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Venture Forth: A D&D Podcast
C2 E12 | Dread Pleasures
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Our heroes make their return to Blackrock, but more than sharp rocks lurk in the forests of the Frey.
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SPEAKER_12Where are they? I'm Vel of the Gith Gear.
SPEAKER_15Ilya.
SPEAKER_10Ramsey.
SPEAKER_15Philip.
SPEAKER_10And I'm your DM Seth. Welcome to Venture Fourth.
SPEAKER_13Gather around ye gentles, I've another tale to tell Of woe-begotten heroes and repentant now duels, of villains and their scheming, and the fools that heed the call.
SPEAKER_00Sweet melodies to ensure that they venture for a venture.
SPEAKER_14For they venture dueling dragons in a dungeon. Totally trolls till the tolls are peeled. Of course they venture. For they venture now they're starting to trust the notch may when the devil's at the kill.
SPEAKER_13At last we left our heroes in the tavern or a cave. They dispatched the darkness, laser fountains, summons up to slave. There's a mate with much ambition. There's a walking at the gate.
SPEAKER_10When last we left our heroes. In the center of a chamber beneath the rocks above Rawl Disclaim, you all discovered strange diseased stones in an even stranger locale. After inspecting the chambers, you gathered together and discussed the strange architecture around you, the magics at play, and Vale began to elucidate on the nature of the forces you would all began to ascertain may be at play here. In the midst of that, it was decided that you'd best have this conversation away from the diseased rocks all around you. As you began to make your way out of the chamber and were interrupted. Two face spiders, both warped to varying degrees, by whatever influence seems to seep from this place and these strange stones. They set upon you, and you did battle with the diseased arachnids. A few close calls were had, as strange forces applied pressure to the mind of one of your party. But he was saved thanks to a memory, though one he may be unfamiliar with. You exited the chamber, confirmed the stones seemed to put off some fell force, independent of their presence here within this specific chamber, and had a somewhat tense exchange as another member of your party attempted to bring one of said stones with them for their own purposes. But you resolved the disagreement, had some more chats, and eventually began to make your way towards the surface. So, I will say at this point, barring anything anybody wants to do in the mine specifically, you guys exit once again into the day. There's a light rain falling, as is customary here in the Freywood, especially this high in the mountains. Um, it is not a torrential downpour, just the kind of ever-present slight misting that just is life in the Freywood. Um at this point, I believe you guys, it was first thing you guys basically went down into the mine, if I recall correctly.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, it was as they were putting the caravan back together so they come out. I don't know if they're done with the caravan. Yeah.
SPEAKER_10How long are we down there? Uh probably, I mean, at least an hour and a half. Um because it take, it took a that's it's an extensive mine. Well, probably an hour, I'd say. So like mid morning, I guess.
SPEAKER_05Who's with us, like leading us back out?
SPEAKER_10Yeah, so as you guys are coming back out, Vivralda and Dom are both with you. Sorry, sorry. Thank you. Dagra. Dagra and um Dom are both with you. A drift globe? Uh no, she gave it to you. Oh, she gave it to you. Specifically, she like gave it to you guys. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I have to. She was like banging around in one of those things, and as you guys are coming down here to help, you she she just kind of gifted that to you. So you yeah, you have whoever is I so you have it? You have a drift globe. Nice. Um, you know that it's it's pretty common in the mines. These are one of the few magical items that like is relatively commonplace, especially in the mines for for light. Great. Um, but you all exit into the daylight. Um, like I said, probably mid-morning at this point, 10, 11 a.m., somewhere around there. Um, you do see that as you exit, you can see that the caravan is all packed up. Um, it appears that all of the boxes have been loaded, everything from inside the warehouse. Um, they're finishing up. Everybody's still moving kind of slow. Most of these people still have a level of exhaustion at the minimum. Some of them are still um, you know, with the return of um Marin as the new day has started. Um, he has gone along and fixed and tended to the wounds that he can. Uh, and um UC Senna is is also uh up there and um is is doing the same, tending to the wounds as best uh she can. And it looks like the caravan's kind of mostly prepared to leave as you guys exit into the day. So as you guys do, what do you uh what do you do?
SPEAKER_01I'll uh take a look at the caravan as we're just walking by it just to see. You said it's ready to go. Yeah. Or is it open?
SPEAKER_10And everything's like strapped up pretty much, everything's loaded. The oryx are uh have been brought out from the stables and are in uh there's two pretty large wagons that have now been staged that have a lot of stuff in them because the oryx are are large creatures. They're they're rather big. Um, and yeah, you see probably about seven wagons or so that have all been gathered together with uh like ore and sort of different different elements that are headed back, plus supplies and things like that um that are coming back. And the boxes. As you look for those specifically, you do see them. Doesn't cool. Um Dagra kind of makes her way over there. Um, and she she goes to step away, turns, and turns to you all. Um appreciate your hope. Um I'll be sure to put in a good word with Pavldish. Maybe she'll um I don't know, you could always visit her once you get back. Um seeing as that was a bit of an operational problem. I can't make promises, but.
SPEAKER_14How long have you been here, working here at the claim?
SPEAKER_10Um, several years now.
SPEAKER_14Um Were you here when it started?
SPEAKER_10Yeah. Um it was taken over by Bavaraldo from uh previous claim. People all all types have come out and tried, but um the mines were not nearly as extensive. Overalda, um, well, we've struck quite the um vein out here. Um as a matter of fact, this is this claim in particular is uh the best among the hills. The gems and she kind of leans over and like nods her head to the uh to the caravan. Um it produces even in all my experience, which is uh considerable, this is one of the richest deposits I've ever seen.
SPEAKER_14Uh in your experience, uh considerable as as it is, um I assume you've never seen anything quite like that chamber, uh yes.
SPEAKER_10Oh, then even close.
SPEAKER_14So I don't know. Um it must be purely coincidental that it's such a right vein and also uh contains that anomaly.
SPEAKER_10I'd have to imagine, right? Um as I said, we uh we've expanded the mine uh quite a bit over the last decade. Um I've been here coming up on like I said, nine years now. Um and uh actually running the site for the last seven. But um haven't ever discovered anything like that. Here or elsewhere. Um well thank you for your guidance. Um thank you for your um violence. Always.
SPEAKER_14Um we're uh happy to provide.
SPEAKER_10Umst uh folk in BlackRock, you're uh capable. As I said, perhaps I can put in a good word with Pavroldo, maybe she'll at least uh an audience. Meet with us, yes. That would be of some curiosity to us. You'll probably want to know at least what you saw. So at the very least I can set that up. Perfect.
SPEAKER_14Um, should we accompany the caravan back? Is it um do you all have thoughts on that?
SPEAKER_01Probably safer to go with us and safety.
SPEAKER_02How much slower is the caravan to our return though?
SPEAKER_10Um, it would uh I mean, rather than uh arriving like uh in the sort of midday like you guys did, um, midday afternoon, you'd probably arrive in the evening. Um so it add a couple hours to the trip. Um but well we could get ahead of it.
SPEAKER_05It's safer with the caravan.
SPEAKER_01Also, really not doing well. Prefer to maybe stretch up on one, relax for a bit.
SPEAKER_14That's um that's a good point. That's fine. Maybe Philippel, you can work your charms on our what's the word I'm looking for. Hang on. Our benighted companion here.
SPEAKER_01Don't know what that means, but alright.
SPEAKER_02I think some rests are doing fine.
SPEAKER_01I did my best.
SPEAKER_14Is she angry? Um, uh yes. Um uh if you wouldn't mind. Um we would love to accompany uh the caravan back.
