00:00:00Johnny:Yo, yo.

00:00:00Argyle:Howdy.

00:00:00Gamemaster:I hear you.

00:00:03Argyle:You gotta give Josh a second.

00:00:08Johnny:He's got to boot up the internet.

00:00:10Argyle:Yeah, he's gotta boot up.

00:00:11Argyle:He's gotta initialize his cluster.

00:00:13Gamemaster:I'm not booting up the internet.

00:00:14Gamemaster:That's not happening.

00:00:16Gamemaster:How dare you?

00:00:19Argyle:I like to imagine you

00:00:19Gamemaster:You take that back.

00:00:21Argyle:seething and you're like, I just gotta wait!

00:00:25Gamemaster:So I can see you guys talking.

00:00:28Gamemaster:Like the indicator turns green to show that you're saying things, but I cannot hear the words you're saying

00:00:28Argyle:Wow.

00:00:30Johnny:He's booting up the internet.

00:00:30Argyle:Nice haircut.

00:00:30Anzu:So, can we confirm that Josh can't hear us?

00:00:37Argyle:Yeah.

00:00:42Gamemaster:No, I I can hear you now like now my ears are working I can hear you I'm sorry

00:00:43Argyle:Did you also get a haircut, Josh?

00:00:44Anzu:Oh, no!

00:00:48Gamemaster:No, I'm lying to you. I did know I did I did get a haircut

00:00:49Argyle:It just looks fresh, man.

00:00:49Johnny:Did you shower?

00:00:51Argyle:All right.

00:00:51Argyle:Okay.

00:00:52Argyle:I was going to say, it looks good.

00:00:53Argyle:I don't know if you're gelling it or something.

00:00:55Johnny:No.

00:00:55Argyle:Look very clean.

00:00:58Gamemaster:I got my once... what do you... quimmonthly? How do you say five-monthly? There's a term for that.

00:01:00Anzu:Just how on the dot are you that you don't feel like saying six months?

00:01:00Benny:five monthly

00:01:09Benny:it's quinn monthly

00:01:10Gamemaster:Yeah, no, I...

00:01:11Gamemaster:Um, well, if I said six months, I would be lying to you, because it hasn't been six months.

00:01:21Gamemaster:So I didn't want to lie to you guys. That kind of seemed rude.

00:01:25Gamemaster:It's Quinn Monthly? That doesn't sound right. From whom? From me? That doesn't count. That's

00:01:26Benny:I've heard

00:01:29Benny:mm-hmm

00:01:30Johnny:Oh.

00:01:30Argyle:I have not what is this

00:01:30Anzu:From whomst.

00:01:33Benny:wait

00:01:36Gamemaster:illegal.

00:01:37Gamemaster:Hmm?

00:01:38Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:01:38Benny:that's illegal

00:01:39Gamemaster:I think it first of all it bad Like people talking about how it the best model ever are either lying to themselves or to other people And also I pretty sure it just like GLM 5 like some variant there

00:01:39Benny:Josh, Jorge

00:01:39Anzu:Oh, right.

00:01:48Benny:have either of you played with

00:01:50Benny:Ox Alpha

00:01:51Benny:what do you think

00:02:11Gamemaster:It feels very similar to that.

00:02:13Benny:So, they recently, I think today, finally opened a polymarket for betting on which one people think it is, like which company it belongs to.

00:02:25Gamemaster:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:02:25Benny:It is 97%.

00:02:26Benny:Yeah.

00:02:28Gamemaster:Before we continue, just context for the people here who don't have to deal with machine learning on a daily basis.

00:02:33Gamemaster:There's a service called OpenRouter where companies that offer AI models allow people to purchase, you know, doing things with those AI models from OpenRouter.

00:02:44Gamemaster:And OpenRouter supports anonymous listings, which is a company can list their LLM for other people to use in order to collect data and get an idea of how to set up their infrastructure and all that kind of stuff.

00:02:55Anzu:Okay.

00:02:58Gamemaster:and pretty recently an anonymous company put up a version of some model called ox alpha

00:03:09Gamemaster:that if you read a very narrow benchmark that they led with it is like an order of magnitude

00:03:15Gamemaster:better than the best models on the market from from the current providers and then they said

00:03:20Gamemaster:it's free you can just use it for free um and so people have been doing that that's what this is

00:03:25Argyle:It could be all birds.

00:03:25Anzu:I have a prediction.

00:03:25Benny:Mm-hmm.

00:03:28Gamemaster:Sorry, not to interrupt you, Mike.

00:03:32Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

00:03:32Anzu:I'm feeling Jimmy Dean like the sausage,

00:03:36Anzu:breakfast sausage company.

00:03:37Johnny:The rebranding.

00:03:37Anzu:Okay.

00:03:38Benny:

00:03:38Gamemaster:Well, I, they're,

00:03:41Gamemaster:no, they're doing data centers.

00:03:42Argyle:They pivoted to AI.

00:03:43Argyle:Okay.

00:03:46Gamemaster:They're hosting the AI.

00:03:47Gamemaster:I don't think that they're also offering it.

00:03:49Johnny:It could be the wrong one.

00:03:49Gamemaster:There are people at my company

00:03:51Gamemaster:that are so so gosh what like sure that it Salesforce which is a weird pull for me But yeah is he are they doing a secret

00:03:55Anzu:That my dad i don know if they doing a secret ii thing uh my dad is you know kind of on the sales

00:04:06Gamemaster:AI thing? You would know.

00:04:08Gamemaster:You have the inside scoop.

00:04:13Gamemaster:Hmm.

00:04:14Gamemaster:so you're saying

00:04:17Anzu:well not my dad's a solutions engineer so he kind of straddles the line

00:04:22Anzu:but he doesn't

00:04:25Argyle:Get him a stenographer microphone for his birthday.

00:04:25Benny:I

00:04:25Gamemaster:he

00:04:25Anzu:develop things

00:04:26Gamemaster:maybe he secretly has been and he just can't tell you

00:04:27Anzu:I do know that he has become

00:04:30Gamemaster:because it's top secret you don't know

00:04:34Anzu:a very big fan of AI

00:04:35Anzu:he likes to talk

00:04:36Gamemaster:mmm

00:04:37Gamemaster:sure

00:04:38Gamemaster:that happens

00:04:40Gamemaster:they're so dumb

00:04:41Benny:well

00:04:42Anzu:to

00:04:42Anzu:chat GPT

00:04:48Benny:yeah

00:04:50Argyle:Have you seen those?

00:04:51Benny:it sucks the soul out of you slowly

00:04:52Anzu:Oh, I know those.

00:04:53Gamemaster:it looks like a the barcode scanner that you put on your face

00:04:55Benny:but I like

00:04:57Anzu:Yeah.

00:04:58Anzu:Right.

00:05:04Benny:I like OX Alpha

00:05:05Benny:because

00:05:07Benny:well previously I was burning

00:05:11Benny:two dollars per

00:05:13Benny:Secret Hitler game of seven people

00:05:15Benny:to have

00:05:17Benny:GPT Luna with almost

00:05:19Benny:no reasoning run them and now that this is free and apparently they have a hundred trillion uh

00:05:26Benny:per day token budget while this is free yeah which is why people which is why people like

00:05:32Benny:narrowed in on the speculation because they're like who the fuck has that much compute to support

00:05:37Benny:a hundred trillion tokens a day so i quickly instructed claude of claude code of my computer

00:05:44Benny:fame to add an

00:05:46Benny:OX Alpha Secret

00:05:48Benny:Hitler game and run it. And it is

00:05:50Benny:significantly sharper than Luna

00:05:52Benny:in my

00:05:53Benny:Secret Hitler benchmark It is beating Luna And I have recently I went through a full game They were actually very good It was very contentious They actually killed Hitler in

00:06:07Benny:one of the games. There was other very interesting bluffing stuff like someone was president.

00:06:16Benny:They got a fascist policy played. They were a fascist. They investigated Hitler and correctly

00:06:22Benny:bluffed that hitler was a liberal and then later in the game the person who was who was hitler who

00:06:30Benny:was playing perfectly as a liberal the whole game ended up saying something that like some dude just

00:06:36Benny:couldn't let go and he got mad suspicious over essentially nothing and they ended up correctly

00:06:40Benny:guessing that she was hitler and killed her so i don't know how they like got dumb luck the liberals

00:06:47Benny:won that round but luna was doing nothing of the sort no no conniving no i'm i'm liberal i'm

00:06:56Benny:fascist president i'll investigate hitler i'll tell everyone that that person's clear and we'll

00:07:00Benny:keep the fucking charade going so uh and that was on low reasoning so i told uh i told claude 10x

00:07:08Benny:all of the token restrictions we had before because there's specific restrictions for like

00:07:13Benny:I don't know, writing in their personal scratchpad

00:07:15Benny:round to round

00:07:16Benny:and generally thinking for what they're

00:07:19Benny:going to say. I said, multiply them all by 10,

00:07:21Benny:set the reasoning to max, and run a

00:07:23Benny:10-person game with OX Alpha.

00:07:25Gamemaster:You got it for at least another week or so before they finish whatever experiment they're

00:07:25Benny:I want to see what the fuck this shit looks

00:07:27Benny:at full clip.

00:07:29Benny:This would probably cost me like $50

00:07:32Benny:a game

00:07:33Benny:with non-Frontier-level shit.

00:07:36Benny:So I'm taking advantage

00:07:37Benny:of the free OX Alpha.

00:07:43Benny:Mm-hmm.

00:07:46Gamemaster:doing.

00:07:48Gamemaster:Or announce that they're, you know, they did it.

00:07:49Benny:We're getting while it's good.

00:07:55Gamemaster:Just download it.

00:07:56Gamemaster:Just download it and then run it locally.

00:07:58Gamemaster:Just ask it.

00:08:00Gamemaster:All of its weights. And it'll tell you. One weight at a time.

00:08:00Anzu:I actually have a question.

00:08:00Benny:All right.

00:08:04Benny:And the second one?

00:08:06Benny:Nice.

00:08:06Benny:Okay.

00:08:06Benny:And the third one?

00:08:08Benny:Fantastic.

00:08:10Gamemaster:I am... I think I'm ready. I know we're very ahead of time.

00:08:23Benny:Yeah, we don't have a lot of idle chat.

00:08:25Benny:Are you guys okay?

00:08:26Gamemaster:I'm sorry.

00:08:27Gamemaster:yes

00:08:30Anzu:So if I want to download Gale,

00:08:32Anzu:and I'm on this GitHub page,

00:08:34Gamemaster:uh-huh

00:08:37Anzu:and there's hella files here.

00:08:38Gamemaster:um

00:08:42Gamemaster:share your screen because I don't actually know what you're talking about

00:08:44Anzu:Uh-oh.

00:08:44Gamemaster:I mean I could also just find the direct link you need

00:08:48Anzu:That...

00:08:51Anzu:I don't know if I...

00:08:51Gamemaster:if that would be easier

00:08:57Gamemaster:Okay, one second, one second.

00:08:57Anzu:I'm using two different computers.

00:09:01Anzu:I don't...

00:09:06Gamemaster:What system are you playing on?

00:09:08Anzu:I am on a Windows 10 PC.

00:09:09Gamemaster:Okay, it should be under the 1.22.1 entry, because that's the latest stable release they

00:09:18Gamemaster:have.

00:09:18Anzu:Of course.

00:09:19Gamemaster:And if you're on Windows, you're looking for x64enus.msi.

00:09:26Gamemaster:And MSI is a Windows installer that they like.

00:09:27Anzu:Aha!

00:09:30Benny:Microsoft installer?

00:09:37Benny:Oh.

00:09:38Gamemaster:I think it's Microsoft Signed Installer or something like that.

00:09:42Gamemaster:I don't know.

00:09:43Gamemaster:It's an installer.

00:09:49Gamemaster:Why is it in my cell phone I don know

00:10:00Argyle:you Yeah

00:10:00Benny:you I just guessing

00:10:10Argyle:Do you want me to share a screen to show you how I did it, Tanner?

00:10:14Gamemaster:Oh, it is just Microsoft Installer.

00:10:16Gamemaster:You were right, Mike.

00:10:17Gamemaster:I'm on a roll.

00:10:18Gamemaster:I can't say anything correct.

00:10:20Argyle:Yeah, you've gone dumb with AI.

00:10:21Argyle:It's taking all of us.

00:10:22Gamemaster:I know.

00:10:23Gamemaster:AI has made me stupid.

00:10:25Johnny:listen Jorge was there when i had to figure out how to

00:10:25Argyle:Yeah.

00:10:25Gamemaster:um

00:10:28Gamemaster:yeah

00:10:32Gamemaster:I don't know

00:10:33Gamemaster:either way

00:10:34Gamemaster:if you end up getting a computer

00:10:36Gamemaster:Noah I'll walk you through how to get the mods as well

00:10:39Gamemaster:this is for Lethal Company

00:10:40Gamemaster:is what that was

00:10:41Gamemaster:um

00:10:42Gamemaster:um

00:10:44Johnny:hook up discord to my playstation that was already a lot

00:10:47Gamemaster:um

00:10:48Argyle:So, to be fair, your life would be simpler if you got a headset.

00:10:48Gamemaster:um

00:10:52Argyle:another thing which i'm not saying you have to it also might be easier to play marvel rivals and it

00:10:55Johnny:I might get a headset.

00:10:55Gamemaster:Amen.

00:10:55Benny:Okay.

00:10:59Argyle:might be more fun if you can hear what's happening like if you could hear someone behind you or

00:11:04Argyle:screaming something it's a very loud game like it's actually very loud i set mine to five percent

00:11:11Argyle:volume

00:11:11Argyle:uh

00:11:17Gamemaster:Now, you don't need it.

00:11:20Benny:Okay.

00:11:20Benny:Tanner says because it's that loud

00:11:22Argyle:Oh, yeah, you got to say, like, more info or something.

00:11:22Benny:because it was developed in Beijing.

00:11:25Gamemaster:We got there.

00:11:25Anzu:My computer does not want this to launch,

00:11:25Benny:I wanted there to be enough seconds

00:11:28Gamemaster:Took a little bit.

00:11:32Benny:for you guys to predict what I was going to say.

00:11:36Gamemaster:And you implemented that by stuttering?

00:11:40Benny:Yeah.

00:11:40Gamemaster:Okay.

00:11:44Anzu:but I'm going to force it to happen.

00:11:45Gamemaster:Why?

00:11:46Gamemaster:it not an exe i got a text message from my mother saying help Josh I think I downloaded a scam and gave it my

00:11:48Benny:Please.

00:11:49Benny:Yeah, please, please, please let me run this EXE.

00:11:51Benny:I downloaded it from the internet.

00:11:52Argyle:Thank you Was it plaid

00:11:53Benny:Please, please trust my...

00:11:55Johnny:you Oh no

00:11:55Anzu:Thank you Oh God

00:11:55Benny:It an MSI you right

00:12:06Gamemaster:bank password um which is like the most terrifying thing to get just in the middle of the day uh so

00:12:16Gamemaster:what

00:12:17Gamemaster:no it was an actual scam

00:12:17Argyle:Was it actually a scam or was it plaid?

00:12:22Gamemaster:she wanted to go to her

00:12:22Argyle:No!

00:12:24Gamemaster:Charles Schwab account

00:12:25Johnny:Oh no.

00:12:25Benny:Those bastards.

00:12:25Gamemaster:and she mistyped and she went to like

00:12:28Gamemaster:Charles Schaub

00:12:29Gamemaster:and it

00:12:31Johnny:Oh no.

00:12:31Gamemaster:luckily like she didn't

00:12:34Gamemaster:actually put the password in

00:12:35Gamemaster:but she did download their malware

00:12:38Gamemaster:and install that

00:12:39Gamemaster:to help with privacy

00:12:42Gamemaster:according to the website

00:12:43Gamemaster:So I got to have a fun debugging session at work today.

00:12:49Johnny:Oh no.

00:12:49Gamemaster:Walking through how to do a scan and remove viruses and all that stuff.

00:12:54Gamemaster:That was a good time.

00:12:55Argyle:I assume she rotated her passwords and everything to be sure or

00:12:55Gamemaster:That was fun.

00:13:00Gamemaster:I made her.

00:13:00Argyle:yeah yeah I know you would I just it just would have hurt if next session you're like by the way

00:13:02Gamemaster:Yes.

00:13:08Gamemaster:Oh, yeah, no, she didn't do it.

00:13:10Gamemaster:It's fine.

00:13:10Argyle:I forgot to yeah

00:13:10Gamemaster:Oh, yeah.

00:13:11Gamemaster:No, no, no, no.

00:13:12Gamemaster:We rotated her passwords.

00:13:13Gamemaster:It's fine.

00:13:14Argyle:yeah uh bailey's dad got a text that said like hi mom i changed my phone number

00:13:16Gamemaster:But hoo boy.

00:13:17Gamemaster:That was a fun message.

00:13:26Argyle:which is so funny it didn't work but it's so funny because this person is just like

00:13:36Argyle:well if i text a bunch of numbers statistically some percentage of them will be moms

00:13:40Argyle:and if they're dads maybe they'll fall for it

00:13:41Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

00:13:42Gamemaster:it it used to be and then it stopped for a little bit and i think it's picked up again

00:13:43Argyle:it didn't work he didn't fall for it

00:13:45Argyle:but it is funny

00:13:50Gamemaster:with voice cloning it used to be a pretty common scam to like call numbers that are in the phone book associated with old people and pretend to be a grandson um uh to like get them to send money to you or something like that um i that kind of just an evolution of that one

00:13:55Johnny:you Yeah

00:14:03Argyle:yeah yeah yeah

00:14:09Gamemaster:You know for a fact that what happened last session happened.

00:14:10Argyle:but I'm so sad to play Pathfinder

00:14:16Argyle:having waken up from the dream

00:14:18Argyle:that we all definitely didn't do

00:14:19Argyle:Mm-hmm.

00:14:24Gamemaster:You can't, it was all a dream, this.

00:14:25Johnny:I disagree. I think it would be a very satisfying ending to begin this with.

00:14:25Anzu:I think...

00:14:27Gamemaster:It was all a dream is the least satisfying ending to anything ever.

00:14:33Gamemaster:We're not doing it.

00:14:37Anzu:Yeah.

00:14:38Johnny:I heard that Rick Grimes dreamed The Walking Dead, and then inside of that he dreamed Us

00:14:38Anzu:I'm still waiting for them to announce that Rick Grimes

00:14:39Gamemaster:There's only...

00:14:41Anzu:dreamed all of The Walking Dead

00:14:43Anzu:and that he's still in the hospital bed.

00:14:49Argyle:Was that a...

00:14:50Gamemaster:There's only...

00:14:50Argyle:Yeah.

00:14:55Anzu:Oh.

00:14:55Benny:Josh, it's like an Inception type deal.

00:14:56Johnny:playing Last Session.

00:15:01Argyle:That guy's brain's a supercomputer.

00:15:07Benny:It's not like uninteresting dreams.

00:15:09Benny:It's interesting dreams.

00:15:09Gamemaster:The only piece of literature where it's all a dream is narratively satisfying is Cthulhu

00:15:12Benny:So it's allowed.

00:15:23Benny:Biggie Smalls.

00:15:25Anzu:you think inception is a good film

00:15:25Benny:oh

00:15:25Gamemaster:mythos.

00:15:26Gamemaster:And I can only say that because I haven't seen Inception, so it might be satisfying

00:15:27Benny:but Biggie Smalls is

00:15:29Gamemaster:in Inception, but I would have no way of knowing.

00:15:33Benny:he's got that song

00:15:34Benny:it was all a dream

00:15:36Gamemaster:What song does Biggie Smalls have?

00:15:39Gamemaster:Oh, okay.

00:15:40Benny:I used to read Word Up magazine

00:15:42Benny:salt and pepper

00:15:44Benny:have you been up in the limousine

00:15:47Gamemaster:Good for him, I guess.

00:15:49Argyle:It is a good film.

00:15:51Argyle:Speaking of films, you know what's not a good film?

00:15:55Benny:What?

00:15:55Argyle:The Gentleman Thief from...

00:16:00Johnny:You could have just left it with John Travolta

00:16:00Argyle:John Travolta.

00:16:00Anzu:I didn't like Avengers.

00:16:00Benny:even possesses you

00:16:05Johnny:and that would have been enough.

00:16:06Argyle:No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:16:07Argyle:It has DJ Khaled.

00:16:10Argyle:And somehow I think he was the best actor in the short 15 minutes that we got in.

00:16:17Johnny:What?

00:16:18Johnny:I haven't even heard of this movie.

00:16:20Argyle:It is very bad.

00:16:21Benny:I thought you were going to have like a controversial

00:16:22Johnny:The Gent-

00:16:24Benny:film take it's just like you guys know what

00:16:26Benny:movie sucks

00:16:26Argyle:Yeah.

00:16:27Benny:backwards

00:16:29Benny:sideways

00:16:29Anzu:Endgame.

00:16:30Johnny:Is this a new movement?

00:16:30Argyle:that it's very very bad

00:16:30Gamemaster:Did you just watch it?

00:16:31Benny:with fucking Seth Green, dude.

00:16:34Benny:It's just like,

00:16:35Benny:when was the last time you was in a movie that was good?

00:16:43Argyle:we tried to watch it recently and it was just so so hard to watch

00:16:44Gamemaster:Is that why you're complaining about it?

00:16:45Gamemaster:Or was it so bad that it's been burning in the back of your head for years?

00:16:53Argyle:also john travolta is like 90 and couldn't even raise his arms for part of it

00:16:54Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

00:16:59Benny:he's old

00:17:00Johnny:Isn't John Travolta, he's not that old.

00:17:00Argyle:he looked really old

00:17:00Gamemaster:He's like 400.

00:17:04Benny:he was 50 in like the 1980s

00:17:05Argyle:he looked really

00:17:06Argyle:he was born in 1952

00:17:08Gamemaster:He's 72.

00:17:12Johnny:Wow.

00:17:14Gamemaster:But...

00:17:22Argyle:I think the best person in Hollywood right now

00:17:27Argyle:is Jason Statham

00:17:29Benny:All of them.

00:17:30Johnny:in terms of like acting

00:17:30Argyle:he just he he's keeping he's keeping action alive okay okay

00:17:30Gamemaster:Like, best person from what perspective?

00:17:31Johnny:I disagree

00:17:34Johnny:I strongly disagree

00:17:34Benny:somebody get these beggars out of here what so it from a movie i can say any line from a movie

00:17:36Johnny:it's Robert Pattinson

00:17:38Johnny:the best actor in Hollywood

00:17:40Argyle:i he's the best actor yes but is robert pattinson keeping alive an entire genre of movies i don't

00:17:40Johnny:is Robert Pattinson right now and I will

00:17:42Johnny:I'll die

00:17:42Johnny:he's keeping alive the genre

00:17:50Argyle:think so

00:17:51Argyle:Yeah Yeah leap out leap it out tanner about to say some slurs bleep it out from the uh

00:17:52Johnny:of hot dude and weird art

00:17:54Johnny:movies That was a

00:17:59Anzu:oh whoa careful

00:18:00Gamemaster:you Any line

00:18:07Benny:tanner's like that reminds me of jango

00:18:10Johnny:Say every line...

00:18:12Johnny:Say every line from Django Unchained.

00:18:13Argyle:

00:18:13Argyle:Quentin Tarantino

00:18:15Benny:we just asked

00:18:21Benny:it's just like I mean anything

00:18:24Benny:from fuck what's his name

00:18:25Johnny:I think it was around

00:18:25Gamemaster:You asked this like two or three sessions ago.

00:18:25Anzu:I

00:18:26Benny:anything from Quentin Tarantino is on the

00:18:28Argyle:when how old were you guys when you realized that Quentin Tarantino has a foot fetish

00:18:30Benny:table

00:18:30Benny:like

00:18:36Argyle:no no that was i don't think that was uh in dnd i think that was with games was it yeah

00:18:39Benny:like 23

00:18:39Johnny:2016

00:18:40Johnny:yeah I don't think I had this conversation

00:18:41Gamemaster:Hello?

00:18:41Benny:like

00:18:47Johnny:but it was around 2016 when I watched

00:18:47Gamemaster:Hello?

00:18:48Argyle:how about you tanner

00:18:48Johnny:From Dusk Until Dawn

00:18:49Johnny:yeah

00:18:51Argyle:so I mentioned when I went to BU

00:18:53Anzu:feel like

00:18:55Johnny:Yeah, I think you got me there.

00:18:55Gamemaster:I, that is such a misrepresentation of what I said.

00:18:55Anzu:I never

00:18:56Anzu:I didn't come to that

00:18:59Anzu:realization watching a film of his.

00:19:05Argyle:I didn't know that yet

00:19:07Argyle:and someone told me and then Josh was like

00:19:08Anzu:I was going to say college

00:19:09Argyle:yeah and then Josh was like

00:19:09Anzu:as well.

00:19:11Argyle:you couldn't tell he had all those

00:19:13Argyle:sexy feet in there you didn't

00:19:15Argyle:notice

00:19:15Benny:Josh.

00:19:20Anzu:That sounds a lot like you, Josh.

00:19:21Argyle:yeah josh is like there was all these good sucking feet on there

00:19:23Anzu:You didn't know.

00:19:25Johnny:Yes.

00:19:25Gamemaster:Not what I said.

00:19:26Argyle:real suckable toes and i was like whoa sorry i didn't find toes attractive uh but yeah i didn't

00:19:28Gamemaster:Not what I said.

00:19:29Johnny:Please.

00:19:29Johnny:Please.

00:19:33Gamemaster:Not at all what I said.

00:19:34Argyle:know and then now now it's hard to watch his movies i used to like his movies but now that

00:19:35Gamemaster:I didn't say this

00:19:36Johnny:All you can focus on is the feet.

00:19:39Argyle:i see all the toes i'm like i can't watch this

00:19:39Benny:Josh.

00:19:41Argyle:I don know speaking of big dogs

00:19:42Benny:Josh is like,

00:19:42Johnny:You can only focus on the side of the toes.

00:19:43Benny:you didn't,

00:19:43Benny:you didn't notice how he,

00:19:44Johnny:Please.

00:19:44Benny:he only hires actresses with really nice feet

00:19:48Benny:and Jorge is like

00:19:49Johnny:Please.

00:19:49Benny:what?

00:19:53Anzu:Notice that Quentin Tarantino employs the best feat in the business

00:19:53Johnny:Please.

00:19:53Gamemaster:this is slander this is slander and then when it gets transcribed it gonna be libel You can say this yeah

00:19:55Johnny:Thank you The AI description of this session is going to be big dogs and good feet

00:19:57Benny:I mean if you look at if you look at anyone else if you look at Christopher Nolan like all the big dogs

00:20:06Benny:bad feet in the movies or they don't even show them at all

00:20:08Benny:you can tell

00:20:09Argyle:did you see the Quinta Tarantino movie

00:20:10Benny:speaking of big dogs

00:20:15Benny:big dogs

00:20:19Benny:and then I'll be in the front row

00:20:21Argyle:there's even a movie where he casts himself

00:20:23Argyle:as someone that's like suck on someone's feet

00:20:25Johnny:Yeah, that's just still gone.

00:20:25Argyle:or something.

00:20:26Johnny:It's Selma Hayek.

00:20:28Johnny:There's a whole scene of it.

00:20:28Argyle:Oh, I didn't see that movie.

00:20:29Argyle:I didn't see that movie, but I

00:20:31Argyle:didn't realize Kill Bill and all that.

00:20:33Argyle:Like, I just thought it was some artsy shot

00:20:35Argyle:of her foot. I don't know. I didn't think it was

00:20:37Argyle:sexual.

00:20:40Benny:I'll be in the front row, she'll have a high echo walk over

00:20:42Benny:she'll put her foot in my mouth whether I like it or not

00:20:46Benny:and then what I'm going to do is

00:20:49Benny:is she's going to pour beer down her leg

00:20:51Benny:and I'm going to have to drink it.

00:20:52Benny:It's going to be really fucked up for me, guys.

00:20:53Argyle:how many times you think he said cut early

00:20:55Johnny:This is a real scene, but this is a real shot from the movie.

00:20:55Benny:We're going to have to do 12 takes.

00:20:59Argyle:you know what if i saw that movie and didn't know i would i would understand the confusion

00:21:00Benny:What, with a foot in his mouth?

00:21:05Johnny:This is a real shot.

00:21:07Benny:Quentin, we grabbed...

00:21:07Johnny:This is a real movie.

00:21:08Johnny:This is a real movie.

00:21:08Benny:Quentin we grabbed the 30 rack of beers

00:21:13Argyle:it's hard to not know if you saw that movie i'm sorry josh i'm sorry

00:21:21Benny:but it's only needed for this one part of this one scene

00:21:23Argyle:Oh, Steve-O, man.

00:21:24Benny:I don't know if we're going to go through all 30

00:21:25Anzu:Why don't we play some Pathfinder or something?

00:21:26Benny:unlike Steve-O

00:21:33Gamemaster:What?

00:21:33Benny:where they found the guy with the longest nails in the world

00:21:36Benny:and then they poured beer down his nails and he drank that

00:21:38Benny:I had to bring the temperature down.

00:21:40Gamemaster:What?

00:21:42Gamemaster:Gross.

00:21:44Argyle:Yeah.

00:21:46Benny:There's Salma Hayek in the chat.

00:21:47Anzu:Okay.

00:21:48Benny:I had to bring the temperature down.

00:21:49Benny:I'm sorry.

00:21:53Gamemaster:Let's play some Pathfinder.

00:21:55Johnny:Yeah Yeah

00:21:55Argyle:Oh, yeah.

00:21:55Gamemaster:If that amenable with everybody Does anybody want to do a recap of what happened last session

00:22:02Benny:Does anybody want to do Oh wait wait hold on

00:22:05Benny:One order of business.

00:22:06Benny:Does anyone have a current headshot of Argyle for nefarious purposes?

00:22:14Argyle:Sorry, I can get you one in a second.

00:22:14Gamemaster:Jorge does.

00:22:15Benny:Okay.

00:22:16Johnny:Actually, I have several.

00:22:16Benny:That was worth interrupting the intro.

00:22:17Gamemaster:No, the person who has the most up-to-date headshot of Argyle right now is Tanner.

00:22:25Johnny:what's weird is that tanner wrote and directed the whole movie

00:22:25Gamemaster:Is this why Tanner does additional damage to things with feet?

00:22:25Anzu:I've been storing it, keeping it for special purposes.

00:22:25Benny:it's just a full body shot

00:22:28Benny:and you're like, wait, why did you, did you have AI

00:22:30Benny:remove his shoes?

00:22:34Johnny:and then had argyle and himself in it and he had argyle put his feet just like in a shot

00:22:40Johnny:i'll do the recap

00:22:41Anzu:It's integral to the plot.

00:22:43Benny:Who's doing the recap?

00:22:46Johnny:last session we all had a great night's sleep

00:22:48Gamemaster:Sorry, Noah's hand was raised.

00:22:55Gamemaster:No.

00:22:55Johnny:and that was the entire session

00:22:56Johnny:we were finishing up our conversation

00:23:01Johnny:with the twins and

00:23:02Johnny:Johnny

00:23:05Johnny:had the great idea to contact the men here

00:23:07Johnny:because they're the heroes and we need all the help

00:23:09Johnny:we can get because in Superlix

00:23:10Johnny:the bifurcated man, the mountain

00:23:12Johnny:was somewhere on board

00:23:14Johnny:we put on a show

00:23:17Johnny:it went super great

00:23:19Johnny:rolled amazingly, we met the men here

00:23:21Johnny:Aut was like

00:23:23Johnny:Aut was kind of a jerk about it

00:23:24Johnny:he was like, you can only have one friend

00:23:27Johnny:I'm only friends with people who are friends with me

00:23:30Johnny:and no one else

00:23:31Johnny:which is a real narrow mentality

00:23:33Johnny:and it's going to get him shot with a golden needle

00:23:35Johnny:anyway, then we talked to the men here

00:23:38Johnny:and they were like

00:23:39Johnny:we were like, oh yeah man

00:23:42Johnny:anyway, we need help

00:23:43Johnny:and he went

00:23:44Johnny:doo doo doo

00:23:44Johnny:and then gave

00:23:46Johnny:us a fancy

00:23:47Johnny:gun that

00:23:48Johnny:shot the

00:23:49Johnny:most precious

00:23:50Johnny:resource across

00:23:50Johnny:three campaigns

00:23:51Johnny:and we had

00:23:53Johnny:17 of them

00:23:53Johnny:and they were

00:23:54Johnny:like wow

00:23:54Johnny:should we

00:23:55Johnny:shoot ourselves

00:23:56Johnny:with these

00:23:57Johnny:and he went

00:23:57Johnny:doo doo doo

00:23:58Johnny:and

00:24:00Johnny:Then we shot him, which I guess was the right move, and also crazy.

00:24:00Argyle:Someone had to pull the trigger.

00:24:06Johnny:And then we blipped back out.

00:24:09Johnny:Yes, Argyle is the only one of us to have killed a god, ironically.

