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July 14, 2025 • 45 mins
The team goes on a well deserved shopping trip and tries to make new contacts.






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Speaker 1 (00:05):
You are about to enter a world of drug aises,
incompetence and combat, a world where magic is coated the
floors and also the walls. Some magic has spilt onto
the books. Danger could be lurking around any corner in
this virtual experience and podcast named by A three. I

(00:28):
am your host, kick Acidron, and you then tied the
strings to the spooky dice bag.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Of incense into his body.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Everybody's in there.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Right, yeah, brousing.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Everybody's browsing. Okay, does anybody also in particular and inside
the enchanted quill.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
While they're walking around? Randall walks over to like Astrid
and Delivery and says, like that one if that person, Yeah, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Just gonna I'm gonna, yeah, I have a question for her,
so I'll blow up them.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hi.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
So sorry, Eric, how are you? There's this one novel
that I've been looking for And do you know the
shadows dance?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Her eyes open wide. I've heard of dance. Yes, I've
heard whispers of this novel.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Ah, Now would you your chance? Have this novel? Can
Stop or something of that caliber? Theyve sum of private
We can take a look at the wares. We're all
we all are interested in that novel.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
We do not sell novels in this store. Very sorry,
oh thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Would there be any other shops that monk?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yes, yes there's uh the Illusionist Lounge as novels, they're
more of a stit and read and SIPs type of place.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Mh that thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
That would be a better That would be a better
place to speak of your failed shadows dancing.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
You lose your lap sentence. Thank you so much. I'm
going to buy this really lovely little notebook and it's
I will genuinely grab like a little love around notebook.
It's kind of you and a double for it.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Sure, I think, thank you very much, thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
So how much do I owe you for that pound
of incentive?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
I put down another gold.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
I'm just gonna eat it like potato chips as we're
walking around.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
Eat my god, while I'm here?

Speaker 6 (03:21):
Can I also check on those nails?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, you can check on the nails while you're.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
I think everybody should do one, just to check.

Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, I actually bought some of the nails. And
you want to tell me what is.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
So in eighteen eighteen?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
These these nails, there aren't many of them, but they
are made of iron.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
Okay, listen to to to Randall, we should probably buy
out the stock that's iron.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Looks not like it's suspicious, not like three other Well
you just say we're building a house.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
That was a terrible idea.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
People build the houses all the time.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, we'll just tell them much a smell component. Why
else we'd be at a some kind of depot where
you build a home. If we needed that many nails, well.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
They we could say they're out because of tariffs.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Range are just like puts space in his hands for
a second and goes, just just buy them his spell components.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Dude, well I can throw them.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
There you go, yeah, okay, like use them as can
trips like the ninja kind, mean shrickens whatever the kind
that you throw on the ground and people step up.
Cowl trips at all.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
That's right, wrong, good thing we're whispering.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yes, not suspicious, not suspicious at all. Go buy nails
and you're smell them chips.

Speaker 6 (04:53):
But alright, I'm gonna come back with some nails. Yes,
I'm building a house.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ah, it must be a pretty small house, so only
have it's from my familiar I understand.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Just y guitar by.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Randall walks over to deliver and I understand.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Still like his clos are still is he is a
juicy guitar.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Like and he's gotta he's got his.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
And I've got my conical hat, yes, mask, and I'm
probably I probably have yeah, my mask obviously, but I'm
probably also got like a traveler's cloak, so I look special.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah you are, David. Please draw this out, please please.
I don't ever put on anything else. Branda walks up
to deliverance and just goes. I think I understand stands
your spa days.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
M h.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
If we're all.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Done at this shop, Uh, there's one that I very
specifically that that has a novel has the Shadows, the
novel of the Shadows Dancing. I'd like to visit that
I got from our lovely friend.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Over here, right.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
I love that author, favorite author.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
I think I'm just gonna pick up some paper and
the new ink. Okay, so y'all go ahead. She's gonna
go and like peruse the inks and paper and pick
up like just a handful of them, just her letter writing.
So I have to let them go forward so I
could take a small break from whatever the fuck is

