E28: Brass Heart, Cold End

Abel joins the party! On the other side of Waterdeep, a mystery brews...

Episode Transcript

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All right you guys welcome back to run Pat goes playing walking
episode 28. Let's get into it this episode,
before I get into the recap, we have a very special announcement
which is that Mason has composedfor us a new theme song.

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Why? You guys value.

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We're gonna get that in every episode right away adding that
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Thank you. And you are expanding upon your
money talents, of course. Okay.

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Shall I begin our recap? Yeah, good.
Yeah, you're right. So, last episode we began with
aura fayas, searching the streets for Abel, he ran into
some guards and learned that theburg, you know, the name of the
body that Abel is stuck in, had been in jail for terrorism and

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threats against the crown of Water Deep all.
So, I learned that the guards were actively searching for him
in the area, having caught a lead that he was around, and
that he had switched masks, Jayabefriended an old Soldier man
hired or Faye has tried and failto dance, thinking Abel might be

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on the Dance Floor, trying to make friends that way to
potentially sneak into someone'shotel room Oro.
Got mocked by some old ladies and started arguing with them.
Giant swooped in and saved the day and started teaching or if
they had A dance. Um, a mask contest was announced
where each party member. Sorry, each party attendee was

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given a coin that they could give to whoever they voted for
and obviously do them again raking in the coins.
With, of course, it's a beautiful handmade Clockwork,
mask. No higher.
And I found two tall gentlemen, dancing, one in a ram mask and
one with a miniature house mask with big glowing Windows higher

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began dancing with big horn, theRAM and chatting with him or
should I say flirting with him? Well Oro, but can dance dancing
with the house. Who recognized the word,
Valhalla, and drag me off the dance floor to the guards trying
to turn me in or face magically talked his way out with some
really unlikely. Good role.

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Um, we decided to all help dulumget coin votes for best mask
because it deserved it, but alsowe thought that the stage would
be a good place for it to surveythe crowd and potentially find
Abel higher continued. Interrogating, the ram to try to
figure out a few is able, but eventually horniness won out in

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the comments below. Doom was one of three finalists
for the mask competition and in fact, won the competition
winning. So part of the wedding, the
competition was being auctioned off to have a night of company,
which we were not informed of before the competition on stage

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Duel of announced that the yellow Knife trying to
communicate to whoever Abel was that this was orthos had helped
it construct, its mask, an acornmask person.
Bid 100 gold on Doula the acorn mask then told him he needed to
borrow 100 gold. And do okay to do it, then it

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turned out the acorn. In fact, just wanted to buy
drugs and was not. In fact able, um, in fact, the
ram was able to spending some time at Simpsons Chateau.
Samson had disappeared on a business trip, but allowed Davos

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to stay as long as he wanted Davos.
Threw some sleuthing. Determined that something about
the huge explosion. Yesterday was actually wanted
someone to Samson away on this business trip.
And also, the feeling that Samson is probably a high
ranking, Water, Deep official, whether it be a masked Lord or
maybe a court Magician of some sort, we think Samson is an

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important person. Um, lastly, We snuck able back
to smears room actually. Where I think we're all gonna
have a slim for party and went to bed, I think.
Great, well, minus one, Higher minus one, Higher who wanted to
sleep it off alone as he feels very betrayed.
That Abel was, in fact, flirtingwith him to try to escape the

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party. You're on our, I have, I have so
many thoughts on this. Haha.
Oh, I can't wait. Does that bring us up to speed?
Oh, yeah. Did I miss anything?
Well, thank you. That's a good starting place.
So we began the following morning.
After the great masquerade ball,you all had taken the night to
sleep off, the sort of excitement and thrill.

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And honestly, the stress of the last few days with the
conversation with Volker Monty's, zombification and now
Ablaze reveals still hot on all of your memories.
It was time for a long night's rest.
So after this sleep, which it isworth noting.
Our new friend Abel, spent the entire night in a bathroom,

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doing God knows what Baby supposedly.
You all woke up the next morning, including yourself,
higher, and demos Samir, as wellas malice is not here.
You guys. I was thinking about it last
episode was a malicious free episode.
That's a sad. Well it's in jail.
He was in jazz, right? He's not here.

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So you guys with or without him attack three, alligators.
Right. Where we left off his able
exiting from the bathroom wearing Standard clothes for a
water deep in member of society,billowy white tunic shirt and
some breaches of dark sort of burgundy black brown as well, a

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belt, and a very like simple frock coat that one might wear.
When walking around sort of likea mid Noble level where and with
Billy White hair Stark white on a fairly young man's body.
With a big built frame, large wide shoulders and a square jaw.
He's tan tan for someone who looks like, he's probably spent

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a lot of time working or living outdoors and with the big
muscled arms, you imagine this is somebody who's done a lot of
physical labor, that's the exitsnow, and you guys are all in
this room. What do you want to do?
All right. So, I guess we need to get
malicious out of prison, right? Hello.

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No goodness. It's good to see you able my
god. Oh, good morning able.
It is good to see you. There's just a lot.
Oh, Lots going on my goodness. You think, if I had spent the
last year of my life working to find you, we have a bit more to
say than all. Let's free this other guy like
God, wait a year year. Practically felt like it in that

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damp dark dungeon. Oh, it's actually this Fortune
Point. How long have you been here?
I merely arrived here. Shortly after your departure.
I was the first to go. You see, or a face?
I simply must have found you. And so I came here, the sort of
ice imagine the same way you didthrough the help of our good
friend Amisha. She sent me here under some

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rather risky, magical usages that she said, were likely to be
ineffective and of course they were, she sent me to a prison
guards to Emmett. So wait, but remember, try to
remember, how about, how long have you been here?
God, damn it, to her face. That's what I'm saying.
There was no sunlight down there, I had no idea how long
have you been here? Just tack on a.
Yes, I'm trying to get a feel for how differently time passes

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in Valhalla. So like if I knew how long you'd
been here and how long I'd been away before you got here, then
we could sort of calculate how long the both of us have been
away. Well, that's what would be fair.
But this is hard for me to determine.
I'm gonna talk at least 30 sleeps of my existence here on
the material plane. Just to escape from that.

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Damned place. All right.
I barely know the Customs so much.
Sure. You've been here about a month
right? Yeah.
That's like years. God damn it.
Okay, don't diminish my time there or Affairs, what you Been
to prison yet. We've had pretty good luck on
that point. What's blasted luck for me to be

(09:45):
stuck in the body of some criminal, a known terrorist, no
less my gods? You see it, you sort of pokes
around and goes, it's not too bad though.
All things considered this body is quite strong which I do
appreciate and once I sort of got the hang of the, well, the
general means and Madness of thefolks here, I was able to get
along quite nice with the other prisoners.
Is that how you got out like youbefriended them?

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Well, it took me a long time to learn with this.
All this clothing stuff was so Iwas quite popular for a while.
Oh great. You know, I don't even you know
and I found that worked to my advantage I suppose it would
quite right. Okay.
Okay. Okay.
What was happening in Valhalla? When you left by Misha?

(10:29):
Told me some that that's it has gone bad and I watched was
happening. With Regency and me, I suppose.
That's right. You want acting yourself in
which way? How was I acting?
Like a different person? What sort of person like a
person who's not, you like someone who was well to be frank

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a bit more intelligent than yourself or a face.
But you didn't have a form, thatwas more defined than yours.
And defined in, what sort of waydid he give himself a human
face? No, no, still wore the armor.
I believe it's a trick, the others, but I knew as your
closest Confidant, I always knewyou stopped me too.

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Smart you stop discussing thingswith me.
You only wanted to discuss them with Odyssey which of course you
did before. But you lost all that charm,
that sense of Duty and purpose, you became more secretive and
you had all these private plans and plots and you were Conjuring
things that I had never seen youconjure before.
Like what sort of things like? Well like that be for instance

(11:34):
oh I conjured this in Valhalla. That's right.
And similar things things that seemed like well advanced
technology beyond our times. I see I see Iceland is an
inventor, I think. So it makes sense that that's
what she would start to bring. Yes.
And it only took a matter of time before I caught on and once

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I did. So I, of course, brought it to,
but I measure and at the time, she thought the best solution
was to send me here. She also had been imagining for
a while that you're of you your version of you was sent
somewhere else like Leah, the material plane.
So I followed It was a nasty thing.
The ritual to get me here. Diameter called upon some old
God, that I believe she worshiped back in a time of

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life. Oh God.
Yes, that's right. What God do you know what?
I don't Dane to pretend to know these things are a face.
You know, my God is the one and only queen critiki.
Of course, of course, did you bring any of this tarasy?
Tell her what was going on? Or how did she react to the
news? Yes, I shared it with her
immediate response was just to send me here like I just shared

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where to see wanted to send you here as well.
Well, I'm not sure why, but she thought that maybe I could keep
you company or something. So for that long, she's wanted
me to stay here. See, I didn't believe that for a
second, though. I believe her real wishes for me
to bring you back or perhaps inform you of what was happening
though. I didn't say it.
But I unfortunately, believe, I've been here longest of the
Knights of Valhalla, I believe you have Diameter did come well,

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she still here somewhere? I think Oh, she said that I
would be the first test of this greater ritual of hers.
I imagine that means that I was sort of give them the short end
of the Stick of things. Did she have a plan for how to
get you back? Not at all.
I'm not actually sure if this was a temporary or permanent
fix, but, I do anything for you or a face that's a night of

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ridiculed to be there. You're the, you're the thumb of
the hand. Dammit.
I am the Palm Abel. It's really does mean a lot but
we haven't, we sort of left. We're to see all alone.
If you owe me and die, Amisha are here.
That's just heard Abel. Sorry, excuse me, heard avaros
and Electro left. Well, the thing is Orpheus, is

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that the queen herself is not been acting quite rational, ever
since you were replaced by this other version of you that acts a
bit smarter again no offense. Well, there's a bit of an
inconsistency and her. Oh well, I'm sure you just keep
going, just keep going there. Yes, and her character.

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She's been acting a quieter. Let's forthright.
They're still that Warriors Instinct.
Yes but she spins more time alone with you discussing this
secret plan that I still only hear Whispers of the watch
Whisperers, the hand made and Men of the castle there, not
permitted to enter the private chambers of her anymore.

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And well, I believe that this has something to do with some
secret that she has with the person inhabiting your body
Iceland. That's right that name I heard
it. Come up diameter.
Really is. All right, that's interesting.
That's right. Well I suppose I ended this is
just a personal Theory. I've been working on that

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somehow this connects back to rites life honor Earth before
she became the great fiance valkyria of Valhalla.
I believe. It might, I think Iceland might
be trying to bring Queen ridici back to life but privacy told me
something different when I was talking to her.
And so he told me that her and Iceland had found a way to bring

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peace to Valhalla by. Connecting it to another plane.
Oh no, fucking way. I Watch.
Oh, tell me more, but I don't know if she was lying to me or
the rest of you or if the two plans are I don't know what the
truth is. I Well never know, Queen Radio

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City to lie to me before. Well as expected, the great
Queen herself would never lie. So we just, of course should
take that at face value, but which do we take that okay.
Now or Affairs have some sense. The queen wouldn't lie to us.
Perhaps, she's just hiding her true intentions and letting us
serve her and the way we could best, how are we serving her
right now? She's just sent me as far away

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as possible and told me to stay well.
You know how in discussions we've had around our tables,
we've discussed what happens to Great kings and queens.
If they well they changed say a great king goes mad.
It is the duty. Neither the, the right of his
people to help him to fix him, to calls the ailment to

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disappear, or to politely and respectfully.
Remove him from Office. Yes.
What are you suggesting? Well, Queen City is spoken such
words to us as, well, not yourself, would never, ever ever
have such failings happened to her being the queen of all
about, HAL. But I imagine that right now
she's just not thinking her best.
So when she informed me that I should come here to quote on

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quote, keep you company. I think what she's really asking
is for me to investigate for youand I Define the source of this
madness and tamper. It stifle it down to nothing and
return her to herself oral looksdeeply.
Troubled. I don't understand how he can
serve her by going against her Wills able.
It's the story of the Mad King or a face.

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It is right there. You think she's gone mad?
No, not mad. I'm over justifying it.
But I do think that something has happened.
But perhaps this person this icein the second over the old body
is which to was some sort of improbable impossible.
Magic. You know, the great lady was
never too keen on Spells and Witchcraft of course, makes the

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salt even stranger, she could beat risk, and imagine what power
one could have over Valhalla, they were to control the mind of
our great Queen. A horrible thing to imagine, but
that means she needs our help. So I did some investigating
before I left. This was probably, of course, I
wasn't sure to trust at the time.
Diameter herself was acting a bit strange.
Just what you can say that again?

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Yes, she just wanted to get me off off of Valhalla as much as
possible, and I didn't think it was something that was possible
so the more she recommended it. The more I began to suspect her
so I found friends and allies and very unlikely places like
what sort of places? Well, let's see here and sort of
looks back and forth, the white hair sort of billowing out.

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You know, that his hair is sort of tied up in a really crappy
ponytail that looks to have beenpoorly done.
And despite having these very angular features, you could tell
that this body that he's been happening.
Looks just slightly unhealthy. The type of that is of someone
who maybe hasn't eaten well for a while.
Someone who's been on the Run sleeping outside for a while, he
does sort of have the haggards of somebody who likely has been

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an escaped prisoner for a coupledays.
Um, but that being said, there'sa keenness in his eyes as he
sort of looks around the room and goes Well or face, it seems
too found. Some friends.
Here. You certainly mentioned it quite
a bit last night. Yes.
People. They all inexorably.
I lied to Queen Radisson and hercars.
Well. I think we're all Allied to each

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other and so they'll help me forthese calls, you know.
But for example, Hyatt has his own lady to serve.
What would you like to do on this morning higher?
Do you want to stay out of it ordo you want to come back?
Um I figured higher was gonna like rejoin the group and
request to go get malaga's as well.
Got it? Okay.
Yeah. So you know right about here

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maybe you'd open the front door just as he's you see Abel saying
the name higher and he goes to look at you.
That's rough. Um, goodness.
There you are higher, right? Yep.
You're a kobold. Yes.
Mmm. Yeah, quite a few of those over
in the dungeons. But wait, just saying, I know

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you're kind is all okay. Don't know what that means.
You've been to the dungeon. So you mean jail?
Well, yes, I'm sorry. Just to inform you all.
I, unfortunately, I do believe this body is wanted to criminal.
I've been informed. It's such things as Leary and
traitor. And trees in high trees.

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And of course, terrorism, these are things.
This body is wanted for Dead or Alive.
Unfortunately, now, um, I, when I started in this, great
material play and I inhabited this body, I believe the word
might be just possessed this body.
And unfortunately, it was in some sort of prison deep, dark
dungeons, believe beneath a great structure and the castle

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Ward and interesting, is there other than dun, dun dun dun's
nearby, I unfortunately wasn't avery joyous place.
These were all criminals the light lots of them and we were
stuff next to each other. Like sardines.
I was quite unhappy there for a while, I just pleaded my

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innocence. But of course, as you might
expect in jail cell, everyone isinnocent.
Make sense. Well regardless, my time there
was a long lived and was quite stressful.
I should say I had to learn a lot about the material world
very quickly and unfortunate circumstances luckily none of
those other gents made it out with me so it's just me out here

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now and I suppose I can just take those lessons and bound and
he gives sort of a flash of a smile.
So watch where you say in about your investigations in Valhalla
before you left. Yes, sorry to continue.
Yes. So um, as you recall, I was
curious what had happened to thegreat fiance Valkyrie, something
at a disturbed, her change to demeanor and so well I went

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looking for people to discuss this with unfortunately, like I
told you no one in the castle, got the chance to talk with or
Affairs your body of course or the queen much if it was with
well was with the queen. She mostly spoke of War plans
and typical strategies. Ready to see was very quiet
about personal things and spoke even less about her face.

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And you yourself were practically invisible in the
castle. You would, of course, go out and
do your duties every once in a while.
But you practically a dismissed,your Squire bisque and did not
come to any of the nightly meetings or discuss much at all
with the other fingers? Well, biscuit went looking for
you soon after I did, I imagine I found her.

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She's doing well. Oh, good.
I should go stop by sometime. I'd love to see the, your Squire
always was a fine fella. Yeah.
Right now. She's she, but yeah, she's good.
She's doing, she's doing well for herself a proud of her.
Oh, excellent. Certainly got into her.
Ah, well hasn't gotten to us allwhat luxury is here.

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Let's just hope she was born into a strong body.
One that can match that fightingspirit that we knew of bisque.
She was certainly born to strongbody that gives you her own
good. It's well, you haven't missed
time we show yesterday. Yeah, she's like a little boy,
that is too bad. That could be even worse than my

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situation. I think it's really bright, I
mean, I heard in prison and thatsucks.
But besides that, you kind of won the lottery here.
How could that be the case here and strong?
He looks kind of down at you andgoes.
All right. So I'm sure you have something
in there. That's worthwhile just gonna
keep going. What?
I guess, right? So I couldn't talk with any of

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the other great night. You see, avars wouldn't discuss
anything with me. Honestly was sort of glad you
were gone. Yeah, I'd imagine he would be
the best Easter. Just tried to get me out to try
to call on some old deities couldn't work with that aha. and
I would know that I wasn't ever particularly close with Elektra
but who was yes, well, Regardless, I well I had heard

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that because you are still performing some nightly duties,
your body. I mean, or a face went out to
battle every once in a while andthere was one particular
instance, where you had been captured for a longer span.
I believe it was two years in prison by Rex Ymir.
Oh, it's interesting. All right.
Well, you see where I'm going with this.
Or if I signed knew where to start, I ventured across the

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great country of Valhalla acrossthe sweeping white landscape and
made my way into enemy territory.
That's right. I found his well dark Fortress
and I had never found him specifically, but it wasn't too
long, until I was taking prisoner by one of his henchmen.
That's bastard bezel. All right.
Yeah. Is that not the man that they

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most found at the party? Rick's Ymir?
Oh, he was the not the one day most Wentworth.
But the person I went with, who is in the suit of armor?
Oh, I see. Well, I love, she took me
prisoner and her great faction found me.
In the midst of the, the battlefield, of course I was

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alone. So it was Easy Pickins and they
knew something was up at least as your well aware.
We don't send a lot of spies across the countryside alone.
Great nights such as ourselves. So when she found me, she knows
something was up. But nevertheless I was probably
tortured and given the great stick of things as usual, all
right? But after the great violence and
all the secrets were spilled, asusual, I eventually shared with

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the bezel that British had not been acting herself.
And after enough time, and Intrigue bezel felt enough
curiosity, and the Curiosity pilt her onto my side, for a
moment. We had several long nights of
conversation that eventually ledto her reveal that during the
time or a face. Your body had been captured by
rexxie Mia. Beetle had a used that very

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unusual form of Witchcraft that he only, she can perform what
what sort of Witchcraft you know, how it is, cowardly magic
stuff that could she do with it.Well she was able to sort of
gather truth from orifice your body, force it out through some
sort of Horrible means. I imagine it was very painful,
okay? And she was able to learn some

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things about your body or a faceand eventually through some
great swindling of my own and fantastic charismatic work and
he sort of throws his half ponytail over and it kind of
Falls undone. Just smile.
Well, eventually I was A coercerto share some things and she
shared that that body or a face did not come from the plane of

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valhallan instead was born on the material plane and was old
almost as old as some of us. What does that mean?
Well you see that body Iceland was born on the material plane
and a city called letter more now dammit it took me a long
time to get that name so I hope it gets us somewhere, just keep
going in a city called let her more and then yes, a small

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village I believe in town calledLedger more.
Yes. Yes.
You know how fast just keep going?
No of this. This new to me.
Okay, keep going. Alright, well, It turns out that
there was some sort of battle, afight of sorts and something

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swept through the town of littlemore practically demolished, it
every single member of the Town died, every single member,
including this Iceland, how can that be?
She was reborn. I believe she did not fight as
valiantly. There's Regis he might have.
So it was not sent to Valhalla like us but in Stead was sent to

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an afterlife called The Abyss Hespent decades in the abyss.
Supposedly fighting demons and eventually making friends with
some of them right somehow in some way.
And this was a Beyond Beatles power, even figure out, she
managed to coerce, something to send her out back to the

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material plane. And with a touch of plain of
magic to boot, oh, you don't simply coerce a demon.
She must have offered something in return.
I agree. It had to have been something
valuable something. Horrible, something frightening.
Oh, I believe that, well, she knows something bezel explained
to me, that the abyss is an infinite realm.

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The only one of its kind to Dimension that is truly unending
and her being some sort of smart.
What do you say after some sort of inventor?
Yeah. Knew that there would be
something in that plane that will allow her to escape so she
slaughtered fiends and finally made enough moves to get out of
there. And after this bezel was unable
to share much more but in fact effectively informed me that

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Iceland looked to be bringing back Her Town, Reviving people
who were dead going to their afterlives and bringing them
back and now she's on Valhalla. That's right.
Moving on just to the next one. I'm not sure exactly how it
works, but I imagine there's a lot of Witchcraft involved,
nasty stuff cowardly stuff. Exactly.
Exactly. That's skin.
It's just to imagine my gods. So, I got this sort of my side

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Yeah. Yeah, where did you guys really
lucky, buddy? You're such a fighter, still,
whatever. So, Iceland herself was dead as
well. That's right, she perished, and
whatever great battle, I imagineit was quite deadly for anyone
to be fighting in the Overworld.It should be bloody and brutal.

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I like to hope it's much more violent than Valhalla where
people don't actually die there.Oh what do you mean you like to
Hope? Well, I mean you know a real
battle with real adrenaline. You get sort of tired of those
things in Valhalla. Oh it's not as fun as it's white
sound. Well let's just wait for my
first one. Yes.
I've had a few close calls with the law.

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That's in itself, has been giving away quite a rush.
Not to mention the other emotions out here goodness.
Oh God! You are so different.
Okay. Okay, that was good information.
Able to thank you for figuring that out and thank you all for
coming here, sort of stuck in the same shity situation.
I Before I knew you were here, Iwasn't honestly sure that you

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would somehow be in the same town that I was.
I found it quite unlikely. So after breaking out of that
damned prison, I made it my goalto find this city this little
town called Latimore. I believe there could be more
than that as I told you. I want to investigate this,
figure out what's wrong with thequeen.
I even discussed this plan with bezel, unfortunately bezel being
stuck in the plane of Valhalla. Couldn't actually help me with

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this but I informed her. Yes, so about that.
It's turns out Rex. You mirror and their henchmen
were less stuck there. Then we were per se Meredith
here in Washington and oh why should his bezels friends name?
You forget Mammon so quickly. And yes, I mean, diesel in

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Madden are geared as well. They work for an ximer who are
is actually a basked, lord of waterdeep.
Interesting, that's changes quite a bit.
I wish he had busted me out of jail for all the shit.
He's giving me. Yeah, I don't know why.
I mean, I guess maybe they didn't know you're in jail, but
yeah, I was telling everyone. I was yelling at the High
Castle. My name is Abel.

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Gets me out of here. I'm from the plane of Valhalla.
I am innocent God's damn, the lawmakers here.
I mean, it's hard to yell something from the High Castle
in jail and have anyone here as well, but yes, Rick's Yume your
nose of Valhalla. Yes, is yes.
He was trying to keep that for himself for maybe he has other

(31:05):
intentions, it's not. Yeah, the last one at the
mascara made. Basically what they said was
that today had been locked out of valhalla's.
Well and we're willing to help me try to find a way back if I
don't them. They're Associated bezel.
The one I was just discussing with you.
That damned the one that performs witchcraft.
Well, when I was in Valhalla with her she sort of informed me

(31:28):
that she was willing to help me under the table for you.
You see, she's a quite a talented spellcaster wave way
far more improved than anything that I believe.
Rexy, America cast. In fact, I believe she might
have something to do with you said, he lives here and travels

(31:50):
there. Yes, they do.
She might have something to do with that.
Oh, there's quite capable to them will have to speak to her
as well. I suppose I believe it's an
excellent idea and besides she informed me that just between
the two of us. And again, I believe this due to
some fantastic jobs on my part another.
She wanted to help me that she thinks that investigating this

(32:14):
Letter. More City could be good and I
informed her of this plan of mine were to see.
Of course, said, I should go to the Overworld to keep or a
fierce company. Well, I believe that is code for
go to the Overworld and investigate go to this town of
let him or and try to figure outwhat is going on.
There could be Clues there. People who knew this Iceland and
could point us in the right direction.

(32:35):
Perhaps, if we figure out the calls and nature of their demise
and perhaps, the way they've been brought back, we could get
ahead of this. I believe diesel once things to
go back to normal, same as us. Oh, I think that's a very good
idea. Able, we have one of the people
traveling with us. I believe was from that town.
Oh malaga's. Yeah.

(32:56):
Is this the gentleman you say isarrested?
Don't get out of high horse about that.
Well, good Gods. He probably performed of the
crime I have not. That's true.
That's true. But we are.
Do you have a deal to get him out of jail?
Oh good. I look forward to meeting the
fellow You shouldn't, why is that horror face?
How? Would you guys describe

(33:18):
analogous asshole? I think he has a lot of things
he's working on. And he life has been more
complicated for him than he thought.
He's a six son of a bitch. He is great.
Love having him around that. Damn.

(33:39):
Does he need to learn some life lessons?
Like I think we'd be great friends if he just mature, just
a little bit more. He has this disease, that makes
him an asshole. I think he's on, I don't think
it's a disease. I have to hope.

(34:01):
I mean when we were in you know the west and he was cured for
just a little while. He really was much better.
You can't deny. Yeah.
I was nice but it's so short-lived.
It was so short-lived. I really don't know why he
won't, just let us take the disease away from him.

(34:22):
We don't have a cure for it. Yes.
Do we know? I don't think so, but the Flies?
Yes. Well, remember, we didn't watch
to bring the Flies back here because it might, in fact, the
whole plane. Yeah.
Yeah. If if I may, add one more
comment. If orfeas was replaced in
Valhalla, anyone could have beenreplaced.

(34:44):
I don't know if I would, I don'tknow if I would trust to your
current Radisson, as you know, her I believe.
Hi. I'm makes a good point.
That's why I think we should choose our allies Cafe.
This bees Allah. The Damned Witch is somebody who
unfortunately, I trusted in those last moments in my time in
Valhalla. I believe.
She's like he did a lot more than trust her just saying, but

(35:06):
keep going. I got a fair starts to make such
a thing of it, all right. All I'm saying is a bezel made a
deal with me. She was curious who this island
was? She found it intriguing that
someone was able to break into this plane?
And well, she wanted to stop herplans to keep reading in.
Valhalla to keep her, the fianceValkyrie and the great savior,

(35:28):
as always, and to return things to normal.
It's worth talking to people, for sure it would travel into
less reward when we can. But able to this group is that
we just my friends are helping me.
I'm helping them with their own goals, my kids.
Yeah, Giants is kids. It's, we need should resurrect
tires brother, which sounds against my values, but he's not

(35:51):
all the way dead yet, so it doesn't really count.
Haha, only mostly did, it's moreof these I'd say, yeah, I'm
dead. Well then fine gentleman and he
sort of looks around at this point and goes.
Yes I suppose all gentlemen. who's a gentle, it Person Gentry

(36:14):
Dental thing, gentle. Gentle thing.
I've got a gentle thing. I'll find gentlemen and gentle
things. I would just like to any sort of
postures up a little bit, straightening out his shoulders
and hitting a crisp salute that looks military.

(36:35):
Find gentlemen and gentle things.
I would just like to renounce myself as well as once a brave
knight of Queen Rita. And now more of an investigator
in the material plane, this bodygoes by the bug, but please call
me Abel. And if you'd have me, I would
love to join in your quests until I was able to take myself
and like, or a face to this townof letters and discover more of

(36:57):
these great mystery unraveling. It is my top priority, but
you'll find that I'm quite capable.
Can we see him? And said he really is a good
fighter despite the personality problems who's in charge?
Yeah. Me, I pointed to Jay, I stand a
little taller. Sergeant, right?
You're a military man. Yes, that's correct.

(37:19):
You approaches you sort of stands against shoulder squared
and makes eye contact with you and hits another Christmas.
Salute and goes, well, sir, if you'd have me, I'd like to help
you on your mission, whatever that may be you We could always
use more help and hands around. Thank you my friend.
I must be permanent people don'tcarry around their way.

(37:43):
Not talking about anybody here is just while I can I'm gonna
complain because once he's back I'm not I can't complain.
Well, I think she's with the age.
I get crankier and crankier and something's, you know, okay.
When you get to be my age, certain things, you just can't

(38:07):
stand anymore. Like I got limited time.
I'm not sure what you mean, goodsir, but I hope that doesn't
mean me. No, no.
You're, you're lovely. You've been great so far and you
know, you like you What do you mean?
Anyways, I'm sure you know, being a friend of Orpheus.

(38:29):
You'll more than your friend to us.
All right. Thank you, Sergeant.
That's a kind thing to say, I just want to give my a full and
utmost loyalty to the group of you.
I could tell that you're upright, lawful abiding group,
and I find myself right alive with.
He sort of looks at all of you guys.
They're the most upright, lawfulabiding group.

(38:49):
I wouldn't have any other way. We are honest, I consider myself
waffle. There are this.
To do people that kind of are onthat same wavelength, that is a
problem. Just, you know, we can be in
front of it. Just come to him.
I'm sure he must Say I don't have time to spare.

(39:25):
Um, they was even a little He's I think what you mean to say is
we have been put in Barrie toughcam positions and we are still
learning how to navigate them effectively as a group.

(39:45):
A way to sugarcoat it. Yeah.
Yes, I think I'd like to speak in.
This is Samir speaking. Now, at this point, um, I don't
like this bad mouthing of demos demos is a good, very good.
I'm just saying some of the stuff that he's done has been a
little question and I would say to him as well.
I've been wanted to convert him about it because it Would be

(40:08):
hypocritical for us. All to pretend, like, we haven't
done bad things. No, I'm just saying that it was
more so prompted on his and, youknow, it was Some of the toys
are his choices and, you know, he's part of the group and I'm
sure he has a reason for it. But, you know, yes.
I'm quite sure what he said, thereason for all of it.
It's just not always the most lawful I per se.

(40:30):
Well, we all could have not had that hatch closed.
Yes. I agree.
I'm not saying I'm above anybody.
That's not, that's not what I'm mean to imply.
Able listens very closely to every word.
You say you can tell he's like, really paying attention to and
sort of Waits on your, on your word and eventually sort of

(40:52):
points. So finger at Des Moines and
goes, all right, well, I'll keepit on that one.
Hey, If you. Are here, right?
Yeah, okay. They just want to be blunt with
you, you know? Oh, sure.

(41:13):
You know. I mean, it must, it must be odd
to see what, what to lawful goodperson in the Modern Age looks
like. But that's okay, that's okay.
We all need some readjusting. You know, I know that I'm old
but I'm not outdated, sure. Sure.

(41:35):
Like you both come from very different places with different
cultures. Moralities viewed, differently
and different areas. Yes.
His laws are different than my laws.
Well, I'm sure we can. All agree that we should just
follow the laws of this place. Yes, yeah, I agree.
Yeah, I haven't gotten much chance to talk with you.
Little robot. What's your name?
I'm Dylan, doom, and are you a forgive me for asking?

(41:58):
I'm still new here. Living creature looked down as a
recently, I guess. Well, nothing to be ashamed of
old chap. The same here, I love your head.
Much of a talker, right? He's very straight to the point.
I like him. I like it your help at the at
the ball at the mascola. You did an excellent job.

(42:19):
Thank you. They should we start moving
towards Madagascar time. That we take, the more likely he
is to compound his sentence. Yeah, he's probably a little
beat up but this point I don't think the words that said held
this situation, Whispers taught him a lot.
He probably came out on top thistime.

(42:42):
He was waiting against trench Whispers, I can't emphasize this
enough. He had Trent it Whispers ass
right where he wanted it had. Okay.
Well I didn't help. Unfortunately, perhaps this time
he'll double tap Well again, thank you all for having me on
this. I imagine this situation won't

(43:03):
be permanent. Once I find a proper solution to
this greater mystery that I've been unraveling and my
investigative work is over, I'd like to return back to my home
without Allah immediately. And luckily enact some of the
some of the knowledge that we'vegained here, I believe most of
us wish to return home in to Valhalla.
It's an easy way to go my friend.
Sort of one way every time was you guys not for me right now.

(43:28):
Maybe at some point in time. Not right now though, I actually
just between us Sergeant. I actually quite agree with you.
I'm not very keen on returning immediately.
This whole living world is quiteappetizing.
Quite a few Pleasures to be found here the food, not to be
even begin. And I've had very few meals
since being here, but the prisonslopped, they fed us was like

(43:50):
Ambrosia and the garbage scraps that I found around here have
all been delightful. Oh, if you like that you love a
lot of other stuff. But you won't love it too much
because you'll always remember, going home to Valhalla soon
where we won't need this stuff anymore.
Right. Well, I'll enjoy it as much as I
would like to please or a face and once we return, we'll just
simply summon it there and enjoyit there.

