Ep 31: Masque of the Astral Plague (Peril in Plutopolis)

Party so nice there’s an episode about it twice! Lucy takes advantage of her friends, Patch gets to the bottom of things, Janus bids against his childhood friend, and Rex behaves indelicately to the grieved.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:06

Welcome back to Time Uncle West.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

Welcome back.

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Uh, for those of you who are who who don't see us right now, which is all of you because this is a podcast, we're kind of dressed disheveled.

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We are, yes. The party, we're kind of dressed like we're halfway through the party. Yeah.

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Halfway through the party. We've got ties on heads. We've got comfy clothes.

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Spencer, is your collar meant to be up like that? Yeah. Because during our uh when we were recording the talk back earlier today, I saw it and I was like, Spencer, Spencer, your collar. Oh, I didn't even notice that. I I and then I realized that it was probably uh because you're meant to meant to be disheveled.

SPEAKER_06 0:47

Because we're in terrorists. Asymmetrically up like that. One side is up, the other side is. That's actually the fashion.

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You look yeah, you look like a nerd in a music video who just got like made out with by a hot chick.

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You do like he's coming up in the slow motion.

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He's at me.

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So yeah, you're only missing your glasses being a skew there's a minute.

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I've seen God.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

I just I just learned what a boob is. Yeah. Whoa. Well, uh, we're gonna be playing some rollicking DD today. We are, but first, I'm gonna be honest, guys. Survival scores are so 2025. Yeah, they are. I've been thinking about it. We're leaving it in the past. Yeah. We're I'm gonna say it. I don't think we're gonna give it next week either.

SPEAKER_07 1:30

When we have it now, like needed it even.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

No, never. It doesn't come up.

SPEAKER_03 1:35

But can I say fads are cyclical, so probably in 2027 it will be cool to be back with the first week of the extra.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Okay, so we're gonna first week of 2027 locked in, we're doing survival. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Today, the question I would like to ask you guys, in the spirit of Patch's uh first heartbreak, I want to know about everyone's first love.

SPEAKER_07 1:54

Ooh. Hi everyone, my name is Chloe O'Donnell.

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Hi, Chloe O'Donnell.

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Uh hi, Spencer.

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Uh, thought other people were gonna do it too.

SPEAKER_07 2:03

And I play Patch and Edies, aka Patch. Patch isn't, you know, much of a romantic relationships, girls, boys, they's thems aren't really on top of his mind. But Patch has, you know, felt the the flutter of attraction in his tummy once or twice. Um and I think the first time was when he was probably like eight or nine, and he was watching uh a TV show, and is it was an animated TV show, and there was this character on it that he thought was really her name was um Sailoricus Municus. Oh and um she would do this thing where she twirled and she like had turned into I've actually never seen Sailor Moon, so I don't know what happens. What?

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Oh, I thought this was a planet or something.

SPEAKER_07 2:48

Autobiography. Did she just get more powerful?

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yeah, well she's a regular Does she get big? No, she's like a regular middle schooler. Um She's in middle school.

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Oh, I feel bad.

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I believe so, yeah. At least in the first season.

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I thought she was an adult.

SPEAKER_07 3:01

Yeah, that's crazy how they drew her.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

No, she's a middle schooler.

SPEAKER_07 3:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Um, and then she transforms into Sailor Moon, which is just a middle schooler, like she's literally still in a schoolgirl outfit, but has like jewels and stuff and magic powers.

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So there was this character called Sailoricus Mudicus. Uh, and she would do this thing where she like sp spun and she got these cool little uh gadgets that would like they were on her wrists and they would like spring out and like turn into armor and stuff. And Patch thought that was really cool, and he thought it was cool that she liked that. And I think um he was he he wasn't like oh, I have a crush on her, but he definitely lingered his eyes a little bit on the screen in a way that he didn't notice at the time.

SPEAKER_06 3:42

Do you think Patch would be a fan of Inspector Gadget or like or not? Because like that's not how it works.

SPEAKER_07 3:49

Yeah. I yeah, I think Patch wouldn't like that Inspector Gadget wasn't taking it seriously.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

Yeah. Hi everyone, I'm Matt Morton. Hi Matt Mort.

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Rex.

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And Rex's first crush was in middle school uh on one of his classmates, um, Padmepolis. And you know, it was she was so pretty, you know, you always would um like want to see what she's doing, you know. But in you know, kind of like uh in a little intimidated way. There's no joke other than the name and it being Matt Matt loves Natalie Portman.

SPEAKER_07 4:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chloe's was Azula from Avatar The Last Airbag.

SPEAKER_08 4:29

Oh, I can see that because you're a messy.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

My name's Shane Jordan.

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Hi, Shane Jordan. Hi Shane. Oh, thank you, Chloe.

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And I play Janice Apylon. Um, and I think the first time Janice had like a little crush was in high school. It was very shortly after he got histos. It was this like this like sort of emo guy at the pet store. Like he was he he was the guy who worked at the pet store. Um so anytime Janice would go into the pet store to get anything for histos, he would just be like, are the guys there? Yeah. Um and you know, not really knowing what it meant there, uh, but uh it was just, you know, the the friendly pet shop guy.

SPEAKER_03 5:05

And what was his name? Did he so cute? Did uh Janice ever find out?

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Um I'm sure he did, and I'm sure I'm gonna make up a name in the next five or so seconds. Um, but all I'm coming up with is Kurt.

SPEAKER_07 5:17

Oh that's cute. Kurt Hummel? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Shane was like, quick, think of a gay guy. Kurt.

SPEAKER_07 5:26

I mean Blaine, Blaine! No, no.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

Just just Kurt at the end. He never got his last name.

SPEAKER_06 5:34

Oh. Because he still worked there?

SPEAKER_01 5:35

I don't I have no idea. Janice.

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Or has he moved to New York to attend Juniata?

SPEAKER_03 5:39

It's definitely not Kurt. Juniata. It's a small school in Pennsylvania.

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Where wherever they go in glee. Oh, Niata.

SPEAKER_03 5:47

That's a small school in New York.

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Oh, Niata.

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Made-up school. Yeah.

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It is. Hi everyone. My name is Sarah Katrenic.

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Hi, Sarah Katrenic.

unknown 5:56

Hi.

SPEAKER_03 5:56

Hey, hi Sarah. Hi, Sarah.

SPEAKER_06 5:58

Hey Matt. I play Lucy and I Knock. Did I say that already? I don't think so. Okay, that's who I play. Lucy's first crush was a boy in her class. It was another field trip uh outside of Siren's Perch. I think this time maybe it was to one of the local or one of the nearby farms. Again, she was on one of those carts that don't have rear view mirrors, so she got bounced out of the cart again. Again. Okay. Uh, but this time she got run over. Oh. It was uh it was one of the wheels in the front of the cart.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

So then wait, she bounced into the front of the cart? She bounced in front of the cart and then got run over.

SPEAKER_06 6:30

I think maybe she bounced to the middle of the cart past the first wheels, but before the second wheels.

SPEAKER_01 6:36

So she bounced out and then rolled under back under. Yeah.

unknown 6:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Bounce out hit the side of the road. No, it's clear as well.

SPEAKER_06 6:44

It bounced. Yeah, it was like a bank shot. Yes. It was it was like bumper bumpers and bowling. Yeah. So she got run over by the the wheel. But they didn't notice. Well, they didn't, except for one boy did. Jeremias Sumpteris. Uh, he was in the local production of Peter Pan with also Jason Isaacs, plays Hook or Captain Hook in The Peter Pan with Jeremy Sumpner.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Oh, you mean Jay Jason Nickis says Isaaciness?

SPEAKER_06 7:09

I mean Jasonus, Isaacitus. Anyway, so he saw that she had been bounced out, and he called to the front and said, Hey, Lucy fell out of the cart, and so then they slowed down so that Lucy had enough time to get up, run back over to the cart, and then climb back in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

No one came to help. No one came to help. It also sounds like No one healed her.

SPEAKER_06 7:31

You know, I don't know if you were doing an impersonation.

SPEAKER_07 7:34

No, no, he was like Sounds like he blamed you. He sounded bored about it.

SPEAKER_06 7:37

It was. He didn't sound concerned. No. Um, I don't think there's anything else to that story, but that's great. Next time, or in the future, I'll tell you about uh it was very insightful. Okay, I'll tell you about uh Lucy's first real relationship. Oh boyfriend.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

Hi, uh my name is Spencer Wilden, and uh and wow, no hello for me today. Hey Spencer. Hi Spencer. Hi, Spencer. Whatever. I was like, I said hello to everyone.

SPEAKER_06 8:00

Do people say Wilden won't then?

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I've been saying that ever. Well, I guess Matt So much. I say it's a it's a real will then won't then situation. That's right. You do say that. Do people say hello Spencer? Oh, I like that.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

They do say that a little bit.

SPEAKER_07 8:13

Do people say, hello, Spencer?

SPEAKER_02 8:15

They do say that a little bit, yeah. I get all of those things all the time. Two S's, two L's. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 8:20

From your real life.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

From my real life, yeah. Uh uh, my my first crush when I was a kid. Um, this is so. Yeah, I didn't think about the fact that I'd have to answer it.

SPEAKER_10 8:30

You would think Caladeaus. Right, you do. Sometimes you do a character. Caladeus' first crush. She's never doing a love.

SPEAKER_09 8:38

Yeah. Caladeus' first crush was duty. Not like poop.

unknown 8:42

Fuck.

SPEAKER_09 8:44

Like, well, you really have to do that. Do we have that? No, doing what's right, attending to your business, and being like pooping? No. What like pooping? No. No, I've never pooped.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

She would think that.

SPEAKER_09 9:01

I've never pooped.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

I've literally never pooped. She thinks that's true, is the most annoying part.

SPEAKER_09 9:07

What I do is something different.

SPEAKER_06 9:09

Spencer, maybe you can delete this, but I want to know what your first cr who your first crush is.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

Um I think it was a girl named Cindy Sydney. Cindy Sydney.

SPEAKER_07 9:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:17

I I decided to leave her a secret admirer note. Um I got, I know, thank you so much. Um, I got uh Arthur Stationery from Wendy's in my Happy Meal. And I I left a note, and at recess we were talking about, she's like, I don't know who left this. And I was like, well, it couldn't be me because I don't even like Arthur.

SPEAKER_07 9:37

I bet it was so well written too. It was in kindergarten, so I didn't know about it. No, but it was Young's dear Sydney.

SPEAKER_02 9:44

But then I you know I grew the hell up. I don't even use Arthur Stationery anymore. I got a I got a real name.

SPEAKER_06 9:49

Do you like Arthur now?

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Um, no, he pisses me off.

SPEAKER_06 9:52

Oh, I like that. He's kind of whiny. Arthur's like feels like very Ohio to me. I mean it's because I watched Arthur when I was in Ohio.

SPEAKER_02 9:58

That could be. You spent the majority of your year. Arthur feels when I was in Texas. Arthur feels a little New Mexico to me. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 10:04

Arthur also feels New Mexico to me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 10:06

What? No. No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 10:08

No, I'm just saying more Ohio.

SPEAKER_07 10:09

Okay. Thank you. No, Arthur feels New England-ish to me because it had seasons, and I remember not relating to that. Ohio has lots of seasons.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

Ohio, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 10:17

I don't remember, I didn't learn about Ohio season.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

The only season that matters in Ohio is football season. Am I right, Sarah? Good.

SPEAKER_02 10:24

Oh, Matt. Well, speaking of OH, oxygen and hydrogen, put them together in a different ratio. You get H-U-O. I call that water. We're gonna dive into the recess.

SPEAKER_03 10:36

Kerplunk.

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Marvelous masquerade. Inoffensive imbibings. A divine diva deception discovery. Ooh. Okay. Yeah, that's a lot of alliterations. Four of them. Yeah. Four words there. Last session, our party kicked off their shoes and boogied down at the masquerade ball of Plutopolis Councilmember Senna Hercadius.

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Some better than others.

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Some better than others. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 10:57

There was no kicking off shoes because it wasn't a sock party.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

That's true. They kept their shoes on. With a pending vote to accept aid from Ariaks, the city currently home to Yorphon and Calidaeus, the party's sworn enemies, and with Callius herself present to ensure the vote goes through, it wasn't long before the party set themselves to work. Lucy bonded with the wife of the hosts of the party, cautioning a first failed attempt to secure the councilwoman's necklace, which is essential for breaking into her private office and determining her connection to Plutopus's mysterious astral plague.

SPEAKER_06 11:27

Okay, it was way more exciting than that. Um You made it sound like, oh, she did this c No, it was crazy. It was crazy. It was You did assault someone. I assaulted someone, got away with it, tricked her into thinking that it wasn't me, then laid down next to her screen. That was kind of weird.

SPEAKER_07 11:45

What? Like Yeah, it did come out, right? Okay. No, not that it came out. The action that Tara did when Lucy did this plan. It's kind of creepy. Lucy's kind of creepy sometimes. She is.

SPEAKER_06 12:00

It's weird. In my head, it was like the cry chop with her hand and with the the shock in grasp.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

That's awesome. That's really cool. Um and ultimately it didn't work. I know, so close. Uh then Rex and Janice locked horns with Caladeus, but managed to win over possible votes from three council members, leaving three still undetermined. And Patch, darling little Patch, in his search for a scavenger hunt prize, felt the first flutterings of young love when a young woman named Alice Cooper asked Patch to dance, and later to accompany her to the estate gardens. Once there, Chloe just flipped me off. There she revealed herself to the boy as Phoenix in disguise. The boy? He's a grown man. Patch, sorry, he's so riddle.

SPEAKER_05 12:41

Is he really? He's 5'6. Oh, Patch.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

That's what I said. I said what I said. He's a short king. She revealed herself to the Patch as Phoenix in disguise, telling him that the time will soon come where she will need his help. After a solitary moment of heartbreak, Patch returned to the party, where he sought solace from his friend Lucy, herself tethered to a god that she doesn't always like. Eventually, the party reconvened and found the scavenger hunt prior as they sought, stacking up like if Yurtle the Turtle was an allegory for teamwork instead of fascism. At the top of the pile, Janice saw into the party proper the arriving entourage of General Trioctus. An entourage that included a Minotaur. Possibly the Minotaur that prior Hyrcadius placed at the scene of the plague's outbreak? Who knows? With the vote still forthcoming, we return as Senna on the balcony overlooking the dance floor prepares to make an announcement as you all step out of the library.

SPEAKER_07 13:31

China is you got the bell.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

Oh yeah, I got the bell.

SPEAKER_07 13:35

Yes, we did it.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

Can I ring it?

SPEAKER_07 13:37

Guys, look.

SPEAKER_06 13:38

I'm the bell of the ball! I I have the bell on my head. It's lying.

SPEAKER_03 13:41

Can I ring it while it's on Lucy's head?

SPEAKER_06 13:43

Yeah, try.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Rex takes out black razor.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

It's just a regular bell. You just have to give it a little a little flick.

SPEAKER_06 13:51

Oh, it's so loud.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Lucy takes one point of damage. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

It is the resonant bell.

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Senna Hercadius has stepped back onto the balcony right opposite her office and uh situated above the dance floor and goes, excuse me. Hello, party people. I'm pleased to report that I have just learned that the resonant bell was retrieved. Now who found it?

SPEAKER_01 14:16

Over here.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Oh! This ball's chromatic harmony and friends found it. Come on up to accept your prize, everybody! Clap, clap!

SPEAKER_01 14:25

So polite.

SPEAKER_06 14:26

Let's go. I I'm gonna stay back and not go up.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

I can go up. I've already been.

SPEAKER_06 14:31

Patch is also not gonna go up.

SPEAKER_03 14:33

Uh yeah, Rex and Janice go up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Alright. Uh uh welcome. The two of you again, and your little friend stays down there. You both are really proving to be quite the party savants.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Oh, sure. We're expert parties. We each have um different skill sets. Rex from college uh learned how to party.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

Yeah, I can pee really hard and Oh, good, good, cool, cool. Is there anything tonight about peeing hard?

