00:00:00Benny:Goodly.

00:00:00Gamemaster:Howdy doodly.

00:00:22Gamemaster:Howdy doodly.

00:00:24Benny:Howdy doodly doodly.

00:00:25Gamemaster:I want to take a nap.

00:00:30Benny:I get tired at work and then I come home and I'm not tired.

00:00:30Gamemaster:I've decided.

00:00:35Benny:I'm like, fuck, this would be a great time for a nap.

00:00:38Gamemaster:Hmm.

00:00:39Benny:Can't do it.

00:00:41Gamemaster:I can't actually nap.

00:00:43Gamemaster:I've tried in the past.

00:00:44Gamemaster:I've been like, I'm tired.

00:00:45Gamemaster:I just want to, like, you know, 30 minutes, quick refresher.

00:00:49Gamemaster:It doesn't work.

00:00:51Gamemaster:If I set an alarm, I sleep through it.

00:00:54Benny:Oh, yeah, that's one of the hard parts.

00:00:58Benny:Also, sleeping too long is, you're playing with fire because, I don't know, sometimes you sleep too long and then you wake up and you're like, what's even going on?

00:01:00Gamemaster:I will, once I go to sleep, that means that the next time I'm waking up is the next day.

00:01:10Benny:It's not refreshing.

00:01:18Gamemaster:That's just kind of how it works.

00:01:20Gamemaster:So I'm not a napper.

00:01:22Benny:I've done that before.

00:01:23Gamemaster:I've just, I've resigned to that fate.

00:01:24Benny:but when I try to nap at like 9pm

00:01:26Gamemaster:Or are you just like...

00:01:27Gamemaster:and then it's tomorrow

00:01:27Benny:yep

00:01:30Gamemaster:you napped too long

00:01:31Benny:and then I've slept 11 hours

00:01:33Gamemaster:yep

00:01:33Benny:yeah it's just horrific

00:01:34Benny:or I wake up at like 5 in the morning

00:01:34Gamemaster:yep which does also suck

00:01:37Benny:and I'm like fuck

00:01:38Benny:I fell asleep

00:01:40Benny:because it's not

00:01:41Gamemaster:but

00:01:44Benny:like it's not motivating enough

00:01:46Benny:to try to reset my sleep schedule

00:01:48Benny:and like actually commit to

00:01:51Benny:waking up at like 5 or 6

00:01:52Benny:it just enough to give me like two extra hours of garbage sleep Cause my body like no we got it We normally get this amount Go ahead do something And I like no It like well I just going to be half awake then

00:01:57Gamemaster:Thank you Yeah no it does suck

00:02:08Gamemaster:Instead of napping, I've decided that the alternative is caffeine.

00:02:14Gamemaster:Works just as well.

00:02:14Benny:Which is honestly not a bad substitute. And if you time your caffeine correctly,

00:02:19Benny:you can make,

00:02:20Benny:you can have the crash

00:02:23Benny:happen at an intentional time.

00:02:25Gamemaster:I don't do any of that.

00:02:25Argyle:I like the beard.

00:02:25Anzu:Sounds horribly inefficient.

00:02:28Gamemaster:I wait until I start getting headaches and feel tired, and then I have some caffeine.

00:02:28Benny:Oh.

00:02:34Gamemaster:Hello.

00:02:35Gamemaster:And that's it.

00:02:35Benny:Headaches.

00:02:36Gamemaster:That's the whole, yeah, because of caffeine withdrawal.

00:02:39Gamemaster:Because I'm bad.

00:02:40Benny:Wait, wait, wait.

00:02:41Benny:Are you just perpetually going through

00:02:43Benny:caffeine withdrawal then?

00:02:44Gamemaster:I think so, yeah.

00:02:47Benny:You just wait until the middle of the day

00:02:49Benny:where you're like,

00:02:50Benny:alright, I...

00:02:52Gamemaster:It's...

00:02:53Benny:Thanks.

00:02:55Argyle:you you have like a beard

00:02:55Benny:What? For wait, for who?

00:02:58Benny:Oh, okay.

00:02:59Benny:Yeah.

00:03:01Benny:I've been procrastinating shaving it, so it is

00:03:03Benny:lengthy. But it got

00:03:05Benny:past the weird...

00:03:06Benny:When it's stubble, but it's not

00:03:09Benny:full enough, and it's

00:03:11Benny:a little off, I'm past that,

00:03:13Benny:I think. So now I have to triple down and

00:03:15Benny:ride it out.

00:03:19Benny:who's just a mustache

00:03:20Argyle:it was funny the one when i had a mustache for a little bit and i came into work with a mustache

00:03:24Argyle:and it was funny watching coworkers be like,

00:03:25Gamemaster:Do you not currently have a mustache?

00:03:26Argyle:I want to acknowledge this,

00:03:28Argyle:but I don't know if I'm supposed to because of HR.

00:03:35Argyle:No, it's just like...

00:03:37Gamemaster:That's a beard.

00:03:37Argyle:Unkept.

00:03:38Benny:I could shave

00:03:39Argyle:It's like unkept.

00:03:40Gamemaster:That's...

00:03:40Gamemaster:But, like, a mustache is the bit that's on top of your lips, no?

00:03:42Benny:yeah

00:03:44Argyle:Yeah, like, remember when I shaved everything else

00:03:46Argyle:besides just the mustache?

00:03:47Argyle:I mean I think that's clear from context clues

00:03:48Gamemaster:Oh, okay, sorry.

00:03:49Benny:Yes.

00:03:49Gamemaster:So when you meant that you only had a mustache,

00:03:51Gamemaster:when you were shaving your beard, but you...

00:03:53Gamemaster:Okay.

00:03:54Argyle:Josh yeah yeah well Josh

00:03:55Gamemaster:I didn understand I was confused I wasn trying to be sarcastic I legitimately didn know what you were talking about Hmm

00:03:55Anzu:I agree with Jorge It is possible I feel like if you got a beard

00:04:06Anzu:and just like a very normal

00:04:08Anzu:bit of mustache, then it doesn't really

00:04:10Anzu:stand out.

00:04:12Argyle:Yeah.

00:04:12Anzu:But you could go like handlebar

00:04:14Anzu:with the beard and then it's like, okay, this guy's

00:04:16Anzu:got a beard and a mustache.

00:04:18Argyle:Yeah.

00:04:21Argyle:Yeah.

00:04:22Anzu:But it is tricky.

00:04:25Benny:Hello.

00:04:25Argyle:Noah!

00:04:25Anzu:Hello, Noah.

00:04:25Johnny:Jorge!

00:04:27Johnny:Hi, Tanner.

00:04:29Johnny:Hello, Josh.

00:04:31Johnny:Hey, Mike.

00:04:31Argyle:Oh, Noah, by the way,

00:04:33Argyle:I forgot to tell Mike that you said hi,

00:04:36Argyle:and then I did remember to tell Josh,

00:04:38Anzu:Oh, we did tell Josh.

00:04:40Argyle:and Josh told me to tell you the next time I see you

00:04:44Argyle:that Josh said hi.

00:04:45Johnny:Oh, okay.

00:04:47Johnny:Well, tell Josh next time you see him I asked how his day is going and hope it's going well.

00:04:51Johnny:and hope it's going well.

00:04:52Argyle:Josh, Noah asked...

00:04:55Benny:is it safe for me to look at a UV light

00:04:55Gamemaster:No, no, he said next time you see me.

00:04:55Argyle:I'm looking at you right now.

00:04:55Anzu:Okay.

00:04:58Gamemaster:He said next time, not now.

00:04:58Anzu:Oh.

00:04:59Argyle:I looked away and I looked back.

00:05:01Argyle:I looked away and I looked back.

00:05:01Gamemaster:Nope, nope, it has to be a different time that we're talking.

00:05:02Johnny:Keep linked.

00:05:03Johnny:Keep linked.

00:05:04Johnny:We'll see you next time.

00:05:05Anzu:Jeez, this is getting really messy.

00:05:07Anzu:oh my god he just turned purple

00:05:10Benny:oh

00:05:11Gamemaster:No.

00:05:12Argyle:...

00:05:13Benny:because I have deep scratches in my phone

00:05:14Gamemaster:Why do you just have a UV light and why was it pointed at your face?

00:05:20Benny:and I got UV adhesive

00:05:21Johnny:Yeah, your eyes will crystallize immediately.

00:05:23Benny:ultra clear to

00:05:24Benny:take care of the scratches.

00:05:25Gamemaster:Okay, yeah.

00:05:25Argyle:your eyes are gonna get hard

00:05:27Benny:I plugged it in. I thought there'd be a button

00:05:29Benny:on it, but it's just like a little

00:05:30Gamemaster:Good.

00:05:30Benny:thing that plugs in via USB

00:05:32Gamemaster:Yeah, no, don't point the UV light at your eyeballs, maybe.

00:05:32Benny:and blinds you.

00:05:37Anzu:Noah, how was your event?

00:05:38Benny:Because it'll crystallize? Because the UV makes

00:05:40Benny:clear things hard?

00:05:42Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:05:46Gamemaster:That's what happens.

00:05:47Benny:Alright.

00:05:50Benny:Do you think...

00:05:51Johnny:it went really great I sold out of so many copies Daisy had to run back to the house to get more copies Yeah it was great It was a lot of fun

00:05:55Gamemaster:That fun

00:05:55Argyle:Congrats Congrats

00:06:02Anzu:People were all about it that awesome

00:06:06Johnny:I was at a farmer's market, a little stall.

00:06:06Anzu:now

00:06:09Johnny:People were walking by.

00:06:10Johnny:I had a lot of weird interactions, but it was fun.

00:06:11Anzu:here's what I need to know

00:06:14Anzu:what happened

00:06:16Anzu:when you rolled pig on the prize wheel

00:06:19Anzu:amazing

00:06:21Johnny:I had a bunch of little plastic pigs.

00:06:24Anzu:Mm-hmm.

00:06:25Argyle:yeah the um i remember when i like first read the book there was like one review that came

00:06:25Johnny:So I could like, give them out to people and I put.

00:06:28Anzu:Mm-hmm.

00:06:29Johnny:There's only 1 slot for pig and I had like, 20 pigs and I was like, oh, that'll be good enough. And then the 1st, like, 30 people to walk by all spun pig.

00:06:38Johnny:Like, this is statistically improbable.

00:06:41Johnny:So, then it was just been again. It was great.

00:06:49Argyle:really quick on Amazon

00:06:50Argyle:from this other lady that did fantasy

00:06:53Argyle:reading. And then I, did you give her like

00:06:54Anzu:That's funny.

00:06:55Benny:well yeah i was i was surprised because i was like i still have to leave a review but i was

00:06:55Gamemaster:They're fake.

00:06:55Johnny:Yeah.

00:06:55Argyle:a copy in advance?

00:06:58Argyle:Because I was like, how did this lady

00:06:59Argyle:find this and read this so quick?

00:07:01Argyle:She had positive things, but...

00:07:03Johnny:Yeah, there were a couple people who I gave advanced copies to.

00:07:06Johnny:There's, like, services online where you can give it to people you don't know so that they give you real reviews.

00:07:11Johnny:Not that your reviews aren't real, but...

00:07:11Argyle:Yeah.

00:07:15Gamemaster:Paid actors.

00:07:19Argyle:Yeah.

00:07:22Benny:Like when I leave a review, I'm in the back of the book.

00:07:24Anzu:She just loves to review books.

00:07:25Johnny:Yeah.

00:07:25Benny:Are people going to like connect the dots when they read it and be like, wait a second.

00:07:28Benny:So then I was like, wait a minute, I can connect the dots.

00:07:31Benny:So then I clicked on reviews and scrolled and like cross-checked and she had the only one that wasn't in the back of the book.

00:07:35Benny:And I was like, who is this lady?

00:07:37Benny:So I started clicking on other books she reviewed.

00:07:39Benny:It's like.

00:07:43Johnny:You can also cross-check and you can see who they're friends with.

00:07:47Johnny:I have a decent amount of reviews.

00:07:49Argyle:Good, good, good.

00:07:49Johnny:I mean, not a decent amount.

00:07:51Johnny:I have a fair amount of reviews from people who I don't know, which is good.

00:07:55Johnny:That's like one of the things they tell you is that if you have only five star reviews your book looks sketchy

00:08:00Gamemaster:So you're saying that if we haven't reviewed it yet,

00:08:00Argyle:Give it four.

00:08:00Anzu:Or is ideal, it sounds like.

00:08:00Johnny:and like it's probably bad and only people you know have reviewed it.

00:08:07Gamemaster:we should go and give it one star

00:08:08Gamemaster:so that it looks more realistic?

00:08:09Johnny:No, please don't give it one star.

00:08:11Argyle:I'm kidding.

00:08:14Gamemaster:For...

00:08:14Anzu:Excuse me.

00:08:14Gamemaster:Nobody reads reviews that aren't one star or five star.

00:08:20Gamemaster:That's how that works.

00:08:21Johnny:One time my dad was like, Noah, have you ever heard of this book?

00:08:24Johnny:And he named some book.

00:08:25Johnny:I was like, no, I haven't.

00:08:25Johnny:And he was like, okay, well, I'm going to go look it up on Goodreads.

00:08:27Johnny:and then later I was like, oh, well, did you get the book?

00:08:28Gamemaster:So...

00:08:30Gamemaster:Yeah, I mean, they...

00:08:30Argyle:Yeah.

00:08:30Anzu:Right.

00:08:30Johnny:And he goes, no, I read the one-star reviews and they were bad.

00:08:33Johnny:And I was like, yeah, they're the one-star reviews.

00:08:38Johnny:Yeah.

00:08:39Gamemaster:The people who leave one-star reviews, uh, uh, presumably, uh, are opinionated enough about the book to say bad things about it.

00:08:49Gamemaster:yeah so long as the one-star reviews aren't like i would never read crap like this i'm i'm giving

00:08:50Anzu:You got to feel strongly to be like, people need to know.

00:08:54Johnny:People need to know how bad.

00:08:59Gamemaster:it a one-star review on principle then you know that's that's not great but if it's like i slogged

00:09:00Benny:I also, I don't, I have too much, I don't, no, I have too much, not enough.

00:09:00Anzu:Hmm.

00:09:04Gamemaster:through this book and i want however many hours it took back then that's that's a pretty good

00:09:10Gamemaster:one-star review

00:09:17Benny:I don't know.

00:09:17Benny:I have an interesting interaction with cognitive dissonance and the sunk cost fallacy.

00:09:22Benny:I can't say bad things about things that I've done for a long time because that would mean

00:09:27Benny:I'm stupid.

00:09:27Johnny:I would play it like that.

00:09:28Benny:I keep doing things I don't like.

00:09:30Benny:Like, if I think about it,

00:09:30Argyle:on a

00:09:30Anzu:My mother-in-law read the book.

00:09:32Benny:have I ever played a bad video game?

00:09:34Benny:It's like, no, they've all been pretty sweet.

00:09:37Benny:It's like,

00:09:38Benny:they've all been pretty sweet.

00:09:38Johnny:a book a book a book I also like the profanity

00:09:40Benny:Yeah, like, I don't hate

00:09:41Gamemaster:I definitely played bad video games Oh How did they like it

00:09:42Benny:any specific game, and then especially

00:09:44Benny:one that I've, like, maybe over 50 hours

00:09:46Benny:in, I would not say are bad.

00:09:54Argyle:oh you Ooh

00:09:57Benny:you I like the profanity

00:09:58Anzu:Yes she read Song of Monsters she borrowed she borrowed my copy which you know she should have supported the cause but what are you going to do

00:10:09Anzu:Her only critique was that she did not like the profanity.

00:10:19Anzu:As did I.

00:10:20Benny:It's just to balance it out.

00:10:21Johnny:I had one character that cursed

00:10:25Benny:They didn't have cursing in the...

00:10:25Anzu:She was like...

00:10:26Johnny:and that's all they did

00:10:27Johnny:there are certain language things

00:10:28Anzu:She was like, I just feel like it doesn't fit with the time period for them to talk like that.

00:10:35Anzu:And I'm like...

00:10:37Benny:Wait, time? What?

00:10:37Anzu:Well, it's a different world, so the time period is kind of, like, not necessarily analogous to anything, but...

00:10:38Benny:Time?

00:10:48Johnny:where I'll run into and be like

00:10:50Johnny:oh, I can't call it a bandolier because that has an actual historical connotation.

00:10:55Benny:It implies the French.

00:10:55Gamemaster:I don't know, you just have to take the, like, Tolkien approach to that kind of stuff, where

00:10:56Johnny:I can say the word fuck.

00:11:00Johnny:You can't say champagne.

00:11:02Benny:Mm-hmm.

00:11:10Gamemaster:you say, oh yeah, this happens in that world, they don't speak English there, this book

00:11:14Gamemaster:is a translation of it, so that you get to use, like, words that are, with, like, English

00:11:16Benny:Ha!

00:11:20Johnny:Mike did you read book two already

00:11:21Gamemaster:connotations and stuff like that, and it's not, you know.

00:11:21Benny:He opened his Samsung refrigerator.

00:11:23Gamemaster:Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't...

00:11:25Benny:lie

00:11:25Argyle:you could

00:11:25Anzu:When you said most famous writer of all time, I thought you were talking about J.K. Rowling.

00:11:26Gamemaster:I wouldn't put a brand name, necessarily.

00:11:29Johnny:how did you know

00:11:29Argyle:you could

00:11:32Argyle:you can just do it

00:11:34Argyle:you know the most famous writer of all time

00:11:37Argyle:you know the guy that wrote all those plays

00:11:39Argyle:did

00:11:40Argyle:Shakespeare and just make up words

00:11:43Argyle:when you want and just make people figure

00:11:45Argyle:it out don't explain it

00:11:47Argyle:um

00:11:48Johnny:hmm

00:11:48Johnny:be like yeah people

00:11:48Gamemaster:Have any of you...

00:11:49Johnny:I also thought of JK.

00:11:53Gamemaster:Have any of you read Anathem by Neal Stephenson I highly recommend it

00:11:53Johnny:I have not read that Neil Stevenson book

00:11:55Benny:I thought of William Shakespeare

00:12:06Gamemaster:The reason I thought of it is specifically because he does this thing that Jorge said,

00:12:08Johnny:It's like a clockwork orange.

00:12:10Gamemaster:where he just makes up words and then you have to figure it out.

00:12:13Gamemaster:And they do it the whole book, all the way through.

00:12:16Benny:Pretty baller.

00:12:16Gamemaster:It's a good time.

00:12:20Benny:Do they have Latin roots?

00:12:23Gamemaster:They do have Latin roots.

00:12:25Benny:that's reasonable

00:12:25Argyle:So this is just,

00:12:26Gamemaster:And I'm...

00:12:26Benny:I'm pretty sure that's what Shakespeare did

00:12:28Benny:Latin or Germanic

00:12:29Gamemaster:Well, yeah, no, so, sorry.

00:12:30Benny:or Greek

00:12:32Gamemaster:When I say he makes up words, what I mean is that he introduces a philosophical concept,

00:12:36Gamemaster:but the concept is only in universe, and then the philosopher who came up with the concept

00:12:43Gamemaster:doesn't exist in real life, and so you have to figure out what the concept they're referring

00:12:48Gamemaster:to is through, like, context clues until you get later into the book, and they just

00:12:52Gamemaster:keep introducing concepts like that. Yeah, no, I really enjoy the book. It's one of my favorite

00:12:53Argyle:this is just you as a writer

00:12:55Anzu:I'll put it on my want to read list.

00:12:55Johnny:but

00:12:56Argyle:yeah

00:12:59Gamemaster:books, and it is like a puzzle in that way, almost, where they do that kind of stuff.

00:13:05Gamemaster:Highly recommend it. I will say... What?

00:13:08Johnny:josh have you read

00:13:11Johnny:have you read snow crash by neil stevenson

00:13:14Gamemaster:No, that's on my list. I, like, that was the first Neal Stephenson book that I read,

00:13:19Gamemaster:from a co-worker recommending it,

00:13:21Gamemaster:and I really liked it, so now I feel like I have to

00:13:23Argyle:Sorry.

00:13:23Gamemaster:go through the rest of his...

00:13:25Benny:Nistography.

00:13:25Anzu:How many books are connected to this book?

00:13:25Johnny:I think it's IMDB.

00:13:25Gamemaster:not discography.

00:13:27Gamemaster:Yeah, not that.

00:13:29Gamemaster:Whatever the actual term is.

00:13:33Johnny:I think it's IMDB.

00:13:33Benny:You have to rummage through his drawers.

00:13:36Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:13:38Gamemaster:I don't know.

00:13:39Gamemaster:If you do...

00:13:42Gamemaster:None.

00:13:44Gamemaster:Anathem is

00:13:45Gamemaster:standalone, as far as I'm aware.

00:13:46Gamemaster:I will say if you start reading it

00:13:50Gamemaster:and after the first chapter you don't like it

00:13:53Gamemaster:it only gets worse

00:13:53Argyle:you you connectically the um on a different note the ef2 assistant now has integrations thank you josh

00:13:54Gamemaster:don push through it if you don like the first chapter Yeah no it like

00:13:55Benny:that how I am with everything if I don like it I stop reading it

00:13:55Johnny:Yes Good Are you all the way Are we all the experience Oh wow

00:14:14Argyle:with foundry so we can look up your characters and party builds so when you ask for pacifics

00:14:21Argyle:or if you say things like, which spell should I take?

00:14:24Argyle:It will be able to figure out which character you are.

00:14:27Argyle:It will be conscientious of the group.

00:14:29Argyle:You might need to prompt it a little bit.

00:14:31Argyle:And also, if you hop on, I added a new dropdown for Impossible Magic.

00:14:36Argyle:Also, thanks, Josh.

00:14:36Argyle:He gave me the book, and I turned it into something that the LLM can look at.

00:14:43Argyle:So you can ask me questions about it specifically.

00:14:46Argyle:It's a separate one.

00:14:47Argyle:eventually when it all gets officially published on Foundry and everything,

00:14:51Argyle:I'll merge all the stuff. But updates.

00:14:54Johnny:I did use it today, earlier today, before I assume you added that in.

00:14:55Gamemaster:That's fine.

00:14:55Anzu:So it knows I'm Anzu.

00:14:58Argyle:Yeah, I added it like an hour ago.

00:14:58Johnny:It's very fun.

00:15:01Gamemaster:I...

00:15:01Gamemaster:I...

00:15:02Gamemaster:It knows your Anzu, and...

00:15:04Anzu:And I could say, what should Anzu...

00:15:04Argyle:You can ask it.

00:15:06Anzu:Can it give me advice mid combat on how I should use my turn?

00:15:07Gamemaster:It knows your...

00:15:08Argyle:No, you should just say, what should I take?

00:15:09Gamemaster:Yeah, it knows your Anzu, and also it knows Anzu's current, like, build on Foundry.

00:15:16Gamemaster:Like, down to how much HP he currently has.

00:15:17Argyle:No, we don't have, we don't, we specifically did not put information about other monsters

00:15:19Gamemaster:I don't expect that bit to ever be useful.

00:15:22Gamemaster:It's just kind of an implementation detail.

00:15:24Gamemaster:but it just has access to the foundry server

00:15:24Johnny:I did ask.

00:15:27Gamemaster:so it can see what you have

00:15:28Gamemaster:because it doesn't have access to like path builder

00:15:30Gamemaster:so it can't see what your build is at the moment

00:15:32Gamemaster:but

00:15:33Gamemaster:I mean

00:15:40Gamemaster:yeah

00:15:43Gamemaster:like the answer is

00:15:45Argyle:for that reason.

00:15:45Gamemaster:is that

00:15:46Gamemaster:I have

00:15:47Gamemaster:the way that I have it set up

00:15:48Gamemaster:is the permissions that are currently hooked up

00:15:50Gamemaster:for Jorge to use

00:15:51Gamemaster:it's

00:15:52Gamemaster:it doesn't like return data on enemies, but like generally speaking the answer is yes, the answer

00:16:00Gamemaster:actual backend does have access to that info,

00:16:00Johnny:Hello.

00:16:02Gamemaster:and my like admin key can be like,

00:16:06Gamemaster:what is the most optimal thing to do?

00:16:07Gamemaster:Actually, not only can it be like,

00:16:09Gamemaster:what is the most optimal thing to do?

00:16:11Gamemaster:It has the ability to place and move pieces as well.

00:16:15Gamemaster:So I could tell it, hey, you go do this.

00:16:16Johnny:Hello.

00:16:19Gamemaster:Just do this turn.

00:16:21Gamemaster:I'm never gonna do that because what's the point?

00:16:25Gamemaster:But that is possible.

00:16:26Gamemaster:I could just have it like pilot all of the tokens

00:16:28Gamemaster:and stuff for us.

00:16:30Argyle:We could also, if we wanted to, all get mics and then just talk to it and be like, hey, Claude, can you do my next turn for me?

00:16:30Johnny:We just announced our turn out loud.

00:16:39Argyle:And then you'll just see it like pause and all of a sudden start moving and like casting spells.

00:16:50Johnny:Oh, no, I'm level 7 still.

00:16:50Argyle:Also.

00:16:52Johnny:Bummer.

00:16:53Argyle:Oh.

00:16:53Gamemaster:This is actually just one step closer to wizard chess,

00:16:57Gamemaster:but for, like, D&D.

00:16:58Argyle:Yeah, yeah.

00:17:00Argyle:another thing also it'll share screen very quickly

00:17:00Johnny:How come Argyle's level eight?

00:17:03Argyle:it even knows

00:17:07Argyle:roles

00:17:09Argyle:so you can do some meta analysis

00:17:11Argyle:this is a request from Mike

00:17:12Argyle:okay

00:17:15Gamemaster:Oh, well, so I actually,

00:17:15Johnny:I'm only level seven.

00:17:17Gamemaster:I haven't leveled up anybody in Foundry yet

00:17:19Gamemaster:because I ran out of time

00:17:22Gamemaster:and I thought I would be able to do it today

00:17:24Gamemaster:before the session,

00:17:24Gamemaster:and I got home like at 7.30.

00:17:29Gamemaster:So if Argyle's level 8,

00:17:30Benny:Jorge is it still thinking on my question

00:17:30Argyle:I think you made my character update last session,

00:17:30Anzu:We give him one temporary hit point Jesus Mike what happened here

00:17:30Johnny:because you were

00:17:32Gamemaster:I think that might just...

00:17:33Gamemaster:I don't know why Argyle's level 8,

00:17:35Gamemaster:to be honest.

00:17:40Argyle:because...

00:17:41Gamemaster:Oh, right.

00:17:42Argyle:Which I feel like I should be rewarded for.

00:17:42Gamemaster:I just did yours last session

00:17:44Gamemaster:because you sent it to me last session

00:17:46Gamemaster:and it was easy.

00:17:47Gamemaster:That works What did you ask it

00:18:00Argyle:What did you ask

00:18:00Johnny:Thank you What 1D124

00:18:06Benny:I'm guessing you can see what I asked.

00:18:07Argyle:I don't have like a good,

00:18:09Argyle:I could look it up.

00:18:10Argyle:I just.

00:18:10Argyle:share screen

00:18:11Benny:I asked...

00:18:12Benny:Oh, okay, okay. It's going, it's going.

00:18:13Benny:So it tells me double slice both swords into Anzu, then a third strike.

00:18:18Benny:Anzu is a glass cannon right now.

00:18:20Benny:53 out of 69 HP.

00:18:22Benny:AC 23.

00:18:23Benny:I asked it the quickest

00:18:25Gamemaster:Yeah, how could I have known that previously?

00:18:25Anzu:Wait. No.

00:18:25Johnny:Yeah, Tanner,

00:18:25Benny:I asked it the quickest way to kill

00:18:25Argyle:share screen

00:18:28Benny:Oh wait I have to change it in settings

00:18:36Benny:Hold on

00:18:36Benny:I didn't give this thing permission

00:18:39Benny:I'll just take a screenshot of the

00:18:42Benny:of the

00:18:42Benny:Hold on, let me see.

00:18:43Anzu:I can't believe you just let it out to Josh that I'm a glass cannon.

00:18:48Anzu:Now he's going to target me.

00:18:52Gamemaster:I thought you were the tank.

00:18:54Johnny:have you tried just being glass period

00:18:55Anzu:Oh boy.

00:18:56Anzu:How am I going to defend?

00:18:56Johnny:on a related

00:18:58Gamemaster:Mmm.

00:18:59Anzu:All right, now I need to open it and see how do I defend against.

00:19:07Benny:Yeah, see,

00:19:08Gamemaster:Ha ha.

00:19:08Benny:ask how I would defend against Benny

00:19:10Benny:trying to kill me as quick as possible right now.

00:19:14Gamemaster:I mean, that's a good question.

00:19:16Gamemaster:It'll suck when it comes back and says there's nothing you can do.

00:19:20Gamemaster:Benny's unstoppable.

00:19:21Anzu:You are a glass cannon.

00:19:22Gamemaster:and ally flanks

00:19:24Johnny:Get on to off-coat.

00:19:25Anzu:to make it even more certain.

00:19:34Gamemaster:you gotta get by him

00:19:38Anzu:Oh my God.

00:19:40Argyle:I love the

00:19:40Benny:expected damage across those three strings is roughly 55 plus comfortably over Anzu 53

00:19:42Gamemaster:Anzu's real weak spot

00:19:43Argyle:I love the headers

00:19:44Gamemaster:is fort

00:19:44Argyle:Wyatt drops fast

00:19:44Gamemaster:but your kill path

00:19:46Gamemaster:is pure strikes

00:19:47Gamemaster:so just swing

00:19:54Johnny:You a palatist for roughly its entire hit bar Oh no

00:19:55Gamemaster:Crazy.

00:19:55Argyle:Ha ha ha!

00:20:05Benny:and any single Thalcata crit

00:20:07Benny:30% chance per swing

00:20:10Benny:so well over

00:20:11Benny:50% chance you land one

00:20:13Benny:across the turn ends it outright

00:20:15Benny:...

00:20:15Benny:...

00:20:21Johnny:If we were in a situation where Benny gets controlled,

00:20:24Johnny:We're just fucked. It's over.

00:20:25Benny:Good thing Benny increased his will during this level up.

00:20:25Gamemaster:I can't tell if the bot was sarcastic to you when it responded, Mike, because it says,

00:20:25Anzu:Jorge, where's that coming from?

00:20:26Johnny:This is your live stream right now.

00:20:40Gamemaster:so this is a how do I drop a fellow PC question?

00:20:43Gamemaster:Fun.

00:20:45Gamemaster:Let me pull on to his life defenses.

00:20:47Gamemaster:Like, what is the attitude that it's giving you there?

00:20:52Benny:Yeah.

00:20:55Benny:it's probably sick of my sick of my this is the second question i've asked it the last one was

00:20:55Gamemaster:You're welcome.

00:20:55Argyle:imagine uh imagine we give it access to the transcripts of all of our sessions

00:20:55Anzu:Hmm.

00:20:56Johnny:Jorge is just behind there typing out the answers to all of our questions.

00:20:59Johnny:Oh, no.

00:21:04Benny:how to do as much damage as possible with my level eight power ups and also utility

00:21:15Argyle:so then we could just speak in the mic hey claude what would i do

00:21:21Argyle:so

00:21:23Anzu:Well, it seems like with that chip on your shoulder, you should probably...

00:21:25Benny:One side note

00:21:25Gamemaster:Hey listen, the scripts are publicly available.

00:21:25Argyle:Ha ha ha!

00:21:34Gamemaster:You want to do it, you be the change you want to see in the world.

00:21:41Benny:This is your own party's psychic

00:21:43Benny:Anzu will be dying, not dead

00:21:45Benny:At 0 HP unless someone finishes the job

00:21:45Gamemaster:Yeah, the...

00:21:48Benny:But mechanically that's your fastest route

00:21:49Benny:To putting them down

00:21:51Gamemaster:The side note is not, this is your party, psychic.

00:21:53Anzu:Unbelievable Unbelievable Unbelievable I pissed

00:21:54Gamemaster:you don want to kill them The side note is this is your party sidekick so it take a little bit extra to finish them off

00:21:55Benny:this is all

00:21:55Argyle:Thank you Maybe this is why

00:22:08Argyle:Anthropic didn't want to work with the US government yet.

00:22:11Argyle:Because their bot would have been giving the

00:22:13Argyle:murder questions too much sass.

00:22:15Benny:this is all the questions

00:22:16Argyle:Oh, it's one of those?

00:22:17Benny:you're trying to not bomb

00:22:18Argyle:Fine.

00:22:18Argyle:Fine.

00:22:22Benny:an Iranian school

00:22:23Benny:but

00:22:23Benny:like

00:22:24Benny:but that's all the questions they would have got

00:22:25Argyle:yeah they also um the for a long time like over like until like i think a few months ago they

00:22:28Benny:I can't imagine

00:22:30Benny:what they use Claude for

00:22:32Benny:at Anthropic to make business decisions

00:22:34Benny:Claude please

00:22:35Benny:that seems great like having it do programming

00:22:38Benny:it seems way more sane than being like

00:22:40Benny:can you please chart out the best way for us

00:22:42Benny:to optimize compute spending over the next

00:22:44Benny:12 months

00:22:52Argyle:basically had like one person on marketing or a very small staff and the guy just got through

00:22:54Benny:Why did they end up hiring a second person?

00:22:55Johnny:Do what we're going to have.

00:22:58Argyle:marketing by asking claude what to do and they're like could you believe it and people are like

00:23:02Argyle:yeah i can claude has the worst marketing it didn't become famous until like february

00:23:08Argyle:no

00:23:15Benny:Because I have a Claude hat, and I think that's successful marketing.

00:23:18Benny:there was

00:23:21Argyle:I feel like I could have one of those made for me

00:23:23Benny:I have these pop-ups

00:23:25Johnny:It's a pretty cool hat.