(44:11):
I don't plan on ever losing thisamount of joy in my life.
God's the pleasure. Come now or a face.
Something aren't productive it. Doesn't do you have?
Yeah well I don't like that baththat.
I just took my gods with a beautiful sensation I stayed in
there for eight hours and I could have done for longer.

(44:33):
Get cold at some point. Well, the water sound quite
Brown I suppose but I believe that's from the mud in my hair.
Looks better now and it's just sort of a cold mud bath.
That was so enjoyable. I can't imagine how but you have
to try these things or face. Come, you've probably had a more
time that I have up here in the material plane now.

(44:56):
Yes. So you enjoying the foods know.
It's been your favorite Masons Masons?
I don't think I've had one of those yet.
After all the bag munch on the road.
I got to get my brother. Oh, shall I pay you for this?
I'm just learning about, currently people just throwing
at me in the streets, they keep throwing money at you.
Yeah, usually appear from behinda corner of an ally and inquire

(45:18):
for some assistance and they usually scream and throw
something out of me, all right? Yeah.
They think you're attacking them.
Yes. We spoke attacking.
So we spoke to another one of your victims.
They believed you to Rob them orkill them to their life victims.
How dare you sir? We're not in himself as a victim

(45:41):
but thought I'd were going to see him again and we can set
things straight. Yeah.
All right. So what would you guys like to
do? Shall we go see?
Malaga stand and free him? We've probably giving him enough
time. One night was in enough.
Yeah, that's yes. He's going to be on such good
behavior now because he probablymissed us a lot.
Let's hope so. Also I hope you guys enjoyed

(46:03):
this. Sleepover sorry you couldn't
join higher. I thought maybe you had a tummy
or something. He takes those really seriously.
Um I I figured I would rather spend the time with my family
shorter but you know we can giveyou some company as well but I
get it okay we'll bring another brother back soon.

(46:24):
Then you'll have someone to actually talk to us with.
Yeah. All right.
So you guys want to head out into the town actually talk to
my butt so yeah I'm gonna kill him.
It is worth noting that on this fine morning.
You guys do notice that higher looks a lot better.
Now. After finally resting point is

(46:44):
God and the sort of like Hagrid of your of your look the day
before is gone, you know, higherit looks refreshed.
Are the rest looks good on you, you know, this will not sleep.
Yeah, it was. It's been it's been a hard few
days. It's made, perhaps we can return
to some sense of normalcy. Hopefully, having have you been
holding up with your brother? I feel as if the I it's not

(47:11):
worth discussing now. I don't want to weigh the group
down. It's okay.
Hi. Or if you're going through
something you should shed it about the link it up.
Will only make it water or face shakes.
His head but doesn't object out loud. there are things worth
fighting for it and I feel as ifwe are fighting a great cause
together already, I believe Something like that is worth

(47:37):
protecting. Yeah, of course.
Yes and great so to malicious yeah let's go get that six
little bitch. King man, I think I think I
missed him. Oh, weird.
No matter how I do too. Yeah.

(47:57):
Like it, it feels like I'm like missing like like the nagging
like voice in the back of my head.
That tells me like I'm fucking up like that's usually him.
Yeah just to say when you guys fuck up.
Here. I thought that was Dooms job as
our lawmaster. Does anyone else fear that Doom?

(48:20):
This whole time has been keepingtrack of our crimes and will
will hold us accountable after the mission I mean, it should be
that way, right? Dulum, you're turn anyone into
describes, of course. Not any extreme ones.

(48:43):
Do them. If if so if you do believe my
future is jail, please don't letit be the Water Deep chill.
No promises. I do like that about that.
Do them? The honesty?
At least. Let's go get someone dishonest.
I want to start the walk. All right, again, walk Walking

(49:06):
the damn. And sort of looks down and looks
around and goes, it's too bad that this damn body is a, some
sort of escaped prisoner. Yeah, that's it.
Here is definitely your most recognizable feature, so maybe
we could just shave it off. He looks at you and sort of goes

(49:28):
wide-eyed and goes shave it off goodness.
Or a face. Look at how luxurious it looks.
You want to shave it all off? Yeah, I do.
It looks at you look sort of sadlooks down and then goes down.
My lips are only solution. Oh, okay, being mean on purpose
and I shouldn't do that. What?

(49:49):
Does he have a cloak on? Um you look he just not have a
cloak on now we can shave it off.
I agree. I mean this body is just the
body, right? It's not it'll grow back Soleil.
Back quick. But I was too hard on bisque and
it had the opposite effect of what I would have hoped.
So I don't want to be too hard on you.

(50:10):
Well, I feel as if it may make one more recognizable as a whole
Soldier. For better, for worse.
Can I just like It off the bed and try to make it look like a
cloak. Like Drape it around his
shoulders and overhead another tablecloth. yeah, Dwarven Belt

(50:34):
look suspicious to other people.Oh you can do it.
Yeah, it does sort of make one look a little bit more, like a
peasant if they're just wearing sort of like a heavy cloth robe
on a table cloth. Okay, I thought he used to the
does he still? I almost.

(50:55):
What are you wearing these days?Well, I just upgraded to a very
nice black robe with gold rope. Huge.
Maybe he was still alive. I have a few cloaks but they are
mostly Samir sized. I don't know if they would fit

(51:18):
his frame. He's not asleep.
It's just really needs the the hood.
Oh, his shoulders. Also broader than yours, that's
a problem. Yes, that is also one of the
reasons go on what else would bedifferent.

(51:47):
Quality of your cloak. Oh, I I don't have anything.
Look, I said I don't have anything so sorry.
We can get shopping at some point, put them in the bag until

(52:08):
this to yourself. Years.
Maddie's no longer the rest of the pretty boy.
Come. Now it's no worries.
This is shave. This head.
Does anyone have a razor some sort of better scissors?
Go at it. What's the check to do a haircut
slide of hand? Oh my God, I'm in.
I'm so in. All right, when I give me a set

(52:29):
of handshake, I'm sure someone can help you as well.
He pops down there, pull up, okay.
The first one is 25, second one's really bad.
Okay, 25. All right, so I would say with a
25, you pretty much have your pick of what you would like to
make out of this. So, for reference Ablaze hair

(52:50):
right now was long and flowy about ponytail, link reaches,
best to showers. You could pretty much make
whatever hairstyle you want. It's a lot of pressure.
Uh, give them. No not a mullet, give him the
damn track. Special make you want to give
him the Data. So just like white buzzed hair.

(53:11):
Yeah, I think. it's white buzzedhair and like, definitely not
like where it's a little longer on the top like I want to even
All eat at all. This is a buzz cut.
No tapering whatsoever. Not designed well I actually
maybe a little bit of a fohawk situation could be.

(53:32):
I do think that's a go for. Oh my God, you are giving him a
low taper fade. Know, But like, but like no one,
look at it and think of it as a face.
Distinctively, it's like situation.
Just just say it, you're making a ugly on purpose. oh, Or is not

(53:59):
Teddy like that. Oh, amazing.
Oh, you made a ugly Maisie. It's bad.
That's not ugly. I guess it really depends on the
person. That would probably look a lot
better with white hair. Yeah.
Yeah. Thought I was making dandruff
ugly when I first gave him. And look how far we've come.

(54:21):
Okay, that's all I'm going to say I thought the entrance
started with the buzz cut. Well, damn, I didn't have any
established hair except good hair and then I drew him with a
buzz cut and you guys were all like, why would you give him a
buzz cut and then it's stuck himaround.
Yeah. Like something I would say At

(54:42):
the end of the day. Yeah.
Just be on this one. Okay you guys it just imagine it
looks hot. Know.
All right or a face out of your tools kit you pull out a
straight razor and get going to town.
It takes about 10 minutes with a25 on your role.
You're able to make quick work of it and sort of the whole
group because by a little bit jaw, you throwing in some input,

(55:04):
you guys watch able watches and you see, there's some pretty
obvious pouting on his face as he watches these beautiful
strands of white hair. Tumbled to the ground.
Look we can grow its back as soon as we're out of washer
deep. We have some Sedum that's makes
it girl back instantly. Oh God, I was so beautiful and
so popular, you know? For you to be a little less

(55:26):
beautiful and popular. That's why you punishing me, you
know you don't want to be noticeright now.
Yes, that's right. And I suppose this helps he
looks down. You notice?
He does it does change his face shape, a decent amount with no
like long tumbling bangs and said now you can see he's you
know he's got his whole foreheadis now visible.

(55:47):
His ears poke out a little more now and he just you know, it
looks like a somewhat different person.
You think it might be a little harder for him to get picked up
on the side of the street. Now, there you go.
He gives you a flash of a smile and goes.
All right. Well thank you for helping me or
a fancy. You're a good friend you know
that and he stands up and sort of pets you I this is it in like

(56:08):
diminutive. I'm shorter way.
It's like hard on the arm where if you had muscles it would feel
good but it's sort of hurts. Oh, but I tried to cover it and
I punch him back like a little harder than I should to try to
be like I'm talking to Okay, punch back.
He's sorta looks down at you andlooks confused.
Oh, I have a loser brother. I need to recover.

(56:32):
So he didn't tell me, what a brother.
Well it's not like a biological problem, isn't it's?
Come now. Make haste.
Oh okay yeah, we should make a case I parked, right?
You had out all of you guys. You all want to head out too.
Let's stay part. Oh my God, you guys to make your
way back out into the Flaming boar.

(56:53):
The group, if you goes you bringalong now, able a new member who
now, you notice is sort of making his rounds after a
second. He sort of pulls back and starts
chatting with Samir about something and the two of them
walk side by side. They most?
Are you sure you're okay? Um, after After last night and

(57:17):
this town. Yes, I I'm quite fine actually.
It was actually quite a good night, you know.
Oh gosh. Oh, so Samson took me to his his
Mana, his Mansion. No big deal.
Oh, spent some quality time hanging out takes like three

(57:47):
steps back. Exiting um it was it was much
too bad though because he he left in the morning without a
word apparently he had been called up.
Yes. Yes, whatever his work was it
seems I had to assume that I do with the little explosion we had

(58:11):
last night. Perhaps something important for
his job called them off do it? Oh yes yes also is this weird in
his Mana all of his portraits just self-portraits that's all.
They were no no family, no friends.

(58:34):
And no one else in the matter either.
Just besides. So I don't know.
It was it was all quite interesting.
I imagine a lot of people of hisstatus would be like that.
Sounds like you at the jackpot bud.
Maybe he's evil and killed all his family, so I'm not
listening. Oh, you know you know that you

(58:58):
say it like I find I find they got to see his face and of
course, all the portraits. And it seems as though he holds
this like deep somber pain within himself You had, you had
sex with him before you saw his face.

(59:20):
Oh, that's You, this is this is all a lot, I think, for, for a
few members of our party to hear.
So, oh, let's just we have very different nights last night.

(59:50):
No, I feel like this, this sounds healthy.
Unlike the stunt malice pulled Oh or like you know with like
the ladies and samir's. You know I feel as if we should
reward. Good behavior.
Oh reward. Well like encourage it.

(01:00:14):
Oh squeeze your arms and say good job David.
Oh they I guess. Thank you bad.
For I love how much it wasn't insome years bed.

(01:00:36):
No. Yes me too.
Oh my God, this. All right.
So um, you guys are making your way outside.
Now, leaving the Flaming boar, all of the festivities and
excitement from the night before.

(01:00:56):
I've been, well, cleaned off by the attendance of the hotel
here. The ins Keepers and many of the
assistants and all sorts of cooks and cleaners of this great
flaming ball in, have practically turned it back to
normal. The wooden tables have been
brought back out. Now, there seems to sort of be a
quiet murmur of conversation in the early morning as adventurers

(01:01:20):
and noblemen and women alike, have all sort of filled into
these tables. And have, what looks like
breakfast is set up before them,they're eating pork, sausage and
bacon, and some scrambled eggs, a few have cups of Ale in front
of them and everything sort of return to normal exiting the In
itself, only grab food to take with us, like, is it?
Yeah, I am. I imagine you guys stop for a

(01:01:42):
moment. Um, grab a few things on the
way, there's a large kitchen staff that sort of brings stuff
out to you, as you wish Oro, grab it one handful of bacon and
one of raisins you Oh, so you can shame.
Damn shame. When a guy wants bacon and

(01:02:04):
raisins, I think you could use avegetable.
I want you to be healthy. Oh, okay.
Wait, 30 seconds which of these are vegetables.
I mean, I think, I think we should be sensitive to, or face
a situation. Or if I just recently begun to
eat and yet might still have growing taste watch vegetable.

(01:02:26):
Would you recommend Shia? I think a good, let's see.
Well, have you had vegetables since you've been human or?
No wait, vegetables. Lots of freeze steak.
That one time I think dumplings and that's okay, potatoes are

(01:02:47):
vegetables. Okay.
Oh I stuff, um, the handful of bacon and my pocket and I'll
grab a handful of potatoes breakfast, potatoes are some
well-seasoned potatoes. They have a lot of herbs and
spices around water. So it's like Rosemary, lemon
potatoes. Analogy.
You got those carbs, you'll be alittle bit Fuller.
Okay. Malice, I put the potatoes in my

(01:03:10):
pocket as well and grab another handful and another handful of
bacon. The bacon goes in the pocket,
the potato stay in my hand. I, it's just for malicious.
Once we get him, I'm sure he'll be hungry.
You can eat however, much you want or a face.
All right. So you guys grab some breakfast
on the way out. This is a quick stop.

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You know, 20, 30 minutes. You can grab some food.
Maybe, sit down for a second. Enjoy it.
You notice able is absolutely engrossed in the food here.
He sort of calls you guys a bit of a delay.
As right, when you're finishing,he's going back up and just sort
of eating out of the buffet right off the top, just grab
what you want and let's hear. This, if you try this red thing,

(01:03:54):
here he puts us the bacon. Look at this red thing, it's
quite really good, it's really good.
It's really, really good. Oh my goodness.
And this thing over here and Maneuvers over any find some
mashed potatoes and he wants them.
My God. Yeah, that also really good, but
just wait here and finish off the buffet while you all go and

(01:04:15):
help your friend, okay? No, no, there's a nice Duty I'm
coming, right? Okay. oh, this love Can I can I
say something kind of hungry youguys?
Yeah. For handful of bacon and raisins
when Mason. I'm describing the spices I did

(01:04:36):
get hungry. Yeah.
Oh my God. God just a normal breakfast
buffet. You guys are hungry characters.
Imitate the real person. All right, Macy's.
Did you get your snack? Yeah, yeah.
I actually got the races and Finished.
Holy shit. Ravenous.

(01:04:58):
Okay, not that many reasons. Not a full handful.
You Oh that's okay. All right, so you guys finished
the meal, make your way out intothe day.
It's early morning now, Springtime and waterdeep.
It's a cool morning with not a cloud in the sky.
The Sun beats down hard already and you can tell a few of the
sort of heavier dressed Nobles out about the town.

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There seemed to be some citizensthat are still wearing their
winter cloaks and winter Furs that are already beginning to
pick up a sweat in the springtime morning.
And you see fans batting at people, the carriages Russell
through the coupled streets and the hustle and bustle of the
city surrounds. You, you're not exactly sure
where the stockades are you wereinformed that they Malik gets

(01:05:43):
was set up in the docks District, which you guys have
not been to yet, but with a sortof brief glance at a map of
Water Deep which are found everyonce in a while.
They do the sort of like guide thing where they Place Large
Maps up and large city Square areas and these being, of
course, valuable paper or guarded.
But it allows travelers to get asort of information about where

(01:06:05):
they're going. We probably Wouldn't bring able
with us when we walk up to the garden.
But you can have approached one of these guard outposts, and the
guards will sort of show you their map, which is laid out on
a nice table and sort of point you in the direction you want to
go. Can I ask them if it's okay for
me to draw the map? Oh yeah.

(01:06:26):
If you want, it's not gonna be as good as this one.
And they pointed the map on the table.
You'll notice the maps that theyhave in these little like
information. Booths are extremely detailed,
every single street is mapped out and named and every single
business or building that has a name as a mapped out.
It's also it's about 10 feet by 10 feet.
I mean, yeah, I would be trying to mainly.

(01:06:47):
So yeah, like sectors I guess orlike really like big divisions
or monuments? Awesome.
I won't make you roll for it. It's pretty easy enough.
The guards are totally fine withit.
They just sort of go. Yeah, I mean, if you want to be
a cop, or you can do that, just one is a fun one here.
There with 100 Guild piece is now less.
I can help in the details later.Hi.

(01:07:07):
Oh, that's, that would be extremely helpful.
Thank you. Oh, I guess I didn't even need
to draw the map. You have it.
But yes, I'd still appreciate tobe able to look at it too.
Of course. Let's start heading there.
All right, on your walk. You guys get to sort of
appreciate the town. It's very nice in the daytime.
And also during this time you guys sort of get a better chance

(01:07:32):
to see at least with under the light of day what the average
person and Water Deep because itlooked like you guys actually
been maneuvering a lot later at night so far but in the morning
you get a better. Look at the types of folks who
walk around and do morning time business.
There are everyone's in a while a stall set up with a fisherman
selling his Wares and early warning that you're only
warning, catch out here. And as you slowly, make your way

(01:07:54):
toward the dock District, that sort of smell of fish Rises and
rises in the air until it's a pretty pungent smell.
It's not at all nauseating though, because it is picked
with small notes of cooked fish as well, which are Pleasant, and
you guys having just that breakfast, you're not too hun.
But it's nevertheless nice to enjoy the smells of cooking,

(01:08:15):
making your way deeper and deeper.
The most, it's about this point that you are, like, sort of
missed the cart that you've had for the last night or so.
Oh, you see the castle ward in the distance and even from here
in the simplest streets of waterdeep, you can see the
manner that Samson had led you to.
You guys see the most look off longingly.

(01:08:37):
So the most I know we should probably talk about it
eventually but um, what was everything?
Okay, last night, I don't want details, but what are you safe
and happy? Oh yes, yes, yes.
I everything was was great last night.
Thank you. Thank you for your concern.
Yes. Okay.
I just yeah, okay. If never mind.

(01:08:59):
I yeah. Okay.
Okay. Okay yeah.
Awkwardly walks back to the backof the group.
Oh, that fire and Samir asked him the same thing.
Oh, God, can, can I be evil and ask and ask and ask, who, who is

(01:09:22):
holding on to the grimoire? I thought it was, you TBH.
Well, I was do them. Well, this is a good question.
What do you guys recall? I didn't know how that written
down. Oh, I know for sure is Oro, did
not have it died in that, I hired did not have it.
Okay, I think they must had it last.
I think I had it to begin with, and then you guys read it and

(01:09:44):
then, yes, the most, okay, just you've got it on you.
Everyone knows who has it. Like you guys have, you know,
probably paid attention to this,okay?
So just making sure we didn't miss it somewhere that tragic,
you got it, it's around. All right, so traveling now
through the doc District, Samir Waits at the back, he's tried

(01:10:07):
enough able. Again they seem to be conversing
about nothing in particular justlike, you know, life like stuff.
So you know what are you from all about?
That's nice. What did you do there?
Oh you okay. I see.
So that's what actually make youput it useful for the Overworld
able shares that he was the guardian of music and

(01:10:27):
performance, some of the most important things in life
revelry. Welcome back plate.
Well, I consider it the most important of all the Guardians
of the realm of. Well, it's just It made me

(01:10:48):
particularly well suited for that Gala.
We had last night my what a ball.
I remember quite a few things tobring back to Valhalla when we
come back. Oh God.
Don't bring that back. It was and it was infectious,
the music, the revelry, the wineor or faces.
This is why you don't like place.
I look away. I don't know what you're talking

(01:11:09):
about. Really sorry.
I I made that up. On her face, you do love plays,
right? Any artwork, my friends make
notes on principle there, right?Because it's good artwork.

(01:11:31):
Or fights. Yeah, my brother's in jail.
I'm really focused on that. Nice.
You are right off. We go goodness or Affairs, you
we simply must have a conversation about your values.
I value Queen were to see and then honor top two TOPS, oh, you

(01:11:57):
should be more Honorable in yourdiscussions with me.
How about that? I did nothing short of the most
honorable really is that, so I'mnot the one walking around naked
making friends. All right, it was a fine way to
make friends. People were quite well, that was
Smiles by walking to a room. I'm literally so sorry.

(01:12:30):
I'll never speak again. Oh my God.
So, um, as part of yalls walk through Water, Deep on the way
to the, to the docs District youdo.
At some point pass, there are quite a few of these.
I should mention these Town criers who basically Herald news

(01:12:54):
from the Capitol and at some point you passed one a young
woman who stands on top of box and holds a large bundle of
parchments in front of her and wears a sort of thin yellow hat.
Atop her head. This seems to signify her
position as a Herald she's calling out news for the day and
you guys get to sort of hear it as you walk by explosion at the

(01:13:17):
wall. But safety promise to all
citizens a Sinister spell Casterhas been sentenced to death for
association with the crime of terrorism.
No accomplices discovered, he's going to die.
Oh, and she continues death on the docks.
At tenured professor of the Cassius rural.

(01:13:40):
Oh my God. In addition longest Stockade,
time sentence in Water Deep history, belligerent man
provoked, the black coats into afabulously long, 144 hours
sentence Then she begins loopingat this point explosion at the

(01:14:05):
wall. Oh God damn.
You don't take the professor wasDr. Him, I know not they did say
in blood, right? Yeah, but they might have
mentioned metaphorically. Oh, miss Claire.
Can I ask a question explosion at the wall?
Yes, yes, clarification on the news.

(01:14:25):
Oh, who was the professor who was killed at the Docks?
A tenured professor at the Royalcash aside Academy.
Oh what was their name? It says right here and they
pointed the parchment tenured professor at the cashier's,
Royal hike. Okay.
All right, you know where never mind Madden Cold Blood.
Look, do you want coin? Is that like for like the

(01:14:47):
newspaper or something? Like, who's the professor?
I'll repeat myself sir. It says on my Posh man here that
have a tenured professor has been murdered and you know more
make your way down to the docks District.
You might find the gods and black cloaks investigating the
scene on, but I let me know if you have any more questions.
I can clarify, don't really do them, I'm sure we can fix him

(01:15:10):
just as we fix it. I hope so.
Let's hurry. I want to like take your hand
and start pulling you along quicker towards the dogs.
I try keeping up. You guys go the Town, Korea
continues with some news and youguys make your way into the docs
District, the smell of salt water.
It's all of your noses for many of you.

(01:15:31):
Again, this is sort of your first time seeing a proper ocean
as well as ocean that's been. Well, commercialized at this
point there are beautiful sweeping docks that feel the
waterways jutting out, almost like ribs into the water.
Countless boats, both small and even large brigands, that are
ported and docked all around this, great duck Ward there.

(01:15:53):
Even are even larger vessels. Huge double decker, triple
masted ship's that have been anchored, just outside of the
docks with robots. That seem to carry a cargo to
and from you get a better view of the ocean as well.
The sun is been rising for some time, so you get a nice,
beautiful view of the bright blue.
It's almost a turquoise at the Docks itself.

(01:16:15):
Supposedly you guys have heard from the captains of guard.
That there are some Coral that exists sort of Near the Water
Deep docks. As well.
You also see marked by heavy dark rocks and a black wall, the
Terminus Institute the prison for waterdeep, just on the edge

(01:16:37):
of the docks. It has a high Cliffside face,
able it's probably for the best.If you don't go in with us
nonsense, this is where I spent my first three nights.
I managed quite well done here. You'd find that the fellows here
are a bit less inclined to sharethings with the law.
I believe that some of the sea men that visit here are well a
bit. Additionally, they seem quite

(01:17:00):
fond of me a couple. I think, recognized me, but I'm
not sure. Oh, Recognized you about what?
Exactly it was. The bird did.
Yes, they kept calling me by this false name.
The bug, I hate being called that.
It sounds idiotic. What's that even mean?
Am I Frozen You're like a big Iceberg.
I suppose, I used to look like that, but that's beautiful white

(01:17:22):
hair. You grow up.
He's just a boy and if I still think I'll be safe here.
All right, like I told you unless there's lawmen around
which are keep a pleasant distance away into the
Stockyards with us. Oh yes, I agree with that.
Maintain a safe distance and watch you.

(01:17:44):
All right, it's great. I can see above many of the
heads of these average citizens.Yeah, whatever.
I love this body. Ouch.
And so you guys, officially entered the docs District again.
There's masks of all these shipsthat stabbed out into the sky,

(01:18:06):
lots of different flags, you know this flying on each of the
ships in the distance, this likely implies that there's a
lot of trade that happens at these docs from many nearby
Isles and other towns that are on the port of the swords Coast.
There are Sailors that fill the docs, just trick that bark
orders, and many different languages fishmongers that are
Hawking these ways. There seem to be a lot of

(01:18:29):
brightly colored fish that look,almost tropical in nature,
bright red, bright blue with black stripes, eels and half
spotted squid. There are carts that rattled by
with chipped barrels and water soaked, almost waterlogged
crates. And there are a lot of children
you find here more than you've seen, in other districts of
water deep but little gangs of children, sort of dark around

(01:18:52):
between Alleyways and around people.
They seem to almost To be playing games perhaps and every
once in a while. You think one of them gets just
a little clue too close to a commoner's Pockets.
Yeah, hands on my pockets. I'm giving it a sharp eye out
for any Sticky Fingers. The the stones beneath you guys,

(01:19:12):
give way to much more rickety cobbles that are wet and warn
the carts that roll through hereare all bit rickety and there's
seems to be a bit less wealth inthis District.
But nevertheless a great hearty Spirit ropes, hang all around
from lamp post and streets street signs alike, and you see
makeshift laundry lines, strong out across the docks themselves,

(01:19:36):
or Sailors seem to be hanging their laundry out to dry.
Nice, as you guys move toward the stockades, the buildings
around. You seem to be seen and salt
splattered the front of them kind of darkened with age and
the street that runs along. The docks has this beautiful
line of these salt strewn buildings.
On one side and the sweeping seain the darks, on the other.

(01:19:58):
It's actually quite beautiful. And although there seems to be a
bit more callousness of the people here.
They nevertheless give you guys a knowledge as you walk by.
And many of the vendors here, still have that sort of classic
Merchant Smile as you walk walk by their many ways.
You see, there are some to be a lot of sell swords here,

(01:20:19):
individuals for higher and paid mercenaries real tough people
leaning against posts and sort of tracking you guys as you walk
by waiting, for a higher. You imagine a lot of the shit.
Whoa. the you imagine a lot of the ships here, and a lot of the
crews that man, them, oftentimeshire a small group or even A lot

(01:20:46):
of the cell swords here. Find employment in the ship's as
basically Hired Hands, say it. Say it, I fucking dare you.
The people here. Wait for basically, the captains

(01:21:07):
of different ships to hire them to defend against Pirates and
the group of you, ah, finally make your way again, you
remember from the map where you're headed toward the
stockades. At one point.
You pair, you've passed a pair of City.
Watch to Crown scarred that wear.
Looks like just leather caps andplain leather armor.

(01:21:28):
They stand guard at a corner. Sort of just half-heartedly
watching a group of sailors playing dice.
Um there are also quite a few Beggars on the side of the road
here, muttering asking for coin,a few of them are asking for a
job or passage off of water deep.
And in front of you, you see a low fortified Building made of

(01:21:49):
Grey stone, with a large archway, entrance inside, you
see dozens of stockades set out.These very simple.
Wooden posts that are looked to have both arms and head clamped
into a wooden board. It's not full-on tomato.
Throwing stock AIDS. But you do imagine, prisoners
out here in the hot sun. There's no roof over this

(01:22:10):
building. It's merely a little walled
Courtyard having to suffer the Heat, and also, the sort of
salty are out here is probably not pleasant as well.
The fish smell only gets worse around here and you even notice
some of the Dead Fish. The ones that aren't able to
sell at Market are sort of throwing for the dogs to eat or
some of the Beggars around here,right?
Outside of the stockades, the stockades themselves are against

(01:22:32):
the water. One of the walls touching the
water. Self.
And you see the stones right up against the water, are barnacle
flecked, and there's a huge group of Seagulls that squawk.
Almost annoyingly loud. Very noisy right up against the
sake, which add yet. Another level of discomfort to
the whole thing. You guys enter, and you see

(01:22:52):
quite a few individuals set out and the great wooden stockades
and there are a lot more guards in this area.
This seems to be where City watch like Lee spin their time.
The building itself was again, asmall wall around this Courtyard
houses, a few Barracks, a few sleeping Chambers for the guards
here as well. There are a few prison cells for

(01:23:14):
the more routing prisoners. Okay.
It is free and free and open entry.
You notice there are a swath of Crowns guard right at the
entrance at the great Archway, six and total three on each
side, that watched traffic pretty carefully.
It's seems that individuals are allowed to come in and fit.

(01:23:35):
In fact there seems to be a lot of conversation where in the and
you look and there seemed to be about 40 of these stocks all
plays out in a grid pattern in the courtyard themselves as well
in the dead center. It's quite more bitly is a
Gallows a hangman's yard. No one seems to be hanging right
now but there is a single rope held out that sways in the wind

(01:23:55):
Dominic Sally. You imagine this probably keeps
a lot of people from getting to belligerent.
Let's hope it works on malice. Doom, does this punishment seem
fair for who I suppose, all parties, including the people
that have to live here and see that every day?
Well it depends on their crime. For example, the terrorists we

(01:24:16):
picked up. I think that this is a fair
death. Oh, maybe, but I don't like the
way, they're making a show of it.
Well, on the other side of things isn't nice that their
loved ones can visit them. I don't think anyone wants to
see their loved one hung. That's true.
That's true. All right.
You guys want to make your way into this structure?

(01:24:37):
Oh yeah. All right.
You guys enter. Um, as you cross the threshold,
you notice Abel takes a step back and sort of disappears into
a crowd of people watching from a distance, to keep an eye on
you guys, and you pass beneath the weather to Archway into that
gray walled. Court, it's very low and
box-like, and the stone walls. Here look very old.

(01:24:59):
They look about as old as the castle themselves with moss
growing and cracks where the Sunnever quite reaches in this
place. The smell becomes quite
nauseated. The stink of old wine sweat and
dry old fish drifts around this place, you see out of the 40 or

(01:25:21):
so stockades set up in this building about 18 of them are
currently occupied many of them occupied by prisoners bound
upright. Slumped over with their heads
and hands trapped in those holesas you sort of walk through you
see people with their faces flushed from the heat, dirty or
Hollow. Side others.

(01:25:42):
They look hungover from a night before flies, Buzz around these
people. And there are a few crowds
around here. Family members are around some
of the imprisoned here, standingquietly or exchanging murmured
words, you notice that inside the courtyard, there are still
another dozen perhaps more crowns guard that watch you guys

(01:26:04):
carefully. There are still more on the
walls themselves, marching the perimeter, and just keeping an
eye on everything you imagine. This is just to sort of keep the
prisoners in order as well as sort of fend, off any attempts
at Escape. You see that there is a group of
people surrounding a man and older man here, they sort of
point in gear at him. Another, a small boy, offers a,

(01:26:27):
lump of bread to what looks like, his mother who sits squat
in one of The Stockade, my heart, um, across the way at the
end of the corner, you see a trio of sailors laughing.
And pointing at looks like a former Crewmate of theirs caught
cheating at dice, a few older residents of waterdeep, sit on

(01:26:48):
small benches against the side. Just soaring enjoying the
spectacle of the place like a morbid social event.
One person is knitting in the corner.
Another is feeding crumbs to seagulls.
I don't like this place. I don't like how everyone is
enjoying this. Yeah but I don't I don't know if

(01:27:09):
maling isn't doing it or crazy. He's a sixth son of a bitch.
You'll see signs posted on the walls around here with offenses
listed besides prisoner names. So that there's a gentleman who
had theft of fine Linens and it's to spend 12 hours in the
stockades and then another two days in a prison cell, um,

(01:27:32):
assault of a nobleman's goat twohours.
And a strong apology is the sentence, okay?
I do also find an individual whohas public drunkenness, fifth
offense, who was the spend a full 48 hours in the stockades
to drive him out. I'm afraid of that last night.

(01:27:55):
Also, on this list, you do find an individual who goes by the
name of malice. You see that there is a sentence
listed. There were quite a few things
listed here. It reads off Public Drug.
Miss disturbing the peace, inability to tell the truth to a
government official assault of alaw master and resisting arrest.

