Tyrant of the Dark Star 1.06 Who Watches the Watchers?

[00:00:43] Speaker A: Wake me now from this sleep I've been dreaming dark so long I cannot find meaning hold my hand let me stare by your side through this never ending night I can feel it now it holds me. Demon tower light because me he is reaching out consuming this heart the light. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Is a distraction of the dark star. I'm Aubrey, your gm. I will introduce my players. They will introduce themselves, who they are, who they're playing, all of that lovely stuff, and then we'll get into things. [00:01:43] Speaker C: Hi, my name is Aki. Pronouns are she, her, and I am playing gravewing, who is our monk, Kinesis. That's it. That's all you get to know about her. [00:01:57] Speaker B: Oh. [00:01:57] Speaker C: Also uses she her pronouns. [00:02:00] Speaker D: Hi, y'all. I'm Alyssa. My pronouns are they, them, and I play Laithadrisi, our dampier, dandy, and rogue, who uses she any pronouns. [00:02:12] Speaker E: It's me. Hello, I'm dusty. I use they he pronouns, and I'm playing Eurydo, just Eurydo for now. They also use they he pronouns, and they are going to be our blood hunter. [00:02:27] Speaker A: Hello, I am ferx. I use she her pronouns, and I am playing Alouette velar, the nephilim, I think is what they're called now. Thaumaturge, who also uses she her pronouns. [00:02:42] Speaker B: Hello, I am sparlock. I use he him pronouns. I am playing Alistair Whiskerfield, the renowned wizard and investigator who uses he him pronouns also. And quickly, before we get into the recap of what's happened and everything going forward, I'm going to ask the RP question. And it was actually inspired by Ferris in our server of asking, in honor of free Comic book Day, if your character had a comic book series about them, what would it be called and what would the vibe be? So we'll start with you. With Ferris. [00:03:27] Speaker A: I was still bringing it back up. My answer. Oh, jeez. Okay. I was opening discord as we spoke. So Elouette would have a very Sherlock style comic that starts off very victorian, mystery solving, high society political fantasy vibes that slowly devolves into elder tour and gets boogier and more monstrous as time goes on. And it would be called carrion eaters. No reason at all. [00:04:02] Speaker B: No reason. And you can choose whoever goes next. [00:04:10] Speaker A: Alyssa. [00:04:13] Speaker D: I did not have time to think about this more, so I will give the answer that I gave to the original prompt from Varys, which is that Laith would have a kyoriyuki manga without the incest. So, like angel sanctuary or godchild, where it is extremely pretty. A lot of religious imagery no incest, and just big feelings, bad decisions, and I will pass it to tick. [00:04:46] Speaker F: No. So for context, I don't read a lot of comic books. I read a lot of. I guess, technically, manga is just comic books. [00:04:54] Speaker B: It is a comic. [00:04:55] Speaker F: Yeah, it is, technically. Have any of y'all read a comic called Dungeon meshy? Don't spoil it for me, because I've been watching the anime. Please imagine a sort of slice of life episodic cooking series with a bunch of fun little dishes, and then just every random three chapters out of nowhere is the most disturbing psychological body horror that you could possibly find that makes you question your concept of being a human being in the first place. Yeah, that would be the one. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Then back to cooking, then back to cookie. [00:05:23] Speaker F: Exactly. All right, I have to pass it on. I'm going to pass the torch on to eeny meeny miney. Aubrey. [00:05:38] Speaker B: I'm the one who's running the show. [00:05:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:40] Speaker F: Dusty, you're next. [00:05:42] Speaker E: Oh, fine. I guess. See, I have an answer because Yuri, like, inspired, like, conceptually, very much like how the Hellboy comics are, like, very heavy emphasis on, like, working with shadows in the comics. Also that kind of vibe where, you know, monster hunting. Kind of like a monster of the week scenario, and it would just be called it runs in the family. Don't look too deep into that yet. We're only an episode and sort of episode title here. And does that leave Aki? [00:06:20] Speaker B: Yep. [00:06:21] Speaker E: Aki, good. [00:06:24] Speaker C: I want to be last all the time. All right, so, moth mom, we're grateful. We got to get used to calling our moth mom on fucking stream recording. I don't know, because that's what we call ourselves outside of it all the time. Anyways, moth mom is straight up, is, like, also based, very comic booky. Batman, obviously. So she would. But I think she would have two very big runs. Personally, I think she would have been introduced, like, a villain at first in a lamplighter specific comic, and it would be called something like the exterminator or something where all the villains are based off of. Of pests that are normally exterminated. So, like, fucking. Yeah. Wasps. Moths. Rats. We'd all be like, the bug family. Yeah, the bug family, but also a bunch of other random things that are a little kind of sus. Like, why is all the rat folk? Hmm? Why all the rat folk? You know, I'm just. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. And then I think, like, ten years later, a comic would come out with the exact same character that's mothmom or gravewing. And it would be more of like the vigilante antihero point of view. And that it would then be used as like reverse propaganda, which I think the lamplighters would then gather all the comics and burn them as bad motherfuckers do. And I think that one would be called something very ya, novelly, you know, like her hands are raw or something like that, where it's very much like you wouldn't know until you read it that it was about the same person but from a different perspective. And then when all the lamplighters knew, they'd be like, oh, we gotta burn some books, and they would do it. That's what I think. I thought a lot. I thought a lot about this. I was like, oh goodness, you asked me the question. You asked me the thing I think about at four in the morning. Aubrey. Well, Aubrey Ferris, of course. Ferris asked me to think, I think about 04:00 a.m. and then endorsed it, of course. Yeah. [00:08:55] Speaker B: Well now after that, I guess we should go over what happened last time. [00:09:03] Speaker A: Well, that's my cue for once. [00:09:04] Speaker F: Okay. [00:09:05] Speaker B: Yep. [00:09:06] Speaker A: Sorry. Immediate cat hair. Second I opened my mouth. [00:09:11] Speaker B: That's how it goes. [00:09:12] Speaker A: Episode was episode five. Okay. Which turned into, hey, we are in a clock tower and we need to figure out what we're gonna do about that whole thing. Like getting water and stuff. But the getting water conversation gravitated into, there's a light at a house way over there, Gatsby style. Maybe we should check that out instead. So, because graveyard was like, that's probably the Wolfsoncraft manor, which was owned by one of the founders of the holy blood, who has gone missing after the ghoul outbreak. It's kind of weird. We should go check that out. So Greybring and Igordu and Laythe. I'll go to investigate the light, maybe find help, maybe not find help. They find help. Surprise plot twist. Who knew they actually run into Elena Wolfsoncroft herself, who was still there and not dead, or missing, rather. And she talked a little bit about the holy blood. Her co founders wanted to kill her, still want to kill her. It's a whole thing. She is the one who tried to get Akos out, or I guess successfully got Akko's out. Good job. And then these three have a lovely bath time. They have baths, they get clean clothes, they find some goodies. Elena basically gives them her house, essentially. Anything in the house, she says have it, whatever. She's leaving and she's not coming back. So I think that means they got a house. Who knows? Anyway, they have a great time. They get wine. They have food. It's great. Cut back to the hot tower, and it's alouette and Niall and Alistair. And they are making the best with what they got. They have a wand of water creation that makes like, two gallons. And they have soap. And they're trying their best. [00:11:08] Speaker D: It's tragic. [00:11:09] Speaker A: And then we cut back to the. To the fine dining and bathing situation. And they get some information from Elena about. Where's his name? Desmond Talis, who's now an alchemical expert who might be behind the ghoul fever. Interesting. And seems to be related to perhaps our way out of this district. And then we all grouped up again, and the clean half of the party brought back gifts and smuts. And that's pretty much everything. [00:11:49] Speaker B: I think it is to a point where you all need to get some sleep. So I think we were gonna start off by figuring out who is doing what watch. [00:12:02] Speaker C: I vote to do a watch. I don't care which. I'll watch which watch I'm doing. I just wanna watch. [00:12:10] Speaker D: I'll watch with grief wig. [00:12:12] Speaker C: Okay, we're watching. [00:12:13] Speaker E: I was gonna do suggestion. Yuri would suggest to Lou to do first watch. [00:12:20] Speaker A: Yeah, Lou can take first watch. [00:12:25] Speaker B: So we'll do Lou with first watch. We'll do Lou and Yuri. Okay, so we need three watches to get through the night. [00:12:37] Speaker A: I mean, I think. [00:12:39] Speaker C: Well, there's six out of window. [00:12:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:42] Speaker A: Oh, that's true. There are six of us. [00:12:43] Speaker C: There's six of us. And I'll just watch on my own. [00:12:46] Speaker F: Like a sad little guy. [00:12:47] Speaker C: Well, you're playing an introvert, and your foreigner isn't here watching you with the detectives. Yeah, you're with the detective. You're with the detective that accused you of cannibalism. [00:13:00] Speaker F: Are you really sure you want to leave me alone with this guy? Like, absolutely. [00:13:04] Speaker C: The worst thing that could happen is, is that we wake up and Alistair's not here and this is red sauce. [00:13:13] Speaker A: Or Alistair kills or Alastair still getting killed. [00:13:18] Speaker C: That would be okay. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. That would be wild if, like, we wake up and then Alistair is, like, standing over, like a dead or decapitated Nile. Like, I've seen some shit. [00:13:34] Speaker F: It's, like, fucking among us. [00:13:35] Speaker C: I need you to know that I picture Alistair looking like the scared hamster meme all the time. [00:13:41] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:13:43] Speaker B: No, that 100% checks. [00:13:45] Speaker F: Okay. Yeah, I'll be introvert and take a watch while everyone else buddies up to have social interaction because I would rather not. [00:13:53] Speaker E: Exactly. [00:13:54] Speaker B: I am also. [00:13:55] Speaker F: Oh, cause I wasn't here last time. Can we just say I did some sort of food prep for everyone because I think we're gonna need that with whatever we have available. [00:14:02] Speaker B: You have dried meat and hard tech. [00:14:06] Speaker E: I think Lou would have made you too meal prep. [00:14:11] Speaker A: We did. [00:14:11] Speaker F: Okay, so I guess I'll do whatever meal prep I can with the resources we have, but it's mostly just to survive I guess a little. It's already prepped you know. [00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah it is very already prepped. You've danger bread and dried meat. And so we will start with the first watch with Alouette and Hirito. Can you both give me perception checks? [00:14:42] Speaker E: Yes. Perception roll for me please. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Are you doing this in sort of like letting everyone just sort of sleep above and sort of doing it in a sort of small staging area at the bottom of the clock tower? [00:14:59] Speaker A: I mean that seems terrible. The better views from up top, right? There's no windows at the bottom, are there? [00:15:06] Speaker E: There's trap door, there's the trapdoor. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Okay, but you can also do it up at the top. I was just figuring out where in the, what, you know, I guess it. [00:15:16] Speaker A: Depends on what are we trying to keep watch more of the trap door or like rules coming into? [00:15:20] Speaker B: You can, they're crates, you can just push a crate over the trap door, nobody's going to be able to get up there. [00:15:25] Speaker A: There we go. [00:15:25] Speaker E: Yeah, exactly. [00:15:27] Speaker A: Oh I got distracted, um, I got a 1724. [00:15:31] Speaker B: 24. Okay, wow. [00:15:34] Speaker A: Yeah, 24, okay. [00:15:39] Speaker B: I'm guessing Baza took watch together. There's something you want to discuss, so discuss. [00:15:43] Speaker E: Yes, yes. So after, after like Yurida make sure that things are set up and that maybe just enough time where people have hopefully fallen asleep at least um, Yurida would look at Lou, it's like um, Lou, there's one thing that we haven't gone over yet, um, with the, with the bogeyman. What, what happened after I passed out? [00:16:20] Speaker A: Oh, I don't really remember. I presume because I also took a knock to the head. I mean I know the boogeyman was there and was like oh how threatening. And I remember I got really. [00:16:42] Speaker C: Upset. [00:16:43] Speaker A: Because I thought you had died. And then it was all kind of busy and there was this white light and a lot of noise at the people and then I don't know, I don't know. But we did not die. So I think perhaps it was the guards or I don't know what else it could have been. Actually. [00:17:12] Speaker E: Yorido like motion just come a little closer as they lift a lantern up and just, um. I noticed in the sewers your eyes were more bloodshot than normal. Let me. And they're going to take a quick look. And would it be fair, Ferris, um, that maybe there's still like a feather lost in like your big bushy hair? [00:17:40] Speaker F: That. [00:17:41] Speaker E: Yes, I think so. And as a like, lift the lantern, they notice that and pluck it out. And what was like the feather color supposed to be? Is it like a dark color or a dark crimson or something? [00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a real dark red. It's probably very similar to her tail feather. [00:18:03] Speaker E: And Yuri would like, kind of pluck it out of the hair and she was like, this look familiar? [00:18:11] Speaker A: Uh, no. I mean, it could be from my tail. It's a little different shape, but I don't know. We've been in prison, in sewers. I don't know what I've been sleeping on. I definitely have not washed my hair, that's for sure. [00:18:39] Speaker E: We'll get you a wash in the morning, I promise. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Yeah. You smell nice. I don't like it. [00:18:45] Speaker E: Thanks. Um, they're going to lower the lantern. And you could like, so clearly see it because you have dark, dark vision. You see like. Like Yuri's face drops a little bit and their eyebrows furrow. Just. You've always been two years younger than me, right? [00:19:12] Speaker A: Well, if time has not changed, then, yeah, I'm pretty sure we have always been the same distance apart our lives. Because that's how ages work. [00:19:26] Speaker E: So you're 29? [00:19:28] Speaker A: Not yet. We've got a few more months. Okay. [00:19:40] Speaker E: I think we have a lot to talk about. But I'd like to be somewhere more private when we do. [00:19:48] Speaker A: Like, I were going to throw a party. What are we doing here? Because I don't know about inviting any of the people here. And so I couldn't imagine why we would put that conversation elsewhere. Nothing against them. I just don't know them. Mostly. [00:20:09] Speaker E: I have never know. It's just there's some things that your father very clearly never told you. And I think they're catching up. These bloodshot eyes is, um, not a good sign. [00:20:37] Speaker A: You're being very mysterious. And I don't know if this is a good time to be mysterious. [00:20:48] Speaker E: We don't need many people knowing about this. It's family matters. [00:21:01] Speaker A: Is it? Do you? And, like, she glances over at the sleepers and then like, gets in closer to Yuri and drops her voice even lower and says, is it possible that Z family is in somehow with the unbroken. [00:21:31] Speaker E: Not of character, Aubrey. I don't think Yuri would have any reason to think that, would they? [00:21:39] Speaker B: I don't think so. [00:21:41] Speaker E: Okay. That's what I thought. I just. It's been a bit, um. No, not them. This is something beyond them. Let's just say my grandfather's history. Um, some of it may be more true than you think. [00:22:11] Speaker A: You know, if there's someone in the family who's trying to commit rc or worse. Again, I kind of put like a bit of an ends up because. [00:22:22] Speaker D: I. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Mean, come on, we've been working so hard to get away from all of that and I kind of want to know if I have to change my name or something. [00:22:30] Speaker E: No, no. It's more. There is good luck, there is bad luck and there is being cursed. [00:22:44] Speaker A: You're not taking any sense, though. [00:22:51] Speaker E: They're going to, like, furrow their brow again and it's definitely, like, the look of, like, how much do they really want to say when there's still people around and like, you've seen this look. You've seen this look when actually around. You're like your dad when Yuri would visit. Because, you know, Yuri doesn't like your dad. Um, and they're usually good about biting their tongue, but they don't always bite their tongue. And this is kind of that moment, but they're going to say just a little more quietly, family. A bloodline is cursed in the most literal sense. And it's something your father refused to tell you. [00:23:53] Speaker A: I think Lulu, like, starts to speak several times and then, like, stops every time because she doesn't quite know how to respond to a statement like that and then says, I, you know, I think I would have noticed at some point, surely, if that's of true. [00:24:18] Speaker E: Well, it may be a thing where when it manifests, you don't remember. Like, we saw the boogeyman. [00:24:29] Speaker A: I got it in the head. I don't think you remember much about that either. [00:24:34] Speaker E: I don't, but I remember how I felt when it happened to me. [00:24:47] Speaker A: You mean. Are you talking. You're not talking about the boogeyman. You're saying the whole curse thing is you. You cursed. You personally are cursed. You have a curse and