07: Don’t Trust the Bugbear

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(00:00):
Welcome everybody to
another episode of playing games with strangers.
I am your DM,
John Harju, otherwise known as Nick Foster in
the randoms on, Supersonic PodComics. I almost forgot
the name of my pod the name of
my,
my my, pod comic there for a second.
I always wanna call it the normals, and

(00:20):
I know that's not right. The normals. Yeah.
Yeah. Not not even.
Playing with us tonight, we have,
who you just heard there, Steve.
Hi, everybody. I have a new headset.
Steve McDonald with his new headset. He plays,
the fireman
on, Fire hands.
Fire hands on, The Mark.

(00:42):
Also, Supersonic Pod comics. Yep. Other voice you
just heard in the background was JS Earls.
He does the writing for,
Sumo Girl
and code name Super Force. Super. He does
have a storm in his area
of the globe tonight. So, his signal may
cut out. I apologize if that causes any

(01:02):
problems with the podcasting, but we'll, try to
work through it. We also have
Josiah
Crandall.
Yes. Greetings and salutations.
Who plays parts of the Petra
in
in, I'm I'm trying to remember who everybody
plays because Supersonic just started up again. In
Sumo Girl. Yeah. In Sumo Girl. Oh. And

(01:23):
then you did another role that I don't
know about. Matrix
in,
code name super force. That is right. Diaries
zebra. He created diarrhea zebra.
And then we have
Celeste Mora.
Hello.
Who plays
I forget your character's name

(01:44):
in the randoms.
I think it's Carrie. Cherry. Yes.
I think.
I I I try to put her out
of mind because she makes me mad.
Not me.
No. The character. Yes.
And if you don't know why, go listen
to the first episode
of The Randoms, and you'll understand.
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But without further ado, let's play some games.

(02:47):
What up, nerds?

(03:45):
Alright.
Who wants to recap the last episode before
we dive into this evening's episode?
Well, I did last time, and I'm I'm
editing,
the other the other one. So, like, all
I can think of is the stuff in
that one. Oh, shoot. I misplaced my violin.
Wow.
Celeste,

(04:05):
are you able to recap?
It's gonna be a real thin recap.
Previously on Strangers,
not Strangers, Neely. Why did I say that?
I'm not even on Strangers, Neely. Say sick.
Ow.
Playing games with strangers.
We went to a small town after coming
back from two years from the weird unicorn

(04:27):
y thing. We killed some grass and it
screamed.
Then we,
we met some people and determined that we
needed to head back
to not go to Baldur's Gate, but go
back to
Waterfall.
Is that the other town? Waterdeep.
I knew that I was wrong. I just
couldn't remember what it was. And we had

(04:48):
a good old church potluck.
You did have a church potluck. I did.
Eileen
and I believe it was
Orbog
skipped the potluck altogether.
Evens. We were making money.
That's right. You were. Because that's so important.
Next day comes,

(05:08):
you guys slept in the church.
You wake up,
eat some leftovers from the potluck for breakfast.
What do you guys wanna do?
Were the pews
comfortable?
Well, given that you're a bugbear and you're
used to sleeping out in the wilderness anyway,
I'd say, you know, it's not the worst
thing you've ever slept on.

(05:31):
Oh,
that was very
refreshing.
Orbog.
Orbog,
wake wake up.
Nudge Orbog,
who is somewhere in my vicinity.
And he's he doesn't wake up.
Perhaps I'll get a snack before the others

(05:51):
wake up. I go in search of leftovers
then, like you said.
Alright.
So you go and get some leftovers,
Aileen
and
Gareth.
I'm going to wake up and sleepily
start looking for coffee.

(06:11):
Yeah.
You rummage through the cupboards within the church
and
you actually find the coffee
and start brewing some up.
Never underestimate a girl's power to find her
coffee in the morning.
Yeah. I just wake up bright eyed and
bushy tailed like usual.
And, morning people.
Do my, seventy eight hours of of,

(06:34):
you know, devotions.
Seventy eight hours? Yeah. Yeah. Every day. Every
day.
Actually, I haven't I haven't I haven't been
around my that holy book for a while.
So
I'm gonna be,
I had one copy and I gave it
to them. And so I'm gonna be looking
at it a little bit more.

(06:55):
Okay.
I'm gonna find Aileen,
after I finish snacking. She's probably in the
same
area as me, I assume.
Oh, Aileen.
I think it's time for us to continue
on our journey. We've had a nice rest,
and

(07:16):
I feel like,
perhaps,
we can do some good today.
I agree with you, but I'm a need
about another half a cup of this coffee
before I can go anywhere,
including over there.
Well, that's, like,
a few
steps away from where you're at now.
Yes. Exactly.

(07:37):
So you're saying
you can't get to there without drinking that.
And I just slowly lift the mug to
my lips
and continue to drink and stare at him.
I know the feeling.
Sometimes
I cannot
move
without a smack of
something sweet. I get a grumbly tumbly.

(08:00):
I just need my brain to stop moving,
kick the hamster in the wheel, so to
speak.
Oh, why are you kicking
a small rodent?
Never mind.
Oh, well.
Perhaps I'll see what
Gareth is up to.

(08:20):
And I kind of walk over and stand
behind
Gareth,
looking over his shoulder, just kind of standing
there. Gareth, as you were reading your holy
book,
a shadow comes over the top of you
and blots out the light your re reading
light.
Alright.
I look up and, friend Pooh, how did

(08:41):
you sleep?
Very well. Thank you.
Oh, the pool
was surprisingly comfy.
Good. Good. Are you feeling a little better
after our talk yesterday?
Oh, yes. I feel a little bit better.
And
I do have an idea, an inkling in
my mind
that I think I might possibly

(09:05):
be
a bit of genius,
rustling around in my brain.
What is
it?
Well,
we got here
into
the future
by
that
thingy.
I forget what we called him, what he

(09:25):
said his name was,
about that funny looking fellow with that accent.
Yes.
And perhaps if we find him again, we
can get back to where we were before,
and then we don't have to worry about
any of this now.
Well,
yes. But I believe the finding

(09:47):
will prove difficult.
Oh, I'm very good at finding things.
Once, I found
no.
No. I didn't. I actually lost that.
Where do you think this entity would be?
Oh, well, oh, I found him in the
woods before,
and, oh, that gives me an idea. I

(10:09):
go back into the kitchen
and start looking for their kegs or of
whatever drinks they have there.
Oh, no. Okay.
Make a perception check, please.
Yes. Oh, that's a natural 20. Oh my
goodness.
You you you absolutely find their container of
communion wine.

(10:30):
I open it
up
and, very carefully and and look inside. Like,
I kinda, like,
sneak up to it and get right up
next to it and slowly lift the lid
So my my eyes are right level with
it and kinda peering up as I lift
it open. Are you in there,
mister

(10:51):
whatchamacallit?
Are you in there?
At this point, I'm gonna take notice of
what Pooh is doing and walk over there.
Okay. Pooh, dear. What are you doing?
I'm looking for that guy with the horns
and the,
what was he called? That,
it wasn't an it wasn't that. Wasn't that.

(11:15):
A Woozle, perhaps.
I don't believe you're going to find a
Woozle
in there.
Oh, well, that's where we found him last
time.
Hello? And I open I just kinda throw
the lid off and,
stick my head straight into the
Oh, no.

(11:36):
Oh,
no.
You get
no response from
the communion wine.
I take my head out.
Stop it.
I'd like you to make a perception check,
please. Okay.

(11:57):
It's a little,
12.
Okay.
Aileen?
Yeah. Is it Aileen or Aileen? I am
I'm terrible at this. I apologize. I'm a
terrible DM.
Aileen, but I'll answer to Aileen. I'll do
it. I'll go with Aileen. I'll work with
I'll do that. I wanna be right. Are

(12:17):
you how close to Poo are you right
now?
To probably about three or four feet. Okay.
So you can probably see the communion one.
Go ahead and make a perception check.
K.
11?
Nope.
Okay. So yeah. No no response from the,
from the communion wine, poo.

(12:38):
Voila.
Do I see any other,
containers around here? Is the communion wine the
only?
Make another
per sec,
investigation check. Alright.
That one's a three.
Nope.
Perhaps we should go to the bar.
Darling, why do you think going to the

(12:59):
bar is gonna help you find a Woozle?
Well, they might have more of these. And
I,
tap the or kinda, like, hit the the
communion
wine.
They most certainly will have more of those,
but I seriously
doubt that they will let you go rummaging
through them.
Well, maybe if I explain to them what's

(13:21):
going on.
Still not in Tyler's show what's going on
myself.
Aileen, go ahead and make a, history check.
Seven.
Nope. Never mind.
I'm rolling real bad tonight. Y'all are looking
for a a whoozle named what's its face,
apparently.
This has gone great.

(13:43):
Oh, maybe,
oh, no. He left again. I look over
to see if Orbog's
gonna offer any help to me, but he
is still sleeping.
I think Orbog needs us coughing more than
I do.
Oh, well.
In that case,
Gareth,
Aileen, shall we,

(14:04):
maybe venture off, to
the bar?
I would prefer waiting for Orbog.
Oh, well, it's not very far away, is
it, Aileen?
No. Not terribly.
You were there last night.
Alright.
Well, perhaps I'll just
take a a look down that way.

(14:25):
Don't forget your hat, dear.
Oh,
very smart.
And I put on my oven mitt hat.
Who do you think I should look like?
Why don't you look like Orbog?
Oh, very good. Very good. I do my
best
Orbog,

(14:46):
illusion
with my hat. Alright. You put on the
hat, and you turn into
a exact replica of Orbog. Do you think
this will pass? Yes, dear. That is quite
lovely. Oh, I think Orbog's talking in his
sleep.
Don't you worry about that. You just go
on about what you were doing. We'll take
care of Orbog.

(15:06):
Right about this time, Orbog wakes up and
looks at you guys and says,
you guys go on without me. I had
a late night last night, and I just
I'll catch up. Wait a minute. That's not
Orbog's voice.
Kill him.
Really?

(15:28):
It'd be kinda funny, wouldn't it?
You you you hear,
Gareth, you hear the ceiling above your head
start to rumble a little bit, like it's
starting to,
become a little bit loose. Just kidding. Anyway,
I'll be off to the the bar then.
I will come with you. Let me just
fill this coffee cup back up.

