EP. 134 Table Talk

[00:00:05] Speaker A: You are listening to an atomic broadcasting production. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the feature presentation. [00:00:13] Speaker B: And remember, do your part. [00:00:15] Speaker A: Such as, like, comment rate and don't [00:00:18] Speaker B: forget to tell a friend to tune in for an atomic time. [00:00:31] Speaker A: No. [00:00:31] Speaker C: Where did we leave off? [00:00:34] Speaker B: Ah, yes, [00:00:38] Speaker C: within the nonsensical city of Nithvale, Neros, Alward and Zephyr acquired the Wild Walkers from Demijant, but at a cost and a personal risk if things did not go as planned. [00:01:01] Speaker D: You know what I think would be a fun thing to do on a live stream? [00:01:04] Speaker E: Nap. [00:01:05] Speaker D: No, that would be a weird thing [00:01:07] Speaker E: to do on a live stream. [00:01:08] Speaker A: Just watch people do it. [00:01:09] Speaker E: Watch me sleep. [00:01:10] Speaker A: There are livestreams of people trying to sleep and you give them money to wake them up in horrific ways. [00:01:15] Speaker C: I hereby announce that is weird. [00:01:18] Speaker A: It is weird. [00:01:19] Speaker E: Sounds like a weird experiment the Russians would have done in, like, the 1930s. [00:01:23] Speaker B: Pretty sure they did. [00:01:24] Speaker D: I think it would be fun to do a live stream and to have a whole bunch of people and we. We start from zero blank page. [00:01:32] Speaker A: Okay. [00:01:33] Speaker D: And we create a one shot adventure on a live stream. [00:01:36] Speaker A: Okay. [00:01:37] Speaker E: Like, they like the people. The chat gives us suggestions. [00:01:41] Speaker D: Yeah, the chat would be involved, but it would also be like us doing it together and just be like, all right, go pull up Pinterest, get ideas. You know, let's just slap things together, build stat blocks. And we have a timer. And when timer's out, it's like one shot's done. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Oh, that would be. And then we have to. In the next. We play it. [00:01:58] Speaker D: Yeah, we get the. Whoever wasn't in the live stream building it, they have to play it. [00:02:02] Speaker A: That's fun. [00:02:03] Speaker B: And then you could do it back and forth. You could just do like a. I build yours, you build mine. Yeah, kind of like a. What is it, peer. Peer editing? Peer review. Yeah, peer grading. Whenever you would hand the paper to the next kid down the road. [00:02:14] Speaker A: It could be called One hour, One Shot, Teacher Grade. [00:02:19] Speaker D: Such inspirational pictures on Pinterest. Like this one I don't trust. [00:02:23] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [00:02:24] Speaker E: It's horrifying. [00:02:25] Speaker D: I am showing them a picture of a flaming skeleton crawling out of a culvert. [00:02:30] Speaker A: I don't know why, but I want to call that My Dog Dennis. [00:02:35] Speaker D: We have a title. [00:02:37] Speaker B: Please don't. [00:02:38] Speaker E: My Dog Dennis. He's on fire. And also he's a human. [00:02:43] Speaker D: My dog is on fire. [00:02:47] Speaker B: The dog from the Minecraft movie was named Dennis. [00:02:49] Speaker A: Oh, fun. [00:02:50] Speaker B: That was fun. He had a whole song. [00:02:52] Speaker E: Oh, did he sing it? [00:02:54] Speaker B: Jack Black singing. Because Jack Black sings in every movie he's in. [00:02:57] Speaker A: Does he? [00:02:58] Speaker B: I think so. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Did he sing in Jumanji? [00:03:01] Speaker B: Probably. [00:03:01] Speaker E: I never watched that Jumanji version was. [00:03:06] Speaker A: Okay. [00:03:07] Speaker E: I. I watch. I. I hold to the Robin Williams original. That one was Jumanji. Because it's. It horrified me as a child. [00:03:15] Speaker A: Fair. [00:03:15] Speaker B: I loved it. [00:03:16] Speaker E: It was absolutely. I think that is the scariest movie that I watched as a child. And there's a reason I don't like horror films, and it's because of Jumanji. [00:03:26] Speaker A: But Jumanji is not a horror film. [00:03:28] Speaker E: No, but it is when you're five also. What. What else? Hang on. Oh, the Disney movie, Snow White, the Seven Dwarves horrified me as a child. [00:03:43] Speaker A: Oh, valid. [00:03:44] Speaker B: You know, valid. In Walt Disney World, the Ride for Snow. I've been there, like, once when I was like, six. But that. That ride terrified me really so much. [00:03:57] Speaker E: Just. [00:03:58] Speaker B: You can. You can imagine if the movie's that scary that the witch was right in front of you. [00:04:03] Speaker E: Yeah, it was. It was the scene where she's running through the forest and then the trees have eyes. [00:04:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:10] Speaker E: And it's so scary. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Why does the trees have eyes sound like a horror movie? [00:04:14] Speaker B: Because the hills have eyes. [00:04:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:04:17] Speaker B: And if the trees have eyes, where are you gonna go? [00:04:19] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:04:19] Speaker A: I watched horror way too young. [00:04:22] Speaker B: What was I gonna say about Jumanji? [00:04:24] Speaker A: Zathura? [00:04:25] Speaker E: What? [00:04:26] Speaker B: No, but that was a spiritual successor. I don't know if that was actually a sequel. [00:04:29] Speaker D: I think both based on books by the same author. [00:04:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:35] Speaker E: Did you hear that? [00:04:37] Speaker A: The door opened menacingly. [00:04:41] Speaker C: I did not appreciate the AC kicked on and just creaked the door open. [00:04:46] Speaker B: We are entering the world of the game. [00:04:47] Speaker E: Leave that in. [00:04:48] Speaker A: Leave that in. [00:04:49] Speaker B: I've always been fascinated by movies where you go into a game. Oh, yeah. What I remember is the quote, I always, like, think this in my head is a little rain never hurt anybody. Yeah. But a lot can kill you. I love that quote. [00:05:03] Speaker A: It's a good quote. [00:05:05] Speaker B: This makes for great. [00:05:06] Speaker E: The energy right now is. [00:05:09] Speaker A: This is the same as last time. [00:05:11] Speaker E: We're so chill. [00:05:13] Speaker B: Here's a link to a Quora question. What is a catchy group name for a sober support meeting? [00:05:18] Speaker E: This is today's episode. [00:05:19] Speaker B: I feel like that's the least of your worries at this point. [00:05:22] Speaker A: I mean, it's important to be catchy. [00:05:25] Speaker B: I don't know why you're asking. The Internet. I'm gonna give you all kinds of bad ones. [00:05:29] Speaker A: How else are you supposed to get peer reviews? [00:05:31] Speaker B: You don't use peer reviews. You just come up with it on your own. And then just hope you don't like it. [00:05:35] Speaker E: You don't go to Quora, you go to Reddit. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's fact. It's a lot better because Quora is like. You go to the website and then all of a sudden it's completely unrelated. [00:05:44] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure Quora died as a website before I even knew the Internet existed. [00:05:51] Speaker B: I don't know what it's for, honestly. [00:05:53] Speaker A: It's for questions. [00:05:54] Speaker B: I feel like Yahoo Answers did a much better job. [00:05:58] Speaker E: RIP Rest in peace, Yahoo. [00:06:01] Speaker D: What about wiki? [00:06:02] Speaker A: How I like wiki? [00:06:04] Speaker B: That one's just a. If you want to know how not to do something, but maybe how to do it. I don't know, put it on yourself. You do it. [00:06:11] Speaker E: Watch a YouTube video. [00:06:13] Speaker A: I have so much beef with YouTube tutorials. So much beef with YouTube tutorials. [00:06:20] Speaker D: Oh, I wanted to give a topical one, so I googled wikihow how to play D and D. The. The first one that pops up. I already disagree on rule one. [00:06:29] Speaker A: What is it? [00:06:31] Speaker D: Step one, buy the handbooks. [00:06:34] Speaker A: I mean, you gotta know the rules at some point. [00:06:37] Speaker B: Okay, okay. Well, there's two parts to that sentence. Buy and the rulebooks. You can obtain the rule books. [00:06:44] Speaker D: But step two, understand race. [00:06:49] Speaker B: Race. [00:06:50] Speaker E: Oh, understand race. [00:06:52] Speaker B: I'm colorblind. [00:06:54] Speaker D: Step three, understand class. [00:06:57] Speaker B: I will never. [00:06:58] Speaker A: All very important things. [00:07:00] Speaker E: Is this wikiHow. [00:07:01] Speaker D: It is indeed. [00:07:02] Speaker E: Oh no. [00:07:03] Speaker A: It's teaching you how to be a revolutionary. [00:07:06] Speaker B: Why did my computer just make a disconnect sound? [00:07:09] Speaker A: I love your necklace. [00:07:10] Speaker E: Thank you. It was a Christmas present from one of my sisters in law, but I don't know which person it was. [00:07:20] Speaker A: I can't tell what it is from here. [00:07:21] Speaker E: It's a snake. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Oh, it's cool snack. [00:07:27] Speaker E: It's a slitherest snack. [00:07:30] Speaker B: I'm glad you got the reference and didn't just think I was saying something funny. [00:07:35] Speaker D: I did not get the reference. I am uncultured. [00:07:37] Speaker E: I'm old Greg. [00:07:38] Speaker D: I didn't even know who old Greg was until yesterday. [00:07:42] Speaker E: Scaly man fish. I need to show all of you Old Greg. Then that's what we're doing in the break. I'm showing all of you Old Greg. It has offensive humor in it. [00:07:54] Speaker A: Bend it. [00:07:55] Speaker E: I'm sorry. [00:07:55] Speaker A: What are we gonna do before the break though? [00:07:58] Speaker E: Record an episode maybe. [00:07:59] Speaker D: Speaking of recording an episode. [00:08:02] Speaker A: I did it. [00:08:03] Speaker C: Thanks, chickens. [00:08:06] Speaker D: We left off standing on the wall on the second floor of Demigant's Terrestrial Trinkets, an antique shop in the fey town of Nithvale. Only temporarily present here on the Material plane until the moon sets in 10 hours. [00:08:26] Speaker E: Oh, we have 10 more hours. [00:08:27] Speaker A: That's so much time. [00:08:30] Speaker B: So what happens if we're in the town and it disappears? Do we go with it? [00:08:35] Speaker E: Yes or. Yes, we do. [00:08:37] Speaker B: See, the question is, where do we have to be outside of the town in order to not go with it? Where are the boundaries? [00:08:43] Speaker A: Presumably by that crumbled castle we arrived by. [00:08:46] Speaker E: Yeah, I feel like that would safely be outside the bounds of the city. [00:08:48] Speaker B: Did the little guy that we were talking to, did he. Was he like a pixie? [00:08:53] Speaker E: Perry, he was a pixie. [00:08:54] Speaker A: It was a bushy. [00:08:55] Speaker B: It was a bush, yeah. Was he part of the town census? [00:09:01] Speaker E: No, he was. He's not part of Nithvale. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Yeah, he wanted us to go away from his town. And he wanted us to go, too. [00:09:08] Speaker E: We do also have my castle that we. I can just be like, hey, come here and take us out of this place. [00:09:15] Speaker A: What if we accidentally steal a Fae because they want to go inside the castle? [00:09:19] Speaker E: Well, that's their fault. [00:09:21] Speaker A: That's true. [00:09:22] Speaker E: If they climb in my castle castle uninvited, that's their fault. [00:09:25] Speaker D: You know, one Fae that invades your castle uninvited, it's their problem. But a thousand Fey that invade your castle uninvited, that's our. [00:09:33] Speaker E: That's our problem. [00:09:34] Speaker B: But if I wanted a thousand hugs from 1,000,000 Fae, that didn't go as well as I thought it would. [00:09:41] Speaker E: So there's a million Fae. Only a thousand of you are allowed to hug me. [00:09:45] Speaker B: If you choose wisely. I'm sure if you're a millennial, you've heard Owl City's fireflies. [00:09:50] Speaker A: I think it's 10,000. [00:09:52] Speaker B: No, it's a thousand. [00:09:53] Speaker A: It's a thousand. [00:09:54] Speaker B: 10 million or a million? [00:09:57] Speaker E: It's 10,000 fireflies. [00:09:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I know that. There's more fireflies than we're getting. Off topic. [00:10:04] Speaker A: I think it's just a thousand hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs. [00:10:08] Speaker D: That is correct. [00:10:09] Speaker B: There you go. See, I had the ratio wrong. [00:10:12] Speaker D: Only 10% of fireflies will hug. [00:10:15] Speaker A: And only 10% of Fay will hug. Zafir. [00:10:18] Speaker D: I forget his last name. His first name's Adam. [00:10:20] Speaker B: Adam. [00:10:21] Speaker D: Adam Young. [00:10:22] Speaker E: Oh, can we get off the topic of this band? [00:10:27] Speaker D: So [00:10:31] Speaker E: what is. Oh, my gosh. Focus, everyone. Get your caffeine and focus. [00:10:37] Speaker B: I have no caffeine. [00:10:38] Speaker A: You have a Dr. Pepper right there. [00:10:40] Speaker E: Dr. Pepper is caffeine. [00:10:43] Speaker B: Let's start. [00:10:46] Speaker D: Demigant takes a sip of his Dr. [00:10:48] Speaker C: Pepper and is like, so, now that you have your boots, what is next for You. [00:10:56] Speaker B: Now, you said we were on the wall. [00:10:59] Speaker C: Yes. [00:10:59] Speaker B: However, when we entered the door ceiling trap, we ended up on the floor. [00:11:06] Speaker D: Yes. [00:11:08] Speaker B: So we weren't on the floor or on the wall. [00:11:10] Speaker C: Yes. [00:11:10] Speaker B: But we're on the floor. [00:11:12] Speaker D: Yes. [00:11:12] Speaker A: The wall floor. Yes. [00:11:14] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:17] Speaker D: Welcome to Nithvale. [00:11:20] Speaker A: I don't think we had this took a lot less time than I thought it would. [00:11:24] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:11:26] Speaker B: So we've got time to. [00:11:27] Speaker E: Hang on, hang on, hang on. What is the diabolicalness that's happening over there? [00:11:34] Speaker D: My diabolical caliber. [00:11:35] Speaker E: Yeah. What's your diabolic caliber doing? [00:11:38] Speaker D: It's at five. [00:11:40] Speaker A: I suppose we have some time. I think we should leave as soon as possible. [00:11:47] Speaker B: This store or the town? [00:11:50] Speaker A: The town. [00:11:51] Speaker E: And it is also fey. So time might be passing differently than we perceive it to pass. [00:11:58] Speaker B: I don't know. We could just ask someone. [00:12:00] Speaker A: I cast time sense. [00:12:05] Speaker D: Roll a D20. [00:12:05] Speaker A: Oh, not again. I don't even have my dice out. [00:12:09] Speaker E: Oh. What kind of pathfinder player are you? [00:12:12] Speaker A: Where's your dice? [00:12:13] Speaker E: Right here. [00:12:14] Speaker A: Well, look how fancy you are. [00:12:17] Speaker B: Why do you all have dice sticks? [00:12:18] Speaker A: Is it a flat D20? [00:12:20] Speaker D: Yes. [00:12:21] Speaker B: More three dimensional. I'm sorry, can you say seven again? [00:12:31] Speaker A: It was good, petite. It was good. 7. [00:12:37] Speaker D: Alward, you reach out with your magical senses to the universe to determine what time it is. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Right. [00:12:43] Speaker A: Magic is walking. [00:12:44] Speaker E: This time I forgot. [00:12:46] Speaker D: And you realize that you are able to connect. And you know what time it is. [00:12:51] Speaker A: I don't believe you. [00:12:53] Speaker D: It's 11:28 in the evening. [00:12:56] Speaker B: And what time does the city go away? [00:13:00] Speaker D: 9:28 in the morning. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Sunrise is late. [00:13:05] Speaker D: It's not with sunrise. It's with moonset. [00:13:07] Speaker C: Oh. [00:13:10] Speaker B: So, using your beautiful brain, did you determine how long we have? [00:13:13] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't. Yes. [00:13:18] Speaker B: That's good. [00:13:21] Speaker A: About 10 hours. [00:13:22] Speaker B: Oh, well, that means we have time. [00:13:26] Speaker A: You want to stay in the city, don't you? [00:13:28] Speaker B: I do. Very much so. [00:13:32] Speaker E: Is there anything you want to do in particular? [00:13:35] Speaker B: Have you seen this place? I feel like it just comes to you. [00:13:40] Speaker C: Is there anywhere in particular you'd like to be? Dimagint butts in. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Right here is fantastic. As long as right here stays here and not something else becomes here. [00:13:53] Speaker C: Oh, very rarely. I've got a good property, you know. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Does it happen sometimes? I mean, has it ever. [00:14:00] Speaker C: Well, yes, but then I lodge a complaint and it gets resolved pretty quickly. [00:14:05] Speaker B: You must have a wonderful municipal government. [00:14:09] Speaker C: No, I just have one that understands the. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Your HOA must be fantastic. [00:14:18] Speaker E: Ew. We do not stay on HOAs. [00:14:23] Speaker C: Yes, I do. [00:14:24] Speaker B: You in particular. All right. Well, Actually, you know what? If we could stay here, like, in. In town, I. We can. I'm just gonna start walking down the floor. [00:14:40] Speaker E: The flaw. [00:14:43] Speaker B: My wet feet sopping on the wood floor wall flaw. [00:14:48] Speaker A: How are we going to get down? [00:14:51] Speaker B: You fall. [00:14:52] Speaker E: Why are your feet wet? [00:14:53] Speaker A: Because he was in a dunk tank. [00:14:55] Speaker E: Oh, that's right. [00:14:58] Speaker A: It's been 10 minutes. [00:15:01] Speaker E: In game. Yes. But out of game, we kind of. Yeah, we have to fall. That's a great. [00:15:12] Speaker A: It has a really good sound effect. I don't like it, but it's really good. [00:15:16] Speaker E: Featuring petite's mouth noises. [00:15:18] Speaker A: Part three. How. How far is that drop? [00:15:24] Speaker D: 25ft. [00:15:25] Speaker E: Oh. How much damage would we take from that? [00:15:28] Speaker A: 10. [00:15:29] Speaker E: Would we fall prone? [00:15:31] Speaker C: Yes. [00:15:31] Speaker D: If you take any damage from a fall, you land prone. [00:15:35] Speaker E: How did we get up here? [00:15:36] Speaker A: I flew. [00:15:37] Speaker E: But who. How did I get up there? [00:15:39] Speaker A: I flew. You. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Oh. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Is my flight still going? Has it been 10 minutes since I cast fly? [00:15:44] Speaker D: I'm gonna say no. I'm gonna say you still have a [00:15:47] Speaker A: little bit of flight left, and that makes life easy. [00:15:49] Speaker E: I'm just carry me outwards. [00:15:51] Speaker A: Would you like a piggyback or. [00:15:53] Speaker E: Yes. [00:15:54] Speaker A: Okay. I squat down to receive the. Nero's on my back. [00:16:01] Speaker E: I can be your backpack while you fly. [00:16:06] Speaker D: So as Zafir squelches his way down the wall in his boots of parkour. Boots of free running [00:16:16] Speaker A: suction cup boots. [00:16:18] Speaker B: That is the sound my boots make. [00:16:21] Speaker D: That's why we call them Foley petite. [00:16:24] Speaker B: In tandem with the squishing and squelching, [00:16:28] Speaker D: then alward, with Nero's writing, piggyback descends down very carefully. And then just before your feet touch the ground, like a centimeter off the ground, your flight spell wears out and you just boom onto the ground. [00:16:41] Speaker A: What fortuitous timing. Can you please get off my back now? [00:16:46] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, sorry. Sorry. Dismount. [00:16:50] Speaker A: Some action. [00:16:53] Speaker B: I'm just gonna start looking around. Just aimlessly wandering around the store. [00:16:57] Speaker A: Don't break anything, Zafir. [00:16:59] Speaker B: Okay, Maybe. Okay. [00:17:02] Speaker E: Are there any good places to drink in this town, Demijend? [00:17:07] Speaker C: Yes. [00:17:08] Speaker E: Are there any good places to drink in this town? [00:17:11] Speaker C: Yes. [00:17:12] Speaker E: Where? Can you come down here, please? [00:17:16] Speaker C: Heavy sigh and damage. [00:17:19] Speaker D: An walks back down the wall, gets onto the floor. [00:17:24] Speaker C: What would you like to drink? [00:17:26] Speaker E: Alcohol. [00:17:27] Speaker A: Wait, you were a bar? [00:17:29] Speaker C: No, I'm giving recommendations. It's a courteous thing that I do. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Very kind. [00:17:37] Speaker C: Yes. You would like alcohol. Well, that narrows it down considerably. [00:17:43] Speaker E: What do you. That's it? That's. That's all you're gonna tell me? [00:17:48] Speaker C: I didn't have tavern names. Ready for a fairy place? [00:17:52] Speaker E: Well, why not? It's where Neros goes. Taverns. [00:17:57] Speaker C: I don't drink. [00:17:59] Speaker E: All right, well, but Neros does. And you have to account for the characters that are in the story. [00:18:04] Speaker B: Come on, gm. [00:18:06] Speaker C: Let's see. There's. Not too far from here, we have the aromatic bagpipe. [00:18:12] Speaker E: That's amazing. [00:18:13] Speaker A: Awful. [00:18:14] Speaker B: No, smells like aromatic bagpipe. Does sound awful. [00:18:16] Speaker E: Smells like old spit. Probably. Probably moldy spit. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Scottish spit. [00:18:23] Speaker E: Moldy Scottish spit. [00:18:25] Speaker C: Then there's the nasty chestnut. [00:18:28] Speaker B: Ew. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Do. Do. Do all of these sound awful? Or are there some ones that sound nice? [00:18:34] Speaker C: Defy nice. [00:18:36] Speaker A: Not something that would not make me want to hurl if I smelled it. [00:18:40] Speaker D: Would you hurl if you smelled a magenta pie? [00:18:46] Speaker A: Um, what is magenta? [00:18:51] Speaker E: It's a color. [00:18:53] Speaker A: I know, but it technically doesn't exist in nature. [00:18:56] Speaker B: You don't exist in nature. [00:18:59] Speaker C: Perhaps we should go with our safest option. The lyrical ox is not far away. [00:19:05] Speaker A: Do you think they actually have an ox singing? [00:19:07] Speaker E: I don't know, but we can go find out. [00:19:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel like we're not gonna make it out of the town in time. Let's go. [00:19:14] Speaker E: I have no idea what Zafir wants to do. [00:19:17] Speaker A: Zafir, we're leaving. [00:19:19] Speaker B: What? [00:19:19] Speaker A: We're going to a pub. [00:19:22] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:24] Speaker E: Where are you going? [00:19:25] Speaker B: Around. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Zafir, please, please come with us. [00:19:30] Speaker B: That was my mouth. Don't worry. [00:19:34] Speaker E: Are you going back to the dunk tank? [00:19:36] Speaker B: No, I'm in the store somehow. Still. [00:19:40] Speaker E: Are you just gonna stay here? [00:19:43] Speaker B: Well, I've been walking in a straight line for a while. [00:19:45] Speaker A: Zafir, please come with us. Please. I don't. I don't want us to get separated. [00:19:53] Speaker E: I could bear hug you and carry you. [00:19:56] Speaker B: We're not separated. I'm right next to you. [00:19:58] Speaker E: I could bear hug you and carry. [00:20:01] Speaker B: I'm following. Don't worry. [00:20:02] Speaker A: How did you get here so quickly? You've been walking in a straight line for a while. [00:20:05] Speaker B: I'm gonna assume that it was a curve at some point, but you know, [00:20:08] Speaker A: I hate this place. [00:20:11] Speaker C: Well, if you dislike it that much, you're free to leave. [00:20:14] Speaker A: Oh, it's not your shop, Dimagint. It's just the entire first world. [00:20:17] Speaker B: That's the first free thing here. I'll take it. [00:20:29] Speaker E: You broke my husband. [00:20:31] Speaker D: If we did not do hero points [00:20:33] Speaker C: at the end of Episodes, you would [00:20:34] Speaker D: be getting one right now. [00:20:35] Speaker A: It was good. [00:20:39] Speaker B: I'm gonna be sad when we leave this place. [00:20:42] Speaker E: Are you okay? [00:20:43] Speaker D: That was just so good. All right, so who's leading the charge out of the terrestrial trinkets. [00:20:49] Speaker E: I guess I am, because Jenkins pointed at me. [00:20:52] Speaker A: You're the one who wants to go for a drink? [00:20:54] Speaker B: I am? [00:20:55] Speaker E: Yes. [00:20:55] Speaker D: Neros. When you open the door, there is a figure standing right outside. She is dressed in a sort of like lamellar plate armor that's made out of insectile sort of chitin, and is holding a staff that ends in a. It's actually more of a glaive that looks like it was actually just repurposed out of some sort of like bugs like scythe like army. She looks down at you as you open the door and is like. Ah, the visitor. I have a message for you. [00:21:27] Speaker E: Okay. From. From who? [00:21:32] Speaker D: The counselor Grammaskult requests your presence at a feast this evening in your honor. [00:21:38] Speaker E: The Council of what? [00:21:40] Speaker D: Councilor Grammaskult. Who's Councillor Grammarskult, One of the three rulers of Nithvale. [00:21:46] Speaker E: What did I do? [00:21:47] Speaker D: You and your friends are subjects of interest to His Grace. [00:21:54] Speaker E: What did we do? [00:21:55] Speaker D: That is not information he's provided to me. He has requested the honor of your presence at your earliest convenience. [00:22:01] Speaker E: Where do we go? Oh, can we follow you there? [00:22:06] Speaker D: You'll find your way. [00:22:07] Speaker A: Is this one of those banquets where if we eat the food, we're trapped? [00:22:12] Speaker D: I'm not familiar with that. Is it a custom of your people stories? [00:22:17] Speaker A: It's fine. [00:22:19] Speaker E: Everyone be on your guard. [00:22:22] Speaker D: She dips her head in a professional nod and then turns to leave. And you see, her back is made out of like a hollow tree trunk and she has a cow's tail. [00:22:31] Speaker B: I thought you were gonna say she dipped her head in like sauce or something. [00:22:37] Speaker E: Just the custom, I guess. We're not going to the Lyrical Cow. [00:22:41] Speaker A: I think we should head there and maybe we'll find the way to the place anyway. [00:22:47] Speaker B: I mean, truthfully, if we go that direction, we may end up there. [00:22:50] Speaker E: That's true. I guess we shall wander. I don't even know how to get to that cow place. The Ox place. [00:22:59] Speaker A: That is true. He didn't give us directions. [00:23:01] Speaker E: No, he didn't. And I'm not going back in there to speak with the Toad Man. [00:23:04] Speaker A: He might not let us leave for free this time. [00:23:07] Speaker E: That's true. [00:23:10] Speaker D: So as you begin heading out into town, you walk down sort of like a marble paved pathway past a fountain that has turquoise ish. Greenish water splashing through it, Kind of Mountain Dew colored. [00:23:27] Speaker E: Baja Blast. [00:23:28] Speaker D: Baja Blast. Yeah, there we go. So pass the Baja Bass, pass the blah blah. [00:23:34] Speaker A: You got this. [00:23:35] Speaker E: Get it together. [00:23:36] Speaker B: The Baja Bass. It's a new Fish. [00:23:38] Speaker D: You pass the Baja blast fountain. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Zip, zip. [00:23:42] Speaker D: And to your left, you see down. Quite a ways down. It's not immediately there, but you can see the gates leading out of the city. And to your right is what appears to be a palace. [00:23:54] Speaker E: To the palace. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Everything in our wants to leave. [00:24:00] Speaker E: I mean, I guess we could leave. I mean, they just requested our presence. It wasn't a demand. [00:24:05] Speaker A: I don't want Faye mad at me. [00:24:08] Speaker E: So. To the palace. [00:24:09] Speaker B: If they leave, they won't be able to be mad at you for too long. [00:24:15] Speaker A: What? [00:24:18] Speaker B: Nevermind. [00:24:19] Speaker E: To the palace. All right. Hop, skipping, a jump over the. [00:24:23] Speaker B: I do the same movements I did to try to get to the store, but just in a straight line. Like, I don't turn or anything. I just do the wiggle. [00:24:35] Speaker D: And you wiggle your way up to the palace, your friends walking behind you. And before long, the three of you are now standing at the steps of the palace. There seem to be two other women arrayed in the same insectile armor, wielding the same bug glaives that are standing on either side of the doors [00:24:56] Speaker A: where the visitors. [00:24:58] Speaker D: Ah, yes, you are expected. Please come in. They open the doors, and inside immediately. In through the doors is this long, I don't know, like, 25 foot long banquet table with places set all the way down. [00:25:13] Speaker E: Is there anyone else there? [00:25:15] Speaker D: Nope, just you guys. [00:25:17] Speaker B: Is there food? [00:25:18] Speaker D: Nope, just plates and dishes. [00:25:21] Speaker A: I thought you were gonna say just you guys. [00:25:23] Speaker B: You know the situation where it's, we're gonna have you for dinner. They actually have you for dinner. I'm bringing that back. [00:25:28] Speaker A: I didn't think of that. That could possibly be what it is. [00:25:32] Speaker B: I mean, I don't want to be racist or anything, but they may eat [00:25:35] Speaker E: us or try to, and we can't use magic. [00:25:39] Speaker A: It may also be emotionally rich food. Dude [00:25:44] Speaker B: was standing in a doorway. Is there anybody else? You said that it was just us. [00:25:48] Speaker D: Like, as you glance around, there's nobody over there. You look the other way, there's nobody over there. You look back, and now there's what appears to be just like a short elf standing at your elbow. Can I help you find your seat, sir? [00:26:00] Speaker B: My elbow? [00:26:01] Speaker C: Yes. [00:26:03] Speaker B: That is a short elbow. [00:26:04] Speaker D: He's not up to your elbow. He's standing at your elbow. So, like, if you went, you'd, like, hit him in the gut. He's about your height. [00:26:13] Speaker B: I go, huh? Where's? [00:26:16] Speaker D: My apologies. I, I, I misunderstood your cultural greeting. [00:26:22] Speaker E: Oh, jeez. [00:26:24] Speaker B: Remember that. It's a very, very. No, what's the word? [00:26:30] Speaker A: I'm looking for sanctimonious. [00:26:32] Speaker D: A very sanctimonious tradition. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:34] Speaker D: Another elf creature walks up to Alward [00:26:36] Speaker A: and goes, oh, that's not from my tradition. I just. Hello. [00:26:42] Speaker D: Hello. Another elf walks up to near us. [00:26:48] Speaker E: Huh? [00:26:50] Speaker C: Hi. [00:26:52] Speaker E: Hi. [00:26:54] Speaker B: Are you going to eat us? [00:26:57] Speaker D: Is that part of your tradition? [00:26:59] Speaker B: No, it's just a question. [00:27:01] Speaker D: Oh, phew. I did not want to eat you. [00:27:04] Speaker B: That's good. Does anybody else? [00:27:06] Speaker D: Not that I'm aware of. They all start like muttering amongst each other. No one here does that. [00:27:12] Speaker B: Sounds good to me. Where's our seats? [00:27:15] Speaker D: They gesture to the table and each one of them like moves to guide you to a chosen seat. And you find they've selected to seat all three of you together. [00:27:25] Speaker B: It's good. I wouldn't want to sit by anybody else. [00:27:27] Speaker A: I apologize. If anything happens, I cast time sense. [00:27:31] Speaker D: Make a D20 roll while he's doing that. [00:27:34] Speaker B: What's the place? [00:27:35] Speaker A: 5. [00:27:37] Speaker D: Ah, your time sense works correctly as expected. It's been about 40 minutes. [00:27:43] Speaker A: Okay. [00:27:44] Speaker D: Do you all take your seats? [00:27:46] Speaker B: Do they say to take our seats? [00:27:48] Speaker C: Yes. [00:27:49] Speaker B: So they say to take our seats? [00:27:50] Speaker D: Yes. They've showed you to your seats and ask you to take a seat. [00:27:52] Speaker E: I pick up my chair. [00:27:56] Speaker D: Yep. [00:27:57] Speaker A: Yep. [00:27:58] Speaker B: So now you've got two fetchlings picking up their chair standing there. [00:28:02] Speaker D: Two fetching fetchlings, one might say, holding a chair. [00:28:06] Speaker B: Zafir starts to walk away with the chair. [00:28:10] Speaker D: Why are you leaving? [00:28:10] Speaker B: You told me to take it. [00:28:12] Speaker D: Well, yeah, but we didn't tell you to leave. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Well, I mean, put it in your shadow. Thank you. Does that work hours? [00:28:21] Speaker A: Just gonna stare at his chair, confused. [00:28:24] Speaker D: You can sit in it if you'd like. [00:28:26] Speaker A: I. It's like he doesn't understand he can move it with his own hands, but knows he can't cast mage hand to move it because of the magic stuff. [00:28:40] Speaker D: Oh, my apologies, sir. Such an insult to you. He goes over and pulls the chair out for you. [00:28:46] Speaker A: Oh, thank. Thank you. I would just sits down. [00:28:52] Speaker E: You're an awkward boy without your spells, aren't you? [00:28:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:57] Speaker E: How uncomfortable are you right now? [00:28:59] Speaker A: So uncomfortable. [00:29:02] Speaker D: Another of these like short elf creatures steps out from a corridor at the far end of the room, picks up a little bugle and please welcome the three rulers of Nithvale. The three who sit on the moonlit thrones. Presenting Thun Kanas. And the skeletal super skinny woman dressed in like dark purple robes walks around the corner and takes a seat by sitting down in it. At the head of the table, the honorable Moonchaser, a dire wolf walks around the corner and sits down next to the skeletal woman at the end of the table. And it's gray Skremmaskault. And a mountain troll comes out from the other hall and sits on the other side of Thunkanas. The three of them all look down towards you guys at the other end of the super long table. [00:30:12] Speaker B: I'm standing where my seat was. [00:30:15] Speaker E: I'm still holding my chair. [00:30:18] Speaker D: I see you are well acquainted with our cultures. [00:30:21] Speaker C: Thunkana says. [00:30:23] Speaker E: In a manner of speaking, yes. [00:30:27] Speaker B: I dip my head into the non existent sauce. [00:30:31] Speaker C: A manner of speaking is really what it's all about, isn't it? [00:30:34] Speaker D: The troll says. [00:30:35] Speaker B: He's the one invited, right? [00:30:38] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:30:41] Speaker A: I don't mean to be rude. Can the direwolf also speak common? [00:30:45] Speaker D: The wolf looks over in your direction, tilts its head to the side. [00:30:50] Speaker C: What a strange question. [00:30:51] Speaker A: Oh wow. That's okay. [00:30:55] Speaker D: Why do you struggle to grasp the common language? [00:30:58] Speaker A: No, typically wolves do though. [00:31:04] Speaker C: Wow, that is so ignorant of you. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Very much so, yes. [00:31:08] Speaker B: It really is, Albert. I mean, I mean, I mean you [00:31:11] Speaker C: don't see me just walking up to [00:31:12] Speaker D: meet people and asking them if they can read. [00:31:16] Speaker B: Oh, I sit cross legged in the floor about that. [00:31:20] Speaker A: Maybe we don't. [00:31:21] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:31:22] Speaker B: Okay. [00:31:23] Speaker C: Now I must ask, the troll says, because it is not my position to impose or merely to assume. What would you three like most to eat? [00:31:38] Speaker E: Are you going to keep us here forever if we eat your food? [00:31:40] Speaker C: No, no, not, not simply eating food would be enough for me to keep you here forever. But poultry excuse for rulers of a town Would we be if we could not even entertain guests and send them on their way? [00:31:53] Speaker B: I mean, if it's any help, the festival has been quite entertaining in its own right. [00:32:00] Speaker C: Oh, that is most gratifying to hear. Yes indeed. [00:32:05] Speaker A: Why did you want us to come here? [00:32:09] Speaker C: Well, straight to the point. I see you don't bandy words. I have a question for the three of you. You may know that I am the gatekeeper, one might say, for the knowledge and wonders of the city. [00:32:28] Speaker B: Sure. [00:32:30] Speaker E: Yep. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Yep. [00:32:32] Speaker C: As such, you must not be surprised to know that I have spies bring me this knowledge so that I might know all that there is to know and share with those who I deem fit. [00:32:44] Speaker A: That makes sense. [00:32:45] Speaker C: Then it would not surprise the three of you one whit to know that my spies have reported you traveling in the presence of a thrall of the poet. I would like to know where he is. [00:32:59] Speaker B: Me too. What? I say from under the table, cross legged in the floor. [00:33:04] Speaker A: I can't remember do we know anything about the poet? [00:33:07] Speaker E: All of the poet? No. [00:33:08] Speaker D: This would be the first that the three of you have heard of the poet. [00:33:12] Speaker A: A society check? [00:33:14] Speaker D: Sure. [00:33:17] Speaker E: Gossip lore? [00:33:18] Speaker D: Sure. [00:33:20] Speaker B: What do I have? [00:33:21] Speaker A: Severe. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Can I do guessing lore? [00:33:25] Speaker A: Oh, that would be such a good lore. [00:33:27] Speaker E: Skill 30. Gossip lore. [00:33:30] Speaker D: Okay, 30 for gossip lore. [00:33:34] Speaker A: 30 also for society [00:33:38] Speaker D: Petite. Go ahead and just roll a flat D20. No bonuses, three dimension. [00:33:45] Speaker B: It was slightly cocked, but it's 12. [00:33:48] Speaker D: Okay. So petite. You're not sure. You know, it's. It's hard to say. Guessing lore. It's. It's a difficult game. If you rolled a 20, I was gonna give you something. [00:33:59] Speaker B: I can do it again. It was cocked. [00:34:01] Speaker D: But for. [00:34:04] Speaker E: Did he roll a natural 20? [00:34:06] Speaker A: He really did use a hero point. Petite. Take it. [00:34:11] Speaker E: He's. I can't tell if he's upset. [00:34:15] Speaker B: Yeah, kind of. [00:34:20] Speaker E: I. [00:34:23] Speaker B: I will let you do with that what you will. [00:34:25] Speaker D: Okay. I'm gonna send you something that you can incorporate into whatever guess you choose to make. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Cool. [00:34:34] Speaker A: Now, I want guessing lore to be a legit thing. [00:34:38] Speaker B: I didn't. I didn't mean to be cool. [00:34:43] Speaker E: Good job. [00:34:44] Speaker A: No one means to be cool. [00:34:46] Speaker E: Cool is just thrust upon them. [00:34:50] Speaker B: I was simply born in the cool. [00:34:52] Speaker A: Nobody is born cool except for Petite rolling in that 20. I. [00:34:56] Speaker B: You know, like you. You saw it was cocked on the 12th. [00:34:59] Speaker A: It was a little cocked on that. [00:35:01] Speaker B: I was like, I'm just gonna take it. [00:35:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I was gonna mention it, but you. You took it. So. [00:35:06] Speaker D: So while petite is reading the tidbit that I sent him to inform his guests that he's going to make. But I appreciate that, Alward and Neros, I'm gonna be transparent and let you know that you failed your checks. [00:35:19] Speaker A: That's understandable. I rolled a four. The absolute shock on a 30. I mean, I rolled a four and got a 30. [00:35:29] Speaker E: Yeah, but gossip lore, it usually the DC is lowered by two. It helps. [00:35:35] Speaker A: It does help. [00:35:36] Speaker D: Which staggeringly means that it was theoretically possible for you guys to succeed if [00:35:42] Speaker E: we rolled a natural 20. [00:35:44] Speaker C: Yes. [00:35:44] Speaker A: I don't like that. [00:35:47] Speaker E: Only if we rolled a natural 20. [00:35:50] Speaker A: Too bad I don't have ancient Thessalonian. [00:35:52] Speaker B: I'll be honest. I rolled a natural 20. I still don't know what's going on. [00:35:55] Speaker A: Oh, that's good. [00:35:56] Speaker C: You can't tell me that you've been traveling with a thrall of the poet and you've never even heard of him. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Is the thrall his name or like, you know, I guess in the fey world, you don't know the names. But you know, [00:36:10] Speaker C: you would know this thrall as ouvert. [00:36:15] Speaker B: He's here. [00:36:16] Speaker A: He's not. [00:36:17] Speaker E: He's not here. [00:36:19] Speaker A: We don't know where he is right now. [00:36:21] Speaker D: Hmm. [00:36:22] Speaker C: Shame. [00:36:24] Speaker E: Why do you want to know? [00:36:27] Speaker C: I've been searching for the poet for many years. [00:36:30] Speaker E: Who's the poet? [00:36:32] Speaker C: No, no. One question at a time. [00:36:35] Speaker B: Oh, he's the thrall. Okay. [00:36:37] Speaker C: So far you've failed to answer any of my questions. I don't see why I should answer yours. [00:36:41] Speaker A: No, that's not true. We answered. It's just not. [00:36:44] Speaker E: It's not the answer you want. [00:36:45] Speaker B: Yeah, well. Oh, I. I can tell you where he is. [00:36:50] Speaker C: Indeed [00:36:54] Speaker B: not here. [00:36:56] Speaker C: That is correct. I suppose you wouldn't mind then, if before we continue this line of conversation, station a toast. [00:37:04] Speaker D: And he claps his hands and the elves come up and pour some wine into your goblets. [00:37:12] Speaker C: I should warn you, this wine is enchanted. [00:37:17] Speaker D: The smallest sip, he takes a drink of his own goblet. [00:37:20] Speaker C: And for the next, say, two hours, you'll be compelled to speak nothing but the truth. [00:37:27] Speaker E: I'm not drinking this. [00:37:29] Speaker B: I mean, we weren't planning on drinking anything anyway, so. Well, here. [00:37:34] Speaker A: I don't like alcohol. [00:37:37] Speaker B: What skill would I use to. I guess it would be deception to make it look like I'm drinking, but I'm not. [00:37:43] Speaker D: Yeah, that'd be deception. [00:37:45] Speaker E: Or could we just refuse to drink it? [00:37:48] Speaker D: Would you like to attempt a slight of hand deception trick? I'll let you do Deception or thievery? Either your choice to make it look like you're drinking the wine and actually not. [00:38:00] Speaker B: Okay, so the thing that I want to specify is that I am going to succeed in the faking it. The question is whether they believe it or not. Not the I'm going to try and the question is whether I accidentally drink it or not. I want to make that clear. [00:38:15] Speaker C: Yes. [00:38:16] Speaker D: So the. The success state is you appear to have drunk the wine and you have not. The failure state is you have not drunk the wine and it's clear that you were trying to look like you did. [00:38:27] Speaker B: That works. [00:38:29] Speaker A: Does the wine count as a poison? [00:38:32] Speaker D: Let's call it a poison. Makes it more interesting that way. [00:38:35] Speaker A: Okay. The reason why I have things for poisons. [00:38:40] Speaker E: What if we don't drink it? What if I just don't drink it? [00:38:44] Speaker B: I'm gonna. I'm gonna spend a card. [00:38:47] Speaker D: So at the moment, petite is attempting to make it look like he's drinking. So since whatever would happen from you refusing would happen after that, I want to get the results of that check [00:38:57] Speaker E: first, I just want to know. [00:38:58] Speaker D: And Jenkins, Alward was just acting like he doesn't want to drink because he doesn't like alcohol, right? [00:39:03] Speaker A: I mean, that's factual. It's not an act. Okay, if I do have to drink, I have a plan. But [00:39:12] Speaker B: that's not as good. Or not. Not much better, but it's better. 