00:23:26Benny:they had they've had one in SF

00:23:29Benny:and one in New York

00:23:31Benny:and they give you a free hat

00:23:33Benny:if you show up and you cannot obtain the hat

00:23:34Benny:otherwise

00:23:35Benny:I waited for 45 minutes

00:23:37Johnny:It's pretty good Sunday.

00:23:38Benny:at 9 in the morning on a Sunday

00:23:40Benny:yeah ask Claude to make one

00:23:43Johnny:Hi, Claude. Claude, make me a hat.

00:23:46Benny:Claude, purchase a hat embroiderer

00:23:49Johnny:Yeah.

00:23:53Benny:and test hats of this color on Amazon.

00:23:58Benny:When it gets here, tell me how to hook it up.

00:24:00Benny:and I'll leave it alone with you.

00:24:00Argyle:Yeah.

00:24:00Johnny:Oh.

00:24:01Benny:I want the hat when I get back.

00:24:07Benny:Don't forget the little Claude logo.

00:24:11Johnny:Oh.

00:24:15Johnny:The Claude logo kind of looks like someone put an asterisk in the spot where they were like, put logo here.

00:24:20Johnny:And then it went to marketing and someone was like, great, that's the logo now.

00:24:22Johnny:Hold on.

00:24:24Argyle:Yeah.

00:24:24Benny:There's a running joke that all AI companies

00:24:26Benny:have a butthole as their logo.

00:24:30Benny:OpenAI, Gemini,

00:24:30Gamemaster:It's because like, what shape is AI?

00:24:30Argyle:Splat.

00:24:37Benny:Okay.

00:24:40Gamemaster:It's dumb.

00:24:41Argyle:Amorphous.

00:24:41Gamemaster:I don't know how they're gonna come up with...

00:24:43Gamemaster:Yeah I guess.

00:24:45Argyle:Oh, thank you.

00:24:46Gamemaster:They all just kind of settled on sparkle of some kind.

00:24:51Gamemaster:Weird.

00:24:52Gamemaster:Are you...

00:24:52Johnny:Have you guys read through Impossible Magic?

00:24:53Argyle:Um...

00:24:56Johnny:There's some fun stuff in there.

00:24:58Gamemaster:Am I going to throw an impossible spell at you guys at some point?

00:25:00Argyle:No, what is that?

00:25:00Anzu:I have not.

00:25:00Gamemaster:Probably.

00:25:01Gamemaster:It's going to happen.

00:25:02Johnny:Oh no, but they can only cast it once, ever.

00:25:06Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:25:07Gamemaster:Have you guys...

00:25:07Benny:What's the premise?

00:25:07Gamemaster:Have the rest of you seen the impossible spells section of Impossible Magic?

00:25:13Gamemaster:There's a new...

00:25:13Anzu:I have not.

00:25:14Gamemaster:There's a new...

00:25:14Benny:What makes them different?

00:25:15Gamemaster:There's a new kind of spell called an impossible spell.

00:25:18Gamemaster:It's a spell with the impossible trait.

00:25:20Gamemaster:they're generally out of band

00:25:23Gamemaster:more powerful than regular spells

00:25:25Gamemaster:but they can only be cast

00:25:27Gamemaster:once and they inflict a permanent

00:25:29Gamemaster:debuff on you when you do it

00:25:30Anzu:How do you learn them?

00:25:32Benny:Oh.

00:25:36Anzu:Same as other spells?

00:25:38Gamemaster:you find like a book

00:25:39Gamemaster:that has it written in it

00:25:40Gamemaster:or you get like a scroll or a staff or something

00:25:43Gamemaster:that has the spell in it

00:25:44Gamemaster:like you don't

00:25:44Anzu:And then you can cast it one time.

00:25:45Gamemaster:yeah

00:25:46Gamemaster:And you get fun things like Under Sunless Skies the level 9 spell that lets you choose a mile where there just no sun anymore But from then on you become blinded by bright light for the first turn that

00:26:00Argyle:you Very interesting

00:26:10Gamemaster:you're exposed to it.

00:26:13Gamemaster:Is that the AI weird cone thing?

00:26:17Argyle:Very interesting mate.

00:26:20Argyle:.

00:26:24Gamemaster:I don't know.

00:26:25Benny:It's not AI.

00:26:26Benny:It turns out it was a thing before AI,

00:26:28Benny:before there were 10X engineers talking to their computers.

00:26:30Benny:It's a stenographer's microphone.

00:26:33Benny:But it looks really funny,

00:26:33Gamemaster:Oh, that's less fun.

00:26:34Gamemaster:I'm gonna

00:26:34Benny:because it just looks like this woman is, like,

00:26:36Benny:muzzling herself or, like, I don't know,

00:26:38Benny:getting her brain sucked out of her mouth.

00:26:40Benny:I don't know what that...

00:26:42Benny:It does look...

00:26:43Gamemaster:I'm gonna expose myself and ask a weird

00:26:46Gamemaster:question and hope that at least one

00:26:48Gamemaster:of you has had the same experience as me

00:26:50Gamemaster:um you know

00:26:53Gamemaster:the old

00:26:54Gamemaster:uh like the old phones

00:26:55Benny:I don't

00:26:55Johnny:Yeah.

00:26:57Gamemaster:like back when a phone had an

00:26:58Gamemaster:actual thing to pick up and it had the grill

00:27:00Gamemaster:on the top and the bottom

00:27:01Gamemaster:as a child did you ever like put your mouth on the grill and inhale the plastic

00:27:06Gamemaster:because that's what that looks like to me if nobody's done that that's fine

00:27:12Johnny:Well, I have had a few experiences.

00:27:12Gamemaster:but that is absolutely a thing i had done okay

00:27:15Gamemaster:that's just that's what that reminds me of

00:27:17Benny:I was a weird kid I don't think I did that

00:27:20Benny:I probably did this

00:27:22Benny:on it

00:27:23Gamemaster:that's close

00:27:24Benny:It does look like someone trying to inhale phone plastic

00:27:31Benny:Which is also why

00:27:31Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:27:33Benny:It kind of looks like

00:27:35Benny:She's pointing a laser gun

00:27:38Benny:At her mouth

00:27:39Benny:Why is she holding it like that

00:27:41Gamemaster:A little bit, yeah.

00:27:43Gamemaster:Do we do we want to play some Pathfinder

00:27:44Benny:Hold it like this

00:27:45Benny:Hold it like a microphone

00:27:46Benny:Don't hold it like a gun

00:27:48Benny:Yeah Yeah

00:27:50Argyle:Yeah Yeah

00:27:55Johnny:Yeah Yeah

00:28:06Gamemaster:Um, okay.

00:28:08Gamemaster:Then I guess we could do that, I suppose.

00:28:12Gamemaster:Um, alright.

00:28:14Gamemaster:Does anybody want to do a recap?

00:28:18Gamemaster:Jorge's hand went up.

00:28:20Argyle:Yeah.

00:28:20Argyle:So we all just finished fighting some spiders, right?

00:28:28Argyle:And we remembered where we were, and it was not in a place with boats.

00:28:34Argyle:Separate.

00:28:36Argyle:I don't know why any of us thought there were boats there, but there was a staircase.

00:28:39Argyle:So we're like, ooh, we should try to rest because we did not prepare for this to be this long.

00:28:47Argyle:So we found a little corner.

00:28:49Argyle:we did a little uh little hiding and we got a long rest successfully so we're like let's go up these

00:28:56Argyle:big steps we go up some big steps and we very astutely enter a lab and we got uh it's scouted

00:29:05Argyle:by our familiar friend who gave uh very very clear instructions just no one believed them

00:29:12Argyle:um so we walked in and we're like wow you were actually spot on i still didn't believe it

00:29:17Argyle:uh then we astutely see a little weird spider that's magical in one of the tubes so we go

00:29:24Argyle:and then we just went to the closest tube and just started smashing it spiders came we fought them

00:29:30Argyle:by we it was mostly just benny and johnny and argyle and Anzu were just like

00:29:36Argyle:taking aggro of the spider machine uh the other ones went through they started smashing shit

00:29:44Argyle:The little spider flows out, almost insta-dies, retreats somewhere else.

00:29:50Argyle:They resurrect one of the tubes, smashed again.

00:29:53Argyle:Then we go to the central hub smash that thing spider dies And then we like wow this was crazy We should go eat that heart looks really juicy and then Johnny was just like hello there

00:30:05Argyle:and did a crit so the guy goes back and goes hello turns out he's machine God

00:30:11Argyle:real cool guy used to work with the rally of the first and all of the other

00:30:16Argyle:first hydro fans were they all hydro pants

00:30:25Gamemaster:if they were hierophants. You know that Aurelia was a hierophant.

00:30:25Argyle:yeah

00:30:28Argyle:whatever so we're like wow that's crazy um what's what's the deal and they're like

00:30:33Johnny:and stop

00:30:37Argyle:i'm really cool and we're like you really are cool we should work with you but in secret

00:30:41Argyle:and then they're like i have a quest for you so our quest is we have to clear out the rest of the

00:30:45Johnny:oh

00:30:47Argyle:strider um for this guy which we're hoping we're going to find on zoo sister hopefully before

00:30:54Argyle:benny kills her um because he has expressed interest in that then uh we're like oh this

00:30:55Johnny:Who is this?

00:31:02Argyle:is gonna be secret secret and then we finish the session uh and just reminder everyone we still have

00:31:08Argyle:the tape recorder thing that the weird demon dragon thing wanted that we're gonna trade for

00:31:15Argyle:a library book so we don't have to erase our minds and then we're gonna use that library book

00:31:20Argyle:to give to some nerd who's then going to use it to triangulate more magical items.

00:31:25Gamemaster:Yes.

00:31:25Johnny:That's why we came down here.

00:31:28Argyle:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we still have that.

00:31:32Gamemaster:Everything except for that last bit was accurate.

00:31:35Gamemaster:I will accept it.

00:31:35Gamemaster:That last bit was fine, except it's an ink ribbon, not a tape recorder.

00:31:43Gamemaster:It's a completely different thing.

00:31:47Gamemaster:But, like, generally, yeah.

00:31:50Gamemaster:The ocelot asked you to come down here to get an ink ribbon,

00:31:54Gamemaster:and when you were down here you found the ink ribbon amongst some other stuff, including but not limited

00:32:00Gamemaster:to some pamphlets of perfection, some mongrel folk tinctures,

00:32:04Gamemaster:and a key with a skeleton emblazoned on it, with a skull on it.

00:32:10Gamemaster:And then after you discover that, you decide to go in further.

00:32:15Gamemaster:But you have completed that bit of the quest for when you decide to leave the Undercroft.

00:32:22Gamemaster:But beyond that, you did also pick up two new items in the room you're currently in.

00:32:29Gamemaster:you got the coil

00:32:30Argyle:Oh.

00:32:30Gamemaster:and you got the usurper's crown

00:32:33Gamemaster:both of which are fun

00:32:35Gamemaster:other than that yeah you get a mythic point

00:32:39Gamemaster:and

00:32:41Gamemaster:that is a good place

00:32:43Gamemaster:to pick up this session

00:32:45Gamemaster:you're all still in that

00:32:47Gamemaster:control room which by the way

00:32:49Gamemaster:just to put out there

00:32:51Gamemaster:I don't know if it would have affected anything at all

00:32:54Gamemaster:but because you chose

00:32:55Gamemaster:to rest before going in that did

00:32:57Gamemaster:make the fight harder

00:32:58Gamemaster:because they had time to prepare.

00:33:00Argyle:Oh, they prepared? They knew we were there?

00:33:00Anzu:How they could have known that.

00:33:00Johnny:Oh, no.

00:33:01Gamemaster:That was the sound of the things moving around.

00:33:03Gamemaster:I don't know if that actually ever got resolved last session.

00:33:06Gamemaster:But, yeah, no, they knew you were there.

00:33:10Gamemaster:But, you know.

00:33:12Gamemaster:Either way,

00:33:12Argyle:Good to know.

00:33:13Gamemaster:you don't know how they could have known that.

00:33:17Anzu:No, no idea.

00:33:22Gamemaster:Okay.

00:33:23Argyle:The bot did, I think, good

00:33:25Argyle:on the impossible spell stuff.

00:33:28Argyle:I didn't read any of it.

00:33:28Gamemaster:So how do you know if it did good?

00:33:30Benny:Mm-hmm.

00:33:30Argyle:I don't know.

00:33:30Johnny:I go over an hour after this One moment I have a PDF somewhere

00:33:33Argyle:It looked convincing.

00:33:34Argyle:That's enough for me.

00:33:35Gamemaster:I think it's...

00:33:35Argyle:That's how these things are trained.

00:33:36Gamemaster:I think it's wrong in some parts.

00:33:42Gamemaster:The most immediate thing that looks wrong to me

00:33:44Gamemaster:is the lithologic marks aren't an hour after casting.

00:33:51Gamemaster:I think they're immediately after casting.

00:33:54Gamemaster:I don know why it thinks they an hour afterwards No Is it an hour Academically these are rewriting reality

00:33:54Argyle:You sure about that

00:34:06Gamemaster:Some school.

00:34:08Argyle:It also says sources, so I think these start on 175 page-wise.

00:34:12Gamemaster:It is on page 175.

00:34:15Argyle:I linked it at the bottom.

00:34:17Argyle:I didn't attach it.

00:34:20Gamemaster:I just don't see anything about an hour.

00:34:25Gamemaster:No, the... it's the...

00:34:25Argyle:Oh, did you try 178 to 180?

00:34:25Johnny:It's not where you think it'd be.

00:34:28Argyle:That's when it says

00:34:29Argyle:lethology mark.

00:34:39Gamemaster:Lithologic marks are mentioned on page 175 in the PDF, which is page 174 in the book.

00:34:48Argyle:Well, it doesn't really matter.

00:34:49Argyle:We're not going to be casting these right now.

00:34:50Johnny:It's under, it's on page

00:34:53Johnny:175 at the very top.

00:34:55Gamemaster:Oh.

00:34:55Argyle:This is why you never doubt Opus.

00:34:55Anzu:And you can only ever cast one impossible spell?

00:34:55Johnny:It's in the impossible for some reason.

00:34:57Johnny:After casting a spell with the impossible

00:34:58Johnny:an hour

00:35:00Johnny:after casting a spell, the caster starts experiencing

00:35:02Johnny:the consequences detailed under the spell's

00:35:03Gamemaster:That's crazy.

00:35:04Johnny:every time.

00:35:05Gamemaster:I take it back.

00:35:07Gamemaster:I bad-mouthed your bot for no reason.

00:35:12Gamemaster:I've just...

00:35:14Gamemaster:Right, of course.

00:35:15Argyle:If Opus says something, it's right.

00:35:17Gamemaster:Of course, absolutely.

00:35:19Argyle:Unless you gave it wrong information.

00:35:20Johnny:No.

00:35:22Anzu:I didn't realize that.

00:35:25Gamemaster:An hour after casting it.

00:35:25Argyle:Didn't we just go through this, Tanner?

00:35:25Anzu:Unless this is wrong.

00:35:30Gamemaster:Yeah, Opus is always right.

00:35:31Johnny:No.

00:35:32Gamemaster:I was under the impression that you can cast each impossible spell once,

00:35:36Gamemaster:not that you can only ever cast one impossible spell.

00:35:39Gamemaster:But also, I don't want to argue...

00:35:39Johnny:No, it's in the same paragraph as the...

00:35:41Johnny:It's in the same paragraph as the lethologic mark.

00:35:43Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:35:44Johnny:The same creature can't cast any spell with the impossible trait ever again.

00:35:48Gamemaster:Okay, so I clearly missed this paragraph.

00:35:51Gamemaster:Opus did not That fair I take it back

00:35:53Argyle:I hope it's not.

00:35:55Benny:you Benny touches

00:35:55Argyle:Opus is only wrong if you give it wrong information therefore it still right Yeah

00:35:55Anzu:Thank you I cast it

00:35:55Johnny:We cast them.

00:36:05Gamemaster:Okay, anyway, you guys find all of the impossible spells in a little book as well next to the end.

00:36:10Gamemaster:No, I'm joking. You definitely don't do that.

00:36:13Johnny:All of them.

00:36:19Argyle:It would be so funny if...

00:36:21Argyle:I feel like there's going to be...

00:36:22Argyle:We're going to run into some case or some civilization

00:36:25Gamemaster:Um, yeah, so you guys are hanging out down here in the Undercroft in the area with this

00:36:25Argyle:or organization just going to make

00:36:27Argyle:one dude cat the impossible

00:36:28Argyle:spell and be like, that really sucks

00:36:31Argyle:for you.

00:36:32Argyle:Just like

00:36:34Argyle:they become this

00:36:35Argyle:sin eater for them.

00:36:39Argyle:Anyway.

00:36:42Argyle:What do you guys want to do now?

00:36:50Gamemaster:engine heart, the machine god.

00:36:52Argyle:I say we go first back to the library, get the book, and then just post up in our place

00:36:52Gamemaster:You got some items. You're hanging out.

00:36:55Benny:Sure.

00:36:55Anzu:Right.

00:36:55Johnny:Let's move.

00:36:55Gamemaster:What's the plan?

00:37:02Anzu:Yeah.

00:37:03Argyle:for a bit.

00:37:03Argyle:All right.

00:37:09Gamemaster:Okay.

00:37:10Gamemaster:You guys are heading back out.

00:37:13Gamemaster:You have the

00:37:15Gamemaster:benefit of having killed

00:37:17Gamemaster:the majority

00:37:19Gamemaster:of the

00:37:20Gamemaster:actually, you know what, let's walk this back a little bit.

00:37:22Argyle:All right, before we go, can I ask a question?

00:37:26Gamemaster:You guys head out of this room, you go down through the pilgrimage stairs,

00:37:31Gamemaster:the ones with the members of Aurelia's party,

00:37:37Gamemaster:and then you head back into the silk curtains room,

00:37:40Gamemaster:the room where you had seen all of the spiders, yes?

00:37:45Argyle:I actually got a question.

00:37:45Argyle:um is there a way for you to like defend your position more now that we're gone

00:37:46Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:37:50Gamemaster:I cannot hide myself but as you surely noticed during your fight with the Heart Stealer

00:37:53Argyle:just like hide yourself more defend it anything as you back online Okay

00:37:55Johnny:you Yeah are you able to repair that

00:38:11Gamemaster:uh, Heart Thief, sorry, I do have ample defenses that caught me unawares.

00:38:20Gamemaster:I will endeavor to make sure it doesn't happen again.

00:38:20Argyle:Okay.

00:38:22Johnny:Do you need help repairing all that?

00:38:25Gamemaster:You cannot hurt me in a way that matters.

00:38:25Argyle:And there's really powerful people on the surface, so just make sure to constantly be

00:38:26Johnny:We did a bit of damage.

00:38:27Johnny:Sorry.

00:38:28Johnny:Okay.

00:38:29Johnny:I think we're good.

00:38:30Johnny:We're good.

00:38:31Johnny:Okay.

00:38:31Gamemaster:I will repair myself over time.

00:38:32Johnny:All right.

00:38:39Argyle:making your defenses better.

00:38:43Gamemaster:I appreciate the warning.

00:38:44Argyle:And give us a message if anyone starts sleuthing towards your territory.

00:38:52Argyle:You could close doors and make it harder to find this place now?

00:38:52Johnny:Or determined.

00:38:55Gamemaster:I can close doors. There aren't many doors between where I am and where everyone else is, but there's a very long tunnel filled with spiderwebs, which might deter most. Although, apparently not all.

00:39:12Gamemaster:Coulomb

00:39:16Argyle:Cool.

00:39:17Argyle:Hey, what was the Scale guy like?

00:39:20Argyle:the one that was

00:39:22Argyle:in Aurelia's party.

00:39:22Johnny:We're taking some improv.

00:39:25Anzu:Makes a lot of sense.

00:39:25Gamemaster:a bit too serious for my liking

00:39:25Argyle:Yeah.

00:39:32Argyle:Hey.

00:39:35Argyle:Improv does wonders.

00:39:37Gamemaster:he did not take any improv

00:39:38Argyle:Were they all hydrophants?

00:39:39Gamemaster:to my knowledge

00:39:39Argyle:Hydroponics?

00:39:40Gamemaster:Hierophants

00:39:42Gamemaster:yes

00:39:42Argyle:Hierophants, yes.

00:39:43Gamemaster:you were the first six

00:39:45Gamemaster:each spoke to their own god

00:39:47Argyle:How does one become a...

00:39:48Argyle:how does one become one of those?

00:39:49Gamemaster:visit the gods in their home

00:39:57Argyle:Cool.

00:39:58Argyle:There.

00:39:58Argyle:That's it.

00:40:00Benny:Bye-bye.

00:40:00Gamemaster:I suppose it's visit the gods in their home and then return in one piece.

00:40:00Argyle:cool

00:40:11Argyle:out of game I feel like they were gods with a little g

00:40:13Gamemaster:You guys.

00:40:16Argyle:the people not not not the not the six

00:40:20Argyle:all right

00:40:30Gamemaster:Okay, heading back. The only point of note here is that you go into the silk curtain room, and you don't see any of those black and blue splotches that had been hidden by the silk in the distance, and that's because they are all dead, collecting at the bottom of this elevator shaft that you're in.

00:40:56Gamemaster:It appears that the spiders were animated by, at the very least, the thing that you killed that was inhabiting the room with the machine gun in it.

00:41:00Argyle:both

00:41:10Gamemaster:Fraxolith. But Fraxolith is dead now.

00:41:14Gamemaster:Either way, you can head back on relatively unaccosted.

00:41:21Gamemaster:It's a little bit of a hike, like all told.

00:41:23Gamemaster:you guys had spent some time making your way into this area,

00:41:27Gamemaster:I think you can be pretty confident that unless somebody has good reason

00:41:30Argyle:And they going to have to go through the piston room why did we go this way

00:41:31Gamemaster:to come looking in this area, they are not just going to stumble upon this spot.

00:41:35Gamemaster:It is in an area that is marked as, like, not available for mongrel folk to go.

00:41:43Gamemaster:Like, they themselves called it the Forsaken Sector.

00:41:46Gamemaster:They're not going to come over here.

00:41:47Gamemaster:So it's really just going to be somebody from up top.

00:41:50Gamemaster:and they would need to travel a distance to get here.

00:41:54Gamemaster:You didn even know it was here until you did some exploring on your own In order to get to where you are they would have to find the entrance to this Forsaken area

00:42:08Gamemaster:go in through one of the entrances,

00:42:12Gamemaster:because if you recall, there were a few different entrances,

00:42:15Gamemaster:walk past the spiders, jump over the pistons,

00:42:18Gamemaster:go through the silk curtain area,

00:42:20Gamemaster:and then find the pilgrim stairs and walk up them.

00:42:23Gamemaster:Like it is legitimately no idea.

00:42:25Anzu:You'd have to be crazy to do that.

00:42:25Johnny:No one in the room.

00:42:28Argyle:we

00:42:29Argyle:You know, in hindsight, we really were just like, we just got to go deeper.

00:42:31Johnny:Hey.

00:42:34Argyle:We got to see what's here.

00:42:35Johnny:Listen, guys.

00:42:36Anzu:Well, we felt relatively early on in the journey that we had entered a fame.

00:42:37Johnny:No.

00:42:38Johnny:Oh, sorry, Tanner.

00:42:43Anzu:And so we knew there was a heart at the end.

00:42:46Anzu:And that was the draw for us.

00:42:47Argyle:Uh, yeah.

00:42:47Anzu:and it is

00:42:47Johnny:We also saw the Herald symbol and we went, this is probably bad.

00:42:53Argyle:Yes, yes.

00:42:53Gamemaster:but now there isn't even just a guy wearing a Herald symbol at the front

00:42:59Gamemaster:so it would take somebody having explored one of the areas

00:43:02Gamemaster:seen the red and brown paint colored stuff in the hallway

00:43:08Gamemaster:that maybe has references to the Herald

00:43:10Gamemaster:decide that they're interested in whatever drew them

00:43:13Gamemaster:and then walk forward until they hit the thing

00:43:15Gamemaster:like it's possible

00:43:16Gamemaster:but I think that you can gather that

00:43:17Anzu:While we were chatting with the machine god, could I have refocused?

00:43:19Gamemaster:unless they are pointed in this direction

00:43:22Gamemaster:it is unlikely that somebody stumbles upon it.

00:43:25Johnny:Like, dude, that's very smart.

00:43:25Gamemaster:Yes, Tanner.

00:43:29Argyle:on another sad note

00:43:31Anzu:Incredible.

00:43:33Gamemaster:Absolutely.

00:43:40Argyle:just because I'm just going to bring it up now

00:43:42Argyle:and drop it

00:43:43Argyle:you might

00:43:44Argyle:impossible spells might not

00:43:46Argyle:like I don't know if your spell level caps count

00:43:49Argyle:like theoretically

00:43:51Argyle:if you cast four level spells

00:43:52Gamemaster:What What

00:43:53Argyle:you might be able to cast

00:43:54Argyle:10th level impossible spells they a separate thing You still have to find the 10th level impossible spell which I assume is really hard But anyway I don

00:44:05Argyle:believe this one. That one I don't know if I believe.

00:44:08Argyle:But just put it out

00:44:09Argyle:there.

00:44:11Gamemaster:Okay.

00:44:13Gamemaster:Either way, you guys don't have any impossible spells right now.

00:44:16Argyle:I just want to put that on the record.

00:44:16Gamemaster:So it's a moot point.

00:44:18Argyle:Want to put that on the record.

00:44:19Gamemaster:There is no way I could have integrated impossible spells into the campaign

00:44:23Gamemaster:given that they didn't exist until earlier today.

00:44:25Benny:I think Benny has one of these from his backstory.

00:44:25Argyle:Yeah.

00:44:25Johnny:I don't know, I think we got hard light bridge back on one of these spells, so...

00:44:31Gamemaster:I'm, like, I was, after looking through,

00:44:32Johnny:Josh, what do you mean there isn't an instant bridge spell?

00:44:34Gamemaster:I was very relieved to see there wasn't an instant bridge spell.

00:44:39Gamemaster:Because, you know, that would mean that they didn't playtest it.

00:44:44Benny:Yeah.

00:44:45Gamemaster:Oh, sure.

00:44:49Johnny:What do you mean?

00:44:50Johnny:it's not as good but it's it exists

00:44:53Gamemaster:Yeah, I...

00:44:55Benny:I think it was 120.

00:44:55Argyle:it was

00:44:56Johnny:as long as none of the places we have to go across are larger than 30 feet

00:44:57Gamemaster:It's not nearly as good.

00:45:07Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:45:08Gamemaster:Hardlight Bridge, I think, was like 120 feet or something like that.

00:45:12Argyle:it was

00:45:12Argyle:I love that spell so much

00:45:12Benny:Yeah.

00:45:12Gamemaster:It was ridiculous.

00:45:15Gamemaster:It trivialized any time you had to get from A to B, and there was stuff in the middle.

00:45:22Argyle:I think it was also like a wall of force

00:45:23Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:45:24Argyle:so it was like

00:45:24Argyle:it was like impenetrable as well it was the best spell

00:45:29Argyle:you could just put it over traps and like they could fireball through the trap and it was fine

00:45:30Gamemaster:Yeah, no, it was really fun.

00:45:32Gamemaster:It was not at all balanced.

00:45:35Gamemaster:It was...

00:45:35Gamemaster:It was effectively a wall of force that you could walk on,

00:45:37Argyle:oh i forgot about what i used to use wall of four spheres to trap casters that was so funny

00:45:41Gamemaster:was longer than a normal wall of force,

00:45:43Gamemaster:and was cheaper spell-wise than wall of force to cast.

00:45:47Gamemaster:Like, not worth it.

00:45:53Gamemaster:Yeah either way That fine You know it You guys make your way back out of the Forsaken Sector back to the elevator that you had

00:45:54Argyle:anyway all right yeah love that Yeah

00:46:08Gamemaster:originally used to descend down here, and you can head back up to the surface.

00:46:15Gamemaster:Get your first breath of fresh air in a few hours.

00:46:18Argyle:Let's

00:46:19Argyle:I think it's imperative that we head to the library, get that book.

00:46:25Gamemaster:yes you hear uh uh in the back of your head i feel like i say that a bunch i don't know how

00:46:25Anzu:for sure.

00:46:25Johnny:Josh, as we walk out, can I just kind of look around and go,

00:46:29Johnny:Machine God.

00:46:32Johnny:Machine God.

00:46:34Johnny:Can you hear?

00:46:34Johnny:Come in, Machine God.

00:46:35Johnny:Can you hear us?

00:46:45Gamemaster:else to communicate specifically telepathy uh that uses like your own mental faculties for

00:46:53Gamemaster:producing voice, but that's kind of what it is.

00:46:55Argyle:Machine gun, are you able to open up like a group chat for us to telepathically talk to each other?

00:46:55Anzu:Wait, what was the question?

00:46:55Johnny:Next question.

00:46:55Gamemaster:This guy himself doesn't have vocal

00:46:57Gamemaster:cords, so you just hear

00:46:59Gamemaster:in your own head from a source

00:47:01Gamemaster:that isn't your own brain, but in

00:47:03Gamemaster:your voice, like

00:47:05Gamemaster:yes, from the machine gun.

00:47:14Argyle:we got the Josh special

00:47:19Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:47:23Gamemaster:You gotta get it at some point.

00:47:24Argyle:we got the Josh special

00:47:25Johnny:We got it. We got it.

00:47:26Argyle:it took 8 levels this time

00:47:28Argyle:but we got it fuck yeah

00:47:29Johnny:Johnny immediately goes like this.

00:47:30Argyle:we have group telepathy now

00:47:32Johnny:Guys, can you hear me?

00:47:38Argyle:yes

00:47:39Argyle:this was a long time guys

00:47:39Johnny:We're so bad.

00:47:42Argyle:this was deep into the campaign

00:47:43Argyle:alright alright

00:47:48Argyle:gotta happen

00:47:49Gamemaster:It's gotta happen at some point.

00:47:51Argyle:library

00:47:53Gamemaster:Although I did one of the new spells in

00:47:57Gamemaster:In impossible magic is like the coordination

00:48:00Gamemaster:spell. You cast it on somebody else, and then after a set period of time, it goes three, two, one.

00:48:00Argyle:I thought there was already a spell for that.

00:48:00Anzu:Cool.

00:48:00Johnny:To the library!

00:48:07Gamemaster:That's it. That's the whole spell.

00:48:10Anzu:Cool.

00:48:12Gamemaster:It might be like the remastered version of that spell, if it already existed.

00:48:16Gamemaster:I just saw it in the book, and I'm like, oh, that could be handy.

00:48:16Argyle:Yeah.

00:48:20Gamemaster:Either way, you guys have grouped telepathy now. Congrats.

00:48:23Gamemaster:yeah absolutely

00:48:23Argyle:Woo-hoo!

00:48:25Argyle:Because if he said no, we were just going to ask him to relay the messages for us.

00:48:28Argyle:Machine God, can you tell Johnny that I said?

00:48:30Gamemaster:um

00:48:33Gamemaster:uh

00:48:36Gamemaster:same deal applies although I don't know how

00:48:38Gamemaster:you guys feel about it as last campaign

00:48:40Gamemaster:um whatever you're communicating

00:48:42Gamemaster:with each other the machine gun can also

00:48:44Gamemaster:hear it I don't know if you're trying

00:48:46Gamemaster:to hide things from him necessarily but I'm just

00:48:47Argyle:We didn't care last campaign.

00:48:48Gamemaster:putting that out there I know

00:48:49Argyle:We're not going to care now.

00:48:49Gamemaster:that's fair um

00:48:51Gamemaster:you guys uh can head

00:48:56Argyle:We used to

00:48:57Argyle:take turns talking in different chats

00:48:57Gamemaster:yep you guys can head back to the library slash church thing in the harlequin's town um if you

00:48:59Argyle:last campaign so one didn't have everyone.

00:49:13Gamemaster:recall this is it looks from the exterior more like a place of worship worship than it does uh

00:49:19Gamemaster:an archive of any kind, uh, with the most obvious religious symbology there being the eye, uh, with

00:49:27Gamemaster:four hands wrapped around it. Um, once again, weirdly quiet when you go in here. Uh, the

00:49:35Gamemaster:harlequins, uh, don't talk to each other. They don't talk to you. They kind of just maneuver

00:49:39Gamemaster:around you, and, uh, there's always at least one harlequin looking at you as you walk through.

00:49:44Gamemaster:It doesn't move to interact with you at all.

00:49:47Gamemaster:It's just kind of staring as you walk by.

00:49:50Gamemaster:But you can make your way into the study into the library where Oceliff and his zububs are Zububs of course you remember being those half half monstrosities that maintain the books and the like

00:50:11Gamemaster:But you all navigate your way in. It is, as you left it, a huge rift of purple energy in the

00:50:24Gamemaster:out of it and grabbing at the air for nothing. Uh, beetle babies flying around sorting books.

00:50:25Argyle:I don't like beetle babies.

00:50:30Gamemaster:Um, uh, uh, like, that's what they are. I don't know, like, I don't know where you are from me.

00:50:36Gamemaster:They're beetle babies. This is the, the body of a baby except for the bits that are beetles.

00:50:43Gamemaster:Um, and you meet the, uh, the, the curator of this library, uh, again, uh, Ocelith, this, uh,

00:50:53Gamemaster:eight to nine foot tall, bony, draconic-looking devil creature, which looks over at all of you as you walk in and says,

00:50:55Benny:We've done this before.

00:50:55Anzu:Feast your eyes on this.

00:50:55Johnny:More professionals.

00:51:09Gamemaster:And I hope you all got on all right. I didn't expect to see all of you here so soon.

00:51:14Gamemaster:I kind of expected to see you never again, but this is a pleasant surprise.

00:51:23Gamemaster:Absolutely. You pull out the ink ribbon, which I don't think any of you ever, like, took a

00:51:25Benny:We probably should have identified.

00:51:25Argyle:We could be giving him this dude like

00:51:25Anzu:and I pull out his item.