SPEAKER_02 15:01

No, there's nothing about peeing hard. What kind of party is this? Just partying hard. Rex cringes. Because of your victory, you have the honor of winning a dance with me. Feel free to at any point in the night come up to me and I will dance in the next song with you.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

That's great.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

I've also got you this if you want it. It's just a little keychain.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Oh, keychain.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

Yes, it's sort of a prize.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

What's what's on the keychain?

SPEAKER_02 15:29

It's a tiny hut. You can you could use it to once a day catch the tiny hut.

SPEAKER_01 15:33

Oh my gosh, I'm packing this. Cool. And by pocketing it, I mean I'm wearing it on my belt loop.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Please, everyone, resume the party. Now that's one less event that's been done because they found a bell. Have fun.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Lovely. Hey guys. Make the hut.

SPEAKER_07 15:48

What'd you get?

SPEAKER_01 15:49

I'm I'm not gonna make make the hut. I want to see what's inside.

SPEAKER_07 15:52

Janus, what is that?

SPEAKER_01 15:53

It's a tiny hut.

SPEAKER_07 15:54

What is it?

SPEAKER_01 15:54

It's a tiny hut.

SPEAKER_07 15:55

I want to look at it. Can I look at it?

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Maybe Cersei's inside. Please, can we do the hut thing? Cersei's not inside.

SPEAKER_07 16:00

Can I look at it?

SPEAKER_01 16:01

We're at a party. We can do it tonight.

SPEAKER_06 16:03

Can I look at it?

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 16:04

Maybe we we make the hut and then we put Senna inside the hut and then we convince her that she's transported into a completely different time and realm.

SPEAKER_07 16:12

And then we take the necklace from her that way. I got a 26 arcana to see what this tiny hut does.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Um, once per day, you can cast a spell that creates a little, like, tiny little house that you can go inside and it's bigger on the inside, and I believe it lasts for eight hours. It's essentially you can like give yourself a safe place to rest.

SPEAKER_03 16:30

No more camping. All right.

SPEAKER_02 16:32

You can also specifically forbid certain people from entering. Like you can say, these are the people who can enter the hut. Anyone who's not on that list cannot.

SPEAKER_03 16:40

I know who we're not gonna put on that list. Alice. Um you know, we could give you some time in there. You and Alice, you know.

SPEAKER_07 16:50

Hey Rex. Um the thing about uh no, Lucy, I need a it turns out guys, guys, you're not gonna believe this. This is so funny. What? It's so funny that it happened. Um, I it turns out that Alice her uh it wasn't Alice. She wasn't a person named Alice, she wasn't a girl named Alice who wanted to dance with me. She was actually Phoenix. No! Gotta lies and trickery.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Why is he picking on you? Yeah, he does really seem to be focused on you, Patch.

SPEAKER_07 17:21

I don't know. He said he's gonna call on me or something, but I have this really bad feeling that he's my champion, but yeah, that that doesn't make sense. I mean, I I mean I saw Clothus and in that vis in that vision.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

But are you sure it was Clothus?

SPEAKER_07 17:36

But he does like the trick people.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

It could be another trick. That rat.

SPEAKER_07 17:40

Why would he I don't know why he's picking on me like this. He says oh, he said that um he liked me.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

That's good.

SPEAKER_07 17:47

But but if he liked me, then I don't know why he would be doing this to me. And he said he was gonna call on me, and he said that I was that we were similar. Um that's what's going on over here.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

I'm sorry, buddy.

SPEAKER_07 18:02

Yeah, it's um it's okay. I just uh it was yeah, I'm fine. Okay. All good. Great. We have work to do. Yes. Uh uh and yes, I think um whatever we do, I can do something sneaky. I'm I mean, I'm not the most sneaky person, but I do have uh I can disguise myself to be someone who works in the house and maybe at least get a you said that this uh all these doors that lead up to these different rooms are in like plain sight.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 18:28

So like the door to Senna's room is in plain sight.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 18:32

I kinda wanna see if maybe there's uh I don't know, maybe a secret entrance into she seems like the type of person to have a secret entrance into her office, right? I mean, I I don't think we're gonna be able to get in just going in through the front door, so maybe I can go in somewhere and uh either ask someone or maybe if I'm really lucky, find some blueprints.

SPEAKER_06 18:48

I also have a new BFF, and uh that can be really helpful in distraction or in getting her to take me into Senna's room. What's going on with the play? That's supposed to come up soon, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Yeah, that's the next thing. You have a new BFF?

SPEAKER_06 19:01

Yeah. I actually I I have two new BFFs. Two.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Who are they?

SPEAKER_06 19:06

Well, one, I'm this is kind of awkward, Janus. I know it's weird if your friends become friends, but Midas and I have gotten along really well. Oh, Midas. And and also, um, Cadra, really cool. Sena's wife. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

Yeah. That's fine. I mean, be careful with Kedra. And Midas is fine though, as long as you don't like her more than you like me. Or me.

SPEAKER_06 19:25

I don't You can be friends with whoever you want. Thanks, Batch. I I don't like her more or less than you guys.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

I I don't know why I feel like that's worse.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

Midas Genesis' father comes up with pigs in a blanket and goes, I got extra hors d'oeuvres. I told him that I was bringing them to some friends, and so I could bring them over to you guys. Thanks, Dad. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Uh, we're stressed, Dad.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Oh, what are you stressed about?

SPEAKER_01 19:50

Well, we still don't know where Cersei is.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

Oh, I'm stressed about that too.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

And we hate Caladeus. Um, though Rex and I are rocking this party as far as you guys seem to be very popular.

SPEAKER_09 20:02

Yeah. We're pretty cool guys. Makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Yeah, I mean, we're trying I'm trying to show a brave and happy face to get all of the uh council members on my side about rejecting this aid package. But I am stressed underneath about where Cersei is.

SPEAKER_05 20:15

Yeah, that didn't sound good.

SPEAKER_03 20:16

But you're looking so good. So you could maybe say that you're like stressed to the nines.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

I could say that. I could say that I'm stressed to the nines.

SPEAKER_07 20:25

We have I mean we have a couple people's votes, right? We have High Sun Georgiana's, we have Janice's mom, we have um Dod Ratley, and then we probably have bones. Um we don't we don't know anything about bones. I'm hoping we have bones. That's four. That's a majority. I don't think we can count bones yet. We we haven't talked to them at all.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

We should go talk to bones.

SPEAKER_07 20:45

Sorry for being an optimist, Lucy. Not even an optimist, just like a not like like there's no no foundation. I'm just saying that once we get to bones, who should be easy, then we'll have four.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

But what do you think, dad is?

SPEAKER_07 20:57

Why do we think he's easy? Because we have a rapport with him. Do we?

SPEAKER_03 21:01

Lucy, you're so good at making friends. Why don't you go find one of the other council members and make friends with them? Dad.

SPEAKER_09 21:06

Okay, fine, I will. Oh, I sensed it. I walked in on the middle or something.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

No, Dad, it's fine. Look, we're we're trying to get on Ebenezer Bones and uh Trioctus' good sides. Do you have any advice?

SPEAKER_02 21:17

Oh well, um, Trioctus is he he loves the city. Uh he loves honor. Um if you adjust if he loves honor. If you show him how you're honorful, you're such an honorful little boy. Except your mom did tell me that you broke into a council member's office, and we'll have words about that later.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

I talked to Dod Rattley about it, and we're cool.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

And if I asked Dod Ratley that, will he say the same thing? Yeah, I think so, actually. Well then you're okay.

SPEAKER_07 21:42

Guys, are we con are we convinced that Senna is settled on the aid package? I mean, obviously she's doing something shady with the plague, but are we s certain that that's the specific thing? Is there any point in trying to talk to her?

SPEAKER_01 21:56

I figured whenever we were doing our dance, I would talk to her about it, and at least play Domin because. Like trying to convince her to vote no and see how she reacts. And also steal her necklace. Yeah, I would do both of those things. And her voice.

SPEAKER_07 22:08

Now I'm feeling wait, maybe I can while you're distracting her with your amazing dancing, I can thank that off of her.

SPEAKER_03 22:15

Okay. Yeah, I could push it as a waiter. Patrick, I could like push you into her or something like that.

SPEAKER_07 22:20

Well that might that might cause her to notice me.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

No, but we'd be dancing next to them, you and me, and then like, oh, clumsy old Rex turning into a tree. And uh, you know, we could blame it on that.

SPEAKER_07 22:32

Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:33

I don't know if you need a reason to be next to them.

SPEAKER_07 22:35

We'll we'll see what the situation is.

SPEAKER_03 22:37

Why don't you want to dance with me?

SPEAKER_07 22:38

I'm kind of sour on dancing right now.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Oh, fair enough, fair enough. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 22:42

Um, okay, well, I just I guess I feel a little superfluous now, so I guess I'll go hang out with my other friends.

SPEAKER_03 22:47

Cool, tell me say hi.

SPEAKER_06 22:48

Lucy. What? I tried something and it didn't work. And now Janice and you can do it better than I can. And and you're gonna dance and you're gonna get her on her side, so I don't have anything I can do. I can't offer anything to the group.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

You're I mean, you're the most charming out of all of us. You can dance with Senna if you want.

SPEAKER_06 23:04

I just want to add to the group. I just want to feel like I'm needed.

SPEAKER_07 23:08

You we do need you.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Yeah, and you're the best dancer anyway, so why don't you dance with Senna?

SPEAKER_07 23:12

And you're also the most persuasive, so whatever you do, you know, you're gonna be helpful in that way. Oh, okay. I have an idea.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 23:19

Okay. But I'll dance with Senna, thanks.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

Midas, Midas goes, I don't know what the hell you kids are talking about. I tell you, I have had several of those arcane shots. For a brief moment I had an Ape all spritz, which is a drink that turns you into an ape, and I turned it, I went ape mode for a few minutes. Uh, and that's crazy. So I'm kind of riding an insane high. I don't understand anything you've said in the past few minutes. You guys kids, you kids have fun, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:42

We're having a great time, Dad.

SPEAKER_02 23:43

Okay. If you need anything, just call me. I'm gonna go have another monkey drink.

SPEAKER_06 23:47

Okay. Um, okay, so what's next? Play?

SPEAKER_03 23:50

So you dance.

SPEAKER_01 23:51

Let's go talk to General Trioctus and maybe Ebenezer Bones before and then we'll go to the play, and then I'm curious what happens if Senna ends up catching the play, because then you can get her reactions when you're dancing with her.

SPEAKER_07 24:03

Okay. Hey guys. Patch puts his hand in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

Janice very excitedly puts his hand in the middle. Rex puts his hand in the middle.

SPEAKER_07 24:10

Uh Lucy puts her hand in the middle. Let's do this.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Metis Aphrodite comes up and goes, Oh my god, are we doing a hand-san?

SPEAKER_07 24:15

We're actually, no, this is kind of a us thing. Oh. Sorry, I'm I'm doing something with my friends.

SPEAKER_02 24:20

Understandable. Well, I'll see you guys around.

SPEAKER_07 24:22

That was so chill of you. Thank you for understanding. Of course.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

Yeah, actually very chill. Put your hand in. Alright.

SPEAKER_07 24:31

Let's do this. On three. One, two, three, let's do this. Let's do this.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

Um, she leaves.

SPEAKER_07 24:36

Let's do that.

SPEAKER_06 24:37

The person that's named Let's Do This turns around and goes, What?

SPEAKER_02 24:41

Great. So who's doing what? What are you guys doing?

SPEAKER_03 24:44

I I mean, I think it makes sense for Janice to be with General Trioctus, right? Or agree. I'll go talk to Bones.

SPEAKER_06 24:51

We should split up and do bones and trioctus. All right, I'll go to bones with you.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Alright, so we are going to start with Ebenezer Bones. Uh, Lucy and Pat, you guys are going over to Ebenezer Bones. He's over at a uh table, sat down. He's sitting with his uh his second, his assistant, uh Jesta, who you you heard him refer to him by name. Just the Bones? Janice. Uh you don't know Jesta's last name. Just the Bones. But uh they're they're talking and they they've had a couple drinks, but they're not like gone or anything. And Ebenezer is just going, his party's so long.

SPEAKER_07 25:25

Hello, sir.

SPEAKER_09 25:29

Oh, this is it, my friend. Yeah, hi, so good to see you.

SPEAKER_07 25:32

How are you?

SPEAKER_09 25:33

Did you get the did you get the gem?

SPEAKER_07 25:35

We're working on it. We're working on it.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Good. As soon as you get that, I would be wonderful.

SPEAKER_07 25:41

Who's your um hi, other person who's sitting here? Hi, this is my assistant, uh, pseudonym.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Jesta pseudonym.

SPEAKER_09 25:48

Jesta goes, hi, hi, yes. Wonderful to meet you.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Your name is Just a pseudonym?

SPEAKER_09 25:54

Yeah, what's your real name? My name isn't just a pseudonym. My name is Jesta Pseudonym. S-U-D-O-N-I-M-M.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Just a pseudonym?

SPEAKER_09 26:03

Jesta. J-E-S-A. Just a pseudonym. Yes, my name is Jesta.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

James reacting to Spencer right now. Was that what you were born with? Just a pseudonym.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

Yes, I was born with the name Jesta Pseudonym, and his eyes dart back and forth. Can you roll insight? Yeah, you roll insight.

SPEAKER_07 26:20

A patch will also roll insight. Oh man. I got a two.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

I got a one. Yes, that was my name when I was born. Uh. Regular style.

SPEAKER_07 26:31

Head first?

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Yep.

SPEAKER_07 26:33

You're not Phoenix, are you?

SPEAKER_02 26:34

No, I'm not Phoenix.

SPEAKER_07 26:37

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_02 26:38

I'm 100% sure.

SPEAKER_06 26:40

I want to sit next to Bones.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Well, put up a seat. I've kept this one empty just in case my late wife comes.

SPEAKER_06 26:46

Oh, what was her late wife? Wife's name?

SPEAKER_02 26:48

Um, well, don't be that sad. She's a ghost in real life. Oh. Um, she we and her and I hang out all the time.

SPEAKER_06 26:54

That's fun.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Her name was Louisa.

SPEAKER_06 26:57

Louisa, that's a beautiful name.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

Louisa Bones, yes.

SPEAKER_06 27:00

Louisa Bones. This party is long, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 27:03

It's so long, and I want to go home and read my little book.

SPEAKER_06 27:07

But you have a vote before you that you have to do?

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Yes, I have to wait for the vote, and they're not gonna want to vote until Triactus just got here. I mean, my god.

SPEAKER_06 27:15

I know, right?

SPEAKER_02 27:16

Talk about honor, you show up late to a party.

SPEAKER_06 27:19

No honor in in that.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

No honor in showing up late.

SPEAKER_06 27:21

Uh uh, do do you do you have any feelings about the vote?

SPEAKER_09 27:25

Yes, it will be wonderful to get some uh intelligence from the other uh you know, the city and the priests, and I think it will it will genuinely help us.

SPEAKER_07 27:36

Maybe you haven't heard. Oh, yeah, no, you haven't heard?

SPEAKER_06 27:40

You haven't heard. That's not a good idea. You haven't heard. What? Ariaks is not gonna give us anything good. We found out we've just got information. What? Yeah. Um, but they told me what they're gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Like it's the gold, and it's the guards, and it's the things that they're lying.

SPEAKER_07 27:55

Mr. Mr. Bones, um, can I ask you this? Is there is there a um Is there? I wasn't working on that. Have they given you like give me um like a a a sample of what they know? Have they been able to help so far?

SPEAKER_09 28:12

Uh no, but I do know that uh if they send that Caladanian, she is whip smart.

SPEAKER_07 28:18

Oh, oh that we actually haven't heard. Apologies, Lucy, he hasn't heard.

SPEAKER_09 28:22

What if I what if I I've heard so much?

SPEAKER_07 28:24

She's she's untruthful. She's a bad person.

SPEAKER_10 28:28

She's untruthful. She's a bad person. What the fuck are you talking about? What do you mean am I talking about?

SPEAKER_02 28:33

You came up to me and you said, this deal you've been working on, have you heard that it's not what you it's not what it says? Yes. They're not gonna give you. I just am confused.

SPEAKER_07 28:44

Okay, Mr. Bones, I can think that you're a man who You're old. I understand.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

Whoa, I'm not confused because I'm old, I'm whip smart.

