene
at large with out like being in the way of anyone, all right?
Sure. There are a few Vantage points

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around here, if you'd rather watch than join the revelry.
But as a froggy, you pretty easily clear.
The path people don't people, don't give much attention to
some of the costumes in here, but they really turn their heads
when they see you see, you can pretty easily maneuver through
the group to find a railing or abalcony.
There are several of them in this building and right now,

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they're mostly occupied By couples or more quiet.
Introspective individuals who want to preside over the party
and watch it. Same as yourself.
So, you and your froggy Forum, climb up some stairs and watch
from a high balcony. The beautiful chandelier
glittering near feet from your face, the candles burning

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beautifully. Atop them You have a nice down
that down review, Chandelier andwhere Deimos is standing.
Sure. You keep an eye out the most,
you know, this spend some time talking with the figure at a
bar. The two of them seem to touch a
lot. Chris.
And otherwise, you also notice, when all the music gets cut off

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to introduce this, large plate, mailed individual to the event.
The orchestra is a bit quieter when you're up here, so you get
a better chance to sort of, listen to the murmurs of
people's conversation and there's quite a bit of revelry
here. You would guess there are maybe
300 people packed into this Ballroom, perhaps more.

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Holy, however, my fellow introspector is doing.
Give me a perception check for that nine.
Uh, you look around to those others viewing down.
Most of them are masked. Same as yourself.
Not, of course, with frogs, but with other fine sort of china
doll masks or you see an individual that looks to have a

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horse mask. Why the long face and other
individuals? Wait fuck, what's the joke?
A rehab used to be but otherwiseyou don't see anyone that stands
out to you as particularly interesting, it's what you can
guess. Just from hair and posture.
A lot of older people are up on the balconies and stairways with

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you. These are people who likely
can't dance or aren't really interested in getting sort of
shoved around in the main ballroom.
And instead just want to watch as well.
They're all. So a couple's, a couple of their
couples up here that are sharinga few romantic moments.
Holding one, another, if you soft words spoken in years or

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polite kisses under masks, That would be a bit out of the
element lower on the main floor,otherwise though, nothing jumps
out of you is interesting. You keep an eye on the
chandelier though, it is massive.
It feels pretty much the entire room and it's beautiful.
And Crystal the candles burn solid down below.
Jaya, you are approached by Samir, you and malicious have

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been getting drunk for a while now.
Malaga has been sort of talking to you about just like random
shit as he's getting more and more drunk and that's just so
Cool J that you're so old, you know.
I didn't think old people could be adventurers but like you are
and that's you really standing up for the old folks.
Hope I'm inspiring because you're here getting there too.
No I'm still in my Prime you know.

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I think this body's like 20 again.
Okay. Its okay.
Its okay that's how Surround your age too.
It catches up piece and We just won just to make sure you're
around like your children. Something fuck.
It's kind of fucked up. I am not old first off.

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Second off, I don't need kids like you do.
Well, you already have the kids.No.
No. I was telling a giant that was
just a front. All right, I just want to seem
cool. Like I don't Think that so cool.
I think they're pretty cool. I mean, don't you think I'm
cool. I think you have baggage and I

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think you're the kids. Probably thought you were cool
when you were actually racing them.
They still think I'm cool. I mean I'm sure, you know I
think you're Cool J. I'm sorry I should have just
outright I said it but I think you're cool.
Like you got that little magic wand or whatever on your hip
that you shoot. Don't know how that works.
And yeah, I got this like energyabout, you know, you can command

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a room when you need to, you know, it's like or a face but
you actually like can do it. Hey man.
Really It's just really cool, you know, and here I have this
and he puts another drink in your hand and he reaches into
his coat and pulls up this really slimy.
When he any point to you and he's like, look at this thing.

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What do you think this is for? Why is so away?
Listen Sergeant know, it's just we've been getting recently
listened. I'm trying to be nice right now.
All right, so you could give me a little something back.
I'm just Making a joke. But you're not funny.

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Well, it's not funny because youget a fan did Wait. so, You're
like, you know, these snowflakesare two sensitive to your jokes.
Is that what I'm getting? Well, you don't, you don't take

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what you give. Do you want me to give or take?
Jaya. What do you want?
Now, answer very carefully, you know.
Anyways, why is a key? So what At this point, Samir

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comes up to you guys and goes, hey, can I interrupt somebody?
You look like you're having a nice conversation.
Um, listen, what Affairs has recognized someone here, that
big guy in the atem armor and, um, just wanted to other backup
in case of fight to broke out. Oh, shit.
Oh, it's a fight he wants, huh? No, no, no sleeves.
Yeah, all right, well, give him a fight.

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Let's go. Jaya sit down.
What know, what do you sit down?We are not engaging in the
fight, unless the fight isn't seated.
Okay, hello. What did they teach you and
fucking are you I didn't what they teach you in like military
school. Didn't they teach a fight first?
Then punch him in the deck, something like that carefully.

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Just education background. I'm kind of curious.
Ah, well you know, I spent some time in school and then I
learned things. Yeah.
How much time? You know, a spell.
Yeah, that's okay. I bet your life.

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Fuck. All right, let's go fight this
shit head on my way. You sort of pushes you behind
him a little bit but can't because you're much larger than
him. I'm just gonna keep him behind
me and walk. Stop it, stop it.
The group is where everybody else's.
I think it'd be nice if we're kind of more organized our
position. Yes, let's go.
I think it is and he starts leading.

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You guys, you began crawling your way through the crowd.
We're back now to or Affairs, you see both of your gangs
coming from both sides. Demos is easy to pick out of the
crowd. So two was Giant and they're
sort of making it in their way to you.
Do you notice that the masked Lord that walked in?
The one wearing the large armored was introduced as the

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dark King is doing his rounds, he's gliding through the party
with a parent ease and is sort of hard to pinpoint at any given
time as you look to find the most and Jaya.
You look back and he's moved into another 10 feet and met
another 10 people. I'm just going towards him with
no social Grace. I'm just like sneaking.

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I'm not afraid to do a little shove, a little gentle shove.
I'm not like Boston my way through the crowd but I'm like
one one, you're at a concert anda parent is looking for their
kid and pushing through the ground.
All right? You're trying to push through.
Now, you are sort of fighting a crowd that is already trying to

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swarm around this individual andbeing somewhat of a celebrity.
So could you give me and Athletics or acrobatics check to
maneuver through the crowd acrobatics?
All right. And I take it then you're not
waiting for your friends to get their No I'm not.
I I specifically remember ask them not to talk to me but I
mean by it right? Just making sure initiative.

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What did I say? All right dirty 20 yeah it's on
push through you push through with some ease, you're able to
sort of slip between an under people or a face.
You go storming through the crowd.
Not waiting for your friends to join you.
Right? No no I want them to not be
looking like they're with me. I just want to be around.

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Sure right there, take a minute to approach you.
And in the meantime you get a better view of the figure.
Before you darting through the crowd, you said you got a 20 on
natural, was that Athletics or acrobatics acrobatics?
Okay? Acrobatics.
So you're sort of Slytherin and sliming your way through the
crowd between some legs. Oh, yeah.

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Um, the crowd is mostly what you'd imagine our sort of like
fans. People who would just want to
shake the hand of this masked, Lord.
Somebody who Was clearly high upin society.
You know notice, the figure themselves has what looks like a
large plume coming out of the top of their purplish black
Helm, which makes them seem eventaller up close as well.

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The two individuals that follow behind this great armored masked
Lord are beefy and their own, right?
But up close, you realize you don't actually think their body
guards, considering they're bothsignificantly smaller people
than the armored individual themselves.
Instead they seem to be Servantsof some kind as everyone wants

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in a while. The great armored individual
leans back and Whispers something in each of their ears,
it seems like hushed quick conversations.
And as your slithering your way closer, you notice one of the
two servants, the attendings onewho has a small ponytail

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sticking out of the top and backof their large black mask Dart.
Into the crowd quickly after what you'd imagine is some sort
of order and they disappeared leaving one behind and the
figure themselves stands there, tall and imposing you approach.
Now, you have to speak up a bit to get over the voice of the
average sort of Fanboy that's waiting in front of this

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individual. What do you want to say?
Right? All right, all right.
What did did your action time? Get sick of you or something?
The figure. The figure doesn't turn to you.
Immediately instead seems to finish a conversation with a
much shorter Noble woman in front of them.

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Who seems to be not quite getting an autograph but is like
holding her hand out to receive a handshake from this tall
masked individual. The two were speaking and you
can kind of hear the conversation and as you speak
up, could you give me a? I suppose a performance check to

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to speak over other people. You know what I changed my mind.
I want to persuasion check. Are you sure?
You don't? Performance, because it is.
Natural one. It was a what?
It was unnatural one. Okay, persuasion is a dirty 20.
Wait, how did you go up from an unnatural one to a dirty 20?

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Because I have a negative Charisma modifier, but I'm
proficient in Persuasion. Oh my God.
Wait, so what role did you get? That could go from one to 20.
No, dude. It was you said performance at
first, then he said no. You want to persuasion my
performance? Minus one?
My persuasion is dirty 20. Oh oh.
He just doesn't let me. I mean, I guess I could just do

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to my head but I did. I hope that's it.
I did it. Take the 20.
Yeah. No.
You deserve the 20. I just, I thought it was the
same role. Amazing, a lot of fire.
Yeah, I Persuasions plus 18. Yeah, that's what I thought.
I'm sorry Forge doesn't let you swap it after this brief
conversation with a noble woman,then the large again, largest

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isn't the right word, tall, and gaunt individual before you they
have armor, that does jut out a little bit at the shoulders
implying wide shoulders. But beyond that, it's slim and
very stick, like, all the way down to the ground.
There's a small Cape that sort of, belows behind them and
finishing this conversation withthe noble woman, the masked Lord

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turns back and speaks another quiet word to one of the
attendance, the servants behind them.
After that, the enormous headpiece, the helmet itself,
sort of tilts towards you then bins and curls down as if
they're bending down. Sort of looking over you, you
almost have to look straight up to make eye contact and without

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saying a word, the figure just sort of looks at you first
second. All right, buddy.
I know it's you're going to say I'm sure now I'm weak now.
What ever? What are you doing here?
Pathetic bastard in the materialplane.
Some kind of leader you are. Huh?
Sorry. Oh.
Do you want to work together? You notice a small group is

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formed around you. Sort of giving you a horrified
look as you speak such profanities.
To one of the effective presidents of this town, this
is, um, quite blasphemy and you,if you were a lesser person, a
peasant, could you could get your head chopped off for this,
the figure looks at you though and goes, good evening.
I've heard murmurs somebody. Here's been speaking the name.

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Radisson quite a lot. That wouldn't be you.
What it Know who I am. I'm having my people ask around
I suppose they're gonna point meto you.
Probably will ask your people suck and can't find me, but I'm
not hiding. I don't need to hide.
I'm here mask. Okay, I take off my mask.

(33:28):
I feel like you're recognized meBachelor with the mask on, but
here's the face, I don't recognize, you know what, wait,
she don't recognize me either way.
I put the mask back on Have we met?
Yes. What's greatest?

(33:51):
Fear. So, would you call me your arch
nemesis? funny, because it seems like,
You don't even make my top 10. Years.
I'll never switch sides because you're evil.

(34:12):
Come on, you know me why I took off my mask and you know me.
And armor and you're this like, scary ominous.
We have this whole poetic symmetry thing going on, you
know, speak your name. I, I kind of force.

(34:35):
You just say, it's now, You're not a face just as you finish
it, their hand comes and clamps down on your shoulder like a
vise, smacking you hard and scaring you a bit in the figure
goes. Walk with me and begins pulling
you hard, okay? but I'm walking because I

(34:57):
watched to walk there and I knowOkay, you walk with the
individual. They lead you back to word the
entrance of the ballroom pullingyou fast.
And again, striding through the crowd, this figure being
inhumanly tall, they seem to have the ability to sort of plot

(35:17):
out a path. And just push people out of the
way to get to where they need togo as well, the two, what you
assumed, or servants or assistance meet back up and
flank behind you, sort of forming, a triangle around you
quickly. They don't speak a word and you
can't see any eyes or mouth or facial features at all beneath
these thick black masks, the group of you then walked and

(35:39):
exit the building. I don't know if I would be going
together. Equally as equals the tall,
armored masked. Lord doesn't say word and
continue to pull you along and is at this point that Jaya and
dulum and I suppose everyone themost and higher as well.

(36:03):
You guys see or if I get pulled out the front door, I all
stopped in my tracks. Look, you have to tell me where
we're going or I'm not leaving this party.
I have things to do here still, no response.
The hand is clamped around your shoulder, I'll try to duck out
of it. Give me an Athletics check,
please or an opposing acrobaticscheck.
Yes sir. But 12.

(36:27):
Okay, you try to muscle your wayout from under this steel grass,
but you can't free yourself. You're pulled along now.
The rest of you guys see or facestruggle. 15 feet back.
Oh my god, get a little Shit together, so easy.

(36:52):
All right, you disappear and appear, amongst the crowd, the
crowd sort of gases as you appear.
Oh, and the abandoned starts getting a bit quieter.
Now, as you speak up and yell across the room, I try help more

(37:13):
than I need yours. The great figure turns around
now. And you can't see any expression
or face or emotion Under The Helmet, but you sense a bit of
apprehension as a figure speaks Loudly and clearly make room,
The Voice Echoes off the whole, the walls and the ballroom.
And you see the guests around you, almost instinctually take a

(37:35):
step back, forming a line between you and them.
Oh guys. Wait, never mind, I'm here
alone. Sir, or a face?
I want to take you outside to show you something.
Show me what my face. The crowd all gasps, oh,

(37:56):
couldn't, Oh, Come with me now or leave?
Like, I care. Not all trauma.
Shining sword. I'll come with you, but I know
hands on me. I leave.
What I want, as you can see, I sort of go up on my TV, nose and
wiggle my boots around. Like a little more rounds.

(38:16):
All right. The helmets up and down, so be
it and they turn around and duckunder the door frame to leave
the announcer, the sort of Harold at the front goes, oh,
the dog dogging leaving. You make your way out as well.
Oh yes. The Fly Boy leaving All right.

(38:39):
Oh my God. And I will follow Rexy Muir like
three feet to their left. You exit the band picks back up
for a moment. Now, what would you guys on the
inside like to do now? I would walk outside, right?
You make your way out. Are there any like, Windows in
this area? You look around.
Um, there were windows that would face outside but they're

(39:03):
currently being covered by largehuge draping velvet curtains.
They look heavy and block. The line of sight is there only
a front entrance? Is there like, could be, did we
see like any sort of back entrance?
Um, you guys haven't spent enough time in this building to
find a back entrance, but if you'd like to go investigate to
find one, I would allow this. This you guys.

(39:25):
Yeah, I don't really want to give out that we're all with him
to see it in case something we still have that element of
surprise and I don't think we should give that up just yet
just in case just in case I don't know if anything happened
but I think. Yeah man, you can with me.
Will look for something in the back.
All right, here we go. Hey, I wanted to start a fight

(39:46):
by the way. I didn't.
We push in there, faster. On excellent.
All right, so you guys begin making your way out back inside,
Doom. You had right at the front door.
Also gnome leaving. Thank you.
Yes, of course, the most you're left sort of your own devices.

(40:10):
Now does this mean I can I can just go back to the party.
I don't for you heard the interrupted.
Exactly. Can make your way back to the
bar. Oh, I guess, I guess I'm, I
might as well. Head off with Jaya and in Ellis.

(40:30):
All right, you had off you guys.See, Samir makes his way out the
front with a doula driz door andleaving And you guys go to the
back and Jay, you want to get mean investigation.
Check with Advantage, please. You're being helped.

(40:54):
Oh investigation, right? Yeah, yes, yes, I can do that
because I haven't why this one? Oh, not 20, Yeah.
All right so you leave the helm as you guys go exploring in the
back, it takes a minute to push through the crowd and then duck
behind the staircase, going to more of what.

(41:16):
You'd almost imagine. They're like, servant corridors,
but they're still open to the public so you sort of push your
way around. Um as you guys are looking
around back here with a net 20, the most U find there seemed to
be no back doors to this place for common use.
However you do find several servant corridors, there's one

(41:36):
large double door that leads to the kitchen that you are pretty
confident. There would be an exit through
the kitchen. And as well, they're also seemed
to be servants corridors. That lead to bedrooms for the
servants that work here. That you imagine, there's also
an exit through that as well. However, both of these seem to
be closed to the public, not locked my view, but the masked

(41:58):
servants that are attending to this Festival are going to and
from pretty rapidly. So you think you could like be
caught if you made your way through, but otherwise this is
what you see. Walk.
Um, yeah. Okay.
I think we're gonna have to go through either the kitchen, or
the servants bedrooms, or let's push our way to the kitchen, you
know, we can be like, oh, someone said their meal had a

(42:19):
fly in it. Let's, uh, righting.
You know, good idea, good idea. Um, how about, how about this,
mainly this? You're pretty serious.
How about you say that you want to go see the ship?
Because there was something wrong with your food, and then,
and then David was an ass sneak away.
All sneak out the back, great idea giant.

(42:39):
I could fucking kiss you, you'refuking genius.
Don't please. All right, let's make your way
the group of you guys make your way to the kitchen during this
time. Higher you.
Now find yourself kind of alone in this giant.
Ballroom on the top level, he still want to keep an eye out.
Just looking around the plan. All right, give me another one.

(43:00):
I want to look at the staff. See if I can figure anything out
about. Give me a perception check
please. Uh 17.
Oh good roll. All right. 38 you look around.
What's the staff darting from place to place?
They all seem, you know, responsible but like stressed in
by cut out there. Sorry.
Okay, you look around and you see the staff.

(43:20):
They're all running around. They seem responsible in their
their evening events but they all seem acceptably stressed.
You know, it's a big night for the Flaming board, they want to
seem very professional and they all seem like they're doing a
pretty good job. You don't see much happen and at
one point, you see, one of the bartenders actually break a
glass quietly and just sort of like quietly scuffle it and hide

(43:43):
it under the bar, try not to make a show of it.
You also watch with the 17 you you see a couple servants.
That seem to be serving the banddirectly they bring out glasses
of water. It looks like cups of Ale and
sort of place it and give it to these musicians.
The Troupe of the orchestra basically that is serving this
beautiful masquerade ball is a group of about 20 or so

(44:06):
musicians now which started as aquartet but Now expanded
throughout the evening to be a large group of very
well-performed musicians. You watched them for a second as
well, and with the 17th of them,a violinist seems to be casting
magic through their instrument but you're not sure what kind of

(44:29):
magic. You only notice for a second.
As you've seen bards do before and you lose it and you but
you're sure what you saw kind oftry to Arcana check that person.
Yes please give me an Arcana check 18.
Okay, that's a good role. You spend a moment focusing on
the violinist. You look closely and you're sure

(44:51):
if it now that is a Bard and spellcaster and specifically
that violin is a spell casting Focus.
You can tell the way it's carved, it's extremely precise,
you watch for a moment and you're positive.
With the musical instrument likethat other violin, okay, violin.
While this is happening or a face, you walk out the front

(45:13):
door with Rex Amir They walk forward every stride almost
twice as long as your own, so ittakes some, you know, bit of
pitter patter to keep up with them.
They make way toward a beautifullavish Carriage, that seems to
be in waiting right in front of the Flaming boar.
It seems, they had set up their careers to wait for them.

(45:37):
When they plan to exit the masquerade ball and it's tall,
it almost looks like it could betwo stories but you imagine.
It just has an extremely spacious interior.
It likely can fit eight to 10 people.
You see, it's four horse driven and two writers are already sat
on top four horses. So you want me to get into that.
They duck down and step into thecarriage and you see it's

(46:03):
completely shadowed inside. They stick out a large Gauntlet
and sort of gesture for you to enter, okay?
so, I mean, I carriage. Or are we going to be going
really far? Let's go for a ride.
Okay, I hold up to inclined foamboard to try to line up the

(46:23):
inside of the carriage so I stepin you step in.
It does actually glow, right? Yeah.
It's glowing. Um letterboard detaches from my
shoulder to fly after us slowly so that my friends can know
which Carriage I'm in. Okay good.
It is pretty obvious to do them and also Samir who follows out
which Carriage is likely the oneof the match to Lord you know

(46:44):
notice it is significantly more opulent than the others twice,
as tall, there's gold, gilding around the edge and seems to be
made of a black wytchwood, whichstands out from the sort of
standard Oakwood that most carriages are made out of
nevertheless. They'll let him or flys behind
and you step inside or a face. Coming here as a lord.

(47:05):
Figure seems to watch you and doesn't say a word.
They Place their Gauntlet at hands and their lap and neither
of the servants enter and said they closed the door behind you
and you think you hear a lock nolocking holds me.
Just so, you know, um from the outside, dulum you watch as the
servants, then sort of pull up behind the carriage, they

(47:27):
continue to wear the black masks, the two of them, and
they'll horse driver a top of the carriage.
Let's out allowed whipping soundand the horses.
Begin stepping forward, the two servants walk behind to the
carriage and seemed to have an eye out watching for followers.
Which would you like to follow Doom?
Oh yeah. All right.
I'll need a stealth check from you, then I will not be All

(47:53):
right, so you've just follow along trotting along inside or a
face the carriage rocks forward.You feel the jolt as the wheels
sort of kick out and the enormous armored form of the
figure in front of you doesn't seem to budge as the carriage
begins rocking forward. I'm bouncing around You hear a
loud? We're just gonna do a short ride

(48:16):
around the town away from pryingyears and eyes.
Okay, shouldn't take more than 10 minutes and I'll return you
right to the front of this masquerade ball.
Will re-enter as if nothing happened.
Do you understand? I understand the figure takes
two huge Gauntlet at hands and reaches for one.

(48:40):
Then the other on strapping large belt straps that reach
around taking off of the gauntlets revealing much
smaller. Almost dainty hands underneath
okay, these two hands move quickly to remove the enormous
chest plate. Revealing fine nobleman's
clothes beneath these are silks and what you think are banners

(49:02):
of the House of Water Deep, you see tassels?
And there is still some armor underneath.
It's not full plate mail, but more like studded leather.
Okay? Okay. okay, you're stripping And
finally the figure reaches up and pulls off the tall helmet
with the plume, a top, which seems to come off with the cape

(49:23):
revealing. What looks like a human
underneath? So I don't recognize you by the
face. Either, I recognize you more
with the helmet actually. Oh, would you prefer the helmet
on? Know.
I just they put they place the helmet back on.

(49:45):
So we can talk person to person.Okay, okay, I get, it's like
allegiances aside off my mask. All right.
Um, you see the following personunderneath?
The figure you see underneath has a scowl on their face, holy
Short roughly shoulder, length hair.

(50:08):
And a long diagonal scar across their face, cutting through one
of the eyes leaving white milky,but looks like almost like a
cataract eye, underneath the scar reaches down toward the
mouth and cuts through the lips.The figure also as a deep
widow's peak and what looks likeblondish sort of dirty, blonde

(50:31):
hair. Reminiscent of a coastal born
Highborn. They look at you and extend a
hand, which you now notice is scarred and has the markings of
somebody who works with their hands.
Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you,sir, or a face.

(50:52):
What is your real name? What do you mean?
It's sort of fast. The figure Smiles, The Carriage
continues rattling forward, you are only illuminated by these
twinkling sword in front of you.So you sort of have this like
Stories. Lighting between the two of you.
My name is atlas sarkov. I wish we could have met under

(51:15):
better circumstances. Well, but your name is, you mean
that's the body you're in, is atlas circle of Lourdes.
Atlas sarcophagus, I see. But, you know, just to be clear
examine They offer a faint nod diplomatic.

(51:36):
I didn't recognize you at first,so you might expect.
Valhalla doesn't exactly lend itself.
To memory faces are blurry names.
Are what? And I didn't have a face to
begin with. So I never did you haha.
They lean in slightly voice sortof growing almost Gravely.

(51:56):
In that place. I was called Rex Ymir.
That was me though. I'm not sure how you are here.
How are you here? You see, sir, or a face that was
my alternate identity, my vacation name, if you like, huh.
A bit of harmless and diligence in a realm, where death is a

(52:19):
joke, and violence has no teeth.What are you say?
Well, some call it catharsis. I needed to vent off, steam
therapy with swords. You went to Valhalla on purpose,
they just turned out onto their body, this is me.
Rex Ymir was an alter ego when Itraveled to Valhalla travels.

(52:44):
Yes, I vacationed there to let off steam, you would be a so
amazed at what a masked, Lord has at their disposal, you went
Of my afterlife for fun. You know what?
The best part was time, dilation, I could spend Years
Years, ripping through Battlefield, after Battlefield,

(53:06):
and return here, just in time for a council vote.
Valhalla was convenient. My afterlife, her fun, and you
fought richest for fun and you broke her disease piece for fun.
With you. Throw the rest of us are trapped
there. What you're upset about?
What I did back there. You shouldn't be that world is

(53:27):
built for Monsters. Don't act shocked when one shows
up People who have died Warriors, those who died
screaming and battle. Yes.
Doomed to eternally repeated? Yes, I was just one of Mitty.
I hold no gut grudges and you shouldn't either.

(53:47):
I rather pity the lot of you whotook it.
Seriously, it's a joke there. It's not true.
This. whole existence, some of us didn't store anything else
and all we wanted to do stop andyou The figure sort of gains a

(54:12):
scowl again, as they look down at you with almost eyes, that
seemed to Bear some sort of guilt.
They continue in Valhalla, the name, Rex Humira.
I, let that name, carry every ugly thing I buried here in the
real world. It was just a release, a
fantasy, a way to shed the Robesof power and Civility and

(54:34):
actually feels thing. I just don't Gods.
I didn't think I'd ever see one of you here and let alone in my
city, not like this. So only watched to see us
screaming and Diane, it never thought anyone would make it out
to live like you do here, death is a real there.

