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Hello, and welcome to Attackersive Opportunity. This is your DM Michael. I'm
sitting around at virtual table with someof my friends and we're about to play
some D and D. I noMike, all right, so you all
spend a bit of time drinking.After another few minutes, there's a series
of shouts from the upper decks andthe first mate and Bosen have started issuing
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orders and then repeating the chain oforders out getting ready to cast off on
the ship. After a few minutes, all of you feel a little bit
more rocking back and forth. BlackFin looks out at one point, almost
seeming like he's listening to the ordersthat are being given, and after a
moment, decides that he's just goingto stay here and continue drinking with all
of you, as his crew seemsto have it well in hand. One
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of the benefits of having heightened sensesof a dragon is he can actually hear
the commands that are being given onthe deck while he's still in his cabin,
so he knows if they're actually doingthe right thing or not. The
ship gets underway, and probably aboutan hour or so after leaving port,
a quick lunch is called and thecrew starts piling into the mess in short
shifts, grabbing quick meals and gettingback out onto the deck or back to
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their bunks. If they are partof the night crew. There's hustle and
bustle on the ship as the wavesgo out. If any of you would
like to have moments, conversations,etc. Now is absolutely the time you
are away from the shore. Thereare the occasional other sailor around, but
private conversations could be had, groupconversations could be had, or we fast
forward till we get on Turtle Dragon. I leave it up to all of
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you. Maybe that's a question forme. No, no, it's a
simple one. Is it a privateconversation? How are you pulling me aside?
Or are we can be in frontof anybody? All right? So
mate, do you do you wantto be made? Do you want to
be fraia? Do you want tobe made? Which do you want?
I think in public for the timebeing, I will remain mate. I
don't necessarily need the whole world knowingwho I am just yesterday not let me
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know if the changes at the timecome. Please, there are some people
that do know that you're a fraia, so we can take care of them
in the future. I think that'sprobably the best. What do you mean
by take care of I won't figureit out, I murder? Maybe just
let me just figure it out murder, right, know what you mean?
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Boy? Protect me? I'm gladnone of us mentioned the fact that the
blue Man told us we didn't write, I don't record that told us about
him being a black dragon. Oh, we totally did that. Yeah,
we literally said the man out thereoctavia Is told us, yeah, okay,
if somebody betrayed you, man,in that case, we should be
worried that he's going to murder him, right, Are we worried about that?
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No? I don't mind if hemarried, it happens, it happens.
You will to keep him alive,just because you guys don't want me
to murder him. Right there?That was really that was really more of
somebody else's decision. He was allabout getting killed, and we were like,
no, no, don't die.I think that's what's the main reason
is because he wanted to die,and this is so much more fun true
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usually against needless killing. I'm soglad that alignments not a thing anymore.
A columns Columba The Moral gray area. Also, remember everything he taught us,
he could probably teach us more.Blue man, are keep doing your
relax? We should keep him alive. Well, you wanted to, but
if that changes, let me knowwe can handle it. I'm very confused
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by this conversation, so I'm justgoing to foon out right. Well,
I am going to not be aburden to the crew and just stay out
of everyone's way. Right in thelate afternoon, the winds do kick up
a bit, the sea gets alittle choppier as the day progresses. In
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tonight, so all of you,if you could roll me a constitution saving
throw. I did want to havea more private conversation with Black right thing,
but that doesn't have to happen tonight. And may have you've been in
rough storms before, so you getadvantage on the on the saving throw.
I got in not twenty again,and I don't know. Wow, nice
you like? I think it's thisdie. Honestly, this has been like
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the best die. I want totalk to Gloria. Yes, well,
let's talk. And while we're talking, I can also gain a plus on
my constitution. Say that's why youdidn't want the wine, so it takes
you from a five to an eighth. I'm not sure that will help you
much. What do you add toit? With your aura plus three?
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I give you my constitute or mychurisma bonus. Well, so, because
I am so charismatic, it iseasier for you to stomach this. So
my constitution saves a fifteen. Okay, fifteens are reasonable. Okay, but
please go on. That's what's troublingyou. I have been bitter with a
glorious purpose. Oh dear, it'suh, it's not an old deal kind
of situation. Just seeing the grandscheme of things means I cannot be so
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concerned with little things right like details. You have to see like the big
picture, so to speak. Yes, correct, you know it is the
problem with being the most intellected,So yes, yes, okay, I
have you know, meditated in paradeon the whole like tacle torture, Evin
that it occurred because you know,I did not I did not like being
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tackled, you know, fortunate,legalized or very you know thirty. And
it's easy for us to like makeourselves like stone and not feel it.