SPEAKER_07 28:50

No, you want a straightforward approach, and I'll be straightforward with you, sir. Uh, here's the thing. Uh, uh, me and and and Lucy and Janice and Rex and us as a a kind of party, we've had some dealings with Caldeus, uh, where she has been not forthright. She has skipped out on duplicity paying us for services rendered. We have reason to believe that she has um uh hired various factions to work against us. She imprisoned us falsely. She imprisoned us falsely. And basically, here's what here's what we're thinking. Here's here's should I should Lucy. Sorry, Mr. Bones. You think he's ready for the truth? I think he's ready for the truth.

SPEAKER_02 29:28

I'm ready for the truth.

SPEAKER_07 29:30

We're not gonna deceive you.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Okay, because I'm ready for the truth.

SPEAKER_07 29:32

Lucy, are you sure he's ready for the truth? I don't know. Hold on.

SPEAKER_09 29:36

I think I'm ready for the truth.

SPEAKER_07 29:37

I don't know. It's I don't know if he can handle it.

SPEAKER_09 29:40

I as well am ready for the truth.

SPEAKER_07 29:41

Oh just a pseudonym. Just a pseudonym is here. Um Are you ready for the truth?

SPEAKER_09 29:46

I'm also ready for the truth.

SPEAKER_07 29:48

Um the truth is The truth is that Eurofon is interested in becoming a god and he has installed himself as the head in Ariaks. Sta stay with me now.

SPEAKER_00 30:03

Woo!

SPEAKER_07 30:04

And we have reason to believe he is also involved with uh releasing the plague here because of his involvement with the box of many things where the plague came from. But I don't know, by the way, I don't know. That was common knowledge, you know.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

What about you see Jesta's eyes like perk up? Jesta goes, how would you know any of this?

SPEAKER_07 30:23

What do you mean, how would we know any of this? What do you mean? I mean we told you we were falsely in prison by the way.

SPEAKER_09 30:27

No, but where did you get the name Box of Many Things?

SPEAKER_07 30:30

The box said it's I mean, you see uh- You've seen the box? It's a box full of things. What else would you call it? Where where is the box? It's not here. It's I Yes, where is it? I saw I saw it when I um got the plague. I don't know if you can tell, I'm kinda sick.

SPEAKER_10 30:46

Ha ha! Bless you. This looks suspicious, Patch.

SPEAKER_07 30:50

Um Bones.

SPEAKER_06 30:51

Can I tell you bones?

SPEAKER_10 30:52

Yes, of course.

SPEAKER_06 30:53

What what what do you most want in the world?

SPEAKER_02 30:56

Happiness. What I would like is I would like to I would like this plague to be done, but I would also like to learn what we can learn um about its nature so that we can prevent similar plagues in the future.

SPEAKER_07 31:07

Well, I'm gonna tell ya, us and the party, we're working on trying to solve that. When we have some solid leads, um, here's the thing. We're worried that whatever this cap care package is gonna be, it's gonna be bad. And it's gonna make things worse. And we're not asking you to delay this aid forever, but at least for this vote for tonight, uh, just say no to aid from Ariac.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

So Jesta Jesta goes, very interesting.

SPEAKER_10 31:34

Very interesting.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

I need both of you to roll uh persuasion checks.

SPEAKER_07 31:38

Uh Patric got a 16. Nice.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

Oh yeah. What'd you get? 24. 24, okay. You see Ebenezer Bones goes, uh well what you have said has given me a lot to think about. Uh I'll have to confer, of course, with my uh second here. And Jesta goes, uh yes.

SPEAKER_09 31:54

Um by any chance do you guys I don't know. Have you met anyone named Whisper?

SPEAKER_07 31:59

Uh why? Can I Is it fair for us to do another insight check at this point? Yeah, I think so. What if just the pseudonym is Silas? I got an eight.

SPEAKER_06 32:08

I got a zero.

unknown 32:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 32:09

I got a natural one minus one.

SPEAKER_09 32:11

He goes, he goes, uh do you guys mind if I touch you just on the shoulder?

SPEAKER_07 32:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 32:16

Uh well now it's weird. I shouldn't have asked, I should have just done it.

SPEAKER_07 32:19

That's kinda yeah, that is weird. What are we gonna do to me?

SPEAKER_10 32:21

I well, um, I was going to we're gonna talk in a more private, like sort of like a this is awkward now.

SPEAKER_07 32:28

Lucy, I think he wants to boink boink. Mine, mine.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

He like starts to tentatively reach out. You can touch my hand.

SPEAKER_07 32:36

I touch his hand with my finger. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

It feels clammy.

SPEAKER_07 32:39

Um, sure.

SPEAKER_02 32:40

You guys uh touch his hand, and Ebenezer Bones also touches him, and you guys disappear.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Bones too.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

And we're gonna cut away to uh Janice and Rex. I'm kinda nervous to talk to this guy.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

Hey, uh, you know, he might not know anything. Uh it'll be fine.

unknown 32:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

Don't you want to learn more about your parents?

SPEAKER_03 33:02

I guess I do, but I want to learn like that they were good.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

I don't think you have any reason to believe they weren't. Except for the fact that you hate your dad.

SPEAKER_03 33:10

Well, yeah, and like there's this whole thing about my mom being a completely different person than I thought she was.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Yeah, but she seems badass. I don't think you have to worry about her.

SPEAKER_03 33:18

Yeah, I'm not, yeah, I'm not so worried about her, but I'm just so confused about the history of it. They didn't teach me any of this in school.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

And history was the only subject you paid attention in. Right.

SPEAKER_02 33:29

So you guys approach General Triocus is kind of surrounded by his entourage. He's got guards around him. Make an insight check.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

24?

SPEAKER_02 33:38

15. He looks around um kind of nervously uh at like the surroundings. He seems to be looking at like the amount of people, and uh seems to be a little on edge by it.

SPEAKER_01 33:51

Huh. Hey there, soldier.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Hey! Oh, Janice! How's it going, buddy?

SPEAKER_01 33:56

Pretty good. How are you, General?

SPEAKER_02 33:58

Good, good to see you. He gives you a hard handshake.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

I give him a hard handshake right back.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

And you uh Rex Rex, Rex, good to me. Nice to meet you.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

Good to see you again.

SPEAKER_02 34:07

Great to see you guys.

SPEAKER_03 34:08

Yeah, a lot of people here, huh? Good turnout.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

Yeah, definitely, uh, definitely a lot of people.

SPEAKER_03 34:14

Yeah, what kept ya?

SPEAKER_02 34:15

To be honest, I was nervous about uh about this, about the amount of people here. This is if the plague got in here, it would be devastating.

SPEAKER_01 34:23

That is I agree. A very good concern to have.

SPEAKER_03 34:27

I think it's really um kind of tone-deaf for uh your council member to be throwing a party pretending like this horrible thing isn't happening. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

And then also to hold a vote at said party about an aid package for this aid package is terrible.

SPEAKER_03 34:44

Have you looked at this thing?

SPEAKER_02 34:45

I have. It's it's airtight, it's pretty good. Well airtight. Have you looked at this? How have you looked at this thing?

SPEAKER_03 34:50

Oh, we've I mean, we're kind of, you know, you know, we're investigating everything.

SPEAKER_01 34:55

We you have some more stories. Can you tell us about Caladeus?

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Uh how do you know her?

SPEAKER_02 35:01

Well, I know I know her and and Eurofon and their whole crew, really. Uh they were they served under me for a time uh before I I returned home. They were good uh uh soldiers, very innovative. They had a lot of really smart ways to keep a lot of people from dying. They were a godsend out there, they were really, really good.

SPEAKER_03 35:20

Hey, I think that's really honorable to try to prevent uh death, you know? I think that like, you know, speaking of which of being in this place with all these people, it's like kind of dishonorable to to have so many people here potentially get sick.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

Absolutely. I think it's a travesty. But, you know, uh we've got to do what we've got to do to get this business done and uh get this vote done so that we can hopefully get some well-needed aid. Did you boys want something?

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Yeah, yeah. I mean, not to, you know, talk bad about your former subordinates, but um, we've had some rather dishonorable interactions with her recently. Uh you know, and of course them getting Arias involved in the war in the first place was not the most honorable way to go about that.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

Their methods at times, I will agree, uh uh leave something to be desired. But uh by all accounts, it sounds as if uh Ariaks was acquired relatively legally.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

Well, we were sort of there, um at the time. And tell me if this feels weird. Can I can I like eye over specifically at the Minotaur and see if he's like peering into the conversation?

SPEAKER_02 36:27

Yeah, make an insight check.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Twenty-three?

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Twenty-three? He's he's listening for sure. He he doesn't seem to be listening with an ear that's like I'm implicated in what's ever happening. Right. But he does seem to be listening.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

So she sort of framed us for being hired by the king to assassinate Eurifon. He faked an assassination attempt, they wrongfully threw us into the labyrinth. That's kind of how it went down. And then we got out. We did get out of the labyrinth, so you know, but yeah, she did essentially try to I don't want to say kill us, but you know, imprison us for the rest of our lives. Endless maze.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

Yeah, it was super dishonorable.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

Yeah, it was bad. Um, anywho.

SPEAKER_02 37:06

Kids, guys, you know what I think is dishonorable?

SPEAKER_01 37:08

What's that?

SPEAKER_02 37:09

Spreading bad gas about people.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

Well, it's not just bad gas. This happened to me, General.

SPEAKER_02 37:13

Janice, I've known you since you were a boy. I know your tells.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

My tells?

SPEAKER_02 37:17

I don't know what you have against Callidaeus, but you're not gonna be going around this party spreading bad information.

SPEAKER_03 37:23

Can I actually, this is crazy. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 37:26

Sorry, wait.

SPEAKER_03 37:27

Can can I see that sword? Uh no, I've actually got another thing I wanted to show you. I'll show you two things. We'll look at the sword first. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

Yeah, the sword we got actually actually. Where the hell did you get this? It was in the labyrinth initially, but we got it outside the labyrinth.

SPEAKER_02 37:41

Yeah. Janice, I don't like the company you keep.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

Can I ask you a question? Is that his sword?

SPEAKER_03 37:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

I just found it. I know whose sword it was. Whose sword was it?

SPEAKER_03 37:49

Whose sword was it? That was Mogus' sword. Oh, yeah. Well, I am I'm in the fraternity of Mogus, you know. So Well, he was. He's kind of I am still. He's kind of more of an Irowh guy now. They're sort of fighting over to the side.

SPEAKER_02 38:02

It's gotta be one or the other.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

Can I can I ask you a question? Because I got another question about the company that you keep. Sure. Uh Rex pulls out the sword shield of the brothers. Yeah. I I recognized you when I saw you. I saw you. You're actually on this shield. And I was just curious about the other people on this shield. This man and this woman here.

SPEAKER_02 38:25

Oh, of course. That's uh that was Queen Juliana. Um, and that was Captain, that was Captain Picross, Picross Rex.

SPEAKER_03 38:32

Queen Juliana, you were there. You said she died?

SPEAKER_02 38:36

Yeah, uh, or I've heard that she died. At the time, I had already I had already returned, but yeah, she she by all accounts died at the end of the war.

SPEAKER_03 38:48

Got it. From a broken heart.

SPEAKER_02 38:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:50

Okay, got it. And and would you say that it's honorable to make a deal with a shaman that then kills your entire platoon. Just kind of hypothetical. I'm not having this conversation. Hypothetical, I just was curious when you got that, what that was about.

SPEAKER_02 39:11

He he uh kind of just turns and starts walking away.

SPEAKER_03 39:14

Cause it's you you cause it is your son, right?

SPEAKER_02 39:17

He stops. Don't talk about my son. You don't know my son.

SPEAKER_03 39:21

Yeah, it seems like neither do you, because he's not here anymore.

SPEAKER_07 39:26

Jesus Christ!

SPEAKER_02 39:27

You see, his hand like goes for his sword, and the Minotaur grabs his arm. Boys. Janice, I'm gonna need that badge I gave you back.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

What badge was that?

SPEAKER_02 39:38

The pass to investigate this whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 39:41

Oh, we lost that. First day.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

Uh Janice goes to hand it to him, and as he does it, he uses Druid Craft to set it on fire. We're very close to figuring out the cause of the plague. And he looks at the Minotaur and is like, and we're very close to figuring out more about the people who were there when it started.

SPEAKER_02 39:56

Trioctus goes. Well, when you catch those plague bringers, please bring them to justice.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

I fully intend to.

SPEAKER_02 40:05

Can we get that in writing? No! Fuck you! I don't like you. I don't like you. He starts walking away again. Um, and we're gonna cut back to Lucy and Patch. I know who it is. Lucy and Patch, you see yourself suddenly in a starry version of the room you're currently in. You see spectral versions of the partygoers moving around. And where you saw just a pseudonym, you now see the form of one of these fell priests. You see he's got uh no eyes, um, and he's got that same gaunt skin, those same pauldrons like Whisper and Wonder have, and Ebenezer Bones goes, uh Well, it sounds like we're all on the same side.

SPEAKER_07 40:45

I told you we had four. What? Four votes! I told you Ebenezer Bones was basically four. Oh. How could you possibly know that? I got a feeling for these things. I'm a salesman. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

How did you all uh uh not a good one, obviously. Weil goes, how did you all see?

SPEAKER_09 41:03

How did you all see through my clever disguise?

SPEAKER_07 41:07

Um, it was it was a name. I gotta be honest with you. Uh someone who dabbles in pseudonyms, uh, you gotta you gotta it has to sound like um a name another person, a real person would have.

SPEAKER_09 41:19

It's a good name.

SPEAKER_07 41:20

I like Jesta. I think Just a pseudonym.

SPEAKER_06 41:22

Just a Jesta is good, but pseudonym is really the No, but it's spelled different.

SPEAKER_09 41:26

No, it's not spelled like people with it.

SPEAKER_06 41:27

When you say it out loud, it's no one sees how you spell it out.

SPEAKER_09 41:30

But if I show them my ID, they see that's different.

SPEAKER_06 41:34

Well that's that's that's a mistake I made this time. What if you introduced yourself and you said this is a pseudonym? No, I said my name is just a pseudonym.

SPEAKER_09 41:41

I didn't say it's just a pseudonym.

SPEAKER_07 41:43

Just a human.

SPEAKER_09 41:44

Just a human?

SPEAKER_07 41:46

Just a human.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

Oh, that's good, but it sounds too much like human. Then it sounds like I'm trying to pretend I'm just a human, which I am trying to pretend, but it's called too much attention.

SPEAKER_06 41:53

What about a guy? What about just a guy?

SPEAKER_09 41:55

Just a guy? Just a guy?

SPEAKER_07 41:58

What about Adam Sandler?

SPEAKER_09 42:00

Now let's not be absurd. Um, Ebenezer goes, This fellow came to me a few months back, and I've been uh helping him try to research the plague. And it sounds like you guys have uh he told me about the box. I don't know where it is, he doesn't know where it is. Are we all at the same place?

SPEAKER_06 42:19

No, yeah, we don't actually know where the box is.

SPEAKER_07 42:21

But I can tell you everything I know from getting infected.

SPEAKER_06 42:24

But we also know that we can't trust Caladeus. Yeah. And this aid package is not we think she's a part of bringing the plague in. And so if you want to get rid of the plague, you're not gonna vote with her.

SPEAKER_02 42:35

Okay. I'm in. Whatever you however you guys want me to vote, I I fully trust you.

SPEAKER_06 42:39

Okay. Wait. Can I give you a hug?

SPEAKER_02 42:41

Yes. Ow! That was too hard.

SPEAKER_06 42:44

Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. You're very brittle.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

That's not what you just did was that was a good amount.

SPEAKER_06 42:49

Okay. Can we go big up?

SPEAKER_02 42:51

Yeah, okay. Well, uh Jesta. And Jesta goes, sure, I am going to Okay.

SPEAKER_06 42:57

Wait, can you describe uh what Jesta he no eyes, right?

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:02

Ears and a mouth.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:04

And a nose. Fantastic lover. And this is Wonder. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 43:08

Wonder? This is Wile. Wild, sorry.

SPEAKER_06 43:10

Wow, we were in there for a while. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

Yeah. Oh, very that's funny, but don't say the name out here as far as anyone knows. I'm Jesta pseudonym.

