May 15, 2023 • 38 mins
Looking into the Libraries of Knos, our heroes hunt for clues on Valok's visions of the Eastern Continent. Meanwhile, Valok has a terrifying encounter with a Cleric of Moradin.
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Hello, and welcome to Attackers ofOpportunity. This is your DM Michael.
I'm sitting around a virtual table withsome of my friends and we're about to
a place of D and D duringthat week and a half doing research on
the Eastern Continent. Is absolutely somethingthat could happen. Heather, you raised
a finger. Do you still havesomething else? I'm wondering if either the
wizard or someone else in town mighthave an arcane bag of holding? Hellia
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what he what heah? Rolling apercentiles percentile? You got it, that's
sixty eight sixty eight almost nice class. You find in one of the shops
that there's kind of an old curioshop, and there's a couple of little
magic trinkets in it. There's astone that's attached a little leather throng that
the shop keep tells you, oh, if you have this in your hand
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while you're piloting a ship and tryingto guide by the stars, this will
help keep your ship's course straight andtrue. A couple of other minor artifacts,
but one of them is in facta bag of holding. It's been
beat up. It's been clearly thiswas well used by adventurers in the past.
It is absolutely a bag of holding, totally functional. But it looks
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like a weather almost saddle bag.I love it. Very aproposal. Yeah,
so it goes well, absolutely accent, no problem. Hey, that's
why you come to Gruce Grellin's Shopof Curiosities. It's another random name name
generating. But you know, GruceKellen. You know it needs a little
corner, some back and trade fromyou. I mean I could sell you
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that back the bed. It's anice bag. I mean it's it's seen
a lot of years, clearly,and they go into this salesmansh to you.
Hey, go tell you What'll tellyou what. I'll lock you little
pixies. You pay me, Youpay me seven hundred and fifty gold,
nash cheap out the door, allin package, no taxes on that.
I'll take care of all that.Don't you worry. Seven hundred fifty gold,
it is yours. It's a littlehigh. Would anyone else like to
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pitch in with this opinion? Imean, do you realize who you're speaking
to? Sir? Do you willknow what we have done? I know
that good old Goose Grelling is talkingto Pixie and talking to I'm assuming in
elf for half elm half. I'mLord Dorian Vesanderral and we are members of
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the Platinum Ring. We saved yourcity. We stopped the stone blank.
I'm gonna roll a dice on that. Yeah, Goose Grelling like stops from
with Platinum Ring. And if thiswas a cartoon, dollar signs would roll
over Goos Grelling's eyes and go,well, well here here's I didn't realize
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I was talking about the Platinum Ringhere. Oh it's it's wonderful. It's
tell you what, tell you what? Tell you what? Seven fifty.
That's like normal customers that he's goingout in the world. You you are
the Platinum Ring. Though you travelall across this world. You know all
sorts of people tell you what thedeal that I'll do here, I'll cut
my feet in half if you telleverybody that you run into about how good
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Goose Grellan was to all of youand how my Curiosity shop is one of
the highlights of cups. Well GrusI think would be happy to do something
like that. I mean, thecity is that we end up in your
business might quadruple. I know peoplecoming from all over and they know that
the Goose Grellan Shop is where theygot to stop wall in town. That
will certainly the loss that I willtake. You know, I will have
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to eat scraps off the butcher's blockfor weeks on end, no doubt,
until they start coming in. ButI will suffer for the future potential of
my shop being here. I willI will dine on exposure to try to
make this to another day. Youdidn't realize you can dine on exposure,
but you know, I think Ibelieve you could make it work. Well,
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I thank you there a little doeand vandassal, so you don't even
want the persuasion role. He justwent with it. I kind of rolled
his reaction to the talk of thetown. Perfect. Perfect, So we're
going to ride that out as muchas we can. I do you have
a card we can take just tomake it easy, and could just show
show him the banner or cards?Well, actually, yeah, let me
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just examine and see if I canI losory image make a like a business
sign. Yes, if I wasactually thinking much the same goose groll and
bringing out a stone that if youset it on the countertop and tap it,
it will like holograph display the shopinformation. But I like your illusionary
image shot much better to love it? Is this something like what you were
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thinking? Oh, that that'd begreat route there? You you display that
in towns and taverns. Tell heroesthat you know I will gladly you know
those people that have done notable servicewith the city of Close, that I
look out for, fellow brethren,that I look out for the heroes,
and then I understand that good mustwin the day. Indeed, yes,
well, half price, what doyou think I think two hundred gold for
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this is great? I'll said,half price, which I believe is a
three seven to five if done mymath correctly. No, I think two
hundred. It's two hundred, right, I don't what was the original seven
fifty two hundred? If you wantto do that, I will need a
perception check to take even further downoff the persuasion. Persuasion you got it
I got in nineteen. Okay,it's not pre to do magic. We'll
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have to do that a lot.So I willing to tell the story and
then I'll give you the result.I took a cruise the other week and
we went down to Ensenada in Mexico, and while we were there, there
is you know, a couple oftable vendors that were set up, and
there's a guy who had some jewelryout on it. There was a necklace
that looked very similar to styles I'veseen one of my aunts wear. So
I asked him what the price wasand he goes, oh, well,
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it's four hundred dollars, but todayi'll make you a good deal. And
it was, you know, getinto haggle mode kind of thing. And
I turned doing me this like,you know what, if it had been
seventy five bucks, maybe a hundred, then I would have considered it.
We're too far apart at this point. I won't even waste your time.
And I walk away towards back thebus to take us back to the boat,
and I get about six steps andhe goes, oh, I can
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sell it's for two hundred. Sohe went down for four hundred. Two
hundred ruralized. I can only imaginehow little that thing actually cost him.
Seriously so, because you hit ontwo hundred and that reminded me of the
story and it was just last weekend. Yeah, I love it. Goose
Grellan will say, oh, twohundred, but I need like every tavern
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that you hit for the next year. I need to talk about every towns
you go into, there's a there'sa shop or something there. Tell him
that Goose Grellan's a good traded pot. Though. You know, I need
to make sure that if i'm ifI only take that much of a haircut
on the price of this, thatI'm getting as much out there as I
can. Absolutely, we go toa lot of taverns. Actually, I'm
a lot of towns, so everyonewill know of you. All right,
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all right, you're paying for itwith exposure exactly. Okay, so two
hundred gold. I still have nomoney, So Dorian, you want to
be sugar daddy this time? Twohundred gold. Okay, okay, I
walk in at this point. Ah, there you are. I've been looking
for you. I've written a contract. This is so funny because I loot
all the time too. I justnever get gold because you roll like ninety
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three that I have to give youstuff. Not just fair like I'm not
mad about it. It's just hilarious, moonbeam. I will front this for
you, and I will help withspreading this gentleman's word of his business.