But not all creatures are so truthright, and in torture is not something
that like we like to stop toand understand. It was like the least
I painful torture. Right, wedidn't cut any parts of the off or
like permanently main right, So likeif anything, he had quite profound in
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dolphin rush, right, but westill like caused him in pain. I
wouldn't say, no, it's definitelypain. I did my I did my
medical knowledge, chick and differently painsso guilty feeling got that, yes,
but also like we need information,so like does the end justify the means
that whole thing? And I've decidedthat I have to like not so worry
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about, you know, decisions,but like I want me comforted in cure
for it as she like processes,you know, tickling someone with great aggression,
you know, so like keep aneye out for her, you know
he there as a shoebriter she needed. I swear to you on my own
that I will do all I canto protect me and to make sure that
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she is emotionally supported good, youknow, like as a chavatar, it's
I have to be thinking about granduniverse and plan ring is no, it
is my family, but may notalways be comfortable coming to me with those
things. I understand, and you, as you stated, have a glorious
purpose now, so allow me totake this burden for you. I'm most
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grateful. It will be time.I had other thing I want to talk
to you about. Yes, whatis that? I do not remember now,
many things in my mind, youknow, but I'll circle back to
which if it comes back. Allright, Well I'm here, I'm on.
The boat's not going anywhere. Yes, well you could go with thirty
feet in one direction and I couldbe the one end and you could beat
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the other end and at this bottomway from each other as it could possibly
get like. It's the probably shoutto you if I need you, so
yes, yes, but I mean, do you feel free to come find
me? My friends? Yes,you're not very hard to see. You
are dressed like a dandy among allyour sailors, so I won't don't think
finding you will be problem. SometimesI am hard time, but in this
case I will endeavor not to bea big smile and give and gives Dorian
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a hug, gives a Dorian willair squished, and Dorian will actually squeeze
back as the light begins to fadeat the end of the day, as
Dorian and car talking. Coming outof the hug, Dorian is near translucent,
almost invisible. As I recall,his cloak got supercharged so that in
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lowlight he becomes effectively invisible. Yes, right, so he is now very
hard to see. Now I'm stillright here, just chicking the look.
I thought you said you would alwayslike I said, he'll take down his
hood, but you're still gone fromthe nickdown. So I got this floating
head thing going full creepy. Maybeyeah, right, okay, how's that
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you could button amother button because yourchest head is poking out a little bit.
I just wanted to let you know. I figured's we're on a pirate
ship. You know you're right?What am I saying? Of course?
Of course I'm doing another button.Look more of the salt air. Really
tussle that lovely chest throw you havegoing? Hell yeah, I get them
packs. I mean, you know, when John Dorian becomes fabio, Yes,
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I can't believe it's not all right? So yes, I will be
findable at least for now. Excellent. And you know, if you need
anything advice, we have any questionsabout you know, the underpreting reality of
the university is we know them.You know, just ask your local friend
leach Ove. Right, Well,I mean there is the whole becoming a
god question? Yes, yeah,that's weighing on me quite a bit.
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I mean, think of all thegood I could do or the evil I
could do if I will let astray? Yes, will like a guinea power.
I think it becomes easier to beled the stray when the power comes
to you. What once and whenyou gain power incrementally because you don't lose
sight is easily on where you startedand when it was like not hit power?
Right? If you suddenly could changeeverything and fix things all right,
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you do so at this higher level. You're not paying toll attention to the
trickle down, the fit and whathappens. You know, the rule of
unintended consequences, right, I guessThe question and I really wrestle with is
if I can affect real change,and yes, of what I might become
that I don't take the power andmake that change, then what does that
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say about me? Almost humans weare all afraid of in the taking powder
is not something one should do.Willy Newly, You know, I would
be scared of who you were ifyou've made such decisions without considering the consequences.
It seems that's all I've been ableto focus on lately. That's some
healthy friend. Perhaps you shouldn't makethe take on other things for a while
and let these over opportunities. Therectyou now here's a thought right then,
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just occurred to me because I'm veryintellectous. What if you're matron right,
she has let you know where shecan put you into this position? Right
you Well, I guess the wordingwas a little lax on the her doing
it. More of it could bedone right. Whatever the apparatus to have
that happen would be highly This issomething that has troubled me with this whole
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geese thing, right, I'm notsure how I feel about these Or is
geese the plural of geese or gogaze loose? Is it a goose because
it a sealer? Or is aghost in the plural of geese? If
the geese is the I mean Icould take again. You're not talking about
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the bird, You're speaking of thespell yes, right, okay, So
like this portterman, we've tickled himand now we've like made him a slave
through spell work. It's like,oh, it feels very he was threatening
to commit suicide. I get it'slike greater good and all that, but
it's troublesome anyvay. So like fieryhas dead came to power right, so
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like so my dol right, ifyou're matron, let you get yourself in
the situation where it feels like theonly way to keep out of is by
like walking this path right right,But she she steered you in that direction,
like you walk that path so thatshe wouldn't you know, have control
where I see and this is notsomething that I have not thought about.