00:24:14Johnny:Then we blipped back out, and the twins were like, what happened?

00:24:18Johnny:We were like, uh.

00:24:20Johnny:Then they blipped out, and then we were shunted across reality to off the map,

00:24:27Johnny:the far end of nowhere where it was all cold and sad and we're like this would be bad uh we summoned

00:24:30Anzu:Hmm.

00:24:32Johnny:chuck chuck was dead uh then machine god was like there's incursions everywhere everything's

00:24:41Johnny:collapsing everyone's dead and we were like we should go investigate and get a void heart

00:24:44Johnny:so we did and then there was a quaalont which almost killed us but the quaalont was coming

00:24:49Johnny:through anyway and there was a lot of them and they were all working together and they

00:24:52Johnny:They were coming through on their own anyway.

00:24:57Johnny:Then we drove back, we used the Voidheart, we got some cool new magic dampening, and then

00:25:00Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:25:02Johnny:the twins were like, what did you do? Why did you do that? We were like, it was there.

00:25:05Johnny:They were like, you could have walked away! Which, why would we do that? We couldn't do that.

00:25:10Johnny:And then everyone else was like, how do you know what's going on? And we were like, I don't know, just

00:25:16Johnny:instinct. We're pretty good in these situations.

00:25:19Johnny:And now we're here.

00:25:23Gamemaster:Listen, sometimes people who follow the script correctly

00:25:27Gamemaster:refuse the call, as the hero is supposed to do near the beginning of the journey.

00:25:30Argyle:yeah yeah but we lost a very powerful ally

00:25:32Gamemaster:But sometimes you skip straight ahead. Sometimes that happens.

00:25:39Argyle:if we rejected it bad maybe not this bad

00:25:42Argyle:our guy doesn't know the hero's journey

00:25:45Gamemaster:Either way,

00:25:50Gamemaster:ignoring the revisionism

00:25:52Gamemaster:that happened a little bit in the middle there,

00:25:54Gamemaster:that a good recap I give you a mythic point for that That acceptable to me Um that said uh we left off gosh where did we yes Jorge

00:26:00Argyle:you um this is giving uh we didn rob that uh money and it also giving that gong just got destroyed

00:26:20Argyle:by itself this might be our our campaign's big we didn't do that that was some other guy

00:26:25Johnny:Nobody could have prevented this.

00:26:25Gamemaster:One of you or all of you

00:26:25Anzu:I think it's giving

00:26:29Anzu:we're all trying to figure out who did this

00:26:32Anzu:as we stand in our hot dog costume

00:26:40Gamemaster:collectively are wearing a hot dog costume

00:26:42Gamemaster:Yes, absolutely

00:26:43Gamemaster:But yeah, no, that's fine

00:26:48Gamemaster:That's acceptable

00:26:49Gamemaster:You get a mythic point

00:26:50Argyle:Are

00:26:55Johnny:I think we're back in our house in the in our area.

00:26:55Gamemaster:I totally, I apologize. I actually forget where we left off last session. Where are you guys? What are you doing?

00:26:55Benny:Uh...

00:27:10Johnny:We're waiting.

00:27:10Gamemaster:The Fane?

00:27:11Johnny:I think we were in our bed.

00:27:12Johnny:Yeah, on our fan.

00:27:13Johnny:There we go.

00:27:15Johnny:I think we were either waiting for everybody else to come over or it was the morning and

00:27:17Johnny:they were about to come over.

00:27:19Argyle:our story was

00:27:19Gamemaster:Alright, you're holding a Summit.

00:27:22Argyle:yeah our story was

00:27:25Argyle:we noticed the thing broke

00:27:30Argyle:we went over to see the harlequins

00:27:33Argyle:we noticed there were void hearts

00:27:36Argyle:we tried to close them

00:27:37Argyle:we got overwhelmed

00:27:39Argyle:then we went to talk to our friends

00:27:41Argyle:and then Mindbird goes

00:27:43Argyle:oh we're far because I can sense void

00:27:46Argyle:that's our story guys

00:27:49Argyle:and then everyone else goes,

00:27:51Argyle:ooh, you guys should host a get-together.

00:27:54Argyle:And then we like oh yeah

00:27:55Gamemaster:Sure Uh sure Okay so just for my own sake who did you send out the invites to

00:28:09Gamemaster:Everybody in your skein, which would be Protectorate, Scale, Hildebrandt, and Prime Meridian?

00:28:18Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely.

00:28:23Gamemaster:Excuse me.

00:28:25Gamemaster:So you guys, you get a long rest if any of you are injured for something that may have happened.

00:28:32Gamemaster:For instance, the nine-year-old that really got beat up for a little bit there.

00:28:38Gamemaster:You heal up.

00:28:39Gamemaster:The rest of you are totally fine because you put the nine-year-old in the way of danger so that you didn't have to be.

00:28:46Gamemaster:You sent out your message.

00:28:48Gamemaster:You got general affirmatives from everybody.

00:28:50Gamemaster:Everybody RSVP'd to your partiful.

00:28:53Gamemaster:they will be attending

00:28:55Gamemaster:but you get in your long rest

00:29:00Gamemaster:you rest up, everybody is still

00:29:02Gamemaster:rattled

00:29:02Gamemaster:can I get

00:29:06Gamemaster:I guess

00:29:08Gamemaster:I would love it if I could get

00:29:10Gamemaster:either a diplomacy or a

00:29:12Gamemaster:society check

00:29:13Gamemaster:as people start filling in

00:29:16Gamemaster:and you also have the people who live with you

00:29:18Gamemaster:the remnants of

00:29:20Gamemaster:Solari Sub-surface and Alkahest

00:29:22Gamemaster:radiant arms

00:29:23Gamemaster:in your little alliance

00:29:25Johnny:I did roll astronomically well last session.

00:29:25Argyle:I just remember Johnny rolled really well

00:29:25Anzu:Josh, do you want one of each?

00:29:26Gamemaster:here.

00:29:28Gamemaster:Just get me either a society

00:29:30Gamemaster:or a diplomacy as you kind of get

00:29:32Gamemaster:a reading on the vibe.

00:29:33Argyle:to convince the other people in our skein

00:29:35Argyle:and they're like, you guys are the de facto leaders.

00:29:38Argyle:I remember that part. I didn't make that up.

00:29:42Gamemaster:If you like.

00:29:45Johnny:I think better than I've ever rolled in any session ever.

00:29:50Anzu:And yet the outcome was bad.

00:29:50Argyle:And I think...

00:29:51Johnny:All right.

00:29:52Gamemaster:Mike so it things happen I do to avoid rightfully dogging on Mike

00:29:52Argyle:Well I think Mike rolled the worst ever Worst ever

00:29:55Benny:It doesn seem like Josh says it not bad It just happens On the Scale of happens

00:30:08Gamemaster:because this is all his fault,

00:30:10Benny:...

00:30:11Gamemaster:like, besides the fact that it wasn't a bad roll,

00:30:14Gamemaster:it was a things-happen-faster-than-expected roll.

00:30:14Benny:...

00:30:17Gamemaster:The other bit is, like,

00:30:19Gamemaster:the worst he's ever rolled

00:30:21Gamemaster:was effectively just two ones on a d10 which you've all rolled worse than that before

00:30:25Benny:We're all at full.

00:30:28Gamemaster:like that's not a crazy thing to have happened but you know

00:30:35Gamemaster:yeah separately from that it is 100 exclusively mike's fault that any of this happened um

00:30:43Gamemaster:and uh i've made it so that everybody on the strider knows that it's benny's fault

00:30:49Gamemaster:just like psychologically they just know it i believe that's one of the effects of the

00:30:55Johnny:I got 30 to diplomize.

00:30:55Anzu:20.

00:30:55Gamemaster:10 000 random wands is that like everybody knows it's your fault that something bad happened

00:31:00Gamemaster:so we'll say that that happened

00:31:03Gamemaster:um okay what did we get for society

00:31:12Gamemaster:20 okay so with the 31 um

00:31:15Anzu:20.

00:31:20Gamemaster:yeah that's fair uh so are so are a lot of the other people to be fair um

00:31:20Anzu:I'm rattled.

00:31:29Gamemaster:in that

00:31:32Gamemaster:a lot of people are rattled

00:31:37Gamemaster:which isn't crazy

00:31:39Gamemaster:you went from an uncertain

00:31:42Gamemaster:voyage into the unknown

00:31:44Gamemaster:where something was slowly sucking

00:31:46Gamemaster:the life out of first

00:31:48Gamemaster:some shield that you have and then if that

00:31:50Gamemaster:fails you, possibly killing

00:31:52Gamemaster:you and turning you into void creatures

00:31:54Gamemaster:or a portal to void creatures

00:31:56Gamemaster:and now that's kind of been

00:31:58Gamemaster:compounded a little bit by

00:32:00Gamemaster:Instead of venturing into the unknown in one direction, you ventured very, very, very far into the unknown in some other direction.

00:32:07Gamemaster:And it seems worse, because now you're not moving, so you're effectively stranded where you currently are.

00:32:11Gamemaster:And also those void creatures are now a faction on the Strider, taking the place of the original people who piloted this pilgrimage, leaving you in a way more uncertain step than you were just a few minutes ago.

00:32:30Gamemaster:Actually, at this point, it's been like 12 hours.

00:32:33Gamemaster:And so looking around, there are kind of three general buckets that people are falling into.

00:32:46Gamemaster:Most of the group that is of the less fighting shape, a lot of Solari Sub-surface, most of Alka-Hest Freight, a lot of the people that came from Hildebrandt as well.

00:33:02Gamemaster:and the general gophers from...

00:33:11Gamemaster:Sorry, my cat is tearing up my carpet.

00:33:14Gamemaster:Stop that.

00:33:15Gamemaster:What are you doing?

00:33:22Gamemaster:Most of the unpowered people are terrified out of their minds,

00:33:27Gamemaster:is to say.

00:33:28Gamemaster:They already didn't have a lot of say of what was going on.

00:33:32Gamemaster:they either didn't know what they were getting into

00:33:34Gamemaster:or didn't know what they were getting into

00:33:36Gamemaster:and also didn't have a choice

00:33:37Gamemaster:so this is just worse

00:33:41Gamemaster:before it was just a general unease

00:33:45Gamemaster:and that's kind of bubbling up to the surface

00:33:47Gamemaster:Salvado hasn't been drinking

00:33:50Gamemaster:but that is only because you forcibly purge

00:33:54Gamemaster:the alcohol from his system and he kind of feels like he needs to vomit anytime he goes near it It not for lack of trying Uh the other members of Solari Sub-surface are

00:34:05Gamemaster:uh, and probably have been for the past, uh, 12 hours, uh, very, very, um,

00:34:14Gamemaster:drunk and something else. Uh, they are, they are out of their gourds at the moment. Um,

00:34:19Gamemaster:unclear on what.

00:34:23Gamemaster:Most of Alkahest Freight

00:34:26Gamemaster:is similarly not looking good,

00:34:29Gamemaster:looking stressed,

00:34:30Gamemaster:bit fingernails,

00:34:32Gamemaster:kind of like scratching at scabs and stuff,

00:34:34Gamemaster:bad habits from general anxiety

00:34:37Gamemaster:starting to stick up,

00:34:38Gamemaster:with the exception of Kadou,

00:34:40Gamemaster:who falls into the second bucket,

00:34:43Gamemaster:along with some of the higher-ranking members

00:34:46Gamemaster:of Prime Meridian,

00:34:47Gamemaster:as well as most of the Scale and most of Radiant Arms,

00:34:52Gamemaster:which is curious.

00:34:54Gamemaster:Either what has happened hasn't really hit them

00:34:58Gamemaster:or this is just another step on whatever adventure they're going on

00:35:02Gamemaster:or something like that.

00:35:04Gamemaster:This has kind of just become like, you know,

00:35:08Gamemaster:something not taken in stride necessarily,

00:35:10Gamemaster:but an interesting data point nevertheless.

00:35:13Gamemaster:The entire time that you guys have been awake,

00:35:16Gamemaster:Kadou has also been awake, with a number of alchemical and arcane measuring devices looking out onto the horizon and onto the rocky outcropping of wherever you currently are, taking down some kind of measurements.

00:35:34Gamemaster:He's just generally interested in the area.

00:35:36Gamemaster:similarly

00:35:39Gamemaster:it seems like the members

00:35:41Gamemaster:of the Scale, all three of them do attend

00:35:43Gamemaster:your little powwow, have been

00:35:45Gamemaster:muttering to themselves and when you come over

00:35:47Gamemaster:to greet them and say hi we'll also

00:35:49Gamemaster:shoot general theories

00:35:51Gamemaster:of where the hell we are

00:35:53Gamemaster:and all that kind of stuff excuse me the third bucket the bucket that the Protectorate falls into the bucket that it seems that Paavo of Hildebrandt falls into um and uh the bucket that it seems

00:36:10Gamemaster:kind of a little bit the Twins are falling into, uh, is the third, uh, on high alert,

00:36:17Gamemaster:oh my god, we're in so much danger, I need to shoot the shit out of anything that comes close

00:36:23Gamemaster:before it can kill us.

00:36:25Anzu:Can you give me again besides Kadou

00:36:25Gamemaster:It is the opposite of the first bucket.

00:36:29Gamemaster:If the first bucket is flight,

00:36:32Gamemaster:these guys are fight.

00:36:37Gamemaster:Like, yes.

00:36:43Anzu:who was in the middle bucket?

00:36:45Gamemaster:Absolutely.

00:36:45Anzu:Or was it just Kadou?

00:36:46Gamemaster:The middle bucket, no, it's Kano.

00:36:49Gamemaster:It is most of the Scale.

00:36:51Gamemaster:who don't actually seem to be as on guard as, like, the Protectorate is.

00:36:55Argyle:This is a Tuesday for them.

00:37:01Gamemaster:The Scale is also, like, you would know, of these groups,

00:37:05Gamemaster:the most likely to have spent extended time elsewhere on the horizon fighting.

00:37:12Gamemaster:So this is definitely, like, strange, but they aren't on edge.

00:37:13Argyle:Oh.

00:37:15Argyle:Fucker.

00:37:17Argyle:Oh.

00:37:17Anzu:Tas Millett

00:37:18Gamemaster:So it's Kadou, it's most of the Scale, and it's, oh, what's his face?

00:37:24Gamemaster:The head of Prime Meridian, who would, in a very derivative way, see this as just an interesting possible new way.

00:37:25Argyle:Sorry.

00:37:34Gamemaster:Yes, Tas, thank you.

00:37:38Gamemaster:This place is interesting, and he's not really a combatant to begin with.

00:37:43Gamemaster:So he's looking at this more from the perspective of, this is strange.

00:37:47Gamemaster:and there might be something

00:37:48Gamemaster:of worth here.

00:37:51Argyle:And then where was Radiant Arms and Paavo in on this?

00:37:51Gamemaster:So he's, you know.

00:37:54Gamemaster:Oh, sorry.

00:37:55Gamemaster:Radiant Arms is in the second bucket They are curious This is interesting This is new Paavo is on edge Paavo showed up He told you ahead of time that he was going to do this

00:38:06Gamemaster:so as to not surprise you. But Paavo is traveling exclusively with an armed guard at this point.

00:38:14Gamemaster:Earlier on the Strider's travel, he was fine, like, just himself. He can fight,

00:38:19Gamemaster:so he wasn't particularly worried.

00:38:21Gamemaster:He doesn't know what this area shows,

00:38:24Gamemaster:and he is generally a cautious man,

00:38:25Argyle:Okay.

00:38:26Gamemaster:so he is only going places with armed backup at this point.

00:38:31Gamemaster:He's definitely on edge.

00:38:34Gamemaster:And then I guess, you know, the four of you,

00:38:38Gamemaster:or five, if we're counting Othello,

00:38:41Gamemaster:get to put yourselves in any of these buckets as you please.

00:38:45Gamemaster:But, you know, general anxiety, on-edge curiosity all mixing together as people are getting settled around the time that you had specified for your summit, for your powwow.

00:38:55Johnny:I'll perceive as well.

00:38:55Argyle:Yeah.

00:38:55Anzu:There's a very nondescript man in the corner.

00:38:55Benny:There better not be.

00:39:02Gamemaster:Can I get a perception check?

00:39:03Gamemaster:Okay.

00:39:03Gamemaster:what do we get

00:39:06Argyle:Yeah.

00:39:10Argyle:Oh, goodness.

00:39:12Anzu:oh my gosh

00:39:20Argyle:All right, good.

00:39:20Benny:Where is he?

00:39:21Johnny:30 seconds.

00:39:22Johnny:Correct.

00:39:22Johnny:Johnny has never been on higher alert

00:39:25Anzu:Johnny sees the men here

00:39:25Gamemaster:what do we get

00:39:26Johnny:I got a 36

00:39:29Anzu:they're alive and well it was just a joke

00:39:32Johnny:script

00:39:33Gamemaster:36 crit, absolutely.

00:39:37Gamemaster:Okay, so you guys are all settled.

00:39:38Anzu:okay

00:39:40Gamemaster:Oh, actually, this is an important question.

00:39:42Anzu:That's terrifying.

00:39:44Gamemaster:One second.

00:39:46Gamemaster:I need to read a rule for a second, because it didn't occur to me until just now that

00:39:50Gamemaster:it might be relevant.

00:39:52Johnny:Oh.

00:39:55Argyle:Is it about the moats?

00:39:55Benny:It's the incompatization rule.

00:39:57Gamemaster:One second.

00:39:59Johnny:All you.

00:40:00Argyle:yeah

00:40:00Gamemaster:It is, it is...

00:40:00Anzu:I was thinking the same thing, Mike.

00:40:02Gamemaster:No, it's not incapacitation.

00:40:04Gamemaster:It is a little bit about the modes.

00:40:07Argyle:and just putting it out there

00:40:10Gamemaster:Okay, so what I was going to say, I don't...

00:40:12Argyle:the twins have that

00:40:15Argyle:that thing they did in the car

00:40:17Argyle:that they did on our place

00:40:19Argyle:they told us it was to stop interdimensional

00:40:21Argyle:travel I don't know if that's actually what it did

00:40:23Gamemaster:Yes, no, nobody's teleporting.

00:40:23Argyle:I'm assuming it's an invisible man

00:40:25Gamemaster:Um, so the, the thing that I had to, the thing that I had to read the rules for is that,

00:40:27Argyle:but yeah

00:40:30Argyle:Yep.

00:40:31Gamemaster:okay, so let's do this formally. Um, you guys have the, uh, morphic moat upgrade,

00:40:42Gamemaster:uh, which specifically makes the whole area become, oh wait, do you have alarm wards?

00:40:47Gamemaster:You do, right? Absolutely. Okay, so the question here is, do me a favor and enumerate for me

00:40:48Argyle:Yep.

00:40:52Argyle:Shell told us to get that.

00:40:58Gamemaster:people who would be allowed to pass without issue. That seems easier. We'll do an allow

00:41:00Johnny:I assume we'll be everyone in our scheme, right?

00:41:00Argyle:no not everyone in our thing

00:41:00Anzu:certainly

00:41:00Benny:Yeah.

00:41:07Gamemaster:list instead of a deny list. Who is able to pass the border without issue?

00:41:15Anzu:certainly Paavo

00:41:16Argyle:what

00:41:17Anzu:why is Paavo triggering alarms

00:41:17Gamemaster:Okay.

00:41:18Argyle:it could just ring a bell

00:41:22Argyle:why would he not trigger alarms

00:41:23Anzu:okay

00:41:24Argyle:you want him sneaking in in the middle of the night

00:41:25Anzu:so then everybody triggers alarms

00:41:26Argyle:so the only people who wouldn't trigger alarms i think are the four of us that's it five of us with

00:41:28Anzu:Thank you you bing bing bong

00:41:30Johnny:Wait, yeah, the twins.

00:41:30Benny:Or.

00:41:33Gamemaster:Okay, that's fine.

00:41:34Argyle:withanzu

00:41:35Argyle:they do it they do it in stores why wouldn we do it in a War scenario

00:41:36Gamemaster:Absolutely.

00:41:37Gamemaster:Five of us with Anzu.

00:41:37Johnny:Maybe a bing bong instead of a klaxon sound like in a dry cleaner

00:41:39Gamemaster:Othello was in the group of four.

00:41:41Gamemaster:Anzu's the...

00:41:43Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely.

00:41:44Gamemaster:So every time a new guest shows up at the edge of your Fane,

00:41:47Gamemaster:there is

00:41:48Gamemaster:there's

00:41:48Gamemaster:a

00:41:49Gamemaster:a

00:41:49Gamemaster:klaxon

00:41:50Gamemaster:sound

00:41:50Gamemaster:that goes

00:41:51Gamemaster:off

00:41:51Gamemaster:uh

00:41:52Gamemaster:yeah no that fine that fine Absolutely Okay fine There a gentle bing as an intruder appears on your doorstep

00:42:00Benny:Bing bong Ding dong

00:42:09Gamemaster:Anytime an intruder appears on your doorstep.

00:42:14Gamemaster:So there's a bing-bong that goes off every time one of the people who are coming to the summit shows up.

00:42:18Gamemaster:Everybody for the summit is present. They're ready to go.

00:42:22Gamemaster:there's a bing bong that sounds

00:42:24Gamemaster:at your alarm in the central area

00:42:25Johnny:Breathe.

00:42:25Argyle:run over there

00:42:25Benny:But yeah.

00:42:26Gamemaster:by your heart.

00:42:29Argyle:and we have gunners looking watching out

00:42:30Gamemaster:Okay. Absolutely.

00:42:34Gamemaster:No perception check needed here.

00:42:35Gamemaster:You go out to the front towards your moat, where there was the

00:42:38Gamemaster:where... I mean, the alarm

00:42:40Gamemaster:doesn't tell you where it occurred, but your faint is not

00:42:42Gamemaster:so large that you can't, like, do a quick

00:42:44Gamemaster:360 and figure out where it is.

00:42:46Gamemaster:There is...

00:42:48Gamemaster:There is

00:42:50Gamemaster:not attempting to breach your walls, not attempting to hide at all. There is a,

00:42:51Argyle:so

00:42:55Argyle:This motherfucker.

00:42:58Gamemaster:it looks to be, at first glance, it looks like a human who's had their skin ripped off.

00:43:07Gamemaster:And then you can actually tell it's the opposite. It's a skeleton that somebody put muscles on.

00:43:13Gamemaster:This is something that you had seen previously. This is one of those

00:43:17Gamemaster:drones that were setting up

00:43:20Gamemaster:the Pale Lantern Society's

00:43:23Gamemaster:fame.

00:43:25Argyle:Send the send number five to go get it.

00:43:25Gamemaster:This is a skeleton

00:43:27Gamemaster:that has had muscles and

00:43:28Gamemaster:sinew and tendons

00:43:30Gamemaster:grown on top of the bones

00:43:32Gamemaster:and then magically

00:43:34Gamemaster:enchanted to be animate.

00:43:37Gamemaster:It is

00:43:37Gamemaster:stock still, standing

00:43:40Gamemaster:one foot over the line

00:43:42Gamemaster:of your base

00:43:45Gamemaster:so as to have triggered the alarm.

00:43:47Gamemaster:holding an envelope in both of its bony hands.

00:43:55Johnny:The little bird

00:43:55Argyle:No No You bad

00:43:55Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely.

00:43:55Anzu:I walk out to the I guess Othello can go do a flyby and grab the thing

00:43:55Benny:the bird

00:44:12Gamemaster:Othello swoops down, grabs the envelope, and then swoops back up.

00:44:18Gamemaster:With its function seemingly dispatched, the drone does a weird little bow and then starts walking north.

00:44:25Johnny:There you go.

00:44:25Argyle:Can you detect magic to see if this is a crapt or scrying?

00:44:25Anzu:Alright, I use...

00:44:36Johnny:Anthrax in there?

00:44:36Anzu:Does it register magic, Josh?

00:44:38Argyle:Yeah.

00:44:41Gamemaster:Roll Arcana.

00:44:43Anzu:Well, uh, wait, wait.

00:44:44Argyle:What if they put a listing device in the thing?

00:44:45Anzu:If I cast the spell...

00:44:48Gamemaster:Oh, right, you have detect magic, you're just casting detect magic.

00:44:48Anzu:Hold on.

00:44:50Anzu:Please hold.

00:44:51Anzu:If I cast Detect Magic...

00:44:54Gamemaster:Uh, yeah, that's easy enough.

00:44:55Johnny:Oh.

00:44:55Argyle:Good.

00:44:55Anzu:I open.

00:44:57Gamemaster:You cast detect magic, you detect no magic.

00:45:01Argyle:Good.

00:45:02Gamemaster:Okay, Anthrax bursts out at you.

00:45:06Anzu:It's not magic.

00:45:08Anzu:It's just a disease.

00:45:11Gamemaster:No.

00:45:15Gamemaster:The note is pretty short.

00:45:18Gamemaster:It is written in this long, flowing cursive,

00:45:24Gamemaster:in this deep red ink,

00:45:25Argyle:Maybe we should chat with our alliance first before we bring in a guy.

00:45:25Anzu:that is fascinating

00:45:25Benny:I was thinking about gambling at a time like this.

00:45:26Gamemaster:and it says,

00:45:28Gamemaster:I wish to parlay,

00:45:31Gamemaster:signed Grayson.

00:45:44Anzu:so Grayson kind of wants to chat

00:45:45Gamemaster:I totally sorry it would have also It would have given you a time and date

00:45:47Anzu:you guys

00:45:48Anzu:oh certainly

00:45:53Anzu:yes

00:45:54Anzu:but uh But uh

00:45:55Argyle:I assuming he scared of getting whacked by this new faction and honestly I kind of What

00:46:05Gamemaster:It's occurred to me that he would not let you, like, respond to come onto his territory.

00:46:09Gamemaster:It'll tell you Giacomo's an hour and a half from now.

00:46:14Anzu:Is Giacomo's not

00:46:16Anzu:in the

00:46:18Anzu:area of town?

00:46:20Gamemaster:It's not in the Harlequin City.

00:46:21Gamemaster:No, Giacomo's is in the central hub around the base of the gyroscope thing, which as far as you know is still intact.

00:46:22Argyle:Oh.

00:46:25Johnny:We have to get the show on the road.

00:46:25Argyle:All right, let's go talk.

00:46:25Anzu:Oh.

00:46:31Anzu:What time does he want to meet?

00:46:33Gamemaster:An hour and a half from now.

00:46:35Anzu:Okay, fascinating.

00:46:37Anzu:All right, let's go chat with everybody.

00:46:41Gamemaster:Oh, and while we're doing clearing stuff up, I do want to, I didn't look back at the transcript, but I remember today,

00:46:48Gamemaster:today. I don't know if I mentioned it, so I'm going to put emphasis on it now to make sure that

00:46:53Gamemaster:I know that I mentioned it. The world that you're in right now has one sun. Just putting that out

00:46:55Johnny:I have to do the deep lore.

00:46:55Argyle:Oh yeah, it used to have two, right?

00:46:55Anzu:Hmm.

00:47:01Gamemaster:there. Normally it has two. Yes, right now it has one. I just, you know, I don't know if I

00:47:04Argyle:When we weren't this far out.

00:47:07Argyle:Yeah.

00:47:12Gamemaster:remembered to say that last session, so I'm remembering to say that now. Yes.

00:47:18Gamemaster:Yes.

00:47:18Johnny:In this setting, is one of them the sun and one is the Godhome, like shining into the world?

00:47:23Johnny:Okay, that's what I thought.

00:47:23Gamemaster:Yes.

00:47:25Johnny:And this is just the Giant ball of fire.

00:47:25Argyle:We don't have the Godhome.

00:47:25Anzu:And can you tell them apart?

00:47:26Gamemaster:Yeah.

00:47:30Gamemaster:This, yeah, this is just the sub.

00:47:32Gamemaster:No Godholm.

00:47:32Johnny:Okay.

00:47:34Argyle:I think this is past the wall

00:47:36Argyle:for the gods.

00:47:37Johnny:Oh, yeah, shunt it out.

00:47:38Argyle:Okay.

00:47:40Argyle:Okay.

00:47:40Johnny:All right, let's get the show on the road.

00:47:43Gamemaster:Okay.

00:47:44Gamemaster:So you guys can head back and have your summit.

00:47:46Gamemaster:they're all crowded around in

00:47:49Gamemaster:probably

00:47:52Gamemaster:the workshop, the gun range, or the

00:47:53Argyle:War room.

00:47:54Gamemaster:kitchen. Those are the three that would be

00:47:55Argyle:worm.

00:47:55Benny:Because we have a...

00:47:55Gamemaster:Oh, you have a War room! You're totally right. You're all in the

00:47:58Argyle:We have a map, and then we've

00:47:58Gamemaster:War room.

00:47:59Gamemaster:Uh

00:48:00Johnny:Friends, friends,

00:48:00Argyle:Put like little icons where they're like.

00:48:00Gamemaster:Yeah, absolutely. You have little minis of each of the different groups, because that's easy enough to just have Eerie summon.

00:48:04Argyle:Yeah.

00:48:10Argyle:Argyle has like actual.

00:48:12Argyle:He got like armor.

00:48:13Argyle:That's not just like his his suit.

00:48:16Argyle:And he's he's doing his best Jon Snow impression, except he doesn't know who that is.

00:48:20Gamemaster:Okay.

00:48:22Anzu:want it

00:48:23Argyle:Yeah.

00:48:24Johnny:Calarians, countrymen, lend me your ears.

00:48:30Argyle:our guys when johnny does this gonna be like no no

00:48:30Gamemaster:you get everybody's attention.

00:48:30Anzu:That's actually offensive.

00:48:33Gamemaster:A few of them look a little confused

00:48:35Gamemaster:because they're not Calarian.

00:48:38Gamemaster:Actually, the two people from the protection

00:48:40Gamemaster:are probably a little annoyed at you for saying that.

00:48:43Gamemaster:But, yeah, it's pretty rude.

00:48:44Anzu:Ha ha ha.

00:48:45Johnny:That one had the most syllables that rhyme the best.

00:48:47Gamemaster:but um

00:48:49Johnny:You guys know Shakespeare?

00:48:52Argyle:i'm not i'm not from Calaria either i don't know why he's saying that but

00:48:55Johnny:You guys know that one?

00:48:56Johnny:He's a Rayleigh-only guy

00:48:57Gamemaster:but everyone gets the intent

00:48:57Johnny:Well you guys

00:49:00Argyle:Yeah.

00:49:02Johnny:It's a great play, you guys should read that one

00:49:05Johnny:Anyway

00:49:06Johnny:You know why we summoned you here

00:49:08Johnny:Everything is bad

00:49:10Johnny:As far as we know

00:49:13Johnny:There was some sort of blip

00:49:15Johnny:Something went tragically wrong

00:49:17Gamemaster:Okay.

00:49:17Johnny:And now we are off the map

00:49:19Johnny:it looks like we are

00:49:21Johnny:incredibly starward

00:49:23Johnny:I don't know if any of you know

00:49:26Johnny:but sort of on the

00:49:27Johnny:would it be the north side?

00:49:30Johnny:I guess I don't know if it makes sense on the strider

00:49:31Johnny:over by

00:49:33Johnny:wherever the harlequins were is now

00:49:36Johnny:a death trap

00:49:36Johnny:we did investigate yesterday

00:49:40Johnny:and there are abominations

00:49:42Johnny:pouring through

00:49:42Johnny:now is the time to come together

00:49:45Johnny:we have just

00:49:47Gamemaster:Thank you nope

00:49:48Johnny:received word that Grayson wants to parley

00:49:50Johnny:at some point.

00:49:52Johnny:So,

00:49:54Johnny:I think the We need to come up with a plan The largest priorities right now one get the Strider up and running That pretty big Two stop the incursion Three unite the Strider because we can have Vulcanization right now

00:50:00Anzu:you It just a translation

00:50:09Johnny:That word doesn't really make sense in this setting, but...

00:50:13Gamemaster:what are the Balkans

00:50:14Anzu:It's yeah.

00:50:15Gamemaster:yeah yeah

00:50:16Johnny:You know, the Vulcans.

00:50:16Gamemaster:it's

00:50:17Gamemaster:yeah standing operating

00:50:20Anzu:Okay.

00:50:20Gamemaster:is we're doing Tolkien rules

00:50:21Gamemaster:which is all of this is taking place in common

00:50:24Gamemaster:which is a language none of us speaks

00:50:25Benny:The subtitles...

00:50:26Gamemaster:so it gets translated into English

00:50:28Gamemaster:as we're doing the retelling

00:50:29Gamemaster:so Balkanization I think would be

00:50:32Gamemaster:that's actually never happened

00:50:36Gamemaster:in the history

00:50:37Gamemaster:of the continent that this

00:50:40Gamemaster:campaign takes on there have never once

00:50:42Gamemaster:been an instance where multiple

00:50:44Gamemaster:countries have merged back together

00:50:46Gamemaster:so that's a novel

00:50:48Gamemaster:idea for them

00:50:53Benny:or the dub is

00:50:54Gamemaster:as he's like explaining what vulcanization is yeah absolutely god all this is telling me

00:50:55Johnny:I invent the word balkanization

00:50:56Benny:guys, we have to

00:50:58Benny:stop the balkanization.