Perhaps you could help me out withhaving some of that that sapphire imbued into
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some of my things. That'd befun. Yeah, and then we'll just
say here's the two hundred gold andyou can use my bag, this bag
whenever you like. Wonderful, Ijust back out, just like contract o
kidding. I don't want to bepopulous. How very homer into the bushes
of you exactly. I'm more GrandpaSimpson. Hello, goodbye. Well,
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if my buddy plate Basher comes through, I'm going to be rolling in the
bank soon and then y'all can getyour body back. Well, here's my
deal, right, so I've lentyou a thousand gold pieces or sharing an
operation to be paid back with atwo percent interest applied every session. We'll
see about that. How many timeshas to save your ass? We could
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talk about deals and discounts. Yeah, I'm just going to be keeping track
and maybe next time, when there'sa big thing that we're finding, I
won't be able to heal you soweird, that's okay. I can hear
myself, that's fair. I'm verysustainable. I'm just looking for some magical
effects for myself. Yeah, justoverhear the quarter quietly. I have a
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question about my about plate Basher.Do we have like a stone of sending
that we can keep communication open oranything. You do not at present,
no perfect and I did not.I'll go back to him in this like
week and whatever that we're forging andstudying. You can write love letters back
and forth. Where's my moneys?Yeah exactly, I've written it down nice
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here in blood. Whatever works.So researching time, learning things about the
Eastern continent, and this will potentiallybe the last thing we do for the
day. So Velak, we haven'theard from him in a while, so
let's jump over what is Vlak doingin this week and a half. It's
been a lot of times with theclerics and the temples, you know,
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getting to know the dwarf in gods, finding out to their diplomacy God is,
you know, having the dates aboutthe values of raw, having deep
discussions about the fundamental understanding of theuniverse. He tries to stare this share
this knowledge that he has now.Yeah, he's being very cerebral tease like
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these the whole time. So oneof the kind of strongest cleric presence in
town is the worshippers of Morden,who is often seen as God the Forge,
but is often also has an aspectof judgment, and not so much
a judgment of wrath, but ajudgment of justice, a God who could
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be pleaded with that. The clericscan be talked to and they will do
their best to render what they feelis the just and fair verdict in the
situation. So as far as thelogic goes, you are able to kind
of talk to a couple of theolder dwarf In clerics that they themselves are
almost like lawyers as far as howthey are. They've learned so much about
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the law, They've learned how tonegotiate, how to find and fight for
the proper justice of the congregants aroundthem, and they are happy to spend
their time I'm chatting with you andhearing about Rao and sharing their teachings of
Mordan to you as well. Oneof the last days that you are in
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town, the priests that you've beentalking to most of the time in silver
as Dan will come to you andgo I understand, good sir, that
you have been traveling with the PlatinumRing, our founding member, that you've
done such great service in town thatI truly wanted to thank you for the
work that you've done on the town'sbehalf. I know that your God and
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our God are not the same,but I would like cast a blessing on
you all the same, if youare willing to carry a positive mock a
from a god not to your own. Yes, blessings are not exclusive.
I agree. There are people thatdo not pledge the allegiance or loyalty to
one god at all. There aresome that pledge the loyalty to more than
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one. There's something that says thatI cannot say kind words over you,
nor you over me, niece,And you know your things are necessary.
I am just doing what must bedone. True, and if you have
been a forceful positive change it seems, and as as a just reward,
I would like to put good thoughts, good energy into your orbit as well,
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so that you can continue on asa person of justice and protection for
the common man needs. There isnothing wrong with thoughts in pers I thought
you were with that, but okay, with that the dwarful kind of stand
up from the benches you all havebeen sitting on, and step over and
place the left hand on your rightshoulder, and bow their head in prayer
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for a moment, and you feelthis electric tingle a charge more run through
your body and down your spine,and this energy kind of leap through your
body. And after a moment younotice that dwon In is screaming, and
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Donan tries to like remove their handfrom your body, tries to step away,
tries to pull back and just keepscreaming, and can't move his muscles
enough to pull his hand away fromviolent jumps back in surprise. Okay,
give me a dexterity saving throw,please plus three. So nine nine you
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force yourself back, tumbling over thebench that you've been sitting on, knocking
this stone bench to the ground,yourself flat on your back away. You
fortunately dislodge Dunan's hand from your shoulder, so the Dronan didn't come tumbling with
you, but you lay there inshock for a moment, and after just
another half second of screaming from Dona, Dunan collapses on the ground. I'm
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going to assume that you stand upand go over to Donan. Yes,
I rushed an attempt to lay onthe hands. Okay. As you approach
Dwonan, you hear Dronin muttering inDwarvish quietly to himself speak Tarvish I do
not speak four of USh okay,it seems to be I pull out a
pun shmentthon twill and copying down thesounds that he is making. He seems
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to be saying four distinct words soundpatterns. Yes, I talked to write
them about phonetically. Right plane planepostage, sinnett a bar and the accident
is on the bar postage. Thenit bar bar. After a few after
thirty seconds, a minute or so, a couple of the other dwarf and
clerics come running in, having heardthe scream and just needing to kind of
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cover some of the distance. Youtry to lay your hands on tone in
and you feel the energy go outinto him as though you are healing,
but you feel the energy go out. However, he doesn't stop saying those
four words over and over and overagainst. Isn't it his mind or his
soul? I grab one of thenear by clerics, like as you said,
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it was clarice rushing right, yes, and the ploon mustache, planet
bar. What does that mean?Those names? Drig Broadhead answers you with
it. It's just gibberish. It'sAvatar Champion together United. It's just gibberish.
It's just gibberish, and Thorops isqueen and punishment in shock, they
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will bundle they will try to bundleup and take dwell In back deeper into
the timble, and an attempt toadminister to him and try to recover from
whatever has caused this pausing you therein that moment, Dicky being sugar daddy.
Are you spend your money lender?What am I doing? Yes?
Are you researching? Are you doyou have stuff to sell? What are
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you doing for your week? Mymain thing was, of course, researching
viable areas that could be swamplanned inthat area. Roll me, this would
be an intelligence check. I believeyou'd be in a library. You'd have
time, so you can roll withadvantage. There's not investigation. Well,
I mean you're investigating books, ohadvantage sixteen advantage okay, yeah, sixteen.
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Given the time, like, youspend your week looking and you look
at maps and you read you knowthat the occasional books that you can find
on types of plants and histories ofthe Eastern continent of the countries there and
thinks of that nature, and youfind a couple of references to things you
find that the country of you Inis home of a culture that is full
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of raiders. They usually raid byship, think sort of Viking, where
they will send out raiding parties tothe neighboring countries to shipping lanes, et
cetera. So they are very dangerousand it's often said that the pirates will
avoid them as best they are able, because they will gladly pirate a pirate,
and so there's definitely some concern there. You learn that in their kind
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of major coastal bay that they arekind of capital cities usually based off of
is a large dry dock ship buildingfacility that allows them to build all of
these ships. It's not full onmechanized, but they could probably pump out
a small armada in six months.Their countryside right around the coast is quite
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pleasant, lots of fertile soil,places for people to sit up. As
it gets further into the continent,it gets very arid and very much a
desert. So the majority of theirpopulation is on the eastern end around their
main bay. You find a littlebit of history of Amia. It's the
country that is very much right onthat outer peninsula and they are kind of
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surrounded by u Uan In centuries pasttry to conquer them and kind of claim
more coastline. However, the Amyashave built themselves a huge network of roads
inland so they can maneuver their forcesaround to repel attacks much more rapidly,
and that is what has allowed themto keep pace with Oh, a ship
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has hit the shore and disgorged acompany of soldiers from you In well,
their road and their army is ableto get to that location very rapidly.
You suspect, based on some ofthe word choice in there, they've done
something to magically infuse the roads toallow the soldiers to march faster. Okay,
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that's Anne sixteen intelligence. Let's seewhat other thing. Raccos is something
very much of an unknown. It'sgot a large peninsula that goes off into
the water. It is said tobe the home of a lot of lizard
folk tribes. Though they very muchdo not have a great deal of trade.
They do not have a shipping industry. Even if they did, you
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and would probably try to raid itand dominate it as much as they could.