SPEAKER_10Yes, that'd be fine. Um some men are going to stay behind, uh, rest a little bit more. Also, we'll have to, and she kind of looks over at the gates that have been blown open. You can see that some people are mostly the haler and healthier, those that you know have been maybe attended to by Marin um and Senna are working on repairing the gate. Yeah. Um, they will not leave this like totally unattended. Um, but um with the lizard folk threat seemingly seemingly gone, um, at least for now, and the mine needing protection, um, or at least somebody just to mind it. Uh, there are some, probably about a dozen people who are gonna stay. Um but um I'll be uh I'll I'll actually also have to stay, but um I can um she like reaches up and just um if you you come with me um for a moment and sh she sorts sort of turns on her heel and walks. She walks over towards this sort of uh smaller uh but like pretty heavily fortified building that's kind of near the front. Okay. Um it's one of the only ones that you didn't go into. Uh well that's not true, you actually didn't go into a lot of them, but it is one of the buildings that you didn't go into. Um so you see a uh squat stone building. This is one of only two uh like non-timber structures in the camp. Um this one, and then you know that the the blasting house is what Dagger described it as, which is where the explosives for the mine are held. Yeah. Um this is the only other one. It looks like the upper floors are wooden, but the lower floors are like very stout stone that looks like it was probably quarried from either here or nearby. Um and uh she walks in, she uh reaches down to a key on her belt um and you know, walks up to a door. You see a very stout lock. She reaches in, unlocks it, and um you enter into a short chamber. You see um, you see work tables. Um, they are all filled with like what appear to be jewelers' tools. You see like magnifying glass uh glasses, scales. Um, you see that along one wall to the left there are a series of lock boxes that are all locked up. Um and you see to the right side of the room, you see what appears to be like a one of those, uh it's an office, effectively. You can see through these glass windows, you see a room full of charts of the mine itself. You can see like uh specific sections have been drawn out and and mapped precisely. Basically, you can see maps of the surrounding hills, you see estimates of where the vein is gone and all of these different detailed annotations and charts of the mine itself. And then at the very, very back, you see um a like basically what look like like uh bars of a prison cell almost. You see sort of heavy, heavy bars and a very large, heavy iron door with what looks to be a sort of combination, sort of uh like a wheel, and it does appear to be some kind of vault. Um Diagra goes right into the office, into the right, and um the uh you see again maps, cutouts, charts, reports. Um, and she walks up, begins to scroll out a series, like grabs a piece of paper, begins to scrawl out a note, folds it up, drips wax on it, and she puts like uh you see that she has a signet ring that she puts into it um and uh gives it to you. Hands it to well.
SPEAKER_14I'll I'll reach out for you.
SPEAKER_10Um and um yeah, she she hands it to you. This should um help when you go to uh see Bavralda. Like I said, I'll have to I'll have to remain until the next caravan gets here, which is not due to arrive for how day is it? I think till another day or two at least.
SPEAKER_14Alright.
SPEAKER_10Great. Um thank you for that.
SPEAKER_02You're not gonna be alone here, are you, Dagra?
SPEAKER_10No, there should be um a dozen dozen people at least to keep me company.
SPEAKER_14I mean, whatever the cause they had to attack here, they've already gotten it. So hopefully you'll be safer than you were before.
SPEAKER_10There was um It's strange that though, isn't it? Why would they have taken it and then not come to get us?
SPEAKER_14Um Well we're still working out the details on that. Uh it seems that um I mean there may be multiple factions at work here.
SPEAKER_10Whoever was in that chamber before is gone.
SPEAKER_14Yes. And I don't know if the lizard folk were um in cahoots with uh whatever creature ended up departing with said object. Don't like that. Uh I don't know. It seems that there was maybe some intelligence behind the lizard folk's uh attack. Um so if that remains true, then they won't attack again without good reason. Well I'd hope their numbers are a little bit lower.
SPEAKER_06I should kinda assume.
SPEAKER_02Can we be too sure?
SPEAKER_14No, I mean there's more than doesn't folk out here. I hear there's sharp rocks to be aware of and uh Well and the snakes that want it.
SPEAKER_02I think you'll want to get that gate repaired as quickly as possible.
SPEAKER_10I mean, I'm working on it now, and uh hopefully by the end of the day we'll at least have something to keep um as you said, the uh Mercurious of the uh denizens of the wood out. Thankfully they didn't uh mess with the wall. So um that should help. Um unless there's anything else you need from me, I think the caravan should be departing within the hour.
SPEAKER_02Be safe.
SPEAKER_10I as well. And she stays in that kind of office and lets you guys leave as she begins to go through it. Okay. You guys meet up with the caravan, and Dom joins you at your side. Um, you see that most again, most of the people are um are going to stay. Um as you actually kind of leave and come out, you can see that Dom is talking with Senna. Um and you can see he's it's appears to be a somewhat uh not an easy conversation, but not particularly tense either. Um and you see Dom just eventually he just like goes like this, he's like and turns and walks away. As you see, Senna goes over to um Marin, they um appear to to sit, and Marin is not gonna be returning with the caravan either. And Senna does not appear to be wanting to leave. But guys join the caravan?
SPEAKER_12Yeah.
SPEAKER_10Yeah. And with the crack of a whip and the call of the caravan masters, the people riding the wagons, you travel out of the gates into the rain.
SPEAKER_15Um, I left uh three healers kits with Maren.
SPEAKER_00Cool. Alright.
SPEAKER_15Which is like 15. Yeah.
SPEAKER_14Uh before departing borrowed some kind of or taken some kind of um over uh coat or parka or something. Something got with the red. It's like every time we got the red ramse, I'm I'm just like instantly very upset that whatever Quafid does.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, as everything's poorly.
SPEAKER_14I look like a wet dog.
SPEAKER_10Um yeah, absolutely. Uh as you kind of ask, uh I'd like to think that Ramsay like walked outside and then just turned right back around.
SPEAKER_00Actually, there's one thing.
SPEAKER_10Um and Dagra actually uh is able to get you a um as she she hands you this uh walks upstairs for a moment. Um, you see there is a set of stairs that goes up to what appears to be the second level of this uh building. Um she comes back a moment later and she has kind of draped over an arm what appears to be a very uh a nice cloak, you see. Um it is um uh it appears to be like fur. Okay. Um and as she reaches out to you, um, seal skin. I've never found anything better. Keeps the rain off. Grand, thank you. And as you put it on and walk outside, the water sheafs off of you easily.
SPEAKER_14Very grateful. And I'll I'll I'll like unsling the loot and like kind of cradle it underneath. Yeah. Yeah. With kind of a grumpy look still as I like join the caravan. Yeah.
SPEAKER_10You all uh walk your way into the rain, and the caravan snakes its way up the hills, and over the course of the next remaining hours you leave Vralda's claim behind. You travel with this many in number. You are you go unbothered on the road. Except for as you move through the trees.
SPEAKER_02You see that little creature, that bird again?
SPEAKER_10Things watching. Occasional creature. This time knowing to look out for it almost as soon as you leave the mine. Birds that linger too long that get a little too close.
SPEAKER_02I just am uh gonna look at a squirrel at some point.
SPEAKER_10Mean mug of squirrel.
SPEAKER_02What do you want?
SPEAKER_10You call to it, it just stares at you with its beady black eyes.
SPEAKER_02Mind your own business. Up to it.
SPEAKER_10And it takes off.
SPEAKER_05I think it called you a bad name. Well, join the club.
SPEAKER_14I'm not did I hear this or anything?
SPEAKER_02No, yeah, I'm not being I'm not being secretive about this.