(15:49):
Yes. My friends will be able to take
care of Orbog if anything
happens during his sleep. Yes. But remember
that I am now Orbog.
That's right. Orbog. Orbog.
Orbog. Oh, that's pretty.

(16:10):
The bog bear?
Yes.
The Orbog Bear.
So
you guys make your way out into town,
and
Aileen,
guides you to the, tavern where you guys
were at. It's right over there. Oh, goody.
Where's the back door? Well, I'm not entirely

(16:30):
sure because I've always gone in the front.
Oh, well, I suppose that would do. So
I I I enter, and I go right
up to, I guess, the door back into
the kitchen area or behind the bar where
they might keep their
supplies?
Alright.
Well, when you actually, when you go through
the front door, you see

(16:52):
behind the bar,
kind of like a giant,
a giant
spherical creature that has an enormous eye in
the middle of it and a giant
mouth
with several
stocks coming off of it. And at the
end of those stocks, you see little hands.
And, it looks like he goes, hey. How's

(17:13):
it going?
Oh, I
sure oh, it's all going wonderful.
Great.
What can I do for you today?
Oh, I I was
I was wondering.
Is it
I'm I'm having
could I have something to drink?

(17:35):
Yeah. Sure. What are you looking for?
Could I have, perhaps,
a look at all of your beverages?
Specifically the kind that come in barrels.
You're looking to buy a barrel this early
in the morning?
I'm looking to look in a barrel
this early in the morning.

(17:56):
You see, I have an acquaintance
who likes to hide in them, and I
thought perhaps
your barrels might be a good hiding place.
Are you suggesting that we're,
infested?
I don't know. Do you have a woozo
problem?
I'm going to step up and help poo
out here a bit.

(18:16):
No no. He just had a little bit
too much
of the,
the liquid last night, and this was the
only way we could keep him calm.
Oh, oh, I got it. It's like the
hair of the dog sort of thing. I've
heard about that. Yes. Oh,
we only carry one brand that comes in
a barrel. So, I mean, I can show
you I can definitely grab you one of

(18:37):
those.
Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. And so he he
he he he floats around back and with,
several of the stocks that are coming off
the, side of him, he sets it down
on the, table there and he was like,
that'll cost you 50 gold. Of course. Of
course. Good, sir. I plop down my 50
gold pieces.
Alright.

(18:58):
And he takes it and goes, well,
have a good day, I guess. Oh, and,
you have a good
you have a good day as well. We
do appreciate your service.
You might wanna have a doctor,
check that one out. He,
sounds a little hoarse.
We we are on the way to the
physician as we speak.

(19:19):
Alright. So you have acquired one,
barrel of beer.
What, what brand would it be?
Make a perception check to see if you
can locate the brand mark on there. Oh,
no.
What a five.
Help me
see what's there. Elaine and Gareth, were you

(19:39):
in there too?
Or were you standing outside?
I I went in with them. Okay.
All three of you go ahead and make
a nature check, please.
Nature. 20.
Alright. Here's my nature check. Ready? What was
it?
Oh. 4. 4. Oh, I was reading someone
else's.

(19:59):
What what did what did you get, Josiah?
6.
Okay.
Gareth and,
Poo, you have no idea what that thing
was.
Aileen, you are familiar with the creature that
was behind the counter being as, you are
a bard and you have played in several
taverns.
It is
a a relative of a creature known as

(20:21):
a beholder.
This one's called a beholder.
Oh my gosh. And I really and when
you were describing it, I'm going, that sounds
like a beholder, but we're not frozen.
No. And it also didn't have eye stocks.
It was just little hands coming off of
the stocks. So,
but when that when the beer holder had
a hand was carrying the,

(20:42):
barrel to you, it it had accidentally smudged
the branding off of the barrel. Oh, bother.
It looks like it is a smudge brand.
Have any of you ever heard of a
smudge brand?
I have not.
No.
Perhaps I should open it up and see
what's inside.
I'll get ready
because if this is

(21:04):
or or what shall we call it?
Well,
we're probably going to have to look very
tough to make him reverse what he did
the first time.
And with that, I I slowly open the
lid,
again.
Make a perception check.
That would be
15. Alright.

(21:25):
As you look into a barrel, you d
you do see a face in the reflection,
but it is definitely not the,
being that you're looking for.
In fact, you recognize it as the same
thing that was staring back at you from
the broken mirrors
previously.
There's a Mary in here.
What now? I'm sorry. What? Oh, Mary.

(21:48):
I believe her last name was Adoosing.
I see. Look right here.
Can I look in see what he's seeing?
You definitely see her. She's in there and
she's looking back and looking fairly angry.
Really?

(22:09):
Am I
correct? I'm thinking that's who I thought it
was.
I believe you're right. Perhaps we should close
this up.
Maybe she knows where
the whatchamacallit went.
I'm not sure if we can
converse with her.
Who who are we talking about? Well, there

(22:30):
was a lady who hired us to find
a small
casket, and then we broke a bunch of
mirrors after opening
it, and
she disappeared.
Mistakes were made.
I see. Anyway, maybe if you talk to
her
saying that she does not know you, but

(22:50):
she might know us,
she might be a little friendlier.
Can I ask a question about the schematics
of the barrel?
What okay. Go ahead. How tall is it?
Taller than you. That's what I thought.
Seeing as I would have to have a
step stool to see inside
of this barrel, I do not think that

(23:11):
is a good idea. Oh, you could have
a step
pool
and not wait that doesn't.
I I could lift you up if you
really wanted to see.
Well, no. The idea of a face floating
in in beer is not my idea of
a good time.
Oh, what is your idea of a good
time?

(23:32):
Just let it be known that if you
see any faces,
especially a woman's face inside of a reflected
surface,
please let us know.
Oh, trust me. I will. Well, Garrett,
perhaps if I look like someone else,
I could talk to her because I have
this trust here. And I tapped my hat.

(23:53):
That's right, Orbug.
I mean, who? Why don't you just
turn into
someone else?
Another person in this,
establishment perhaps. Just a test.
Let's see. Maybe if I turn into a,
And I,
peek back inside the I assume we went

(24:13):
outside of the bar to to do this
or the
Right.
So I I just kind of scoot back,
open up the door, and see who else
I can see inside there.
Well, you see you see the,
flying
eye thing that was behind the bar.
And,
you see a,
you see a human guy sitting in the

(24:35):
corner,
eating breakfast,
reading the
newspaper.
That's about it. It's pretty early in the
morning. It was kinda weird that you came
in and bought a big old keg of
beer this early.
I come back at the house. I've got
an idea.
And then I,
turn to
I think of the,

(24:56):
the receptionist
lady at the prison.
The dragonborn.
Alright. And
I turn into that. Alright.
So you turn into that.
What do you think? I will never get
used to that. And then I open
back up
the keg and stick my head over.

(25:18):
Hello.
Make another perception check, poo.
That's a two.
Yeah. She's gone. She's not there.
She's not there. Well, that must be really
It is in a way.
It is highly disturbing though. I'm sorry. What

(25:38):
did you say? I said it was highly
disturbing.
Oh, yes. It was. But
it's good to know all that we didn't
kill her all the way gone, I think.
And perhaps there would be some forgiveness if
we were able to bring her back into
the land of the living.
Yes. Perhaps if we get that box back,

(25:58):
what did we do with that? I think
we just left it. Unless Orrbag took it,
he was mentioning something about taking it. Well,
let's go see.
I feel like we would have noticed him
carrying a box.
It was a small box.
And I make
my hands, and it's probably probably about the
size of Aleene. Right?

(26:19):
It it would have been a box that
you could have buried Aleene in. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, that's comforting.
What about this size?
Well, then
Perhaps he has it in his pockets.
If you would like to go and,
search his pockets, I will I will travel
with you and then laugh
when he slaps you across the room.

(26:41):
Oh, I'm fairly certain he won't be waking
up today.
So I head back towards the church to
see if we can find the box in
Orbog's possession.
Okay.
You make it back to the church, and
when you go inside, the church is empty.
Hello?
Oh, where did everyone go?

(27:01):
Gareth,
I went to a friend's I was supposed
to be here.
Well, yes. But this is not a typical
worship day. So perhaps they have gone to
their
occupations?
But where has Altbar gone?
I'd I'd well, maybe he left a note.
Can I get down on all fours and
start looking through the pews to see if

(27:22):
I can find a
note or something? Make a perception check? No.
An investigation check because you're searching for That
would be a two. This is gonna be
called who looks for stuff and doesn't find.
Yeah. You you find you don't find anything
of interest.
Can can I look as well?
Are you assisting
him? Sure.

(27:43):
Alright. Poo, you have advanced you can roll
advantage
because you have 15 then.
You find some,
some food that wasn't eaten the night before.
Oh,
some leftover salad.
Oh,
god. Don't eat that.
It's not as bad as it looks. You
also find a bologna, part of a bologna

(28:04):
sandwich with extra mayo that has been sitting
out overnight.
Oh, baloney?
Oh, someone wants to watch some of this.
Yes. Splitted with you. No. No. I'm tried
all right.
Oh, Gareth?
I am for mayonnaise.
I'm fine.
Well, my tummy was getting a little hungry,

(28:27):
so
I'm
Delicious.
Poo, go ahead and make a constitution
check.
What? Mayonnaise and
baloney doesn't get it doesn't go,
30,
constitution.

(28:48):
Eight, or 14. Alright. Yeah. You're fine.
The, the flora hasn't been started growing on
it just yet. So alright. So, yeah, there's,
nothing here in the church for you.
Well, it would seem that
Hoboken is gone. I don't suppose we could
look for him. Oh, dear.

(29:09):
I'm not sure he'll be okay.
Well, I suppose
so. What what do you think we should
do, Ailing?
Well, what will we plan on doing today
once
we woke up? I believe we are going
back
to Waterdeep. Well, we do not wanna go
back to Waterdeep without Orbog, do we?
I would prefer not to,

(29:31):
but if we go back
and find the whatchamacallit,
then
if we go back
further
in time,
Orbog will be with us, and he won't
be here at all.
Mhmm.
So
if we did that, we could leave
and still find him.