(54:54):
You know that same as I, how many times did we meet on the
battlefield and perished by my hand?
And yes, you return? Same as before?
It might just be permanent but it doesn't feel good.
If there's no out. Where did you think I was
between fights when you came back here?
What do you think I was doing? I was still dying.

(55:16):
I was still fighting and what you didn't enjoy it.
It's you died the way you lived.We rally behind vertices and I
didn't live any type of way. Amir it wasn't my choice to go.
There to be that way. She's the damndest most
hypocritical of them. All you take that back right
now. Make me I Sew or a face.

(55:41):
You hold. No power here.
You'd better like all the title what this title?
I don't need power. I have my mind and I have really
sees will behind me. The figure doesn't make for you
at all. They instead sort of slump back
letting their arms fall to theirside, almost casually, relax
yourself night, I'm not here to hurt you and I doubt you either

(56:04):
for me this sort of their head up and go, I need to discuss
something with you. Shafts, take it back.
Fine. Fine, yes, your queen is
righteous and Grandin, whatever.All right, good enough for now,
that's the most you'll get from me.
I don't want anything from you. Now, listen Valhalla, was

(56:24):
convenient for me, a stomping grounds, but now the doors is
closed. My Mages can't reach it anymore.
My contacts in circad say, the plane is gone.
Quiet, almost cut off, no entry,no callback.
How can that happen? I assumed you were like me,
somebody who traveled there for convenience and well for us

(56:48):
sports. But you've seen more plugged in.
Let's say perhaps, you might know something.
No, I Am here not so long ago inthis.
I think form the girl whose bodyI'm in Iceland, she went there
on purpose and I suppose traded places with me.

(57:09):
Don't I have no idea why she went there and I don't know.
I suppose I don't either, but I have connections, so I might be
able to figure it out. Yeah.
You could really think so. A name is a good start Iceland.
I don't know her last name though.
Like this might I have a face. That's enough.

(57:31):
What are you going to do to her?Look into this of course I
wanted to go back to the way it was.
I imagined same as you. I like being there and don't go
and clutch your pearls, upset that you and I were enemies
there. I leave all that there.
I don't bring it home. It is my home there.

(57:53):
If you needed peace, you shouldn't have been reborn and
Valhalla. It's, I had no choice in the
matter. I don't, I don't even know what
I did to earn that fate. I'm just there.
I'm and I'm changing it. It's ready to see and I are
changed in it for, for me and for her, for everyone else.
Sure, sure. Continue being there to hamper

(58:15):
your progress. That's the way things went
there. And it worked.
I like it. You know, horrible person.
What do you mean? What?
That's the point. You think I was cruel?
I was efficient. You think I was a monster know,
I was popular with assertion monstrous demographic.
No one's innocent in a place where death is a hobby.

(58:36):
Honor is just another way to paint, blood, pretty, don't put
that on me. You're a liar.
You're deluding yourself and I won't listen valhalla's full of
people who thought they were important.
I didn't keep a diary of every person I killed there, if I hurt
you. Well, I, I didn't lose sleep
over it and I imagine, you shouldn't either.

(58:57):
I guess hers all the time. It doesn't bother me but you
mobilize against your deceased calls, you, you fought against
saving thousands of souls from tournament.
Listen, I know this might be dramatic for, you see me here,
but I'm not here to rehash old epics or discuss the frivolities
of your queen. Valhalla is sealed to me now and

(59:17):
you might be the last link. I've got so be useful or be
quiet. I think we can work together on
this but don't mistake me for a servant of yours and I won't
keep quiet when you say things Idisagree with you better watch
your tone boy. I won't some know my importance
around here little about how important you are.

(59:40):
Here you are. One of reduces best followers,
aren't you? The best not wanna ask well,
then I suppose you'll have to grit your teeth and bear with me
as we figure this out. I suppose jumping over now back
to Jaya and demos you guys are walking through the kitchen.

(01:00:00):
Malik is making a big stink as you guys watch.
All right, where the fuck is that fucking head, chef?
Ah, I gotta have a word, I hear famous.
Well, he's about to famous fucking mess on his hands.
Where is that shit had me? And my associates need to know,
move on my fucking way. He pushes someone with a tray
toppling over nerves. I'm making a mess bring up to

(01:00:25):
me, right? Fucking now, you guys move
around the most going off of your NAT 20, you got for
investigation, you quickly find the actual exit to the kitchen
in the back. You and Jay, I can sort of slip
to the back. As you hear malagos, continually
making us a storm of this place.I want to see him.
Right? Fucking now I found a hairy fly
in My Soup hair and flies. Yeah, that's right.

(01:00:48):
I want you, I want to on my dick, I want him on the ground,
begging and pleading for his job, huh?
You should know I'm with the health department.
He continues pushing around, Jaya most you guys make your way
out the back door into a quiet Alleyway.
The alley is wet and a bit dingy, but its not really dirty

(01:01:08):
or dangerous. And you can see a quick way back
up to the main roads. What would you guys like to do?
There any like where they want? Like, not a little Annette.
I can't hear you. Oh, is there any hint towards
they went? Like are there any tracks where
you look in either direction? Um making way back out to one of
the populated streets. Can I get a perception check

(01:01:29):
from one of you? Okay.
I modifiers plus two. How is yours Deimos.
Oh, mine's horrible. So I'll just help you.
Okay. All right, give me a roll,
please, I got a 15. I got a 15.
All right, a 15, pretty good. You, wander out into the alley
out of the alley. Luckily, the street lights here

(01:01:50):
illuminate, well enough that youcan see pretty far in every
direction. And you see just the smallest
little bee buzzing off in the distance, with a carriage of few
feet in front of it seems to be rattling along.
The bee is visible above the crowd and you recognize this or

(01:02:11):
face just be um There is coming back now or is it still like,
it's going off into the deeper into the city.
You're not sure where 20 tables following them.
Do you know? She's not here too long.
Um, not in the crowd. Know you see a bee?
Okay, um, I'll try this stuff into following the V, all right.

(01:02:36):
You, um, sort of have to hustle to keep up running over, but you
can eventually start to catch upwhile this is happening.
Dulum, you are just straight up following this Carriage, right?
Yeah. All right, you follow along.
You follow for about 10 blocks, going deeper and deeper into the
city rights and lefts. You are not sure exactly where

(01:02:56):
you are. You still think you're somewhere
in the trade District? Um, making your way perhaps more
toward the castle but it seems to just sort of be a chosen
path. The Carriage driver is not
moving with haste, so you're pretty easy able to keep up.
Why walking after about the 10thblock, though, the Servants of
this masked, Lord, have officially recognized, you and
caught that. You have taken one too many

(01:03:17):
terms to be. Just a Normal passerby, they
sort of Mosey on up to you, bothof them, flanking, you side by
side and one of them leans down to speak, something to you.
I you hello. What you think you're doing
their friend, you are following this Carriage.
You got business. Yes to both.
I see. Well, I want you just tell it to

(01:03:38):
us. Yes.
Well, you are cards of this Carriage, correct?
Yeah. That's right.
You notice now, both of the figures have reached under their
cloaks and grabbed onto something but you imagine as a
weapon well you're guarding a companion in their correct.
Hmm maybe well that's just so happens to be my job as well.
The the two of them sort of lookat each other you imagine

(01:03:58):
there's confusion under the black masks and they turn back
to you and go. Oh yeah.
God and the Lord or that other comment in there.
No the commoner right? Well you could piss off a little
guy. We've already got the whole
thing. Covered promise, not a hell will
be touched on your friend in there you work.
For pay it? Correct?
That's right. Well, I worked for something

(01:04:20):
more important to me than that. Two of them, looking at each
other. All you doing this for sex?
Little guy. Looked down.
No. Got to check the parts first.
Wait, am I gonna get a double check it and grow any can't
imagine this much more importantthan sex and money.

(01:04:42):
You wanted those weird religioustypes.
No. Actually I do not have a
religion. Whoa, hmm.
Well, you really don't need to be here, so I'll say it one more
time and all insisted piss off. And at this point, you can tell
they're trying to intimidate you.
I don't see why we both can't complete our jobs.
If someone were to attack the skeleton Carriage, I would Aid

(01:05:05):
you in that role of persuasion chick, okay.
Oh my God. Using a look point.
I got that 20. The two guards.
Look at each other. Look back at you.
This sort of shrug you don't look like much of a threat, so
they sort of silently agree and walk beside you for a moment.

(01:05:26):
After a bit longer, you hear oneof them go, right?
So I suppose it's fun if you walk along with us, but if
trouble Brooks out, or if we give you the signal, you got a
flight, all right, I would happily help defend this
carriage. All right.
We'll see what you can do littlefella and they on, they on
easily, let you walk alongside them.
Sure. You notice, they do both still

(01:05:46):
have a hand on on their weapons,for the entire walk at this
point. Jaya you and demos or I suppose
Demo's a steak and, oh my God, the most you are out here,
right? Yeah.
I had a boy. Okay, good.
You and Jaya both catch up to the side of the carriage.
You notice dulum is walking side-by-side with two, looks

(01:06:10):
like very beefy, bulky muscle, you imagine.
These are some sort of body guards, do limits right in
between the two. It almost looks like he's held
captive. Oh, that's not good.
You also see letter more, the bee flying above and behind the
carriage following its path. You imagine?
Or a famous might be inside and to me it looks like he's

(01:06:34):
kidnapped. Oh, and can I get a stealth
check from Both of you guys, please.
Oh, I would like to walk on opposite side so that if one of
us fails they only see one of usis gonna be like all like caught
us giant over there. The old man do you hear me?

(01:06:57):
Jaya. J you the gift over there?
Yeah, they caught us man. They caught us.
I got a 13. Okay.
Um, you guys both sort of creep along the side, are you watching
at this point? Are you trying to make a move?
Um personally I'm watching I can't if I feel like the

(01:07:19):
situation reads A Certain but also I I know my friends and I
feel like they'd fight back if anything bad were to be happy to
take on those two guards, prettyeasily.
Jaya and demos your curling around the edge of the carriage.
The large black wytchwood Carriage, that March is through

(01:07:39):
town on a sort of Meandering, big circular path.
Dulum your pressed right in between these two guards.
The two guards, sort of point toone another.
Then you notice the two of them throw out, elaborate hand signs
at one. Another that you don't exactly
recognize one of them looks at you and goes, oh, you got it?
No! What are you saying?

(01:07:59):
Damn it every fucking bodyguard worth is Sultan those thieves.
Can't. What's your problem?
Sorry, I don't associate with thieves.
Good answer. Well, listen, we got a bogey
left, and right sidewalk. You see him look over on the
left and off to the right. Oh, both the most and Jaya
without turning their heads. They sort of do these very

(01:08:21):
small, like finger points and goes, yeah, they've been
following us for a hair here. Um, I think there might be
trouble, so plan is one of us isgonna go after one.
The other, the other, I think they might try to attack.
So you think you got? Oh, that's not buggies.
They're following us correct. I know those people.
Ah, don't play any funny business with us robot.

(01:08:44):
All right, you walking with him but I can't really see any
reason to have more than what three bodyguards in total for
that commoner sums up if you'd like.
I can tell them to stop following.
Yeah. Tell him to piss off.
Um, oh Message. Jaya dating.
Hello these cars don't want you to follow this character

(01:09:04):
anymore. Yeah, no.
Well It's still up here. Okay.
I is it safe or is everything good?
I think we're good for now. I'll turn to the guards.
Where's the scourge going? Just doing around.
Oh well, I'm actually that what?I turn back to the masquerade a

(01:09:25):
classified as classified. Oh, message Jaya.
I think they said that it's going to return to the
masquerade. I don't tell anyone that all
right. Oh, apologies.
Um, okay, if if things go wrong,maybe you shoot a brat like, can
you do that out of your body? I can't do that but maybe I'll

(01:09:47):
yell really loudly. Okay.
Yeah, we'll be, we'll be around.We just won't follow great.
Sorry, these cards seem nervous.Wonder why all 10th to the
cards? Great they shouldn't follow
anymore. The two look at you on easily
and one of them goes what do youmean?
You didn't say anything? Oh sorry I'll point to my both
my hands. It was some magic The two, look

(01:10:10):
at you suspicious and go. All right, never funny business.
Then I hands where we can see him.
And if I see those two, again, we're gonna Rush him, okay?
Thank you for the warning, good make sure they know that with
your magic, their robot. Okay, that's a child.
They see if they see you. They're going to rush you.
Okay, good to know. I'll make myself gone truth,

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sorry again. And I guess oh, tell damos to
hang back, they must say that they're all right for now and
the guards could see it. So we were doing a great job but
either the things that should befine, doesn't seem too hostile
right now so we can probably just wait they should be coming

(01:10:54):
back. Oh good.
I have a I have a hot date waiting for me at the party so
maybe this is for the best. Whoa, okay.
Where is Samir at all this? Sorry.
Um, Samir had been following along behind way behind Tulum,
Giant and demos and had not beenspotted yet, okay.

(01:11:18):
He joins up with Jaya and the most if you guys are willing to
walk away from this because I want to step off.
Yeah yeah, Samir joins back up with you guys.
Oh did they yell at you? Those two looks scary.
Well, they hold Doom. That we needed to hang back
otherwise they were gonna Rush us over the fuk that.

(01:11:39):
So we're just gonna go back, they seem to same thing, seemed
to be under control, they're gonna come back around, So
eventually he'll be back doing said that, if something goes
wrong, he'll scream really loudly.
Um oh okay, that is a bit frightening to hear but I
suppose we should stay with an earshot then yeah.

(01:12:00):
All right. Um, okay and Samir steps off
with you guys. Well, this is happening higher.
You are still watching the crowdat the top of the I suppose
banister on the side of the staircase, the band continues to
play. You still have your eye on the
violinist but otherwise things seem what normal is there

(01:12:22):
anything you'd like to do? Yeah, I want to like openly like
cheer for the band. All right, there's a decent
amount of like, at least polite Applause.
Every time, the orchestra finishes, the song, but your
sort of stands out is like a Whooping and hollering.
Oh, you are dressed in a frog costume so that doesn't help.

(01:12:46):
So much about twice during this time.
Do attendance, walk up to you and ask to see your invitation
to make sure you didn't just walk off the street.
I'll let you have no, this was very expensive.
Distribution cost more than yourhouse.

(01:13:10):
Um you watch for a while longer?Give me another perception.
Check higher, please just great.Uh 13.
Okay. Um you watch for a while longer.
Nothing exactly catches your eye.
A few more people, come and go. No one really of note.
Um, at some point you see that the individual demos was talking
to who was wearing a black, goats mask exits.

(01:13:33):
And you hear the loud exit Hitler basically say Samson
leaving. He seems like way out.
They must be so sad and then theorchestra stops from a moment
and you see what looks to be thelead violinist approached, the

(01:13:54):
front of the stage. This is not the individual that
you caught earlier who looked tohave been playing some magic,
but instead seems to be somewhatof a vocal piece for the band,
perhaps their leader in some way, not a conductor, but just
the first chair from my musicians up there.
Oh, the approach and speak loudly almost through the

(01:14:15):
thermometry echoing, their voiceand exclaim out.
Ladies and Lords, the masked to raid ball has been quite a
success and a polite clap with that.
The orchestra is coming to a close but please Remain the
four-piece quartet will return afterward to serenade you, but
our time will surely be up soon this next piece.

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The orchestra would like to dedicate to the masked, Lord,
who I believe is around here somewhere.
They figure looks around, tryingto find the masked Lord who was
not here but sort of looks away and walks back to the chair
sitting down and the orchestra begins to play its start slow

(01:14:58):
and builds up and up and up a deafening piece loud.
Almost drowning out the entire conversation of those on the
ballroom floor, people can't help, but watch as their vote,
their voices, completely overshadowed by the Dan of this
loud, orchestral music. It could continue to swell and
swell as if it's building to a great Crescendo and with a 13

(01:15:20):
higher you catch someone else inthe band, a harp player in the
back. You see magic for a second weave
between their fingers, Then can I see it somewhere else?
I have violin a viola. You see more several.
Give me an Arcana check. I hope it's automatically seven,
seven. You can't identify the spell,

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but you think that's a Bard. In fact, the viola player begins
casting magic. Also a Bard.
You see the bass player in the back.
Sweeping magic for only a split second.
If you are on the ballroom flooryou couldn't catch this at all.
But from your heightened view, you get a better chance to see
their fingers and the group of them as a whole and you would
seen it once before. So you know what to look for?
They're all casting some sort ofspell.

(01:16:05):
You're not sure what it is. The music continues to swell and
swell and swell reaching this beautiful.
Crescendo that's almost harsh noise to you to your ears.
So one of those things that you think in a proper Concert Hall
that might have sent a beautifulbut here in this sort of smaller
Ballroom, it's sounds a bit discordant the way it goes off
the walls. Nevertheless still the piece
comes to a close after a good four or five minutes of playing

(01:16:27):
and at the crowd begins to cheeras They begin cheering, you
notice something peculiar the chandelier, the each, and every
individual of the hundreds of candlesticks on there, the
lights on the candlesticks beginpulsing, womb flickering in, and

(01:16:49):
out the orchestra bows and exits, hastily they all pack up
their instruments. Some of them practically
throwing them over their shoulders and grabbing a chair
and guarding off the stage. They leave quickly as the herald
from the front, approaches the stage slowly and calls out.
All right, everyone. Please enjoy the festivities
food and drink are still about the quartet, was shut up

(01:17:10):
shortly. I hope you enjoyed all Orchestra
for the evening, the entire group applauds.
Once more, and the chandelier continues flickering, is there
anything you'd like to do? Can I try to Arcana?
Check the chandelier? Yes, give me an Arcana check
clearly this will be good. Surely, surely, hey, oh, no
fuck. Amos is back inside.

(01:17:31):
Going to get chandelier. I need a big voice, a big boy
roll for this one. Hi, give me something sexy.
I apologize. I have been rolling straight up
though. I don't think I've got any High
Rolls. I am rolling with disadvantaged
my apologies. Oh no.
Why are you rolling with disadvantage?
Uh, you I still have a level of exhaustion.
Oh my God, he's tired, I rolled a Nat, 20 and a 17.

(01:17:55):
So, okay, wait wait, wait, wait.Just real quick though.
New exhaustion rules. It's not disadvantage, right?
It's like minus two, I think so.Oh really hold on.
Can we fact check this real quick?
Let me. Um sorry.
Hold on. I don't have shown fighting
instead of Five Points. Yeah.
Because the different which is stupid.
And of course the top result hasAI sloth all over the page.

(01:18:17):
Yeah, Beyond says it's minus twotimes your exhaustion.
So it's minus 2 right now. Yes.
Okay, so it's just the minus 2. Sorry, higher.
You should not be rolling into Spanish, right?
Get a minus two on the role. Okay, time to re-roll this.
So what we can take the role yougot A Nat 20, right?
I don't want to share it. Yeah.
But the other role was worse. So and give me a real thing.
Give me a new one. I actually, I would love to take

(01:18:39):
that one. Check was good enough.
I want to Here. Uh, 19.
Yeah, that's the minus two. Okay, 17th there.

(01:19:00):
Before hire, you recognize, there's magic that's been cast
on the chandelier that was not there.
But five moments ago, you don't know the spell itself.
But this is evocation magic. And you think it might be
powerful evocation? Um, can you remind me what my
character knows about you? Yes.

(01:19:22):
Well, of course, your character,what of you would, of course
know this is that evocation is aschool of magic that um
basically creates something flashy out of nothing.
For example, bombs magic, missiles Fireball, lightning
bolt, that kind of stuff is efficient.
It's basically like damage dealing spells.

(01:19:43):
Okay, great, I'm be a little pisser then.
Um and I am going to settle spell.
Cast the spell Magic on the chandelier.
Whoa. Hi.
Okay, that's a pretty good spell.
Um, you're going to have to rollfor it though.
It is above a third level spell that's been cast on this.

(01:20:05):
Yeah, makes sense. Oh my God.
It was so close to a net one 26.Okay, yes that is.
Yeah, that's well high enough but higher, you're really you're
really gonna like this. A single candle stops.
Flickering. Oh yeah.
Because there are multiple people who did it at this point.

(01:20:25):
I'm gonna cut back to Orpheus. Well, higher considers.
What the fuck is happening? Oh my god.
Um, you are still in this carriage or ifeis.
Yeah, Rex Ymir sits across view,who recently identified
themselves, as Atlas sarcophagus, sick Name, by the
way. Thank you opposite answer.

(01:20:47):
You can suck me off. Oh, Atlas gives you a subdued
smile, very dignified, but it ishalf cut short by that scar,
they have running down half of their lip.
Well then that's the spirit, isn't it?
A reluctant handshake over. A battle of shared interests
vary. Valhalla of us.

(01:21:11):
Is so would you truly is this truly a masked Lord here?
Yes, which is why it has been without much dignity that I've
shared my face with you. In fact this should come as a
great honor to you masked. Lords are secret for a reason.

(01:21:32):
Such things like assassination or bribes are unable to touch
us. We are common people until it
comes time to vote. So I do this with the utmost
respect for you night or a face.I do it because I believe you, I
believe your position, and I'm here to help as a mass Lord of
Water Deep, my grasp on this Dominion, no bounds.

(01:21:56):
That's your own awful long time,too.
Well yes, you see they sort of scoff and brush sort of
invisible Speck of dust off of their lapel.
Keeping their gaze sharp on. You can I ask a question?
Speak less. Who else?

(01:22:18):
so, who Is anyone else in Valhalla?
Like you. None that I know.
All right. Believe I am the first sport.
They're not here. You make a good point.
Yes. Those two do come with me.
You might know them. Yeah, I think I fucking too much

(01:22:40):
basil. Be a little basil.
It's not often, I call them thathere, but yes, that is there to
their titles. In that realm, they travel with
me. Helped instill.
My will keep me safe, so that I don't die there.
Too often. I see, they're tough loyal as
hell and can practically scrap anything.

(01:23:02):
Yeah, they're cheaters is what they are.
They don't obey the rules of warfare, not at all.
And I imagine right now they're watching this character with
great interest. Seeing if any little friends,
please follow us. Don't think I didn't notice him
in the Crowd. Oh yeah.
What do they look like it? Just no matter they are what I'm

(01:23:23):
talking to you about. That's not that's so untrue.
There is connected to this is I am more connected than you are
since you're just fucking Tardis.
Sorry no, it's quite her right. I am a tourist, your realm me
and my two companions, the threeof us.
Treat your realm as a sporting ground.
Say I often didn't continue all people.
It's of course, didn't help thatmany of you refuse to wear

(01:23:47):
phases, of humans, such as yourself night or a face.
Most most everyone else wears faces, I suppose.
Regardless. It was difficult to hear that
you are here. I suppose I owe you an apology
for how I treated you there but you won't get it just yet.
Oh, First way to business, I want to return.

(01:24:11):
That place is a important to me.I have a soft spot for it.
They sort of lean in now, getting a bit closer to you that
Steely gaze, not averting from your eyes at all.
I miss it truth. Be told I quite enjoyed seeing
you and again it was so convenient the stress and

(01:24:32):
Taxation that I feel putting on a smile and being dignified for
these bastards and Water Deep drains me spending a year or two
in the Great Plain of Valhalla to let off steam.
Is it just what I need? I quite hope I'll go there when
I die in this plane as well, though.
I doubt it considering how much handshaking I have to do here as

(01:24:55):
a whole, Gets A Warrior's after life from having their ass
dragged around by horses across a city.
Just saying, hold, do your tongue or a face?
I'll Be Blood. I can't force my way back in.
Believe me. I've tried every plane are key.
Every favorite called in every back alley, ritual, some hedge

(01:25:16):
witch promise would work. The gates refused me, they did
not die. My existence, its new, have you
tried to pick an award and Die in it.
That same spunk. I remember every day, I tortured
you. I you, however, and they gesture
lightly with two fingers pointing at you, sort of

(01:25:37):
flickering. You still have a touch of the
plane, blood Ash old war songs, I could tell, they're still in
you, you might be able to get through where I cannot or the
very least, you'd be noticed. You think so if someone sealed
it this Iceland, they must have left a sign.

(01:25:59):
Residue, places crack when they're locked, shut.
You can look for the cracks. Okay.
Let's be clear. I'm not doing this out of guilt.
Valhalla was my retreat, my hunt, my perfect dream and
someone ruined it. I wanted back.
You want answers? Fine, let's get both.
Let's get both so I can't promise that.

(01:26:20):
Once you're back, I won't do everything I can to get rid of
you. I expect nothing less from
reduces finest, dog. You and I get along swimmingly
actually kissed sorry we're going to achieve our goal, my
goal and I'll do it with your assistant so long as you're in

(01:26:42):
order. With my values, let's talk
resources, okay? You'll need more than your sword
and wounded Pride. If you want to crack open a
plane, this isn't actually my sword.
You're not even a swordsman here.
I toss the sword to them. They pick it up, sort of cooling
at it and playing with those sort of foam at the end.

(01:27:04):
Oh, it's just funny. Yeah.
What irony for you to be born into such a weak and pitiful
body here? It's full.
For a week. But Any attributes other than my
sword holding arms my pythons which will all go around the
great sword. I'm clever.

(01:27:27):
So I'm trying to say, I don't know if you ever even thought
about who builds the villages you'd burn down, but that's was
me. I'm a builder.
I'm good at building building buildings, that get burnt and
other things. I tap my boots.
Yeah, hold my gloved hands over the swords that it reveals the
little invisible. Hex gloves.