Rigos has enough greenery and growth thatthey have a bit of trade with
Sinisma, because there's some like herbsand plant life that they have that you
can't find anywhere else in the worldgenerally. Let's see also on the east
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coast. I'll give you one more, the country of Wotton. The Country
of Wotton is set up a littlemore north and west, but they're on
the other end of Ewan. Theyare a bit more think Mongol horse tribes,
so they do have a lot ofground based raiding parties, but not
so much ship based. They havefairly rolling planes with a bit of growth
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kind of. Their southern border isthe northern end of the desert of Ewan.
They are not friendly to Sinisma,but they only share one very small
section of border with Cinisma. Therecertainly aren't in open warfare and rarely are
they even in open conflict, butit is very much they don't like each
other. Hopefully they give you somegood information. Well, yes, I
mean, are the drawings or descriptionsof these listed folk? Are they have
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like a greenish quality? There area couple of drawings sketches, and you
find one book even on the anatomyof the creatures. And if you think
Kimoto dragons, if they were ahumanoid so bipedal triangular face kind of out
with snouts that they are green,but sometimes they'll be brown. They'll have
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a mixture of colors. The differenttribes are potentially slightly different bloodlines. It's
not quite as dramatic as a dragonboar, right, but you would get
some bright green, get some maltedgreen. You'd get tan like mud.
So you'd get a couple of differentskin variations or or scale variations. In
the lizard rode, none that wouldlook like a like a primy desert e
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lizard type. It looked more likeyou'd find in tropical areas lizards. Yes,
perfect, thank you, all right. I also need to acquire a
means of getting there other than teleportation. Although can this is helton take us
anywhere or only places we've been?He could basically cast the teleport spell if
he knows there's a chance that itcould misfire. If he knows where he's
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going, or if he knows exactlywhere a magic circle is is, he
can teleport directly to it. Likeyou guys are super familiar with the citadel,
there was like a one in tenchance that that was going to go
wrong. But yeah, sometimes thespell will put you right exactly where you're
looking for. Sometimes it'll put younearby. Like if you're aiming to wind
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up in your living room, Asmall mishap might put you in your backyard.
I saw a larger mishap will putyou three blocks away from your house.
A fire puts you in Iowa andnot knowing the place that you've not
ever having been to a place.The chances are really yes. If if
I was trying to cast it afterhaving heard the description of your living room,
my odds of being able to pullthat off would be minimal. But
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having been to your living room afew times, having familiarity with it myself,
I would have a better chance ofgetting there. If we drew a
teleportation circle in your living room,and I knew exactly the magical idea of
that, I could teleport there everytime, no problem. And you get
the man who like, do youjust start looking at it? That's that's
a teleportation circle, the lifts androoms of that sort. Looking at it,
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I could figure that out her.Yes, I think you're supposed to
spend like an hour studying the magiccircle to know basically it's address. You
know, the stargate address to rights. I got the right chef runs true.
I really hope that rebit actually happens. I fucking love that show.
It would be super awesome if itdid, especially that there was the they
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wanted to, like a new continuity, same same stay in the same continuity.
That would be super cool. Stargate, Oh, Stargate, Yes,
Universe. I've actually played D andD once with the the I played Eli
from Stargate Universe. Yeah, washe the smart one? Like as she
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used my least favorite, I won'tlie because I grew up on SG one
and then Atlantis of course got inthere very nicely, so SGU I was
like, it's so different. Yeah, that's right that the original starting people
don't like. No, we'd likethe cheesiness of squ One and Atlantis.
I like it all. I likeit all for different reasons. Yeah.
Yeah, I appreciate SDU for whatit was and what it did. I'm
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just if I was given the choiceof whichever one's to watch, I would
start with SG one and then Atlantiswould be close second, and then you'd
be like, in a while,yeah, I get you. I rewatched
it during COVID and I like ita little. I like it more now
than when it was out. Ihave an idea that I'm going to go
talk to my friends about. Okay, while you're formulating that idea, I
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do just want to go to Dorianreal fast in the week. Are you
doing research? Are you talking topeople? What are you doing for the
week and a half? I wouldlike to do research on swamp areas in
the Eastern Continent, and I wantto take up Moonbeam on the offer of
infusing bits of the sapphire into itemsI already have. Ok gotcha, So
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give me an intelligence check. You'rein a library, You'll you'll get advantage.
I'm going to put the DC topoints higher than Dickies because you're also
spending time doing the magical infusion,so you're spending a little less time researching.
So give me an intelligence role withadvantage, right, and no guidance
because you're spending days doing this.Okay twenty one twenty one. Yeah,
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swampy areas. The best information youcan find strongly suggests Rakos as the likely
swampiest and rainforest area that you canfind in the Eastern Continent. Rakosos,
I'll say that ty Gong, oneof the other Eastern countries, they would
have heavily forested areas that may havesome bog like elements, but they are
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number two on your suspect list.I'll put it that way. That's it.
Yeah, with a twenty one anda week to research books, Yeah,
you're going to find out that there'sa lot of swamps in Raikos.
Okay, Okay, well, Imean yeah, I wanted to narrow it
down so we're not just like,oh, we're going to search this whole
damn call. Yeah, see y'allin a ear tell you what I'll even
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do this? You got twenty one. You find a story. Now,
how much you can believe the storyor not, that's up to you.
But there's a reference to a tribeof lizard folk that made a deal with
the elementals around them. So like, they made deals with water elementals to
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keep their water around their village pure, cleaner, healthier. They made deals
with fire elementals to light the braziersof their town so that it would be
light at night. They made dealswith earth elementals to keep the foundations of
their buildings just that much firmer.The suggestion of where this tribe is located,
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the only specific thing that you canseem to find is they're on a
forked river right where the river fromits two tributaries comes and joins and then
flows out to the sea. Soright at that joint point seems to be
where that it's referenced. And that'sall I can figure out. Yes,
okay, I can't take any timeand cross reference rivers near the coast that
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have a fort I can't search forthat on a map. If you want
to spend more time in town,absolutely, maybe the information that you find
in this first week and a half. Okay, yeah, that's fine,
that's fine. Then yeah, maybeI'll buy a map book. But I
want to take care of the othersetch So then you wanted to try to
infuse items. Do you have anexisting item that you want to infuse with
new energy or do you want touse the infusion to create a new item
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for you? What would be cheaper? I would I would talk to the
wizard who would be doing the infusion. Actually, I would probably be talking
to him a lot, like,look, what imagine items do you have
at this point? Um? Well, I've got I've got my glasses that
doesn't really they don't do much much. I've got my armor, my Elvin
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chained shirt of the war war lord. Yeah, I do have my spell
focus, which is I believe ata plus two right now. So if
I could infuse it into that,maybe I've got boots. I've got boots
that give me like a little morespeed, and I've got a cloak of
valving kind. Right. Cloak ofvelving kind is everycall gives a advantage on
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stealth checks, right, it givesdisadvantage to the person trying to perceive you.
Oh okay, that's right. Bootsgive you that velvet can't get an
advantage. Yeah, okay, okay. So there was it a little kind
of look over your existing gear anda look at the energy and talking to
the pixie who's flying around a bit, and it goes, okay, I
think I got voice I used forthe gastor. I will think I got
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two options for you. He's gotthese Latin pen quills here if you will
looking to create, if you wantto rot scrolls, make them out of
the spells that you knew, orsell to a wizard to make scrolls out
of spells that they knew. Icould use energy out of the sapphire to
infuse into the pen quills to makeit that much easier to transfer the spell
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and maybe even increase the energy ofthe spell. I see, would this
only work for scrolls or perhaps inan actual spell book? Well, the
energy in a spell is going toget released when the spellers cast. The
spell book is going to be usedto learn the spells for the person to
cast. So it would it mighthelp you transcribe them and learn new spells.