(06:55):
going on.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Okay, we'll meet you there. I'll like the correct.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
So Chelle's got his bag of popery. He starts eating
it and he hands like someone hands on the bag.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
I'm good, thank you, all right, I appreciate.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
It so so deliverance as you. As you grab your
your quills and your notebooks and you go up to pay,
she'll say, ah, yeah, I haven't sold any of these
since my sister left. I twitch that'll be to silver.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Please have you seen her lately? Pulls out the silver.
I've checked in the past few days, but nothing seems
to have happened. I'll have to go visit mine.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I suppose, yes, you might want to do that. I
have a great day, dearie.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Thank you. It takes the stuff he starts pulling in
her bag goes. I was right over there, And then
they okay, we have to make a stop somewhere if
we could, but that could come after if y'all want
to continue and.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
We can stop for chever one.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
It's fine, you did, I'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, just got to make a couple of extra jobs.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, lead the way, we'll come with you.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh no, y'all, don't y'all go ahead, y'all go finicking,
fiddling with her purse in her bag, and just like.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Insight check, Yeah, question mark because it feels so weird
to do against my friends emotional insight tech.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
You know a lot insight I'm new here, I'm not shy.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
I'm gonna do an insight check.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
It's a twenty one. I got it, twenty one.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Not na.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
But it's then I don't have to. I don't have to.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's not that you get you get the you get
the feeling that, yeah, deliverance isn't being completely she's she's
not being dishonest with you, but she's not being completely
forthright with information.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Just uncomfortable right now.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
But oh yeah she's she's uncomfortable, but not an affair
part the reason.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yeah, not gonna push it. Yeah, you take all the
time you need. Guys. Come on, why don't we head
over to the US.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
Yeah you can catch I'm going.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
No, I'm going with you, guys. I just figured, you know,
maybe later in the day when it's you know, oh,
you're not doing all this? Sure?

Speaker 8 (09:38):
Sure, I mean.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
What I damn what I know whether or not that
means get the fuck over there now.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Or uh, you get the idea that that meant that
you have contacts in the area. Okay, that's fine, yeah,
not not necessarily not not that there was an emergent.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, okay, okay, just contacts in the area, context in
the area. Good see here, okay.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
Yeah, yeah, shout senses that deliverance is a little off.
So he's gonna walk to her. He's gonna hand her
like a hand her the bag like you want a chip.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
I will have to politely decline, thank you. I don't
partake in the in the aromatic.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
I mean, you don't have to eat it. You can
keep it on you as a nice smelling thing.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's not a good you know, you know what, actually
know what. And she takes a little like a little
like a bundle of it and shoves it in the
glove that she keeps on her left hand and just
like puts it up to your mouth, goes it's not
that a bad idea.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
See, everybody thinks I'm weird, but like I'm being really nice.
It's kind of fucked up if you ask me.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
Oh, I mean, Randall just watches to say, just I'm
really glad every part of my past is in another
plane right now.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Oh me too.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Oh, houlds us fists of forte b?

Speaker 6 (11:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Well you all had ship behind?

Speaker 6 (11:08):
Are we fisting over here? Can I join?

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Please? Don't say it like that, but yes, it's called something.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
Different now okay, yeah, we used to fist all the
time in the temple.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Oh I don't know how to take that, because it's
a temple.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
You'd be surprised what happened. What happens at temples?

Speaker 6 (11:28):
All we do?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I start like, sure, everybody towards the location.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Awesome, all right, okay, oh what's the store? Yeah? What
is this again?

Speaker 6 (11:43):
I'm the master of transitions?

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, this is the this is the illusions? Are the
very nice lady who sold us, quite literally the most
insane amount of prep uh told me they would have.
You know my favorite novel, The Shadows Dancing.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Right right right?