(29:54):
Mhmm.
And that
sounds very reasonable
from my perspective.
Gef, what do you think of this plan?
I
imagine
we could
I I have no better plan.
Well, I say then let's head to Waddle
Deeep and hope that, Orabog
finds us or at least spends for himself

(30:16):
for a while.
Oh, but,
maybe
we should leave him a note just in
case.
Now that is a good idea, babe. I
help them occasionally.
I'm just gonna throw this out there real
quick. Who because I remember I had you
guys stop at Fantasy Costco.
Yes.
Who has the, ribbon?

(30:37):
I do.
Yeah. I think, you're the only one who
really bought anything there. You have the Kool
Aid too. Yes. I do.
Yeah. I guess we could I forgot how
that worked. Hold on a second.
Alright. So, it's a literal ribbon, and I
can whisper to it. It folds up like
an origami bird
and flies off to deliver my message.

(30:59):
Once it leaves me, I have to wait
for someone to send a message back.
So does it
is this like a something that is a
one shot item, or is this something that
just goes back and forth?
It goes back and forth. But once you
send it to that person, that person has
it until they send it back to you.
Okay. So, like, if I was sending it

(31:20):
to my enemy or something, it's not
like, Now we can
you know, we'll get it we're you know,
we'll get it back from me, and the
enemy could keep it forever.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I,
when we bought some things, I bought something
called Robin's ribbon,
which I've never used it before,

(31:40):
but it will send a message to Orbog,
and he'll be able to send a message
back if he likes.
Well, that sounds like a good idea.
Yes. That sounds like the perfect solution.
So what should we tell him?
My dearest
Orbog
or something like that.

(32:02):
How about
Orbog heading to Waterdeep?
Reply
when you can.
That would get the job done.
Sign
your friend's
Gareth,
poo,
and then in parenthesis,
Orbog, comma, but not really Orbog, comma.

(32:24):
The he has that hat thing, you know,
end parenthesis.
And
alien.
Alright. And it the ribbon
flutters up into the shape of a bird
and flies off.
An origami bird. Mhmm. Not a real bird.
Less feathers.

(32:44):
Time for us to get a move on
then. Let's go.
You guys are heading out. Are you guys
just gonna walk on foot back to,
Waterdeep?
What else can we walk on?
Our hands.
No one's gonna walk on my hands. I
have set parameters.
I I just didn't know if you guys
were gonna hitch a ride or I know.

(33:06):
We were just joking with you. Just call
it jokes, John.
Is there a,
some sort of,
like, a conveyance between towns, that type of
a thing?
Well, I mean, you can definitely check on,
the list of Craigery. Yeah. Why don't you
check Craigery's list?
That would be great since I have to

(33:28):
jog to keep up with you.
But one of us could carry you.
You could also wear the hat and then
become large like us.
And then we will be traveling with bugbear.
Alright. So you get to Craig's list.
Go ahead
and make a,
investigation check to see if you can see

(33:48):
what you can find on there. Because there
are lots of ads. Investigation.
Not my strong suit.
That's a nine. Nine.
Anybody
else anybody else who wants to look at
the board can roll as well.
I have a five.
It's probably because I can't reach it. That's
right. It's probably too short. You guys better

(34:09):
hope you don't reach go into battle with
these types of rolls tonight.
We're getting them out of the way here.
Wow. And, Pooh rolled a five as well.
Awesome.
So you don't see any direct caravans,
but you do keep,
finding
an advertisement for a taxi service.
A taxi service? What Mhmm. Would this do,

(34:30):
the trick? We could give it a try.
How do you call one of these taxis?
It's located in town. You would just go
and tell them where you need to go.
Let's do it. Alright. So you head there.
You head to this place. It's called the
flaming stallion taxi service.
And, you see a little a little gnome,
just, probably about,

(34:52):
three apples tall.
That is a little gnome.
And,
he's like
Hey. My name is Melvin.
Are you in need of a taxi service
today?
We are, good sir.
We're headed to Waterdeep.
Oh.

(35:13):
Oh, you're going to Waterdeep.
Nobody's wanted to go there for a long
time.
Yeah. I can get you there,
on day. That's normally a five day journey.
I can get you there probably by nightfall.
That would be,
acceptable. Wonderful. Yeah. How much would that be?
Well, there's it's kinda hazardous to head up
that direction anymore ever since, you know, the

(35:35):
the incident.
Yes.
I'll say I'll I'll get you there by
nightfall for a 100 gold.
I believe we have a 100 gold between
us. There's a 100 gold between us?
And I looked down between
me and Gareth.
I don't see it.
He means if we are pitching, dear.

(35:58):
What are we pitching?
Money.
If all three of us contribute
some,
then none of us will have to pay
all.
Has anyone told you you are very wise?
No one. No one has ever told me
that.
Oh, for good reason.
Wow.

(36:19):
Alright. So go ahead and divvy up your
100 gold tab.
I'll pitch in 34.
Can do 20.
Jeez.
Steve's going for an even cut, and even
was the big guy and was like, oh,
give you even more. I'll get I'll pay
the extra one. Oh, is it? Is that
even I'm bad at math. So it would

(36:40):
be 33 for everybody else.
I'll throw in one goal.
I'll do I I I have money. I'll
do these for yeah. The remaining 33? Alright.
Mhmm.
So he's like, alright. Well,
everybody looks away.
And he takes you around to the back

(37:01):
of the building where there's this carriage
and these really strange looking horses that are
a bright vivid orange color.
He goes, just just real quick, nobody has
a heart condition or is prone to motion
sickness, are you?
Not yet. Bugbears
are notoriously
still a stomach.
I pet my rather

(37:22):
not still stomach.
Wiping some of the, the two day old
mayonnaise off your shirt. Right?
Yes.
Alright. Well,
get into the, go ahead and get into
the carriage, and, you're gonna wanna buckle those
seat belts.
Trust me.
I buckle the seat belt.

(37:44):
Are these seat belts meant for
bugbears?
They're magical seat belts. We'll we'll go with
that. They stretch as far as you need
them to.
Do they stretch as little as you need
them to? Absolutely.
Alright. I didn't wanna be the three year
old being slung back and forth of the
fair ride here.
Keep keep in mind, the guy who is,

(38:06):
driving this thing is shorter than you. So
I'm sure that
I'm I'm I'm I'm pretty certain he probably
would have consideration for the small people.
That is appreciated.
Are you all staffed in? Are you ready
to go?
I believe we are good, sir. Alright. Here
we go.
And
he he he shouts something in gnomish. Does

(38:27):
anybody speak gnomish?
I don't think so. No. Maybe.
I've never been to Alaska. So
The the the the the the the where's
where where's my language on here?
Front page bottom left.
Oh, yep. I do. No. I don't. Oh,

(38:49):
nope. So he shouts something in gnomes. She
cracks the whip. And
y'all's heads jerk back hard. And you look
out the window and you see fire coming
up the sides of the carriage.
Like, have you all ever seen curl?
No. Of course, we've seen crawl.
These horses are moving like those horses in

(39:10):
crawl. They're just leaving a they're going so
fast. They're leaving a trail of fire behind
them.
That's that's kinda fast.
Yeah. Well, you're going you're you're making a
four day journey in under a day. So
I mean
We should have traveled this way the first
time around.
And

(39:31):
everybody needs to make a constitution safe, please.
Oh, Lord have mercy.
Alen and
Pooh, you are feeling okay.
Orba, not Orba. Gareth,
you're feeling a little bit
green around the gills for with, the motion
sickness. You're having a hard time dealing with

(39:51):
going so fast. Dragonborn don't have gills.
Gareth, you look a little,
you're discolored.
I will be okay.
Don't worry about me.
It's just that I'm sitting next to you.
So over the course of eight hours, y'all

(40:13):
travel in this fashion.
And,
by the time around nightfall, sure enough, you
pull up around the out on the edge
of town and he goes, alright. Well, I'm
not I'm not actually gonna go into town,
for reasons.
So
I'm dropping you off here.

(40:33):
Good luck.
Thank you, sir.
And
in
a blur of emotion,
the wagon goes out of sight.
Before he goes, could I give him, 5
gold tip? Yeah. He he takes it gladly.
Alright.
Given your
familiarity with the town, you would assume by
this time, there would be a little bit

(40:54):
of nightlife out on the street. But,
when you when you're approaching the town, you
it seems very still like all the all
the, businesses and everything is locked up.
Well, this is certainly different.
Yes. It looks a little less lively.
Is there any sign of life?

(41:15):
Make a perception check.
No. I can't even tell if, the three
of us are alive.
Yeah. You're
you're you're just overwhelmed
by the
lack of a presence on the street at
this point that, you can't you don't really
know the same thing beyond that. Wow.

(41:36):
Are the shops
are the doors
do they look locked? Does it look like
things are like, people locked up and went
away, or does it look like something
devastating happened?
The doors look
closed.
Places of business look like they've been shut
down for the evening.

(41:57):
Okay.
But,
you know, as far as whether or not
the doors are locked, you would have to
check a door. It's not something you can
really tell by looking at it. Are there
lights
on in any places?
That you you do see lights in various
windows throughout the, Okay. Throughout the city.
Do we know

(42:17):
relatively where the a tavern or a place
of,
you know, maybe where,
Gregory's list is or that type of a
Well, you you do you do know where,
the Laughing Lamia is. Right.
Because that's, you know, where you were staying
prior to your
Is that on this side of town?
No. But I mean, you can get there.

(42:39):
Let's head to the nearest,
tavern. At least we can get something to
eat.
That sounds alright.
I could go for something.
That baloney sandwich didn't
stick with me for the past eight hours.
Surprising.
As fast as we were going, I don't
think anything stuck with you.

(43:01):
Whoever is going to be leading this expedition,
go ahead and roll an investigation
check to find the nearest,
in.
Who is great at investigation
checks tonight?
Then lead lead on friend poo
or six.
This way and I point the opposite direction

(43:22):
from the town
up in the air.
Eventually, after,
following poo for about two hours
and his total nightfall now, he leads you
to the laughing Lamia.
I told you I'd make it here.
Oh,
I remember this place.
It brings
back such good memories.