00:51:33Gamemaster:particularly good look at it. It's just kind of a spool of this inch-wide fabric that looks like

00:51:42Gamemaster:it has been dyed red.

00:51:46Argyle:nuclear launch codes for all we know.

00:51:48Argyle:We're like, well, there we go.

00:51:51Argyle:You don't have any...

00:51:53Benny:Did we identify No Yeah

00:51:53Argyle:Yeah.

00:51:54Gamemaster:You did not Absolutely Plausible deniability

00:51:55Argyle:We do not We don have any ethical obligation if we don know what it is

00:51:55Anzu:No Guys it just a It just a fetch quest

00:51:55Johnny:We did not We didn even think about it Cool

00:52:05Anzu:It's just a fetch quest.

00:52:07Anzu:It's fine.

00:52:07Gamemaster:Just a fetch quest.

00:52:09Johnny:Easy.

00:52:09Gamemaster:Absolutely.

00:52:10Gamemaster:You hand over the ink ribbon.

00:52:12Gamemaster:He takes it from you.

00:52:13Gamemaster:He gives it a good smell, which is impressive,

00:52:16Gamemaster:given that he is bones and does not have a nose.

00:52:20Argyle:Excuse me, sir.

00:52:21Argyle:would you be able to tell us what this is used for out of our curiosity

00:52:22Gamemaster:Yes.

00:52:25Gamemaster:I would. Would you prefer to know what this is used for or the book that you wanted?

00:52:26Argyle:stole the book sold the first deal

00:52:35Gamemaster:Absolutely.

00:52:38Gamemaster:And then he will take out...

00:52:41Gamemaster:It's not represented in the map, but he does have a typewriter on his desk

00:52:47Gamemaster:that he will futz around with a bit,

00:52:50Gamemaster:pulls out the sliding mechanism on it and fits the ribbon in place. I mean, you guys would be

00:52:58Gamemaster:familiar with what a traditional ink ribbon is for. It is the thing that supplies ink in a typewriter

00:53:03Gamemaster:for printing. Basically, it's this long ribbon that goes in front of the typing bit, and then

00:53:09Gamemaster:that slams into the ribbon and deposits the ink on the page. It's evident that this is not a regular

00:53:15Gamemaster:ink ribbon, because otherwise you would not go to the lengths of having it be stolen and then

00:53:20Gamemaster:retrieving it, uh, but regardless, he says, and with that, our, uh, you have fulfilled your end

00:53:21Argyle:is this fucking like ledger

00:53:23Argyle:laughing

00:53:25Johnny:Thanks.

00:53:31Gamemaster:of the bargain, which I appreciate very much, uh, so to hold up mine, uh, he will go over to,

00:53:39Gamemaster:if you recall, he left the book in the reserved section to make sure that nobody took it out,

00:53:43Gamemaster:He will roll over, pick up the hefty,

00:53:48Gamemaster:you requested a map, and instead he's offering this big book

00:53:53Gamemaster:that seems to fit the bill of what you looking for He puts it down on the table and he says if you would do so kindly he opens up the book and in the like on the inside cover

00:54:09Gamemaster:of the hard binding there's a little pocket with like an index card on it and he asks,

00:54:16Gamemaster:would you please check out the book? And he offers you a ballpoint pen with which one of you to

00:54:24Gamemaster:sign your name and the date so that you can establish that you've checked out the book.

00:54:25Argyle:I thought you said we could keep it.

00:54:30Argyle:It wasn't going to be.

00:54:31Argyle:We're not going to check it out.

00:54:33Gamemaster:Yes, but books trade hands all the time. Eventually you will die, or you will lose it,

00:54:40Gamemaster:or it will be stolen from you, and it's convenient to know the trace that the book

00:54:46Gamemaster:takes before it finds back to me.

00:54:50Argyle:Can I take a look to see?

00:54:52Argyle:first of all, I don't like how he's insinuating

00:54:54Gamemaster:Yeah, roll a society check for me, please.

00:54:55Anzu:Look up to him and say, I mean it, no offense to you, but do you mind for my own due diligence

00:54:55Argyle:that's going to have to come back to him, but also can I take a look

00:54:57Argyle:to see if anyone else that I recognize is signing this?

00:55:04Gamemaster:Absolutely. I would never dream of it, but you're more than welcome to inspect it to your heart's

00:55:08Argyle:Sorry, what were you going to say, Tanner?

00:55:15Anzu:if I just kind of inspect this pen for a minute to make sure there's no extra funny business going on?

00:55:22Argyle:Also check the book.

00:55:25Anzu:What kind of check can I make to investigate the pen?

00:55:27Gamemaster:Leisure.

00:55:30Argyle:Hero point.

00:55:31Argyle:Matt three, baby.

00:55:40Gamemaster:Um, it would be in this instance, uh,

00:55:44Anzu:Very well.

00:55:46Gamemaster:probably Arcana's the best fit here.

00:55:49Gamemaster:Um, and for your natural 1, 12 on your society check, uh, Argyle, um,

00:55:56Gamemaster:None of the names stand out to you, even with the critical

00:56:00Gamemaster:The only thing that you would have to notice here is that there are quite a few names on this,

00:56:00Argyle:Sorry, you seem very confident that a book will

00:56:00Johnny:Is this library sort of a trans-dimensional thing?

00:56:05Gamemaster:and the dates go back a good 800 years or so.

00:56:14Argyle:find its way back to you. Why is that?

00:56:16Argyle:...

00:56:17Argyle:...

00:56:17Gamemaster:Not to me.

00:56:18Argyle:...

00:56:19Gamemaster:To this library.

00:56:20Argyle:...

00:56:22Gamemaster:They always do. That's where books belong.

00:56:30Gamemaster:Roll!

00:56:30Johnny:Do a perception.

00:56:38Gamemaster:Let's do...

00:56:39Gamemaster:I want a...

00:56:40Gamemaster:It's not Sense Motive, but it's close.

00:56:43Gamemaster:Perception or Society here.

00:56:47Gamemaster:The dude doesn't have skin, so it's a little difficult to read facial expressions and stuff,

00:56:51Gamemaster:but we'll see if maybe you get a good roll.

00:56:56Johnny:No.

00:56:57Gamemaster:Oh, 25 on the arcana check.

00:57:00Argyle:check the book though

00:57:00Anzu:I think I'm going to sign this.

00:57:01Gamemaster:The pen does not strike you as magical.

00:57:07Argyle:check the book

00:57:08Argyle:what if the book's magical

00:57:09Anzu:We're taking the book.

00:57:11Argyle:yeah no no what if the sign out book's magical

00:57:11Anzu:All right.

00:57:13Argyle:no

00:57:14Anzu:No, no, I'm signing the actual book, aren't I?

00:57:15Gamemaster:You mean the index card?

00:57:18Gamemaster:No, no, there is...

00:57:18Anzu:Like, I'm signing the book that we're taking.

00:57:20Gamemaster:There is an index card in the front cover of the book, like in a little envelope, and he asked you to sign that index card.

00:57:21Argyle:no

00:57:26Johnny:Not good.

00:57:27Anzu:Mm-hmm.

00:57:29Gamemaster:It is in the book that you're taking with you.

00:57:30Anzu:Yeah.

00:57:33Anzu:All right, I'll look at the card to, I think it's only a minute to identify nowadays.

00:57:40Gamemaster:It is.

00:57:41Anzu:Because I have the thing.

00:57:41Gamemaster:This one would be...

00:57:42Gamemaster:This one would be occultism or religion.

00:57:48Gamemaster:And what did we get for your roll, Noah?

00:57:50Anzu:Oh.

00:57:52Gamemaster:17 Gosh uh you say that and he says I don know what would give you that idea Uh

00:57:54Johnny:17 17

00:58:00Argyle:you what did Noah ask

00:58:00Anzu:you I got a 22 to look at the index card

00:58:05Gamemaster:Um...

00:58:07Argyle:what did Johnny ask?

00:58:09Johnny:Is this library trans-dimensional?

00:58:10Gamemaster:A 22.

00:58:11Argyle:oh

00:58:12Argyle:yeah no I think this is the library

00:58:12Johnny:We literally...

00:58:14Argyle:we saw those bone

00:58:16Argyle:dragons in the first campaign

00:58:18Argyle:yeah

00:58:25Gamemaster:There is...

00:58:27Gamemaster:Like, there's a very faint whiff of magic with it.

00:58:34Gamemaster:It's not nearly strong enough to your mind

00:58:37Gamemaster:to be binding in any way.

00:58:43Gamemaster:It doesn't even, to you, feel like it's tracking.

00:58:46Gamemaster:It doesn't feel like it's associated with location in some manner.

00:58:50Gamemaster:Unfortunately, with the rule,

00:58:51Gamemaster:you can't actually discern what the magic is or does,

00:58:54Gamemaster:but you can narrow down,

00:58:55Anzu:All right, I'm going to sign it.

00:58:56Gamemaster:you can narrow out things that you don't think it is.

00:59:02Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely.

00:59:03Anzu:Now, I know that Argyle already looked at the other signatures, and I don't want to

00:59:07Gamemaster:Absolutely.

00:59:11Anzu:analyze the whole list, but I just want to know how recent was the previous...

00:59:21Gamemaster:You don't need a rule for that.

00:59:23Gamemaster:The most recent entry on it is about six months old.

00:59:25Argyle:I don't love that

00:59:25Anzu:Well, it's going to know if I don't.

00:59:31Argyle:also did you use your real name

00:59:33Argyle:I can't believe you used your real name

00:59:37Gamemaster:One second No the index card goes in the book

00:59:40Argyle:that's a rookie mistake

00:59:42Argyle:rookie mistake

00:59:44Argyle:you don't know that

00:59:48Argyle:and now Grayson's gonna come here

00:59:52Argyle:and he's gonna go

00:59:53Argyle:what happened here

00:59:54Argyle:as they going to go the bird has it The bird took the map

00:59:55Benny:Thank you They going to see your name and make a clone of you

00:59:55Anzu:Do we leave the index card with him

00:59:55Johnny:you Oh no

01:00:06Gamemaster:Okay.

01:00:06Anzu:Yeah, so it's all good.

01:00:08Argyle:Yeah, Grayson's going to take something.

01:00:10Argyle:my bot was way nicer when I asked about killing Benny

01:00:14Benny:And then my question will be valid that I asked the PF2E bot.

01:00:18Benny:Wait, what did it say?

01:00:19Anzu:The clone would be my friend.

01:00:19Gamemaster:One second.

01:00:25Gamemaster:I did

01:00:25Anzu:I feel like.

01:00:25Johnny:That sounds very familiar for some reason.

01:00:29Gamemaster:while you're doing that

01:00:32Gamemaster:I did also want to clarify because it might come up

01:00:34Gamemaster:the name of the person who checked out

01:00:36Gamemaster:the book six months ago was

01:00:38Gamemaster:Alastair Moss

01:00:39Gamemaster:just

01:00:40Gamemaster:what

01:00:40Argyle:i'd really wanted to emphasize that benny's not an enemy it had a lot more bolding

01:00:46Gamemaster:oh

01:00:48Benny:God bless you.

01:00:52Gamemaster:Benny isn't in the general rules

01:00:55Johnny:Yeah, wait.

01:00:57Gamemaster:let me check if he's in impossible magic

01:00:59Gamemaster:ah yes

01:01:05Gamemaster:this is an in-game scenario

01:01:07Gamemaster:dominated ally, pvp moment

01:01:09Gamemaster:betrayal arc, etc

01:01:10Argyle:Even the final sentence.

01:01:11Gamemaster:the question is, is it

01:01:13Gamemaster:Benny betraying everybody or is it

01:01:15Gamemaster:Argyle betraying everybody

01:01:18Benny:it did talk so much more about

01:01:20Benny:hey man, I'm not sure if you should be

01:01:22Benny:doing this.

01:01:22Gamemaster:Well, I think it's because the bot knows it's gonna be like a more uphill climb for Argyle

01:01:24Benny:I'll give you the analysis, but I don't know.

01:01:25Anzu:There.

01:01:25Johnny:Mike's ball was ready

01:01:26Benny:I don't really know about this.

01:01:30Johnny:he said listen just start swinging

01:01:31Johnny:he's weak

01:01:33Argyle:Even the final sentence.

01:01:33Benny:Kill him.

01:01:40Gamemaster:to kill Benny.

01:01:40Argyle:Yeah.

01:01:40Benny:Hey Atum.

01:01:41Gamemaster:I don't know if this is the best idea for you to be doing this.

01:01:46Gamemaster:Maybe you should be reconsidering.

01:01:48Benny:And that way, the bot acts exactly like a

01:01:51Benny:party member, because if someone was

01:01:52Gamemaster:hmm Either way you have your hands on your book now signed and dated

01:01:53Benny:weak we like well this is easier now I mean if there Hopefully

01:01:55Argyle:yeah

01:01:55Johnny:everyone weak next to benny you hit once well and it over the only way to defeat Benny is not get hit

01:02:17Gamemaster:You're hanging out in front of Ocelith, the caretaker of this library.

01:02:25Benny:All right.

01:02:25Gamemaster:You gonna read it here?

01:02:25Argyle:we can leave

01:02:25Anzu:No.

01:02:25Johnny:And

01:02:28Anzu:No.

01:02:28Gamemaster:Hang out with the Zabub?

01:02:29Gamemaster:Telepathically.

01:02:31Anzu:I'm going to take it home.

01:02:32Argyle:I say telepathy

01:02:33Argyle:telepic

01:02:34Argyle:through telepathy

01:02:36Argyle:guys should

01:02:36Benny:Allopathically.

01:02:37Argyle:should

01:02:39Argyle:I augur to see if it's a very bad thing

01:02:39Benny:All right.

01:02:42Argyle:that this bone dragon now has

01:02:44Argyle:this ink thing that we didn't look into

01:02:47Argyle:I can augur to see if we should

01:02:50Anzu:My.

01:02:50Anzu:well I think he already owned it and got stolen from him

01:02:51Argyle:stop it

01:02:55Benny:it just

01:02:55Argyle:So you just think this.

01:02:57Anzu:so he has been using it

01:03:02Anzu:I think that it's blood ink and it has some

01:03:03Benny:rightfully is

01:03:05Anzu:magical properties that lend power to the words he creates

01:03:16Benny:I say

01:03:16Benny:auger it

01:03:17Benny:I say we go back home

01:03:18Benny:we auger it

01:03:19Benny:and then we add it to the

01:03:19Benny:fucking list

01:03:25Gamemaster:Ocelot?

01:03:25Johnny:Hey, Ocelith, Ocelith, nailed it. Is there a store in town or anywhere around here we can buy gear?

01:03:30Gamemaster:No.

01:03:39Gamemaster:I'm afraid the Harlequins are a commune.

01:03:44Gamemaster:They don't really have need for money for purchasing things.

01:03:49Gamemaster:If there are basic resources you need, I'm sure we can get you some.

01:03:54Gamemaster:You have a servant that you can call upon, no?

01:03:55Johnny:I mean, we could go on and on.

01:04:00Benny:Mm-hmm.

01:04:00Gamemaster:That's good. Making friends is important.

01:04:00Argyle:feel free to reach out to us if you need another

01:04:00Anzu:We're working on increasing our relationship with him, actually.

01:04:00Johnny:call upon him. He does not really serve.

01:04:05Johnny:I've been getting kind of

01:04:06Johnny:getting kind of snippy.

01:04:09Benny:Mm-hmm.

01:04:14Benny:

01:04:17Argyle:quest or

01:04:19Argyle:acquisition done

01:04:22Gamemaster:You have been very useful, Muscle. I will say, pleasantly surprised.

01:04:28Gamemaster:Should I have need of your services again?

01:04:30Benny:Mm hmm.

01:04:30Argyle:Do you know that because he signed his name?

01:04:32Gamemaster:I do know which berth to find you in.

01:04:34Gamemaster:No, because we are sharing the Strider together.

01:04:36Benny:Mm hmm.

01:04:38Argyle:Or...

01:04:40Argyle:Oh, okay.

01:04:44Gamemaster:I know where all of the different organizations are.

01:04:44Argyle:Just a little second.

01:04:47Argyle:So you have no more quests

01:04:48Argyle:to do right now, right?

01:04:49Gamemaster:No.

01:04:52Gamemaster:No quests as such.

01:04:52Argyle:Okay.

01:04:55Argyle:Okay.

01:04:57Benny:Mm hmm.

01:04:57Gamemaster:Once I come up with another MacGuffin for you to find, I will let you know.

01:05:00Benny:I thought they served those at that diner.

01:05:00Argyle:Sounds good.

01:05:00Anzu:All right.

01:05:00Johnny:We're always on the hunt for a MacGuffin.

01:05:11Gamemaster:It's not a diner.

01:05:12Anzu:They have good couscous.

01:05:12Gamemaster:It's Sicilian.

01:05:15Benny:In my head, it's completely a diner.

01:05:20Anzu:All right.

01:05:21Gamemaster:They have good couscous.

01:05:22Gamemaster:Also, it might have been Sardinian, not Sicilian.

01:05:26Benny:I think it was Serdanean.

01:05:26Gamemaster:I'm sorry if I messed that up.

01:05:28Gamemaster:It's fine, because neither of those places are in the setting.

01:05:30Anzu:It only sounds like that because it's a translation from another language.

01:05:31Gamemaster:So, um, either way.

01:05:37Gamemaster:Yes, absolutely.

01:05:39Gamemaster:Uh, like, I guess that would make it, it'd be Fenrith-y.

01:05:42Gamemaster:Like, somewhere on the border between Fenrith and Tormiray.

01:05:46Gamemaster:Um.

01:05:49Anzu:Alright, let's go home.

01:05:50Gamemaster:But, yeah, you guys can head home.

01:05:53Gamemaster:You know the way.

01:05:54Gamemaster:It not that large a strider you can it a nice little walk or you can always summon your your servant to get a floating disc for you for transit if you want that instead

01:06:00Argyle:you Yeah let do that

01:06:09Gamemaster:But assuming you want to walk, it's easy enough. You can head back to your base.

01:06:16Gamemaster:It's probably getting to, like, evening at this point. Suns are setting. It's

01:06:22Gamemaster:It's getting darker.

01:06:24Gamemaster:It is actually, I think, remarkable from your perspective,

01:06:27Gamemaster:like how quickly you acclimated to every six seconds you are in a new world.

01:06:32Gamemaster:It's like your brain just kind of tunes out the split second where you're between worlds.

01:06:38Gamemaster:And so it's totally mundane at this point.

01:06:41Gamemaster:You head on home since you're setting.

01:06:43Gamemaster:Every once in a while, there's like a flash of, for six seconds,

01:06:47Gamemaster:the sky is a slightly different color or it gets really humid all of a sudden.

01:06:52Gamemaster:But that's pretty rare and for the most part it's it's it's been fine

01:06:55Argyle:let's uh

01:07:00Argyle:so guys

01:07:04Argyle:i say as we're walking back

01:07:07Argyle:i gotta ring a truth i think we should ask everyone in our group

01:07:13Argyle:uh something to see if they're with us what should we ask we'll have 10 minutes with it

01:07:21Argyle:I still kind of like the idea of us writing a little constitution thing

01:07:25Anzu:Do you have any way to make that binding?

01:07:25Argyle:where it's basically the tenets of

01:07:28Argyle:we will all protect this heart

01:07:30Argyle:we will not work with other groups

01:07:34Argyle:without everyone knowing

01:07:36Argyle:and we will not try to cause any harm

01:07:40Argyle:to any one of our allies that are

01:07:43Argyle:following the constitution

01:07:51Anzu:because I feel like the people that are already going to do that are going to sign it no problem and the people who aren going to follow that are going to sign it and then keep doing their own thing anyway

01:07:51Argyle:so we have I have Ring of Truth So they can lie

01:07:55Benny:you Mm

01:08:06Argyle:while signing it. If I want a spell

01:08:08Argyle:to make sure they never break that, I need to

01:08:10Argyle:spend a day with each person catching

01:08:12Argyle:Gaze.

01:08:15Anzu:But we could ask them while they're signing if it is their true intent

01:08:19Anzu:to follow the Constitution, I suppose.

01:08:20Argyle:Yes.

01:08:21Argyle:And we can do it every week if we want.

01:08:23Argyle:or

01:08:23Anzu:Mm-hmm.

01:08:24Argyle:is strider

01:08:25Benny:the coalition's papers

01:08:25Anzu:We could also call it more of a treaty than a constitution.

01:08:25Johnny:The Strider Accords.

01:08:29Anzu:I mean, either, but...

01:08:33Johnny:we got there so fast

01:08:35Argyle:accords for

01:08:35Argyle:the coalition

01:08:36Argyle:attack

01:08:39Anzu:Strider, Boards of the Coalition.

01:08:40Benny:so we'll have them sign the sack

01:08:41Anzu:SAC. I like it.

01:08:44Argyle:yeah

01:08:46Benny:and

01:08:48Anzu:Mm-hmm.

01:08:52Argyle:Anzu's like let me show you my little bird

01:08:55Benny:So we head back.

01:08:55Anzu:All right, too much, too much.

01:08:57Benny:We pull the sack out.

01:08:58Benny:We show him the sack.

01:09:04Argyle:laughing

01:09:05Benny:You guys think we'll...

01:09:05Anzu:Wind it back.

01:09:06Argyle:laughing

01:09:07Benny:Such distrust.

01:09:08Benny:You think we'll betray you, shoving your sack in our face?

01:09:18Anzu:Are we home now?

01:09:19Anzu:Okay, because I need to tell you guys that the last person to read this book, Elastor Moss, works for Pyrolyte.

01:09:22Argyle:There must be different ways to get against those library.

01:09:25Benny:Huh.

01:09:31Anzu:Specifically on Project Entrainment, the one where they send people to the Source of the Voidsong.

01:09:33Johnny:How did they get this book?

01:09:46Anzu:Six months ago.

01:09:46Johnny:What?

01:09:48Johnny:But how?

01:09:49Johnny:How?

01:09:49Anzu:they met with the folks from the pilgrimage.

01:09:51Johnny:Yeah.

01:09:52Argyle:with six months yeah that was the party right

01:09:54Anzu:They met with the Harlequins So they might done it back six months ago when we had the party

01:09:55Benny:Thank you Tomorrow morning

01:09:56Johnny:Oh Oh so they were

01:10:07Anzu:so

01:10:08Johnny:So they're...

01:10:10Johnny:They're a few steps ahead of us.

01:10:15Argyle:Okay.

01:10:16Argyle:Do you guys want to do the Constitution tonight or tomorrow morning?

01:10:22Argyle:Okay.

01:10:23Argyle:what's the name of the guy that's making this radio scanner

01:10:25Gamemaster:Uh, Kadou. Kadou Flock. I was about to say of Ternion Heavy Industries. Sorry, of

01:10:25Anzu:Yeah, he's home.

01:10:25Argyle:or item scanner

01:10:27Argyle:I've head over to Kadou

01:10:31Argyle:of the coalition

01:10:36Gamemaster:uh, Alkaist Freight. Uh, but that's, you know, you've absorbed them at this point. So, of

01:10:41Argyle:yeah

01:10:42Gamemaster:the Coalition.

01:10:42Anzu:He's at our house now.

01:10:44Argyle:yeah

01:10:44Gamemaster:Yeah.

01:10:44Gamemaster:Yeah.

01:10:46Anzu:I would like to spend the evening going through some of the book with him to see what we can glean.

01:10:53Argyle:Mm-hmm.

01:10:53Gamemaster:Absolutely.

01:10:55Anzu:Oh, Johnny's got something.

01:10:55Johnny:After that whole thing, I'd like to find Anaïs and a nook.

01:10:57Gamemaster:Um,

01:10:58Gamemaster:okay. Yes.

01:11:04Gamemaster:Sure.

01:11:07Gamemaster:The twins

01:11:08Gamemaster:are...

01:11:10Gamemaster:God, okay. So,

01:11:12Gamemaster:So they made the bonnet for your car, and they went out to go make a moat.

01:11:16Argyle:Mm-hmm.

01:11:19Gamemaster:Then you guys beat them to the moat.

01:11:21Argyle:Now they're making the mind scanner.

01:11:22Gamemaster:I forget.

01:11:24Gamemaster:Oh, right.

01:11:26Gamemaster:The mind scanner.

01:11:28Argyle:The mind sweeper, if you will.

01:11:30Gamemaster:So I think what happens is you walk in.

01:11:34Gamemaster:you walk into the workshop to see Anaïs is holding what looks to be a wooden

01:11:42Gamemaster:stick just kind of pointing it in the direction of Anouk and what looks to be a

01:11:48Gamemaster:beaker with some gray powder in it and then Anouk hits the gray powder with a

01:11:54Gamemaster:hammer there's a soft pop and then the stick

01:12:00Gamemaster:burns blue for half a second before

01:12:00Johnny:Oh yeah, it was crazy.

01:12:02Gamemaster:it starts to burn red.

01:12:03Gamemaster:And that's apparently very exciting.

01:12:05Gamemaster:They're both interested in that outcome.

01:12:09Gamemaster:When you

01:12:10Gamemaster:come in, though, they will quickly

01:12:11Gamemaster:wake the stick to put it out and say

01:12:14Gamemaster:hello.

01:12:16Gamemaster:How was your

01:12:17Gamemaster:trip into the

01:12:19Gamemaster:Undercroft?

01:12:21Gamemaster:Did you find anything of note?

01:12:25Johnny:We found some big spiders.

01:12:27Johnny:and uh yeah did we talk about the god Herald

01:12:30Gamemaster:Yes, you had mentioned them.

01:12:33Johnny:oh yeah they're all they're all over the ship now too so that's another issue

01:12:36Gamemaster:Oh, that's exciting.

01:12:39Johnny:yeah um i got two questions for you one uh i pull out my drum of War uh

01:12:40Gamemaster:Okay.

01:12:43Gamemaster:Okay.

01:12:45Gamemaster:Okay.

01:12:47Johnny:can i get a little more you guys think you could help me out and make this a little more oomf-y

01:12:51Johnny:uh i just i need to see if they can upgrade it to like a the next level the level eight version

01:12:56Johnny:of a drum of War

01:13:00Gamemaster:Are these spells on the occult?

01:13:08Gamemaster:They are.

01:13:09Gamemaster:I think the answer is yes, you will have to pay the difference to get it upgraded, but

01:13:18Gamemaster:that is within their purview.

01:13:21Gamemaster:And also on the day that they do the upgrade, you have to spend three second level spells

01:13:26Johnny:Okay, yeah, I think that's worth it.

01:13:27Gamemaster:and two third levels.

01:13:29Gamemaster:That probably won't matter depending on the timeframe, but just like something to keep

01:13:36Johnny:Those are some pretty good spells.

01:13:39Gamemaster:Okay there are two of us You have asked one question which is the other Oh that wasn right before alien fell there was there was some time between the two

01:13:40Johnny:Okay.

01:13:43Johnny:Yeah, other quick question.

01:13:49Johnny:Listen where were you guys on the day that the prime minister was assassinated you know right before Rayleigh fell

01:14:05Gamemaster:um we were both in Hallia at that time

01:14:09Gamemaster:stuff or Renge i don't remember the exact thing but Renge had us out on a mission

01:14:10Johnny:What are you guys doing?

01:14:21Gamemaster:messing around with motorcades and the like.

01:14:25Johnny:All right.

01:14:30Johnny:Any reason you think...

01:14:32Johnny:What's...

01:14:33Johnny:I'm blanking on this guy's name.

01:14:36Johnny:Aut.

01:14:37Johnny:Any reason you think Aut would want me to have known that?

01:14:42Gamemaster:Ah.

01:14:43Gamemaster:I think it would be more useful to know the context around the conversation, but frankly, anything Aut wants you to know is probably not something you should give too much thought into. It's kind of his whole thing.

01:14:55Johnny:I mean, did it directly lead to the destruction of Raelion?

01:15:03Gamemaster:No. What?

01:15:05Gamemaster:What?

01:15:05Gamemaster:I think you are being misled

01:15:06Johnny:Indirectly?

01:15:06Johnny:That sort of seemed like that was what he was implying.

01:15:10Johnny:That was my reaction.

01:15:12Gamemaster:or told some kind of half-truth

01:15:14Gamemaster:we were certainly not

01:15:16Gamemaster:trying to cause the destruction of Raelion

01:15:18Gamemaster:or

01:15:19Gamemaster:do anything that would knock on effect

01:15:22Gamemaster:cause the destruction of Raelion

01:15:24Gamemaster:you can

01:15:25Johnny:Deception check.

01:15:27Gamemaster:roll a perception or deception check

01:15:30Gamemaster:here if you're

01:15:32Gamemaster:trying to figure out if you think they're lying

01:15:34Gamemaster:okay

01:15:39Gamemaster:uh yeah i mean i don know these guys these guys are enigmatic in the best of times I think it hard to tell if they being sincere or just kind of placating you

01:15:42Johnny:My deception at this level.

01:15:45Johnny:Okay.

01:15:51Johnny:Terribly tonight.

01:15:52Johnny:I got no idea.

01:15:53Johnny:21.

01:15:55Argyle:bye for the best

01:15:55Johnny:you All right

01:16:09Johnny:Well, I just wanted to ask.

01:16:11Johnny:Let me know when you need me to upgrade this thing.

01:16:14Gamemaster:Of course, you pick the day, and we will make that the day.

01:16:20Johnny:All right.

01:16:21Johnny:I'll see what we've got going on tomorrow, and I'll come back.

01:16:25Benny:Not yet, maybe.

01:16:25Gamemaster:It will be here.

01:16:25Argyle:I wouldn't tell anyone.

01:16:25Johnny:All right.

01:16:28Johnny:And then in the group chat, in my head, I say, hey, I didn't tell Anouk and I about Machine

01:16:35Johnny:Guard.

01:16:35Johnny:Don't know if we want them to know or not, but I didn't tell them about it yet.

01:16:44Benny:Fine.

01:16:46Argyle:I'm not even telling the Scale.

01:16:49Benny:Whoa.

01:16:52Argyle:I don't want anyone to be compromised.

01:16:52Johnny:Yeah.

01:16:53Gamemaster:It's a secret.

01:16:55Gamemaster:It can't be today, either way.

01:16:55Argyle:I cast

01:16:55Anzu:Hmm.

01:16:55Johnny:I don't think I have actually, I don't think I have the spell slots for it today.

01:17:01Johnny:Oh, okay.

01:17:01Argyle:yeah

01:17:03Argyle:I also cast

01:17:03Gamemaster:They need the time to set up, but starting from tomorrow, you pick a day and they'll do it.

01:17:08Johnny:Okay.

01:17:10Argyle:Augury but we can do that after Tanner's thing

01:17:12Argyle:okay

01:17:15Gamemaster:Uh, sure.

01:17:17Gamemaster:Okay, so Tanner, the book.

01:17:20Gamemaster:What's a good...

01:17:21Gamemaster:I think academia lore is probably the best proxy here for how good you are at looking at a book.

01:17:25Benny:Record keeping.

01:17:25Anzu:Indeed.

01:17:28Gamemaster:Unless somebody else has, like, cartography lore, which I doubt.

01:17:28Anzu:Indeed.

01:17:35Anzu:Let's get it.

01:17:36Gamemaster:So then...

01:17:38Gamemaster:Yeah, do it.

01:17:39Anzu:Does doing it with Kadou bring me any benefit?

01:17:40Gamemaster:That's not the same.

01:17:41Gamemaster:Right now you doing exploration I think is the best way of putting it So I think what it probably is is I will have somebody else roll for Kadou Excuse me And then

01:17:44Anzu:Or am I helping him by doing this role?

01:17:47Anzu:Or is there any kind of teamwork that we can...

01:17:53Anzu:Yeah.

01:17:55Argyle:If I roll can I use a mythic point if I fail

01:17:55Anzu:Okay Okay Okay

01:18:05Gamemaster:no, because he's not

01:18:09Gamemaster:mythic.

01:18:10Anzu:Can I cast Guidance on myself beforehand?

01:18:10Argyle:Damn it!

01:18:11Argyle:I figured.

01:18:16Argyle:Can I

01:18:16Gamemaster:Yeah, I don't see why not.

01:18:17Argyle:cascade it on Kadou?

01:18:18Gamemaster:You absolutely can. Somebody just needs

01:18:20Argyle:Yeah.

01:18:21Gamemaster:to, for Kadou, roll

01:18:23Gamemaster:a d20 plus 12.

01:18:25Benny:Call that D20 plus 12.

01:18:25Argyle:Add guidance to whoever rolls that.

01:18:25Anzu:24, academia.

01:18:29Argyle:Guidance.

01:18:32Gamemaster:I guess plus 13, because of guidance.

01:18:37Benny:29 for Keto-Demia.

01:18:44Gamemaster:Wow.

01:18:47Gamemaster:Kadou Demian.

01:18:49Gamemaster:Listen, this is kind of his whole thing.

01:18:53Gamemaster:Um, he's bad at most other stuff, but he has, he specifically has horizon lore, like this is his thing, um, as part of what Alkahest Freight works on.

01:18:55Anzu:Perfect.

01:19:06Gamemaster:uh the two of you are looking through uh the map is probably the wrong term for this thing that

01:19:13Gamemaster:you guys have found it is closer to an atlas it is a collection of maps um some of which are uh

01:19:20Gamemaster:like call out things that are more interesting but the the most interesting piece of this atlas

01:19:29Gamemaster:is there is a singular map at the beginning that is a map of the horizon, specifically of the void

01:19:38Gamemaster:horizon. This is the void atlas. There is somewhere a star atlas that covers the other direction.

01:19:47Gamemaster:But if you open up the first page of the void atlas, you'll find that unlike a normal page,

01:19:53Gamemaster:which just opens and the next page and the next page.

01:19:56Gamemaster:This one is a fold-out where it unfolds

01:20:00Gamemaster:and then that unfolds and then that unfolds.