Speaker 3 (12:04):
You're not being.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Very subtle about it.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Well, what do you for me? I'm the only one
that remembers the words half the time much.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
We're not much like the Veil. You should be whispering.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'm so sorry. I am talking about.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
It up the door, and I just like chester everybody
in Yeah, somebody.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Else take point on this that.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
I took point on everything, but the password.

Speaker 6 (12:31):
Do you want me to talk to people? Really?

Speaker 2 (12:35):
No?

Speaker 5 (12:35):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
I walk inside, Yeah, try to get a good look
at the place and see what kind.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Of Yeah, what is what is this place? Tell us
about it?

Speaker 3 (12:46):
So as you walk in to the Illusionist Lounge, you
see rows upon rose. It looks like a small library
basically of just various books and scrolls and things to read.

(13:09):
You see a whole lot of couches with like tables
set up in front of them, and it's like different areas.
Looks like you could have a couple of different groups
doing stuff here together. And right at the front there
is like a bar. There is a bar with heightened

(13:31):
they're not really barstools, but they're about the size of barstools,
but they they're cushions. They're cushioned chair backs. Yeah, the
cushioned leather chairbacks.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
Is this a library or a store?

Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's it says it's a sort.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
Okay, okay, guys, I didn't know until we walked in here.
But this place is how I want to spend the
rest of my life.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Oh great, Oh my god, this is the least.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
This is great.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
On the ground, is it like, are there people enjoying himselves?
There or there. A lot of customers are.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Just there are a few customers here, a lot of them,
you do notice from like school, like just you know.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
It to hang out spot.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
It's a yeah, it's a hangout spot.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah. Randall just goes over to a section and starts
looking through books. He is just like that is yeah, y'all,
y'all have fun.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yeah, yeah, gonna do.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
I'm specifically gonna look for some more stuff on Guy
Ferry and the Fay Court that he came from. Okay,
if possible, if I can find any information on Faery, sure.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Maybe there's a bio.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sure, Yeah, so he's got a bio of some sort
of some like as as unbiased as possible. There's more
knowledge on what the hell dealing with because I've never.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
Dealt with a Yeah. Meanwhile, Randall's in a section labeled
cozy Fiction.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
Is going to be looking for a couple of text leaders.
But I want everybody else to do their thing before
I start looking for show.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Oh god, yeah, we got to clear everything out of
the way before Shall blows us up.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah right, everybody do their meaningful ship and like other
cool cute stuff, and then Shall has to drop the
lorn on it.

Speaker 6 (15:27):
All right, Am I the problem?

Speaker 5 (15:30):
No, no, no, no, I just I'm expecting to laugh
too much to continue.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
So exactly as you guys are looking around, you do
notice a female dwarf who's in like like like. Her
color scheme is that of like the lore Hold school.

(15:56):
She's got a name tag on it that says Greta.
And she walks up and she notices she notices Asterid. Mhm, hey, Astrad,
how you doing.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Where have you guys been?

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Oh? God, where haven't we been? Kind of crazy study abroad.
We were in the under dark.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
For a while.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Oh yeah, how are things here?

Speaker 3 (16:27):
She kind of looks around. Not good.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah, I kind of got.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
That glasses have been kind of messed up these last
couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, I've I've heard here. We're actually so I point
out to my friend, these are these are my friends.
We're kind of trying to yelp that actually, maybe you
can help me find a book. We're over at the chance.
We're over at the Enchanted Yeah, yeah, we're at the

(17:00):
Enchanted Quill. And she said me your way, which, by
the way, super cool, hank spot, And I'm looking.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
For That's half the reason I work here. So the
other half is, you know, pay for classes because yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
But yeah that really does suck. I heard who was
the one who's working over at uh the Sweety Pies again,
they were over there from Dragon Dress Cub Rampart, Ramparts
over there, right goodness?