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Good, You're almost isn't though?What this is? Weld? Right?
Yes, yes, I am nearingyour level of intellectus. I can see
you're been You've been study being hordd. I'm glad that my presence is is
wearing off. That's exactly what itis. Yes, so did do something
to be mindful? Love? Andif you think there's no other way out
of a situation, just call themabout. I remember your matron is not
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your only powerful friend. You alsohave a cheer of the turners. This
is true, and I will takeyou up on that. I have much
to think about. I'm going togo just sit down for a bit.
You save the seat. You probablydrank too much. Yes, I had
two drinks, that is all.Are you wearing? It's about my limit?
But yes, I'm fine. Ifeel like you're either drinking wine or
you're drinking tea. I haven't seea drink tea today, so maybe because
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I have a chitting drink that isnot a bad idea. I'm sure Dickie
has some. I'll talk to youlater, and Orion goes to get some
tea. Lad ship itself will havelike a ginger tea on board, as
ginger can help settle stomachs in choppywaters. That's true. Actually, yeah,
Dorian, will we'll go get theginger tea. Yeah. Absolutely.
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The chef that has prepared all thesethings is out there and it's a yeah,
we'll say he's human like gray Beard. That's a little long and a
little thin. He's got sort ofa white dew rag on his head down
to a long scarf, and hisshirt is this like multi color mishmash,
like he took a shirt and threwit into a vat of die and then
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pulled it out and wrung it out, threw it on the ground, and
then little bits of other dye drippedon it for over a length of time
and then he picked it up andput it on and he goes, oh
wow, dude, you like ifyou like that ginger tea, I've got
this ginger kombucha that like will reallylike knock your socks off. Oh yeah,
dude, you don't real kombucha.I believe I've not heard the wood.
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But oh dude, it'll be gray. Have a drink it hands it
to you. Oh oh is thatthat's supposed to smell that way? Oh
yeah, that's the best stuff,dude. I make it myself. Why
is that the best? Please thing? I'm it's like super good for your
body, like helps purify and detoxifyyourself. Like it's just and it's really
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tasty. Dude. Just trust me, trust me, take a drink.
Take a drink. He'll take adrink. Plus I put like eighty proof
alcohol in it to make it likereally hard. You lord, you've killed
friend. Just the teeth, thankyou? Okay, fine, dude.
He takes kimbucha back, it takesa big swig and makes your tea and
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brings it over. I got tosay, just the tea, thank you.
I was really hoping Dorian was goingto become like a k with eighty
proof in it. Oh r gonnapirate man, no matter how hippish they
might be. I actually drink kombuchaeverybody. It is good for I'm just
let you and asked me to reallydescribe what it tasted like, because I've
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only had kombucha once and I'm notsure I could really give you a good
description of it. Vinegar, vinegarand alcohol. Man, it's just like
it's like bog water with Yeah,it's a it's it's that stuff on top.
Oh it's schuma. You don't likeschuma. It's called this skuby.
It's like snot. It's like fromwhen it first came out, we didn't
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know that it existed. So wegot a drink at the Famim in Hollywood
and we were walking home and werelike, what the oh god, this
went bad? Why did they sellthis? Like we just thought it was
bad. It just like fermented.Yeah, we didn't know that the thing
and we're like, that's on purpose. I'll tell you you gotta you gotta
try a bunch of kombucha until youfind one that you're like, oh,
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I could actually drink that. Yeah, gts is my favorite because it's the
least vinegary that I've come across.Anyway, Well, hey do you say
the brand name, Well, thatKimbucha. Maybe we give them as a
sponsor. I'm a Kvita fanself.Astra Brew. So the rest of the
evening goes on, and a stormdoes kick up and rock the ship calms
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down a little bit more. Inthe morning, all of you wake up
a little bit of gazing this maybe. Fortunately, breakfast the next day is
a lot of hard tack and veryweak tea delivers Black Fang will let you
all know that due to the distancebetween Canos and where the Turtle Dragon I'll
was last headed, it's going tobe eight days on the ship here before
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you get too Turtle Dragon Island.To that effect, I need someone to
roll me a D eight. Ohoh yeah, we can. I got
a two, No, sorry,seven, seven? I got a six
kind of seven. Well, thefirst one I heard was the seven.