(01:28:16):
all of this adds up to a sentence of 144 hours, which is
been circled and underlined a few times Oh boy.
Um, as you guys entered, you notice that a short squat Bell
Tower at the end of the courtyard.
Rings loud. Low gonging sound which tells

(01:28:44):
the passing of an hour taking down for the prisoners to keep
track of 44 times. You sort of get the feeling now
that if someone were to stay here for more than 24 hours,
they genuinely do need someone from outside to come and like
feed them. In fact, you even see there's a
vendor in here. That's a walking at the edge of

(01:29:05):
the yard selling what looks likepears and meet.
Calling out feed your prisoner. Sweet pepper deal right here.
I start looking for my first. I'll go get some food for him.
All right, from the buffet. Oh yeah, yeah, I'd rather not

(01:29:25):
support these people exploit. it's like when you say the loan
shark, right next to the bail office, Well, at least it
providing like a way to get meals.
You never know. I mean there's a little kid over
there and I don't think he has acapabilities of making a meal,
so that's a good point. Why would be living over?

(01:29:47):
They don't provide the meal. You approach the child who's
just finished feeding a piece ofsweet bread to his mother.
He looks over at you and gives you this really practiced.
Sad look. All right, save the sad face but
I brought some food for my brother and he doesn't eat at
all because he's about to get out.
So I want to give him three fourths of the bacon and three

(01:30:10):
fourths of potatoes. Oh, you you mean it?
Yes, I mean it's this kid. Look like thank you, Miss
Mister. Good.
The kid is um, pretty weather and sort of looks like one of
the Classic this urchins that you've seen around a doc
District, scruffy brown hair that's just about to the

(01:30:33):
shoulders which makes it a bit ambiguous to tell the gender of
this individual, this child. You can tell from the clothing
that this is someone who was nothad a very Noble, Life Style and
their feet are bare no shoes andthe set of dirty.
Okay shit. Well these are going to be too
big, but I'll pull up my old boots that were the boots of the

(01:30:55):
winding path and hand them over.You mean that mister, thank you.
Thank you so much. Okay, don't cry.
Please because that's really uncomfortable.
The child takes them from you and gives you a very slimy,
dirty hand for a handshake. What's your name, lad?
My, my name is Ronald, okay, Donald and Mrs. Ronald the woman

(01:31:20):
looks sort of eyes sunken in andshe doesn't say a word.
All right, well, hopefully your mom's gonna get out soon and you
guys can keep on with it. Have a good one.
Thank you. Sir many blessings to you,
thanks. Okay.
Now, let's find that's bitching.Man of our saw that was very
nice of you or if you got a goodperson.

(01:31:41):
Thanks. Yes.
Seconded. Good.
Just, we want to encourage goodness in this group but I
wish we could help more people here.
Yeah, I just don't know anyway to.
Yeah, I wish we could as well soI was a damn system.
Yeah. Would you guys come here and
feed me? Of course.

(01:32:01):
Yeah. Thanks.
It for doing that for Malaga so definitely do for you.
Yeah hi for sure. As you push through the Milling
Courtyard looking for malagos eventually you find him hunched
over and one of the stockades just like the rest he's got his
back to you sort of bent over atalmost a 90 degree angle that

(01:32:22):
sickly green greasy coat sticking out and sort of waving
in the wind. You notice one of his boots is
missing. His hair is wild and wet.
You can't quite see his face andas you sort of make your way
over. You see one of the guards passed

(01:32:42):
by him, and he doesn't even lookback and sort of shouts out to
him. Oh yeah, finally came to rescue.
Me, ha and the guard comes and go fuck, nevermind.
And you shut up. Crazy.
The guard sort of snorts while walking by and nudges malicious

(01:33:05):
in the ribs and get a shot at you.
Gracie toad, you're already on thin ice.
Hands off man. The guard turns around it looks
like you and Molly Gets a game doesn't turn around and now we
speaks up even louder. Oh so you find the games are
rescue me ah thought I'd have towrote here, I, yes, we came.

(01:33:26):
Sorry, we took a while and I always this is the guard.
I sell it in a law. Master is a very serious offense
or what? I was there.
I saw it. Masters was losing a fight to
this guy. I hate, it was a main fucking
nasty, Sucker Punch, all right? Yo, what you hear for this one,

(01:33:48):
you know, he's been Charming hiswhole Courtyard with his mouth
thinks. He's some saw a martyr.
Thank you. It's funny and Malika's turns
and goes. I am very funny.
He's pretty funny. His head sort of LOLs back
towards you guys and girls what the fuck you so long.
I've been unjustly imprisoned for at least like like seven
hours of wake time could be eight or nine.

(01:34:10):
We we ran into unexpected situation but I'm really glad
we're here for you guys. The guard looks over at you guys
and goes oh yeah, he's still gota long sentence the way out, all
right, if you got hit himself, be it, but you Dad laughing
finger on him. Oh actually.
I'm sure you will hear this order soon.

(01:34:31):
If for some reason you haven't now, but his sentence was ended
by some of the Court wizards of Watergate.
I don't you be fun in me. Now, the guard wizards of water
deeper grief to get him out of jail.
This one, I sort of Jabs Megas in the ribs again and goes these
fucking low life degenerate To believe, but he's he's actually

(01:34:51):
contributed to a few things. He's a little rough around as
just but you know we can all thespeak to some of the goodness
that he's done. He helps save the flame in
borders, patronage from a huge explosion that's why he was
arrested. Actually, you should yeah, man,
he's needed, good buddy, help people.
I just gave my buddy. Boris a fucking broken nose.

(01:35:14):
How do I get shit? Head like you're not too.
I fuck you and the guard sort ofpunches him.
Now on the side like a shifts, his weight, and you see his head
sort of pulled to the side. I want to come shove the guard
off, you watch over and go to shove the jar as you go to shove
him every other Garden, this place turns to watch, you know.

(01:35:37):
The shower, boys. It's a, you know, we should, we
should, you know, maybe step back a little bit.
What I come from We just beat tied up, man.
Look at, are you pathetic? You push him.
The guard goes, sort of tumblingbackwards, not expecting that in
immediately draws a short sword.You hear the twins of string,

(01:35:59):
being pulled on bows from the towers and walls and the whole
Courtyard goes kind of quiet as the man turns around, he goes oh
you're gonna leave the fat. Oh, how are you speak up?
And Jai you sort of push yourself in between the guard

(01:36:19):
looks at you. Now I have to look up to meet
your eye and goes, oh you gonna stand for this one?
I know I'm trying to, I'm tryingto calm him down.
Listen or face. Just take a second things.
Work a little different around here.
I've got to respect that and good sir.
I'm so sorry. I know, I know this one gives

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you some trouble trust me. He gives me trouble.
But underneath all of that he has done good actions and that
has been recognized by proper parties.
So eventually the official word of mouth I assume will get to
you but it is the truth. I again apologize for my friends
hostility. They're not from around here.

(01:37:00):
I've been trying to you know getthem right as he is to be
released. I expect you to feel sorry for
pushing him when he can fight back.
I would like a persuasion check from Jaya please.
They're not helping, I'll tell you that.

(01:37:22):
Oh my god, dude. I'm like Charisma already.
Bad enough? Yeah, sorry, I'm throwing a bit.
No, it's okay. You're gonna roll really good
though. Oh, so sorry.
Loading up. Okay.

(01:37:46):
Okay, persuasion of performance.You're persuading him.
I guess it's important to say doesn't really good.
Yeah, 13 raw. Okay.
Uh 13 that is oh God, you have no pluses know.
Uh, 13. That's above average.

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I'd say, yeah. I never really characters with
me. I should You share your case
with this Crown's guard. He listens and he goes all
right. You should never funny business.
All right? And he's slowly puts away, the
short Sword and the Bowman on the walls put the arrows away
and sort of go back to a slow. Careful walk.

(01:38:29):
Now watching you guys, these guys, giving up us enough
trouble, right? He fought half the guards here
and we didn't have a good night anyway last night, so it just
give us a break. All right?
Very understandable, again, I apologize for his actually,
she's a little sassy. Thank you.
Thank you. They said I could tell you,
you're a man of your military man, aren't you?

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Yeah yeah, yeah. I don't yeah, this should I get
that you understand how it worksaround here, right?
So just keep your man in order there.
Oh all right so let's listen, I just I believe you if you're
saying that there's some Court wizard let him free.
I'm still get the paperwork soonbut we're gonna be keeping it
close on that. So uh yeah, damn Wizards doing

(01:39:11):
whatever the fuck they want. He's Used his power.
Yeah, that you talked about Powers, no officer.
I'm a man of Sword of Steel that's all.
Oh, you meant the wizard tower. I understand, I understand,
yeah, which is the Boston peopleout all left and right thinking

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that hard. Fuck those guys.
All right. Yeah.
The the guards sort of takes a moment to speak with what looks
like some sort of Captain off tothe side gets approval, and
eventually gets a ring of keys that looks to unlock the side of
the Stockade, allowing it to swing open.
Well, that happens. Can I feed Mulligans?

(01:39:53):
The bacon and potatoes, I have in my pocket, like he's a horse
you can't he's got a little headover to pushed out in front of
him and he's got this big smile on his face.
He goes down, I'm really glad you guys came.
You know I was worried for some reason that like this was the
time you decide to leave me and I really made a stink.
Now I want to say very impressive that she got someone
to get me out of here. So early you guys have friends

(01:40:14):
in high places, all right. All right, let me tell you.
If it's doing that. well, like Giant Fire says to like the most

(01:40:36):
or something, that's brotherly love right there.
So what happened last night? I heard a lot of commotion, and
there were some big explosion. Oh your body is he here?
He's not with us because he's a wanted criminal but he's
outside. Oh wait, I wanted a criminal.

(01:40:57):
Why aren't fuck or a face? You associate with criminals.
Wow I mean I need to tell you ohimportant.
Okay. Lean it.
Yeah he's sort of leans in as much as I can.
He can't move all his head a lotif you fuck him I'll never do
anything like this for you. Again we'll be done.

(01:41:17):
Is I sort of squint as you guys hear or face say something
secretly and then his eyes go wide and goes.
Oh holy shit to see hot. I saw him Greece.
Oh my God, or a face. You kidding me.
You can't just expect me to say yes to that.
If he's hot, it's fair game. He related to anyone too.

(01:41:39):
Oh my God. Not fair game.
Not wait, no malice You know, there's always baggage
like that. Oh okay.
Really messy, guys, on his clothes.

(01:42:00):
And then, hey, Feed me more. He opens his mouth.
Where's my bacon? No, no listen or face coming.
Close coming close. OK.
Google talking about Monty. Oh yeah.
Okay. I caught that I see.

(01:42:22):
I took it in a much more, I understand.
Yeah, you always do. You've got this real negative
fucking attitude. You know, I got one of the cars
to touch my hand earlier really fucking pissed him off.

(01:42:44):
Why one day blinding stew? Mason's little big one day.
Blinding stupid. He's just a few days.
So, listen or face. If you can, you know, just sort
of get this guy to put the key in here and then maybe I'll give

(01:43:07):
them a Swift belly punch on the way out.
Well, we got, you will be arrested again.
Please do not. You guys didn't even tell me
what happened last night. The fuk happened there, that's
true, terrorist attack. Like, like a bad guy.
Is it? Your brother know what?
No, uh, it was someone trying to, I guess.

(01:43:29):
Kill the masked Lord to his there.
I meant, I meant hires brother. What is it?
Your friend? No, it's not my friend Abel.
Huh? Someone trying to kill him.
I'm asked Lord, that's no good. So I suppose what I did that.
I wasn't even the worst thing that happened.
No, it wasn't. Oh no.
Wins from the ball that you knowabout, right?

(01:43:51):
That's what Happened. Sure.
Yeah. You might tell him that guy that
for me. Was that what?
It happened. How did you end up in here?
Oh, Jaya told me to make a distraction.
So I assaulted the head chef andthe guards got involved.
And after that, I was sort of a little too drunk to remember.
Hmm. I, I salute your efforts.
I will say, I do thought, we potentially knew a friend of the

(01:44:14):
head, chef. Oh well, listen.
A giant told me and I trust the sergeants instruction, so you
have to forgive me for maybe hurting some guy that we're
supposed to know. I, I think it's Justified, and I
do think it helped our cause. Oh, thank you higher.
Now, that is a kind guy, man. Something was a really fucking
happened to you last night, to be nice to me.

(01:44:35):
Malice, you're a real friend. Wow, thanks higher your friend
too. Can you feed me bake and My.
I think orfeas has the rest still, wait, why don't you punch
a guard know? I'm not gonna punch a guard.
Okay, I'll give him the bacon. Fast.

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So how'd this terrorist thing happen?
I don't it just kind of happened.
The, I noticed something was offwith the chandelier and we got
more and more proof to back it up.
They're just a bunch of fireballs and the candles of the
chandelier set at all of us. It could have killed everyone

(01:45:20):
there and more. Wait.
Just the candles, like, like flickering candles.
Yeah, you guys should have fucking asked me about that.
That was in. No, what's his face tough?
Those prophecy. Oh shit, was it?
Yeah, he told us to look out forfor what he say, he was like,
you know, candles that were likeglowing on and off.

(01:45:41):
You know flickering? I I really do.
Think we should listen to that guy more?
Yeah. Beware Flicker and candles and
the fucking chandelier thinking came back.
Why did you guys asked me? Like, I guess I was in jail.
I, I will say the reason I looked at in the first place was
because it was a chandelier Oh, see that.
How are? You know and the flicking was
following for us. Remember, he talked about the

(01:46:03):
Flaming borers. Well, ha What was his whole
thing again? Let it call.
The old memory banks that are Affairs.
Huh, get an old beware. Flickering candles Follow the
yellow moth. Sorry, follow the white moth.
Really short time. I miss read all color different
although I swath and Malice willbe there when all the actors

(01:46:27):
host that thing for you because they're going to make a play
about you. Oh nice.
It's it's probably gonna be thattime malaga's fought off guards
and got booted out of prison forfree because his bestest
friends, pulled some favors I really?
Yes. All right, so let's get on with
the whole escaping thing now. Yeah, yeah.

(01:46:48):
And let's get out of here. The guard.
Eventually comes back over with the key and slowly unlocks
Malgus and gives them sort of a show out of the, the wooden
plank that's been holding him down, and he stumbles back sort
of rubs his wrist and stretches out his back.
And the guard goes, all right now, funny business, I and he
looks over at Jaya and he goes, I listen, I expect this low

(01:47:12):
life, degeneration, scum to be back here within the fucking
day. Just keep an eye on him.
All right? We look at you.
We got it. Gave the fucking on him.
He will see you later. Sir.
Can't wait to see you later. Just got fucking wait to see him
later. He had a strange fish smell.
I guess fish. Yeah, the fuc.

(01:47:34):
Fish. Do you fucking hate me?
What you're worth. A fast worm.
I don't know the back stretching, and the way he was,
kind of taunting the guards feltvery cat like me.
No. You must be must be confused.
I do need a fucking nap, though.Cat nap.
I feel like you're leaning into it.

(01:47:57):
So I'm not I do need an app though.
It's I fucking barely slept lastnight on top of the
intoxication. These fucking cards kept
bothering me and the damn Bell kept going off every hour.
And my God, man. Shit got to me, it would have
been nice. If you guys came by to save me
last night, you know, no offense.
That would have been nice but I get it.
I get it. You were saving the town.
Here we get like a reward for that.
Did you guys like negotiate somesort of like big reward?

(01:48:19):
I think it was getting you out of jail.
What that's all you got for saving a town from terrorists
for a word as well. Let's go get it.
I like rewards I guess gives youguys a smile and sort of joins
in. Hey Samir got to see you Samir.

(01:48:39):
Give him a nod. So let's go to time in prison
useful, did you learn? Nope.
Didn't learn shit. Okay.
To have you back buddy? Yeah man.
Yeah listen. So while I was gone, did you
guys like do anything fun, anyone, you know interesting
besides I clearly higher got haunted by something to actually
being nice to me. They most had a great time.

(01:49:03):
In the house. What?
I don't know. We need to bring this up here.
I mean tell the whole town aboutit on the play.
I I just talked about we were celebrating the victory.
Oh, It's just a group celebration, we're all really
glad. You had sex demos.
They mostly for you is a victoryfor me. how to have sex and he

(01:49:30):
gets fucking well, did and When it's because he had the other
person's house. Yeah.
Oh well the most I'm ashamed anda bit upset.
He didn't invite me. You were in jail.
At the time. Yes, well that's maybe true.
But come on demos. Be nice sir.

(01:49:50):
Alright, I'll consider you next time.
Sure. So, what was it?
Like a brothel finally sick and tired?
Samir, let you out of the house.Oh, you know, just some of the
local nobility. No big deal.
Oh, no, but wow. So like, did you ever get to see
this fella Noble over some more like in a dingy dark alley?

(01:50:13):
And he's like, I know Thomas, wow, I it's I hate to think that
you'd think my my reasoning. So, so poor, I guess know, we
went to his His manner, it was great.
Oh no matter, like a small cardboard box, and an ally.
Okay, okay, well I guess should do.

(01:50:34):
We need to lock you back up. Oh no, I'm not all done.
Sorry, just good to see you guys.
I feel like it's been a long time since I seen you weeks for
some reason. We missed you too.
But oh, thanks higher. Listen, higher, whatever
happened to you. I just like to apologize in
advance. I hope it wasn't me.
No, no, it was, it was not you mad.

(01:50:58):
I guess I, I really do salute toyour distraction effort.
Thanks. You know, I appreciate being
appreciated but I should say it was the Sergeant's idea.
You know, I can't take all edit.That is why, you know, of
course, the sergeant is the leader of the group.
Feels like first. Did you have sergeants where you

(01:51:21):
came from rfa's know? Oh yeah.
You know, I'm sure Sergeant would have been like equal to
you probably, right? We can ask Abel what he thinks.
Oh wait, is he around? Let's see this hot man.
You know, orifice was pretty high up.
I was, I was just trying to salute jaya's wins.
Well, the sergeant is very wise.It's true.

(01:51:43):
I was so mad at that Garden. I couldn't have talked to him
like that. That's a good point.
Thank you for healed and that's when Jaya.
I don't think she's even here tohear all these days.
We'll just tell Giant when he gets back.
Well, what are we doing today? All right, I'm a free man.
I'm just stretches out his back and stretches his arms into the

(01:52:04):
sky. I'm afraid we have a yet another
pressing situation. The universities potentially.
Oh I think they said the crime scene was somewhere in the Dark
Horse. We should go there first or I
mean we're here, but we should have missed here.
Wait, I think I remember hearingsome dudes.
Talking about that around here. Yeah.
Do you have any idea? What direction is it?

(01:52:25):
I'll do. This is the fucking guard
Outpost for the dock District. I mean, if you're gonna ask
someone asked here. Oh, that's a good.
That's a good reason for you, sort of like pulls up one of his
sleeves and like stretches out his arm.
You want to go talk to that guy again, that one guard who was
kicking me. Maybe we pick a guard.
That doesn't hate miles already.Let's pull them out to the bat
alley out back. What do you know what?

(01:52:47):
You do? An Alley's Outback under the
cardboard box. Hello, that's what the most did.
Anyone see? Demos.
Go to the manor. Oh, no, I multiple multiple
people saw me getting the carriage.
Thank you very much. I feel like you could kind of
see their chemistry when they were talking.
I don't care about chemistry. I just want to know if this guy

(01:53:07):
was a nobleman. Hey, I got in a carriage too.
You guys. Yeah, but you didn't have fun
though. I thought that's true.
Everyone's getting into carriages now.
I'm like, I just wants to go on a catch where we go.
It was good, it was better than walking in an undisciplined.
Of this sort of way, what? Yeah, other people did walk

(01:53:30):
after you or a face. Oh, do a lot.
I missed you a little body. Listen.
I want to know, be honest. Now, did you want me to get out
of here? Considering I did, in fact,
commit all the crimes they accused me of.
Well, you did commit the crimes.That's true.
But also we did get orders of your release.
So I think it's fine. You're back.
I had a boy. He's the same laws that got him

(01:53:54):
into jail. Also allowed him to get out his
perfect. All right.
Well listen, if you guys want togo talk to the douchebags back
there that were kicking me, I'llgo out into the street and find
this able. I think.
To gather rubs his hands. Come on, I want to go meet him,
okay, but it's just been normal,please.
Oh, I'll be a real normal. Okay, I don't know what you

(01:54:16):
could have meant by that with the way you said it.
Ruby. Starts strutting out.
I think that's as he goes out sending.
Yeah, perfect. It's just a bit more clear and
crisp than is it. All right?

(01:54:37):
What do you want to say? Oh God, can I craft the 25 words
and bring it back to you with mywords?
Okay, take your time. Take your time, he sort of rubs
his hands together and struts out into the dark District, you
guys are left sort of on the cusp of this stockades.

(01:54:58):
The guards here, sort of walk by.
I'm pretty sure he might go get arrested again.
We should keep clothes. I go with Alexis what a good
with cards. I'll go after Malaga and look
after him I'm good with car. I don't uh well just a second
ago you were not but you know you and Jaya are most associated

(01:55:19):
with the military. So far me and the guards of
Water Deep haven't gotten along.So well, I understand.
Well. Why do we even need to talk to
the guards for just to figure out where this crime scene is?
I'm fine to wander this. District is kind of nice, I
agree, but I, I look down at Doom.

(01:55:41):
Ah, I feel do them probably wants to get his possible, I
guess, and to malaga's and say, be wary of able, he broke out of
jail by manipulating romance. He hurt me in a similar way last
night romantic, someone else, friend higher malaga's turns

(01:56:07):
around about like, 80 feet into his walk and he yells at the
Docks and goes no real fucking sorry higher.
I don't hope he didn't break your heart.
I'll try better for both of us. He's such a bitch Malika.
So you get a response with sending 100%.

(01:56:28):
He does you gonna have such a good Turns back around giving
you a thumbs up and wanders off looking, I guess you guys even
give him a description. Below.
He just that was kind of it. All right.
What do you guys want to do? You want to walk after a more
face? Yeah.

(01:56:49):
Okay, you sort of run to catch up where the crime is.
I'm going to try to stop male I guess from making an a new crime
scene. I do you want help.
Keep him on. Yeah.
Right, or if you go trotting off.
All right, so maybe we could talk to the guy again.

(01:57:11):
I know he doesn't like us but hemight know these stuff we need
but please can we fix someone else another guard.
All right wholesale higher. I mean can we just like kind of
go to like a separate part of the of this like jail so that
they didn't maybe see us a threatened one of the guards?

(01:57:34):
All right? Yeah.
You you walk sort of to the other end of the courtyard.
It's wide enough that there's you know there's enough room for
large groups on any side. You make your way and eventually
find someone else. Just what looks like a
middle-aged woman just leaning up against the wall with a spear
in hand. She notes, you guys do walk over
and goes III, you looking to free someone here feed someone

(01:57:56):
we wanted to know if you had information about about a recent
crime and information, I don't know.
I'm really having to walk Hard coin doesn't come easy you know.
Um if I may be frank, we might know the victim and we're really
concerned. Yeah.
It's just I'm working right now,you know, for money cuz I need

(01:58:18):
that. I hope that. his coin, but
That's a good fella. All right?
The figure sort of looks on either direction and looks at
you expecting Lee. How much do you want to give?
I actually have like, zero money.
Let me see how much I give. You Gotta Give not a gift.

(01:58:41):
Everyone else you. Thank you.
Thank you. Know money.
I give her one gold coin. She takes it sort of frowns and
goes. Yeah, all right way.
Fuck you want to know. I would expect that would cover
quite a bit of information. Who was the victim at the murder

(01:59:05):
at last night at the docs, do them?
Please correct me. If I don't know the case
correct. What was the name of the
professor? The woman looks at the two of
you guys now and she says, oh shit.
Yeah man. That happened just over here,
she points behind the wall that she's leaning against.
Yeah, just 50 feet outweigh man,what a fucking nightmare,

(01:59:27):
someone gets murdered right up next to a Dodge town and not a
single witness here. Real fucking shity night for all
of us. Yeah.
The they found him this morning.It was this doctor doctor him.
Some robot should head. Oh, where is he now?
Yeah, they took the body back to, I think, to the castle would
for investigation, the lawmakerswere real interested to know why

(01:59:50):
a tinya professor had gotten killed, you know, it's sort of a
big deal. Yeah, you guys know him?
Yes, we we should we should get going.
Yes ah shit, sorry friends. Yeah, no it was nasty, they said
oh well, I didn't have a sock but the rest of the Gods he has
said it was some sort of magic Donna man, real nasty like damn,
Understood the body. If you a family of the Dead.

(02:00:12):
Yeah, they'll say let you take alook.
They might even have some questions for you.
Like if you knew who he was seeing that night, anything like
that, man. I'm real.
Sorry about the loss. I'm pissed off because we had 30
Gods on watch that night. Not a single fucking person saw
it. I actually do think we have
information that could help withwith that murder.
So yeah, we will want to get as much information as we can to

(02:00:36):
help as much as we can. For sure.
Yeah, there's a few courthouse in the castle.
Would I would just stop by one of them and they might point you
in the right direction at the body again, real.
Sorry about this. There might still be
investigating in the alley back here.
Though, if you want to go take alook, you may they might not let
you back though. Yes.
Well had their next if we can thank you.

(02:00:56):
Yeah again. Sorry for your lost, their
friends, the woman sort of nods and Pockets the gold going.
As we walk away. I say to Doom fuker.
She knows nothing about loss, I'm really sorry.
Um, I'm sorry Dylan about this. Thank you.
I still think there's a good chance.

(02:01:16):
We can help Dr. Him though? I mean, yes, I would have that's
what considered severe dad, but you and I we brought him back.
Right? That's true.
We have much more to assess. I agree.
Let's look at the crime scene. Then try to see what's left.
Yeah, yeah. All right.
So orfeas, just as a note you are not here.

(02:01:36):
Oh yeah, sorry about you hear orfamous in your head trying to
control you, you imagine This isconsoling, or if it's following
us just sort of just struts out again, into the dark district
and eventually selects what looks like a slightly more
handsome sailor than the rest and starts approaching before

(02:01:58):
you're able to cut off? I love him.
Oh, right. He sort of approaches on over
and goes, I I you able figure sohe goes no fucking.
Oh sorry, their friend. Sorry.
Mulligan's. Come back.
Oh, hey or fast. Yeah, I suppose you didn't tell
me what the sky looked like a real handsome guy and you know,

(02:02:18):
he let me see, he Just uh, he's really attracted to guys who
are? I really can't think of anything
funny to make you do. Once I could, that's all right,
I'll just go in. No she likes to really Ah, you

(02:02:42):
know, demure type, you know, lots of vacuum lashes.
Mushing. It's an RFS.
I I get that that's what he likes, but I'm not gonna fucking
pretend to be someone else for some shit head.
All right, I'm gonna be me and if you like something good and
if not, then not, but I'll try to put on some charm.
All right, how's that sound? Oh my God, damn, you're on fire
a little bit but not gonna sacrifice myself for this god.

(02:03:03):
Wow. Mental health king.
That's really cool. Even though other people don't
like you, you stand by your guns.
And that's cool and a strange way.
Oh, all right. All right.
Yeah. Okay.
I'm surprised you feel that way.So I'll try to put on a little

(02:03:27):
bit of charm, but you know, how his old man against people, just
can't stay away from me. He gives you this snarl.
All right, so let's go find him.Take me to him and also maybe
stay out of it because I don't want your baggage in the way I
sort of want to do. Like a fresh start me like a
meet cute. Okay.
Like you watch it pretend you don't know him?
Yeah. Okay.

(02:03:47):
I think higher said that happened to him last night and
he prefers to be called Albert. Albert oh able short for yeah
he's right over there and I pointed a random man.
Oh sure. He makes his way over sort of
looks at your study was handsome.

(02:04:08):
Now whatever old Malaga will make it do and Malik is just
approaches a random semen that you point to what?
What you have no idea. You had no idea.
You just said ah, excuse me. I'll be hey it's your body
magazine here. Remember from high school Don't

(02:04:33):
remember me a really awkward conversation with this guy who
looks at him and doesn't quite know what's going on.
Eventually said my name's not Albert Buck is it able off fuck
you, fucking lie to me or face you bitch?
Know, it's fucking not what and the guy sort of goes to shove

(02:04:53):
Malika swing goes, piss off, man.
Let's go work. I might have some work for you.
Big boy. You're just gonna watch this or
face? Yeah.
What If possibly do in this situation, you set my brother in
Christ. You put them up to this.
He's such A sled. So he's gonna kiss the guard and

(02:05:16):
get in trouble again. Actually, he's not getting into
trouble. You find Abel pretty quick.
Actually, able is hanging out with some Street musicians.
Oh, you see him watching, two individuals who are playing, the
lute next to one another, and hepoints him out, and he sees you
approach and it's like, what didn't you just have a look at

(02:05:37):
that. These beautiful players are just
out here making money on the street, why they should be in
the king's court playing for a Royal Highness.
Wow just usually sounds better than that here you think?
So I have much to learn. I only just know the
instruments. They are playing well we could
probably buy you a few as long as you promise to play them all

(02:05:59):
the rest of us are trying to sleep, right on.
I can do that if quite easily, actually my practicing is I love
those considered very sophisticated.
I know you have. Thank you are a face now.
I'm worthless malice of yours. He's around here.
Where's everyone else? Oh, so I should I think he's
just talking to that guy and I pointed them, I guess was

(02:06:20):
complaining about all of the very extremely itchy sdi's, he
has. And that guy was giving malaga's
some tips on how to mediate the symptoms.
Hmm, sdi's? That sort of fabric.
So actually transmitted infections it's a collection of
bugs and rash that's sort of invale up his whole situation
down there. Could sound.

(02:06:40):
Is that something that makes thepleasure worse, much worse.
In fact, I hear it. Takes away the pleasure all
together. That's why he's so desperate for
sex. Because every time he thinks
this time it'll feel good, what a poor gentleman, such a
horrible Life to Live. It's a shame like pity him and
he washes again but you shouldn't give him sex because

(02:07:01):
of that pity because it's contagious.
I see. Well I should go introduce
myself. Okay.
Um, able sort of walks steps up and you see does fish out two,
silver pieces and tosses them tothe street musicians Just, you
got that. Naturally.

(02:07:22):
Just keep throwing money at you.It will make this way over.
Back at this stockades, the restof you guys exit through the
large Archway, and curve back around to the side of the great
Stone structure. This is not the side facing the
ocean, but rather a small Alleyway against the other side.
The landward side here. Press tightly up against one of

(02:07:45):
the other buildings as a thin dark alley.
Perfect for what? You'd imagine or late night
illicit activities. It's very dingy back here and
the sun can't even quite reach it all the way.
So, it's a dim light in here. Medium dim.
I would say there's no caution tape in waterdeep, but there is
a platoon of five guards stationed, right?
At the front of the alley and behind them.

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You see, three blacks, the lawmakers and investigators
detectives of waterdeep, poking around the alley.
There's seem to be some alchemical Globes of light,
little moats following them around and they sort of shy him
in the direction of where they're looking, and seemed to
note things down with what looked to be small floating
inkwells. Quills and notepads the guards,

(02:08:29):
stop you, as you get close. And one of them speaks up, I saw
a cat. Lets you through oh yeah, you go
first. I'll probably turned to my
friends. Should we get or a face?
He might be good at finding things from a distance.
That yes, that is, that is very true and I do think we might be
able to argue our way in. I, I feel as if there's a chance

(02:08:51):
that, you know, we stopped a murder last night and this
murder happened at the same time, the group could have been
planning multiple Murders At Once.
I don't know. It's something, we could
potentially hold his leverage over these guards to gain us,
more access to information. I didn't think about that.

(02:09:12):
That's a nice perspective. Um, they might not go for it,
but it could be worth the try todo.
Should we get Oro first? Sure, if we, you think we have
enough time. Then?
Yes. Okay, turning it Sherlock.
All right, you wander back through, you find orfeas, pretty
easily Oro. Doom comes watering back to

(02:09:33):
Justice. Able goes off to chat with
malagos, but he had to go. She learned anything.
Yes, we learned that it was Dr. Him last night.
Oh, We found the crime scene andI was curious if you wanted to
investigate. Yeah, yeah, totally.
Totally. See who did this.

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So we can put them down, right, buddy, right?
Insight check goes the threats. That seem to reassure do love.
Whoa, get red, ocular pattern. You might need to give me a
then. I mean, I wouldn't this you It's
a seven. I can't.
You're on readable. Deception.

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I will say you are still the only oughta know I got a second.
I don't know or a face is ever seen.
So it is a bit harder to read facial expressions when you
don't really have them. So I would say you're at passive
deception is a bit higher than the average person.
So or if you can't really read much, okay?
Assume that made you feel better?