(01:27:48):
NAB those off a wizard built on myself like three hours ago.
No, it's just last night. Just yeah, last night, you just
the great night or affairs with broadsword and hand was born
into the body of a meat, not AgeBuilder, a scientist and
inventor, and anywhere. I'm just held here for a little

(01:28:11):
while. These are not sure.
It's not hers. Anyways, she has nothing to do
with this Iceland. This is their body her body.
Yeah, excellent. Wait, you know, wait, ah, we've
already tried killing this body and hurts and it's really bad.
I lost it didn't do much except gets to be sent to an scary
falling Dimension. So please don't kill me just to

(01:28:31):
get it hurt. Doesn't work anymore.
Their smile immediately disappears and goes, well, too
bad for first. Well, I have fucked it up,
though. Check this out, I showed them
the metal tips on my fingers. Oh yeah.
Interesting. Yeah.
Well, good Spike, that body burnit to dust if you will tear out

(01:28:54):
her eyes closed away her skin. Afraid of a little bit of pain
night or a face clearly I ever do enough.
I'm Not Afraid anything, but I'mnot going to do anything that's
inhibits. My ability to get back to the
Sea Side. So long as that's what she

(01:29:14):
wants. Well, if that's what she wants.
I wouldn't be surprised if your little Queen had something to do
with this locking of the plane, maybe she wanted to lock you
out. So, A Time stuck here.
Not her goal. Well, sort of look at Ymir.

(01:29:36):
I think you looked I think I Am I think?
We're ready to see. Brokered some sort of deal with
vertices were to see, wanted me to stay here.
Well, Iceland finishes, her workgoodness, the noble, Radisson.
In the need to some outside her.Contractor I think or if I am

(01:29:58):
unimpressed. What's that supposed to mean?
I expected more fight for you, from you for your queen, you
really would, let her kick you out.
That'll keep you away. You really think that's what's
best for her. You are weak.
It's not up to me, what's best for her?
She knows. That I do so.
So I don't even really need. You.

(01:30:19):
But that's so then step out of the carriage.
This moment. You'll never see my face again.
We should find way back so that's the second ice once done.
I can be there still on the samepage.
Good. Let me talk strategy with you.
All right, shoot luckily, for you, I collect impossible tips
the way, lesser Nobles collector, wine, Firstly, I

(01:30:44):
should tell you, I should warn you, this will be the one and
only time you'll ever see my FITfrom now and onward.
My dealings with you shall be through constituents.
It is a rarity for me to even beout in public.
I'll make sure not to make the same mistake again, especially
knowing that you plan on killingme.
The first moment you get that. Was that not what you just said

(01:31:06):
or a face? Your ill.
Will you have against me? Could cut Like a Knife?
I wouldn't kill you here but oh you've no business being in
Valhalla and changing things there.
Just the way, I have no businessbeing in the material plane and
changing things here. I'm not going to kill a
politician, it's not my world. And today I'm like some and a

(01:31:27):
man of my morals so you can trust that you're safe with me.
Well then let me Regale you witha tail.
Several, I have three Tales to spin for you, okay?
The first a plane, plane play Demi plane, in fact, just called
care rope forgotten. Even by most Scholars, it sits

(01:31:48):
on the hinge between the material plane and limbo.
They're all priests there that were once.
Obsessed with planar magic in its understanding, until they
all went mad, I could how we sayFund in Expedition chart of the
guy's bribe called cartographersto pretend.
It's not cursed there. All right, they turned slightly

(01:32:09):
like they've already moved on toa different thought.
There's also a name and they spit out Zach's the boundless
bastard. Some sort of planar wizard.
Some people call him avex. The banned list asshole.
I tracked rumors living in circad with a, we still twists.

(01:32:30):
And he can do his bidding. If he's alive.
He's mostly most likely mad if he's dead.
He might still talk. Oh, all right, either way he'll
be dangerous, he's probably worth more dead.
He gives better information thatway I find most people do okay
like with the speak with dead types of spell.

(01:32:51):
Now you're catching on to this material world or if they just
if you could bring me a body I could get you the information
you needed. Okay.
Finally. If you prefer a softer handed
subtler, message method like I could arrange an audience.
Oh you turn this down. I should hear it out.

(01:33:14):
I just wanted to express the times, the man of the sword.
That's the fucking quill or evilor whatever.
Sorry, I don't mean to be hard to work with.
It's just how I am. Okay.
Just as abrasive as I remember, I quite enjoy it.
There is a tower here in waterdeep called the black staff
Tower. It is where the arch Mages of

(01:33:36):
the, probably all of faerun, gather, the mostly locals of
waterdeep who wish to study their craft, I can arrange an
audience there. There's a wizard that keeps
their hold in the tower held between minutes, huh.
The one to price, they always do.
But that wizard might know how to get to the Seal of Valhalla.

(01:34:00):
Maybe even figure out much more intimately.
The person who did it, I see. All right.
That's what we did. Listen to me, none of these
Path. All of them are far above your
station but you want to answer is night of Valhalla.
Then you'd better learn how to start walking among the people
here. Without pretending you're not
one that is not pretending aboutit.

(01:34:23):
It is at this point that I wouldlike to call on Jaya and the
most you guys join up with Samir.
Where would you like to go? Well, I want to go back to the
party, but I okay, I could do that.
I was sort of enjoying being in costume and being in costume out
here makes me feel like a freak What snow sound?

(01:34:45):
You look you look great. You know, thank you.
Um the most do you actually wantto go back?
Because there was a handsome manchatting you up?
Oh um Maybe, I mean also, you know, reconnaissance, we were
here to find someone, right? So I mean, oh yes, of course.
I don't know if you found them yet, unless this person or
Affairs is in the carriage with,is that person.

(01:35:05):
But I don't know if or the face is friends, would be that high
in station. Oh yeah.
You know, I know we can't hear you for some reason.
Oh, I don't know if his connections could reach that, I
think we are all in a Korean. So, or a face has been kidnapped

(01:35:28):
know. I just yeah, I think it's
someone. He knows who, yes, luckily Doula
is looking after her face, so itshould be good.
Of course, I would trust my verylife with Tulum.
Yeah, of course, he would wait outside the party but giant you

(01:35:52):
look so Dapper. Don't you want to?
Periods the joys of amesco rate ball exercise.
I want to say out here just in case you know they do them,
brings out needing help or whatever reason.
I would just like to stay a little coffee.
You guys. Go on ahead.
You guys have fun, right? This doesn't require more than
oh um okay. All right let's go in Deimos.

(01:36:14):
He gives you maybe chicken with Tire.
I haven't seen him in a while. Oh yes.
We can do that. Where did you guys leave
malleus? Oh, Thank you know, listen, I

(01:36:42):
will go look for him. Please, enjoy yourself and he
puts a hand on the here shoulderthe most and goes into yourself.
All right. Due to Jaya get in there.
Yeah, let's follow Unless you. decide, I Never mind.
All right, let's go. And the most and Samir had
inside. After walking, the several

(01:37:03):
blocks back. Giant.
You want to do the same. Um, I think I'm just gonna wait
a little bit off to the side fornow, once I see the carriage
coming, then I'll walk back in. All right.
You wait out front there are a lot of people sort of hanging
around the front area too. Half of them seem to be servants
taking a smoke break out here. The other half are individuals

(01:37:24):
from the party who have had somesort of warm malfunction that
need to do a quick change there as well.
A huge line of carriages that seem to be waiting for guests to
exit. During this time higher, you can
continue to watch the chandeliers sort of flicker.
You notice that successfully youon you extinguished.
One of the many, many candles that like this great chandelier.

(01:37:48):
One of them goes out in the whisp of smoke draws up the rest
of the hundreds of candles here.Continued to flicker.
Take a moment to process what that potentially means.
And then I want to take off after the band, okay?
So you run down the stairs, shoving your way through the
crowd. Can you give me an Athletics or

(01:38:09):
acrobatics? Check to muscle your way through
Prague. Let it frogs gotta go legs.
And put them down. Wait, what are my options?
Okay, acrobat accent. Now, instead of a minus 3, gets

(01:38:31):
to be a minus one, can you have so many negative modifier?
Skill. 7. Okay, 7.
Is that Athletics or acrobatics acrobatics?
Okay? Um, you push through it, um,
sort of trying to Slither your way around people's feet.
But people stomp in front of youa couple more times than you

(01:38:52):
expect. And it's takes a little bit
longer to push through, but the time you get to the stage and
more of it to the Back door, which the band seems to have
exited through there, seems to have been a door behind the
curtain on stage. You sort of get your way up
there and one of the attendants of the event, you recognize them

(01:39:14):
from their servants outfit, sortof stops you at the staircase
and goes, excuse me sir, ma'am, whatever is in there.
Um you can't go this way. I'm sorry, this is for members
of the band and Orchestra only do you know, do you know what's
happening? I I need to know what's
happening. What?

(01:39:34):
Yes, sir. What is this magic?
Masquerade ball to? Um, this is a party I imagine
you want to guess? Yeah, thanks.
What's with the magic chandelier?
Oh, it's not magic show, but I'mglad you think.
So, it's actually the mini crystals that we had installed
know, it was 1000. No pieces know.
It is so you already have been calling us or this was

(01:39:58):
intentional, which Was it? Um, so I really don't.
The figure looks up with the chandelier now and sort of
Squints at and goes. I suppose it's flickering
slightly but that's probably dueto a wind in here or something.
So you seem a bit. Inebriated, your wobbling, my
time. Sit down somewhere have not
drinking once tonight. I wobble.

(01:40:23):
Okay. Look, you see me dressed like
this? I'm like this all the time I
promise. I'm wobbling.

(01:40:48):
It's what I do. I just always wobble.
Can't walk this right? It's All right, so, um, you the

(01:41:11):
figure still sort of has their hands out.
You don't recognize this member of the band and now you see the
back door behind the curtain open and a small group of four
musicians exit holding large instruments, seems to be the
quartet. That was mentioned earlier that
begins setting up on the stage. Now, the door closes behind him
and you get a brief glimpse of adark, dimly-lit hallway, that

(01:41:32):
seems to shoot off behind the door, but it's closed and
covered by the curtain quickly after.
So, I'm almost really ask you toreturn to the party.
Um, if you're worried at all about the safety, I could direct
you toward our officers, the there are many kings God around
here that could likely help you Insight check.
He truly doesn't know what's going on.
Excellent, give me an Insight check.

(01:41:53):
Okay, not for one. Your kid.
Should never be left alone at the party.
All right. Yeah.

(01:42:14):
You you just can't tell. Honestly, he said, you might be
drunk and I like, fuck. Did I have a drink tonight?
Oh, give him like a little, likethree second pause, like,
evaluating if he can give me anything, I'm like, okay, thanks
sir. And I'm gonna move on to the
band. Okay.

(01:42:35):
Um, you say thanks so you're sort of descend, the stairs,
you're still at ground level. So the the actual stage that the
band is on is like a couple feetup like imagine a concert hall,
but you can still sort of make your way around to the front and
see the four quartet members that are setting up.
You can easily yell to them if you want.
I am gonna try to go up to them.All right, you mean like climb

(01:42:57):
up? Or you.
Can chat to them. I mean, you know, it's a loud
room but you can yell at them. Okay, fine.
Yeah, I started. Oh my fucking God.
I start yelling. All right, yelling, what do you
want to yell? Are these quartet people are

(01:43:18):
they from the last band or this separate group Rowley.
Perception chick real quick for me, 18.
All right, 18. You look at them closed.
Eye contact. Take a moment.
You're convinced know, this is none of these members are the
same as the other group. Their clothes are a little
different. You can tell, I mean, you spent
a long time staring at them. These are a whole new group of.

(01:43:40):
Um, oh God. Okay, so I'm higher.
I'm higher. What do you want to scream?
You're yelling. Like you were the one person
cheering on him, then he ran up and tried to fall.
You're yelling at the openers. The perfect fucking Concert Hall

(01:44:07):
guest. Very magical.
What do you know? What the one of the band made to

(01:44:28):
looks to be setting up a lute? Sort of puts it down for a
second and wanders a step closerto you and goes a good.
Um, I believe there must be a lot of magical things.
This is a ballroom after all, it's likely Enchanted to Glow,
hope that answers your question.Now please give us a moment and
the figure turns around and returns to the loot on the
ground. I talked to the guards.

(01:44:49):
They that's supposed to be lit up.
Shit. Shit.
Um, higher. So do you have a problem?
About the day and I really don'twant that app.
All right, this is about when the most you walk back in.

(01:45:13):
And do them you're here as well,right?
Yeah, you're still in the car. All right you're still here is
home and yeah you hear this through the open main entryway
door. But the most you hear higher
scream at the front of the stagethat I think a lot of people are
gonna die here and I really don't have to happen.

(01:45:35):
Oh god. Um, the room is noticeably
quieter when this happens and everyone said, you don't know
anything quickly shuffled over to hire all right.
You push through it's easier when with everyone kind of quiet
and looking higher. You see demos?

(01:45:56):
Yeah, I'm gonna walk back in andbut I'm not gonna seem like I'm
Affiliated just yeah you like you stand at the door frame just
to watch. The most.
Higher. Are you okay?
Is I don't why? Why are you freaking out?
Look man. Look I I know I was alone that

(01:46:16):
whole Scandal which is evocationmagic.
I cast a spell Magic on it. It was more powerful than mine
and each of those candles is a spell.
Evocation magic. This is another chandelier we
buddy. You look funny.
I know I know chandeliers can bescary for you but we gotta get
going. It's this channel is a problem.

(01:46:39):
What do you see the most? Like, like jump a little bit at
the mention of a chandelier being dangerous and he goes to
look at the at the chandelier. Does he notice anything you look
up now it is sort of flashing a little bit there is a flickering
to the flame. That does look a little unusual.

(01:46:59):
It's not like obviously a problem it's sort of just looks
like how fire looks when wind isbuffeting it pretty hard.
But um with a closer inspection,do you want to give Be an Arcana
check and higher. You can feel free to help and
like, look at that one, look, I put that one out.
Look at the way that one. Oh, help.
Help me, please help me. Oh, dirty, 20, nice.

(01:47:21):
Oh dirty, 20, excellent. Okay.
Um, while you're looking up at that, hold on to your 20, hold
on, Samir enters the back room. You see him walk into the
servants Corridor and then make his way into the kitchen, Jaya
act, the frontier. Can I get a perception check
from you? Oh, can they be strong six?

(01:47:43):
But it's so strong. That does sound really strong.
That sounds wrong. And manly and masculine.
Okay. A six, nothing unusual happens.
Just a few more people come and go past you by the entrance.
They call out their names as they go, as you walk in and out,
the announcer does want to call you out.

(01:48:04):
So, you know, you sort of poke your head in the, The Herald
says the Harlequin cowboy Yeah, that's the legitness.
Yeah. Someone walks by you at the same
time. The white tail deer exits.

(01:48:26):
Oh, she was so sexy and she toldme so hard.
Oh, she fell you so hard. Oh, Oh um, but you don't notice
anything else, happened. Jaya Okay.
Now um, jumping to Orpheus now or you're still in the carriage
dulum you're still close behind.The carriage, is now finished

(01:48:48):
half of its loop, it's making its way back around the other
side. It's been much longer than 10
minutes. You guys have noticed this
conversation that you and Rexy mirror have had or Ife is
lasted. Do you think at least 20?
So it's hard to tell because of the very shaded interior.
It's Pitch Black in here save for that glowing sword.
Okay. Planning on going tomorrow.

(01:49:14):
Anyways, so if you could go ahead and schedule my audience,
that would be greatly appreciated.
Ashley's sodak Lord sirakov theysmile looking at you and sort of
nodding their head to the side. Hmm.
Lord such sweetness coming off of your lips.

(01:49:35):
I just like, you know, I'm celibate, Still In This Plane.
Also, by the way, by the way, I desire.
Nothing of that. Like you hell in this world?
I am likely aged the same as your mother or father.
I don't have either of those things, but I don't need them.
Exactly. Yeah, exactly, yeah.

(01:49:56):
That's what I've been saying. Oh, it is nice though to have
someone from back home. So I, I guess I'm glad I ran
into you. Thank you is what I'm trying to
say. You bring up a good point.
Have You encountered anyone elsefrom Valhalla here on like
myself and my assistant's, I putin a lot of trust Into You Lord

(01:50:18):
sarkov. So Please don't bring this back
to bite me, but yes, I have encountered, others.
Hmm. And my squired safe and surf,
cat waiting to find a way to go home, but she's, she's just to
you. She can't tell us so much.
She's just someone else. I need to help and die.

(01:50:38):
Amisha. I don't know what she's doing.
You remember her? Do you?
You might start to see her on the battlefield as often?
Oh, I remember the bitch. Okay, well, I would prefer you
didn't, I don't know, she's beenkind of a bitch lately.
She killed. A friend I may or may not have
friends you know there's a baggage right don't think so

(01:51:02):
some of them helped me a lot andothers make me happy.
Some of them help me and make mehappy, they all healthy and to
make me happy goodness. What has Humanity done to you?
I've always had You had a ruler and a boot to lick.
You had what that clown. Which clown the clown Abel?
He's a good friend and he might be in waterdeep.

(01:51:28):
Or are you the one who wrote on my side?
He's in my city. Know, do you have a specific
beef with able? I don't know about, huh?
I wouldn't trip it. Did he travel here the same way?
You did. I haven't found him yet.
Find him first watch. What would you do to him?
Face. You haven't changed a bit.

(01:51:50):
Have you. They smile at you.
With this big cracked smile, if you Heard or any of.
That people and then I'll kill you myself and I'll show them
your face myself. Do you understand if this even
is my face? I don't fear you or a face.

(01:52:10):
I never did. You should.
Your song because of me and I need to fix it and you know that
so don't hurt any of them. The second you do, this
partnership is over and I will take a price understood night or

(01:52:31):
Affairs. No harm shall come upon Abel.
The clown. He's not a clown.
My city why'd you call him a clown?
He's just walks like one when I have my fingers dug into him.
What's that not threatening Fox sexually, degrade?

(01:53:10):
I can't take people seriously, Abel's doesn't stand for the
same nobility YouTube. I told you that it felt like
hunting out there like sporting the best parts were dealing with
such filters. Like you infinite Pride
Everlasting nobility loyalty flooding out of your body.
It was to try to break you down but Abel Abel would turn for

(01:53:33):
nothing. What elaboration?
What you just said? Turn for nothing?
Didn't know that about your friend.
Did you? What do you mean turn?
What do you mean turn? I don't tell you that at all
over face. What I owe.
You is a letter, a letter of admittance to blackstaff Tower.
You shall have it in due time. One of my constituents will get

(01:53:54):
it to you, okay? Sir, ma'am.
I usually Yes, ma'am to people in positions of power, but like,
yes, Lord, I mean, Lord, a sort of gendered so, or a face, I
don't give a shit what you call me.
As long as you give me an ounce of respect.

(01:54:15):
I'll know I'm above you. That's all that matters?
Yes. Work on it.
Give me something fresh next time at this point here, forces
winning in the front, not her. And you see they look over their
shoulder at nothing and turn back to him.
Go looks like we're back now. I believe it's your time to

(01:54:36):
re-enter this great ball. I would myself but I have much
business to attend to now that our digital Arrangement has been
gone All right, I forgot my handfor a last handshake.
I love you guys. Now, Rex Ymir, stick out.
This slender yet, scarred and mottled hand, and Shake You
firmly. They make Fierce eye contact

(01:54:57):
with you. I look forward to fuck.
I look forward to working with you, Rex you made, and I don't
forget faces. Good.
Don't forget who you serve understood your mind now.
Obvious God knows how many yearsI tried to do it.
Now you're mine funny. Isn't it?
Ironic About the queen radio to see.

(01:55:22):
You yes of course as long as youfollow her to see with that same
fervent heart, you will always be my favorite.
All right. But I do love your Outback now.
And you guys have made a full loop of the city.
In all it was about half an hour, maybe more of riding
around. The thing, unusual happened on

(01:55:42):
your ride, you had nothing to defend the carriage against
everyone's in a while. The other servants beside you,
the bodyguards would point out someone in the crowd and, you
know, sort of whisper to you to pay attention to them, but they
quickly would turn an ally, or go somewhere else.
And you notice, it seems to be altogether pretty conspicuous.
There's nothing that really identifies this car to special

(01:56:03):
and because you guys stepped into the garage so quickly,
you're not so many people know what's going on in their three.
You round the corner leading back to Ward.
The masquerade ball in front of the Flaming bar.
You pass. All the other carriages that are
aligned up sort of skirting, alongside them driving on the
wrong side of the road and eventually you stop right in
front of the grand rolled out, red carpet, the two assistants

(01:56:25):
next to you, sort of, give you anudge and go.
Yeah, all right. Well back, let's open the door
here and then you go with your guy and we'll go Thaws.
Great pleasure working with you.Yeah.
Right. You're not so bad.
Robot you don't talk much. That's nice.
If you ever need a job in bodyguard and give us a head up.
All right. Thanks.
What are your names? Oh um well I suppose it's not
right to give you a real names. Considering we work for Mass

(01:56:47):
Lord and whatnot. Oh where should I contact for a
job? But um, I suppose you can get in
contact with and the two. Look at each other and look at
you and go. Go to the Quicksilver, Liberty
bar, ask for a phoenix shot, they give you an odd and then
they throw some handballs at youwhich you Loosely now recognizes

(01:57:10):
thieves can't. So that mimic those at know, I
was never mind. Let's get on your fucking way.
What does that mean now bought pizza off?
Try to imitate what Perfect Memory.
All right, it wasn't very complicated.
You throw him out in the two. Look at each other and one of
them not just the other like yeah, we like you.
Thanks. All right.

(01:57:30):
And then if the The two turnaround to the carriage door,
they open it and orfeas. I imagine you exit and the two
of you. Yes I like Fallout I'm kind of
motion sick, got it. All right, back inside.
Now we're gonna jump back to demos.
You're looking up hires sort of squawked up right next to you.
Looking up at the chandelier your iconic.

(01:57:51):
Check was an unnatural 20. Yep.
That is the DC to recognize thisspell.
Oh wow. Um if it's pretty high because
it's a pretty nasty spell demos.What you see, Cats above your
head 100 fold or little moats hovering above each candle of

(01:58:12):
delayed Fireball. Oh God, I'm telling you demos.
We've been too many parties, or things have gone bad.
And we've been in, when we gonnastart listening to the signs
before things just start happening.
You look up at it and the most it Dawns on you.

(01:58:32):
There are hundreds of these candles, this will level this
building, and probably the four or five buildings surrounding
it. Oh god.
Oh, you're not sure how this could have been done.
This had to have been done over,maybe an hour of time.
Several people probably a group of 20 had to be working on this
spell continuously for a long time to get it to be here.
Damn it. Um, do I have any inkling of how

(01:58:57):
soon they will detonate you? Look at them.
Give me I will just use the sameArcana.
Check you recall from memory? That delayed Fireballs.
Usually lasts about a minute butin rare cases, they've been
loaned known to last up to 20 to30.
You don't know how long ago it was cast, though.
You have? No inkling to tell how long

(01:59:17):
before it explodes they can continue to flicker.
Oh okay. Oh I think the most is gonna
join in the Panic with fire, yousee?
Oh, I think. Demos is gonna start.

(01:59:39):
Um, should I say shouting? Oh my god.
Oh, this, this is explosives in the building.
Oh my God. Get out.
You begin shouting, um, you notice that the crowd yet.
Again, seems to all turn to you.The quartet is just begun a song

(02:00:00):
and sort of slows a bit as you can shouting.
One of the attendants who you think might be one of the
managers here quickly throws their hands over their head.
It looks like a human man with tight black hair and a little
ponytail, runs over to you the most and goes so please, please,
let's not start a Havoc. Um, it's quite inappropriate to

(02:00:22):
yell such profanity without evidence.
Why don't I take you to the backand we can discuss this more
privately. So don't worry.
The guests is gonna shoot off a fireball in the room.
Where you want to shoot? Just like up up at the ceiling
but like not at the chandelier for sure.
All right. You blast, a Firebolt into the

(02:00:44):
air. It sort of goes up like a
firework and thizzles out just before it hits the ceiling.
The attendant goes, how dare you.
God's God's get this man here. He has had too much to drink.
Throw him out and you turn the most to look as the mini guards,
that buff it to the side of the crowd began pushing through
swords in hand toward you. You see about a dozen making

(02:01:05):
their way to words. You cannot be casting offensive
magic, in a place of business and revelry such as this I will,
unfortunately have to remove youfrom the premises and your
friend just went, well, the magic targeting you too.
You also will die. So, you stop making a happy.
This is a place of revelry. You're upsetting the customers
enough? Can I cast farmer turkey?

(02:01:27):
Yes, or would you like to say, or do booming voice?
Um, this is no longer a maskerade.
Get out towards die. At this the quartet stops.
Um this is an intimidation checkthat I'd like you to make hi
friendly lean in to some demos tactics.

(02:01:53):
Advantage because of how many people wanting well.
Well, I'm trying to scare them, but I'm trying to scare them to
save their lives. So true, I say, Advantage some
attorney. Okay.
Um all right, you know. Yeah thermody would Grant
advantage on intimidation checksin this clever UCS, I would love

(02:02:15):
19. All right 17.
Okay. Um you shout at the through
Summit churchy deep and booming,The Voice Echoes off the walls
and you hear audible gasps from many of the guests.
Um, Jaya. You hear this, as well, sort of
hanging by the front of the, thefront of the I suppose area.

(02:02:38):
The ballroom shutters under the voice and the quartet completely
looks at you sort of upset and also been afraid higher.
Many of the ballroom guests, stop their dancing.
Stop their drinking, and look ateach other with a genuine
nervousness. None of them break for the doors
though. They look around nervous.
The guards. Continue pushing the way through

(02:02:59):
the giving an order and they step closer and closer, they're
about 10 feet away from the two of you.
Now, the attendant looks down atyou and goes could, that's
simply too much. You're quite frightening, our
guests, I can't have you using magic in here anymore.
I beseech. You, please leave or else.
So we'll have to have the authorities, arrest.
You. I know what I see that, they'll
take you down to they say, you just died here.