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well yeah, oh yeah, yeah I haven't. Yeah, we haven't
had a lot of classes together this semester. But Rampart's
really cool.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah they're awesome. But yeah, so we wanted to kind
of like my group of friends, we weren't here for
some stuff. Are trying to help with that sort of thing.
Then that's why I'm looking for this novel, The Shadow
The Shadow Dance, you know, when the Shadows Dance. It's
from uh do you do you have any copies of that?

(18:00):
Maybe somewhere in the back Why.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
The Shadows Dance. I've not seen it, but we can
take a look to you. Is it fiction? Non fiction?
And biography? You know?

Speaker 4 (18:14):
I you know what, I think. It's about what I've
been told it's about. It's like futuristic and sort of
like it's kind of a utopian sort of ideals, okay,
to the future. Do I get the sense she had
any idea.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Of that or not you make an insight?

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, figure, I should probably in check. Yeah, I'm also
fully forget who she is, like asked for displaying this,
like she knows who she is. She fully forgets who
she is.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
You've been going a long time.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Dirty twenty, Dirty twenty for the insights. She doesn't know
what you're doing about? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Cool?

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Did she thinks that's a She thinks it's actually a book?

Speaker 4 (19:02):
Okay, O, no worries. I figured I'd take it up somewhere,
But don't worry.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
You can. You can make a let's call it an
investigation check. If you want to remember who this is?

Speaker 4 (19:15):
Thank you? Oh, thank god? Another Dirty twenty. It was
an eighteen on the die? Thank god? Who is this again?

Speaker 3 (19:23):
She was the she was in the wrestling club.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Okay, that's I don't remember joining wrestling club, but I
feel like Astrod was the type to join every club
first day.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
But yeah, it was like that was like when you
were looking at the extra curriculars. She was the head
of the wrestling club.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Well cool, cool, No, that's cool. All the coorts somewhere else.
It's kind of it's like a it's like a rare
like first detition thing.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
Don't.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Don't has don't you don't need to worry about it,
thank you though, Okay, yeah, don't worry about it. What
like what else has been so you you know, it's
just been kind of weird around years.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, it's been really weird, Like they started charging for
classes that it's kind of weird, right, yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Like don't that's really weird. When and when did all
like the shops kind of like the shops were like
all we didn't stuff changed?

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Oh yeah, so guy Ferry like bought a lot of
the you know, real estate around here and uh, I
don't know, he just yeah, he runs a lot of it.
There's a couple of us that are you know, independent, Yeah,

(20:42):
a couple couple of independent places got to stay in business.
But it's just sucks, you know, it's you know, I
never thought i'd have to I never thought i'd have
to juggle working with you know, studying. I thought that
they would just be two different parts of my life.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
You know, Yeah, I can't. That's yeah, it sucks. I
hope there's a way that maybe thinks could get a
little cheaper.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
So speak.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh gosh, yeah, definitely need to check in with some
folks have you have you been taking classes with jas
by any chance?

Speaker 7 (21:23):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Nope, not with Jay.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
No, No, Jason's Chandra.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Though I did take a class with Chandra.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
Ah, yeah, you know a.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Couple I'm gonna be I'm gonna be completely honest with you.
I had to cut back on classes because I just
I couldn't afford to be a full time student. Boy,
get that that's rough, you know, like, I just I can't.
I can't afford it.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
God Astor does not like comfortably get out of this conversation.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go and
get like a loan where I'm gonna get have to
pay that back forever.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Hey, d I'm finding that book I bound books out
here for that Fay research. I was gonna end up it.
Oh hi, who wants this is one of your friends?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Oh yeah, I'm so sorry. Yeah, this is for classes
your wrestling team. So I was not wrestling, but I've
watched a couple of matches. This is Deliverance.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh hey, hey Deliverance. Good to meet you.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Nice to meet you as well. You know you may
want to look out for if you have any government courses.
They may make me governant teach a couple of classes.
Sorry about that. I'm not that great and teaching, but
they keep wanting to hear some reason. I guess. Okay,
but am I supposed to check out with her? Am
I supposed to wait or go up to the I'm