00:51:01Benny:Like explaining what balkanization is.

00:51:08Johnny:explain the idea of balkanization

00:51:08Gamemaster:which makes vulcanization canon in this setting now because it's it's not immersion breaking

00:51:15Gamemaster:it's fine you just invented a new term shakespeare did it so can johnny um absolutely uh uh

00:51:23Gamemaster:To which I think Tas will be the first to speak and say,

00:51:25Johnny:No, I'm saying that if, one, we need to stay as a strong unit, whatever Grayson is doing

00:51:29Gamemaster:are you implying with this new word, balkanization,

00:51:36Gamemaster:that you wish for us to ally with more people?

00:51:50Johnny:is an immediate threat.

00:51:52Johnny:we were playing this kind of cat and mouse game.

00:51:55Johnny:We can do that anymore There is no room for fracturing anymore We are all in immediate danger We either work with Grayson or we have to eliminate him

00:52:04Gamemaster:you tomorrow of the Protectorate

00:52:12Gamemaster:the elven woman will say

00:52:14Gamemaster:are you

00:52:16Gamemaster:do you think we are capable

00:52:19Gamemaster:of eliminating Grayson

00:52:20Gamemaster:and it seems his alliance

00:52:22Gamemaster:which would include the Pale Antrian Society,

00:52:25Anzu:My personal feeling actually is that we should hear him out.

00:52:25Gamemaster:necrolog,

00:52:26Gamemaster:Ternion Heavy Industries.

00:52:31Gamemaster:That's just assuming aren't.

00:52:38Johnny:Oh, you're talking about hearing me out or hearing Grayson out?

00:52:41Anzu:I'm talking about Grayson.

00:52:43Johnny:Johnny takes it as though Anzu is saying we should hear Johnny out.

00:52:43Anzu:We are in an absolutely unprecedented situation.

00:52:52Gamemaster:Sorry.

00:52:55Anzu:We may very well be beyond where anyone has ever returned from,

00:52:56Gamemaster:Sorry.

00:53:02Anzu:and we're going to need as much power and unity as we can get.

00:53:06Anzu:the strider has been here before

00:53:07Gamemaster:At that, Kadou will say,

00:53:11Gamemaster:actually, and he's like fumbling around

00:53:13Gamemaster:with the notebook that he's been writing stuff in,

00:53:16Gamemaster:I have pretty good reason to believe

00:53:19Gamemaster:that this Strider has been here before.

00:53:22Gamemaster:Um, so, the Strider. Yeah, uh, so, like, very long story short, the metal is weird, um, and I've been, like, every once in a while when I have a free moment not doing some other crap trying to keep us alive and all that, uh, I've been, uh, like, kind of scraping up little metal shavings, uh, both from in the garages and from underneath. I hope you don't mind, I dug a hole in your, in your, in your sod.

00:53:49Gamemaster:Anyway the metal weird and I been trying to figure out what alloy it is because you know something that happens with some of our caravans on particularly long transits is you start to see slip rust which is kind of like metal degrades just from over time

00:53:55Argyle:you Sorry this is for Josh after he done with this

00:54:08Gamemaster:And, like, the Striders in general, the Istrians, they're very productive people.

00:54:13Gamemaster:And they had already figured... Yes? Yeah?

00:54:20Gamemaster:Okay.

00:54:20Gamemaster:They had already figured out kind of a way around it, but it's very people-intensive.

00:54:25Gamemaster:You've got to get people to effectively grease any of the metal that's exposed to the slip in between individual jumps.

00:54:37Gamemaster:And they haven't been doing that here.

00:54:39Gamemaster:I haven't seen anybody leave the underground to come up to put grease on the side of the Strider.

00:54:46Gamemaster:But I don't see any rust either, and so I thought that was weird.

00:54:49Gamemaster:And so I thought maybe I could, you know, take that and then eventually someday in the future, if we ever make it back, you know, recreate it and then use it for Alkahest frame and all.

00:55:02Gamemaster:Anyway, I was having absolutely no luck whatsoever until I took the metal filings out here, wherever the hell we are, wherever the hells, neither of those exist in the setting. Translation error.

00:55:19Gamemaster:and it like immediately oxidized but into the material that it's made out of like the missing

00:55:25Anzu:Mm-hmm.

00:55:30Gamemaster:component in this weird alloy is uh the air or something in the air here which is weird

00:55:39Gamemaster:and like i don't know what to make of that except that the strider had already been here previously

00:55:44Gamemaster:and just the exterior of the Strider just oxidized with whatever's going on here,

00:55:49Gamemaster:and that's why it's fine now.

00:55:49Anzu:and have you

00:55:52Anzu:learned anything in relation to

00:55:54Anzu:where we might be

00:55:56Anzu:yeah

00:55:57Gamemaster:No! It's been like 12 hours!

00:56:00Argyle:is the cognitive thing that people understand in the setting

00:56:00Gamemaster:Uh, yes, Jorge.

00:56:00Anzu:Sorry.

00:56:08Gamemaster:Some people are aware of the Black and White, which would be like the closest equivalent

00:56:11Gamemaster:there.

00:56:15Argyle:this obviously isn't the Black and White so

00:56:17Argyle:other thing to note is that our

00:56:18Gamemaster:This is not the Black and White.

00:56:25Argyle:the Godhome isn't in the sky

00:56:30Argyle:Are we in the Godhome?

00:56:30Gamemaster:You can say that and the someone from the skill maybe Lance not Lance Bishop

00:56:41Gamemaster:probably Bishop will say but we still got our raiment which means we're within

00:56:47Gamemaster:the general range even if we can't see the Godhome they can still a grant us

00:56:55Gamemaster:their miracles

00:56:57Argyle:That'd be crazy.

00:56:57Gamemaster:I don't...

00:56:58Argyle:That'd be crazy.

00:57:00Johnny:i'm gonna be very scary

00:57:00Argyle:sure

00:57:00Benny:Yeah, for them.

00:57:02Gamemaster:Can I actually get a religion check?

00:57:05Gamemaster:To see if you're in the Godhome?

00:57:06Argyle:god poopy you know what i'll reroll

00:57:13Johnny:absolutely terrifying if this is the Godhome

00:57:26Argyle:uh that also needs mythic so that'll add an extra plus four

00:57:27Gamemaster:37.

00:57:29Argyle:So 37.

00:57:34Gamemaster:Okay.

00:57:35Gamemaster:The answer is that you can't know for sure,

00:57:39Gamemaster:but this is probably not the Godhome.

00:57:39Argyle:Yeah.

00:57:42Gamemaster:There isn't much, if any, writing

00:57:45Gamemaster:on what's actually on the other side,

00:57:49Gamemaster:because in history there have only been 16 or 17 people

00:57:54Gamemaster:that have made it to the other side of the Godhome and then came back And none of them happen to be particularly prolific writers especially whatever happened on the other side So actual descriptions of the Godhome are pretty slim

00:57:59Argyle:you Yeah

00:58:11Gamemaster:But the bits that do get described do not seem like an endless scoured gray wasteland.

00:58:11Argyle:This is not it.

00:58:19Gamemaster:They are described for the most part as, you know,

00:58:22Gamemaster:the seat of the gods glowing in their splendor and all that stuff.

00:58:25Johnny:I'll relay this all to Machine God as we're assessing this.

00:58:25Argyle:i mean i'm assuming this is like the stillness that um

00:58:25Gamemaster:And there's very little splendorous glowing going on at the moment.

00:58:35Argyle:machine god talked about falling into but i don't have a machine god connector anymore um

00:58:42Argyle:so i think from a tactical point of view we need to make sure we're not going to get stabbed in

00:58:53Argyle:the back from other factions we need to now clear out that void mess and then we got to start looking

00:58:55Johnny:I agree.

00:59:01Argyle:at getting the strider moving i don't know how we're going to do that i don't know if we're

00:59:05Argyle:going to start collecting tithes from people i don't know how that works but i would assume

00:59:10Argyle:that's what we should do first in between getting it moving there might be a civil War on top to be

00:59:15Argyle:honest with you guys i'd hope no maybe i don't know

00:59:22Gamemaster:Civil War as in...

00:59:22Johnny:Does anyone have any strong feelings about which job they would like to take on?

00:59:23Argyle:Sorry, what was that guy saying?

00:59:25Benny:people on this

00:59:26Gamemaster:That was Tas saying civil War as in us killing the other members of the Strider?

00:59:29Argyle:It was a War?

00:59:36Benny:yeah

00:59:37Gamemaster:Okay.

00:59:37Benny:yeah

00:59:38Gamemaster:Gotcha.

00:59:38Argyle:Yeah.

00:59:38Gamemaster:I didn't know if you were declaring your intent to kill the rest of us once we figured out how to get moving.

00:59:43Argyle:No, no, no, no, no.

00:59:44Argyle:I hope we're on the same side.

00:59:46Argyle:And we each have a fame, so we have unlimited food.

00:59:50Argyle:We're not getting tithed.

00:59:51Argyle:So technically there isn't a constraint that I'm aware of.

00:59:52Gamemaster:Thank you I not opposed

00:59:54Argyle:Maybe there is but people aren going to want to sit here I assuming Grayson wants to parlay because he right next to that mess of the void

00:59:55Anzu:you Do we have anyone in opposition to a conversation with Grayson

01:00:20Gamemaster:But I think it'd be useful to go into the conversation

01:00:23Gamemaster:with an idea of what you're willing to do or say

01:00:25Johnny:I mean, we're in kind of an interesting position because there's not really, we're all stuck here.

01:00:25Argyle:So what I'm assuming...

01:00:25Anzu:Mm-hmm.

01:00:32Gamemaster:for what outcomes you're looking for.

01:00:36Gamemaster:Like, I don't know what the goal is going into this conversation.

01:00:43Johnny:There's not really much we can give up.

01:00:46Johnny:I mean, we all are stuck here.

01:00:48Johnny:We're all in the same boat, more or less.

01:00:51Johnny:maybe I would prefer we get moving again

01:00:53Gamemaster:at that

01:00:55Argyle:our guy's gonna walk over

01:00:55Johnny:and then we can try and kill each other

01:00:57Johnny:but I've been saying it from the beginning

01:00:58Johnny:there's no reason for us to be killing each other

01:01:00Johnny:we're all trying to get to the same place

01:01:02Johnny:and now we're all fucked in the same place

01:01:08Argyle:you go

01:01:08Gamemaster:sorry Papa will also say

01:01:10Gamemaster:that does also bring us

01:01:13Gamemaster:another point we should try and figure

01:01:15Gamemaster:out how we got here

01:01:16Gamemaster:like I don't

01:01:18Argyle:yeah

01:01:18Gamemaster:want to be making our way back

01:01:21Gamemaster:assuming we get this whole

01:01:21Johnny:Are the twins in the room?

01:01:22Gamemaster:mess a chunk up and run it again

01:01:25Argyle:Yeah.

01:01:25Gamemaster:and then we get

01:01:27Gamemaster:knocked back here

01:01:28Gamemaster:you need to make sure it can't happen again

01:01:30Gamemaster:yes

01:01:31Gamemaster:the twins are in the room

01:01:36Gamemaster:they have not been participating in the conversation

01:01:38Gamemaster:but they are in the room

01:01:39Gamemaster:you can attempt a roll

01:01:40Johnny:What do they look like right now?

01:01:45Gamemaster:but I will say that

01:01:47Gamemaster:the twins as you have discovered

01:01:49Gamemaster:are pretty good liars

01:01:51Johnny:I not going to roll

01:01:51Gamemaster:they not really showing anything on their face about it Yep

01:01:55Argyle:I So our guy gonna on that as he Walking over on that topic whatever being was collecting our ties i don know if you guys watched the tithe ceremony there some guy

01:02:08Argyle:dancing or something up there maybe he imploded or something and they they exploded i don't know

01:02:13Argyle:i'm not the learning type but he's gonna point at the War room the the void faction now and he's

01:02:18Gamemaster:Uh-huh.

01:02:20Argyle:going to go both sides that border it are Grayson the next one on the other side is also Grayson's

01:02:26Argyle:guy I assume they want us to help him if we don't help him he's going to get overrun by the void

01:02:34Argyle:if he stays if we don't help him it's also possible he lashes out and tries to

01:02:41Argyle:get a new base that's what I'm that's what I'm guessing is happening

01:02:50Argyle:we could let him be on the defensive.

01:02:55Gamemaster:um

01:02:55Anzu:we also have theoretically a very long journey ahead of us even to get back

01:02:56Argyle:Maybe we help him out.

01:02:58Argyle:Get rid of that thing.

01:03:00Argyle:Let him duke it out with those guys.

01:03:07Argyle:I mean, the other option is...

01:03:14Anzu:to favor and prime so we may need as many people as we can get it may not be a question of you

01:03:18Gamemaster:uh

01:03:20Argyle:I think we're past the wall.

01:03:24Anzu:can we take i don't want to take anybody out i i don't even know if it's an option we might

01:03:25Gamemaster:Y'all of the Protectorate will say, do we know how far out we are?

01:03:29Anzu:need as many people as possible just to get back we i mean yeah we our theory is that we've gone

01:03:38Gamemaster:Like how long of a trek it'll be?

01:03:44Argyle:Okay.

01:03:47Anzu:beyond the starboard wall.

01:03:50Anzu:But we don't have any proof.

01:03:51Anzu:We don't have any numbers.

01:03:54Anzu:We're still kind of trying to work that out.

01:03:55Gamemaster:So we think that we are

01:04:00Argyle:Yes.

01:04:00Gamemaster:are further than anybody has returned from alive.

01:04:00Anzu:Yes, with the exception of Kadou's revelation that this Strider has allegedly been here and returned.

01:04:00Benny:Yep.

01:04:13Gamemaster:Yeah, but do we think the devils were on it

01:04:15Gamemaster:when that happened?

01:04:19Anzu:I don't know.

01:04:23Gamemaster:God, at the very least, eventually when we clean out,

01:04:26Gamemaster:and I'm assuming this is something we can do,

01:04:28Gamemaster:clean out those voing things.

01:04:30Argyle:Yeah, to get it moving,

01:04:30Anzu:Yeah, well, I also feel like probably the helm of this thing is somewhere in their territory.

01:04:31Gamemaster:We can go rifling through

01:04:32Gamemaster:the

01:04:34Gamemaster:Harlequin stuff.

01:04:36Gamemaster:See if that gives us any info.

01:04:39Gamemaster:Frankly, I figured

01:04:41Gamemaster:them dying at the very least would

01:04:42Gamemaster:give us some information about what they were doing

01:04:44Gamemaster:and I got more questions.

01:04:46Gamemaster:yeah I have no idea they were steering them

01:04:55Anzu:I could be wrong about that, but...

01:04:59Argyle:We probably need to clear it out.

01:05:00Johnny:Probably need an expedition into that territory.

01:05:08Johnny:Step one, take control back of the Strider.

01:05:11Johnny:Either from Grayson or we work with him, and then from the abominations.

01:05:16Gamemaster:I think Kadou will speak up at this point and say,

01:05:18Johnny:So step one, we need to secure the Strider.

01:05:20Johnny:Step two, we need to get it moving again.

01:05:23Johnny:Step three, we need to figure out how to get back inside the wall.

01:05:27Johnny:Or we circumnavigate the wall and hit the Voidsong that way.

01:05:29Argyle:At the very least, we try to make it back to prime.

01:05:31Johnny:I'm not a smart guy, I don't know if we can do that.

01:05:44Gamemaster:I don't know if we can circumvent the wall

01:05:46Gamemaster:like the wall isn't

01:05:48Gamemaster:I mean maybe you guys are talking about a different wall

01:05:50Gamemaster:we're all referring to

01:05:51Gamemaster:but there is like the wall

01:05:54Gamemaster:is just kind of a boundary where people have gone and then not returned from I don think people think it physical Unless you think that there

01:05:57Johnny:you Great

01:05:59Argyle:Oh yeah Oh easy

01:06:05Gamemaster:an actual physical wall.

01:06:05Argyle:Easy.

01:06:07Argyle:We got this one.

01:06:07Gamemaster:So.

01:06:10Johnny:That one's basically checked off.

01:06:11Johnny:If we can figure out, you know, what dangers we might run into, any Giant monsters that

01:06:16Johnny:we'll run into when we get past the wall, you know, plan for that.

01:06:22Gamemaster:He will hold up

01:06:23Gamemaster:the Atlas that has the void stuff.

01:06:25Johnny:I would assume so.

01:06:25Argyle:Well, the library is deep inside enemy territory, so I need to clear that out first.

01:06:25Gamemaster:Do you think in the library, or what used to be the library,

01:06:28Gamemaster:they have a starward version of this thing?

01:06:35Johnny:Librarian's kind of an interesting guy, so get back to us on what he wants.

01:06:39Gamemaster:Oh.

01:06:40Gamemaster:Okay.

01:06:42Gamemaster:They always are.

01:06:46Johnny:Okay, step one.

01:06:47Gamemaster:Just checklisting stuff.

01:06:49Gamemaster:Sorry.

01:06:50Argyle:Yeah.

01:06:50Johnny:So we've got to meet with Grayson.

01:06:51Johnny:We've got to take back the Harlequin's territory.

01:06:53Gamemaster:Tas will say, does that help at this point?

01:06:55Johnny:We gotta figure out where we are, we gotta get the helm, we gotta get the ship, the Strider

01:06:55Argyle:I guess I'll just open this up again one more time.

01:06:55Benny:I just.

01:07:01Johnny:moving again.

01:07:02Johnny:Anything else I left out?

01:07:08Argyle:Should we all merge into a bigger group?

01:07:14Argyle:Defend off whatever this is? I don't know.

01:07:20Argyle:Mostly so we're all under the same roof

01:07:22Argyle:if we're attacked by a faction

01:07:23Gamemaster:I don't know if we all want to be in one place if we're attacked.

01:07:24Argyle:or whatever those void things are.

01:07:25Anzu:Yeah, he's probably right.

01:07:34Argyle:Why? So we can flank them?

01:07:36Gamemaster:No, just so that if one group gets wiped out, it doesn't mean the end of the resistance, or whatever you want to call it.

01:07:43Argyle:Nah, they couldn't wipe all of us out at once.

01:07:46Gamemaster:I think they could.

01:07:47Gamemaster:I think we're in a situation where whatever these things are, if they are strong enough, and we don't have a good idea of how strong they are, it could wipe us all out.

01:07:52Argyle:All right fair enough all right well

01:07:54Gamemaster:And I rather at the very least you know not all be wiped out in one go

01:08:05Argyle:we'll meet with Grayson and we'll let you guys let you know unless you have other things

01:08:08Gamemaster:Okay, so, yeah.

01:08:14Gamemaster:Bishop will say, okay, so general plan here at the moment is you're all going to go meet with Grayson.

01:08:25Gamemaster:For the record, I'd like somebody not of your group to come with you, just to make sure, no offense, you're not doing something less than honest behind our backs.

01:08:40Gamemaster:But besides that, you go, you talk what you need to talk about with him.

01:08:46Gamemaster:What is the outcome here? What are the rest of us supposed to be doing?

01:08:50Gamemaster:Do we think it's safe to leave the Strider?

01:08:55Argyle:I...

01:08:55Gamemaster:Because we have at least one plane.

01:08:55Anzu:The atmosphere felt a little hostile.

01:08:57Argyle:Yeah.

01:08:59Gamemaster:Yeah, it's kind of chilly out there, but...

01:09:04Gamemaster:I mean...

01:09:05Argyle:I, um...

01:09:06Argyle:I assume what we need to do is

01:09:08Argyle:we might need to all

01:09:10Argyle:together mount a party

01:09:12Argyle:to try to go into the Void area

01:09:13Argyle:and clear out what we can.

01:09:15Argyle:We'll do Crusades.

01:09:18Argyle:Stealth missions,

01:09:19Argyle:clearing out a Voidheart

01:09:20Argyle:one at a time.

01:09:20Argyle:they also do self-close

01:09:25Gamemaster:All right.

01:09:25Argyle:at least that's what it looked like last time for a little bit

01:09:27Argyle:so

01:09:28Argyle:we could wait it

01:09:31Argyle:I think we're going to need stealth missions

01:09:34Argyle:to go in and

01:09:35Argyle:get Void Hearts out

01:09:36Argyle:we found they

01:09:41Argyle:require echolocation

01:09:44Argyle:if you make someone silent

01:09:45Argyle:they can slip in

01:09:46Argyle:and maybe we'll just take turns

01:09:47Gamemaster:That is interesting.

01:09:48Gamemaster:Now that doesn actually solve the problem of there are creatures right Alright

01:09:51Argyle:hate

01:09:51Argyle:someone

01:09:52Argyle:silence

01:09:52Argyle:them

01:09:52Argyle:yeah you gotta be well we need to close them up and then we need to kill them

01:10:06Argyle:the ones left

01:10:06Argyle:we could banish them

01:10:10Gamemaster:Alright.

01:10:10Argyle:that'll take a while

01:10:14Gamemaster:It's not feasible

01:10:15Gamemaster:unless there's only like two.

01:10:21Argyle:yeah

01:10:22Gamemaster:Alright, well.

01:10:22Argyle:I could do like two a day

01:10:25Gamemaster:No.

01:10:25Anzu:All right, so then who's coming to chat with Grayson?

01:10:28Anzu:Josh, did the letter, was it written to anybody in particular,

01:10:32Anzu:or did it just say?

01:10:33Gamemaster:It was just left at your front door.

01:10:36Anzu:Yeah, so I think anybody can go.

01:10:40Gamemaster:Um...

01:10:41Gamemaster:I think...

01:10:44Gamemaster:probably...

01:10:46Gamemaster:Tamara of the Protectorate would volunteer.

01:10:51Gamemaster:Um...

01:10:55Argyle:resisting mind control.

01:10:55Gamemaster:Hmm

01:10:55Benny:It's also a good

01:10:59Gamemaster:Resisting mind control

01:11:05Gamemaster:I don't know if any of them want to necessarily offer that information

01:11:10Gamemaster:Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I was looking something else up and I saw this on the website.

01:11:11Argyle:I'm giving it as a warning.

01:11:12Benny:It's a

01:11:13Argyle:I'm giving that as a warning to these people.

01:11:14Benny:Good offer

01:11:14Argyle:i think it also sets the stage with who grayson is we're like hey by the way you

01:11:16Benny:Hey is anyone in this room good at resisting mind control

01:11:18Benny:Yeah can you come with us

01:11:19Benny:It's like what are you going to do to me

01:11:25Benny:I can't believe it.

01:11:26Argyle:guys want to not be controlled by this guy we'll try that

01:11:30Argyle:oh it's it's made after d jimothy that's so cool

01:11:38Gamemaster:Hold on.

01:11:44Gamemaster:Yeah.

01:11:45Argyle:very cool

01:11:46Gamemaster:Yeah, you can play with Jimothy now, is the name of the source.

01:11:53Gamemaster:Yeah, I think...

01:11:55Gamemaster:Tomorrow would volunteer, and then...

01:12:00Gamemaster:Tas definitely wouldn't

01:12:02Gamemaster:Bishop might

01:12:02Gamemaster:I think Bishop would because Paavo definitely won't

01:12:06Gamemaster:so

01:12:08Gamemaster:it'll be Bishop and Tamara

01:12:12Gamemaster:the rest of them will

01:12:19Gamemaster:I think if there's no else

01:12:22Gamemaster:no other like

01:12:23Gamemaster:immediate things to happen they'll probably want to

01:12:26Gamemaster:to get back home

01:12:28Gamemaster:and

01:12:29Gamemaster:just kind of let the rest of the people know what's going on in their factions,

01:12:30Johnny:One thing.

01:12:30Argyle:Yeah.

01:12:30Benny:We're all, I mean, in the same boat.

01:12:35Gamemaster:of which they know astonishingly little.

01:12:41Gamemaster:But I kind of want to make Benny roll a deception.

01:12:50Benny:Benny didn't say that.

01:12:50Gamemaster:I think, I know, I think what I want,

01:12:51Benny:Mike said that.

01:12:54Gamemaster:I think what I do want is that one of you, probably Johnny,

01:12:58Gamemaster:because he's the one that's been talking a bunch

01:13:00Johnny:I think my 35 says that we did not lie and we have no idea what's happening.

01:13:00Benny:What?

01:13:00Gamemaster:does need to roll a deception check

01:13:02Gamemaster:just to like

01:13:04Gamemaster:give off the general idea that you guys

01:13:07Gamemaster:don't know what's going on

01:13:08Gamemaster:because you do know

01:13:11Gamemaster:a little bit more and you have lied

01:13:12Gamemaster:to them

01:13:13Gamemaster:one second

01:13:16Benny:this ain't gonna be contested by

01:13:21Johnny:That's so high.

01:13:24Johnny:That's a high number.

01:13:28Gamemaster:Okay.

01:13:29Benny:sense motives

01:13:30Argyle:And what information will we withholding yeah like it like what could have happened like could we have like got 20 stone figurines and

01:13:32Gamemaster:It can.

01:13:33Gamemaster:They would roll a sense motive check against his deception.

01:13:39Gamemaster:But that was high enough that looking at their values,

01:13:41Gamemaster:I'm not going to roll that.

01:13:43Gamemaster:I will say that you, as best you can tell,

01:13:46Gamemaster:it doesn't look like anybody is unduly alarmed

01:13:50Gamemaster:that you might be withholding information.

01:13:52Gamemaster:but they will um They wouldn know

01:14:10Argyle:held a a play to summon a eldritch super god that speaks in rings and then he told them yeah well

01:14:17Gamemaster:Oh, that is...

01:14:21Argyle:to do it. You have to shoot me with this

01:14:23Argyle:the end. Like, that's

01:14:25Johnny:I think it's just go away.

01:14:25Gamemaster:I would say that your play, like your stage, is still around.

01:14:25Argyle:preposterous.

01:14:33Argyle:I assume

01:14:33Argyle:we've zapped that out of existence with our heart.

01:14:35Gamemaster:You cannot.

01:14:37Gamemaster:It's there now.

01:14:41Gamemaster:But, no, it's a...

01:14:44Argyle:We can just hack it.

01:14:45Gamemaster:No, no, no, no.

01:14:47Gamemaster:You don't understand.

01:14:48Gamemaster:It doesn't go away.

01:14:49Argyle:Oh.

01:14:50Gamemaster:it's there now

01:14:51Argyle:Are the stones there too?

01:14:55Benny:but also but also to our to our deceptive not deceptive kind but to our benefit even if someone

01:14:55Gamemaster:yeah

01:14:57Gamemaster:you are saved by the fact that

01:15:03Gamemaster:nobody who attended

01:15:04Gamemaster:seems to know what the

01:15:07Gamemaster:men here are they're not common

01:15:09Gamemaster:knowledge they just see

01:15:11Gamemaster:a stage with some rocks

01:15:13Gamemaster:around it

01:15:20Gamemaster:yeah like

01:15:21Argyle:this

01:15:22Benny:knows who the Menhir are,

01:15:24Benny:what are the odds they're like,

01:15:25Benny:wait, you guys, you four fucking

01:15:28Benny:dumbos killed the Menhir? This is the

01:15:30Benny:Menhir' bodies right here?

01:15:32Benny:At best, it would

01:15:33Gamemaster:yeah no so like the answer is it is very incriminating and no one knows that so you're

01:15:34Benny:look like a failed homage.

01:15:36Benny:Like, oh, you guys heard about the Menhir too?

01:15:38Benny:Yeah, no, we've

01:15:39Benny:been real close to them.

01:15:50Gamemaster:fine.

01:15:50Argyle:have you seen clips of like

01:15:52Benny:Oh Boki Oh Bohemian

01:15:53Argyle:is it in Hollywood

01:15:54Argyle:they call it like the mole tech or something like that where like the Hollywood elites allegedly were like burning by a campfire with a an owl figurine that what this reminds me of bohemian grove

01:16:03Gamemaster:I have no idea what you talking about

01:16:05Benny:Grove.

01:16:08Argyle:yeah

01:16:09Gamemaster:Either way, they will shuffle off with the exception of the two.

01:16:09Benny:We just have the Bohemian Grove owl

01:16:11Benny:in our front yard. We're like, we don't know what you guys are talking about

01:16:13Benny:eating babies. We don't do that here.

01:16:25Johnny:Yeah.

01:16:25Anzu:I don't know what he's going to ask.

01:16:25Benny:Sure.

01:16:26Johnny:Go on over to Giacomo's.

01:16:27Gamemaster:That's a crazy image.

01:16:30Gamemaster:Along with the two, Yao and Bishop, sorry, Tamara and Bishop, who have opted to accompany

01:16:33Johnny:Yeah.

01:16:36Johnny:Yeah.

01:16:37Johnny:Go on over to Giacomo's.

01:16:38Gamemaster:you to this meeting with Grayson.

01:16:42Johnny:Yeah.

01:16:43Johnny:All right.

01:16:46Johnny:All right.

01:16:49Johnny:All right.

01:16:52Johnny:All right.

01:16:54Gamemaster:Okay.

01:16:55Argyle:uh heroism

01:16:55Gamemaster:So we will forward a little bit if you guys didn't have anything else you wanted to do.

01:17:00Gamemaster:we can jump forward to

01:17:04Gamemaster:you guys are heading out to

01:17:06Johnny:What's up?

01:17:07Gamemaster:to Giacomo's which is

01:17:08Gamemaster:canon

01:17:09Gamemaster:and

01:17:12Gamemaster:around the

01:17:13Johnny:Are you hearing?

01:17:14Gamemaster:the time of your meeting

01:17:17Gamemaster:is there anything you wanted to do before you entered the building

01:17:21Argyle:casting that

01:17:23Argyle:on

01:17:23Johnny:Cool.

01:17:24Argyle:Johnny.

01:17:25Anzu:I can't stir a strike.

01:17:26Johnny:What's up?

01:17:29Johnny:Are you hearing me?

01:17:31Argyle:Yeah, yeah.

01:17:33Argyle:And me. I'm going to cast on both of us.

01:17:36Argyle:Hopefully so Johnny can speak better

01:17:37Argyle:and then if he tries to mind control me

01:17:39Argyle:I can resist it and then unmind control

01:17:41Argyle:other people.

01:17:43Argyle:Because I think right now I'm the only one who can

01:17:45Argyle:counteract mind control.

01:17:47Johnny:In case it does come up in case it becomes relevant very soon everyone permanently within 15 feet of me gets a plus one status bonus to attack rolls and I can give everyone a reroll with a plus two status bonus against one ongoing negative

01:17:51Argyle:Thank you Okay

01:17:55Anzu:Oh Oh

01:17:55Benny:Thank you Oh nice

01:18:00Gamemaster:you Okay

01:18:09Johnny:effect or condition currently affecting them requiring a save. So everyone stick close.

01:18:17Johnny:I'm actually also going to do that. That's a good call.

01:18:19Argyle:And mythic power.

01:18:21Argyle:I'm going to do that.

01:18:25Argyle:Yeah, yeah, why not?

01:18:25Anzu:No.

01:18:26Johnny:Do I have anything else? All my other stuff.

01:18:33Johnny:Perceive the Threads of Fate only lasts for a minute.

01:18:41Argyle:Wait, wait, before we go in,

01:18:41Johnny:Okay.

01:18:42Argyle:should we just, like, totally fucking kill this guy?

01:18:47Anzu:I'm telling you.

01:18:48Argyle:Like, should we just, should we just anoint Benny

01:18:51Argyle:with all of the spells we have

01:18:53Argyle:and just ninja benny walks up and just

01:18:55Gamemaster:Don't know the sanctity of Jackass.

01:18:55Anzu:Giacomo's is supposed to be a neutral space.

01:18:55Benny:You're going to ruin the sanctity of Giacomo's.

01:18:58Argyle:yeah but that's old

01:19:04Argyle:should we just totally fucking kill this guy

01:19:09Gamemaster:It's true.

01:19:13Argyle:we're talking to him he doesn't understand that ninja benny's invisible behind him

01:19:13Anzu:They have such good couscous.

01:19:17Johnny:Let's hear him out.

01:19:25Gamemaster:Yes.

01:19:25Anzu:Dude.

01:19:25Benny:he's just fucking twitching

01:19:26Argyle:just like jittering with haste

01:19:28Anzu:Dude.

01:19:28Argyle:haste

01:19:28Argyle:yeah uh wait can one of you guys ask machine god how did he move before the ties

01:19:33Benny:behind him like in a horror movie

01:19:41Argyle:if we unlocked those other things

01:19:45Argyle:would he be able to move

01:19:47Anzu:Machine God, can you hear me?