28. [00:39:19] Speaker D: So he grandma skull mentions that the wine is enchanted, will compel you to tell the truth. And Alward, you say that you don't like alcohol. Neros, have you said anything in character, or are you just not drinking? [00:39:34] Speaker E: She pushes the glass away from her. [00:39:36] Speaker C: Okay. [00:39:37] Speaker D: And then Zafir, you pick up the glass, move to take a drink, Just a little bit of it just kind of splashes on your collar. And Grandma Skull just tilts his head disapprovingly in your direction. [00:39:52] Speaker C: Really? Now, you would think a guest who would be invited to a palace would have better table manners. You've spilled a little there. [00:40:02] Speaker B: It's my clothes. I can do what I want want with them. [00:40:05] Speaker C: This is true. [00:40:09] Speaker B: That was the truth. [00:40:10] Speaker C: In that case, I suppose we will proceed with me at a slight disadvantage, seeing as the three of you did not see fit as to ensure the information you're providing is accurate. [00:40:21] Speaker A: I don't like alcohol. [00:40:27] Speaker C: I will permit you all to ask questions on the understanding that for every question that we of the moonlit thrones answer, we will give you the most accurate answer to the best of our knowledge. But then we will ask you a question and you agree to answer it as truthfully as possible to the best of your knowledge. [00:40:54] Speaker A: Sure. Yeah. [00:40:56] Speaker B: We don't have any questions for them, do we? [00:40:58] Speaker A: We need to know who the poet is and why Uwe is a thrall of them. We've been traveling with someone who seemingly is important. [00:41:04] Speaker B: I mean, we could just ask him when we see him. [00:41:06] Speaker A: Uber doesn't know anything, okay? [00:41:10] Speaker B: It's like his whole thing, all right? [00:41:12] Speaker A: He does not understand. [00:41:13] Speaker B: Don't tell him any secrets. [00:41:16] Speaker E: It's his whole personality. [00:41:19] Speaker C: Being the guests of our gracious call, you three may ask your question first. [00:41:29] Speaker A: Who is the poet? [00:41:33] Speaker D: The poet, oh, Thuncanas interjects, was once a denizen of the first world, but was banished many, many years ago. He had delusions of grandeur and believed that he could become something like a God. Many suffered for his folly. [00:42:02] Speaker B: Does he have any. Wait, no. We can't tell anyone. [00:42:04] Speaker A: It's their turn to ask the question. [00:42:06] Speaker D: The three of them all kind of lean together and start holding a hushed conversation. Moonchaser, the Wolf looks over towards you. I have a question. Do you believe that you could kill Uver if it were necessary? [00:42:28] Speaker B: Which one of us are you asking? [00:42:30] Speaker D: All of you. Do the three of you believe that the three of you could kill Uber if necessary? [00:42:37] Speaker A: Are you asking if it's possible for us to kill an old dwarf? Are you asking us, are we willing? You know. You know, you don't get an answer. I think. No, hold on. Because that would be counted as our question. Then you would get to answer one back. So we don't want that. I mean, technically, all three of us together could probably kill. [00:42:55] Speaker E: Probably capable. [00:42:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:57] Speaker B: I don't think we are. [00:42:59] Speaker A: You think uber power wise. [00:43:01] Speaker E: I think we're capable, willing, wise. [00:43:04] Speaker B: No, I don't think we are. [00:43:08] Speaker E: You don't think we're powerful enough? [00:43:09] Speaker A: You know, he might make a good point. He is an incredibly old dwarf that somehow. [00:43:14] Speaker B: And even if we did try to kill him, it doesn't mean he's dead. [00:43:17] Speaker E: It could be a toss up. [00:43:19] Speaker A: Possibly power wise. Possibly. We don't know anything about what's going on with him really. [00:43:25] Speaker B: So neither does he. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a mess anyway. [00:43:30] Speaker D: Moonchaser cocks his head again and willingness. The others, like, put their hands out, shake their heads. No, no, it's their turn. [00:43:38] Speaker B: If we answer that, will you. [00:43:40] Speaker A: No, [00:43:43] Speaker B: I forgot that was a question. [00:43:46] Speaker E: What other questions do we want to ask? [00:43:48] Speaker A: Maybe how is Uwehr? Like, what does it mean to be a thrall? [00:43:51] Speaker B: I was going to ask if the poet had any other names, because that sounds like, like Hamir to me. [00:43:57] Speaker A: He is a mortal man. I mean, it's not. It's not a bad question. I'm just. I don't think it's. [00:44:01] Speaker B: He wants to be a God. [00:44:04] Speaker A: A lot of people want to be gods. [00:44:06] Speaker E: I mean, we could. We could ask one question and ask another after we finish. [00:44:10] Speaker A: Oh, that is true. I think we should go with this question. [00:44:12] Speaker E: Okay, let's go with this. [00:44:18] Speaker B: I don't know how to ask the crate. Does the poet have any other names? [00:44:24] Speaker C: No grammar. [00:44:25] Speaker D: Skull replies. [00:44:27] Speaker C: He may be referred to by other names by many others. A being as old as he is does not go without monikers or other names given to him. But he would not answer to that. No, he would only recognize himself as being the poet. Funny thing. In name. Who give you this for free? He would say he has none. [00:44:58] Speaker B: That's very poetic. [00:45:01] Speaker D: They have a hushed conversation again. [00:45:04] Speaker C: I have a question for the three of you. Are you confident in uh's intentions as a member of your party? [00:45:15] Speaker B: What are his intentions? [00:45:16] Speaker A: Intentions are to find out what he is. So, yeah, pretty confident in that. [00:45:22] Speaker B: Who's the spokesperson here? I feel like I've been doing less talking. [00:45:25] Speaker A: Oh, you've been bouncing around. If you want to be the spokesperson, you can. [00:45:30] Speaker E: You don't have to be the spokesperson. [00:45:31] Speaker B: I don't know if I'm doing the good job. [00:45:33] Speaker A: You're doing a great job. [00:45:35] Speaker E: Yes, we are confident in his intention. [00:45:42] Speaker C: Interesting. [00:45:42] Speaker B: We're not conspiring. We're just not sure who wants to answer. [00:45:47] Speaker C: Just letting you know you are quite free to discuss amongst yourselves. We do hope we are getting the most accurate answers. [00:45:54] Speaker B: Yes. To the best of our abilities or knowledge. The best of our knowledge. [00:46:01] Speaker E: How? It's Orton. [00:46:02] Speaker A: Oh, yes. [00:46:03] Speaker E: And what were we going to ask after that? [00:46:05] Speaker A: Maybe, like, how. What does it have. What does it mean to be a thrall? Because, like, a thrall would typically be, you know, like, under the servitude, but he doesn't really know what's going on. [00:46:15] Speaker E: What does it mean to be a thrall of the poet? [00:46:19] Speaker D: Moonchaser answers. The poet is unique among his kind in that he has the ability to bend others and in truth, bend anything to his own will. For better or for worse. Your friend Uwe has had his will bound to that of the poet. [00:46:48] Speaker A: That doesn't sound good. [00:46:50] Speaker E: No, it doesn't. [00:46:51] Speaker A: Also, if something has the ability to bend anything to their will, doesn't that in nature make them a deific being? [00:46:57] Speaker B: Can we ask them why they want to know these things? [00:47:00] Speaker A: That could be the next question. [00:47:01] Speaker E: It could be the next question. [00:47:02] Speaker A: It's there. [00:47:02] Speaker E: Channel. [00:47:05] Speaker D: The three who sit on the moonlit thrones are having a moonlit, hushed conversation. [00:47:10] Speaker E: I like that. Next question. [00:47:11] Speaker D: That's a good one. [00:47:13] Speaker B: Just waiting for them to ask theirs if they ask another question. [00:47:16] Speaker C: I have a question. Neros. What? Are you [00:47:26] Speaker B: rude? Is that a question for all people? [00:47:29] Speaker E: You can't just ask people what they are. Anyway. [00:47:34] Speaker B: How do they know your name? [00:47:36] Speaker E: They know every. They have spies. They've said they have spies. [00:47:39] Speaker A: They're the leaders of the Moonlit Thrones. [00:47:42] Speaker B: That's a good point. That's a good point. [00:47:46] Speaker A: You could just say a fetchling. It's not incorrect. [00:47:49] Speaker E: I mean, that is not incorrect. I mean, I am a fetchling. Beyond that, I don't know. [00:48:00] Speaker D: Grimmaskull's just, like, peering at you through slitted eyes. [00:48:04] Speaker E: You can sense motive if you want. I've been trying to Find the truth out of that myself, but I have no idea. [00:48:12] Speaker D: He looks to the other two. [00:48:14] Speaker C: I believe her. She is unaware. [00:48:18] Speaker A: I don't. [00:48:19] Speaker E: Oh, no. [00:48:19] Speaker D: Where? [00:48:20] Speaker E: Oh, that's not a question. That's me. [00:48:27] Speaker A: They