(02:03:22):
You won't just let this happen. So, you've clearly had too much
to drink. I'm not sure what you're seeing,
but you're scaring these people look into round and you look
around and you notice that threeout of every four, people does
look like genuinely terrified here on the others are around
early. Um, okay, you ready to get you
guys ready for this? I pry off my frog mask.

(02:03:42):
I'm just like this. I haven't had a drop.
You the, the guards get closer to the attendant looks at you.

(02:04:03):
Um, you notice now that you're effect of scaring off the the
people in the ballroom has done an equal effect on the guards of
where. Now they are just as convinced
that you are have something to do with this bomb, considering
how an affair is your voice. Sounded So they pushed in close
and now they've made their way through the crowd, the most and

(02:04:24):
higher. You both feel your arms, grasped
and pulled in hard as a swarm ofKing's Guard.
Wrap around you and began holding you down.
Can I? Um, when I hear that they said
that there was a bomb, right? They yes they said that there's
a bomb. This is no longer a masquerade

(02:04:44):
anymore. You all will die.
I'm gonna like try to instigate people to run and leave because
I'm assuming that's what they want.
I'm gonna skip This, we're gonnadie soon.

(02:05:06):
Um, give me a persuasion check Jaya.
Oh good. Okay.
You are all alone, my friend. This is you.

(02:05:37):
Run in you yell out his letters.You can there's a ball.
We have to go. Add all these people.
See you run out and it looks very active.
You notice people have actually this is sort of done the adverse

(02:05:58):
effect of what you want it. We're now people are a little
bit more at ease because I thinknow this is some part of the
show or something. No way.
Yeah, but I'm gonna kill myself.All right.
Wait to see it. No, you're you.
You still look Stern and doing it though.
Jaya. It's a, it's a tough-looking guy
with this big with a pistol on his hip but it's just didn't
come across the way you wanted higher.

(02:06:20):
And he most you guys hear this as well.
This giant sort of voice cracks a bit and throwing this out.
It doesn't have weight that he had wanted and runs out of the
door. Nobody follows you Jaya and it
is at this point that or a face You Wobble out of the carriage.
Does he hear me? Yes.
Just as you exit, you feel queasy or a face.

(02:06:41):
You see Jaya very unconvincing run out of the front of the door
and then turn around to see if anyone.
Screaming about a ball. I guess there's up my man.
I don't know I really don't know.
Higher was in there, making a commotion say that there was a

(02:07:04):
bomb in the place and and they assume that he's trying to get
people out. I don't see why he would lie
about a bomb. And so I was trying to make a
commotion to get people to leavetimer.
It's oh, go check out what's happening?
I slap or face. That's what listen, I know.

(02:07:29):
I'm old. I know, I have my moments.
This is a Moment of clarity and I need you, you need
face-to-face. I need you to not dismiss me
because I'm an old man. Okay, all right.
Take off my mask. Okay, no.

(02:07:50):
Face to face a dulum, you're here.
Are you feeling okay? Yes, I'm feeling.
All right. Oh, look.
They? And higher in there causing a
commotion, they're getting arrested.
Apparently, there's a bomb in there.
I don't know how true that is, but I was trying to cause a

(02:08:11):
commotion and, you know, some stereo get some people routed up
and trying to get them to leave the building because I had seems
to be their goal and clearly didnot work.
All right, all right. Okay, okay.
Who is out here with us? It's me.
Do them in jail. You look around there there's
still a crowd around here. There are some Coachmen that are
waiting for their guests to cometo the mini carriages that are

(02:08:35):
set out front. There are a few individuals
smoking off to the side servant Sierra as well.
There's a King's Guard. That is actually walking over to
you guys, but like, Samir is nothere.
No, he's not. No one else, you know.
Okay, looks like the king's guards coming.
I'm assuming that's because of something else did.
So I hear you go. I handed child my bag.
If there's a ball there's no need to make it works inside and

(02:09:01):
start looking for higher. All right.
Up to them. I just want to find them in here
what they're saying so that people don't know I'm with them
or if I ask you do notice as youexit the carriage and are in the
light. Now you set your right hand, the
one you had been doing all the handshaking with has some
remnants sort of residue of purple glitter all over it.

(02:09:23):
What's the Shit glitter. Yeah. like glitter for All
right. Against the wall.
One minute, no way. Cool.
I'll just take one minute off this delayed Fireball Road, 10

(02:09:45):
turns Um Jaya you are approachedby King's Garden as I said you.
Feelin'. All right, you little tipsy, you
just out and something about a ball moppy mistaken.
This is a this is a master, right?
Somebody else said that there was a mom and, you know, I
figured rather be safe than sorry and maybe try to get some
people leave because he said that's a criminal offense.

(02:10:10):
It's like yelling fire when there's no fire, it's disturbing
the piece. I'll have, you know, are you?
So this is not America. Isn't, those are the laws laws?
All right, disturbing the piecesof crime.
They'll put you in the stock agefor that.
They didn't do that in a Maraca.Wherever you come from today.
Do that thought not. All right, so listen, I'm gonna

(02:10:33):
need you to keep it down. All right?
Any more of that and I'll have your not a sad.
Yeah, all right. Good man.
Carry on the figure returns overto the other Edge, or a face is
posted up against the wall back inside the most and higher.
Actually, you guys all outside with see this too, or if they us
and do them. Now, new members to the crew,
you see the most at higher or looks to be being arrested.

(02:10:53):
The two of you have these crownsguards all over you.
Now they've placed hands on you and sort of pushed up your arms,
behind your back, as a attendantpoints that you to and sort of
tells the King's Guard and goes these two have been making quite
a Ruckus yelling on about bombs.I believe they should be taking
and seriously inquired. Um I want to yell out again.

(02:11:20):
Um, you will all die if you don't leave, please listen to
me. I risk my identity on this
claim, I I'm certain and then I'd like to cast or of Vitality.
Okay. What does that do?
Um, within a 30 feet sphere, um,per round, um, everyone within

(02:11:43):
that 30 feet area? Yeah, D6 hit points.
Oh, one creature that. Okay, you want to heal God,
that's not even that good. I was trying to like do it.
So like if the spell went off, well, I think that kill anybody

(02:12:07):
and everybody. So a lot of fireballs Fireballs
are these, um, okay, wait, no, sorry, that's not what I wanted
either. Oh, they gotta be something
here. Sure, I demos feel free if you
have anything in mind as well, the most, what can we do to make
him take us seriously? Oh, I'm gonna try just Started

(02:12:28):
talk to one of the guards. That's, that's just like,
currently arresting me. What you want on either side,
um, or whoever looks like they're in charge.
Listen, listen, I can prove it. I can prove it.
Just just can I can I have one hand?
Free, can I have one hand free? Hey, no.
Wizard Spell business. All right.
It'll take you in the guard behind you, speaks we know gonna

(02:12:49):
take you in right now. We should Spell business.
Keep your hands walking and see him.
We're gonna talk about this outside.
All right, you're disturbing thepeace.
I should cry me. And what a deep?
Oh, do they do they give me a free hand?
Or are they gonna take me? I would like you to give me a
persuasion check. Please to get a free hand.
You have? He'll show you.
It's great Advantage. Maybe.

(02:13:11):
For that. Do you know what the most is
going to do higher? Do I know that's actually a
great point. No, no but I'm arguing, you
know, for my friend to get his hand on love because I I'm gonna
say because you don't know the plan.
You cannot help this. Ah, sorry, what the fuck 16?

(02:13:35):
Oh, he's still rolls pretty good.
All right. Yeah, the guard hesitantly is
like all right now. Funny business.
Just oh I don't know that I know.
Funny business. All right, just if you gonna
show us something showing us real quiet like and if I see the
magic, I'm grabbing it. Of course.
Um, demos is gonna reach for thelittle.

(02:13:56):
Should I say emblem that of Valkyrie gave all of us?
Oh yeah. Um, see what we're Friends of
the Court Wizard and if you lookup there and then he pointed in
a point up to the chandelier, you see that there are multiple
spell Casting of delayed Fireball, right?

(02:14:17):
That see. Now.
Why would I caused a commotion like this?
If it wasn't important? Yeah.
All right. At this point, I would like you
to make a persuasion check with Advantage.
Okay? Most because the you do have
some evidence to show you. Or 22.
All right that's a good role. Just real quick duel, what do

(02:14:38):
you doin' right now and Jaya as well on the outside?
You guys want to head in or usedto watching?
All right you had back into the Masquerade.
Most of the singing and dancing has stopped.
It seems like most of the entertainment has been cut short
by everyone sort of watching this arrest go down.
What do you mean the entertainment?
It's just getting started. So, um, the the herald doesn't

(02:15:02):
even call your name as you re-enter good Doolin.
What are you gonna do? Where did they say the bomb?
Was the chandelier. It's gotta explode with fire.
I should have said that it was in the chandelier.
Um, can I try to like visually inspect?
The chandelier to see if there'sany way to like disconnect it
from the ceiling? Yeah, give me a perception

(02:15:23):
check, please. So 16.
All right, you look at it. You notice that?
Yes, there's a huge heavy iron chain.
Looks like that. Connects the chandelier to the
ceiling, it's doubly reinforced and looks to be heavy, as?
Okay, I'll go back out the orphan's.
Sure, you started out. You do all know notice on your
check, that one of the like hundreds or so, candles has been

(02:15:46):
extinguished and it really ruinsthe symmetry.
Yes. That the flickering candle seem
to be very subtly slowly. Increasing the speed at what?
They at which they flicker looking at the rate of
flickering. Can I insight about how long

(02:16:07):
until they'll be just one, continuous light?
Yes, give me an Insight check. This is, this is robots are good
at math stereo 12. Okay.
You think about it for a second.You think it could be anywhere
from Three minutes to eight minutes.
Okay? Oh my God, huge large margin of

(02:16:28):
error and or a face you're outside.
You're just casting identify? Yeah.
All right, you hold hand over this thing.
About a minute goes by of most and higher chatting with these
guards and do them comes over. I'm mostly yelling it's just
yelling. Huh?
Like like about like what's likethe information we know to the

(02:16:50):
crowd so they listen hopefully yeah, yeah the same thing.
You know you're you're yelling fire in the movie theater, my
favorite pastime. You identify this, right?
Yeah. Um, it's definitely just like
it. It's got a flair for drama.
For sure. The like purple glitter on
there. It does have a lingering

(02:17:13):
enchantment on it. Okay, it is a two-fold
enchantment, you notice, okay. Um, first off, it is a very weak
enchantment. To track your position, a lost
crying? Okay.
It doesn't scratch your locationdirectly.
It's just sort of a broad location like in Water Deep or
like in another plane, for example.

(02:17:34):
Okay. Um, and secondly on this also
part of scrying, it also seems to someone what inhibit others
being able to scroll onto you. Your interaction that you had
for the last half hour. Hmm, it's basically like delays.
And it Wards off, scrying for people to detect your memories

(02:17:56):
regarding it or to, you know, zone of Truth.
You about it. Wow.
Okay. Because it's magical, it can't
be washed off with water, what? Um, and it remains on there for
24 hours. It's a somewhat weak spell
though. So you think trying to remove
the magic? Dispel it might have to not

(02:18:18):
that. Word either, this factors.
All good, identifying. Do looks right up to you.
Or if yes, hello. It's seems like our friends
identified as chandelier as a bomb, okay.
I think he's outside. I was thinking that you could
use that new spell you learned from that evil chaotic book.

(02:18:43):
Household to destroy the chain so that we can get the
chandelier bomb. I'd have to in We would.
Set off. Well, yes, I wanted you to break
the chain and we could carry it.Hell.
I went to the ceiling that. We could just carry it.

(02:19:07):
What, how would you hold it still?
I don't know. Rope know, I don't understand.
What do you want to do with thisbomb?
I don't think it'll explode on impact you don't.
I I don't know the spell but I don't think it would.
Um, can I make an Arcana check? Yes, you can make a role for me.

(02:19:30):
While you do that the most. Can I hear your persuasion role
that you gave to these guards? A big 22.
Okay, it's a good role. The guards and the attendant
all. Look at you nervously.
Tell the attendant is still flustered and upset but the
guards here you out and they seeyour, your emblem that you have
truthful and accurate. All of them goes, I listen.

(02:19:52):
Uh, you, maybe you're onto something, but we really can't
start a panic like this. All right.
Can we discuss this in private? I mean, how much time do we
have? Uh, could could be anywhere from
one minute to 20 minutes? So what 20 minutes, we could
call one of the, the Wizards we have on staff on the gods and
get them to come. Help do you one minute possibly?

(02:20:13):
All right, listen, me and the guys will have everyone walk out
calmly and orderly out the frontdoor and we're gonna wait
outside. Alright?
A calm procession we're just gonna call it a drill when not
trying to scare the public right.
Quit yelling about the bomb shit, you idiot.

(02:20:36):
A drill. Now it's a trail, but do it, but
do it right now. All right, that's better.
All right listen, it's just a drill.
It's a fire drill. Alright.
We're gonna send them all aside and have them wait, but don't
say anything more about this bomb.
We're gonna deal with this on our own.
All right? The all the guards, look up at
it and they look at the chandelier and look back at you.

(02:20:58):
The most and they go, you reallythink that somebody tried to
blow this place up? I mean, why the fuck would they
do that? Beats me, but there was a mask
Lord here. So maybe that was their target,
huh. Oh nothing that I see.
He was quite large and imposing,right?
And you think it was the musicians damn fucking crafty
sense of bitches. You know.

(02:21:18):
I said and I said to my mom, never trust someone in an
orchestra never can They could have been illegitimately doing
music, but I saw them cast. So, all right, let's get you all
that's outside orderly. Now listen, I'm not keeping my
eye on off YouTube, but I can tell you officially at least, so
get these people outside and andall will, maybe call the Wizards

(02:21:41):
and come. Take a look at this.
All right, all right. Good sounds on the reasonable to
me. Thank you.
Yeah, good. All right.
Next time be smarter about it but yelling shit.
All right. Come find someone like me and my
boys here, we'll deal with the real calm.
Like, right. She was on professional.
Yes, thank you. Officer guard.
Yeah, right. Yeah.
All right, you have to get out of here too, though.

(02:22:02):
All right, one of the guards clambers onto the stage in front
of the quartet and yells out with a pretty booming voice.
No thumb research, he needed. Hey everybody.
All right, we got ourselves a fire drill.
Listen, there's no ball on no weapon, please don't be alarmed.
We just want everyone to take a step out side.
So we can do a quick investigation.
The as a small fire in the kitchen, don't worry about it.

(02:22:23):
All right, I know, I'm sorry. To ruin your evening.
There's a lot of chatter now andpeople sort of swearing and
yelling up at the guard. I promise, just gonna be.
All right. Listen, the city of water
people. Buy you guys all around to make
up for it, all right. Yeah.
All right. Step outside, please call me an
orderly, and there is a mighty procession out the front door,
dulum and Jaya and Orpheus. You guys are practically washed

(02:22:47):
away by it. Oh, do we know If they get the
people like upstairs in the rooms and everything, what do
you want to do? Listen, man, I don't know what's
going on. You're the expert here, you seem
like if you're associated with the court wizard, you know, more
than we do. How big is this thing gonna be?
Uh, it seems like it would very easily level this building.

(02:23:10):
You see the candles on the chandelier each one of those
candles is a light is a life. Oh, that we're saying 100 lives.
All right, I think it's all 100 lights.
All right. Um, we'll send and you know,
it's the car started up. Now half of them go with the
huge throngs of people that maketheir way outside, another runs
off outside to flag down, one ofthe larger, you know, the

(02:23:34):
corpses of guard, the captain ofthe guards, watch to find
wherever the on staff Wizards are to come.
Take a look at this. You're left with four in total
who were set with you. Now the most in higher, they
pulled their hands off you unsteadily, they still very
close to you, but Longer at being apprehended and one of the
guards goes, Hey, listen. If this thing isn't a fireball

(02:23:56):
in your lion, we're gonna have to take you in for question.
You understand? I assume it'll be worse than
questioning but I'm sure. All right.
Good, just to make sure, you know, it's at stake, this stuff.
We don't take lightly well, sendtwo people upstairs to clear the
rooms but I don't know how fast we can do it.
You know how people are real slow, especially these drunk
Lords when it comes to leaving their room.
We're gonna try our best. Do I hear this even a little for

(02:24:18):
where I am or a face? You hear this just over the den
of the crowd leaving and throw it?
Yeah, the guards are pretty loud.
Cool. I'm good.
Guess expeditious Retreat and long straighter and Ron and past
the guards and yell. And start running and screaming.

(02:24:40):
Are you leaving Jaya and duelingby the entrance you guys.
Hold on to the walls and survive.
The throng of people that are slowly exiting.
Dulum, you look up at the chandelier.
It's flashing a lot faster. Now, what do you want to do?
Well, my only plan ran away. So sorry Connie.

(02:25:04):
Check to see if I think it wouldexplode on impact.
Uh yes. Give me Arcana check.
And you know or face. You did roll one before I did so
I'll answer that too as well. You guys want to just do one
with Advantage? Sure.
Oh okay. Hug shity rolls.
Can't I just use my original one?
Did you have an original one? Yeah, it rolled one.

(02:25:26):
That was a 21. We just never got to it.
Yeah, I imagine you were rollingadvantage on top.
Oh, I see. Okay, well yeah.
But anyway, you're Funky Monkey over there was some day, funky
funky 21, or a face. You look at the chandelier, look
at the spell in their draw into memories that aren't quite your

(02:25:48):
own and you come up with a pieceof information that you feel
pretty confident, and that this spell, which someone keeps
yelling about a fireball. Um, delayed Fireball.
You know, one delayed Fireball condenses into a point about as
big as a candle's flame. So there are probably hundreds
up there and you know, the spellcan it doesn't have a detonation

(02:26:10):
effect by force or impact. So, for example, dropping the
entire chandelier onto the ground wouldn't explode it, you
know. However, There are just
basically two other ways for it to go up.
One. The time limit runs out, or two,
whatever creature, or creatures that cast the spell, remove
their concentration on it all. So would, okay.

(02:26:31):
You imagine this could be whoever cast these spells
especially if they are doing it in the ferris lie.
If they thought something was uplike for example, A large group
of people fling the building. They would set it all.
Okay, okay, okay. Okay, I run back in.
And stop moving. Stay in the building.
I'll try to the chandelier I'm gonna need a persuasion check

(02:26:56):
from you to overrule the voice of the King's Guard, or a phaius
as they man leaving. This one's big, do them.
How do you want to help everyonemove?
Okay. Yeah, I'll be lenient with help
this guy. Oh, 15.
I should have given to help. I see that.
Now, a 15 or a face, you yell atthem to all stay in the back.

(02:27:21):
Half of the group. Looks over at you and sort of
size and you hear one of the Nobles.
Yeah. Well, what do you want from us?
In our out ball? No bomb Christ.
And I will cast fracture at thatmoment, okay?
I want to cast it on one of the chain links, okay?
Or a face, this will make a thunderous sound when it hits

(02:27:44):
the ground. I'm hoping people will see it,
falling and run out of the way. Give screaming and pointing at
it. And if not um, the chandelier is
there you point at it with fracture?
Did I tell you a fracture? Had a distance, we know very
little about it and I've touched.

(02:28:10):
But okay I said let her more flies up and Touches for you.
All right. Um, this is your first cast of
fracturing. Yeah.
Baby, the cell creates a break in an object.
You don't have to roll to hit, you'll immediately roll damage.
Because this is an inanimate object, it will take double
damage. It is a structure.

(02:28:30):
So basically, you got a free crit role damage.
Okay, what is the date? What is Fireballs damage?
It's a d8 right? I don't know.
Shocking grass is 28? The fireball is a detten to
detain. Okay.
So then um fracturing will also be a detent, okay, the okay.
But you you crit so you doubled it.

(02:28:55):
So okay, so it's two kind of Wiggle before I cast it.
A little bit Falls. So like maybe people will see.
It's me. It the chain is damaged.
Yeah. Um, you sort of gesture at the
the chandelier and its grandioseyou hear a guard from across the
way go. I I don't touch that we're

(02:29:17):
investigating that at this thirdparty person seems to run in and
start to mess with what they think is a bomb and you hold
your hands out and magnificent Grandeur.
Let her more touches the chain and fracturing comes out.
And the chain does not crack it Jingles a little bit and the
whole chandelier starts to sway ever.
So slightly. Nothing else seems to happen.

(02:29:38):
The guard looks up. Don't fucking touch that.
I wait investigating that right now.
I stop that my name of the Lord.Fire.
The other two, the other two crowns guard in the room, look

(02:29:59):
at each other, like the fuc. And one of them reaches behind
his back and grabs across the bow.
Are they poison? It at me or letter War letter
more fuck okay? Catch fracturing.
All right, you get one more fracturing.
There is a damage threshold on this thing to destroy it fully
so you'll have to reach it. The crowd Now is really
confused. You guys were screaming about a

(02:30:21):
bomb the guard, sold them to leave.
Now you running in acting prettycrazy and trying to bring this
thing down. If it is a bomb, would be
committing an act of terrorism by doing this, the crowd is
scared. We don't like they might they
look like they might bolt it anysecond especially under the
chandelier. Yeah, they're all cleared up.
They're they're made for the exit now.
When they're all depressed chestto chest right by the exit

(02:30:43):
doors, about a quarter of the crowd, a good 25, 30 people are
all sort of spilling slightly out of the building, but are
like pressed to the inside to hear, what's happening as you
guys continue to shout orders. No.
Me being aware that the guards might start trying to subdue me.

(02:31:05):
I'm gonna start running circles around under the chandelier like
20 foot diameter. All right you start running
tests the spell again give me your damage roll for damage up
to eight. No two up to four.
Oh my God. Amazing.
What that's so low. Hello, dude.
All right, you guessed it again.This time I hairline fracture

(02:31:28):
appears and the chandelier began, swing.
A little more is let her more sit.
One of the guards descends from the platform.
The one that was yelling and goes, I, you stop that and
begins approaching. You drawing their short sword,
the other guard. The one with the, what, what do
they think? I'm doing?
You're running around. Listen, you need to leave.

(02:31:50):
I need you to go right now. He's the best know stand under
it friend. Get out.
I run out from under it and justkeep going Circle, the guard
continues to approach you, he places the sword away now and
approaches you with more of likea trying to hassle, a not

(02:32:10):
hassle, but try to like corral and an old lady who's going
crazy, I listen, I need you to call him down, all right, you've
probably had too much to drink. I know this is frightening, but
we're gonna deal with the blog right now.
And then we're gonna be heading out, you understand.
Just like this. Damn, that's what the fucking
Kobo said. I don't believe.

(02:32:31):
One of the guards takes a shot at lettermore.
This is so fucked up. Um 15 plus 3 does an 18 hit?
Yes, they also roll a d10. They got a five.
Okay. Letter more still going okay?
I'll crossbow bolts jumps into the side of letter more.

(02:32:51):
Oh you see the leather is pierced hard through this letter
more bleeding. Yeah, a little more well
actually No letters. Just barely not bleeding.
Okay. Wow.
Better more. There's a lot of Health.
Yeah. Otherwise pretty beefy.
Cool. All right.
The guard curses and reloads thecrossbow on the ground.

(02:33:11):
Do you hire? You guys are still here Jay,
you're also here. Do you guys want to do anything
right now? Um just watch.
Chaos. So giant I just said, that's,

(02:33:37):
Where is malaga's indeed? Anyway, we're gonna fracture
this thing. Okay.
Now remember you I'll go rally my true.
Your one true. All right, you are run to the
back with the guard that sort ofapproaching or affairs with two

(02:33:58):
hands out. Sees you start running sergeant.
And go, I said why you going? What are you not running?
Oh, just so I need you to turn around make for the exit.
Hey, sorry. I was looking for my friend.
He listened. My please make your way to the.
He was probably seen. If you see him, he looks, oh,

(02:34:27):
he's been going by that so far. Yes, green coat.
Yeah, oh yeah, the boys booked him.
Booked him, sir makes sense. Like, booked them.

(02:34:51):
How He was physically assault inthe head, chef.
Like, okay, I'm sincerely apologize for that.
Um, is there anywhere that he's being kept or held?
I have to Stockade said, Okay. Do you mind directing me towards

(02:35:13):
it? So I'd love to you.
You might if you deal with this current crisis first.
Yes. Yes, I'll go.
Wait outside. You find gonna show you that
your friend though? It's not.
Here they are. Yeah, we actually had three gods
have to take him. He was a fighter I will be.

(02:35:34):
waiting, we will show to go easyon the guests of this place
Nobles, and all That much for Noble, trust me, you can all
related to the boys. We could be like I'll tell that
to the judge too. Oh, he is my friend.
We are you know it would be great if he wasn't but now he

(02:35:58):
just assault in a chef is no small crime.
Let's see if I can get him down time.
Thank you, sir. All right.
Now, turn around. Please make your way to the
exit, right? Can I?
Go towards. Can I undo that alone?

(02:36:18):
So I think they have malicious in prison and I think I made
things kind of worse. Oh, why is he in jail?
Which one core me? Oh, we heard good things about

(02:36:40):
that guy. Maybe not.
Just forgot. Yeah, it's just weird told him
the classic commotion. I think he took it a little too
far. Well, that's unfortunate.
Yeah. Quite maybe even strike first, I
told them that, you know, I think he destroyed first one.
No one hand. I told them that he was in a

(02:37:01):
noble either and that seemed to make things worse.
Oh, strange, rough housing and that they can try him harder in
court, so that's great. Just not seem very fair that
actually doesn't sound very great so I guess we're gonna see

(02:37:28):
how we proceed with that. Well, maybe we'll find a good
lawyer. Maybe we're gonna have to deal
with that after this situation. Now, the guards are occupied
with this good to know. Really feel really good about

(02:37:50):
that one. I don't.
I was being sarcastic. You guys are talking over a
pretty loud crowd. I should add.
It's a lot of people behind you were like nervously, talking
about whether or not they shouldall booked it.
Give you some ambience. Cortez, so good.