you personally, you. [00:24:59] Speaker E: I said our family line and then. [00:25:01] Speaker A: You said you when it happened to you or you. [00:25:06] Speaker E: Yes, that's why I don't want to talk around these people. [00:25:11] Speaker A: You started the conversation. [00:25:13] Speaker E: Yes, and they're trying to keep it quiet. [00:25:16] Speaker A: I always bow. You always borrowing. We are always boring. Don't know the word for me. You can't just tell me that you are cursed and they're expecting to be cool about it. I mean, I'm cool about it. I just. That's not love. Yuri, are you okay? Are you dying? Is it a death curse? [00:25:37] Speaker E: We could talk about this after. Okay? [00:25:42] Speaker C: Can you answer? [00:25:44] Speaker A: Are you dying? [00:25:46] Speaker E: As of right now, I am not dying. Okay, as of right now, you are not dying. [00:25:52] Speaker A: Okay? And she, like, raises a finger, like, hold on a minute, and then puts something. Just puts that in a box and pushes the box away. It has been a real long two weeks. [00:26:15] Speaker E: Yes, and I think that's why it's time you found out. You also understand why I have beef with your father. Also, please try to stay a vegetarian as much as possible. [00:26:31] Speaker A: I'm sorry, what? So, like, your curse to be a vegetarian? I thought that was, like, a moral choice. [00:26:45] Speaker E: So what happened with you and lace? [00:26:48] Speaker A: Okay, you are not subtle, Yuri. You have never been subtle. I don't know what you think you are doing. Nothing. Nothing happened at all, okay? Literally, it was nothing. And it was also forever ago. And. [00:27:12] Speaker E: Nothing forever ago. [00:27:17] Speaker A: I maybe was a little stressed out and did not expect to see them again because you may have noticed we are not exactly friends. And so I took out my stress on this and that was perhaps a little unfair because I am so over it. Mostly. [00:27:43] Speaker E: Just be. Be careful around them. [00:27:50] Speaker A: Issa and I have learned any lessons that needed to be learned about Les along than a girl. [00:27:57] Speaker E: No, I. I understand. I just. I know that they are good at hurting people, even if they don't mean it. [00:28:09] Speaker A: Oh, so good that doing it when they mean it too, though. [00:28:12] Speaker E: I know. I know. The way it also for you, Lou, the way Yuri says, I know there's definitely just like a. You know, you're a doe. Enough. [00:28:33] Speaker A: Do you know, do you know, should I know something that you know, that you know about this? [00:28:45] Speaker E: It was nothing forever ago. [00:28:51] Speaker A: See? You know, maybe I should tell you that I have six siblings. If they really want to get on the whole family, they can have nothing with everyone, only, like, one of them is married, so. [00:29:14] Speaker E: And. And, like, I know staying here wasn't as fun, so. And they're gonna, like, go into their bag and, like, pull out maybe like a history of something book that they found that. The thing is, like, I. The lady there, let me take whatever I want. So I found this. Thought you'd be very interested. [00:29:38] Speaker A: It's a book. [00:29:40] Speaker B: I'll say specifically, it's a history of Ravenswood Academy book. [00:29:44] Speaker E: There you go. [00:29:45] Speaker A: Oh, I'm reading about places that rejected all of my applications. I can get so much information. Thank you. I appreciate it. [00:30:02] Speaker E: Yeah. Let's keep an eye out for at least the next hour or so. [00:30:10] Speaker A: Yes. And I also want to comb through the book for anything left between the pages. And I do mean anything. It doesn't actually have to be valuable. [00:30:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I would say that. There are some pressed flowers between one of the pages. [00:30:28] Speaker E: Excellent. [00:30:31] Speaker B: And a note. [00:30:34] Speaker A: Oh. Oh. [00:30:40] Speaker B: A note from the headmaster of Ravenswood Academy to Helena. It specifically says, I know that we don't work together anymore, but I cherished our time, and I hope this book finds you well. He specifically wrote this book because he established the academy. [00:31:17] Speaker A: Oh, wait, is the note, like, an acknowledgments page, or is it slipped into it, like a physical extra note? [00:31:24] Speaker B: It's a physical note that slipped into it. [00:31:27] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:31:31] Speaker B: But yes. Your watch is relatively quiet yet again. You watch the ghouls move from place to place, but not much else happens. And eventually you wake up gravewing and laithe to take watch. [00:31:54] Speaker A: I'm waking up graveling. [00:31:58] Speaker E: We're waking up graveling to wake up lace. [00:32:02] Speaker C: Okay, well, now, I need you to understand that if it's both of you, I'm 100% like, picturing punched. No, no. I'm 100% picturing Yuri and alouette holding hands and being like, I fool up. I grew up. [00:32:24] Speaker E: I grew up at its everywhere. [00:32:28] Speaker A: That's much cuter than picturing the two looming, horned beings just shadowed over your head. [00:32:35] Speaker C: I mean, I'm gonna get the jump scare. I'm gonna get the jump scare. Either because, like, you're both holding hands. One of you is holding, like, a blanket or, like, a toy. Hair is a mess. [00:32:46] Speaker E: Everyone has a gun. [00:32:47] Speaker C: And then very quietly, I hear a slew up or bedding. What am I supposed to. What am I supposed to do? You both look like children that would have had imaginary friends. [00:33:02] Speaker A: Wait, don't call out Lou like this. Come on. [00:33:08] Speaker C: Who drew on the walls? Vanessa, too. Who's Vanessa? She's six and a half and lives in our basement. The fuck? [00:33:19] Speaker F: Have you guys seen that fucking video where it's like, I'm playing with Amanda. I'm Amanda. [00:33:24] Speaker A: Dino. [00:33:27] Speaker C: Love that cyber. It's like, cyber awareness. Like, that's what it's from. Like, some sort of cyber awareness video. I fucking love that video. That video would have worked on me as a kid. [00:33:40] Speaker B: So, yes, great, you're woken up. Do you wake up late? Because nobody is going to wake up late. [00:33:50] Speaker D: Fine. If you don't, I can ask you stuff later. [00:33:53] Speaker C: I was. No, I was gonna say, okay, so if we have established beforehand that the watch is Laithe and I. I will. [00:34:02] Speaker B: I think. I think you would have, you know. [00:34:04] Speaker C: Yeah, like, like, I definitely will. It's. It's more. So I'm just, like, looking at these two who clearly know Laithe. They all speak to each other like. Like they know each other and they're very bad at hiding shit. And I think. I think if anything, Gravewink had a feeling before where she was like, I don't know if you guys like each other, but, like, two of them are gay at the very least. And now I'm pretty sure you guys don't like each other, but you did. Like, I'm just letting you know right now, like, all of this extra, like, detective sleuthing, I don't need to be an investigator for it. You guys are just bad at hiding it. But yeah, Imma go wake up leif and we're gonna do our watch. Yeah. Do we make perception rolls for the watch? [00:35:01] Speaker B: Yes. [00:35:03] Speaker C: Where's my. Oh, there it is. We gotta fix these stats later, y'all. [00:35:10] Speaker D: I was ready to be all upsetting because I don't have my physical dice, but I got a Nat 20 on the roller, so 27. [00:35:18] Speaker C: I got a ten. I gotta fix my stats, y'all. I'll re level us up. Damn it. [00:35:37] Speaker B: So, yeah, you. You're what? You're watching and are you just. Are you going to sit there in silence or who's going to. Who's going to talk first? [00:35:49] Speaker C: God, for realsies. It's not. I don't think it's going to be monologue. Yeah, I think. I think. I think gravewing is. I think rave wing is watching, especially like, like you see her periodically go from the window and looking around to closer to the. Not. Not. We're not going downstairs, but we're going near, like, the edge of where the ladder is to just like, peak. And it's very much keeping track of sounds like, because I think it's very quiet despite being in a clock tower. I also think that the clock tower probably doesn't work or else we would get tinnitus after a night here. So, yeah, I don't think it's working. So keeping an eye on sounds is very, I think is more important than visuals since we're so high up. [00:36:48] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. I think that Laithe is. Does not have the same good hearing as graveling, so is more reliant on visuals and is maybe especially focused on the area around the lit manor just, you know, maybe Akos made his way up from a different entrance. Not this one, because we blocked it off. But if he did, I would like to know. [00:37:11] Speaker B: You don't see a twinken. [00:37:16] Speaker D: Happy about that. But hopefully he died in the sewers. I think that Laith waits maybe ten minutes to see if gravel is going to say anything and is sort of tapping her finger more insistently as time goes on. And the silence draws until the point where she can't take it anymore and says, so the Scriabin family, huh? What Alistair was saying sounded pretty bad. [00:37:56] Speaker C: Hmm. Yeah, sounds like. I mean, all these old