SPEAKER_14Is it a large club of um uh vituperating uh naysayers against you?
SPEAKER_05I'd imagine so. You tend to heal a lot of people, so it's like an in and out. It's like in for a while, and then she does something nice and they come out.
SPEAKER_14Right. So you're not doing any favors with that personality of yours. It's just your actions.
SPEAKER_02They do say actions speak louder than words.
SPEAKER_14But words are pretty. And they said that.
SPEAKER_02I think with the actions, they come to me for help and aid, so I'll take those actions.
SPEAKER_14Can't argue with that as bad.
SPEAKER_05I've tried for years. Don't worry.
SPEAKER_10You see, Dom, like, he kind of makes eye contact with you, Ilya, and you see as he kind of like just raises a hand and kind of lets you know, and then he vanishes into the woods. Um you know that he's probably gonna circle. Around patrol, and he as soon as he enters the tree line, you lose him entirely.
SPEAKER_05He is one with the tree. Yeah, pretty much.
SPEAKER_10Um and after a while, those a few hours of traveling, you just get a poke in the ribs and dumb it's right next to it.
SPEAKER_05Debra! Jeez, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_10I was I mean, I was having a little fun.
SPEAKER_05Fuck you. You dumb, you big dumb, dummy, dumb, dumb.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, whatever. And he like he leans into you and like hits you, and his weight is so much. It's hard.
SPEAKER_05I'm trying to punch her bed, it's just a wall.
SPEAKER_10Just a wall of straight, giant, yeah.
SPEAKER_05He also has a club.
SPEAKER_10I just wanted to um check. I don't think anything's out there, but um.
SPEAKER_05I hate when you do that. Especially now.
SPEAKER_10It's my job. Although I wish Senna was with me.
SPEAKER_05So you know that goes. Yeah, I do. Crazy things for love. And all that.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, well. If she would have been a little less insistent on us getting there, would have been tired, maybe would have been caught. I mean, I don't know. Hard to, you know. So you can only connect those dots looking backwards, but all I'm saying. All I'm saying is to you, not to her, because she'd kill me. Yeah, no, I got that. No, Senna's still, she's pretty quick with those knives of hers. Um. Hey, thanks.
SPEAKER_05And I'm I kind of like slow down the walk so we're not around folks as much, but yeah, of course. You think Do you think she was right about this place?
SPEAKER_11I mean, yeah. I guess.
SPEAKER_10By blade or by branch or by teeth or claws. Or just shit luck. Pretty uncommon to live a long, happy life in Black Rock. Unless you're rich.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_10I don't know. My old man's made it a long time. Tough old bastard. But um I don't know, I thought it was lizard folk food, so. Thanks.
SPEAKER_05I was gonna say your family, but that didn't really work out now, did it?
SPEAKER_10You get to choose your family.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I wanted to choose her. Well, now, uh if you had died, she would have never shut up about it, and then she would have really been right. Sometimes we like to prove her wrong. That's great.
SPEAKER_10Well, we're alive, so you know, there's that.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, she's still at uh Red Thorn.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_05Let's get some drinks. Yeah, let's rub it in her face. Like, fuck yeah, we're not gonna do it.
SPEAKER_10I wanna go home and take a 15-hour nap. I don't know about you.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, we have the the road to nap. That's great. Hop on the back of a wagon.
SPEAKER_10I've been on the road or stabbed in the leg for f five, four, five days now.
SPEAKER_05Just say how how awesome we were in battle and how we weren't gonna die multiple times.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, you You were pretty badass.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. That was I think the chamber. But I am bad.
SPEAKER_10His kinda his giant shovel of a hand closes over yours as he goes. That was all you.
SPEAKER_05Thanks, big bro.
SPEAKER_10He loops a giant arm around your neck and pulls you in. So the red thorn, rub it in thistle's face.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and look hot while doing. Obviously.
SPEAKER_10Yeah, well. Alright. Then he kind of looks around. Hitches up his gear, and you see as he goes through a quick routine, he lifts his sword in the scabbard, lifts his knife in the scabbard, unhinges his bow, checks the string, puts it back on him, and then he runs his hands through all of the arrows, like his fingers over all the fletchings. Can I ask you something? Yeah. You feel like we're being watched.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. And there's one squirrel that really fucking hates Phil. I know, I know, it's Phil, but like we love her for that. We love Phil. We love Phil. She's the best. But yeah, it's a little intense sometimes. I hadn't noticed that in other times I've been in the forest, though. This seems weirder.
SPEAKER_10You see, he kind of thinks back. I mean, I have. But I don't know, not this long.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_10You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
unknownI don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_05Do you think it's connected to what happened in the mine? Hmm.
SPEAKER_10I don't know what the fuck happened in the mine. Still, I was there, I don't know. I shut up. I just shut up. Um. And you see as his brow does kind of knit like in consternation as he kind of he really does think. I mean. Everything. I mean. I've been watched, but I don't know. It's a new one. I was just wondering if I was crazy, but no. I've been kind of beat up the last couple days, so.
SPEAKER_05If you do have the ability, though, it might be interesting if you can catch one of those creatures and get it alone with me in a room.
SPEAKER_10You gonna you gonna interrogate a squirrel?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm gonna talk to it.
SPEAKER_10I've tried, they're really dumb.
SPEAKER_05Trust me, I feel like I can. Very persuasive, Dom. Come on. It's me. I've talked us out of a lot of things. And you and you a lot of things.
SPEAKER_10Yeah. Don't I know it any I'll do my best to catch your fucking squirrel.
SPEAKER_04I was like, but don't tell Phil.
SPEAKER_10You should see like a like a thumbs up over the shoulder. Thank you. And again, walks into the tree line and vanishes.
SPEAKER_14And uh as we're walking, I love this. I'll start singing.
SPEAKER_07Yeah!
SPEAKER_14Look at it on me as we've been going along, like I was on the way here, scratching things out in a notebook and and rewriting things. Uh figuring things out. Wish I was kind of like humming to myself. Uh yeah. There's like a look of consternation on my face as I'm like processing. In the town of Black Rock, no one wonders where you've gone for long. So when the mine shaft comes asunder, who will sing your song? But a hero can contain Let his name invoke to rain. Yes, the fail will draw the line Tween you and the mine. She needn't, but for a lust of coin. But when the battle bells ring, how convenient she should never join. But this hero of the folk, he can cut through screens of smoke. Yes, the veil will draw the line between you and the mine. So when the darkness seems to stagnate, send for Kithrack Vale. No mind player, Albert, gemstone magnate, lives to tell the tale of this hero from the sky. He knows the hearts of you and I. Yes, the veil will draw the line.
SPEAKER_07Oh yes, the line between you and the between you and the mine.
SPEAKER_02Is that not just a little bit exaggerative?
SPEAKER_13It's truth with a capital T.
SPEAKER_17All right.
SPEAKER_14I liked it.
SPEAKER_00From the like from the chairman, for a second. I'm just gonna use it. I like it.
SPEAKER_12So we're sitting on a on a wagon and and I'm I'm I'm like leaning back. I'm meditating and you say that, and I Shane, that was awesome.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_12I did like it.
SPEAKER_05Of course you liked it. I I kind of jog up next to this wagon that they're in. Your name is Kithrak?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_05Well then what is the veiled Kithrak thing that he was saying?
SPEAKER_13It's a word.
SPEAKER_05What is it? It's a word. I'm just gonna get stuck in my head and for a learn of the lyrics. Yeah, you don't. What does that mean?
SPEAKER_10You hear a collection of whistles going.