(43:44):
There was me and
you were there, and what do you want
here?
And
there were others.
Yes. This is where we met.
All those seven
six episodes ago.
I mean
Breaking that fourth wall.
Metagamer.
So are you guys gonna go in?

(44:06):
Yeah.
You reach for the door, and the door
is locked.
Gareth, you wouldn't happen to have a key
on you?
I do not. No.
Elaine, you wouldn't happen to have a rock
picking set on you.
I believe I do, actually.
Is there a light in the window or
anything?

(44:26):
Does it look like it's
abandoned?
No. In the lower windows, there is there
are no lights. In the upper windows where
the rooms would be there are lights up
there.
Perhaps we should not try to break in?
Yes. Perhaps in the time that we've been
gone, they've,
changed their policy about staying

(44:47):
open late at night
or even early at night.
Well, maybe if we
knock?
Knock away.
Alright. I'll knock on the door.
Okay.
So you knock Nice nice hearty knock.
You knock on the door and
you wait a little bit.

(45:09):
No one answers.
Perhaps moving on to somewhere else, maybe somewhere
more public that would have,
information that we need.
There are lights on upstairs. Perhaps if I
throw all this rock
Perhaps not.
If they don't want to answer us, then
let them be.
I'd like everybody to make a perception check,

(45:31):
please.
24.
Oh, you Nat 20 that. Alright. Oh, I
Nat thirteened it.
I Nat twoed it.
Alright.
Aileen,
you
see, you're kinda looking around as you're having
this conversation. You see
far down the street, a large

(45:52):
imposing
figure
riding on a horse.
Boys, do you think we might should get
moving because there's somebody coming who does not
look like he is friendly?
Do you know him? Do you recognize him?
Perhaps he has directions.
Oh, no.
Oh, dear.

(46:13):
And at this point, I still I guess
look like the
Dragonborn
lady.
Because I never said that I wasn't.
Okay.
Oh, what to have you roll for this
to see if he notices you?
Just have him roll on his worst stat.
That's awesome. Rolling his worst stat.

(46:36):
That would be intelligence for me.
Go ahead and roll just just roll go
ahead and roll a charisma check, please.
Actually, charisma is my worst stat.
Oh. That would be a 10.
Okay. When you say hello there, sir, you
because he wasn't writing directly towards you. He
it looked more like he was kind of

(46:56):
doing a sweep. You you see his head
kind of turn? Like, you guys are only
seeking a silhouette because it's dark out.
His head kinda cocks like a dog when
you hear when it hears a, strange sound.
I think he heard us. And then he
just kinda goes back about his business again.
Oh, well, that was very rude.
Sure.

(47:16):
We should let him be.
Well, he looked like he might be rather
important.
Exactly why we should leave leave him alone.
Well,
where do you think we should stay? Is
he the only person we've actually seen?
Yes.

(47:37):
Perhaps we could
follow him at a distance,
see where he's going.
I am good at stealthing.
I'm a very good stealther.
You know who's not good at stealthing?
Guess who?
Orbog.
Actually actually, both of them because of their

(47:58):
armor. But Perhaps, Pudir, you should,
look like me
so that you can be small and stealthy.
I don't know exactly how well that will
work, but I will give it a try.
Why don't I wait here and you,
trail him at least a little bit
and then reconnoiter with me?

(48:18):
That seems like a good idea.
So I tried to look like,
Aileen.
But since it's kind of dark out, I
squint a little bit. So I'm probably a
little bit
and I haven't known her very long.
Maybe a boy version, like Maylene.
I was just thinking short.

(48:40):
How's this? I think I look rather dashing.
So it may look a fuzzy alien, like
a like a little bit bug bear. Okay.
So he he turns into a baby bug
bear. Yeah.
I think that's what I do. That's what
I do.
Oh, well, I have complimented with how you
think I look.

(49:00):
Let's go ahead and view embellishes.
I see that.
Why don't we head on out?
Yes. He seems to be getting away.
Let me
be very stealthy.
Alright. I need the two of you to
make stealth checks, please.
27.
Oh, damn.

(49:20):
It's like my IQ.
That would be 16 for me. So not
quite as good.
Okay. Still.
Aileen, you become you you become the knight
itself. Like,
poo,
you can you you you can kind of
tell where she's at. So you you're both

(49:40):
kind of following her, but she's really hard
for you to really know where she's at.
The only reason why you know where she's
at is because you watch her slipping into
the shadows.
And you do your best to, kind of
mimic her movements,
as you're following behind this,
individual.

(50:04):
So
as you're following as you're following behind this
individual, he stops on his horse,
and two figures jump down from the rooftops,
and they kind of start discussing something amongst
themselves.
Alien, I'd like you to make a perception
check, please.
15.
You recognize these individuals as the druids that

(50:27):
were tailing you on the way to,
Baldur's Gate that yeah. Had, picked up and
your interactions with them prior to leaving to
the other dimension.
The ones that stole my money.
That'd be the ones.
All right.
And
poo.
I would also like you to make a
perception check.

(50:49):
Sure thing.
14.
You can hear what they're saying, and it's
in a language you have yet not heard
anybody else talking.
It's in goblin,
which is I know that one. Yeah. You
do know that one. And,
they're discussing it sounds like they're patrolling the
cities and they're they're talking about seeing people

(51:09):
outside after nightfall
and that they have been taken away to
to the,
to to the keep
for,
questioning.
Oh,
did you hear that? Did anyone else hear
that? And the large
rider on horseback,
base tells them that,

(51:31):
he will go and commence,
enhanced questioning with them forthright.
Oh, he uses the fancy words.
Why don't we slip on back
and let
the whole party know what we have found?
Alright.
Let's hide down here.

(51:54):
And I gesture to a nearby alley.
There it are you there?
Am I there?
I to my understanding you stayed back.
Yeah. Yeah. We have to go all the
way back. You stayed all the way back.
Let's,
let's stealth back. Yes. Let's do that.

(52:16):
As you guys begin to stealth back, you
notice that the rider
is going away from you.
Oh, no.
Well,
he sounded,
sounded like he was going somewhere very important
where other people might be kept.
Well, Pudir, do you want to follow him,

(52:37):
or do you want to let
Gareth know what is going on?
Oh, how far well,
we don't
this is a predicament. We don't want to
lose him, but how would you find me
if we get Gareth?
Exactly.
We need to stick together.
Perhaps if we hurry and get Gareth,

(52:58):
we can make it back
to the spot
and
see where to go from there.
Let's do that.
Maybe we can get some of those guys
who were on the roof
to tell
us where the horseman was going.
I think we need to leave those guys

(53:19):
alone.
Then why do we want to follow the
guy on the horse?
So we can determine what is happening.
Well,
the man on the horse looked more important
than the guys on the roof.
I don't think either one of them is
gonna be very kind to any of us.

(53:39):
I don't plan on being very kind to
any of them.
I forget how big you normally are.
I forget how small I am right now.
Well, let's go get Gav, and then we
shall discuss with him what our next plan
of action should be.
Alright.

(53:59):
Run run run to Gareth. So you meet
up with Gareth.
Gareth
me. Gareth, what are you doing as they
approach?
I am just,
standing
nonthreateningly,
just sorta
making sure that if anyone did come out
of any places that they would just see

(54:20):
someone standing there
taking in the night,
not looking
suspicious
or
anything.
Okay.
During that time period, I would like you
to make a perception check, please.
17.
You do notice
shadowy figures jumping from rooftop to rooftop throughout,

(54:42):
around you.
I try to stay as much in the
in the shadows as possible without making it
look like I'm
suspicious
or anything.
I would like you to make a stealth
check, please.
19.
Actually, a five because of your armor. You

(55:03):
do have disadvantage on stealth checks.
Should have rubbed yourself with honey.
Yeah. That's what I should have done.
Alright. So
how to do this? Gently.
I need you to make a dexterity safe,
please.

(55:24):
That could be dexterity.
Oh, and that's a 19 because that five
is No. Because of No. Because of the
can't we just switch those two? No.
Alright. So,
while you're watching these shadows go along the
roof and trying to,
trying to slip into the shadows yourself,

(55:44):
a vine drops down behind you and wraps
around you and pulls you up to the
roof. And you are looking into the face
of a hooded individual
saying and they look at you and they
kinda twist their head to the right and
they're they say to you, you're not supposed
to be out here.
Do I know you, sir?

(56:05):
You should.
Well,
after tonight, you'll know who all of us
are.
But in the meantime, you'll have to come
with me.
And he waves his hand
and I wave back. You need and I
need you to make a wisdom save, please.

(56:28):
Oh, that's a natural
No. That's a natural an a natural three.
Right.
So you go unconscious.
Why can't I take those other numbers?
Because those are if you were rolling with
advantage.
For now, I'm gonna roll with dice and
stuff.
Like, hey, I kids. I've given you I've

(56:49):
told you guys I've given you guys permission
to roll. I know.
I know.
I'm not sure why I do it.
Yeah. It's it's worked so well for you
tonight.
Yeah.
Alright. So
Aileen
and Pooh, by the time you come back
to where you left Gareth,
nobody's there.
Oh, no. Not again.

(57:11):
Not Gareth too.
There's a Gareth too?
Oh, we've lost him.
We shouldn't have left Wobog,
and now we've left Gareth.
And
oh, dear. It's happening all over again.
This is not good. This is not good.
Poo poo, dear. I need you to focus,

(57:32):
dear.
Perhaps we should just follow the gentleman that
we were talking about following
and and assume
that Gareth can take care of himself.
But Gareth is so
so
I don't know.
Yes.

(57:53):
Kind of like a tin can.
Well, yes.
But but I
if or do we all?
We don't even
and he ran away that way, and we're
not there anymore.
And
I don't know.
This is all
too much.

(58:15):
Why don't we sit here for a second,
let you catch your breath?
Here, have some bread.
Oh, you have bread? I have bread.
Oh, yes. Yes. That will that will help
me think.
No. You wouldn't have any honey or to
put on the bread, would you? No. I
don't. I'm sorry.
Oh, that's okay.

(58:36):
I just thought I'd ask.
And then I,
take a bite
of that bread. I eat that bread
and try to calm down.
Oh, dear. No. This is this is very
good bread.
Where where did you get such
tasty bread?
Well, my family are bakers.