might. [00:48:28] Speaker E: They might know. But we need to ask his question. [00:48:32] Speaker B: We could ask it afterwards, because we [00:48:34] Speaker A: don't know how many of these we're going to get. [00:48:36] Speaker B: We could keep answering questions all day, all night. [00:48:39] Speaker A: I mean, not really. We only have eight hours left. [00:48:43] Speaker E: Maybe. Maybe. [00:48:44] Speaker D: Are you casting time sense? [00:48:46] Speaker E: If this. If the passage of time that you are feeling is correct, maybe. [00:48:51] Speaker A: I'm gonna raise my hand. I'm sorry. If anything weird happens, I cast time sense. [00:48:56] Speaker D: Roll a D20. [00:48:57] Speaker B: Well, I do have a question about that, though. Could he be able to determine the time difference between the first few times? [00:49:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:49:03] Speaker B: I could just count. [00:49:04] Speaker A: Well, no, that's not. That's not valid, because time could be all wobbly wibbly. [00:49:08] Speaker B: It could be, but you could have a better idea of what you're dealing with anyway. [00:49:12] Speaker A: 11. [00:49:14] Speaker D: Your spell works. [00:49:16] Speaker A: I'm so terrified of what number makes it not work. [00:49:20] Speaker D: Your time sense identifies that your sense of time has been accurate and time is flowing as time should. Meaning you have, at this point, about nine hours left. [00:49:32] Speaker A: Okay. [00:49:33] Speaker E: What was the question you wanted to ask, petite? [00:49:37] Speaker B: Why? For. They want to know where and is what poet that where. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Why are they asking all this stuff about Uber? [00:49:44] Speaker B: Okay, well, I mean, we've also got a. Don't listen to this, Jordy. We've also got to phrase the question in a way that it answers multiple questions. [00:49:53] Speaker E: That's true. [00:49:53] Speaker B: Like, for example, whenever I asked, does he go by any other names? I should have asked, what other names does he go by? Because that would have said whether he did or what names he went. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Smart. [00:50:02] Speaker E: That is true. [00:50:03] Speaker B: So we need to figure out a good name way to phrase this. [00:50:07] Speaker A: What do you hope to learn by [00:50:10] Speaker E: asking us these questions about the poet? [00:50:15] Speaker B: I do like that. Because what do you hope to learn? Would say they'll give us their intentions. Yeah. [00:50:21] Speaker A: Is that. [00:50:21] Speaker E: Yeah. Your question. [00:50:24] Speaker B: Are you ready for our question? [00:50:25] Speaker C: We are. [00:50:27] Speaker B: What do you hope to learn about with. Sorry. What do you hope to learn about the poet with the questions you're asking [00:50:35] Speaker C: us, primarily his whereabouts. We are concerned that he may be moving in the world of men again, meddling in things that are not his to. Meddling. [00:50:50] Speaker B: I think that was a good. A good answer. I think that gave us the. [00:50:55] Speaker D: The. The three have another hushed conversation, and then eventually it starts to get a little bit more Agitated, like they're kind of arguing about something. And then finally, Thun Canas just kind of throws her hands up and turns away and. Grammaskult. [00:51:11] Speaker C: I believe that will conclude the questions we have for you this evening. [00:51:15] Speaker B: Why you. You can keep asking us questions. Really? All three of you seem to have something you want. [00:51:20] Speaker C: Indeed. [00:51:21] Speaker B: And it'd be fine with all three of you asking separate questions. In fact, why don't you, Spitfire. All three of them off at once. [00:51:26] Speaker A: But we would. [00:51:28] Speaker E: That was not in agreement. [00:51:31] Speaker B: I was putting more of an agreement in the agreement. You just cut me off. [00:51:34] Speaker E: Oh, sorry. [00:51:35] Speaker B: You can spit them all at once, and then we can answer three. Ask three questions our own. [00:51:40] Speaker A: Not all at once, but, like, sequentially. [00:51:43] Speaker B: I don't know if they want to say it all at once. [00:51:44] Speaker A: It would be very confusing. We wouldn't be able to understand them. [00:51:47] Speaker B: I think I can figure it out. Go ahead, Jordy. Say three things at the same time. [00:51:52] Speaker C: Very well. I will take you up on this offer. [00:51:54] Speaker D: And he turns and looks at the others. And Thunkhamas is like, I have no need for further questions. I hope you'll excuse me. And she stands and starts walking away from the table. Moonchaser doesn't even make up an excuse. He just gets up and leaves. Grandma Skull watches them go, looks at the three of you. [00:52:15] Speaker C: Well, now that we're alone, tell me, how many other Vartir have you seen? [00:52:27] Speaker E: Do we know what that is? [00:52:29] Speaker A: I do, but I don't know if Alward would remember. Would Alward remember? [00:52:33] Speaker D: Yes, Albert would remember. You encountered that while you were studying. [00:52:36] Speaker A: Yeah, it means troll, essentially. So I guess. [00:52:42] Speaker E: Just so. Pilgrim. [00:52:43] Speaker A: Yeah, but there's. We've been with multiple, you know, Pilgrim. And then there were the two in the forest, and then. [00:52:49] Speaker E: Oh, that's true. [00:52:49] Speaker A: Oh, no, those were giants. [00:52:51] Speaker B: And the one who smashed me. [00:52:52] Speaker E: No, those were. Those were trolls. And the groom. Gif horse. Those were trolls. [00:52:57] Speaker A: Oh, they. Yes. [00:52:58] Speaker E: And then the Troll King. [00:53:00] Speaker A: Oh, right. Wait, I don't even think. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Just give him a number. [00:53:04] Speaker A: What's it. [00:53:04] Speaker C: That's [00:53:06] Speaker A: like six. Around six. Trolls. [00:53:11] Speaker C: Hardly likely name them. [00:53:15] Speaker A: Well, we don't know the name. I don't remember the name for a few of them, but we fought a few in the Grungir forest. One claimed to be a king. [00:53:27] Speaker C: No, no, I'm afraid I mustn't interject. You claim to have fought Vought here. [00:53:34] Speaker A: Trolls. Yeah. [00:53:35] Speaker B: He smashed my head. It hurt. [00:53:39] Speaker C: I'm afraid there's been a grave misunderstanding here. Vought here. Do not strike anyone. [00:53:49] Speaker B: It was less of a strike and more of a pound. I don't know. He could have just dropped it. [00:53:58] Speaker A: Vaatiyas are trolls, right? [00:54:01] Speaker C: That would be a question, wouldn't it? [00:54:03] Speaker B: No, it wouldn't. [00:54:04] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. Gosh darn it. I'm sorry. [00:54:07] Speaker B: Well then the answer itself would be none. [00:54:11] Speaker A: Our understanding is that Vaatir are trolls. So if your question is how many trolls have we encountered? The answer is around six. [00:54:19] Speaker C: We'll see. So. So I am to take that your best answer to my question would be unknown? [00:54:27] Speaker A: No, it's around six. [00:54:31] Speaker C: Around six? [00:54:32] Speaker A: Yes. [00:54:33] Speaker C: Believe to have encountered around six var. [00:54:37] Speaker A: Around six trolls? Yes. [00:54:39] Speaker B: We've not encountered half trolls. [00:54:42] Speaker E: I'm assuming that your definition of Vaatir is different from ours. That's not a question, that was a statement. [00:54:47] Speaker A: And. [00:54:47] Speaker C: Okay, I recognize that assumption. I will count your question as answered. You may ask one of your own [00:54:57] Speaker A: Neros if you would like. It's your. [00:55:00] Speaker E: Okay. You asked what I am. Yes, I said I don't know. Do you know what I am? Beyond being a fetchling? [00:55:14] Speaker D: He leans forward, a look of just like total fascination on his face. [00:55:21] Speaker A: No. [00:55:24] Speaker C: And believe me, that is very, very rare. [00:55:32] Speaker E: I don't like that. [00:55:34] Speaker B: I'm gonna keep an eye out for your spies. [00:55:37] Speaker C: The Miss Prudence. [00:55:39] Speaker B: It sounds fun. [00:55:42] Speaker C: Whom do you believe is justified to determine the nature of reality? [00:55:52] Speaker B: That is a great question. And I don't know if I have no idea. I understand. [00:55:56] Speaker D: Gramaskull is staring at Alward when he asks that. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Oh. [00:56:02] Speaker E: Oh, Mr. Rewindy Timey. [00:56:05] Speaker A: I don't know what you're talking about. That's very philosophical. Do you guys have an answer? No. No. [00:56:20] Speaker E: Me? [00:56:22] Speaker B: No, the answer is me. [00:56:24] Speaker A: You are the answer. [00:56:25] Speaker B: Yes. [00:56:26] Speaker A: You determine reality. [00:56:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:28] Speaker A: Are you having. Are you joking or. [00:56:31] Speaker B: Well, I determine my own reality. [00:56:33] Speaker A: Oh, that's. That's we. To each person. To each the reality. I suppose. [00:56:39] Speaker C: Very diplomatic response. [00:56:42] Speaker E: I don't think that's what he was looking for. [00:56:47] Speaker B: Answer coming from me. You know it's gonna be right. [00:56:50] Speaker A: Good. Good. Good job, Zephir. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Finger guns and a wink. [00:56:56] Speaker C: The next question falls to your party to ask. [00:57:01] Speaker A: What were you all arguing about before they left? [00:57:05] Speaker D: He had been taking a sip of his wine and he suddenly like, snaps his head over to look at Albert like he's impressed with that question. [00:57:15] Speaker C: Interesting question. My colleagues are, shall we say, misaligned with my intentions for an accumulation of power. They believe that the questions that I would prefer to ask are best left unanswered. [00:57:33] Speaker E: Knowledge is power and all that yes. [00:57:36] Speaker C: My question. Zafir. [00:57:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:43] Speaker C: Whom do you believe is justified in deciding who lives and who dies? [00:57:52] Speaker B: That's a great question. [00:57:53] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:57:57] Speaker B: You know, I never really thought about it. You'll have to give me a minute. [00:58:00] Speaker A: I mean, you were an assassin for quite some time. [00:58:03] Speaker B: Exactly why I'm having a hard time thinking. I don't believe anyone has full authority over it. Yet circumstances do tend to give themselves to a better justification per person. [00:58:21] Speaker C: Interesting response. Although we are now even in terms of questions, I'm afraid my time is running short. And being a gracious host, I will permit you all one final question before we move on to the next event in our evening. [00:58:38] Speaker A: Oh, there's more? Oh, yeah. You guys want to ask about the chalice? Oh, yeah. [00:58:46] Speaker E: I mean, it does seem like a good opportunity. We have to phrase it just right. [00:58:51] Speaker A: I know. Especially because we don't know what it's called. [00:58:53] Speaker E: No, other than the chalice, we could [00:58:55] Speaker B: say, like, what is the purpose of the multiple chalices? [00:58:59] Speaker A: Well, the answer to that would be to hold drink. [00:59:03] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. The ghostly multiple chalices. [00:59:07] Speaker E: The chalice, the soul drinking. [00:59:10] Speaker A: He has spies. So he would know of. So what if we just mention, on our journey, we've, you know, found the [00:59:18] Speaker E: chalices in one of our adventuring party. [00:59:22] Speaker A: So, like, what are they? Does that think? Yeah, okay. You know of our adventures. So far, as you've stated, you have multiple spies. And on our adventures, we've encountered a specific chalice multiple times. It's made of stone. It's something to do with green fog. What is it? Oh, I butchered that last part. Owen's, like, very upset with himself. [00:59:54] Speaker C: A device for connection. [00:59:59] Speaker D: He grins like he knows that that [01:00:01] Speaker C: was not what you wanted to know. [01:00:04] Speaker A: I mean, it's more than what we knew. So, thank you. [01:00:08] Speaker C: But of course, you've been most charming guests. And now we shall move on to the next portion of our evening. [01:00:16] Speaker D: He stands up and claps again. And the table in front of you just drops into, suddenly, a pit that's open in the middle of the room. And as you look down into the pit, it just appears to be pure blackness. [01:00:34] Speaker B: That seems like a lot of work just to drop it into the pit. [01:00:38] Speaker A: I know we're not doing the question thing anymore, but you're not going to kill us, are you? [01:00:43] Speaker C: No. [01:00:44] Speaker A: Okay. [01:00:44] Speaker C: Well, not directly. [01:00:48] Speaker E: We should have left. [01:00:48] Speaker A: We should have left. [01:00:50] Speaker C: You see, my dear visitors, I am Grummaskolt, and I prize knowledge above all else. Since you've proven yourself unwilling to provide information Honestly and directly through a series [01:01:04] Speaker A: of questioning we've done that. [01:01:07] Speaker E: We haven't lied. [01:01:08] Speaker B: And frankly, forcing someone to be honest is worse than getting true honesty out of us, which we've done. [01:01:15] Speaker E: You can't prove that we've lied to you. [01:01:17] Speaker A: It's its fate. [01:01:18] Speaker C: You did not drink the wine provided merely for the reason of ensuring honesty. Thus I must assume you intended to lie. [01:01:27] Speaker A: I simply did not like alcohol. You could have provided me with another drink. [01:01:31] Speaker C: Be that as it may, there's other information that I wish to glean that cannot be gained from mere questioning. Such as, where is a human's true bound breaking point? [01:01:45] Speaker E: None of us. None of us are really human. [01:01:49] Speaker B: Really, none of us is a Fetch. [01:01:50] Speaker C: You're all kind of human. [01:01:52] Speaker A: And I'm. I'm an elf. [01:01:54] Speaker C: Well, there's a Fetchley breaking. [01:01:57] Speaker E: So if you want to know what a human's breaking point is, you'll have to get someone else. Not us. [01:02:01] Speaker B: Do you want us to jump in the hole? [01:02:02] Speaker C: I do indeed. [01:02:04] Speaker B: I jump in the hole I have [01:02:07] Speaker A: no way of stopping him from. [01:02:08] Speaker B: I jump in the hole. [01:02:11] Speaker D: And as Zafir like goes through where the floor would be, he just disappears from sight. [01:02:19] Speaker E: Idiot. [01:02:21] Speaker A: We. We have to go after him. [01:02:24] Speaker E: Yeah, I know. I don't like you. She says to the troll. [01:02:30] Speaker A: We were having such a good conversation. [01:02:32] Speaker C: Not to worry. I will offer you a bargain. Should you be able to catch up to your friend and accomplish a series of three challenges that lie before you before the moon sets, you'll be free to go. [01:02:49] Speaker E: And if we don't? Then we stay forever. [01:02:52] Speaker C: Something like that. [01:02:57] Speaker A: Howard sits down, putting his feet in the abyss. Fine. And it just flops down. [01:03:08] Speaker E: What if we refused? What would you do? Would you just kill us? Well, what good is that if you just really want knowledge? [01:03:20] Speaker C: I suppose I could answer all of my questions with just the two of your friends. Have a good evening, heroes. [01:03:28] Speaker D: And the hole in the floor begins to close up. [01:03:32] Speaker A: Come and join us. [01:03:34] Speaker E: I don't want to. [01:03:35] Speaker A: I'm scared. I'm scared too. But we'll make it through it together. [01:03:40] Speaker E: She shoots the troll, the bird, and then jumps in the hole. [01:03:45] Speaker D: And as soon as Neros disappears inside the hole, it finishes and just snaps shut the rest of the way. And our episode will end just on a close up of Gramaskull just grinning to himself. And the hero point for today's episode goes to Petit for his consistent ability to think like Faye. You got me, like right at the beginning of the episode. [01:04:12] Speaker C: And I didn't change my mind by the end. [01:04:14] Speaker B: I know nothing about this game. So when it comes to things that don't make sense, I'm. It's right up my alley. So that. That. That works. But thank you. Thank you for playing to the whims of entropy. That's my new phrase for the week. Hopefully you guys like it. But yeah, I'm gonna go take down the government. [01:04:36] Speaker A: I'll tag along. [01:04:39] Speaker E: I'll come with. [01:04:40] Speaker D: I guess I'll stay here and check out our company, Discord, see if anybody's on there chatting. [01:04:46] Speaker E: No, you have to come with me because we're married. [01:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah, you can't. [01:04:50] Speaker D: Oh, is this a date? [01:04:51] Speaker E: For better or for worse, honey. [01:04:53] Speaker A: And plus, since you're married, you can't go against each other in court, in [01:04:56] Speaker E: sickness or in mental health. [01:05:01] Speaker D: We'll see you all the next episode. [01:05:03] Speaker A: Bye. [01:05:05] Speaker D: This has been an Atomic Broadcasting production. If you enjoyed the show, make sure to give us some support by liking, commenting and following. These things really do make a difference in getting the word out and helping our community grow. Also, make sure to check us out on threads and check out the Discord server where you can chat with other fans and discuss all the recent developments and happenings. Links to all these good things in the description below. 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