families are hiding shit, so can't really be too surprised. But also, it's pretty grisly. [00:38:15] Speaker D: They're not even an old family. Their new money. They just figured out some way to cull back the forest, and now they're trying to make their way in. But, Aubrey, is that accurate? [00:38:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:34] Speaker D: Okay, cool. I thought so. But it seems like they're working overtime on getting generations of evil done in one sort of quick setting. That's the sort of thing that you work against, isn't it? Are you gonna be going back into the field anytime soon? [00:38:58] Speaker C: Oh, why do I make those streets feel safer for you? [00:39:05] Speaker D: I can't say that I've ever felt unsafe on the streets. Money will get you a lot for that. But I would feel better knowing that they in particular, weren't around. [00:39:25] Speaker C: It is on the very long list, but it's definitely moved up. Right now, the biggest. My biggest priority is finding the rest of my crew and then continuing with what we were doing before. [00:39:54] Speaker D: Do you have a base? Are you going to have to move? How does it work once you've been arrested? [00:40:06] Speaker C: Well, usually moving is what happens, but I'm not really a known person unmasked, so I keep a good job at keeping myself hidden. It's the other two I'm a little bit more worried about, but we'll figure it out as it goes on. Now, if I can somehow, I don't know, beat the shit out of goodness. [00:40:43] Speaker F: Aubrey. Help. [00:40:43] Speaker C: What's the cult's name? [00:40:45] Speaker B: The unbroken. [00:40:46] Speaker C: The unbroken. Thank you. I need you to understand that un, and a word that begins with B has been in my TTrPG vocab in three fucking games. So I'm either calling us the unbound, the unbroken, or the UN. Something else I can't remember right now, but, like, it's very. There's too many UN's. [00:41:07] Speaker A: There's. [00:41:08] Speaker C: Unclaimed is a new one, so shit is wild. If I can somehow beat the shit out of the unbroken while doing that. At the same time, I mean, I'm down. The ghoul fever is also an issue. So lots of. Lots of time based things going on. Lots of clocks. [00:41:40] Speaker D: Well, you're in a good place for that part. [00:41:44] Speaker C: That I am. I love clock towers. [00:41:51] Speaker D: I can't say that I've ever been in one. [00:41:56] Speaker C: I mean, when it's. When it's working, when it's on, it's absolutely terrible to be in because it's really loud and it echoes all over. You need earplugs or else you'll get tinnitus. But the view is great. And getting around is actually, so getting around was easier. [00:42:22] Speaker D: Iglaith sort of looks around the clock towers, and, you know, her alias is gravewing, so there's an inkling there, but I'm not going to delve any further into that. Well, I hope that you're able to find them and resettle quickly. [00:42:48] Speaker C: Mm hmm. How about you? You're, uh. You're wanted for. I'm assuming it's murder. [00:43:05] Speaker D: Sure seems like it. [00:43:07] Speaker C: Mm hmm. Did you actually do it? I know, I know. I've asked this question before, but I am someone who needs a lot of evidence before I believe something. [00:43:26] Speaker D: I think that Laithe glances over towards the sort of sleeping party lingering, as always, on alouette. And when she's confident that they are still asleep, she'll sort of shrug and say, yeah, I did it. [00:43:46] Speaker C: Hmm. Well, I mean, if they deserved it. I'm not judging you. [00:43:53] Speaker D: You don't know how much she did. She was, um, intertwined with the screvins, too. I wanted to sell my sister off to them, and given what they were doing to people, well, I'm glad I stopped it, or at least paused it for now. But, yeah, if our time in prison or in the sewers means anything, I would appreciate any work you can do on that family. [00:44:48] Speaker C: Well, you're a pretty self aware bluebird, so. Yeah, I'll move it up for you. [00:44:57] Speaker D: I don't think I've ever been called self aware in my life. [00:45:02] Speaker C: Well, you're not bullshitting me when it came to answering how easy or how safe you feel on the streets with your money, so. I mean, like, that in itself is already, like, 80% more honest than most rich people that I've come across. [00:45:27] Speaker D: Well, I've been spending the last two weeks thinking about what to do now that I assume I can't access it. [00:45:34] Speaker A: So. [00:45:37] Speaker C: What you should do is focus on reestablishing contact with your sister. But you don't need me to tell you that. Scrapping. I'll figure that shit out. And if you want to join, I'm not gonna say no. You seem capable. We'll just get you something to cover. Like, gesture to the face and just be like, well, actually, you're also wanted for murder, so maybe, who knows? Maybe you don't want to cover it anymore. Maybe you just want to be, you know, you want to own that shit and like, yeah, that's right. I don't know, you could come up with a fucking fancy name because it's apparently what everybody's fucking doing. So, yeah. [00:46:21] Speaker D: I think that Nadia might be able to get into the academy still with a matricidal sister, but an active vigilante might be a harder sell, so. True, true. I'd love to come with you, but I think I'll definitely need some kind of mask. [00:46:41] Speaker C: Well, if you like bug paraphernalia. I just gestured to moth. Mom gives you the most stiff form of jazz hands you have ever fucking seen. It's threatening, almost like it's just. It's emoting, but, like, not much expression. You know? It's like, oh, my God. Actually, I have one question for you, because I gotta know if it's true. [00:47:24] Speaker D: Interesting. [00:47:27] Speaker C: I also make a show to look towards the sleeping riches and then back to you. And I make it pretty animated, too, for the exaggeration. And then I go, is it true you're tone deaf? Like, I'm not saying karaoke is a part of, like, initiation here, but also, like, how I've heard it's pretty bad. [00:48:02] Speaker D: Are there any, like, mice or rats in the tower, or is it pretty clean? [00:48:08] Speaker B: There's Alistair. [00:48:09] Speaker D: Well, I mean, like, animals, not people. [00:48:13] Speaker A: Aubrey? [00:48:16] Speaker B: Um, none that you can see. [00:48:19] Speaker F: Okay. [00:48:20] Speaker B: They usually like staying near the ground. They don't like being this far up. [00:48:24] Speaker D: Yeah, that's so valid of them. I think that laithe sort of spends a second, like, looking around the ground, around the corners, to see if she can spot any nighttime wildlife, and then shrugs and says, I don't have the best voice, but it's a. I can pitch sometimes to rats and moths and such, so it's easier if people think that I'm just singing badly rather than. [00:49:04] Speaker C: Other than talking to friends. Yeah, that is fucking hilarious. I would laugh. Like I said, I check up on all these families and stuff I know shit about, and I gesture to your rich friends, and I'm just like, oh, shit about them, too. Like, it's. But I don't I don't follow through unless I can gather more evidence. And for some reason, out of everything I could have learned about you, that was not only the first thing, but the thing I remember the most. [00:49:54] Speaker D: I mean, I'm sure that most of the rest of it is just romantic exploits. That's really probably one of the more interesting facts you could have gathered. [00:50:05] Speaker C: Is your romantic exploit the pink one, or is it the red one? Because all of y'all have this weird energy going on. [00:50:20] Speaker D: Yeah, I can't deny that the energy is weird. It's neither. I think that that ship is long sailed. [00:50:38] Speaker C: Well, that fucking sucks. [00:50:46] Speaker D: Yeah. I think Laithe sort of looks at Lou again. She's better off without me. [00:50:57] Speaker C: I mean, you technically do have all the time in the world to figure that part out. Well, I mean, it depends. Maybe we will eventually reach the evil, dark sun eclipsed death that is supposedly going to happen anytime soon. [00:51:22] Speaker D: I mean, I'd be more concerned about the ghouls and the unbroken. [00:51:27] Speaker C: Exactly. I'm not very chatty, uh, though I guess I've proven otherwise. [00:51:42] Speaker B: Just a little. [00:51:43] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, here you go. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Yeah. With those words, I feel like it can bring the watch to a close. You watch as, at one point, it's mechanically getting closer to sunrise because time is a little weird, because you've. You haven't, like, reset yourself to, like, what is. Because day and night anymore. So it's getting closer to sunrise. And both of you noticed that the light in the Wollstonecraft manor is no longer there. [00:52:25] Speaker C: I think she's head up. You know what that means? [00:52:33] Speaker D: Said she gave up waiting for Akos. [00:52:37] Speaker C: Yeah. And also, our watch is over. Let's go wake up some nerds. [00:52:42] Speaker D: Laithe goes immediately for Alistair because I do not want anything. I don't want to wake up a cannibal. What if he eats me? Like, as he wakes? [00:52:51] Speaker F: Fuck you. [00:52:53] Speaker C: No, I see, I see. I see how much you don't want. I'd be like, don't worry, I got it. I got the cannibal. Don't worry about it. Wakey, wakey. I don't know. Fucking fingers and eyeballs. Whatever you need. [00:53:11] Speaker F: Good morning to you two. [00:53:16] Speaker A: I'll. [00:53:17] Speaker F: I'll go with the rat to take my watch. I. I don't know if I want to sit near this rat. I'll be. Mostly because sproulk is not here, so I cannot talk to Alistair. So we will. We will do our watches separately, sort of in terms of, like, sitting 5ft apart because we hate each other. We don't hate each other, but, like, I don't. Like. [00:53:34] Speaker C: You're not gay. [00:53:35] Speaker F: Yeah, we're not gay, actually. No, I'm gay. [00:53:38] Speaker C: I'm gay as fuck. [00:53:38] Speaker F: I'm just not gay for the ride. [00:53:40] Speaker C: So you're not 5ft apart. [00:53:42] Speaker F: Oh, you're not a furry. [00:53:43] Speaker A: What's wrong with you? [00:53:45] Speaker F: You didn't accuse me of being a cannibal. Come on. Also, he's not here. Like, come on. [00:53:52] Speaker B: So give me a perception check for what Niall notices. [00:53:57] Speaker F: Okay. [00:53:57] Speaker C: Is. [00:53:58] Speaker F: Is Alistair gonna make one too? Because I asked for that number. I do not think I did. [00:54:01] Speaker B: I rolled for Alistair. [00:54:03] Speaker F: God, I hope. I hope Alistair is a good person to mind the ass. I don't know. I'm gonna put my goggles on and being able to see. Okay, that you guys got me. I'm gonna pray that. [00:54:12] Speaker B: The night vision goggles. Yeah. [00:54:14] Speaker F: Yeah. I mean, it's a 14. That's kind of what I expected. [00:54:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:19] Speaker B: No, you keep watch. I mean, the great thing is, like, you're really high up. The ghouls aren't looking up. But also this, as you get closer to the end of your watch, you can start working on your daily preparations. So for you specifically being an alchemist, you have two infused reagents that you can use to make. Thanks. [00:54:41] Speaker C: Oh, did I make something? [00:54:43] Speaker B: Yes. [00:54:44] Speaker F: Let's see what I picked really quickly, because this is still kind of new to me. Um, honestly, considering our life, I think I'd like to make an elixir of life minor. [00:54:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that's probably a good idea. [00:55:00] Speaker F: Yeah. So I'm just gonna set up my little cooking supplies and stuff like that, and I'm gonna get. I'm gonna get cooking. [00:55:07] Speaker B: The alchemist equipment I got, you have two infused reagents. You can use both of them now, or you can wait. [00:55:14] Speaker F: Um, can I make two elixirs of life? [00:55:19] Speaker B: Yes, you can make two minor elixirs of life. [00:55:21] Speaker C: Yay. [00:55:22] Speaker F: Okay. Do I roll two separate rolls for those? [00:55:25] Speaker B: You don't have to make a roll. [00:55:27] Speaker F: Oh, shit. Really? Okay, perfect. [00:55:29] Speaker B: Yeah, because, like, you're using your infused reactor rather than just doing alchemical crafting. [00:55:35] Speaker F: Oh, I see. [00:55:36] Speaker B: But these potions will only be good for today. At the end of the day, they'll. They'll essentially, you know, no longer be good, but the next day you'll have two more batches of infused reagents. [00:55:49] Speaker F: Okay. Actually, can I do one? Because if it's only allowed today, can I do one elixir of life? And can I use one for last bowl soup? Because I want to make it with soup for breakfast. [00:55:57] Speaker B: Sure, make some good soup because I'm using water, you hardtack, you have whatever they manage to find in the mansion and preserve meat. [00:56:08] Speaker A: Is this worse than doomie's first soup? [00:56:12] Speaker F: So, no, technically I don't have to roll for it, which is great. You get the bonus. No matter what. It's as nourishing as a full meal. So it's tasty. Using herbs that baffle the senses of the undead. I guess there's some reagents that have, like, some herbs and spices in there that the undead just really don't like. Gonna sprinkle some herbs into water, let it simmer a bit with the meat so that the meat flavoring kind of goes into it a little bit. So the broth has at least a little, like a salty, meaty flavor to it along with the herbs. Cut up the tack. I don't know much about tack, but I assume boiling stuff tends to soften it. Is tacked bread what's tacked? [00:56:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like the worst saltine cracker of your life. That's meant to never go stale because it is permanently stale and actually gets more stale over time. But you actually have to soak it in water to eat it after a certain point because it will break your teeth. [00:57:04] Speaker F: That's our. So I guess I can put a tack into each of these little bowls of, I guess, meat soup with as much seasoning as I can add with my reagents. My reagents probably give it the soup powers. And I will. I will prep some bowls of attempted soup. We can put some wine in there too, right? Because we have wine. Wine's great for flavoring, right? I'm doing my best. Okay. It's a reagent. I'm doing my best by making everyone the best soup I can make. [00:57:39] Speaker B: So, bikini, mechanically, you can make two bowls of soup. [00:57:44] Speaker F: Oh, true. Right. [00:57:46] Speaker E: Meat soup for a bunch of vegetarians. [00:57:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:57:51] Speaker E: For you and moth mom, actually. [00:57:53] Speaker B: There you go. [00:57:54] Speaker A: Perfect. [00:57:56] Speaker F: Maybe also, Alistair, it doesn't sound like people at feed, so I'm making it specifically for grape wing because she likes my food a lot. [00:58:05] Speaker B: It's essentially means you're making one. It means you make one bowl. [00:58:08] Speaker F: Yeah, I'm making one elixir of life and one bowl of soup for mothmom. Because quite frankly, she's the only one in this group that fucking appreciates me. [00:58:16] Speaker A: The rest of us don't know you. [00:58:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:18] Speaker F: And that's the point. [00:58:19] Speaker B: For the next hour, after consuming the soup. Gravewing, you have a plus two item bonus to stealth checks. And DC's against undead. [00:58:28] Speaker C: That's fucking dooo. [00:58:31] Speaker F: It's a stealthy soup. And I will wake you up by gently shaking your shoulder and placing a bowl of soup beside you. [00:58:40] Speaker C: Mm hmm. Oh, my fucking God. [00:58:44] Speaker A: Is that soup? [00:58:46] Speaker C: Mm hmm. I'm awake. Um, I'm awake. I'm souping. [00:58:54] Speaker A: I'm. [00:58:55] Speaker C: I'm enjoying this. I'm. I don't care. This is good, actually. Is it good? 1 second. I'm a roll. Yeah. I'm enjoying this. This is good. This is good. This is good. This is good. I. I have some table manners, usually not this time. Slipping it up, all the sounds. All of it. All of it. [00:59:18] Speaker B: I mean, also real meal you've had in about two weeks. [00:59:23] Speaker C: Yeah, no, like, there's, there's that too. There's that too. But, like, I would have been polite about it. I'm not polite about it now. I'm just like, oh, my goodness. It's good food is good food. I'm very, I'm very vocally appreciative of the food. [00:59:39] Speaker F: Looks very happy, very vindicated. I think that's the right word. The rest you get salty and cracked, I guess because you don't like meat. Nulcy called me a cannibal. So you guys get saltine crackers. Take them or leave them. [01:00:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:02] Speaker B: Eventually everyone wakes up. It is probably closer to mid morning at the point where, you know, your 8 hours are up. And anybody who needs to do daily preparations can do those while you're eating and you can look outside and watch the eclipse as it passes over the world. [01:00:25] Speaker A: I don't think it's nearly as impressive if you've seen it every day of your life. Yeah, I think it loses its charm pretty quick. [01:00:31] Speaker B: The fun orange glow it puts over the world. We all just had eclipse in real life, so we all kind of know what this looks like. [01:00:44] Speaker F: I missed it. [01:00:45] Speaker A: It was really cool. It was extremely cool. It was worth the traffic, barely. [01:00:57] Speaker B: So, yeah, you have food and it is the day. You know, at this time, the ghouls will be slightly less active. You're still very low on supplies. You have these basic foodstuffs, but you're still very short on gear and other things. Since it's been a bit since we last played, I will remind the people who went out. You did see a couple of places. There is the eye indigo, which is a tarot shop and an esoteric shop. There's the shark's fin and inn. A tavern, you did see a smithy. Kronks, crushers and cleavers. There is. Some people would probably know that there's also a wizards tower in this district, but that's been locked up for years. There are options. And then you can also go back to the manor, see if there's anything else that might help. [01:02:09] Speaker E: Well, I know some people that didn't get baths. Watch baths. [01:02:14] Speaker C: Yeah. I was gonna say we should get the other three bathed first, so that way we could check out the rest of the manor for anything. No, you did not. Yeah, you're still stinky. I'm pretty sure you just had, like, a side sit in shared dirty