(58:57):
Oh, you don't say?
Yes.
So it it's
it's a family recipe.
Oh, it's very good.
Alright.
Gareth,
perhaps Gareth is
doing something important.
Or maybe he

(59:19):
saw the very same people we saw.
I believe that he probably if we had
to follow the gentleman on the horse, we
will find him.
But maybe those shadow people, I still think
they would be easier.
I feel like if something foul happened to
Geth, it was probably those shadow people.

(59:42):
These are the same shadow people that
were
following us when we camped out on our
way to Baldur's Gate.
Oh,
those
sneaky shadow people. Yes. This is my reason
for distrusting them.
Not because I was listening to the previous
conversation.

(01:00:04):
Oh, well, perhaps.
Oh,
no. I have an idea.
Oh, what if I did this?
Then I try to look like one of
the shadow people that I saw.
Alright. So you turn into
a silhouette.

(01:00:25):
And then if I talk real tough,
perhaps I could talk to one of them.
Maybe it'd be better just to to listen
to them for a little bit before we
decide to infiltrate.
Right. Right. Or should we go up on
the roof?
I feel safer in the shadows, personally.

(01:00:48):
The reason is a little In the shadow.
Well, but does the shadow know? Who knows
what evil
looks
in the hearts of men?
The shadow knows.
I think that's public domain. I think that's
public domain now. I think we can get
that passed. I think that's good. Yeah.
It actually is. It's a it's a,

(01:01:09):
registered trademark of Conde Nast.
Conde Nasty. Actually, they you can't publish, like,
the shadow novels or anything like that because
they still have the copyright, and they have
the copyright on that on those words too.
Awesome. That's getting cut out.
Maybe we can ask them to sponsor our
podcast.
In the meantime, let's continue playing. Anyway,

(01:01:32):
I think I will find a way to
the roof and you can stay in the
shadows here.
Well, that sounds like a good idea. Just
Actually be careful. That's that's an awful idea.
I said as I, took a couple steps
away.
I'm not leaving your side for a second.
I'm just trying to see how many times
y'all are gonna split the party tonight. I
get I get it. Really close to you.

(01:01:54):
The last time I've done this,
I've lost
people.
You're not going anywhere.
Oh, dear.
I'm gonna stealth away.
Alright. Go ahead and roll stealth check.
Yep. She she just kinda slips into the
shadows and,
Elaine?

(01:02:14):
Elaine?
Elaine? Go to the roof, poo, dear.
Right. Alright. Okay.
You just don't go anywhere.
I'll be right behind you. Or right under
you rather.
I'd find a way to climb up on
the roof.
Alright. Go ahead and make a

(01:02:36):
you can choose athletics or acrobatics.
Let's see.
Which one am I better at?
Athle athletics.
Well, shoot.
Yeah. Athletics.
That's a plus seven.
So
17,
16.

(01:02:57):
Alright.
So, yeah, you you managed
to just, King Kong your way up to
the top up to the rooftops.
And, and when you get up there, go
ahead and make a perception check, please.
Oh, I'm so good at this.
Tim?
You, you know, it it's not hard to
see when you're up here.

(01:03:18):
You you do notice figures kind of darting
from rooftop to rooftop while you're up here.
So you you have a general idea that
you're not the only person up on the
rooftops.
Alright. I,
kind of, mosey well, I I I kind
of go
towards the edge,
seeing if I can,
wave,
like, to get the attention,

(01:03:39):
and to do so in kind of an
urgent way to
someone else.
One of the
chairs.
Go ahead and make a charisma check.
That would be 11.
You catch the you you notice one turns

(01:04:00):
their head to you,
and they kinda make a hand gesture at
you, and they run over.
And,
in in Goblin, they say to you,
what seems to be the problem?
Oh, yes.
I saw that
there's
several individuals

(01:04:20):
out tonight
that need to be taken,
that we've caught them and need to be
taken to the keep.
But,
I'm afraid,
I had a little more too much to
drink earlier tonight, and
I
I need,
directions.
You've been drinking while you're on patrol?

(01:04:41):
I was drinking
a little before I was on patrol. You
know,
the wife's birthday and all.
Zeos is not gonna be pleased if he
finds out that you've been inebriated on on
watch.
Well, he's not gonna be pleased
if he finds that I have prisoners that
didn't make it to the keep.

(01:05:03):
Tell you what.
I'll help you out.
Give me your prisoners and I'll take them
in. And then that way, you don't have
to present yourself inebriated before Zaias.
Oh, well, that's that's a good idea, but,
I prefer to keep my
prison account high. You know what I mean?
Gotta be,

(01:05:23):
best
prisoner count on the keeper's list. What are
you talking about?
You know, the the the office pool.
I wanna get that sweet parking spot.
You you notice he's starting to kind
of look in towards you a little bit.
So the closer exam

(01:05:44):
closer examination.
It's it's the drink talking.
Don't don't mind me.
He wouldn't know about parking lots because we
spent some time in, you know, our world.
Right?
Something like that. So he he looks at
you and he's like,
what's your name?

(01:06:07):
Poog.
I
mean,
Poog.
Poog?
I'm not I'm not familiar with a Poog.
New newer to the to the the the,
to the order.

(01:06:27):
Recent converts.
He just kinda cocks his head. And you
see him make a hand gesture off to
the right with one of his hands,
and you see more people starting to head
your direction.
Well well, as you said,
don't wanna
be caught being
inebriated.

(01:06:47):
I I I'll I'll just, see if I
can make my way there on my own.
No. Stay here, Poog.
I have,
some friends that want to talk to you.
Oh, and lovely folks there are too. I'm
sure I, I'm,
and,

(01:07:08):
I guess I need you to make,
dexterity
save, please.
Okay.
Come
on.
Don't fail me now.
Just cooking it a little bit.
Should've cooked it a little bit. Oh, wait.
Can I see it? Perhaps?

(01:07:30):
What?
Can I see what is happening to me?
I have a dangerous
sense against dexterity saving throws that I can
see.
Oh, Oh, that you can see what's happening?
Yeah.
Yeah. You see a vine coming towards you.
Oh, good. That will give me advantage because

(01:07:51):
my first one was five.
That's better.
That would be a
13.
You see it coming, but it managed to
snag you by your feet when you try
to take a step back
and
you
fall down
and your hat falls off.
Oops.

(01:08:12):
Go ahead and make a
DEX
check to try to grab the hat after
it falls off. Okay.
Eight.
Hat goes off the roof.
No. Aileen,
you are down on the ground, I imagine.

(01:08:34):
Yes. I've been listening to the whole thing.
Alright. So you hear a thump and you
see poos hat fall off the roof.
K. I'm going to go and
sneakily grab it.
Okay.
Would that be stealth or sleight of hand?
You're you're still stealth. I'm not gonna make
you roll another stealth. You you haven't done
anything to break stealth yet. So

(01:08:56):
so you go and grab Poo's hat, and
then you hear
a bugbear
from the roof, and then you hear a
lot of footsteps.
K. I'm going
to stealth up to the roof
in the shadows because I'm assuming there's shadows
on the roof. Yeah. I mean, it's nighttime.
So was not anticipating this happening tonight, but

(01:09:18):
what we can set something up here. So
you see Pooh
who is,
being wrapped up with
a vine
and circled by about four of the
hooded individuals.
I'm going
to put
the hat on

(01:09:41):
and walk up to them and ask them
what they're doing. What are you good looking
what are you gonna look like? I'm going
to look like the person I saw in
the woods.
Okay.
You come up and you ask so go
ahead and RP that out.
Oi.
What are you doing?

(01:10:03):
Oh,
Yathori.
We found this,
bugbear. He he added some sort
of minor illusion spell on him trying to
look like one of us.
How does bugbear do that?
We don't know. I've never heard of a
Bugbear having magic before.
We figured we'd go take him to go

(01:10:25):
see the boss.
I better come with you just to make
sure it all goes right.
Yeah. That,
that that that might be a good thing.
So they It takes me to take me
alive.
So,
poo, are you poo? You are currently restrained
in a,

(01:10:45):
in a
vine? Yeah. I'm gonna try to cut the
vine with my ax.
Okay.
I don't know that this that Aileen is
gotcha.
Go ahead and make a, an attack roll.

(01:11:05):
That would be
17
to hit.
Yeah. You hit that vine and you sever
it. So you are currently prone
And I will use
and still you're still bound, but you're not
being wrapped up anymore. So you're still
restrained.
Okay.
Can I get to my feet then?

(01:11:28):
You would
probably need to
you
yeah. I'll say yes, and I you'll unrestrain
yourself in the process, but that's gonna be
your turn, and then we're gonna roll initiative.
K. I'll do that and kind of,
glare at everyone.
From a good bugbear glare.
The CareBear stare?

(01:11:49):
No. No. Bugbear glare.
Oh, right.
Or all the attack that that
let's see. Five ten. I can get that
first person with my pole arm.
Alright.
Alright. That's my
what is it called? Are you attacking the
first person or are you attacking me? Because

(01:12:10):
you don't know why I'm me.
I'm gonna attack the one that's right in
front of me. K. I assume that's the
one I was talking to.
Okay.
Oh, that's very good.
25 to hit?
Yeah. That's gonna hit.
Hey.
Eight damage. Eight slashing.

(01:12:31):
So, Aileen, you see
an enrage
angry bugbear stand up
and swing a giant ax
and hit this person with the hood and
make a huge dash in their,
in their shoulder.
And,

(01:12:51):
you know, you're not entirely certain as to,
if he knows you or you.
So, who I think you have a second
attack. I do. I'll I'll do this whole
thing again. Alright. Now that I have both
my die, I'm pulling them together. So we're
looking at a 17 to hit.
Yep. That's gonna hit.
Okay. And that will do

(01:13:13):
nine damage.
I'll take this.
They're
not feeling so great at this point. You,
hit them on the other shoulder, and they're,
kinda bleeding a little bit. Oh, this bugbear's
not going down without a fight. Any movement
you wanna do? I'm good. I'm just gonna
maybe just take

(01:13:34):
one one step forward towards this person so
I can get a really good swing at
him next time. Alright.
Aileen, it is your turn.
Okay. So I'm going to cast
message
to Poo,
which I point I you can whisper a
message to anybody if you're pointing out any
creature, if you're pointing at them and they
can only they can hear it. Okay. And

(01:13:56):
basically, let him know, hey.
I'm Aileen. I'm right behind you. Okay.
I need you are are you trying to
do that in such a way that you
won't be noticed by the other Druids on
the rooftop?
Yes. I'm hoping they're looking at the raging
bugbear.
I need you to make a slight of
hand check, please. Okay.
18.