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But it's not going to it's notgoing to give you a casting of
the spell like they would on ascroll. I see, I see in
your other option, the other option, that's pretty fancy cloak of yours there.
I think that I can take energyfrom the sapphire and infuse it in
the magic that's already set up inthat coke to increase its ability to hide
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you from your enemies. I see, let's do that one, all right.
It's gonna take them a few days, and I mean it's going to
take some of the resources as cando its fall this energy. I've hundred
gold how much five hundred gold?Well, I mean, oh, give
me the pen queels and I'll infusethem off of the energy, and I'll
take that as my payment for doingyour work. How about this, here's
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my counterproposal. Yeah, I'll giveyou six of the pen quels. Now,
i'll give you them all. Yougive me one back after you've infused
it, and you want to walkon your cloak. Yes, well roll
a persuasion check. Oh no,I didn't. That's not supposed to be
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at advantage. Shit, that wouldhave been so nice. It's a fifteen
on persuasion, it's not a thirty. Hi though, right, that would
have been amazing. All right,I think I could take that deal.
Yeah, I'll infuse all seven.I'll give you back one of them,
and i'll infuse into that cloak ofyours. That's, of course, assuming
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that your pixie friend agrees to allthis. It is her autom is mind
sustained. I leave it to you, but I agree as long as you're
careful. I will be very careful, because there's enough energy in this rock
to blow at least me up,if not like half the town. So
I'll be very careful, all right, And I bet it keeps this under
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wraps um. No one can knowabout this stone. I'm in what stone
exactly, all right, So theywill the wizard will work on the pencils.
So you now have one infused platinumpenquill for the cloak of Elvin Kind.
He works with it and gives itback to you. In low light,
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you become invisible until you take anaction. Yes, nice, So
if someone is trying to you know, you hear running from an animal,
it could still smell you, butat least you'd be invisible to a potential
attacker or someone who's hunting for you. Beauty. Okay, with that,
we've done some shopping, We've donesomething. You guys spent an extra week
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and a half now in town,So really it's been two weeks because there
were several days between the return ofBarrios and the funeral, and now you've
spent another week and a half,so it's been about two weeks that you've
been in town. The Silverthrust familyis happy to continue to host you all,
especially because you have restored a lotof their honor and their position within
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the city. If you want tostay longer, they're probably going to start,
you know, ask you to findlocations or you know, contribute to
the household first of cash or thingslike that. But for taking that extra
kind of a week off, absolutelythey'll put you up for that. I
think that will end thus for theevening. But I need to know you
want to spend more time here inCanos because there could be other things happening
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in Canos. Or do you wantto try to get over to the Eastern
Continent, either via crazy odds teleportationor finding your pirate buddies or chartering a
ship. Well that's what I wantedto talk to them about during that week.
Yeah, well let's let's do thatof over a dinner the night before
you're going to get the cloak andall the magical do Dad's back. Well,
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can have a nice dinner and abit of a nice kiante and it
gets roasted foul on scres and Ispread is put out for all this whole
time, A blue meani. Whathas he been doing? Great question?
Valik was working with a lot ofthe clerks. The meani is not mean,
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Yeah, the right. Yeah,I've been casting non detect on him
every day, and well we hadother people casting non detect on him,
right, yeah, non detecting,and he's being given you know, bread
and water and the occasional bit ofjerky just to keep him alive and all
that. Um, So that's whatI wanted to discuss to spend right with
the team. As far as gettingthere, I have a crazy, probably
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very stupid idea. What's your stupididea? Well, either Valk or I
can teleport to to teleportation circles.We know that our blue friend can teleport
to one as well. He didsay he would teleports, right, true,
if I if we set him freeand allow him to teleport himself home
and I scry him at the sametime, then I could see that teleport
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circle and eventually figure out how toteleport to it. But then we would
be there, but we'd be afull continent, you know, we'd cut
some time out. We would justhave to escape from that area, right,
That would might be an army therewaiting. May it is, But
then maybe maybe the teleporter is blindlylike two hundred miles east west east and
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see what happens. We just geton the boat, all right, I
was trying to cut out some time. Dragon did move you pretty quickly once
the ship, once the parent shipgot to it. Oh, we can
take the Dragon. I don't thinkwe're supposed to go back to the Dragon
until we've taken care of the corruption. Well, the deal was the dragon
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would will cast the spell on youfor a year in a day, and
then if you haven't destroyed the corruptionsor stop them or solve them or whatever,
then you if you haven't solved itwithin the year in the day,
then it was don't come back.That's true. Okay, now we're good.
We're still cool. We're still coolhere. Yeah, all right,
all right, So in that case, and oh yes, in that case,
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I have discovered the most likely locationfor an evil swamp, provided that
the dragon doesn't tell us there's aland called wreck house. Yes, it's
an Isthmuth's it's it's a peninsula.Actually. What I've also read about,
oh people, lizzard of the jungle, wet variety, lizard folk. That's
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interesting. I came upon a storyabout lizard folks listen, folk that made
deals with certain elemental entities to givethem light, give crops a good chance
of being very fruitful. So ourlizard folk in Racos, Yes, they're
from Roccos. Most of the onesI've looked at. They do not look
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like the kind that live in areasof the places. They looked like the
kind of lizards you would find ina jungle, you say, or swamp.
So I thought maybe we could startat the little just the tip of
racos there and go up the redrocket. Go up there and explore the
entire shaft there raccos until we getto the base. That's promising. Its
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straight. You want to start atthe tip, Yes, just the tip
and got the shaft. That's right, I see. Yes, perhaps we
walk away down one side and thenup the other side. Well, I
think we could show them go upand down if you wish, but sort
of a spiral. I guess it'srather thin. I mean, it's not
a lot to work with, sowe can. I mean we probably cover
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it pretty quickly. I mean it'sa very wet climate, will move quickly,
absolutely very moist. This all soundsvery pleasant to me. I was
just warning you do have to watchout for the foliage around the base of
the peninsula. Yes, here's lotsof violence. Oh yes, forest,
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it's tricky. It sometimes makes itlook not as long as it is.
That. I would have thought withall of the ship building that they'd have
trimmed it a pit. No,I don't get out much. You and
is the ship building? Yes,they're right there though. Yes, I
was just making sure that the clarificationwas at that's fine. I believe I'm
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spent on the information for that.So there we are. Inteed, my
I'm glad you came to that conclusion. Familiar feeling too. That's what I've
been saying. You know, ifit didn't have that tiny little red tip
like a dog, it wouldn't ohmy god, red rocket boy. Right.
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If we don't find what we're lookingfor in Rocos, I believe the
other country I found that is alsopurported to have a lot of swampland is
Tigoni. Tigon. That's it,at least that's what I've found in my
research. Yes, fascinating, notin that area, but still has a
swamp right, Yes, yes,I mean not as much as Rockos,
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but it's on the way to theisland. So if there's nothing in Rockos,
we continue to Taigon and then tothe island of DLC. Indeed,
I like to plan the island ofright Okay. In that case, I
believe that gives us a direction,a narrative, a goal to shoot for.
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Hello, and welcome to Attackers ofOpportunity. This is your DM Michael.