(02:38:11):
The quartet is um nervously still playing just to give the
Vibes they have not left or fledyet.
Go down with the ship Titanic style.
Oh yeah the crowd though. That's exactly do them and you
guys sort of have your finger onthe pulse of the crowd here and
they are frightened. There was a lot of screaming,
there was some Thelma turkey, they have been well intimidated,

(02:38:31):
you think they are sheep ready for a wolf to appear and just
start running. You think anything might set
them off? They're just waiting by the
entryway. You see carriages or lined up
outside waiting for them. And the crowd is nervously.
Just watching to see what happens.
They're not sure if they're supposed to run or not because
people can be yelling at them tostay or go but um, they know
safety is outside and there was waiting for something dangerous

(02:38:53):
to happen in here with that or aface fracturing go.
Okay, okay. Oh okay, that is a much better
role. Yeah, it is right, you get
letter more to do it. Um the fracturing goes out this
breaches the damage that should hold of the chain or a face.
As you hear the warping of metalon the cracking and let her

(02:39:17):
more. Surges this magic into it as the
chain shatters, okay? The room goes silent for a
moment as the chandelier with its immense weight and thousands
and thousands of little crystalsadorning.
These hundreds of candles beginsto plummet downward.
Okay? You watch all of you watch the

(02:39:39):
most and higher. You guys are probably closest to
this thing as it falls, just by manner of being, right by the
front stage and hit you, of course, but it'll be close.
So you really get to see it as it Nails, the ground, the great
thing Craig, I go to jump in front of the DMs. It's just like

(02:40:00):
exactly. All right, the crash.
This chandelier goes tumbling down the great beautiful likely
Priceless piece of art slams into the ballroom floor, its
ornate frame folds inward like an insect dying.

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Thousands and thousands of beautifully cut glass, crystals
twist outward, and shatter exploding out.
They seemed almost detonate outward like shrapnel.
As the crystals all slice outward, almost like razors, I
need all of you in the room to make me a dexterity.
Saving throw walk, do I get the shield?

(02:40:46):
I guess so the most you can. Let's see how do we do this in
the past? I guess you guys both role and
do it higher. You'll just take.
Everyone's both of your damages.Oh yeah.
Okay, crazy 21 I love to look upa roll call on that because I'm
sure there's a real way of doingit.
All right, go ahead and roll 2169.

(02:41:09):
So the, the DC for this was a pretty high, it was the luckily,
the damage that output was not extreme in total.
Um, the damage was 10 piercing damage, slashing damage, a bit

(02:41:30):
of a combination. If you got above a 17, you'll
take half damage below. You took the full 10 damage as
it slices out these thousands offine, cut crystal shatter in
every direction, he stops of Crystal, Shadow at every
direction. I'm Jaya.
I think you take only half damage five in total 10, sort of
shunts, out to the rest of you. Suckers did anyone else get

(02:41:52):
above 17? No.
Okay, I should note. This does include a letter more.
No shit lose all the guards in this room's and the attendant as
well and all the guests. Um letter more Rolodex save for
later more as well. I'm working on, I'm working on
it. Sure is Dex is plus four.

(02:42:17):
Five, damage the guests, you seeall scream out Nobles, throw up
arms to Shield their faces. You see clothing?
Rip feathers torn. Right off of people's hairs, you
see blood spilling out of the first row.
Um, one woman in a swan mask, the closest to the blast tanks

(02:42:39):
in enormous chunk of crystals into her.
Forearm and abdomen, and sobbing, she falls to the ground
and then goes quiet. All the Wine and Food in the
room explodes out with the crystal shattering into it
bottles. Erupt and wine begins feeling
the floor. Now as there was almost
bottomless wine in the room before all these bottles are

(02:43:00):
shattered into more glass all over the ground.
This whole room is now covered in dangerous terrain as if
caltrops are on the grounds There is then a breathless
silence for a moment. The chandelier sits in a ruinous
Heap. On the ballroom floor, the music
now has stopped, the quartet is all staring in a horror from

(02:43:21):
their dice. You all notice though, that
somehow inexplicably the candleson the chandelier still burn,
not one flame has gone out. Except of course, the one that
went out earlier, you notice some of these candles have even
been squashed flat yet, hoveringjust above them quite unnerving,
a still burning flickering Flame.

(02:43:43):
Now that this, um, go ahead. I think I want to go for the
chandelier at first all cast long straighter and
expeditionary upon myself. Okay, you cast the two and if
you guys anyone else want to cast anything or do anything
quick right now, can I cast Aid on the bloodiest people in their
room and including the person? Yeah, I want to go for the

(02:44:05):
downed woman um hiring on a cross bounding 30 feet to make
it all 25 feet because you got aheavy armor.
Yeah, you but tired so low. Okay, well you are stumble
across the room. Oh you know what, you'll have to

(02:44:25):
move it. Half speed to get there too
unless you want to run over the caltrops, had to save This
Woman's life. Oh thank you, get a little bit
good man, that's a dexterity saving throw, I'm famously,
really good at these I rolled sobad today, unnatural one.
All right, it's a tragedy. You do take one piercing damage

(02:44:49):
as you go to walk. Um the more negative part of
these caltrops though, is that they do, stop your movement, you
go running across but your foot lands hard on a piece of glass
shooting, right through your your heel and it burns as it
hits for one damage and you haveto stop moving in that moment as
part of caltrops, also until youregain Health.

(02:45:10):
You're even speed is reduced by 10 feet 10 feet, total right now
until you heal yours. You're still distance away from
the woman, um, but you can stillcatch Bells.
What would you like to do? What would you say?
You want to cast something? All right.
Yeah, how far, how far am i roughly her about 30 feet?
You took like one step and then went down.

(02:45:31):
Okay, I'm gonna try a, how many people are hurt?
Actually, you look over a dozens.
There's one person who looks like this did more or less
killed him, though, the person that do them also looks to be
moving toward I'm gonna rip out a mass healing word.
Okay? Excellent.
That's gonna go in the room heels six.

(02:45:52):
Okay, do you want to pick? Um, there's also your friends
and the guard peel. I'm trying to focus on the like
people that went down over many years, so nice of those there
are. Okay.
Um, you can get about half of them.
Okay, with six I do wait, I'm gonna move on to do them then
doodle. What do you want to do?
I'm saying that my friend just healed, most the down people

(02:46:14):
half of them, get healed. The other half of the bleeding
though and screaming. Okay um well we'll sing that no
one else is Down cast protectionfrom energy on Aura which gives
them fire resistance. Oh since they're gonna be
carrying a bomb. All right.
Or if as you get this spell caston you, you're able to quickly

(02:46:38):
make your way over Jaya. You said you want to do
something got um got I'm just gonna be doing the same as like
doing and higher even though I don't have any healing spells,
I'll just be doing like medicinechecks, people.
All right. I'm gonna need you to make a
dexterity saving, throw to run across the caltrops, then which
are glass shards in the ground unless you want to move.
Slowly. No, I'm so okay.

(02:47:00):
You gotta hide next. Let's see.
Spider climbing, let's go. I'm so good.
Oh, gonna do it so good. Oh, so bad.
Like yeah, I'm sorry. That is not enough.
You make it a bit farther than higher dead like two steps but
then one hits you just right? In a crystal goes right into
your big toe, right through yourshoe piercing damage and you're

(02:47:24):
forced to stop moving. You're unable to help anyone at
this specific moment. He most, is there anything you'd
like to do. Oh.
That look like the chandelier like itself would fit through
like the door. Ah, yes I mean it had two to
install it here. It's a tight fit though.
You would have to get all the people in the way to move out of
the way they do. Whoever seem to be making pretty

(02:47:46):
quick work of that themselves injust a second here.
But yeah, it'll fit. Uh God okay.
Um does it does it does it look like oral face could or carry
the chandelier all by themselves?
It's a huge object. It's probably close to 1000
pounds. Definitely not.
Oh I guess I'm going to Bonus action.

(02:48:11):
Misty step over to orifice. Okay.
Or if you were met by the most. Well well yes but I don't, I
don't know how we're gonna get this thing out of here.
Does it? If I if I pick up like one of
the candles? Look like the spell itself.
Follows the candles. You pick one up?

(02:48:31):
Yes, it does. Actually, it follows the candle.
Okay. Um, we we could try taking the
candles and the whole chandelierabout that.
Take, do you think extinguishingthe candles and the spell?
Can I make an Arcana check? Can I help you?
Yeah, you can make an Arcana check number okay, 27.

(02:48:55):
Wow. Okay, yeah, um, from how you
know, the spell again, this knowledge just comes to you, you
decipher that. Um, no extinguishing with your
hand won't be enough. In fact, you could even try it
right now when you pinch your hand around it, in a Burns, a
little bit. Like your extinguishing a flame,
but it doesn't go out and you can't continue to burn only a
dispel magic will remove it. Okay?
Wait first. and, The person. Okay spell.

(02:49:21):
Okay, let's tip it on its side and roll it.
All right, it sounds like a plan.
Alright um you guys get to work about lifting this thing up and
roughly, what is about six seconds?
Since this thing, hit the ground, there's still been
silenced from the crowd itself that breathless.
Beat. You can tell that it was
magical. In fact, the crowd now realizes

(02:49:41):
something is wrong with the flame fairy wrong.
It's a trap, clearly it's set todetonate like by some sort of
magical signal and all of a sudden chaos, erupts, Noble,
women begins screaming, you heara man, yell out.
And the Stillness is shattered, the room erupts and the crowd
begins surging ahhhhhh. People began screaming, those

(02:50:05):
who were injured, the woman who went down, stands up, and looks
around and drinks out in horror.She looks at the glass someone
embedded in her arm that's healed over.
Now you see masks begin slippingoff shoes or lost out from under
people and voices are rising andpanic, the elegant Lords and
Ladies begin shoving and trampling.
Over each other clawing toward the double doors of desperate

(02:50:27):
instincts, almost like stampeding animals people fall.
You see, people are beginning tobe stepped on Jewel scatter
across the polished floor and the sound of stampeding.
Feels the room. You see one of the guards that
was trying to Corral people the one that you were speaking with
just a minute ago Jaya and or a face gets crushed against the
pillar screaming for an order that does not appear over the

(02:50:48):
sound of the chaos. Amid the screaming you guys
watch the crowd surged out into the street running and
screaming. You hear people yelling.
There's a bomb get help please. Someone call the god, call the
cops. Your voice, barely Rises over
the den or face, there's Panic Beyond Panic.

(02:51:10):
This was the trigger. They needed to act completely
nuts and flee out into the street where they know, it's
safe, they began running the crowd, barely can fit through
the bottleneck, that is the double doors.
There's only one interest to this place, but they're
swarming. It fleeing out into the street.
There's a commotion out there. You hear horses winning and just
over the tops of people those who view who are taller such as

(02:51:31):
the most, you can see that some of the carriages are being
swarmed by these people begging and pleading throwing money at
the carriage drivers, take them as far away from your as
possible. People run out into the street
and are screaming, there's a commotion being raised.
What do you guys want to do? Whoever is gonna trigger the
mom. I feel like this is when they
would do it. Oh, you guys don't.
Is there any way you could make like the exit bigger?

(02:51:55):
Like could you I don't have anything that could bless the
fucking hole in the wall becausewe can always just start putting
torches and bags or like That'llbe great.
We can put a specifically in Dooms back of holding, I'm

(02:52:15):
thinking. Blow it to Kingdom.
Come, we could put it into Loopsback, that is actually a great
idea. We want everything in the dead,
right? That is my opinion.
Yeah, just for reference. Um, the amount of time, it'll
take all of these stampeding people to make their way outside
of the ballroom you think is going to be about 12 seconds.
So about two turns, a worth of stuff you guys can do before

(02:52:38):
all, hell breaks loose in the streets, it was to do something.
We'll do sort of a loose loose round system Where should?
Please want it to the bag if it explodes.
Yes. But better there than out here?
But we don't have enough time here.

(02:52:59):
Said that if even non cleaner bags, tear because it has too
much space, it will still createa portal. so worst thing that is
going to happen, it might Oh yeah, HP worst.
Oh wait. I have a battle horn.
I know it's a battle horn. Sorry.
What? The fox?

(02:53:20):
A battle whore. I have it in my stuff.
I think I got it from the dungeon.
I think. I think it looks how to say.
You guys hear a scream, a haulerover the crowd you recognize it
just because the opposite side toward where the staff Chambers
are and you turn over and see Samir yelling out.

(02:53:41):
I what's going on. There's a commotion.
I couldn't find malaga's He's arrested.
Oh, that is like him. Hey, I think I know what's going
on. I heard of the screaming about
the ball. Is it?
This thing Samir sort of gingerly steps, over the glass
towards you guys yelling as he goes.
Okay. Should we like leave then, let's
just abandon the building. It's a knock knock.

(02:54:05):
It seems very big distance. Oh fuck!
There's people living upstairs. Um fuck.
How can I want to help? The ocean is very far away or
Affairs. I just

(02:54:30):
What a face if it explodes outside.
It'll do more damage in the streets.
Are you? Sure into one building.
It's in the street, it might go blocks away.
Besides how this thing activated, when the people Lose
their concentration. You mean like decide to stop?

(02:54:51):
Yeah, if we capture them, we don't know they're nearby.
I doubt we can find them. We have no idea who, if I was a
monster and some nefarious Wizards more than enough to cast
this shit, I would stay nearby to watch.
Yeah. Now, people are still flooding
out the front door. Hire you, look, you think that
the commotion is just starting higher.

(02:55:12):
Did you see this? I didn't see anyone.
I just saw musicians cast spells.
They could have been magic. Can I try to look around to see
if any of the musicians are nearby or like anybody?
You look around. You see the quartet has left now
and the previous orchestra that was here before the main

(02:55:34):
performance has been gone for a while.
Nowhere to be seen. There's an attended nearby
though. You recall introduced to the
orchestra. The one of the bloodied
individuals, looking around terrified hovering near the
guards. I think I have to leave you all.
Um, please do take care of this.Um, thank you for saving our
beautiful. And if you do, I must be going

(02:55:55):
and the figures. What am I to do?
This is Magic. Do you know what?
I'm not gonna die for this place.
Do you know where the orchestra went the orchestra yesterday?
They went back to the suppose. The studies.
I don't know. They took a carriage far away.
I imagine they left quite a while ago.
Nearly half an hour. Oh, there's a chance.

(02:56:16):
I really do think you could be. Anyone aren't the ones not
leaving. You look around, everyone in
this room has left. There is always the case that
someone outside could be watching.
Someone watching you back, they,you know, watching From Shadows
watching from an ally Samir? Yes.
You said, if my bag tears, it will create a portal, right?
It probably will, though, this is a special artifact beyond the

(02:56:40):
most backs of holding. If it does, if it's like a
backup thing, it will only be localized.
It won't be as big as an explosion.
It will be likely only a 10 maybe at most 20 feet around it,
it will create an instant portal.
If you can play the ball in there and just say, throw it in
the air or, you know, away from people then, it will happen
instantaneously. And And no one will be harmed.

(02:57:01):
I start breaking don't like to see you not to do that.
The anonymous tone is a Priceless artifact that perhaps
is one of the lady of pains finest.
It could be worth. So so much it is more than alive
and of course not. I just it is a place this piece
of History. I'm breaking it breaking
candles. Okay, what do you guys want to

(02:57:23):
do? You're breaking can't.
I think I'm gonna go outside to try to find.
If I can see somebody who's stands up from crowd, like
staring at the building, or likesomebody else check and athletic
check or an acrobatic check to push through the crab.
This one will be harder because they are bottleneck.
Yes, screaming and shouting and pushing.
Oh, 17 17. Okay, that's just enough.

(02:57:47):
I'd say you pushed through sort of having to muscle your way in
and out of this crowd, he used your your big gift body to be
able to push through and see over the crowd.
People scream and push back against you.
Screaming out about somebody help.
There's a moment here. King Kong, call the Lord.
There's a bomb. They're all pushing out now, but
you're able to shove through yourself, you look out into the
street, give me a perception check while you're rolling that

(02:58:10):
back in the chandelier higher. I would say in six seconds,
rushing, as fast as you can, oneperson could remove I would say
10 candles. And on this chandelier there,
look to be maybe 100.50. I can get there, so fucking
fast, you guys. We need to work together,
whatever we do. I said, don't what about the

(02:58:31):
stone? If it's the same people's lives,
don't ever make sense the rolling idea.
Oreos. It, it's, we started to cast
this. If they see you rolling, it,
they'll blow it up. You'll die.
Yes. Start start rolling with me or
break and what they said their far away, though.
So, what a face, this is Magic. Beyond my understanding.
I pretty sure it's beyond yours,as well.

(02:58:52):
Who knows what these these villains were thinking, when
they played this year, I don't think taking it out of this room
will help besides, once we do. So, we'll be taking it into the
street where these people are going to be more dangerous to
follow them with the bomb, is ifI can get to the ocean, how fast
can you run? Be honest.

(02:59:18):
Heartbreaking, Campbell's your very fast but it would just take
too long. Oh, it would but none of us had
to be near it. Listen, I could help you carry
it but I can't move as fast as you can.
I don't think anyone can. 17 rounds is not rounds or affairs.

(02:59:51):
and that's Samir, let's say you pleading.
I don't know what to do it. Oh, it's breaking the candles
and putting them in the bag and then if we start throwing
candles in the back and then at the very least, we can get to

(03:00:12):
the Sea and dump the candles if we had to.
Okay, okay. I can help with that too.
All right, um, Jaya back outsideperception.
Check, what do you got 30? 20?
Okay, that's a damn good role which is just enough to look
around scan the streets. Crown.
Cigar guard are running toward the Flaming board in and making
their way over shouting, to try to call him the commotion.

(03:00:35):
You see, people are feeling the streets screaming and running in
every direction, carriages are struggling to get past.
The swath of people exiting you see, masquerade masks everywhere
and looking around, you scan, you notice two things.
The first thing you notice, one of the guards seems to be making
for the nearby Bell Tower. This of course, is for warnings.
Every little square, has a bell tower to inform the city at

(03:00:58):
large that an emergency is happening, and they seem to be
making for it climbing the Large, what?
Looks like outdoor staircase up to the top of the Bell, which
rests upon a platform second thing, and much more into your
current Mission. You notice across the square
down the street down and Ali just barely poking their head

(03:01:20):
out of the darkness. Someone unseen is watching the
door. It could just be a miss, you
know, Denison of waterdeep, checking out the commotion.
But even from this distance withyour Eagle Eye, you can tell
that they're watching it very intently, they see.
Okay. Um, can I try to blend in the

(03:01:40):
crowd to where they are, like, are they surrounded by people?
Or are they kind of isolated? You look, they're far away.
It's because they're so far. The crowd is mostly dispersed by
that point. Um, so you can blend it.
I mean, you already blend in with the crowd.
They are funneling out of this place.
How many people seem to notice that you've made eye contact.
You would guess. 300 feet. Okay?
What are way? But pistols 3, I want to

(03:02:08):
headshot, I want him dead. Yeah, that if he loses
concentration which is done by damage and people sometimes How
to play like cards, right? My car is still not jair.
Looking at her outside. What do you want to do that?

(03:02:30):
Right from where I am. Can I yell to Doom?
It's over a loud crowds. So I would need you to make just
a I probably just a constitution.
Check to have your voice heard, okay?
3020. Okay, yes, do them.
You can hear Jaya over the din. This movie.

(03:02:50):
Corporate. I think.
I saw the person who is uh, has a concentration over the spell,
they're about 300 feet away, I don't know, I just want to
interrupt real quick. I actually did me spoke earlier
because I also have had to learnthe distance of concentration

(03:03:12):
stuff. The the figure is 150 feet away
right now and closer Ally, thereare 150 feet away.
I don't know if there's anythingI can do to reprimand them.
I don't want to kill him becausethat's gonna make them go.
So I guess I'm not very person but you are, I don't know if you
want to come out here with me, try to get them to come down for
me or, I don't know, can you point them out?

(03:03:33):
If I come out there? Yes, I can come through and
bring you back on my shoulders or something so it's easier for
you to get through. I don't know how good that is
great, that would work. Um, I'll turn to my friends
inside. Jaya thinks that he found The
perpetrator. Okay?
We don't want to spook them too bad, right?

(03:03:57):
Otherwise. They'll pull the trigger.
Correct. I was thinking maybe if we get
all of the candles and a bag very quickly, I could teleport
someone next to him with the candles so that he won't explode
them, love that, love that. God.
You have such a fucking beautiful mind.
I think we need the candles in first at least I agree.
But yes, you could lie really a fucking idea Doom.

(03:04:20):
That is genius. Thanks, let's get the band.
The candles in the bag. All right, you guys.
Begin grabbing Samir? Go ahead.
I was gonna shove my way back through the crowd this time.
Yeah, it's even harder going backwards because of the flow,
but give me a role in the meantime.
You guys begin grabbing candles.Um, let me think higher, you use

(03:04:42):
what full action, bonus action, whatever you can just to shut
these things in the bag. Yeah, Samir gives you a look and
goes, this is the best plan. I can think of, I'm sad to lose
the internet Stone, if that's toexplode, but I can think of no
perfect way to solve it at this time, but this is the best
possible option right now. Gonna say people.
Yes, I think haider's ideas, theone.
Um, let's put more in here and Samir grabs.

(03:05:05):
A bunch of Kansas started them in or if they want to do the
same. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. I've been On that candle shoving
grind. You've been on it.
How about you the most? You're also around here?
Yeah, me too. Okay, you guys are all shoving
them in the four of you moving as fast as you can can do about.
Let's say, 10 candles with an action, then 10 with a bony.
So you can get 20 each adding upto 80 that you shove into this

(03:05:28):
bag. Jive begins making his way back,
22, and that is a good role, allright?
You can shove through the crowd,it is so hard and they're all
screaming at you move out of theway to break for free.
You turn around Jaya and you notice that the Nobles aren't
just fleeing into the streets. Sort of willy-nilly, a few of

(03:05:48):
them did jump into carriages andfled as fast as they could.
But the rest seemed to be gathering in the street to watch
The Flaming board itself. It seems that forever reason.
The Nobles think that being on the street is safe enough from,
you know, distance wise from this place, which is probably
true for most things. So they're gathering in a large
mob just to watch The Establishment you pushed through

(03:06:09):
though back inside. Give me a dexterity saving
through it across over the broken, crystals on the ground.
A dirty 20. Okay damn you are on it with
this shit. You gingerly jump back over
dodging. All the sharpest pieces of
Crystal back to where the chandelier and dulum.
Would you also like to shove some candles in here?
Oh, yeah, okay. So um, you use your time to

(03:06:31):
shove some stuff in here. You also get about 20 up to 100.
I make your way back now in about 12 or so seconds that it
took from when the thing hit theground, you guys have
successfully grabbed the candlesand began shoving them in the
bag, it takes six seconds to show the first 80, and then
another six to get the rest. But you successfully shove all

(03:06:52):
150, or suppose 149 of these candles directly into this bag
of holding that, dulum has they all fall the 40 or some feet to
the bottom of the, the room in there.
And you see that the candles still burn, even as the grounds.
All right? Sure.
Do you want to be the Intimidator?

(03:07:20):
That I thought the two, I only asked because you have the spell
with fire resistance, currently oh yeah.
Know that makes know, I'm in shake myself, loose it up all
over here to talk to people. Okay?
Say your movement, exactly. All right, um, the crowd is just
now finishing their exit. You've seen.

(03:07:41):
Nearly everyone has made it intothe street and out to watch the
building to see if something's about to happen.
The last of the group is shovingtheir way through the doors.
The bag is now full of candles, all of your hands kind of hurt
picking up all these candles. I mean, they were hot, you know,
the wax was hot. So you guys all have wax
imprints along your hands or a face.
You have waxy purpley glitter all over your hands but you're

(03:08:03):
able to get them all in successfully the group of you.
You notice that the all the guards in the room of all
evacuated, as well as the one, what seemed to be some sort of
manager, the individual he does were talking to earlier.
The servant of the place is alsotrying to make his way out into
the crowds to be shouting. All right, call me.
So call, it is still just a drill.

(03:08:23):
What you saw just now was an accident.
Please call me yourselves and begins making his way into the
street as well. What would you guys like to do?
Do them? You us supposed to do some funky
shit with orfeas? Um, yeah.
I would like to use my all my movement to get as close as
possible outside to the figure, which I can't, you know, where

(03:08:46):
they are. So you can lead the way, um,
whoever's taking the charge here.
I'll need a dexterity saving throw to pass through the
crystals. I can do it.
Sure you can carry duel them along the way.
Oh, I got a six. Can I like over the shoulder
like point out where that's, youknow, I would allow that.

(03:09:06):
I would love that. Yes, you can help, there is a
sharp one there. 18. Okay, that's enough.
You cross over the the shards ofCrystal on the ground.
No problem. This is your third track.
You are a monster. I'm so good.
I'm so good. Pushing your way through it.
You make your way to the edge, the very end of the crowd of

(03:09:27):
people, you're able to a muscle through them again.
I won't make it for it again. You've had experience now.
Muslim through crowds I'm sure. The, um, the very, almost a
completely obscured hidden Shady.
Figure in the alley, 150 feet away is still there, and you can
sort of lift, dual them up to see them as well.
Do them with the with a point out from Jai you see the figure

(03:09:50):
you're looking for about 150 feet, great.
Um, so let's turn back to Aura. Maybe when you threaten him,
wait, one of the candles to makeyour point.
Alright, oh, hold one up. All right, and then I'm gonna up
cast, Vortex work on Oro so thatit's all courts, Sim 120 feet
towards the figure. Oh my God, and the last 30?