SPEAKER_12What do you want? And as I say that, oh shit, almost involuntary, uh-huh. Um I cast Speak with Animals. Uh-huh. Because I've never casted before, and I open my eyes.
SPEAKER_11What do you all need? Why are you watching us?
SPEAKER_04I was just asking about an image. I didn't know. I don't think he's talking to you.
SPEAKER_10A lot, yeah. You see a bunch of people look over. Uh make a persuasion check with advantage. Yeah, you do.
SPEAKER_12And what would I first do? Is it advantage? Oh, with advantage? You have advantage, right? He did say that. Okay. The first one. First one.
SPEAKER_14Um can I give him Bardic inspiration on this? Because I just sang a song about it. Sure.
SPEAKER_01What does he get to roll?
SPEAKER_14Look at what I made for you.
SPEAKER_01What is this?
SPEAKER_14What?
SPEAKER_00Oh my god! Wait a second.
SPEAKER_14The loot design itself is from a creator called Cryonic. I can't uh I got it on a on a website. Oh my god, look at it. I didn't make the the dice with the musical note faces. The six is the um the eight and the one is the rest.
SPEAKER_10This is fucking awesome.
SPEAKER_12My brother My brother in dice.
SPEAKER_00Oh too tight.
SPEAKER_14Oh there we go. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_12So this is gonna be a dirty twenty. Dirty twenty. What a roller coaster.
SPEAKER_11What a roller coaster.
SPEAKER_10All right. Um as Vale as the as the song finishes, whistles of the tune begin to emanate, and you hear whispers of like, Vale.
SPEAKER_12As I and sorry, as I yell out, I meant to say, like, some of the constellations on me are kind of flaring independently, just like bright spots underneath my skin. And um very small motes of light are kind of finding the various animals in earshot and like kind of just landing on them. Okay. Almost to help them understand me.
SPEAKER_10Oh yeah. Alright. As one of those motes of uh of light, it travels into sort of the darkened canopy. It hovers for a moment and illuminates like a small shape that you see kind of extend quickly as you see a like a what looks like a barn owl comes down and sort of like on silent wings just and like glides and sits like next to you. And its head does that very unsettling like turn. It just sits there and waits. Hello.
SPEAKER_11What do you want? Nothing. Why are you all watching us? I was bid to by what or whom?
SPEAKER_10And you see as for a moment, it it almost looks confused. My master.
SPEAKER_12What is your master?
SPEAKER_10You see, for a moment, it as you ask it this question, its intellect can't really comprehend it's almost like like it doesn't know what it's like it doesn't know why it's doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like it's you kind of see it like it's just a simple framework. Yeah, it's a very simple framework for like what it's doing and why. They have many names.
unknownWe move many names.
SPEAKER_12Are you just meant to watch? Yes.
SPEAKER_02Can we hear Vale's side of this or not? Are they meant to be?
SPEAKER_10Or does it sound like I think he talks normally? You hear it, it's like Vale?
SPEAKER_02Are they meant to watch?
SPEAKER_10Yes.
SPEAKER_02Us or anyone in the woods.
SPEAKER_12Are you watching us or everyone?
SPEAKER_11Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_05Yes, one of them. Are you?
SPEAKER_02No, but if they're meant to watch us, then maybe they're all by the virtual being in the woods. We are also everyone in the woods. I don't like that. You see?
SPEAKER_12Do you know any of their names?
SPEAKER_10Dread.
SPEAKER_12It flies off. Does anyone here know a dread?
SPEAKER_16I know a feeling of dread.
SPEAKER_14I'm very acquainted with that feeling.
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SPEAKER_10As we return, yeah. Make some history checks. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03History checks.
SPEAKER_05I'm doing one. I'm doing one. Okay. And this is for Dred, right?
SPEAKER_01I mean, I'm gonna do it. I don't know anything. Oh man. Are we all doing history?
SPEAKER_05Are you up next to him? That is a good one. I went up to him and I was talking to things, but if you were to do something like that. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I was in the cart, I guess, resting. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04Um, I got a 21. You're like humming the song and you don't know why, because you've been resting.
SPEAKER_12Something about a line between dirty two and mines.
SPEAKER_04Oh, look at us. What did you get? 20 and above. 21. Nice!
SPEAKER_12Oh, how's an eight doing?
SPEAKER_04Wicked's not good. You know, you're not from here.
SPEAKER_12I'm not from here, so.
SPEAKER_05I don't know what's probably wrote on one.
SPEAKER_10That particular moniker has come up. You both rolled really well. Very rarely. And from what you understand and remember, it is spoken in the context that it's spoken in, and that it has like been whispered in, is having to do with the illicit goods that move through BlackRock. Interesting. Um is in your guys' experience, is like kind of a shadow of a rumor of a whisper. Wow. Like this idea that well, neither of you really know, like, who is really in charge. Or like who all the power brokers are, who moves things through, like where things are sourced from. Um, it's all very nebulous. But there have been like a couple of whispers throughout your time where you've heard that this could be a moniker of whoever somebody who is a big, big power broker in that space.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's unlikely that it's the Fey, which is what I was worried about, so I mean Drawing attention of the Fey is never something I want to do, so I'm glad it's not that.
SPEAKER_14The Fey?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Fey creatures.
SPEAKER_14Alright.
SPEAKER_05You didn't answer my question. What question about that word? Is it a bad word? Can I use it? What does it mean? It was in the song.
SPEAKER_14It's just uh another thing you can call the veil. You know? We were talking about how having lots of names is part of being famous.
SPEAKER_05I don't believe him. You just choose to have to.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, okay. Because like he's he would say that. He's he's very truthful, he's not. So I'm like, this motherfuck is lying, because this guy can't.
SPEAKER_05I know which force I should. So I know it's not that.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna try.
SPEAKER_06I'm gonna try to choose not to beat his mind. Said I'm not gonna believe it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm like, huh.
SPEAKER_05Now let's see. I guess no, insight? Oh, golly. That's not as good as I thought. A five. Huh.
SPEAKER_10Ramsey, if you if if you're insighting Ramsey, then I suppose you can go ahead and roll uh deception or persuasion, your choice of which.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_10Great. This is the one kind. Okay. As they walk away in this exchange is head, you're you're not sure where you land. Appears just to be an well, actually, no, it appears to be just another word.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Is it is it even a I guess it's just a title.
SPEAKER_02Does it matter what it means?
SPEAKER_03Nobody else in BlackRock knows what it means.
SPEAKER_02Make it up.
SPEAKER_14It's a a a title. You know. It's like surveil. But it sounds less like surveil. Yes. So helps. I'm working round the clock.
SPEAKER_12He's learned some of my tongue. My native tongue.
SPEAKER_04Can I learn? Can you teach me a pattern?
SPEAKER_06That was great.
SPEAKER_04That was so good.
SPEAKER_05I I I I give you the with the with the eyelashes and the please, Mr. Surveil.
SPEAKER_12Why?
SPEAKER_05Because I think it would be fun.
SPEAKER_12Fun, it's useful, it's for communicating.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, like communicating frustration and and curses.
SPEAKER_04Think about it.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_12I'll think about it.
SPEAKER_04Hasn't Ramsay taught you fun things about our world? It's it's fun learning things about our world.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_17She's not from Rock originally.
SPEAKER_05I do a sign to uh uh Phil. And I say in sign language to Phil, oh my gosh, wouldn't it be so fun to learn a new curse word in this language? And I say that with my hands.
SPEAKER_03So you see, you know, I'm doing common sign language to Phil.
SPEAKER_02Oh, do I have that though?
SPEAKER_03I think you do. I think we talked about it. I thought we did. I do have it! Yeah! And I just smile even bigger. See? Guess what I said?
unknownZkvah.