I'm sitting around a virtual table withsome of my friends and we're about to
a place of D and D duringthat week and a half doing research on
the Eastern Continent. Is absolutely somethingthat could happen. Heather, you raised
a finger. Do you still havesomething else? I'm wondering if either the
wizard or someone else in town mighthave an arcane bag of holding? Hellia
(00:48):
what he what heah? Rolling apercentiles percentile? You got it, that's
sixty eight sixty eight almost nice class. You find in one of the shops
that there's kind of an old curioshop, and there's a couple of little
magic trinkets in it. There's astone that's attached a little leather throng that
the shop keep tells you, oh, if you have this in your hand
(01:11):
while you're piloting a ship and tryingto guide by the stars, this will
help keep your ship's course straight andtrue. A couple of other minor artifacts,
but one of them is in facta bag of holding. It's been
beat up. It's been clearly thiswas well used by adventurers in the past.
It is absolutely a bag of holding, totally functional. But it looks
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like a weather almost saddle bag.I love it. Very aproposal. Yeah,
so it goes well, absolutely accent, no problem. Hey, that's
why you come to Gruce Grellin's Shopof Curiosities. It's another random name name
generating. But you know, GruceKellen. You know it needs a little
corner, some back and trade fromyou. I mean I could sell you
(01:55):
that back the bed. It's anice bag. I mean it's it's seen
a lot of years, clearly,and they go into this salesmansh to you.
Hey, go tell you What'll tellyou what. I'll lock you little
pixies. You pay me, Youpay me seven hundred and fifty gold,
nash cheap out the door, allin package, no taxes on that.
I'll take care of all that.Don't you worry. Seven hundred fifty gold,
it is yours. It's a littlehigh. Would anyone else like to
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pitch in with this opinion? Imean, do you realize who you're speaking
to? Sir? Do you willknow what we have done? I know
that good old Goose Grelling is talkingto Pixie and talking to I'm assuming in
elf for half elm half. I'mLord Dorian Vesanderral and we are members of
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the Platinum Ring. We saved yourcity. We stopped the stone blank.
I'm gonna roll a dice on that. Yeah, Goose Grelling like stops from
with Platinum Ring. And if thiswas a cartoon, dollar signs would roll
over Goos Grelling's eyes and go,well, well here here's I didn't realize
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I was talking about the Platinum Ringhere. Oh it's it's wonderful. It's
tell you what, tell you what? Tell you what? Seven fifty.
That's like normal customers that he's goingout in the world. You you are
the Platinum Ring. Though you travelall across this world. You know all
sorts of people tell you what thedeal that I'll do here, I'll cut
my feet in half if you telleverybody that you run into about how good
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Goose Grellan was to all of youand how my Curiosity shop is one of
the highlights of cups. Well GrusI think would be happy to do something
like that. I mean, thecity is that we end up in your
business might quadruple. I know peoplecoming from all over and they know that
the Goose Grellan Shop is where theygot to stop wall in town. That
will certainly the loss that I willtake. You know, I will have
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to eat scraps off the butcher's blockfor weeks on end, no doubt,
until they start coming in. ButI will suffer for the future potential of
my shop being here. I willI will dine on exposure to try to
make this to another day. Youdidn't realize you can dine on exposure,
but you know, I think Ibelieve you could make it work. Well,
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I thank you there a little doeand vandassal, so you don't even
want the persuasion role. He justwent with it. I kind of rolled
his reaction to the talk of thetown. Perfect. Perfect, So we're
going to ride that out as muchas we can. I do you have
a card we can take just tomake it easy, and could just show
show him the banner or cards?Well, actually, yeah, let me
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just examine and see if I canI losory image make a like a business
sign. Yes, if I wasactually thinking much the same goose groll and
bringing out a stone that if youset it on the countertop and tap it,
it will like holograph display the shopinformation. But I like your illusionary
image shot much better to love it? Is this something like what you were
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thinking? Oh, that that'd begreat route there? You you display that
in towns and taverns. Tell heroesthat you know I will gladly you know
those people that have done notable servicewith the city of Close, that I
look out for, fellow brethren,that I look out for the heroes,
and then I understand that good mustwin the day. Indeed, yes,
well, half price, what doyou think I think two hundred gold for
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this is great? I'll said,half price, which I believe is a
three seven to five if done mymath correctly. No, I think two
hundred. It's two hundred, right, I don't what was the original seven
fifty two hundred? If you wantto do that, I will need a
perception check to take even further downoff the persuasion. Persuasion you got it
I got in nineteen. Okay,it's not pre to do magic. We'll
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have to do that a lot.So I willing to tell the story and
then I'll give you the result.I took a cruise the other week and
we went down to Ensenada in Mexico, and while we were there, there
is you know, a couple oftable vendors that were set up, and
there's a guy who had some jewelryout on it. There was a necklace
that looked very similar to styles I'veseen one of my aunts wear. So
I asked him what the price wasand he goes, oh, well,
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it's four hundred dollars, but todayi'll make you a good deal. And
it was, you know, getinto haggle mode kind of thing. And
I turned doing me this like,you know what, if it had been
seventy five bucks, maybe a hundred, then I would have considered it.
We're too far apart at this point. I won't even waste your time.
And I walk away towards back thebus to take us back to the boat,
and I get about six steps andhe goes, oh, I can
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sell it's for two hundred. Sohe went down for four hundred. Two
hundred ruralized. I can only imaginehow little that thing actually cost him.
Seriously so, because you hit ontwo hundred and that reminded me of the
story and it was just last weekend. Yeah, I love it. Goose
Grellan will say, oh, twohundred, but I need like every tavern
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that you hit for the next year. I need to talk about every towns
you go into, there's a there'sa shop or something there. Tell him
that Goose Grellan's a good traded pot. Though. You know, I need
to make sure that if i'm ifI only take that much of a haircut
on the price of this, thatI'm getting as much out there as I
can. Absolutely, we go toa lot of taverns. Actually, I'm
a lot of towns, so everyonewill know of you. All right,
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all right, you're paying for itwith exposure exactly. Okay, so two
hundred gold. I still have nomoney, So Dorian, you want to
be sugar daddy this time? Twohundred gold. Okay, okay, I
walk in at this point. Ah, there you are. I've been looking
for you. I've written a contract. This is so funny because I loot
all the time too. I justnever get gold because you roll like ninety
(07:26):
three that I have to give youstuff. Not just fair like I'm not
mad about it. It's just hilarious, moonbeam. I will front this for
you, and I will help withspreading this gentleman's word of his business.