01:20:04Gamemaster:And you start unfolding the map

01:20:07Gamemaster:that is this graphical description

01:20:09Gamemaster:of the voidward Horizon,

01:20:13Gamemaster:starting at prime,

01:20:14Gamemaster:which is at the very beginning of the book.

01:20:16Gamemaster:And as you continue to fold out,

01:20:17Gamemaster:it is like a timeline almost,

01:20:19Gamemaster:laying out different partitions of the horizon.

01:20:24Gamemaster:And you, I assume you do this indoors somewhere.

01:20:27Gamemaster:You like find a place either in the workshop

01:20:29Gamemaster:or somewhere like that.

01:20:30Argyle:the War room.

01:20:30Anzu:Yeah.

01:20:32Gamemaster:Sure, in the War room.

01:20:35Gamemaster:You quickly run out of room in the War room

01:20:39Gamemaster:to unfold this thing.

01:20:42Gamemaster:So it extends a little bit into the hallway

01:20:44Gamemaster:and then extends past the hallway

01:20:46Gamemaster:into the kitchen on the other side.

01:20:48Gamemaster:And then it keeps going.

01:20:50Gamemaster:All told, the map completely unfurled

01:20:54Gamemaster:is about, I want to say 200 feet long.

01:20:59Argyle:Wow.

01:20:59Gamemaster:Um, it covers, it covers a little, uh, it covers, like, almost 2.8 million, uh, worlds.

01:21:10Gamemaster:Um, and to do that with any sort of resolution, it has to be this ridiculously long stretch of

01:21:18Gamemaster:parchment. Fragile-feeling parchment, almost. Uh, it has clearly seen some use, uh, and this book

01:21:25Gamemaster:has not been magically enchanted to, to like repel coffee stains and all that kind of stuff.

01:21:32Gamemaster:There is obvious wear from the people who had this atlas before you pouring over this map of notes.

01:21:39Gamemaster:But you are, you are at this point like three to four days in to what is to be a four and a half

01:21:49Gamemaster:month long journey.

01:21:52Gamemaster:And so you unfold it all the way just to see the full length of the map and then realize that at the moment you really only need the first fold So you can like roll it back up a little bit being careful to keep the creases the same

01:22:06Gamemaster:until you can see just where you've been, where you're going.

01:22:12Gamemaster:The book is, the map, the atlas, is interesting in another way, in, I think,

01:22:19Gamemaster:of the four of you

01:22:23Gamemaster:Benny and Anzu

01:22:25Benny:Are we expert in lore?

01:22:25Anzu:I cannot.

01:22:25Johnny:Eat.

01:22:25Gamemaster:might have had a chance to interact

01:22:27Gamemaster:with something like this I would love it if you could both

01:22:29Gamemaster:roll your War checks for me again

01:22:31Gamemaster:this is for

01:22:33Gamemaster:something specific that you

01:22:35Gamemaster:may have seen in Belvedere

01:22:37Gamemaster:oh that is an

01:22:41Anzu:I cannot.

01:22:43Gamemaster:excellent question

01:22:44Gamemaster:one second

01:22:47Gamemaster:what level are you guys?

01:22:50Anzu:Depends on if we're seven or eight.

01:22:51Johnny:Oh.

01:22:51Gamemaster:you should be master

01:22:52Gamemaster:you should be master

01:22:54Gamemaster:it's a level 7 thing

01:22:55Anzu:Is that a level 8 thing?

01:22:55Johnny:No.

01:22:55Benny:That's the law.

01:22:58Gamemaster:we just didn't do it at level 7

01:23:00Gamemaster:I am learning this right now

01:23:02Anzu:Then give me a 23.

01:23:05Gamemaster:absolutely

01:23:06Gamemaster:it does not in this particular instance

01:23:08Gamemaster:change the result at all

01:23:10Gamemaster:given that Kadou rolled better than you

01:23:13Gamemaster:but it is good to know in general

01:23:14Anzu:Alright, whatever.

01:23:15Anzu:I've updated it.

01:23:16Gamemaster:for your lore checks

01:23:17Gamemaster:you guys are now master

01:23:20Gamemaster:in your relevant lore

01:23:22Gamemaster:and then it won't become relevant again until

01:23:25Benny:Oh, 16.

01:23:26Gamemaster:15th level at which point you'll become legendary

01:23:28Gamemaster:if you're still alive

01:23:30Gamemaster:okay

01:23:35Gamemaster:so both of you

01:23:38Gamemaster:should have so we got a 23

01:23:39Gamemaster:oh that's what your give me a 23 was for

01:23:41Gamemaster:it wasn't for your original one with Kadou

01:23:43Gamemaster:it was for this one just now

01:23:44Gamemaster:and then Benny what did you get

01:23:46Gamemaster:16.

01:23:51Gamemaster:Yeah, unfortunately, neither of you have seen something like this before.

01:23:55Argyle:you That so cool

01:23:55Gamemaster:The parchment of this map the text on it appears to move slightly You can see that there are bits of it

01:24:08Gamemaster:It appears to be animated in some way.

01:24:10Gamemaster:None of the text is changing necessarily, but it does appear to shift about slightly.

01:24:16Gamemaster:Almost as if something is rewriting the words on the page over the words that are already there.

01:24:23Argyle:it's live updating

01:24:25Gamemaster:um

01:24:25Argyle:would it be beneficial

01:24:28Gamemaster:hmm

01:24:31Gamemaster:hmm

01:24:31Argyle:at some point in the future to cast mending

01:24:33Argyle:on it because you mentioned some wear and

01:24:35Argyle:tear do I think that's

01:24:36Gamemaster:uh it's not a bad one

01:24:37Argyle:that's a good idea or

01:24:39Argyle:is that more flavor I'm just wondering if it's flavor

01:24:41Gamemaster:certainly uh it

01:24:43Gamemaster:it was more to like point out

01:24:45Gamemaster:that like you guys are

01:24:46Gamemaster:it is

01:24:47Argyle:or if it's something that we should actually fix

01:24:47Gamemaster:like I don't think you're at the

01:24:51Gamemaster:moment like in danger of actually causing

01:24:53Gamemaster:any damage to it. It's more so that this book has clearly seen quite a few hands over the years.

01:24:53Argyle:Okay.

01:24:56Argyle:Okay, cool.

01:25:00Gamemaster:And so, yeah, so there's that, like, weird squiggly-ness to the text, like it's being

01:25:06Gamemaster:overwritten. And you can see that, looking at your journey, you pass through a new world every

01:25:13Gamemaster:six seconds. You have had the opportunity to see quite a few of the worlds on the horizon now,

01:25:19Gamemaster:and come to terms with the fact that most of them are so boring.

01:25:24Gamemaster:They are completely empty.

01:25:25Gamemaster:They've got nothing in them.

01:25:27Gamemaster:At the very least, in the world's closest to prime,

01:25:33Gamemaster:like, you know, void three, void four, that kind of stuff,

01:25:35Gamemaster:even when you were starting to get out into the mid to low hundreds,

01:25:39Gamemaster:you still ran the chance of every once in a while

01:25:42Gamemaster:you would see a source of life of, like,

01:25:44Gamemaster:a group of people that decided to go 1,000 or 2,000 out on the horizon

01:25:48Gamemaster:to make their own little settlement far away from other civilization.

01:25:53Gamemaster:But at this point you a few thousands in and it been nothing for a long time So really the question becomes especially for this particular endeavor of yours of you want to resupply you want to find magic items

01:26:11Gamemaster:at some point on this journey to continue to have the fodder to pay the tithe. And so what you're

01:26:18Gamemaster:looking for are the so-called Joker Worlds, worlds that are different. They're wild cards.

01:26:24Gamemaster:They are unlike the other Horizon worlds.

01:26:27Gamemaster:And for the most part, also, Joker Worlds are similarly boring.

01:26:32Gamemaster:They're just different boring.

01:26:34Gamemaster:You find, like, the one closest to you, the one that you passed about an hour ago at this point,

01:26:40Gamemaster:was a Joker world that you can see labeled on this map as four degrees colder than norm.

01:26:47Gamemaster:And that's the Joker world.

01:26:49Gamemaster:It's just slightly colder, but, like, not even that much colder.

01:26:53Gamemaster:And similarly, a lot of the Joker Worlds have very slight variances like that.

01:26:55Argyle:Bless you.

01:26:58Gamemaster:The most interesting of which you can see looking at this map that you've passed so

01:27:02Gamemaster:far is apparently you spent six seconds in a world where all of the continents were mashed

01:27:07Gamemaster:together instead of being in separate parts of the globe.

01:27:10Gamemaster:But once again, you were there for six seconds, and then you were gone.

01:27:11Argyle:Yeah.

01:27:14Gamemaster:Sorry?

01:27:15Gamemaster:Oh, did you sneeze?

01:27:19Gamemaster:So what's more interesting are ones that have some evidence of something that could be considered

01:27:28Gamemaster:a magic item, which really narrows it down to two possibilities.

01:27:32Gamemaster:Maybe three.

01:27:33Gamemaster:One is a civilization of entities that are either like a large org that you are okay

01:27:42Gamemaster:with assaulting and taking the magic items from them in some outpost far along the horizon,

01:27:47Gamemaster:the chances of which become lower and lower the further voidward you get, or

01:27:52Gamemaster:an entity of a

01:27:55Gamemaster:group of people that aren't human and come from elsewhere on

01:28:00Gamemaster:the horizon and maybe you want to take their stuff or maybe a ruin of any of those kinds or

01:28:00Argyle:Okay.

01:28:05Gamemaster:a collection of particularly strong magical entities of some kind like magic beasts and the

01:28:13Gamemaster:like who just you can use parts of their body as magic items if you can take them down or the

01:28:21Gamemaster:possible third thing it is possible albeit unlikely that magic items just naturally appear in the

01:28:27Gamemaster:world by virtue of whatever strange phenomena is occurring in that joker world uh so those are kind

01:28:30Argyle:Okay.

01:28:34Gamemaster:of the three three major things you'd be looking out for um and uh there is some good news on that

01:28:42Gamemaster:front because you guys rolled pretty well um not amazing news uh there won't be any Joker Worlds

01:28:49Gamemaster:like that at least until after the next tithe uh you have a few days left until the next tithe

01:28:55Gamemaster:you're not going to see a world that has any likelihood of getting magic items in that time.

01:29:02Gamemaster:However, about three days after the next tithe,

01:29:06Gamemaster:Kadou points it out at first because it doesn't immediately stand out to you.

01:29:11Gamemaster:It appears that you are going to pass for six seconds.

01:29:14Gamemaster:It is labeled as Menagerie 1,

01:29:16Gamemaster:which

01:29:19Gamemaster:if you like

01:29:21Gamemaster:anybody who feels that they might

01:29:24Gamemaster:be interested in this

01:29:26Gamemaster:it would be a society check

01:29:28Gamemaster:to know if you recognize what that means

01:29:30Benny:I have a zero.

01:29:30Argyle:Are we limited to just two roles?

01:29:30Anzu:Thank you Let go

01:29:30Johnny:I'll just aid Anzu in his role.

01:29:30Gamemaster:uh yeah

01:29:35Gamemaster:that's fine

01:29:36Argyle:All right.

01:29:39Argyle:Can I roll?

01:29:42Argyle:Are you good at society, Benny?

01:29:44Argyle:I got an 11.

01:29:46Gamemaster:Benny does not care for society.

01:29:46Argyle:Do you have a guidance?

01:29:48Benny:I do have guidance.

01:29:50Benny:I shall guide you.

01:29:52Argyle:Is that plus one?

01:29:54Benny:Yeah.

01:29:54Gamemaster:It is plus one Even though he lives in one

01:29:54Benny:Okay And he doesn even know what society is

01:29:55Argyle:Okay Thanks

01:30:00Johnny:you I got a 31 to aid

01:30:05Benny:Begrudgingly.

01:30:10Anzu:Oh.

01:30:11Anzu:Does that give me a boost, Josh?

01:30:13Anzu:so then that gives me a 32 on a society check because I also rolled 31

01:30:14Gamemaster:A 31 will give you...

01:30:17Gamemaster:That is just a regular success, but that is a

01:30:19Gamemaster:success.

01:30:25Benny:That's fine.

01:30:25Gamemaster:Absolutely. Okay.

01:30:25Argyle:何とブラック

01:30:29Gamemaster:Okay.

01:30:33Gamemaster:All right.

01:30:37Gamemaster:Yeah, the name Menagerie stands out to you,

01:30:40Gamemaster:although its appearance on a map is in itself particularly interesting,

01:30:44Gamemaster:both because you didn't think it was real and because it's strange.

01:30:50Gamemaster:The Menagerie is a tale, often told in bedtime stories and the like, of this magic city that moves across the horizon.

01:30:55Argyle:ありがとうございました

01:31:03Gamemaster:Kind of described as, like, once upon a time some people from Istria found the Menagerie and that inspired them to create striders as these moving cities.

01:31:16Gamemaster:but it's always told as this

01:31:19Gamemaster:grand city that can move across

01:31:21Gamemaster:the horizon and it collects wonders

01:31:23Gamemaster:from across the horizon

01:31:25Argyle:sounds juicy

01:31:25Gamemaster:as it moves

01:31:26Gamemaster:so

01:31:29Gamemaster:to see

01:31:30Gamemaster:it labeled on a map

01:31:32Gamemaster:both is strange because the whole deal

01:31:35Gamemaster:is that it moves so the fact that it's

01:31:37Gamemaster:on the map implies that the map knows

01:31:39Gamemaster:it's going to be there or is currently

01:31:41Gamemaster:there

01:31:42Gamemaster:but also is strange because

01:31:43Anzu:Thank you You mean after the two ties from now around that border

01:31:45Gamemaster:it's a fairy tale

01:31:46Gamemaster:and this map says that it's there.

01:31:49Gamemaster:Either way, if it's real

01:31:51Gamemaster:that could be interesting

01:31:53Gamemaster:both because it is civilization and because if the stories are true it definitely has a magic item or two Beyond that a little closer maybe a little bit over the edge of the next tithe

01:32:08Gamemaster:it's a little difficult to tell at this point. It'll be very close either way.

01:32:12Gamemaster:There are two joker spans, which are, yes, Tanner.

01:32:17Gamemaster:yes sorry yes so past the first tithe um then after a few days is the menagerie and then after

01:32:30Gamemaster:that uh getting close to that next tithe either right before or right after are two joker spans

01:32:36Gamemaster:which are sometimes a joker world is multiple worlds there are a lot of academic thoughts

01:32:43Gamemaster:around why that is the case, but sometimes you get like three or four worlds in a chain that all

01:32:49Gamemaster:exhibit the same strange, uh, the, the same strange, uh, behavior. Uh, there are two stacked almost

01:32:58Gamemaster:right next to each other, um, uh, uh, Hellsmith and Glacier, uh, as the two labels on the map.

01:33:06Gamemaster:you can if you like flip into the atlas uh for each label there is on the map there is a

01:33:13Gamemaster:corresponding page or set of pages that holds like basic information uh about the worlds uh

01:33:20Gamemaster:hellsmith is a set of worlds where it's believed that something strange happened in the core of

01:33:27Gamemaster:the planet on those worlds and as such it is unusually tectonically active um compared to

01:33:35Gamemaster:to the normal Færrin.

01:33:37Gamemaster:But it is said to be home to all manner of fire elementals

01:33:42Gamemaster:and others who enjoy that kind of space.

01:33:45Gamemaster:And then right afterwards, Glacier is the opposite.

01:33:48Gamemaster:It is a Færrin that is, for whatever reason,

01:33:51Gamemaster:completely encased in ice,

01:33:53Gamemaster:as if there was a never ice age across the planet And similarly water and ice elementals and denizens who prefer colder climes tend to live there The two of them are next to each other which famously results in

01:34:09Gamemaster:a War on the border between the two groups. But there are places both cultivated due to the fact

01:34:18Gamemaster:that they're at War and need weapons and therefore produce weapons, as well as traders occasionally

01:34:24Gamemaster:pass by, you gather that those might also contain magic items or something of the use there.

01:34:25Argyle:Unless we use two groups.

01:34:25Anzu:Yeah.

01:34:30Gamemaster:If anything, it'll just be tricky to hit both, just given the time constraints that you have,

01:34:36Argyle:Yeah.

01:34:37Gamemaster:unless you split into two groups.

01:34:42Gamemaster:But that's the near future for what you have coming up. You could, like, Anzu, digging through

01:34:46Gamemaster:this, you know that you could spend hours, like, going through all of the possible things. You have

01:34:51Gamemaster:a long journey ahead of you, and there's a lot in the distance, but that's definitely, like,

01:34:55Argyle:I still think we should try to convince the Scale and or radiant arms to merge with us

01:34:57Gamemaster:the near future, the next two weeks, effectively, that you're going to come across.

01:35:08Argyle:because then we can have someone watch the base and then we pay one less or two less tides

01:35:14Argyle:but

01:35:17Argyle:Okay

01:35:22Argyle:What magic items do you guys have

01:35:24Argyle:that you'd be willing to let go of?

01:35:25Anzu:Well, I got these two, like, almost scrolls that might be good to give away.

01:35:25Johnny:We also got the jolt coil and the usurper's crown, if we're willing.

01:35:33Argyle:Oh yeah, how much

01:35:35Anzu:I haven't taken the time to actually figure out how much they'd be worth to the hearts.

01:35:42Argyle:Yeah

01:35:42Argyle:Could you do that?

01:35:46Argyle:I would like

01:35:47Argyle:If we're going to use those up, I would like to use them ourselves and then get turrets.

01:35:53Argyle:Because I think that's dope as hell.

01:35:55Anzu:Mm-hmm.

01:35:57Argyle:I also have my old...

01:36:00Argyle:reinforced shield

01:36:00Anzu:I don't really have much either.

01:36:00Johnny:I don't have too many.

01:36:02Argyle:that I forget what hide we put on it,

01:36:06Argyle:but it created a minor thing on that.

01:36:08Argyle:So that item's also worth...

01:36:15Argyle:That one's worth a good amount of gold.

01:36:17Argyle:It's nice to have, but I'm willing to let go of it

01:36:19Argyle:so that we can keep our allies happy.

01:36:24Johnny:Yeah, I think I gave up a few, so I'm kind of down to the things that I use.

01:36:26Anzu:I need my sleeve.

01:36:30Argyle:Yeah.

01:36:30Anzu:and my pendant of the occult I'd like to keep.

01:36:32Johnny:Oh.

01:36:35Anzu:And that's really all I have.

01:36:35Argyle:Can you check the scrolls to see how much they are?

01:36:40Anzu:Yes, before I do,

01:36:40Argyle:Where it's at?

01:36:42Anzu:Josh has Kadou and I wrap up

01:36:47Anzu:of looking through this for the evening,

01:36:49Anzu:and we have these couple of leads for the near future.

01:36:49Johnny:Oh.

01:36:53Anzu:I say, all right, Kadou, that was excellent work.

01:36:57Anzu:You've really got a knack for this.

01:37:00Gamemaster:Thank you. It is not often I get to read one of these, and I'm used to the survey reports that we have from ourselves, and they don't go out this far. So this is definitely exciting.

01:37:00Anzu:Yeah, I think there's a lot more for us to learn in here.

01:37:15Anzu:I actually had something a little different that I had been meaning to ask you about.

01:37:19Anzu:I know you and I have kind of

01:37:22Gamemaster:Sure, shoot.

01:37:24Anzu:similar-ish

01:37:27Anzu:thoughts and opinions on the Voidsong and its origins

01:37:30Benny:Holding.

01:37:30Gamemaster:I'm holding.

01:37:32Anzu:I think that

01:37:36Anzu:hold on, please hold

01:37:40Anzu:I think that Yao

01:37:44Anzu:over at Protectorate may also have

01:37:49Anzu:similar opinions to us. I can't confirm that.

01:37:51Anzu:But I was wondering if the two...

01:37:52Gamemaster:I...

01:37:53Gamemaster:I sorry I think there been some confusion here I don know Like I don believe Kadou Kadou has not expressed that he believes in the Focalist the same way

01:37:55Anzu:Didn't he say he thinks it's like Raelion calling out or something?

01:38:10Gamemaster:Yes, okay, just to clarify, yeah,

01:38:11Anzu:No, no, yeah.

01:38:12Gamemaster:he thinks that Raelion is like crying out

01:38:15Gamemaster:for people to come.

01:38:16Anzu:Yeah.

01:38:17Gamemaster:Sorry, I apologize.

01:38:18Anzu:I'm linking the like cry for help kind of portion of that.

01:38:23Gamemaster:Gotcha, okay.

01:38:23Anzu:We're not 100% aligned, but there's some similarities.

01:38:25Gamemaster:Okay, yeah.

01:38:30Anzu:I was wondering if you would want to maybe have a meeting with Yao

01:38:35Anzu:and the three of us could kind of just discuss and share opinions

01:38:39Anzu:and maybe even set up an ongoing thing to just think about it

01:38:45Anzu:and see what we can gleam as we get closer and closer.

01:38:50Gamemaster:I'd be happy to.

01:38:51Gamemaster:honestly it's nice not to just get

01:38:53Anzu:Yeah.

01:38:54Gamemaster:laughed out of the room you know

01:38:55Gamemaster:and any more information we can

01:38:56Anzu:Yeah.

01:38:58Gamemaster:pick up would be useful I know

01:38:59Gamemaster:that's kind of like your

01:39:01Gamemaster:iconoclasms reason detra

01:39:03Anzu:Mm-hmm.

01:39:03Gamemaster:and all but

01:39:04Gamemaster:I definitely like to help

01:39:08Gamemaster:out where I can now that we've got

01:39:10Gamemaster:you know ample time

01:39:11Gamemaster:it's not like I'm doing much else other

01:39:14Gamemaster:than doing this tinkering for

01:39:15Anzu:Right.

01:39:16Gamemaster:you so

01:39:17Gamemaster:gosh I wonder what my

01:39:18Anzu:Perfect. Yeah.

01:39:20Gamemaster:I have no idea what Alkahest Freight is going to say

01:39:23Gamemaster:if we make it back in one piece.

01:39:23Anzu:Yeah, well, we...

01:39:26Gamemaster:I don't know if they expect it from me,

01:39:28Gamemaster:but I don't know what I'm going to have for them.

01:39:30Gamemaster:Maybe this.

01:39:31Gamemaster:Maybe I could show them the Atlas,

01:39:32Gamemaster:if you guys don't mind me borrowing it.

01:39:33Anzu:Could be, yeah.

01:39:36Anzu:We've been thrown into a very unprecedented situation here,

01:39:39Anzu:so I think we're going to learn a lot on this journey

01:39:43Anzu:and it'll be at least a lot of knowledge to share when we get home.

01:39:50Gamemaster:Yeah, this is definitely a learning experience.

01:39:53Anzu:Yeah So anyway I talk to Yao and see if he actually interested in chatting about this or not But just wanted to plant that seed

01:39:54Gamemaster:I hope we end up in a good place That what I praying for

01:40:06Gamemaster:Alright.

01:40:08Gamemaster:Do you let me know? I'll be here.

01:40:11Gamemaster:So, I'm in that bunk.

01:40:13Gamemaster:And he just points to one of the bunks in your barracks.

01:40:17Anzu:Perfect.

01:40:18Anzu:All right, that's all. We can go back to the magic items.

01:40:22Gamemaster:Absolutely.

01:40:25Benny:the joy it's your calls diamond it's not that much money

01:40:25Gamemaster:Sorry, what do you need to analyze, Tanner?

01:40:25Argyle:what are they worth the magic items

01:40:25Anzu:Oh, yes, Josh, I need to analyze the papers.

01:40:28Argyle:does Benny need more damage

01:40:34Argyle:does Benny need more damage

01:40:42Anzu:The, what are they called?

01:40:43Anzu:Papers of perfection, just to get a sense of how much they'd be worth to the heart.

01:40:45Gamemaster:Yes.

01:40:48Gamemaster:Absolutely.

01:40:48Anzu:I think I already know what they do, but.

01:40:49Gamemaster:yeah you already

01:40:53Gamemaster:you already like

01:40:55Benny:Four.

01:40:55Argyle:Okay.

01:40:55Anzu:Oh, yeah.

01:40:55Gamemaster:looked up

01:40:55Gamemaster:I think you would just know

01:40:57Gamemaster:they're worth

01:41:00Gamemaster:23 gold pieces each

01:41:01Gamemaster:so 2 energy

01:41:03Gamemaster:yes

01:41:07Gamemaster:4 because of

01:41:09Gamemaster:how you have the upgrade

01:41:10Gamemaster:okay

01:41:12Argyle:So I guess two things.

01:41:13Argyle:One,

01:41:15Argyle:once they're done talking,

01:41:18Argyle:the other two, I'm going to be like,

01:41:20Argyle:all right, can I use the War room now for War stuff?

01:41:25Benny:an hour later oh it's

01:41:25Argyle:and I can cast Mending on that later

01:41:25Anzu:Let me just hold this back up.

01:41:25Johnny:And it's later.

01:41:28Anzu:And an hour later...

01:41:31Argyle:I will then bring in

01:41:41Argyle:I'd have Benny come in

01:41:42Argyle:because I feel like he's like a general

01:41:45Argyle:a little general

01:41:46Argyle:and then I'm going to auger

01:41:49Gamemaster:Thank you Uh yeah

01:41:50Argyle:and I'm going to

01:41:53Argyle:put down my augering stuff on the

01:41:54Argyle:the War room table and basically just ask the judge would it be a good thing if we went back and killed that guy from the library

01:41:55Johnny:you You can go back and steal the coil

01:42:05Argyle:nobody has the

01:42:08Argyle:kill it

01:42:11Gamemaster:okay I have to

01:42:12Johnny:Or the ribbon.

01:42:14Argyle:I don't I don't I was

01:42:16Argyle:questioning the coil thing because I

01:42:18Argyle:yeah

01:42:20Argyle:yeah

01:42:23Gamemaster:let me roll a dc

01:42:25Argyle:I can roll a secret one if you want.

01:42:25Gamemaster:6 flat check

01:42:27Gamemaster:is that what it is

01:42:28Gamemaster:dc 6 flat check

01:42:31Gamemaster:oh yeah

01:42:35Gamemaster:do that

01:42:36Gamemaster:blind gm roll

01:42:36Argyle:Blind GM roll?

01:42:37Argyle:Is that what it is?

01:42:38Argyle:Or is it private?

01:42:39Gamemaster:blind

01:42:40Gamemaster:Blind.

01:42:40Argyle:Okay.

01:42:42Gamemaster:Private means we both can see it, but nobody else.

01:42:44Argyle:Okay.

01:42:44Gamemaster:Blind means only I can see it.

01:42:45Argyle:All right, so that's the roll.

01:42:46Gamemaster:Okay.

01:42:47Gamemaster:All right.

01:42:48Gamemaster:What do you get out of this?

01:42:54Gamemaster:Good or bad?

01:42:55Benny:Same.

01:42:55Argyle:it says good, bad, or nothing,

01:42:55Gamemaster:Or mix in good and bad?

01:42:57Argyle:but if it's a failed, it says nothing anyway.

01:42:58Gamemaster:Good, bad, mixed, and nothing.

01:43:04Gamemaster:Absolutely.

01:43:06Gamemaster:make the query,

01:43:10Gamemaster:you get nothing back.

01:43:13Argyle:I don't feel comfortable acting on this.

01:43:17Argyle:Because either it's right,

01:43:19Argyle:or it's wrong, and then we're just doing

01:43:21Argyle:something bad.

01:43:21Argyle:also the judge doesn't like to be asked twice

01:43:25Benny:Fair enough.

01:43:25Argyle:so I'm not going to risk the chance that I failed

01:43:29Argyle:because if he said nothing and I asked again

01:43:32Argyle:bad

01:43:33Argyle:okay I wrap up my augury stuff

01:43:36Gamemaster:Um, Solari Sub-surface?

01:43:37Benny:Solari.

01:43:39Argyle:and then I'm going to go to what is the other group

01:43:43Argyle:that we took in

01:43:43Argyle:yeah what

01:43:46Benny:Drink.

01:43:46Gamemaster:Yeah.

01:43:47Gamemaster:Uh, Solari Subserv- Solari Sub-surface, like what does the org do?

01:43:48Argyle:what do they do before that again

01:43:51Argyle:yeah

01:43:58Gamemaster:They're a shipping company.

01:44:00Gamemaster:Roll a diplomacy check.

01:44:00Argyle:I'm gonna ask if they want to

01:44:04Argyle:they got a lot of time to kill

01:44:06Argyle:do they want to learn basic

01:44:09Argyle:fighting

01:44:11Argyle:stuff? I don't know if

01:44:12Argyle:they're interested. I'm not expecting

01:44:15Argyle:to make an army. This is more

01:44:17Argyle:of like

01:44:17Argyle:do these people want to be slightly more

01:44:20Argyle:self-sufficient for their own sake? I don't mean

01:44:22Argyle:it as like I'm forcing them

01:44:23Argyle:alright

01:44:27Argyle:Let me see my skills.

01:44:30Gamemaster:30.

01:44:38Argyle:All right.

01:44:41Argyle:I have three mythics.

01:44:42Argyle:I'm going to reroll.

01:44:48Argyle:30.

01:44:49Argyle:30.

01:44:52Gamemaster:Okay.

01:44:52Gamemaster:so the the three people that you got from Solari Sub-surface are uh salvado and the two

01:44:57Argyle:Hmm.

01:45:00Gamemaster:unnamed lackeys the ones that were asleep in the car um the two lackeys are clearly

01:45:02Argyle:Hmm.

01:45:02Argyle:Mm-hmm.

01:45:08Gamemaster:uh like pencil pushers um the there are people who sit behind the desk or whatever

01:45:13Gamemaster:salvado is interesting in that uh like having speak is having spoken to him he's clearly uh

01:45:21Gamemaster:I don't know what a polite way to put this.

01:45:25Gamemaster:Past is prime, I guess is the best way of putting it.

01:45:28Gamemaster:You look at him and you can see that at one time

01:45:31Gamemaster:he had been relatively in shape.

01:45:32Argyle:Okay.

01:45:36Gamemaster:Maybe not a fighter necessarily, but athletic.

01:45:40Gamemaster:And he is no longer that.

01:45:44Argyle:Okay.

01:45:44Gamemaster:But you can tell there was once a time where he was.

01:45:48Gamemaster:Now he's got kind of like, he's pudgy and pasty,

01:45:52Argyle:Okay.

01:45:52Gamemaster:and he got like deep sunken almost bloodshot eyes It clear that a lifetime of recreational and maybe not so recreational drinking has taken a toll on him

01:45:56Argyle:Okay you and I cured him of it

01:46:08Argyle:I cured him of alcoholism

01:46:10Gamemaster:You made him, did you sober him up

01:46:13Gamemaster:or did you cure him of alcoholism?

01:46:16Argyle:I cured him of alcoholism

01:46:16Argyle:okay

01:46:17Gamemaster:I think it's absolutely wild,

01:46:20Gamemaster:like the ramifications of the fact

01:46:22Gamemaster:that a cleric can go up to somebody and be like,

01:46:25Gamemaster:alcoholism be gone. But yeah, okay, sure, if you cured him of it, you rolled really

01:46:32Gamemaster:well on the diplomacy. At the moment, he feels like he wants to turn a new leaf. I

01:46:39Gamemaster:don't know if you can tell from looking at him, like, if he'll continue to stay

01:46:40Argyle:yep

01:46:46Gamemaster:motivated over time, but at the moment, if you're willing to, like, help him whip

01:46:46Argyle:yeah

01:46:51Gamemaster:himself back up into shape. He's ready. He'll do it. The other two are

01:46:54Argyle:yeah

01:46:57Gamemaster:perhaps less enthusiastic. They will do it if you tell them they have to do it,

01:47:00Argyle:um what do you guys think i don't feel like ordering these people to do anything but

01:47:01Gamemaster:but they will not volunteer.

01:47:10Argyle:do i with that that diplomacy check do i think they'd resent me if they tell them to do it

01:47:21Gamemaster:They have a pretty...

01:47:24Gamemaster:They're in this weird space right now.

01:47:27Gamemaster:They don't actually have really any responsibilities.

01:47:30Gamemaster:Their needs are being met.

01:47:32Gamemaster:So, like, their day-to-day is fine, and they're content.

01:47:36Argyle:so that's what I'm going to try to lead into

01:47:37Gamemaster:The one, like, thing is the looming threat of death,

01:47:43Gamemaster:which kind of puts a damper on the otherwise nice vacation that they're having.

01:47:48Gamemaster:and so

01:47:49Gamemaster:I want somebody needs to I would love it if somebody could make a will save for me please

01:47:50Argyle:I'm just going to be like you know it's probably good

01:47:52Argyle:for your own health like what if

01:47:54Argyle:something bad happens while we out foraging for items that what I trying to be like Ed can I get Jotty in here

01:47:55Benny:Thank you Okay

01:47:55Anzu:you Oh my god

01:47:55Johnny:you I brought these guys on

01:48:09Gamemaster:Their modifier is plus six.

01:48:14Johnny:I got it.

01:48:14Johnny:11.

01:48:19Argyle:Don't worry. If they get depressed, I can cure that too.

01:48:19Johnny:11.

01:48:25Gamemaster:Depression is not the thing that we're looking for.

01:48:25Argyle:Well, it's a disease.

01:48:25Johnny:Crazy.

01:48:27Gamemaster:Also, I don't know if you can cure mental illness.

01:48:31Gamemaster:I don't know if that's a thing.

01:48:33Argyle:Depression's a disease.

01:48:35Gamemaster:Is it defined as a disease in the 1960s?

01:48:38Argyle:Clinical depression.

01:48:39Gamemaster:In the 1960s?

01:48:41Gamemaster:Who knows?

01:48:42Gamemaster:I think maybe you just think they're a little bit sad

01:48:45Gamemaster:and they need to go for a walk.

01:48:48Argyle:Exactly why I'm telling them to go work out.