(02:10:40):
Love your head. And start walking over with you.
Well, I do. Think I would stop by malaga's
enable and say. Come on guys, let's get to move
on. A looks back to you and gives
you a thumbs up and Malika's. Also turns the two of them spoke
maybe three or four sentences with each other and you already
noticed they're standing very close together.

(02:11:01):
Stop it. Stop it.
You to stop it. Okay, or FAS.
Look me enable, Matt. Yeah, able nice to meet you.
Able you know, we've never met but I'm malagos.
They shake hands. A sturdy firm handshake.
And they look each other in the eyes.
Can you stop it? Can you stop it?
Stop it. Stop it.
There's one person I tell you. You can't have sex with.

(02:11:23):
Please just don't. What seems to be the problem or
a face. I'm just meeting a friend of
yours. Don't have sex with him.
I must you worry about these things.
We're on the material plane, you're giving this body.
You might as well use it. Damn it don't use it.
On hip brother. It's gross.
Well, I don't know for blood related haven't been too many
yet. Doesn't make it.

(02:11:46):
Sure. Oh it doesn't just trying to
separate us a little bit sort ofbaggage now or a face.
Anyway. So able, what's your into?
Oh music! Hey!
Wow, you know, I've been to The two of them walk and start
talking with each other. Doom.
You return back with Orpheus andyou're at the the wall of guards

(02:12:08):
as well. Oh, do you think you could see
anything back there? I I can't.
And he's got to say that it is aprivate for only the law people.
Use me, excuse me, demos Flash, the sigil.
Okay, I the most pulls out the court, wizard emblem and
flashes. The guards look at it detective

(02:12:30):
in this city and I'm here to take a look at the wreckage also
robotics expert. I might add note or does believe
both of these things to be true you shouldn't.
Sorry ma'am but no private you and we all have information.
Yeah we don't we can't allow anyindependent investigators back

(02:12:51):
here. It's all Masters.
Only sure you understand. Very much spoken for this
understand you, you'll interest in this and he turns the higher.
I don't understand what have some information, but please
wait for the lawmakers to finishup and if you've got any
information, they'll take questions.
Yeah. Yes.
But I believe I'd be much more helpful if I could speak to them

(02:13:13):
now. Yeah, I'm sure sir.
But listen, this is sort of a hot profile case.
So you have to understand the common folk can't just be
allowed back here. That's exactly why you would be
missing an opportunity. If you do not let us go back
now. Yeah, and you want you upset the
crime scene, right? I just can't let you back this.
Sorry, figure crosses his arms and they were, others are

(02:13:34):
looking at you guys. Um, I need a new plan.
Samir looks down and it looks athires coin purse.
Looks like up. I guess I'll see that.
And I really hope I'm gonna get arrested for bribery earning

(02:13:55):
higher money. Um, I'm actually gonna get
arrested for bribery, um, I wantto take my like a little bit out
and I want to open it and then turn it upside down dumping the
last 10 coins, I have. And then pick it up, hand it to

(02:14:15):
the guards and say I we really need this information, okay.
You dump Out the coins onto the ground, they all make a loudly
sound, as a bunch of people, sort of turn their head to see
money at the floor, the guard down and the other five of his
friends. Look at him look down too.
And the group was six of them all watches, you picked them all

(02:14:36):
up and then proceeded to push them out and the guard goes.
Oh yeah. Oh fuck is this.
I apologize. I dropped my coin, purse.
That buddy. Yeah, I sorry and the guard sort
of leans down and goes. I listen, I think your model
left one down here and he reaches down and lifts up
nothing and holds his hand out. What?

(02:15:01):
What he quickly closes his hand and places it back on the spear
he's holding then, looks you over and goes right think we're
done off you go. If say you're good.
At persuading people able is notapproached to this group of
guards, he is standing back withMalaga about 50 feet.
Do you want my coin or not Garth?

(02:15:24):
We need this fucking crazy. Samir sort of leans over to you
and goes higher. You're not doing this video.
Well I don't it's a good thing. Go to a good person, but maybe
we should drop it now. Oh, I I don't what you fucking
money. I don't want a broad from this
man and then all the lobsters down the alley all turned to
look back that way. I don't see a brass.

(02:15:48):
You hear one of the? Lawmakers called down, please.
Leave us alone. We're busy investigating.
And then spend five years as an apprentice lawmaker.
Then you may arrive here if I, Can the lawmakers all?

(02:16:16):
Look at each other. Please roll up persuasion.
Check that's, True though. That is true.
Yes, the mirror. I'm Thinking that as hell?
I feel uncomfortable here. Oh, okay.
Dirty 20, okay. Oh God.

(02:16:38):
Why is your friend able to talk with Malik is?
They seem to be whispering, neither of them are my friend or
brother in arms or biologically.The lawmakers all sort of look
to each other they sort of whisper and you hear a few
Chuckles come up and one of themshouts Julius.

(02:17:05):
All right, Watson right off. Just you unless you want anyone
else to burn for your crimes that worked.
I don't want anyone else to burnfor my crimes.
I walk in I trust you. Oh okay.
All right, if then if neither ofyou can find anything, it's the
stock is for both of you. You understand, right?

(02:17:27):
Then come on in the lawmaster isall sort of bustle over to you
guys. This is your first time up close
with the lawmakers of Water Deep, they wear thick black
robes similar to the robes demosis wearing but the black is very
fine and looks like it might be a thin silk they all wear on top
of their heads. These sort of circular black
hats and each of them is what looks like middle-aged or older.

(02:17:51):
They all sort of have an air of wisdom about them and two of
them were spectacles. Well, the last one seems to
carry a large heavy device. It looks like a magnifying
glass, but it glows, with an Arcane energy, I memorized the
specs on that bad boy, if I can,you look at it, look it up and
down goods, the deal is already been made the one with the

(02:18:14):
magnified Peaks up as he places it in a back pocket of the robe,
okay? But if Really good job at this.
Can I see your magnifying glass up close?
The figure looks at the others and say if you find substantial
evidence show, you can take a look at but you can't use it,
okay, no worries, right? Then now be wary here and they
sort of pull aside and they point out a central walkway of

(02:18:36):
the alley and they say please becertain not the step here,
there's some evidence here and we believe we have a boot print
down there and they sort of guide you down the alley.
The three of them seem very interested in this sort of brief
levity from their normal job. As they find two idiots that
they imagine going to come in here and just immediately get
arrested. So That's right.
One of the two wearing glasses and older gentleman, with white

(02:19:01):
frizzy hair, speaks up and goes right then, Gentlemen.
Let's see what these two amateursleuths can do eh.
So let me tell you what we foundso far, and can I take a look
and they leave you in a little further, and you start to notice
some markings of what looks likedamage to the cobbled stones.

(02:19:21):
They have marked it out with a wide Circle.
It looks like chalk that they'vejust drawn on the ground.
Very Detective style this sort of yellowish white chalk circles
a huge burn hole in the cobbled streets as well as surrounding
the burn hole. Looks to be several pieces and
chunks of metal you find screws and a metal plate and several

(02:19:47):
Springs and dials and gears thathave just been left to the side
which is a bit concerning its doom, doom.
You see a couple of these. You obviously, recognizing every
piece is pieces, you have yourself a small part of you
feels a bit of worry, right up. As you see a screw that's meant
to connect the core together lying on the ground.

(02:20:09):
There's about 20 or so pieces ofmetal altogether here, the
lawmakers continue, the one of the frizzy hair goes, this seems
to be some sort of corrosive damage here.
You'll notice this acidificationof The Rock and they sort of
circle, the area with the chalk outline right here.
Looks like the source of the damage.
We have to determine that they were only two individuals here
and total. Was the sale and the victim, Dr.

(02:20:31):
Him, the fine fellow. I actually had the liberty of
taking one of his classes. Many years ago.
Yes, we were good friends. Yes.
Well it looks like and they start pointing out the metal
chunks around on closer inspection.
You notice just immediately thatthey're all a bit corroded, one
of the metal plates in here which Doom, you recognize as a
plate on the left foot has been melted away, half of it seems to

(02:20:55):
be disintegrated into the grounditself melted in with the
cobles. We've determined some sort of a
certification happened to it. Looks like the doctor was caught
by surprise due to the blast radius it.
We imagined it was some sort of spell, likely not any sort of
physical bomb or device. This is due to the spray pattern
we have in the ground here. And in addition, the overall

(02:21:15):
Damage Done would be quite impossible to make out of a
bomb. And this one was thoroughly
prepared. We have this up to likely a few
outcomes so far. We believe, well, that the cause
of this was likely some spellcaster who Have been a
student at the University. Perhaps a disgruntled student
that managed to lure the good doctor here, and perform this

(02:21:35):
attack, as well as could have also been another member of
staff. That was well, good and tired of
this tenured professor. Having a nice central office to
himself as well. We've heard rumors that the
professor was worried about somesort of attack on his body.
The doctor had been hiding up and holding in his office for
many weeks now. So it is likely to do that.
He do it, which all the more leads Creedence to the fact that

(02:21:59):
it was someone close to him a student, or Professor now very
few professors would do this in person.
They might have hired someone todo it, but not that many can
cast such spells by the cells, not to mention the most unusual
part of this. All the gods right here.
The lawmaster, sort of Waddles over to the giant gray brick
structure, right beside at the stockades right above.

(02:22:20):
You see, a few of the tower guards.
Walking the walls and you can see them from here.
They don't seem to be looking down and watching, but there I
line would not be Diverted the lawmaster continues, 30 Gods,
unwatched last night and not a single one.
Remembers seeing this attack. You'd think they would have
heard the calls from the good doctor of seen two individuals.
Walk into the alley, beside the very building, but no, not a

(02:22:43):
single one remembers quite curious.
We believe this could mean a couple of things.
Likely, one of them was in on it.
Believe it minimum two gods werepaid off by the assailant to
Simply turn a blind eye to the whole thing.
We actually have one in particular that was proven to
walk this very beaten path, that's night.
That was considering Court marshaling.
The proof is a bit insubstantial, but when it's in,

(02:23:05):
your professor goes, it's it's well worth the trouble of
looking into this or thing's nowthen.
Emma just sleuth. Wanted to take a look around.
Tell me if you've missed if we missed anything.
Yes, I'll tell you what she missed.
Oh, and just yes, this is your investigation.
Check dulum, you get a chance tolook around as well, and it is a
pretty tragic site. The first off you do recognize,

(02:23:27):
these is Auto number components.Immediately and second off, you
know, that corrosive damage is pretty dangerous to your species
if it was like bludgeoning or fire and a circuit was burned.
Rebuilding would be a lot easier, but acid might be
harder. No, all right, give me a roller
face, 27. Oh my goodness.

(02:23:48):
That's the boy, I know that's fucked up, man.
Oh my God, I was setting here. I was looking at my DC chart and
I was like, yeah, it's gonna be high.
It's gonna be a really high 27, though.
That's higher. That's fucked up, man.
All right. Yep.
You get on in here, you and dulum Watson troll Through the

(02:24:10):
Alley. You avoid the footprints that
you find. Here's what you find, you
basically, confirm, everything that the lawmakers have spoken,
so far, the footprints coming inand out of the alley.
From the night before seemed to indicate that only two people
ever came in here, one autonom sort of Soul without any Tread
marks and another heavy boot. You can't really identify much

(02:24:33):
from the boot print. It's mostly been worn away, just
from General travel in and out of here.
And it even seems that the lawmakers might have kicked up a
couple of the boot prints to make it harder to tell gate in
general shoe size, the base of that food.
Print of course click. As well, you take a look at the
stones and you also both of you determined that there was

(02:24:53):
definitely magic at play here. The the splash of acid that must
have occurred here was immediateand pretty large.
You don't think anyone could have brought in an acid bomb to
do this kind of thing here and the other person not of known
about it. So like some sort of spell was
cast in addition. You also find that all the
metallic components here, do indicate that doctor him was

(02:25:13):
very close to the blast doing itoccurred and there's a few bits
of melted metal that you find inthe stone itself.
You basically confirm everything.
The lawmakers have said there isvery little else to really prove
something new, but with the 27, which is just a great, great,
great, great fucking one, I'm impressed.

(02:25:36):
No, I'm impressed. You catch one, little thing that
could have indicated. What happened here?
The two of you leaned down digging into the um, I suppose
the like, brown the couple. Stones.
There aren't any evidence of what you think could be like a,
what whatever the Caster was doing here.

(02:25:57):
There isn't any magical dust that you can find or Arcane
sigils on the ground. But buried deep in the stone is
a burnt. Black teeny.
Tiny particle that you guys pullup, It's one of those things
where it's almost hard to explain as a 27 is Way Beyond

(02:26:18):
the ability of a natural person.But the two guys take a look at
this blackened, crusty piece of something that was melted away.
And you're not sure how you can figure this out.
But just by discussing it, you both determined that this was
some sort of piece of paper. Hmm, a piece of paper
explanation, for You look at thetwo of you sort of pay attention

(02:26:39):
to it and try to determine what it could have been.
Um and you determined that very much hidden away again, right
under this piece of paper, you find yet another piece of black
and particle. You pull it up as well.
And again, just from ways havingtrouble explaining how you're
even determining this through fucking Divine Force.

(02:26:59):
You figure out my tongue and tasted like any good detective.
Dude, good detective you determined.
This is a little bit of burnt up.
Used powdered diamond. Oh, you look at the two and the
two of you guys work it backwards and come to a
conclusion. There was a glyph of warding

(02:27:21):
that was cast here using these diamonds and this paper.
Well one more thing A span was cast here, a glyph of warding
have you figured that out yet? The lawmakers alternative to you
and they look genuinely surprised, one of them sort of
raises an eyebrow and goes. Well, what's evident diamond and
scraps of paper? Now, do you know what this means

(02:27:41):
or do? I need to tell you?
I see components of the glyph ofwarding, but, well, could have
been cast. The figures all look around and
you to look at the big picture, think bigger, what's not the
purpose or? But the second victim to man,
we're attacked that night. We need to find the one who

(02:28:03):
didn't die and he might know what happened.
The lawmakers alternate you in their eyes sort of go wide.
What, how could that be? You're telling me an innocent
man walked in here holding a bomb and spouted it in front of
a known Professor truly never heard of the glyph of warding.
Oh yes, but in the ground was placed here hours before he

(02:28:24):
arrived most likely and Activated by someone, perhaps
someone with a line of sight, I pointed the guards overlooking
from up high was activated and killed two men here or should I
say hitch to men as one corpse has been found and the other is
missing the figures look around and they sort of lean down and
look at the cobbles and one Masters pulls out that giant

(02:28:48):
magnifying glass that you saw again and holds it over the
cobbles and sort of really gets down on his knees staring into
the hole of corrosive Rock and goes but God's you're right on
this very Cobblestone. A spell was cast of warding with
those very components. You have in your hands, the dust
the Dust. The lawmakers all sort of stand

(02:29:10):
back up and turn back before yougo.
They seem actually sort of excited about this and they go
but this could only mean one thing that someone came here
perfectly they knew they would be a meeting here.
They knew who was gonna be there?
Premeditated. So they must have had some act
and setting it up a gentleman. We'd like to apologize.
This is good information. Yes the one Masters both going
alive and give them and Orpheus a little handshake.

(02:29:34):
Goodness, I wonder what the trigger was.
If some sort of acidification occurred here, why would perhaps
a word had to be spoken or a deal made?
Could I call in my my expert? The figures look at each other
and they look back at you and they're like, yes, you've proved
yourself God's let the way and the guards current and let the

(02:29:55):
rest of you guys wander down into the crime scene.
Oh, sounds like I'm being calledfamous what could have set off a
glyph of warding here. um well Mason do you want me to make a
check for this or um yeah just make an Arcana check You?
Yeah, it's it won't be that. Oh, 25.
Okay, yeah. So the most, unfortunately, the

(02:30:17):
answer, which, you know, is not that helpful glyphs of warding
have near infinite possibilitiesof activation conditions.
The most standard ones are just stuff.
Like, you know, if it was placedon a cobblestone for instance,
you would be like whoever steps on this it activates or after
midnight it activates or you know when somebody looks at it
closely activates blah blah but it can be something as specific

(02:30:40):
as when an auto gnome steps up on this after dark and Shake
someone's hand. It'll active there's no no
knowing Yes, unfortunately for glyphs awarding.
It seems as though, anything canreally be the trigger and if
it's was indeed premeditated. Like you said, I'm I'm sure the

(02:31:01):
trigger had to do something withan auto gnome being nearby.
Quite so we know a third party. That's what she called them.
You know, the Nana's decathlon, talked to tons to the tons.
Everybody use glyphs awarding. I don't think so.
So it was likely a well, we don't know who is magic isn't

(02:31:24):
super common and recognize. That's right.
That's physical. I suppose.
It's still could have been whoever doctor him was meeting
here, but he seems to me, they were probably both hit.
Yeah, from your memory, dulum, you know, that again, there's
not much magic in mechanist, so some of the very higher beings
in mechanisms could perform somespells.

(02:31:44):
Like your second. This is had some magical
abilities. Now of warning is sort of
inherently distrustful, you know, that implies your hiding
something from someone and hoping they activate it, which
is inherently deceitful, which is definitely not of mechanisms,
so you're pretty sure, it has nothing to do with your home.
No one in our plane uses glyphs.So I don't think it would be one

(02:32:06):
of them. He grows deep, the law Masters
also returned to you guys and gowith.
This is a fascinating and development.
There could be a real witness around here and that gives more
Credence to that. One of these Gods was the
perpetrator or at least some sort of accomplished.
Now what makes you so certain that a second man was caught in
the blast, perhaps the individual with the boot prints
back, there was still the perpetrator and merely lowered

(02:32:29):
the good doctor in here to step on that stone.
But wouldn't he, the boot wearerhave been caught up in the same
blast. This is quite the radius.
The lawmakers look around and go.
Well, yes, but it is not uncommon for to kill themselves.
They want to destroy a high member of society that could
have happened. The evidence was merely washed
away. That's not uncommon.

(02:32:49):
You think this college professorwas suicide?
Bombed. I feel like that's more Uncommon
than just a murderer. Why would he be in here?
That's all couldn't he just havetold doctor him to meet him here
and Doctor him would ball himself alone.
You're right, there's definitelysomething at play.
Well, at least we know magic is involved.
The That will complicate our jobs though.
The lawmakers are going to adaptto deal with the damn black

(02:33:11):
staffs, is that what you call that Arcane people?
Yes, the Wizards that live in a damn Tower over by the castle.
I could talk to them for you if You'd like, but well, you have
to send a formal report to them anyway.
So they just get told twice. I see the figures.
All turn to one another and go. Well, I suppose we should be

(02:33:32):
thanking you friend. Sorry.
For the rudeness when you arrived, this was actually quite
helpful, right? It was wasn't it.
Yes. Well you that's not trying.
That was a bomb on the edge of the city and do I know.
I'm the one who threw that ball off the wall, they all turned
you and look you what? I already explained this in a

(02:33:56):
way that like he was preventing it from occurring in another
public place. He didn't, he was not the one
who saw the ball right, found the ball through it to a list
populated location supposed. Now I should ask her and if you
were any of you with Dr. Him newat all.
Yes. Yes.
Apologies for your loss. Then you're on autonomous
yourself, then maybe you guys were related, very much so.

(02:34:18):
Well you were aware of who he was meeting.
Designed to any information about his whereabouts.
Could be very helpful. He mentioned.
He was meeting a divination wizard but he couldn't say the
name. Well, that's a bit suspicious
but I suppose we know he meant to leave the house that night.
Correct. I think he heard about the
wizard from other professors. I see.

(02:34:39):
Well if it's a wizard me to get back out, it's no wizard of
water deep. It must have been some sort of
Outsider most suspicious and wizards on known to cast spells
of warning is in their repertoire.
I think, could imagine individual doing the crime and
whoever this other might just caught up in it.
If it helps, he the professor did mention that the wizard has
black hair. All right, you see the floating

(02:35:02):
notebook. Something is jotted down and it
really quick and the lawmaster knowledge to you and ghosts.
Glad that was thank you. Also numb, of course, is there
any way that we could also investigate the professor's
room? The lawmakers turned to each
other and they got well, I didn't see why not just though,
likely being empty by the academy right now.
I'm sure that ready to For another professor to take over

(02:35:22):
pretty quick. They don't like it.
When these sort of things linger, you have our approval
though, just tell them that law.Master Henry gave you
permission. Great.
Thank you all. So is there any way we could see
what's left of the doctor? Yes, he's been in at the at the
Great. Steel Courthouse of waterdeep.
You'll see it is in the Court District.

(02:35:43):
It's open entry. If you're familiar with him
they'll allow you access. Sorry again for your loss too
bad. Thank you Henry?
Yes, of course was the good doctor.
Afraid of anyone attacking him? We heard rumors, but I haven't
had anything more specific. Yes.
He was afraid of his own plane mechanisms, right.
I think I've read about it. Well, we didn't think there have

(02:36:05):
done something like this. We usually don't use Cliffs so I
don't think it was someone directly sent from there.
Well, good to know then. Right, we're gonna keep
investigating around here. See if we find anything more,
but please feel free to have a look around if you like and you
have good gracious to go investigate the body and his
office again. Sorry, for your loss.

(02:36:26):
He was quite a good man. Thank you.
Yes, I agree. One last question is speak up?
Can my friend inspect your monocle?
Yes. Well I suppose a glyph of
warding is a good investigation and knowing that this second
person here was at risk of the attack.
Does add something. We now can put out a watch on a

(02:36:46):
blackhead wizard from out of town.
Please go ahead. Take a look, they figure pulls
out. This oversized magnifying
glasses handed to you pay us. Um, you want to roll Insight or
Arcana on this thing. I will roll our Cana and I will
cast it out of it. All right, a minute goes by as
you sort of gleam over. It's one of the lawmakers looks
at you and goes off another wizard.

(02:37:08):
Good God. Take your time with it.
Why don't you pick over it? Thank you.
All right I'm gonna goes by you're casting.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
All right. Um this is the Magnificent
magnifier. This magnifying glass is a
actually fairly simple magic item.
It's common that basically helpsdeduction while looking through

(02:37:31):
the glass at an object within one foot of you.
You effectively have Advantage for any Arcana or investigation
checks, you make nice. In addition, the magnifying
glass also has one spell that isstored within it once per day.
You can cast identify from it, okay?
So it's just a magnifying glass that can cost it apply.

(02:37:54):
It's funny all magnifying glass give you advantage and
disadvantage. All right, stupid.
But it can cast identify for free.
Yeah, that's nice. The so what law Master takes it
back from you and Pockets it away?
Well, you'll do good to at leastfollow the rules and laws of
these different sectors. You're going to enter.
If you're going to investigate this man's death just let them

(02:38:16):
know. Lawmaster Henry gave you
permission to follow the case but if any of the law Master
turns you down you'll do good toobey.
Of course. All right man, please have a
look around if you'd like could you and I want to get out a
piece of parchment because you write us a letter of
recommendation. Yes, fine and the figure quickly
scribble something down and signs it and pulls out a seal

(02:38:37):
from their pocket and stamps. It really fast.
It's a very quick boring scribble.
That just reads basically something along the lines of law
Master to Henry gives express permission to the autonomy and
young woman question mark sir. Question, mark the youngster to

(02:38:59):
investigate the death and causing of Dr. Him fall the date
of and then it listed today's date, effectively giving you
guys the day signals to Henry. And then a small stamp in the
corner that looks to be the luster sigil lovely.
You've basically gotten the lay of it or face.
Your Role is such that you are confident, there's nothing else
here to be found. Except if you like started

(02:39:21):
talking to people or maybe, you know, looked in other areas but
like this alley, you've searched.
So I at this point, you have still the whole day and I
suppose a little mystery to unravel, would you like to do
able mentioned? He has some connections, the
dark wars, maybe we could ask him to ask around if any of them
saw anything. Last night, we could also go

(02:39:42):
investigate Dr. Hymns classroom and the body of Lee.
I think those are both good ideas.
In fact, if you want to speed itup, we could split up, though.
I found we actually much more efficient as a group.
That's true. Oh, I want to turn back to the
investigators. Yes.
Oh and you're done here, please collect all these metal scraps.
Obviously, you're going to anyways and keep them together.

(02:40:05):
This is Samir out of the last, the leading expert in robotics
in the material plane and sir cat.
He's going to see to putting Dr.Him back together when this is
all over. I would try my best so I can't
promise anything. Put him back together.
Do you mean like revive him? I do.
Oh goodness. Well I'm sorry friends but you
haven't seen the body as have you I wouldn't get your hopes

(02:40:27):
too high. Just keep.
That place. Yes, of course we'll bring them
back to the to the court house. Thank you very much, right?
Good luck. You too.
Thank you. Hey listen.
If you're ever interested in joining our apprenticeship
program, please do you've got a Keen Eye.
Nobody's Apprentice, but thank you.
So whatever you say good day then.

(02:40:51):
And we're like to go. But I supposed to be think the
body, the office or asking around the Dark World or split
up in search for clothes. Well, I think we searched for
clues that way. We can, at least separate malice
and Abel. I love that idea.
I love it. Who's gonna get stuck with?
Who I can ask her out of the Dark Horse?

(02:41:13):
I'm quite Charming. Okay, I could babysit my oldest.
So, do you guys watch to go to his office?
Oh yeah, maybe me and Irish go to the office.
Philippines Samir. Turn I will say you are a great
investigator or that's true. Maybe I shouldn't stay at to ask

(02:41:36):
her out of the dock Ward. That's not really my skill set.
We could all do this. Together too just sort of go pop
up. I would do that.
Sure. It let's ask around the talk
word first while we're here. Hey, I want to actually okay
actually I want to stay quiet and try to sneak up behind
malice and Abel without like actually sneaking to preserve my

(02:41:57):
pride so I can see if I can figure out what they're talking
about. That's all of them are.
Yes. Remember the two of them are
actively facing the Ally that you guys are all in?
Just the ways away. It would be sort of hard to
sneak up on them, they're just watching the only exit.
Okay. That's your, you do hear the end
of their conversation is Malika so it's really a fucking
princess. No way able to continue yes.

(02:42:20):
Quite in fact she was kind lady as well not to mention she had
quite a few servants to join us when we were in the middle of
it. Oh this isn't true.
This isn't true. I don't think it's true about
us. Don't come from me when I was
alive. I had a great many times and one
of them he made grand tales about the life he lived and no

(02:42:41):
one remembers their life that clearly, right?
Molly, you know that? Well yeah.
But you know, All. I mean, you sort of got the
evidence for it. I mean that was quite the
detailed story. He's had a lot of time to think
it up. No, other face don't downplay my
Great accomplishments. Clearly, you haven't had enough
of any of this sort of excitement in your life.
No, never have never will thank you.

(02:43:02):
What, what did you determine back there?
I just cracked the case wide open, was it a friend?
But it was a good friend of Dooms, and samir's, but also all
of ours, but also mostly Dylan since meets.
Well, listen, um, if you plan oncontinuing to investigate this,
I would love to help where I can.
But unfortunately, if you continue to interact with the

(02:43:22):
law folk of this town, I would like to hide in the shadows,
just like this. So um I'm sure you understand.
I know we've just met and I still wanted to discuss a lot
with your friends as well as with you or Affairs.
But if today is a day of investigative sleuthing, I might
take a back seat perhaps that should be best but before then
actually we were hoping to ask around the people of the docs.

(02:43:43):
Actually see if anyone heard anything or saw anything.
Or maybe even ask some of your shady or connections.
If they know if the guard who ison shift last night was crooked
well, I do have quite a few connections around here like a
sort of elbows and got fucking shit out of here.
Do you, buddy? Hey, listen, I can get you in
with the real shady motherfukersout here.
All right, practically spent thenight with half of them.

(02:44:05):
But you slept with them too? No, no, no.
I do not do that. Except when money's at all?
Are you the one paying or bail on paying for you there?
I don't money is involved. Don't worry about it.
You see more um and all right atthis point.
Do you guys want to start investigating?

(02:44:28):
Yeah. Like, you want, give me just
sort of a broad investigation. Check, please.
For the for the docs, everyone. I sort of think if you guys, Not
like sort of split up and ask around you can, but I imagine if
you're sort of walking together,I'll just want one person to
take the lead on it, but splitting up as its merits as

(02:44:48):
well. You may do what you like.
Should I do with Advantage because help?
Yes, yeah, okay. Oh wow.
Okay, 28 Wow. All right.
Um, that's even better than yourfucking role before.
What the Sherlock, Holmes, I just having a good rules, right?
Yeah. I like it.
I like it. But they're on the website.
You can see them know, they're really fast.

(02:45:12):
All right. So, um, you began investigating
the doc District. So, um, because there are
there's a decent amount of people in this area.
Again, a lot of people for higher, a lot of just Here I
can't do it anymore. Every time you yeah, thanks.

(02:45:33):
Um, so you go investigating, there is a pretty large group of
people who seem to just be standing around looking for
work. So or says you to turn that
could be a good place to start. Well, I was sort of hoping take
the lead on this. Because then you sort of then

(02:45:54):
just a follows lead and then getinto conversation Abel does sort
of do the rounds and you do notice about a third of the
people out here, give him a wave.
They don't say anything but justwave to him.
As if you was familiar to them, eventually able um sort of
saddles on up to one of the dogs, which houses a great many
crew. But 30 people all mulling about
that. Look like they're in the midst

(02:46:15):
of waiting on something before they set off and almost all of
them give away to Abel one of them.
Even shout. So yo bar, how you doing heard
you are Buster, Jail recently, sort of shouting this enable
sort of turns around and puts a finger to his lips hush.
Now that's, that's That's not true at all.

(02:46:36):
Come here friends. And he sort of settles on in
with them and sort of questions.Now, good gentleman.
I've been if you seen anything this fine evening before
perhaps, anything in that dingy corner of there and this is
where your role comes in or facewhere you start asking leading
questions. May take late.
The figures all respond surprisingly kind and friendly

(02:46:58):
to the burg, which is what they keep calling Abel now.
Sorry, Berg. We don't know any crooked cops
not in that Barracks. They the stockades are pretty
well tight down there. The type that you know, they
don't like working there. But damn it.
They'll do it on us. If there was a crooked up there,
we didn't know it. Now, last night, let's see some

(02:47:19):
sort of explosion. I don't remember hearing nothing
though. Most of the boys are out
drinking. Yeah, we a bird, you would want
you like, you know, your cruise around here somewhere.
Did you ask them? I don't have the crew to.
My name is Abel, regardless perhaps, you've seen something
else, or you've heard something around.
And you determined through them,that they kind of responded in a
manner of General know. Yeah, I mean, normally we'd hear

(02:47:41):
explosions. I mean, we heard that one That
Rocks the wall far away. Yeah, there was this big one
that fucking echoed. Oh yeah, about the Korean
mentioned, where would I find them?
That Berg's crew. Yeah.
They'd all be waiting to set offtheir summer around here and
sort of looking around now shit.Well, it's probably been a few
days since the one missing of weeks actually they're probably

(02:48:03):
up drinking out of town or something.
You'll know what they all right buddy one of them, slaps Abel on
the back and he sort of takes itand goes yes of course.
I would know if I had a crew butI do not.
That is not in my repertoire. Whatever you say, big to fella.
And they all sort of laughable, sort of pulls away and goes, I
really don't have a crew. I don't know what they're
looking for. I'm not here in has a crew.

(02:48:25):
Well, I don't so they're not mine.
I suppose that's true. But might, I don't know.
They might have informations, wecould use.
But if they want here, if they were out drinking then they
didn't see anything. I suppose.
That's true. What horror face?
Do you want to make friends withcrewmates or oh, let me guess
you're jealous. Is that what it is?
That I have a whole Legion that might have been to my orders?

(02:48:51):
in charge, and I believe that, So Sergeant, we are all in
charge of ourselves. Said that, as I said, I was
trying to give a compliment for a compliment was due.
So you lied to me. Is that it able, I don't You

(02:49:18):
know what? That's run that back.
Sorry, sorry. Um, that didn't mean the L.
Even if my point stands, you're right, you're right.
You guys got Irish balls, um, and you can't seem to gather
anymore information from the docworkers with your role.
You ask around a couple more places but nobody here heard

(02:49:38):
anything and they all sort of confirmed that none of the
guards up, top were likely crooked.
They don't think anyone was in on it from up there, but they
could have just not been aware with your investigation.
You were able to ask pretty thoroughly though.
Okay, okay, but I swear to next,I believe we should see the
body. I think we should go to his room
because I heard that they were cleaning out his room that is

(02:50:01):
right. Um, You guys begin, making your
way back through town. Um, able sort of flags you down
again or her face and goes, listen oral.
As I was saying, if you're goingplanning on going to some law
house or a place where gods are I might just stay back, is there
a common ground? I could spend and wait for you
to complete your investigation? The end the Flaming ball.