I then need three D twenties tobe rolled by three different people. Are
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let's give it to different people.That is a four. That's a nine
okay, and sixteen okay, it'sa four, nine and sixteen excellent.
Over the course of the next coupleof days, there's really some not great
weather, and it almost seems tobe following you. I mean it pushes
the ship. The wind pushes theship with a decent amount of speed.
But there's these almost like bolts oflightning flickering in the air above you.
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As you all move, Dorian,your cloak flickers on off sometimes like it'll
be the middle of the day butstill cloudy outside, and suddenly you'll turn
invisible, even when you're just standingthere talking to someone, or if you
have the cloak on but the headthe hood's down, your head suddenly becomes
just a floating head for a moment, and then a beat or two later,
the rest of your body will appearagain. What did I do on
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the fourth day of this storm,Dicky? You have a horrible bout of
nausea that just kind of racks yourbody and leaves you stuck in your rack
all day long. It brings himginger tea. What is this rotten?
Sorry? That yeah. Eventually,for those of us with massive motion sickness
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may will sneak Dickie a tiny littlewhite hill. This just dissolve it under
your tongue. I promise you willhelp a lot more. It's something called
oden centron, and it's the thingthat they give the Navy with their on
the ships. It's also the thingthey give chemo patients to help with your
level of nausea. I have totake in order to play video games.
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What? Oh my god, holdon to oh I know, where do
you get that? I just wentto my doctor and I was like,
hey, I heard about this,I want to try it, and they
went, okay, great, that'sawesome. But if you play video game
like, there is nothing that canactually erase motion sickness. You just have
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to build up a tolerance. Soeven with this it helps, but it
won't erase it. So if youcontinue playing video games when you start to
feel it, it's all only gonnaget where damn gay? Yeah, okay,
good, very much more. Youknow moment there? Yeah, that's
awesome. That will change my life. Anyone have any magnets? Are the
magnets on board magnets? I don'tknow where you're going with this, so
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yes, there are a couple oflow gauze strength magnets available on the ship.
Is an old zixitrick. I takemagnet's neck and if adhere it to
my under my wrist or the pulses. I'm doing the drama main thank working,
damn holistic medicine. All right,while you are more or less confined
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to your bunk, you have anodd fever dream. You remember yourself as
a child, seemingly sick again,stuck at home. You can hear kids
playing outside as well. You arepresented with a scroll by your mother Fathe,
and you are allowed to read.And the scroll that she hands you
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is called we will call it theJourney of the General. I shouldn't because
that's actually before I just realized thatthe title was about to give most of
it is a title of an actualbook that exists. Yeah, yeah,
I'm actually reading through the Gennara booksagain, which is why must have been
the back of my brain. Um, the Voyage of the Twitter. I
was gonna sat down start a voyageof the down Star, and it is
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these. It is a tale ofa man who claims to have been to
all corners of the globe. Hehas found sunken treasures on forgotten islands to
the far north, and he hasseen the frozen tundras of the far South
with blocks of ice large enough thatthey could smash a ship in their dimensions.
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There are tales of old dragon coloniesto the far far west, far
beyond all of the countries known onthe Western Aisle, which is where you
all have been for the game sofar, and tales even of chips that
would fly through the sky. Andreportedly he was on a ship that was
piloted by a dragon born a goblin, and a female minotaur who would change
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into other animals as they sailed highabove the lands, and he was able
to look down upon the world anddrew a map of all of the lands.
And it was a fantastic tale ofyour childhood that ought to be like
him, Nana, I wish tobe him. I think I have a
goal in life, Nana. ButMoonbeam, on day seven, one day
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ish out from Turtle Dragon Island,you rolled a sixteen fantastic At this point,
the storm finally abates, and allof you have calm seas for at
least a few hours. And asyou look in the distance, you see
there are three sets of ships,sails going in more or less the same
direction that you all are headed,and Captain blackfaing almost the same second you
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see them. Captain Blackfaing steps outon the deck, hails a captain on
the day, come out from someof the sailors, and his eyes seem
to be staring in the same directionthat your eyes are, Moonbeam. All
the rest of you very clearly seeCaptain black Fing's abrupt appearance on the deck.
And most of the voyage he's probablybeen below deck other than the occasional
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like casual stroll and checks the headingand things like that. But this was
him popping out with a purpose,something amiss, just a reminder that I
did want to talk to him.Yes, sometimes during the voyage, all
not like that at these friends ofyours, not friends, but perhaps some
prey and your friends feel about beingpirates for a day, Moonbeam is the
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happiest she has ever been. Ithrew up under her breath. Maybe just
goes one day more, another day, another destiny. I mean, just
show me where to growl. Theflames appear in her hand. This is
so fucking ready. He glances overat Dorian and at develop You can eldritch
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blast your way through anything, true, Yeah, but Dorian, Dorian.