(01:14:16):
Alright.
So you fire off this message spell who
you hear
this voice
and it's Aileen's voice, and she's telling you
that she's right behind you. And she she's
the person that's right behind you. Oh.
Oh, hell. Then I try to, like, see
out of the corner of my eye
where where she would be at. I'll just

(01:14:38):
kind of squint at her a little bit
unsure,
but I got the message.
And and do Aileen, do you have any
bonus actions or movement you'd like to do?
I'm going
to scooch over here.
Druids turn.
Why are they getting closer to me? Because
you have their digging scare.

(01:14:59):
Because you're the only person there who poses
a threat to them. I probably should have
thought this through better.
So the first one
in front of you that you've been hitting
is going to cast entangle,
and I need you
to make Strength. Yep. A strength saving check.
19. That is a save. So you see

(01:15:20):
these graph you see these weeds come up
underneath your feet, but, you manage to kind
of step around them, and they miss you.
Grass. Is that the best you have?
Yeah. I eat grass for breakfast.
Actually, I don't.
And then
another
the, another druid casts thunder wave

(01:15:41):
towards you,
and
you hear this loud crack of lightning
I mean, a loud crack of thunder.
I need you to make a constitution saving
throw, please.
K.
That would be a 21.

(01:16:01):
Yeah. That also hits. You're you're rocking the
saves today.
Well, you you chose the one that I
have plus seven two and plus five two.
So Yeah. I'm not choosing them. That's what
the spells do.
So
so you take half damage on that. K.
You're gonna take six points of thunder thunder
damage,
and you are not knocked back.

(01:16:24):
Oh, that was better, but still.
And the third
one is going to
use a weapon
at you.
It's going to use its quarterstaff two handed.
Does a 15 hit you?
It does, sir. Okay. And so you'll take

(01:16:44):
five more points of bludgeoning damage.
Oh, that tickles.
And the fourth one is going to,
also
use its quarter staff.
And I'm assuming a four does not hit.
Oh, I catch that in my hand.
Alright. Yep.
So he misses you as well. And

(01:17:05):
you grab it in your hand. You just
throw it back at him. Alright. Pooh, it
is your turn. I'll go ahead and rage
just for the sake of it. Alright.
And then I will attack the one that
I was attacking before, and that will be
a lot, but it will only do
five damage.

(01:17:27):
But, with that five damage, the the this
druid's not looking good.
Actually,
it would have been a because I I
forgot to add the two to the damage
roll. Okay. Yeah. Still looking not good. Okay.
I'll I'll take, one more swipe at that
fella then. Okay.
What?

(01:17:48):
Again, a lot.
And then 13 damage on that that hit.
Yeah. You
you, bisect this individual,
and they are no longer amongst the living.
Alright. Who's next?
Are you over there?
I point to,
Aileen.

(01:18:09):
Let's see what you can do.
I'm gonna pull out my crossbow and hit
the the one that is in between us.
Shoot the one in between us? Yeah.
You are in melee. So using a ranged
weapon at melee will be at disadvantage.
Oh,
can I use the dagger instead? You can
use your dagger instead. I will use my

(01:18:30):
dagger instead. I just have to find my
d four instead of my d six. Do
I have to do anything to be able
to stab this guy in the back? You
need to,
well, right now, you are flanking, so you've
gotta roll to hit, but you have advantage
on that.
So roll a d 20.
Okay. We're gonna go with the 14
since I have advantage.
Alright. Let me pull up your character sheet

(01:18:50):
because you got your you got your,
bonuses you get for your weapon as well,
and I don't know what those are off
the top of my head. This is why
I've been using roll 20. I'm terrible with
the math side of things. Math does suck.
Okay. So you have plus four for your
dagger.
K. So then that would be an 18.
Yeah. It's gonna hit.
K.

(01:19:10):
And then
roll damage.
Three?
It turns around and looks at you.
The the Druid's pretty annoyed. It's kinda looking
at you like, what the heck, dude?
Oi. Get in my way.
Make a performance check with disadvantage.
25?
Oh, wait. No. You take the lower number.
Yeah. So 21. 20 one's not bad. And

(01:19:32):
they're like, oh, oh, sorry. Sorry.
And it's the druid's turn again. It's it's
gonna take a swing at you, poo. Bring
it on. I'm assuming a nine misses.
Oh, yes.
Now that one's gonna take a swing at
you. Does a 13 hit? That does hit.
Awesome
sauce.
You take 10 points of bludgeoning damage.

(01:19:54):
That one hits me right on the noggin.
Ouch.
Yeah. So it swings and tags you right
in the nose. They're trying to get you
you notice they're trying to be nonlethal. They
you you you you kind of assume they
wanna take you in alive.
Third one swings at you and hits you
with a 23
and does four more points of bludgeoning damage.
Oh. And, poo, it is your turn. Oh,

(01:20:16):
you oh, with the stick. I'm coming for
you.
The one that hit me with the 10
blow, gimme damage
right on the nose.
He's gonna get a nice,
16
25
to hit.
20 five's gonna hit.

(01:20:36):
Nine damage.
That's the one that was between you and
Aileen. So yeah. You took a big chunk
of life out of them. Stop trying to
hit me.
So I'll do another attack on that person
for
20. Twenty's gonna hit? Yep. And that one
will do a lot of damage. 15 damage.

(01:20:58):
That that is exactly how many hit points
they have left. Oh, goody.
So, yeah. You you hit you, you say,
stop hitting me. I I don't think I
said it like that. Well,
did you voice from the DM again? No.
And you just swing your axe upward
kind of, in a golf stroke thing, and
you kind of bury it in his guts.

(01:21:20):
And it crumples over your axe, and you
kinda have to put your foot on their
shoulder then pry it out of them.
Alright.
Now
we're talking. I will take a step towards
Aileen there just right on, over that body
that I laid out.
Alright.
Aileen, it is your turn. Can I move
and then attack? No, Aileen. Yep. K. So

(01:21:41):
I'm gonna move. I'm gonna attack that this
one with the dagger.
I don't think a 10 is gonna hit.
Let me check. Yeah. AC is 11. You
just barely missed. So you take a swing
with the dagger and this other one's kinda
getting wise to you and they matrix arc
their body back and you go over the
top of them. They're like, what are you
doing?
I slipped. Go ahead and make a performance

(01:22:03):
check with disadvantage, please. 11. They're like, I
don't think so. That's very slippery over here.
Any
bonus or movement?
I'm going
to come over this way.
Okay. So this Druid here, seeing two of
his comrades fall, he is going to take
off. He's gonna go running.

(01:22:25):
Poo, you get a attack of opportunity because
it was still was within your reach. Good.
Good. I was gonna ask about that. 20
to hit. That's gonna hit. 10 damage,
specifically towards the leg area.
So I can try to keep them from
running.
Well, if you're gonna call your shots, I'm
gonna give you a disadvantage.
Well, 19 then.

(01:22:46):
Okay. Yep. That'll do. That's about poo. Oh,
I like it.
And you catch him in the back of
the knee with your ax, and he is
a prune.
And the other
druid
is going to turn around at a lean
as they have gotten wise to you, and

(01:23:06):
they
is going to take a swing at you.
Oops. I hit it twice.
Six probably does not hit, I'm assuming.
No.
You they take a swing at you. And
fortunately, your image that you are projecting is
taller than your actual self.
So they swing and they swing through the
image. So it goes over your head.

(01:23:28):
Okay. Is it this one right here
that's beside the dead one? Or is it
the one that's running away? The one that's
swung at you? Yeah. It was this one.
Okay. I'm going to
take my hammer and whack.
Do you do you have
a response
attack like that?
Oh,
maybe not.

(01:23:48):
Okay.
Because then it's Poo's turn. Never mind. I'm
going to use my turn
to check-in with Steve and see how he's
doing.
I'm doing okay. How are you? Okay. Doing
great. Doing great. You guys are
doing fantastic.
Thanks.
We're not boring you, are we? What? No.
It's like I'm living this inside my head.

(01:24:10):
Okay. Good. Sorry, Steve. No. It's okay. It's
I was expecting this to happen. It's the
way the game goes. And you know what?
If you have to have this happen to
someone, I'm the one you know, I'm I'm
not gonna feel like, oh, man. I'm never
gonna play a game because I couldn't do
everything.
I'm I'm fine with this. This is the
that's the way that's the way things work.
Can we have Steve roll something so he

(01:24:31):
just feels See what my dreams are like?
Yes. Yes. Roll for dreams.
I'm sure there's a dream table that we
can pull up.
Oh, a natural 13 and a half.
Anyway, back on topic.
I'm going to go ahead and try
this one one in front of me is
looking,

(01:24:53):
The one directly in front of you is
untouched.
Okay. Well, then I'll give it a nice
solid hit.
If I do end up
trying to take it down, it will be
nonlethal damage.
That's 16,
plus seven. So That's gonna hit. Yep.
And rolling low on my, so 10
damage. Woah. Well, it's a four and then

(01:25:15):
it was plus four.
I mean, and then plus two. So, all
right.
So you take a big old smack on
that druid, and they kinda are dazed for
a second, but they come to and they're
looking a little bit concerned,
like they might try to run too. Now
don't worry.
I'm just going to,
ask you a few questions.

(01:25:37):
And I'm going to, take another hit at
him.
Oh, that's gonna miss, I think. What is
it? 11.
11 just hits.
Oh, okay. Well, that's better.
Still non lethal.
13
damage. They're they're a little bit dazed, but
they're still up on their feet, and they
definitely look like they want to get out

(01:25:58):
of there. Alright. Well, that's all I've got.
A pudia, why don't you restrain our friend
here so we can get some information?
I can't.
It's not my dad.
Well, I'm not sure I'm big enough to
restrain this friend.
Perhaps you could try to trip them.
I'd like to remind you, you do have

(01:26:18):
an enemy that is prone on the map
right now. I thought they ran away.
Oh. I stopped him. K. So I'm going
to throw my hammer at the one that's
prone. Oh, my. Okay. Go ahead. Non lethal.
Non lethal. Non lethal. Okay. You got a
20 that's gonna hit. Two. Awesome. Non lethal.