water. [01:02:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:36] Speaker E: Yeah, it was two buckets of water. [01:02:48] Speaker F: Everything else can be stinky. [01:02:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I think we said we, like, washed our face and hands. Cause that was it. We all had little bird baths. It was. [01:02:55] Speaker F: Yeah. Bird bath, you say? Hmm. Interesting choice of words there. [01:03:00] Speaker A: Weird choice of words. I don't know. [01:03:01] Speaker C: Sad. Sad bath of poor people. I don't know. We should go there, like, last minute. Like, scour, but, like. Also, it might be kind of nice to potentially establish the Wolfston croft Manor as, like, a secondary base because high key. We can keep coming up to the watchtower and, like, sleep in here and stuff. It is safe. But also, three of you are very. No, actually, it's a watchtower. We're all gonna be winded all the time getting all the way up here. It doesn't matter. Your athleticism, this one, it's climbing a ladder or something. [01:03:52] Speaker B: It's like stairs. [01:03:54] Speaker C: It's stairs. [01:03:56] Speaker E: Stairmaster. [01:03:57] Speaker C: Listen, if you want a cardio, we'll just go get the attention of the ghouls and run around. Okay? I don't. I don't want to keep going up and down like. Yeah, a fucking hunchback. I know. Shreddam having asked. No, thank you. [01:04:11] Speaker B: Amazing glutes. By the end of this, all of us. [01:04:14] Speaker C: All of us have fucking hexagonal shape. [01:04:21] Speaker F: Exactly. [01:04:23] Speaker A: You look like a low poly PlayStation. One game. [01:04:28] Speaker B: Well, if you're gonna be heading to the manor, everybody give me stealth checks to sort of make your way quietly across the couple of blocks. [01:04:37] Speaker E: Rah rah. [01:04:39] Speaker F: I should have eaten that soup myself. [01:04:40] Speaker A: As ass. That was a ride, and it was not a good destination. [01:04:49] Speaker E: I'm gonna use a hero point. [01:04:50] Speaker F: Oh, I'm trading silver. What? [01:04:52] Speaker A: We're close to a new hero point, right? [01:04:55] Speaker B: Yep. [01:04:56] Speaker A: So, like, if we use one now. [01:04:58] Speaker B: We'Ll get one soon. [01:04:59] Speaker A: Good idea. [01:05:00] Speaker F: I got a 16, which is actually not as bad as I could have rolled. I've been rolling very middling today. Oh, I like that face. Ferris, what the fuck happened? [01:05:10] Speaker D: First roll was a six. Did you get a second roll was a five. [01:05:16] Speaker A: With my four in stealth, I got a nine. Well, I'm not beating the allegations. [01:05:23] Speaker E: Oh, well. Well, unfortunately I think cousins roll alike. Because my first one was a seven and then my second one was an eight. With my plus two. Stealth. [01:05:37] Speaker A: I'm just doing what you do, that's all. Oh no. [01:05:44] Speaker D: What did you roll 18 for, Laithe? [01:05:46] Speaker B: 18. Okay. And uh. Graveling. Why'd you roll? [01:05:53] Speaker C: Total of 19. [01:05:56] Speaker D: Thank you. [01:05:56] Speaker B: The majority of you did succeed. So it is a group succeeds. Funny enough, the DC was ten. [01:06:10] Speaker A: Under it. Are you kidding me? [01:06:13] Speaker B: If you had kept your first roll, you would have. [01:06:15] Speaker A: First roll, I would have been fine. How was I to know I was gonna roll? [01:06:19] Speaker B: Not paying attention. And they're very sluggish right now during. During the day, so. Yeah, you are. It looks dicey there for a second as one of you just sort of kicks a rock on accident and, you know, it hits a thing of metal and it makes a lot of noise. But you know, you stand there, be quiet, you know, don't breathe for a second and then they move on and you make it to the manor. For those that need it. The manor has water. It has a place to bathe. You have the soap. The water is not the warmest because the plumbing in this district has not been. Had any maintenance done on it in about five years. This house especially. This house has been abandoned for a little bit longer than the district was abandoned. [01:07:16] Speaker A: A culper's bath. [01:07:20] Speaker F: Oh, I do need a bath. I am disgusting. [01:07:24] Speaker A: There are also where this bathroom is, but I'm gonna find it. [01:07:30] Speaker B: There are fresh clothes and things in this mansion. There's a library, there is a kitchen. But there isn't really. Yuri would have scavenged anything that was actually possible from the kitchen. There's a wine cellar that has a decent amount of stock in it because, you know, at least that stuff is not going bad. [01:07:51] Speaker F: Yeah, ghouls don't like to drink wine. Didn't you hear? [01:07:55] Speaker B: Well, it's not as perishable as everything else that you would usually keep in a kitchen. [01:08:01] Speaker A: How would I realize? I don't know anything about pathfinder ghouls. Or do I? Did we have a bunch of ghouls in icruiset? Are they smart enough to pull corks out of bottles? Is that why they're not drinking the wine? They can't figure out how to open the bottles. [01:08:19] Speaker B: Mechanically, they act as mindless undead. [01:08:21] Speaker A: Okay. Yes, they might. I was just curious, and then I realized I probably knew the answer next because the crisscut was a long time ago. [01:08:29] Speaker F: I did remember I should give the elixir of life to Alouette because she's the nicest and therefore the most vulnerable to get herself killed. So I'm just gonna hand you a bottle and just say it expires tonight. Drink it if you're in danger. [01:08:42] Speaker A: Zazzy. So cryptic. Um, what else does it do? [01:08:48] Speaker F: It. It mends your wounds. [01:08:51] Speaker A: Oh, that. He's so thoughtful. Thank you. I leave mysterious. You are not a man. [01:09:06] Speaker F: Yes, I'm a mysterious person. I flip my hair. No, I don't. [01:09:12] Speaker A: Tall and mysterious. Ooh. [01:09:15] Speaker F: No, don't hear me. I like men. [01:09:19] Speaker A: Don't worry. I don't. [01:09:22] Speaker F: Oh, I get all the meds, man. That's good. Yuri has entered the chat like, yeah, sure you fucking do, buddy. Anyways, yes, I would like to take a bath first, actually, because I don't like being stinky. And screw all of you. [01:09:40] Speaker A: I'm gonna fight you for the bathroom. [01:09:42] Speaker F: I will fight you for the bathroom a little bit. Um. [01:09:47] Speaker B: Fight. [01:09:50] Speaker A: I'm just gonna give you big puppy eyes. [01:09:55] Speaker F: I don't care. Oh, I heard lathe want to talk to you, actually. [01:10:04] Speaker A: Also one reason for me to take a pass first. [01:10:06] Speaker F: Nope. She said right now. Very urgent. [01:10:11] Speaker A: It does not. I guarantee it. [01:10:13] Speaker E: Iritho appears behind Lou. [01:10:19] Speaker A: I will do a performance just for you. [01:10:23] Speaker F: Please, I just need to take a bath. [01:10:26] Speaker A: Is there only one bathroom in this place? [01:10:29] Speaker B: There is only one bath. There are multiple bathrooms, but there's only one with an actual, like, there's, like, half baths, you know, fine. [01:10:37] Speaker F: Just. [01:10:38] Speaker A: They're not that rich. [01:10:39] Speaker F: Just go quickly. [01:10:41] Speaker A: I will do my best, but there is all up there. Okay, thank you. [01:10:44] Speaker D: Bye. [01:10:46] Speaker A: Just charge past you and lock the door. [01:10:49] Speaker E: Your door disappears into the shadows. [01:10:54] Speaker F: I'm gross, I'm hungry, and I'm not having the best day. [01:10:59] Speaker A: High five. [01:11:00] Speaker B: You haven't been having the best two weeks. [01:11:04] Speaker F: I know. At least it's being slightly better. Thanks, schism. Don't point that out. [01:11:08] Speaker B: At least you're no longer in jail. [01:11:11] Speaker F: Thank you, schism. I know I'm no longer in jail. I'm just gonna wait for the bathroom to be clear. I need a bath. [01:11:24] Speaker A: Then. You learned that Lou sings while she bathes. [01:11:29] Speaker B: Is there anything anyone else is doing in the Wollstonecraft manor while this is going on? [01:11:36] Speaker C: Is there a map of this district? There's gotta be. [01:11:41] Speaker B: Yeah, there's. There's one in the library. [01:11:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm gonna take it. And it's going to get marked up because this needs to be this. We need to have something visual to further help us establish what areas are safe, what areas are not safe. And then if we find things in other areas, we should have it, like, noted somewhere. And I think gravewing is gonna take it. Gonna find some, like, fucking multicolored pens or something like that. So that way we have, like, a way to color code this, and she'll do a big circle on where she knows, like, the manor is, and then a big circle at the clock tower. And then I'm going to probably go get Leif and be like, can you take notes? [01:12:40] Speaker D: Yeah. I think Laithe was just looking around the manor for, like, places where she would put any sort of, like, hidey holes or secret entrances just to, you know, check and make sure. But it's not, like, a serious check for her. So she's like, yeah. What are we noting about? [01:13:00] Speaker C: Like, the stuff that we've got in each place, so that way we can keep track of everything. And also, should this place ever get compromised, we know