She puts her hand on his shoulder. Dorian, ninety percent of being a
pirate is blowing? Shut up?What do you do on the regular?
Who doesn't want to be a pirate? What's wrong with you? I don't
want to kill these people things.Oh okay, fine, put them to
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sleep. I don't have that spell. Oh I didn't mean with a spell,
with a spell, just a differenttype of spell and different memories.
I just I want to turn theblack friend real quick. And do we
know who they are? He justlooks at you and gives a big toothy
grin. That's a good enough answerfor me. Who else wants to destroy
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some stuff in the particulars of thejob than worry about it. You see
those three ships over there, Yes, we're going to attack them. That's
particulars that we joined in or not. You are going to attack them right?
Well, I mean if any ofyou have a particular reason why we
shouldn't, I would listen that wedon't need to pirate them. But we
can pirate them. Are they arethey like innocent people like orphans or something?
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Oh? I don't think so.You see the ship there with the
green sail, and yes, thatship is known as the Fires of the
Vongue. Oh. Yes, theyat one point considered themselves pirates, but
then they went after the former kingdomor something, and it's a long story,
and they claim that they are nowprivate tiers for some forgotten duke and
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they are out there protecting their linesof trade. They are pirates as well.
They were pirates now they've gone legit. Yes, the home party,
you know, I mean, Iwould welcome them home on their own patads.
But the other two ships with themare unknown, but they look to
be lying low in the w water, likely weighted down with quite a bit
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of cargo. I wanted to seeif there was anything about them that looked
familiar. Yeah, you can rollme an intelligence check to see if you
have heard any tales of the Virungax, Ferengi and cold. But you were
pat your hand there for a moment, oh nineteen. Perhaps Kitten conside throwing
the odds of three shields verses ussaying the fix the Aird Manta easy play
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butt. In fact, seasoned pirates, widers of themselves, mayhap sees bes
to just slit the outwards slide emissaria. Give me a persuasion check on that.
And while you're rolling the emissary pieceat the sea sixteen, it's not
bad may prayer as it were.You're eighteen nineteen intelligence, you remember a
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few tales of the crew of theVirung. There was sort of there,
the not captain of the ship,but the guy they called in when they
were actually going to fight, likethe captain of their guard. Was a
man who, over multiple adventures,was losing parts of his body and being
augmented by you know, first itwas a hook hand, but then he
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got like an artificer to build hima whole mechanical arm. Then he got
blinded by something and a wizard castlike an enchanted true seeing on his eyes.
So he became almost more mechanical constructbut like multiple pieces from different guys
all assembled in than just an automatafrom the Sinisma people. You remember,
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one of the other people was aman who claimed himself to be a former
high noble, and he claimed tohave a vineyard well in land that oh
it makes the best of wines,but you've never heard of it. And
he was their nominal leader, andhe would direct his crew, and it
was a group that not only piratedregular ships, but would occasionally pirate other
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pirate ships. And they got enoughof the world pissed off at them.
That's suddenly that, oh, yes, we served this duke and we're like
totally legit and we've turned over allof our ways and see how we're being
rehabilitated here. And they, Yeah, they pissed off a lot of people,
but they were also fairly effective atwhat they did. Just a real
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quick thought, black Room, whatif you joined forces and happened to go
legit like them? You know betterthan that they're not half as legit as
you think they are. You showsome shiny bits at them and they're gonna
come and run into you. Oh, bring them to your side, ask
them first, and then attach.Suddenly you have a whole new fleet.
Let's do what we did to you. We'll just teleport onto their ship and
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go from there. Be out numberedthen, but if we take out the
captain, then they can need anew captain, and then black Thing can
be captain. Is that how itworked? This is why we like her.
I think it's called a commodore whenyou have more than one hit.
Sure do you want to be acommodore? Oh, commodore black Thing?
Commodore ring has a nice ring toit. And and I did catch your
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thank you number? Of sixty fourthings. Yes, but let me tell
you, Dorian very it's true.Well tell you what. We'll give it
a shot your way. If youwant to teleport yourselves over and try to
have a conversation, I imagine yourteleporty thing and teleport you then right back.