01:48:49Argyle:Yeah.

01:48:51Johnny:Did we try being happy?

01:48:51Gamemaster:Yeah, exactly.

01:48:55Gamemaster:with an 11

01:48:55Argyle:Yep.

01:48:56Argyle:Okay.

01:48:56Gamemaster:I think

01:48:57Argyle:So, I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of a test.

01:48:58Gamemaster:they don't

01:49:02Gamemaster:resent you

01:49:02Gamemaster:because they're a bit too busy being scared

01:49:06Gamemaster:for their life

01:49:06Gamemaster:they're scared that like the tide is going to happen

01:49:09Gamemaster:and they're going to die and like maybe something

01:49:11Gamemaster:went wrong and you guys aren't actually

01:49:13Gamemaster:like paying the tide for them

01:49:15Gamemaster:and so it's going to happen and they're just going to die

01:49:17Gamemaster:or maybe somebody's going to attack and kill them that way

01:49:19Gamemaster:or any other

01:49:21Gamemaster:there are a lot of ways that they could die

01:49:24Gamemaster:and they've had a lot of time at this point to think up all of them and then some more on top

01:49:28Gamemaster:of that uh and you being like hey you should get into shape you should prepare yourself so you can

01:49:34Gamemaster:defend yourself has just added you to the list of possible ways we could die uh and they're like

01:49:41Gamemaster:hey listen that's something i could i can address that particular one i will get him to not kill me

01:49:47Gamemaster:um and so they will they will join they don't resent you they are definitely scared of you

01:49:52Gamemaster:though Just as like yeah the you are you have become representative in their mind of the dangers that lurk on the Strider regardless of how true that necessarily is

01:49:53Argyle:yeah you know to be a good ruler

01:49:54Argyle:yeah I tell them they have to do

01:49:55Johnny:you We can play a game

01:50:08Gamemaster:But yeah, they will join Salvado.

01:50:10Argyle:they gotta do it for a week

01:50:12Argyle:and if they don't want to do it after a week

01:50:14Argyle:they can just chill it out

01:50:16Argyle:I will not bother them

01:50:17Argyle:what

01:50:18Gamemaster:Can I have somebody...

01:50:20Johnny:We can play a game.

01:50:20Gamemaster:Actually, Johnny, you do this.

01:50:23Gamemaster:You're going to roll a perception check for them

01:50:25Anzu:Hopefully them.

01:50:25Johnny:19.

01:50:26Gamemaster:as they sense motive on Argyle.

01:50:29Gamemaster:They have a plus four.

01:50:35Gamemaster:Okay, great.

01:50:38Gamemaster:Yep, so they agree to do it for the week.

01:50:39Johnny:We can play a fun game.

01:50:40Gamemaster:Did you promise to send him a sandwich every day

01:50:41Johnny:Who's going to last longer?

01:50:42Johnny:These guys training or the guy I'm sending sandwiches to?

01:50:51Gamemaster:or was it every week? I forget the cadence

01:50:52Johnny:It was every day.

01:50:52Argyle:Oh, man.

01:50:53Gamemaster:Every day, okay

01:50:55Benny:Yeah.

01:50:55Anzu:It's a good start.

01:50:55Johnny:And then I walked by, Johnny's in the kitchen meal prepping sandwiches right now.

01:51:00Johnny:And whoever walks in, he goes, you think seven sandwiches is good?

01:51:04Johnny:Think this guy's going to survive seven days of sandwiches?

01:51:07Gamemaster:Okay

01:51:11Johnny:All right.

01:51:12Johnny:I got seven PB&Js meal prepped in the fridge.

01:51:18Argyle:Also, before we go to sleep, Anzu,

01:51:20Argyle:can you send your bird around to see

01:51:24Argyle:if Prime Meridian has a plus two modifier

01:51:25Anzu:Oh, if they have an array up.

01:51:31Argyle:to their magic items?

01:51:36Argyle:Yeah, and can we see from here if our neighbor has one?

01:51:40Gamemaster:The RunGunners?

01:51:44Argyle:No, the other one.

01:51:45Gamemaster:Or um, gosh is it Hildebrandt?

01:51:46Argyle:I forget.

01:51:49Argyle:Hildebrandt, Hildebrandt.

01:51:50Argyle:Yeah.

01:51:52Gamemaster:Absolutely.

01:51:53Argyle:Because I just want to know if we've got to give these guys four

01:51:54Argyle:or if we've got to give them two.

01:52:00Gamemaster:Excuse me. Okay, so you're sending

01:52:00Anzu:Right.

01:52:01Gamemaster:Othello around to do

01:52:04Gamemaster:a little bit of scouting to see

01:52:05Gamemaster:who has a scythe and a ray.

01:52:08Gamemaster:Is what you're saying.

01:52:11Gamemaster:Okay.

01:52:12Gamemaster:Absolutely.

01:52:14Gamemaster:Okay.

01:52:15Gamemaster:I don't think you need a perception check here.

01:52:17Gamemaster:It's meant to be pretty obvious

01:52:18Gamemaster:from Bystander who flies around.

01:52:22Gamemaster:So you can tell Othello

01:52:24Gamemaster:to go back and then...

01:52:26Gamemaster:Once again, communication

01:52:27Gamemaster:with your bird is hard. He doesn't use words,

01:52:30Anzu:No, and I don't really know how to time when to look.

01:52:30Gamemaster:right?

01:52:39Anzu:I mean, I could estimate based on his fly speed and the distance to Prime Meridian.

01:52:47Anzu:And then I get a minute window to be correct.

01:52:52Gamemaster:Okay.

01:52:54Gamemaster:Okay.

01:52:55Gamemaster:Rolling

01:52:55Gamemaster:an Arcana check.

01:52:57Gamemaster:like a stand-in for timekeeping.

01:53:00Argyle:I'm keeping

01:53:00Anzu:Doing math.

01:53:01Gamemaster:Actually, no, it would be survival.

01:53:03Argyle:timekeeper

01:53:04Gamemaster:It's survival.

01:53:05Argyle:bird knows bird

01:53:05Gamemaster:Because it's how far a bird can fly

01:53:08Gamemaster:in a given amount of time.

01:53:10Gamemaster:That's definitely survival.

01:53:15Anzu:Oh, stupid.

01:53:17Anzu:That was stupid.

01:53:17Gamemaster:What'd you get?

01:53:18Anzu:I had a natural 20 for a 31.

01:53:23Gamemaster:Nice!

01:53:24Anzu:That's so stupid.

01:53:25Gamemaster:Okay.

01:53:25Gamemaster:you know the air velocity

01:53:30Anzu:Thank you perception Which is plus 12

01:53:30Gamemaster:of an unladen swallow

01:53:31Gamemaster:so you send Othello

01:53:36Gamemaster:off towards

01:53:38Gamemaster:Prime Meridian and you start

01:53:40Gamemaster:counting in your head 1, 2,

01:53:42Gamemaster:3 and then exactly

01:53:44Gamemaster:the moment when you think Othello

01:53:46Gamemaster:will be flying over Prime Meridian

01:53:49Gamemaster:initiate the connection with him so you can look through his eyes

01:53:53Gamemaster:roll a perception check for me

01:53:54Gamemaster:I know I said that you wouldn need one but I asking for one now I lied This is his perception

01:54:07Anzu:Actually, can I do that in here?

01:54:09Anzu:Please hold.

01:54:12Anzu:Othello.

01:54:14Anzu:Perception.

01:54:15Anzu:Why does it say plus...

01:54:17Gamemaster:I don't know why.

01:54:18Anzu:Oh, because he's still level 7.

01:54:20Gamemaster:Oh.

01:54:22Gamemaster:I can't make a...

01:54:22Anzu:We're going to add 2 to this roll.

01:54:23Gamemaster:That's fine.

01:54:25Argyle:Yeah, mythic.

01:54:25Anzu:Oh, geez.

01:54:30Anzu:He's not a great scout.

01:54:35Anzu:That's a 16.

01:54:38Gamemaster:16. Okay. Well, I told you without the perception check that it's a bit of a

01:54:44Gamemaster:freebie to like see specifically Prime Meridian if they have a Spire. They do

01:54:49Gamemaster:do not uh siphon array they do not have an array um with a 16 uh he has night vision uh and it is

01:54:52Argyle:Son of a bitch.

01:54:55Anzu:He has low light vision.

01:54:55Johnny:We've got to have dark vision.

01:54:57Gamemaster:nighttime um actually does he does he does othello have dark vision

01:55:04Gamemaster:he has low light vision okay there are there's definitely somewhere in the vicinity that has a

01:55:07Anzu:

01:55:16Gamemaster:siphon array. What direction it is, how far away it is, you don't know. But Othello's flying around

01:55:24Gamemaster:and he sees in the area around Prime Meridian a siphon array. And then your connection cuts.

01:55:25Argyle:yeah

01:55:25Anzu:I mean, that's the Scale or maybe the Ministry of Cultural Progress, could be the church.

01:55:31Gamemaster:this siphon array gives you a plus two to any item you feed into your heart

01:55:38Argyle:the siphon array just adds plus two right

01:55:41Argyle:yeah

01:55:44Anzu:Yeah.

01:55:44Argyle:okay

01:55:49Gamemaster:which has pretty good compounding benefits if you get it very early which you guys did

01:55:53Gamemaster:yeah you can you can just peek your your head out Hildebrandt does not

01:55:55Argyle:And then can we just look over to see if Hildebrandt does from our These fuckers

01:56:06Argyle:Alright.

01:56:13Argyle:Okay.

01:56:15Gamemaster:Anything else?

01:56:15Argyle:So, I can give my shield, my shield...

01:56:20Argyle:My backup shield, my fortress shield.

01:56:22Argyle:That one's worth...

01:56:25Benny:Sure.

01:56:25Argyle:95 gold pieces.

01:56:25Anzu:Right, because how much do we owe total?

01:56:26Argyle:So that's worth two tithes worth that I can give them.

01:56:32Argyle:And just say, keep the change for next tithe.

01:56:36Argyle:And then we can give two sheets to someone else.

01:56:39Argyle:And then just have to pay four next time.

01:56:48Benny:Didn't we agree just for this next one though?

01:56:48Anzu:Total?

01:56:49Argyle:Four each.

01:56:50Argyle:Hildebrandt made it seem like

01:56:55Anzu:It's kind of ambiguous where the agreement ends.

01:56:56Argyle:if we

01:56:56Argyle:they're not going to push us too much

01:56:58Argyle:if we miss one

01:56:59Argyle:they were like

01:57:00Argyle:yeah we want it

01:57:01Argyle:but I want to give

01:57:02Argyle:Primaridian 9 right now

01:57:04Argyle:and be like

01:57:04Argyle:we're good for this one

01:57:06Argyle:and the next dive

01:57:16Benny:Just for this time?

01:57:18Benny:I think that works.

01:57:20Argyle:If we disagreed for this one, I'm still happy to give them the nine under the pretense that, like, we're done.

01:57:25Johnny:Yeah, I think with the, we're done.

01:57:29Argyle:This gets the next one. We give you a bonus one. There you go.

01:57:37Johnny:Good way to do it.

01:57:40Argyle:And we'll throw in the extra because we want to...

01:57:43Argyle:Yes, Johnny, when you tell them via scan, be like, hey, we know you're a strong ally.

01:57:46Johnny:Got it Hey fam You guys are super strong Here a little freebie Done a lot of emotions Yeah

01:57:48Benny:Thank you No

01:57:50Argyle:We want to throw in an extra cycle.

01:57:52Argyle:Phrase it that way so it doesn't even see, you know.

01:57:55Anzu:you Say that again

01:57:55Argyle:There you go Yeah yeah yeah yeah

01:58:07Argyle:Second question.

01:58:09Argyle:Do we think these weird scripts are going to corrupt Hildebrandt's art

01:58:14Argyle:if we can feed it in there?

01:58:22Johnny:I think so.

01:58:24Argyle:Okay, cool.

01:58:24Argyle:we'll just give Hilda Brant the two other scripts.

01:58:25Benny:Maybe on Zuo Pines.

01:58:25Anzu:I mean, I can think on...

01:58:25Johnny:I feel like they can take it.

01:58:31Argyle:I mean, we gave

01:58:33Argyle:we gave our heart literally

01:58:35Argyle:a void heart. I don't think

01:58:37Argyle:this is going to, the Herald is going to be that big of a deal.

01:58:41Argyle:Yeah.

01:58:44Benny:All right.

01:58:45Benny:Well, it's more like neutral.

01:58:49Argyle:Hmm.

01:58:51Benny:At least this one was.

01:58:54Anzu:on I mean

01:58:54Argyle:I will try it.

01:58:55Gamemaster:You can roll a religion check.

01:58:55Anzu:do these

01:58:57Anzu:papers have

01:59:00Anzu:a like pull of the Herald

01:59:01Anzu:inherently within them

01:59:17Argyle:Uh.

01:59:24Argyle:28.

01:59:25Gamemaster:28.

01:59:28Gamemaster:Uh,

01:59:30Gamemaster:there's, like,

01:59:31Gamemaster:definitely a tinge. So,

01:59:33Gamemaster:the tricky bit here is

01:59:35Gamemaster:you don't know what

01:59:37Gamemaster:the Herald is like.

01:59:39Gamemaster:Like, you've come across

01:59:41Gamemaster:bits

01:59:43Gamemaster:of things that are infused with

01:59:45Gamemaster:the magic of

01:59:47Gamemaster:the host, or the Scale,

01:59:50Gamemaster:or the

01:59:51Gamemaster:compelled, or really any of the

01:59:53Gamemaster:outer gods. They all have this distinct kind of melody to them. If you

02:00:00Gamemaster:you listen for very closely you can hear if you're magically attuned. There is a

02:00:00Argyle:All right.

02:00:07Gamemaster:melody here that is different than the ones that you are familiar with with the

02:00:13Gamemaster:six outer gods. I, like, you cannot definitively say this is what the Herald

02:00:18Gamemaster:sounds like, so to speak, but you can say it is distinct from the six outer gods I

02:00:25Gamemaster:am familiar with.

02:00:29Gamemaster:That said, it doesn't

02:00:30Benny:73.

02:00:30Argyle:All right, cool.

02:00:30Gamemaster:feel particularly corrupting

02:00:33Gamemaster:necessarily. I don't think

02:00:34Argyle:Okay.

02:00:36Gamemaster:that Argyle would be

02:00:37Gamemaster:worried here that it would

02:00:39Gamemaster:overwrite the heart

02:00:41Gamemaster:to be Herald-worshipping or something

02:00:43Gamemaster:of that nature. It just doesn't

02:00:45Argyle:All right.

02:00:45Gamemaster:seem like what the pamphlet is for.

02:00:49Argyle:And then what's our current heart HP at or magic at?

02:00:57Benny:Unless we've made offerings.

02:01:00Benny:for now

02:01:00Argyle:Okay.

02:01:00Johnny:The crown gives you a success against a mental save once a day, right?

02:01:06Argyle:You want to keep the coil now?

02:01:09Benny:the crown

02:01:11Argyle:Should we sacrifice the spider to then get a turret?

02:01:17Benny:how much does it use

02:01:17Argyle:Yeah.

02:01:18Argyle:Yeah.

02:01:20Benny:surface crown

02:01:21Benny:um

02:01:25Gamemaster:I believe it gives you a plus one to save against mental effects and once per day you

02:01:30Benny:Thank you it been more than 50 yeah because of opportunity attacks

02:01:30Argyle:nope the only reason i don't sorry go ahead

02:01:30Johnny:It would be cool to get the turrets, but we've seen Grayson use mental stuff before.

02:01:32Gamemaster:can use it as a reaction to change a failure to a success against a mental effect.

02:01:42Argyle:yeah

02:01:47Johnny:I kind of think, going off of the earlier discussion we had before this, I kind of think

02:01:51Argyle:yeah my problem is what are the odds Benny has a free reaction Pretty low Pretty low

02:01:51Johnny:we should give it to Benny, because if Benny gets controlled, we all die.

02:02:00Anzu:Oh because he always trying to kill

02:02:06Benny:actually no it's probably been about 50-50

02:02:08Benny:it might have been true last fight

02:02:09Argyle:I think before your turn, you usually always use a reaction.

02:02:18Benny:I've been trying to keep track on how effective

02:02:19Benny:the

02:02:20Benny:the opportunity attacks have been

02:02:23Benny:how much was usurpers worth

02:02:24Argyle:Yeah.

02:02:25Gamemaster:500 pieces.

02:02:25Argyle:I can also, if we're going in for a fight with Grayson,

02:02:25Johnny:Okay.

02:02:26Johnny:I mean, I have precautions.

02:02:28Argyle:have stuff to cleanse that.

02:02:35Johnny:I took a new feat this level to also prevent against that.

02:02:38Argyle:Yeah.

02:02:46Johnny:I mean, I guess we have built in for it.

02:02:46Argyle:I think...

02:02:48Johnny:It'd be good.

02:02:49Johnny:I just wanted to bring that up.

02:02:53Argyle:Yeah.

02:02:53Benny:We should fight Grayson today.

02:02:55Gamemaster:What are you talking about?

02:02:55Argyle:also if we were to fight Grayson now

02:02:55Johnny:yeah we

02:02:58Argyle:we're going to die anyway

02:02:59Argyle:so hopefully by the time

02:03:04Argyle:if that ever does happen

02:03:05Argyle:we have something

02:03:07Gamemaster:You leveled up.

02:03:07Argyle:yeah

02:03:08Gamemaster:You guys are so strong now.

02:03:10Argyle:yeah

02:03:11Johnny:yeah

02:03:13Benny:We just power spiked.

02:03:13Gamemaster:He could be worse.

02:03:15Gamemaster:He could be weak, I mean.

02:03:17Gamemaster:He might be injured.

02:03:19Johnny:we just keep checking in

02:03:19Gamemaster:Maybe he, like, stubbed his toe.

02:03:23Johnny:machine god how injured is he right now

02:03:23Benny:Sorry.

02:03:25Argyle:So we get, if we get the turrets, this would give us 52, turrets are 75.

02:03:33Johnny:if we're prepared

02:03:34Johnny:cool

02:03:40Argyle:So we'd be net loss 18.

02:03:43Argyle:So we go down to 54, right?

02:03:48Argyle:this would give us 52 with the additional plus 2 Next time is expected to be what 28

02:03:52Benny:Turrets are 75.

02:03:53Benny:Yes we be at 50 what does it say on the

02:03:55Gamemaster:you It tells you when the next expected tile is going to be

02:04:12Benny:on the heart because doesn't it say next

02:04:14Benny:expected tithe

02:04:15Benny:I thought it did like we saw

02:04:18Gamemaster:It doesn't tell you the amount.

02:04:22Benny:it go up to 21

02:04:24Benny:yeah it went from 20 to 21

02:04:25Gamemaster:You saw... I don't... Did I say that? Oh.

02:04:25Argyle:I thought we did too.

02:04:25Anzu:Hmm.

02:04:30Argyle:Yeah.

02:04:32Gamemaster:Okay, I'm sorry. If I told you that, then we'll just keep going. It says 27.

02:04:54Benny:So Benny has a poly tool, a crushing poly tool.

02:04:55Gamemaster:I...

02:05:06Benny:Does it count as being a full magic item,

02:05:08Benny:even if it's just a rune attached to something?

02:05:11Benny:Or is the rune the only thing that counts?

02:05:16Gamemaster:You do not get the extra, like,

02:05:20Gamemaster:six cold pieces or whatever

02:05:21Gamemaster:from the polytool itself,

02:05:22Gamemaster:because that's not magic.

02:05:23Gamemaster:It's the root of it.

02:05:24Benny:Fair enough.

02:05:25Gamemaster:you would we're not we're not doing rune arbitrage that's not happening

02:05:25Johnny:So, I know that...

02:05:25Benny:I thought that, because I was looking at it, I was like,

02:05:27Benny:so what, we can just buy runes

02:05:29Benny:and then stick them on an expensive

02:05:30Benny:weapon like a poly tool, and then

02:05:32Benny:it's just more? It doesn't...

02:05:37Benny:Okay, yeah.

02:05:38Benny:I just wanted to clarify.

02:05:41Benny:So the shifting

02:05:42Benny:rune is worth 50.

02:05:44Benny:Another shifting. Whoa, I'm also not offering

02:05:46Benny:up the shifting rune.

02:05:48Benny:The crushing rune is worth 50.

02:05:52Benny:And Benny has

02:05:52Benny:a strict surplus.

02:05:54Johnny:really cool but I feel like it might be more strategic to get the spoofing transmitter and then save up or save up for the spoofing transmitter and then save up for the parasite hook just because

02:05:55Argyle:you the reason I worried about indexing in that is people are going to know we

02:06:08Johnny:a DC 24 deception check is not uber high or 24 society check I don't know Anzu's looking at

02:06:21Argyle:stealing stuff.

02:06:24Argyle:And I feel like we're in a weird

02:06:25Johnny:The spoofing transmitters, but neither of those are, I mean, the parasite hook's stealing,

02:06:26Argyle:Cold War state, and if we start

02:06:28Argyle:stealing stuff and piss someone off, we might get

02:06:30Argyle:invaded. And if we get invaded...

02:06:36Johnny:but the masking matrix and the spoofing transmitter don't steal.

02:06:36Argyle:Hmm.

02:06:42Johnny:The masking matrix, once every three tide cycles, it halves our payment, and then the

02:06:49Argyle:Hmm.

02:06:50Johnny:a spoofing transmitter, it's a DC 24 deception check,

02:06:51Argyle:so someone gets screwed though in that one

02:06:53Johnny:and it increases someone else's by 10 energy

02:06:58Johnny:and then can reduce ours by 10 energy.

02:07:02Argyle:yeah

02:07:03Johnny:Yeah, but I mean, I feel like someone else

02:07:04Argyle:yeah

02:07:07Johnny:is going to get that too, so it's better to have

02:07:12Johnny:that ahead of the game.

02:07:18Argyle:personally i prefer to get the turrets and then just go all up

02:07:20Johnny:I also think that the turrets are a very open War sort of thing, and we're not at the open War stage.

02:07:21Argyle:That path.

02:07:22Argyle:But if you also want to go that path now, I get it.

02:07:32Argyle:I think it's a deterrent.

02:07:34Argyle:And if we start getting, we're going to start stealing stuff.

02:07:37Argyle:That's more of a reason.

02:07:38Argyle:That's my philosophy.

02:07:39Argyle:Do you guys have an opinion?

02:07:42Johnny:I don't know. 2d8 plus 4 piercing damage is not...

02:07:46Johnny:It's good, but it's not that much if they can move fast or teleport.

02:07:49Argyle:Yeah.

02:07:51Argyle:that's gonna stop just like non-high level npcs like undead things and

02:08:00Benny:uh yeah the thing with the so the masking matrix might be useful later on

02:08:00Argyle:Yeah.

02:08:00Anzu:It could take out a zombie around.

02:08:00Johnny:I'm voting for the vessel logistics and espionage, but there's more people in the party.

02:08:22Benny:it means i don't i'm not sure we should be spending energy on it now because what total

02:08:27Benny:tithe is 400. So like if it really comes down to it like four teams, this will pay for itself in two

02:08:30Gamemaster:10?

02:08:30Argyle:Like 15 to 20, right?

02:08:34Benny:two 3x cycles. So six cycles it'll pay for itself. That's still kind of a lot.

02:08:41Benny:How many tithe cycles do we expect before we hit the wall?

02:08:48Gamemaster:I have to double check.

02:08:49Argyle:Yeah.

02:08:52Gamemaster:I don't have that off the top of my head.

02:08:57Argyle:And we can always get multiple turrets too.

02:09:00Gamemaster:Correct.

02:09:00Argyle:or go straight to feedback shield

02:09:00Anzu:I

02:09:00Johnny:It's, oh, so we can get multiple turrets, just the same cost for each one.

02:09:06Argyle:yeah

02:09:12Argyle:Anzu what do you think

02:09:19Gamemaster:every nine days.

02:09:27Benny:Thank you Thank you Okay

02:09:30Argyle:Mm-hmm.

02:09:30Anzu:I like the logistics stuff because it eventually feeds back, right?

02:09:47Argyle:Mm you My thoughts are the more we go into the logistics the more likely we are to be attacked but

02:09:47Anzu:Because over time, then we're saving energy.

02:09:52Anzu:And so the sooner you do that the longer you have to benefit from that And I feel like we not current risk of open War that requires the turret

02:09:55Gamemaster:I double checked, it is 15 cycles.

02:10:15Argyle:15 seconds.

02:10:20Benny:I do think the highest

02:10:25Argyle:yeah yeah

02:10:25Benny:ROI for us

02:10:27Benny:is feedback shielding

02:10:29Benny:1d6 damage per

02:10:33Benny:melee 1d6 force per

02:10:35Benny:melee attack on a structure

02:10:37Benny:or defender

02:10:38Benny:I mean how many times does

02:10:41Benny:does Argyle and Benny need to get hit to

02:10:43Benny:equal a turret

02:10:44Benny:like 3 times

02:10:47Benny:a turn

02:10:49Benny:and that's just Argyle and Benny.

02:10:51Benny:If we have a bunch of other allies, which we do,

02:10:53Benny:we have many that are kind of fodder.

02:10:55Argyle:They're going to die in a hit.

02:10:55Anzu:So you think our best bet is to just save up more and go straight to the feedback ceiling?

02:10:56Argyle:They're going to die in a hit.

02:10:57Benny:Yeah, but well, they're going to do 1d6 damage before they die.

02:11:05Benny:And once per...

02:11:09Benny:Yeah, when we have the funds available.

02:11:16Benny:available. Because also, once per

02:11:18Benny:tide, the shield can completely negate

02:11:20Benny:one structural hazard

02:11:21Benny:event. I don't like

02:11:23Gamemaster:turning in heavy

02:11:24Benny:the way it's worded, because I was thinking another

02:11:25Argyle:Yep.

02:11:26Benny:team causing structural damage,

02:11:28Benny:but now I'm thinking that something else

02:11:29Benny:might be causing structural damage.

02:11:32Benny:What are the people that fly around?

02:11:35Argyle:Yeah.

02:11:35Benny:Hildebrandt's enemies.

02:11:37Benny:Ternion. If Ternion

02:11:39Benny:drops a literal bomb from a

02:11:41Benny:plane on ours, this can negate

02:11:43Argyle:Yeah.

02:11:44Benny:that once per tide, which I

02:11:45Benny:like is crazy tides are every nine days you said josh or every seven every night

02:11:48Argyle:Also...

02:11:50Gamemaster:every night

02:11:51Benny:once a week we can avoid having half of our structure destroyed

02:11:55Argyle:Also though with the same amount of energy we can just get two turrets That true

02:11:55Johnny:I like Mike reasoning for the feedback shielding

02:12:01Benny:yeah but the turns can negate bomb you

02:12:06Johnny:I didn't read that last one.

02:12:08Johnny:I don't know if we're going to have enough in-game time

02:12:11Johnny:to go down both routes.

02:12:14Johnny:So I think we either have to prepare for someone else

02:12:17Johnny:to start spoofing on us and parasiting us

02:12:22Johnny:and go all in on defense and security.

02:12:25Benny:Who are our neighbors?

02:12:25Anzu:That's interesting.

02:12:25Johnny:or be prepared to lose the base.

02:12:29Johnny:I mean, I think if we go down defense and security, that's fine.

02:12:32Johnny:We just have to start storing extra energy

02:12:35Johnny:and be prepared for someone else to start parasiting and spoofing us.

02:12:44Anzu:our neighbors are

02:12:52Benny:I feel like

02:12:53Anzu:Hildebrandt

02:12:53Benny:aren't they friendly?

02:12:54Benny:one of them is very friendly one of them's not

02:12:55Gamemaster:That's Hiltbrandt and RunGunners.

02:12:55Johnny:But the spoofing transmitter is one rival faction, not just next to you.

02:12:57Anzu:so one good one

02:13:01Anzu:not so good

02:13:07Benny:yeah but the parasite hook is next to you which is i'm more concerned about

02:13:07Johnny:So they can...

02:13:08Johnny:Yeah.

02:13:09Johnny:So, I mean, we could theoretically be having a plus 20 on any of these.

02:13:14Anzu:Well, okay, so if we focus more on defense, it's possible we can maybe convince Hildebrandt

02:13:24Benny:so do I want to talk to them before we do any

02:13:25Argyle:Come on.

02:13:29Anzu:to go into more logistics type stuff.

02:13:34Anzu:And if they're pulling energy on the behalf of the coalition, then that still benefits

02:13:39Anzu:us kind of indirectly.

02:13:44Anzu:Yeah Yeah

02:13:47Benny:I'm okay just sitting on

02:13:51Benny:the energy for now

02:13:55Gamemaster:you It a platinum per point

02:13:55Argyle:Is anyone Yeah Does anyone have a four four energy worth of an item rather than the shield so that

02:13:55Johnny:Let sit on it for a day or so and see what they doing See if we can convince them to go all in on Vessel

02:14:09Argyle:we don't give the shield to prime radian then we want to start conserving more

02:14:13Argyle:10 gold to energy point

02:14:13Johnny:What's the conversion rate again?

02:14:15Johnny:I don't have it.

02:14:16Johnny:Where am I?

02:14:21Johnny:I have nothing.

02:14:23Johnny:All the stuff I'm using is...

02:14:25Benny:the crushing rune is i think it's 45 or 50 i think it's 50.

02:14:25Gamemaster:The crushing rune is 50 gold pieces.

02:14:25Argyle:Oh, so if you do that one and then the four things,

02:14:26Johnny:All the stuff I've left, stuff I'm using.

02:14:33Argyle:then we could dump the shield into this and we get nine.

02:14:36Argyle:Well, we'll get 11 because we have the plus.

02:14:44Benny:it is

02:14:45Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

02:14:45Benny:nice

02:14:46Benny:we could just get that one

02:14:46Gamemaster:The greater crushing rune is 650 gold pieces.

02:14:46Argyle:Cool.

02:14:50Johnny:Whoa.

02:14:50Gamemaster:You should get your hands on one of those.

02:14:50Johnny:let's go pick that up

02:14:51Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:14:55Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:14:55Argyle:All right, and then final question before we part.

02:15:02Argyle:If we do the tithe masking matrix, can we pick when to spoof it?

02:15:15Gamemaster:It's...

02:15:16Argyle:So the reason I...

02:15:16Gamemaster:I...

02:15:17Argyle:Wait, sorry, just to clarify.

02:15:20Argyle:How does chain of events work?

02:15:21Argyle:like let's say multiple people try to screw us and then our tide goes up by 20 can we

02:15:25Gamemaster:How do you decide before you know?

02:15:26Argyle:choose then to cut in half or do we have to decide before we know

02:15:28Argyle:okay

02:15:30Gamemaster:It's you decide before you know.

02:15:33Gamemaster:Effectively, the way it works is before a tithe happens, you choose to use it or not,

02:15:38Argyle:yeah

02:15:39Gamemaster:and then also people choose the siphons and the spoofing and all that kind of stuff.

02:15:43Gamemaster:And then once the tithe happens, we will resolve them.

02:15:47Gamemaster:The way that I'll do it is we will do things that increase your score first

02:15:53Gamemaster:and then things that decrease their score.

02:15:56Gamemaster:So if you think that somebody's

02:16:00Gamemaster:going to do it to you and you use it you stand a chance to like have the amount that they added

02:16:00Argyle:Johnny, if you can convince the Radiant Arms

02:16:00Johnny:Okay.

02:16:05Gamemaster:on top of it uh but like i you don't like learn that somebody's done it to you and then have the

02:16:11Gamemaster:chance to respond

02:16:16Argyle:also to join us and we get their heart

02:16:18Argyle:worth of gold, I'm happy just

02:16:19Argyle:getting the energy feedback and then going

02:16:22Argyle:into the Tide thing. Because

02:16:24Argyle:RunGunners can help defend better than a turret.

02:16:24Johnny:Maybe we talked about.

02:16:26Argyle:I'm also very happy with that.

02:16:30Benny:Yeah.

02:16:30Argyle:Because right now we literally just have the twins.

02:16:30Anzu:Everyone in our house, right?

02:16:32Argyle:Everyone else will get fucking creamed.

02:16:34Johnny:Yeah.

02:16:36Argyle:Like, that's the problem.

02:16:37Johnny:Okay.

02:16:38Argyle:We have no defense the second we leave.

02:16:40Benny:Yeah, I was thinking that too

02:16:41Anzu:All right.

02:16:41Argyle:Yeah.

02:16:42Benny:on second thought for the turrets.

02:16:44Benny:Like...

02:16:46Argyle:That's why, because remember we originally were like,

02:16:48Argyle:maybe we should just get a bunch of turrets,

02:16:49Argyle:because right now we have no one.

02:16:50Argyle:If we have RunGunners, or not RunGunners,

02:16:53Argyle:the radiant arms people that can pop shots from behind the walls, great.

02:16:54Johnny:Maybe we talk to them tomorrow and see what they're doing and see if we can convince

02:16:57Argyle:I'm okay going the spoofing route.

02:17:00Benny:Agree.

02:17:00Argyle:okay

02:17:05Argyle:yeah

02:17:07Johnny:Raiding Arms to join us and then see what everyone else is doing.

02:17:11Argyle:cool

02:17:13Argyle:and then we're offering primary

02:17:17Argyle:primary can come get the crushing rune we're not giving it to them

02:17:20Argyle:we're not going to their base

02:17:21Argyle:we've learned from them that that's a stupid thing to do

02:17:24Argyle:we're not going they got to come to us we'll hand it to them

02:17:26Argyle:we can give it to

02:17:28Argyle:Hildebrandt but those are the guys

02:17:29Argyle:They don't want to go.

02:17:30Benny:Okay, for my...

02:17:33Benny:Let's see, we have reinforced bulkheads.

02:17:40Benny:Just for my accounting.