SPEAKER_06 43:19

I didn't say any name. I said just a word. Another best friend. Very funny.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

Very funny. Ebenezer goes, Well, I suppose I could count on you both uh to keep our little secret, and we'll keep your little secret.

SPEAKER_07 43:35

That sounds good. Yep. And we are working on getting the plague in that rock.

SPEAKER_02 43:39

Oh, good. Thank you. That that will be very helpful. Um, and I'll I'll pass that on to Trioctus and don't pass anything on it, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 43:45

Just keep it all. We don't trust Trioctus.

SPEAKER_02 43:47

Okay. Then Jesta, I guess you can have it. And Jesta goes, Thank you. I'll be glad to use it.

SPEAKER_06 43:53

Oh, Jessa. Um, is it okay if I call you Jesta? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 43:57

That is my name. He tries to wink, but clearly the eyes are an illusion. Like, even more than like the rest of it. It's like um he's winking kind of in the wrong direction.

SPEAKER_06 44:07

Have you heard anything from Whisper? Are you able to communicate with him at all?

SPEAKER_09 44:11

I have not heard anything from Whisper. I have not, um, we've not been in contact for the months that we've been split off.

SPEAKER_06 44:19

Do you have any way of contacting him right now?

SPEAKER_09 44:21

I'll I'll attempt to send him a message.

SPEAKER_06 44:23

Because Janice's sister is missing. And the last thing that we knew about her is that she was going to see Whisper. And so we want to know if she actually met up with him or or not, and to see maybe where she is. So if you could actually bring both of your brothers here, that would be really, really helpful.

SPEAKER_02 44:38

Got it. I'll I'll I'll do some messaging. I'm gonna go to the bathroom and cast a message spell from the bathroom.

SPEAKER_05 44:44

Okay. I that's a good idea. I love a message spell.

SPEAKER_02 44:47

The goo!

SPEAKER_07 44:49

Um should you be going to the bathroom when you do that? What? Should you be going to the bathroom when you cast message? No. Why? Is it improper? I don't I mean, just does go into the bathroom.

SPEAKER_02 45:00

He he he he's like as he's leaving, he turns around and goes, I don't know if it's improper, but I don't want to be like talking into my hand or anything.

SPEAKER_09 45:06

Weird like I don't I'm trying not to attract suspicion.

SPEAKER_06 45:10

I cool. When I do it, it's much less suspicious. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 45:13

I also have to pee.

SPEAKER_02 45:16

I have no eyes, but I must pee. He leaves. Uh so uh Ebenezer also bids you guys goodbye and goes, if you need anything else, um, I'm here. I'll just be having some of these tiny little plates. Tapas.

SPEAKER_07 45:29

Fantastic. Mission accomplished. Let's go find how to re- The boys, the boys.

SPEAKER_03 45:33

I fucked it. I bustled it. I can't believe you said that right. That was so great, guys. Listen, I'm gonna kill that guy.

SPEAKER_07 45:39

Did you threaten his life? What happened?

SPEAKER_03 45:41

I didn't threaten his life.

SPEAKER_01 45:43

Not really. It turns out he's kind of um um a big fan of the whole Caladeus and Europhant fan, folks.

SPEAKER_06 45:51

Oh, you're a fandom.

SPEAKER_01 45:53

He's in the Eurofandom.

SPEAKER_06 45:54

He because he was he also part of the league back in the day.

SPEAKER_03 45:57

Yeah, no, I asked him about that. He was super unhelpful, and then I really called him about for killing his son. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:04

So he was sort of their general, and I told him what happened in Ariaks, and he straight up called me a liar, which I think he was gaslighting. Yeah. Um, but the Minotaur guy, I don't know if he's good or bad. He seems to be important.

SPEAKER_06 46:20

Do you think he's related to Mogus at all?

SPEAKER_03 46:22

I don't know. I didn't get to dab him up and see if he knew that secret handshake, but he did hold him back when he was like, We were about to fight, and I was about to kill him.

SPEAKER_07 46:30

Maybe he was his second right-hand man.

SPEAKER_03 46:32

But here's the thing that guy probably was there when it happened, so he knows something about it. But do you think this is related to that creepy creep person who was like really into Mogus, like in a weird way?

SPEAKER_07 46:46

Oh, that priest.

SPEAKER_03 46:47

I'm into Mogus in like a cool way.

SPEAKER_07 46:49

Hexath. Hex hex hexus.

SPEAKER_01 46:51

I don't know, but he said that your sword belonged to Mogus. Like not just the head of the god, Mogus.

SPEAKER_07 46:58

Like, actually. I thought it was the ineffectual Balax's sword.

SPEAKER_03 47:05

Well, he must have gotten it from somewhere. Because it I don't know if you can't remember this, but it couldn't be sundered.

SPEAKER_06 47:11

Oh yeah. So, Rex, how do you feel about the fact that you have Mogus' sword?

SPEAKER_03 47:15

Um, honestly, it's pretty lit.

SPEAKER_07 47:18

Well, good news, guys. We got um, well, oh guys, we got four. We got Bones' vote for sure. So we have four votes, so we got it. Also Suck a Caladius, and yes, also, and yes, and uh uh uh We met Wile. Yeah, oh my god Bones' assistant is just a pseudonym.

SPEAKER_01 47:36

Uh Wile. What is that mean? I understand.

SPEAKER_06 47:39

Um, and so anyway, um they're in, and um we're gonna in Trey Octus is out. Yes, exactly. And I asked them, um, Weil's gonna try to try to get in contact with Whisper, so maybe we can he find out if Whisper Dr. Cersei before she went missing or not.

SPEAKER_01 47:56

Oh, that would be so helpful.

SPEAKER_06 47:57

Yeah. So looks like we're so we're good on that. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 48:01

You guys did such a good job, and I did such a bad job. Yeah, I mean I literally almost fought that guy.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

I almost did two rex. It's not just you.

SPEAKER_07 48:07

It's good. You guys can't win everything, it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 48:09

That's true.

SPEAKER_07 48:09

I almost fought Wild because I thought it was Phoenix.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

Oh, you got we're gonna have to be.

SPEAKER_06 48:16

I I would say that not everyone's Phoenix, but it was pretty recent that you were tripping.

SPEAKER_00 48:21

I mean, I really somehow I really don't know who to trust.

SPEAKER_06 48:24

Well, let's I could be Phoenix.

SPEAKER_03 48:26

Who to trust turns around.

SPEAKER_06 48:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 48:28

Lucy Phoenix. No.

SPEAKER_02 48:31

That was a long time before you said no. Lucy.

SPEAKER_06 48:34

What?

SPEAKER_02 48:35

Lucy.

SPEAKER_06 48:36

I'm not.

SPEAKER_03 48:37

Oh, Lucy.

SPEAKER_06 48:40

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, God.

SPEAKER_03 48:42

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 48:43

Okay, well I'm just I'm sad that you're not with me, that you can't help me with Clothis anymore.

SPEAKER_07 48:48

I'm sad too. I'd rather be with her than with Phoenix. I'd rather have nobody than nobody.

SPEAKER_01 48:53

Okay. That was confusing. Um we we did set one more plot into motion, so let's go to the play, but let's make sure we're watching any important people who are in the room with uh prior. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 49:06

So dinner has started to be served, which means that the play is about to begin in the library. Uh, you all make your way towards the library. Uh, and a few people who you uh go ahead and roll perception.

SPEAKER_01 49:16

Rexy two. Rex got a 19.

SPEAKER_06 49:18

Pat's got an eight. I got a 14.

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Great. Um Janice and Rex, you guys get a bead on the people you recognize who are attending the play, and you can you can kind of watch them throughout the play.

SPEAKER_00 49:29

Great.

SPEAKER_02 49:29

You guys see the minotaur goes and is standing kind of in the back.

SPEAKER_01 49:33

Oh, that's interesting. Hmm.

SPEAKER_06 49:35

I'm kind of Minotaur, I got a thing for, I think.

SPEAKER_02 49:38

Okay, good to know.

SPEAKER_03 49:39

Actually, I yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:40

Like a crush on him, or you have an idea about him.

SPEAKER_04 49:42

No, a crush. Oh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:43

Yeah, I want to be clear, it's a crush. I want to you continue, but I want Rex to maybe go stand by the Minotaur.

SPEAKER_02 49:50

Okay. You see uh uh Mayus and Pythia go, you see uh uh uh Senna and Cadra also, uh, as well as Midas. But you guys don't see that they're there. We'll say Lucy, Lucy with your 14, you see uh Midas, Kadra and Senna.

SPEAKER_07 50:06

Yeah, I'm gonna go uh watch the show with Cadra.

SPEAKER_02 50:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 50:09

Patcha's sitting, I guess, in like in a far corner.

SPEAKER_02 50:12

The uh uh lights go down as the darkness spell is cast on the stage, and the lights come back up to who you recognize as prior Hercadius in a tragedy mask.

SPEAKER_09 50:23

Just one simple errand. That's what I shall run for my sister. I, a young boy with but a dream to soar.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

Uh the audience yawns with Patch. Um, he you guys uh uh only see bad theater in this world. He begins walking, and you see there's like some illusion magic that's making like the scenery behind him.

SPEAKER_09 50:48

Ooh, that's cool. I I must go to the store to pick up uh uh or to the warehouse. Sorry, fuck my Costco.

SPEAKER_10 50:56

I I wrote this today, it's not fully memorized.

SPEAKER_07 51:00

Where's the house?

SPEAKER_03 51:01

Patch.

SPEAKER_07 51:03

Patch. I thought we were supposed to talk to them.

SPEAKER_09 51:04

Patch, no, just what happened.

SPEAKER_07 51:06

Sorry.

SPEAKER_09 51:07

I'm going to the warehouse to pick up the box of many things for my sister. Uh she wants it because I think it's an antique. Oh, but what's this? Plague or something. Is that the warehouse?

SPEAKER_02 51:22

I must go get the guard. You see uh a little halfling man with a a script comes out and he's got like bullhorns on. I am the guard. I will go investigate the warehouse for you. Um, prior Hadius. When's your next full-length play going to be staged?

SPEAKER_09 51:44

Oh, what a great question! Ugh!

SPEAKER_02 51:47

It will be staged in uh I'm I'm hopeful in a year and a half, I've got uh a contract lined up at the tank. I will be doing a sort of one-man show about what it's like to live in the big city. Wow, that sounds good. Alright, I'm gonna go investigate. Goodbye. He the halfling walks off stage.

SPEAKER_06 52:08

Can you guys see uh uh anybody's face? Anybody look uh suspicious to you?

SPEAKER_02 52:13

Yeah, tell me, uh I'll I'll say everyone except for Pat can choose one person to look at who tell me who you're watching. You're with Kadra and Senna. Rex is looking at the Minotaur.

SPEAKER_01 52:22

I think Janice is looking at his parents.

SPEAKER_02 52:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 52:25

Oh, I love that. Uh I am looking at Senna.

SPEAKER_02 52:29

Um, so everyone roll insight.

SPEAKER_06 52:31

Patch is uh looking inside of himself. Wait, can I look at Senna and Kadra together?

SPEAKER_02 52:37

I'll say are any like pairs that are in here together you can look at at once.

SPEAKER_07 52:40

Can Patch look at the books? Yeah. Oh my gosh, Patch got an 18 to look at the books.

SPEAKER_02 52:44

18 to look at the books? Yeah, you find uh actually I have a book. Patch, you find a book uh called The Final Deception by Zaresto.

SPEAKER_07 52:56

I find a book called the Patch finds a book called The Final Deception.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:00

Can't catch a break. Patch takes it.

SPEAKER_01 53:02

Okay. Uh 22 for Janice.

SPEAKER_07 53:04

A seven.

SPEAKER_03 53:05

Seven? What'd you get for the miniature? Rex used a tactical mind uh and got a 14.

SPEAKER_02 53:13

14. Okay. So we'll start uh we'll go we'll we'll go up. So we'll start with you. You're watching Senna and Kedra. Yeah. They look more confused than anything. Senna looks mad, but more at her brother insisting on doing this during the party.

SPEAKER_05 53:29

She doesn't look caught out.

SPEAKER_02 53:31

Yeah, like she doesn't look like she necessarily realizes any implication here yet.

SPEAKER_00 53:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 53:37

Rex, you are looking at uh the Minotaur. You see him like when the Minotaur walks on stage, the halfling in the Minotaur horns walks on stage, you see him kind of like raise an eyebrow and uh like shuffle uncomfortably. Um, but that's as much as you can get. Like you see that he's he notices it, uh, but he's not, you know, throwing back a chair, storming out. Right. Janice, looking at your parents, they look on with the confusion of people who don't know what the fuck they're seeing, um, which is kind of the look that the people around them are also giving. Like, people most of the people don't know what the Box of Many Things is. Some people might know it like mythologically, but it's just like, okay, cool, she wanted to buy an antique. Great. Your parents seem to fall into that camp, who are just like, what is this weird family drama that we are seeing unfold on a stage at a party we don't want to be at? Excellent.

SPEAKER_09 54:30

He he goes on and he goes, Now, uh, I will never know if uh if uh the plague started because of because of my errand, and I don't know anything about it.

SPEAKER_02 54:42

And thus is the tragedy of me, prior Hecadius, represented by AMDA um and and and and Sally Ridekasting. Sally Ridekasting. Thank you. You see the the lights come up in the audience, and the halfling comes out and really nervously just like bows, but is unsure whether he should bow like with Pryor, and Pryor is taking multiple bows, not really to any applause, a light smattering of claps, but it's my boy. I just want to thank a few people um f for helping me put this on. My castmate here, uh uh, who is uh one of the most wonderful up-and-coming actors. Uh uh, you did a very good job, uh, little buddy. He tossles his hair.

SPEAKER_07 55:31

Patch is making the don't say that gesture for the audience.

SPEAKER_02 55:35

Okay. Um he uh make make a performance check to see if he notices you.

SPEAKER_07 55:39

Eleven.

SPEAKER_02 55:40

Eleven? He's gonna roll perception. Okay. He passes his perception check and he he sees you and goes, and also the muses. I'd like to also thank the muses.

SPEAKER_06 55:52

I was gonna message him if it didn't work out.

SPEAKER_03 55:54

That would be a cool name for us.

SPEAKER_07 55:56

The muses.

SPEAKER_03 55:57

The muses.

SPEAKER_07 55:58

The amusers.

SPEAKER_03 56:00

The amuse boosh.

SPEAKER_02 56:01

Tip your centaurs, everybody! And he he leaves the stage. Alright, well. And everyone just kind of like stands up and un unsure of what they just saw start to filter out. Um, Senna looks roiling mad.

SPEAKER_06 56:13

Oh my gosh. Uh, did you see that? That was crazy.

SPEAKER_09 56:17

That was absolutely untenable.

SPEAKER_06 56:20

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_02 56:22

He said that he had a brilliant new work of social satire, and he's mad because I made him run an errand once.

SPEAKER_06 56:28

Yeah, what was that?

SPEAKER_02 56:29

Uh my god, I sent him to pick up a box and he freaks out.

SPEAKER_06 56:34

Oh my gosh, yeah, a box? Like, where is it now?

SPEAKER_02 56:41

Roll roll persuasion with advantage. Um, she goes, I don't know. I never got the damn thing.

SPEAKER_09 56:58

Why would I yes? What I bought an antique and then the warehouse was shuttered.

SPEAKER_06 57:04

The box didn't even get back to the game.

SPEAKER_09 57:05

And it was expensive too.

SPEAKER_06 57:07

Oh my gosh. You know how much money I spent on that? No, how much?

SPEAKER_02 57:10

It was it it was 1.2 million gold.

SPEAKER_06 57:13

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_07 57:16

Billion dollars.

SPEAKER_06 57:18

1.2 No way. Yeah. Kedra, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 57:25

Yeah, that's sort of crazy. We didn't have all that money, and I was like, I don't think you should spend it on that.

SPEAKER_06 57:29

No, oh my god. Um, so anyway, um, babes. Uh you said you never got the box.

SPEAKER_02 57:34

I never no, I never got the damn thing. It would have it would have so tied together my study. I have uh so many antiques.