Perhaps you could help me out withhaving some of that that sapphire imbued into
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some of my things. That'd befun. Yeah, and then we'll just
say here's the two hundred gold andyou can use my bag, this bag
whenever you like. Wonderful, Ijust back out, just like contract o
kidding. I don't want to bepopulous. How very homer into the bushes
of you exactly. I'm more GrandpaSimpson. Hello, goodbye. Well,
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if my buddy plate Basher comes through, I'm going to be rolling in the
bank soon and then y'all can getyour body back. Well, here's my
deal, right, so I've lentyou a thousand gold pieces or sharing an
operation to be paid back with atwo percent interest applied every session. We'll
see about that. How many timeshas to save your ass? We could
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talk about deals and discounts. Yeah, I'm just going to be keeping track
and maybe next time, when there'sa big thing that we're finding, I
won't be able to heal you soweird, that's okay. I can hear
myself, that's fair. I'm verysustainable. I'm just looking for some magical
effects for myself. Yeah, justoverhear the quarter quietly. I have a
(08:52):
question about my about plate Basher.Do we have like a stone of sending
that we can keep communication open oranything. You do not at present,
no perfect and I did not.I'll go back to him in this like
week and whatever that we're forging andstudying. You can write love letters back
and forth. Where's my moneys?Yeah exactly, I've written it down nice
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here in blood. Whatever works.So researching time, learning things about the
Eastern continent, and this will potentiallybe the last thing we do for the
day. So Velak, we haven'theard from him in a while, so
let's jump over what is Vlak doingin this week and a half. It's
been a lot of times with theclerics and the temples, you know,
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getting to know the dwarf in gods, finding out to their diplomacy God is,
you know, having the dates aboutthe values of raw, having deep
discussions about the fundamental understanding of theuniverse. He tries to stare this share
this knowledge that he has now.Yeah, he's being very cerebral tease like
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these the whole time. So oneof the kind of strongest cleric presence in
town is the worshippers of Morden,who is often seen as God the Forge,
but is often also has an aspectof judgment, and not so much
a judgment of wrath, but ajudgment of justice, a God who could
(10:26):
be pleaded with that. The clericscan be talked to and they will do
their best to render what they feelis the just and fair verdict in the
situation. So as far as thelogic goes, you are able to kind
of talk to a couple of theolder dwarf In clerics that they themselves are
almost like lawyers as far as howthey are. They've learned so much about
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the law, They've learned how tonegotiate, how to find and fight for
the proper justice of the congregants aroundthem, and they are happy to spend
their time I'm chatting with you andhearing about Rao and sharing their teachings of
Mordan to you as well. Oneof the last days that you are in
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town, the priests that you've beentalking to most of the time in silver
as Dan will come to you andgo I understand, good sir, that
you have been traveling with the PlatinumRing, our founding member, that you've
done such great service in town thatI truly wanted to thank you for the
work that you've done on the town'sbehalf. I know that your God and
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our God are not the same,but I would like cast a blessing on
you all the same, if youare willing to carry a positive mock a
from a god not to your own. Yes, blessings are not exclusive.
I agree. There are people thatdo not pledge the allegiance or loyalty to
one god at all. There aresome that pledge the loyalty to more than
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one. There's something that says thatI cannot say kind words over you,
nor you over me, niece,And you know your things are necessary.
I am just doing what must bedone. True, and if you have
been a forceful positive change it seems, and as as a just reward,
I would like to put good thoughts, good energy into your orbit as well,
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so that you can continue on asa person of justice and protection for
the common man needs. There isnothing wrong with thoughts in pers I thought
you were with that, but okay, with that the dwarful kind of stand
up from the benches you all havebeen sitting on, and step over and
place the left hand on your rightshoulder, and bow their head in prayer
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for a moment, and you feelthis electric tingle a charge more run through
your body and down your spine,and this energy kind of leap through your
body. And after a moment younotice that dwon In is screaming, and
(13:01):
Donan tries to like remove their handfrom your body, tries to step away,
tries to pull back and just keepscreaming, and can't move his muscles
enough to pull his hand away fromviolent jumps back in surprise. Okay,
give me a dexterity saving throw,please plus three. So nine nine you
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force yourself back, tumbling over thebench that you've been sitting on, knocking
this stone bench to the ground,yourself flat on your back away. You
fortunately dislodge Dunan's hand from your shoulder, so the Dronan didn't come tumbling with
you, but you lay there inshock for a moment, and after just
another half second of screaming from Dona, Dunan collapses on the ground. I'm
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going to assume that you stand upand go over to Donan. Yes,
I rushed an attempt to lay onthe hands. Okay. As you approach
Dwonan, you hear Dronin muttering inDwarvish quietly to himself speak Tarvish I do
not speak four of USh okay,it seems to be I pull out a
pun shmentthon twill and copying down thesounds that he is making. He seems
(14:09):
to be saying four distinct words soundpatterns. Yes, I talked to write
them about phonetically. Right plane planepostage, sinnett a bar and the accident
is on the bar postage. Thenit bar bar. After a few after
thirty seconds, a minute or so, a couple of the other dwarf and
clerics come running in, having heardthe scream and just needing to kind of
(14:33):
cover some of the distance. Youtry to lay your hands on tone in
and you feel the energy go outinto him as though you are healing,
but you feel the energy go out. However, he doesn't stop saying those
four words over and over and overagainst. Isn't it his mind or his
soul? I grab one of thenear by clerics, like as you said,
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it was clarice rushing right, yes, and the ploon mustache, planet
bar. What does that mean?Those names? Drig Broadhead answers you with
it. It's just gibberish. It'sAvatar Champion together United. It's just gibberish.
It's just gibberish, and Thorops isqueen and punishment in shock, they
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will bundle they will try to bundleup and take dwell In back deeper into
the timble, and an attempt toadminister to him and try to recover from
whatever has caused this pausing you therein that moment, Dicky being sugar daddy.
Are you spend your money lender?What am I doing? Yes?
Are you researching? Are you doyou have stuff to sell? What are
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you doing for your week? Mymain thing was, of course, researching
viable areas that could be swamplanned inthat area. Roll me, this would
be an intelligence check. I believeyou'd be in a library. You'd have
time, so you can roll withadvantage. There's not investigation. Well,
I mean you're investigating books, ohadvantage sixteen advantage okay, yeah, sixteen.
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Given the time, like, youspend your week looking and you look
at maps and you read you knowthat the occasional books that you can find
on types of plants and histories ofthe Eastern continent of the countries there and
thinks of that nature, and youfind a couple of references to things you
find that the country of you Inis home of a culture that is full
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of raiders. They usually raid byship, think sort of Viking, where
they will send out raiding parties tothe neighboring countries to shipping lanes, et
cetera. So they are very dangerousand it's often said that the pirates will
avoid them as best they are able, because they will gladly pirate a pirate,
and so there's definitely some concern there. You learn that in their kind
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of major coastal bay that they arekind of capital cities usually based off of
is a large dry dock ship buildingfacility that allows them to build all of
these ships. It's not full onmechanized, but they could probably pump out
a small armada in six months.Their countryside right around the coast is quite
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pleasant, lots of fertile soil,places for people to sit up. As
it gets further into the continent,it gets very arid and very much a
desert. So the majority of theirpopulation is on the eastern end around their
main bay. You find a littlebit of history of Amia. It's the
country that is very much right onthat outer peninsula and they are kind of
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surrounded by u Uan In centuries pasttry to conquer them and kind of claim
more coastline. However, the Amyashave built themselves a huge network of roads
inland so they can maneuver their forcesaround to repel attacks much more rapidly,
and that is what has allowed themto keep pace with Oh, a ship
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has hit the shore and disgorged acompany of soldiers from you In well,
their road and their army is ableto get to that location very rapidly.
You suspect, based on some ofthe word choice in there, they've done
something to magically infuse the roads toallow the soldiers to march faster. Okay,
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that's Anne sixteen intelligence. Let's seewhat other thing. Raccos is something
very much of an unknown. It'sgot a large peninsula that goes off into
the water. It is said tobe the home of a lot of lizard
folk tribes. Though they very muchdo not have a great deal of trade.
They do not have a shipping industry. Even if they did, you
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and would probably try to raid itand dominate it as much as they could.
Rigos has enough greenery and growth thatthey have a bit of trade with
Sinisma, because there's some like herbsand plant life that they have that you
can't find anywhere else in the worldgenerally. Let's see also on the east
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coast. I'll give you one more, the country of Wotton. The Country
of Wotton is set up a littlemore north and west, but they're on
the other end of Ewan. Theyare a bit more think Mongol horse tribes,
so they do have a lot ofground based raiding parties, but not
so much ship based. They havefairly rolling planes with a bit of growth
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kind of. Their southern border isthe northern end of the desert of Ewan.