(01:26:39):
So you throw your hammer at them, and,
you kinda tag them in the shoulder. They're
like, oof. Yeah. So now your hammer's over
there. K. So I'm gonna move this way
to go get my hammer.
Alright. It's gonna be an action to get
your hammer. So you went over there, but
yeah, it's still down there. Yep. Alright. So
this Druid is going to use half its
movement to stand up. So he stands up,

(01:27:00):
and he's gonna run.
And Pooh and Aileen, you both get attacks
of opportunity on their running.
If you're gonna try to knock them prone
again or call your shot, it's gonna be
at disadvantage.
I'll go ahead and try to do mine
at disadvantage, so we'll see.
Oh, nope. This would be the opportune time

(01:27:20):
to use the crossbow.
Are you trying to make are you trying
to make
him stop or are you just trying to
hit Hit him without hurting him terribly.
Right. But what I'm saying, are you, like,
trying to shoot him in the leg to
make him fall again or Yeah. 14 is
gonna hit.
Three damage?
Yeah. You tag them in the hamstring, and
they fall over again. A nice shot, Aileen.

(01:27:44):
Oh, well, thank you, Pudia.
However, now that both your reactions have been
used,
this one is going to run. Oh, dear.
So it jumps off the roof and goes
that way.
We should move quickly, Pooh Deer, before he
gets to where he is going.
Alright, Pooh. It is your turn.
All right. Well, I'll take, I'll take that

(01:28:04):
one. I mean, I'll take that one. You
hold on to this fellow.
So that sounds like a plan.
So I'd, I'd take a flying leap off
the
building and land,
bringing my ax down towards this,
one that's escaping
12 to hit

(01:28:25):
12 is going to hit. Oh, good.
Eight damage.
Alright. So as you jump off to the
roof with bringing your axe down, it turns
around. Last thing it sees is this angry,
hairy fuzzball and the blade of this axe
coming down as every then everything goes black.
You have defeated that druid.
And, let's see. That was that's right about

(01:28:46):
here. I'll start
climbing up the building. I just get back
onto the roof, basically.
Right.
I took care of that one, Aileen.
I'll just keep this one safe.
K.
Reminder, you should you should have spells too.

(01:29:06):
Yeah. If you wanted to use them.
I know.
I'm gonna do cloud of daggers.
Yeah. That'll do. But we wanna keep
Non lethal.
Non lethal cloud of daggers. I don't know
what you can do with that non lethal.
How about you just try to, like, hold
them?

(01:29:27):
Like like, mostly surrounding him, but not, like,
hitting him. Just making him scared to move.
Do you have the spell shaping feet?
I'm sorry?
That's a no.
I asked if you had the spell shaping
feat because that's there's a feat that you
can get.
Yeah. To I don't want you to do
that. No. I don't have that. I was

(01:29:50):
just making things up.
Oh, yeah. No. There there there's there's literally
a way to do that, but,
apparently, it's not available to you. So, no.
But if you wanna do clouded daggers, you're
welcome to.
I'm gonna take that back because I don't
wanna kill it.
I'm gonna pick up my hammer. I'm gonna

(01:30:10):
whap its other knee.
You know,
you picking up the hammer is gonna be
action. So if you pick up your hammer,
that's all you can do. Okay, well, I'll
pick up my hammer. Alright. You pick up
your hammer. Don't let them run away.
It's gonna
stand up and attempt to run again.
Oh, not again.

(01:30:31):
And poo, you are out of range. So
Aileen, you're the one with the attack of
12?
Oh, twelve's gonna hit.
So
this time, he has taken so much damage
to this leg. You,
you basically,
club him in the kneecap
with this hammer. He falls he falls down

(01:30:53):
again.
He,
looks pretty hobbled at this point.
Pooh, it's your turn.
Alright. I'm gonna walk over
to this guy
and just pick him up by his
scruff.
Alright. So you're grappling?
Yep. Go ahead and roll a strength.

(01:31:15):
Pooh.
A strength?
Yep. Strength deck. Yeah.
That was a nine.
They rolled a 19, so they are not
grappled.
So he just kinda squirms his way out
of your hands.
I'll just tell you.

(01:31:37):
We just need to talk.
I suggest
if you want if you value your other
leg that you, talk to us. Oh, what
she said?
Okay. I'm gonna cast Tasha's hideous laughter and
basically make it incapable of moving because it's

(01:31:58):
laughing.
Alright.
So what does he need to roll?
Wisdom save. What's your DC?
It is a 13.
Alright.
Roll to 16.
The spell fizzles.
And so he kinda shakes off the spell,
and he's like, just leave me alone.

(01:32:20):
And he tries to run away again.
Except now he's kind of just hopping. He's
trying to stay off that one leg because
his knee's pretty
buggered up.
Oh, this is pathetic.
Higher than a 12.
I was gonna hit him.
So this is,
11

(01:32:42):
damage.
11. Okay.
He's you tag him with your ax and
he
they just kind of fall down to the
ground. They're looking pretty gnarly right now. Okay.
I'm gonna walk up to it holding my
dagger
real close
and I go, darling, I think you should
just hold still and let us ask you

(01:33:03):
some questions.
Go ahead and make an intimidation check with
disadvantage.
I mean, with advantage.
24?
Yeah. That's yeah. He looks sufficient. He's, like,
alright.
Alright. I'll tell you whatever you want. Just
don't don't.
Oh, where is the keep?
The keep?
Why would you wanna go there?

(01:33:26):
We have some friends
that we'd like to acquire.
There's nobody there that's gonna be friendly to
you.
It's just more of us and then
and then the
the general.
Oh, the general. Tell us more about him.
Well, he's big.

(01:33:46):
He's really big.
He's
very
unkind. He's
probably about the meanest jerk I've ever met
in my life.
You don't wanna go around messing with him.
Oh, what are you doing out here exactly?
Patrols ever.

(01:34:06):
Ever since ever since we took over
the
clan up north, we've kind of
we wormed our way into the infrastructure of
the city, and we kinda run things around
here now.
We?
Yeah.
Us, Druids.
And,
you know, we're led by Zeus. Where have

(01:34:27):
you are are you not from around here?
We've been gone for a while, so we
are unaware of what has been happening.
And which clan are you referring to taking
over? The house of Sanders
up north. I thought I thought so.
We,
we, kind of Can I finish them off?
Exterminated those bugs.

(01:34:49):
Can I finish them off? You can do
whatever you want. I'll finish them off.
Yeah.
Well, it was
22
of tech.
Yeah. And if you rolled anything higher than
a one,

(01:35:09):
you finish them off, then you you finished
them off. I did.
His dad, Jim.
Sorry about that, Adeline. It just,
he deserved it.
I quite understand.
My only issue is that we now do
not know where they have taken the the
prisoners,
which I'm assuming Gareth is one of them.

(01:35:31):
I really should
not let my anger get the best of
me.
That's alright, Pootie.
Perhaps he has something in his pockets.
Alright.
Gareth,
you come to and you are in a
cell
tied to a chair.
And you see a
very large figure

(01:35:53):
walking back and forth, pacing back and forth
in front of you with with a table
full of very sharp implements
next to him. How big? If you had
to estimate,
you'd say he's over seven and a half
feet tall.
Alright. And he said he's in full armor
with a helmet on.
What does it look like with doors and

(01:36:13):
windows in this? No windows.
And it's a
stonework wall
going all the way around you and bars
going across the one wall.
That would have a that would have the
cell door on it. Alright.
And he looks at you and he goes,
what were you doing out? I had just
come into town. I was

(01:36:35):
wondering what I was going to do for
the night. This, the place where I was
at seemed closed.
And that's when you found me.
And you thought you would just
be in town after curfew?
I knew nothing about the curfew. I had
been away for a long time.
Away for a long time.

(01:36:55):
And you you,
you hear him sniff and he goes,
why do you reek of bugbear?
I can't
tell you. You can't
or you won't?
I don't know why I would reek of
bugbear.
Do you deny
associating with bugbears?
Does this have to do with the the

(01:37:16):
bugbear clan that was,
wiped out here?
You hold no cards here. You don't get
to ask questions.
I'm trying to give you the best information
I can. Then you can tell me why
you smell like bugbear. I imagine I smell
like a lot of things.
I don't know why I would smell of
bugbear, sir. You you watch as he goes

(01:37:36):
up and grabs both sides of his helmet
and pulls it off. And before you, you
see
a very large,
scarred
adolescent bugbear.
And he goes, you can't fool me.
I know what my kind smell like.
Now answer the question, and I won't hurt
you too much.
Why

(01:37:56):
do you smell
like bugbear?
There were two other individuals
in the carriage
that brought me here.
Perhaps one of them was a bugbear.
Describe this bugbear to me.
One was, halfling,
and the other was a dragonborn, I believe.
So why would you tell me that one
of them was a bugbear?

(01:38:17):
Well, he was a different, she was a
different clan than, than I am. So,
it's possible that since a bugbear is very
large
and so are we dragonborn, that,
there was he was in disguise.
So do you deny associating
with all bugbears?
I have many friends. I'm

(01:38:39):
from,
about half a continent away. So I've come
in contact with many, many different,
races, different people.
That's not what I asked.
I have come in contact with bugbears in
my travels. Yes.
Recently?
Like I said, if someone was in
disguise,

(01:38:59):
then how would I know?
If you smell them on me, then perhaps
you are you are telling you are smelling
true.
I'm not trying
to say that you were wrong
if that's what you smell. Obviously, if you
can sense your own kind
and to tell the truth,
the other dragonborn
did not have the the same scent as

(01:39:22):
other dragonborn.
So perhaps you are right. He looks at
you. He does it does it doesn't seem
like he's buying it. But just at that
moment, you see a couple individuals come to
the cell and they tap on they kinda
tap on the cell is one moment.
Can I roll on persuasion?
Go ahead and roll persuasion
at disadvantage.