SPEAKER_06 57:42

Oh, can I see?

SPEAKER_02 57:43

Girl, no.

SPEAKER_06 57:44

I love an antique.

SPEAKER_02 57:46

Role persuasion, not with advantage, just up and down. We'll say DC 15.

SPEAKER_06 57:51

Oh, well, I got 20.

SPEAKER_02 57:54

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 57:55

Really?

SPEAKER_02 57:55

Yes, you can I'll take you to my office. But um, uh uh I'm literally Fuck yeah! I never do this. I never hang out with anyone in my office.

SPEAKER_06 58:06

I mean, you know, that from one like girl to another, yes, it's like important, you know, to like build each other up and the things we like.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

It's like going to the bathroom together.

SPEAKER_04 58:16

It's like going to the bathroom together.

SPEAKER_02 58:18

Yes, the office is the office is the bathroom. Can I hear any of this? Yeah, we'll say you guys can can all kind of hear what's happening.

SPEAKER_01 58:26

Okay. Um, I'm at le at the very least, I'm gonna send histos to to crawl up Lucy's leg.

SPEAKER_02 58:32

Okay. It's kind of a new challenge now where it's like, so you're gonna be able to get in, yeah, but the hard part will be investigating it without her noticing.

SPEAKER_07 58:39

Yeah. Try to bring me.

unknown 58:41

What?

SPEAKER_07 58:41

Try to bring me.

SPEAKER_06 58:42

Oh, I I d I got it.

SPEAKER_02 58:44

Girl, you just got so quiet.

SPEAKER_06 58:46

I no, it's alright. I just think that's like um wow. What was that?

SPEAKER_02 58:56

I just You see your philandering husband somewhere.

SPEAKER_06 58:59

In my dreams, girl. Every night I closed my eyes. He's in my nightmares.

SPEAKER_09 59:03

Oh. And I saw a Oh, he would be, wouldn't he?

SPEAKER_06 59:06

Yeah, that that play that we just saw reminded me of him. Oh my god. It's been like scaring me.

SPEAKER_11 59:10

Is he is he a layabout like prior?

SPEAKER_06 59:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 59:13

A profligate.

SPEAKER_06 59:14

Never did anything, yeah. Not even a profligate, like he did it for fun, not even for professional. Like, like an amateur glit.

SPEAKER_02 59:21

Girl, that's so funny.

SPEAKER_06 59:24

Yeah, thanks. Um, so I could really use some like an antique to cheer me up.

SPEAKER_02 59:30

Alright, girl, let's go to the office.

SPEAKER_06 59:32

That's something like five feet away. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:35

Awkwardly.

SPEAKER_06 59:36

Do you mind? Do you see my friend over there? Uh waves. The one waving.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

The one with a little bit of throw up on his shirt.

SPEAKER_06 59:42

Yeah. Guess what happened?

SPEAKER_02 59:44

What?

SPEAKER_06 59:45

He got his heartbroken tonight. He danced with a girl. Turns out she wasn't into him. And it was the first time he had something like that going for him.

SPEAKER_11 59:55

First heartbreak.

SPEAKER_06 59:56

First heartbreak. And I think he could really use an antique too. So do you mind if he comes?

SPEAKER_10 1:00:00

Uh Senna goes, I don't know. Uh it is my office. It's a lot of personal stuff in there.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:06

Patch tries to look really cute.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:08

Okay, make a uh performance check.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:11

With advantage?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:12

Make a cute check.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:13

With advantage?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:14

Yeah, because Patch is a little cute little guy.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:16

Natural 20.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:17

Okay. No way. But I start telling the story.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:20

His little tail like a few. Patch has anime eyes in real life right now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:24

Senna goes, wait, you're the little one I saw playing the pan flutes in the garden through the window.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:30

You saw that? Your s oh, that was so sad. Wasn't it so sad? That was so sad. You play the flute, Patch. Um, sometimes. Oh my god, yes, come with us, girl. Oh, oh, okay, girl.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:41

No, you can you can call me that.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:43

Patch, you can play the flute? Um, yeah, I've been practicing. I'd love to hear sometime. Um, yeah, let's go.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:49

So you guys uh leave the room.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:51

Let's go, ladies.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:52

So Janice and Rex, what are you guys doing?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:55

I was just gonna walk up to the Minotaur. Yeah, I was gonna do Minotaur. Be like, was that supposed to be you? Let me take the lead. Okay. I mean, I I have no reason that to think that's a good idea, but like remember last time?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:10

He's on my side, he likes me for some reason.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:13

You think that this Minotaur likes you? He's obsessed with me. Why do you why tell me why you think that? Everyone is. I'm famous.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:22

Why is so obsessed with me?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:24

Uh let me just try. We could do it together, but let me just like butt him up. You can take the lead. Hey, was that supposed to be you up there?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:33

Dennis is shaking his head.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:36

I don't think so. Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:40

I haven't seen any. And then like I can spot him because you know, like, I'm like, I don't know if you know this by me and my cool sword, but like, you know, I'm like a brother of Mogus. Oh, cool. And you like your brother of Mogus? Absolutely not. Oh, you didn't go to college? I went to college, but I also What frat were you in, bro? Eeroas. You were in Erawas? Yeah. Janice, this is up this is up for you, man. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:06

Anywho, Rex, you are literally the oracle of it's fine. Hey, were you uh happy This is such an awkward question, but if there was, we were in the warehouse whenever we were, you know, certified by uh the general to be in there. Um and we noticed that there was some um horn-shaped uh destruction on some of the pillars that uh was in the warehouse where uh the profligate, I mean prior, uh was picking up the package, and so it looks like there was a minotaur there.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:40

And you know, you're in the guard. Are you said min were you there? Were you the Minotaur that he got?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:47

Roll persuasion. Um, and Rex roll insight.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

I'm bad at persuasion.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:53

I'm bad at insight, but I just got a Nat 20.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:56

Oh, these dice!

SPEAKER_01 1:02:57

And I got an 18 minus 117.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:00

He goes, wasn't me. Must have been someone else. And Rex, you know he's lying. You can see you can see in his eyes he is not telling the truth.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:08

Hey, buddy. We all know that you were there.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:11

Hey, I'm sure whatever happened there, you did whatever you could to stop the plague. There's no shame in that.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:16

Yeah, and also why did you uh why'd you stop your your boss from trying to take a swing at me earlier?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:23

Because he's a we're at a party, he's a politician. Yeah, but it'd be fun though.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:27

You're a good advisor.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:29

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:29

You're a good guardian.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:31

Alright, alright, alright. I shouldn't be doing this. I yes, I was there. I think that was supposed to be me on that stage, but he couldn't even get a real Minotaur.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:40

You got it all wrong. You're so right. Yeah, I mean, and also the the closest thing you get is a halfling.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:45

And that was a piss poor actor. Yeah, he's a bad actor. I you know how I could have done that?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:50

You would have killed.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:51

I bet you would have I bet you would have slayed that role. Can we get the line read?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:54

Yeah. Oh my god, there's something happening at the warehouse.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:57

Dang.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:58

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:59

I've seen that was good.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:01

That's where I now I felt the urgency. And that's and if we had seen you up there, I would have been like, obviously, that guy was actually there and experienced it because you drew on that.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:08

And the authority. But why why don't you want to admit that you were?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:12

Yeah, why is it a secret? Because it's it's shameful.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:16

Can you tell us what happened? We're sort of investigating it. We'd like to help.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:19

We arrived and the plague had already struck. I don't know what started it, but something started it. It was our first time encountering it. We didn't know what to do. We didn't have fire, we didn't have radiant damage, we didn't we had nothing. I saw a lot of good men turn gray.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:36

We think it came from the box of many things. We think it came from what Pryor was saying he was there to get. Did you see any? It's kind of a plain wooden box, if I'm honest.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:45

It's like a hundred boxes.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:47

That's true, but it's like it's like understated in a way that's like that makes it like a really valuable antique. It's okay. What were you fighting though?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:55

The plague.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:56

So you didn't see any any box where this plague was emanating from or anything?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:01

No, no. Listen, I you guys are barking up the wrong tree. Okay. I think that probably for the rest of the night. Don't come up to my boss. Oh. Don't come up to me.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:12

We weren't planning on that. Look, you seem like a good guy. We still want to help. If you can think of anything, I'll let you know. Thank you. What was your name?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:21

Uh Lieutenant Budless.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:23

Budless? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:24

Lieutenant Budless.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:26

And family name. Yeah, of course it's your last name.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:28

But what's your first name? Um, uh I don't feel like we're first named. Okay, Lieutenant. I'm gonna go back to my boss. He he does he put put one of his hand hooves to his like eyes and then back at you and goes, play it cool. Walks off.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:44

I'll always play it cool, buddy.

unknown 1:05:46

I like him.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:49

Keep it together, my man. We don't know what side he's on.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:52

I know, but I get good vibes from him. Unlike General Triactus, who I think puts on a feign of honor, I think that's a that's a good dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:00

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:02

I'm gonna check in on Lucy and the gang, and uh Dennis's eyes roll back in his head and he wargs through uh his toes. Tell me how them cuties are doing.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:11

You guys, uh you start to see uh uh histos like pokes his head out from under Lucy's like pants and is looking out and like seeing at like floor level uh everything that you're seeing.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:22

This is super unhelpful. I should have waited till they were in the office.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:25

Um and you're even they're like going up the ramp, so you're really just seeing like floor. Like it's it visually in front of his eyes is more floor as it goes up.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:33

Man, this is boring.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:35

Um, we're gonna cut to Lucy and Patch. Senna brings you up to her office and goes, Alright, I have a very strict, no touching anything policy.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:45

I won't.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:46

Unless it looks fun or you want to play with it. Oh my gosh. Girls, girls, but no, seriously, please don't touch it.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:52

No, I won't. Oh, okay. Even if it looks funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:54

Even if it looks fun, I was just I it's a joke I sometimes will make.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:58

I hate when people like, you know, from the oils from their hands touch stuff that doesn't belong to like it's like historical. They touch it anyway. Don't worry, we're about touching it.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:06

They hate touching things.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:07

Right. When I used to when I used to work for the house, I used to touch stuff all the time and get in so much trouble for it. Yeah, my side, my my I still heard from where I got shocked earlier.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:16

Oh my god. You know, me too, actually, though.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:19

Yeah, but I would supposed to leave it dirty. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:22

No, like me too.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:23

Yeah, it's like it's like painful.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:25

Senna leads into the door. She speaks, you know, just something from her voice. She goes, uh, I'd like to get into my office now, please. It can be anything as long as it's my voice. Um, and then the outer door opens, you enter a kind of a secondary chamber, and there's a small slot for her necklace, and you see she slips her necklace into it, and the chamber begins glowing a light green. The necklace slips back out, the door opens, uh, and you are let into her office.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:55

Was this security measure here when you bought the place, or did you have it installed?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:59

I had it installed because honestly, people get so mad when you have a bunch of money. Like people don't like it. And so, just in case, especially with everything that's going on, you know. Oh, yeah. Like, not to talk about it, because I know that the whole party, I'm not, I don't want anyone to talk about it.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:14

No, but we have to process together.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:15

Yes. I mean, when you're in a small group, you can sort of talk about these sorts of things. Yeah. Of trusted friends.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:21

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:22

Um, so you guys see this office is more like a sitting room than an office. Uh, but it is an office. You see that there's like a bureau, there's a uh uh what's it, forte piano.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:31

Piano forte.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:32

Piano forte, that's what it is. There's uh uh like a a table with tea and cakes set out on it, and Cadra goes, Oh my god, I totally meant to ask the maid to clean that up today. I'm so messy. Sorry.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:46

It's okay, no, no problem.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:49

Um there's a big window uh that looks out on the walls of the of the compound, and you see on the walls are a couple of the plague guard. Uh Lucy, you now see for for the first time these plague guard kind of actively like casting radiant force fields, doing a bunch of shit to keep the plague away.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:05

Um, oh my gosh, look at this this vase here. Bitch, I'm gonna distract them. You look around, okay? Um okay. Um, my profligate amateur husband had one just like this. Is this the one from um god like 10 years ago, like a hundred years ago?

SPEAKER_09 1:09:23

Girl, you have had a lot of drink too. It's not just me.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:26

I have, I absolutely have. Um wait, tell me your favorite thing that you've seen in here.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:30

My favorite thing. She begins looking around the room.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:33

Are we in is there a desk? Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:35

There's no desk. It's not like a there's a bureau, there's like a couple different like cabinets, okay, and there's like a table.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:43

But she is she clearly wants this to also be able to serve as like a sitting room for herself, meeting room for herself, without having to like, you know. She wants to keep it classy in here. Right. She goes, Oh my god, probably this. This is actually really cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:57

Okay, show me.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:58

Now I'm not one for weapons.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:00

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:01

But this here, she presses like a button in the wall and like a little case pops out. She goes, Oh! This and you're not gonna believe this. This is Windrazer.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:12

Windrazer? What is that?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:13

This is Windraiser. This is Eero's own sword. No, shut up! Genesis grabs Rex's wrist.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:19

Shut up! Yes. How did you get it?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:22

Uh, I bought it with a lot of money recently.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:25

Oh my gosh! Yes, yes. Oh, um, I I uh deal in magical items. May I take a look at that, please? Of course. Can I take a look and see if it seems legit?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:36

Um, yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:37

Arcana.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:37

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:38

Uh, only a nine.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:39

Um, nine, you can't really tell. It's behind like glass.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:43

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:43

Um, so you can't get a good look at it.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:46

Wait, do you have like other stuff hidden with other like buttons around the room?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:50

No, this is sort of the main one.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:51

Oh my gosh, I love it. Start with a big button. Except for this one!

SPEAKER_02 1:10:55

And she presses another one, and something pops out of the wall that has uh little uh jello shots on it.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:01

Oh my gosh!

SPEAKER_02 1:11:02

I like to keep that on hand.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:04

Wait, should we do one?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:05

Girl.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:05

Let's go while you're doing the jelly shots.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:08

Yeah, she has a jello shots button. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:10

Wait, I'm I'm I'm I actually want to I want a jello shot for real, though. I'm not pretending.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:14

But performance to distract them from patch.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:16

Come on, Sarah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:17

Let's go.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:18

A natural 20.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:20

And a 23.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:21

What what does it look like as you like captivate them?

SPEAKER_06 1:11:23

Okay, so. It's just like Sarah Catremic walked into the room. The bell of the ball.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:29

The bell of the ball.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:30

Yeah. Okay, girls, your kindness has been so touching to me. Like the fact that you brought me into your office and you gave me something that has allowed me to feel comfortable talking in my normal voice and um has I I totally get it.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:45

My wife was poor once.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:46

Like it happened.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:47

You've never met anyone who's like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:49

Sometimes someone can be poor and good. It's rare, but it happens.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:52

So, can I open up to you about my story, about my husband?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:55

Absolutely, girl.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:56

Alright, so we've been married for like 10 years at that point, you know? And like, he was always like, We're gonna have kids, we're gonna have kids, we're gonna have a house, I'm gonna we working, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:08

He's going to we work. Oh, girl, that's shutting down.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:10

No, no, he was going to be working.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:12

Oh, good, because you don't want to be in a wee work.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:14

Exactly. No. He's like, no, we work, only I work, and I was like, that's perfect.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:21

While this captivating story is happening, this is where Histos is gonna sneak off of Lucy now that she's distracted and go to try and help Patch.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:28

Alright, Patch, roll your uh uh investigation check with advantage from histos.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:34

Histos crawling up Patch's leg.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:36

And I'm specifically also looking for any hidden doors. Okay. Is that also a natural funny?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:42

Fucking natural funny. Patch on me! That's a 30. That's a 30 investigation. We find surgery. Patch, you walk.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:52

Can I say Patch? As so they're doing like their shots. Patch goes, uh, I'll take one too.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:01

That's actually what Patch does.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:04

I need to go over here in the corner. Um, I was gonna say he does a backwards roll, but then I did that. So you can go ahead and say what you want.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:10

Right. Um, so you as you go over to the corner, you see uh the bureau is pretty obviously placed.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:16

Like there's a secret door?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:17

Not so much there's a secret door, but like you you see some files in there on like papers sticking out, and so you you investigate it, but your senses are so heightened. Like you cannot, you're not gonna be fooled by simple papers sitting at the top of a bureau. You're gonna reach under them. You're gonna find the false bottom. You find the false bottom of the bureau. You pull it out very silently, quietly.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:43

And then it turns out.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:47

Oh my god, it sounds like your friend's getting sick over there.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:49

It turns out, no, no, it turns out.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:52

I won't look.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:58

Turns out, actually, what he was doing the whole time is he had stumbled the business ten years ago, yeah. Had no money no stuff in debt, and then, and then I had to call so hard. Turns out we also had another family. He had another family.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:15

He had another family. Yeah, absolutely, and it was so sad. It was really sad. Turns out he never loved me in the first place and was just using my body the whole time. Typical typical patch.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:26

Mm-hmm. You find a a little baggie that has a bunch of money in it. Like, like a hundred platinum coins. It definitely looks like there's more bags that used to have coins in them, but that have been burnt through. It seems like this is the last a hundred of whatever the stock is. Um, and then you see a note. Are you adding that to your inventory? I am. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:47

I see I see Chloe go over to uh inventory.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:51

100 platinum, you say?