SPEAKER_05What is the skvah?
SPEAKER_14Uh shit.
SPEAKER_05Am I doing am I doing your skvah!
SPEAKER_14Is it kind of. You can kind of.
SPEAKER_02It's kind of like a little stuff, like you cut it out.
SPEAKER_14Yes.
SPEAKER_02Is this one of those that if you say it like extended slightly, it means something totally different?
SPEAKER_14No.
SPEAKER_02Oh, alright.
SPEAKER_14Feel free to experiment.
SPEAKER_00Skvah! Like a little kid. Like a little kid for the first time. Ever again.
SPEAKER_10Amazing. What a little kid.
SPEAKER_04Hey John, I just learned to kill you.
SPEAKER_10Just call out into the forest.
SPEAKER_00Okay. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_04He has like a bird cost.
SPEAKER_00You hear from you back from the forest.
SPEAKER_02Like, what'd you call me? Vail, you'll you'll never hear the end of it now. Skiva!
SPEAKER_12I see I made a mistake.
SPEAKER_02Oh, not a mistake, just she can be quite enthusiastic.
SPEAKER_12Lots of energy. That one.
SPEAKER_14Um Vail. I do think um based on what we discussed before. If you talked about a lot before. Well, yes, um you were saying that you wanted to share some of the some of your tail, maybe. On the way back, if we made it back.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_14You still feel that way. Oh, that one.
SPEAKER_16Elia, stop running around screaming.
SPEAKER_14Yes.
SPEAKER_16Come back, hop up.
SPEAKER_14I walk slower.
SPEAKER_03Sure. And then I just pop up onto the wagon.
SPEAKER_01I kind of roll from the corner of the wagon, kind of roll.
SPEAKER_05Holy sh you've been here.
SPEAKER_04Holy sh!
SPEAKER_05You've been here! Did I use it in the right sense the right context?
SPEAKER_12The Mr. the Server.
SPEAKER_01Sure.
SPEAKER_05Yes. I'm getting better.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm feeling a bit better. Uh you don't look better. Thanks. What do you need? Sorry.
SPEAKER_10You guys could have all taken a short rest during this time, if so truth. Yeah, for sure. Big thing.
SPEAKER_00I'm alright.
SPEAKER_01Alright. What were you asking Ramsey? What do you need?
SPEAKER_14Oh, um, just given the the nature of what we all just went through, um Male has some relevant experience that he wanted to share.
SPEAKER_05Um right. I mean, well, you can go back to what you were gonna say before the mountains.
SPEAKER_12All related. Oh. Prior to the events that led landed me here. I saw a stone, a large tablet, a plate that was drinking light. And I You saw it like physically or saw it like a- I was in a party of Gift Gear and we were traveling. We came here to a mountain. And I wasn't supposed to see it. I got in trouble.
SPEAKER_02Did that tablet have multiple sides? Fourteen?
SPEAKER_12I don't know. It was partially it was mostly covered.
SPEAKER_05So you saw like the stone being carried. Well, the stone from the mine.
SPEAKER_12Yeah.
SPEAKER_05To your ship. I don't know. Is it the same stone? I don't know.
SPEAKER_14Could be. Wait. Fourteen sides, but where did that come from? There's chambers down.
SPEAKER_12Fourteen sides, fourteen primal forces.
SPEAKER_14Yes, but why would the stone have fourteen?
SPEAKER_02I just was asking if it did. It just looked like a a big rock.
SPEAKER_01You said you weren't supposed to see it, why not?
SPEAKER_12I was told to tell no one of it. Of me seeing it. I was just on the ship as a navigator. Navigator's apprentice. And when we made our jump, we were getting we weren't going back to limbo, actually, no. We weren't going home. I think there were more to find. But before we travel it.
SPEAKER_02Oh boy.
SPEAKER_12They didn't. It's actually strange, they didn't tell us why we were traveling. And before we could make our next jump, we were attacked by large, terrible creatures. And I was told to get us out, and I tried to make the ship jump. And I landed on a I washed up on a a ship?
SPEAKER_05Jump? Like a ship in the water? We were in the water. No, he's from another plane.
SPEAKER_12A ship.
SPEAKER_05A ship in the plane?
SPEAKER_12Like a what is it look like?
SPEAKER_05What is that? What does it look like? I'm thinking of a of a boat with a sail.
SPEAKER_12Similar.
SPEAKER_05What is your ship look like?
SPEAKER_12Like that, but out there.
SPEAKER_05Like the color, the shape.
SPEAKER_14He's a hero from the sky. Big. Here we are.
SPEAKER_12Lots of colours.
SPEAKER_05Lots of colours. Pointy?
SPEAKER_12He stole it from Ilithid.
SPEAKER_02Oh, an Ilithid ship.
SPEAKER_12Is that why we were attacked? Uh it was not Ilithid that attacked us. Beast?
SPEAKER_02It was some large black beast.
SPEAKER_12Like big insects.
SPEAKER_14Probably well, I don't know, maybe this is a leap, but in the same things that took the whatever whatever the the bloody thing is that we didn't find, whatever took that.
SPEAKER_02You believe these creatures came for that tablet? And maybe they're searching for others.
SPEAKER_12I have to believe we were taking them to keep them safe.
SPEAKER_05Uh wait, so you're a gethier?
SPEAKER_12Yes.
SPEAKER_05Not a Githyanke?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_05Huh.
SPEAKER_12We have a Githge. We consist of both Githyankee and Githera.
SPEAKER_05Ah. Huh. So are you?
SPEAKER_10No one here has ever heard the term Githeri except for Randy.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm What is a Githai Getheray?
SPEAKER_12You're looking at one.
SPEAKER_02How do you differ? Sorry, this may be quite personal. How do you differ from Githyanke?
SPEAKER_14It's a long and complex history. It is.
SPEAKER_05Alright, fair. Well then, were you guys part of the military? Like, why were you on this mission? Were you just who was paying for it? Who was ordering you?
SPEAKER_12We don't know. It wasn't military. But I don't know why we were on this mission. My job was to make sure the ship made it to where we're just going and I was learning.
SPEAKER_05So you're an apprentice, and then your boss is like, hey, we got a job, and you don't know if it was a military operation or an exploration or a mob.
SPEAKER_14It's sort of all the same, right? You just do what's best for the gift gear.
SPEAKER_02Did this tablet also have that same poison infection?
SPEAKER_12I didn't. I I didn't see it long enough to check it.
SPEAKER_02How long had you had it on your ship for?
SPEAKER_12Not long.
SPEAKER_02Alright, so maybe not long enough to infect it. And then they were attacked.
SPEAKER_14We also don't know for sure that it would have the same effect on GIF as it did on Prime material creatures.
SPEAKER_05Had you s was this the first stop? This mountain.
SPEAKER_14It was just where you ended up.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_05Because you said that you were This was the first. This was the first. And what did the mountain look like? Snow Snow covered. And then I I start to start doing my magic with like the the iridescence that comes off. So the ship. Did it have like this kind of effect? And like the chromatic aberration that starts with like my magic, but I don't cast which bolt. I just start pulling my hands together.
SPEAKER_12Oh with the my seal.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but like you I'm more indicating like the color variation with the magic. Like this.
SPEAKER_12Um have that color.
SPEAKER_05I think a like a like a so no uh doo doo doo doo doo.
SPEAKER_12I mean there are reds and pinks, but I wouldn't say what's the color that's what is what's the color in the in the um in your cat's cradle?
SPEAKER_05It's uh it's like a chromatic aberration, so just like a rainbow of colors that kind of that kind of sloughs off of what is there.