(22:52):
not sure if I should. Oh, I'm so sorry to
no no way, I just I'm not I don't.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
I was just I was just trying to help Astord
find a book. Just mentioned something about shadows, the dancing shadows.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
They don't different.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
She doesn't have it. She doesn't have it, and it's
not a big deal. It's it's not a big deal.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, this is I've probably pulled like three books out
at this point, like two chunkier ones than one, like
just like a spark noised version of like history of
the fay Realm.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
So yeah, you found like you found as you were
looking around. You found an authorized biography of Guy Ferry. Ah,
and then you found some stuff on the fay Realm.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, I also singing, And there are a couple of
books on the Raven Queen as well.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah, you can you can look in that section. Yeah,
they can.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Just grab a book on the on the on the raven.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
You can see what's a sure Randall comes walking up
through the counter. He's got like twelve books and the
stack sets them down.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Goes just stays man, I'm glad we have a bag
holding now.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Yeah the leaves.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Okay, Oh I can pay for these. Don't worry about that.
I got this one.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
So so Greta starts ringing you guys up separately. She
brings you up to the like the bar. Okay, uh
so uh she she's she's clearly having trouble remembering Astroid's name.
So unfortunately we couldn't find your book, but your friends

(24:36):
here was it? Professor deliverance? Oh god?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Uh miss deliverance is miss delivery okay? Being called current
professor okay, just missing all right?

Speaker 3 (24:50):
So for your books, Uh, that'll be twenty gold.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
Pull it out. I don't know who pulls up.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Go ahead ahead, you can just reach into the bag
of holding and pull out twenty gold.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, I'll do that. I feel like I am a
designated holder of the bag at this point.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
Literally the bag.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
Holder left holding the bag.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
We'll split it into different we'll split it up when
we get back to the ivery peace.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
Yes, get that bag queens.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
But I slapped twenty gold down there, and then I
put an additional like five gold, and I like press
it into her hand and go paying for those classes.
Now A.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
All right, grab my bags and my books an awkwardly shuffle.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Away, so she'll she'll take uh Randall's books and she'll
just you've said you got like a dozen of them.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yeah. Hey, if things don't work out, I want something
to do in my bad.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
This is a nice a nice mix of sapphic and
Achillean romance. That's interesting.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Hell it?

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, I really said.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Ice Planet.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
We're all.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
Price check on prophylactics.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Hey, I just want to say, this book's not scanny,
Jet that you're jet the smart off is not scanny?

Speaker 6 (26:41):
How about is Randall? Randall?

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Now well he's covered in scales, so you don't know.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Did you start rattling?

Speaker 5 (26:52):
I wish I wish Rachel had like some some neck
frills or something you could flare and can.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Get you a mood ring, mood ring.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Christ check on talents and temptation. Talents and temptation. That
one's so bad, that one's so bad.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
Why do you get along with.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Number that'll be that'll be forty gold for all twelve
of these.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Thank you, ma'ams.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Deans over.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah, absolutely, I like that.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
We just kind of railroaded randal of pornography.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
No, I mean I said cozy fiction.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's cozy. It's you can have cozy Achillian romance.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
There's always like a little bit of a love element book.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
This cozy doesn't mean it's Spicy'all.

Speaker 7 (27:50):
Y'all are justifying this really really hard glances at my actually.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
My literal bookshelves.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
So shall.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Nice, I got legends and lattes on my camera, let
us shall do.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
So Sall's gonna go to the history section. He's gonna
look for.

Speaker 7 (28:14):
Like a good generic history book because he needs to
catch up on a few.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Centuries current events.