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If they do decide to be hostileto you, look like, yeah,
he wasn't paying attention your teleportation work? Twice? Can you teleport us
to the ship and then back inyou? Okay? Well, so perhaps
we try to take over the otherships. Suddenly you have a whole fleet,
and if we are fail, bottomsup. Oh maybe I should just
watch. I don't know if Ishould, you know, be attacking other
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nations. Papa would find that distastefulthe most nation. Listen, listen,
little Dicky. Aren't you tired ofbeing so small? Aren't you tired with
being under Maximus? Dick is allof your life? I haven't at that
time, but you stood up foryourself. Time to grow. I think
you can become the new Maximus.It's just all the mindset. No no,
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no, become enormous show for them. You have to earn it,
bro, don't I will be therefor the diplomacy. Perhaps I can use
my fame to sway them. Iwouldn't. I'll bring some books. Maybe
we trick Dorian first Storian first.All right, but I'm bringing a banner
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with my name on it. Notnot yet, not yet. No,
we can put your flag up later. I don't know what giant dick fan
I mean would like my name andan arrow pointing to me, you know,
just so they know who I am. Minimistic has got it? Yes,
what are you talking about? Ihave We should yell to them to
prepare them for our arrival. Ithink we should just show up. Yes,
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can we see where the captain isthe common Yeah, we have a
We have a you're a spyglass.You would be able to see at least
the deck of their ship. Yes. Who has the biggest hat? It's
a vale like give it a goodlook. Yeah, there's that, but
also val if you don't see it. I actually know who I'm looking for.
He just described him. We bringour star who has vineyard and she
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heard she's heard stories of the crew. I see the guy who's many different
robotic things. He's perfect. Sosomebody that has heat metals? So,
oh my god? Should we bringour captive, our friend, our gayest
friend with us. Maybe he couldhave fun fighting people. Maybe maybe Octavius
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will want to fight, wouldn't itwouldn't lose and lose us anything. He's
a stalwart friend. He's supposed todefend us. True. If you go
in and say, you know,hey, friend, we're going to go
do a thing. We want tocome with us, you know, hang
out with all your friends. Yeah, he's he's hadly got to take the
punishment of psychic damage or do it, so he'll he'll go with you.
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Good. If you're going to dothat, then Valek, I need you
to roll a perception check through thespy glass natural one. So maybe maybe
should look through the spy glass.I was going to say, with the
spy glass, you have advantage.Oh roll it again. Good. Good,
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It would be hard to get worsethan that. Yeah. Fifteen.
Okay, you are able to see, and you study the deck of the
other ship for a few moments.You begin to familiarize yourself with it a
little bit. I was all importantfor the actual teleptation. You certainly have
the teleprotation spell. It certainly coversenough people that you can take your team
with Octavius, no problem, Ijust need a D one hundred roll from
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you. No, no, Soeveryone gathered also all right, and Balet
puts his hands on the shoulders ofthe people whose left and right in the
circle. Movies on your shoulder.Please keep you in your hands and feet
inside the right I did all times. Do not jump too high or squat
too low, as you may getparts of your broad people before we disappear.
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It's just a quick everyone can swimright, um, good question,
octaneous can and can you still hearme? Yes? Yes, let's go
try. Wait they rolled a thirtysix. Oh god, thirty six for
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the teleporta. Oh yeah, okay, let's see we end up in the
bowels of the ship or in thecrow's nest. We miss it all together.
It will just be the two ofus if you didn't catch the valley.
Let's go with the shoulders. Ohdear, well, that's thirty six.
How familiar have we decided? Iam by so I was I was
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thinking because I said, you studiedit. You have seen casually. You
are certainly not very familiar with thisother ship that you've been studying for five
minutes. But you've more than glancedat it. So I was going to
say, you have seen casually.Definition, the definition of very familiar is
a place you have been very often, or a place you have carefully studied.
And as we just said, Ihad studied it carefully through the spyglass
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and didn't. By definition, Iwould be very hum see and I would
interpret that as, Oh, I'vewalked the streets of the city, I
am very familiar with this city.I have seen something through a spy glass
on another ship that's a moving targetthat you've studied for five minutes. That
would be a viewed once, becauseviewed once in a place you have seen
once, pfuly using well, okay, viewed once means you've had a mishause.
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Seen casually means you're in a similararea. It was the rules,
and we're gone from the story altogether. Yeah, everyone dies another plane of
existence. And as I sorry,it's only two people because let go of
the shoulders before you roll the dice. Only two people. I was standing
about shoulder. It was bittering everyoneto go in worrom the other ship of
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the of the piracy. Oh oh, that's cute that you brought mooneing with
you because she's going to destroy thingsI enjoy watching from. So first off,
the two of you take nineteen pointsof force damage as the spell mishaps.
I'm glad, I'm glad we didn'tgo. And then I roll a
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D one hundred. I will reducethat to fun for both of us,
just just me. I get thetwo of you take another twenty five points
of force damage as another mishap occurs. Then how many of us is us?