SPEAKER_02 1:14:53

Yeah. I think that's like 10,000 gold or something. You see a note that says, Dear friend, well, thank you anyway. Unfortunate accident to have happened. One we will look into with full force. Well, my men failed to find the box. A deal is still a deal. Please let this money serve your discretion in the matter, and if you hear any inklings of the box or the like, do tell me before anyone else. It's the only chance I have of ever seeing my boy again. To be kept from that joyful moment still is devastating. In friendship, General Trioctus.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:26

Uh, I'll put that in my little tuxedo.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:28

Christos was reading over the shoulders. Jack Pocket reading over the shoulders, and Janice, who still can't see because he's looking through Histos, is like clawing at Rex's face. What did they say? I think Trioctus was trying to get the wish. He was trying to get a wish for the box of many things to get his son back. And so he got the box sent, and then he paid off Senna, and and and and he's bad. He's a bad guy. I still have a wish.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:53

No one has l has understood me like you guys have. I'm so grateful.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:57

Thank you, girl.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:58

What? Like, I I wish I could repay you guys. Like, what is your dream?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:01

Oh my god, as much money as you could give us. Like, we love money. Oh, that's so sad. We have a ton, but um, I that that is sad. No. Really, the best thing you could do is just like have a good time at the party.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:16

And tell everyone that once this plague thing is done, this is going to be the hype house of Plutopolis. Yes, once once they've cured it or whatever. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:25

How's it gonna get done?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:26

I don't know. Hopefully with this aid package, like, hopefully those priests are able to do something about it because this is a major down.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:33

Yeah, do you know how it started?

SPEAKER_09 1:16:35

Uh I don't know, like a like a bat or something.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:38

A bat?

SPEAKER_09 1:16:39

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:40

A bat started misinformation.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:42

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:44

I just don't know if that sounds right. Weren't you watching the play? It was um it was a box in the warehouse.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:49

Yeah, but it can't be that.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:51

Why not?

SPEAKER_10 1:16:52

Because prior's stupid.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:54

Well, I mean, we we would absolutely, but wait, wait, so wait, you b you bought the box, or you wanted to buy the box, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:00

Yes, I I I spent it, and the damn woman at the at the antique market wouldn't give me a refund.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:07

What? That's crazy. I know. Which woman?

SPEAKER_09 1:17:09

Uh oh god, I don't remember her name.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:11

Cartella Familia.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:14

I think it was Cartella Familia.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:16

That's crazy. Wait, and so wait, what was the box that you were buying?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:20

Um, I it was it was uh like a box of many things, which is I think sort of like a relic of some kind.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:25

Oh my gosh. Were you gonna open it?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:27

Uh no, we got actually instructions not to open it. Uh, because it's sort of like you open it and you release um like like I think that that's how uh the plague got out. No, no, not the plague. Ew, yucky. No, you know, I think that that's like centuries ago, uh how the uh Farica was born.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:44

Where she was like in the box when it was first opened or something.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:47

Yeah, but when it was first opened, so maybe when it was open again, another disease came in.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:51

I don't think that's likely.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:52

Well, you never know, right? And I guess we won't we'll never know because you don't really know. Should we stop talking about this? Absolutely. No, that's it. Sure, sure, sure. Sorry, I'm like I told you, I'm an items guy. I like items. Crazy idea I just had.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:03

What? Girl.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:05

No, this is actually so crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:07

The pool is being cleaned right now, so we cannot jump into it.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:10

Stop, no, but that's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:12

Oh, well my gosh!

SPEAKER_06 1:18:13

I just had another crazy thought.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:15

The zebras aren't gonna get here till next week, girl.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:18

Damn! Oh my gosh. Girl, we're like on such a level. I know, it's uh uh let's say the same crazy thing that we're thinking that I just thought of right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:26

Okay, ready? Three, two, one, one, vote against the A package. Oh my god, girl! Stop!

SPEAKER_06 1:18:32

I just was thinking of the craziest thing I could think of. Same! I was like, this is the most random thing. Do you know what?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:38

I'm not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:40

No, you have to. That's such a great idea. Do you know why?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:43

Why?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:43

Because everyone's like, that is the hype house after the pandemic.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:46

If you're gonna be able to do it, how does A lead to B?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:49

Because if you do the craziest thing that no one will think of, people are like, I have to be there because I have no idea what's gonna happen next. Because they'll be like, she knows something so much cooler than what we could ever think. Yeah?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:00

That is a good idea.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:01

Right?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:02

That is a really good idea.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:03

So like, absolutely, girl, come on.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:05

Kedra goes, right, I don't know if like I don't know if people will think that, but at the very least it's a little metal.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:11

Right? Zenna, you're um you're the um representative for the noble district, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:19:16

Yeah, I am.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:17

What is kind of like their responsibility in the wider thing of Plutopolis?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:22

Uh well, sort of making sure that public works are taken care of, you know, we're taxed, but like think people like merchants and in the lower class aren't taxed. So that's sort of our the reason that we get this, you know, uh our raisin de raise our raisin de de etra.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:40

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um well maybe, you know, this could uh help put some more money under your pocket potentially. Save, you know, if you're keeping it in-house and and it's the nobles who are working on fighting the plague. I mean, we're we're fighting working on fighting the plague, and we're probably gonna be done pretty soon.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:55

Really?

SPEAKER_07 1:19:56

Just in the meantime. Absolutely actually, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:59

If you wanna keep the problem going a little bit longer so you can make some more money off of it, that's probably not a bad way to do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:05

Make money off of it, girl. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_06 1:20:07

Um I'm just saying if people are like, you know. It's kinda sick and twisted, Lucy. Hold on a second, Patch, let me work. I'm just saying that if there's still a problem that needs fixing, you know, like people are gonna pay for it to be fixed. That's you, girl. Also, I've never I've like never had another jello shot.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:27

Have another jello shot.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:28

Thank you.

unknown 1:20:29

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:30

You busted that back.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:32

You just I really like lemon lime flavoured things.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:35

Yes, me too.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:36

It's just like you've been so wonderful to me, you know? And like an antique. An antique is something that like created a ripple in time, right? Yeah? Like, if it hadn't been there, yeah, it would have like disappeared, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:50

So true. If it had not existed, it would never have existed. Like exactly. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:54

So like it all if this is like your chance to like make an emotional antique to create a ripple.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:01

Oh, and I could like make an antique that's like the paddle with which I voted no.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:06

We don't normally vote with paddles, we just do I or nay, but I will get a paddle.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:09

And there you go. Now this will be forever the one. People will remember me forever.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:13

With advantage, I'll say. You guys have done such good work in here.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:16

Cool. Patch is standing with his hand on the door, ready to go.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:20

I thought that was gonna be another night.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:21

Me too.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:21

I was like, this something is broken. Um, okay, that was a 16.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:25

Okay. 16, she goes, girl, okay. I'll do it.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:30

Yay! Oh my gosh, I this is so the best night ever. It's like the plague never even happened.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:37

That's literally what I was going for. It's exactly what how I feel. How can you tell that that's literally what I was going for?

SPEAKER_06 1:21:43

No, it was like the whole vibe of the night has just like said that to me. What was your name again? Um, I can't even rem- I'm just so overcome. It's time to go. It's a Lucianie Hut. Okay, there's there's like a name that I go by, but then there's like my birth name. And and I my birth name is like really embarrassing, so I don't want to say it, but you could just call me Lucy.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:03

Okay, Lucy. This has been lovely.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:05

It's been so lovely.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:06

We should return to our again. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:07

I'm gonna come back to the party.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:08

Let's go, girls. Let's get out of my office.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:10

Yeah, I had fun in here too.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:13

I like that you have a little boy you bring around.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:15

And I'm an adult.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:17

Little man, I mean, but you know, Lizzie.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:19

A brother.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:20

And I'm tall. Compared to my fam family. My brother's taller than me, but he's different. I think we're all like walking ahead of Patch, and Patch is just saying that as we're walking out. I'm Nikki, I'm taller than Nikki. I'm like the same height as my dad.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:36

Dod Ratley finds you two, uh, Janice and Rex, and goes, Alright, I'm gonna make my move after the vote.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:43

Oh, Dod. Pause.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:46

Pause?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:47

Yeah. Just like hold off on that.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:50

Why?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:51

Well, no. Yeah. Okay, so she might not have done anything knowingly shady. So the blackmail might not work.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:00

Roll persuasion.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:01

We're knocking this out of the park.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:02

Yeah, you guys are killing it.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:04

We're so persuasive today.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:06

Why I wish you didn't say that. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:08

Oh. That's a I knew I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:10

That's a two.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:11

I knew you weren't gonna get it.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:13

No, I get it. It's just like the money might be dry.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:16

I we we just heard that she's actually cash poor right now, so I don't know what you would be uh exploiting her for other than exposing yourself.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:26

But I will tell you a fun tidbit. The money came from Trioctus.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:31

Do you have proof of this?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:34

Yeah, our associate does.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:38

Because these fact merchants need the money pretty bad.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:40

Of course. Understood. Would you excuse us for a second? Yeah. Janice is a sword!

SPEAKER_01 1:23:46

I know. Janice! It's an Erowa sword.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:49

Irowat sword! I've been doing this stuff with this Mogus sword, and honestly, it's only been bringing me headaches and anger. And I know I've been a cool, cool guy, doesn't care. He's so cool. He's so cool. He slash him and slash him.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:04

But I I need that sword. Do you wanna we could go the honorable route? Senna doesn't seem I mean Senna is a little insufferable, but she's not as evil. She's like unknowingly evil. Anywho, uh, we a Mogus sword might be as cool as an Erawas sword. You might be able to offer a trade.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:21

Uh dual wield.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:25

Dual wield two two-handed swords. Of light and I don't know, man. I don't want this to be out here because like it's I was also thinking she might not be the best person to have this sword. I kind of want to have them both, just in case. I have no bones about stealing it.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:42

I know you don't.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:43

But what?

SPEAKER_01 1:24:44

Some of us have bones. She's not a good person. I didn't say she was a good person, but she's not that bad. And also Rex, uh, also Patch just robbed her too.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:53

Yeah, so wait, are you gonna pick your battles here? Okay, can you just get that necklace for me? You wanna go back in? I want to go back in. I never went in.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:01

Oh, that's right. I just felt like I was there, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:04

Yeah, it's really cool. I wish I had some sort of creepy crawly reptile that I could see through eyes, but I only have an obsession with swords.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:11

Don't call Histos creepy crawly.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:13

Lucy and Patch rejoin you.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:15

Bye! That's how I could talk change. Keep in contact, girl. Keep in contact. Histos told you everything, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:25:21

Guys, that was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:22

Oh, yeah, I just did so. I was looking through his eyes, yeah. I I saw and heard everything.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:25

It was trioptus, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:27

I contributed to the group!

SPEAKER_01 1:25:28

Lucy, you've been doing great stuff all night. Yeah, you did really good, Lucy.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:33

Do you worry about your contribution? Uh sometimes, yeah. I feel like you're never not contributing. Oh, okay. Well, thanks. Thanks.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:40

Uh, Spencer, was there an open door, like, was there an outside way to get in? Uh no. Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys. I heard about the sword and I'm interested in the city.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:48

Crazy.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:48

I couldn't tell if it was real or not. I couldn't get a good look.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:51

Don't care, want it.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:52

So my thought is, okay, so we have they have the vote, right? Yeah. And then, uh, is there anything else that we need to do tonight? Other than just I I guess probably if everyone votes no, Caladeus will be mad, and then we'll have to deal with a mad Caladeus.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:03

All we have to do is hide in a dark alley and patch.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:07

What patch? And what?

SPEAKER_07 1:26:08

No, I was gonna say as patch. And wait for that bitch to walk by, but I don't want Patch to say that. No, but we have to find out about Cersei. Yeah, I mean, all we have to do is wait so we can isolate Caladeus and then we can we can get her to tell us everything she knows.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:26

I think Trioctus has Cersei. I don't think Calidaeus is is is involved. Well, I think she's involved, but I don't think I don't know. I think they're the ones that are working together. I also need that sword.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:39

I know you want the sword, Rex. Oh, not want.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:42

Santa Ascend ascend the balcony once more. It's time for our last event of the night. It's been a lovely evening, and after this, we just have, you know, it's the last event, but we will be announcing the result of a very important vote that we're having tonight. I don't know if you guys know about that.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:59

I think we know who's gonna what's gonna happen. Yay, democracy!

SPEAKER_02 1:27:04

Now it's time for We invented it. A Morigana's go-around. The goddess of love, her go-around.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:12

A morigana? Dance with her. Wait, I didn't know there was an a goddess called a morigana.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:16

Yes, she's the goddess of love. Oh girl, you could use her. She points at you in the crowd.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:25

Um she really likes you.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:28

Um, anyone who wants to participate, get on the dance floor, okay? You're gonna dance around. The last person standing wins.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:35

I mean, come on, let's go. I mean, sorry. Oh, so sorry. I forgot who I was for a second. Wow. Um, yeah, let's go. I don't want to dance anymore. Oh, patch. Oh, patch. I I would hate for that one experience to keep you from trying again.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:49

Where's the dance happening? It's happening on the main floor. The main floor. There's also, I don't know, uh the only thing I wanted to say, because I know you were excited about it, um, there is the shopping area.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:58

The patch is inside Uh, Dod Ratley is trying to get some money to the merchants.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:04

Might be a way to s since you have some cash, it looks like.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:08

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:08

Maybe a good idea to um go stimulate the economy a little. We could stimulate the economy.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:14

And also, yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:16

Yeah, why not? I might find some dancing shoes. You know what? Yeah, let's go. The dance is in 20 minutes, so we've just enough time to go to the merchant hall. Meet by Orange Julius at 6.20. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:27

Alright, so you guys head into the merchant hall. You see that it's it's it's a grand staircase that leads up to like a viewing platform over the entire compound. Um, and these shops are set up like on the stairs. There's a bunch of different shops. There's some people selling like weapons, some people selling hats. I'll just tell you guys what is for sale. Cool. And you guys can tell me uh uh if you're interested in any or if there's any scenes you want to play out with in this.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:49

Patch, I see hat.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:50

There is a hat. Uh Pat UC Pat Pat UC uh a hat at a shop called Pat's Hat called uh Hat of Ranged Defense.