SPEAKER_12That's exactly no, but some of those colors, yes.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02I I'm sorry, I have one question. You mentioned 14 primal forces.
SPEAKER_12Yeah.
SPEAKER_02What do you mean by that?
SPEAKER_12Time, entropy, chaos. Light.
SPEAKER_02These are 14 primal forces.
SPEAKER_14That was what the chamber communicated to me when I um conferred with it, I suppose you could say. It gave you the names. The translations are I mean, I heard music, right? So it's you know, it's the universal language. Um, but it did communicate. I don't know, it it evoked those things in me.
SPEAKER_12Why are the primal forces in these domes connected?
SPEAKER_14Light, dark 14 primal forces, 14 sounds. Nothing at all. You've never heard of this at all.
SPEAKER_02No, I've never heard of Poison Primal Forces.
SPEAKER_14The foundations of magic.
SPEAKER_02Is that what primal forces are?
SPEAKER_12I don't know, it's just what's what I felt in chambers. The foundations of everything, including magic.
SPEAKER_14When we when I was using magic in those chambers, I I felt it uh was infinitely looping inside of me. Um I I don't know, I think.
SPEAKER_02Well, so some it leads me to believe that, or to question whether there is a connection between these tablets and the making of the world. The making of the planes, the making of all making of the weaking of all things.
SPEAKER_14Pretty.
SPEAKER_02Vale, you're making a face. I mean, it's hard to tell with the way your face is shaped, but I believe you're making a face. Is that did that draw something to you? The making of the we, the making of the beginning of all things?
SPEAKER_12It makes sense that it would connect to that.
SPEAKER_02Why?
SPEAKER_12If. if these chambers are actually a representation of these forces, then that's what they are. They are the origin.
SPEAKER_02So the question is, is do these things predate us? And I don't mean just you and me, I mean all things. all planes, or is it a recreation of those things? A manufacturing of how to create new worlds.
SPEAKER_14I mean the history of Elbor has uh substantially changed in recent times, so.
SPEAKER_02Right, but are these. are these older than time itself?
SPEAKER_14What is even the primal force of the restra?
SPEAKER_02Right, but that's not where I'm going with this. Are these older than time itself, or are they creations to create time itself?
SPEAKER_14I mean, time is among them.
SPEAKER_02I don't mean time time, I mean I mean to create a new plane, a new series of planes, a new world.
SPEAKER_14I'm trying to imagine what these insects or whatever they w were want with such a thing. Something was taken from those chambers, not just the um explosion spot, but also those The tablet.
SPEAKER_02If that was what we were doing. Yes, almost like a a missing object, a missing structure.
SPEAKER_13But what? And why?
SPEAKER_02Or were those things creatures themselves?
SPEAKER_14I don't know. I mean, they escaped and dallied off.
SPEAKER_02Something large did something in that town. The mining.
SPEAKER_14It also killed all those lizard folk.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. Something large did something.
SPEAKER_01Sure. What is that? Oh. Well, thank you. Are you sure?
SPEAKER_05A bit of ball of light.
SPEAKER_14Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_05It tastes great. I don't know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_14I don't know what your taste buds are composed of.
SPEAKER_05I grew up here.
SPEAKER_14Yes.
SPEAKER_05I have the finest taste buds in all the land.
SPEAKER_14I think that is objectively untrue. I'll eat though.
SPEAKER_06You gained one hit point.
SPEAKER_01You gained one hit point? Uh appreciate that. Um curious if we could go back a bit. You said you were attacked when you were trying to make your jump or escape, I'm assuming. Yes. What happened to your crew? What happened to the ship? Where is it? I don't know. And how did you get here? I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? Did you hit your head?
SPEAKER_12Yes.
SPEAKER_06Right.
SPEAKER_12Planar magic is extremely powerful. I could have been thrown anywhere and I was thrown to this plane.
SPEAKER_02And then you met Ramsey.
SPEAKER_12Washed up on a beach and was found. Hmm. Well, I met Ramsey later, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And you think Ilithid have the answer to where your ship is, or are you trying to get home? Is that the plan?
SPEAKER_12Often when Gith of any kind leave, they look for Ilithid.
SPEAKER_14So if I could find Illithid, I might be able to find It's the closest thing we can think of as far as finding a track of the thing.
SPEAKER_01Because a Gith would be fighting the Ilithid that you find.
SPEAKER_14If there's an Illid somewhere, there's likely a Gith pursuing it.
SPEAKER_02So I mean I've I've not You don't run across Gith very often, I I would say I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_01Well thank you for sharing. Appreciate that.
SPEAKER_12He insisted. But um seemed relevant, and as my mentor is not around, tell me not to share.
SPEAKER_02He does seem there aren't many things that I can't think of anything that drinks light the way it's described, or that we've seen these things do that, so black holes.
SPEAKER_14I've heard of um machines that create darkness.
SPEAKER_02Right, or magic that creates darkness, right. But not an object.
SPEAKER_14No, in the way that that chamber exsanguinated the light from my spell.
SPEAKER_05You you said there were many planes. Maybe there's a plane where these objects are normal and it's coming into ours for some reason. Is there a plane with I don't know, darkness and items that tend to exude poison evil?
SPEAKER_11Just darkness. No.
SPEAKER_05But maybe evil darkness. Poison acid.
SPEAKER_14Shadow spells? Perhaps.
SPEAKER_10Why are you guys looking at me?
SPEAKER_14I've only heard of uh stories that though. It's just a sort of catchy name.
SPEAKER_12It is strange that darkness is one of the forces. And these things drink light, which is another force.
SPEAKER_14Yes, I didn't.
SPEAKER_12I don't know.
SPEAKER_14Maybe whatever item we're we're dealing with, it's um I don't know. The chambers like that. In stories. They're containments for things, you know. You hear of um foolish adventurers that release ancient demons from prisons, you know. They break into places they shouldn't, and then the demon escapes, and then the heroes have to hunt them down. That sort of thing. Um so strikes me that I don't know. If if I were to write the story, the chamber itself with the um forces, it would be unrelated to the object. The object is something that the chamber was like created to store.
SPEAKER_02By object you mean the tablet.
SPEAKER_05I supp the stone. He didn't say tablet.
SPEAKER_02Which ever that is. Stone tablet, same same same.
SPEAKER_14Well different a tablet has uh writing on it. So Did this have rush? Did you see a tablet though?
SPEAKER_12Oh, on my ship. Yes, you said it was covered, no? Yeah, I saw a sliver. I didn't see any writing.
SPEAKER_02There's okay, stone.
SPEAKER_12Um Are you saying that this chamber, at least in your story, to keep everything safe from whatever's in it?
SPEAKER_02Well, to keep it safe from everything else.
SPEAKER_05I don't it's it seemed like that chamber was much older than anything else. I don't think the stone would be older than that chamber.
SPEAKER_02Unless they're both old.
SPEAKER_14Oh yes. Perhaps the chamber existed before the object, and the object was just put there for safekeeping because of the powerful magics contained within.
SPEAKER_05The stone on the mountain, did it come from a chamber like this?
SPEAKER_12Or was it just I wasn't with them.
SPEAKER_05You don't know, but it could have been. Could there could have been another chamber in another mountain?
SPEAKER_14Not a chamber like that.
SPEAKER_02Could this chamber have been a ship?
SPEAKER_14I mean, anything's possible.
SPEAKER_02A ship transported into a mountain? We've witnessed in a jump of a plane, a planar jump, could it land in a mountain?
SPEAKER_12They made a mistake, yes.