It's just Moonbeam and yeah, theyabout us should happen? Is that?
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Yeah? Yeah, I think Valiqwent to go warn them that we're
going to try to take over theirship. I'll get to have so much.
So then you so, then youland in a similar area. Generally
you would appear in the closest similarplace, but since the spell has no
range, you could get sivably windup anywhere on the plane. Oh my
god, that's amazing, God,I love my God. Well, you
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know, well you can teleport back. However, it does say you would
typically end up in the next closestplace. You wind up not on the
fires of the Virung, but onone of the cargo ships that eats in
its flow. Tilla, excellent,awesome, You appear on top of the
deck, moonbeam on your shoulder.I'm sure still conscious. I mean,
yeah, forty four points of damageis not insignificant but totally survivable. And
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suddenly you look around, shouts startgoing off, and very quickly, several
prioty types are going to start movingtowards you, drawing cutlasses. They are
the guard for the ship, butthey're not going to really be ready and
organized for about thirty seconds. Soif you want to take a couple of
actions questions, like a very importantquestion. Yes, so the misshap results
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than another mishap which was all playedon a misshap? Is that in three
charges? No, the mishap resultedin a mishap which resulted in a similar
area of results. Oh, yes, it's all the same. It's almost
like you teleported in and you wereteleporting to the planning existence and you hit
that barrier of that space and Iskied off the atmosphere. Ross. Yeah,
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that's how I'm interpreting it. Soyou've used one charge, Okay,
you are such a kind of benevolentteam. Well, it's because I have
a suspicion what you're going to donext, and I don't want to talk
yeah, oh boy, So youhave thirty seconds, so theoretically five rounds
in which to take actions before theguard is going to be near you and
organized did we just go without us? I believe he went to war,
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which is exactly what we were tryingto make him not do what Val I
wouldn't do that. Maybe it wasjust a mistake decade, I know.
I mean, honestly, it's likea fifty fifty Yeah, I'm not sure,
okay, and I want to pausethe three of you just in case
Val like teleports back immediately, whichyou probably won't do, but just in
case, so valid, you havethirty seconds worth of actions before cutlasses start
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swinging at you. What are yougoing to do? Call me your selves
friends? I am sort of relicChavatara of well, is it chat like
I was good? Is that likea chad avatar? You can call me
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your stiff dead the play daddy?Perhaps you is all those ships over there
and they have since to be ahit. Worry over in coming patter as
a t be careful, and thenteleports to the place he was attended to
go into auditorized to okay, giveme a persuasion check, all right,
and Moonbey, you will also gettacking for him. Yes, I don't
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thank you want that to happen.That he is a natural twenty one persuasion
So okay, that's uh, thatis darn persuasive. That's good, all
right, So you link out toteleport. Where are you teleporting this time?
It would be best if you actfirst, because she's just going to
start causing chaos. I think yousee like I start forming our hands and
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then you just like did see himin the okay, seventy eight is spot
on target. So you and Moonbeamarrive centered deck of the Fires of the
Wrung and you kind of appear andafter a moment, a shout goes up
and three men and one woman startapproaching you. The lead guy is a
bit of an older human and he'sdressed somewhat Finally, at his right is
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a man with a mechanical arm andalmost like a magical circle like a it's
a magical circle floating around his headabout an inch tall, and it's at
his eye level all the way aroundhis head. They spot you, and
there's definitely a lot of tension onthe deck, and the man with the
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men band around his head SIPs forwardand goes all right, and just who
the hell are you? Will thatjust that is poison Maxins you have on
you? That it was literally nice, right. I just wanted to say,
I am Survelic of the Platon Mooring. Perhaps you've heard of us,
and I come to you within anemployment's opportunity. I will roll to see
if they have heard of you.Also, can I reckon and say that
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I summoned my wildfire spirit when we'reon the first show. It's another's three
of us, so your wildfire spiritwould probably have remained on that ship.