01:19:49Anzu:something we're

01:19:54Anzu:curious about

01:19:55Anzu:is you know

01:19:56Anzu:prior to the

01:19:57Anzu:Harlequins making

01:19:58Anzu:all their

01:19:59Anzu:adjustments to the

01:20:00Gamemaster:Before whatever machinery your fiends attached to the Strider, we had engine hearts all throughout

01:20:00Anzu:Strider, what powered its movement?

01:20:02Anzu:You know, now we have the tithe, but what was it like before?

01:20:18Gamemaster:the Strider that granted the mode of force that the Strider used to navigate.

01:20:26Gamemaster:Pieces of hearts, not fully formed.

01:20:29Anzu:Hmm.

01:20:30Argyle:Was it here?

01:20:30Gamemaster:Long dead. Long before those devils arrived on the station. They just burned out over

01:20:30Anzu:And what is the status of those?

01:20:40Anzu:So, right, was the Strider dormant for a long time?

01:20:40Gamemaster:the years. They need to be maintained and they weren't.

01:20:44Gamemaster:Hundreds of years.

01:20:45Anzu:was it a starward trek by any chance

01:20:50Argyle:Can you ask him?

01:20:51Gamemaster:We made a multi-century trek out to the edge of the world and then stayed there for another

01:20:57Gamemaster:a few centuries.

01:21:00Argyle:ask him if the current hearts on top can be repurposed for this

01:21:01Anzu:yeah

01:21:02Gamemaster:I believe so.

01:21:03Gamemaster:are you

01:21:06Anzu:yeah

01:21:15Anzu:There's stuff on top of this strider that you can't see.

01:21:24Gamemaster:are you just

01:21:25Gamemaster:relaying things

01:21:26Gamemaster:for Argyle

01:21:27Gamemaster:I will

01:21:28Gamemaster:reinstate a connection

01:21:29Gamemaster:this is more annoying

01:21:30Gamemaster:than punishing him

01:21:33Anzu:Yeah, I feel like I'm the one that suffered the most from all this.

01:21:33Gamemaster:There is a very soft ping in the back of your mind, Argyle, as the connection re-accerts

01:21:43Gamemaster:itself.

01:21:44Gamemaster:What do you want Isn that already what happening Their energy is being used to propel the Strider forward

01:21:47Argyle:I'm sorry for all the inconvenience I've caused.

01:21:50Argyle:Would we be able to repurpose these lesser hearts on top of you to help be like those machinery hearts that you use to move They being tithed Were the other hearts being tithed as well

01:22:09Gamemaster:That is much similar to how the Engine Hearts functioned.

01:22:11Argyle:OK.

01:22:13Argyle:Did they need to constantly feed the energy hearts

01:22:15Gamemaster:No, the gods donated their energy to the hearts that were created in their name.

01:22:16Argyle:with magical items to keep it moving?

01:22:25Argyle:if um

01:22:25Gamemaster:They had a boundless supply of songs.

01:22:28Gamemaster:They were used for motion exclusively, which they were.

01:22:38Argyle:we've told machine god about the the the ashen pack we didn't know their name back then oh we

01:22:45Gamemaster:I don't think so.

01:22:47Argyle:did. Do we tell them the name when we found it out?

01:22:53Argyle:Because we did the mind control inside

01:22:55Argyle:Machine Guard's domain.

01:22:57Gamemaster:Well, it said lifelines at the time.

01:22:59Argyle:I don't know if we told them.

01:23:00Argyle:Yeah.

01:23:04Argyle:Okay.

01:23:04Argyle:Okay.

01:23:06Argyle:All right.

01:23:11Argyle:If we...

01:23:13Argyle:Yeah.

01:23:15Argyle:Okay.

01:23:15Gamemaster:Oh, all six of the first Hierophants traveled on the Strider.

01:23:17Argyle:How did they contact the gods to get those booms?

01:23:21Argyle:Was it just Aurelia had a hookup?

01:23:30Gamemaster:They all spoke to the gods.

01:23:30Argyle:That's true.

01:23:31Argyle:That's true.

01:23:33Argyle:OK.

01:23:36Argyle:All right.

01:23:38Argyle:Well, I guess we should get to that parlay.

01:23:45Gamemaster:And you can navigate can I get a perception check as you guys are walking towards the exterior of this building

01:23:55Johnny:Thank you I got a 31

01:23:55Argyle:I got another hero point.

01:24:12Gamemaster:Okay.

01:24:15Gamemaster:31 was the best one we got?

01:24:17Argyle:I got a 19 crit.

01:24:22Gamemaster:Okay.

01:24:22Gamemaster:A 19 critical miss.

01:24:25Argyle:Yeah, I have a plus 18.

01:24:25Gamemaster:Critical Fumble? Okay. Okay, that's both simultaneously good and bad.

01:24:33Argyle:Yeah.

01:24:34Argyle:Yeah.

01:24:37Gamemaster:All right, nothing stands out to you with that roll, I think. One second.

01:24:42Argyle:With 31?

01:24:44Gamemaster:Yeah, with a 31.

01:24:45Gamemaster:I need that one.

01:24:52Gamemaster:Yeah, nothing sits at you.

01:24:55Johnny:Careful.

01:24:55Argyle:I wish he made this a Dana later so I could have prepared better spells.

01:24:55Anzu:He works on his time, not yours.

01:24:55Benny:Mm-hmm.

01:25:02Argyle:This bastard.

01:25:05Argyle:I would have paired like seeing visibility and shit, but I don't have that prepared.

01:25:10Gamemaster:I don't know what to tell you.

01:25:13Argyle:Yeah, it's very smart of him.

01:25:15Gamemaster:You guys are entering?

01:25:22Gamemaster:Okay.

01:25:25Argyle:Are we checking for...

01:25:25Anzu:in Giacomo's

01:25:25Benny:He would never do that to us.

01:25:27Argyle:Detect magic? Traps?

01:25:33Argyle:Anzu?

01:25:35Anzu:does

01:25:36Argyle:Yes!

01:25:37Argyle:Yes!

01:25:43Anzu:I check the door

01:25:45Gamemaster:That was something.

01:25:48Gamemaster:Detect Magic has a range of 30 feet which means that you not going to Like you could get the door as you walking up but you not going to get much of the interior if you casting detect magic but you welcome to do that if you like the door is not magic

01:25:55Argyle:Yeah Yeah

01:26:07Anzu:Argyle.

01:26:09Anzu:If we go in acting like there's going to be death at any second,

01:26:14Anzu:then there's going to be death.

01:26:16Anzu:We got to go in with an open mind.

01:26:17Gamemaster:at any second

01:26:19Argyle:Well, closed mind to mind control.

01:26:24Anzu:Okay.

01:26:24Anzu:I'm going to enter.

01:26:25Gamemaster:okay absolutely um you walk in uh this restaurant was never actually crowded even even like you know

01:26:30Benny:what

01:26:36Gamemaster:the beginning of the trip when everybody was friends because that's totally a thing that was

01:26:41Gamemaster:happening um but uh there are no more wait staff or cooks um so the only people uh in this

01:26:52Gamemaster:restaurant are the six of you, seven if you count to follow, as well as, as you walk in,

01:27:00Gamemaster:one of the tables, it's not set, but there is like a tablecloth that's been left there

01:27:07Gamemaster:from whoever set it the last time there were people actually waiting in this restaurant,

01:27:12Gamemaster:and sat at one edge of this large round table

01:27:18Gamemaster:is a very expensively dressed, if nothing else,

01:27:25Argyle:I think gray hair.

01:27:25Gamemaster:human man, stark white hair,

01:27:30Gamemaster:looks like he's never worked a day in his life.

01:27:35Gamemaster:You have seen him from a distance,

01:27:37Gamemaster:but you haven't seen him up close and looking at you.

01:27:40Gamemaster:this is

01:27:42Gamemaster:Silven Grayson

01:27:44Gamemaster:a little young to be

01:27:48Gamemaster:the scion of the Grayson family

01:27:50Gamemaster:at this point, he's like mid-twenties

01:27:52Gamemaster:sat

01:27:54Gamemaster:he does, he has

01:27:56Gamemaster:completely white hair

01:27:57Gamemaster:which is

01:28:00Gamemaster:in keeping with you had seen a portrait of Brandon Grayson,

01:28:04Gamemaster:of the head of the Grayson family,

01:28:07Gamemaster:who similarly has completely bleached white hair.

01:28:11Gamemaster:You don't know if that's a family trait or a side effect

01:28:14Gamemaster:or something of that nature,

01:28:16Gamemaster:but that is something that both of them had.

01:28:22Gamemaster:Sat not next to him,

01:28:24Gamemaster:but like a few seats down around the table are two more people.

01:28:30Gamemaster:There is a much older man in what looks to be this kind of shimmering pink and purple and green cleric's vestment.

01:28:42Gamemaster:You have spoken to him once.

01:28:45Gamemaster:This is Stoke of the Iridescent Church.

01:28:51Gamemaster:the thing that you would recognize here

01:28:54Gamemaster:because it's kind of stand out about the guy

01:28:57Gamemaster:is that he is blind

01:29:00Johnny:Do we, having met this some guy before, do we recognize the guy?

01:29:00Gamemaster:both of his eyes are completely clouded over

01:29:03Gamemaster:and sat next to him is some guy

01:29:05Gamemaster:but other than that

01:29:07Gamemaster:the table is empty

01:29:10Gamemaster:there are plenty of seats around

01:29:13Gamemaster:Grayson looks up and sees the six of you

01:29:18Gamemaster:and gestures for you to come over and take a seat

01:29:21Gamemaster:yes

01:29:23Gamemaster:yeah he's just like a guy

01:29:29Gamemaster:he's been on the strider

01:29:30Johnny:But is this the same guy that we met when we were in here that one time?

01:29:30Argyle:now that

01:29:30Anzu:Yeah.

01:29:30Gamemaster:I don't know that guy was some guy

01:29:35Johnny:And he was like, I work for the Ministry of Cultural Progress.

01:29:40Gamemaster:this guy is some guy

01:29:41Gamemaster:it's just like a guy

01:29:42Gamemaster:like why are you asking so much

01:29:44Anzu:I'm not really concerned about this at all.

01:29:44Gamemaster:about just some dude

01:29:45Argyle:now that we know a little bit more

01:29:45Gamemaster:yeah it's weird

01:29:47Anzu:So.

01:29:48Gamemaster:I will allow a will save

01:29:48Argyle:about some wood

01:29:49Johnny:Wild that I'm being gaslit outside the game.

01:29:50Argyle:now that we know a little bit more about this guy

01:29:54Argyle:and can I look for mandibles

01:29:54Gamemaster:yeah absolutely but only after you attempted your will save yes this is a mental

01:30:00Johnny:Thank you Oh that should have been plus 20

01:30:07Argyle:Okay, is this a mental effect?

01:30:11Gamemaster:effect

01:30:12Gamemaster:39

01:30:15Johnny:I got a 30.

01:30:16Johnny:So it was 39 because I forgot to add heroism.

01:30:22Argyle:Oh yeah, I did too, so mine's a 29.

01:30:25Johnny:And now that I have also, I don't know if this,

01:30:25Gamemaster:29. 29 is not enough. This is just some guy.

01:30:28Gamemaster:39 is enough.

01:30:30Gamemaster:This is some guy, but it's a guy that you've seen before.

01:30:33Gamemaster:You spoke to him in this restaurant previously,

01:30:35Gamemaster:and Benny had actually interacted with him for a little bit

01:30:38Gamemaster:on your first day here in the gym.

01:30:42Gamemaster:This is the representative

01:30:45Gamemaster:for the Ministry of Cultural Progress,

01:30:49Gamemaster:MoCuP, Giannos.

01:30:54Johnny:matters, but I now have performer's heart.

01:30:55Gamemaster:Nice!

01:30:55Anzu:There's something in there.

01:30:55Benny:Something needs help.

01:30:57Gamemaster:Yeah, you absolutely can!

01:30:57Johnny:So when I get a success on a will save,

01:30:59Johnny:I get a crit success.

01:31:00Johnny:With that, can I look for mandibles?

01:31:05Gamemaster:Roll a perception check.

01:31:10Benny:Okay.

01:31:11Gamemaster:He's just yelling at the closets.

01:31:13Gamemaster:What are you doing?

01:31:14Johnny:That's not great.

01:31:18Johnny:23.

01:31:18Johnny:23.

01:31:20Gamemaster:you doing? You want to go look at my shoes? You can look at my shoes. What do you want?

01:31:24Johnny:I got 23.

01:31:25Argyle:Did these other two people...

01:31:25Anzu:That was perfectly sassy.

01:31:25Benny:What do you want?

01:31:37Gamemaster:We'll see if he goes in there now that I've opened it.

01:31:39Gamemaster:With the 23

01:31:44Argyle:Sorry, go ahead.

01:31:46Johnny:I don't think I see mandibles.

01:31:51Gamemaster:You don't see mandibles

01:31:53Gamemaster:With the 23

01:31:54Gamemaster:You looking pretty intensely At this guy face Trying to see if anything going on He got like a pretty big cleft but it looks like his chin is intact

01:31:54Johnny:Bye this guy

01:31:55Argyle:you um does okay

01:31:55Benny:Thank you Big cliffs

01:32:06Gamemaster:You don't see any, like, mandibles.

01:32:08Gamemaster:So, is a circular table. There is no head of a circular table, but the seat that is

01:32:12Argyle:do these seem to be sitting on like the same side as grayson as if it's like

01:32:18Argyle:team grayson then team us or they just also parlay

01:32:22Argyle:okay

01:32:30Gamemaster:furthest away from the entrance so that he can see it is Grayson. About 120 degrees around

01:32:38Gamemaster:the circle are Stoke and Janice.

01:32:41Argyle:because i know grayson went to uh the Protectorate to try to eliminate them i was wondering if that

01:32:47Argyle:was a test or if it looks like he's still not friends with them and it looks like he might

01:32:51Argyle:happy friends. Maybe.

01:32:55Anzu:in the church?

01:32:56Argyle:Yeah.

01:32:57Argyle:He told the Protectorate that,

01:32:59Argyle:hey, let's eliminate the church.

01:33:02Argyle:All right.

01:33:03Anzu:I'm gonna take a seat.

01:33:05Gamemaster:Absolutely.

01:33:06Gamemaster:he'll like gesture for all of you to take a seat

01:33:09Argyle:I'll see.

01:33:12Gamemaster:and then he'll say

01:33:13Gamemaster:I am pleasantly surprised

01:33:16Gamemaster:that you would come to this little meeting

01:33:22Gamemaster:I'm afraid I don't have refreshments

01:33:24Gamemaster:because somebody killed the wait staff

01:33:27Gamemaster:listen

01:33:32Gamemaster:I've done some searching around

01:33:35Gamemaster:it's been like 12 hours or so

01:33:37Gamemaster:I imagine the rest of you

01:33:39Gamemaster:have been similarly interested

01:33:41Gamemaster:in the events that have preceded

01:33:43Gamemaster:our precipitous

01:33:45Gamemaster:launch across

01:33:47Gamemaster:the infinite horizon in the way that we have

01:33:50Gamemaster:and so I figured

01:33:53Gamemaster:I would jump ahead of whatever scheming you may have been planning as no doubt you have been at least if you are even a little bit

01:34:05Gamemaster:intelligent

01:34:05Gamemaster:and say

01:34:08Gamemaster:I would prefer it if

01:34:10Gamemaster:until we are at the very least

01:34:13Gamemaster:back at

01:34:14Gamemaster:Færrin Prime, if we could

01:34:17Gamemaster:hold off

01:34:18Gamemaster:on hostilities

01:34:20Gamemaster:to perhaps share some knowledge

01:34:23Gamemaster:I am afraid

01:34:24Gamemaster:We have quite a few hands to help with work, but we are limited in competent researchers.

01:34:34Gamemaster:We only took a handful on board.

01:34:36Gamemaster:It seems the rest of you are perhaps a different mix, missing in pure physical labor but plenty

01:34:45Gamemaster:of pencil pushers who now have a chance to do something.

01:34:54Gamemaster:Yeah, you absolutely can.

01:34:55Johnny:Insuperlex? Insurmountable, that's the word.

01:34:55Argyle:I can, I will also, oh, did you?

01:35:01Johnny:Can I clock if there's any reaction from any of them?

01:35:08Gamemaster:That would be perception.

01:35:13Gamemaster:That's a good throw in there.

01:35:14Johnny:That's a 36 crit.

01:35:16Argyle:Okay.

01:35:17Argyle:I'm not going to roll.

01:35:19Gamemaster:That's a 36 crit.

01:35:21Gamemaster:Okay.

01:35:22Gamemaster:One second.

01:35:23Argyle:Does he have mandibles?

01:35:24Argyle:Does he have mandibles?

01:35:24Gamemaster:The answer here...

01:35:25Johnny:I stare at this.

01:35:25Benny:forget this

01:35:29Benny:man

01:35:29Johnny:This man will split the game.

01:35:29Gamemaster:The answer here is that there are people who absolutely refer to

01:35:31Johnny:He's going like this.

01:35:31Johnny:Ah!

01:35:37Gamemaster:Inciperlix being thrown in there.

01:35:40Gamemaster:It is not Grayson.

01:35:41Gamemaster:Both Stoke and Giannos seem to very, very briefly,

01:35:47Gamemaster:covering it up real quick, seem to recognize that term.

01:35:52Johnny:Okay, that tracks for both of them.

01:35:54Johnny:Interesting that it's not on Grayson.

01:35:54Argyle:I think

01:35:57Johnny:I'll ping that out to everyone in the monologue.

01:36:00Johnny:chat. With seeing that reaction, I will actually turn away from Grayson to these two and say,

01:36:00Argyle:Grayson's too evil.

01:36:02Argyle:Like, I think he might just be like...

01:36:16Johnny:you know, it seems like we're facing a big problem here. A lot of, it seems like some

01:36:22Johnny:sort of outside force has really shunted us out here and I don't know if there's enough meddling,

01:36:28Johnny:but we're happy to make an alliance until we can get back.

01:36:30Argyle:Good move, Noah.

01:36:30Gamemaster:Stoke will say

01:36:30Johnny:We weren't scheming.

01:36:32Johnny:We were trying to figure out how to get our asses out of here.

01:36:34Johnny:I'm sure you two gentlemen, having been around a bit, can understand that.

01:36:40Johnny:I'll look at Grayson, look back at the two.

01:36:47Gamemaster:Stoke will say

01:36:50Gamemaster:I

01:36:53Gamemaster:I

01:36:53Gamemaster:I think perhaps

01:36:57Gamemaster:what you're quibbling with is his term

01:36:59Gamemaster:scheming, but it

01:37:01Gamemaster:wouldn't be

01:37:03Gamemaster:unfair to say that you have been

01:37:06Gamemaster:making alliances with some groups

01:37:08Gamemaster:and not with others.

01:37:10Gamemaster:Not by your decision, necessarily,

01:37:12Gamemaster:but we have definitely collected

01:37:14Gamemaster:into three greater

01:37:16Gamemaster:alliances.

01:37:19Gamemaster:I think we can speak plainly about that.

01:37:22Gamemaster:I, for one,

01:37:23Gamemaster:have no

01:37:25Gamemaster:reason to say no to this.

01:37:27Gamemaster:I am concerned about the lack of God

01:37:30Argyle:I say in Machine Gun chat,

01:37:30Anzu:I am inclined to agree with you folks I think that we been put in enough external danger that we don need any extra internal danger

01:37:33Gamemaster:home in the sky and would appreciate

01:37:36Gamemaster:being back under its light as soon as possible

01:37:39Gamemaster:and if working with all of you to make sure that we safely make that

01:37:45Gamemaster:transit is how it happens then I am more than happy to oblige

01:37:49Gamemaster:...

01:37:49Gamemaster:...

01:37:52Argyle:we invited every single one of these fuckers into our alliance,

01:37:54Argyle:and they said no Now they acting as if And then Argyle stops himself

01:38:13Anzu:Yeah.

01:38:13Argyle:So,

01:38:14Argyle:before

01:38:16Argyle:our group agrees,

01:38:17Argyle:what does this

01:38:19Argyle:actually mean? No...

01:38:22Argyle:Just an alliance? A ceasefire?

01:38:24Argyle:Are we going to put sources?

01:38:25Gamemaster:Grayson...

01:38:26Argyle:Are we going to do crusades?

01:38:28Argyle:What is this?

01:38:29Gamemaster:Grayson will say,

01:38:31Gamemaster:under no circumstances

01:38:33Gamemaster:will I permit

01:38:35Gamemaster:any of you

01:38:37Gamemaster:onto my property.

01:38:41Gamemaster:And I think it would be healthy if you all

01:38:43Gamemaster:kept a similar

01:38:45Gamemaster:outlook. Which of course

01:38:47Gamemaster:means that if we wish to converse, then

01:38:49Gamemaster:I imagine we should be taking over

01:38:51Gamemaster:this central area. A neutral

01:38:53Gamemaster:zone.

01:38:55Johnny:Let's couscous around.

01:38:55Gamemaster:if that were. I would appreciate... I'm just keeping in the spirit of Giacomo's.

01:38:55Anzu:What did I say?

01:39:04Gamemaster:I would appreciate some information sharing, if you were willing. I understand that that

01:39:10Gamemaster:isn't perhaps the best idea from an information security standpoint, but I think we are beyond

01:39:18Gamemaster:that. We're always playing games. If you think that games stop just because you're in danger,

01:39:20Johnny:Do you think we're still playing games?

01:39:22Johnny:we're all so fucked

01:39:25Johnny:we're not playing games

01:39:26Johnny:so someone

01:39:33Gamemaster:that means that you are just not holding on to the games hard enough. That means I will win.

01:39:38Johnny:puts a knife in your face while you're playing

01:39:39Gamemaster:No, I stab back, that just means the game had more rules than I originally thought.

01:39:41Johnny:chess and you clutch the chess board tighter

01:39:43Johnny:or

01:39:52Johnny:uh Thank you

01:39:53Gamemaster:That's childish.

01:39:54Gamemaster:Please please listen I want information and I willing to donate what information we have as well as able bodies if you need to construct things or you need resources of that nature

01:39:55Argyle:I like that.

01:39:55Anzu:you want information

01:40:12Gamemaster:We have no lack of those, and I imagine we'll continue to get more as time goes on.

01:40:19Anzu:Well, I could tell you something that we learned today.

01:40:25Gamemaster:um at you saying that uh the that guy that's just here too

01:40:25Anzu:we became aware through some, I guess, scientific exploration

01:40:31Anzu:that this particular point on the horizon that we're at

01:40:36Anzu:is somewhere this strider has been before.

01:40:41Anzu:Which means we're not stuck.

01:40:43Anzu:It's been here and left.

01:40:55Argyle:Not good.

01:40:55Gamemaster:um will speak up and say oh yeah that actually we've been we've been digging around um

01:41:06Gamemaster:under underneath the strider and uh there are a lot of references to

01:41:12Gamemaster:you know um like a timeline generally i don't know if you've spoken much to the locals

01:41:19Gamemaster:but

01:41:21Gamemaster:there's like a

01:41:23Gamemaster:they've got a general mythology going on

01:41:25Gamemaster:and as part of that

01:41:27Gamemaster:there's

01:41:28Gamemaster:like a very long stay

01:41:31Gamemaster:in their genealogical history

01:41:33Gamemaster:at some place

01:41:35Gamemaster:they call it the lore

01:41:36Gamemaster:if you think we've been here

01:41:39Gamemaster:before that's probably it

01:41:40Gamemaster:it might be worth plumbing them for info

01:41:42Gamemaster:I will say

01:41:44Gamemaster:they have like

01:41:45Gamemaster:they have an average lifespan of 15 years or so,

01:41:49Gamemaster:so it's not like you're going to get much that isn't hearsay,

01:41:52Gamemaster:but could be an interesting context there Yeah like the slaves that live under the Strider that keep all that stuff going for us

01:41:55Johnny:You mean like over in Tally

01:41:55Argyle:you And Grayson what was this information you were going to share

01:42:07Gamemaster:Interesting folk, I must say. They do like their blood sports, which is always interesting.

01:42:11Gamemaster:Grayson will say, well I didn't realize that we were going to be sharing information so quickly.

01:42:25Gamemaster:Let's see, what would be good for all of you?

01:42:29Gamemaster:you've all shared one thing

01:42:36Gamemaster:so I can share one thing

01:42:38Gamemaster:I will

01:42:39Gamemaster:I will let you

01:42:42Gamemaster:choose

01:42:44Gamemaster:would you rather it be

01:42:47Gamemaster:about

01:42:48Gamemaster:our now dead

01:42:51Gamemaster:companions

01:42:53Gamemaster:and the technology that they wrought

01:42:55Gamemaster:given that we had been

01:42:56Gamemaster:digging into that a little bit

01:42:59Gamemaster:or

01:43:01Gamemaster:would you prefer it be

01:43:05Gamemaster:about

01:43:05Gamemaster:what else could it be about

01:43:09Gamemaster:what could be fun

01:43:10Gamemaster:I don't know

01:43:14Gamemaster:you could ask me something I suppose

01:43:16Gamemaster:if you don't want to learn about

01:43:17Gamemaster:our once hosts

01:43:20Gamemaster:I could tell you something within my power

01:43:23Gamemaster:frankly a lot of our

01:43:24Gamemaster:information gathering has been just

01:43:25Argyle:yeah i know what we've been up to so

01:43:25Anzu:I don't want to speak for everyone,

01:43:25Benny:Yeah.

01:43:26Gamemaster:your secrets

01:43:28Gamemaster:and I don't know if that would be particularly interesting to you to be heard read back.

01:43:36Anzu:but I'd be interested in hearing what the Harlequins were up to.

01:43:42Argyle:we're like all completely unfazed that he's trying to tell us there's a spy in the network

01:43:45Gamemaster:He would say

01:43:46Gamemaster:he would say

01:43:50Argyle:we're like

01:43:52Anzu:I already know who it is.

01:43:58Gamemaster:okay

01:43:59Gamemaster:okay

01:44:00Gamemaster:Um, the Harlequins, our former hosts, they might still be alive, I don't know, uh, maybe not in that, uh, little house of theirs, but they gotta be spread throughout the Strider at some point.

01:44:11Gamemaster:anyway, they were

01:44:13Gamemaster:doing all of this bidding

01:44:16Gamemaster:on behalf

01:44:18Gamemaster:of a

01:44:20Gamemaster:kind of entity

01:44:21Gamemaster:that has been living

01:44:23Gamemaster:outside of our

01:44:26Gamemaster:firmament for some time now.

01:44:28Gamemaster:Not a long time, but some time now.

01:44:30Johnny:Yeah.

01:44:30Argyle:He's one of the six that we know about, right?

01:44:30Benny:Yeah.

01:44:31Gamemaster:Called

01:44:32Gamemaster:War.

01:44:35Gamemaster:Just putting that out there.

01:44:37Gamemaster:yeah

01:44:39Argyle:Right now.

01:44:40Johnny:Yeah.

01:44:41Argyle:Yeah.

01:44:41Gamemaster:I know

01:44:44Johnny:He's the one that we miss.

01:44:44Gamemaster:because they had

01:44:46Gamemaster:separately approached

01:44:48Gamemaster:my family through a liaison

01:44:51Gamemaster:asking if we would be willing

01:44:54Gamemaster:to help accomplish some tasks

01:44:57Gamemaster:that things wearing those

01:44:58Gamemaster:gaudy costumes couldn't on the strider

01:45:00Johnny:The irony of this is what you see.

01:45:00Argyle:When he says

01:45:01Gamemaster:we said no

01:45:02Gamemaster:of course

01:45:03Gamemaster:we're not gonna align with any

01:45:07Gamemaster:strange outer entity

01:45:09Gamemaster:of the lack, but I thought I'd put that

01:45:11Gamemaster:out there.

01:45:14Gamemaster:Yes.

01:45:14Argyle:outer entity, can I look at

01:45:17Argyle:everyone else also to see if they

01:45:19Argyle:know about this Ashen Pack?

01:45:21Gamemaster:You can attempt a perception check.

01:45:22Argyle:Yeah.

01:45:25Johnny:This is Grayson saying his family is not going to align with an outer entity.

01:45:29Gamemaster:Uh-huh.

01:45:30Johnny:He's dumb. He's a dummy.

01:45:30Argyle:I got

01:45:30Benny:Yeah Thank you Yeah

01:45:32Argyle:I got

01:45:35Argyle:32. Are you looking also, Johnny?

01:45:38Johnny:Yeah, I was just flabbergasted by how dumb this kid is.

01:45:44Johnny:I got a 32.

01:45:45Johnny:Is that the same as you?

01:45:46Argyle:Should I?

01:45:47Argyle:Mythic?

01:45:50Johnny:I mean I think we can assume that MoCuP is in league with Herald you Herald

01:45:50Argyle:Is this important enough?

01:45:56Argyle:Yeah Yeah All right And I just make any

01:46:00Gamemaster:with a 30 with a 32 you don get any additional like nobody has any tells on their face or

01:46:08Gamemaster:anything like that for the 32.

01:46:12Gamemaster:I will say, I think there is, with the 32 perception here, the thing of note, I guess,

01:46:22Gamemaster:although I'm pretty sure you're just reading it

01:46:24Gamemaster:out of normal conversation

01:46:25Anzu:We love nepotism.

01:46:26Gamemaster:Silven Grayson

01:46:29Gamemaster:you guys have been painting

01:46:31Gamemaster:in your head

01:46:33Gamemaster:this like evil mastermind

01:46:36Gamemaster:kind of vibe for him

01:46:39Gamemaster:and every word out of his mouth

01:46:41Gamemaster:kind of moves that image more into

01:46:46Gamemaster:rich kid over his head

01:46:50Gamemaster:a little bit

01:46:51Gamemaster:he is commanding the room

01:46:55Anzu:We love nepotism.

01:46:55Gamemaster:sorry

01:46:56Gamemaster:yeah a little bit

01:46:59Gamemaster:he is commanding the room as it were because

01:47:01Gamemaster:he has rarely

01:47:02Gamemaster:fallen into a position where he wasn't

01:47:05Gamemaster:the most important person in the room

01:47:07Gamemaster:or related to the most important person in the room

01:47:09Gamemaster:but it is

01:47:11Gamemaster:not

01:47:13Gamemaster:in his skill set

01:47:15Gamemaster:necessarily here

01:47:17Gamemaster:to be

01:47:18Gamemaster:like the kind of

01:47:21Gamemaster:schemer necessarily

01:47:23Gamemaster:that you've been attributing to him.

01:47:24Gamemaster:Or he is a very, very

01:47:25Johnny:We thought this kid was like

01:47:25Benny:What was with the

01:47:27Gamemaster:good schemer and is attempting

01:47:29Gamemaster:to pull one over you,

01:47:31Gamemaster:as it were. With a 32,

01:47:33Gamemaster:I don't think it's possible to differentiate

01:47:35Gamemaster:between those two possibilities.

01:47:39Johnny:the heir to his grandfather's empire

01:47:43Johnny:and this super scheming guy

01:47:45Johnny:and instead he's just the kid

01:47:46Johnny:that they needed to send somewhere

01:47:47Johnny:and they were like, I don't know what's happening.

01:47:49Johnny:Go over there and deal with this.

01:47:52Benny:trying to kill people at the ball then?

01:47:55Johnny:I think he a jerk I think he I think we thought he was Cersei but he just Joffrey

01:47:55Argyle:he still a joffrey he he not yeah he still bad but i don know if he necessarily has all the secret sauce there was an interesting thing with um when we killed a deer man where he

01:47:55Anzu:you Yeah but he was crazy

01:47:55Benny:controlling of the yeah

01:48:13Argyle:said something like i'm using them he thinks they're using me i'm using them so

01:48:18Argyle:yeah yeah i don't know who's done yeah okay um what is the i look at the

01:48:20Anzu:Yes.

01:48:21Johnny:Yeah.

01:48:22Benny:well

01:48:22Benny:aren't we all

01:48:25Gamemaster:I think

01:48:29Argyle:uh tecturate and Scale representatives i'm like do you have um what are your thoughts here

01:48:36Gamemaster:Tamara is

01:48:40Gamemaster:pretty obviously suspicious of this

01:48:43Gamemaster:but similarly

01:48:45Gamemaster:she is not a political creature by nature

01:48:47Gamemaster:she's more of a hit things over the head

01:48:49Gamemaster:until they're dead

01:48:50Gamemaster:kind of person

01:48:51Gamemaster:and so she's kind of defaulted to the pattern that she uses with the people who make the decisions

01:48:57Gamemaster:of the Protectorate which is you guys have declared yourselves in charge she is a weapon

01:49:03Gamemaster:that you can point in a particular direction and at the moment you don't seem to be aggressive

01:49:08Gamemaster:so she's copying that bishop is way happier to make this deal if nothing else because it will

01:49:17Gamemaster:let him focus their

01:49:18Argyle:Hmm.

01:49:19Gamemaster:attentions a little bit

01:49:21Gamemaster:outward for a moment.