Speaker 7 (28:21):
You're like, yeah, yeah, just yeah, yeah, just like anything
that spans like, yeah, the last thousand years or so.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Okay, like a survey book or whatever.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Okay, as your make make a make a perception check, shall.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Alright me?

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Yeah, is a.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Seventeen seventeen all right? So as you're perusing for something
like just the general history book, you do notice you
do notice a book on the Sallenites.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
Oh that was one of the things I was looking.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
For as you're perusing. It's an old that's used. It
looks like it might have just been forgotten amongst like
a little bit more like modern history, like nobody really
knew what to do with it.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
Do I also find like a history book as well,
like just a generic history.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (29:23):
I need something to read in my downtime.

Speaker 7 (29:24):
Yeah, al aye, and uh I just wrote hostory on
my phone.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
That's anyway hostory?

Speaker 7 (29:38):
Is there a I'm gonna go to the craft books
area and I'm gonna see if there's anything on like
woodworking because I need to practice my little working.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
I really thought it was gonna be knitting, so you
can keep.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
Her playing, you know?

Speaker 7 (29:51):
Is there one of those like you know if you
go to Clearance of Barnes and Noble and they have
those like books like a thousand things.

Speaker 6 (29:57):
Every person should know. Yeah, they have one of those fun.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
History get it group, grab a joke book in there.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
Too, Uncle John's Privy Reader.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
Oh god, can you imagine child just doing dad jokes
all the time more so than oh God?

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah? No, So you do find you find some like
like a the Art of whittling, Light reading, a little
bit of a little bit of reading, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
A little bit. Okay, Yeah, no, I've got I've got
some stuff to look at. That'll I'm gonna take it
up to the counter. And what a wonderful story you
have here.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh, thank thank you. It's not mine, but thank you.
It's Yeah, like I said, it's happened. Like if I've
got to have a job to pay for some of
my classes, why and I want to work here. This
is the coolest place.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
This would be the place to do you know.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
Yeah, I take pride in your work.

Speaker 7 (31:07):
You know, even though you do not own the store,
you're still a valuable part of how it operates.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
I thank you, thank you absolutely.

Speaker 7 (31:16):
How are classes going? By the way, I heard you over,
I heard you talking with my friends.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
How our classes came they.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
I'm going to be honest, it's a little difficult having
to balance work and classes. It's just, you know, I
wish I had I wish you had more time to
to like study for the tests, do all the work.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
And oh, I mean I'm sure that gets in the
way of extracurriculars, right, yeah, Like.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
I haven't even I can't even remember the last time
I went to the wrestling club.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
Wrestling wrestling. Yeah, it sounds amazing.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, well I used to be like one of the
top people at the wrestling club. But you know it's
stuff I have gonna pay for as.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
Yeah, do you all need a coach?

Speaker 3 (32:09):
I mean maybe I haven't. Like I said, I haven't
really been there. I haven't got a chance to do
that too much.

Speaker 6 (32:14):
Throw a book at me and watch how I'm able
to block it.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Don't throw a book at him. I I think we
can take his word.

Speaker 6 (32:22):
Hand to hand combat.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
He is.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
It's hard to be burnt out. Keep burning the candle
at both ends. Was real rough. I am so uncomforted. No,
we have to sit.

Speaker 6 (32:37):
I'm paying for my books right now.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh, oh, we found She takes a look at the
Where did you find this one? She takes a look
at the old the old book about the Selenites.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
We'll just say it called to me.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
It was in your religious study sections, and I happened
to eat one study about religion.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
I haven't heard of these ones, and so we're finding
need is of course, Uh, that'll be It'll be fifty
golds for all of these.

Speaker 7 (33:12):
Oh okay, okay, I will get the party, like help.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm just opened the bag.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
Mom, Mom, can I get this?