(03:10:11):
Wow, this is great. Arrived just in time or Aus, the
quick thinking of the plan of throwing candles in the bag,
higher grabbing them all first and the rest of you guys
following suit. And this Vortex warp, you arrive
just in under like barely under 30 seconds.

(03:10:33):
After the chandelier hit the ground.
You see now that this figure in the shadows is just in the
middle of flicking their wrist. And you see the beginning of a
Sigil burning in the air, you throw it, a hand and the sigil
stops and Fizzles into nothing. You go don't try anything.
Figure looks at you. Then look scared and stored a

(03:10:55):
darts back into the alley. I've got This to you or a face I
would like an intimidation checkand by holding the one of the
candles moving it you can do so within with with Advantage.

(03:11:16):
Okay. Intimidation It's a great.
But it was so good. It was so cool.
I feel there. And execution in real life was
kind of flawless. Use a different modifier other

(03:11:39):
than strike because I'm not intimidating him with my
strength. I would say have more
intimidating him with, like, my intelligence.
It's with you. Yeah, I guess Charisma higher
than your strength. I'm okay.
They're both minus one. Yeah, I would like To appeal to

(03:12:03):
his logos, man. Could you please explode?
Can you please? Can you can you explain your
intimidation again? Explain it to me, word it out
for me and if I concluded is appeal to logos, then all

(03:12:31):
See that does sound like a strength roll.
Logical. Any any sensible man would turn

(03:12:57):
around? Okay, I think realizing I've
done a shity job. I'm just gonna start running
after I last saw him. Okay.
Well, what was your, what was your role?
It was a three. If you recall, it was, I had
Advantage. I rolled a three, and a four and
so I did one If you all right. Okay, that's not good.

(03:13:25):
And you don't mean that. The figure does bolt
unfortunately or a face. Now, I will say longstrider and
expeditious Retreat are still up.
Yeah, I run fucking faster than this so that they're wearing a
heavy black hoods. You can't see anything from
behind. As they go running down the
alley, they're running pretty fast, fast faster than a
commoner might, but you are fucking Quicksilver.

(03:13:56):
Oh my god. Oh
yeah, that's right. It is nuts to me you can run

(03:14:29):
around in front of them. God bless your speed man.
Fuck that. Bro.
Like the show. For the flag.
The backgrounds changing so fast.

(03:14:51):
All right. So um I won't have you roll an
intimidation check this time because this is intimidating
enough. What you're doing and This
person wasn't expecting company,like you fucking scared the shit
out of them. Um running in front of them.
You see that they have a mask on?
It's a masquerade, mask, a cracked metallic.

(03:15:14):
Blackbird it's slipping slightlyoff as the running and you can
see a pale sweat soaked face underneath as you run around in
front with the candle, they their eyes land on you or face
that are eyes, then land on the candle in your weapon, the one
glowing. And finally, they freeze the one

(03:15:35):
of the hands sort of lifts and surrender, you see their other
hand, try and fail to hide a trembling item, tucked into
their sleeve, you can see the figure throws their hand up.
You see something? Clatter to the ground with the
law loud ping. And you look down an instrument,
some sort of flute but smaller alittle Piccolo.

(03:15:57):
You recognize fucking musician. I want to walk up to them and in
a swift emotion as I can I want to swing the bag around their
Torso, like, over their arms around them and, you know, the
part of the strap where it doubles up and if you pull on
it, it tightens I see. All right.
So you pull it and tighten the bag around their chest as

(03:16:19):
quickly as like. All right, give me a quick slide
of hand check for that. Yeah, yes.
Yes. Oh my God, I get Advantage.
Okay, so it wasn't natural one but because of my fucking
Tinkers gloves of tinkering here, the things like gloves of
thieving, you're the closest tinkering, it's plus five bonus.

(03:16:40):
Okay so it was a natural one. I want everyone to know.
My bonus is plus 10. That's good.
Well it's really cool if you gothigher really cool.
It was an actual one of. So I think I just sort of hit
him with the You see, you like you hit it and then it sort of
Falls at his feet, but he looks down and sees the like glow.

(03:17:03):
That's emanating out, glowing from the Sun, just not take a
step. Okay, I also will just go ahead
with my gun press the candle like right under his jaw.
Oh my God. All right, so you do so, um, you
get a son of a better. Look at this person now.
Do you want to take off the mask?
Yeah, yeah. Good to go for this.
Rip it off. The, the figure sort of

(03:17:24):
stammers, who, what you you don't understand.
Oh, I was it, I was I didn't want to hurt all of them.
Who the fuck are you trying to hurt out with it?
You are take it off. Underneath the mask is a young
Health, Elven man. Maybe early 20s thin as a read

(03:17:44):
with a tight Bond of copper hair, and the orchestral
uniform, still clinging to his body.
Oh, okay. Okay, I'm not a murderer.
I mean, I, I didn't want to be but I'm just one one of like 20,
all right. Listen, don't hurt me please.
I and they Flinch as you step closer. little is I know, I

(03:18:13):
know, I All right. I was just it was what was
necessary to take, take, take them out.
I mean, you need that much when you're trying to keep The figure
looks back and forth in the alley to see.
If anyone else was listening, you guys are talking pretty loud
now and he drops his voice lower, the, the Matched Lord
sir. Yes, I was supposed to just him.

(03:18:35):
I thought he'd be sending a sitting under the chandelier.
I mean, he normally stands rightthere.
That's where all the dignitariesgo, you know, right in the
center, they said he would be there.
But then the crowded, I I didn'tpull it.
Fucking Fireballs to take the whole building down argon
stupid. They said you pulled it, you

(03:18:57):
made the whole thing fall I didn't I wouldn't have pressed
off the fireballs. Back a second I just I just
wanted him. All right the the masked lawyer.
Why the one in black you know, him?
yeah, I factor. Why did you ask him dead?
Um, the figure looks up at you now and you see almost what

(03:19:19):
looked like, tears, forming and the figures eyes.
Like, why didn't wet and red andyou see desperation now curl in
his voice as he goes. He just what I was ordered to
do, sir. Oh please.
So I really I shouldn't say Sir that they might kill me if I

(03:19:44):
said I'll slap him thinking and and goes, listen if I, if I pull
this thing right now, you and meare gonna go right.
I To die. They're gonna kill me anyway,

(03:20:06):
all right, and you see he gains a bit of confidence as he
presses even further towards you, his throat bulging against
your, your weapon as he goes. They're gonna kill me.
Anyway, if I tell you, so I might as well just blow his both
up now. What the fuck?
This guy's crazy. That's a crazy line.

(03:20:26):
That's a crazy one. Oh my God.
All right. He looks like that.
You looks a bit terrified. He sees the the Steely gaze in
your eyes and goes on the street.
What are you gonna do? If I tell you how you just gonna
let me walk out of here. They take me to jail.

(03:20:56):
All right? This is that's all you get fine,
right? Was obviously Jesus, I can't do
it alone but I can deactivate mine the rest of the and you see
him quickly get quiet, the rest of the orchestra members
Orchestra, right? Yeah, the orchestra.

(03:21:16):
Where are they guys? You know, I'm not fucking stupid
and I know if you had to stay within 150 feet, the rest of
them did too. So let's start walking, you
know, up to 300 feet at the other end of the radius and I'll
have this conversation with all of you.
How's that? Listen?
All right there in Your walking and I'm following the other

(03:21:40):
stand. He looks at you, and then steals
his grip and goes just take me to jail.
All right, I won't do it. Beat me.
If you are not going to jail buddy, 19 other men and cuffed

(03:22:01):
at your side. Now, let's start walking, I
won't do it, you know, it's I'd rather die.
I'll blow this place up. You see him wave?
One of his hands in front of you.
Twisting his wrist, right? Come on, you stopped short
though. You see his will faltering, I Am
lower, the gun to point it at his guts rather than head.
He looks down. He looks at you and then sort of

(03:22:23):
looks scared. Come on.
Go. No, I won't do it.
I want to live but I'd rather goto jail.
All right, just take me there. There's down looks at the candle
you have and goes. Do you even know how to activate
that thing? it looks down at it again and

(03:22:44):
then he looks at you and goes I'd rather go to jail and he
turns around and tries to start running back into the open Ally
and screams help. Someone arrest me, please.
I'm done wrong to the ground. Okay.
At this point, the rest of you guys have gotten um, a few
moments to do whatever you like.You were able to successfully,

(03:23:06):
do them teleport or a face, you saw or a dashed into the alley,
then you heard some loud yelling, but no explosion.
So you think it's working. The rest of you guys are mostly
either inside of this empty, Ballroom, or just on the cusp,
you hear the current manager of the evening, whatever the
servant is that walked out with the rest of the crowd, seems to

(03:23:27):
be doing some sort of crowd control shouting loudly.
Please all do not be alarmed. We're cleaning up the mess right
now, the festivities will continue afterward.
This was just a drill. Alright, I promise you, you do
not have to leave and the entirelarge crowd in the street are
all just looking at him with these horrified looks the the
people who are at the back of the graduate of Damage.

(03:23:47):
Look at them is rude, and he looks back to some of you guys,
sort of pleading ladies, especially what looks to sort of
demos and higher. Those of you guys, who said you
were part of the Court wizard stuff and sort of looks at you,
like, you should be helping the threat.
I just want to look for on people.
So wait J. You see you want to look for
other like yeah. Villains here.

(03:24:10):
Yes. So give me a perception.
Check just to gaze around. I'm loving the word gaze
tonight. You guys gonna be so good?
I got a nine. But is there any chance?
I'm casting healing spells with people need them.
Yes. So they're still quite a few

(03:24:31):
guards and even some Nobles who were injured, so higher.
If you want to go over to them and sort of heal them, I would
say, do you, I don't know. I don't want to just burn
through your spells but I Madison checks are honestly
enough to like stabilize these people.
So you want to give me just one overall medicine.
Check for the, for the evening. Oh yeah, excellent.

(03:24:52):
Um, the guards are extremely appreciative of you if you come
by higher, I think. Thanks.
Thanks Guy. Listen, please.
You know, don't take this the wrong way.
When I was trying to arrest you early.
It's just you know, you're really shouting some crazy
stuff. I didn't rightly believe you,
but now I do, I'm Everyone safe.That's all that matters.
I'm sorry for being crazy. I'm Oh no, you're not crazy next

(03:25:16):
time. It's all right.
It's all right. It's just, you know, no one
expected that kind of thing to happen.
I'm this is a safe space. Do you know how many gods we had
stationed around here? Tonight like this?
Damn fucking musicians, man, youcan't trust them.
I've been saying, I just want toknow why I guess.
But yeah, me too man. Hopefully, we can arrest him and
you know how we got folk like toget information out of people on

(03:25:39):
He plants his fist directly intohis other hand.
Gives you a hot smile, would youget on your medicine?
Check 15. Okay, good.
That is, I mean, well, above average.
So you do a fine job, bandaging up and tenting to these guards
wounds, the major Domo of the evening that managerial servant
as well. Many of the guests, you hadn't

(03:26:00):
gotten a chance to heal with themasculine word that you had
earlier. It takes a bit of time, about 10
minutes to fully do the rounds and heal.
All these people get a chance totalk to a lot of them was.
Well, the, the Nobles, the frightened, masquerade Partiers
are very welcome to see you arrive.
And it, you see, it puts a lot of them at ease, to see that you

(03:26:21):
guys are in the like, resting and healing phase and not the
stressed out like a tried to fight people for phase, you said
Advantage, with perception dualism, looking with you, it's
not Still a nine, the two of youlook around, you can't see
anyone else that looks suspicious.

(03:26:42):
There's already kind of a crowd forming around the already crowd
of nobles just to see what's up.You even notice a few, you know,
very Thrifty commoners have picked up masks off the ground
and joined the noble sitting down hoping to get some sort of
payout. But you don't notice anything
else. Damn.
Can I start going towards or face?

(03:27:03):
Okay. You make your way to the alley.
The most. What do you want to do?
Um, God, I think Because this area is pretty much safer out,
right? You look around.
Yes, you think this the threat has been removed the candles
that held the horrific magical violence within them.
Otherwise though you can't see anything in this room, besides

(03:27:26):
the glass, which is not good. But, um, yeah, Samir sort of
weighs over to you. Oh, they must you, oh, it's such
a good job with that. I'm sorry.
I couldn't tell earlier. I think I might go help that the
manager person whoever that was a do some crowd control.
Just because I feel bad for whathappened here.
And I don't want people to, you know, like tear this place out

(03:27:46):
on or think we were wrong for doing all this.
Sure. Sure.
That sounds like a good idea, right?
Yeah. Please feel free to join if you
want. If not, you do you, you did good
tonight. Thank you smile.
Thank you. Um.
Yeah. Come help you.
So the two of you go out Samir and you join.
Yeah. The major Domo at the front to

(03:28:07):
discuss with this large group ofnobles, about half of them sort
of sat down on the pavement to listen.
To this person just gives feels you notice, they're sort of
waiting for, like, the the hook where it keeps going and sort of
adding things like, yes, we'll offer a free round of drinks for
everyone who comes back in. And once the glass is removed,
the we'll say, a complimentary stay the evening just to stay
your troubles off. And you see keep sort of adding

(03:28:28):
on little bonuses. That seemed to entice the
Nobles, a little more each time,the mere and you join as well.
And some goes, oh hello. We all are with the court,
wizard of waterdeep. Just want to let you all know.
The problem has been taken care of and the most slash or badge,
I guess, I flashed the emblem. Nice.
You tweak it. All right.

(03:28:48):
Um just to tell you all it is safe now.
Sorry about the commotion. There was a small incident but
it has been dealt with especially we would like to
apologize to those of you on by those crystal shards though, I'm
sure that this is nothing that they could not sleep on Teal.
Haha, the most, do you want to give me a persuasion check with
Advantage as samir's helping you?

(03:29:08):
Oh yes, waiting. 21. Damn, that's a great role.
Okay, um, while higher is healing people over the course
of about 10 minutes, the most you and I suppose Samir, it's
been about 10 minutes. Sort of calling these people
down dulum you walk over to Orpheus.
Jaya, are you still sort of keeping an eye out?

(03:29:30):
Yes. Um, I think I would also make my
way to the back of the building and see if anybody's there got
it. Yeah, it takes a while to
circumvent, you slowly, make your way around a doom, you
arrive to the alley, just as yousee, or a face.
Go to tackle down, what looks like a hooded figure or face.
Make me an athletic check. Is Athletics, the weirdest thing

(03:29:55):
dulum, as you sort of Crest, thealley you hear somebody who is
not Orpheus the hooded figure screaming about something.
I saw come arrest me, please. I've done bad.
Oh, I got a 17, some house. So there's that.
Okay, their role, the finger tries to shove you out of the
way but it doesn't work and you tackle them down to the ground

(03:30:16):
hard, the two of you smack, the Earth and gravel, and you kick
up some some Ash and Cloud that fill out a little bit.
The figure continues screaming, I please, someone help me, don't
let him hurt me, this guy, Between.
Their shoulder blades with what purpose?
Well, I'm doing that and then I want to grab them by the hair

(03:30:38):
and pull their head back and up towards me.
Do they scream yes. You shove my gun in their mouth.
Okay. oh, all right. Stop screaming.
Yeah, I want to keep a hand on the back of their head.
Other hand on the gun. Of course.

(03:31:00):
Do I see doodle behind me? You notice don't actually in
front of you. The figure was running toward
Doom. The bag.
Sure thing is, this person not gonna explode it yet.
They know better than that if you just be, it puts it over my
shoulders. And my friend here is going to

(03:31:23):
take me on a walk. Great.
So we run. Oh, what are you gonna say,
darling? So we run them over to the
ocean. No, I Think to walk me to their
friends. We go.
I'm can I look at the candle andsee how fast is blinking.
Give me an Arcana check as you do.
So. Or I would take insight as well.
Arkan is better for me. Um it's a 3020 okay good role.

(03:31:47):
You look at it. Um it's tight.
You're not sure if you can make it to the ocean in time you
think you've got a minute and 30seconds left.
Well, I think the bomb is about to explode in about 90 seconds.
I don't know if I could get to the ocean.
And teleport you 120 feet but that's mostly all I can do.
Okay, wait, Pete per second to miles per hour.

(03:32:09):
I'm 100 to 55 feet per second, so I run 17 miles per hour.
I'll be helping you calculate how fast you can.
Yeah. 35 times 610. So that would be 210 seconds.
Did he say 90 seconds to explode?
Yes. Yeah.
Okay, let's talk under half a mile.

(03:32:30):
I won't get there in time. You're not sure from this
distance. You can't see over the the edge
of the building's to know. Um, I'll come down to the
hostage. Hello from here are the Wolves
of waterdeep closer or the ocean.
The figure seems a bit uncooperative with a gun in

(03:32:53):
their mouth and further, If you don't answer, you will explode
in 90 seconds. True, is that he persuades such
intimidate? Yeah, you want to roll an
intimidation, check with advantage?
Just giving out help action, it's a 22 good role, they think

(03:33:17):
for a moment and then shake their head for wall.
Okay, the walls closer. So should I run it to the wall
then I suppose. Okay, the problem is I'm not
going to get to take this asshole with me, so, well, you
Shake his head violently. Make this your mouth and you're

(03:33:40):
going to tell my friend the names of your night.
Teen compatriots that's night teen names.
Then I'm Going to leave you withmy friend and you are going to
find your friends. Well I run this shit, she did
out the wall. The figure looks to do them and
then back to you and nods because he thinks Doom is much
less crazy. Okay, you take it out, spit

(03:34:12):
comes out and a bit of wax or a face.
What would you like to do 20 names buddy?
Then I'm going to be on my way, this gun's not going anywhere.
So you get the names out. Talk about two seconds to say
that, okay, the figure nods. Now I waiting for you to go Go.

(03:34:33):
What? Now I'm just gonna blow you up
now then. Okay.
I could start putting the bag over his head.
He tries to put his hands up that I don't know.
The names are. All right, I don't it's way too
fucking late for that. I just Start pulling it over.
You rumbling inside Doom. You hear him straight.

(03:34:56):
Hey, baby. The police take me to God in
jail. I Don't Wanna Die.
Just take me to jail. Um, I guess I'll go in the bag
to restrain them. All right.
That's all right. Before you throw the bag.
Okay. Um, you sort of shove the figure

(03:35:16):
in there. The way the internals of this
place work, the candles are all thrown over the place.
As you sort of flip it upside down and pulling him in.
You see him slip through, it takes a bit of a moment to sort
of pull it over his shoulders and his legs, but then you flip
it, right? And he falls down the 40 feet,
slam onto the ground and screaming out and paying my leg.

(03:35:38):
Oh my God. And do them.
You want to go in after him? Yeah.
All right. You jump down into the bag as
well. If you want to use your rope it
you can just sand much faster and you don't have to hurt
yourself. Sure.
You use your quick release little rope.
You dive down or if you gear up to start running I'm just
running second there and get your running okay.

(03:35:59):
Um you fall down in with this guy as this happens I'm gonna
swap over real quick to Jaya Jaya you make your way around to
the back of the building. You notice there are a few cooks
here, they're out here smoking, what would look like long
cigarettes. That look hand rolled and look
over at you to give you a suck nod as you walk over and

(03:36:21):
continue. They know, just I'm not back,
you know, there are a couple doors on the back of the end
here. They all are sort of built in
Shawty into the wall, which are usually intended to be used for
servants and innkeepers. People who worked the place.
These are definitely not meant for guests, but Otherwise, it is

(03:36:42):
a pretty much the same as you remember it, when you were here
earlier. Um, you look down the alleyway.
You don't see anyone here. I'll run back to where I saw
dulum run towards or face, okay.Um, you make it back just in

(03:37:06):
time to see or a famous booking it down.
The street in the opposite direction of the ocean running
obscenely fast. Great, that's great.
Um, you do not see Doom. Oh, and I don't see the person
that they were talking to either.
No, neither you're not sure where they went.

(03:37:27):
Oh, I guess since I don't reallyknow what's going on, I'd run
after or a face. Okay, you began running
unfortunately or a face is moving like a car?
That's great. It, your mic was cutting out a
little bit. So it's like, So, unfortunately,

(03:37:50):
Jaya unless you have some sort of magical ability you want to
use, you cannot keep up with Orpheus.
You can yell something if you want but you can't keep.
Yeah, I can't keep up. Okay, or face.
Oh right, you hear a voice? Feel like I might just straight
a little bit for murder. She's liked but I'll be okay.
Okay. Um do you know if there's any
more of them 19 more? Good.

(03:38:14):
I'll try to find them, um, and I'll run back and just keep
fucking looking. All right, you run back, you
continue looking around. During this time, the most,
you're still giving your speeches with Samir higher,
you're still healing people. Or you begin running as fast as
you can. 150 feet per round, right?
Yeah. You had about 90 seconds, give

(03:38:34):
or take, she began dashing through the streets pushing
through it's pretty late at night.
Now you would guess 11 p.m. perhaps midnight and luckily the
streets aren't as busy as they would be during a still mourning
are. So you're able to push through
without many crowds in your way.So you're able to move your full
speed, several guards, sort of shout out at you as you run and

(03:38:56):
go. I what you're running stuff fast
forward slash down. Sorry.
You go bustling past them sprinting down alleys and threw
rows. You see the very top of the, the
arched walls, that surround water.
He see one in the distance. You're breaking towards this
fast as you can. You're moving fast.

(03:39:16):
Fast, fast. You get there.
You get halfway there about three fourths of the way.
About a minute goes by during this time, during this time, do
them. You are in a bag with a man,
great, the second climb down theRope, I'm casting all person.
You screaming, you notice. He's got his looks like his leg

(03:39:38):
was half pierced by one of the swords that was down here.
Rough. Um, and it's pierced through his
calf, he screaming at and pain you cast, hold person.
He got a 12 on a saving throw. Okay fails, he's continues
screaming chokes up for a momentas his hands are wrapped around

(03:40:00):
his calf, sorry about that, I didn't realize the sword was
near the Rope. That's interesting.
Okay, give me a medicine. Check.
It's a 10. I mean, perfectly average, you
know, you you sort of Wiggle thesword out and the figure winces,
and whales a little bit in the whole person and you think you

(03:40:23):
made it a little better. Sorry about that.
I mostly here to make sure you don't get eaten by Wolves.
The figure makes another wisdom,check a 9 this time so that's
still a failure. They look at you pleadingly,
their eyes seemed to tell a story great, I'll grab some
spare rope and start dying them up.
Okay, you wrap it around. I will make your role for it.

(03:40:44):
I mean, he's held, so it's pretty easy to get a snug fit
around him. You wrap around his torso, his
arms, and legs. He looks pretty well.
Well, held great. Um, and then all go and climb up
the Rope maybe like halfway so Ican pee out.
All right, you I mean looks likeOrpheus is still running from
the top of the bag. Cool, um, I will cast, Vortex

(03:41:05):
work, just to make Oro. Run one less round.
Yeah. Sort of like, take a step and
then you're 100 feet forward. Great.
I Am. Um and that's just the last
thing for me to do in this bag, I want to start putting the
candles inside of a non-magical bag.

(03:41:25):
Sure you You probably have one of those lying around a little
leather satchel and begin pilingin the candles.
Do you want to keep holding person on this guy?
Um yeah but if he breaks out I don't really care because he's
tied up now. Okay, I'll roll a couple more
times for him because you reallyhas a lot to say to you.

(03:41:46):
Well, I was acting perfectly Fair proportional to the crime,
okay? It takes six rounds before he
gets a Nat 20 year old niece. So um, during that time, I'm in
Orpheus, that's still you run him for a while, then you get
teleported womp, they're still running.
Yeah. Eventually you notice dulum that

(03:42:07):
he breaks from your whole person?
He doesn't struggle against the bonds but immediately Spews out
of sort of word vomit. They don't fucking kill me.
That guy was fucking kill me. I would just go to jail for
this. I really don't want to die any
of the people I work with. I just, I don't want to fuck off
for this. Played.
I please help me. So you see such a saint rational
person, please. Thank you.
I'm very saying we shouldn't kill you.

(03:42:28):
I don't think good good place. Give me the authorities, all
right. They'll kill me if I tell.
You and I really liked to not dothat.
I don't think they can get me injail, so I really like to go
there. Please don't hurt me.
I would like, leave you to the police.
Yeah. Okay.
That sounds good. You can you do that most likely?
Yes, I'm not sure why. That guy you're working with was

(03:42:49):
trying to hurt me so bad. I mean I guess what I did was
probably wrong but please I mean, I thought I was what he's
thinking. What was that thing?
I'm gone, please don't have it. Also be fair, I'm surprised you
expected to just go to jail for committing terrorism or she just
me. All right.
I mean, it was 20th of This was it.

(03:43:11):
What? Just you and 19 other people?
Yeah. Did you guys have a boss to go
there? Yeah.
But they want to hit tonight. Oh.
I mean, this was Shooting up in.But I mean, it was supposed to
go with that a hitch. I mean, they put me on point me,
I'm the youngest person of the group.
They thought it was gonna be like a fuck man, just don't hurt

(03:43:34):
me. All right, I like me won't.
I just did what? I was told, listen, I'll tell
the judges, I'll tell the black coats.
Everything they want to know, just so I can get a smaller
sentence but I just don't want to die.
Well, if he cooperate, you like me won't die.
Why did he keep saying likely and I won't what else is gonna
happen? Well, it's hard to be 100%
accurate. Yeah, but you're gonna keep me

(03:43:55):
safe, right? You're good to I like the thing
of myself as mostly neutral. What Okay, all right, listen.
Listen, man. You you see more level-headed?
All right. Listen to anything, just ask me
something. If if I can go free, I'll tell
you whatever, whatever you want.All right, just ask me and as
long as I get to go, I'll tell you anything, please.