They are not friendly to Sinisma,but they only share one very small
section of border with Cinisma. Therecertainly aren't in open warfare and rarely are
they even in open conflict, butit is very much they don't like each
other. Hopefully they give you somegood information. Well, yes, I
mean, are the drawings or descriptionsof these listed folk? Are they have
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like a greenish quality? There area couple of drawings sketches, and you
find one book even on the anatomyof the creatures. And if you think
Kimoto dragons, if they were ahumanoid so bipedal triangular face kind of out
with snouts that they are green,but sometimes they'll be brown. They'll have
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a mixture of colors. The differenttribes are potentially slightly different bloodlines. It's
not quite as dramatic as a dragonboar, right, but you would get
some bright green, get some maltedgreen. You'd get tan like mud.
So you'd get a couple of differentskin variations or or scale variations. In
the lizard rode, none that wouldlook like a like a primy desert e
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lizard type. It looked more likeyou'd find in tropical areas lizards. Yes,
perfect, thank you, all right. I also need to acquire a
means of getting there other than teleportation. Although can this is helton take us
anywhere or only places we've been?He could basically cast the teleport spell if
he knows there's a chance that itcould misfire. If he knows where he's
(21:00):
going, or if he knows exactlywhere a magic circle is is, he
can teleport directly to it. Likeyou guys are super familiar with the citadel,
there was like a one in tenchance that that was going to go
wrong. But yeah, sometimes thespell will put you right exactly where you're
looking for. Sometimes it'll put younearby. Like if you're aiming to wind
(21:22):
up in your living room, Asmall mishap might put you in your backyard.
I saw a larger mishap will putyou three blocks away from your house.
A fire puts you in Iowa andnot knowing the place that you've not
ever having been to a place.The chances are really yes. If if
I was trying to cast it afterhaving heard the description of your living room,
my odds of being able to pullthat off would be minimal. But
(21:45):
having been to your living room afew times, having familiarity with it myself,
I would have a better chance ofgetting there. If we drew a
teleportation circle in your living room,and I knew exactly the magical idea of
that, I could teleport there everytime, no problem. And you get
the man who like, do youjust start looking at it? That's that's
a teleportation circle, the lifts androoms of that sort. Looking at it,
(22:06):
I could figure that out her.Yes, I think you're supposed to
spend like an hour studying the magiccircle to know basically it's address. You
know, the stargate address to rights. I got the right chef runs true.
I really hope that rebit actually happens. I fucking love that show.
It would be super awesome if itdid, especially that there was the they
(22:26):
wanted to, like a new continuity, same same stay in the same continuity.
That would be super cool. Stargate, Oh, Stargate, Yes,
Universe. I've actually played D andD once with the the I played Eli
from Stargate Universe. Yeah, washe the smart one? Like as she
(22:48):
used my least favorite, I won'tlie because I grew up on SG one
and then Atlantis of course got inthere very nicely, so SGU I was
like, it's so different. Yeah, that's right that the original starting people
don't like. No, we'd likethe cheesiness of squ One and Atlantis.
I like it all. I likeit all for different reasons. Yeah.
Yeah, I appreciate SDU for whatit was and what it did. I'm
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just if I was given the choiceof whichever one's to watch, I would
start with SG one and then Atlantiswould be close second, and then you'd
be like, in a while,yeah, I get you. I rewatched
it during COVID and I like ita little. I like it more now
than when it was out. Ihave an idea that I'm going to go
talk to my friends about. Okay, while you're formulating that idea, I
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do just want to go to Dorianreal fast in the week. Are you
doing research? Are you talking topeople? What are you doing for the
week and a half? I wouldlike to do research on swamp areas in
the Eastern Continent, and I wantto take up Moonbeam on the offer of
infusing bits of the sapphire into itemsI already have. Ok gotcha, So
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give me an intelligence check. You'rein a library, You'll you'll get advantage.
I'm going to put the DC topoints higher than Dickies because you're also
spending time doing the magical infusion,so you're spending a little less time researching.
So give me an intelligence role withadvantage, right, and no guidance
because you're spending days doing this.Okay twenty one twenty one. Yeah,
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swampy areas. The best information youcan find strongly suggests Rakos as the likely
swampiest and rainforest area that you canfind in the Eastern Continent. Rakosos,
I'll say that ty Gong, oneof the other Eastern countries, they would
have heavily forested areas that may havesome bog like elements, but they are
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number two on your suspect list.I'll put it that way. That's it.
Yeah, with a twenty one anda week to research books, Yeah,
you're going to find out that there'sa lot of swamps in Raikos.
Okay, Okay, well, Imean yeah, I wanted to narrow it
down so we're not just like,oh, we're going to search this whole
damn call. Yeah, see y'allin a ear tell you what I'll even
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do this? You got twenty one. You find a story. Now,
how much you can believe the storyor not, that's up to you.
But there's a reference to a tribeof lizard folk that made a deal with
the elementals around them. So like, they made deals with water elementals to
(25:23):
keep their water around their village pure, cleaner, healthier. They made deals
with fire elementals to light the braziersof their town so that it would be
light at night. They made dealswith earth elementals to keep the foundations of
their buildings just that much firmer.The suggestion of where this tribe is located,
(25:47):
the only specific thing that you canseem to find is they're on a
forked river right where the river fromits two tributaries comes and joins and then
flows out to the sea. Soright at that joint point seems to be
where that it's referenced. And that'sall I can figure out. Yes,
okay, I can't take any timeand cross reference rivers near the coast that
(26:10):
have a fort I can't search forthat on a map. If you want
to spend more time in town,absolutely, maybe the information that you find
in this first week and a half. Okay, yeah, that's fine,
that's fine. Then yeah, maybeI'll buy a map book. But I
want to take care of the othersetch So then you wanted to try to
infuse items. Do you have anexisting item that you want to infuse with
new energy or do you want touse the infusion to create a new item
(26:32):
for you? What would be cheaper? I would I would talk to the
wizard who would be doing the infusion. Actually, I would probably be talking
to him a lot, like,look, what imagine items do you have
at this point? Um? Well, I've got I've got my glasses that
doesn't really they don't do much much. I've got my armor, my Elvin
(26:52):
chained shirt of the war war lord. Yeah, I do have my spell
focus, which is I believe ata plus two right now. So if
I could infuse it into that,maybe I've got boots. I've got boots
that give me like a little morespeed, and I've got a cloak of
valving kind. Right. Cloak ofvelving kind is everycall gives a advantage on
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stealth checks, right, it givesdisadvantage to the person trying to perceive you.
Oh okay, that's right. Bootsgive you that velvet can't get an
advantage. Yeah, okay, okay. So there was it a little kind
of look over your existing gear anda look at the energy and talking to
the pixie who's flying around a bit, and it goes, okay, I
think I got voice I used forthe gastor. I will think I got
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two options for you. He's gotthese Latin pen quills here if you will
looking to create, if you wantto rot scrolls, make them out of
the spells that you knew, orsell to a wizard to make scrolls out
of spells that they knew. Icould use energy out of the sapphire to
infuse into the pen quills to makeit that much easier to transfer the spell
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and maybe even increase the energy ofthe spell. I see, would this
only work for scrolls or perhaps inan actual spell book? Well, the
energy in a spell is going toget released when the spellers cast. The
spell book is going to be usedto learn the spells for the person to
cast. So it would it mighthelp you transcribe them and learn new spells.