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I'm so sorry I got space just open the bag.
But yeah, yeah, I just opened the bag for you,
and I like pull out all the gold and and
just like hand it to you.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Yes, and I paid for it because I handed you
the money.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
Oh man, I really hope you got that. Like how
the Human Fun Facts book. We're gonna need to do
some studying.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
Honestly, all of this.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Did you want to grab anything here?

Speaker 6 (33:53):
No, Fortus just kind of like peruses and then okay,
I no vampire Eroonica.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
That Peronica that shelves upon shelves if you need it. Remember,
it's been questioned if Forte can even read?

Speaker 6 (34:16):
Can I say that? I also bought an ABC's book. Sure, Okay,
that's gonna be my gift of That's gonna be my
gift of four. I'm gonna teach you how to.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Read st back run. I will ask for one of
those you said. I know we'll all is this place anyway?
Oh it's so cool. I mean we'd probably be back
here for drinks later.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Pretty cool?

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (34:46):
The owners. The owner's name is Brisby, bris Brisby.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
It does break you like, like are they around and
like bartend and stuff, or did they ever come in?

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Or oh yeah, he's he's like an older gnome. You'll
notice him. He's he used to be like, uh, what's
it called an alchemist? Oh cool?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
M m.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah, he's a little bit older. And you'll notice that
he's missing his right eyebrow, just the right one.

Speaker 6 (35:26):
As most alchemists.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Yes, anyway, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yes, yes, we look forward to look forward to it.
I hope maybe maybe we'll have some classes together.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Hey, yeah, I don't even know if I'm still enrolled.
To be honest, you know, with having been gone that long.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Just the beginning of the semester, you should be able to.

Speaker 6 (35:57):
Hopefully, I do. I do have a question.

Speaker 7 (36:01):
I noticed that there was a noble down the street
named Barnes who's opened up a rival store.

Speaker 6 (36:07):
How are you doing with all of that?

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Him? We offer so much more. They just have a
store that you go and buy books. I mean they
have some sitting areas, but I mean we have. They
don't sell beer yet you sit down with a beer
and read your book.

Speaker 6 (36:26):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Sport.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Your local bookstore, supportial local.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Bookstore, genuinely support.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Everybody listening is torture local bookstore unless they're fascists.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Yeah, I hate it here anyway, back to fantasy, all right?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Can we also, now that we're past the books, do
we spy any local stores that sell and chanted items
and weaponry? Forgot how to talk?

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Or second?

Speaker 8 (37:05):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, go ahead, make a make an investigation check, like,
are you looking for like a little bit more sketch
places or you're looking for.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
You know what? Sure, just because it's fun.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Are you looking for.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Like fifteen noise?

Speaker 3 (37:22):
All right? Fifteen? Anybody else want to look it?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (37:26):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (37:27):
Perception?

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Perception, perception, Oh dope, I investigation.

Speaker 5 (37:34):
I got a, I got a Oh.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
I have a plus thirteen to perception.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
Good god, almighty.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
I dumped. I'm really good at like two things. I
dumped all of my everything into that.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
So you guys, you guys are out looking for something
maybe a little bit more, a little bit more shady.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
And.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Uh you you find old man Denin's old man adities.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
Old old man hell this?

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Do you know if he's self drug?

Speaker 5 (38:25):
Is he related to Frank?

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Frank franchised out.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
I'm gonna make my way inside, and it's now perusing
to see if they have any any sort of uh
rapiers or short sorts that I can benefit from.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
But no, the ShopKeep, I guess, I love you. Nod
to the ShopKeep, and as you do, you notice that
he's missing his left eye. Make a constitution saving throw
a D twelve. Yeah, so you you like, give him
the little head nod and he notices that you're a

(39:05):
little bit uncomfortable. I don't worry, it's just out for repairs.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I get to know.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
I am vibrating with excitement to look through the trinkets.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Yeah, rangels like this is gonna be the best shopping
trip ever in his head.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Oh h yeah, wander in and this might be a
place to find a cigarette band.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
I think you're right.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
I thought we were.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Gonna have to commission it, but I think this place
might actually just have one.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Yeah, it may have something like, you know, a double
headed aquilla on it, which would be badass.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Walk in, Walk up. Me and Rangel, I guess, are
walking up to the shop keep. What in afternoon evening? Hi?