where to go, roughly where to go, even if we split up or something. [01:13:24] Speaker D: Sure thing. [01:13:28] Speaker C: I'm gonna tell you what to write. [01:13:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:30] Speaker D: And I will write it. [01:13:31] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whether we write it on the map or if you want to write it on, like, like, fucking scrap paper, we find and we just start, like, fucking sticky noting it, or. I don't know, we'll do something like that. But the idea is we. We are. We are fucking noting up this map, editing it. It's gonna look, by the time we're done this arc, it's gonna look like the fucking other meme that I've never seen the show of. But I keep quoting myself looking like, yeah, the map with the red Sylvia. [01:14:08] Speaker B: The Pepe Silvia meme from always sunny. [01:14:11] Speaker C: Yes, that. That. [01:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah. So eventually, Lou, you do finish taking a bath, and then, Niall, you can take a bath. [01:14:24] Speaker F: Finally some good fucking queen. [01:14:30] Speaker A: Have fun. [01:14:34] Speaker F: I just look so dejected and so sad. [01:14:37] Speaker B: But, hey, it's fresh water, and this place has much better water pressure than the traveler's rest or your old place would. [01:14:48] Speaker F: This place is nicer than my. As you're walking away out of the way, you just hear they have water pressure here. And the most baffled voice and just like this, happy, like, the water pressure. [01:15:04] Speaker C: I need you. I need you to know that gravewings gonna hear that and then shout back I know. It freaked me out. [01:15:13] Speaker F: I know. Oh, my gosh. [01:15:17] Speaker C: Yeah, I would. I was not sure how to control that thing. [01:15:23] Speaker F: Honestly, I'm not either. [01:15:26] Speaker C: If you pull. If you. If you. If you, like, turn it too much, it gets fucking nuts. I thought. I thought something was coming out, like. Like a slime or something. I don't know. [01:15:37] Speaker F: Can someone give me a hand with this? I don't have my shirt on. I don't care. [01:15:41] Speaker A: But as long as you have pants on, then, yes, they will help you. [01:15:46] Speaker F: I do. [01:15:48] Speaker A: Okay. Oh, my. That is a mouth. Congratulations. Um, yes. So this tap is the hot water, but it's not very hot. Zitz tap is the cold water, but it is very cold. So pick the hot water. It will be tepid. Yes. Isn't it great? [01:16:06] Speaker F: That is incredible. I've never had a warm bath before. [01:16:09] Speaker A: Oh, and look. Okay, so this bottle here is a little expired, but it still works. It is. You know, it makes the bath smell nice. And if you grab this bottle over here, it makes it foam. So you get bubbles. You need bubbles, obviously. And here is our little pithy bar of soap that we stole from a cocktail. [01:16:28] Speaker F: You watch as the giant stomach mouth has a tongue lash out, wrap around the butter bar, and eat it in one bulb. [01:16:35] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't know soap was part of anyone's diet. But they do say to wash out your mouth when you say bad things, so I get it now. [01:16:49] Speaker F: Oh, that just happens sometimes. Don't worry too much about it. [01:16:53] Speaker B: It wasn't as tasty as I thought. [01:16:58] Speaker F: Yeah, no shit. [01:17:02] Speaker A: Is this why they are calling you, um, alleged cannibal? Maybe because you have so many bonus possibilities for snacks. Can you talk and eat at the same time? [01:17:20] Speaker F: Um, I think so. [01:17:24] Speaker A: Incredible. [01:17:26] Speaker F: I mean, this mouth. This mouth. I just pointed the regular mouth. This one can talk. I haven't tried talking out of the others before. [01:17:32] Speaker A: They can talk, too. [01:17:34] Speaker F: I don't know. Can they talk? [01:17:38] Speaker B: Do you want me to talk to them? Uh, it's just said in your head. [01:17:45] Speaker F: Say something polite. [01:17:49] Speaker B: Yeah. From one of the mouths you hear. I I don't plan on eating you. [01:17:59] Speaker F: Thank you. [01:18:00] Speaker A: I am very reassured to hear that. So, like, do you ever think about doing ventriloquy? Because you could probably be very good at it. [01:18:12] Speaker F: Um, no. I'm a cook. I'm not a ventriloquist. [01:18:17] Speaker A: Well, if you ever need a side job, you would be such a good ventriloquist. [01:18:23] Speaker F: Hmm. [01:18:24] Speaker D: What? [01:18:26] Speaker F: I mean, I think. I think if anyone figured out the secret behind the trick, I would probably be killed on site. [01:18:33] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it's like magicians. You're not supposed to reveal how you do it. [01:18:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, people have already tried to kill us before. [01:18:40] Speaker F: I mean, yeah, people are trying to kill us before. [01:18:43] Speaker B: First there was that group and then there was that other group, and then there was that other group. [01:18:48] Speaker F: Fucking loud. [01:18:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, that is really upsetting and tragic and I'm sorry you have been so bad. Can I ask a perhaps personal question? [01:19:05] Speaker F: You can and you might not get an answer. [01:19:07] Speaker A: That is okay. Do you have one stomach or is there one stomach per mouth? [01:19:15] Speaker F: Um, I think it's all interconnected. Like, I know this mouth and I point to the normal mouth goes to my stomach normally, but the rest of them just kind of go wherever they. [01:19:26] Speaker A: Want as a need. Would it be rude if I made like a few notes about it in my top personal book? I don't have my anymore, but I will find a new notebook and I will make notes there if it is polite. [01:19:47] Speaker F: I don't know if it's polite, but I'm going to say no. [01:19:49] Speaker A: That is fine. I understand. It's just passing. I'm just fascinated. [01:19:55] Speaker F: I just wanted your help with the water. [01:19:57] Speaker D: Of course. [01:19:58] Speaker A: You're bathing. I'm so sorry I chuckled. Bye. She manages. [01:20:03] Speaker F: Just look at my stomach after you leave her. Just, I feel like, bro, you were so close to blowing her cover. That wasn't even funny. That was so close. [01:20:14] Speaker B: You wanted me to be social. [01:20:18] Speaker F: Okay, touche. Be less social. [01:20:22] Speaker B: So back to how it used to be. Okay. [01:20:25] Speaker F: For now. I don't think we can really trust these people very much yet, to be completely honest. [01:20:32] Speaker B: At least they haven't tried to murder us yet. [01:20:34] Speaker F: Yeah, we're all criminals together. And besides, I also haven't tried to eat any of them yet. So we're on good terms and I'm just taking a bath. [01:20:44] Speaker B: You can still eat the rat. [01:20:46] Speaker F: I do still want to eat the rat. He annoys me, but I shouldn't. [01:20:56] Speaker C: And this whole time we were, we were standing outside and the door was open. We heard everything. We're like, huh? No, I'm joking. I'm joking. But like, can you imagine? [01:21:05] Speaker F: I'm joking. I'm not going to eat anyone. That's not like, you know, problematic. [01:21:11] Speaker B: Okay, so baths are taken. Everyone reconvenes to, you know, take a look at this map and actually discuss what your plan is. [01:21:27] Speaker C: Um, when everyone's in, um, moth. Moth, mom has found either a knife or a stick. And I'm going and she's going to be using that to like point at places. Okay. And, um, she'll point at the clock tower and then point at where we are on the map and be like, these two are our safe houses. We ever get split up, aim for one of those two areas, whichever one is closer. We gotta check the rest of this bitch, though. We gotta establish more safe houses so that way we can move around the city with ease. We also got a scavenge. Cause we got the. I mean, we got wine here, but unless you all want to become alcoholics and die, I don't think that's sustainable. I suggest that we go to 1 second. I suggest we go to the bar first. The sharks fin. It's a bar. Sure there might be even more booze and then we can be fully established alcoholics, but there also might be non perishables somewhere in, you know, pickled things or whatever. Only downside is that if it's. If it's a bar or tavern, that means it's surrounded by locals, which also means that I personally think that it will have the most ghouls. Personally I have not checked. I do think that's where it's at. I also think we should check the wizard tower last. It's a tower. It sounds like we're gonna need actual provisions to get into it. If it belongs to a wizard. I'm not magical, but I would assume that I have magical traps. [01:23:49] Speaker B: You would be around long enough. This tower has been sealed for over a hundred years and nobody's been able to get into it. [01:23:55] Speaker C: This tower has been sealed longer than the Avatar was in ice. I don't know. [01:24:05] Speaker E: Since. [01:24:06] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:24:08] Speaker B: You know that great play. [01:24:10] Speaker C: A great fucking play. [01:24:11] Speaker F: Think I can afford to go to a play. [01:24:14] Speaker C: I mean, they redo it outside. Technically the ones that they do with the puppets is way better than the