SPEAKER_07 1:29:00

Boring.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:00

Which gives you a plus one to your AC versus ranged attacks. It's a little steampunk top hat with um goggles on it. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:08

It's so Patch, you can't call it you can't buy it now because you called it boring.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:12

Um there's also at the same shop a cloak of billowing, which you can use a bonus action to cause it to billow for one minute to go no mechanical effect. Now that's something I want.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:23

I never mentioned this, but uh uh Cartella has one. She that was one of her magical items. That's fun.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:28

A cloak of billowing.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:31

There's another shop that has something called a mastery gem, which you can crush to uh give yourself permanent expertise in a given skill that you have proficiency in. Dang. So you can make your proficiency stronger in a given skill. I like that. There's a staff that looks like a a bow staff. One side of it is painted white, the other is painted black, and you see uh there's snakes wrapped around it.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:55

Oh, I want that one.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:57

Boring.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:58

That looks like it'd be good for Lucy.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:00

There's a uh a small vial with like a very bright light within it.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:04

Oh, I thought that looks useful.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:06

There's a uh uh crossbow um with it looks like little legs, little tripod legs that come down from.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:13

Maybe if they're clanky.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:15

There's uh a diadem, like a little crown thing, uh, called a diadem of authority, a little earcuff called the synergetic synapse, and a ball of yarn.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:26

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:27

Those are all all all of these things are magic things that like they are actively marketing to sell. Yeah. That's how you know there's all of these things.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:33

Patch is interested in the gem uh and that crossbow.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:37

So the gem is 750 gold, uh, and you you can crush it to give you permanent expertise in a skill of your choice. Um you're gonna buy it. Yep. Then the crossbow is 10,000 gold, and it's called Vigilus. You can set it up as a bonus action, uh, then as a reaction, you can make it fire once per round. Whoa. Um using your stat, your crossbow stats.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:58

So it's like my little it's like having a little artillery.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:00

Yeah, it's a little turret you can set up.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:02

Balloon's defense.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:03

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:05

It can be knocked over, people can sabotage it, but it is just like an additional thing on the battlefield.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:10

Let's see. Hmm, hmm. Pat is looking at it. Uh excuse me, sir. Uh madam or person who's working at this uh place. Hi. Hi, are you okay?

SPEAKER_09 1:31:20

Yeah. I want to be in the party.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:22

Um, okay, sorry.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:23

Um my name's Charles. Why don't you just one?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:28

Why don't you go to the party, Charles? Okay. Um isn't it your shop?

SPEAKER_11 1:31:34

Yeah. Charles.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:37

I feel like this is what it probably felt like shopping at my place. Um, anyway, um, I'm interested in this thingy. Um, can I uh uh persuade you to knock the price down a little bit?

SPEAKER_11 1:31:47

To what? It's 10,000 gold.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:51

Um, what about 5,000?

SPEAKER_11 1:31:52

That's so low. Roll persuasion, but I don't think you're gonna get it.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:59

16.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:00

I g 8,500 is as low as I can go. But if you buy it, I'll be really grateful, because then I can go to the party.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:07

Wait, can I just buy uh the crossbow part so I can attach it to my robot? Or I mean I'll I'll I'll bring I'll I'll buy both so I'll have like a tripod. I can move it.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:15

Yeah, okay. So you're gonna buy it?

SPEAKER_07 1:32:17

8 you said 8500.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:19

8,500.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:20

Hmm. Yeah, why not?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:22

Awesome. He closes the uh the grate on his shop.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:27

How much is the staff?

SPEAKER_02 1:32:28

The staff, he goes, Oh shit, that's me too. I was just leaving. Yeah, their staff's still in there. Um that's the staff of the snake. It's a bow staff, and it's 5,000 gold. It it has a give and take to it. So if you hit them with the white side, all creatures in five feet except for the target get uh get a little bit of temporary hit points. And if you hit them with the dark side, all creatures, including you in the area, take like some necrotic damage, but the person you're hitting takes more necrotic damage.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:57

Oh, that sounds dangerous.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:59

Metis uh has walked up behind you and goes, Oh, that looks lovely. That would absolutely complement my yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:08

I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:08

Just because I'll take it for 5,000 gold, please.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:11

For 5,000?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:11

Mm-hmm. That's how much it costs, right? Yeah. 5,000? Yeah, it costs 5,000.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:16

Yeah, but see, the snakes are sort of my thing. Like you have your look at look at look at Blepos. He has legs.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:21

He's so cute.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:22

Yeah, he's quite cute. But he does have legs, which this is.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:24

No, but I think this would be more helpful for me just to um for what I stuff I have to do.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:29

But that's sort of like my thing, is the give and take.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:31

Well, but you know, I think that you can be too married to a brand. 5,000 gold, it was.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:35

I don't have 5,000 gold. It's in the party. Inventory.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:39

Ask Patch.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:40

Patch, can I have 5,000 gold?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:42

Sure. Alright, 5,000 gold. Here you go. Uh she gives the guy the gold. And he goes, I guess if you want to pay any more.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:49

5,000 one.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:50

5,250.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:52

5,500.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:54

6,000.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:54

Well, actually, I don't have five platinum. Um a hundred platinum is only a thousand gold.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:01

What? Is it oh then it was a thousand platinum. It was ten thousand gold.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:04

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:05

Wait, it's only ten thousand gold.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:06

So we've already spent it.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:08

But you also have all that money in the game.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:09

We have thirty-five thirty-six thousand in the party inventory.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:12

I'm gonna I'm gonna add ten thousand then to the party inventory then. Just to but then you spent eighty-five thousand. Or eighty five hundred. That's her mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:21

Oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:21

I spent my money for my my personal savings account.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:24

Okay. Um Janice roll intimidation.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:27

Intimidation. Um with minus one, I got an eighteen.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:31

18? She goes six thousand.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:33

Patch, are you okay with me spending this much money?

SPEAKER_07 1:34:35

Yeah, it's the party, it's the party money. I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:38

6,500.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:39

I'm not your mama.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:40

She goes, too rich for my blood. Going to the best man. And she shakes your hand.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:45

I shake your hand back. Always a pleasure doing battle with you.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:51

Ah, that's fun. Uh-huh. She walks away. Uh, and you get the staff.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:55

Hey, but there was a synapse thing here. That sounds electrical.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:58

The the synergetic synapse. Yeah, what does the earcuff do? I want the ear, I want the the crown, the ear cuff, and the potion. Okay. Oh, and the I do wonder what the ball of yarn does too.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:07

Okay, so the ball of yarn summons a swarm of feral feuding cats.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:12

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:13

I want that one. The synergetic synapse, once per long rest, you can swap your high roll with an ally's lower roll as a reaction, giving them your higher roll.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:23

Okay, I don't want that.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:24

The diadem is called the diadem of authority and gives you advantage on intimidation against anyone less powerful than you.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:29

Eh, I don't like that. That's probably for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:31

The starlight fragment is a starlight fragment, the potion.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:35

Um, you have no idea what it does.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:36

I want that.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:37

Okay, it's 10,000 gold.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:39

We have 39,000 gold. Guys, that's a star. We uh I you can try and haggle him down. Can I take a look at it? Sure. Can I roll Arcana? I roll as well.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:48

I got a 14. I got a 20.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:50

20? It seems like not so much a potion as like a little bit of a star. There's definitely something very strongly magical about this. It's the type of thing where you think one day a use may arise.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:02

This is the type of thing where you first start a video game and you go into the store and they have like a bunch of like normal potions and armor, and then they have one random thing. It's called like the key to everything, and it's like 10,000 gold, and you you think I probably don't need this, but I'm gonna buy it because I'm sure I'm gonna find some locked door later that's gonna this is gonna be the key that I need.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:20

Hmm. That metaphor doesn't really help because I never played a video game before, but uh, well no. Um, okay, yeah. Uh hi.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:28

Hi.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:29

Are you the same person or a different person?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:31

No, I'm a different person. I love to sell. I I don't want to be in the party, I want to be where I am. My name is Cordless.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:38

Cordless?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:38

Yes, like cordless but with a cord. No, like cordless but without a D.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:43

Like like like you don't have a core.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:45

I don't have a cord.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:46

You're a donut.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:47

Yes, I am like a donut. Yes, would you like to buy any of my wares?

SPEAKER_06 1:36:51

Yes, I would like to buy this. Um, I like to buy your your star.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:55

Okay, that's 10,000 gold.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:57

Okay, here's the thing. I'll give you 5,000 for it.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:00

That's so low. Come on. For persuasion, but you're not going to get it.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:04

Doesn't the star look like it belongs with me? That's a 16.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:07

16, he goes, I will go 8,500.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:11

Okay. I will go 725.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:14

I will go 8250 bottom offer.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:17

Okay, I will go 79, 100.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:20

No, that extra 350 would be very good for me.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:23

What are you gonna buy with 350?

SPEAKER_02 1:37:25

Hay.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:26

Oh, I can just give you hay.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:27

You have hay?

SPEAKER_06 1:37:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:29

How much hay do you have? You don't have 350 gold worth. I have so many horses.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:33

Oh, you have horses?

SPEAKER_02 1:37:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:35

What are their names? Um chestnut, uh peanut. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:40

Walnut.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:41

Oh my god, your horses are named after nuts.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:43

They're named after nuts. Because I'm I have an allergy to nuts, and so I thought it would be fun to be.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:47

I'm allergic to horses. Oh my god. This is incredible.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:51

Yeah, if we if we hung out, we could do nothing. Like you, you couldn't do nuts, I could do horses.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:55

You believe the names of the horses, and I'd literally themselves. Yeah, that's crazy. Okay, here's the thing: I'll give you 8,000 for the starlight, and then we can leave as friends.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:04

Make make one last persuasion check. DC 15.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:08

In my sleep. Okay. 17.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:11

17, great. He goes, fine, 8,000. But hey, don't come in on my horses because you'll get sick.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:17

No, I won't.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:18

But hey.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:19

Hey, oh, very funny, very funny.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:22

Yeah. All right. I mean, we only have about 30,000 gold left.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:26

Definitely want this intimidation one. Okay. A diodem. Yeah, it's 750 gold. Easy. That's easy. Um, if I were a chump. I would like this for 500. Uh, roll of persuasion?

SPEAKER_05 1:38:39

Woof, my friend.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:41

A 12.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:42

The shopkeeper is pretty firm on 750.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:45

Okay, I could do 750, but what uh is this the same shopkeeper that has the ball of yarn?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:50

And how much is the ball of yarn?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:52

Um, is uh 1250.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:54

1250?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:55

Okay, maybe we cut a deal here. I give you 1500 for both.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:59

I'm sorry, that would be um 500 under what I would make otherwise.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:05

1750 for both.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:06

How about 2000 for both?

SPEAKER_03 1:39:08

Is that a good deal?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:10

That's a great deal.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:11

I think that was the same. I know my prices are a great deal.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:15

Wait, it was 750 and 1250.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:17

Yeah, so it would be 2,000.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:20

How about 19? For fun.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:23

19, you got a 12. Okay, 19.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:25

Okay, 19. Here you go, buddy. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:29

Do you have that, Rex, or are we taking a couple of things?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:30

I'm taking control about going back to the party.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:34

What was your name?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:35

Dang.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:36

Dang, do you have horses?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:38

I don't have horses. They died in the war. 30 years ago. Okay, we should probably get it. Horses don't listen.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:45

It's probably time for the day.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:47

You hear the music start to begin.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:48

You guys know what's crazy is we had I had about 60,000 gold altogether, which is what I needed to pay off my debt.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:55

Oh. Wait. Now I feel better.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:58

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:59

We'll get more, we'll get more.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:00

But the funny thing is I feel nothing about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:03

Huh.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:04

In like a you're numb way, or like in there are bigger things and more important things way. I feel like I'm numb. Because there are much bigger things and more important things.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:14

This is gonna be fun internal adventure for us to go on with you.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:17

Yeah. Just wanted to mark that. Okay. Hey, that's good.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:20

Say your feelings. Feel your feelings and then say your feelings.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:23

Well, Patricia said they're feeling nothing, so. Yeah, I feel nothing.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:26

That's a feeling.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:26

Is it? Or is it the absence of a feeling?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:29

If you could see the absence of someone, then I feel it's hard to do that. I don't remember what the fuck you said.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:33

But that was good, wasn't it? That was a good idea. I feel apathetic. Okay. Is that what it means?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:38

So you guys uh take to the floor. You're all doing it?

SPEAKER_07 1:40:41

Question? Yes. I guess. But I think I think um, like Lucy and dance are like d dragging.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:47

This is a friend dance for everyone, it's not a partner dance.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:49

So this one, you will be like randomly traded off to people. What will happen is in quick succession, you will uh dance with an array of NPCs. Um you can quickly, if you want to say anything to them or talk to them, you can do it, and any like checks you're making against them during this time will have advantage because everyone's distracted with the dance.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:08

I love this.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:08

Um for this, you're gonna want to roll low when you figure out who you're dancing with. The the juicier NPCs are lower. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:16

Cool. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:16

Each round you'll make a constitution save to uh stay in the dance.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:20

So to keep the tempo, to uh not tire yourself out.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:25

Uh so the music begins. I need everyone to roll a d20. An 18. 18?

SPEAKER_03 1:41:30

16 for Rex.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:31

A nine for Lucy.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:32

Nine. Uh Lucy, you are paired up with Dodd to begin with.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:35

I got uh Patrick got a three.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:37

Um, you're paired up with Trioctus. Oh! The dance begins. Janice and Rex, you are paired up with just strangers you don't know from the party. Um Does anyone have anything they want to say to any of the people they're with?

SPEAKER_07 1:41:49

Uh I think I Pat just wants to be kind of polite. Hi, General, we're still working on the plague and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:56

Yeah, okay. Shall we dance?

SPEAKER_07 1:41:58

I guess. Um, I threw up last time.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:00

Alright, well. Fear warning. I won't spin you or anything. Please don't. Great. Don't spin me either. I don't like to be spun.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:06

I will. Um, do you have any horses?

SPEAKER_02 1:42:09

I do not have any horses.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:11

That's good, because I'm allergic.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:13

Okay. Um, Dod just sort of is dancing very half-heartedly. Everyone make a comment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:21

DC 10. Almost got a bad one again. But to be fair, I've been rolling really well.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:27

I got a seven.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:27

Okay, Lucy, you dance all out so hard that you have to sit down.

unknown 1:42:31

Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:33

It's been a big night. So failed.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:34

Patch got a 17.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:36

Okay. 17, Patch, you're in it. 18. 18, Rex, you're in it. Alright, I need you guys to roll a D eight.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:42

When else is gonna dance with Caladeus.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:44

So, uh, you see, Dodd sits down, Budlust sits down, Ebenezer sits down, Midas and Pythia sit down, Jesta sits down.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:51

Uh, Patch rolled a three again.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:53

Three. You're stuck with Triox.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:54

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:55

Rex rolled the one. One? You're with Caladeus.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:58

Yeah, you are, baby. Oh, hey!

SPEAKER_03 1:43:00

Don't talk to me, you suck. You suck. No, you suck.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:04

You're really bad at dancing.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:05

You're not favored by the gods at all.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:07

I'm favored by the only one that counts, buddy.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:10

The only one that counts is Eurifon.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:12

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:13

And who's not a god.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:15

Look at my wrist.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:17

Yeah, I don't that doesn't mean shit to me.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:18

Um do you like um sports or something?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:21

I'm I'm not really a sports guy.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:23

Oh really?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:24

No, I mean it I don't like seeing that, you know, it's it's it's it's practicing violence on a on a you know a a private scale, I think.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:31

I mean, not to make assumptions, General, I'm but I'm happy to hear you say that. I expect it otherwise.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:35

I mean, most people who go to war spend most of their life trying to avoid ever going to war again.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:40

That's really interesting.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:41

Uh, do you think we can switch partners anytime soon?

SPEAKER_07 1:43:43

Um I'm trying, man. I don't I'm new to it.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:46

Um another con save.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:48

Mat 20. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:49

Not 20, you are in. 14. 14, you are in. Nice. That is the DC for this round, so you are barely stick with it. I need both of you to roll a D6.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:59

Oh, yours are so fuzzy. I got a two. You got a three. Two?

SPEAKER_02 1:44:03

Alright. Uh, Patch, you get uh passed over to Medis. Um, and Medis goes Midas, sorry. Passed over to Midas, and Midas goes, Oh hey, Patch!

SPEAKER_07 1:44:11

Oh hi, Midas.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:13

Having a good party?

SPEAKER_07 1:44:14

Uh, so far, so good, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:16

That's great. You want a juice box?

SPEAKER_07 1:44:17

Um, no.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:18

This is Trader Joe's branded.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:19

Oh! Uh no, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:21

Alright, more for me.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:22

I only take juice boxes from Janice. I'll have one.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:26

Janice is slurping aggressively on a juice box watching the two of them dance.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:29

So did you find out anything?