Speaker 5 (40:06):
Crazy question, sir, Hey, what's up? We're looking for something
for a friend, kind of a joke, kind of serious.
Something you could consider a cigarette.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Band or belts, something to hold like a bunch of packs,
a bunch of you.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
I was saying, individuals, Yeah, packs or oh or individuals.

Speaker 6 (40:32):
We have both to either.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Ah, well, I guess I guess I could get We
could get people to we get somebody to make something.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
For you for that.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, yeah we do. We do customized oddities. It's fine.
We have belts, we have, we have leather, we can
Does he does he hand roll or I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have shouldn't have assumed the gender of the person.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
This is definitely I think he does say hand roll.

Speaker 5 (41:03):
General he had sometimes I have seen him by a pack.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Okay, so we had but all right, so yeah we
can we can do.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Something like that.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah we can. We can make you a customed cigarette vandelier.
Are you looking for just one across the chest? Are
you looking for like the X? Are you looking for suspenders?

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Are we where?

Speaker 3 (41:23):
Are we thinking of him?

Speaker 5 (41:25):
It's either going to be the one or the X?
Which one? Do you think?

Speaker 4 (41:28):
I think?

Speaker 3 (41:29):
How?

Speaker 5 (41:30):
How motivated do you think he'd be to load too
of him?

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Let's see underneath with the cape, an X would probably
want pretty dope, let's be frank.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Actually, so if he's got a case, so we just
want the we just want them on the front, then
we don't want them on the back. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
Probably, yeah, I can only with him rolling around doing
what he does, he'd probably crush the.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Ones on them.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
Yeah. Oh, don't forget a spot for the pipe I gave.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Him, and of course the pipe that should be.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
A yeah, that just comes standard.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Oh goodness, Oh you're wonderful, are you dirting? Is this
your shop?

Speaker 3 (42:07):
I am dirty? Nice to be any winks that you
with us? That's still there?

Speaker 6 (42:13):
I'm sorry you have something in there? You blinking?

Speaker 4 (42:14):
So is it a blink? Nice?

Speaker 5 (42:21):
There's anything when there's winking?

Speaker 4 (42:23):
It does.

Speaker 5 (42:25):
When there's winking, there's more body moving.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
I lead it. I lead it, whispered a live I've
been so bad at the code now I don't think
I should do it, but just I don't know. I'm walking.
How do we buy a leadership?

Speaker 7 (42:40):
I think you just walk in and he says, ship,
do you have any fireworks?

Speaker 5 (42:53):
That's a good way to check.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
The fire I have? I mean I have fire things
not by our works conserve.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Do you potentially have any weaponry of magical major on you?

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Oh? Of course? This is although Gordon's of course.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
Hell, yeah, get you.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
I'm looking specifically if you have any rape years or
short swords or even a dagger. I'd really appreciate those.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Okay, shall get some line of course, of course we
got those.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
We got wait our turn, ask for our weird ship
and yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
You need you need a magical rape year?

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Probably nice? Have you got it?

Speaker 5 (43:38):
I think I got this real quick question? Do you
have anything on your own?

Speaker 3 (43:43):
His face kind of goes a little bit less, a
little bit more serious than worry was that he was
kind of a little bit more happy, go lucky.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
There's many shadows dancing around the iron these days.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
The one time you don't use that there.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
And it's a little too excited to I've only ever
heard they whispered.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
So excited. Still got it wrong.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
I go to the I looked, I look the guy.
I'm like, please just give it to know I said it,
Please give it, sat it.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
Right, because we have to be subtle. I asked for
to saying all of this.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
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Speaker 8 (44:38):
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