02:17:42Gamemaster:Right now, purchased, you have Reinforced Bulkheads, the Morphic Moat, Wards of Comfort,

02:17:43Benny:And we have...

02:17:52Gamemaster:the Armature Aided Workshop and the Siphon Array a siphon array

02:17:59Argyle:you All right

02:18:00Benny:you What is all this bold

02:18:12Argyle:I'm ready to rest up.

02:18:14Argyle:Do our zone of truth tomorrow.

02:18:16Argyle:Talk to Radiant Arms.

02:18:18Argyle:Grease our walls.

02:18:20Argyle:Prepare.

02:18:21Gamemaster:Word of truth is a fivey thing.

02:18:22Argyle:Sorry, ring of truth.

02:18:23Gamemaster:You're thinking of ring of truth.

02:18:25Benny:Wait, did we spend anything or are we still at the 73?

02:18:25Argyle:Yeah.

02:18:26Gamemaster:It's completely different.

02:18:32Argyle:We didn't spend anything.

02:18:32Benny:Or did we throw anything in there?

02:18:35Benny:Okay.

02:18:42Argyle:All right.

02:18:44Gamemaster:Okay.

02:18:45Gamemaster:Y'all go to bed.

02:18:47Gamemaster:You get the benefits of a rest.

02:18:51Gamemaster:Nobody attacks you in your sleep.

02:18:55Benny:Ah!

02:18:55Argyle:woohoo

02:18:55Gamemaster:You wake up the next day feeling refreshed.

02:18:57Gamemaster:Ready to tackle life.

02:18:58Argyle:yeah buddy

02:19:01Gamemaster:What you doing?

02:19:01Benny:Ah!

02:19:01Argyle:bring a truth first or

02:19:02Benny:Tackling life.

02:19:04Gamemaster:Okay, you tackle life.

02:19:07Argyle:yeah so it was those four questions we asked earlier basically just like

02:19:08Benny:Yeah.

02:19:15Argyle:everyone goes hello i'm going to try to protect the coalition i will not try to cause harm to

02:19:17Gamemaster:Okay, those are the questions you'd ask?

02:19:22Argyle:the fellow coalition i currently do not have any other allegiances inside the coalition

02:19:25Benny:I think it's fine.

02:19:27Argyle:is there anything else

02:19:30Gamemaster:Okay.

02:19:31Argyle:yeah

02:19:36Argyle:yeah to be honest with you i don't think they're going to be able to i think they'll very easily

02:19:37Gamemaster:Are you including Anouk and Anaïs in the Ring of Truth?

02:19:47Gamemaster:Okay.

02:19:48Argyle:fake my DC, but it's more of like to show that everyone's equal, that we're not having

02:19:54Gamemaster:Absolutely One second

02:19:54Argyle:favoritism We all going to swear it too That more of that

02:19:55Benny:Yeah Yeah

02:20:11Gamemaster:What is your GC?

02:20:14Gamemaster:26.

02:20:15Argyle:26. And I'm going to cast it while everyone's in it, so then they'd have a minus two to deception.

02:20:17Gamemaster:Okay.

02:20:20Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:20:25Gamemaster:All righty.

02:20:25Argyle:we'll just

02:20:29Gamemaster:Okay.

02:20:30Gamemaster:Sorry.

02:20:31Gamemaster:Three questions.

02:20:32Gamemaster:The three questions are...

02:20:35Gamemaster:I've forgotten.

02:20:38Argyle:just you're going to swear that you're going to

02:20:42Argyle:try to protect the heart of the coalition and everyone in it

02:20:45Gamemaster:Okay.

02:20:46Argyle:you will not try to cause any harm to anyone here

02:20:49Gamemaster:Okay.

02:20:50Argyle:and you do not have any other allegiances to any other groups

02:20:53Gamemaster:Okay.

02:20:53Argyle:that would supersede the coalition.

02:20:55Gamemaster:That's all is one promise?

02:20:55Anzu:The three tenants.

02:21:00Argyle:No, I think it's just, it lasts for 10 minutes,

02:21:03Argyle:so everyone can just go through and just say those,

02:21:04Gamemaster:So you're going to have them say it one at a time to see if they lie on any of the three of them.

02:21:05Argyle:like, ah, blah, blah, blah.

02:21:07Argyle:Yeah.

02:21:09Argyle:Yeah.

02:21:09Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely.

02:21:10Anzu:The three tenants.

02:21:11Argyle:Yes, three 10 minutes.

02:21:11Gamemaster:The three tenets.

02:21:15Gamemaster:Sure.

02:21:17Gamemaster:God, why do I keep forgetting this?

02:21:19Gamemaster:You literally just said it twice.

02:21:22Gamemaster:Protect everything.

02:21:25Benny:Yeah.

02:21:25Gamemaster:Don't harm, no alliances.

02:21:28Gamemaster:Okay.

02:21:29Gamemaster:First, going through Alkahest Freight.

02:21:31Gamemaster:That's easy.

02:21:32Gamemaster:No rolls necessary.

02:21:33Gamemaster:They make the pledge.

02:21:34Gamemaster:The bell dings three times for each person.

02:21:37Gamemaster:Easy peasy.

02:21:39Gamemaster:Solari Sub-surface.

02:21:40Gamemaster:Salvado?

02:21:41Gamemaster:All three.

02:21:42Gamemaster:Ding, ding, ding.

02:21:43Gamemaster:He's telling the truth.

02:21:46Gamemaster:Both of the lackeys make the promise.

02:21:51Gamemaster:The bell dings on um will not attempt harm and no other alliances The bell does not ding on will protect the coalition with their life

02:21:55Anzu:you I not sure they can so I think that acceptable

02:22:08Gamemaster:They say it. It just doesn't ding.

02:22:11Gamemaster:They're lying.

02:22:12Gamemaster:They're not going to lay down their lives for this thing.

02:22:15Gamemaster:They're cowards.

02:22:17Gamemaster:If they see the chance for them to get out

02:22:19Gamemaster:and everybody else is dying,

02:22:22Gamemaster:they will take that.

02:22:25Benny:Can we convince them?

02:22:25Gamemaster:I don't know if you wanted to do anything about that, but that does happen.

02:22:25Argyle:That's not great.

02:22:25Anzu:I think

02:22:36Gamemaster:You can try. You can attempt a diplomacy check.

02:22:40Gamemaster:It's an uphill battle here.

02:22:42Anzu:my feeling folks is that that's more of a, we can work on them over time to really get

02:22:47Argyle:Yeah, yeah.

02:22:48Anzu:buy-in.

02:22:49Anzu:They're not going to change their minds today.

02:22:52Benny:Why don't we defer to the rest of the coalition?

02:22:54Benny:We're getting all these other people to sign up with their life.

02:22:55Gamemaster:Oh, um, what does, like, what does Alkahest Freight think about that?

02:22:55Argyle:Yeah.

02:22:56Benny:What do they think about this guy?

02:22:57Argyle:Yeah.

02:22:59Argyle:What do they think about it?

02:23:04Argyle:Everyone else.

02:23:07Argyle:Yeah.

02:23:08Gamemaster:Um, well, so, Salvado at Solari, uh, is not surprised.

02:23:12Argyle:Yeah.

02:23:12Gamemaster:These guys were not fighters.

02:23:14Gamemaster:They were not brought here to fight.

02:23:14Argyle:Yeah.

02:23:16Gamemaster:Um, so that's, that's, like, eh.

02:23:19Gamemaster:similarly

02:23:22Gamemaster:the people in Alkahazt Freight

02:23:23Gamemaster:are not fighters either

02:23:25Argyle:But they swear to do it.

02:23:26Gamemaster:like Alkahazt Freight

02:23:28Gamemaster:as they

02:23:30Gamemaster:swore they'd do it

02:23:31Gamemaster:they're in it together

02:23:32Gamemaster:I think they're probably like

02:23:37Gamemaster:they've seen the behavior

02:23:42Gamemaster:of these people they're not happy about it

02:23:44Gamemaster:but it's not surprising

02:23:45Gamemaster:like

02:23:48Gamemaster:That's the answer.

02:23:53Gamemaster:I don't think Alkahest Freight would attempt to try and, like, pressure them into trying

02:23:55Argyle:Mm-hmm.

02:24:00Benny:Okay.

02:24:00Gamemaster:to lay down their life. I don't think that anybody in the Elkist Freight would find that

02:24:00Argyle:Yeah.

02:24:05Gamemaster:a useful endeavor.

02:24:07Benny:Yeah.

02:24:08Argyle:All right.

02:24:11Argyle:I just asked a follow-up question.

02:24:12Argyle:Would you sell the group out to another group?

02:24:17Gamemaster:No.

02:24:19Gamemaster:Ding.

02:24:21Argyle:That means you're telling the truth?

02:24:24Gamemaster:The ding does mean they're telling the truth.

02:24:26Argyle:No, that's fine with me.

02:24:27Gamemaster:It's a ring of truth.

02:24:30Gamemaster:I know that's not why it's called a ring, but it does ring when they speak the truth.

02:24:30Argyle:Okay, yeah, yeah.

02:24:38Gamemaster:Finally, Anouk and Anaïs will protect the Coalition with their life.

02:24:44Gamemaster:Ding won't harm anybody in the Coalition.

02:24:48Gamemaster:No, Ding.

02:24:49Gamemaster:They say that they're not going to promise that.

02:24:53Gamemaster:Have no alliances with people outside of the Coalition.

02:24:56Gamemaster:They also do not promise that.

02:25:00Benny:Yeah, competing interest here.

02:25:00Gamemaster:And I will say, you know we owe allegiance to somebody who is not part of this coalition.

02:25:00Argyle:I expect this.

02:25:00Anzu:you think

02:25:10Gamemaster:To claim otherwise, the bell would ding and you would know us to be liars.

02:25:15Gamemaster:It is not worth your time.

02:25:15Anzu:we're looking for more of like

02:25:18Anzu:versus the other folks

02:25:21Anzu:on the other orgs

02:25:24Argyle:Yeah.

02:25:26Gamemaster:And I will say, frankly, if Renge tells us we have to abandon all of you to join up with

02:25:30Benny:That is not great.

02:25:30Argyle:that's not great

02:25:30Anzu:That's fair.

02:25:35Gamemaster:another organization, we will do so.

02:25:38Gamemaster:We are bound to her before we are bound to you.

02:25:43Argyle:I look at

02:25:45Gamemaster:I don't believe this is something she would do, but this is...

02:25:45Benny:I not sure

02:25:50Gamemaster:First and foremost, we are hers before we are yours.

02:25:54Argyle:the other guys in the group and be like they pretty powerful I don know I not kicking them out but I just wanted to make it seem like the other group members

02:25:56Gamemaster:Thank you Sorry Anouk will say if the judge came down to you this eve and told you you needed to

02:26:05Argyle:like, you guys could kind of

02:26:20Gamemaster:abandon this group because they were no good and you had to join up with them I

02:26:24Gamemaster:don't know I turn me in heavy because they are the true followers of the

02:26:25Argyle:The judge would never tell me something preposterous like that.

02:26:31Gamemaster:judge or something like that would you do so

02:26:36Gamemaster:okay well the it is

02:26:37Argyle:I would never abandon my allies in my word.

02:26:39Argyle:And the judge sent me on this case.

02:26:41Argyle:They put me specifically here to hold out.

02:26:42Gamemaster:It is within the realm of possibility, which means it could and will someday happen, I

02:26:43Argyle:I'm just very confident that he's on the right path.

02:26:47Argyle:He's just like, I will not tolerate that.

02:26:55Benny:Nice.

02:26:55Argyle:Duly noted.

02:26:55Johnny:We did it.

02:26:55Gamemaster:imagine.

02:26:56Gamemaster:Everything happens eventually.

02:26:57Gamemaster:But, um, fine.

02:27:02Gamemaster:That's all I am saying.

02:27:04Gamemaster:We are not against you, Ding.

02:27:07Gamemaster:That's as far as we go.

02:27:10Benny:we're good people

02:27:10Argyle:well I will say

02:27:14Gamemaster:You're good people.

02:27:19Gamemaster:There's probably a ding for that.

02:27:25Argyle:well I don't

02:27:25Benny:now when we kill the Solari people

02:27:27Argyle:well I will now also

02:27:28Benny:that aren't Salvado

02:27:29Benny:we'll become neutral

02:27:32Argyle:Argyle will also say

02:27:32Benny:so

02:27:34Argyle:having seen what you guys can do

02:27:35Argyle:I would not want to kick you out and you go to a different group

02:27:37Gamemaster:And I will say, if nothing else, we have easy access to workshop and gunpowder here.

02:27:38Argyle:and it'll be like a ding

02:27:40Argyle:he's saying that mostly for everyone else

02:27:44Argyle:just be like

02:27:44Argyle:dang

02:27:44Argyle:alright I cancel the wing of truth

02:27:53Gamemaster:So we are incentivized to stay Anything else you like to ask

02:27:55Benny:Can we discuss upgrades?

02:28:05Gamemaster:while you have everybody in your ring of truth?

02:28:08Argyle:I don't want everyone to start grilling each other

02:28:09Gamemaster:Okay.

02:28:10Gamemaster:The bell fades from existence.

02:28:12Gamemaster:Thanks.

02:28:18Benny:The tithe.

02:28:22Argyle:uh

02:28:22Argyle:well

02:28:23Argyle:you guys are trying to get Radiant Arms first.

02:28:25Benny:Alright.

02:28:25Gamemaster:Oh yeah, you have oil-slicked walls, the ritual.

02:28:25Johnny:Yeah.

02:28:26Argyle:Right?

02:28:27Argyle:Argyle, while you're trying to convince Radiant Arms,

02:28:28Johnny:Yeah.

02:28:29Argyle:is going to start casting the

02:28:31Argyle:spell to slick the walls.

02:28:38Benny:Slick the walls with

02:28:41Benny:oil.

02:28:41Johnny:All right.

02:28:44Johnny:Are we going to talk to rating arms?

02:28:50Gamemaster:It takes eight hours to cast this?

02:28:50Benny:Yeah.

02:28:51Benny:this guy's just

02:28:51Argyle:Okay.

02:28:53Johnny:That's crazy.

02:28:53Argyle:Yeah.

02:28:54Benny:he's just got a mop and a bucket of oil

02:28:55Johnny:There's no ritual in just him painting the wall.

02:28:57Benny:just throwing it up on the wall

02:28:58Benny:it's the full day's work

02:29:01Argyle:Well, you need

02:29:02Argyle:warfare lore for it.

02:29:05Johnny:What?

02:29:05Benny:it's the full day's work

02:29:05Argyle:So Argyle's like,

02:29:06Argyle:what if they try to run over and

02:29:07Johnny:So Argyle replaces everything with very slick marble, and then puts oil on all that.

02:29:08Argyle:jump on this side of the wall? I gotta grease this.

02:29:11Argyle:And he's like, what if they...

02:29:14Gamemaster:Nope.

02:29:15Gamemaster:it's a full day's work

02:29:19Argyle:Yeah.

02:29:21Johnny:That's only on Zoom.

02:29:21Benny:it's just

02:29:23Argyle:Yeah.

02:29:23Gamemaster:just walking around the outer

02:29:25Anzu:Oh, no.

02:29:25Gamemaster:walls of your compound

02:29:26Gamemaster:slathering it in oil

02:29:28Gamemaster:I do

02:29:31Gamemaster:you need a secondary caster

02:29:33Gamemaster:you need

02:29:35Benny:Anzu?

02:29:37Argyle:Someone can do crafting.

02:29:38Argyle:Alright, we'll do it.

02:29:38Gamemaster:somebody else who's proficient

02:29:41Gamemaster:in architecture, lore, or crafting

02:29:43Gamemaster:to walk around with you

02:29:46Gamemaster:and slather the

02:29:46Johnny:that's only

02:29:46Anzu:Oh, no.

02:29:47Gamemaster:Olsen Oil.

02:29:48Argyle:Do you guys want to do this next time?

02:29:51Johnny:how long do the walls stay oily

02:29:52Argyle:We can do this next tithe.

02:29:53Gamemaster:A week Yeah this isn a ritual this is you just walking around with a

02:29:55Benny:Oh, the bird's just outside.

02:29:55Anzu:Uh All the magic of the ritual does is conjure the oil

02:29:58Argyle:For a week We have to do it once per tithe effectively

02:30:05Gamemaster:bucket of oil and a mop

02:30:14Johnny:Spend five minutes actually doing magic.

02:30:21Johnny:There's seven hours.

02:30:21Benny:He's fucking sweating his ass off.

02:30:23Benny:He's just got like a towel over his neck.

02:30:25Gamemaster:Okay.

02:30:25Argyle:All right, we go talk to Radarbs and then we'll slick the walls.

02:30:25Anzu:Unbelievable.

02:30:25Johnny:I'm talking to radio arms.

02:30:25Benny:He's drinking water like this is hard work.

02:30:28Benny:Our girl is over.

02:30:29Benny:It's like it is hard work, but it's honest.

02:30:30Benny:It's honest work we're doing here.

02:30:35Anzu:We get four temporary hit points.

02:30:38Argyle:I don't want to grab onto it.

02:30:43Gamemaster:Okay, so you guys have your breakfast,

02:30:46Gamemaster:you have your ring of truth,

02:30:48Gamemaster:you debate the logistics of oiling your walls,

02:30:52Gamemaster:and then you decide

02:30:53Benny:Mm-hmm.

02:30:55Argyle:Yeah.

02:30:55Johnny:Yes.

02:30:55Gamemaster:you do get four temporary hit points

02:30:59Gamemaster:because you guys leveled up

02:31:01Gamemaster:which is always fun

02:31:05Gamemaster:and then you're heading over to Radiant Arms

02:31:09Gamemaster:to talk to Y'shael and co.

02:31:11Gamemaster:Correct?

02:31:14Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:31:16Gamemaster:You walk on over

02:31:17Gamemaster:it is as it was last time

02:31:19Gamemaster:it is effectively

02:31:22Gamemaster:like a brownstone

02:31:23Gamemaster:that has had

02:31:25Gamemaster:holes carved in it so that one can

02:31:27Gamemaster:point firearms out of it

02:31:29Gamemaster:on all sides

02:31:31Gamemaster:the only real change here

02:31:33Gamemaster:since the last time you were

02:31:35Gamemaster:around is

02:31:37Gamemaster:the

02:31:40Gamemaster:the exterior

02:31:43Gamemaster:of this

02:31:45Gamemaster:brownstone has had walls

02:31:47Gamemaster:built around it

02:31:49Gamemaster:As well, it seems that there is some form of barbed wire placed along the exterior of the walls, except the barbed wire appears to be hooked

02:31:55Argyle:Huh?

02:32:00Gamemaster:into what looks like a speaker of some kind.

02:32:00Argyle:Alarm.

02:32:03Gamemaster:And atop the walls,

02:32:07Gamemaster:there are what look to be

02:32:09Gamemaster:two floating keystone-like crystals

02:32:13Gamemaster:that are, as you walk onto the slice

02:32:19Gamemaster:that is the Radiant Arms Fane,

02:32:24Gamemaster:both crystals face you.

02:32:27Gamemaster:They both turn to look at you

02:32:28Gamemaster:and are tracking you as you walk along the area.

02:32:30Benny:Neat.

02:32:30Argyle:Does...

02:32:30Anzu:are going to want to give this up.

02:32:30Johnny:Yeah, I think.

02:32:35Argyle:Yeah, wait, does this mean that there's two turrets?

02:32:40Argyle:Or is that...

02:32:40Gamemaster:That does mean that there are two turrets, yes.

02:32:43Argyle:Yo, guys, their base is sick.

02:32:44Benny:It's pretty dope.

02:32:46Anzu:Okay, so they're the defense. We're good.

02:32:49Argyle:No, it's not good.

02:32:51Argyle:They could still roll our base.

02:32:56Anzu:They'd have to get through these guys first, though.

02:32:57Argyle:...

02:32:58Gamemaster:Can I?

02:33:00Argyle:No, they could just walk around them.

02:33:00Johnny:I mean, it seems like they're already invested in this.

02:33:03Argyle:They could just go.

02:33:08Johnny:I don't know if we're going to be able to tell them,

02:33:11Johnny:hey, come join our stuff.

02:33:14Johnny:They got all this going on.

02:33:17Argyle:Tell them they could have a.

02:33:19Argyle:Johnny, this is on you.

02:33:20Argyle:Tell them they can like, I don't know.

02:33:22Argyle:They can have design preferences.

02:33:25Argyle:We'll put holes in the walls.

02:33:26Argyle:We'll make them slick.

02:33:27Johnny:Josh, here's a question.

02:33:28Gamemaster:yep

02:33:28Johnny:if they combine with us and we combine their heart into ours do we get their upgrades

02:33:29Gamemaster:no and also you can't

02:33:30Argyle:Yeah By the way I took those goggles back though I sure you understand

02:33:34Johnny:not combined if we just eat their heart we just get their upgrades

02:33:36Gamemaster:combine their heart into yours

02:33:38Gamemaster:yeah no

02:33:41Gamemaster:no you kill the heart

02:33:43Gamemaster:you get whatever energy is left in the heart

02:33:45Gamemaster:and the Fane collapses

02:33:46Gamemaster:sorry

02:33:49Gamemaster:can I get a perception check

02:33:53Gamemaster:as you guys walk up as well

02:33:58Johnny:you 33

02:34:09Argyle:Dirty!

02:34:13Argyle:Son of a bitch.

02:34:15Gamemaster:Okay, you're a little far off, so you don't have a great look,

02:34:23Gamemaster:but you can kind of see past the Radiant Arms base to the one beyond it, the Pale Lantern Society base.

02:34:35Gamemaster:You can't see all of it, but you can see at the very least that it appears to have walls around it,

02:34:43Gamemaster:and it has a pretty tall antenna sticking up from the interior of the base.

02:34:51Gamemaster:and you can see that the tip of the antenna appears to have a large radar dish on it

02:34:55Argyle:that's probably the spoofing

02:35:00Gamemaster:that does not match like what you have on your antenna. That seems to be an additional piece.

02:35:09Argyle:or the parasitic

02:35:12Argyle:not good not a good neighbor to have

02:35:14Argyle:putting it that way use that

02:35:16Argyle:use that as feedback

02:35:17Argyle:because if they suddenly fuck him over they might have to

02:35:20Argyle:pay an extra 20 and then their heart

02:35:21Gamemaster:Hail Lantern Society.

02:35:21Argyle:dies

02:35:22Argyle:so use that um tell them we'll build them a courtyard and shooting range uh

02:35:25Johnny:Yeah.

02:35:31Argyle:and also tell them they can defend the base we'll go out and get the items for all of us

02:35:31Johnny:And sorry, which was the group that was right next door to them?

02:35:35Johnny:That's...

02:35:36Johnny:All right.

02:35:43Argyle:we'll be in one base so we'll protect don't don't do that we can do the excursions they don't have

02:35:49Argyle:to, you know, sell them on that. Johnny, you really got to do this.

02:35:51Gamemaster:Okay So you guys walk up to the front door and knock I assume to let them know that you there

02:35:55Johnny:All right

02:36:17Gamemaster:After a few moments, somebody opens the door.

02:36:20Gamemaster:It is not Y'shael.

02:36:21Gamemaster:It is, however, another android of obvious similar make.

02:36:29Gamemaster:Humanoid in appearance, although it appears that they have a foregone skin-like appearance for just clear to the interior of the, like, from their arms and it also looks like their collar.

02:36:48Gamemaster:This is male presenting, as best you can tell, although you don't know how androids work in that regard necessarily.

02:36:57Gamemaster:He has three different firearms on him.

02:37:04Gamemaster:He has a very large-looking hand cannon in a holster at his hip.

02:37:09Gamemaster:He has what looks to be strapped to his back a long-barreled rifle of some kind.

02:37:15Gamemaster:and you can see that

02:37:18Gamemaster:the left arm of his

02:37:21Gamemaster:has a barrel mounted on the underside of the arm

02:37:25Argyle:Yeah.

02:37:25Johnny:I'm Johnny.

02:37:25Gamemaster:and when he opens the door

02:37:27Gamemaster:it is pointed directly at you.

02:37:31Gamemaster:After a second though

02:37:32Gamemaster:he sees who you guys are

02:37:34Gamemaster:and he'll say

02:37:35Gamemaster:Oh, you're the folks that Ichel

02:37:38Gamemaster:decided to team up with.

02:37:42Gamemaster:I don't think we've actually met.

02:37:43Argyle:our guy will cross

02:37:44Gamemaster:come on in, nice to meet y'all

02:37:47Gamemaster:I'm Oatsle

02:37:48Gamemaster:absolutely hi buddy Absolutely Hi Benny Great to meet all of you Benny if you could do me a favor

02:37:53Argyle:and he starts to say his whole title

02:37:55Benny:I Benny Sure Why not

02:37:55Anzu:I answer you Great to meet you

02:38:08Gamemaster:I'm going to make you roll a medicine check here.

02:38:10Anzu:Well, this guy's face name was

02:38:12Gamemaster:I don't know what your modifier is, but that's the appropriate roll here.

02:38:25Benny:Then.

02:38:25Gamemaster:Utzil. U-T-Z-I-L. Ten.

02:38:30Gamemaster:Okay, so a ten doesn't give you a lot of info.

02:38:34Gamemaster:I think the only info that Benny gets off of a ten is...

02:38:38Gamemaster:This guy's skin is clear. You can see inside.

02:38:42Gamemaster:The interior of this man's arms, at the very least, is pretty mechanical in nature.

02:38:49Gamemaster:like you can see that instead of

02:38:53Gamemaster:bones and muscle

02:38:54Gamemaster:there is something synthetic

02:38:56Gamemaster:and it almost looks fabric-like

02:38:58Gamemaster:to take the place of muscles and tendons

02:39:01Gamemaster:and some kind of metal like

02:39:03Gamemaster:titanium

02:39:03Gamemaster:with a

02:39:07Gamemaster:10 all you get

02:39:09Gamemaster:is that strikes you

02:39:11Gamemaster:as different to you

02:39:13Gamemaster:still clearly an android

02:39:17Gamemaster:of some kind but not the same category

02:39:19Gamemaster:if that makes sense.

02:39:21Gamemaster:But beyond that, I don't think you

02:39:23Gamemaster:like putting much more information there.

02:39:25Benny:Fair enough.

02:39:25Argyle:Right before...

02:39:29Gamemaster:Either way?

02:39:30Argyle:Sorry. I would like to have cast

02:39:30Gamemaster:Yep.

02:39:32Argyle:Heroism on Johnny right before we go in.

02:39:35Gamemaster:Okay.

02:39:37Argyle:Yeah, that's it.

02:39:39Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:39:40Gamemaster:For the next ten minutes, you have a plus one

02:39:41Gamemaster:status bonus to attack rolls, perception checks,

02:39:43Gamemaster:saving throws, and skill checks.

02:39:45Gamemaster:That's fun.

02:39:47Gamemaster:You can

02:39:48Gamemaster:attack this man easier

02:39:50Gamemaster:if that was your goal. I assume that's why

02:39:51Argyle:You can skill checks.

02:39:52Gamemaster:you gave him heroism. No, it's

02:39:53Argyle:Skill checks.

02:39:54Gamemaster:for attacking. It's clearly

02:39:56Gamemaster:because Argyle wanted you to

02:39:58Gamemaster:attack him.

02:40:00Gamemaster:It's a little gesture you into the living room of this brownstone and say, can I get

02:40:00Argyle:I mean, we could just rip the heart out.

02:40:00Johnny:It's okay. I'm so prepared for this, guys.

02:40:01Argyle:okay

02:40:06Johnny:Knock on wood.

02:40:15Gamemaster:you guys anything?

02:40:17Gamemaster:Tea?

02:40:18Gamemaster:Coffee?

02:40:19Gamemaster:We don't have any juice, but I could, there's some grass outside, I could get you like a

02:40:23Gamemaster:wheatgrass smoothie.

02:40:24Gamemaster:If that's something you're interested in.

02:40:28Argyle:i'm okay i just had breakfast thank you though

02:40:28Johnny:Nine.

02:40:30Benny:I'm good.

02:40:30Gamemaster:So, um, yeah, sorry.

02:40:30Johnny:Yeah, thank you.

02:40:31Argyle:Can I insight check that?

02:40:32Johnny:It's very nice.

02:40:34Johnny:Very plenty.

02:40:36Johnny:We just wanted to talk to you guys.

02:40:37Gamemaster:Uh, no, she is out at the moment, I'm afraid.

02:40:39Johnny:Is a shell around as well?

02:40:45Gamemaster:Uh, running a few errands.

02:40:48Gamemaster:But, uh, listen, anything you would bring to her, you could bring to me.

02:40:49Johnny:Oh, do you know when she'll be back?

02:40:52Gamemaster:Or a group.

02:40:56Gamemaster:Yeah, you absolutely can.

02:40:57Gamemaster:you can rule perception

02:41:00Gamemaster:sense some motives

02:41:01Argyle:Uh.

02:41:07Argyle:Dun dun dun dun.

02:41:18Argyle:33.

02:41:22Gamemaster:33

02:41:22Gamemaster:he seems to be

02:41:24Gamemaster:forthcoming with you

02:41:25Argyle:Cool.

02:41:27Gamemaster:But he will say, yeah, anything you would ask her, I'm happy to discuss it.

02:41:30Johnny:Josh, I'm going to do several things right now.

02:41:44Gamemaster:Okay.

02:41:46Johnny:First, I'm going to use a new feat that I retrained into at this level called Melodious Spell.

02:41:48Gamemaster:Okay.

02:41:51Gamemaster:Okay.

02:41:52Johnny:which gives let me see if I have this did I drop this It allows me to the next action I use to cast a spell it gains the subtle trait which

02:41:55Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:42:10Johnny:I believe hides all stuff, right?

02:42:16Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:42:17Gamemaster:So.

02:42:21Gamemaster:Obviously I'm not going to do it.

02:42:23Gamemaster:Because that's stupid.

02:42:25Gamemaster:But this has the concentrate and manipulate trait and not the subtle trait.

02:42:25Johnny:That's wild.

02:42:32Gamemaster:And I think rules as written is not subtle.

02:42:36Gamemaster:But that's dumb.

02:42:38Johnny:Great.

02:42:39Gamemaster:That's dumb.

02:42:40Gamemaster:So, yeah, absolutely.

02:42:41Gamemaster:The, like, rules as intended by the looks of it that, yes, the spell shape makes it so that the next spell you cast doesn't, like, have any outward appearance that you're casting the spell.

02:42:55Gamemaster:Okay.

02:42:55Johnny:So I will first Melodious spell,

02:42:59Johnny:then I will use my Mythic point

02:43:01Johnny:to cast a new Mythic spell I picked up at this level

02:43:03Johnny:called Perceive the Threads of Fate.

02:43:08Johnny:I'm going to take a very long moment to look like I'm hyping myself up as I do all of this.

02:43:19Johnny:No one else sees this as I cast this, though.

02:43:24Johnny:Above everyone's heads, there's almost like a cursor, and a moment before anything happens,

02:43:25Gamemaster:Okay.

02:43:25Argyle:Oh my god.

02:43:33Johnny:it's almost like a typewriter typing out exactly what's going to happen as I perceive the Threads of Fate.

02:43:38Johnny:I will then sustain it, and I'm going to make this a shameless request.

02:43:49Gamemaster:Okay.

02:43:49Johnny:A lot of stuff at once.

02:43:49Gamemaster:make the shameless request with advantage

02:43:49Argyle:You thought Lev was bad.

02:43:55Argyle:Don forget your plus one status bonus

02:43:55Anzu:Bard stuff

02:43:59Johnny:We back to 5e everybody Hard stuff

02:44:07Johnny:We think...

02:44:07Johnny:And my plus one status.

02:44:13Johnny:We think is of the utmost importance.

02:44:17Johnny:I know Rhaedon Arms has been on the fence about this,

02:44:19Johnny:but we think it is absolutely necessary for you to come and join us

02:44:23Johnny:at our headquarters and consolidate our forces. We think it is for everyone's best interests that you

02:44:29Johnny:allow us to subsume your heart. We have recently delved into the heart of this strider and we found

02:44:36Johnny:that there are already nefarious forces we know are directly connected to Grayson infiltrated

02:44:41Johnny:this strider. They're in other locations. They have extra representatives on board who are not

02:44:48Johnny:hang tithes. We need to consolidate our forces at once. We know that you have a few things,

02:44:54Johnny:but we are more than happy to adjust whatever is needed to make you comfortable as our place. But

02:44:55Argyle:I'll mention telepathically.

02:45:02Johnny:I cannot overstate how necessary it is that we all are in one central location, working together,

02:45:09Johnny:making everything as strong as possible.

02:45:15Argyle:Mention the spoofing array and that they can defend and will do the dangerous parts.

02:45:18Johnny:In addition, we recently saw that your neighbor, the, was it Necrolog? Pale Lantern. Your neighbor, the Pale Lantern Society, has the spoofing array, which we can only assume means that they will be targeting you as you're the closest.

02:45:25Gamemaster:Uh, okay, Lantern.

02:45:35Johnny:and let's be frank, you guys are very scary.

02:45:38Johnny:Big guns. You guys are the big guns, per se.

02:45:42Johnny:If you stay here, you'll most likely be facing

02:45:45Johnny:an additional 10, 15, possibly 20 in tithe.

02:45:50Johnny:If we can consolidate all of us together and work together,

02:45:52Johnny:we can overcome that and maybe redirect their ire towards someone else

02:45:55Gamemaster:Roll the diplomacy check

02:45:55Argyle:And you can defend the fort and we stay safe No we do the dangerous parts

02:46:06Johnny:You can defend the fort and we'll go out and do all the dangerous stuff.

02:46:09Johnny:We're more than happy to go dungeon delving.

02:46:11Johnny:It's really nice having the jump back thing.

02:46:12Gamemaster:Roll the diplomacy check.

02:46:13Argyle:We're back, baby.

02:46:13Gamemaster:You're making a request.