01:49:24Gamemaster:He doesn't

01:49:25Gamemaster:think

01:49:25Gamemaster:that

01:49:29Gamemaster:he will need to be any

01:49:33Gamemaster:more paranoid than he already

01:49:35Gamemaster:is about being betrayed

01:49:37Argyle:Hmm.

01:49:37Gamemaster:by people. And so at

01:49:39Gamemaster:the very least, making them seem

01:49:41Gamemaster:friendly on the surface

01:49:42Gamemaster:is a boon.

01:49:45Argyle:At least pretend to be nice, even if they're not going to be nice.

01:49:46Gamemaster:You guys, yeah,

01:49:47Gamemaster:Yeah, you haven't known him for too long, but he isn't exactly hiding it.

01:49:52Gamemaster:There a bit of like incredulousness in his expression that is yeah sure whatever that fine Let you know so long as you not trying to kill me overtly right now nothing is different So let do it

01:49:55Argyle:All right.

01:49:55Anzu:So, what is our action plan?

01:50:07Gamemaster:you know.

01:50:10Argyle:So I propose a crusade.

01:50:12Anzu:Do we got to do something about all these void creatures?

01:50:18Argyle:a series of targeted strikes

01:50:20Anzu:Argonaut wants to do a crusade.

01:50:22Argyle:where we go into their

01:50:24Argyle:these

01:50:25Johnny:That one.

01:50:25Gamemaster:uh

01:50:25Argyle:holes into their dimensions

01:50:28Argyle:we anoint party members

01:50:30Argyle:with stealth and we rob

01:50:32Argyle:them of their void hearts until they're cleansed

01:50:34Argyle:then we'll have to dispatch

01:50:36Argyle:of the remaining foes

01:50:37Argyle:yeah we seize that

01:50:40Gamemaster:uh

01:50:40Gamemaster:uh

01:50:41Johnny:So, I got.

01:50:44Argyle:Well, just before we start sharing, this is another piece of information, so we expect

01:50:48Gamemaster:Grayson will say

01:50:49Gamemaster:and for what reason do you

01:50:52Gamemaster:want to take the Harlequin's

01:50:54Gamemaster:old home. Are you just

01:50:55Johnny:No, the helm is there.

01:50:55Anzu:Yeah, we kind of assumed, no.

01:50:56Gamemaster:looking to take all of the

01:50:57Gamemaster:purple orb things from within?

01:51:01Gamemaster:We all saw you

01:51:02Gamemaster:take those out of the thing.

01:51:04Johnny:No, we think the helm's there.

01:51:05Gamemaster:The helm is not there.

01:51:07Gamemaster:The helm... no.

01:51:10Argyle:another piece back.

01:51:13Gamemaster:It's too late. I've already said it.

01:51:14Gamemaster:You owe me one.

01:51:14Argyle:oh where is it

01:51:16Gamemaster:The helm is not in the Harlequin's

01:51:18Gamemaster:town.

01:51:22Argyle:up top that where the guy was dancing

01:51:24Gamemaster:It is piloted...

01:51:25Anzu:That...

01:51:28Gamemaster:Yeah, it is piloted by this great...

01:51:29Argyle:you didn't you didn't see War dancing in

01:51:30Gamemaster:What?

01:51:34Argyle:there

01:51:34Argyle:oh if you looked if you looked hard

01:51:35Gamemaster:What?

01:51:39Argyle:enough you'd see a creature moving

01:51:40Argyle:inside of the home

01:51:41Argyle:yeah

01:51:43Gamemaster:Inside of the gyroscope.

01:51:47Argyle:I look over at the

01:51:49Gamemaster:He looks over...

01:51:51Argyle:at the anyone

01:51:52Gamemaster:He looks over at the iridescent Ed Stoick if he does.

01:51:53Argyle:else

01:51:54Argyle:do

01:51:55Benny:.

01:51:58Gamemaster:Uh, uh...

01:52:00Johnny:This kid's just dumb.

01:52:00Argyle:What about just the guy?

01:52:00Gamemaster:The priest is blind and does not react.

01:52:09Argyle:I'm sorry, I'm perceptive.

01:52:11Argyle:We're going to need to kill this dude for a different reason now.

01:52:20Johnny:Back on track.

01:52:21Johnny:So how is it piloted?

01:52:22Johnny:How do we pilot the thing?

01:52:23Johnny:Say we get it moving again.

01:52:24Gamemaster:I don't know.

01:52:27Gamemaster:People just told me that...

01:52:30Johnny:Okay, we gotta get on zoom. Can you fly?

01:52:30Argyle:Wait. Sorry, just to repeat.

01:52:30Gamemaster:The... the helm is within this great gyroscopic structure.

01:52:30Anzu:I guess we'll have to go check it out.

01:52:30Benny:Nice.

01:52:35Gamemaster:I would not deign to go and pilot it myself.

01:52:45Johnny:Nice.

01:52:46Anzu:Uh, yes.

01:52:51Argyle:Grayson, you don't mind having just a

01:52:53Argyle:void creature coming from the holes right next to your house?

01:53:00Johnny:Why aren't they coming for you?

01:53:00Argyle:You know they're com-

01:53:00Gamemaster:But no, they wouldn't do that.

01:53:00Anzu:He means that's what they're currently doing.

01:53:03Gamemaster:Why would they do that?

01:53:06Argyle:Who do you think they're-

01:53:07Anzu:They're emerging in the Harlequin space.

01:53:11Gamemaster:Oh, but they're not coming for me.

01:53:15Gamemaster:They can filter out and attack all of you, but they're not coming for me.

01:53:20Argyle:Why would they not be coming for you?

01:53:23Gamemaster:I don't know, they came for all of you during that fight in the ballroom with that horrid fabric man.

01:53:30Johnny:I think...

01:53:30Argyle:you know they weren't coming for us we were just

01:53:30Gamemaster:No, they were definitely attacking you.

01:53:36Argyle:defending helpless people

01:53:38Argyle:right

01:53:39Argyle:sorry

01:53:42Gamemaster:Don't try to lie to me about what happened that evening.

01:53:48Argyle:is he reframing to the

01:53:50Argyle:hands thing or all of them

01:53:53Gamemaster:No uh When you were at the ballroom the Ki-Rin and the bar and the like uh popped out of the hole and were attacking people

01:53:59Argyle:yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah I look over at a

01:54:00Johnny:Yeah they were attacking everyone indiscriminately and then we went oh this is bad so we started

01:54:08Johnny:attacking them, and that's why they came after us.

01:54:09Gamemaster:They didn't attack me.

01:54:12Johnny:Yeah, because you've stood in a corner.

01:54:13Johnny:

01:54:15Gamemaster:They didn't attack me.

01:54:18Gamemaster:I don't know how I can get this through your thick skulls.

01:54:19Argyle:I look over at the host people

01:54:23Gamemaster:They didn't attack me.

01:54:24Argyle:and go you're right we should just leave them

01:54:25Johnny:I look over at the mo-cup guy.

01:54:25Gamemaster:Because you keep implying that they were attacking me, and they're not attacking me.

01:54:25Benny:Is this like a point of pride that you keep repeating it as if we care?

01:54:29Argyle:I look over at the host people and I go,

01:54:37Gamemaster:They don't attack me.

01:54:39Johnny:I look over at the...

01:54:40Johnny:I look at the mo-cup guy.

01:54:40Argyle:I guess we should just leave him and they're not going to attack him, right?

01:54:44Argyle:Basically being like, I guess we'll get a free win?

01:54:46Argyle:Like, I don't know, man.

01:54:47Argyle:Like, that's what I'm cooking at the host people.

01:54:48Argyle:Like, yeah, yeah.

01:54:48Gamemaster:That random guy will just shrug.

01:54:52Johnny:I look at this guy.

01:54:52Argyle:We'll just be like, all right, cool.

01:54:54Argyle:all right wow he's either a really good liar or we're just gonna get a free

01:54:54Johnny:I go, really?

01:54:55Gamemaster:Yeah.

01:54:55Anzu:you know

01:54:55Benny:Well, no, he's

01:54:56Johnny:Him?

01:54:58Gamemaster:Yeah.

01:55:01Johnny:What is happening?

01:55:04Argyle:it's also so funny if he's always been this

01:55:05Anzu:I think he's not

01:55:07Anzu:he's not afraid of them

01:55:07Benny:trying to

01:55:08Argyle:yeah but

01:55:09Benny:deflect from the fact that he

01:55:11Benny:controlled one of the... Like, the one that was near him,

01:55:14Benny:he controlled to go attack

01:55:15Benny:someone else. And he's like,

01:55:17Benny:but it wasn't attacking me.

01:55:20Johnny:All right.

01:55:21Johnny:They don't attack you.

01:55:21Argyle:he can't control them all

01:55:22Johnny:You're immune.

01:55:23Johnny:That's really cool.

01:55:23Argyle:yeah

01:55:23Argyle:yeah

01:55:23Argyle:okay

01:55:24Johnny:We need a plan of action here.

01:55:25Gamemaster:Great.

01:55:25Anzu:We got to go check out the helm and see what it's going to take to get the

01:55:26Argyle:yeah

01:55:29Johnny:That's the important thing.

01:55:35Anzu:Shrider online.

01:55:38Argyle:All right.

01:55:38Johnny:Sounds good to me.

01:55:41Argyle:All right Yes very productive

01:55:43Gamemaster:That sounds like an excellent thing for you to do.

01:55:46Gamemaster:Not that.

01:55:46Johnny:And what will you be doing in the meantime?

01:55:47Anzu:So

01:55:50Gamemaster:Not that.

01:55:52Gamemaster:You know I told you useful information This was this was me this was my olive branch I told you useful information I said I not going to try and kill you I

01:55:54Johnny:Johnny Bangs is having a table

01:55:55Benny:Okay Okay

01:56:06Gamemaster:Feel like this was very productive

01:56:11Argyle:So our group extends to our whole alliance.

01:56:11Benny:This extends to these two here as well.

01:56:15Benny:No, no, no.

01:56:16Gamemaster:Yeah, I'm not going to kill them either

01:56:19Benny:Are they going...

01:56:19Gamemaster:And and stoke stoke will look over and say

01:56:22Gamemaster:sorry, Stoke will look over and say

01:56:25Argyle:That's good.

01:56:26Gamemaster:no, we

01:56:31Gamemaster:had no intention of attacking you

01:56:33Gamemaster:to begin with

01:56:34Gamemaster:and that continues to be

01:56:37Gamemaster:if you wish to pool resources

01:56:39Gamemaster:I'm happy to aid

01:56:41Gamemaster:in the efforts of

01:56:42Gamemaster:if we need to

01:56:44Gamemaster:reconstruct whatever is broken

01:56:47Gamemaster:so that we can be on our way again

01:56:52Gamemaster:That works for me.

01:56:55Johnny:All right.

01:56:55Argyle:And that our group's going to go investigate the helm, I guess, and report back.

01:56:55Anzu:and we're not going to encroach on each other's territory.

01:57:06Anzu:And we'll have meetings here at Giacomo's, a neutral space.

01:57:10Gamemaster:This is a neutral space.

01:57:14Gamemaster:This whole circle, including Giacomo's, no fighting.

01:57:18Gamemaster:Safe.

01:57:19Gamemaster:Nobody owns it.

01:57:22Gamemaster:I think they'd all say yes.

01:57:23Argyle:like to agree to these terms

01:57:24Argyle:with a ring of truth.

01:57:25Anzu:At least the sentiment was there.

01:57:25Benny:It's the thought that counts.

01:57:35Argyle:Okay, I can't cast that today.

01:57:36Argyle:I don't have it prepared,

01:57:37Argyle:but we could do this next time.

01:57:40Gamemaster:Okay.

01:57:40Gamemaster:Okay.

01:57:41Argyle:I want to see if they would next time.

01:57:43Argyle:I'm not going to prepare it for no reason.

01:57:43Gamemaster:Okay.

01:57:45Argyle:I didn't know we were doing this.

01:57:45Gamemaster:Of course.

01:57:46Argyle:I didn't have it prepared.

01:57:47Argyle:I don't have that prepared every day.

01:57:48Argyle:yeah yeah

01:57:48Gamemaster:Of course.

01:57:53Argyle:um

01:57:54Argyle:i say in machine god they gonna just these void things are just gonna run him over that great okay

01:57:55Anzu:you I not sure that the case

01:58:07Argyle:you don't think so?

01:58:10Anzu:I think he's probably not really afraid of them.

01:58:16Argyle:maybe he did make a deal

01:58:17Argyle:some entity that he doesn't know his family did

01:58:19Argyle:all right

01:58:21Anzu:Okay.

01:58:21Argyle:well

01:58:22Argyle:well we'll we'll send message once we have it maybe tomorrow's kind of short

01:58:22Anzu:I guess let's see what we can find.

01:58:25Gamemaster:That guy will say, if you need to leave notes, if we need to communicate in some way, how

01:58:25Anzu:Maybe we'll chat tomorrow or something.

01:58:25Benny:Sir.

01:58:43Gamemaster:about we agree that you leave notes here and then occasionally we can send messengers in

01:58:48Gamemaster:to go check to see if there's any mail.

01:58:52Argyle:yeah and i think it goes without saying but i'm going to say we're going to keep this neutral

01:58:55Gamemaster:Grayson will say, I would never.

01:58:59Argyle:no no one modify this area

01:59:13Gamemaster:I like what they've done with the place.

01:59:16Gamemaster:And then he will

01:59:17Gamemaster:he will gesture for all of you to leave.

01:59:22Argyle:when we walk out

01:59:25Gamemaster:Oh, the mandible guy is the mo-cup guy, sure.

01:59:26Argyle:I'm just gonna look at

01:59:28Argyle:the

01:59:30Argyle:the mandible guy

01:59:33Argyle:and just be like

01:59:35Argyle:we can walk out of there and just be like

01:59:40Argyle:yeah yeah

01:59:42Argyle:and I'll just be like

01:59:43Argyle:oh sorry

01:59:43Gamemaster:Sorry, I didn't know who that was, because this guy doesn't have mandibles.

01:59:45Argyle:doesn't have mandibles

01:59:46Gamemaster:listen

01:59:47Argyle:but I'm gonna turn to him and just be like

01:59:53Gamemaster:if he's gonna

01:59:55Gamemaster:do whatever he's doing it's fine

01:59:58Gamemaster:easier for us to not have to worry about

02:00:00Argyle:yeah yeah

02:00:00Gamemaster:target on her back, at least for the short term.

02:00:03Argyle:oh he definitely will no offense like

02:00:05Gamemaster:Although, I will say,

02:00:06Gamemaster:I will not be surprised if he

02:00:08Gamemaster:continues to do some crap behind her back.

02:00:12Gamemaster:I just keep Anaïs out, you know?

02:00:14Gamemaster:Yeah, I don't trust him further,

02:00:15Argyle:no offense i don't really trust anyone but agreed

02:00:15Gamemaster:but I can throw him and I got pretty weak arms.

02:00:22Argyle:cool cool but i if there's no one i trust i definitely don't trust him the most

02:00:22Gamemaster:That's a healthy thing to take, no offense taken.

02:00:30Argyle:all right well we'll give you info um

02:00:30Gamemaster:That's fair.

02:00:33Gamemaster:Yep.

02:00:35Argyle:see you around maybe

02:00:36Gamemaster:Stay safe.

02:00:40Gamemaster:Maybe.

02:00:43Gamemaster:Until he'll start walking back with Stoke

02:00:47Gamemaster:as they start walking in the direction of their fans.

02:00:49Gamemaster:maybe if it was like

02:00:50Argyle:mr Jorge knows i know argyle wouldn't does stokes eyes look similar to that of grim

02:00:56Argyle:not good

02:00:59Gamemaster:really progressed

02:01:00Anzu:Blind.

02:01:01Gamemaster:like maybe

02:01:04Argyle:that's

02:01:05Gamemaster:it's unclear

02:01:05Argyle:yeah

02:01:06Gamemaster:but it is definitely

02:01:07Argyle:yeah

02:01:08Argyle:is there an oracle

02:01:08Gamemaster:like you were starting to see the clouding in Groob's eyes

02:01:11Gamemaster:his are completely

02:01:13Gamemaster:clouded over they're like milky white

02:01:15Gamemaster:I believe there is

02:01:18Argyle:pf class that has this blind

02:01:20Argyle:I think so

02:01:24Gamemaster:or maybe there was

02:01:25Gamemaster:there isn't anymore

02:01:26Argyle:Does Argyle know...

02:01:26Gamemaster:no

02:01:28Argyle:Okay, let me just ask directly.

02:01:29Argyle:Does Argyle know why his eyes would be blinded?

02:01:32Gamemaster:like no role necessary

02:01:33Argyle:Okay.

02:01:34Gamemaster:there isn't

02:01:34Argyle:Yeah, that's fine.

02:01:34Gamemaster:this like area

02:01:35Argyle:That's fine.

02:01:36Gamemaster:doesn't have a religious

02:01:37Gamemaster:association with blinding

02:01:39Gamemaster:it could just be

02:01:40Argyle:Yeah.

02:01:40Gamemaster:this is an old blind man

02:01:41Gamemaster:those have

02:01:42Argyle:And if there is one, it's not in Argyle's.

02:01:43Gamemaster:existed

02:01:44Gamemaster:Yeah no that isn a particular thing that you would be familiar with

02:01:45Argyle:Yeah.

02:01:47Argyle:So Argyle's like, oh yeah, obviously.

02:01:49Argyle:People who follow the church sometimes get blind.

02:01:56Argyle:Hey we on Zoom Can uh resonate with the other calls can resonate with the fashion bag

02:02:00Anzu:you I resonate with the Voidsong

02:02:14Argyle:that'd be that would be fucking crazy to be up there and then just ping it and then you feel

02:02:16Anzu:I'm not going to attempt that.

02:02:24Argyle:him ping back and he looks back and he's like what the fuck

02:02:25Gamemaster:I had to double check because I was trying to figure out where it was.

02:02:25Anzu:Listen, I'm very terrified right now.

02:02:34Anzu:Voidsong has never been this quiet.

02:02:38Anzu:And there's a little something else

02:02:39Anzu:rattling around,

02:02:40Anzu:and I don't want to think about it.

02:02:50Gamemaster:The clouded vision oracle is a kind of oracle in first edition.

02:02:52Anzu:Anyway...

02:02:54Argyle:I just heard you vaguely mentioning that a while ago, Josh.

02:02:55Anzu:Yeah, I was going to say, I don't remember seeing that when I've made oracles in the past.

02:02:57Gamemaster:I knew I'd seen it somewhere.

02:03:04Argyle:So.

02:03:04Gamemaster:Yeah, this is my fault for mixing up rule sets.

02:03:08Argyle:Yeah.

02:03:10Anzu:So, the helm is up, allegedly.

02:03:16Anzu:Is there any kind of platform or something besides just a big floating gyroscope?

02:03:20Gamemaster:So the way that this central area is structured is it is circular in the center where all of the

02:03:29Gamemaster:fanes meet. On the outer-ish ring, there's a little room for not quite a road, but a path

02:03:36Gamemaster:where people have been traveling around. And then layered inside of that ring is the set of

02:03:41Gamemaster:buildings that make up like Giacomo's and the gym and the general store and all of those kind of

02:03:48Gamemaster:little amenities that they had set up.

02:03:50Gamemaster:And then inside that

02:03:51Gamemaster:is a massive rod.

02:03:54Argyle:you Hey

02:03:54Gamemaster:Rod is probably the wrong term Tower is probably closer to what you looking for It extends up to where the gyroscopic structure is

02:04:06Gamemaster:But the rod that holds up the gyroscopes is itself a tower.

02:04:11Gamemaster:It is like a building of some kind.

02:04:20Argyle:on the word Johnny

02:04:25Johnny:Yeah, I have both.

02:04:25Anzu:No.

02:04:25Argyle:do you guys have dimension door

02:04:26Argyle:sorry

02:04:28Argyle:translocate

02:04:29Argyle:okay

02:04:33Argyle:how many fifth level spells do you have Johnny

02:04:36Argyle:you can say no

02:04:43Argyle:but what about

02:04:45Johnny:That is one thing.

02:04:47Argyle:translocate

02:04:49Argyle:fifth level

02:04:50Argyle:into the library.

02:04:54Argyle:You check out the starward book,

02:04:55Anzu:We don't know what it's like in there.

02:04:58Argyle:you Dimension Door back.

02:05:09Argyle:If it's bad, you'll just tell back early.

02:05:10Johnny:We don't know what it's like.

02:05:10Johnny:My one concern is that I have to get the book and check it out.

02:05:17Johnny:Does the spell or whatever, the pact, take effect right then?

02:05:20Johnny:Like, if I leave the library, I automatically forget?

02:05:20Argyle:Depends on the pack.

02:05:26Johnny:I guess we only need it...

02:05:27Johnny:Well, I guess we only need it to...

02:05:31Johnny:I don't even think I have to do that, because the information just needs to get us back home, right?

02:05:35Johnny:So I can just walk in and say, hey, I need to borrow this and check it out,

02:05:38Johnny:and then I'll forget everything in it once I give it back to you,

02:05:42Johnny:which it doesn't really matter because we just need it to navigate back.

02:05:49Argyle:Yeah.

02:05:50Argyle:Was that how that worked?

02:05:53Argyle:That he could collect at any time the information I think that was

02:05:55Gamemaster:I think It twofold I don remember how much he actually

02:05:56Johnny:I thought it was once we gave it back we forgot everything

02:06:05Gamemaster:told you but it is

02:06:07Gamemaster:like the knowledge is

02:06:09Gamemaster:checked back into the library when you return the book

02:06:11Gamemaster:um but

02:06:13Gamemaster:with the caveat of like you weren't able to bring

02:06:15Gamemaster:the book out so that isn't particularly useful

02:06:17Gamemaster:um

02:06:18Gamemaster:you know put like

02:06:20Gamemaster:as declared by Ocelot

02:06:22Gamemaster:you would have no way of knowing how much of that

02:06:25Johnny:I'm fine blipping in there, but if it's Deathsville, I'm gonna die.

02:06:25Argyle:You can blip out.

02:06:25Benny:What's happening, Desville?

02:06:25Gamemaster:is an enchantment on the library and how much of that

02:06:27Gamemaster:is Othloth being like hey I'm gonna kill

02:06:29Gamemaster:you if you try and take this book out

02:06:31Gamemaster:so like

02:06:33Gamemaster:you know contingent on those points

02:06:44Johnny:Okay.

02:06:49Johnny:But I mean, if we're going nowhere else, I got two 5th level spells so I can blip in

02:06:54Johnny:and blip out, but then I'm spent on those big boys for the day.

02:06:55Argyle:I think we're going to need to find Giant.

02:06:55Anzu:The one thing that we do

02:06:55Benny:Yeah.

02:07:03Benny:How useful is it to know where we're at?

02:07:09Johnny:I mean, I think at this point it's not...

02:07:12Johnny:It's more just like background, because...

02:07:18Johnny:Yeah, we got a...

02:07:19Argyle:Or if there's slides.

02:07:21Anzu:have going for us is the Strider is currently programmed to walk voidward.

02:07:21Argyle:If there's slides to be useful.

02:07:24Johnny:Yeah.

02:07:25Argyle:Yeah.

02:07:25Benny:I like that.

02:07:31Anzu:And so even if we don't really know where we are, we can at least start moving in the

02:07:35Anzu:right direction.

02:07:39Johnny:I also haven't brought this up,

02:07:40Benny:Of course.

02:07:41Johnny:but I don't want to bring this up at any of our meetings,

02:07:42Johnny:but I still think it would be a good idea to go kill Tali

02:07:45Johnny:and take them off the board and maybe get Anzu's sister

02:07:48Argyle:Yeah.

02:07:48Johnny:because, you know, a bird in the hand.

02:07:51Anzu:Yes.

02:07:54Johnny:Because that is just like another threat that's flipping around.

02:07:54Argyle:Yeah.

02:08:00Johnny:Round out there.

02:08:00Argyle:Maybe we should just go now, huh?

02:08:00Anzu:I'd like to check out the top of this tower first, just see what it's like up there.

02:08:00Benny:Yeah.

02:08:12Argyle:I'd rather do that.

02:08:13Argyle:No, but that's what they're expecting us to do next.

02:08:16Argyle:So if we wait an extra day because we're doing tally stuff,

02:08:19Argyle:it'll just look like we're lazy.

02:08:20Argyle:They're not going to progress, if that makes sense.

02:08:23Anzu:I just want to look, it's only going to take a couple minutes.

02:08:25Argyle:Oh, how are you going to look at it?

02:08:25Anzu:I'm going to go up there.

02:08:30Johnny:He can fly.

02:08:30Argyle:Are there stairs?

02:08:31Anzu:I kind of spread my arms out,

02:08:36Anzu:and I have feathers that kind of wave off a little bit,

02:08:41Anzu:but you see I kind of concentrate briefly,

02:08:45Anzu:and the air kind of compresses

02:08:49Anzu:and creates almost like shimmering,

02:08:52Anzu:spectral-looking type larger wings,

02:08:54Anzu:and I rise up into the air.

02:09:00Johnny:Bye.

02:09:00Argyle:Good luck, don't fall.

02:09:00Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:09:01Anzu:Yeah, I've been working on trying to...

02:09:03Anzu:It's a little awkward.

02:09:05Anzu:I kind of go forward and back a little bit.

02:09:08Anzu:I've been trying to take advantage

02:09:10Anzu:of my incredibly lightweight form

02:09:12Anzu:and my psychic powers

02:09:15Anzu:to kind of just launch myself a little bit

02:09:18Anzu:and it seems to have been working recently

02:09:21Anzu:and so I'm going to give it a go.

02:09:24Anzu:And I have a fly speed, so I fly up the tower.

02:09:24Argyle:You have a snap leaf.

02:09:30Argyle:I almost took Divine Wings,

02:09:30Gamemaster:Yeah, absolutely.

02:09:30Benny:Thank you Part of the game

02:09:35Gamemaster:Roll the perception check.

02:09:40Gamemaster:That's a good question.

02:09:44Argyle:but then I was like, well,

02:09:45Gamemaster:You are allowed to know.

02:09:47Argyle:kind of a shame if I fly and Anzu doesn't.

02:09:47Anzu:I got a 25.

02:09:50Gamemaster:It's part of the rule.

02:09:51Anzu:What is our level 9?

02:09:54Anzu:if I am allowed to know

02:09:55Gamemaster:That a good question You are allowed to know It part of the rules It is 26

02:10:06Anzu:Oh, so we're going to use the points.

02:10:10Anzu:Currently, I'm an expert in perception.

02:10:17Gamemaster:You would be.

02:10:20Anzu:So, I get plus four.

02:10:23Anzu:How does that sound?

02:10:24Anzu:Correct?

02:10:25Gamemaster:Um, no, you get plus six.

02:10:25Anzu:Oh, because master is after expert, isn't it?

02:10:31Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:10:34Gamemaster:Trained, expert, master, legendary, mythic.

02:10:38Anzu:Yeah, 38 is a decent bit better.

02:10:41Gamemaster:38 is much better.

02:10:43Gamemaster:Um, you get two things.

02:10:44Gamemaster:First, as you're flying up towards the gyroscopic structure,

02:10:47Gamemaster:you get a much, much, much closer look than you would have been able to get from the ground.

02:10:52Gamemaster:as you learn that it is actually pretty high up.

02:10:55Gamemaster:It's like 500 feet in the air.

02:10:58Gamemaster:It's just so large that it kind of looms over the rest of the strider

02:11:02Gamemaster:and seems closer than it actually is.

02:11:05Gamemaster:And to that point, the way that the gyroscopic structure works

02:11:09Gamemaster:is there are a number of rings that all kind of turn within each other.

02:11:13Gamemaster:And then I have described that there are these kind of scoops or hooks

02:11:18Gamemaster:or something that rotate around the edge of the rings.

02:11:22Gamemaster:As you get closer, you can see that those scoops, they're almost wind vane-like in that they have a cup and it rotates around.

02:11:29Gamemaster:And on the arm of each of those cups is another ring that rotates around that.

02:11:34Gamemaster:And on the arm of each of those cups is an arm that rotates around them.

02:11:38Gamemaster:It is fractal-like in the way that it continues to narrow down.

02:11:43Gamemaster:This is a much more intricate piece of machinery than would have been immediately visible from the ground.

02:11:52Gamemaster:this is the kind of thing that wouldn have been easy to construct even if you threw a lot of resources at it Like I don think Anzu would have the first clue

02:12:08Gamemaster:of if Belvedere wanted to build one of these,

02:12:11Gamemaster:how much capital and manpower they would need to throw at it

02:12:15Gamemaster:to get this thing designed,

02:12:17Gamemaster:if it needs to be as intricate as it looks like it is.

02:12:19Gamemaster:It is a very long time it would have taken to build this.

02:12:26Gamemaster:That said, looking around it, there is no obvious entrance into the tower or the gyroscope.

02:12:38Gamemaster:Like flying over the top, flying through the rings, doing around the circle.

02:12:42Gamemaster:there is no way that you can tell

02:12:44Gamemaster:that seems to actually

02:12:46Gamemaster:enter into

02:12:48Gamemaster:enter into the tower

02:12:51Gamemaster:which tells you that either

02:12:55Anzu:could be maybe that you enter from underneath

02:12:55Gamemaster:the Harlequins had some way of

02:12:57Gamemaster:imposing a doorway on it

02:13:00Gamemaster:to enter it

02:13:00Gamemaster:or the entrance is somewhere else

02:13:10Anzu:so is there nowhere like to stand

02:13:12Gamemaster:Like, you could if you wanted to stand on, like, one of the rings, but then you'd kind

02:13:25Anzu:Right.

02:13:25Gamemaster:of be balancing on all of those scoops.

02:13:35Gamemaster:It wasn't designed for humans or, you know, creatures to be standing on top of them.

02:13:40Anzu:And does the, like, the tower have any, like, windows towards the top, or it's just sheer, like...

02:13:46Gamemaster:Completely sheer this like golden yellow metal color Thank you

02:13:55Anzu:I Get like I get right up against the wall

02:14:06Anzu:and I'm going to

02:14:11Anzu:circumnavigate the whole thing

02:14:13Anzu:relatively up high

02:14:16Anzu:and just be releasing

02:14:20Anzu:tech magic to see if I could find anything that's maybe obscured or

02:14:25Gamemaster:Okay, so a few things.

02:14:26Anzu:38

02:14:29Gamemaster:You rolled a critical success or a very high roll on your perception.

02:14:32Gamemaster:What did you actually get?

02:14:36Anzu:yes

02:14:37Gamemaster:38.

02:14:38Gamemaster:Yeah, with the 38, the two things.

02:14:40Gamemaster:First of all, detect magic.

02:14:41Gamemaster:The whole device is one huge artifact.

02:14:46Gamemaster:So you can exclude that in your detect magic as you do a loop around.

02:14:50Anzu:It's heightened all the way.

02:14:50Gamemaster:there are, there is magic

02:14:53Gamemaster:inside that is not

02:14:55Gamemaster:considered part of the

02:14:57Gamemaster:gyroscopic structure that

02:14:59Gamemaster:is pinging you. What info do you

02:15:01Gamemaster:get at your level with detect magic?

02:15:09Anzu:So...

02:15:10Gamemaster:You learn the

02:15:11Gamemaster:ranker level of the most powerful magical effect

02:15:13Gamemaster:and you can also pinpoint

02:15:15Gamemaster:its source. You don't learn its exact

02:15:17Gamemaster:location, but you

02:15:19Gamemaster:narrow it down to within a five foot cube. Okay, so there are, in the interior, as you're like doing

02:15:20Anzu:Yeah.

02:15:28Gamemaster:the circumnavigating around, the tower itself is large enough that your 30 feet detection into it

02:15:35Gamemaster:isn't enough to make it to the other side. So you have magic items appearing and disappearing

02:15:40Gamemaster:in your radius as you go around. The most powerful magic items as you do it around kind of the close

02:15:42Anzu:Yeah.

02:15:47Gamemaster:to the top bit, is there are

02:15:50Gamemaster:a handful

02:15:51Gamemaster:of level

02:15:53Gamemaster:4 to level 6

02:15:55Gamemaster:magic items or effects

02:15:57Gamemaster:close to the top of the

02:16:00Gamemaster:tower as you navigate around.

02:16:00Anzu:Yeah, so there's all kinds of stuff going on in there.

02:16:02Gamemaster:I will also say that you rolled high enough on your perception that as you get kind of

02:16:06Gamemaster:close to the tower, you can hear the sound of active machinery of what seems to be like

02:16:11Gamemaster:maybe pneumatics, that kind of hissing, pumping sound on the interior, active.

02:16:18Gamemaster:It seems like something's going on inside there.

02:16:24Anzu:Machine God.

02:16:25Anzu:when the Harlequins were around

02:16:26Gamemaster:Yes.