SPEAKER_02 1:44:31

Uh, I've not. It it seems that I mean nothing has changed outside. They're beating back the plague, but there's no uh I've not seen any any any fell priests or anything.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:41

Oh, maybe you gotta open your eyes a little more bigger.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:44

Rex. Uh, you are with Trioxus. Oh. He sits down.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:49

Damn, he's gonna get it.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:50

He goes to dance with you, and he goes, holds up his hands, and steps off the floor.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:55

What?

SPEAKER_07 1:44:55

Rex, come dance with us. Yeah, Rex, come join us.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:58

Rex goes up and and dances uh with them.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:01

Make another constitution saving throw, DC 18. Patch. Nice. I got a 22. 22. Patch, you are in it. You are in the final round.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:10

Rex rolled a nine.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:12

Rex, you are out. The guy didn't even want to dance with me.

SPEAKER_06 1:45:16

I love that Patch is the last one left.

unknown 1:45:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:19

Patch roll a D4.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:21

Patch is hitting the ducky. Got a four.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:23

That is Cadra.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:25

Hi, Kadra.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:26

Hi. It's so good to see you, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:45:30

Yeah, it's um. I'm glad that uh it seems we're all kind of on the same page with this vote.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:34

I guess it's one last constitution saving throw, huh?

SPEAKER_07 1:45:37

I get oh, I guess it's you and me, huh?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:39

Well, it's it's it's it looks like Trioxus, Medis, Calidaeus, and and I don't know who that other person is. I think just a stranger all also dancing.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:48

Do you know what we get if we win?

SPEAKER_10 1:45:50

I think you get like an immovable rod.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:52

Oh, okay, cool.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:53

Uh, well, alright, one more constitution save.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:56

I heard that Callidaeus has an immovable rod stuck up her ass.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:00

Oh my god, that five.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:03

It was so close to being a 20 again.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:05

You see, everyone sits down, everyone is winded, everyone can't keep pace with the song, except for Callidaeus.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:13

Oh!

SPEAKER_02 1:46:14

Thank you all so much! Thank you all. I it feels awful to accept a prize. So, you know what? Sell it and give the money to orphans.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:23

And are you gonna match that amount that you're uh that you're gonna make off that rod? Because removable rod's only what, like.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:29

I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be the one selling it, so.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:32

Oh, so you're not doing anything.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:33

Well, I'm I'm asking the host to sell it and use the money on charity.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:38

Why don't you just give money to the charity?

SPEAKER_02 1:46:40

You know what? That's a great point, little boy.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:42

I'm a full-grown man. I'm a full-grown man. That's very rude, ma'am.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:46

So the dance completes, people start to dissipate, and you see the council members start to find each other, and they begin ascending the ramp towards the office.

unknown 1:46:56

Damn it.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:57

Sorry, guys, I couldn't get back you you did really well. I don't think even I I feel like this kinda I had some nice conversations. That's good. Which maybe helps my mental state, but I don't think it helped our cause any. But I think we kinda got this. You got back on the dance horse. Which I can't do because I'm allergic, but that's good.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:15

Um proud of you. Janice hands a patch of juice box.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:19

Thanks, Janice. I think we did well at this party. I think they're going up for the for the vote now.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:24

I wanna go. We get to scroll.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:25

Yeah, do we get to go?

SPEAKER_06 1:47:26

Can we put our ears against the door? How do we I wanna get as close as we can without being suspicious and ruining things for ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:32

Do we want to be in the room?

SPEAKER_06 1:47:33

Or send histos in? Yeah, I want to be in.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:36

I was like, I could give it a.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:37

Why not ask to be in the room?

SPEAKER_01 1:47:38

Uh mom, can we come?

SPEAKER_02 1:47:40

Um, she looks around and you see most members of the council are fine with like clearly look like, yeah, fine, whatever. Trioctus does not look happy about it. I I don't think it's professional to bring you in on this vote.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:52

We can wait outside. I'm having a really hard day.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:55

Um Janice and Lucy roll persuasion. Uh Lucy, I hate to say it because you did it so well with advantage because of the relationship you built. Lucy's more likely to get it with the very shallow fake relationship she has than you are with your mom.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:12

I only got an ele an eleven. What about the relationship that Patch and Triocus built while we were dancing?

SPEAKER_02 1:48:18

I got a 16. Sixteen? Okay. Uh 16 is enough. Okay, yeah. Uh you guys can come in. Just don't, you know, intercede in council business. Leans in and goes, I know that you have uh personal feelings about this one, as do I, but just let me handle it, okay?

unknown 1:48:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:35

Trust me that I'm I'm on your side, uh, and I don't like this woman. I don't like this woman one bit.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:40

Did you learn anything?

SPEAKER_02 1:48:42

I don't like that she was mean to my kid.

unknown 1:48:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:45

Thanks, Mom, I love you.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:46

Love you too. Janice, you hear a voice in your head.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:52

I hear it? Yeah. Uh Janice looks around.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:56

You see a nervous-looking centaur that that kind of pushes through the crowd towards you and goes, Excuse me!

SPEAKER_09 1:49:02

Uh are you Janice Sabalone?

SPEAKER_01 1:49:05

That's me.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:07

I believe someone is looking for you in the cellar.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:11

In the cellar?

SPEAKER_10 1:49:12

I highly recommend that you visit I don't know what he'll do.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:16

Who's he?

SPEAKER_09 1:49:17

Cersei. One of the plague bringers. In the cellar?

SPEAKER_01 1:49:20

Plague bringers? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:21

Did he have You hear the voice in your head goes, please help?

SPEAKER_01 1:49:26

Did he have no eyes, no mouth, or no ears?

SPEAKER_09 1:49:28

He had um no mouth.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:30

Janice runs back. Okay, um, so who's going with Janice? Who's going with the council?

SPEAKER_06 1:49:34

Um uh I'm I'll go with I'll go with uh I'm going to the council. I'm going with the council.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:41

Okay, guys, if you could really just fucking get me that sword, I would love it. I'll do my best.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:44

I'll do what I can! Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:46

Great. So, um, you guys go with this centaur and Patch and Lucy, you guys go with the council. Yes. We're going to start with Patch and Lucy.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:55

Heart is beating so fast all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:58

You guys uh are Led into the office, which you you know this place. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:02

This is great, Lucy. We found Cersei, we found us, but it's all fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:05

You see, Calidaeus is also with the council in here. Calidaus goes, Alright. Thank you all for taking time out of your party to hear us out and to learn and to listen about what we have to offer to you, from us to you.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:20

What you're doing right now is called indicating and Patch.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:26

Uh Pythia holds up a hand at you, Patch, and goes, It's okay, Patch. Sorry. I got this. Calidaeus, uh, with all due respect, certain matters have come to light uh about how you comport yourself with your uh political sort of machinations, I guess I should say, uh, that sort of call to question the motivations behind this aid package. Can you speak on that? Let's not give her a chance to just just just vote. No talking, just vote! Caladeus goes, I understand. I totally understand. Listen, I know that uh that uh my Europhon took power uh quickly, but it happened fast, it happened fast for me too, okay?

SPEAKER_09 1:51:05

I get it, but I think that the time uh for questioning that sort of thing it's not when you need help, uh it's when we need help. Okay? Take the aid. All we're looking to do is help you out. And if if you have questions, you know, take it up with the goddess of justice. If if she sees that something is wrong, uh I'm sure that she would be willing to help you guys get out of this contract. You know what?

SPEAKER_02 1:51:28

We'll even put we can add a clause that says, if you talk to Ifara and she disagrees, great, uh we'll take everything back.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:36

Patch is raising his hand.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:37

But I we're not doing questions.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:39

Can I say something?

SPEAKER_02 1:51:40

If you goes, go ahead, Patch.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:42

Um, I hi everyone. Um, you may or may not know me, and my name is Patch, and I'm a businessman. And something that we learn as business people is that if s if a product is free, then you're the product. Okay? So if sh they're offering this and she's asking when they need help, what are they gonna need help for? Callides is right, this is not the time for asking questions, this is the time to vote.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:04

Caladeus goes. Quaint. Very quaint. Oh, that's very sweet. Alright, are you all ready for your vote? Taractus goes. Yeah, I think it's uh he walks up to the to the to the window. I think it's time that we begin the vote. I'll call each council member individually, and we shall hear their vote. Conclave.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:26

I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:27

I need both of you to roll perception.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:29

Oh I got a 16. I got a ten.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:33

Great. We're gonna cut away. And we'll return to the results of that roll when we come back. Okay. Janice and Rex. You guys are led. The Centaur takes you on a little uh elevator for Centaurs to get into the cellar, and he goes, Don't make me go in there.

SPEAKER_09 1:52:49

I've done what I had to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:50

I'm gonna go back up. Be safe. He he he gets back on the elevator, and uh you're in front of a uh a door to the uh deeper part of the cellar.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:59

I go in. I open the door.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:01

Uh inside you see a bloody and bleeding whisper.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:05

Whisper no. I run over to him.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:08

Uh uh, make a medicine check. Uh 13. Uh he is uh bloodied and bruised. He has been in a fight. You see that he's bleeding this like golden blood. You hear that same voice in your head, and you see he's signing this to you as well. The Vukary! Cersei!

unknown 1:53:23

Taken.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:24

Where?

SPEAKER_02 1:53:25

He shakes his head, he doesn't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:26

Uh how did you get here? Escaped. Uh who escaped who?

SPEAKER_02 1:53:30

He um uh raises his hands to his head and makes a sign like two minotaur horns.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:37

A minotaur? He nods.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:39

Military! The guy you liked. They took everyone from the rookery.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:44

All of the room. I don't know where they are, they're gone. Janice is gonna give him a healing hand.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:50

Blood luck.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:50

He uh uh grabs your hand. Save it! We're gonna cut back up. Lucy and Patch Triocus. Great. Trioctus begins calling for the vote. Ebenezer. Nay! Pythia, nay, High Sun Georgiana, nay, Dodd. Dodd hesitates for a moment, and Trioctus turns and looks at him and kind of squints, and Dodd goes, Nay. Senna.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:27

Nay.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:28

Yes, go.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:30

Triarctus goes, Well, I guess that leaves my vote. With your 14 perception, you see beyond him in the window, those plague guard that were keeping the plague at bay.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:41

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:41

They are not there. And you all hear a scream come from the main room. And that's where we're gonna end the session.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:50

Oh my gosh, I have goosebumps. Spencer, come on.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:56

Alright, the party's fucking over. Thank God.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:00

No, I love so much, so good. Party's not much over until we leave.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:04

Party's not over till you leave.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:06

I forgot about the plague coming. I totally forgot.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:09

Okay. That was tense. Oh my god, that end was tense, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:12

That was tense.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:12

It was. We really swung that vote though.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:15

You did really did.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:16

You guys put in work and the power of campaigning and calling your representative. That is.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:25

That is the power of female friendships.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:27

Yes, honestly, that did do something like that. That nat 20 you did to get Cade Red to just like fuck with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:34

Yeah, that was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:35

Absolutely. Wow. Oh my God. Thank you guys so much for playing in this little game. Yeah. Thank you, Spencer.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:42

Thank you. And thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:44

And thank you.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:45

And thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:46

We're going to be doing a little talk back for this episode on our Patreon. If you don't subscribe, it's at patreon.com slash trying our quest. I have so much to say. I wish there's so many times. Thank you all so much for listening.

SPEAKER_11 1:55:58

If you haven't checked out Real Housewives of Narcisum, check that out.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:03

Part one. We've got part two coming at the end of the month. We're so excited about it. We've recorded it. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:08

More of Matt's fantastic voice acting.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:10

Matt's voice acting is. Can I tell you, doing that session and then coming into this session where it's like I have to voice 15 NPCs and their voices are not going to be consistent, I was like, Matt could do that so well.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:22

No, no, no, no, no. I was just, when you were doing like the nay. Like it's like Spencer's locked in.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:30

Their like characterization was different. I felt emotionally different with each of them.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:33

It was very good. Thank you, thank you. But uh anyway, uh check out Fartu of Real House of the Narcism later this month. Keep an eye out. Next month we've got some sketch shows coming up if you live in New York. Yeah. Um say more about that later.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:45

But yeah, you'll hear about them.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:46

We'll hear about them. Uh thank you all so much for listening.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:49

Oh, and watch Clue, maybe if you want. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:51

Yeah, on our Patreon we did uh uh a board game. We love to do board games and add like role-playing components to them. We did Clue, added some custom rules that uh that biasedly I think were really fun.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:01

Um yeah, Spencer did a great job with those.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:03

Yeah, uh I made up fake rules.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:05

They scrooched me over at one point. Really fucking through Sarah.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:09

It was really great. There's yeah, a clip on Instagram of of that, and it's so funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:14

Well, thank you all so much for listening. Thank you. Bye! Thank you.

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This podcast has been brought to you by Chloe O'Donnell at Chloe.dot, Matt Morin at More Morin, Shane Jordan at SJordanX2, Sarah Katrenich at Sarah underscore Katrenich, and Spencer Wilden at SpencerWilden. Music by Tony Brofi at Anthony Brofe, and art by Carolyn Petroff at Hello of a Fever. Professional.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:47

And and and thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_01 1:57:50

Welcome, welcome to the end of the episode, everybody. It's time to pay tribute to our Titans of Elspar, including Jamie, who was going to confront Trioctus about his dead son, but decided it was too gauche. Emily, Kedra's real best friend, who felt awful neglected after being left for Lucy. Damien, Prior's theatrical agent who smokes 12 packs a day. Catherine, Senna's antique dealer who absolutely bilked her on that Iraw sword. Kevin, who was eating a steak kinda disrespectfully close to Lieutenant Budlust. And Phoebe, the seventh council member, who simply can't be bothered to show up to any votes. Thanks again for listening, everyone.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:31

Stacking up like if Yurtle the Turtle was an allegory for teamwork instead of fascism. Mmm. And that's true. Because there was no fascist undertones in what you did.

SPEAKER_06 1:58:42

There wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:42

Unlike Yurtle the Turtle, which Are you talking to me? All of you. Yurtle the Turtle is a few years.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:47

I don't know enough about familiar with the me neither. I don't know what you're saying. You don't know Yurtle the Turtle?

SPEAKER_02 1:58:55

And he's like he's like, everyone keeps stacking up, and eventually the tower collapses because you know it's under the weight of like this one turtle and it gets so high, and it's a fa it's an allegory for World War II for fascism.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:07

Interesting. Nope.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:08

Really? I thought Yurtle the Turtle was like up there with Cat and the Hat in the Grinch. I thought it was like the third.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:13

Being like Yurtle the Turtle is up there with Cat and the Hat in the Grinch is a wild statement.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:17

Yeah. Y'all don't know Yurdle the Turtle. Is it Dr. Seuss?

SPEAKER_02 1:59:21

Yes. Yes. It's like one of his most famous.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:24

Bigger than all the places you'll go. Bigger than one fish, two fish, redfish, blue fish?

SPEAKER_02 1:59:28

Bigger than green eggs and ham? Okay, you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:32

What about the Lorax?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:34

I think it's up there with the Lorax.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:36

I mean, I think all of his books are really famous, and that's one of his very famous books. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:39

Get in the comments about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:40

I'm familiar with the phrase and not the content.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:43

Now that I've seen the cover of it, I recognize the cover, but I would not pull Yurtle the Turtle out of the air.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:50

I had the sleep book. I really like that one. Which one? The Dr. Bus.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:55

The Dr. Bus. Dr. Bus. Dr. Buss.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:58

The Doctor Suits.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:00

Dr. Bus. Dr.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:02

Puss is in. It was all visible monsters. He's got a new sketch idea.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:06

Dr. Bus. Dr. Bus. Dr. Bus. Dr. Bus. Yeah, wow. Okay, well. I guess fuck me for my great Yurtle the Turtle record.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:15

I got it, Spencer. Spencer looked at us like, eh?

SPEAKER_02 2:00:17

Yeah, I was like, and when I wrote that, I was like, I was feeling myself. I was like, let's go.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:22

Sorry, he assumed y'all were well read. Is that when you texted us and you were like, First off, he's ready to assume I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:27

Yeah, I was like, this recap is gonna be awesome, guys. Um, okay. No, not one for the Yurtle the Turtle Heads.

SPEAKER_07 2:00:34

Anyway, nope.