(01:39:48):
Oh, boy.
Yeah. There you go. So he just kinda
looks at you. But like I said, someone
comes and taps on the
cage, and he goes, just one moment.
And then
Is it a cage or is it a
room? Well, the the cell door, basically. Okay.
And there's no window in the cell door?

(01:40:09):
No. So,
you hear them talking
in a language you don't understand.
And then Alright. And then he goes,
finally,
I will have my vengeance.
And then he goes, we'll have to continue
this later.
And he walks out the, he rocks out
the cell door and slams it shut behind

(01:40:29):
him. All right. I, test the bond, see
if it's something I can break.
Go ahead and roll a strength check, please.
14.
It doesn't feel like you can break them,
but by kind of working on them, you
can kinda feel it stretching a bit. I
do have athletics
if that would help.

(01:40:50):
Not so much.
I'll just keep working on it. Go ahead
and roll a dexterity check to see if
you can slip out of the bonds.
I'm not very dexterous.
Yeah. You try to slip out of the
bonds. They're not they, they,
they slip around, but they don't, they don't
quite come off. Alright. But they're basically rope?

(01:41:11):
Mhmm.
And I can't
can't break them?
Nope.
Must be some some kind of rope. Rope
a dope.
No, dude. I mean, you rolled a a
14.
Oh, I know. Yeah. And that so, basically,
another hooded individual
comes to the door and he kinda waves
his hand at you. Goes, I don't trust
you well enough to come into that cell,

(01:41:33):
but you feel that something happening with the,
knots behind you. Mhmm. Go ahead and make
an arcana check.
Mhmm. You recognize what he's doing as telekinesis.
Oh, okay.
And, your your ropes untied, and he goes,
there's no point in having you tied to
that chair if no one's gonna be questioning

(01:41:54):
you. So feel free to find a corner
to do your business in if you need
to.
Who are you, my friend? I'm your guard.
We're not friends. Well, I thank you for
your kindness.
He just turns and walks back down the
hall. You hear and you hear a voice
coming from the cell next to you. And

(01:42:15):
he says, you hear it say,
so, you new here?
Yes. We just came into town
this evening. And you came into town in
the evening?
Yes.
Apparently, we were not warned about the curfew.
Oh, this cut is pretty much known throughout
the land.
I've been away for a long time. The

(01:42:37):
druids own this town now.
I've gathered that.
Yeah. If,
if Zeus don't get you, then that guy
that was questioning you, yeah, he
he'll definitely,
wreck your day.
What's your name, my friend?
My name is Thomas.

(01:42:58):
Human?
Yeah.
Womack Thomas.
It's just
it's just kinda funny, you know, how,
they went out and ex exterminated
the bugbears,
but then the general's a bugbear himself.
Do you have an inkling why this happened?

(01:43:20):
Something to do with,
abandonment?
I don't know. He's got a strong hate
for his kind, though.
Uh-huh. Does it have to do with the
slave trade?
I honestly couldn't tell you.
Why are you here?
Same reason you were. I was caught outside
after the sun went down.
Do you live in town?
Yeah.

(01:43:40):
Do you know the
anyone
from the laughing Lamia?
Oh, you mean Dottie?
Dottie or the others? Yes. Jen?
I'm familiar with them.
Are they still in town?
Yeah.
And they're well?
As far as I know, I've been in
here for a couple weeks.

(01:44:01):
Oh my. So they will hold you for
weeks for being outside?
Depends on what, what you have to tell
them.
And why is it that the curfew is
in place? Do they just not want people
moving around in the night?
It's about control.
Ah, I understand.
I have been privy to,

(01:44:23):
movements in courts before,
in royal courts, so I understand control,
perhaps a little too well.
So, why is it that they keep you
here? Do you keep offending
or?
No. It's just they haven't gotten anything useful
out of me yet.

(01:44:44):
They think I'm a part of the resistance.
How long has the resistance been in place?
Since they took over. I mean, who wants
to be controlled by the Druids?
Has the resistance been able to make any
inroads?
Not much.
Uh-huh.
If we were to

(01:45:06):
be able to escape ourselves,
is there
an easy x act exit?
I have no idea. I mean, just like
you, I I was brought in here unconscious.
I woke up in my cell. I don't
even know what it looks like outside of
it. Are they feeding you well? I mean,
some half wilted

(01:45:26):
vegetables and water
once a day. Are we the only two
here?
No.
No.
We're the only we're we're we're the only
two that are
within conversant distance, though.
There's lots they keep lots of people in
the keep.
Have most people left town?

(01:45:47):
No. They don't really let people do that
either.
I'm here looking for a friend of mine,
Stumblefoot.
Perhaps you've heard of him? Stumblefoot.
Stumblefoot.
That doesn't ring a bell. I'm sorry.
Well, it is my first night in town.

(01:46:07):
I imagine the first person I meet wouldn't
know too much about my friend.
I suppose. That'd be unlikely.
Well, thank you, good friend.
Let me do some thinking here.
We may talk again soon.
Alright.
Well,
do me a favor and use the corner
on the opposite side of the room. Alright?
Anything for a friend.

(01:46:28):
Alright. I'm gonna, can I roll on insight
and see if I can
glean any other information from the information I
just got from him? Well, I mean, everything
you heard is what you heard. So
whatever you whatever whatever you make out of
it is what you make out of it.
You don't have to roll for that. Right.
But what would rolling on insight do typically?

(01:46:49):
Rolling on insight is, like, if you're, like,
trying to
if you're trying to check someone's motives, for
instance
Okay.
Or tell if someone's lying.
Can can I roll an insight just to
make sure that I feel as though I
trust him? Alright. Go ahead. Yeah. He seemed
pretty truthful.
Seemed like he was he was he was

(01:47:09):
giving you the up and up, and he
really seemed like, he was just happy to
hear
someone else's voice.
Did the doors lock from the outside?
Like, when he left, did he unlock the
door and get out and then lock it
again? Or what was the deal there? The
door was open when he was questioning you.
And then when he left, he just slammed

(01:47:29):
the door shut behind him.
And it locks without a key needing needing
to be there?
If you wanna try a little door to
see if it's locked.
I will do that.
Alright. You try the door. It's locked.
Alright. Alright. I go back to thinking. Alright.
Pooh and Aileen.
Sounds like this town is a lot worse

(01:47:52):
than when we when we last left it.
I definitely agree with that.
And,
it also sounds
like we might need to make our way
to the keep.
I was about to suggest the same thing,
dear. Let's head that way, but let's try
to be a little bit more stealthy this
time.

(01:48:14):
I was perfectly stealthy
last time.
Maybe sticking closer to the shadows.
Alright.
So
where is the keeper?
Well,
that I am not terribly sure of. Perhaps
if we keep to the shadows
and we head,

(01:48:34):
that way,
we can
see where they were going because that is
the direction that the the gentleman on the
horse went in.
Yes. That's a very good point.
Maybe we should take one of these fellows'
cloaks.
Here take your hat back and see if
maybe this will help you fit into that

(01:48:55):
cloak.
Oh, I don't think it'll help me fit,
but
that's probably a good idea.
I will make myself look
like just a normal everyday
person. A normal everyday person?
Yep.
Okay.
So you watch him as he turns into
just a regular Joe blow off the streets.

(01:49:15):
Perfect.
Alright.
Let's make our way.
Why don't I lead, Pudir?
For the best, I think.
All right. I need both y'all to roll
stealth checks.
22.
19.
All right. Yep. You both get pretty darn
stealthy as you start making your way towards
the direction you last saw the horsemen.

(01:49:36):
And you
get to that point where you saw him
having that conversation
and,
go ahead and make an
investigation
check, please.
19,
11
Alien, you are able to discern the horse's
hoof prints
and which direction they lead. Well, Pudia, I

(01:49:58):
think we need to go in this direction
because you can see the the horse left
his his footprints
for us to follow. Well, isn't that just
perfect?
So you guys
are walking along
and,
like you both to make a perception check,
please.
Alright.
12. 16.

(01:50:20):
Pu, you hear hoof you hear hoof beats
coming.
Oh. And quickly something coming.
Let let's get closer to that wall over
there in the shadows.
Oh, I can do better than that. Look.
Can I make myself look like a wall?
No. It has to be some sort of
living thing.

(01:50:41):
It was an idea.
That case then, yeah, I just get try
to sneak up close to the wall.
Alright.
I'll go ahead and use your guys' last
stealth checks
for that being as you haven't broke done
anything to break stealth yet. And as you
guys pull up against the wall, you guys
see the horsemen
followed by several more druids

(01:51:03):
coming down the road. And he's as he's
drawing closer, you notice that he has his
helmet off.
And as he goes past you, Pooh, I'd
like you to make a perception check,
please.
Mhmm.
18.
As he rides past you,
you are taken back as you see a
very scarred

(01:51:24):
and a very angry older
Christopher.
And that's where we're gonna end it tonight.
Oh, dear.
Woo hoo.
So that was, some heavy juggling that you
needed to do.
Done.
Yeah. Oh, split in the party.

(01:51:46):
We're bad about that.
Hey, you know? No. We're really good at
it. I know you did it twice in
one evening.
Actually, no. Three times because technic no. No.
She wasn't technically split. She was just down
on the ground and not up on the
roofs with with,
kinda split though.
So good game. Good game, kids.
Sorry. It was so so slow moving at

(01:52:07):
first. It's hard to,
Don't apologize.
Oh. It's it's set the mood. It's it's
hard to,
adjust when you have to take a character
out. Your plans. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
No big deal. So two characters out. I
can take two characters out. Well, we were
gonna have an extra, and then Oh, that's
true.

(01:52:28):
That's true. But I'm working on that.
So, but anyway, for all you listening out
there, I hope you enjoyed the show and
my little plot twist at the end, probably
going to be another two weeks until
you hear another podcast from us. So,
I don't know when this is going to
come out because right now we already have,
a queue of

(01:52:48):
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how we, that's usually how we run this.
So we're usually about three episodes out be
from where you're where you're at. So
just know whatever you're hearing right now, something
else has already happened. Anybody got any else
anything else they wanna say before we sign
off?
No. I think we're
good. Yeah.

(01:53:08):
Don't trust the bugbear.
And with that,
we'll catch you next time.
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