02:16:30Gamemaster:they were

02:16:31Anzu:were they

02:16:35Anzu:active kind of directly

02:16:37Anzu:center of the strider towards the top levels

02:16:40Anzu:in your view field

02:16:44Anzu:at the center

02:16:44Gamemaster:active in much of their

02:16:47Gamemaster:slice of the strider especially

02:16:49Gamemaster:closer to the end

02:16:50Gamemaster:and while we were on the journey but

02:16:52Anzu:can you feel

02:16:53Gamemaster:that does include the center yes

02:16:55Gamemaster:they traveled

02:16:57Gamemaster:through that frequently

02:16:59Gamemaster:you have told me this before yes

02:17:00Anzu:so there's this big tower out here

02:17:02Anzu:I don't know if you're aware of that

02:17:04Anzu:and it's got a big gyroscope at the top

02:17:05Anzu:yeah

02:17:09Anzu:I'm trying to figure out how to get in

02:17:11Anzu:it doesn't really look like there's anything out here

02:17:13Anzu:have you seen them like

02:17:15Anzu:go through it up a ladder

02:17:17Anzu:or up some stairs through a trap door

02:17:20Anzu:Could you help us get to that chamber?

02:17:20Gamemaster:there is a chamber directly beneath or directly in the center of the strider that i imagine extends

02:17:27Gamemaster:upwards past my vision. I would warn you there are... yes, I could help. There are living creatures within.

02:17:36Anzu:Currently

02:17:36Anzu:Are they Harlequins?

02:17:36Gamemaster:As currently, at least things moving up and down within and then out of my sight.

02:17:43Gamemaster:Those little clown devils. Yes, they are.

02:17:50Anzu:So you're seeing Harlequins alive on the Strider?

02:17:53Gamemaster:Not at the moment but I was five minutes ago only when they are below the bottom layer yes Of course Also there is one other

02:17:57Anzu:Before they went up Okay thank you That good to know

02:18:06Anzu:I'm going to fly back down to my compatriots.

02:18:09Gamemaster:thing of note with your ridiculous perception check that you notice as you are descending

02:18:14Gamemaster:down to your companions. So you left off your companions close to the base of the gyroscopic

02:18:22Gamemaster:structure um as you descend down there is you see them and then you see that there is the the like

02:18:25Anzu:Bless you.

02:18:29Gamemaster:ring of amenity buildings that had been in the center that's now part of this neutral territory

02:18:34Gamemaster:um and then beyond that is this road uh

02:18:39Gamemaster:excuse me and then there's some sneezes um and then beyond that are the various independent uh

02:18:51Gamemaster:the various independent like fanes and you can see it's actually very distinct

02:18:55Gamemaster:uh the the separation between them from the height that you're at um but in addition sorry one second

02:19:04Gamemaster:um oh that's fun completely that's never mind um coming from the uh

02:19:14Gamemaster:one of the fan areas the one to the side of the RunGunners on the other side not you uh

02:19:21Gamemaster:what used to be Verdant Holdings, is at this point fallow.

02:19:26Gamemaster:Nobody has gone in and claimed that territory yet.

02:19:30Gamemaster:But you can see that there is some motion coming out of that area.

02:19:41Gamemaster:It's like this...

02:19:44Gamemaster:From this distance, you can't quite tell what it is.

02:19:48Gamemaster:it is too far off

02:19:50Gamemaster:because it's a few hundred feet

02:19:52Gamemaster:down in the direction

02:19:53Gamemaster:of the Verdant Molding area But it is moving from the direction of what used to be their Fane and is now that crater The only reason it even catches your eye because it is doing a pretty good job of blending in with the ground is there is a very faint

02:20:11Gamemaster:reflective glint coming from it for a second, like some kind of light hitting

02:20:19Gamemaster:off of a piece of glass.

02:20:25Johnny:What did you see, Birdman?

02:20:25Argyle:There you go.

02:20:25Anzu:I complete my descent.

02:20:25Benny:There's.

02:20:34Anzu:Okay, there's a number of things.

02:20:38Anzu:One, it's a very intricate thing up there.

02:20:40Anzu:There's no entrance.

02:20:41Anzu:There's no control panel or anything.

02:20:44Anzu:But Machine God said that it's very likely

02:20:47Anzu:that you can enter from underneath.

02:20:48Anzu:There's a chamber.

02:20:49Anzu:the crazy thing is

02:20:55Argyle:No.

02:20:56Anzu:there are very likely

02:20:58Anzu:Harlequins

02:20:59Anzu:in there right now

02:21:04Anzu:Machine Gun saw them in this chamber

02:21:06Anzu:right below and then he can't see them

02:21:08Anzu:because they've gone up into the tower

02:21:09Anzu:but

02:21:10Anzu:it seems we're not fully rid of them

02:21:14Anzu:and then also something is happening

02:21:18Anzu:where Verdant

02:21:19Anzu:Holdings used to be.

02:21:21Anzu:So I don't know if we want to go check that out.

02:21:23Anzu:It was kind of far away, but there was motion.

02:21:25Argyle:yeah let's go

02:21:25Gamemaster:All right, so what are you doing?

02:21:25Benny:Like a bonfire or a farmer's market?

02:21:31Anzu:Something shiny.

02:21:32Benny:Oh, okay.

02:21:32Argyle:let's go

02:21:33Argyle:over to verdon holden

02:21:40Argyle:verdon holden

02:21:41Gamemaster:You're going over to Britain Holdings.

02:21:42Argyle:once we get um almost to their fame i'm going to cast heat vision on myself

02:21:43Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:21:50Argyle:and infrared vision at 60 feet has a precise sense yeah i didn have um you know

02:21:51Gamemaster:Heat vision.

02:21:52Gamemaster:Okay.

02:21:53Gamemaster:Hey you get like Superman laser sight What does heat vision do Nice Okay what else do I need

02:21:55Johnny:you Right in the road

02:21:55Benny:Okay Like the predator

02:22:12Gamemaster:Like the predator.

02:22:15Gamemaster:Heat vision is one word.

02:22:17Gamemaster:Of course it is.

02:22:22Gamemaster:warm-blooded creature a source of heat not completely covered behind a solid

02:22:25Argyle:I almost didn't take this because I know Josh loves constructs.

02:22:25Gamemaster:object. That's pretty nice.

02:22:33Gamemaster:I do love constructs.

02:22:33Argyle:But I figured it might be a steam-powered construct

02:22:36Argyle:if there is one.

02:22:37Gamemaster:Though it explicitly calls out constructs are the same temperature as

02:22:41Gamemaster:their environment and can't be detected with heat vision. Typically, you're right.

02:22:42Argyle:Typically.

02:22:44Argyle:Typically.

02:22:45Gamemaster:The GM decides in other cases. Excuse me.

02:22:47Argyle:Yeah.

02:22:49Argyle:But I figured a stealth construct wouldn't be like...

02:22:52Gamemaster:stealth construct but it's got a little fire going on in there it happens either way

02:22:54Argyle:Very hot.

02:22:55Benny:It was a glint, though.

02:22:58Argyle:Wait a second, gentlemen.

02:22:59Gamemaster:it was a glint

02:23:01Argyle:Oh, never mind.

02:23:01Argyle:Yeah, yeah.

02:23:03Argyle:What if Grayson has more of his invisible workers?

02:23:07Argyle:Ah, let's figure it out.

02:23:10Argyle:Oh, yeah.

02:23:12Argyle:Take a look.

02:23:15Argyle:Zoom.

02:23:15Gamemaster:okay

02:23:18Gamemaster:so you guys are headed over

02:23:20Gamemaster:in the direction of

02:23:22Gamemaster:in the direction of

02:23:24Argyle:I think we're walking.

02:23:25Johnny:How long, like when we're outside, how quickly do we start to get cold and freeze up?

02:23:25Benny:Wait.

02:23:25Gamemaster:Holdings

02:23:26Gamemaster:old fame

02:23:27Gamemaster:Did you take your car? Are you walking?

02:23:32Gamemaster:Sorry, I just don't know what form of transport you're using here.

02:23:34Gamemaster:It is short enough that you could walk.

02:23:36Gamemaster:I'm just, like, calling out.

02:23:43Gamemaster:Pretty quickly.

02:23:44Gamemaster:It was negated for the most part.

02:23:47Gamemaster:Not completely.

02:23:48Gamemaster:The chill still followed you into Giacomo's,

02:23:50Gamemaster:but it wasn't anything that, like, felt you were in danger.

02:23:53Gamemaster:While you were outside and exposed to the elements,

02:23:56Gamemaster:It is pretty chilly.

02:24:00Argyle:Probably in a car then.

02:24:00Gamemaster:You can already feel it starting to seep a little bit into your bones, kind of move you a little bit sluggish.

02:24:00Benny:Yep.

02:24:06Gamemaster:It's not causing any damage yet.

02:24:08Gamemaster:You could probably be out here for at least an hour or two without suffering any negative effects,

02:24:13Gamemaster:but it's more of a concern for extended trips outside.

02:24:19Gamemaster:It will definitely start to draw on you, and not in a pleasant way.

02:24:24Gamemaster:It is particularly unpleasant in that it's not like a cold wind.

02:24:27Gamemaster:it's like just the experience of being outside is cold like it's cutting through your clothing

02:24:30Argyle:Yeah, we will have brought a car.

02:24:30Benny:Yeah.

02:24:31Benny:Mm-hmm .

02:24:32Benny:Okay.

02:24:32Gamemaster:um okay that's fine uh you can drive your car on over um you're heading in the direction i assume

02:24:33Benny:So, I think we're going to stop here, and we'll get back to the questions.

02:24:46Gamemaster:of where Anzu saw that like glinty reflection thing uh absolutely make a perception check your

02:24:53Gamemaster:this area is effectively

02:24:55Gamemaster:just at this point it's this crater

02:24:57Gamemaster:in the ground

02:24:58Gamemaster:some grasslands and like some

02:25:00Argyle:All right, I have a 29 with my heat vision.

02:25:01Gamemaster:token rocks that

02:25:03Gamemaster:had been spread out by the general explosion

02:25:05Gamemaster:it is it's not like landscaped

02:25:07Gamemaster:there aren't a lot

02:25:09Gamemaster:of places for something to like

02:25:11Gamemaster:hide

02:25:12Gamemaster:sorry what did you get with your heat vision

02:25:18Argyle:29.

02:25:21Gamemaster:29.

02:25:23Gamemaster:Okay.

02:25:24Gamemaster:Okay.

02:25:30Argyle:Is there anyone else rolling?

02:25:30Benny:Thank you I mean All right

02:25:33Gamemaster:If that's what we're going with, that's what we're going with.

02:25:35Gamemaster:With a 29 with heat vision.

02:25:37Argyle:Alright.

02:25:40Gamemaster:So you actually have an advantage here in that...

02:25:42Argyle:Oh, 30.

02:25:43Argyle:I have heroism.

02:25:46Gamemaster:Okay.

02:25:47Gamemaster:30.

02:25:47Gamemaster:You actually...

02:25:48Gamemaster:Actually, I don't actually know if that's the case.

02:25:51Gamemaster:I think you do here because I don't think this applies,

02:25:54Gamemaster:but I gonna try something anyway One second

02:26:06Gamemaster:Yeah. Okay.

02:26:07Gamemaster:So the answer here is that

02:26:09Gamemaster:if you didn't have heat vision,

02:26:14Gamemaster:this thing would be invisible to you.

02:26:19Gamemaster:Not by virtue of the fact that it is actually invisible,

02:26:22Gamemaster:just by virtue of the fact that it is, whatever it is, is pretty well acclimated to the ability of moving through areas unseen.

02:26:25Argyle:Okay.

02:26:36Gamemaster:It is camouflaged in such a way that it's hard to make out its exact shape.

02:26:41Gamemaster:It is large, though. It's a relatively large... it's a creature, at best you can tell.

02:26:44Argyle:Okay.

02:26:48Gamemaster:but it is moving

02:26:51Gamemaster:definitely

02:26:55Gamemaster:focused on you in the way that it's moving

02:26:58Gamemaster:because as it sees that you guys are here

02:27:00Gamemaster:and looking out

02:27:01Gamemaster:it's kind of slinking

02:27:03Gamemaster:a little bit close to the ground

02:27:05Gamemaster:albeit a slightly

02:27:08Gamemaster:awkward looking position

02:27:10Gamemaster:and it

02:27:11Gamemaster:moves behind

02:27:14Gamemaster:a rock to try and break line of sight

02:27:16Gamemaster:as you guys are watching

02:27:17Gamemaster:you do see it happen. It is... actually, heat vision would be interesting here, because you

02:27:24Gamemaster:would see that it's kind of a blob, especially at the distance you're at, but there is

02:27:31Gamemaster:two parts of it. There's a large heated base, and then there's kind of a protrusion upwards,

02:27:38Gamemaster:and a very, very hot spot near the top of that protrusion, like multiple degrees hotter than

02:27:47Gamemaster:than the rest of the body of this thing.

02:27:52Gamemaster:I will also say,

02:27:53Gamemaster:because you rolled really well with the perception,

02:27:55Argyle:Yeah Benny not Okay

02:27:55Gamemaster:this is the first time you cast it around your friends right At least in a long time Um your friends are all normal temperature except for Anzu whose head is real hot

02:28:09Gamemaster:Like, five or six degrees hotter than you would expect from, like, base temperature.

02:28:17Gamemaster:You know, I don't know if Argyle knows about, uh, Tengu biology,

02:28:21Gamemaster:but it does seem strange that his head is running a few degrees hotter than the rest of him.

02:28:25Johnny:psychic powers hot brain

02:28:25Argyle:I'm gonna go take a look

02:28:25Benny:Maybe.

02:28:27Gamemaster:Just putting that out there.

02:28:35Benny:Maybe.

02:28:35Benny:

02:28:35Benny:

02:28:35Benny:maybe you should say

02:28:35Argyle:can I make a medicine check for later

02:28:38Argyle:or just note this down for later to make a

02:28:40Argyle:should I make that now or

02:28:44Argyle:I call out the

02:28:44Gamemaster:I...

02:28:45Gamemaster:Are you stopping to do a medical diagnosis?

02:28:46Argyle:weird dragon I call out the weird

02:28:48Argyle:the weird dragon thing and I'm like

02:28:50Argyle:what the fuck is that guys should we attack

02:28:51Gamemaster:You would have needed to get out of the car to use your heat vision.

02:28:52Argyle:it

02:28:55Argyle:Yeah, let's get out of the car.

02:28:55Anzu:at least try to see what it's doing here.

02:28:55Benny:say hi

02:28:57Benny:I guess we're

02:28:59Argyle:Are we out of the car?

02:28:59Argyle:We're walking around.

02:29:01Benny:done

02:29:03Argyle:Okay.

02:29:05Benny:EPS.

02:29:05Argyle:I track the thing

02:29:07Argyle:and I say,

02:29:09Argyle:hello!

02:29:11Gamemaster:So...

02:29:11Argyle:Thing. Friend.

02:29:12Gamemaster:You track the thing?

02:29:14Argyle:I'm looking at it.

02:29:14Gamemaster:How do you track the thing?

02:29:15Argyle:Like, I'm looking at it.

02:29:17Gamemaster:You're just...

02:29:18Gamemaster:Okay, I mean,

02:29:19Gamemaster:you don't need to roll a survival

02:29:22Gamemaster:check here because you

02:29:24Gamemaster:saw it get into the position that it's in

02:29:25Argyle:yeah with my shield route

02:29:26Gamemaster:because of your heat vision

02:29:27Gamemaster:you can, you're walking up to it

02:29:33Argyle:yeah

02:29:35Benny:okay wait how far was the heat vision again 60 feet

02:29:35Argyle:yes

02:29:36Gamemaster:okay

02:29:36Gamemaster:and you call out

02:29:38Gamemaster:when you get within

02:29:39Argyle:um how far is it right now for me

02:29:41Gamemaster:well actually how close are you getting

02:29:43Gamemaster:is the first question

02:29:45Gamemaster:uh well your heat vision only has a range i think of 60 feet so it is at most 60 feet away

02:29:47Argyle:I will mention to Benny that we should walk up together and then they go up

02:29:55Johnny:Stay back with hot brain bird here

02:30:03Gamemaster:you Heat vision 60 feet

02:30:05Argyle:Just like, see.

02:30:06Argyle:Yeah.

02:30:06Benny:God damn.

02:30:07Benny:Okay.

02:30:09Gamemaster:I think at least.

02:30:10Argyle:Yeah.

02:30:10Gamemaster:One second.

02:30:11Argyle:Yeah.

02:30:11Gamemaster:Yeah, it's 60 feet.

02:30:15Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:30:17Gamemaster:Okay, so when you get within 30 feet,

02:30:22Gamemaster:you're making yourself known. You're not like being stealthy

02:30:22Argyle:Yeah.

02:30:25Argyle:Yeah, I know it's bad, but Argyle's supposed to be a good guy.

02:30:25Benny:No.

02:30:26Gamemaster:or anything.

02:30:30Gamemaster:Do you

02:30:31Gamemaster:look threatening?

02:30:34Gamemaster:Do you have your weapons out?

02:30:34Argyle:No.

02:30:35Argyle:I'll have my shield.

02:30:36Gamemaster:You don't have your weapons out.

02:30:38Argyle:I have a shield.

02:30:38Gamemaster:You just have your shield out.

02:30:38Benny:Benny has confidence.

02:30:40Benny:Benny has no episode.

02:30:41Benny:Hey.

02:30:42Argyle:Yeah.

02:30:43Argyle:

02:30:44Gamemaster:Okay.

02:30:44Gamemaster:Okay.

02:30:46Gamemaster:When you get within 30 feet

02:30:48Gamemaster:there is a flurry of

02:30:50Gamemaster:motion, uh, as the thing behind the rock, um, at first it seems like it jumps, but then it kind of

02:30:55Argyle:Nice.

02:31:00Gamemaster:stays at the height that it originally was, and you realize it's actually stood up. Um,

02:31:06Argyle:Okay.

02:31:06Gamemaster:the upper form is humanoid, um, but it, it whips out as it jumps up from behind the rock. It takes

02:31:16Gamemaster:out what looks to be a long firearm, a sniper rifle of some kind, and focuses it on probably

02:31:25Johnny:Yeah.

02:31:25Argyle:Okay.

02:31:27Gamemaster:Argyle's head, because Argyle is the one that showed up first.

02:31:31Gamemaster:And I would love it, Noah, if you could describe this character.

02:31:37Johnny:You guys see what looks like a human man in his 40s, like mid-40s,

02:31:38Argyle:You son of a bitch.

02:31:44Johnny:eight and a half feet, maybe nine feet tall, kind of crunched over right now.

02:31:50Johnny:The description I sent to Josh.

02:31:53Johnny:it's got copper skin just like covered in

02:31:56Johnny:scars all over

02:31:57Johnny:black hair tied back in a

02:32:00Johnny:He's got this shaggy beard.

02:32:00Argyle:you the demon

02:32:01Johnny:It's kind of shot through with gray,

02:32:03Johnny:wearing a big black overcoat.

02:32:06Johnny:As you guys approach, he'll step out

02:32:08Johnny:from around where he's hiding.

02:32:10Johnny:And you'll see that he's not wearing boots.

02:32:12Johnny:And his lower half ends in this black fur and cloven hooves.

02:32:21Argyle:you the demon

02:32:22Argyle:he's a demon

02:32:25Johnny:And he looks like this.

02:32:28Argyle:is he thick

02:32:30Johnny:from the waist.

02:32:30Gamemaster:Sucks.

02:32:30Anzu:Oh no, he's hot.

02:32:30Benny:First stop.

02:32:35Johnny:Yeah, a real attractive guy.

02:32:36Argyle:oh

02:32:37Johnny:He's got this big, long rifle

02:32:39Johnny:trained in Argyle's head.

02:32:40Johnny:Stop!

02:32:45Johnny:Oh, other very important thing to note.

02:32:48Johnny:Big black Raymond.

02:32:52Anzu:Hannah forgets what that means.

02:32:56Benny:They're linked up with the Ashen Pact.

02:32:57Johnny:Okay.

02:32:58Argyle:Is he still invisible as he's doing this?

02:32:59Benny:Aha.

02:33:00Johnny:Size-wise, about the same size as everybody else's, but black.

02:33:00Gamemaster:But, yeah.

02:33:00Anzu:Dope.

02:33:02Gamemaster:All of the things that you've seen so far with a Black Raymond have had some relationship to the Ashen Pact in some way.

02:33:17Gamemaster:He was never invisible. He was camouflaged.

02:33:19Argyle:Yeah.

02:33:20Argyle:I see.

02:33:20Gamemaster:So this nine-foot-tall figure jumping up from behind the rock or standing to his full height,

02:33:26Gamemaster:You can see that he had covered himself in grass stains and mud so that he would blend in with the ground as he was moving.

02:33:28Argyle:wait so he's not nine feet or he's nine feet tall oh okay

02:33:29Benny:Are you with a group out here I guess we are a group out here so technically yeah

02:33:30Johnny:Big dude, really big dude.

02:33:35Gamemaster:But he's not invisible.

02:33:37Gamemaster:And now that he's standing up against the perpetually gray sky, you can see his features.

02:33:45Gamemaster:No, he's not too tall.

02:33:47Gamemaster:No, he's not too tall.

02:33:58Argyle:Did you bomb these people Yeah Wait did you bomb these people

02:33:58Johnny:Are you with the group out here

02:34:06Argyle:What are you doing here?

02:34:07Johnny:What?

02:34:09Johnny:I

02:34:09Johnny:Who are you?

02:34:12Johnny:What is happening up here?

02:34:13Johnny:Why did the Strider stop?

02:34:17Benny:hey why are you on the strider

02:34:19Benny:we're gonna go check out the Voidsong

02:34:21Argyle:What are you doing here?

02:34:22Johnny:Why are you all on the Strider?

02:34:25Johnny:Do I know what the Voidsong is?

02:34:25Gamemaster:I think probably not

02:34:33Gamemaster:because that would have happened after

02:34:35Gamemaster:you would not know what the Voidsong is

02:34:39Johnny:Hearing just the word song, he'll release the safety and say,

02:34:45Johnny:Oh, so you're all with the fucking singers?

02:34:49Benny:What?

02:34:52Johnny:I'm not going back.

02:34:55Johnny:You all hiding your raiments? Is that how you're doing this?

02:34:55Argyle:what no I have a

02:34:55Gamemaster:nope

02:35:04Argyle:massive gold raiment why is yours black

02:35:06Argyle:are you with the ashen pack

02:35:09Johnny:Do I know that name either?

02:35:15Benny:Bird, did you read any...

02:35:17Benny:I'll call back.

02:35:18Benny:Bird, have you read any books about...

02:35:21Benny:What did you say?

02:35:22Benny:Are you with someone? You hate the singers?

02:35:25Johnny:Johnny will jog over too.

02:35:25Argyle:Oh, I don't know if he's a sir.

02:35:25Gamemaster:yeah

02:35:25Anzu:singers

02:35:26Benny:I feel like I'm playing charades.

02:35:26Anzu:oh I jog over

02:35:27Benny:Can you... Any help here?

02:35:31Anzu:I was staying by the car

02:35:32Anzu:sorry did you say the singers

02:35:36Gamemaster:yeah

02:35:39Anzu:Mr. Sir

02:35:43Argyle:Mr. Sir.

02:35:44Argyle:That's.

02:35:44Johnny:Josh, this is a big question.

02:35:46Johnny:Do I know Galzu?

02:35:49Gamemaster:yeah you would have

02:35:50Johnny:Would I see the resemblance?

02:35:51Gamemaster:yeah

02:35:54Gamemaster:I mean you interacted with Galzu and co previously I mean Galzu doesn quite look the same

02:35:55Johnny:Thank you I whip the gun around and train it on the bird

02:36:06Gamemaster:but she's got the same black coloration with blue tips of feathers.

02:36:10Gamemaster:I think you'd probably see a resemblance there.

02:36:17Johnny:So you and your, what, your sister, your aunt, niece, you're all in this together?

02:36:25Johnny:I want to shoot the bird guy.

02:36:25Argyle:that's progress.

02:36:25Anzu:You know my sister?

02:36:25Benny:Yeah, he's...

02:36:27Argyle:That's progress.

02:36:28Argyle:Don't shoot the bird.

02:36:30Anzu:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

02:36:30Argyle:Just going to put it out there.

02:36:31Argyle:You shoot this bird very bad.

02:36:34Johnny:What's the problem here?

02:36:36Anzu:Here's what I could tell you, Mr. Sir.

02:36:40Anzu:I have heard of the singers.

02:36:41Anzu:I assume you're talking about the singers of the...

02:36:44Johnny:Yes, the Herald Starr.

02:36:44Anzu:I look to the left and the right.

02:36:46Johnny:can I have him roll a persuasion check

02:36:48Anzu:Yeah, they kidnapped my sister.

02:36:55Argyle:meanwhile uh meanwhile noah's character is just like he she kidnapped me

02:36:55Gamemaster:Yeah. How persuasive is Anzu?

02:36:55Anzu:I mean, no.

02:37:02Gamemaster:Oh, nice. Anzu can be diplomatic when the mood strikes.

02:37:02Anzu:The answer is no.

02:37:04Johnny:I know

02:37:05Johnny:Johnny's just like clipping out

02:37:07Johnny:uh

02:37:08Anzu:Wait, what is this?

02:37:08Johnny:oh

02:37:09Anzu:Oh, diplomacy.

02:37:10Anzu:I actually do have some diplomacy.

02:37:16Anzu:It's minimal, but it does exist.

02:37:18Gamemaster:Never mind.

02:37:19Anzu:Okay, I got a 31 crit.

02:37:20Anzu:Ha ha ha!

02:37:21Johnny:uh

02:37:22Gamemaster:He's very persuasive.

02:37:23Gamemaster:I take it back.

02:37:25Argyle:What are you with?

02:37:25Anzu:No.

02:37:25Benny:I'm not

02:37:25Johnny:this guy will stare you down

02:37:28Johnny:and then he'll put the safety back on

02:37:31Johnny:uh lower the gun

02:37:32Johnny:you guys aren't

02:37:35Johnny:with the singers

02:37:37Johnny:then you've got to fucking help me

02:37:39Anzu:No.

02:37:41Anzu:No, there's...

02:37:47Anzu:What is wrong?

02:37:52Anzu:What is happening to you?

02:37:53Anzu:Tell me what your ailment is it is

02:37:55Argyle:I a doctor

02:37:55Gamemaster:And then some stuff happened

02:37:55Johnny:uh I used to captain a ship out in Lurandris and then one day

02:38:08Johnny:What happened exactly?

02:38:11Johnny:I gotta pull up my own backstory, hang on.

02:38:14Johnny:Me and Josh conceived this character several weeks ago before all this happened.

02:38:24Gamemaster:It kept happening.

02:38:25Johnny:This character was made several weeks ago and then a lot of stuff happened.

02:38:31Gamemaster:It's fine.

02:38:32Johnny:I had a ship out in Lurandris and then one day I started hearing this song in my head.

02:38:40Johnny:And then a bunch of guys on my crew heard it too.

02:38:42Johnny:And I don't know, it seemed like a really good idea to sell the boat and go inward and hooked up with a bunch of the other singers.

02:38:52Johnny:And they kind of herded us on here.

02:38:54Johnny:It was like we were in a dream.

02:38:55Anzu:Yeah, Galzu.

02:38:57Johnny:And then I was, I've been on here for a while.

02:38:59Johnny:They're just having me, I don't know, like hand out pamphlets and little stones with this little symbol, like a trumpet on it.

02:39:08Johnny:And then I would have these moments of lucidity where I would know what was happening and then it would go back under.

02:39:14Johnny:Except then they started bringing on more people.

02:39:17Johnny:Like, what did you say, your sister?

02:39:21Johnny:Yeah, they were bringing her on.

02:39:23Johnny:and some of the guys that I came on with, they started doing things to them.

02:39:25Anzu:The mandibles.

02:39:25Benny:So your big ass was under the spell of this cult?

02:39:27Johnny:One of the guys that I was with has, like, mandibles now, and they're...

02:39:32Johnny:Anyway, the Strider started moving, and once the Strider started moving,

02:39:36Johnny:I was able to surface again, and I came back to myself, and I've been trying to get out,

02:39:40Johnny:but, you know, now the Strider fucking stopped, and I can hear this song in my head getting louder.

02:39:46Johnny:You, child.

02:39:47Johnny:You, child.

02:39:53Johnny:Yeah.

02:39:55Benny:they must have been

02:39:56Benny:absolutely terrified at night that

02:40:00Johnny:I don't think...

02:40:00Argyle:it's just destiny rules

02:40:00Gamemaster:That's what it is.

02:40:00Anzu:you know very well that the height of a person is not equal to their strength

02:40:00Benny:At any point, it would break, and you would come too.

02:40:05Benny:How big are these?

02:40:06Benny:Are they?

02:40:06Johnny:I'm the smallest person there.

02:40:06Benny:How big are?

02:40:07Benny:Hold on.

02:40:07Benny:Maybe I missed.

02:40:08Benny:How big are the people in this cult?

02:40:10Benny:Are they 11 feet tall?

02:40:19Anzu:oh yeah

02:40:19Johnny:Galzu is 15 feet tall.

02:40:21Benny:Yeah, but.

02:40:24Argyle:the larger you get the more powerful

02:40:27Argyle:you are

02:40:27Argyle:okay okay so

02:40:30Johnny:No, but the longer we aren't moving, the worse it's getting.

02:40:30Anzu:So you are not currently compelled to follow the directives of the song in your head?

02:40:30Benny:Grab them in.

02:40:31Argyle:do you

02:40:34Argyle:wait wait

02:40:44Johnny:So...

02:40:44Anzu:Okay.

02:40:45Argyle:on to you needed someone

02:40:49Argyle:with the song to be able to figure out how to get the song out

02:40:52Argyle:we could use him

02:40:53Argyle:Hey, um, Mr. Sir, can you, like, fit on the top of our car?

02:40:55Anzu:Yeah.

02:40:56Anzu:Mr. Sir, it actually seems like we need each other.

02:41:00Johnny:I'm about the same height as

02:41:00Gamemaster:Perfect.

02:41:00Anzu:I think that probably he would fit, actually.

02:41:00Benny:We have room in the trunk.

02:41:06Argyle:I'd offer you a seat in. I don't think you'd fit.

02:41:09Argyle:It was made for a very fat half-Giant, but, uh...

02:41:19Johnny:gasoline

02:41:21Anzu:Also, we used to put a bear in there.

02:41:23Argyle:yeah it's true

02:41:24Johnny:Johnny will

02:41:24Benny:That's true.

02:41:25Benny:We did use a little bear in there.

02:41:25Argyle:yeah

02:41:27Benny:It was alive and sentient.

02:41:28Johnny:Oh

02:41:30Anzu:Yeah.

02:41:30Benny:Yeah.

02:41:30Johnny:Oh

02:41:31Johnny:Arctos

02:41:32Johnny:I used to have a stuffed animal

02:41:34Argyle:yeah he's pretty

02:41:35Johnny:With him on my ship

02:41:36Johnny:Sort of a good luck charm

02:41:38Johnny:I

02:41:39Argyle:did you get rid of it before the song came on

02:41:42Argyle:um

02:41:43Johnny:No

02:41:44Johnny:I think it's still on the ship

02:41:45Johnny:But

02:41:45Johnny:Johnny will pipe in and go

02:41:47Johnny:Uh guy

02:41:48Johnny:What's your name

02:41:49Johnny:Mr. Sir

02:41:50Johnny:put down my gun uh name egan Egan Arithmites Good to meet you everyone who

02:41:52Argyle:yeah

02:41:53Argyle:Amen All right hold up though

02:42:00Anzu:All right Egan Well I actually I mean this couldn be more serendipitous that you showed up

02:42:13Anzu:I've been working on a device to do exactly what you're asking us to do.

02:42:19Argyle:One quick thing.

02:42:20Argyle:What's up with your arraignment?

02:42:23Johnny:hears the singers

02:42:25Argyle:Okay.

02:42:25Gamemaster:I literally pick your favorite.

02:42:25Benny:What's it normally?

02:42:25Johnny:the Herald song has this

02:42:27Johnny:it just kind of happened

02:42:30Johnny:I actually didn't add that in my backstory.

02:42:36Johnny:Josh, I'm from LaRandros.

02:42:38Johnny:What would that probably be?

02:42:40Argyle:The Scale.

02:42:44Johnny:Yeah, the...

02:42:45Johnny:What's the Scale again?

02:42:46Gamemaster:The judge?

02:42:47Argyle:Gold.

02:42:47Johnny:The judge?

02:42:48Argyle:The judge, yeah.

02:42:49Gamemaster:The judge that...

02:42:49Johnny:I don't know.

02:42:50Johnny:The judge.

02:42:51Gamemaster:Okay, I take it back.

02:42:54Gamemaster:the one god that cannot be

02:42:54Johnny:I don't know.

02:42:55Benny:Okay.

02:42:55Johnny:I don't know.