ones they do with the people. What are they called? Like the Ember island players. They suck. [01:24:24] Speaker B: Uh. [01:24:27] Speaker F: Usually that's when it's really busy at the shop. So I've just been all my time serving food and not watching the plays. [01:24:33] Speaker C: You need to get out a lot more. This is why people think you're accountable. [01:24:40] Speaker E: Isn't that. Hasn't that become from truth? [01:24:43] Speaker C: What? [01:24:44] Speaker E: I mean, good on you. Like. [01:24:47] Speaker F: Wait, you would support a cannibal? [01:24:50] Speaker E: So we're going to the bar first? [01:24:53] Speaker C: Bar first, yeah. [01:24:55] Speaker E: Okay. [01:24:55] Speaker F: Giving you a look. [01:24:58] Speaker C: Real quick, Aubrey. [01:25:00] Speaker B: Yes. [01:25:01] Speaker C: On the map with this bar also happen to be nearby anywhere else that we could potentially, like, hop over to next? Or is the bar like further out. [01:25:12] Speaker B: So the sharks fin is pretty much in the same area as the eye indigo and the curious corpus books. [01:25:27] Speaker C: My gravewing is going to point to the other two shops and go. These two are nearby. We can probably hit all three depending on ghoul activity. But if we were to go for two only today, which other one do we want to go to? We will be going to the bar 100%. Other two, though. [01:25:51] Speaker A: You said it was I, Indigo and the bookstore. [01:25:54] Speaker B: Uh, yes. [01:25:56] Speaker A: The bookstore cleans. [01:26:00] Speaker E: Bookstore. [01:26:01] Speaker A: Yeah, because it will have useful information about the area and ghouls and other things like that. [01:26:07] Speaker F: You just want to read books. [01:26:09] Speaker A: I want information. [01:26:11] Speaker C: You look like a station. You look like a stationary girl. [01:26:15] Speaker A: I don't do that much. [01:26:18] Speaker F: I'm okay with the bookstore if we have the time to do it. [01:26:25] Speaker A: I think it is more useful than a tarot shop. [01:26:30] Speaker C: Aren't you like a monster hunter or something? [01:26:34] Speaker A: We kind of mostly working on it. [01:26:39] Speaker C: So then wouldn't a tarot shop, which is a cult base, have things that maybe monster hunters would be a little bit curious about? [01:26:54] Speaker E: I mean, as well, the bookstore. Cause the bookstore could probably have books on storm. [01:26:59] Speaker C: We have a library in this banner. [01:27:02] Speaker E: Yeah. I didn't find as much as we wanted. [01:27:06] Speaker A: I will confess. I've never been to a tarot shop. I assumed it was just cards. [01:27:10] Speaker C: I mean. I mean, it could be, but also. [01:27:13] Speaker A: If you have trinkets, do you think. [01:27:16] Speaker E: The tarot shop would be the most useful looking? Like, ad graphing, like, if you think it's more useful, we could go today. [01:27:24] Speaker C: I do think it's more useful, but I'm already very adamant about the bar. [01:27:32] Speaker E: Think we could do parties? There's six of us. [01:27:37] Speaker C: I think it's very highly dependent on the ghoul issue that we see. If this area swarmed with ghouls, we might have to abandon it until we can deal with them. If very few, we can split up. We also gotta be wary about potential ghouls being inside the shops. And I look directly at Lou and be like, you have bells. Your bells are cool. It's just sound. [01:28:11] Speaker A: I can do non bell stuff. If there was actually interesting items, it's the terror chapter would actually be better for me because then I can gather more ezra car because everything I have is gone. And I'm fine with that, but I would like to. [01:28:30] Speaker C: It's a higher chance. It's a higher chance at the tarot shop. Yeah. I mean, once again, it could also literally just be cards. And if so, we just dip and go to the next one. It would be a real quick in and out very. Versus books. [01:28:44] Speaker A: I like that idea. I changed my mind. We do the tarot shaft. [01:28:49] Speaker C: All right. Sharks fan. And then I. Indigo. [01:28:55] Speaker F: Out of character question. Aubrey, how long has this area been abandoned for? [01:29:00] Speaker B: Um, it's been somewhere between three to five years. Five years is when it started happening. About three years ago is when they enforced the quarantine in this area and everyone forced everyone out. [01:29:13] Speaker F: Okay. There's a low chance of potatoes. [01:29:19] Speaker D: Well, they could have sprouted into new potatoes. [01:29:22] Speaker F: Potatoes are a very volatile vegetable. They tend to be typically hardy, which is why I say a low chance, but they tend to expire after a couple of months if they can't find anything to continue to root in. Very determined buggers they are, but also very circumstantial, and a tavern is not exactly the best place for them. [01:29:42] Speaker B: Pickled potatoes. [01:29:44] Speaker F: You don't pickle potatoes. [01:29:47] Speaker E: Fantasy. You can. [01:29:49] Speaker D: You did in Stardew Valley. [01:29:52] Speaker A: Stardew Valley. [01:29:53] Speaker F: What's Stardew Valley? That sounds like a game that doesn't exist in this setting. [01:29:57] Speaker A: It's a tabletop rpg. [01:29:59] Speaker F: Oh, you rich people playing tabletop rpg's. [01:30:02] Speaker C: Hey, who the fuck has time for that? [01:30:06] Speaker A: But they do play them. I like journaling ones because you only need one person. [01:30:11] Speaker F: Also, I'll be looking around to see everything that we can use. Whoever here has any sort of muscle is going to be carrying things, because I don't have that. [01:30:25] Speaker B: If you're headed to the. The inn and everything, give me stealth checks. [01:30:33] Speaker F: Let's go to the fin. [01:30:34] Speaker E: Are you sure? Do we just. [01:30:36] Speaker B: Yes. [01:30:40] Speaker F: I just ate my dice in. [01:30:41] Speaker C: Like, a very hero point. [01:30:48] Speaker A: So, Aubrey, just out of curiosity, is it a similar dc to the last time? [01:30:58] Speaker B: It's a little higher. [01:31:00] Speaker F: Oh, then I did not pass. I was gonna say I got ten. Exactly. [01:31:03] Speaker E: I was like, our second hero point. Did that come around yet? [01:31:10] Speaker F: I do technically have a hero point, and I think, considering everyone's rolling, I should probably use it. But also, like. [01:31:18] Speaker E: That was a question for Aubrey. Like. Cause I may need it. [01:31:22] Speaker B: So he started with one. It's been an hour, so. Yes, you do have two hero points, because you start with one, and then it's been an hour, so you've got. [01:31:29] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. [01:31:32] Speaker F: Because now I have to do a bomb. [01:31:33] Speaker C: I may as well. [01:31:36] Speaker F: Oh, that's just a Nat 20. Okay. I did not need that. [01:31:39] Speaker C: I also got. I also got a Nat 20 on my roll. [01:31:43] Speaker F: We are quiet and talking about super. [01:31:46] Speaker A: We. [01:31:47] Speaker C: We give each other a high five, shake our hands, and go. Poor. [01:31:50] Speaker F: And we are poor and we are silent. [01:31:54] Speaker E: Well, my first one was in that one. My second roll was a ten. Even so that's gonna be a total of twelve. [01:32:06] Speaker B: What did you roll? [01:32:08] Speaker A: I got 17. I got 17. [01:32:10] Speaker E: Oh, much better. [01:32:12] Speaker A: I forgot my stealth is not the worst. It's not good, but it's not the worst. And I was just curious how high the DC might have gotten. But I should be good. Must have jumped by seven, in which. [01:32:22] Speaker F: Case I'm two to 20, so we're probably fine. [01:32:25] Speaker A: Hello. Sorry. [01:32:27] Speaker B: There's a moment when you're moving between these side streets and. And gravewing. You notice this before. Before everyone else does, and everyone else is about to take the step out onto the street and you just sort of do the thing where you don't move. And you all watch as this pack of ghouls just sort of moves by you less than a foot. And you all kind of have to, like, hold your breath. Because you all have been around ghouls long enough to know that if you're close enough to them, they give off this reeking aura that can make you sick. Like, different. Not ghoul fever, but like, you're gonna. Whatever is in your stomach, you're probably gonna throw it up. But you say you all hold your breath for the requisite 30 seconds to a minute that it takes them to go buy you, but you make it to the inn without any problems. And I think that that is a pretty good place to end this first part. So we'll take. We'll be back next week with what you find at the inn and the tarot shop. So, yeah, tik, you can have your job back. [01:33:49] Speaker C: Yay. [01:33:49] Speaker D: Thank you. [01:33:49] Speaker F: I've been reinstated. Thank you, everyone, for listening to another wonderful episode of Goblets and Gays. If you like what we do here, feel free to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, everything. We are goblets and gays, wherever you look. Support us on Patreon so we continue to fund all the amazing content that you love and appreciate. My mic is actually broken several times during this recording and no one has noticed, which is great. But also, I'm gonna need a new one at some point. [01:34:11] Speaker C: Great. 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