(02:50:25):
Sure, I'd be happy to I. Again I feel about for not
helping more. You just you all understand this
damned body and its criminal activities, I feel useless.
I know the feeling sorry. Well, I'll head back then.
I'll meet you again this evening.
I'm sorry again for not being more helpful, but I love to
discuss more with, but your plans.
And in General Motors, I can help.
If you ever need a strong arm, please come find me.

(02:50:47):
And I suppose, I'll just be sitting alone.
He looks around. I glare at Melius now.
I guess looks at you and shrugs and able not just his head hits
a suit and goes right then I'll meet you all back later.
Please enjoy your investigation and my best of luck and he turns
and trots off. Malika shrugs, not ready.
Yet. Wanna take my time with this

(02:51:08):
one. Oh, I guess I could see.
What the fuck? He's an evil man.
You don't what now he kept talking about STDs and I think
or Affairs was telling him shit about me and I understand and I
get the hint. You are a fast.

(02:51:29):
All right, what's best for you? Prepare us doesn't know shit.
Hello. Oh you do fuck man.
It's just so lonely in the stockades.
Sorry you're only but can't you like the brobo for you to have
like sex with literally anyone besides my friend and I'll do my
best but I can't promise. At your promise, what is your

(02:51:53):
best? If not succeeding at this?
Fuck man or face? Listen, I am a man who has needs
okay, and I feel it is rude for you to hinder them.
I don't think we should. All so has a need and that need
is for you to not fuck or comrade and he's as I have

(02:52:18):
stated. I also have a need for you.
Not to mess with him. Your own safety.
Do you? I have, I have.
Does he have an STD probably? You guys.
What the fuck? All this shit.
I guess he wouldn't know if he had one ha.

(02:52:38):
Yeah, I thought D&D was a secretspace with no STDs.
Never be too careful. All right, no more shitt from
Alice. I get it.
Yeah, I guess literally. Anyone else Careful.
Okay. Point taken oh no anyone else
like I get it. And what would you guys like to

(02:53:00):
do now? Where do you want to go?
I guess. All right, you will just sort of
fast travel over to the academicWard, you guys make your way
into his classroom. These classroom is actually a
shared classroom and as you makeyour way in, you find that it is
currently being a, another lecture is occurring right now.
A would looks like some Group ofpeople, you sort of poke your

(02:53:23):
head in, there's sort of free entry to a lot of these places.
And you don't think anyone wouldhark you for just sitting in on
the class but you joined with sounds like a business and
economics class talked by a pairof elves, a man and a woman.
Both the look like they're in their middling ears which like
me means somewhere in between 200 and 400 for an elf and they
are teaching on a large black with chalk that seemed to

(02:53:46):
magically float along drawing large diagrams and showing the
economic input and output of Water.
Deep, sort of business class. You quickly gather that there
isn't going to be much evidence of the doctor here.
You think his office is probablythe best spot.
On the office. All right, so you go, as you
sort of leave. Samir goes that place.

(02:54:07):
Looks nice, you know? Maybe we should just sit in and
learn a little something. No one wants to fucking learn
with you Samir Jesus. I do shut up about it.
You not have the time, it's likethe third time.
You mentioned it man. Jesus Me don't know, I think
learning is an important part oflife, right?
It is the kind of thing that, no, there is a great many people

(02:54:29):
out there who don't have that luxury, and I'd like to think
that, you know, because we do, it could be worth it.
I don't know, I don't do not, wedo not learn, we are subject to
the same, endless cycles of Unknowing.
Sure. I like your reasoning higher.
That's a bit more. I was gonna say more like, you
know, I don't want to be foreverin this current version of my

(02:54:52):
life, I want to get smarter and you know that would involve a
teacher. You don't like this version of
your life. I missed speak.
I just mean, you know I I one day perhaps want to have more
skills than I already have. It, what I mean to say, if say I
died today, I would not be satisfied.
I wanted to learn more or no more things.
Meet more people. Perhaps, that is a nice goal,

(02:55:15):
that's not so wrong, right? No, not wrong.
It's just endearing. I don't know.
It's always seems to me. You already know a lot of things
and had seen a lot of people that you've lived a long time
much longer than I have. And so, you know, I mean, how
much you can really gain from the world besides, I
unfortunately don't know that much.

(02:55:35):
I'm sure I seem that way to you guys, but when it comes to
Mechanical creatures, I am stillbut the novice I couldn't even
really help Doom. When its core was hardened and I
don't know if it will be able tofix Professor him.
I don't know if I have that skill.
Yes, of course. And that's what you know,
teaching could be. I just, I don't know.
There's a part of me that likes to learning is all All right,

(02:55:58):
then you guys head down to the office.
Now you just send that long staircase as you remember and
eventually make your way over tohis office.
Which does have two guards stationed out front as well of
the guards. There are also a great number of
what looks like boxes being piled, right outside of the
office. These seem to be a lot of doctor
him stuff, and it does look likeit's being cleared out the

(02:56:20):
guards. Sort of give you guys a wave as
you approach and go. Oh yeah.
If you looking for Doctor him, sorry officer.
I was a close the, uh, he's unfortunately, passed terrible
way to say that. Honestly, um, here's our
documents. I handle the paper, take the
paper scanner over. Oh yeah, with the fuck.
Yeah, with the law Master, the other guards, sort of leans up
and goes oh that's nice. You guys he had to like, take a

(02:56:42):
look at the place. Yeah, yeah.
A group of lawmakers to sort of did a once over early but, you
know, always good to get a second pair of eyes.
Listen, we sort of move some stuff around, so sorry if that
ruins the evidence or whatever but, you know, maybe I'll find
some stuff. Okay, can you stop moving things
for now? Uh, yeah, yeah, I hate boys.
Slow it down in there and you turn.
And you see another two guards inside that look to be a

(02:57:04):
maneuvering around some boxes. They both take a half stop and
they all seem to go for a drink break, one of the pulls out, a
small flask and begin sharing. Um, inside the room is a bit of
a mess when you win the previous, I guess, two days ago,
it was obviously much more cleaned up, but now everything
seems to be in the process of being boxed away.
As expected that there's basically everything in here

(02:57:25):
that a professor of mechanical creatures might have about 10
different sets of artificer tools.
Stone workers, tools, metallurgic tools and even some
thieves tools here. That looked to be used for fine.
Slide of hand work needed for mechanical creatures as well.
There are a few old pieces of other automatons in here, you

(02:57:49):
find some old rusted, warforged parts and things that were
likely found out in the world and we're nearly taking here for
study, sort of like, you know, having a human skeleton in
anatomy class. As well.
There are also a lot of Trinketsand a few things that you
imagine the autonom had just forenjoying them funny enough duel

(02:58:10):
him. You also kind of enjoy looking
at these trinkets a few things scattered across the desk like a
prism that glows and sort of spins when you pick it up and
tilt it just right as well. There's also a little Cube that
has different levels of light passing through each side he
sort of look through one in and his bride.
You looked at the other and it'spitch black and they're just

(02:58:30):
sort of like neat optical illusion.
Type things that tickle your fancy.
Could I pick up the the prism? You pick up the prism?
Um, I'm just like look at it fora little bit, just hold it while
we're looking around. All right, you take it at this
point. I would like an investigation
check for anything. More details.
Hope. Oh 11111, 22.

(02:58:51):
Oh 21 God, these are high fucking rolls, man.
What's your investigation modifier plus?
11, did you guys know there's a street on this map called Snail
Street? Oh, Neil Street.
Proficiency. expertise, and plusfive and It's what I get for

(02:59:16):
having two negative stuff. I can't believe you had plus,
you plus 11. Okay. 21, you guys began
investigating the guards. All clear out and it's a very
cramped little office. We recall, the door, is this

(02:59:38):
giant iron door with these huge metal bands.
Wrapped around at that looks like some sort of blast door for
land. It wasn't enough to protect the
good doctor him. It's sad to see him not here.
He really filled the space well and setting behind the desk.
Now is just an empty very high stool, that allows an Autumn to
be eye level, with the average creature.

(02:59:58):
But with a 21 you guys get to look around.
So um first you find that besidethe boxes, everything that the
doctor placed around this officeis extremely orderly, there is a
beautiful bookshelf of iron wrought iron with um labeled

(03:00:21):
lectures. All first looks like ranked by
year and then further by title, alphabetical order nice um
lectures on Clockwork. Studies gears mechanists the
plane, you find steel diagrams. Basically what looks like
printed onto steal plates stacked in a corner.

(03:00:44):
All depicting geometry of Auto gnomes, great gears that are all
labeled in common you find bottles of oil stacked.
On that iron bookshelf, Lots Of what looks like components for
and auto gnome. These are replacement parts and
a small box at the bottom of thebookshelf.

(03:01:05):
Doom, you recognize these, you probably have a pouch of these
somewhere on your self as well, this just includes spare bolts
and screws. And anything, that could easily
break that you could replace simply enough nice.
You also find there are more sort of components of other
mechanical creatures in here. Well, stocked away on a cupboard

(03:01:26):
behind the desk, metallic feathers, scraps of metal
plating even. What looks like a dried out
artificial eyeball in a velvet tray.
Um, you find in a drawer in the desk, placed neatly atop,
another stack of papers is a notebook titled sentiment
analysis and then in parenthesesfailing cases, it can cage Pages

(03:01:51):
scribbled with sort of poetry and short musics.
Oh, it reads stuff. Like what does it mean?
That's I feel Joy now in calibration.
Or another page reads. My gate has changed.
I did not program this. Whoa, it's just more amusing

(03:02:12):
such as that a top, the half now, cleared out desk.
You also find there are a few academic journals.
These are typical academic journals that I suppose.
None of your proper reading folkbut it's the kind of thing that
you might be able to find in official libraries or in
scholarly places such as this isprobably not books that an

(03:02:33):
average person could have accessto.
So they're probably worth a little bit and it's all things
on mechanical creatures, the topone reads variants in Rogue.
Modron's the second one, how to animate an auto gnome?
The third one free will in clockwork.
Colin can it be done? Um, sort of tap on the, how to

(03:02:55):
animate an auto no book, and look at Samira nods and points
back out. It I've seen this cover but that
never read it before. In fact, all three of these
books would be new to me. I'd love to have them for a
personal collection though. I understand they're probably
possession of the academy. You might be able to.
Look at them with your high investigation or face.

(03:03:16):
You also determined that all three of these books look to
have put up, been put out kind of recently.
And in fact, you imagine that the autonomy, Dr. Him were like,
was likely reading these books in response to the conversation
that he had with doom. What was the other two is?
How to Animate, I don't know. Free Will.
Okay and the last one free will in automatons.

(03:03:38):
Can it happen and the last one is Rogue modron's.
Cool. The guards are still sort of
hanging out outside. So you think if you want to
steal these books you'd have to give me a slide of handshake.
Now stealing is a crime though so that is that yeah I wouldn't
steal it. I don't see why you couldn't
never mind. What if I what if I call the
distraction I would you Wanted to track today.

(03:04:01):
I'll do that. Listen.
It's fine. We can probably just threaten
these from the library. Yeah, that being said, I will
open the free will one and skim it.
All right, you sort of skim it. Give me a just like a brief.

(03:04:26):
I want an Arcana know. I want to a nature.
Check this fuck. Okay, give me a sentient check.
Whoa, 18. Okay, I'm using nature here as
in like the nature of things because this book is a fairly
detailed. It's almost like a, you know,
those books where you open it upand it's got the little like

(03:04:48):
preserved butterflies in their Oh, this book is filled with
very thin Metal, Sheets that have all been labeled and
diagram and they all seem to be pieces of autognomes and
warfare's and Mojo drones of mechanists.
This is yet another quick momentthat you log Doom, as more

(03:05:08):
pieces that could technically build something if you wanted,
but they're all been preserved and this book looks now that
you've opened it and seen insideof it.
It's almost like a little picture book as you scroll
through, but there's physical metal in here.
And you determined immediately that this book is actually very
well. It was often a scholar, like
hundreds of hours to have made this scrolling through.
You don't learn a lot that you don't already know.

(03:05:30):
It's labeling pieces of autognomes, which you already
know pieces of warforged, which you were, would be able to
Intuit pretty easily and eventually it starts to
discussing where the and you're specifically looking.
Are you like what are you looking for?
How much you tell me that? Oh, mostly just any.
This is the free will one, right?
Yeah. This is the freeway one.

(03:05:50):
Most See, just any philosophy onFree Will.
Okay. Yeah, so very quickly you notice
that there's very little philosophy in here.
Instead, it mostly discusses wayor free will is kept.
This is sort of an odd thing, but it's like each of these
components are labeled and it notes that, you know, in this
plate and there can be no free will, but in these joints, if
Free Will is allowed, they can be moved up to this much more

(03:06:13):
than programming is allowed. Hmm?
Okay, I want to find those parts.
Okay. You scroll through it and make
note of all those parts. It's things that, you know, you
have, you know, like it says forexample a shoulder joint can
only rotate this degree to this degree which you know and
recognize as the factory settings that you come with, but
it lists under extreme circumstances with emotional

(03:06:35):
stress, a free will to automatonmay be able to bend their
shoulder joint up to this extreme degree.
And you make note of that similar cases, pop up with other
joints and parts of the body. You read some interesting
Clauses about specific example, lifting strength, you of course
know Exactly how much you could lift at any given time.
But it lists here that an extremely emotionally, outraged,

(03:06:56):
automaton could lift more than their body is capable through
willpower at the very back of the book is some short music.
So on Free, Will it merely listed in a very scientific way?
Not really a philosophical way like is Free Will possible but
more in the area of, when removing these components of an
autonomy Free Will is completelyremove.

(03:07:18):
Similarly, if you want to discover free willing to know,
or any sort of automaton, merelyinvestigate these joints, these
parts, and these gears. And if extenuating or extending
beyond their normal limit, you might be to assess a rogue Auto
creature, that's all you get nice.
Well, that way, it's a nice book.
The rest of you guys see it, my guess is it.

(03:07:40):
That looks expensive. Otherwise with a 21 or a fast,
you find one more thing. That's a bit out of place.
Up on the bookshelf, where therewere hundreds of lectures, all
listed in chronological order you with your 21 investigates,

(03:08:01):
okay? Logged in correctly, the date
was right? But you notice alphabetically in
the wrong spot. Okay.
It lists something simple. It's the lecture was merely on
mechanical rhythmic artificial Hearts.
Okay. And whether or not they could be
installed in humans. But as you pull it out and go to

(03:08:22):
almost logging in the right place, you notice that the
content has nothing to do even on the front page with
mechanical Hearts instead, it looks to be personal writings.
Whoa, beautiful. Oh, good.
For the most recent page you flip through this hidden fine.
Seems to be more of like a personal Journal different than

(03:08:43):
the one you found earlier that merely listed sort of musings
and like stilted poetry. This one discusses Dr. Hymns
personal body a bit more, at least, some pages you to the
most recent page. And at the top, you see in
almost a jagged handwriting. It reads the core pulses, more
irregularly. Now, the calibration ruin, I

(03:09:06):
etched last cycle, has completely degraded.
But it reads a dream that is impossible.
I have no subroutine for dreams.I don't sleep continuing the
next line reads. I saw a motor on yesterday or
something like it watching me onthe street.
It shouldn't have been able to find me, not here, I shouldn't

(03:09:27):
leave the academy, you can continue to scroll through more
and more. Recent you read, it's similar
musics Dr. Him speaks of feelings, emotions you, read a
page that's large, big scrollingof anger, rage.
Why did it's do this? Why did Primus make me play?

(03:09:48):
I was not meant to feel these things.
I wasn't born into it. The next page Sadness and
Sorrow. Simple words that read should I
power down? Would that be best for
mechanisms as a whole? Or is it my goal to teach people
what this is like? So they may learn from it, I
know, not still further. You find a sealed envelope.
Stuck between the pages, it's reads in the event of complete

(03:10:12):
core degradation, okay? It is to do them deal on my
envelope is placed in your hands, the there are on the most
recent page and you'll notice none of them.
None of them are dated, which does got three off because
again, you'd imagine this autonomy would have been a bit
more careful about that. But regardless, the most recent
page was about halfway through the book book reads at the top.

(03:10:35):
It says tonight, I have goals tomeet with someone who can solve
this. If I vanish do not go looking
for me, it reads. Then after it you see first off,
there's a little sketch of dulum.
Oh, It is a fairly accurate reproduction of dualism, with
all the little runes that Doom has some of the Moss that still

(03:10:56):
cake to you do them. There's some annotations along
it too, increased variants more expressive.
And then you see Arcane underlined in with a question
mark at the end. Okay?
Underneath that is one last sentence and then the rest of
the book is blanket reads. If this continues, the
inevitables will come for me. I am flawed, I am not mechanism

(03:11:20):
anymore. And that's the last thing you
see what ifs? What did you find to the
inevitable? You know, anything to you do
them, you want to give me a history, check turn 19, um,
dulum you actually? Yeah, this, this was not a high,
do you see, you know what the inevitables are.
In fact, it doesn't take much toremind you of them for every
creature. Born in mechanists, isn't

(03:11:42):
stealed with the most innate fear of these creatures.
In fact, it washes over you, as Orpheus reads the words for at
first. It's a mechanical fear.
You recognize it as a natural senses that you were giving your
very basic fighter flight to that every creature's programmed
with. But afterward, something sticks,
The programming ends but you feel a sticky sensation in the

(03:12:05):
back of your head is sort of nasty overwhelming horror and
fear sticks to your head. As you think of these creatures,
the inevitables a group of conscious intelligent constructs
that carry out. Effectively promises will across
the Multiverse they are they differ from All Creatures of

(03:12:25):
mechanisms and two. Interesting ways, first off,
they are intelligent truly intelligent or officially so
they are still mechanical by Nature.
They have no blood but they are independent.
They don't have programming. They are effectively each one of
these creatures, and you're not sure how many there are at some

(03:12:46):
point you heard, there's four other times.
You've heard there's 10, but they are all sort of outside of
the general hierarchy of modronsin mechanists.
This is because of their intelligence, they're capable of
thought of memory of learning and their sole purpose.
Is basically to enforce the highest fundamental law of
nature, which is the law that all creatures have to abide by

(03:13:08):
and specifically out of mechanist.
That means every creature that breaks those laws which includes
Rogue mode drawings can be hunted by these creatures.
They are likely under Primus themost powerful beings in
mechanists, you know. This, the one thing that all the
other thing that makes them, different one being their
intelligence. The other one is that they

(03:13:30):
oftentimes used chaos as a weapon.
Specifically, the nature of their attacks are all chaotic.
They use spells, violence, spells, deceitful spells they
could regenerate and repair the program to avoid innocent beings
and you know that they're mostlylike a ghost story boogie man in
the night. You've of course heard of the
Merit m, a r u t. The scariest of them all a

(03:13:55):
creature that has been known to effectively carry out the will
of Primus in any Dimension regardless of the transgressor
to the highest order and you canfeel free to share all of this
with your friends. Okay, are you sure that's what
it says? Oh hand you the book that's run
over to it, you read through it and you agree with the dulum you

(03:14:17):
again, these inevitables are boogie man.
You've never seen one though. You've been told that they
basically hunt down those who try to deny or cheat death in
the most extreme circumstances. This is not the kind of thing
Primus with send out for any auto know who isn't meant to do.
Things. The last time you ever heard of
an inevitable doing anything wasto say, for example, stop a

(03:14:40):
motor on uprising of 10,000 Rogue modrons a single
inevitable can be sent to quell that.
And, you know, these creatures rarely Target people who are
like struggling to stay alive or, you know, leashes or using
Resurrection magic instead, theytarget people who use unnatural
methods to extend their existence.
This includes excessive or extensive uses of magic such as

(03:15:05):
sacrificing, hundreds of people to avoid an illness or to stay
alive, stuff that sort of borders on lichdom.
So you imagine that this creature.
Dr. Him was likely just talking about ghosts.
You don't think there would be any reason that any of these
creatures would attack him. He must have been very scared
out of his mind. Almost those things should never

(03:15:25):
come for someone like us. He wasn't even this room.
I have also heard of these things do them.
Smaller but they're not supposedto be even real in this sense.
It is practically premises private enforcers for very
personal, very important things.If this single autonom had done

(03:15:48):
something so wrong to harm, the god of a plane.
I doubt that I just, I doubt that even happened.
I'll go ahead. Oh, she's going to say.
Um I suppose the only explanation is he was paranoid
or speaking metaphorically or hewas involved in something we
don't know about and just to interrupt real quick.

(03:16:09):
Also demos you recognize this term, inevitables you've heard
about it. This is something that you
learned in your studies back at the Academy of specifically that
mystra, the goddess of magic frequently called on these
creatures to do things for her. Personally.
Wow. Collaborative because they are

(03:16:31):
lawful and because they basically go out of their way to
hunt down those who try to deny your cheat, death mystra,
oftentimes gets into trouble with Wizards or creatures that,
you know, try to use magic to doso and having an inevitable help
with that is pretty convenient. Well, um, I think he was just

(03:16:52):
acting a bit crazy. I'm sure he was scared.
I imagine what happened was these emotions that he was
feeling led to paranoia which led to these sort of ramblings.
Now, what is this that says hereabout not going looking for him,
if he vanishes tonight, was he expecting a fight?
Because if so, why didn't he tell us?

(03:17:13):
I'm not sure I offered the follow.
I almost hate to see this because it's not true.
How Sergeant can we be that he really died there, that's this
wasn't deployed to try to fool, the mud ones, coming from him
coming for him. Well, he wasn't a spellcaster,
right, so he wouldn't have been able to perform the asset spell,

(03:17:36):
but if you had a friend to do it, maybe, but why he that
conversation just the other day?Doom, you and him would get a
lot. He was excited to work with you.
Why would he hide? I don't know.
This book proves that he was scared.
If you was this scared, he mighthave done something dangerous.
Yeah, I do them. You get the picture of an auto

(03:17:59):
gnome that had definitely deteriorated from its standard
values. This is it from all your
programming, you know, is someone who was Rogue someone
who would likely you would have had to turn in as being, a rogue
Auto gnome to go in for some sort of investigation and likely
repairs it strikes you as a bit unstable but you sort of Art in

(03:18:22):
that when talking with them I didn't realize he was this far
gone. I guess right.
So what's in that fucking envelope?
You should pop that open. I like that.
It's as open if his chord degenerates but that's good be
good to read for your knowledge in case your court about
regenerates, maybe at the plan. Perhaps I guess.
I'll wait to open it until I seeif his car is destroyed, right?

(03:18:45):
What would you guys like to do? Well, thank you guys for coming
with me. Course I wish there was more we
could do now. I suppose we should just see
what remains I don't think it would be too rude to say that
because we were close to him andhe didn't have any family that
we could perhaps keep some of his belongings to remember him

(03:19:07):
by. I sort of assumed that this the
academy here will just throw them out or donate them
somewhere but you know, I suppose you know him probably
better than anyone in only the few hours to him, do them.
That would be nice. I'm sure the goddard's really
goody. Yeah.
Maybe we can take these books. Look at that sort of touches,

(03:19:28):
the one with all the inscriptions and drawings, and I
would like that, I think samir'sright to do them, you should
take anything you want to. I think he would want you to
have it. Oh, that reminds me.
Can I quickly look around the room and see if I remember?
He had a magnifying glass last time we saw him because that

(03:19:50):
actually is here. He does have a magnifying glass
in here that pick up all this. Okay, give it to her.
Oh my God. You're getting it with Watson
anyway. You just, thank you.
Oh, I started using it. You scan around.
All right. Where you to next?

(03:20:12):
All right, I guess all the good talk to those guards.
Oh, cut side. Yeah, what is it?
Hello on in there. Yeah.
Yes, mostly. I was curious.
Where are you going to put the rest of his stuff?
I just, you know, leave it out. See if someone comes to get it,
you know, family, whatever. And then, if not, we're just
gonna dump it. Well, gonna take back to the
library probably, though, but maybe sell them.

(03:20:34):
I don't know. My kid needs a new PS socks.
Well, perhaps I can find your kids, some other songs, but I
actually was friends with them. I don't know if you'd consider
us family but we were both at the same place.
Yeah, I suppose that counts. Oh so you like next to Kansas
something? I suppose.
Oh fucking great. That odd job is done.

(03:20:54):
Then just let me get, hold on I gotta page for you to sign then
you can have at it. Yeah, that boy's been for the
day. We don't gotta carry nothing.
No way. All right.
Now, a few things in here I think University property just
some of those and The guard sortof points his head in and sort
of Waddles the finger at some ofthe like mechanical pieces.
Like for example, the wing and the chunks of slag, metal on the

(03:21:17):
wall and the steel plates with the diagrams on them.
So we're gonna have to take those back but all those
personal items in the notes and shit you can keep great.
Thank you. Yeah.
All right sweet and they give you a piece of paper and you
sign as next of kin Doom. Yeah, of course not before
reading every single word. Of course, it's just details
that you are responsible for allof his belongings and that you

(03:21:39):
everything you want. You'll have to take yourself and
then was gonna help you great. Um, and all right, that's what's
good to them. So, now we can just walk off,
maybe we could keep these books.I really like them.
I bet you could learn something from the other ones, too.
I agree. We could all read them if you'd
like, all right. Off the sea him.
Now, if you're a forest Dylan, of course.
Yeah, let's go see a body notice.

(03:22:01):
All right, I'll try to start heading over to her.
Henry told us. Sure guys, send the stairs exit
the academic. Gordon make your way toward the
castle in here. You recall that a bit more
sophisticated of the average person as well.
The afternoon is waning on and today is feeling full is just
sort of maneuvering around. And here, you guys can see the

(03:22:21):
great castle with all of its beautiful walls and the spiers
as well. You also see the black staff
Tower of the Wizards about a mile away, just sort of plumped
in the middle of the grass with nothing around it.
You maneuver toward the courthouse that the lawmaster
informed you of and it is here that a clerk asks for some

(03:22:42):
papers from you which luckily you got a signature for it or if
fayas has that right? Yeah.
Good thinking, wait, sorry. What do I have?
The paperwork from Henry? Yeah.
All right. So you guys began descending, a
set of stairs, a great marble staircase at the end of the
building into sort of like a little Mortuary.

(03:23:03):
This space is also housing a fewoffices of some Masters and less
potent. Government officials who sort of
stay in this little underground portion.
Otherwise there's a small morguehere where somebody's that are
under investigation are being kept, your LED there by the
clerk down these long wooden hallways and the smell of what

(03:23:25):
smells like alchemical. Well, chemicals down here that
are likely used to preserve bodies and investigate them.
You make your way through the different hallways passing some.
But look, to be small little nestled offices of lawmakers.
Just sort of give you guys a look as you walk through, as
you, imagine not a lot of commonfolks, you know, civilians come
through this area. And eventually you make your way

(03:23:46):
into a small, grayish black room.
There's a door in front of you aheavy oak door that just reads
internment, confirmed deceased the clerk wraps on it once and
then unlocks it with a key from a ring that he has inside.
You find what looks to be a small chamber with dim light

(03:24:09):
filtering through lanterns off the wall and marble slabs.
Full-on classic marble slabs, each slab is numbered and many
are dripped in canvas or sealed.Under would look like clear
crystal panes that are etched with magical Wars.
The air smells like, chemicals, antiseptics, and even some holy

(03:24:30):
incense, like the back room of atemple.
The clerk gives you guys a nod and waits outside as you head
inside and find that there is a single Mortuary official inside
the mortuary worker, which lookslike a tired halfling and a gray
robe looks at you all and waits do any of these marble slabs
have people on them. You find that in total, the room

(03:24:54):
contains 10 slabs and nine of them have something on them.
All of them are covered in canvas though.
As I was saying, you can't see any of the bodies.
Only one of them is empty. I got to think I can do.

(03:25:17):
It. Yeah, no problems.
We can handle it from here. Okay.
Good luck. You guys and I will go.
Wait outside. Um you step outside the clerk is
waiting out here with you. The clerk like picks up some
small talk with you about what you're doing.
You're Pi. That's kind of cool something
malice. Inside the halfling.

(03:25:42):
Sort of gesture. So you guys.
So what will be looking for? We're looking for an autonomy
Dr. Him. Oh yeah.
Doctor here. Right over here with the
lawmakers. I assume.
Yes. Lawmaster Henry.
Yeah, we're gonna keep his body for a while.
Luckily, unlike the human folk, there's no risk of, you know,
turn into slush on me. So right over here.

(03:26:06):
The halfling gestures toward a slab in the far Corner.
This one is covered by one of those curved glass domes that I
mentioned clouded on the inside,the halfling, presses a Sigil on
the outside. And in the glass evaporates into
a fog underneath, is the remainsof Dr. Him.
What's left is Twisted Metal andfused wire no structure.

(03:26:31):
No form. The body is melted, not burned
you see, no burn marks, and eventhe central core you can see the
housing is Warped. Like putting no color remains,
except a sickly brass green tarnish, where the asset met the
shielding around the corner. A single arm is what remains

(03:26:52):
pretty intact hand outstretched.It's polished.
Plating is riddled with even corrosive etching like a spray,
the halfling speaks softly. Yeah, we thought he
short-circuited, but it's more. It's Erosion fast, violent
magical for sure. Someone use something very
potent could have been alchemical or conjured directly

(03:27:14):
dissolved, nearly everything. Not even any signs of struggle,
just found him like this in the street, only reason it was him
was an engraving on the wrist here.
The figure Pat's the one good arm took two whole diviners to
figure that out. Two diviners get us, right?
We had to call into big guns. Magic uses that are able to
identify unique symbols identifying to a person.

(03:27:35):
Where do they work? Are they working to courthouse
up above? I think they're a princesses at
the black staff tells. I think they just took a look
right here and cast. Some spell is just some mumbo
jumbo, you know, I see. Yeah, I was saying something
about like a locate creature supposedly this on pinged,
interesting. Well, you sure you want to keep
looking at this. Whatever did this to him it

(03:27:57):
didn't leave no signature. Yes, I agree.
Let me look at. Yeah, Samir turns to you.
When he shakes his head, his eyes are wide, you look down,
it's sort of a nerving dulum to see what you're pretty sure.
It's just you lying on this table but burned away melted in
skull the whole chest. It looks like the entire thing

(03:28:18):
started around the feet. You determined this early when
you turned the cobblestone was the base of it.
But the legs have been all turned to just beats of stringy
metal. The court itself had been blown
upward and the skull looks like it was knocked off of the neck.
Bracing again, that one arm is All That Remains the other arm
seem to have been melted away, likely thrown out in some sort

(03:28:40):
of shielding gesture. What do you want to do?
Um, I guess. Can I investigate the core?
Yeah, give me an investigation role, the mortuary off, the
official speaks up, you have real nasty stuff.
Not even sure how that happened.We got a guy upstairs, a God
that would thinking of a court, martial, and who was there?
Said he didn't fucking hear a thing.

(03:29:00):
Can you believe that? Feel free to go talk to him if
you want. Don't trust him for a second.
Thank you. I probably will.
And I mean, if I can do dirty, 20, you take a look, um, with
the core open. Now, you notice it kind of looks
a bit like your own tampering occurred in here.
You're unable to determine more without using some sort of

(03:29:21):
high-level magic, likely but you're pretty sure that you
think this specific core even ifit's quite melted, a very
experienced Arcanist, that is familiar with autonomy.
Anatomy could Perhaps be able tofigure out the signature on this
and determine what spells if anyor even perhaps who cast
something on this core regardless though it's Integrity

(03:29:45):
is completely shot the energy with Dan has been drained out
and whatever Soul you think was in Dr. Him when, when this thing
got melted It's dented in when I'm investigating.
Do I see where the tracker wouldbe like, do I see a Tracker
anywhere? Um, you look in and yes, from
your conversation with Samir, you do know where the tracker

(03:30:08):
would be you check in here and yes, it is.
It is still here. Okay.
Oh, like somberly. Like touch the core and then it
is the tracker. Grabbable.
Oh yeah. I mean, most of the stuff is
barely held on by stringy bits of metal.
So you're able to grab the tracker and pocket it.
If you'd like the, the official here seems to trust you guys and

(03:30:30):
is sort of fine with you doing it.
Okay, I'll take the tracker. Are you grab it?
Pull it out and pocket it. Um, you notice that funny enough
the tracker while a bit melted you think is still functional
you sense a bit of energy withinit and you're able to figure
this out with your investigationas well.
What else you want to do to him all?

(03:30:51):
Just turn back to my friends andall right.
I don't think there's much left to look at how you feel.
I don't think so. Unless we could somehow find
someone very experienced in these sort of things, I mean
we're sort of looking at him. Yeah.
Perhaps somewhere there are others like us.

(03:31:13):
I'm sure I'm really sorry. Do them.
This is a horrible thing that happened.
I get I can guarantee that there's more like him.
I just this is the one man. I know.
Um well if they're keeping the body here then there are people
that could help if we find them that is true and they said
they'd keep it here. You sorry.