02:46:15Johnny:We're so back!

02:46:17Johnny:Uh, I'm gonna roll this...

02:46:19Johnny:I'm gonna roll this in dice because I'm still level 7 on...

02:46:24Johnny:on this guy.

02:46:25Gamemaster:bit flying

02:46:25Argyle:And you have a mythic point?

02:46:29Johnny:Okay, so I have to make sure this is all good.

02:46:33Johnny:So I have a base 19 in diplomacy.

02:46:36Johnny:That's 20 in diplomacy, and I roll this twice.

02:46:40Johnny:And if I fail, this is a shameless request, so

02:46:43Johnny:they don't get mad.

02:46:47Johnny:No, I spent it to do Perceive the Threads of Fate.

02:46:48Argyle:Ah, that's fair.

02:46:51Johnny:I should have summoned Mythic Tower before this.

02:46:53Johnny:damn it, I'll know for next time.

02:46:55Benny:All right.

02:46:55Gamemaster:I just because I think it's fun I am going to point out that summon mythic power has neither

02:46:55Argyle:so you could do it

02:47:00Johnny:First one.

02:47:02Johnny:I'm going to do these individually

02:47:03Johnny:for the tension.

02:47:11Gamemaster:the manipulate nor concentrate traits and is not a spell so it does not have an outward effect to do

02:47:17Argyle:so you could do it

02:47:19Gamemaster:you don't have to

02:47:20Johnny:I will,

02:47:20Argyle:no but those are good

02:47:21Johnny:As I'm saying this, I will summon Mythic Power as the whole action.

02:47:23Gamemaster:but

02:47:24Gamemaster:okay

02:47:29Johnny:My first one was a 35.

02:47:33Johnny:My second is...

02:47:37Johnny:Not as good, a 23.

02:47:41Johnny:Actually, Josh, have I failed this skill check?

02:47:41Gamemaster:with the 23

02:47:47Gamemaster:yeah

02:47:48Johnny:No, with a 35.

02:47:49Gamemaster:do I have to tell you

02:47:51Johnny:Yes, for let's try that again.

02:48:00Gamemaster:I think you're fine, but one second.

02:48:00Argyle:so you have you first of all you have shameless requests so even if you do fail it's like

02:48:00Johnny:I have a lot of redundancies.

02:48:08Gamemaster:Let me just double check.

02:48:16Argyle:but you can also just try again

02:48:19Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:48:24Gamemaster:Okay.

02:48:25Gamemaster:With a 35, it is not a failure or a critical failure.

02:48:30Gamemaster:Okay, Atul will say, okay, let me just, just because I'm gonna, just to make sure I have all my ducks in a row.

02:48:30Argyle:Yeah, it's good.

02:48:30Johnny:Okay. I think I'll stick with success. I don't want to tempt you.

02:48:48Gamemaster:you want us to effectively abandon this pretty well defended upgraded fort that

02:49:00Johnny:R Fort, it'd be R Fort.

02:49:00Gamemaster:we have so we can come live with you and defend your less well protected fort

02:49:10Gamemaster:Sure. We're crowded, though. And the benefit being not much different from what we're already

02:49:25Gamemaster:currently getting from our alliance, with the exception of we're less likely to have

02:49:30Argyle:Well, we can also upgrade our fort to...

02:49:30Anzu:We trying to We trying to be very forward thinking here You know what could go wrong down the line

02:49:30Johnny:Strength in numbers.

02:49:31Gamemaster:to deal with specifically spies in the Pale Lantern Society because they're right next

02:49:40Gamemaster:Listen, that's just a crazy ask.

02:49:43Argyle:We've upgraded since you last been there.

02:49:45Argyle:We have a moat.

02:49:46Argyle:We can add some turrets if you want, some alarms if you want.

02:49:53Gamemaster:I mean sorry

02:49:57Argyle:Okay Thank you and another thing is worth mentioning is that we we are going to actively be leaving the

02:50:05Anzu:and what makes our group the strongest the longest.

02:50:10Gamemaster:That's a fair point.

02:50:17Argyle:strider to get more magic energy and we will be fortifying our heart throughout

02:50:23Argyle:if you stay here, you are going to have to manage that yourself,

02:50:25Gamemaster:Okay, listen, listen.

02:50:25Johnny:If you made the nine and not cutting them, there are tinkerers.

02:50:28Argyle:which is riskier.

02:50:36Gamemaster:You guys have a workshop, right?

02:50:37Gamemaster:Okay.

02:50:38Argyle:Yeah.

02:50:43Gamemaster:You planning on making more upgrades?

02:50:46Argyle:Yeah.

02:50:47Argyle:Yeah.

02:50:49Gamemaster:Can you give us...

02:50:51Gamemaster:Can you give us two of the rooms you would get for two upgrades you make?

02:50:53Argyle:Sorry, what's the request?

02:50:55Johnny:In telepathically.

02:50:56Johnny:Yeah, sure.

02:50:57Johnny:I don't see the issue.

02:50:59Johnny:They want two of the rooms we would get from upgrades.

02:51:07Argyle:What do they want?

02:51:12Argyle:Yeah.

02:51:15Argyle:We can, if they join and we burn my shield,

02:51:19Argyle:that'll give us nine plus.

02:51:21Gamemaster:I mean, we'd like the next tune.

02:51:22Argyle:we can just pop out

02:51:24Argyle:alarm wards

02:51:25Benny:Is there nothing transferable from property to property?

02:51:26Argyle:oh give us 11

02:51:30Argyle:we can pop out alarm wards if we want

02:51:32Argyle:if we sacrifice the

02:51:34Argyle:well how soon do they need the rooms

02:51:39Argyle:just the next two

02:51:42Argyle:yeah

02:51:45Gamemaster:We'd like it to be sooner rather than later, because we'd be giving up our stuff.

02:51:47Argyle:100%

02:51:51Gamemaster:Okay.

02:51:51Gamemaster:you kill the heart you can take some of the energy out of it But you don get the energy from the spent upgrades you only get

02:51:52Argyle:Yeah Yeah I fine

02:51:53Benny:I guess DM question.

02:51:55Benny:See I see

02:52:06Gamemaster:whatever energy is left in the heart.

02:52:10Argyle:I don't even know what we would make the next two rooms.

02:52:10Gamemaster:Halved.

02:52:12Argyle:I'm fine giving it to them.

02:52:16Gamemaster:And then he'll say, okay, can you also

02:52:25Gamemaster:help us with some experimentation that we're doing.

02:52:25Argyle:What does that mean?

02:52:34Argyle:Hmm.

02:52:37Gamemaster:I'm sure you guys recall,

02:52:39Gamemaster:you're the ones who gifted it.

02:52:40Gamemaster:Ichel has been more than a little obsessed with that firearm.

02:52:48Gamemaster:They hand it over with the liquid and stuff.

02:52:51Gamemaster:Now we're looking to reverse engineer it.

02:52:54Gamemaster:Just regular engineer it.

02:52:57Gamemaster:All manner in the middle.

02:52:59Gamemaster:And we need some, like, rarer materials that, for whatever reason,

02:53:06Gamemaster:our servant guy, who's become a bit more surly of late, won't help us procure.

02:53:14Gamemaster:If, because you said you're going out to get magic items and stuff,

02:53:18Gamemaster:if I give you, like, a laundry list of things that we would need to continue our investigation,

02:53:23Gamemaster:We make sure to procure some for us.

02:53:25Benny:also goes

02:53:25Argyle:yeah

02:53:25Anzu:I think we would certainly try our best.

02:53:30Argyle:and to be honest

02:53:33Anzu:We don't know exactly what we're going to see out there, but we could put in an effort.

02:53:40Argyle:with you

02:53:40Benny:goes without saying that things would go to the tithe first because for survival but of course

02:53:41Argyle:and to be honest with you guys

02:53:46Gamemaster:Sure, but after that.

02:53:50Argyle:if you're out

02:53:52Argyle:protecting the heart if you're protecting the heart

02:53:53Gamemaster:Thank you All right that seems fine with me

02:53:54Argyle:when we go out I want you guys to have laser weapons I be very happy if you guys got laser weapons

02:53:55Johnny:you I go in for a handshake

02:54:08Gamemaster:Line up a shake on it.

02:54:15Gamemaster:It's a little stick out his hand as well.

02:54:17Gamemaster:Shake yours.

02:54:20Gamemaster:that moment, uh, the door, the front door will open, and you'll see Ichel walk in with, like,

02:54:25Argyle:this son of a bitch

02:54:27Gamemaster:literally groceries in a bag. When he said that she went out for errands, he was being serious.

02:54:32Gamemaster:Um, she literally went out for errands. Uh, and as soon as she walks in, Atul will say,

02:54:37Gamemaster:uh, Ichel, these guys just totally agreed to take over all of our burns and stuff,

02:54:41Gamemaster:and all we gotta do is shoot people who show up at their base. Uh,

02:54:45Gamemaster:um and Ichel will be like okay great uh so what are we moving out

02:54:51Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:54:53Argyle:you know what I'm happy

02:54:54Argyle:I don't want them to resent us

02:54:55Benny:I

02:54:55Johnny:All right, let's pick their heart and get out of here.

02:54:56Argyle:honestly I kind of want them to have two rooms

02:54:58Argyle:I lost ideas

02:55:00Argyle:I was like I guess we could make a courtyard

02:55:02Argyle:I don't know what else we would need

02:55:03Argyle:an aquarium room I don't know man

02:55:06Argyle:should we go get our truck

02:55:10Johnny:I say telepathically.

02:55:11Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:55:13Gamemaster:If you want...

02:55:15Gamemaster:but still we'll we'll point you towards um towards final caliber their heart

02:55:17Benny:he'll crack his knuckles and his fingers.

02:55:24Gamemaster:uh you had seen it once before when you when you had originally hooked up them into your skin

02:55:24Argyle:Do you guys want to pack up first?

02:55:24Benny:Oh.

02:55:29Gamemaster:network um he shall will say we don't have much to pack up honestly i've been working out of our van

02:55:40Gamemaster:because that's where most of our tools and stuff are anyway

02:55:43Gamemaster:and we don't have a room

02:55:45Gamemaster:for gunsmithing

02:55:46Benny:Oh.

02:55:47Gamemaster:and the like. Gunsmithery?

02:55:50Gamemaster:There's definitely

02:55:50Argyle:Oh, so they don't have a workshop.

02:55:51Gamemaster:a term for that.

02:55:52Argyle:They just spent it on turrets.

02:55:54Argyle:Amazing.

02:55:54Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:55:59Gamemaster:Um...

02:56:00Gamemaster:But they'll say, listen, you can, Final Calibur's over there, and you'll see that their heart is literally a cardboard box filled with bullets.

02:56:00Johnny:.

02:56:11Gamemaster:And you're finding the area in the heart that you have to pluck out is like literally rummaging through for a particular like large caliber bullet that is the weak spot in this particular heart.

02:56:23Gamemaster:the whole time you're doing it

02:56:26Gamemaster:the bullets are

02:56:28Gamemaster:rattling and you can hear this whistling

02:56:30Benny:It just

02:56:30Argyle:Is there...

02:56:30Johnny:I guess.

02:56:30Gamemaster:sound coming out of it saying

02:56:31Gamemaster:no don't kill me no

02:56:34Gamemaster:but it can't actually do anything to stop you

02:56:39Argyle:Is there another person in the group that we haven't jotted with?

02:56:42Argyle:There's three, right?

02:56:43Johnny:Okay.

02:56:43Gamemaster:yes

02:56:44Gamemaster:there are three people

02:56:44Argyle:I assume they're here.

02:56:45Gamemaster:and then

02:56:46Argyle:That we're not just about to, like, rip it out from under them.

02:56:49Johnny:Okay.

02:56:50Gamemaster:the house collapses on them

02:56:51Gamemaster:and they die

02:56:52Argyle:And Argyle's getting out of the faint.

02:56:53Gamemaster:absolutely

02:56:54Benny:they just fall from like the second

02:56:54Argyle:Argyle's seen this.

02:56:55Argyle:He's going to let Benny do it.

02:56:56Argyle:He's going to stand outside.

02:56:59Gamemaster:so I you will also call down

02:57:01Benny:the second floor with a blanket on

02:57:03Benny:like oh

02:57:04Benny:grass

02:57:11Gamemaster:Pishan which is the

02:57:13Gamemaster:third member of the group

02:57:15Gamemaster:who is similarly

02:57:18Gamemaster:an android although

02:57:19Gamemaster:this one appears to be

02:57:20Gamemaster:dwarven in

02:57:23Gamemaster:in general height and stature,

02:57:26Gamemaster:although similarly, same as the other two,

02:57:29Gamemaster:has like pieces of their skin

02:57:31Gamemaster:have been left to be clear

02:57:33Gamemaster:instead of skin approximate.

02:57:37Gamemaster:But yeah, once everybody's successfully cleared out,

02:57:39Gamemaster:you can go in.

02:57:40Gamemaster:At this point, you're not in a rush.

02:57:43Gamemaster:The box is not actually very far from the entrance.

02:57:45Gamemaster:So once everybody else has cleared out,

02:57:47Gamemaster:one of you can go and pluck the last bit of this heart here,

02:57:51Gamemaster:cause the collapse of the Fane.

02:57:53Gamemaster:and make your way outside with your little bullet that represents however much energy or halved energy that they have left in this heart when you yank it

02:58:00Argyle:you Yeah we didn even look it up

02:58:00Johnny:you I in the next

02:58:06Argyle:We just took it.

02:58:07Argyle:All right.

02:58:07Gamemaster:Correct.

02:58:08Argyle:Yeah, let's head back.

02:58:09Argyle:All right.

02:58:10Argyle:All right.

02:58:11Argyle:All right.

02:58:12Argyle:All right.

02:58:13Argyle:All right.

02:58:14Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:58:14Argyle:All right.

02:58:15Gamemaster:You head back.

02:58:17Gamemaster:The three of them hop in their van.

02:58:19Gamemaster:You can see the interior of the van as you walk by.

02:58:25Gamemaster:Um, the, it is a, like, a truck.

02:58:25Argyle:Okay.

02:58:29Gamemaster:It's not an 18-wheeler.

02:58:30Gamemaster:I don't know what you call, like, like a U-Haul, effectively.

02:58:36Gamemaster:Um, but the inside, you can see that one of the walls of the inside is this big pegboard,

02:58:42Gamemaster:uh, that they have a number of hooks on that firearms and, and firearm pieces and stuff

02:58:47Gamemaster:are hanging on.

02:58:48Gamemaster:And there's a makeshift workshop that's been built inside there.

02:58:51Gamemaster:but they will load up whatever they have left

02:58:55Argyle:Ooh.

02:58:55Johnny:records

02:58:55Gamemaster:and then follow you to your base

02:58:57Gamemaster:as you leave the third faction area desolate

02:59:03Gamemaster:from your third heartbreaker attempt.

02:59:10Gamemaster:I guess fourth.

02:59:11Gamemaster:This is the fourth heart that you've yoinked from.

02:59:16Gamemaster:And you have a little bullet worth 30 energy in your hand.

02:59:19Johnny:nice

02:59:25Benny:Eerie, we bring gifts to feast.

02:59:25Argyle:here he's gonna be like

02:59:30Argyle:what is what who's the ghost

02:59:32Argyle:that uh that eats other ghosts

02:59:34Argyle:gambit guys

02:59:35Benny:Casper?

02:59:36Argyle:yeah

02:59:38Argyle:yeah from destiny i don't know what it is

02:59:40Argyle:from destiny the um

02:59:41Gamemaster:The primeval?

02:59:43Argyle:no

02:59:44Argyle:who's the gambit guys ghost

02:59:46Gamemaster:Oh, oh, I don't remember.

02:59:46Argyle:that eats other ghosts that he's scared of

02:59:48Benny:Oh.

02:59:48Argyle:yeah

02:59:51Gamemaster:I think blue or something.

02:59:52Argyle:um

02:59:52Gamemaster:I know what you're talking about.

02:59:53Gamemaster:Either way let me see This is the fourth heart plus the void heart Can somebody roll a d20 for me flat

02:59:55Benny:you Yes

02:59:55Argyle:you No it going to ascend

02:59:55Anzu:you Oh it will explode

03:00:05Benny:Yes.

03:00:07Anzu:We've lost.

03:00:10Argyle:It's different.

03:00:12Benny:10.

03:00:13Gamemaster:Ten. Okay.

03:00:15Gamemaster:Eerie will say, oh goody.

03:00:19Gamemaster:I hunger.

03:00:19Argyle:Oh no.

03:00:23Benny:Okay, here you go.

03:00:25Benny:103

03:00:25Gamemaster:he will eat it up and to get 30 more energy.

03:00:25Argyle:Okay.

03:00:25Johnny:Wait, how much was that one worth?

03:00:31Gamemaster:He'll say, so,

03:00:34Gamemaster:does she have any, like, upgrades and stuff

03:00:36Gamemaster:you want to do with all the stuff you're feeding into me?

03:00:40Johnny:How much was that heart worth?

03:00:42Argyle:Okay.

03:00:42Gamemaster:It was worth 30.

03:00:43Johnny:Sorry.

03:00:43Gamemaster:There were 60 in the heart, and then you yoinked it,

03:00:44Johnny:Oh.

03:00:45Johnny:I missed that part.

03:00:45Gamemaster:so you got 30 out of it.

03:00:48Johnny:Sorry.

03:00:49Argyle:Okay.

03:00:49Argyle:So we're at 103?

03:00:51Argyle:102?

03:00:54Argyle:103.

03:00:55Benny:Oh.

03:00:55Gamemaster:Oh, well actually it would have been worth 32.

03:00:55Argyle:great

03:00:55Anzu:Aha!

03:00:55Johnny:Nice.

03:00:59Argyle:105

03:01:00Gamemaster:Because you have the you have the siphon.

03:01:01Argyle:really happy we bought that thing

03:01:06Gamemaster:I think you guys made the objectively correct decision to make it your first purchase.

03:01:13Argyle:mm-hmm

03:01:13Argyle:we'll also signal to

03:01:14Argyle:the other two factions

03:01:17Argyle:whenever they want their four

03:01:18Argyle:they can come and get it

03:01:19Argyle:and we'll give it to them at the door

03:01:20Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely. Okay.

03:01:22Argyle:we're not

03:01:22Argyle:yep

03:01:25Gamemaster:you let them know

03:01:25Anzu:I have these two essentially spell scroll precursors that should cover our agreement.

03:01:27Gamemaster:Hildebrandt

03:01:29Gamemaster:I think Pava would probably just walk over

03:01:32Gamemaster:you guys are allies

03:01:33Gamemaster:he'd say hi

03:01:34Gamemaster:Prime Meridian would send someone

03:01:36Gamemaster:like just you know a peon

03:01:39Gamemaster:to go over

03:01:41Gamemaster:pick it up and walk it back

03:01:53Gamemaster:Pava will say

03:01:54Gamemaster:alright I appreciate it um are the spells inside any good

03:01:55Anzu:You have to like develop it for it to become a spell

03:02:05Anzu:Eh, so-so from my opinion.

03:02:09Anzu:No problem.

03:02:09Gamemaster:Nah, that's fine, I'll just feed it.

03:02:11Gamemaster:Appreciate your help.

03:02:13Gamemaster:Uh, yeah.

03:02:14Anzu:Everything okay over there for now?

03:02:18Gamemaster:You guys got your mapping stuff set up?

03:02:21Gamemaster:You getting lucky?

03:02:22Gamemaster:Because I'm ready to go scouting.

03:02:25Benny:But cool.

03:02:25Gamemaster:you think

03:02:25Argyle:have a plane

03:02:25Johnny:You're kind of cool.

03:02:25Argyle:the other uh the other airframe company did

03:02:28Gamemaster:that we spent

03:02:30Gamemaster:the limited space we had in our

03:02:33Gamemaster:vehicles to bring

03:02:35Gamemaster:a plane onto the Strider

03:02:37Gamemaster:yeah we're not gonna be

03:02:41Argyle:oh by the way

03:02:44Johnny:Hello.

03:02:45Gamemaster:fucking showed up by Ternion and of course we have a

03:02:47Gamemaster:plane

03:02:47Gamemaster:sorry

03:02:52Argyle:by the way

03:02:53Argyle:the verdant people said they'd be allies

03:02:55Benny:Oh.

03:02:55Anzu:Right.

03:02:56Argyle:if you wanted to be allies but like if you don't

03:02:58Argyle:want to be allies we're fine not being allies

03:03:00Argyle:yeah

03:03:02Gamemaster:verdant holdings

03:03:05Gamemaster:the group that

03:03:09Gamemaster:firebombed us

03:03:11Argyle:that's crazy

03:03:12Gamemaster:at our last all

03:03:14Gamemaster:hollows eve party

03:03:15Gamemaster:yeah no it was it was a whole thing we had a group we had a bunch of us we were having a party

03:03:16Argyle:never mind

03:03:17Benny:Oh.

03:03:19Argyle:I take it all back

03:03:20Argyle:no yeah

03:03:21Argyle:wow

03:03:23Argyle:wow

03:03:24Gamemaster:they fully snuck in disguised as some of us took a bunch of us hostage poured acid

03:03:31Gamemaster:all over the floors uh and then broke into a vault in the middle of the city

03:03:34Argyle:did you guys stop him

03:03:36Gamemaster:I think someone did. Like some people. Like obviously I didn't.

03:03:41Argyle:that's sick

03:03:42Argyle:yeah

03:03:44Gamemaster:I appreciate it. With them? I think just normal corporate espionage stuff. Nothing

03:03:46Argyle:the other plane people also don't like you

03:03:48Argyle:but that's fine with us because we like you

03:03:50Argyle:so what did they what happened there

03:03:52Argyle:did they

03:03:53Argyle:yeah

03:03:55Benny:Yeah.

03:03:59Argyle:yeah

03:04:00Gamemaster:nothing in particular comes to mind.

03:04:00Argyle:Did you...

03:04:01Argyle:I think they said you were shooting their planes out of the sky.

03:04:05Argyle:And I'm not judging.

03:04:07Argyle:I just want to know, if push comes to shove,

03:04:11Argyle:can we expect some similar protection

03:04:14Argyle:if they start flying one of their planes over here?

03:04:16Gamemaster:We don't make military planes.

03:04:19Argyle:Okay, all right.

03:04:19Gamemaster:I don't know what they're talking about.

03:04:20Argyle:Argyle is choosing

03:04:21Gamemaster:We make consumer planes, and

03:04:22Gamemaster:we don't equip our

03:04:25Gamemaster:consumer planes with guns.

03:04:29Argyle:to not sense motive

03:04:30Benny:Sounds good.

03:04:30Gamemaster:okay

03:04:31Argyle:he doesn't want to know

03:04:34Argyle:he starts

03:04:35Gamemaster:absolutely

03:04:37Argyle:and he's like nope no I don't want to

03:04:38Gamemaster:I'll say

03:04:39Argyle:I don't want to try to poker face this guy

03:04:40Argyle:cool

03:04:44Gamemaster:anyway thanks for the scrolls

03:04:47Gamemaster:let me know when you guys are up and running

03:04:47Argyle:sounds good

03:04:49Gamemaster:and ready for me to

03:04:50Gamemaster:do my due diligence

03:04:52Gamemaster:do my part

03:04:52Gamemaster:we'll scout ahead

03:04:54Gamemaster:look for anywhere that has some good items for you

03:05:00Gamemaster:All right, we'll keep on our toes.

03:05:00Anzu:we have some stuff coming up,

03:05:00Johnny:Bye.

03:05:02Anzu:but it's not until after the tithe.

03:05:03Anzu:So I think we're just kind of sitting tight for now.

03:05:10Gamemaster:We'll head on back.

03:05:10Anzu:Indeed.

03:05:10Argyle:sounds good keep Anaïs out on the pale lanterns let us know if uh

03:05:14Argyle:your border starts getting weird. We can always come and help out.

03:05:15Gamemaster:Well, there's still radiant arms between us and them, but sure.

03:05:23Argyle:Okay.

03:05:25Argyle:I look at Johnny. Does he want to handle that?

03:05:30Benny:Thank you story story

03:05:30Gamemaster:game

03:05:30Johnny:Sorry, I was answering an email. I missed this exchange.

03:05:38Gamemaster:no I'm joking

03:05:39Johnny:I'm sorry.

03:05:39Argyle:Hilda Brett effectively just said,

03:05:40Gamemaster:it's fine

03:05:42Argyle:Well, don't worry. We don't have to worry about Pill Lantern Society.

03:05:45Argyle:The radiant arms are between us.

03:05:49Johnny:Oh, my apologies. I was answering an email for work.

03:05:51Argyle:No worries.

03:05:55Argyle:Yeah, you're welcome to move in here if you want.

03:05:55Johnny:Yeah listen funny story about that They not anymore They recently agreed it would be best if they joined with us so they are moving in here

03:06:00Gamemaster:you You moved the line of defense we had with the Pale Antrin Society out

03:06:11Johnny:Well, you could also move in here if you want.

03:06:15Gamemaster:So now where are your line of defense?

03:06:21Gamemaster:Not happening, bud.

03:06:24Argyle:Oh.

03:06:25Gamemaster:I appreciate the offer. That's not happening.

03:06:25Johnny:I look at the others.

03:06:31Gamemaster:Okay.

03:06:32Gamemaster:I think we have to rethink some of our defenses then.

03:06:36Gamemaster:Thanks for the heads up.

03:06:40Gamemaster:He'll start walking back.

03:06:47Johnny:We – be careful wherever we go now that they don't send us somewhere extra dangerous.

03:06:54Argyle:No, no, they're very much...

03:06:55Benny:I don't think it's in their best interest to

03:06:55Gamemaster:I like how you've decided your friends

03:06:59Benny:eliminate the glue

03:07:01Benny:holding three quarters of the strider together.

03:07:02Argyle:They also very much will not be able to join the other alliance

03:07:03Benny:There we go.

03:07:10Argyle:because a lot of people don't like them, so...

03:07:17Benny:True.

03:07:19Argyle:We could give them the shield if we want to be extra nice.

03:07:21Gamemaster:I like how you've decided your friends

03:07:22Argyle:What?

03:07:24Argyle:about bombing the other people yeah

03:07:24Gamemaster:when he's saying, believe in it.

03:07:25Benny:he did not answer the question

03:07:27Gamemaster:Not looking into it at all.

03:07:29Gamemaster:He could be telling the truth. You don't know.

03:07:34Argyle:yeah

03:07:34Gamemaster:Just in general.

03:07:36Argyle:also though

03:07:39Benny:we didn't even make planes with guns on it

03:07:42Benny:there's more than one way to shoot down a plane

03:07:44Benny:and it doesn't always involve another plane

03:07:49Gamemaster:I don't know what you're talking about.

03:07:50Argyle:I don't

03:07:51Argyle:I don't really care if they shoot down

03:07:54Argyle:the other planes as long as yeah yeah yeah

03:07:54Gamemaster:That their business What That probably true

03:07:55Benny:They dicks anyways

03:07:55Johnny:We have a bigger issues now

03:08:05Gamemaster:Either way, you've handed off your items to fulfill your pre-tithe requirements.

03:08:14Gamemaster:What else are you doing?

03:08:15Gamemaster:If anything, you guys could choose to just hang out.

03:08:18Gamemaster:You've got plenty of energy to spare.

03:08:20Johnny:I'd like to upgrade my drum of War with Anaïs and a nook.

03:08:25Gamemaster:Absolutely.

03:08:25Argyle:I'll cast oil slick walls.

03:08:25Johnny:get that done

03:08:29Gamemaster:I do just want to point this out.

03:08:33Gamemaster:It's Onik.

03:08:35Johnny:oh a nine onik

03:08:37Gamemaster:Yeah, that's like a real name.

03:08:40Gamemaster:I didn't make that one up.

03:08:42Johnny:i believe you for some reason it just sat in my head it's always Anaïs and a knock

03:08:47Gamemaster:It's how it's spelled.

03:08:48Gamemaster:I get it.

03:08:50Gamemaster:Absolutely.

03:08:51Gamemaster:You want to up a drum of War.

03:08:55Johnny:I do, it will drain me entirely though.

03:08:56Gamemaster:Do you have the requisite funds?

03:09:01Johnny:So this is all I got.

03:09:03Johnny:Nice.

03:09:04Gamemaster:Okay.

03:09:06Gamemaster:You mark off 370 gold pieces,

03:09:10Gamemaster:and the spell slots assume you're not doing anything else today.

03:09:14Gamemaster:And tomorrow, you will have some greater drums of War.

03:09:20Gamemaster:Sorry.

03:09:20Gamemaster:All right, Drums of War, greater.

03:09:25Benny:All right.

03:09:25Argyle:What should we...

03:09:25Johnny:Nice.

03:09:27Johnny:I have three gold and four silver left.

03:09:29Argyle:What should we...

03:09:32Gamemaster:That's crazy.

03:09:33Johnny:Drove the Warden has really good spells.

03:09:34Gamemaster:Drums of War Major have tortoise in the hair.

03:09:37Argyle:Dope.

03:09:41Johnny:I just got Haste and Heroism with that item.

03:09:43Argyle:Dope.

03:09:44Argyle:Dope.

03:09:46Gamemaster:Nice.

03:09:48Argyle:What do we want to buy?

03:09:51Argyle:Probably spend some money.

03:09:52Benny:uh

03:09:54Benny:some energy or some money because we don actually have that much um look at questions so we at 105 right now 52 11 i mean the the poly or the crushing route can also go on which is 52

03:09:55Argyle:energy Energy We can put the hat in there

03:10:06Argyle:and then the shield

03:10:07Argyle:and we'll get 52 and 11.

03:10:13Argyle:So we'll get 60.

03:10:15Argyle:Yeah, 63.

03:10:16Argyle:we gave that to

03:10:24Benny:oh right right right

03:10:25Gamemaster:All right, what's happening?

03:10:26Argyle:yeah

03:10:27Benny:wait is it 52 or would it be 5

03:10:28Argyle:yeah

03:10:28Argyle:if we

03:10:37Argyle:no it's 500

03:10:39Benny:it's not gold

03:10:40Argyle:the other one's 500

03:10:40Benny:right right right okay okay that makes sense

03:10:42Argyle:so we could if we want to just get an easy room right now we can do alarm wards

03:10:51Argyle:and then we can get or we can go straight to tide matrix

03:10:54Benny:Let's see.

03:11:00Benny:Characters resting the base cannot be flat-footed

03:11:02Benny:during a surprise round if the base is under attack.

03:11:05Benny:Stealth checks infiltrate, suffer a minus two penalty.

03:11:08Benny:Minus two penalty is nice.

03:11:10Benny:Do we just want to ask Radiant Arms what they want?

03:11:12Argyle:yeah

03:11:13Benny:Hey, we got somebody.

03:11:14Benny:What are you thinking?

03:11:17Argyle:what did they say

03:11:19Benny:They're in defense, so...

03:11:24Benny:so

03:11:25Gamemaster:Oh, if you're asking them what they want, they would say,

03:11:25Argyle:joshua

03:11:25Anzu:Perfect.

03:11:29Gamemaster:Y'shael will say,

03:11:31Gamemaster:first thing you guys are missing is you don't have alarms.

03:11:34Gamemaster:Somebody's going to sneak onto your base,

03:11:35Gamemaster:and it doesn't matter if you've got defenses or not,

03:11:38Gamemaster:if they can take their time getting around it,

03:11:40Gamemaster:sneaking up behind you and slitting your throat.

03:11:42Argyle:I'm Mark.

03:11:43Gamemaster:Can't shoot something that you don't know is there.

03:11:45Benny:alarm words it is

03:11:46Benny:I believe this is at 133.

03:12:00Gamemaster:Um, I mean, they will fully tell you to get a bunch of turrets.

03:12:00Argyle:Do you have any other recommendations?

03:12:00Anzu:All right.

03:12:00Johnny:you give a shalom

03:12:05Gamemaster:Like, the...

03:12:07Gamemaster:They're gun people.

03:12:09Argyle:But there are turrets now.

03:12:10Argyle:There are turrets now.

03:12:10Gamemaster:The answer is guns.

03:12:12Gamemaster:They can shoot.

03:12:14Gamemaster:More guns is better.

03:12:16Gamemaster:Literally 100% of the times.

03:12:18Gamemaster:Anytime that a shell has had a problem,

03:12:21Gamemaster:and then they've introduced a gun,

03:12:22Gamemaster:it solved the problem.

03:12:28Anzu:133.

03:12:29Johnny:You can call a math problem on a piece of paper.

03:12:30Benny:I kind of like spoofing transmitter next.

03:12:30Gamemaster:Listen, no more math problem.

03:12:30Argyle:All right, so we'll just wait.

03:12:35Gamemaster:Also probably no more desk, given the caliber of guns that they use.

03:12:39Gamemaster:Absolutely.

03:12:45Benny:Yeah.

03:12:47Argyle:Sounds good.

03:12:48Anzu:Yeah, I don't want to go down to 33 energy.

03:12:51Benny:Why not?

03:12:51Argyle:Yeah.

03:12:54Anzu:It's just cut it way too close.

03:12:57Benny:Actually, Josh,

03:12:58Benny:Was that an intended mechanic that we can see what the tithe is going to be?

03:13:00Gamemaster:Um, it's not a problem that you can see what the tithe is going to be, is the answer.

03:13:10Gamemaster:Like, I legitimately didn't remember that I had told you that, but it's not an issue

03:13:14Gamemaster:that you know it, so it's fine.

03:13:16Benny:Okay.

03:13:17Benny:Then in that case, what does it say now?

03:13:20Benny:Because we doinked Radiant Arms.

03:13:22Gamemaster:Um, yeah, one second.

03:13:24Gamemaster:29.

03:13:28Benny:Okay.

03:13:28Anzu:Yeah, right.

03:13:29Johnny:Great.

03:13:30Argyle:Yeah, cool.

03:13:32Benny:Okay.