SPEAKER_02Because perhaps it was just another ship carrying a tablet.
SPEAKER_05But two coincidences of two mountains with two stones?
SPEAKER_02Is it the same? Is it the same stone?
SPEAKER_05I mean, we get snow on this. Is this our ship? Long ago was mountain. No.
SPEAKER_01No, you said you stole it from Milifit, right? The ship. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05On the top of this mine mountain, is there snow on it right now?
SPEAKER_10Um, if you look deeper into the cloud rivers, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but not here.
SPEAKER_10Not here where you're at. Right.
SPEAKER_05It's cold, but now it's if it was this mountain, it would have been a different part of the year. So that's what it must have been a different mountain.
SPEAKER_14This is all some time ago.
SPEAKER_05Some time ago, and and plana travel.
SPEAKER_14Eight months or so at least.
SPEAKER_05Uh-huh. So eight months ago, there might have been snow on the mountain.
SPEAKER_10Well, there's almost always snow on the cloud rivers in the deeper parts of the piece.
SPEAKER_05But like here specifically.
SPEAKER_10Here specifically? Um, it was a plane, but a plane job.
SPEAKER_05Not in this mine. That's why I'm I'm like, in this mine, it most of the time. Snow definitely falls here.
SPEAKER_12Probably not this tablet. Because we took wherever we got it from, we took the tablet.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_12And then our ship went somewhere.
SPEAKER_05But not by it was just attacked by creatures. Yes.
SPEAKER_12Not illithin.
SPEAKER_14Right. And these the creatures that attacked, so they did not look like those afflicted um miners that arms. No, they were more composed, less mutated.
SPEAKER_12Uh not mutated like that, no.
SPEAKER_05What mutated like the spiders that we just saw?
SPEAKER_12No.
SPEAKER_05Interesting.
SPEAKER_02There. There is a it's possible that there is something else that's fourteen-sided. Potentially of the fourteen primal forces.
SPEAKER_14I mean, I've seen potters sell fourteen-sided plates. What are you getting at? It's something else. What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02What do you mean fourteen-sided plates?
SPEAKER_14I'm just saying, anything can be fourteen-sided. Well what do you mean?
SPEAKER_02I don't see a lot of things that are fourteen-sided. Do you see a lot of fourteen-sided plates?
SPEAKER_14I think well y yes.
SPEAKER_02You don't use It has 14 sides?
SPEAKER_14Yeah, sometimes people create like artistic renderings?
SPEAKER_02I don't know many things that have 14 sides.
SPEAKER_12You can make a 14-sided anything. When when would you shop for colours?
SPEAKER_14Making a point that anything could be 14 sides. Why do you what are you talking about?
SPEAKER_02I believe that before these men found this chamber, they found an object in that mine. And it was returned to BlackRock.
SPEAKER_05So it probably came from the chamber.
SPEAKER_02And that's or nearby.
SPEAKER_14Maybe at least connected to this zone.
SPEAKER_02Potentially. So if a creature is destroying things to reach these tablets, will it come to Black Rock? For this object.
SPEAKER_14Probably. It's kvah.
SPEAKER_02I think it's a hard R at the end.
SPEAKER_14There's no R.
SPEAKER_02There's no R. There's no R? He has an accent. It's Kva. Oh okay. I see. I don't know how I would say.
SPEAKER_05I have perfect dictionary.
SPEAKER_10I don't have an accent. Your accent. Some guy nearby. You both have accents.
SPEAKER_05Okay. What a I'm sorry. Why? You're probably really lonely without your family.
SPEAKER_09He's got Ramsay. Who could ever feel lonely when they have Ramsay?
SPEAKER_14My thoughts exactly. I'm not lonely. How did you two meet again?
SPEAKER_09Again, I don't think we know the for the first time, huh?
SPEAKER_14Yes, it happens fast. Um cosmic forces brought us together.
SPEAKER_12I found him playing music.
SPEAKER_14Yes, you're all scrutinizing what was a certain chance encounter of um benign quality. And you just saw something in him.
SPEAKER_01I needed help. Alright, and the friend is the one good graces. It seems.
SPEAKER_14I'm a man of many good graces, yes.
SPEAKER_05Well, I'm glad you found such great friendly company. But I know that if I was separated from everything I've known and everything I've loved, I'd be a little sad. And I kind of just give him a little nut. Do you know what it's like? Has everyone been separated from their families? What is going on?
SPEAKER_14How many of us are going home to see our family right now?
SPEAKER_05I mean, but like you haven't. Don't get me wrong, I looked at the way from a different plane of existence. I let go of him. But that's not family, that's uh companionship.
SPEAKER_11Yes.
SPEAKER_04I just hear white noise.
SPEAKER_16And I I just like to mention my hand over and like grip Ilya's arm. Ilya?
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_16You know the type of work that this elicites. No, no, no, I don't know. You have to know.
SPEAKER_02You always know.
SPEAKER_05This is this is the life we lead.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Alright. Um I'm just saying, yes, we've you know, you go on an adventure, you leave your family, you don't leave a literal world plane. So, I mean, maybe you have, and you're not telling us where you're from, but it's not as dramatic as all that.
SPEAKER_14Exactly. Certainly, but uh yeah. I'm just saying we can all start again. I like it here.
SPEAKER_09Are you implying that everybody's parents are dead?
SPEAKER_14No.
SPEAKER_09And families are dead.
SPEAKER_14No, I'm just saying that it's yeah, I'm just saying that I relate to it, that there's a reason that we are such comrades.
SPEAKER_05I mean, two of us are going back to our family.
SPEAKER_14I mean, the whole caravan is going back to their families, but yes, I meant of our uh wondrous selection.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I'm not going back to my family, I'm going back to my chosen family.
SPEAKER_14Yes, it is a bit different, isn't it?
SPEAKER_05I mean, kind of adopt it has been like ten years.
SPEAKER_14As I've adopted Joe. As my brother.
SPEAKER_05I didn't know adoption could happen like that, but I guess that's our process, sir.
SPEAKER_01It has picked the one out of the lot. You're the person I'm gonna follow around the world. I found him. Why?
SPEAKER_09Sure, how do you never have fa friends that you follow over the world?
SPEAKER_01It just seems a little odd that you met him in a bar meeting, and you travel with him for how to do it.
SPEAKER_17I find it hard to believe that you've made it to how old are you? And you've never followed a friend around.
SPEAKER_01I mean, does it not seem a bit hard? I'm sorry. Does it not seem a bit hard? I mean, it's just so self-sufficient, but you've known each other for years.
SPEAKER_17We're not related, Ilya.
SPEAKER_09I'm not drowned.
SPEAKER_01You just give the impression You just give the impression that you met him one night at the bar and now you just follow him around like a lost puppy.
SPEAKER_05Maybe they're in love.
SPEAKER_01I'd love to know. Why? I'm just curious. We've been traveling around with each other, and I'm just curious to know your story. Do you have a family you're going back to? I don't know.
SPEAKER_14That's do you mean you have some uh you've had so many relations in Black Rock, you may have a child somewhere.
SPEAKER_01Sure, let's go with that. But I don't want to steer away from my question. I'm curious. Like, why did you choose him?
SPEAKER_05Like I mean, look at him. I think it's the question should be.
SPEAKER_14I am a pervad heap. Stories and and um this man is a beacon of.
SPEAKER_02Oh no, they seem to fight well together, I can imagine.
SPEAKER_12He's very capable. When I came upon him, he needed help. I helped. What did you need help with?
SPEAKER_17Sure, geez.
SPEAKER_01I'm awake now, I've been feeling better.