(28:27):
But it's not going to it's notgoing to give you a casting of
the spell like they would on ascroll. I see, I see in
your other option, the other option, that's pretty fancy cloak of yours there.
I think that I can take energyfrom the sapphire and infuse it in
the magic that's already set up inthat coke to increase its ability to hide
(28:48):
you from your enemies. I see, let's do that one, all right.
It's gonna take them a few days, and I mean it's going to
take some of the resources as cando its fall this energy. I've hundred
gold how much five hundred gold?Well, I mean, oh, give
me the pen queels and I'll infusethem off of the energy, and I'll
take that as my payment for doingyour work. How about this, here's
(29:12):
my counterproposal. Yeah, I'll giveyou six of the pen quels. Now,
i'll give you them all. Yougive me one back after you've infused
it, and you want to walkon your cloak. Yes, well roll
a persuasion check. Oh no,I didn't. That's not supposed to be
(29:33):
at advantage. Shit, that wouldhave been so nice. It's a fifteen
on persuasion, it's not a thirty. Hi though, right, that would
have been amazing. All right,I think I could take that deal.
Yeah, I'll infuse all seven.I'll give you back one of them,
and i'll infuse into that cloak ofyours. That's, of course, assuming
(29:56):
that your pixie friend agrees to allthis. It is her autom is mind
sustained. I leave it to you, but I agree as long as you're
careful. I will be very careful, because there's enough energy in this rock
to blow at least me up,if not like half the town. So
I'll be very careful, all right, And I bet it keeps this under
(30:17):
wraps um. No one can knowabout this stone. I'm in what stone
exactly, all right, So theywill the wizard will work on the pencils.
So you now have one infused platinumpenquill for the cloak of Elvin Kind.
He works with it and gives itback to you. In low light,
(30:40):
you become invisible until you take anaction. Yes, nice, So
if someone is trying to you know, you hear running from an animal,
it could still smell you, butat least you'd be invisible to a potential
attacker or someone who's hunting for you. Beauty. Okay, with that,
we've done some shopping, We've donesomething. You guys spent an extra week
(31:00):
and a half now in town,So really it's been two weeks because there
were several days between the return ofBarrios and the funeral, and now you've
spent another week and a half,so it's been about two weeks that you've
been in town. The Silverthrust familyis happy to continue to host you all,
especially because you have restored a lotof their honor and their position within
(31:22):
the city. If you want tostay longer, they're probably going to start,
you know, ask you to findlocations or you know, contribute to
the household first of cash or thingslike that. But for taking that extra
kind of a week off, absolutelythey'll put you up for that. I
think that will end thus for theevening. But I need to know you
want to spend more time here inCanos because there could be other things happening
(31:45):
in Canos. Or do you wantto try to get over to the Eastern
Continent, either via crazy odds teleportationor finding your pirate buddies or chartering a
ship. Well that's what I wantedto talk to them about during that week.
Yeah, well let's let's do thatof over a dinner the night before
you're going to get the cloak andall the magical do Dad's back. Well,
(32:08):
can have a nice dinner and abit of a nice kiante and it
gets roasted foul on scres and Ispread is put out for all this whole
time, A blue meani. Whathas he been doing? Great question?
Valik was working with a lot ofthe clerks. The meani is not mean,
(32:30):
Yeah, the right. Yeah,I've been casting non detect on him
every day, and well we hadother people casting non detect on him,
right, yeah, non detecting,and he's being given you know, bread
and water and the occasional bit ofjerky just to keep him alive and all
that. Um, So that's whatI wanted to discuss to spend right with
the team. As far as gettingthere, I have a crazy, probably
(32:53):
very stupid idea. What's your stupididea? Well, either Valk or I
can teleport to to teleportation circles.We know that our blue friend can teleport
to one as well. He didsay he would teleports, right, true,
if I if we set him freeand allow him to teleport himself home
and I scry him at the sametime, then I could see that teleport
(33:15):
circle and eventually figure out how toteleport to it. But then we would
be there, but we'd be afull continent, you know, we'd cut
some time out. We would justhave to escape from that area, right,
That would might be an army therewaiting. May it is, But
then maybe maybe the teleporter is blindlylike two hundred miles east west east and
(33:37):
see what happens. We just geton the boat, all right, I
was trying to cut out some time. Dragon did move you pretty quickly once
the ship, once the parent shipgot to it. Oh, we can
take the Dragon. I don't thinkwe're supposed to go back to the Dragon
until we've taken care of the corruption. Well, the deal was the dragon
(33:59):
would will cast the spell on youfor a year in a day, and
then if you haven't destroyed the corruptionsor stop them or solve them or whatever,
then you if you haven't solved itwithin the year in the day,
then it was don't come back.That's true. Okay, now we're good.
We're still cool. We're still coolhere. Yeah, all right,
all right, So in that case, and oh yes, in that case,
(34:22):
I have discovered the most likely locationfor an evil swamp, provided that
the dragon doesn't tell us there's aland called wreck house. Yes, it's
an Isthmuth's it's it's a peninsula.Actually. What I've also read about,
oh people, lizzard of the jungle, wet variety, lizard folk. That's
(34:45):
interesting. I came upon a storyabout lizard folks listen, folk that made
deals with certain elemental entities to givethem light, give crops a good chance
of being very fruitful. So ourlizard folk in Racos, Yes, they're
from Roccos. Most of the onesI've looked at. They do not look
(35:06):
like the kind that live in areasof the places. They looked like the
kind of lizards you would find ina jungle, you say, or swamp.
So I thought maybe we could startat the little just the tip of
racos there and go up the redrocket. Go up there and explore the
entire shaft there raccos until we getto the base. That's promising. Its
(35:27):
straight. You want to start atthe tip, Yes, just the tip
and got the shaft. That's right, I see. Yes, perhaps we
walk away down one side and thenup the other side. Well, I
think we could show them go upand down if you wish, but sort
of a spiral. I guess it'srather thin. I mean, it's not
a lot to work with, sowe can. I mean we probably cover
(35:47):
it pretty quickly. I mean it'sa very wet climate, will move quickly,
absolutely very moist. This all soundsvery pleasant to me. I was
just warning you do have to watchout for the foliage around the base of
the peninsula. Yes, here's lotsof violence. Oh yes, forest,
(36:10):
it's tricky. It sometimes makes itlook not as long as it is.
That. I would have thought withall of the ship building that they'd have
trimmed it a pit. No,I don't get out much. You and
is the ship building? Yes,they're right there though. Yes, I
was just making sure that the clarificationwas at that's fine. I believe I'm
(36:32):
spent on the information for that.So there we are. Inteed, my
I'm glad you came to that conclusion. Familiar feeling too. That's what I've
been saying. You know, ifit didn't have that tiny little red tip
like a dog, it wouldn't ohmy god, red rocket boy. Right.
(36:52):
If we don't find what we're lookingfor in Rocos, I believe the
other country I found that is alsopurported to have a lot of swampland is
Tigoni. Tigon. That's it,at least that's what I've found in my
research. Yes, fascinating, notin that area, but still has a
swamp right, Yes, yes,I mean not as much as Rockos,
(37:15):
but it's on the way to theisland. So if there's nothing in Rockos,
we continue to Taigon and then tothe island of DLC. Indeed,
I like to plan the island ofright Okay. In that case, I
believe that gives us a direction,a narrative, a goal to shoot for.
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