(03:31:34):
You'll keep it here for a while,you know.
It's. All right.
So there's still a chance that we can figure this out.
I'm really sorry to them. I know that you and this fine
gentleman had a lot that you wanted to talk about.
Yes I just got my hopes up oh that is too bad, we'll find who
did this, all right um perhaps we could go upstairs and talk

(03:31:56):
with that guard, who was on duty, perhaps he is corrupt or
something, you know? Yes, I agree.
We should do that, right? Okay.
And the mortuary member. What are you?
What is that job called? I'm blanking on mortician.
Mortician. Thank you.
Thank you. The mortician gives you a solemn

(03:32:16):
nod and puts the small little Crystal piece of glass.
Atop The Body again and a fog ofvery thick.
But looks like some sort of magical seal appears over the
body. Do you give all of the bodies
that to observe them know, not all of them.
Just the ones that were worried.Someone might tamper with, or

(03:32:38):
try to finish the job if you know what I mean.
Oh, I see well, thank you for your help.
Yeah, of course. Let me know if you got any
questions. All right, we didn't figure
anything else out and any sort of analysis down here,
unfortunately, it seems like this Paula just got a rotten
streak of luck I suppose. So listen, if you're, you know,
know this guy at all next again or something and you want to
bury somewhere. Let me know.

(03:32:59):
All right, thank you. I didn't consider that.
I did sign up paper to be next weekend though.
Oh well, was that makes you nextagain, huh?
I guess so. Oh yeah.
Just let us know. Thanks.
Oh, we could protect the body more if it was with us.
That's true. But I think this is sort of a
safe place, but at least Saudi dulum.
I, I wish we could have saved him.

(03:33:21):
I think whoever did this to him,know what they were doing it.
Just not so simple as a, you know, beheading haha.
Here, there was a long time where I thought Monty was gone
and never thought he could come back.
And this party got me through that.
If there's any chance left for Dr. Him we'll find it easy

(03:33:44):
Doolin. Pull out the a little top.
I think the doctor is gone, but that's okay.
Jack Rice. Oh, we shall mourn him with you
well, for now, let's go talk to that guard, right?
So you make your way out of the Crips beneath the courtroom and
up into some small official one not quite jail cells but more

(03:34:07):
little holding areas for people under questioning with this
little piece of paper that you got from the lawmaster.
She got this free pass to maneuver around in the clerk.
Leads you back up. After you guys leave or a face.
You see the rest of your friends, get out of the crypt
and do them has a sad. Look on his face Wonderland.
I suppose Henry was right. I don't think we can bring him

(03:34:28):
back, at least not now just to double check.
Are we sure it's him? Like, could there be any way he
may be, you know, like what player said a cheated death or
forged a body you know he did say not to look for him not
suspicious. I don't know.
Oh yeah, looking back on it. Mason, is it weird that when
they cast locate creature that only his arm pinged or that's

(03:34:52):
just what the guy here said. Um, it seems like he didn't know
a lot about it, but that does sort of clock to you as a little
unusual. But it could have just been his
wording. You'd have to talk to the actual
caster for more info. If we were, not sure if that was
him then they did say the diviners that found him or in
the tower were going to we should speak to them.

(03:35:13):
Yes, worth investigating. All right, the guard first.
Yes, Oreos. What are you?
Um, it was pretty gruesome. Just I'm sorry that you are.
Yeah. Okay.
You made the right call that sucked.
Yes. Yeah, that's what they mean.
I kind of like that world on their back and hug it.

(03:35:34):
Okay, buddy. You're very brave to step into
the room. Oh yeah.
Thanks, I wish this. Much.
Is this did? So the guard.
All right, heading up stairs into these, one of these little
holding cells. You find the guards, I'll give

(03:35:55):
away and eventually you find theright space that you're looking
for and a guard makes room for you to find one single guard.
This is a crowns guard, just like the rest of them.
Still wearing a plate mail indicative of a crowns that
operates outside. The figure looks tired and it
looks like a young girl man, with very pointy Elven ears and

(03:36:18):
a cropped hair, he looks over and you see his eyes are sagging
and he's got these real nasty looks like bruises right around
his neck. What's up with?
Your yeah, nothing. Don't worry about it.
What do you want? Listen, I already answered
enough questions. I promise, I didn't see fucking
nothing. All right.
I know it was my shift. I know I was on the wall when

(03:36:40):
the law Master said, it happened.
I know I just didn't see Shipman.
Were you distracted by something?
No, fuck. I was on watch.
I mean, like, you know, I like, I told the lawmakers, me, and
the boys had a drink before then, on my Off Albums, I was
playing cards with them. And sure.
Maybe I was a little tipsy on watch, but I swear, I didn't
hear seen nothing. All right, I walked that wall

(03:37:03):
right above, it didn't see shit price.
The figure drops their head intotheir hands.
I just don't want to fucking go to jail for this.
All right? Like I was doing my job promise.
Oh, you were. Yeah, I, I didn't see it, man.
It wasn't it. Just maybe the body there?
No, I mean, fuck, man. I just didn't see it.
All right, I walked the wall from my full shift, right?

(03:37:26):
Discovered, the body guy asked me my Replacement.
I did, I did my full eight hoursshift.
Once I was finished that sun up.They my replacement guy, came in
and he bought it, I walked the wall, I would have seen it.
I just didn't, do you have any lapses and memory or do you
remember your whole shift? I was I was there for my whole

(03:37:46):
shift, I just walked the wall upand down and up and down.
I mean I don't think I was thinking about anything, you
know, it's a boring job walking the wall, but it's what you
gotta do to go up in this world.Crowns, girl, they know easy
fucking gig but I walked it up and down and I don't remember
shit. I'm telling you, don't you have
to be like really drunk to have lapses and memory?
Yeah, I I wasn't really fucking drunk.

(03:38:08):
All right. I was a little tipsy, that's it.
And it wore off during my watch.Do you often drink before your
shift? I mean, yeah, all the boys do.
Fuck this man, right here. Any points to the guard.
He's watching him probably little tip right now.
I'm gonna write buddy. Shut up.
James negligent at first made this be a learning lesson for
you, fuck man, I promise, I didn't see shit.

(03:38:31):
We know head drops in his hands again.
Um, is that in the spellcaster speak to you friend, you know,
just to get your view on things,fuck man.
Know, just the law Masters and Itold the truth, they could see
it their fucking smart, right? They they can see through it and
I promise you, I'm telling the truth.
I didn't see shit. It didn't have no, not on my

(03:38:52):
watch. Any of us have spells?
That didn't make sure he still in the truth.
Yes. So I, I will say, perhaps to
detect thoughts could go into the subconscious and remember
things, he did not, but I don't think this idea will be welcome.

(03:39:12):
If he consents to it, then I don't think it is a bad idea.
Do you think you will? I mean, we could don't ya, I am
a bitch worried, we think the powerful spellcaster was
involved. It.
They might have been able to mess around with your memories.
Would you consent to one of our detectives here?

(03:39:34):
We look inside that brainy horse.
We can tell someone altered yourthoughts.
It could prove your innocence. Fuck.
Yeah, listen, do whatever you want.
If you can, if you can prove it and you can get me out of here,
I accept. But you have to promise to help
me. Get me out of here, if it's
true. All right.
Of course. All right.
I guess. Demos cast.
Detect thoughts on this guy. Okay, nice.

(03:39:56):
Got him. You cast affect thoughts.
He does not roll a save, he automatically lets you succeed.
And um, you sort of dig into this creatures mind.
This elf is bearing. His thoughts to you.
These thoughts are fear ridden. This is somebody who clearly you
can tell immediately comes from a background of little wealth

(03:40:17):
and needs this job to continue. Paying for his his home.
You can tell, he's scared. He doesn't want to get a jail or
in trouble for this and immediately.
You can tell that in his memory,right?
You see it right there. All eight hours of his shift.
He looked down into the alley and saw nothing, and he turned
away and he looked down and nothing.

(03:40:38):
And after the full eight hours, he was tired and went back.
And then moments later a bell rang as a body was found and he
ran up to the wall to look down.And there it was.
And you see it, a perfect picture in his Mind's Eye.
The corrosion, the blast Dr. Himin a crumpled mess and nothing
else. That's when you see on the
surface oh is there any way to sort of tell if this memory is?

(03:41:03):
Like iffy, if it's like, if it'sbeen like tampered with, give me
an Arcana check to dig a Little Deeper.
Yeah. Can you cast identifying a
person to know what spells are affecting them?
Oh, holy shit. I think you can you learn what?
Spells if any are currently affecting, that is genius.
I will go ahead and do that go Team, all right?

(03:41:24):
At the same time, the most as you begin sort of digging
deeper, give me an Arcana check and meanwhile or fayas, you've
got a minute that you quickly. Pull out your foes, your what is
your Arcane Focus or face? Is it the gun?
It's usually the gun, but um, it's a touch spell.

(03:41:49):
So technically, let her more cando it.
So, listen more starts purring. I don't know if I believe in
torture know. Just you're fine dude.
How are you believe in torture? Not cool.

(03:42:12):
No. She's there.
I believe in it, it exists. You cast the spell in the most
you roll through his hat at the same time?
What did you get on your Arcana check real quick?
Demos, 19, 19, okay. Um, so I'll start with the most

(03:42:32):
you dig a little deeper and you again you can't really tell if
there is been any like change tothis individual's head, you
imagine that. Because if that sort of thing
did happen, it was a high level spell.
It's like outside of the range of detect thought.
However, at the same time or a fast through identify, you
determine that. There is a spell affecting this

(03:42:53):
creature. Well he oh, respected too.
It is actively up. And just as you expected when
casting, there is an instance ofmodify memory.
Oh, okay, you detected and just demos as your digging deeper.

(03:43:14):
You can't again, you find, no memory of Any body, but you do
find very deep. It's just barely there and it
wasn't modified. It's the sound of an instrument
playing, he was on watch. Wow.
Oh my God. It's, it was a deep instrument,
something, very rumbly, like a bassoon or perhaps a tuba

(03:43:38):
murders were related. Oh my God, that is crazy.
And after that it was nothing, he saw nothing.
The figure looks at you pleadingly.
The two of you can share notes and put together this little
reveal, he's notified every day.Well, did you learn anything?

(03:43:59):
I came across the same thing except that the yeah the the
whoever casts. The spell used an instrument.
Was the band. I was right?

(03:44:20):
They were connected. And I have that means that this
young man could lose his job over something that he was the
victim of. Well.
Yeah, speaking of hey other guard, um this guy's telling the
truth he's had modified memory cast on him.
No, really. He was doing his still deserves
some retraining because he was Tipsy on the job which I just

(03:44:43):
heard the Elven man. Looks at you with these big
fucking eyes. What the job that's super not
cool fuck man. Everyone does it.
Then be the best guard by just simply not fucking drinking,
did. Yeah.
I will say, it might have been easier to get him if you he was

(03:45:06):
already drunk. So, it is just, I mean, damn,
he's sort of puts his head in his hands and he goes fuck man,
but your memory was modified. Yeah.
Okay, okay, you hear that man? And the guard sort of looks at
him goes, ah, I don't know the authority.
Get you out myself, but I'll learn it up the chain.
Yeah, give me like an hour. And the guard size and through

(03:45:29):
detect, thoughts the most, you feel a wave of relief, crash
over him as he feels like he actually has a chance here.
Hmm, thank you guys. Just really means a lot.
I can't fucking thank you enoughfor trying to help me in this
fucking thing. God, what?
A jam. No, sorry for your work, yeah,
fucking man modify memory. That's fucked up, man.

(03:45:50):
That's, that's some big magic, right?
I mean, I'm no spell guy, but fuck, man.
The friends I have can cast, fuck they can cast Dancing
Lights. He was in your head a little
bit, but you're all right, it's just another thread of this toy
State web, he needs to find a spider. get all the threads

(03:46:18):
like, okay, you To form a vicious cord.
What a face, you really figured it out and the most excellent
spellcasting. I I mean Davos really figured it
out. We did it together.

(03:46:38):
What if you did? Yeah, that was a team.
Well, if we know that the Damnedband was at the core of this
then that is evidence. We can work backwards now.
Why two hits in one night though?
Yeah, we have to find out how they're related because they
mostly yes, of course was one more than important than the
other. I mean, I will say, like, 20

(03:46:59):
people or ask the hit on, you know, I look the guards.
Ah, and only one, it seems here through what we know that there
was one person on the counted for at the actual event, right?
That leader is a tubist or bassoonist.
Yeah, you're right. That doesn't seem stupid.

(03:47:20):
Could they have done this later in the night?
I thought the leader was the conductor.
Exactly. Yeah.
Um, I will say do you think we could talk to the man that we
got arrested? Do you think he would know?
Didn't we hear the town crier? Say this morning that he was

(03:47:41):
slated for execution. Yes.
But that means they're still might be time.
All right, you're right. I want to turn to the other
guard in the room when he's like, guarding.
This guy, can you go tell your boss?
We need his help to see another inmate.
Oh yeah, yeah I got it. Um, just give me a second on
that he runs off and about 15 minutes later.

(03:48:04):
He comes back with a captain whoyou recognize.
Love this guy. What was his name?
What was his name? Can you get it true?
That's true. For arrives, a short.

(03:48:36):
Squat little man with a big mustache and he gives you a
look. And goes, I'll be damned.
What the fuck is this about? You're now law.
Biden citizens. Working for the lawmakers.
Working for you, we share commongoals and that is of the peace
and safety of the citizens here.Yes, this one has a knack for

(03:49:01):
being a pi. It seems Yeah, that Bella who
you're looking for? Are you clearly, when helping
this guy out, I've heard words that modify memory was involved.
A been a long fucking time. Well, you know, I've only ever
seen floor primary damn. Time on the force seems like a
lot still. Okay, I want first off, I want

(03:49:21):
to write an account of every modified memory.
You've seen on my desk by tomorrow morning.
Second I want he's sort of his eyes go wide and he's like,
you're gonna fucking paperwork. What's it to leave?
You might have number second. We need to go talk.
There's a man, we turned in lastnight.
A young elephant. Here's a member of an orchestra.

(03:49:42):
That's supposed to hit out on a mask.
Lord, is the masquerade ball. That's the Flaming board.
He should be in your custody. He slated for execution, we need
to talk to him before that happens.
We have an apprehended him. Personally, he knows us know, I
know here talking about. Yeah.
Yeah. Unfortunately, I wish I could
help you with that. But that's actually one thing
that I can't you see the black stuff took them.

(03:50:04):
They took over this whole thing.It was gonna be our case, but
they flew in on their little broomstick rightly.
We can't, we don't have access to that prisoner anymore.
You'll have to ask those shit heads and, but it's magicians.
So that are the people that did the crime.
Yes. Yeah.

(03:50:25):
So maybe they took him because they thought they have better
odds at figuring out his motivesand magic god, you know, people
horrible things. We need five Squad.
Court. Develop.
What's his name? Wait, wait, wait, wait.

(03:50:51):
There. Yeah my name is Topher but yeah
oh okay whatever All right. Well I I can't necessarily give
you a, you know, I'll tell them all I want.
But personally those black stuffbastards say they don't really
respond well to us officers and they really don't like the

(03:51:12):
fucking lawmakers. So that little paper you got
there won't be worth much to them.
Unfortunately, it's okay. We actually already have a
personal favor Ode to us from them.
Fuck man, look, you guys get around.
Yes, and we can be convincing one more thing.
I should know those fuckers. There are just Watch out when
you're in there. All right, I've heard the
apprentices of the black stuff Tower like to perform

(03:51:35):
experiments on visitors. All right.
Does that not fall under the law?
Like, I told you, man, they're outside the fucking law.
You'll figure it out when you get to their damn Castle.
I don't even know how to get in.They're probably the ones who
attacked last night. Oh, that worked for the crown

(03:51:58):
famous everyone else and the Open.
Lord clay declare. Hey declared keeps a close eye
on him. I see, but he left them to
expand them in some people who visit them.
It's just a good fun. It's nothing permanent or
dangerous. Okay.
I think they just don't like visitors.

(03:52:19):
So it's a way to sort of, you know, stop people from visiting.
Gosh sure. Hope they don't make me like
taller. Yeah I feel funny right.
Hmm, I look around. See if any uh, anyone's
listening. I don't really have a carriages
at a disposal for you. I think that's like get you

(03:52:43):
coffee, maybe more witnesses in this building.
You have any reason. Um, honestly coffee would be
really great. Thank you.
Yeah, look at just, what should you down on a waiting room?
Hold on, any sort of leads you over?
Well, it's a coffee or no coffee.
Okay, what is that? What nothing All right.

(03:53:13):
And so, the, the captain quicklygives you guys all a little
fucking fuck you to go cup of coffee, a little ceramic cup,
each of them from the, the course of waterdeep.
So they all got the little waterdeep sigil on the front of
ceramic cup. These are these are to go for
you guys friends. You know, seeing you again?
Oh yeah. So for you, you're a great
friend. Yes, you crack this case.

(03:53:35):
Well, I don't open. Oh, all right.
And then you want to head out toward the blackstaff tower and
anything else. You want to do here?
The, the guy, the Elephant, Man,the not guard is released
shortly after and he gives you guys all a deep nonsense.
Yeah, we'll forget this. Thank you guys.

(03:53:56):
Really means a lot if you drink on the job, again, I'll
personally. See, total for fires you.
Already put me on probation for,don't worry good, he's a good
man. I'll never drink another job.
Again, in fact, I only walk in pairs from now on.
Okay, so someone can keep me on it, okay?

(03:54:17):
Um, you guys head out of the courthouse and luckily, the the
blackstaff tower is just a walk away down the castle.
Ward, the sun is past mid-afternoon now and you guys
are making excellent progress throughout the day and on your
walk to the black stuff. Tower the most you receive a
sending in your head. Oh I shall send it to you via

(03:54:41):
chat message, and if you choose to share it with your friends,
you certainly can. I just received a message from
Volker, it seems like he's understood the importance of our
mission, and he's going to be sending us 40 gold pieces.
You? Oh, wait, are you gonna respond?
Um, I guess I have to now I'm taking the Golden Leaf.

(03:55:11):
Right? The most you respond on the walk
and Samir sort of, gives you a nudge and goes hey that guy
really cares about you demos. That is really nice.
Yeah. Oh, I hope that doesn't stir up
any odd feelings. The most.
I'm not the jealous type. Don't worry.
Okay, good. Well shit gives you a neutral as
much. Oh you know I would just like to

(03:55:34):
congratulate all of you for being such investigative Souls
when we heard Dr. Him was passed.
I was let down and I don't do them too but I just you are
searching for a solution and that is nice.
You were trying to find the killer.
I would have just written it offand gone back to the Inn.
But this way is proactive, and it makes me happy.

(03:55:56):
I feel like what I've been shooting for a good you were
going after and holding on too. Well said, I think this is one
of them. Yes, I hope that we can get to
the bottom of this and hopefullywhatever that leads we can stop.
This from happening in the future but uncover a plot haha.
Yes, and we'll get to find her classes.

(03:56:20):
Don't worry. I'm in.
No rush right now. I'm okay to take out a time on
this one, you know? I know, I guess I just mean I'm
tired, but I'm so tired. All right, four, we get to the
Tower. Um, higher.
Um, I think I heard you mentioned, once before that you
knew of the spell archytas magical.

(03:56:42):
Yes, I still have it. I am forced to learn it as part
of my Class. Oh, they forced.
I didn't want it, but they forceme to um, I think since we're
going into a place with so many magical users, I think it might

(03:57:07):
be best to mask the magical Auraof the grid while we're carrying
with us. Yes, yes I agree.
Um, I would certainly love to beof help and that that certainly
sounds reasonable. I thought, I don't know how much
I can cast it. I believe to spell only last an
hour and it is one of my more costly spells, but I will

(03:57:29):
certainly do what? I must.
Thank you. Oh, I thought lasted for like 24
hours. Let me double check.
Um, sorry it. I just hate that spell so much.
I don't like her. You're right.
If I had to, I could keep it for24 hours.
Yeah. Nice.

(03:57:51):
Just say that it when they taught me that spelling ether.
I guess I could do that now. I haven't used any spells today.
Yeah. The greatly appreciated.
Let me know if you need anyone to carry it.
Oh, I mean yeah, I'll keep I'll keep that in mind.

(03:58:12):
Thank you. All right, so I imagine you're
just gonna cast this sort of right before you guys go in.
Yeah. Just to get the full hour.
Yeah, you probably won't be here.
No, it is 24 hours. Oh 24, oh perfect, sweet, never
mind. Um, correct.
Very good to know. Just gonna put it out right now.
Demos good thinking, you so sorry, no power.

(03:58:36):
It's already corrupting people. People are already turning evil
impossible. All right.
So um, you guys make your way over to the great black staff
Tower. It is a sort of isolated
structure. The walk is somewhat long as you
sort of have to walk along this one, the beautiful manicured

(03:58:58):
grass of the castle. Ward is a bit harder to walk
through than, I'll be the paid stones.
And there's a hill that you sortof have to climb to get up
there. The walk as you go.
Um, Malaga speaks seven goes heyjust you know, guys know, you
know, I'm still like all in on fucking finding these assholes
these Orchestra shitheads, but just like, you know, doing this

(03:59:18):
were probably not going to figure out of ways to save Dr.
Him. Right.
It's just for like Revenge. Oh, I don't, I don't think this
is Revenge. I think we need more
information. I think.
I still believe there's a possibility of bringing him back
to life. The same person that tried to

(03:59:41):
kill him knew his creation and like how he worked.
I guess so maybe, perhaps, if wefind this person, they would
know how to potentially restore.Good point.
Maybe I powerful spellcasters. Yeah, I I really it's not as if
I was to hurt these people, but it is certainly true that I

(04:00:04):
don't wish them to hurt others. It's actually and Don't know
what else? They're planning this, this
organization. I feel as if we've already
gotten very personally. Intertwined, with them, as they
potentially would have taken us all down.
If we had not noticed, I think it would be due diligence to at
least understand the threat to us more.

(04:00:26):
How do you already insightful? You know that, you think, you
think I had a good tactician? It does make me feel like I'm
doing something to help, even ifit won't bring him back for
sure. So, what's going to be our
strategy when we talk to this guy?
I feel as if he might not like us, why bother talking?
Let's just have day. Most going to his mind fair.

(04:00:51):
That is not the bad idea. Um, it's specially if he got to
it I still feel a little odd if you know you break into
someone's mind who doesn't want it.
But we know this is someone who is trying to kill people so I
suppose it should be. All right he will share, they be
against it. So what?
Honestly, if it helps us protectthe people, we love, I'm for it.
Exactly. Tower.

(04:01:13):
All right you guys all. Make your way now in toward the
black stuff Tower. It is a looming structure made
of Black Rock from a distance. You think it might be some sort
of simple stonework but up close.
You realize it's very finely carved black marble.
The tower is medium high, like medium high.

(04:01:39):
Sorry. Okay.
The tower blackstaff Tower. You make your way up to it.
It is not particularly tall as Towers go from the outside.
You note 4 floors. However, you see, no windows at

(04:02:04):
all from the outside and there'sa very squat little hat to the
tower, very traditional of most Wizarding spiers, it slick
surface is completely flush around the entire thing and
looks like it was machined there.
There's one of those structures that sort of tickles you just in
the right way, do them that you can tell it was made completely
delicious. Um, there's no light that

(04:02:27):
emanates out from it either and it just sort of sits stagnant
and the middle of the grass. No buildings.
Are nearby at there. Aren't any houses near that you
imagine Wizards might live. In fact, you can't even really
see any pathway that leads up toit after the foot of the tower.
You guys find two doors. I will say door might be a bit

(04:02:47):
generous to the left to the left.
You find a smooth. Looks like the same black marble
label. That reads a princesses.
In gentle, golden script, the door beneath it has no handle
and no hinges. Just a large slab of dark oak.
Wood waiting. You can't see any way to open it

(04:03:09):
on the right. You see a black marble door
frame with gilded metal along the outside.
This one has a label that reads Masters here.
You notice that there is no doorinside the door frame, it is
merely more Stone. There's no opening just the wall
thick and black. The implication here is obvious.

(04:03:31):
If you're a master, you already know how to pin, shit?
Perhaps we can wait observe someone else, go in 10 to some
one who could tell us how to getin.
And there is all over again. There's one final, one final
sign on the top, which does ringtrue to what Captain Topher
said, which is a big black sign that reads.
No, soliciting no, loitering Wizards at work.

(04:03:53):
Um, I think we should send to someone.
Who would know. Volcker, that's a good idea.
And chili the most. Yeah, totally.
Um, God. I I really hope we don't need
certain spells to get in here. Yes there are many spells to I

(04:04:14):
guess get you into spaces. Oh knock being one of them,
maybe Oh, is that what this one is for?
Samir Taps. The door on the left.
I guess not get them. That would be my guess but we
don't know. Oh, I will send a setting spell
to vulgar and it'll just be asking how do you get into the

(04:04:37):
blackstaff tower? If you knows, okay.
You reach out through the weave to Volker, as you do some Malaga
grandson goes. Oh, really, the most you have to
fucking ask him, God man. Can we just break in how?
I don't know. Let me just like smack this
thing or something like this goes and bangs on the one.
Whoa my I guess we don't need tobreak laws if we have other

(04:05:00):
means to get accomplished. The same goal, Ash not breaking
laws. You have since response in your
head from volcker the most If you learned Magic.
Cast spells to enter that that'sfucking useless.
You wanted us in here. I can I walk up to the wood

(04:05:24):
door, you approach it. I just want to stand in front of
it and yell because why would I bother like banging on it?
My virtue of the masked. Lord, whose name I don't think
I'm supposed to say. Let Me In open door.
We have urgent business. I don't think they're listening,
or if I knock on the smooth stone door outline of the

(04:05:50):
Master's You hit it and it feelslike solid Stone.
You're Knuckles rap against it and it doesn't even sound
hollow. It just sounds like thick Stone
all the way in or if you yell atthe wall and there doesn't seem
to be a response for a moment. And then you hear a voice, a
quiet voice right up next to your ear, like a message spell.

(04:06:14):
Guest or Intruder. I think yes.
You guys here or face? I started saying shit.
Oh God, they've got her him. Fuck!

(04:06:35):
Anyways, or a face as you speak your response.
Nothing seems to happen. You look around.
I try to open the door again. Just pushing it.
Push on it. Feel solid.
We should probably learn the Knoxville.
None of us are thieves. Anyway, right?
Maybe I can get mad like it. Fuck you, man.
I don't learn shit. Let's bust this door down.

(04:06:58):
No Malice. Let's think about this fuck.
Who do we? Who else do we know that could
help us The fuck. You mean to help?
We don't need no help. We can do it all on our, damn
selves. Smell like this goes and kicks
the door really hard. And you hear a phone.
Oh yeah. Look at the door Again.
Margaret If they think we're an intruder, uh, they'll think

(04:07:21):
well, an intruder, if we try to bust in, if I think there are
that, I'm an intruder like a strike me down where I stand.
No. Last night, we saved the bomb
thing, you offered me a favor. We talked to Arch, major
althorne. Very true.

(04:07:44):
We did save hundreds of people'slives last night.
A masked Lord. We're almost see that.
I and you guys hear a soft, click come from the wooden door.
Yeah. I'm gonna push on it and you
feel it. Slightly give opening inside

(04:08:06):
phuc. Yea, I got scared of us, didn't
they? Stupid Wizards and where is they
think we're Intruders? And they're letting us into
expand out on us. I could use some experiments on
going, boys. Okay.
Oh yeah. Okay.
All right you guys throw up in the door and make your way in
inside. I suppose, all of you guys are

(04:08:26):
gonna head in right? Yeah.
Inside of the scenery seems to really change.
The end well from the outside, it had the solid black
appearance inside it gets much homier.
You enter into a wide circular room, the size of the tower.
It looks sort of like a ground floor.

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The entire floor is covered in agiant, beautiful red rug and all
the walls are covered in book shelves, and drawers, and
dressers, and all sorts of simple wooden.
Looks like just Furniture but above you, you see?
Magic, the Arcane sweeping throughout the room.
I floating staircase seems to spiral with no visible support

(04:09:12):
above you leading up. And as you guys sort of enter
the room even further ducking out of the door frame and
further in you see that this Tower climbs up and up and up,
what looks like forever. Oh you see Windows all along the
walls that look outside windows.That would have likely shown you
just outside a moment ago. You see the grass?

(04:09:34):
You see the tower? There are things all around you
torch. Sconces, that seem to ebb and
flow and change colors. As you step onto the rug, you
see it shifts and almost seems to bristle on every step you
take. You.
Notice that on a couple steps you a muddy footprint gets
sucked into the road and it's self-clean around you.
Chairs are dragging themselves around, pulling up and around

(04:09:57):
and sort of a semi-circle. You know, notice there are
enough chairs to fill all of youguys the guests now entering
around, what looks Like some sort of central table.
There are spell books that floataround lazily almost flapping
like birds, and orbs floating around with moats of light in
them and even a couple of them that looked to have lightning
trapped inside glowing. There's a fountain that bubbles

(04:10:20):
lightly in the corner and spilling out of it as a
beautiful, golden liquid and thewhole place just feels
completely unnecessarily magic inside.
You guys make a deeper way in and you see the spiral staircase
that seems to lift up into eternity.
There are more platforms above you that indicate rooms and
sections of the tower that are likely different Master's

(04:10:43):
chambers of princess rooms. You hear the distant sound of
magic sort of what sounds like spellcasting verbal components,
and then sort of distant rumblesa bookshelf in its entirety
floats down from far, above and lands on a wall nearby.
And then begins rearranging itself and Jaya.

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You find that a little but lookslike half illusory butterfly
lands on your shoulder. The fuk we are not alone.
My genuine reactions. You guys hear a lot of distant,
hums of spell work and Arcane items.
Like this place is very experimental in a way and a lot

(04:11:25):
of the stuff here they have for no other reason than just to
show it all um at the center of the of this first floor you find
again. This sort of Entry table.
It's a long table. Not quite like a receptionist
table per se but nevertheless ithas a lot of paperwork on it and
inkwells and is curved in such away that it looks like you are
all to sit and watch it and otherwise in this room you will

(04:11:47):
find that there is quite a beautiful fish tank.
A glass tank. These are very rare.
You guys know that even highborne Nobles don't often
mess with fish tanks. Just on the count of how
difficult they are to maintain. But here you find a smooth glass
tank. Glimmering with coral and
Enchanted kelp and floating inside is a giant vibrant.

(04:12:08):
Spotted fish, and angel fish with long flowing, fins, it
floats. Sort of idly in the middle I try
to memorize it actually honestlythe whole tank for Queen City.
You make note of it. What would you guys like to do
now? Like this looks around and he
goes, man, this place is fucking, I'm noxious.
What's the point of all this shit?
I yeah, like, it's a stroke. Again, like this little

(04:12:31):
butterfly. How weird Hahaha.
What color is the butterfly? You look at it.
It's almost ghostly in nature. You can see right through it and
it's like half transparency. It is a deep blue color with
flecks of purple at the tips. Can I touch it?

(04:12:52):
You go to touch it and your finger goes about halfway
through it before it flutters off.
And disappears off into the room.
What the fuck? This place is cool.
This is much nicer than my shop.I can't that's kind of fucking
sick. That was cool.
Maybe we should go up the stairs.
I hear Wizards upstairs. Maybe they want us to go up
there. Or are we supposed to sit in

(04:13:13):
these chairs here? Oh, Oh, surely.
They must still hear us. Maybe we sit in the light until
they're ready. Yeah, I agree.
Let's sit and wait for face Paces.
You Pace. All right.
Everyone else. Sort of meanders to these plush
velvet chairs with cushions on them, sort of sit down, Samir
sits down with you guys and gazes around the room.

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You see malagos sort of Wander Over the fish tank and tap on
the glass really hard. Well I guess I think it's the
fish. Can I go over with them?
Never seen one of these sort of looks down at it.
You walk over. You see this?
Beautiful? Angel fish in there.
It's swims around vacantly Malika's swimming around.
It's fine. All right, all right.

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You walked over to another section of the of the room and
starts. Looking at some crystal balls on
a wall or if he's gonna say someshit, huh?
You want to explore it, you knowit, I'm looking intently a fish.
Okay, you just stare at it and Pace.
I'm walking around being here from outside, committing it to
memory each scale. Um, you get it down pretty

(04:14:17):
quick. It's a remarkable creature, and
you're able to memorize its details after a minute or two of
looking at it. Oh guy.
All right, and you guys sit downfor an awkward, five minutes and
nothing seems to happen and eventually you hear the sound of
a loud. Come from somewhere above you.