(03:44:18):
Sure, what's your boss, a mask Lord know this is you have to
promise me first that you're notgonna kill me all your friend
and you gonna let me go peacefully into the world
without getting arrested. Yeah, Hey, turn around and sort
of give him a full attention, righting, a verbal contract in
my head. Oh God, it's the genie a

(03:44:39):
monkey's ball. As long as you don't do any
actions that would make me want to kill you.
I will not kill you. Okay.
Includes, but not limited to. You donating one of these bombs,
one of your compatriots that needing one of these bombs, or
are you attacking us in any way.This also includes inhibiting us

(03:45:02):
of disposing of these moms. The figure looks at you nod
slowly and goes. Listen, they're still gonna
explode. All right, I can't stop it from
exploding. It's gonna happen.
No matter what, but I won't do it pretty much early I promise
and I mean, I can't stop it though.
Is the problem. It's already been done.
I understand that. Okay, so I'm let off the hook

(03:45:23):
for that one, I believe. So, okay, I won't, I won't try
to hurt you. Listen your friend already took
my, my wand my spellcasting, focus, that, that picked a load,
that's my instrument. You know, he took it from me so
I can't, it's not like I can cast anything I Listen, man, I
don't know what to tell you, butI can't do anything to hurt you

(03:45:45):
right now. And I promise you, I, I just
want to go home, all right? They made me do it.
They made me do it. I've just the, I'm just a cog in
the machine hearing the word, dog.
And she went to my logos. That's pathless know.
It's purely intellectual. Well, I agree, I don't want to
hurt you at all, okay? And you make sure that you look

(03:46:07):
after me, even after we get out of this, whatever, this fucking
place is bag, I will attempt to give you to the authorities
after you get out of this bag. Yes.
Okay. Yeah, and you promised me that
you'll do your best to make. Sure your friend doesn't try to
torture me or kill me. Yes, the torture is sort of a
loose definition. Bodily a mental haul, man.
Mental harm is difficult to quantify, okay?

(03:46:31):
Just bodily harm. Then he looks at you, I go to
shake his hand and then I see that and I just sort of Wiggles
his body a little bit and goes. All right, all right.
And the whole bag sort of Shakesas or if it's continues running
and he goes okay, ask away. I'm here for you.
The deal is set. My my heart is open to you
Christ and he looks at you really stressed out as this is

(03:46:55):
happening or face. You can continue running a big
role from you. This one's pretty important.
I'm gonna need you to roll for me and insight check or history
from remembering a map or insight for just looking down
these streets to figure out whatthe ideal path is to get from
where you are to the wall. Okay?
Okay. Ah, okay, it's definitely gonna

(03:47:15):
be history. Can I, is there any way I can
get like yelling at people as I go by like which way to the wall
and trying to pay attention to which way people glance.
When I say that. I mean they all glance at the
wall. The problem is the the streets
sort of ebb and flow like as thecrow flies.
They all look in the same direction, it's just which path
to get there as fast it. Mmm.

(03:47:36):
Okay, okay. I see if You Were Somehow able
to get on a roof and go Roofing,you could probably get there
faster. But I didn't mean to do that.
Yeah, I'm acrobatic. Okay, I rolled a 16 so I think
I'm feeling, I don't remember that well, so I will go ahead
and try to scale the most scalable roof.

(03:47:56):
I see on this street. Okay, I need an Athletics or
acrobatics check for you acrobatics baby.
Oh okay, 17 Okay, you scale up one of the most scalable walls,
you can 17 is pretty good. You get up there and under six
seconds, making it to the top ofthe 30 foot roof.
The shingles here are pretty flat so you can run along them.

(03:48:17):
And you notice there are some fast rules around you, that
would be harder to run on so youcan sort of choose a path.
Now, and up from up here, you have a significantly better
vantage point. You can see the best route to
the wall. Now, up here, I'm gonna need you
to make from me and overall athletic, check to go roof
hopping to make your way to it. There are some gaps, like
Alleyways that you'll have to hop over to get there and these

(03:48:40):
range from everyone from five feet wide to.
Some of them are 10 feet which is pretty difficult.
My role is just aren't good if 14.
Okay, you go running and jumpingin the bag.
This is sort of chaotic. You're sort of get tossed around
once in a while. But these big jumps and some
Landings are more graceful than others.
Everyone gets knocked hard up against the wall and cries out

(03:49:02):
and pain other times he slides. Little too close to the sword.
That's just sort of skittering along the ground.
Um, or a face on a 14, that's above average, so you're able to
make a lot of these jumps. You, make your way closer and
closer to the wall itself. You have no idea how much time
you have left. And as you get closer you have
one big jump in front of you andyou go to make it and you just

(03:49:22):
miss it slams into your torso, you get the air knocked out of
you. You can use your arms to pull
yourself back onto the roof, butyou lose a little bit of time to
the jump and you can see the wall in front of you now.
The glowing that you can see emanating from out of the bag is
going faster and faster. Now, it's like a rating blah
blah blah blah, blah blah and you have no idea how much time

(03:49:44):
you have left. You look and you see got maybe
100 people and the gates are open and Beyond it is open.
Grassland, in a few small Huts in the distance, you might be
able to make an entire time, butyou're not sure what you're
going to do when you get there. What's the plan as I run?
I want to start yelling. And do them time to get out.
Great. Um, was able to get the candles
in the bag. Yeah.

(03:50:04):
Yeah. And you you had a lot more time
in here. Um, I mean, you tied them up and
you chat with him for a bit, butit's been about a minute and a
half of running. So I've got some chat in time.
You've got all the candles in a little bag.
Oh, and you got about, like, 30 or so seconds to talk with this
guy. What questions?
Did you have for him? I would give him basically the
rundown as looking for a verbal dossier.

(03:50:27):
Everyone like mostly about his boss.
Okay, got it. So under duress, you notice he's
a little nervous discussing all this stuff, okay, listen.
I don't know. Everyone's name in the group,
all right? Your friend kept asking me, but
I don't know them. Have you ever met your boss
know? I haven't listened.
What? I'll tell you, everything you
want to know, right? With calls and he looks around

(03:50:48):
steal in the the darkness here. Sort of afraid to say what
called the Symphony of Nest, that's all I know.
All right. There's only 20 of us, every one
of us plays something. Different and everyone goes by
the instrument. That's it to them.
I'm just called Piccolo. I don't even know if the guy
next to me is human, you know, he sort of Puffs a half laugh

(03:51:08):
and looks aside and goes, we were hearse practically
blindfolded up. We only have a hear each other's
playing the leader. It, we just call them the
conductor. They're the one who runs it.
I mean, they speak through the healing.
I've never even seen them. No one has.
We just show up. We play?
What they give us and then we leave.
Sometimes they ask us to do stuff like this, but I've never

(03:51:33):
met him. I don't, I don't know who he is.
That's fine. Where do you practice all over?
I mean, sometimes a carriage will just pick me up and take me
somewhere and they'll they'll bag my head in there, all the
times. It's just a standard Symphony
Hall, but we really never hit the same place.
Twice. What locations have you not
played that yet? In the city?
It looks around. It goes.
Well, listen, I'm new. Alright, I'm young, I'm
practically lowest on the fucking menu.

(03:51:56):
All right, I haven't been aroundas many as other people.
Full and so I that maybe they played at some places, but I've
only played it well in person. I've only played it three, but
practicing, I've played all over.
He looks at you pleadingly. Now, do you understand?
This is the kind of thing. I can't just share information
about, all right? It's, it's like, a cult or
something. That's fine.
What instrument does, the highest member play?

(03:52:18):
He looks at you. As you ask this question, dulum
and still sort of scared out of his mind he goes but the most
senior no question is is the is violin first year.
I mean you can hear them from across the room.
The conductor actually pauses sometimes to listen to him.
I think they've been in the symphony the longest they're the

(03:52:39):
one who have only ever been allowed to ask questions about
what questions do you ask? I mean, I tried to ask who net
was, that's the name of a symphony symphony of death.
I didn't know the fuk that was. I thought it was maybe some like
entity or maybe the conductor wish some creepy goddess.
Something. I mean, I don't care.
I don't worship anything. I just joined because I owed.
Favors and they promised coin I joined because I, you know, I

(03:53:01):
needed a cut and who did the Bible on this thing up was?
Well, the violinist sort of gaveme this cryptic answer.
That was like, Hey listen last person who asked about it got
pulled out yanked out of their chair middle of rehearsal.
That's, okay, I've heard of nothing before.
Oh, yeah, you do okay, that's good.
Okay. So who is that?

(03:53:22):
I'm not sure I remember about them.
Aha, they wrote some evil grimoire.
Oh, okay. So, A wizard likely, he has some
sort of court, I see. Okay.
Um yeah, that's I suppose, with sort of like that too, I don't
know. Maybe I'm gonna pull it.
I don't know, man. Listen, that's that's really all
I know, I promise that the otherplayers, they're all crazy in

(03:53:44):
their own ways, you know, I meanthere's trumpet is that sort of,
they got ego, you know, the cocky and little arrogant and
there's some timpani in the backand a hot player that never
speak, but you can sense that the bit scary of fuck.
One time, we had an accordion player, come, I've never heard
them practice their crazy. Do you all cast magic while you

(03:54:06):
play? Yeah.
Yeah, we're all Bots. You have specific spells.
You cast? Yeah, yeah.
Sometimes which ones. Well, it's hot to explain, it's
it's part of the song. See, it's like, you know, they
give me the music and I play it.And I sort of understand the
magic that I'm casting, but it'sas a group that we actually
create something, it's, it's somewhat individual like
tonight. We were all doing stuff by a

(03:54:27):
selves through music. But sometimes when we're
casting, you know, more dangerous things.
It is twists and forms through everyone's music.
It's a symphony. I see and at this point um, or a
face, you are still at the edge of this roof.
Now, what was your plan? I was yelling.
At do love that. It was time to get out of the

(03:54:47):
bag and I think I want to Keep okay.
So you say I'm 100 feet from thewall.
Yeah. 100 feet and that's sort of diagonal because you're up.
Okay. Out of the bag.
Yeah. Yeah you're in the bag.
Now. You're sort of get cut off in
the middle of that conversation.With the guy I can tell you.
I can also shoot this bag, 100 feet.

(03:55:08):
Needs you. and guys to get Okay.How about I told Port you there
then you shoot the bag. Yeah.
Great. Um, I'll get out of the bag,
quick. Tied up man.
And the candles and you have allthe candles at a separate bag
that are bag of holding, right? Yeah.
Good work, you get everyone out.Well, I suppose you're just get

(03:55:30):
that back out specifically. And yeah, or a face or a face.
You're able to strap this. To the end of your pistol, just
fine, your little Arcane firearm, and with your expanding
rope, make your way to the top really easily the figure shots
from below. I was going on.
What are you doing? You see the wall?
You could see the top of the wall.
You actually think you can teleport or face right?

(03:55:51):
To the Top If you want. Instead of just the floor.
Great. Oh, are you ready?
Ah great. I'll teleport you back after you
shoot it. Thanks of course.
I'll teleport or face okay. You are teleported or the top of
the wall, it's high up. The wall itself is nearly 80
feet tall and now you are well above the sort of grass seed,

(03:56:14):
kind of Farmland outside of the great city of waterdeep.
It's a cool evening now. And the Moon is up illuminating.
The area brightly. You attached to the bag to the
front of your little Arcane firearm, and you see it as
practically glowing with something.
That is shoved inside. Attached it.
And I'm gonna go ahead and shootcatapult.

(03:56:35):
I'll do it at second level whichhas no so normal.
Catapult launches at 90 feet, second level doesn't specify how
much further it goes. But I will say it, lets it do an
extra five pounds and increases damage by 1 d8 so I don't know.
I feel like maybe it shoots a little further.
Yeah, I'd agree. Um, the let me think, you know,

(03:56:57):
like 45 degree angle up off intothe distance.
Not in the direction of any hunts.
All right, you shoot it off. You've got a decent amount of
range. You're already 80 feet up so
it's pretty easy to launch. This thing out from your perch
at top. The Stonewall or face you volley
this thing off the bags. High into the sky, as your aim

(03:57:19):
looks true, the Catapult throw was it off much further than the
90 feet that the first level spell would normally do.
Okay, thank you. It blurs against the Stars, the
moon illuminates, it just right spinning up. word and higher
over the shadowed, farmlands As it just reaches the peak of its
light. Wait, what did you say?

(03:57:39):
I said that's because you know his name, it's fire.
What the bag, reaches, the peak of its flight slowly dropping
just a hair, you see it, dropping a little more, you're
getting a little nervous, it drops and continues dropping.

(03:58:00):
It reaches about 3/4 of its Ark way out in the Farmland in a
split second later. And explosion rips through the
sky, like a sun blooming right? In front of you, 150 delayed
Fireballs 149. Thanks one triggering the next

(03:58:23):
in a chain of cataclysm ring of flames, spiral outward, and
molten colors. You see, deep orange and
piercing Crimson on the outside and then the center blinding
white. As if I fire god is tearing out
the clouds. Also catch the light in the
entire city is practically exposed to Daylight for a few

(03:58:45):
moments. The surrounding Farmland glows
like Dawn is just broken, the Shockwave hits the wall, a
moment later, a pulse of heat and sound that rattles Windows,
you hear birds screaming from rooftops scattering above and
Orpheus you get knocked prone immediately.
You hear screeching in the distance and immediately the

(03:59:07):
sound of the alarm. Else of water deep.
As this massive explosion Rockets.
This old space, it was enormous nearly a quarter mile in
diameter. You look down now, the smoke is
be unclear, it wasn't that Smokyconsidering it was magically
caused, but this might have beenone of the largest magical

(03:59:28):
explosions, the city has ever seen.
Jesus. Christ.
You look down. Unfortunately it didn't quite
explode at the top of its Arc. You actually got here a bit
earlier than expected due to some good roles and some
teleporting Rock. You look down.
Now the Earth is scorched. I mean, it looks like

(03:59:49):
practically hell on Earth. There is a crater about 50 feet
deep and nearly 300 feet wide. That's carved into the Farmland.
You look around. You didn't hit me houses.
You're not you're positive. There were no creatures or
people are in that area, but thenice flowing grass and a bit of
cultivated Earth that were in that area.
Have been scorched and burned toAsh.

(04:00:11):
The Creator is old dirt and heart and stone you.
Think you might even see chunks of glass in there from where
some of the Sandy dirt? Hardened There's piece of quartz
that were pulled out. And you see that there is Ash
Filling the air of where the explosion ripped through many of
the trees that were in the area around there.
Had older leaves torn completelyoff by the explosion left Barren

(04:00:32):
as well. You look down now and even see a
massive black Scorch Mark right up against the wall, on which
you stand a few of the bricks, tumbled down.
Now, after the Shockwave, hit them crumbling free, and then
silence, just the Bell, bing bong, bing, bong bing, bong
Echoes. And back at the Flaming bore

(04:00:54):
about a quarter mile away. They're all of you guys here in
enormous, explosion and see, fire guy's begin to rain down
now. Like rain, truly in the city,
little black particles began falling all around.
You guys who are sitting outside.
The Nobles began looking up as demos.
You can continue your speech about doing damage, control for

(04:01:17):
what happened and higher. You're helping heal people Jai,
you're still running around, looking for people and little
black flecks. It's your skin.
Or a face. You go blind for about 30
seconds after this. Having seen the last full on
even with your goggles. The last hurts.
Same thing for you demos despitebeing so far away the blast
extremely bright for you. Oh, another son.

(04:01:41):
And the explosion dissipates. Or if as you have a few moments
on the battlements, you look outthe alarm Bells, continue to
ring and you have a moment. I just sit down.
I'll tell you back. Yes, you sit down.
Oh God, that's just stressful. Wait, oh, go down and get the

(04:02:02):
guy out. Oh, this asshole.
Still here, you pull them out. He's no longer oiled person but
comes out and goes. Well, what's that?
It it did. You set it all why?
Do you even care? He looks around.
He looks pretty scared. Are you scared for your

(04:02:23):
Thoughts, or do you really care?That's your action.
You slap him hard, he takes it out.
What the fuck. Hey, Bartley Hall.
New friend. Tell him.
Tell him. That's not right.
We did a Green not to hurt you. However, there was a
stipulation. I did, I told you, you did

(04:02:45):
deserve a slap, what did you review your conversation there?
How do I refused it? You replay, its then replay.
You clear? I agree.
You clearly aren't thinking about the well-being of other
people, fuck, man. I'm worried about myself, too.
I'm a person not to me to me. You're a coward and an attempted

(04:03:09):
murder a failed merger. You are the lowest of the low of
anyone I've met since coming here.
And I've met some low, okay? I hope, you know that everyone
who's ever cared about. You should be disappointed and
everything. You've become If I were to you,
I told none of them. Visit me in prison, fuck, I hope

(04:03:29):
no one fits me a prison that I know.
They might kill me for sharing how much information I do but
friend Where does he doesn't believe in torture?
Ah, good. I don't know who that is, but
God bless him. I just have the urge to like,
shove things in his mouth so he will stop talking at also

(04:03:50):
experience pain. I'm sorry.
But we did have an in the bag. No, I'm not.
It's not right. I just I mean God at least
fucking father. Lou Chase had a backbone.
Let's go back to our friends. Did someone say malice is in
prison? Okay.
I looked down coward. You're cut to have fun in the

(04:04:11):
yard. All sort of pick up him by the
head. If Dylan picks him up by the
legs, you Okay. Um you the two of you grab the

(04:04:33):
figure and make a couple steps. The air is still sort of thick
with that smell of magic and smoke as the blast, that already
faded. Um, A few moments go by, you'd
guess about a minute or two of the two of you guys talk and you
drag this figure not far 30 feetor so.
Um, and then you hear something,often the distance from what

(04:04:57):
sounds like the castle, a low hum.
Fucking good. Can I get it?
And then gets louder and drone here, you guys look up into the
air and you see something cutting through the smoking
night? Sky a streak of figures, flying
in formation, you see, broomsticks and figures.

(04:05:20):
The what seems like guard wizards of waterdeep robes
shimmering in the Moonlight gleaming with the symbols of the
city's water they move quickly and in formation and glide
quickly down to your area. The figures all sort of dark
through the smoke and you hear what sounds like a deep humming
sound coming from them. As they move rapidly toward your

(04:05:42):
area. They all stop in the sky, almost
on a dime in front of the explosion.
And then quickly all drop. As if with the speed of gravity,
right down to where the group ofyou, they all stop inches away
from the floor, hovering on these broomsticks.
You see a group of what seemed like eight of them in total.
Led by one older gentleman, looks like a human man with a

(04:06:02):
scraggly Gray beard. Very traditional wizard.
Look, he Bears on his head. Would looks like a deep Crimson
hat. Not so much, a wizard hat.
It's more tight fitting. Almost like a fez, like your
Dumbledore type hat sick. I drop Piccolo.
So his head hits the concrete just like as I drop Smackdown.
Put my hands on my head. We got him, we got him.

(04:06:25):
I'll take your hands around, they look to be extremely on
edge. The group of them looked like
Elite Warriors, they all have insignias on their chest.
These are looks like the same signal that of Volker had.
But where volkers were silver, these individuals have bright
gleaming, gold and a, you've never seen before behind this.

(04:06:49):
What looks like archmage. The rest of the Squadron is a
mix of all different Majors. You see, and Elven woman with
moonlight strands, a dwarf with thick with a thick muscle body
that Hogs. It's long Stone broomstick as
well. A few more individuals behind
that you couldn't quite get a good.
Look, at is the figure in the front one with the scraggly

(04:07:10):
Gray, beard speaks loudly. You what happened here?
Just explosion. This destruction could have
levels a city explained herself.So this one and Group of
compatriots was trying to blow up the masquerade ball at the
seared. Boar to kill the masked Lord,
who is in attendance between detected, the ball, which was a

(04:07:32):
bunch of delayed Fireballs, clustered on the chandelier and
ran it out of town because, you know, we couldn't really stop
the Fireballs because we couldn't find the rest of them
and this one it's completely unhelpful.
So, we got to talk to town and tried to ditch where it wouldn't
hurt anyone. Sorry, let me interrupt you real
fast. I'm getting ahead of myself
here. Oh, it's your place.

(04:07:52):
And he looks over his shoulder and snaps at one of the other
Wizards, who sort of scoffs and quickly throws out a spell at
you. All you see, a zone of Truth
appear Beneath Your Feet, it happens quickly, another wizard.
One of the other ones on a broomstick in the back throws
that another spell that you feelsurround you, it's almost
claustrophobic and all the sudden you feel a pressure on

(04:08:13):
your body. It pushes down hard and you feel
like you can't move as fast or something of the nature.
You feel like you had nothing todo to stop.
It's frightening, sick. The man in front with the
scraggly beard and The Fez givesyou a look.
And goes a fireball of that magnitude, doesn't just happen.
What was this? A message, some kind of attack.

(04:08:35):
Yes, it wasn't assassination attempt by 20 people on one of
the best larray's they were delayed Fireballs. 100 of them.
Total. I'm pretty nice.
Yeah. Our friends.
Deactivated one of them. I guess it's the culprit
pointing at the tied up, figure out of 20 culprits.
But, you know, hopefully you guys can get the information out

(04:08:58):
of him about where the other 19 are excellent.
The dwarf in the back waves somemagic and Grumble.
Something to what looks like thearch Mage in the front or not so
lost. But this is chaos.
The group of them. Look at you, you see the Arts

(04:09:19):
and the front step off of his broomstick, setting it to his
side and carrying it. He then lets go and floats
beside him. He approaches and goes.
Thank you. Got a good thing for the city.
What is your name? I'm horrified him off your hands

(04:09:42):
and do our questioning us with. Please feel free to stop by for
a proper, thank you. But for now, we're gonna worry
about this. I'm sorry.
You understand, I hope actually.Now if I met and the very wise
and wizard pulls off of his pocket, a small with almost
looks like sort of a bag of holding, he stretches it wide

(04:10:03):
and then begins trying to pulling it around the prisoner
the same way. You guys did not five minutes
ago. I'm not good.
The guy shout now. Wait, please?
What the fuck? I don't wanna go back in a bag.
Before, he's all the way in the bag.
I want to tell the wizard just so you know, he's been
completely unrepentant. About all the lives.
He risked here himself throughout the entire thing was

(04:10:25):
unconcerned about casualties from the start.
Truly a slug among men. Don't you worry sir.
All fashioned. I see.
We'll deal with this man the same way we deal with the rest
of them penitent. Great.
Maybe even a little more fitted to the usual.
You know as you are sir please return.
The after the rest of the guys head goes in the background, the

(04:10:49):
wizard pulls it up and pulls it taught and it goes back to a
much smaller size, but she can tie neatly around his waist
belt, he returns to the rest of the group grabs the broomstick
out of the air and gives you guys all on.
All right. Can you assume now that it's the
threats has been dealt with and there's nothing left here for
us. I mean, there are 19 men still
at large, but as far as I know, the immediate threat is over.

(04:11:12):
Excellent. The rest of the Nods and you
feel both spells, Beneath Your Feet, dissipate the feeling of
sluggishness and the zone of Truth disappear immediately and
you've breathe a little easier. Um, sir before you go, can I ask
something? Oh yeah.
Yes, please go ahead. I know you mentioned, we could
come to you for a reward later. But please, is you a member of

(04:11:34):
our party malagos? He doesn't have a last name.
Take you to custody earlier today for disorderly content.
I believe. It's possible.
It's disorderly actions or connected to, you know, maybe
some sort of, a feeling of the event that was about to have a
car. And if you could just have him,
So leniency, I was appreciate it.

(04:11:56):
All right, listen, if you just approach the gods and tell them
that ultimate although Thorn, I told him to release the person
that would be my favorite child.Thank you.
So thank you for your continued,safety and Guard, ship of this
great City. Watch a deep.
Thanks to you and bless the Lord's.
Place the lady, right? So yes, and the group of them

(04:12:18):
all grab onto their looks like brooms Point them straight up in
the air and they all rock it up into the air in a Flash
disappear and moving at hundredsof feet per second scoring
through the sky. The sort of Shockwave hits.
You guys again, is that low Rumble Echoes across the sky as
they dart back to work the castle and things return to
normal. The bells, stopped ringing.
Oh damn. I thought we were going to a

(04:12:41):
party tonight. Yes, well I'm sorry.
We never found your friend so right place.
No, I bet he'll turn up. Later.
I want to return back to the end.
Yeah. Yeah.
Are you guys make your way back back at the end?
The rest of the party. You guys have all been somewhat

(04:13:02):
of an earshot of each other and You heard both the bells, the
explosion, and the, the low Rumble of these seems like,
Squadron of wizards rolling across the sky, both toward and
away from the wall, you have no idea what happened, but you
imagine that dualism is probablysomething that and the group of
you are left alone now. Um, during this time, you guys

(04:13:22):
had a while to spend with both the Nobles and yourselves
higher, you finished medicine, checking, all of those around
you, with a 15 that you got earlier, which is a good role.
So you've put a lot of these masquerade ball members at ease
as well. The most you spent some time
talking with them, they've sort of been listening to you talk
about how things are better now and after the bells went off and

(04:13:43):
the explosion went off, you know?
Just surprised me they were pretty relieved.
Having been told there was a bomb hearing and explosion
implies that, it's so now and a lot of them seemed settled after
that. The group of them sort of look
at you expecting lately. And what if anything would you
like to say? As you can see, the threat to
now over We can all just continue and Go back to our

(04:14:08):
regular life. Is that sound good to everybody?
Yes. Yes.
Do we get to like collect all things and have a drink to go
with something? I'm quite tired.
You said we'll get into in here right?
And the manager speaks up and goes oh yes, yes quite pleased,
a room for everyone here we insist on spending the night
here. Need the finest luxuries.
We have enough rooms for you all, and we shall supply.