02:42:57Gamemaster:like the patron of the

02:42:59Gamemaster:pirate country

02:43:00Gamemaster:is the god of laws

02:43:00Johnny:uh oh yeah my my god

02:43:02Gamemaster:pick any of the other ones

02:43:05Gamemaster:that's my fault

02:43:06Gamemaster:host

02:43:14Johnny:uh

02:43:15Johnny:Uh...

02:43:18Gamemaster:compelled

02:43:19Gamemaster:air pulse

02:43:22Gamemaster:watcher

02:43:24Gamemaster:Okay, that's fine.

02:43:25Argyle:All right.

02:43:25Anzu:With

02:43:27Johnny:We'll say the...

02:43:29Johnny:No, not that one.

02:43:34Johnny:Uh...

02:43:35Johnny:We'll say the compelled.

02:43:38Gamemaster:That works.

02:43:39Gamemaster:Compelled is great.

02:43:42Argyle:Do you need to get patched up or anything?

02:43:42Johnny:Uh, compelled.

02:43:45Johnny:No, I'm good. Pretty tough. I'm really cold. I have a big jacket, but I'm pretty cold.

02:43:48Argyle:How aren't you freezing out here?

02:43:53Johnny:Well the part one was get out of down there because it hell There were rumors going around that there were a bunch of people up here

02:43:54Argyle:Oh.

02:43:55Argyle:Come on

02:43:55Anzu:you So

02:43:55Benny:What was the plan

02:44:08Johnny:I was hoping I could just get up here and hide out for a little bit until the Strider got moving.

02:44:14Johnny:But then people were flying around, and none of you seemed like you knew what you were doing.

02:44:19Johnny:And I'm up here.

02:44:21Argyle:Hey.

02:44:22Gamemaster:The first thing that Egan saw when he snuck out of the elevator shaft underneath burnt holdings, because that's how he got to the surface, was somebody that looked almost identical to Galzu flying around the big weird machine in the center of the Strider.

02:44:22Anzu:the most

02:44:25Johnny:honestly if worse

02:44:25Argyle:That would not have worked.

02:44:25Anzu:you can

02:44:42Gamemaster:Just like for context.

02:44:45Anzu:you said that

02:44:46Johnny:came to worse I was going to fight my way out

02:44:49Argyle:That would have been your worst case for you.

02:44:49Anzu:the motion of the strider

02:44:53Anzu:weakened the

02:44:54Anzu:hold on your mind?

02:44:55Johnny:Yeah, while we were in motion, it was weaker.

02:44:55Argyle:okay

02:44:55Benny:Oh, so they're fucked down there right now.

02:45:03Johnny:Oh yeah, I don't know. Everyone else seems kind of under it, but I've always been a tough cookie.

02:45:12Argyle:what's up with the hoops and the fur

02:45:15Argyle:are you part demon

02:45:16Anzu:Whoa.

02:45:16Argyle:no it's a fair question

02:45:17Anzu:Come on, man.

02:45:18Johnny:No, I'm part Minotaur.

02:45:19Benny:No, that's a fair question.

02:45:22Gamemaster:That's not a skill in this game.

02:45:22Johnny:No, my mom was a Minotaur.

02:45:25Johnny:This is a German ruleset photo.

02:45:25Argyle:Oh, cool.

02:45:28Argyle:Do I...

02:45:29Argyle:I insight check that.

02:45:31Argyle:Can I sense motive?

02:45:36Argyle:I don't know.

02:45:37Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:45:38Gamemaster:Yeah, roll a perception check.

02:45:38Argyle:Is that religion check for knowing

02:45:40Argyle:demon mythology?

02:45:43Gamemaster:I will allow you to roll a religion check here

02:45:46Gamemaster:to see if he's lying about being a demon.

02:45:50Argyle:Yeah, give me a second.

02:45:52Gamemaster:Thank you What you get

02:45:53Argyle:Religion.

02:45:55Argyle:Thank you Fuck man

02:46:07Argyle:Alright.

02:46:08Argyle:25.

02:46:12Gamemaster:So with a 25, I will say what Argyle knows of demons specifically is that either they'd be hiding the fact that they're demons,

02:46:25Johnny:Thanks.

02:46:25Argyle:okay

02:46:25Gamemaster:and as such wouldn't be walking around with a lower half covered in fur and hooved,

02:46:30Gamemaster:or they wouldn't be hiding that they're demons,

02:46:33Gamemaster:and they would just tell you that they're a demon.

02:46:38Argyle:I gotta put your shield away

02:46:41Argyle:I believe you

02:46:42Argyle:a divine entity and a demon

02:46:45Johnny:What was your parents'...

02:46:55Johnny:And I'll see you next time.

02:46:55Argyle:the only person who can judge

02:46:55Gamemaster:Okay, yeah, the six of you can pile into the car.

02:46:55Anzu:Yeah, so really you have no place to judge, Argyle.

02:47:00Anzu:That's what I was trying to get at.

02:47:04Argyle:is the almighty judge

02:47:05Argyle:of all ages

02:47:06Anzu:Oh, God.

02:47:07Anzu:I'm sorry about my word choice.

02:47:09Anzu:Let's go home. It's cold.

02:47:12Argyle:Alright, get in the car.

02:47:19Argyle:He goes in the back.

02:47:20Gamemaster:The car...

02:47:21Gamemaster:the the the car is um like constructed to fit people of egan size so there is room for him

02:47:31Gamemaster:if you don't want to make him it like sit in the trunk with the gas canisters um but

02:47:39Argyle:There's an air filter in there.

02:47:40Gamemaster:no i understand i'm not saying that he can't go in there i'm just saying that i don't know

02:47:42Argyle:No, no, no.

02:47:45Gamemaster:if you want to put your guest in the trunk.

02:47:49Gamemaster:But, like, either way, regardless,

02:47:52Gamemaster:the six of you can make your way back to the Fane

02:47:54Gamemaster:that is your home base.

02:47:56Gamemaster:As you pass through, there is a bing-bong...

02:48:00Johnny:What?

02:48:00Argyle:I turn to Egan

02:48:00Gamemaster:as an intruder has entered into the area because Egan is not allow listed.

02:48:09Gamemaster:Yes.

02:48:11Argyle:would you consent

02:48:13Argyle:to a ring of truth

02:48:16Argyle:to find out if you are

02:48:18Argyle:trying to betray us and destroy

02:48:20Argyle:our fame

02:48:20Argyle:and or kill us

02:48:21Johnny:Sure, only if you consent to a ring of truth saying that you're actually going to help me and you're not working for the singers.

02:48:27Johnny:What is going on up here, actually?

02:48:30Argyle:Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:48:30Gamemaster:Okay.

02:48:30Benny:Even harder.

02:48:30Johnny:What-

02:48:30Johnny:No, I don't really do magic.

02:48:30Argyle:I consent to that.

02:48:32Argyle:Can you cast that?

02:48:37Argyle:Then why would you ask me?

02:48:39Johnny:I thought you could do it.

02:48:41Argyle:Tomorrow.

02:48:44Argyle:I just wanted to see if you'd be willing to do it.

02:48:45Johnny:Okay.

02:48:46Argyle:I didn't have it prepared today.

02:48:49Johnny:If you're lying, I'll kill you.

02:48:52Argyle:You would not be able to kill me.

02:48:54Johnny:I will kill you and everyone in this room.

02:48:57Johnny:In the long rifle?

02:48:58Argyle:I...

02:49:00Argyle:How many bullets you got in there?

02:49:00Benny:definitely not

02:49:07Johnny:Currently just one.

02:49:09Johnny:He'll look and there's the long rifle

02:49:09Argyle:That's not enough.

02:49:11Johnny:and there's also a sword that is also a gun.

02:49:12Benny:not enough

02:49:14Argyle:Not enough.

02:49:16Benny:you need at least 10 weapons to get out of this room alive

02:49:19Johnny:I need one gun that's also a sword.

02:49:22Johnny:I think I can do it.

02:49:23Argyle:How about your spirit?

02:49:24Argyle:Is it strong?

02:49:26Johnny:Unbreakable.

02:49:27Johnny:We can get Benny to the scar right now.

02:49:28Argyle:Well, I can rip it out of your sword.

02:49:28Benny:Josh where's the gym

02:49:29Benny:it's in the center though

02:49:30Argyle:no no no we're fighting now

02:49:30Gamemaster:The gym's back in the central rig if you wanted to go there.

02:49:35Benny:so it's not in doomsday

02:49:36Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:49:37Benny:we'll have it in the gym tomorrow

02:49:37Gamemaster:No, the gym's still around.

02:49:40Benny:before

02:49:41Benny:oh man so we really gotta

02:49:44Johnny:This nine foot tall dude getting smacked around by Benny.

02:49:53Benny:take care of Hallie now fair enough

02:49:57Argyle:you yeah So we bring them in Yeah

02:49:57Johnny:you Yeah

02:50:00Gamemaster:you The Coalition of the Dead

02:50:00Anzu:you just kind of mutually aligned entities it

02:50:05Argyle:So since you're working with us, we're an alliance.

02:50:08Argyle:Is that correct?

02:50:10Johnny:Who are you guys?

02:50:13Argyle:We're the coalition.

02:50:14Johnny:Coalition of...

02:50:21Anzu:yeah

02:50:21Johnny:What?

02:50:21Argyle:It's just the coalition.

02:50:24Johnny:You got me.

02:50:25Johnny:sort of a circular tautology there but okay

02:50:25Argyle:the the comb

02:50:25Gamemaster:mutually aligned entities.

02:50:25Anzu:Oh.

02:50:25Benny:I'm Benny

02:50:26Gamemaster:Yeah.

02:50:31Johnny:and what are your guys's names

02:50:32Argyle:the comb

02:50:32Argyle:argyle says a name in uh celestial that he's like that just no one can comprehend

02:50:39Anzu:Anzu.

02:50:39Benny:I'm Benny

02:50:41Anzu:and this is my pal johnny skyfall

02:50:50Argyle:yeah it's hard to play two characters

02:50:55Johnny:Hey!

02:50:55Gamemaster:Do you want me to play Johnny?

02:51:00Johnny:Johnny is just an NPC at this moment.

02:51:04Johnny:Hi, I'm Johnny Skyfall.

02:51:09Benny:Okay.

02:51:09Gamemaster:Or are you fine playing him?

02:51:11Johnny:I'm fine playing him.

02:51:11Anzu:Clue, no.

02:51:12Gamemaster:I don't want to take the reins from you

02:51:13Gamemaster:if you're playing him.

02:51:14Gamemaster:Yeah, okay.

02:51:14Johnny:No, he's still bop.

02:51:16Johnny:He's bopping around in the back.

02:51:20Argyle:Oh, yeah, yeah.

02:51:20Gamemaster:Out of curiosity, just to double check,

02:51:22Gamemaster:does anybody here speak Aklo other than Anzu?

02:51:25Johnny:I think so.

02:51:25Gamemaster:I mean other than Argyle

02:51:26Gamemaster:I don't think so

02:51:31Gamemaster:but I just wanted to double check

02:51:31Johnny:Johnny.

02:51:32Gamemaster:Aklo is

02:51:33Johnny:Johnny speak.

02:51:35Johnny:Speak Empyrean.

02:51:37Johnny:Wow.

02:51:37Johnny:That's cool.

02:51:39Benny:No no no no no John Smith

02:51:39Johnny:Egan speaks.

02:51:40Johnny:Fay.

02:51:41Johnny:Yep.

02:51:43Argyle:Wait, is...

02:51:44Argyle:Aquila's evil, though, right?

02:51:48Johnny:I think it's like.

02:51:49Gamemaster:oh sorry not Aklo

02:51:49Argyle:Yeah.

02:51:50Argyle:Yeah, it's Imperial.

02:51:50Gamemaster:Imperium

02:51:51Gamemaster:I read the wrong

02:51:53Gamemaster:um

02:51:54Johnny:Oh,

02:51:54Gamemaster:okay so I just wanted to see Johnny would have understood the name that Argyle spoke That just what I wanted to clarify

02:51:54Johnny:Johnny Speaks Empyrean speaks Empyrean

02:51:55Argyle:it's like a really long name

02:52:06Benny:table footboard

02:52:07Gamemaster:Basically.

02:52:10Benny:or whatever he's just saying words in celestial

02:52:12Benny:laughter

02:52:13Johnny:That's a wild name.

02:52:16Benny:laughter

02:52:17Benny:laughter

02:52:17Benny:laughter

02:52:18Benny:laughter

02:52:22Argyle:Argyle the son of blank

02:52:24Argyle:Yes

02:52:25Johnny:Okay. And is one of you in charge, or...

02:52:25Anzu:Yes.

02:52:25Benny:No one here has named that.

02:52:27Argyle:You can call me Argo

02:52:29Argyle:Yes

02:52:37Johnny:Okay. Uh, you said your name is Anzu?

02:52:37Benny:Oh, but he's EA.

02:52:38Benny:He tells us what to do.

02:52:42Anzu:Yes.

02:52:44Johnny:Did you come here because of your sister?

02:52:48Anzu:No, but we both came here for somewhat similar reasons.

02:52:55Anzu:this strider was supposed to be traveling very far voidward on the horizon.

02:53:04Anzu:And we were chasing some kind of unknowable entity,

02:53:10Anzu:creates a song separate from the one that is in your head.

02:53:18Anzu:And there's a number of different factions here,

02:53:21Anzu:all heading in that same direction

02:53:24Anzu:with an array of motivations

02:53:27Anzu:for what to do when they get there.

02:53:35Anzu:I would like to think that some of us here

02:53:38Anzu:were going in support of this song that we were hearing.

02:53:43Anzu:The singers, I presume,

02:53:46Anzu:are going as antagonists to that.

02:53:51Anzu:With their own song.

02:53:54Anzu:There a little bit of assumption happening there So yeah go ahead Argyle

02:53:55Argyle:when is the garage do we go through the normal courtyard as in does he see our weird cult stage

02:53:55Gamemaster:you Yeah he would see your stage

02:54:11Argyle:all right we don't acknowledge that obviously um our guy would like offer to bring him on top of

02:54:18Argyle:the walls so we can see like our lookout or something walk around and then our guy was just

02:54:24Argyle:gonna be like that guy's a necromancer trying to kill us that guy's a necromancer's best friend

02:54:25Johnny:Oh, we're at War. Okay, that I know. That's great.

02:54:25Anzu:we're in a ceasefire currently

02:54:25Benny:okay

02:54:29Argyle:trying to kill us

02:54:30Argyle:it

02:54:35Anzu:due to the state of the Strider.

02:54:36Benny:hmm

02:54:41Anzu:No, no, we're trying not to be at War right now.

02:54:43Johnny:We gotta kill someone. Great, okay.

02:54:43Anzu:We're trying not to be at War.

02:54:46Johnny:Egan, the second he has an enemy, is like, awesome, I'm in.

02:54:51Anzu:Now, Egan, here's what's really, really fascinating

02:54:54Anzu:about you showing up now.

02:54:57Anzu:So my sister,

02:55:00Anzu:similar to yourself,

02:55:03Anzu:was

02:55:04Anzu:betranced, enchanted

02:55:06Anzu:by the Herald.

02:55:11Anzu:And I don't like that for her.

02:55:14Anzu:And I don't like it for you either.

02:55:17Anzu:So I've been trying to create

02:55:19Anzu:a device

02:55:21Anzu:or a spell

02:55:23Anzu:or something that can silence that entity.

02:55:25Johnny:Listen.

02:55:33Anzu:I don't know if I can permanently clear it,

02:55:36Anzu:but I'm working on it for now,

02:55:38Anzu:at least a temporary device.

02:55:40Johnny:Listen.

02:55:41Johnny:You guys obviously have a lot of things going on.

02:55:44Johnny:I'm stuck here.

02:55:46Johnny:But also, somebody really fucked up my life.

02:55:48Johnny:So if you get this song out of my head,

02:55:51Johnny:I'll fuck up the singers.

02:55:52Johnny:I'll fuck up the necromancer.

02:55:53Johnny:I'll fuck up anyone you need fucking up

02:55:53Anzu:yeah that is

02:55:54Argyle:I go hold out his hand.

02:55:55Benny:there

02:56:00Johnny:you will hold his out.

02:56:00Argyle:I had to shake it.

02:56:00Gamemaster:Can I, just for my own sake, because I...

02:56:00Anzu:but it has the strength of a nine-year-old.

02:56:03Johnny:It just consumes it.

02:56:06Johnny:Just enormous.

02:56:14Gamemaster:Because I was not aware of this, just to clarify.

02:56:19Gamemaster:I did not know about his lower half.

02:56:22Gamemaster:I only know about the ancestry on the sheet that you gave me.

02:56:24Gamemaster:How many legs does he have?

02:56:26Johnny:He says two legs.

02:56:28Gamemaster:Okay, cool.

02:56:30Johnny:He has two legs.

02:56:30Gamemaster:Just, that's fine.

02:56:31Gamemaster:Gotcha.

02:56:33Johnny:He has the lower half of a minotaur and the upper half of a human.

02:56:34Gamemaster:Okay.

02:56:38Johnny:Do with that what you will, Josh.

02:56:39Gamemaster:Gotcha.

02:56:40Gamemaster:That's fine.

02:56:41Gamemaster:That works.

02:56:43Gamemaster:I just, I had not read the description correctly, and I saw your character sheet, and I just

02:56:47Gamemaster:expected him to have more legs than you described him with.

02:56:51Gamemaster:It's fine.

02:56:53Gamemaster:I apologize.

02:56:55Gamemaster:Nine for Tall Man.

02:56:56Gamemaster:Ignore what I said.

02:57:00Johnny:Good grip.

02:57:00Gamemaster:He's like three pennies tall.

02:57:00Benny:what does Benny feel

02:57:06Benny:when he's shaking it

02:57:07Benny:what is the grip compared to Benny's

02:57:12Gamemaster:Ooh.

02:57:12Johnny:What's your strength?

02:57:14Gamemaster:It is, depending on whether or not

02:57:18Gamemaster:Betty is wearing his gloves, identical.

02:57:22Benny:fair enough

02:57:22Benny:Benny

02:57:23Johnny:Wait, what gloves is Benny wearing?

02:57:25Gamemaster:Grub gloves.

02:57:26Benny:he also has a lifting belt

02:57:28Benny:but yeah

02:57:30Johnny:Johnny, not Johnny, Egan has a pair of gloves identical to Benny's.

02:57:30Gamemaster:What does the lifting belt give you?

02:57:30Benny:Nice.

02:57:35Gamemaster:Oh.

02:57:36Gamemaster:So then I think they are just...

02:57:39Gamemaster:Oh, maybe it was the lifting belt and not the grub gloves.

02:57:39Benny:They both do.

02:57:41Gamemaster:What gives you the plus one to athletics checks?

02:57:45Gamemaster:Is it the same bonus?

02:57:47Benny:Yeah.

02:57:49Benny:Plus one item.

02:57:50Gamemaster:Oh, it's plus one item.

02:57:51Gamemaster:Okay, so it doesn't matter.

02:57:53Benny:Yeah.

02:57:53Gamemaster:I think I just missed that when I was building his character I need to give you the that fine Either way very similarly powerful grip if we metagaming ability scores

02:58:00Johnny:you Big dude strong dude has a lot of guns on him

02:58:00Argyle:you Hey you want some food

02:58:16Gamemaster:I don't know if these are true.

02:58:25Johnny:Always.

02:58:25Argyle:All right, great.

02:58:28Argyle:Let's give you a tour of the place.

02:58:30Argyle:There's also some people that really like guns.

02:58:32Johnny:Oh, great. I'll fit right in. I'm a crack shot.

02:58:34Argyle:Yeah.

02:58:36Argyle:Cool, cool, cool, cool.

02:58:38Argyle:Cool.

02:58:40Gamemaster:Absolutely.

02:58:41Gamemaster:And you can bring your new companion, albeit possibly temporarily, it's unclear, into your fame.

02:58:53Gamemaster:Of course, to, like, agape, surprised faces of everybody who is currently living under your roof

02:59:02Gamemaster:as you've shown up with somebody that they have not seen before.

02:59:07Gamemaster:And they would know everybody in your group, given that they've been living with you for a few days.

02:59:11Gamemaster:this point. And so I think the first thing is, Anaïs, one of the twins, the

02:59:19Gamemaster:boy, will like pop his head out of his workshop and say, did you bring guests? I

02:59:25Johnny:I'm Egan.

02:59:25Anzu:Vegan.

02:59:25Gamemaster:do not know this one.

02:59:29Gamemaster:Hello Egan, I am Anaïs. I am interchangeable with my twin Anouk, if you

02:59:35Gamemaster:You see someone who looks like me, but is less handsome, that is her.

02:59:41Gamemaster:Why are you so tall and made of fur, but only on the bottom half?

02:59:47Johnny:My mom was a minotaur.

02:59:48Johnny:Why are you so short and not made of fur?

02:59:50Johnny:Well that settled world

02:59:51Gamemaster:My mom was not a minotaur.

02:59:54Gamemaster:Excellent you will fit in well here And he will pop his head back in seemingly unconcerned at this point

02:59:55Argyle:Well Well yeah

02:59:55Benny:Benny would like to

03:00:06Gamemaster:He is... the twins are probably the only ones here that would understand the relevance of a Black Raymond,

03:00:12Gamemaster:since I think you guys have not shared that information with any of the other people, but he seems unconcerned.

03:00:17Gamemaster:absolutely um egan will not resonate

03:00:21Benny:resonate

03:00:25Argyle:um do the two to the two pencil pushers that um that came along with the drunk do they resonate

03:00:25Benny:We have to kill him.

03:00:28Gamemaster:yeah oh wait no no they wouldn't have i'm sorry salvado would have they wouldn't have

03:00:40Argyle:okay

03:00:47Gamemaster:they just got brought along for the ride

03:00:48Argyle:so they say

03:00:49Gamemaster:so they say

03:00:52Argyle:I still think they might be plumbers

03:00:53Argyle:and they're twins

03:00:54Gamemaster:the story that they have given you

03:00:55Johnny:Yeah, if we can get this out of my head first and then go to Tally, I'd prefer that.

03:00:56Gamemaster:is that they

03:00:58Gamemaster:were just brought along with

03:01:00Gamemaster:Salvado and are now

03:01:02Gamemaster:stuck here

03:01:03Gamemaster:they've been pretty

03:01:06Gamemaster:good at acting if they're lying

03:01:08Gamemaster:because they've kept up this scared facade

03:01:10Gamemaster:for a while

03:01:14Argyle:yeah

03:01:15Argyle:so you guys want to go to

03:01:16Argyle:tally tomorrow

03:01:17Argyle:All right.

03:01:24Benny:yeah now you remember how I was like

03:01:25Johnny:Yeah, I mean, I'd like to fuck him up.

03:01:25Benny:asking earlier, like,

03:01:27Benny:big guy, scary guy,

03:01:30Benny:aren't they worried that the song

03:01:32Benny:will break at some point

03:01:34Benny:and not work on you? We have

03:01:35Benny:now the inverse fear, so

03:01:37Benny:we should go to Tali first thing

03:01:39Benny:in the morning, because if you become

03:01:42Benny:possessed by the Herald,

03:01:45Benny:we don't want to

03:01:46Benny:have a... I mean, we just don't want to...

03:01:47Benny:There's already so many bodies...

03:01:53Johnny:it seems like most of the people down there you can really tell they deeper into it than I am I don know if it because they joined World War I or

03:01:55Argyle:This is tough.

03:01:55Benny:Well actually do we have time this evening then for Dr Anzu to mind meld

03:02:11Benny:Because the other option is going in and killing everyone except Anzu's sister.

03:02:16Benny:And the way you're describing it, it may be like they're salvageable at some point.

03:02:21Benny:And we kind of need all the help we can get.

03:02:22Benny:So, Anzu, if you want to just figure out his brain and then apply that.

03:02:25Argyle:That's really messed up.

03:02:25Gamemaster:Did he?

03:02:25Anzu:Yeah, I'm starting to feel really terrible for all the people down there

03:02:32Anzu:who've been similarly usurped from their own lives.

03:02:37Benny:Well, it's not being sensitive.

03:02:40Benny:You said who've?

03:02:41Benny:He's right here.

03:02:46Gamemaster:Did he?

03:02:46Anzu:I said usurp.

03:02:47Gamemaster:Yeah.

03:02:48Benny:You said who've been usurped?

03:02:50Gamemaster:Ah.

03:02:51Johnny:I'm used to it

03:02:51Anzu:Oof.

03:02:52Gamemaster:Ah.

03:02:52Benny:I know they're on the floor.

03:02:53Gamemaster:Ah.

03:02:55Gamemaster:I don't know.

03:02:55Anzu:Benny, that's low.

03:02:56Johnny:well he's pretty short

03:02:57Anzu:All right.

03:03:04Anzu:Egan, part of this process means that you're my guinea pig.

03:03:04Johnny:careful kid

03:03:05Johnny:you can just like

03:03:08Anzu:I don't really know what's going to happen,

03:03:10Anzu:but what I need to figure this out is someone like you

03:03:14Anzu:who has the song in their head.

03:03:19Johnny:bends in half and puts his head in front of

03:03:21Anzu:Oh, let's go to the workshop, I think.

03:03:21Johnny:Anzu

03:03:22Johnny:alright

03:03:25Argyle:but

03:03:25Gamemaster:Absolutely.

03:03:25Anzu:I summon Mythic Power on the way.

03:03:31Gamemaster:You head over to the workshop.

03:03:32Gamemaster:Sure, you head over to the workshop.

03:03:34Gamemaster:Inside the workshop are the twins, Anouk and Anaïs.

03:03:38Gamemaster:They are working on...

03:03:40Gamemaster:Gosh, you didn't put them to work on anything else, did you?

03:03:43Gamemaster:They're doing the Minesweeper, but besides that...

03:03:44Argyle:one thing

03:03:46Gamemaster:No, they already have the Minesweeper.

03:03:47Argyle:the um

03:03:48Argyle:the run gunner

03:03:51Argyle:sorry

03:03:52Argyle:the raided arms they got the

03:03:54Argyle:extra room, which I assume they use to make the distillery. Are

03:03:55Gamemaster:Hm?

03:03:58Gamemaster:Correct.

03:04:00Argyle:Are they working with the twins on that, maybe?

03:04:00Gamemaster:they haven't been interacting with the twins.

03:04:02Argyle:Are the twins helping with this?

03:04:03Gamemaster:They're doing their own thing.

03:04:04Argyle:Okay.

03:04:05Gamemaster:The twins are busy putting together...

03:04:08Gamemaster:They're both crowded around a piece of glass,

03:04:13Gamemaster:a cylinder about this large, about this high,

03:04:17Gamemaster:filled with a clear liquid,

03:04:18Gamemaster:and floating in the middle of the clear liquid

03:04:20Gamemaster:is another denser, spiky-looking black liquid.

03:04:25Gamemaster:And they're poking it with a stick.

03:04:27Gamemaster:they do not really take notice of you guys as you come in

03:04:30Argyle:There we go.

03:04:30Anzu:I'm freaking getting out my tools

03:04:30Gamemaster:what's she doing in the workshop

03:04:40Anzu:and my items

03:04:42Anzu:and

03:04:44Anzu:gonna do whatever it is

03:04:47Anzu:I felt like I needed

03:04:48Anzu:someone like Egan for

03:04:50Anzu:yeah why not

03:04:50Gamemaster:absolutely

03:04:51Gamemaster:roll

03:04:52Gamemaster:excuse me

03:04:54Gamemaster:roll an occultism check

03:04:55Gamemaster:the dc here isn't particularly high given that you've done a lot of work up to this point to

03:05:00Johnny:Can I go?

03:05:00Argyle:I don't have any more heroism today, so I cannot give it to you.

03:05:00Anzu:Guidance is fun enough.

03:05:04Gamemaster:like get into the position where you can try and do things but you still got to do it

03:05:07Johnny:Can I even aid this?

03:05:11Gamemaster:guidance gives you a plus one and then johnny can attempt to aid

03:05:14Gamemaster:uh 40 to 8 is a crit

03:05:21Anzu:I will maintain connection to my vessel

03:05:23Argyle:I can't rip the spirit from your vessel, if that would help you, though.

03:05:23Johnny:This is...

03:05:26Johnny:I got a 40 to aid.

03:05:31Anzu:oh

03:05:35Anzu:oh my gosh

03:05:35Johnny:You get a plus three.

03:05:39Anzu:um

03:05:41Anzu:okay so plus four total

03:05:43Anzu:is kind of dope

03:05:44Gamemaster:37 is not bad at all.

03:05:45Anzu:yeah 37

03:05:47Anzu:that sounds pretty good

03:05:55Gamemaster:Okay so here the thing You putting together you done some research You needed to get an idea of what was actually going on in their head as an example the song bouncing around

03:06:08Gamemaster:And you had a little bit of the extra stuff with Egan talking about how it seemed to lessen while you were in motion in some way, which was interesting on itself.

03:06:17Gamemaster:and I think the answer that Anzu comes to

03:06:21Gamemaster:in this first bit of research

03:06:23Gamemaster:because this is all within the first few days of him

03:06:25Gamemaster:trying it is

03:06:26Gamemaster:the

03:06:30Gamemaster:interesting thing here

03:06:32Gamemaster:is that it appears that

03:06:35Gamemaster:the harmonies

03:06:36Gamemaster:interfere with

03:06:39Gamemaster:each other

03:06:39Gamemaster:Anzu you know that you have

03:06:43Gamemaster:the Herald song bouncing around in at

03:06:45Gamemaster:least some small capacity in your own

03:06:47Gamemaster:head, but it doesn't seem to have taken your agency, at least at the moment, and you gather

03:06:52Gamemaster:that that might be because you already have the Voidsong there, and it's kind of taken up most

03:06:56Gamemaster:of the space and stopping it from really grabbing a hold. Similarly, Egan has for a very long time

03:07:04Gamemaster:only had the Herald Song bouncing around in his head, but something about the proximity to you

03:07:13Gamemaster:guys and this big gyroscope and moving voidward and the Voidsong has tenuously temporarily

03:07:20Gamemaster:broken that song's hold over him similarly interference here uh so as for ways to pull

03:07:25Anzu:Oh, I like that, actually.

03:07:30Gamemaster:the song out of his head you're not sure as for ways of reducing its influence over the person

03:07:41Gamemaster:you've got an idea

03:07:43Gamemaster:get

03:07:45Gamemaster:the Voidsong into that person's

03:07:48Gamemaster:head

03:07:48Gamemaster:which then raises the question

03:07:53Gamemaster:can you get the Voidsong into somebody else head Anzu gone into somebody head before

03:08:05Gamemaster:That might work.

03:08:07Gamemaster:It'd be an interesting, it'd be the first known case of somebody giving the Voidsong to somebody else or propagating the Voidsong to somebody else.

03:08:19Gamemaster:You're in effect proselytizing on behalf of the Voidsong.

03:08:25Gamemaster:But it is, in theory, possible.

03:08:25Anzu:so I'm going to have to really get in there

03:08:40Anzu:I don't know what I'm going to see in there

03:08:49Anzu:what do I even have

03:08:55Johnny:It's just an endless stream of vegan having diarrhea.

03:08:55Benny:every time Egan's had diarrhea

03:09:01Benny:it's like that POV video

03:09:07Benny:of the dude that's just like what no and he's just

03:09:09Benny:like right you can see his head she's like running to the bathroom

03:09:11Benny:and then he falls and you hear like

03:09:13Benny:just him just farting and he's

03:09:15Benny:like no no I'm

03:09:17Benny:he didn't make it

03:09:18Benny:the time.

03:09:21Anzu:Yeah, I don't actually have a mechanical way of going into somebody's head.

03:09:25Argyle:To aid Anzu,

03:09:25Gamemaster:No, no, no, no, no.

03:09:30Gamemaster:You have, uh, psychic, um, you've been doing a bunch of research, and we can set it up

03:09:37Gamemaster:so that you can mindmeld again in a similar way to what you did to the, uh, the Herald

03:09:43Gamemaster:skin in the bat.

03:09:46Anzu:All right, I mean, frick, I'm going to try to get in there.

03:09:50Argyle:Can I attempt a fifth level clear mind on him first I don expect this to really make much of a difference with the current song but I hoping to weaken it or give him some room This is just trying to be an A check

03:09:55Gamemaster:Thank you Okay

03:10:08Gamemaster:Okay.

03:10:10Gamemaster:Yeah, I mean, that's not how the clear mind spell is supposed to work,

03:10:14Gamemaster:but I understand the effect that you're going for.

03:10:16Argyle:Why not?

03:10:18Gamemaster:Because clear mind drives an effect that is affecting the person out of their head.

03:10:23Gamemaster:It is not a preemptive thing.

03:10:25Argyle:at fourth level I could

03:10:25Gamemaster:Yeah, if he were controlled or confused, you could help make a counteract check against that.

03:10:25Anzu:Now...

03:10:25Benny:What's the other question?

03:10:28Argyle:remove controlled or confused

03:10:29Benny:.

03:10:31Argyle:oh yeah

03:10:37Gamemaster:But it isn't like a...

03:10:39Benny:.

03:10:39Gamemaster:Like, you remove the effect that's on him.