(04:14:37):
And the tower seems to shake fora moment.
One of the staircases begins trembling and then slowly starts
to go up. You see a global life?
Follow it? Hmm.
I don't think anyone's coming toget us.
Then up we should go. And this is the experiment we've
survived worse. Okay.
Um you guys stand up then to go up the stairs, maybe if we all

(04:15:00):
say what experiment we would like down on us, I would like to
be tall. Okay, just I don't think he
could just like wish they fucking one Higher, right.
I'm sure you all. So wish for a real fucking dick
in those legs do, huh? I'm just talking like size

(04:15:24):
proportion here. You know just a thought.
Your thought has worst timing than you may know my friend.
Oh. Is he sick?
What could it mean? That's too bad.

(04:15:49):
Okay? I don't think it grows back,
man. Really?
Well maybe. Oh, you think he's got like,
it's a COBOL. Just like a lizard girl.
Yeah back. Oh, that's freaky higher.
You're freaky. Never mind.
I shouldn't ask that. Yeah, or a face, I want to
respect your wishes and have able in this party.

(04:16:11):
This, this specially since he seems capable of helping us, but
I, I still I feel uncomfortable with him.
Why do you feel uncomfortable? I feel it felt weird.
How almost good at it? He was a if he just wanted to
hide, I really don't think he needed to go that far it, if

(04:16:33):
it's felt evil. It was certainly deceptive.
I spoke he wasn't meaning to go through with it.
Do I have done away? Fucking worst stuff to you, man?
I don't, I mean he was probably just scared.
Maybe he's just a good actor. He's, yeah.
Well, that's true. Well, I guess I got emotional

(04:16:53):
over it and I don't know how to take that back and I still want
the party to succeed. Oral face looks like sympathetic
but also completely lost on how to respond.
Ah, And on it, it bugs me. He he doesn't seem sorry about
it and and it sounds like he's done this before.

(04:17:15):
And he's not understand the depth of what he's done to you.
Similarly to how bisque didn't understand the extent of what
she did to smear at first. Yes, it's a bit higher because
he did try to apologize to you last night but you left the
room. Remember, I suppose he hasn't
said it today though, which is not fair.
I can do my best to explain it to him.

(04:17:35):
But to be honest, this isn't a situation I've ever encountered
from any angle before and I'm not so sure.
I understand it myself. I I wasn't in a situation last
night to want to speak to him, but I do want him to at least
understand. Well, yeah, I can do what I can
to make him understand the way. I tried to explain things to

(04:17:57):
basic as well. Yeah, you have to understand
none of this would happen in Valhalla.
Starts to finish. It's all new for us.
I I can I certainly understand that but I'm sorry.
You got hurt in the fauces. I don't, I don't know.
I I should have been doing my own job better.
But it's just about this point that you see the fish in the

(04:18:19):
tank, start going, fucking nuts,daughter back and forth,
swimming forward and backward, quickly Slammy up against the
wall of the glass. Oh God.
And eventually it leaps out of the water in an arc, right?
For the floor. Can I try to catch it and put it
back in? Um, yeah, I have you went higher
have probably just been talking pretty seriously.

(04:18:39):
So I'm gonna assume here that you will need to make a flight
of hand, check to be able to make that offend.
You see um, I'm gonna interrupt you before you say anything that
I want to, you know, let's get the side of Van check first.
It's, it's not good. It's a 10.
Okay, you go to catch the fish, you and hire a talking.
It's a very serious talk higher,you're spilling your soul and

(04:19:02):
Orpheus responding. It's beautiful conversation and
just in the middle of it or turns around and sort of Dives
for a fish. And you land about five feet
short, just the fish goes to hitthe ground, a puff of white and
green smoke appears. And with a shimmer, a sharply
dressed figure appears reformingfrom the Mist.

(04:19:23):
Wearing bright green. A again, very sharply dressed.
Looks like hobgoblin woman stands, before you with bright
green eyes, she's coughing loudly.
And you see a bit of water dribbling from her mouth.
Sorry, their friends. That was my record right there
longest time in the tank. Not so bad, right?

(04:19:45):
I'm sorry. I said a bit more water.
Did, did you hear anything said?Yeah, actually, I was listening
to that whole conversation man. That is a downer.
I want you to know that there was alcohol involved.
And I'm not a slut. I don't know you.
You don't know me. Why don't you sit down and tell

(04:20:07):
me what's a and she's saddles onin behind the large table across
from you guys to talk to a prisoner, we brought you last
night a prisoner. I think, one of the masses might
have brought in a prisoner. Yes.
See, I'm actually just an apprentice.
I have been a learning these whole wild shape thing.
It's been real fun. What does a powerful spell for

(04:20:30):
sure. Thanks sweet heart.
And, you know, I just want you to know that.
Whoever that rat bastard, man, is I know you were always for
the better for it. All right, you didn't need him.
He was probably scum anyway, youknow, I appreciate that and I'm
sorry for involving you and my personal life, when no sir do

(04:20:51):
not consider it, my little experiment to watch you
socially. Has been like visibly
uncomfortable since the conversation with higher began.
And it's now just every inch of skin is bright, right?
You all, this is great news, we no longer have to do another

(04:21:12):
experiment, we're done great. Was that part The Hobgoblin
woman throws a heavy curl of black hair over her shoulder and
spits out a bit more water. The dribbles down her fine
clothes. Well, you gonna have to inform
who you come in here on the account of, cuz I can't just let

(04:21:33):
you see, prisoners with that proper warning.
Her, our paper from llamas or I and we were the ones.
Watch this prisoner in the firstplace and charged him over to
the black stuffs. And we've been given permission
to research, the murder of a friend's doctor him.

(04:21:53):
And we've been investigating successfully just fine with like
to continue this investigation to the second Twisted.
With that's been, we've started with the ball that we just don't
know. The We have crimes are connected
and want to investigate further to see if we can help our dear

(04:22:15):
late Dr. Him Brad. Well I surely understand, thank
you for all that information. Actually heard a lot of it when
you were outside banging on my door.
Yeah. Okay.
Now you said you're here a little bit of vocal that old
windbag up with the castle. My win back.

(04:22:36):
I don't. Come from a fireball come out.
Now I would never say anything about your father Deimos like
that. Here.
A whole lot of nothing. No fatherly figure.
They say he's the court Wizard and sure that's his title but
you know quote Wizards do shit. You know, it's simple spells

(04:22:56):
that a Lord might need and he's advising simple Arcane
conversations but the real wizards of Water Deep there
right here at the tower. Okay, so this is we know him.
We like this man. Yeah, the guy who just won
conjures wine for Noble dinners.Well, I'm glad he asked, I am a

(04:23:20):
princess, glad the wet, that's crazy, but thank you.
Now, as black, the wet, I make my purpose to learn water based
spells as well. Make myself, akin, to the
Aquatic lifestyle, which is usually involved with a lot of
fish. Making and fish.
Well, fish changing. Okay, so I have, you know, I

(04:23:43):
myself could probably take over all Focus job with a snap of my
hands just like that, easy work.He did.
For the sake of this investigation.
Um, I think we should move on. I think we should Just want to
make sure you guys know who you're working for is all now.
No one Arch, major lthorn is another matter.

(04:24:05):
That man actually knows a few things, he's a little busy
upstairs but I could go find another master and see if we can
maybe a wrestle you up a prisoner.
How about it? We would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you. Glad It's glad the wet you say
the whole thing. Oh thank you.
Glad the wet. Thank you.

(04:24:25):
I'll show you around. We're going to be taking a
couple of stairs to get up to him.
I don't know. Fly yet sounds good.
I don't either, I mean, I have something for the way down at
least. The cold falling.
This cool amulet. I am wearing.
That's like having the power of teleportation really.

(04:24:53):
Um, and glad the wet begins, leading you up some stairs, you
notice on the walk up, each of her footsteps leaves, a sort of
wet outline great, what size creature is she, she's a
hobgoblin, some medium, she's bright red and where sort of
like a green fanciful robe. So Christmas colors.
Oh, um, you guys Ascend the stairs, then she sort of speaks

(04:25:17):
idly as you go up. Well, it's a pleasure to have
you at the tower. We don't usually lack guests,
just sort of the thing where anyone in the city can
technically approach the tower. So, uh, you know, all these
common folk or comin' up here, asking me.
Oh yeah, you know, help me cleanmy home.
It's dirty, you spell for it. Oh, you know, I want move all my

(04:25:37):
stuff from here to here. Oh, you know, something stupid.
Like like I need a go to some Fall Away.
Fucking place bald is gate. Why don't you teleport me there?
Blah blah. We're not doing all not for free
anyway. So Trying to keep those kind of
guests away, but you guys are here on good authority.
So I'll show you around a littlebit.

(04:25:57):
Here's our second floor, she shows you into a huge room with
a giant teleport circle on the ground as well.
In the corner are floating brooms and mop buckets.
This is sort of our utility roomcleaning stuff and this is where
some of the Masters sort of teleport in when they want very

(04:26:19):
nice tires. Eyes Are Open very, very wide
and he's trying to keep silent but he whispers ether.
Teleport back or like, I guess he says to the party.
I don't know if we have enough money, maybe this is a way to
teleport back to our homes. That is not a bad idea higher.
Let's hold on to that, but that could be our favor from the

(04:26:40):
archmage. If that is such a thing.
Good idea. Um, leading leading her up, you
guys continuous sending this is the third floor.
This is sort of our like, lecture hall, and here you find
a classroom. There are no chairs or tables in
here. It's sort of standing room only,
but you find stats, staves and Wands, and Arcane focuses
lining, the walls and a huge chalkboard against the wall,

(04:27:03):
which looks like a holographic or perhaps a ghost individual.
Hovering in front of the chalkboard writing something
down and murmuring? Yeah, some of our professors
refused to die. Yeah.
That right there is a technically a gas that is
nothing good about refusing to die, just saying?

(04:27:23):
Sure sure. Yeah.
You know, if you want to say that, To them, you can but sort
of rude. You do want to say it, but it's
against the best interests of meand my friends.
So I will keep that between us for now and if you say whatever
you say, you continue heading up.
We're gonna skip the fourth floor for now.
And you notice a door entering this level of the tower, this

(04:27:46):
room seems a bit smaller than the others but you sort of hear
a rumbling come from inside. This is sort of our we'll just
call it combat training duels inthere a little rooms in there
and chanted with different environmental conditions you
know. See if we can cast a spell in a
sleet storm or underwater that kind of stuff.
Oh, sounds very challenging. Yes, real nice.

(04:28:09):
So we're almost there just one or two more.
It's really nice to have guests.You know?
I know when it's normally supposed to scare him off.
But you guys seem like a real nice group of folk.
Are you here, just to interrogate a prisoner or you
have personal business with someone but mostly the prisoner,
To start with Josh. Sure.

(04:28:29):
Heading on up then and then you make your way to the 5th floor.
At this point, you were officially taller than the tower
looked from the outside. This room comes as a bit of a
shock to you guys. It seems to be a lounge and as
I'm glad the wet begins to speak, she goes.
Yeah, this is where we usually like to blow off steam and just
sort of enjoy the view and you sort of stop listening, as you

(04:28:50):
see this little Lounge here, hasWindows all up against the wall
as many of the previous floors did.
But instead of looking out over water deep, each sort of
cornered wall of this room has awindow gazing out into another
plane. That's so fucking cool.
You switch planes. Um, you see the feywild up

(04:29:12):
against one wall shadow fell opposite it?
There is what looks like a couple others that you don't
identify immediately that I would like an, I guess a
perception check or perhaps say,yeah, just perception, check to
identify for you guys. You get a brief glance and none
of you see your Home plane except one of the walls on the

(04:29:32):
right. You see mechanists?
Oh perfect. Holy shit.
Pristine you take a moment all to gaze in and the group of you
sort of steps forth just to lookinto this room.
Oh what we sort of need to keep going up we can't really stop
shut up lady you know and you look forward beautiful each and

(04:29:53):
every one of them, the FAE wild those bright pastel colors that
you remember from visiting Shadow fell across from it dark
and muted and near opposite and dulum, you're drawn toward
mechanist. It's just as you remembered home
beautiful golden and bright. Can I like look more you get a
little closer looking in? It seems to be and you recognize

(04:30:14):
its location. It's at the top of one of the
many Towers mechanists looking down upon a great to gear and a
flat wheel. Beneath housing, all sorts of
perfectly ordered symmetrical buildings and machine making
factories. There are motor owns that fly
about here. Perfect formation.
You can just tell, it's a perfect equal amount of light

(04:30:36):
and dark as you remember, everything is in its place and
you get a moment to look at it, roll me a perception check.
Okay, I got dirty 20, okay? You sort of gleam in and watch
it closer and it Dawns on you that this isn't mechanist live.
It's sudden, and a bit disappointing.
You see one gear out of place out of memory, something that

(04:30:57):
many, many years ago. You recall from your memory
banks, the period of rotation was off.
And it was disassembled and later replacement by a much
grander, much more beautiful gear and wheel this one.
However, it's it rotates, but it's it's not the right one.
This is old a memory, it's not today.
Yeah, that one's mechanist, I don't know if you've ever heard

(04:31:19):
of it, it's this great Utopia sort of the most lawful place in
existence. I've heard, is this just a
memory? Yeah, one of our Arch.
Mages one of the Grandmasters many, many years back.
I don't even know if he's alive anymore before my time, visited
a great, many planes and took a sort of snapshot of each one to

(04:31:41):
place here for our view and they're each about a 24-hour
cycle, a loop, just to view it. It's quite beautiful.
This mechanist one's, one of my favorites.
Pretty soon here, you'll see this beautiful gold and like
Carriage flying through the sky and about an hour or so I always
try to watch it every day when it goes back.
What was the art meet his name? Shit.
Well that's something I should have learned in class.

(04:32:01):
Let me check my notes real quick.
Hold on and she holds her hand out in a book pops into her
hand. With a puff of green smoke and
she opens it and starts growing through.
All right, let me see here, planar Lounge playing around and
she takes a second to sort of scroll through it.
The rest of you guys get a better look and look around
here, and these seem to be mostly the major planes of of

(04:32:24):
the universe. You see mechanists, you see
again the Say wild and Shadow fell and as well.
You see, limbo in here as well, Elysium and Hades.
There's in total eight walls with Windows on them into these
different planes. It's limbo.
Look like the place I've been going lately when I've been

(04:32:47):
dying. You look at it.
Um, yes it does. It's white in sort of endless
without much form. It's one of the more boring
panels. Most of the others have this
nice high view of a location, but this one it's just sort of a
blank nothingness except every once in a while.
You think you see a tiny dot, a person, go screaming by falling
into sleep. Nice window to have.

(04:33:14):
Yeah. That one's not.
That fun. Was that her?
I do a perception. Check to see if one of the
planes look like the plane wherewe were Deimos performed like
the sacrifice thing and get in that one.
I'm worried I made or a face feel bad and You got that one?

(04:33:44):
Okay, great. You go look in.
You feel bad, the most you actually hear a higher sort of
whisper under his breath, demo sacrifice played various Hi.
Are you okay? I wanted to see if any of these
planes resembled Fabrics is plain, I guess.
Oh yeah. No, I think I think that one

(04:34:07):
might be a bit more obscure. Don't think they'll have that
one here, unfortunately. I see.
Skyline, they probably would have it somewhere Main Street.
Probably haven't heard of it. These do seem to be the major
planes. So yeah, there is no, no, a
glory here that you can find themundane plane is not here,

(04:34:31):
neither the plane of Kings, or Valhalla you do.
Find though, that one of the planes here is the Beast lands,
which you guys have never seen before.
Do we see a dolls? Fucking Clive sort of an aerial.
You like a, almost a bird's eye view.
So you can't see any individual creatures, but you do, every

(04:34:52):
once in a while, see a giant creature, sort of go wrong
rumbling by like the size of a house.
Oh giant, the first one that goes by as a giant tiger with a
white Mane, Fucking sick, you guys.
Um can I pointed the Hades plane?
You pointed. It just looks at it.
Oh yeah, there's home. He looks at it.

(04:35:15):
Yeah, this wasn't my layer though.
Or are you deeper or further towards the surface, man?
What do you mean deeper? Fuck you.
Uh, yeah. No, this is a deeper layer I
was. I was higher up.
I was on the gray gray, Plains, sort of the gray waste.

(04:35:35):
Could I Insight check? Sure.
Yes. Holy six.
Um, not sure exactly. He's a little hard to read right
now. Yeah.
Mine was like a little more Lawless, the deeper ones have
scarier demons and also like more castles and shit.
So pros and cons, I guess. Yeah.

(04:35:56):
Oh lot of fire know you know they call it the great ways.
It's not that great. It's mostly fine you escaped but
you made it out. Okay.
Thank you. You know, I actually did no work
that they did a for me. I was in the middle of a game of
cards with some fucking night hags and they pulled me right
out what the hell. Were you winning?
Oh, fuck know man, they cheat. They're nice guys.

(04:36:19):
You sort of gives a half smile and then it quickly disappears
as he watches it. It is a plane of flame, you see,
fire burning up everywhere, River of lava, with Souls damned
in it. That are being practically poked
and prodded with pitchforks. The, the Purrfect tale, I give
him a tiny little like side hug or like arm.

(04:36:41):
He, he leans into it, but doesn't fully reciprocate Fair.
Um, If eventually glad the wet response, oh, I found it here,
sorry about the wait, man. I should really study this.
I'm probably gonna have an exam on it soon.
Yeah we okay so we did have someone but they are passed on.
It was a Grandmaster here named.Now levier ORV 3 vs on that or

(04:37:05):
planar specialist. In fact, ran a whole department
here transplanter Department. Yeah it says here looks like
about oh I was recent five yearsago.
She opened a rift somewhere justa peek and she said she was
going in strictly observational and never came out, you know,

(04:37:26):
where the rest let too out of rams.
I think, oh, her office is stillempty.
It's sort of detangled from reality, a bit sort of stuck in
a quasi Dimension that people don't want to go in.
Would you say Maybe stuck between time the Hobgoblin sort
of Squints it looks at, you know, but what you're looking

(04:37:46):
for friend, I was sent by a masked Lord to talk to a wizard.
Who keeps that hold in the towered hailed between minutes.
Hot Goblin Chuckles a bit. Yeah, that's a funny story
there. You really do know if someone in
a hot place don't you? Uh yeah.
Just wizard. How this wizard Spire in total

(04:38:07):
houses, not teen Grand Masters, three of them are teachers.
Five of them are, what I'd like to call the enforcers of the
law. I think those are the group that
you met outside, flying the brooms, and the rest of them
shut-ins fucking weirdos. A lot of them.
Oh, these are people who spend all their time alone, experiment

(04:38:28):
and pushing the boundaries of science.
Oh, Pushing the boundaries of the Arcane real dangerous tops.
You know, I mean, you ever heardof that freeze and fear Odell
Luke? Oh, well he was a wizard here
once. Oh, what happened to him?
I think he still alive out theresomewhere.
He just don't live here anymore.Oh, move Beyond it but the

(04:38:49):
wizard who lives between seconds.
Yeah. Are they a shot in type or a
teacher type? This is one of them shut-in
Taps. There's a room that doesn't
exist in any floor, and it's been a fold of time.
You ever heard of temporal magicfucked up.
Chronomancy, you got it, friends.

(04:39:11):
Dangerous magic could kill you or drive?
You crazy. One of the two.
Have you ever known a tough though?
Sorry friend names on familiar to me, but to be honest, I don't
even think I know the name of the chronomancer that leaves
here. Oh.
Never met the fucker. It might be worth asking around

(04:39:31):
gang. The grand the grand Master's
here explained it as a sort of like a living within a macro
instant. They tried to teach it to us,
but I think it's an upper division class that I don't know
yet. It's basically like this wizard
Is Anchored. In a non moment.
Think of it like a candle that only flickers, when the wind

(04:39:52):
blows passed, it sort of caught in a moment of delay, and they
made a home there, that's a funny expression.
Where did you learn it? Yeah, I was taught it by teacher
here. It was actually a out of town
Professor. What was he?
Yes, one of the guys from the the academy over there, you

(04:40:13):
know, not a proper experimental wizard like up here.
It's got names average, you know.
Oh wait, what does that mean? Well, this professor's average
uh he actually said he really wanted to meet this wizard in
between the seconds but I couldn't find the fucker.
None was really can. Oh, anyway dad.
He's the final enough teacher. I think he's the plain or

(04:40:34):
replacement in mind after all. Pull ORV passed on Outer Planes
man. Gets you.
I can't Turn into enough, not tohires, Alex.
Thanks, so he's got a wizard. He just sucks.
And has a powerful item. Yeah.
He it's just an item and honestly, it's wide open.
Oh, well. I mean, I don't know what you

(04:41:02):
mean there, but listen, we're not just a simple Mages at the
court. These are the Wizards of black
staff. This is the upper level, you go.
I mean those Wizards over at theAcademy that this average is
teaching. They wish they could be here.
I started there once long ago. Uh, yes.
And I we just hope that you don't associate with such slow

(04:41:22):
magic. Then yeah, from that works.
Yeah, well not that many playersto go around.
He less Chrono man's figure other guest lectures on planar
magic. I know just the one it's upper
division course, I've never learned much more in it.
I think I'm mostly Can tell focusing on this whole water

(04:41:43):
magic thing. So I didn't pay attention during
his lecture know and you do the water thing really well.
So, I would. Like to do love and give it a
look like he's really not that good to be here.
She's like, no don't know. He was gonna turn to hire maybe

(04:42:12):
like I I think this planer was between the second is probably
the one that I think Volker wants me to talk to him.
But how are we supposed to find him if no one has been able to
yet? What wait, why does?
Well, I mean, the Master's here,know how to find him.
I just don't. Oh, why does vulgar want you to
talk to this wizard? Um because of the the tear in

(04:42:37):
the plane of Kings? Oh, I see.
Yeah, you know lately, I've beenfeeling Like an investigator.
It sounds like something we could investigate.
Yeah, we should talk to that guyis gonna get executed first

(04:42:57):
though. Yes.
So much to do. All right, listen.
Sorry. I know I'm not very helpful but
the masters of the tower will know more.
I'll take you to my professor right now.
All right? I'm just glad, you know it,
what? Sorry.
That was just a friendly. Jeff, what is that mean?
Nothing just a warning before wemeet the masters of black staff.

(04:43:21):
Those fellas, you met out in the, in the Square, the ones on
the broomsticks. Yeah.
Black stuff Masters. They're a sort of a presentable
ones. The ones that spend more time
here, well, I suppose when you dabble in the Arcane and
sometimes bats back, so if you're sort of you might find
these people little eccentric isup.

(04:43:41):
Okay, don't worry. We're we're like that too.
I think I don't feel normal. Do you perfectly?
John over here. All right, you guys, head up

(04:44:03):
stairs. One more layer into what looks
like a small Corridor that bisects.
The tower and on the sides are looks like almost like little
rooms. They're not tiny to be fair that
there's proper little, for example, on your left.
One of the doors is open leadinginto a living room jutted on the
side by a large king bed and it's sort of like a studio

(04:44:25):
apartment in there. This seems to be worse.
One of the people lives. The Apprentice Leads you further
in glad the wet of course black the wet leads.
You passed. These sort of a printed Studio,
little living quarters, and downa whole way, which shouldn't be
there. Officially, you've decided that
this architecture is non-euclidean as none of it.

(04:44:47):
Adds up and further down a long hallway, which leads to these
beautiful. What looks like sprawling little
houses connected to the Long Haul way.
She finally stops at one and knocks on the door in front of a
sign that reads master of our Drew, dude.
Yeah, this is Master scale of our he's deathly.
My favorite Professor here. He's probably the most

(04:45:08):
approachable too. And I want you to remember that
when you're talking, okay, okay.The door is our Master skill.
Level are Drew Drew. Thank you.
Send it in chat. I'm enjoying my wizard names if
you can't, I can tell I'm enjoying them, too.
Naming is an art form. Thank you.
And master Drew is, yeah. So, um, it should be right here.

(04:45:30):
I'd love to come in with you guys just because I love chat
with him after a moment. The door is thrown open from
Magic. A knock spell blows it open and
you hear a voice come from inside.
Come in And inside, sitting downand who immediately stands up
when seeing guest is Master. Skeleton bar, Drake and layers
of magically shifting. Robes that seem to change

(04:45:51):
texture depending on the angle. You look at them from one angle.
It looks like smooth red. Silk from another, it's like
yellow kitten is shell. The man, a human man.
You think human has long silver hair that floats upward like
it's underwater and Tiny moats of light orbit, like a halo
around. Antlers.

(04:46:12):
Yes. Antlers growing out of his head.
the man wears no shoes and you look down and find that his
toenails are painted with what looks like little
Constellations, it can sort of swirl.
Story about the figure sort of walks up towards you guys, and

(04:46:34):
you're beckoned inside, and you sort of hums and speaks at the
same time. Exactly.
Thank you. I mean, Oh, up close.
You see that? His eyes are mismatched, one of
them is a typical looking brown eye.
The other one is Pitch Black sayfor a single tiny pinpoint red

(04:46:55):
dot in the middle. You've been through some fucking
shit man. Malicious me to please.
Disregard any mean comments? Um it's just like please call me
skill of our masters goes all ofyour hands very quickly.

(04:47:15):
Now this is quite fun. I'm taking us a compliment.
I've done a lot of good time, you know, skeletons room is,
it's a fairly typical looking room.
It's actually quite rustic and home looks very typical.
There's not a lot of magic in here.
You have a question you interested in my research?
Yes, I just There's a prisoner. We need to speak with.

(04:47:40):
We actually turned him in last night.
He was a member of the group that attempted to bomb the
Flaming border last night, the orchestra, or the symphony We've
also discovered that the orchestra has been involved with
another death of an esteemed professor in town.
Yeah, I see, I see, hold on, letme remember many snaps, his

(04:48:00):
fingers suddenly and a small silver Mouse materializes on his
shoulder which then leans up to his ear and starts squeaking
something into it. Yeah.
Oh yes, our guests, yes just upstairs, unstable fascinating
man. Uh a touch of memory magic
poisoning and his head. And if you ask me, which know

(04:48:21):
what if it does is something's abit off with him as huh?
What are you trying to do? You're not trying to extract
anything on you. You know, extraction leads to
some sort of combustion and death and that leads to Memo's
which leads to meetings and we don't to extract.
We just wish to learn what Clearance for this, right?

(04:48:43):
Yeah, hmm. Well, tell me.
Explain it. To me, you know, anyone here.
Yes. So you wizard yourself.
Let's see claps his hand. And if you feel a rush of Arcane
energy and he looks around, oh, one wizard here.
Yes, you then I can man. Oh, yes, look, some of you can
cast some spells, fine, you might find more powerful than he

(04:49:06):
would think he is. I've seen him do, great things.
Well thank you spell. Make us right now.
Okay. Um I want a big one, big one, no
pussy shit big I want to I want to level oh I I don't have any

(04:49:31):
big spells prepared. Um, I guess, um, I cast I just I
cast I'll cast blindness on him.How about that?
All right, choice, good. he watches you cast watching your
hand position and your words thespell goes out and he accepts

(04:49:53):
the spell without rolling a saveI'm really think Mason.
Are you eating right now? Oh, It can can I cast the spell
magic? Thank you on that.
You see his eyes Cloud over as he fails to save on purpose and
he goes yes go technique. Very nice.
Let's see yes can't see a thing.Very Nice.
Good technique. They're very good.
All right, I like your style. Yes.

(04:50:14):
I'll just a minute. Alright, last minute walk around
like this. Okay, as you wish I but I go to
cast to spell Magic on him anyway.
Okay, you hold out your hands tocast a spell magic.
He snaps his finger and counter spells my bad.
I was like, trying to, Demonstrate my power as well.

(04:50:37):
But not don't give a shit not a wizard.
Okay, understood good bad, good bad.
Now I like this man cut of your jib.
Yes, very nice and I'm sure you can guess those two friend.
But yours come from Magic God. Yes, not really you.
Casting the spell, you're more praying for someone else to do
it for you, so sort of cheap shit.
I like to think I'm a very good puppet of my goddess as well,

(04:50:58):
you know? And that was we learned by doing
ourselves. Oh, you don't you learn by
reading artificers? Learn by Darius, I'm looking for
you. A night, a whole, a great night.
With a sword? Yes, multiple talents.

(04:51:19):
How barbaric? I like this guy.
The minute goes by and his eyes stopped clouding over and I was,
that was great. Well listen um I understand that
you all were sent here. Archmage all Thorn did tell us
that he promised a favor to somestrangers in the street

(04:51:41):
thoughts. You might be coming by some
time. So I will just talk this up to
your favor from the archmage. Yes.
And I'll take you to the prisoner and you can do it on.
Whoa, what whatever do we want? Let me know fucking kill the lab
but we already tested a detect. Thoughts on him?
Yes. We already did a zone of Truth
on him. Yes, God, nothing.
If you could do anything more, be my God.
We would like to try. Yes, I had to go out to.

(04:52:03):
We want to get much out of the poor fellow.
He's Titus Lyft that one. I believe there's some modified
memory in there. Just unfortunately, it's very
difficult to remove that spell once.
It's done, the effects are hard to remove, and it seems that
sometimes during a transport from well, from you to us, he's
forgotten quite a bit, and dispel magic didn't work.

(04:52:23):
Hmm. Oh, a few of always a stride but
couldn't get it to stick. You say he forgot his the stuff
between his transport from us toyou.
Well, I I don't want to blame you.
But none of always have to be dumb enough to do something like
that. So something is clearly
happened. Was he a lame in the head when
you were speaking to him? I mean he sucked but I don't

(04:52:47):
know. At least forgotten quite a few
things unless he's got that mindshite shut tight as a fucking
trap but I don't believe that we'll see what our best to get
through to him but unfortunatelythe Open Lord wants him dead.
Terrorism is no small thing and it's best to just keep the
public happy. Wouldn't you agree?
Yes. Well, wait.
That's why we want to speak to him now.

(04:53:07):
All right, yes. Well go ahead have at it.
I'll lead you up there. And again, this is your
favorite. You understand fully Master?
Is there not a way in which thatcould not be see if we are
trying to help the common good and we do all need favors at the
moment in terms of transportation and third that is

(04:53:30):
a service of this Tower I and I do believe this is for more so
the common good. Well unfortunately I am a master
of this Tower and it's either the portal or the prisoner pick
one. I I just thought it best to ask.
Okay. I think it's still the prisoner
only you asked and it was a goodquestion.
But answer has been said prisoner's and he objections

(04:53:52):
quite a big group. You have here.
Lot of thick Knuckleheads. Yeah, I tried to look at the
group. If someone wants the portal more
than they want prisoner, what exactly are we going to ask the
prisoner? I, I thought we wish To learn.
Um, who killed Dr. Him just anything, you know about Dr.

(04:54:13):
Hymns case, do you think that heknew Dr?
Him. Well, we think he knew the
person to killed Dr. Him, it might be worth asking if he
knows about Sebastian. Ernest star tubist Tobias Tubidy
and I don't know. It might be worth it in the odds
are. They haven't already asked him
about it. I, I would assume that if your
organization was doing two killsin one night, you would at least

(04:54:35):
be aware of the other one. And yeah, these people haven't
realized they're connected yet, he might know.
But from what he told me, it seems like they don't they seem
to really keep their numbers in the dark.
I mean, they said that they practiced that random places
would bags over their heads and he said, he didn't really talk
to many of the other players in the band.
Surely, he must have something. Hey, actually Master scale of

(04:54:59):
our church, Type of magic is your specialty.
I'm on General magic good sir unfortunately my specialty well
for a long time it was speaking with dead but not a lot of use
for that in the court and the frowned upon science nowadays.
So I don't really practice it anymore and I just teach General
observation and evocation and you're just not wearing shoes

(04:55:26):
but can I look around this room and see if there's any pairs of
shoes in here. Give me a perception check.
Okay. Oh, good roll 22.
Um, yes, you find pushed up against the door that you just
walked in kind of off to the side is a pair of blue slippers.
I want to go pick one up, just look at the bottom really quick.

(04:55:47):
You maneuver over you grab the slipper.
You lifted up its smooth on the bottom sort of like a
housekeeper. Okay, I put it back down, nice
shoes. You looking for something, some
sort of freak. I'm not a freak or a face but it
down, you don't. Need it.
Drop It Anyways, perfectly good.I was just gonna say it seemed

(04:56:15):
to me when I was talking to him,that if they did do two jobs in
one night, it doesn't seem like both teams would know of the
other teams job. It's a good point, do you not
want? But I don't know with them, do
them. We could.
If you guys think it is a good decision.
I just wanted to point out that it's probably unlikely that you
would know much what other leadsdo we have.
It's I feel like it's the only thing we can hold on to just

(04:56:37):
they'll help. I suppose it's just hard to turn
down a portal. Yes it is.
Yeah. Where would we even go?
We're giving any choice potentially, you know that
Lizard playing was pretty fun. We can get, we can get back
there through that. Oh my God.