SPEAKER_17Oh, see? I told you, it tastes good. Yeah, they get better, it really helps. See, uh, I I find it hard to believe that you're trying to deep dive and dig into these people's lives.
SPEAKER_02You're not one to share very often.
SPEAKER_08I'll go back to bed then. Just try to join the conversation, but I'm not wanted, so alright.
SPEAKER_17Well, sure, I've known you for a year now, and I don't quite know where you came from. Why you landed in Black Rock?
SPEAKER_08You're fair, that's fair. We all have our secrets.
SPEAKER_05We should share, sure. So eager to learn from others. I came to Black Rock when I was seven years old, and it was wonderful. I love it here. Okay, your turn.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna get my rest.
SPEAKER_14Have you always been able to shoot lightning out of your fingers? Not everything's an open book.
SPEAKER_05No, I'm thinking I can't remember when it started. I mean, my mom didn't do magic and I mean I it was pretty normal where we're from, and then I came here and able to do tiny things, but it grows over time. Yeah. It it is never this strong. It was it was pretty fucking weak, and it was tiny. But I think over the last ten years. Yeah. About ten years ago it started really getting stronger.
SPEAKER_02And who knows, maybe after this chamber it'll continue to get stronger.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that was cool. Can you write a song about that? The the the cool lightning that'll come Fuck you, spider.
SPEAKER_14Quite roll off the tackle.
SPEAKER_05I think you could do a better job, obviously.
SPEAKER_14But it would be like I would have to dedicate my time to that.
SPEAKER_05With like the colors, and it was just so beautiful. Anyway, I shared. Your turn.
SPEAKER_12I shared. You did a lot. Yeah. Quite a bit. Do you want to know more?
SPEAKER_05Your turn. I know your story, and I don't know.
SPEAKER_02There's not much to tell. I've been in BlackRock for the last ten years.
SPEAKER_05Helping the wonderful citizens. Ten years ago, Phil was really sad, and then she met me.
SPEAKER_06And then everything went right with the world.
SPEAKER_05Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_14Yes, she seems um chippo now. She sadness that previously lurked is nowhere to be found.
SPEAKER_05Exactly. I do a great, great job.
SPEAKER_14You know what's strange, Ilya. I don't think you have that much to hide, but I trust you less than everyone.
SPEAKER_04How? How? How?
SPEAKER_14Sure, I find very predictable.
SPEAKER_05Um? You're right. I'm not predictable.
SPEAKER_14There's nothing less predictable than someone earnest. That's a bore.
SPEAKER_02I'm not. You can always predict that somebody who lies is going to lie. Right! Mm-hmm. Oh, so I you can always predict that someone who's going to lie is going to lie.
SPEAKER_09Right, Ramsay?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, right, Ramsay? No.
SPEAKER_05So if I were to say like skiva kithrak.
SPEAKER_14You would be just saying two words unrelated to one another for the most part.
SPEAKER_05Like shit tree.
SPEAKER_14Kind of, yes. I mean, it's a title. It's like, sir.
SPEAKER_05Shitlord. So if I if I yelled at a rich person at BlackRock, it would be it would be appropriate.
SPEAKER_14Not quite.
SPEAKER_05Like one of those well- So you know how Lord I don't know, Vale.
SPEAKER_14I I I I don't want to speak for you, but it you actually respect each other in your culture. Unlike us, I think for the most part we look at our lords as um shit. Yeah. But uh but uh Kithrak is an actual honorific.
SPEAKER_05Oh.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_14Means something to them. That's why I used it. I wouldn't use something as pompous as Lord, you know. Are you calling him pompous? No. That's why I call him Kithrack.
SPEAKER_05Oh, Lord is pompous. Oh, I understand. Right. Okay. So I won't use it in that context, but I wish I could.
SPEAKER_14I mean, you can use words however you want. That's the joy of words.
SPEAKER_05There are no gith.
unknownAnyway.
SPEAKER_04We might just come, and when we do, I can I can say fun things.
SPEAKER_14Oh, don't say that. I would really notice even I would um blanch at that.
SPEAKER_05No, no, when you when you when you learn a new language, you learn the bad words first, and then you go up to those people and you go, hey, I know this word, and then you say the word, and they go, Oh, you're so cute. Where did this accent come from? As for the second day, you start to describe the problem.
SPEAKER_00I'm rocking him!
SPEAKER_05I'm rubbing off on No, but when I was a kid, that's what happened all the time, and everyone then gave me money. Or like head pats.
SPEAKER_12I tried to pat your head.
SPEAKER_05And she was a child. And you're weird. I was smaller then. Now they give me money. Don't think I don't see you quiet over there, Sean.
SPEAKER_01I'm just relaxing. I'm just leaned up against the wall with the ten again, almost trying to fall back asleep. Or the cavern.
SPEAKER_10As I as I reach over the wagon. As I knew C something in there, that's practical.
SPEAKER_05I want to I want to like reach over to Vale and be like, or one of those moats. And as I reach over, I um slip a uh pitter's salt to uh to Shaw.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Cool. Slide hand check for me, I guess. What is that? Is he trying to do a slide hand check?
SPEAKER_05Something that he used in the bar when he wants to be out of this conversation. Well, you know, Ilya doesn't want him to be out of this conversation. Ilya has her way with things. Um which one is it? Skills? Cool. Yeah, one of those. Okay. Um 17 plus 4.
SPEAKER_10Okay. Unbeknownst to anybody, you.
SPEAKER_05I have big sleeves.
SPEAKER_10There you go.
SPEAKER_05You just wrap it up.
SPEAKER_10Gotta pit or salt. Okay. Add it to your inventory. Sure, yeah.
SPEAKER_05And I go. Mo, moat, please. You gave one to him.
SPEAKER_14Did you Are you hungry? Were you kinda? Were you hurt?
SPEAKER_05We didn't.
SPEAKER_14Why do you want this?
SPEAKER_05They're so cool. Can you just create them?
SPEAKER_12When you said you would be sad. What is sad? What does that mean?
SPEAKER_05Sad?
SPEAKER_12Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Have you ever in your body when you can't really breathe, there's a pressure on your chest. And water starts leaking from your eyes. Sometimes for no reason that you can think of. It usually happens when someone you love is gone. When you're in pain.
SPEAKER_12I think I felt sadness, but I don't know. Oh, I have to think about it.
SPEAKER_05It's not a bad feeling. It hurts, but it's necessary sometimes. And you got this guy to cheer you up right after. So it probably won't last that long anyway.
SPEAKER_14She's right about that.
SPEAKER_05I'm right about a lot of things.
SPEAKER_14I'm not crazy about sadness myself. I think it is kind of a bad feeling. That's why they make drink.
SPEAKER_05And other drugs to help you forget.
SPEAKER_10As Phil.
SPEAKER_00And other drugs to help you forget.
SPEAKER_06And Phil pitches the bridge of her nose.
SPEAKER_10And you continue on down the road. When we return next time, we will pick up in Black Rock.
SPEAKER_16Oh man.
SPEAKER_10As you finish your travel, you all level up.
SPEAKER_17We're the only people who get that.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I thought you were saying a CSE. I don't think what you know. We won't before because we're just like straight. Multiclassic. Oh. So for us, it's not. And for us, we have to make decisions about things.
SPEAKER_10Yes, we do. But when we come back next time, we will pick back up in Black Rock as you guys journey off into the uh into the ether of Freywood. Hell yeah. And uh, like I said, we'll pick back up upon your arrival. Yeah. Well, that's it for up folks. Hope you enjoyed watching as much as we did playing. We'll see you next time. Bye nerd.
SPEAKER_00Bye nerds.
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