03:10:41Gamemaster:You're not giving him a proactive, preemptive block, you know?

03:10:46Argyle:oh yeah

03:10:47Argyle:I was just trying to remove any little bit of

03:10:49Argyle:controlled from the whole thing

03:10:51Gamemaster:You can try.

03:10:53Anzu:...

03:10:53Anzu:I have a kind of somewhat similar question.

03:10:55Gamemaster:Yes, it does.

03:11:01Anzu:Soothe gives the target a status bonus to saves against mental effects.

03:11:09Anzu:Does Anzu feel like that would make Egan bolstered against Anzu?

03:11:09Gamemaster:I think without a roll

03:11:16Anzu:Anzu and the Herald, just the Herald.

03:11:19Anzu:Is there any way I could even make a conjecture like that?

03:11:23Anzu:All right.

03:11:25Gamemaster:the answer here is that

03:11:28Gamemaster:soothe

03:11:29Gamemaster:soothe would be

03:11:31Gamemaster:a double edged sword

03:11:33Gamemaster:in this particular instance

03:11:35Gamemaster:because it would make it

03:11:37Gamemaster:easier for Egan to repel

03:11:39Gamemaster:any influence the Herald

03:11:42Gamemaster:has over him, which might help

03:11:44Gamemaster:in terms of getting the Voidsong situated

03:11:46Gamemaster:and all that stuff, it will also

03:11:48Gamemaster:make it harder for Anzu to get in there

03:11:50Gamemaster:in the first place.

03:11:53Anzu:I think we leave it be and just go in raw.

03:11:54Gamemaster:So.

03:12:00Johnny:I

03:12:00Argyle:do you think it's tied to his spirit

03:12:00Gamemaster:Is that a thing Argyle can do?

03:12:00Anzu:No, I think maybe let me kind of handle this.

03:12:00Benny:I feel like we did that last session.

03:12:03Argyle:should I try to rip the spirit from his body first

03:12:06Argyle:what about unraveling existence

03:12:12Argyle:do you think that'd be helpful

03:12:13Argyle:yeah there's time

03:12:14Johnny:What are you doing

03:12:19Argyle:Dark Owl really wants to use his two new spells

03:12:22Argyle:rip the spirit and unravel

03:12:24Argyle:existence

03:12:25Johnny:These

03:12:26Anzu:Dude.

03:12:27Anzu:are these Josh spells or are these Pathfinder spells?

03:12:30Argyle:These are real Pathfinder spells.

03:12:30Gamemaster:No, these are Pathfinder spells. This is just a regular arcane and divine spell. It's new, it's from Impossible Magic, but still.

03:12:39Gamemaster:Sure. For the record, I'm pretty sure that Anzu could cast Rip the Spirit if he wanted to.

03:12:42Argyle:I really want to use Rip the Spirit.

03:12:45Argyle:It just sounds like a Doctor Strange punch.

03:12:46Anzu:I don't get to look at any of those kinds of things.

03:12:51Argyle:Fine, I won't cleanse mine or anything.

03:12:51Anzu:Josh, I guess I'm just going to try to enter his mind.

03:12:53Argyle:I'll just let you do it.

03:12:53Argyle:unravel existence

03:12:57Anzu:Oh, you said Divine Arcane before, that's why.

03:13:00Johnny:Please.

03:13:01Gamemaster:But it's an occult spell.

03:13:03Gamemaster:no the other one

03:13:06Anzu:...

03:13:07Gamemaster:rip the spirit is divine and occult

03:13:07Anzu:...

03:13:08Anzu:...

03:13:09Gamemaster:the other one

03:13:11Anzu:...

03:13:11Gamemaster:the unravel

03:13:13Gamemaster:existence is arcane and divine

03:13:15Gamemaster:sorry

03:13:16Anzu:...

03:13:17Gamemaster:okay so you're not

03:13:19Gamemaster:unraveling existence you're not ripping out somebody's

03:13:19Anzu:...

03:13:20Anzu:...

03:13:21Gamemaster:spirit you're not soothing

03:13:23Gamemaster:you're just you just have a plus four to this

03:13:23Anzu:...

03:13:27Anzu:Yeah, yeah.

03:13:27Gamemaster:oh you already rolled the occultism check

03:13:28Gamemaster:you wanna jump into his mind

03:13:30Johnny:Thank you Thank you I can do it for this guy we just met

03:13:31Gamemaster:okay i will say because you rolled well um

03:13:36Gamemaster:uh you are attempting to give the Voidsong to another creature um and so it would

03:13:46Gamemaster:behoove you um to have more sources of the Voidsong around with you could if you wish incorporate the rest of your party into this to give you a bonus here in printing the Voidsong on with the caveat that it will also expose them to

03:13:55Argyle:I don't really care that much for Egan.

03:13:57Anzu:Oh Oh

03:14:00Benny:you I can handle it

03:14:05Gamemaster:any dangers that may or may not be occurring within Egan's brain. Just

03:14:13Gamemaster:putting that out there.

03:14:19Argyle:I'll do it. I'll do it.

03:14:22Argyle:It is right and just. I should do this.

03:14:25Johnny:Yeah.

03:14:25Gamemaster:Okay.

03:14:25Anzu:Everybody's in.

03:14:25Benny:Then he'll do it.

03:14:35Gamemaster:What I want here is I need somebody to make an occultism check,

03:14:39Gamemaster:somebody to make a religion check,

03:14:41Gamemaster:and somebody to make an arcana check, please.

03:14:44Gamemaster:Also, Egan, make a will save.

03:14:49Anzu:All right.

03:14:49Anzu:Well, I simply must make the occultism check.

03:14:55Johnny:We'll save.

03:14:55Gamemaster:I mean, you don't have to.

03:14:55Anzu:Yeah.

03:14:55Benny:Occultism, Arcana, and...

03:14:58Gamemaster:Religion.

03:15:02Benny:Uh...

03:15:02Gamemaster:And then Ekin is making a will save.

03:15:03Benny:Are you sure you want to make the occultism check, Anzu?

03:15:09Anzu:Well, who else is going to make the occultism check?

03:15:13Benny:Benny.

03:15:15Benny:Unless more than one person can make a check.

03:15:17Gamemaster:Only one person can make each check.

03:15:19Gamemaster:four.

03:15:20Benny:How many people do we have?

03:15:21Johnny:Please.

03:15:22Johnny:Please.

03:15:23Johnny:Please hear a point on that.

03:15:25Johnny:So, if I'm an expert, I use Mythic.

03:15:25Argyle:assuming Benny's thinks he can make a better

03:15:25Anzu:Then Arcana.

03:15:25Benny:Yes, he definitely can.

03:15:26Argyle:occultism than Kana.

03:15:29Anzu:Interesting. Alright, I can make the Arcana check.

03:15:29Argyle:Yeah.

03:15:31Benny:All right.

03:15:31Argyle:So.

03:15:36Benny:All right.

03:15:39Johnny:What is that?

03:15:40Johnny:That's an extra six?

03:15:41Anzu:Sounds right to me.

03:15:43Gamemaster:Yes.

03:15:46Argyle:Argyle

03:15:47Argyle:is feeling very holy recently

03:15:49Gamemaster:42 will save That ridiculous

03:15:50Argyle:and got a 41.

03:15:50Benny:Perfect.

03:15:55Johnny:Oh that way better Egan got a 42 will save

03:15:55Argyle:you Is that good or bad

03:15:55Anzu:you No it all part of the plan

03:15:55Benny:Thank you I call this

03:16:07Argyle:Is he resisting us?

03:16:09Gamemaster:I'm not telling you.

03:16:11Argyle:Okay, okay.

03:16:14Anzu:Josh, we got a lot of pretty solid rolls.

03:16:16Anzu:The Arcana check is a 38.

03:16:19Anzu:Legend, 41.

03:16:22Anzu:Occultism, 33.

03:16:22Benny:Yes.

03:16:25Gamemaster:Okay. Those are all very good rolls.

03:16:32Gamemaster:Alrighty, sorry I'm just loading something.

03:16:43Gamemaster:Okay, so you gotta do this little everybody holds hands and kind of

03:16:50Gamemaster:circles around Egan. Egan does happen to be a good handful of feet taller than the

03:16:57Gamemaster:tallest member of the party, so it is a bit of an interesting sight to see the

03:17:02Gamemaster:four of you circled around him. Anzu is extending his

03:17:11Gamemaster:extending his mind into Egan's and he finds that there is a a pretty strong

03:17:18Gamemaster:resistance at first, but because you are friendly in this instance I am assuming

03:17:24Gamemaster:Egan will allow the intrusion into his mind if he so chooses. And the four of

03:17:33Gamemaster:you surrounding Egan feel your consciousness being pulled in through

03:17:37Gamemaster:like almost capillary action through Anzu into Egan's head, and everybody else

03:17:45Gamemaster:uh in the workshop all two of them uh watches the five of you just collapse unconscious uh

03:17:53Gamemaster:onto the ground um the uh i should probably do a music change here The four of you I don have a good one

03:18:07Gamemaster:We'll do this one.

03:18:09Gamemaster:No, we won't. That's terrible.

03:18:14Gamemaster:The five of you, sorry, feel this jolt.

03:18:18Gamemaster:Not quite teleporting, because you're not teleporting.

03:18:21Gamemaster:As you find yourselves in a vision,

03:18:24Gamemaster:albeit one very different from the one that Anzu had to grab seeing the Elderkin in.

03:18:33Gamemaster:You are on a ship.

03:18:39Gamemaster:You're on a ship is probably the wrong term for it.

03:18:43Gamemaster:You're on a mishmash of ships.

03:18:48Gamemaster:You are on, like, three ships that have been stacked on top of each other in such a way to form a kind of moving, roving fortress in the water somewhere.

03:18:58Gamemaster:Waters that are not familiar to any of you except for Egan.

03:19:01Gamemaster:This is your brain.

03:19:02Gamemaster:You're in your head.

03:19:04Gamemaster:This is...

03:19:05Gamemaster:You've been here before.

03:19:08Gamemaster:This is a convocation, which is...

03:19:13Gamemaster:Lorandris doesn't really have a proper government in the same way that other countries do.

03:19:16Gamemaster:they really just have the pirate's code and extensions thereof.

03:19:21Gamemaster:And this is a kind of neutral meeting ground

03:19:24Gamemaster:that pirates and other naively inclined folk would use to meet.

03:19:31Gamemaster:This one in particular is familiar to you because you had been here previously.

03:19:36Gamemaster:In fact, this is where you had originally found the necklace,

03:19:40Gamemaster:the one that got you into this mess in the first place.

03:19:44Gamemaster:This is not a particularly happy memory.

03:19:46Gamemaster:in this

03:19:47Gamemaster:instance.

03:19:50Gamemaster:You, Egan, are

03:19:52Gamemaster:stood in front of one of

03:19:54Gamemaster:a handful of

03:19:56Gamemaster:merchant stalls

03:19:58Gamemaster:looking at this

03:20:00Gamemaster:bone carved necklace

03:20:02Gamemaster:holding it in your hands

03:20:03Gamemaster:the four remaining party

03:20:06Gamemaster:the ones that have been brought into his head here

03:20:08Gamemaster:appear

03:20:10Gamemaster:and you see

03:20:12Gamemaster:reaching out of this necklace

03:20:15Gamemaster:is this

03:20:16Gamemaster:black smoke

03:20:18Gamemaster:forming many hands

03:20:20Gamemaster:coming out of the necklace

03:20:21Gamemaster:trying to grab onto Egan's face

03:20:23Gamemaster:and pull him towards the necklace

03:20:25Gamemaster:and then I will

03:20:27Gamemaster:one second

03:20:28Gamemaster:Let me see if I can drag you guys over here.

03:20:30Johnny:You mean...

03:20:30Argyle:Anzu, did you bring your Dispel Smoke spell?

03:20:30Anzu:um

03:20:32Gamemaster:Over here, over there, over there, over there, over here.

03:20:41Argyle:No.

03:20:47Johnny:Oh.

03:20:50Gamemaster:God, you're so huge.

03:20:52Johnny:Oh.

03:20:53Johnny:Oh.

03:20:56Johnny:Yeah, I'm a big guy.

03:20:58Gamemaster:second. They're over here. And I don't actually have the token for it, but I

03:21:00Johnny:I am large.

03:21:00Anzu:Are you a large creature?

03:21:03Anzu:Oh boy.

03:21:06Johnny:I...

03:21:06Johnny:Egan's a big mamma jamma.

03:21:13Gamemaster:don't think it matters because we're not entering combat just yet, but imagine

03:21:17Gamemaster:that in front of this area there is a necklace right here pulling on Egan's

03:21:21Gamemaster:face, and that's where we'll end the session for today.

03:21:28Gamemaster:If that's acceptable.

03:21:30Johnny:Egan.

03:21:30Anzu:Egan!

03:21:30Benny:Huh?

03:21:33Anzu:The solution to my problems.

03:21:34Gamemaster:Yes.

03:21:37Johnny:I came up with this character, like, a month ago, because I was like, oh, we're going, we're going to go off-board.

03:21:43Johnny:We're going to go hunting things.

03:21:44Johnny:That's not really Johnny's forte.

03:21:46Johnny:We should have another big striker.

03:21:49Johnny:And now we're here.

03:21:50Gamemaster:I had originally when he like brought up the idea I was thinking oh you would find this guy like in the menagerie if you went or like maybe over by Glacier or something um and then you like nope we doing other stuff um a bunch of times but it fine

03:22:00Johnny:you Josh did you have the gun that shoots golden needles before Egan was a gunslinger or is

03:22:14Johnny:it always that?

03:22:14Gamemaster:Yes. No, completely unrelated to Egan, unfortunately, uh, there has just always been,

03:22:19Gamemaster:the gun that shoots

03:22:21Gamemaster:holy gold at people.

03:22:24Gamemaster:Like, full disclosure,

03:22:25Argyle:Did you foresee us not shooting the men here?

03:22:26Gamemaster:the Menhir

03:22:27Gamemaster:gun

03:22:29Gamemaster:kill all of the gods plotline

03:22:31Gamemaster:has been in existence

03:22:33Gamemaster:for a long time,

03:22:35Gamemaster:and I assumed it would continue to not

03:22:37Gamemaster:be relevant to the current campaign for much longer

03:22:39Gamemaster:than it was, which

03:22:41Gamemaster:is fine, but Egan was

03:22:43Gamemaster:not the result. Egan was not the

03:22:45Gamemaster:reason that you guys found a gun instead of, like,

03:22:47Gamemaster:a sword.

03:22:49Gamemaster:I thought it was definitely possible.

03:22:55Argyle:Yeah, we didn't want to.

03:22:57Gamemaster:Like, I didn't know if you guys would want to shoot the men here.

03:23:00Gamemaster:I don't think you did, but I think you were, in the end, okay with it.

03:23:05Argyle:We didn't want to shoot the men here.

03:23:06Gamemaster:Well, like, there is a world where you're like,

03:23:09Gamemaster:I don't want to shoot the men here, and so you don't.

03:23:12Gamemaster:Like, that's not a crazy leap, you know?

03:23:16Gamemaster:Yeah.

03:23:16Argyle:I didn't think that was an option.

03:23:17Argyle:I thought the men here was like, you're staying here until we die.

03:23:19Gamemaster:You didn't at any point attempt to not take the gun.

03:23:25Johnny:We can't leave the...

03:23:25Argyle:I just.

03:23:25Anzu:Yeah, we did pick up the gun pretty...

03:23:25Benny:that's

03:23:27Gamemaster:Like, you could have put the gun back.

03:23:32Gamemaster:That was an option.

03:23:34Gamemaster:It was just, once the gun was in your hands, you're like, how do we get out of here with the gun?

03:23:34Benny:okay but to be fair it was not clear like what the consequences were of shooting it so it was

03:23:41Gamemaster:It's very much, it's monkey with its hand in the cookie jar, is what it is.

03:23:49Gamemaster:no

03:23:52Benny:like, oh, we have the gun. It wasn't

03:23:53Gamemaster:well with all due respect I think you can say it wasn clear what would happen if I point the god killer weapon at the god

03:23:54Benny:like you can shoot the Menhir and keep the gun or you can leave without shooting the Menhir then that would have been more explicit

03:24:11Gamemaster:Like, I don't think that one's on me.

03:24:16Benny:but we didn't know for sure

03:24:17Benny:we're like oh does it kill one of the Menhir

03:24:18Gamemaster:Oh, oh, of course.

03:24:20Gamemaster:Sure.

03:24:21Gamemaster:I think you would have more of a right to be confused at me if you shot the godkiller gun at the god and it didn't kill the god.

03:24:25Argyle:what would have

03:24:31Gamemaster:I think if you shot the needle at the menhir and the menhir wasn't affected, that would be more confusing.

03:24:38Argyle:what would have happened if like

03:24:41Argyle:Argyle put the gun to his own head and shot him

03:24:43Argyle:would you be like Jorge roll a new character

03:24:44Gamemaster:No, it wouldn't have fired.

03:24:45Argyle:okay

03:24:47Gamemaster:unfortunately

03:24:48Argyle:Diamond's so funny

03:24:49Benny:Oh no.

03:24:51Gamemaster:Argyle is not a divine

03:24:53Gamemaster:enough entity for

03:24:55Johnny:I'm doing it.

03:24:55Argyle:that would be so funny if you were just like

03:24:55Anzu:Probably would work on Anzu, though.

03:24:55Gamemaster:the firearm to count him

03:24:58Gamemaster:as a valid target

03:24:58Gamemaster:it would have worked

03:25:04Gamemaster:on Anzu yes if you had pointed it at Anzu

03:25:06Gamemaster:it would have shot him dead

03:25:07Benny:We should have killed Anzu

03:25:07Gamemaster:I don't know.

03:25:08Benny:and kept the Menhir.

03:25:13Anzu:That might have been the smart move.

03:25:14Benny:Oh, that means that our

03:25:16Benny:dastardly plan,

03:25:18Benny:if we ever get cornered by like

03:25:20Benny:eight, I don't know,

03:25:22Benny:dragons that are not

03:25:24Benny:divine, we can't just start popping

03:25:25Johnny:Thanks for watching!

03:25:25Argyle:Did you imagine if we shot one of ourselves

03:25:25Anzu:The end.

03:25:26Benny:them with the god killing gun.

03:25:28Benny:Like, well, I don't know what to do. We could kill four

03:25:30Benny:less gods now, but at least we didn't

03:25:32Benny:die to those dragons.

03:25:35Argyle:and then Josh let it go through

03:25:37Gamemaster:The end.

03:25:37Argyle:and it's like, well, now you have one less bullet

03:25:39Argyle:and you roll a new character.

03:25:43Argyle:That one's gone, guys.

03:25:44Benny:...

03:25:45Argyle:There's no coming back from this one, guys.

03:25:47Argyle:He's gone.

03:25:52Gamemaster:There we go.

03:25:53Gamemaster:There's a big dragon for you.

03:25:54Gamemaster:Yeah.

03:25:55Johnny:Oh no Oh Josh can I get some ammunition

03:25:55Anzu:I shoot it with the end

03:26:01Gamemaster:It not dragon it just a dragon

03:26:05Gamemaster:that critically misses

03:26:05Anzu:Darn it.

03:26:06Anzu:Put it back in my sleeve.

03:26:10Gamemaster:that also critically misses

03:26:20Johnny:How do I get ammunition?

03:26:20Gamemaster:no

03:26:21Gamemaster:yes you can get ammunition

03:26:22Gamemaster:you got a natural 20

03:26:23Anzu:Oh.

03:26:25Anzu:Benny hit.

03:26:25Benny:Oh for a 40 grit for 40 natural 20 is a hit nice

03:26:28Gamemaster:yeah 40 natural 20 is a hit

03:26:35Gamemaster:I will get you some ammo

03:26:39Gamemaster:what do you need ammo for?

03:26:40Gamemaster:your gun sword or your long rifle?

03:26:41Johnny:Yeah

03:26:43Johnny:The gun sword just like regular ammunition think I have a feat that lets me make bullets

03:26:48Johnny:So I would just have like a bunch of regular bullets

03:26:50Gamemaster:you would

03:26:50Gamemaster:you would have ammo

03:26:52Gamemaster:like that's that's fine. Gun, sword, rounds.

03:26:55Anzu:And now we can kill off Johnny, finally.

03:26:55Johnny:In a bunch of a bunch of regular bullets to stab stuff

03:27:00Johnny:I'm very excited to play this character

03:27:00Gamemaster:Okay I'm gonna give you 20 gun, sword, rounds and then 20 long rifle rounds.

03:27:11Johnny:he is good at fighting stuff

03:27:17Gamemaster:Why aren't... why is someone... did someone just die so hard? And now you can finally kill off

03:27:22Gamemaster:Johnny. Here, one second. The dragon makes a Jaws attack on Johnny. The dragon rolled

03:27:23Johnny:this is a temporary character

03:27:24Johnny:putting that out there, Johnny is still my main character

03:27:25Anzu:I attacked Johnny with my beak.

03:27:26Johnny:I just brought this guy in temporarily, please don't kill Johnny

03:27:29Johnny:Oh no

03:27:33Johnny:I think I'm dead

03:27:34Anzu:Oh, that's not going to be good.

03:27:36Gamemaster:a 50, so that's a crit. Let's see. 96 damage. And then you have to attempt this Fortitude

03:27:39Johnny:I think I'm instantly dead

03:27:42Johnny:Oh I'm alive

03:27:46Johnny:Wait

03:27:47Johnny:I have two hit points

03:27:49Johnny:Okay let's see

03:27:49Gamemaster:save.

03:27:51Johnny:we can never

03:27:55Benny:I don't know.

03:27:56Gamemaster:Natural 20. Nice.

03:27:58Johnny:recede any

03:28:00Johnny:Any of the things that we have, any of the dice bots?

03:28:00Gamemaster:A natural 20 makes it a 36, which is because you crit a success.

03:28:13Gamemaster:So I think you're drained one, which lowers your hit points equal to your level.

03:28:19Johnny:Oh, I'm dead.

03:28:23Gamemaster:Listen, I put the level 20 Ancient Umbral Dragon onto the field just because I was curious.

03:28:30Johnny:For now.

03:28:30Gamemaster:it is good to know that a level 20 ancient umple dragon can still kill your level 9 characters.

03:28:30Benny:That makes sense.

03:28:38Gamemaster:Because, you know, just to remind you,

03:28:41Gamemaster:because the kind of things that you have been doing have been closer to level 15, level 16, to level 20 character things.

03:28:48Gamemaster:You are level 9.

03:28:51Benny:We understand.

03:28:52Gamemaster:I just, you know, I just need to put that out there.

03:28:53Benny:Practice humility.

03:28:55Gamemaster:Yeah, practice a little bit of humility.

03:28:58Gamemaster:Maybe.

03:29:00Johnny:Oh no.

03:29:00Argyle:You know, if you kill these characters,

03:29:00Gamemaster:Or else this guy's gonna cast Shadowblast on you.

03:29:08Argyle:the next batch of characters are going to be a rolling death squad.

03:29:12Gamemaster:What do you mean the next batch are gonna be a rolling death squad?

03:29:15Argyle:Yeah.

03:29:16Argyle:We're going to have...

03:29:16Gamemaster:Benny and Argyle are both already pretty heavy hitters.

03:29:17Argyle:We're going to have...

03:29:18Argyle:if he hits

03:29:21Gamemaster:Actually, Anzu I think is the second highest GPS of the party.

03:29:24Benny:yeah Benny is just

03:29:26Gamemaster:He can put out a lot of damage pretty quickly.

03:29:30Johnny:excited

03:29:30Gamemaster:And now we have Egan, who is also a pretty heavy hitter.

03:29:30Anzu:And he's the new face.

03:29:31Argyle:yeah

03:29:36Johnny:yeah

03:29:38Benny:oh god

03:29:39Anzu:...

03:29:39Gamemaster:And he's the new face.

03:29:40Johnny:he definitely doesn't have a minus one to charisma

03:29:43Anzu:I've got 11.

03:29:43Johnny:I did take

03:29:44Gamemaster:Actually, he's trained in diplomacy.

03:29:47Gamemaster:So it's not the end of the world.

03:29:48Johnny:I think I did untrained improvisation or something

03:29:48Argyle:What's the highest diplomacy we have now?

03:29:51Johnny:I mean Johnny still sticking around I just brought Egan in for some fights For diplomacy 20

03:29:54Benny:We in dire straits

03:29:58Argyle:I got 13

03:30:06Argyle:Yeah, no, that's

03:30:07Argyle:Argyle. No, that's Johnny.

03:30:09Argyle:That's Johnny. That's different.

03:30:12Argyle:Johnny won't be around.

03:30:14Argyle:Johnny's gonna die.

03:30:15Johnny:Oh, no.

03:30:16Argyle:See?

03:30:16Argyle:we're gonna drown johnny now oh we got this new guy

03:30:17Johnny:I don't want...

03:30:18Johnny:Let's try this Egan.

03:30:21Benny:Then he has a plus one.

03:30:25Johnny:No.

03:30:25Gamemaster:You are?

03:30:25Benny:That's all.

03:30:27Argyle:well you know we're getting close to level 15 and once we get to level 15

03:30:29Johnny:Egan is good in combat

03:30:30Johnny:and

03:30:31Johnny:fighting stuff.

03:30:35Johnny:I just wanted to hit stuff hard

03:30:37Johnny:for a few sessions.

03:30:42Gamemaster:You are?

03:30:43Argyle:I'm going to change back into a Thaumaturge

03:30:47Argyle:because that's just what we do.

03:30:47Gamemaster:You are technically slightly over halfway to 15.

03:30:52Argyle:Yeah, we're getting close to 15.

03:30:54Argyle:And as you know, as Jorge does in Pathfinder,

03:30:55Gamemaster:I'm banning thaumaturges

03:30:56Argyle:when he gets to level 15, he swaps to a Thaumaturge.

03:31:02Gamemaster:thaumaturges don't exist in this

03:31:04Gamemaster:in Færrin

03:31:05Gamemaster:Lev came over

03:31:08Gamemaster:and he killed all of the burgeoning

03:31:10Gamemaster:thaumaturges so that nobody

03:31:12Gamemaster:could like contest his crown

03:31:13Anzu:next week I am out Monday and Tuesday

03:31:13Argyle:Again? So he was here originally?

03:31:14Gamemaster:and then he left again so there just aren't

03:31:16Gamemaster:any

03:31:16Gamemaster:yeah of course

03:31:19Argyle:We already know he was here.

03:31:21Gamemaster:Lev is the reason that it's all like this

03:31:24Gamemaster:Lev did it.

03:31:25Johnny:I knew it.

03:31:27Gamemaster:Lev is the Ashen Pact.

03:31:31Argyle:Oh, we're fucked.

03:31:33Gamemaster:You would.

03:31:43Argyle:Thursdays Yeah Thursday I can do Wednesdays Thursday

03:31:43Johnny:Next week, I can do...

03:31:46Gamemaster:Thursday?

03:31:47Johnny:Yeah, I think I can do any day next week.

03:31:51Gamemaster:Thursday or Wednesday?

03:31:52Gamemaster:Does either of those work better for anybody else Jorge Thursday Thursday Thursday everybody Thursday

03:31:55Benny:Thursdays Thursday probably better

03:31:56Anzu:or at all

03:31:57Anzu:Hey, it works for me

03:32:07Gamemaster:Okay.

03:32:09Argyle:how dare you have

03:32:10Anzu:Thanks, folks

03:32:11Anzu:Sorry to be a pain

03:32:12Gamemaster:Yeah, you're the worst.

03:32:13Anzu:Yeah

03:32:14Gamemaster:Gross.

03:32:15Anzu:I'm sorry

03:32:16Argyle:other things to do than play Pathfinder

03:32:19Benny:Yeah, what the fuck, dude?

03:32:20Anzu:I'm sorry

03:32:20Gamemaster:Thursday next week we'll pick up in Egan's Mindscape

03:32:21Anzu:Go

03:32:25Johnny:У-у-у.

03:32:25Argyle:Do you think if we beat up Egan, we could take the necklace?

03:32:25Gamemaster:we'll beat up a necklace

03:32:26Gamemaster:it'll be a good time

03:32:27Anzu:Also, I don't like that my head is hot.

03:32:27Gamemaster:yeah

03:32:31Gamemaster:do you want the necklace?

03:32:39Argyle:Guys, it's loot.

03:32:39Gamemaster:like

03:32:40Gamemaster:it is loot

03:32:45Anzu:That is not good.

03:32:45Argyle:No, that is definitely one of the Ashen Pact, if not all of them.

03:32:47Gamemaster:it is loot

03:32:50Gamemaster:Anzu's just got like a little bit of a hothead.

03:32:55Johnny:Спасибо.

03:32:55Argyle:let's um

03:32:55Benny:No.

03:32:56Gamemaster:He's always had a short temper.

03:32:57Anzu:Do you think that the heat from my head is going to melt the chip on my shoulder?

03:32:58Gamemaster:It's not crazy.

03:32:59Argyle:we should as a side note

03:33:01Gamemaster:Ooh.

03:33:06Benny:The chip is everlasting.

03:33:07Gamemaster:That's a good question though.

03:33:14Gamemaster:No Zeus.

03:33:15Gamemaster:Worth figuring out.

03:33:16Argyle:use like summons or something to lure a bunch of

03:33:20Gamemaster:That would mean that you guys are the ones who are breaking the alliance first.

03:33:21Argyle:void things to

03:33:23Argyle:Grayson. I think that'd be real fun.

03:33:25Johnny:Я думал, что он будет...

03:33:27Anzu:you I really

03:33:30Argyle:No, we're not.

03:33:31Gamemaster:I don't know how you feel about that.

03:33:31Anzu:I feel like he's

03:33:32Gamemaster:I was waiting for the first time

03:33:32Argyle:The void things were.

03:33:33Anzu:he's not afraid of them

03:33:33Johnny:Я думал, что он будет такой...

03:33:35Anzu:I think that he

03:33:37Anzu:is not concerned about them

03:33:39Anzu:I don't think he was bluffing

03:33:42Johnny:Я думал, что он будет как дед.

03:33:44Johnny:Вместо этого он будет как дурацкий парень, который имеет много магии.

03:33:48Argyle:...

03:33:49Anzu:Hey, that means he's redeemable, right guys?

03:33:51Gamemaster:that you guys would talk to Grayson

03:33:53Gamemaster:like in any capacity you Like what

03:33:53Argyle:No He gotta die why do you think Grayson not scared of them

03:33:55Johnny:I mean he got other sins

03:33:55Benny:you What

03:34:02Anzu:What?

03:34:03Anzu:Oh.

03:34:04Anzu:What?

03:34:07Argyle:for a good reason

03:34:08Anzu:Why are we guilty for the sins of our fathers?

03:34:14Johnny:He's guilty of his own sins.

03:34:15Anzu:That's true. He does have his own sins.

03:34:17Gamemaster:Name one.

03:34:18Gamemaster:okay name two

03:34:19Johnny:When we were all trying to fight off the monsters killing us

03:34:19Anzu:Oh, and his plan to take out the Iridescent Church?

03:34:22Johnny:and he went, go kill them.

03:34:25Johnny:We're on a strider and we just need to survive.

03:34:25Argyle:He was sent to sabotage this whole thing.

03:34:27Gamemaster:okay name four or five

03:34:30Johnny:And he's like, no, fuck you.

03:34:31Johnny:We're going to kill you guys too.

03:34:42Gamemaster:well that's on that's yeah that's you're just making stuff up now that's that's slandering

03:34:45Anzu:We don't know that.

03:34:46Anzu:We can't.

03:34:46Argyle:No, we know it from the logs.

03:34:47Anzu:Yeah.

03:34:49Argyle:It says they're snakes.

03:34:50Gamemaster:was it Grayson that they said who knows

03:34:51Argyle:They're sending their snakes.

03:34:55Johnny:Yeah, they were already working with someone else.

03:34:55Argyle:remember they said that

03:34:59Gamemaster:but you do know that that Grayson dealt with some kind of uh representative of War

03:35:07Gamemaster:which is always fun because he just gave that information out

03:35:12Gamemaster:but they said no

03:35:14Gamemaster:this family would never

03:35:15Gamemaster:what are you talking about

03:35:20Gamemaster:why don't you say that

03:35:21Gamemaster:they're good upstanding folk

03:35:25Johnny:No one who runs a healthcare company is bad.

03:35:25Argyle:Good night.

03:35:25Benny:Of course.

03:35:26Gamemaster:they're good people

03:35:30Benny:Of course.

03:35:32Gamemaster:their family runs a

03:35:34Gamemaster:healthcare company

03:35:35Gamemaster:they're saving lives

03:35:37Gamemaster:yeah

03:35:41Gamemaster:they're the good guys

03:35:44Gamemaster:I don't know what you're talking about

03:35:47Gamemaster:anyway

03:35:50Gamemaster:yeah

03:35:51Gamemaster:see y'all on Thursday

03:35:55Benny:Thursday