(04:57:02):
After life, I was robbed. It's where you're all going.
If you're not careful. Here.
Before we make her decision, I'll open this letter.
I want to open the letter. That's open only.
If the course degraded. All right you pop it.
Open inside of reads the following.
Let me know. Hold on scrolling to it.

(04:57:26):
The dearest friend. If you are reading this then I
am gone or no longer myself. The core has failed.
I wish I could say it was sudden, but I've been feeling
things feeling capitalized. At first, it was small, a sense
of out of rhythm noticing Beautynoticing fear.

(04:57:47):
I was always told not to question mechanists that once
asked, why questioning things begin to crack.
However, I couldn't stop. I had to know where the spark
and did and I began my core was changed.
Corrupted, evolved, something foreign nestled inside of me, I
feel it. Pulsing sometimes like a heart.

(04:58:08):
Sometimes like a whisper of a voice.
I've tried to exercise it. I fail, I tried to ignore it.
I fail attempt made me feel morealive and more afraid we're
still. I believe it is human something
that shouldn't belong in mechanists.
Something that came from Beyond,there's a full inter here.

(04:58:30):
A saw a secondus once in a dreamjust looking at me straight at
me through one of the portals from mechanists.
Was that real? I'm not sure if it's supposed to
be possible. I believe I'm outside the
hierarchy now but it frightened me.
The letter continues for a whilehere.
You notice it is three pages in total just for brevity.

(04:58:53):
I'll cut from here because the next two pages you find are
continuing these just sort of like fear-mongering phrases
phrases of fear of trying to find Solutions, but not finding
it of raw emotions and the same way that you yourself.
Do them or feeling emotions. Now, you could tell that this
creature felt them too and sort of clung onto one.
This one, of course, being fear.You could tell that this led to

(04:59:15):
down a nasty spiral of being chased and feeling paranoid it
eventually leads to the last page where I will continue.
I believe, I must lock myself away.
If I can remain in my home for long enough, I might find a
solution or the core will degrade into nothing if you find
me. Keep my core.
It is worthwhile. It is scientific.

(04:59:37):
I believe there are those who can look into it and discover
the name of the creature dot dotthe human dot.
That's infected me. There's another full stop here
and then you see a picture drawnin obviously the perfect
handwriting of a auto know. It is of a building, it has

(04:59:57):
somewhat unusual architecture What looks almost like a large
sort of woven basket of a building.
The outside is curved and swishing like wicker.
And at the top stands, a large, very thin Tower, not the type
that could have any buildings init.
It is entirely structural. And at the top of the tall thin

(05:00:20):
Tower is sort of a long oblong room.
Looks like it's made out of stone.
The building is completely unusual and foreign to you
nothing you've ever seen before.Laws used to bind this place but
the old laws do not bind it anymore.
Take the fragment in me there you may be able to track but be

(05:00:41):
warned. I am not myself anymore.
Do not bring me back. You must end me.
Do not hesitate. I would not be the first machine
to fall to Madness, but with your help, by might be the last
signed, doctor him serial number.
And then a 30 digit long Doom, serial number professor of

(05:01:02):
autognomes theoretical constructs, in the plane of
mechanus, there's a hastily scribbled up, PS at the bottom
that you can tell he's done in different Inc.
PS, if dulum is still functioning Keep him away from
this building. He's further along that I would.

(05:01:23):
And that is all tests. Oh my God.
Should we get you out of here? I don't think he means this
building, right? That's what friends are you look
at it. It's like Ricky building.
Now this is this is something bizarre or a fascist.

(05:01:44):
This does not look like any architecture of any civilization
sum fuk. Oh, did this?
This is true. This is like the Zacks of
building's. There's also no scale you have
no idea how big it is, there's no background, you have no idea
the location of it but it is a very well drawn image of the
building itself. Like it is, it is not just a

(05:02:05):
sketch, it is like very geometric and the proportions
look good. What do you leave that behind?
Who did he want to find that? I suppose is any friends.
You might have. I mean if you had the, I suppose
like a bomb in your chest like he did like, Doom sort of does
you don't want to just die and let the rotten a grave.

(05:02:26):
You want to help people? Well, I don't think he was sick
and I don't know if he needed. I guess.
I that asks how well that leads the more questions than answers
but I hope that gave you some closure of them.
I think it does that um, that line at the end.
I feel like maybe that has more to do with the pattern know.
Yeah, I mean all of those first few pages were just about fear

(05:02:49):
but that last line it could havealso been so I believe maybe we
should disregard It if this building is where we should go
and to analyze your core, you should be there for it.
I don't know why he would say that.
I think he was just scared. Oh what?
He had a good enough reason and I wish we could know more, um,

(05:03:09):
actually and the same year turnsto the wizard here and goes, you
said you can speak to the dead, right?
Could you do that to a friend ofours, and The Wizard of opens
his eyes and goes? I mean, I suppose I could but is
there there's a lot of classifications for it and a lot
of special requirements. It's also that's sort of a lot
of work and seems more like a favor kind of thing.
Um, so I wouldn't do it for free.

(05:03:31):
What are the requirements? Let me just look at the spell
for you real quick. Well, first off it needs a mouth
the creature. and, And I can only ask it a few questions five
in total. I can only do it once at also
has to be a willing creature, something that wants to talk to

(05:03:53):
you. Well, surely you would want to
talk to one to one of us, looking back at any of the
pieces. I saw was there any semblance of
a mouth or voice box anywhere? You glanced back with your
Perfect Memory? It was pretty torn up as you
remember. But there is a really neat thing
you can do with robots, where you could just swap out parts

(05:04:14):
and you actually know when Auto known that has all the parts
needed. That's fucked up.
It's so it would only be temporary unless of course
something happened. Paul turned on my friend.
Oh good. Oh yeah.
What were you going to say? Do them?

(05:04:35):
It seems like this guy is sort of an asshole and wants to keep
pulling this favor from his archmage.
So now we've got three options, we could have him talk to Dr.
Him, we could talk to this prisoner upstairs or we could
use the teleportation Circle to go somewhere.
Do we have to pick one of the three and the Wizards sort of
shakes his head and goes? I'm a very busy man.

(05:04:56):
Yeah, the last option is professed.
Well, um, I just have a small thought which is that speak with
dead is more of a Priestly spelled, right?
I mean, some clouds could cast it.
I just imagine what if perhaps we could find somebody in your
your, you're so right? I I wanted to learn that spell
and realize like I couldn't use it for Monty but I I could learn

(05:05:20):
it. Yes, perfect.
Well then there's one checked off right there.
I mean, higher knows more than this guy.
Who's some famous? Special Wizard, who's kind of an
asshole piece. He's the worst.
I like the cut of his jib. You're a nice looking fella.
I like your freaky eyes, a weird.
Antlers how that happened accident with the spell?

(05:05:43):
Yes, indeed, never mind. So what do we want our favorite
to be? Then went to church to talk to
the prisoner. We don't know where we want to
go with plain or travel. Besides we could maybe get
another favor from this wizard in the future.
So ask a different wizard like maybe the guy me and Dillon met
who is a little more the lady ofpain.

(05:06:04):
I mean the lady of pain likes usI don't know, we could probably
do a job for AV. I don't know she likes us.
I bet she but I think we she scares me.
My vote is that we talked to theprisoner because I think if we
talk to someone with good sense,they won't count this as our
favor. All right, let's do it.

(05:06:26):
Let's talk this fuck. Oh, well, I learned something.
I bet what's the address? Here's our favorite and it's
important to have. You think this is a good lead?
Let's do it. I just Skillets are only lead.
I mean we do have to speak with dads now, that's a good idea.
I just I suppose I think this isa good lead and I know it won't
be around forever. So I wanted to take it I don't

(05:06:48):
have to let it slip by its my detectives Instinct.
I agree with orifice. Yeah I'll take that decent bit.
All right, I'll take you there right away.
Thank you sir. And The Wizard begins sort of
his walk is extremely unusually.It's like he's on tiptoes the
whole time and he steps carefully and delicately but

(05:07:09):
it's almost like a half run and it looks really awkward wobble
like me. He does not Wobble.
You Are full on wobbling. Oh he's her.
Oh yeah well like a wizard. Oh I'm like at this point you
guys get a goodbye from your newbest friend.
Glad the wet well I just be downstairs.

(05:07:30):
Then while you're up there come say hi.
And hey before you leave on it you feed the fishy and she Winks
at you guys. Oh Meet you ma'am.
Biggest freaky. The wizard bounds up the stairs
leading to yet, another set of long rooms and dashes down a few

(05:07:51):
hallways. And again you guys are really
quite the geometry. Eventually, you're led to a door
which he casts knock on and opens it and it leads inside a
dim circular chamber. There's a bed in here and a
chair. No window.
Just smooth black marble walls. There's a crystal embedded in
the ceiling that emits a faint lavender glow and hums quietly

(05:08:14):
with some sort of Arcane energy.In the center of the room
sending cross-legged on the floor is a young man.
In tattered, Orchestra robes. You remember him from the day
before? He looks tired and his
instrument, the piccolo lies. Untouched in the corner of the
room, snapped in half. He stares at the, at the floor.

(05:08:38):
In front of him. His eyes are glassy and his lips
aren't moving. He just stares master of our
crosses, his arms and goes listen which their cursed
spelled magic. We even used fucking greater
restoration and noting his mind's, not even just blocked,
it's absent, there's nothing there.

(05:09:00):
He was like this when we turned him over and did you cast
identify? See if any spells were affecting
him? Yes, of course.
And as it's it's unbelievable. I mean we could tell that memory
but it's every time we Castle remove cars and Duration, it's
still there. Something's wrong.

(05:09:20):
There's magic at play here. That might be Advanced far,
Advanced beyond my understanding, but maybe you can
get something out of them. If you don't mind, I'll just
wait in the corner here and watch it.
I don't want you getting violentwith my prisoner of course not.
He closes the door behind him and sort of sits up and pulls
the chair off to the side in thecorner and sits down.
And Taps his foot on the ground Crossing his arms.

(05:09:42):
You see the young man, he does not look up as you guys walk in.
I think you guys are right, thismight be a waste of time.
I couldn't imagine it would be this bad.
Well, let's give this guy a shot, right?
I don't weigh now that goes overand pulls him up and Yanks him
to his feet. Pulling him up by his, by his

(05:10:03):
shirt, the figures had lows to the side and is tongue.
Almost pulls right out of his mouth, you see?
His lips are dry and cracked. And his eyes are very Dim.
All Right, shithead? What do you know?
Here's spawns in sort of a flat empty voice and it sounds
completely. Unlike the man you met
yesterday. Light, then, darkness and music

(05:10:23):
and light. Again, the blue one goes, first
said loss to the other side who told you that figure turns to
you and you see his head is slowly sort of wobbling around.
I just know it. You said the blue one goes
first, I left the left, the presses, his forehead into his

(05:10:44):
palms for a second. I left the don't let them find
it his eyes shut and then he opens it.
What am I? The blue?
Blue one goes first I like a sort of shakes him a little bit
goes. All right but we don't want to
get violent with ya and he looksover.
And Winks at the wizard, in the corner.
I want to slap you around a little bit.

(05:11:05):
Eh, he turns around, you know what I'm doing.
I don't know what I'm doing, someone jump in the bonus, we
don't need to hurt him more as you say trombonist.
He begins humming. Hmm, I wanted to memorize That
Tune. Okay.
Actually I said to true you. Memorize the tune do a limits

(05:11:27):
melodic and you recognize it as I you think a trombonist playing
something that's a tuba, right? Tuba is Uber doesn't play this
song, Cuba. So it was the two that attacked
that night because he didn't play the song.

(05:11:47):
He knew, right? That's makes sense.
I think so. This is Professor keep going
light and darkness and music andlight again is that when you
practice What does a tuba is? Look like Darkness.
Oh, can I cast detect thoughts on this guy?

(05:12:07):
Uh yes you cast it and um you are met with a very weak.
I'm Gonna Roll this at disadvantage just because of his
mental state, try it to attempt to block it got a 12-degree in
the master in the corner watches, you cast and goes.

(05:12:30):
Mmm. That's a good attempt, but you
won't get far with that. It's a it's like limbo in there.
And sure enough. The most idiots just empty place
in here just earlier tonight. You were in the head of somebody
who had their memories modified and you saw the memory is the

(05:12:53):
fake ones. You're pretty sure clear as day,
that's what the person remembered and that's what's
there. There is just nonsense in this
person's head. It's eerie and sort of cryptic
and emotionally. Untethered arbitrary lines of
words that form sentences that don't quite make sense.
And even half sentence, fragments that don't really mean

(05:13:16):
anything. The whole mind is blanked like
it was stripped like someone took a bottle of bleach and just
removed the whole thing. You're not sure how this is
really possible. It's quite brutal.
And it's the kind of thing that you really of only kind of seen
once before which is when the lady of pain did something
similar to Father Lucius. Oh but it's not like is that

(05:13:39):
does it feel like like exactly the same or does it feel like
different? This one's different.
This one, for father, Lucia's, very specific things were cut
out his you know, the anger, he felt the rage.
The deceit here it's just sort of cut at random interview and
intervals you see some memories floating around in here you see
darkness and you can sort of hear Music in the background and

(05:14:00):
it's the same tune that this figure is sort of humming.
And then you see light, you see the city of Water Deep.
You see this figure had a, you see two parents in there and
some splotches of childhood. Nothing that would indicate
anything that has to do with this.
You see he grew up a blacksmith,it looks like, but then left
that soon after to become some sort of musician.

(05:14:23):
And then soon after that it's just white planks.
Cut out someone went in here with it.
Worth the lady of pain. It was very, very intricate.
Someone went in with delicate scissors and cut things out
here. It was a chainsaw, there's half
memories and it's pulled out andyou just hear music the whole

(05:14:44):
time. You're in here, okay?
Oh does it feel like the music is coming from any specific
memories or? Yes.
It's it's this one memory. It's clearer than the rest.
Not cut out like the others and it's black.
Of course you have no vision in it.
The figure was like Lily hooded,but you hear the song and the
figure, this man was playing theinstrument, the piccolo in his

(05:15:06):
hands. You hear the music.
It's it's there, and it's a sweeping orchestral.
Tune, a bit somber, almost like a funeral dirge.
And then I'm assuming there, there's like nothing of the
night of the attack or anything that you don't see anything
about the night of the attack. You don't see any practicing of
the instrument. You don't see anything about the

(05:15:26):
masquerade ball at all. This person has no memory of who
you are of who or a fascism. Is it is all missing.
It's quite unusual to see and Roman Arcana.
Check, please. Uh 24 in his head here, you sort
of come to the conclusion that all these memories, the ones of
that night were cut, clean out and you take a moment in here

(05:15:50):
and listen to that tune for a second and you're not exactly
sure what caused this. But for a moment, you're not
actually sure if this was some overwhelmingly powerful magic.
You think. There might be something just
that happened here. That might have been more simple
than that. The thoughts sort of leaves you
though and you pull out of his head as he begins speaking
again. God.

(05:16:12):
Is that how I'm gonna end up? No, of course not.
Um, can I check his head for signs of trauma?
I had a, like, I want to, like, pick through his hair, like any
incision SCAR or anything. You pick three give me an
investigation role I pull out mymagnifying glass.
Okay, pull it out. Roll with Advantage, please.

(05:16:32):
Yes baby. Yes.
So I pull it out. I whip it up, okay?
Worst investigation of the nightbut it's still 25 price is no
indication of incision, no physical.
Trauma has been done with a god that is such a high roll.

(05:16:53):
You do five years right up against his right, temple on the
side of his head kicked inside of his sort of dirty on Camp.
Tear is just the very Fleck of asingle piece of little Arcane
dust the second, you touch it, it disintegrates and disappears
but you saw it for a moment evidence of some spell, okay?

(05:17:14):
I broke it before you could lookat to see most.
That's that's all right, oh. The notes, the notes I see him.
Uh, can I put my sleeve up to that guy's nose and tell him to
blow his nose. Blow your nose, he blows.
And just a bit of snot comes out, you don't know what else?

(05:17:35):
No blood, okay. Oh, wipe it off on Mulligan's.
Um, hi, um, yes. Um, what happens if you cast a?
What was it? Detect, poison and disease on
this, man. That's great idea.
Okay, I'll certainly try. Thank you.
Yeah. All detect poison and disease.

(05:17:58):
Nothing comes up. You cast the spell out and all
you get is that he's got a bit of malnutrition, you think like
likely just from the few hours that he's been in this little
prison cell. Um, Was forehead at all.
Reminiscent Of the diamond disaster from the bluff of
warning. You only sought for split second
but it didn't look like diamond dust.
In fact it you didn't even thinkit was a component of anything

(05:18:20):
at all. You just saw the raw raw little
piece of the Arcane for a split second.
Can I make any sort of Arcana check on that?
Or I just telling you that much is already?
Oh yeah. More than his given to his eyes
look dilated whatsoever. His eyes do look a little
dilated yet. You don't think he's high though
and that would have likely come up and hires hell.

(05:18:42):
I was thinking maybe concussed. Being high comes up for poison.
Excellent I mean you know on 420day no less.
Oh today's 420 holy on Weeds birthday baby.
Oh my goodness, it's birthday. My the figure keeps coming.
Hmm just hear the notes perhaps they heard when they lost their

(05:19:08):
memory rest and know and rest and no.
Hmm. Perhaps if we know who sings
that song. So maybe this is gonna sound
crazy. But can I Class cast
Clairvoyance and set the sensor to be in his brain?

(05:19:32):
Oh, Oh you um because I think technically, the sensor is
intangible. So I don't think it should hurt
him. You're right.
You're right, you hold out your hands and The Wizard in the
corner, sort of leans forward for this one and watches, and a
little sensor appears inside of this guy's skull, which is

(05:19:54):
fucking nuts. Only, they must it's, it's dark,
obviously, it's brain tissue. The brain itself is not missing,
it's all here. You sort of float around you,
look around here for a little bit.
All the pieces are here. There's no giant missing chunks.
There is however, some and it's just the oddest thing inside of

(05:20:19):
this brain. It's just some sort of glowing,
little yellow particle that dancer.
And oh, my guess I related to the crew, is it, is it like or
is her name? Not a mora or aura?
Jordan. Yeah.
This is like her green like thing you just not look green.

(05:20:42):
It's sort of blowy and yellow almost ethereal or face starts
getting out of his tools. Oh my God.
Did you know that someone replaced all my bones with
licorice? Sorry friend.

(05:21:03):
Not a spell can see. Can I look into his eyes?
You look into his eyes, they're just sunk in and hallowed.
Did you know that music can be eaten?
Show me? The conductor, where is a little
time? Do you guys remember how the

(05:21:25):
orchestra sounded that night? Like any maybe, any particular
song that have you do them? Do you recall any of them?
Can you maybe beside a little piece of one of them?
Sure. How can I try replaying one, the
song, open your mouth in the fucking Sound, by comes up.
There are the band played for a good like two hours.

(05:21:47):
So they played several pieces and most of them were well known
orchestral pieces of the time. A few of them were new to many
of you guys but you got none of you guys are really
professionals and music theory. So it's easy to assume that a
lot of them could have just beensongs.
You haven't heard and you're looking at night.
Sorry. Mmm.

(05:22:07):
Does it react to any of the song?
He doesn't seem to react. He just hums his own tune
completely independent of that. Any of the ones that do them
plays and do them. You make note that none of the
song that they played the night before is the one he's filming.
The piccolos too high pitched for me, always wanted the viola.

(05:22:29):
He turns and he sort of idly looks at dulum and goes, did you
know, the brain is a library, check in, check out where the
books left sock, right shoe. No one.
The index is burned. The shelves are locked.
Why the shelves are locked? Mm-hmm!

(05:22:52):
It's a time. Yeah, I'm still waiting for a
cue, oh, lift it. Don't you.
Oh, the SEC, like, the little first part of the song, right?
When the conductor starts and just play that like little tap
that he does on the stand. I want to get out of a crossbow

(05:23:13):
bolt snap off the top and hand it to do them to waive as a
conductor would well. It plays intro, I'll start
waving start waving in the figure watches you and his eyes
narrow ever. So slightly, and he goes, no,
not my conductor. He rides a badger, some badger.

(05:23:35):
I told the candles my name. This guy's fucking lost you
guys. Let's just scan them up.
Um, I'm still he said a lot of important things.
He's fucking crazy in the camera, but there's something to
do with the candles and the explosions mileage.
You sorry, shit. So Dylan, you've been studying

(05:23:57):
music, right? I like a little bit, can you
watch my to be the refrain of the two and he's humming.
What? What if I come next?
I can try. Hey, I interpolation go some
music check, I guess performancereading his mom, detecting his

(05:24:19):
thoughts still. As he was speaking all those
things. Yeah.
And they must you just saw what appeared.
There's really nothing else going on.
Much beloved surface. Here, you sort of picking around
in his mind too. And it's just a lot of broken up
chunks. You think maybe there could be
something. Here.
But not even this person knows what it is.

(05:24:39):
That's 18 with performance that look Point.
Okay, that is pretty damn good. You listen to him whom, hmm, and
you come back with an 18, the first three or so notes.
You whom he looks at you, and makes eye contact and his pupils
widen. And then on the fourth one is
eyes go dark, and he looks off in the distance again, just

(05:25:02):
proof forth algorithm. Same thing, that's new Force.
Give me another performance check please, isn't he used to
practice in with like a bag overhis head or something?
Oh, and that way, he won't recognize Doom as do them.

(05:25:27):
They must the voice of a conductor.
When you heard the practice, oh,Mason, did I hear the voice of
the conductor or anything? You never heard a voice in the
one memory of this song that youcan sort of see you only heard
the click? Click, click, click, click of a
conductor's, the wand, the Batonthat they have.

(05:25:48):
In fact, the clicking kind of comes consistent like a
metronome. There's no voice that comes with
it though. But you got the click, click
click. Oh, I'll try to imitate the
beats per second for the clicking for Doom.
Yeah. All right, 17 performance, okay,
again playing else again and they get a bit further and you

(05:26:11):
feel him. So, turn to look at you and
then, yet again, after a few more is, I just turn away and
you feel a bit lost, you know, orchestral songs.
Usually last 10, 20 minutes. And at this rate going, only
seconds at a time. You, it'll take days to actually
finish this, I hate to say it's,but Abel really could help us

(05:26:31):
here. He's a musician.
Do we have time to get him here?I could send to him.
Yeah. Well maybe we should go send
someone to get him because I don't know.
Where do we are Master scale about a dude many times soon.
The plan was this evening else. Could I ask you not to do that,

(05:26:52):
please? Two.
We just need a bit of me. It's the Open Lord.
Clear insisted it himself. Unfortunately none of your
paperwork or friends will help you there.
Hmm we should call me. Oh yeah we should call him now
or someone run. Get him.
I know it. I'm the fastest.
You notice that, um, while playing a bit of this song that

(05:27:14):
he seems to be humming after getting a good six or seven
notes in Doom, his eyes are a little wider as you sort of
looking at you and he's trying to figure something out and the
most you feel something in his head as two sentences that were
previously disconnected. So like connect and form a full
thought and just as it does the words sort of spill out of his

(05:27:34):
mouth, the rest of me is in the wings, you'll never find it.
But what Wings? What music can be eaten.
Did you know, my favorite book is music?
That's not a page of notes and measures and bars and rests.
That is a book called is in my library.

(05:27:55):
Oh yes, then play us the song. Can you, can you play us the
song that you sing? Um, can I go repair cast?
What the fuck is the spell called?
Am I stupid my brain? My brain Fix It cast mending on
the piccolo as you go to cast mending, this is when the wizard

(05:28:16):
sort of steps and goes as you can just even if he is sort of a
lame in the head and there's still a little piece of them,
that might be able to cast spells, I would prefer that
broken. We we have so many Magic
protections against this againsthim.
Let us just try. Yes, but he's unstable if he
jumps for it. Hmm, we hit right?

(05:28:38):
I won't defend. You have counterspell.
Dispel magic. We could destroy him in a
second. Yeah, a violent person.
She is. I mean, to tell you that, if you
just give us a chance, nothing bad will happen.
Can I mend the piccolo Walk over.

(05:29:00):
Pop the two pieces together and mend it, and it's fixed.
I want to hand it to him. You hand it to him.
He holds it in his hands, and you see his fingers immediately
move around and start pressing the buttons and muscle memory
the most in his head. You feel, no memories related to
this. His body seems to be sort of
moving on its own around here, literal pure Instinct, built
into him. He holds it up to his mouth and

(05:29:22):
blows a couple practice notes. And at this point, you see the
master in the corner, fully sitting up and he's got both of
his hands outstretched in preparation for a spell.
I'm prepped cast fracturing on the piccolo.
If it seems like he begins a spell, okay, he plays a couple
practice notes, then places the piccolo sort of firmly to the
side and twist it. 90 degrees very acutely, almost like a

(05:29:42):
military move and holds it there, still waiting played the
veteran home, you replay the metronome, click click click and
just on the fourth. Click the figure holds this
Piccolo up to his mouth and begins playing a tune, the same
tune. He was humming just a moment
before, but now clear and precise, sadly masonry whistling
doesn't Carry onto the microphone for some.
It's so sad but I'm okay. I'll just I'll have it again.

(05:30:05):
It's great. And he continues playing the
same sort of melodic piece. And repetition, he stops after a
moment and blinks his eyes and looks down and confusion and
then puts the piccolo down and his lap.
Was that anything? It's more clear to you.
Now dulum you can hear it a little better so it'll make your
next check if you want to try torepeat it, have a lower DC.

(05:30:25):
Otherwise though the figure again in his mind, the most you
feel a couple things slowly connecting a little better.
Again, these are sentence fragments that now connect the
conductors and memories of liability.
So strip it out. Can you give this and give him?
He's in his head and playing themetronome?

(05:30:45):
What would you like to give the help action for their demos to
Dooms, performance? Check?
Oh, I cast bless on you get a bunch of people.
Write explosion. Yeah.
Like right outside. I think my window.

(05:31:05):
Oh my God, I get he can, you cast bless?
Sorry. So that's a plus with D4 on.
I'm gonna start running to go get Abel.
I'll be back soon. Wait, where are you going?
This is such a waste of time. What is it?
I'm getting an expert. Really?
If you bring them here, if he's here, will it speed this up?

(05:31:26):
And I can be done, tell me what he looks like.
Ah, blonde haired, big guy cut. Do you have a picture?
How would I have that? Just think of him.
Okay? I imagine him and then I remind
myself to imagine his current body and imagine that instead,
the man steps up walks over to you and places a hand on your

(05:31:48):
temple. Casting detect thoughts.
Oh, don't like that. Particularly, I started trying
to be more careful. You want to roll a wisdom saving
throw against it. Um, no fail.
But I'm using all my self-control to be very clear
and precise in what I imagined and not think of anything else.
All right, he's in there for exactly six seconds, long enough

(05:32:11):
to see him and pulls out and thespell ends and he goes.
Okay, so waste of my time digs in one of his coat pockets of
the shimmering cloak and pulls out a small Crystal with a
Bright bright green, almost limegreen color to it.
He steps out of the room for a moment and you hear a whooshing
sound nice. And then stepping back in is

(05:32:32):
both the wizard and Abel who looks extremely confused in his
covered in green dust what possibly been doing.
What the fuck? Just happened.
Good you teleported. And that was me.
It was the crystal that I broke.That cost 100, gold pieces, you
know waste of my time. Evil.

(05:32:52):
We need your musical expertise. We need help.
You were teleported. Keep up the man musical time.
All right, you got this jail. I don't want to go back to jail.
He came from jail in public. You idiot.
He came from a different jail. Don't worry about it.
This isn't jail. Just focus on the music.
Able comes in and looks at the guy and goes, oh, this guy just

(05:33:15):
not look right at all. Those like it helped.
Listen here. Sheila play the tune, and see if
he can get him to Home Alone. Let's start playing you start
playing at? He listens.
You hear him or other Siem sort of closes his eyes and listening
and he goes, hmm. Yes.
Hold on. I think I know this one from
life. Could you give me a little more?
Hit the limit from Life. I'll try to extrapolate.

(05:33:38):
All right, give me another performance.
Check this time, you can't have Advantage with help.
Oh, this is wrong. 23 203. That is much better.
You begin extrapolating and playing the Figure turns to you
as you sort of whom out of your mouth socket, and demos.
You feel is mine some species ofit or reconnecting, you're not

(05:34:00):
sure how, and it's not even by Magic, it's mental purely
mental, like, it's practiced andphrases, get pulled together and
you hear a little bit more. Some of it makes no sense.
You see the words appear just ashe says out loud and hands.
I have hands, I can hum like Tuesday and I smell like

(05:34:21):
question and the most you hear and feel him, sort of come to
something, it's, it's still Out Of Reach of yourself and him.
It's again, the kind of thing that he seems to be verbalizing,
everything that's coming to his mind just as it does.
So you're just getting it aroundthe same time and just reading
it off the teleprompter, dulum you continue playing and you get

(05:34:42):
further and further and bars in now and Abel listens.
And he smiles and the man, the broken man on the sort of pile
of crumpled to a pile on the Ground and began solving.
Oh able looks over and looks over it, you are phase and gives
you a smile and goes. Well I suppose I just I don't
recognize that one from life butI do like the tune I could guess

(05:35:06):
the well like I think I could guess the composer if you had a
book on classical songs like perhaps find the name for you.
We want you to try to finish thesong.
We're still. That would be impossible.
It's such Tunes are likely half an hour long, you couldn't guess
at how it might end, I guess or Affairs music is Art you could

(05:35:28):
see half of painting and finish the rest as the artist intended
nonsense, the master of a good guess.
It's worth going, yes. But I imagine that we couldn't
get it perfect. Not after until we had tried it
millions of times, it would be much faster if I could find the
tune through a book and we couldwork backwards, I don't know if
this tool will have been writtendown anywhere.

(05:35:48):
Hmm. And at this point, the figure
stop Sobbing, and he speaks quietly.
I just wanted it back, but Just what about him right out pretty
little threads. Sort of stop sniffling and
stands up a little bit and looksat you guys.

(05:36:09):
And again, his mind is fracturedthe most, there's a bit more
together now and you can tell, he's not just rambling so much,
he can put together full sentences, a little better now,
It seems like this is helping him undeniable progress, we just
need more time or more information, you steals his mind
a little bit and speaks to you guys.
Solemnly, you'll never find themthose beautiful.

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Beautiful lights, not unless, you know how to harm the thread
open. All right.
And listen, I'm in this room andwith this guy, in The Dark Tower
of the black, staffs of Water Deep.
This is gonna be a good stoppingfor, for tonight, you guys.
Oh my God, right here, we're ending.
I got all my god. Well, oh my gosh.

(05:36:55):
Excellent work getting up to here.
Congratulations. That was a very very well done
session. Thanks for joining me.
And today we'll unravel that a little more next time.
What a great Detective episode. How did that happen?
Like it wasn't planned. I did not plan to take a really
know you did this. Oh, Samir speaks the truth.

(05:37:17):
I thought you guys would just move on, but thank you for
coming to me at this point. That is a good stopping point
right there. So yeah.
Thank you guys. That was fun.
Until I have stumps you guys, you're all quiet about it.
Oh yeah, gonna be thinking on that one.
Oh yeah. Listen you got a week to think

(05:37:38):
on it. A lot happened this time.
All right, a lot of interest Parts.
Um Dr. Ham did die. I just know you guys to know
opening up the curtain a little bit.
The first week we introduced Dr.Him, Isaac came up to me after
the session and Isaac was like, God.
I love this guy. I'm gonna be so sad when he
dies. I knew he was gonna die

(05:37:59):
immediately. I was just looking at you like,
aha. But that was that was a great
moment. So yeah, I had weeks to grieve
before. It's okay.
You got all this drink. It's true.
That makes it better. Okay.
You guys ready for poll results?Yeah.

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All right, a couple weeks ago, we asked you in episode 23, a
brother. Does anyone know which polls I'm
supposed to read because I just sort of guess every time every
time we did who wants to be closest with less than last?
So yeah, this is a little world.All right.
In episode 23, a brother below part 4, we asked you is orofi is

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technically Undead. Now this is actually a pretty
neck and neck pole but eventually the answer, no
Beating Heart and Soul did win out against yes.
School haunting. Oh, He was dead now.
He's not, that's Undead. So maybe next time, just like

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think a little like use your brain. this week, we want to ask
you who first will fall to able to fire again.
Yeah, I would take the chance ofan instant.

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Holy. On your friend because he turned
me gay. I literally have been thinking
about all week, what fucked up thing like it say after last
session. Yeah, that one just did not go

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with that. She just watching in silence.
He was a good for that question.Oh my God.

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Please, please do. Please do.
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Enables role in it. You know.
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