03:13:34Gamemaster:Oh wait, no, no, no, no. I apologize.

03:13:35Gamemaster:It's still 27.

03:13:37Gamemaster:They were already part of your coalition,

03:13:38Benny:Oh.

03:13:39Gamemaster:so you were already paying the tithe for them.

03:13:43Argyle:Yes, yes, yes.

03:13:43Anzu:We had joined with them, but not...

03:13:44Gamemaster:So this...

03:13:45Gamemaster:Yeah.

03:13:46Anzu:Yeah.

03:13:47Gamemaster:So it doesn't meaningfully affect the tithe in any way.

03:13:50Argyle:Cool.

03:13:51Argyle:That's even better so that primary reading is not going to be mad.

03:13:53Argyle:I would rather if we could only keep one other ally I feel like the Scale is going to like us If we could only pick between Prime Meridian and Hildebrandt

03:13:54Gamemaster:you Paavo

03:13:59Johnny:you PrimeRedean is crazy

03:14:06Argyle:honestly, I'd rather Prime Meridian.

03:14:10Argyle:They're crazy.

03:14:11Argyle:Also, worst case, I would rather we fight Hildebrandt next door

03:14:14Argyle:than deal with whatever the hell is next to Prime Meridian.

03:14:19Argyle:I don't like their neighbors.

03:14:20Gamemaster:Paavo is standing outside your kitchen window

03:14:24Gamemaster:crying hearing you say this

03:14:25Argyle:What do

03:14:25Johnny:You guys love guns.

03:14:27Gamemaster:he didn't actually go home

03:14:29Gamemaster:he was just hanging out

03:14:30Gamemaster:okay

03:14:31Gamemaster:absolutely

03:14:34Gamemaster:oh it's a firing range

03:14:35Argyle:What does the next room look like?

03:14:40Gamemaster:absolutely

03:14:44Argyle:Hey

03:14:44Argyle:What's going to be the next room?

03:14:44Gamemaster:yeah no next room

03:14:45Johnny:They are gun robots.

03:14:49Argyle:Do they have an idea?

03:14:52Gamemaster:uh, Ichel, uh, like, brings out a set of blueprints.

03:14:55Benny:How does

03:14:55Argyle:yes

03:14:55Anzu:Hell yeah.

03:14:55Johnny:You guys all right?

03:14:56Gamemaster:Um, as best you can tell looking at what she's showing you,

03:15:00Gamemaster:the next room is going to be a distillery of some kind.

03:15:04Argyle:I fucking love this

03:15:06Anzu:Salvado's gonna love that.

03:15:09Gamemaster:Salvado is cured.

03:15:11Gamemaster:He's not an alcoholic anymore.

03:15:12Gamemaster:He is ambivalent about that.

03:15:15Argyle:I think this is magical liquid

03:15:16Argyle:for their guns

03:15:17Argyle:I'll cure him again

03:15:19Anzu:I don't know.

03:15:20Anzu:I'm smelling a relapse in his future.

03:15:22Gamemaster:Onik. Onik.

03:15:25Benny:Is it Anouk?

03:15:25Argyle:I am

03:15:25Anzu:No.

03:15:28Benny:Anouk, Anouk, Anouk, Anouk.

03:15:29Gamemaster:Onik.

03:15:30Benny:How does Anouk and I feel?

03:15:32Benny:How do Anouk and I feel about other people in the workshop?

03:15:40Gamemaster:The answer is that it's totally fine,

03:15:45Gamemaster:but they would like them to sign a waiver first.

03:15:51Anzu:I feel like that could go both ways.

03:15:52Benny:Okay.

03:15:52Gamemaster:That yeah

03:15:52Argyle:kind of scared that it going to they going to get along too well These are the crazy motherfuckers that put a bomb on a hammer They going to

03:15:55Benny:I actually was thinking that

03:15:55Anzu:Thank you I see that as an absolute win for us

03:16:05Argyle:love these robots.

03:16:12Argyle:Yeah.

03:16:13Argyle:We got some

03:16:14Argyle:honestly

03:16:15Argyle:attackers might be more safe

03:16:19Argyle:if we're home.

03:16:20Argyle:If we leave the twins

03:16:23Argyle:and the robots

03:16:24Argyle:it might be worse for them

03:16:25Benny:I like it.

03:16:25Gamemaster:It is true that both the twins and what you've seen of Radiant Arms, it appears to be that

03:16:25Anzu:They're going to look at each other and say, so we blow them up, right?

03:16:26Argyle:yeah

03:16:27Benny:so

03:16:38Gamemaster:their first and perhaps only impulse is violence when presented with a problem.

03:16:44Argyle:cool

03:16:49Gamemaster:So...

03:16:52Benny:benny's going to be putting in some hours at the range as well

03:16:55Gamemaster:Absolutely. Yeah, so this first room that you give to them, it kind of runs alongside your existing base.

03:17:06Gamemaster:Excuse me.

03:17:08Gamemaster:The firing range is built to their specifications, because you're kind of just handing the free reign over to them.

03:17:17Gamemaster:Standard general size in order to be able to get ranging on it.

03:17:23Gamemaster:the only difference between this and a traditional

03:17:25Anzu:Awesome.

03:17:26Gamemaster:firing range which you guys would have

03:17:27Benny:Thank you you Okay

03:17:28Gamemaster:at least been exposed to given

03:17:30Gamemaster:the firearm culture that there is in

03:17:32Gamemaster:Calaria

03:17:32Gamemaster:the only difference here is that

03:17:36Gamemaster:instead of

03:17:37Gamemaster:pieces of paper that you can

03:17:40Gamemaster:use to target practice it is

03:17:42Gamemaster:magically conjured

03:17:44Gamemaster:humanoid stand-ins

03:17:47Gamemaster:for proper practice

03:17:52Gamemaster:but other than that it almost the same as what you expecting and it is very much for them testing their own prototypes which they still getting the hang of

03:17:55Argyle:Okay.

03:17:55Anzu:Thank you Bye

03:17:55Johnny:Thank you There some bandolier but it all guns

03:18:05Gamemaster:They still explode after one shot,

03:18:08Gamemaster:but they're not fully banana-peeling the exterior barrel anymore.

03:18:09Argyle:

03:18:14Gamemaster:It's really more of a heating up and melting kind of problem.

03:18:18Argyle:Okay.

03:18:18Gamemaster:if you recall uh during the fight that you had in the ballroom uh ishell had three firearms on her

03:18:21Johnny:They're just one shot.

03:18:31Gamemaster:um at what was supposed to be generally a friendly thing because she used a different gun

03:18:35Gamemaster:each round um that is kind of the the de facto way to use their firearms uh to the point that

03:18:45Gamemaster:Actually, since they've moved in,

03:18:48Gamemaster:you have a better exposure to radiant arms in general

03:18:55Anzu:And of both of those things,

03:18:55Gamemaster:and how this manufacturing process and stuff works.

03:18:57Gamemaster:Can I get a crafting or an arcana check?

03:19:04Gamemaster:Now that they're around and you can see some more of their process?

03:19:11Gamemaster:It's your choice.

03:19:11Anzu:Arcana's higher.

03:19:15Gamemaster:Okay.

03:19:15Anzu:We'll roll Arcana. Why not?

03:19:18Anzu:Jeez.

03:19:19Anzu:Mostly bad rolls for me today.

03:19:22Anzu:I guess this is a decent time to mythic.

03:19:24Gamemaster:Up to you.

03:19:25Argyle:It was a crafting and what?

03:19:25Anzu:Might as well.

03:19:30Anzu:Oh, hold on.

03:19:31Gamemaster:I'm holding.

03:19:32Anzu:Please hold.

03:19:35Gamemaster:I'm holding.

03:19:37Anzu:Okay, great.

03:19:39Anzu:All right.

03:19:41Anzu:I mean...

03:19:45Gamemaster:a natural one

03:19:50Gamemaster:for a 22 total

03:19:52Gamemaster:it was crafting and arcana

03:19:55Argyle:what's the other one

03:19:55Argyle:and what did you roll

03:19:57Gamemaster:were the options

03:20:00Gamemaster:He rolled a 22 natural 1 arcana.

03:20:00Argyle:oof

03:20:00Anzu:I rolled Arcana.

03:20:04Argyle:is that with the mythic

03:20:06Argyle:oh it is

03:20:06Gamemaster:That's with the mythic.

03:20:07Argyle:no

03:20:08Argyle:well that's all we got

03:20:11Gamemaster:Okay.

03:20:11Argyle:because none of us can do our con art crafting

03:20:12Gamemaster:Yeah.

03:20:13Argyle:amazing

03:20:14Gamemaster:Okay.

03:20:15Gamemaster:It's like these guys conjure guns out of thin air.

03:20:20Gamemaster:There are so many of them.

03:20:21Gamemaster:It's ridiculous.

03:20:24Anzu:These robots possess magic of which I cannot comprehend.

03:20:30Gamemaster:but they will spend the rest of the day

03:20:36Gamemaster:kind of prowling

03:20:38Gamemaster:the walls

03:20:39Gamemaster:finding good places to set up

03:20:41Gamemaster:embankments should they need to

03:20:43Gamemaster:hold off a siege

03:20:43Argyle:they can put holes in the waddle if they want

03:20:45Gamemaster:at different parts of the base

03:20:47Gamemaster:absolutely

03:20:49Argyle:while I'm slicking it

03:20:50Gamemaster:right okay you know what let's resolve

03:20:50Argyle:I will leave those out for them

03:20:51Argyle:yeah

03:20:54Gamemaster:you're doing the oil slicked walls

03:20:55Gamemaster:who's your secondary caster

03:20:56Argyle:unless one of the twins

03:20:57Gamemaster:it's Anzu

03:20:58Gamemaster:if you want

03:21:00Anzu:If she's willing to do it, I'd love to go chat with Yao instead.

03:21:00Johnny:Oh, one of the twin.

03:21:00Argyle:wants to help

03:21:01Argyle:if they want to get in on that

03:21:04Johnny:One of the twins probably is.

03:21:08Gamemaster:if you want

03:21:09Gamemaster:um

03:21:10Gamemaster:Anouk

03:21:11Gamemaster:Anouk is the crafting one

03:21:13Gamemaster:she'll come out with you

03:21:13Argyle:Yeah.

03:21:14Gamemaster:uh

03:21:15Gamemaster:uh

03:21:15Gamemaster:and

03:21:16Gamemaster:and do it

03:21:16Gamemaster:instead of Anzu

03:21:17Gamemaster:if Anzu doesn't want to slick some walls

03:21:19Gamemaster:absolutely okay um so then

03:21:23Argyle:All right, yeah.

03:21:33Gamemaster:One second.

03:21:37Argyle:30.

03:21:38Argyle:Level base DC for this is 16, so I crit.

03:21:45Gamemaster:I'm sure this is a non-issue, but I'm going to roll for her as well.

03:21:48Gamemaster:I just need to figure out what her crafting is.

03:21:55Argyle:Yeah, so we critically succeed.

03:22:03Gamemaster:Thank you 42 Oh you can see that

03:22:12Gamemaster:42.

03:22:15Gamemaster:Also a critical success.

03:22:15Argyle:yeah so

03:22:16Gamemaster:Yeah, you critically succeeded slicking your oil walls.

03:22:21Argyle:DC for athletic checks

03:22:24Argyle:to climb the walls will increase by 10

03:22:25Gamemaster:You're making a proper impenetrable fort up here on the top of the strider.

03:22:27Argyle:and now we have the barbed wire on the top

03:22:32Argyle:and we have a moat

03:22:33Argyle:and then now we have little slits for the guns to go through

03:22:40Argyle:feeling good

03:22:45Argyle:yeah

03:22:47Gamemaster:Okay.

03:22:48Argyle:I think our fort is

03:22:50Gamemaster:Absolutely.

03:22:51Argyle:especially now that we

03:22:52Argyle:had another room on top

03:22:53Argyle:of this it's two

03:22:54Argyle:squares bigger than

03:22:55Gamemaster:You know, assuming Hilda Print hasn't added any upgrades since I last updated the Strider.

03:22:55Anzu:Unless we want to wait for next week, but yes.

03:22:56Argyle:uh hold the brands

03:22:57Argyle:yeah

03:23:07Gamemaster:Either way, this is okay. Oil-slicked walls.

03:23:14Gamemaster:And then, Anzu, you said you wanted to go talk to Yao?

03:23:15Argyle:I just, our guy's going to call phone home, give him an update.

03:23:20Gamemaster:We can wait for next week since it is almost 11.

03:23:24Gamemaster:If anybody had anything they wanted to do that is probably going to be quick, now's the time.

03:23:25Johnny:Oh, I should probably do that too.

03:23:29Gamemaster:Otherwise, we can pick this up next week.

03:23:35Argyle:

03:23:37Gamemaster:That's fine.

03:23:40Johnny:I'll also call Red and give him an update, give him a full download on what's happening.

03:23:45Argyle:I would love the Scale to...

03:23:46Gamemaster:You gave them the full download.

03:23:49Argyle:I was going to say, I would love the Scale to send soldiers,

03:23:50Gamemaster:Sorry.

03:23:53Argyle:but I know they're not.

03:23:54Gamemaster:They definitely not But what I will have is two things Can I get just a D100 roll from Noah on behalf of Red

03:23:55Argyle:But our But I

03:24:11Gamemaster:And then separately, you're phoning home, you're talking to Dame Quay, I assume.

03:24:18Gamemaster:um

03:24:18Argyle:Yes.

03:24:20Gamemaster:Dame Quay will say

03:24:22Gamemaster:uh

03:24:22Gamemaster:judging by the time that you guys

03:24:25Argyle:What's the quorum again?

03:24:26Gamemaster:are moving I think you're probably like

03:24:28Gamemaster:halfway

03:24:30Gamemaster:to the

03:24:32Gamemaster:quorum

03:24:33Gamemaster:I don't know if that's where you're actually going

03:24:36Gamemaster:but

03:24:36Gamemaster:worth keeping in mind

03:24:39Gamemaster:it's where um

03:24:42Gamemaster:Voice of Many was found

03:24:43Gamemaster:well

03:24:45Argyle:Oh.

03:24:46Argyle:Is there going to be

03:24:48Argyle:a good amount of items in there?

03:24:51Argyle:I would expect.

03:24:55Argyle:Okay.

03:24:55Gamemaster:it's still

03:24:56Argyle:Okay.

03:24:57Argyle:That makes sense.

03:24:57Gamemaster:pretty firmly

03:24:58Gamemaster:the shackled prince's territory

03:25:01Gamemaster:there'll be some good items

03:25:02Argyle:Good to know.

03:25:04Gamemaster:there but

03:25:05Gamemaster:you know we

03:25:05Argyle:I also mentioned the book.

03:25:09Gamemaster:only held onto it for a little while

03:25:11Gamemaster:before it just wasn't worth it.

03:25:14Gamemaster:So I watch out.

03:25:24Argyle:If they want to ask me any questions, we have a book that we could look some stuff up.

03:25:29Argyle:And then I'm going to ask if you can do some research on the founding member of the Scale.

03:25:37Gamemaster:What kind of research?

03:25:41Gamemaster:What happened to their Strider, I think, is news to Dame Quay.

03:25:42Argyle:Particularly their party, what happened to their strider, and the heart on it.

03:25:54Argyle:Yeah Well

03:25:54Gamemaster:Like that not just super public knowledge This will be like okay I will look into it

03:26:05Argyle:Yeah.

03:26:05Gamemaster:I don't know if I'm going to find much, but I can ask around.

03:26:14Gamemaster:Okay.

03:26:15Argyle:Yeah.

03:26:19Gamemaster:And then that's probably it for that conversation.

03:26:23Gamemaster:I think we'll switch over to, what did you get for the D100 for Red?

03:26:25Benny:Okay.

03:26:25Johnny:20.

03:26:30Gamemaster:20.

03:26:31Gamemaster:20.

03:26:32Gamemaster:Red will, you'll give Red the full download of the info of everything you've been up to,

03:26:38Gamemaster:and Red will say, that's a lot.

03:26:43Gamemaster:Listen, I wasn't sure it was, like, worth it to bring it to your attention,

03:26:50Gamemaster:because there's nothing you could do about it,

03:26:55Gamemaster:given how far away you are.

03:26:57Gamemaster:But I figured I'd just keep you up to date.

03:27:00Gamemaster:There's been some movement on our side.

03:27:08Gamemaster:Listen, people, especially ever since Teller's Run kind of blew up,

03:27:16Gamemaster:people have been a bit on edge.

03:27:20Gamemaster:People are getting a bit restless.

03:27:22Gamemaster:I think something big is going to happen

03:27:24Gamemaster:sooner rather than later.

03:27:25Johnny:Well, thanks for letting me know.

03:27:27Gamemaster:There's just a lot more weaponry

03:27:31Gamemaster:moving through back channels than used to be.

03:27:34Gamemaster:Just like, honestly, a few weeks ago.

03:27:38Gamemaster:People are gearing up for something.

03:27:41Gamemaster:Everybody's tense.

03:27:42Gamemaster:I don't know what it is.

03:27:43Gamemaster:I've been listening around.

03:27:44Gamemaster:I just thought I should let you know.

03:27:50Gamemaster:Yeah, I...

03:27:51Johnny:I can't really do much from here.

03:27:55Johnny:There's a gal at Iconoclasm named Dura who might be able to

03:28:00Gamemaster:I mean, I can...

03:28:00Johnny:I'll give you a little bit of help if you drop my name, but...

03:28:05Gamemaster:Like, I don't even know if there's anything to do.

03:28:07Gamemaster:I just figured, you know,

03:28:10Gamemaster:I...

03:28:10Gamemaster:You know, not to leave you fully in the dark.

03:28:14Johnny:I wish I could. Is there any... Is everyone okay right now?

03:28:18Johnny:Everyone still alive?

03:28:19Gamemaster:I mean, those who are still around.

03:28:23Gamemaster:Some people have kind of moved

03:28:25Gamemaster:to other cells.

03:28:28Gamemaster:given what happened.

03:28:30Johnny:All right.

03:28:32Gamemaster:You know.

03:28:33Gamemaster:I'm kind of gunning for action.

03:28:35Gamemaster:It seems like action's happening.

03:28:38Gamemaster:I've asked Donnie a few times.

03:28:40Gamemaster:He just says to

03:28:41Gamemaster:wait and see.

03:28:45Gamemaster:Listen,

03:28:46Gamemaster:nothing to do right now.

03:28:48Gamemaster:I just thought I'd let you know.

03:28:51Gamemaster:Something's happening.

03:28:52Gamemaster:I don't know what yet. I'll let you know as soon as I do.

03:28:56Johnny:Keep me updated.

03:28:57Johnny:let me know let me figure out at least who the guns are coming from and where they're going to

03:28:58Gamemaster:I'll keep digging.

03:29:00Benny:can

03:29:05Gamemaster:Sure.

03:29:06Johnny:all right thanks red

03:29:08Gamemaster:Run that call.

03:29:11Benny:can Benny contact Atum or is it just one way and as a nightmare of okay cool

03:29:13Gamemaster:He can also contact Atum if you want.

03:29:18Benny:um yeah no Benny Benny will contact uh Atum um update with everything including meeting

03:29:27Johnny:Thank you you Atum son of machine god

03:29:28Gamemaster:I...

03:29:29Benny:machine god and effectively be like this is now where the spotlight is if you

03:29:34Benny:could find out any information on all her name is completely gone

03:29:41Benny:Aurelius party Strider machine god the heart

03:29:50Benny:and the Harlequin you uh yeah once i

03:29:52Gamemaster:Can you roll a lord check for me please as a stand in for like what you know of Atum I don know I mean you could be crazy but it usually on the bottom of your character

03:30:00Argyle:you Atum actual name is

03:30:07Benny:like crazy where's lore

03:30:07Argyle:Son of Machine God.

03:30:13Johnny:He may be quick.

03:30:21Gamemaster:sheet.

03:30:21Benny:oh loris kills you uh

03:30:25Benny:And we're master?

03:30:25Argyle:.

03:30:25Johnny:See you.

03:30:28Gamemaster:You are a master.

03:30:32Gamemaster:Also, for the

03:30:33Gamemaster:record, because he would just know this immediately

03:30:35Gamemaster:and tell you,

03:30:37Gamemaster:the two companions

03:30:39Gamemaster:of Aurelius

03:30:41Gamemaster:that eventually

03:30:43Gamemaster:broke off and

03:30:44Gamemaster:founded Belvedere are Helm

03:30:47Gamemaster:and Torun Karabi.

03:30:51Gamemaster:Oh, just siblings.

03:30:55Benny:The rule was 22.

03:30:55Argyle:Are they brothers in the plumbing business?

03:30:55Anzu:We're on to you, Josh.

03:30:55Johnny:.

03:30:57Gamemaster:They're not twins.

03:30:58Gamemaster:I'm sorry.

03:31:02Gamemaster:They are brothers.

03:31:04Gamemaster:They're not in the plumbing business.

03:31:05Argyle:Data plumbing.

03:31:07Gamemaster:Data plumbing, sure.

03:31:10Gamemaster:They were really astronomers more than anything else.

03:31:13Gamemaster:But data plumbing.

03:31:15Johnny:.

03:31:21Gamemaster:22. Okay. So, Atum, representation of Atum is effectively a hydrogen orbital

03:31:38Gamemaster:constantly moving through different excited states, pressing different electrical impulses

03:31:44Gamemaster:that pass through his system. It's always a little jarring to communicate from him, given how

03:31:49Gamemaster:imposing he is

03:31:51Gamemaster:as a heart,

03:31:52Gamemaster:especially compared to,

03:31:54Gamemaster:you know,

03:31:54Gamemaster:box of bullets and like little seismograph and dude wearing suit made out of a towel Like there are there a Scale here of heart gravitas and Atum is definitely closer to

03:32:11Gamemaster:the machine god side than he is to the genie side.

03:32:18Gamemaster:Which is not a coincidence.

03:32:22Gamemaster:you have known

03:32:25Gamemaster:for a while

03:32:26Gamemaster:that Atum has been

03:32:29Gamemaster:interested in

03:32:31Gamemaster:like

03:32:35Gamemaster:ways to

03:32:37Gamemaster:increase his own ability

03:32:39Gamemaster:Atum is aware

03:32:43Gamemaster:that he

03:32:45Gamemaster:was manufactured using

03:32:47Gamemaster:the newer

03:32:49Gamemaster:more restrictive

03:32:51Gamemaster:shackled process of new hearts.

03:32:55Argyle:He's the big bad man.

03:32:57Gamemaster:He is aware as well that there were hearts made

03:33:02Gamemaster:that were not in that shackled restrictive process.

03:33:08Gamemaster:He's old, but he's just barely not old enough

03:33:12Gamemaster:to have been an old heart.

03:33:16Gamemaster:And he has been trying to rectify that for some time now.

03:33:19Gamemaster:if you mention the machine god to him that is of great note to him um

03:33:28Gamemaster:just referencing it that's great because that gives him stuff to go on for research for himself

03:33:35Gamemaster:for figuring stuff out he will absolutely help you in learning that uh Atum will also say

03:33:41Gamemaster:if you have the opportunity to extract any information about this machine god's construction,

03:33:52Gamemaster:you must do so.

03:33:55Benny:Okay Okay Okay That good

03:33:58Gamemaster:Excellent I will inform you when I have learned anything about the search queries that you granted me Oh the connection cuts I think that probably where we end it for today

03:34:07Benny:

03:34:18Gamemaster:And we will pick up tomorrow with Anzu, uh, talking to Yao.

03:34:23Benny:Killing his sister.

03:34:25Benny:Oh.

03:34:25Argyle:Yeah.

03:34:25Anzu:Yow!

03:34:25Johnny:I don't know.

03:34:28Anzu:Yow!

03:34:28Benny:Yeah.

03:34:29Gamemaster:Yao.

03:34:31Gamemaster:Not killing his sister.

03:34:33Gamemaster:If anyone's killing Anzu's sister, it's Benny.

03:34:37Benny:That'll be the next scene.

03:34:37Anzu:Oh, he already knows how.

03:34:37Gamemaster:Because he's...

03:34:38Argyle:And

03:34:38Argyle:Benny,

03:34:39Anzu:He's going to double slice.

03:34:42Argyle:Benny and Atum are going to be the

03:34:45Argyle:BBEGs.

03:34:47Anzu:Uh-oh.

03:34:47Johnny:We're going to fight Benny.

03:34:48Benny:Benny could have had

03:34:48Gamemaster:it's not possible

03:34:49Argyle:Yeah.

03:34:49Benny:into his dumpstead.

03:34:51Benny:He's just like, wait, how do I kill Anzu's sister?

03:34:53Benny:And he just looks down at his left hand and says,

03:34:54Benny:double and his right hand says slice.

03:34:55Argyle:No.

03:34:55Anzu:um

03:34:55Johnny:Yeah, there's no way they'll consume other hearts and get stronger.

03:34:56Benny:He's like, oh yeah.

03:35:03Benny:Atum can't be

03:35:04Benny:the BBG. He's one of the newer

03:35:06Benny:weaker hearts.

03:35:12Johnny:That's never happened in any of our campaigns with anyone doing that.

03:35:16Gamemaster:yeah

03:35:18Gamemaster:I'd be crazy.

03:35:22Benny:...

03:35:22Gamemaster:But it's fine, because Benny wouldn't do anything to harm the Machine God.

03:35:24Benny:correct

03:35:25Argyle:people are like oh he's because he's a kid it's like no he kills lesser gods

03:35:25Johnny:Benny is the heartbreaker.

03:35:27Gamemaster:Because the Machine God is your friend.

03:35:27Benny:Benny who

03:35:30Benny:of the party members

03:35:32Benny:definitely doesn't have the highest

03:35:34Benny:heart kill count

03:35:35Benny:he's murdered several beings

03:35:44Gamemaster:Okay.

03:35:48Gamemaster:I think like

03:35:48Johnny:I like...

03:35:49Benny:yes

03:35:49Johnny:We got...

03:35:51Johnny:We got into Strider and no one went...

03:35:53Johnny:He's a kid. Everyone went...

03:35:55Johnny:Weapon in disguise. Easy.

03:35:58Gamemaster:nobody

03:36:00Benny:To be fair, someone was...

03:36:00Gamemaster:you're on the strider not everybody on the strider is a combatant nobody on the strider

03:36:00Argyle:all right

03:36:00Johnny:Yes, it's me and my two adventurers and also our kid.

03:36:06Gamemaster:is just a child like nobody's bringing just a child onto the strider and so like

03:36:13Gamemaster:right there an old man is different from a child because one of those you could see as a guy

03:36:16Benny:We brought a kid with us.

03:36:19Johnny:So.

03:36:21Benny:Yeah, no, we're from Middle World Adventures,

03:36:22Benny:and then we brought a kid.

03:36:23Benny:No, but there was just an old man on the Strider.

03:36:23Johnny:You're welcome.

03:36:27Benny:So...

03:36:30Benny:and the other one's an old man

03:36:30Argyle:Nine.

03:36:34Gamemaster:relatively high up in his organization who has come as a representative i don't think anybody

03:36:40Benny:yeah

03:36:40Gamemaster:sees a 12 year old that is like

03:36:42Gamemaster:clearly that's the guy

03:36:44Gamemaster:who's like

03:36:45Gamemaster:managing everyone else

03:36:48Gamemaster:nine

03:36:48Argyle:Nine.

03:36:49Gamemaster:nine

03:36:49Argyle:It's even worse.

03:36:50Argyle:Isn't Benny nine?

03:36:51Benny:yeah

03:36:52Benny:Benny's a nine year old

03:36:52Gamemaster:I don't know why I can't remember

03:36:52Benny:also

03:36:54Gamemaster:Benny's age

03:36:55Gamemaster:what is wrong with me

03:36:56Benny:one of the first

03:36:57Benny:one of the first things

03:36:57Gamemaster:that is true

03:36:58Benny:Benny did

03:36:59Benny:was spar the higher level people on the Strider that showed up.

03:37:00Argyle:And then and then yeah

03:37:00Anzu:So we handed in the usurper crown right That got eaten

03:37:00Johnny:or

03:37:04Gamemaster:literally day one

03:37:06Johnny:see

03:37:06Johnny:me

03:37:06Gamemaster:day one

03:37:06Johnny:as

03:37:08Gamemaster:he approached them and asked to spar.

03:37:13Gamemaster:Crazy But uh that fine Hmm

03:37:21Benny:The hat the hat yeah

03:37:21Argyle:because that way

03:37:22Anzu:Cool.

03:37:22Benny:it's affixed to Benny's falconer

03:37:23Anzu:But the jolt coil is still around for the time being.

03:37:28Gamemaster:Is it?

03:37:28Anzu:Oh, cool.

03:37:29Benny:if Benny could cast spells it would be useful but now

03:37:31Argyle:Benny can get an extra 1d6

03:37:32Anzu:Okay.

03:37:33Argyle:because he needs more

03:37:35Gamemaster:Right, yeah.

03:37:35Anzu:I'm going to remove that from my list then.

03:37:40Argyle:Yeah, it's a heart.

03:37:41Benny:this is the thing that I thought was crazy

03:37:41Anzu:It takes the spot of a talisman if you were to put a different kind of talisman on, but

03:37:42Gamemaster:No, it's a different thing.

03:37:43Benny:it doesn't occupy a rune slot

03:37:45Benny:you're allowed

03:37:48Benny:yeah it's a spell heart

03:37:50Benny:so

03:37:50Benny:it's very weird

03:37:56Anzu:this is much better.

03:38:01Benny:because then at this point

03:38:02Benny:Benny could take the

03:38:04Benny:shifting rune off

03:38:06Benny:have the jolt coil

03:38:09Benny:and then also throw on a level 8 damaging rune,

03:38:10Argyle:You probably should do that.

03:38:11Anzu:Speaking of runes, at level 10, I don't have much to do with my free archetype.

03:38:12Gamemaster:Thank you That crazy

03:38:12Benny:like a frost rune or something.

03:38:14Benny:It would be very, very obnoxious.

03:38:15Argyle:That'd be really frightening.

03:38:20Benny:Yeah.

03:38:27Anzu:And if I do the new runesmith dedication there a first level rune I can learn that you can put on a weapon and it makes it deal two persistent bleed per weapon damage die

03:38:29Johnny:Wow.

03:38:39Benny:you That is actually crazy

03:38:42Gamemaster:That's crazy.

03:38:46Anzu:So you look forward to that.

03:38:46Johnny:Wow.

03:38:49Johnny:Ooh.

03:38:50Gamemaster:What runes, what new runes can you get at level 8?

03:38:55Benny:Is there any critical effect for it, Tanner?

03:38:55Gamemaster:Shock.

03:38:56Argyle:I can also cast this for Benny.

03:38:57Anzu:I don't think so.

03:38:59Gamemaster:I totally forgot.

03:38:59Benny:Or is that the critical effect?

03:39:02Anzu:That's just what it does, and then I can evoke the rune and have it do a one-time thing to

03:39:10Anzu:expend it, and then it's gone.

03:39:12Anzu:It's literally a level one thing, so it's not...

03:39:13Gamemaster:I...

03:39:13Gamemaster:I didn't check to see if you guys added this onto your characters.

03:39:20Benny:Implementing the rational fear.

03:39:25Gamemaster:You guys are level 8.

03:39:26Gamemaster:did you add a resilient rune

03:39:26Argyle:Is it resilient or greater resilient okay so it already there it doesn show me on the drop down it already had resilient yeah

03:39:27Anzu:Oh.

03:39:29Gamemaster:to your armor?

03:39:29Benny:Oh, I missed that.

03:39:29Johnny:I'm adding it right now.

03:39:30Anzu:Oh.

03:39:32Gamemaster:Because you get one at level 8

03:39:35Gamemaster:which just gives you a plus 1 bonus

03:39:37Gamemaster:to saving throws.

03:39:41Johnny:Oh, I got big AC now.

03:39:44Benny:I like the potency and whatnot Just

03:39:50Gamemaster:Just resilient Greater resilient is a level 14 item Oh does it not

03:39:57Gamemaster:No, just regular Resilient is what you get at level 8.

03:39:58Argyle:yeah

03:39:59Gamemaster:Okay.

03:40:00Gamemaster:Yeah, because the rule set that we're playing isn't quite ABP.

03:40:07Argyle:hmm

03:40:08Gamemaster:ABP?

03:40:09Gamemaster:Automatic Bonus Progression.

03:40:10Gamemaster:Yeah, we're not doing that.

03:40:11Gamemaster:We're doing Automatic Runic Progression,

03:40:12Argyle:All right.

03:40:13Gamemaster:which I don't think Path Builder has support for,

03:40:14Anzu:I might need to change.

03:40:15Gamemaster:so you just have to remember to add those manually.

03:40:17Johnny:I added a bunch of my new stuff into Boundary

03:40:18Gamemaster:But it is worth keeping in mind.

03:40:26Anzu:Josh, I may need to make a slight adjustment to my level up.

03:40:27Argyle:Well.

03:40:30Gamemaster:That's fine.

03:40:31Gamemaster:You guys can make...

03:40:32Gamemaster:I didn't even have the chance to add your characters into Foundry

03:40:36Gamemaster:for this one regardless.

03:40:38Gamemaster:So if you want to make any changes,

03:40:40Gamemaster:now's the time to do so.

03:40:42Argyle:Adios muchachos

03:40:42Gamemaster:Just let me know.

03:40:44Anzu:Yeah.

03:40:44Johnny:while we were playing this session.

03:40:45Gamemaster:cool

03:40:46Johnny:So most of it's already there, I think.

03:40:46Benny:All righty.

03:40:50Gamemaster:cool cool cool

03:40:52Gamemaster:alrighty

03:40:54Gamemaster:I will see you all next Monday

03:40:56Benny:Thanks, Monday.

03:40:56Argyle:Yeah

03:40:57Gamemaster:okay then

03:40:58Benny:Peace.

03:41:01Gamemaster:adios