Then okay, that can come overhere then perfect. Well it's because it's
not touching Valik when he unless yousummon it on Valich. No, I
mean it would just be right nextto me. So it has like a
thirty foot five speed us. It'llbe coming over. Okay, it's on
its way. Yeah, a little, a little like fire. It's like
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Harry Osborne and Spider three. I'mcoming buddy. Yeah, Platinum Ring,
I think I've heard a tavern taleor two about you. But while you
here on all ship like this isit? They have a thrilled by proposition
for employment. I hear it thatyou do things for higher occasional Ah,
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that we do. Uh. Sorry, you appearing rather suddenly on the tech
of our ship, and now we'reseeing warning flags being flown by one of
the ships that we are here toprotect leads me to believe that there's something
more than what you're talent going onhere. I strike anplutation cold here,
my flutation lines got craft ship atfirst, you want these things, I'm
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gonna roll the The well dressed mannext to him comes up and puts a
hand on the mechanical man's shoulder,says, oh, yes, yes,
the magic things sometimes happens. Understood, understood. You say you have a
job for us, right, yes, well wow, do you see the
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big pil of the vehicle over theway, the ship traveling an almost intercept
course to us. Yes, webecame aware of them and began to already
our ship shut it fact turn toa pirate event. Yes, you know
these these things that see, theytake hours. It's going to be probably
a whole day before our kitch.So you you don't know like how slow
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these things can go out here.So they wanted to come and then like
I was supposed to bring over awhole bunch of them, and then their
plan was to make offer, butlike if you don't like offer, they
just take ship kind of thing.And we don't need that kind of violent
theaters. Like you are just doinga job. We are just trying to
get somewhere important. So I'm stillnot hearing a job opportunity in this.
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I wish to like strongly encourage youto like take a safe job and enjoying
up with your mon this run.Or I could just take your ships.
Now you want us, on thethreat of the rest to turn private here
and join your one ship over thereto the three of ours. Oh,
I've heard that one first time foryou. No one started in the rest
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here like the murder the pigsy toher way, but stone Water you thought
they can wait to everyone the partmechanical man at the statement, Yeah,
you said something of the murder.Pixie threatens, you know, just threatens
peoples. What he does he turnsin out his center line is aimed towards
the pixie. It's not much ofa shift in his body. You're you're
both trained and experienced warriors. Yourecognize that like subtle shift of Ah,
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she's the target, don't Watery immissteria piece no violence, will hit him
with me right here, right now. I'm afraid that unless you're going to
offer rather large sum of money,I cannot take this contract that you're offering
you. He'll water sum of money. Well, we serve the Duke,
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so we would have to cut tieswith him. We're currently clearing about ten
thousand gold a month and services tohim. I would say that you would
have to pay us something around we'llmake a nice round number twenty thousand gold
a month, or at least theloot from the privateering. We would have
to total twenty thousand golden month tokeep us interested in keep our people engage,
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keep our ships up and properly peoplemaking twenty thousand team tails and golden
month rather, but we're making thisis over ten plus what we take from
our actions and totally. And yousay you're getting this kind of money from
pirating. It's a variety of services, sometimes messengers, sometimes protecting cargo ships.
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It varies in task. But Iwould say, as we pirates,
oh, I don't know, oneship every three months or so, sounds
like just take you out. Sorry. It sounds like it would be cheaper
to take them out. But thenI'm mister Copes, So so like four
ships a year you're raiding. That'syou have three ships in our mods.
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So if we pirateed you and thereare ships, we would be actually saving
a net positive of a ship injust one year. Well, okay,
so do you Carter Mickley. It'sbalances out. I'll be right at the
back and then teleport the ship.I am, but my fire spirits just
like chilling between two of their ships. I would say that you are because
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you spent several days on this ship, that you are very familiar with Black
Fangs ship. I will be seventyone for my Okay, you are able
to land on target just a coupleof feet away from where you're the rest
of your party is standing. Excellent, Andy, I teleport right back into
the spots where I had left from, placed my hands on the shoulders,
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and teleport again. What's happening?You have, however, used your three
teleports already. Oh yeah, don'tbe right where How far away are the
other ships? It's closing. You'reprobably something like we'll call it thirty leagues
because that sounds like a nautical distance. What a league is less than a
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mile or more than. I thinkit's more than a mile. But a
sailing ship in a strong wind,heading directly in the right direction of your
size is maybe gonna hit twenty fivemiles an hour, So it's it's one
hundred and three miles away, Ithought. So with perfect wind, it's
still at least four hours before youguys get close. But they're gonna zig
and zag. You might not haveperfect wind things like that, so it
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could be a full day chase.Still, from this point, what did
you do? Yes, just Ihad to make sure that we were are
in the clear. Unfortunately there wasa mishap. We're bleeding a little bit
to you, Ted northers amanthis purelyfrom the teleportation, be glad do you
want there? We live upon thewrong ship one moment. I'm sorry.
What I meant to say was Moonbeam. What happened? Well, I wanted
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to destroy them, but somebody kepttalking, so I didn't get a chance.
What did he say? Probably everything, But the consensus is we should
take them out first before they keephirating other ships. Yeah, oh,
Valich decided it. So if hethinks that, I think we should all
do it. I'm sorry. Idoubted you. Valley, all right,
all right, Betty the cannons okay, well done, sir, and with
that we will aim towards naval combatsnext year. Thank you for listening to
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