(04:14:30):
You with only the finest comforts.
You see the group of tired, someone injured, Nobles stand up
and Shuffle back into the ballroom.
The ballroom itself is still pretty messy from the glass.
But the servants here, includingmany of the cooks, who have now
spent some time sort of exploring at what happened out
here. Clean it up pretty quickly

(04:14:51):
during again, this time is aboutwhen or if a sinulom were
conversating with the Mages. So they clean off the ballroom
pretty quickly cleaning off all the crystals and the giant bent
metal shape of the chandelier takes a while for a few of the
bulkier beefier chefs and kitchen winches to pick it up.
We got some winches over here. A clearing off the floor, the

(04:15:12):
rest of the Masquerade members, sort of Shuffle back inside
tending to their wounds. Both physically with one another
and a few people seem to go for some drinks against the bar, the
bartenders return and it sort ofreturns to a large group
filling, the space not as large as earlier.
Of course, these seemed to mostly be people enjoying the
free for volunteers that have been given away by the

(04:15:33):
management just to enjoy the thespace.
But they seem to have taken yourword at face value and demos you
and Samir did a good job of calming them down over the
course of this interaction. You did good the most.
You got a good public speaker. You know that?
Oh, thank you, Sam. You know what kind of like the
the PR department, you know. Yes.
Well that was impressive. Honestly, I think without you

(04:15:55):
and higher helping them, they definitely wouldn't have, you
know, wanted to ever see this place again, but the manager guy
seems much happier. I'm sure that a bunch of Rich
Nobles walking away from the place and giving it the bad
review with probably killed thisplace and turned the business.
Yes, yes. Yes, you're probably right nine
and I do quite enjoy staying here.
So yes, I do too. He did not very nice here and I

(04:16:18):
feel bad for well, I don't know hot, you know, harming any of
the guests or the staff. It's not like we did anything
wrong but, you know, yes, we didthe best we could with what we
had. I think so too.
That was good. Well done.
Well, thank you, thank you. Well done.
Yes. Um well I suppose I I might I

(04:16:40):
don't know. I walk around and chat with some
of these people. See if any of them knew anything
about. Who did this?
I don't know what Auto face and Tulum went but I trust that
they'll be safe. Yeah I mean I hope they're okay.
Um and with that I guess I will cast sending um okay to check in
with oral face Umm and it'll just say, are you still alive is

(04:17:03):
everything good? I'm alive.
I'm alive Madagascar's. Good to get out of jail.
How many words do I have? I don't like this is going.
I got out. Yeah, it sounds like their life.
They're all good. Oh, that's good.
Thanks for casting that. Um, yes, that was good.

(04:17:25):
I think we did a good job here. I know better job was probably
important but I think yours was more important.
The most gives you a little smile.
That's that's quite High. Praise, what are you going to
the good job? Come here.
Higher died. Hopefully we gain allies from
tonight. Come on more than that's

(04:17:46):
worshiper of etera. You did good tonight.
Shouldn't that make you feel good?
I don't know. I felt insane for most of the
night but you're right. Most of the night you are
correct. They laugh at the Frog until
they need him. Most You were right and your

(04:18:09):
plan with the candles it worked.You had the best plan.
I mean, I just you did good tonight.
The Frog thing was crazy, though.
Yes. Um, yeah, it was God.
We prevent prevented it. I just it's crazy to me.
This stuff keeps on just happening around us.
Everywhere we go. It seems, It's a dangerous city.

(04:18:29):
Besides we sold this one. Unlike the whole, you know,
father, Lucius thing. Not a single person.
Well, I don't know what happenedat the wall, but hopefully no
one died. I, I can't get over the fact
that they didn't pull the trigger.
They had their finger on it the whole time and they didn't.
But I mean, maybe they were waiting for someone like if they
had the Target or something, they would waiting for them, but

(04:18:51):
that's true. But so maybe they didn't truly
mean to kill everyone. Yes.
Well, I don't know, we'll have to check notes with aura face
and doom once they get back. I'm sure they will have very
accurately and logistically and lawfully figured out the truth.
I don't know I'm feeling like not one of the evil party
members anymore after that. You did great Tire you healed?

(04:19:16):
These people you did good. I was very impressed by your
your confidence in your magic and your medicine you help these
people look and he gestures and you see a good dozen or so of
the Nobles that did get some glass fragments or no longer
limping and sort of stride back into this room and immediately
go far and most expensive wine they can considering it on the
house. Look, you made these people

(04:19:37):
happy or this happy is rich. People can be Here.
Yeah, for tonight I'll I'll certainly take it good.
Yes, you should be proud, you know, you're being too
pragmatic, pat yourself on the back, you did good.
And I will say, I think, you know, if anyone earned those
free rooms tonight, I do think it was us.

(04:19:57):
Yes. It's been an idea to, you know
what? Let's do.
A big sleepover. Oh my God.
Yes, that sounds so fun. Oh my God.
Good. Yes, already staying at this
hotel. But yeah, now Samir wants to do
a sleepover. Samir every night can be asleep
over. No, thanks.
Yeah, that's fair. Yeah.

(04:20:19):
Thank you. But that was good and whatever.
Started in giants, still been looking around.
Do you want to give me one more perception check?
Just to see if you see anyone else Shady?
Yeah. How come every time I call on
you? You like activate like a mommy
or something. Like it's I'm recovering from

(04:20:43):
the lead paint stairs. I got this.
Okay, that's a good role truly giant.
No one else seems to be watchinghere.
You think after the whole orfeasand doom debacle, whoever else
was watching it just called thiswhole thing a loss and left you
can't see A giant Souderton. Get in here.
You did a great job too. Oh yeah.

(04:21:06):
Gosh. You did good?
No, you did. You should pat yourself on the
back. Yeah, you are able to not only,
you know, help with many of these actions.
I mean, did you see how you walked across that broken glass
and crystal like three times to help you found the crook in the
alley? That was incredible.
No one else could do that, but you did know.
You're making me. Cheese is too nice.

(04:21:27):
Here, she's Pretty successful recently.
I mean we did the great job look.
I mean the building hasn't even been on besides and Samir looks
over. There's, you know, sort of chain
half dangling from the ceiling. But you know, the floor isn't

(04:21:49):
torn up by the chandelier. It seemed to most sustained most
of the impact. It's just the glass shards that
went everywhere that had to get cleaned up.
Look, they'll they'll survive from this.
I mean, new chandelier will probably be expensive, but, you
know, maybe they can reuse some of those glass shards that they
just cleaned up. I mean we saw how it was after
father, Lucius this no, this will be much easier and this

(04:22:10):
will be much better. Listen, we're learning.
This is a moment to celebrate. Father.
Lucas was a horrible thing that we did a good job of dealing
with but bad things happened this time.
A bad thing happened and we fucking crushed it.
All right. What are getting better?
Yes, yes, we should celebrate You know what?
I think I would like to have a drink tonight.
Would you guys like to join me? Yeah.

(04:22:31):
All right. Come grab a drink.
Let's we can go wait on the porch for our face and do them
to get back. Oh bartender.
Oh bartender instead of getting something normal, like wine, the
night. Let's go crazy to get the beer.

(04:22:52):
Sameer orders. Each of you guys a flag of a I'm
down in it down. It then put the Frog mask back
on top. No, yeah, that's good party

(04:23:12):
mode. And look to think the J is still
a little drunk. He's sobered up.
But oh yeah this situation, definitely sobered all you guys
up. But yeah.
Taking another big sort of Stein, of beer.
It drags you right back into in toxic shit.
We're drinking a decent amount with that one guy.
If I recall true. And so you guys all grab a drink

(04:23:37):
and Samir walks sort of toward the entrance and what do you
guys want to do? Yes, crack One open.
Oh, what happened with malagos? The the sea deserves some climb
in the stint or I think we should leave him in there.

(04:23:58):
Even if orofi is like the most said, got him time off.
I think we should let him at least spend like eight hours in
there. Does that seem fair?
Yeah, yeah, just I don't know. I was with him that he was not
Noble in that made the scene that they were gonna really,
really harm in hindsight, you know, should not have said that,

(04:24:20):
but I fear that they're gonna start beating the shit out of
here. With the information you've
given us. It sounds like we should go get
him. Yeah, they also said that, if
they try and report that they'regonna be alive because he's not
important status. Then he'll be in some holding

(04:24:48):
still for tonight. We can't get them out.
We'll have to get them to actually put them in the stock
AIDS, you know, we don't have toworry about this till tomorrow.
Hmm. I'm just saying, Tamir, I think
you're right. Thank you, hire.
You know, I think we're. All right, we did a great job
tonight. We should celebrate.
I'm just waiting on my my two other soldiers and other guy.

(04:25:08):
All right, really sort of hang around Samir socks around the
room and he's like picking tiny pieces of Crystal that the
chefs, Miss off the wall, and trying to place them in a trash
bin somewhere, tidying up the place you notice that the the
group of you guys sort of raise,your voice is a bit to say how
good of a night, it went to a brought up the spirits of a

(04:25:28):
couple of their of the masquerade ball attendees
tonight and a couple more peoplego for a few more drinks on the
walk, back, doom and Orpheus without sprinting full speed.
It's a bit more walk. Yeah.
About 10 minutes of walk in the night as you guys make your way
back. You're the smart lad.
You know you crack that thing wide open.

(04:25:48):
You were too. I wanted to roll the chandelier.
I think it could have worked. Thanks.
I mean you handled that hostage very well.
I don't know. It made oh I don't know.
It's strange being in a place where I don't want to hurt
people so much because I know ithas bigger consequences but it's

(04:26:11):
the same time sometimes things happen in my brain and I really
want to hurt people. But not so much for a practical
reason, just because I want themto be hurt.
Put them in a sec Ward. He's fucking crazy.
Thanks the other dude, let him talked about these things

(04:26:34):
happening. Really the emotions, right?
Yeah, I guess that's what. Emotions. in comprehensible
loneliness, but now it's like, It all horny.

(04:26:55):
Just kidding. Not that.
It's thanks for the laugh. Um you know, things like that.
Well I think those are normal here.
You shouldn't be ashamed of those and it didn't let it claw
your judgment. Well, I don't I maybe set some
regrettable instead but I suppose it's all worked out in

(04:27:16):
the end. Yes, it did quite well.
Actually, I honestly didn't expect there to be no
casualties, besides the people who got hit by the glass.
Yeah, I thought there would be more last time, right?
I think, I think he did a great job or a face.
Thanks. I love you.
You're a star. I want to pick you up and a

(04:27:36):
little sad that's been I'm sure,you know, your creator of a
proud of you. Right now.
I'm sure you're ready to see youwould be very proud of you.
I mean, you saved so many people.
I like to think she would care about that.
You were very brave. I was born for quite some time.

(04:27:59):
I heard you yelling, you want toexplode.
Yeah, that was very brave. I don't know.
Anyone who could have done that.Except to me.
Yes, yes. Yes, all right.

(04:28:20):
Fuck. You two Bravest Warriors.
All washer. Deep eyeshadow box.
Your hands in front of us, shut up hikes back, the bravest and
the smartest, according to you, I point out your brain, I'm
pointing your brain. they both is already like in my head, like

(04:28:48):
So now I'm killable. Insert a mountable undefeatable.
I run, but towards the bar, all right, you In the in the 10
minutes or so, it takes you guysto get back at the Flaming bore
people are getting drunk, this is no longer a sophisticated

(04:29:12):
drunk. People are getting actual drunk,
like we just avoided an act of terrorism drunk.
The bartenders are barely keeping up.
Now with the the quantity peopleare ordering and the group of
you guys hire the most and Jaya you guys.
I've noticed now that the entireattending staff of the in or

(04:29:32):
sort of waiting just on the banks of the ballroom floor,
sort of, awkwardly nervously, watching to see if anything bad
is gonna happen. They seem to be scared because
obviously you know, as somethinghorrible just occurred, they
worry that, you know, their business is going to be in
shambles and yet people get moreand more drunk.
They seem to get more like punchhappy or punch drunk as it gets

(04:29:52):
shouting out there. Each other.
Oh we fucking daddy, you know, Ithought I was gonna die tonight.
One guy begins sort of climbing up on stage and none of the
attendance stop. And he sort of points around and
he points at the entrance startscalling out as people, walk in
and out. Like the Harold did just an hour
ago. Stupid looking giraffe guy
entering, Oh, is that is that ugly?

(04:30:18):
Hippo leaving? Bye.
That was Mean, no, no. Here and the the attendance
here, just get more and more drunk as the wine continues to
flow in the hotel staff. Are just happy to see that

(04:30:40):
people are enjoying it and continue feeding them with
alcohol seeing is that seems to be the solution, they get more
and more drunk as you guys are hanging out during this time.
Do you guys want to do anything?Samir is still pacing the room.
Just sort of cleaning out glass.They must have happened to your
hot date. I don't, I don't know.
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't seehim.

(04:31:00):
I guess I didn't keep track of him after I I got back.
Gosh, do you think I should? I should message him or is it
too soon? Now, it's too soon.
Oh, do you think I won't be too strong off too strong at all?
He wants to know you were safe. Oh you think so okay.
Okay, I'll message it. All right, you send out a

(04:31:23):
message. What do you want to say?
Oh, I guess I guess. I'll take it too.
Oh my Oh my God. That's in my bedroom tonight.
Yeah, baby. I want to see your Tower.
Jesus. Hey, are you serious about?

(04:31:45):
Staying my tower? Yeah.
But sure can say say, hey yo, that's my dad's name.

(04:32:26):
The most while you're drafting that us and that to me when I'm
ready. Um the rest of you guys are
still sort of hanging out aroundhere the guy who got up on stage
now. Singing something very drunkenly
with the wine glass in hand. You think it might have been one
of the Nobles you saw before wearing a the mask of a fox.
The mask is sort of half hangingoff now and obscured by a thick

(04:32:46):
coat that the gentleman is wearing and his swing around a
wine glass. Singing.
Some old medieval tuned, I'll give you my modern
interpretation of it. Hey guys.
Flowering of Battlefield. says, I and the rest of the people in
the bar sort of throw a hand outof them, go And they're enjoying

(04:33:08):
the free entertainment of watching this Noble, embarrassed
himself. But enough other people seem to
be singing along and there seemsto be a bit of merriment here.
The hotel staff greatly, keep the alcohol.
Flowing try we hang out, just the group.
I don't. I admit I do not like these
people, it's wrong with them. It's okay.

(04:33:28):
I won't press you. Oh you want to go just right
here where oh god, oh, you're right here.
You're you're inside. I was asking where the hell you?
Wanted God damn, you know? What?
I'm finding my phone. No, try.

(04:33:51):
I just walk away if we could stay together.
Oh, hi. Are you get left in a room?
Full of drunkards, half of them,have their masks on half.
Don't you're on a frog costume. Thank you.
It really means a lot to me. Yes, yeah, you're sort of the
person in the corner. Who's like, they don't, they
don't know. I'm sensitive.

(04:34:11):
They don't know. I saved all their lives.
Sorry. They're all getting drunk right
now. 10 minutes is pretty long time to really put him back.
Jaya are you wandering? I guess you can go wherever you
want where you want to go? Get some friends.
Yeah. Sure man.
You you sat on over to the bar by the door and find a couple of

(04:34:34):
these drunken Nobles. You actually spot one of the
drunkards that you and you and Malika sort of entitled up next
to before an individual with what, like, a snake mask on.
You see, they've got this long Tankard of Ale that they have
sort of half pressed to their lips.
Beneath the snake mask and see you come over and go.
Oh, Oh, you're the they what? They call you a harlequin.

(04:34:57):
Cowboy. It's a great name.
I remembered that one because it's an interest in what I'm
here. Yeah thank you.
Thank you. You know what I like your
costume shoes tell me more aboutyou.
Yes this is a snake I like snakes you know they're just
kind of cool they're just this and he is plants.

(04:35:18):
The drink that he had in your hand and flags down the
bartender to get this while I get one myself everybody you are
and toxicated now getting tipsy slurring your words a little
bit, stumbling around a little bit, your companion here is like
us. So man, that was Scary right?
God, I'm fucking and Jesus, man,I should have, I don't know.

(04:35:41):
I should have fought him to. They were probably bad.
Guys here. You know, back in the day I had
a real right hook. What did you do back in the day
we didn't ask. Well, my father wanted me to be
a Justin Bieber, buddy. It was probably three times the
size of the other arm real nasty.

(04:36:10):
I want to be a businessman on a work with numbers but he said,
now you're no good for that yourhead's too thick.
But here I am, screw you, father.
I'm at the nicest Inn in town, drinking free beer and you know
what? We survived that shit today.
Yeah, you know, you're right andhe grabs another beer and starts
chugging it down an empty Tankard and you know, it was hot

(04:36:36):
to do that, you know, survive that, you know, honestly the
city should give us some sort ofpenance or if anything this will
be a great story to tell the lads and we need to find the
rest of them. I heard.
There's not teen more up there. Oh.
Yeah, you know, and another thing and the figure goes for

(04:37:00):
their mouth, you see a bit of throw up almost come out, as
they clearly drank too much. They grab onto your sleeve and
sort of almost accidentally tookyou along with them as they run
to the door and throw up a bit of alcohol, right?
Outside of the front steps on the red carpet, sorry.
Oh, that's so unpolite of me, sir, please.
Oh goodness. That's quite Unbecoming.

(04:37:20):
You know what to fix that? He's smacks you on the shoulder
and gives you a grandchild, another round and the figure
steps back inside. You get a moment on the stoop
here to look out. You look down and you see, you
don't see dulum or or a fast yetout here immediately and you
don't see anyone else of note, but your friends sort of walks

(04:37:43):
back inside higher. What would you like to be doing
in the bar? Um, I think I was off duty.
I think hires just trying, To chill with some mirror and the
most. All right, Samira is seems a
little anti, not quite sitting, still in a sort of moving
around, picking glass and crystals off of things.

(04:38:03):
He can find, oh, hey, hi. I just want to make it clean in
here. You know, they did nice things
for us to management, so I thought that would help out and
you must seems caught up in a spell.
Oh my God. Guys!
He responded. He's coming.
He's coming back. He's coming back here right now.
Oh my God. This fine guys, we don't have to

(04:38:24):
spend time together as a group like I just know.
I mean I mean I've got it in thefirst thing you fucking said was
something that was ages. You stupid fucking bitch.
I was actually yes. And then you for content is what
you think that was an attack. I would never.

(04:38:47):
Oh Jaya while you're out on the stoop.
Do you want to give me a perception?
Check to see if you see or if they do them, they could.
Oh God, I gotta open up. Oh, activating the zombie.

(04:39:12):
Okay? Sorry everything.
I had to open up everything. I person check, am I doing it?
A disadvantage because I'm drunk.
Oh, you know. To you up to you King?
Yeah, I see. I don't want to punish you for
just getting drunk for for Star reasons, so you can roll it
straight. Okay?
To six six. All right, you're looking off,

(04:39:38):
you you're looking down the street, you got a little bit of
double vision going, so it's hard to see you don't, you don't
think you see Doom, or or Affairs and it sort of like
Ballard by. There's the guy behind you,
who's to be muttering up againstthe wall of the outside of the
building. Who's distracting you.
He's just like, oh, stupid sounds like he's barking or

(04:40:04):
something and you're not sure what's going on.
So you can't see him. I'm just gonna sit outside on
the steps. You set up for a little while
you hear this person next to you, hunched over staring at the
wall. It looks like and it's kind of
cursing at it. Stupid fucking fucking stupid
bitch bastard. Fucking look at this stupid.
Continuous is he looking at something?

(04:40:27):
You're not. It looks like one of the people
who is here at the party tonight.
It's a kind of big muscled individual with a coral mask on,
it just looks like a piece of coral.
You actually recognize them. You talk to someone with a coral
mask earlier tonight. They seem to be looking at the
wall and you actually see they got a hand up and they seem to
be trying to like write something.

(04:40:49):
I'm gonna leave them to their own volition, but I'm gonna be
no. The figure looks over at you for
a second. You can't see a face under the
coral mask, they sort of scoff and go stupid fucking fuck.

(04:41:14):
The scribbling continues now, you can sort of hear it, sounds
like the writing you think it might just be some sort of, you
know, writing a probably hate speech on the wall, considering
what this building did, some sort of marking, you know, not
sure what would be the type of person to do graffiti but maybe
it's just graffiti saying this place sucks you look it's taking

(04:41:40):
a long time. Know.
Just sit and wait until it's done the figure eventually after
waiting out here for like five minutes.
So it turns over to you and smacks you hard on the shoulder
a bit harder than a normal person.
Should it actually kind of hurtsand you look over and and the
first excuse me? Their friend?

(04:42:02):
Did you want help me for a second?
Can you explain to me how to spell out the words?
Oh fuck you bitch, you didn't show up.
Do you want me to spell it out? Yes, please.
They're really Why are you rightnow on the wall?
Isn't that vandalism? What I mean to be fair he did do

(04:42:24):
it first. Yes oh that's great.
And you see K is there and then there's a wine.
Right? To the damn thing down.
Well, I'm trying to go tell it. What comes after the why?

(04:42:53):
Right. Here we go.
Finally we're making some progress.
Do you want to just spell this all out for him?
Yeah. All right, crazy, man.
He's even crazy here. Robinson sketchy, like banquet

(04:43:33):
with an announcer Indianapolis. Wow, what the hell?
Okay, so I'll say about this point, the 10 minutes have gone
by doom and orfeas. You guys see the Flaming boar on

(04:43:56):
the horizon, making your way a little closer.
Um, it honestly takes about 10 minutes which is remarkably fast
for the most, a carriage pulls out front of the and Rings.
You're sure of what it is. At this point that you helped

(04:44:22):
your guy finishes message and hejust looking off demos but I
guess I go approach the carriage.
Okay. You you step out Samir watches.
You go Samir elbows higher and goes higher.
I'm really worried. So fast.
Don't they? Hire they grow up so fast.
I just never thought I'd have tosee him.

(04:44:43):
Get this dick with And the most you step outside.
Now it's very classy. This carrot that pulls up very
dark almost purple. Looks like a maple wood.
Carriage very fine. With a writer atop, who doesn't

(04:45:05):
give you a glance instead? Merely gestures down and goes
good, are you with the little sheep?
Yes, your presence is requested inside the master would like to
see you. Quite quiet and I guess I step
inside. All right?
You step up as your stepping up,doom, and or a face, you guys

(04:45:29):
make it to the front. Now, you see the most leave and
you kind of come up right next to him as he begins entering
this Carriage, hey, they must. Oh, just kidding up by a friend.
Time was walking to the park. Oh my God, oh my God.

(04:45:54):
All right, demos you throw open the the door and enter into
this, very dimly lit, carriage and orifice, and do them you
guys turned back, you spot giant.
Sort of sat out on the stoop andor face, you notice right next
to Jaya scrolled, right over theentirety of this masquerade,

(04:46:17):
ball sign, as well as right overthe sign that you left with your
face on it, it reads you didn't show up.
Fuck God, this, how long have you been out here?
You know, I'm gonna go somewhere.

(04:46:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna stay somewhere else.
Excuse me, I must be on my way. Shots.

(04:47:02):
Just what direction did he walk in a guy you saw which way you
could point if you want? I'm not why maybe if you guys
stop being fucking rude to me then I will I swear.

(04:47:45):
It's hard as a rock. He's brick wall.
He could never be broken down. Guys, longer an expeditious

(04:48:11):
myself. Okay.
I don't have to recast. Oh yeah, it's already up, right?
Straighter. Well, Expeditions retreat has
worn off but long side or so. I recast expeditious.
Okay, good. And I think this right now you
guys a good point to end for thenight.
Perfect spot. Just this demo.
You enter this carriage and Jayayou walk out.

(04:48:34):
There's a good spot. For this for these guys.
Thank you so much for a great episode of D&D.
We have been the run back next time.
They most amazing what to say. Yeah, let me talk about some

(04:49:01):
polls. How do people get anybody or
whatever? Thanks.
All the power, you hate to see aman and It's just, it's actually
gonna take a week, all right? An episode 21, a brother below

(04:49:22):
part, 2, we asked you, which front is the best to be on wash
with. Now, as many times when we have
this many answers, I'm gonna give it to you by Tears, all
right? Shit, tear the ones, no one
voted for Jaya for obvious reasons.
You and me, okay? Second lowest.

(04:50:01):
Yeah, with one vote. Yeah. for first place with three
boats each, do love and Malice Why the fuck?
Listen, do I get? Doom is always there.

(04:50:23):
He's on every. It's perfect.
It's excellent, it's quiet, you love it.
What about Malik is there, Malik?
He starts shit. Yeah, keeps it crazy.
Where is he in this episode? How he's caught?
We kind of let him loose. We kind of responsibility we

(04:50:44):
buy. We, you mean me?
Yeah, he did as he was told. I was Tipsy.
Then too. You guys.
Welcome to distract and he fucking distracted.
My right. You got about a jail.
Now, if you had to ask me, I think we should let him rot for

(04:51:06):
a while. He was not evil.
He just needs to be taught something.
I mean, you would agree to him, he did commit the crime and he
should face sentence for. He was pardoned by the law.
Anything we were unlawful to askfor his pardon.
Said if he was high class, he wouldn't be punished.
He will be there. That's true.

(04:51:30):
But that's the law anyway. Whoa are on classism know, it's
all cool. What notes are literally worse
than octagons. The exact equal separate, but

(04:51:53):
unequal exactness. Come visit, did I just say?
It doesn't make sense that they're worse.
The more arms they have It doesn't try.
That's makes sense because they need less arms to do more but
true. So strong just doesn't make that
doesn't make sense. Wait, what does prime minister?

(04:52:15):
Does he have one army or just one arm?
I think. Yes.
Too. Well, what the fuck should he be
called? Double us.
Yeah. What's he going sucking on this?
Wait, oh. You can suck all of my Lord?
Atlas. Oh my God.
I didn't make you'll never see him again.

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