Tyrant of the Dark Star 1.09 - Strangers Again

[00:00:43] Speaker A: Wake enough dreaming, doctor. Alone 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 tells me in this red light it calls me he is reaching out consuming. [00:01:29] Speaker B: Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Tyrant of the dark star. I'm Avril, your gm. I will introduce my players, who they are, who they're playing, and then we'll get rolling into things. [00:01:41] Speaker A: Hi, my name's 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. Oh, also uses she her pronouns. [00:01:58] Speaker C: 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? [00:02:11] Speaker D: 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 bloodhunter. [00:02:26] Speaker A: Hello, I am firx. I'm usually her pronouns. And I am playing aloet Valer, the nephilim, I think is what they're called now, thaumaturge, who also uses she her pronouns. [00:02:40] Speaker E: 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. [00:02:55] Speaker F: Hi, I'm Tik. I use he she they pronouns. And today I'll be playing Niall, a wonderful fleshwarp sorcerer who is definitely not a cannibal at all. Why do you even think that? [00:03:06] Speaker B: And so, resident recap person, what happened last time? [00:03:14] Speaker F: Last time on goblets in gays, there were some ghouls that had beef with us, so we made them into beef patties to eat for lunch. As then, we killed them all pretty ruthlessly. Actually had everything kind of on point. Lou was doing a little bell, bell, bell. Yuri was fucking them up. Laithe was looking, sitting there. I'd say looking pretty, but I don't think she can even do that. And Alistair was using a brain cell. And after a wonderful fight, we all entered into the tarot shop and split up into three groups. One group searched the main office area, where most of the stuff was, along with a deck that was like, maybe this will serve someone well. And I think that's a little bit fucking ominous, if you ask me. Um, Lou and Alistair went and checked. I'm gonna be honest, I kind of started thinking about the. My little pony theme song while this happened. But, like, in a bad way while that was going on. So you guys found some stuff, I think. Then Yuri and I found a spoon, some torches and some stuff in another room. And then Yuri was like, don't show Lou that spoon. And I was like, does she not know what the word no means? So we went into a little bit of a discussion about that, and now we've all kind of reconvened with some spices, some beans, some spoons, some cards, a lot of fun little things. And we're going to head to the bookshop down the street. [00:04:31] Speaker B: Yes. So you all waited for your best moment and made a break for the bookshop. I'm not going to make you roll. It's not that far away. And also, it is locked again, so I'm going to need one more thievery check. [00:04:48] Speaker A: Yay. That's me. Ooh. [00:04:51] Speaker C: That's a 19 on the dice, which makes it a 27. [00:05:00] Speaker B: 27, yes. You're able to critically open this lock very quickly. None of the locks are incredibly high end here, so it makes it super easy. And you do. And you're all able to slip in as the smell of old books, which is sort of wafts over all of you. And, you know, you see this bookstore with these just sort of long, you know, just bookshelves that stretch to the back. There is at one point stairs up to, you're guessing probably some sort of apartment above the store, because this is mainly how a lot of these businesses are built. The people work here. They live here. Um, so what would you like to do here? [00:05:53] Speaker F: Cookbooks. [00:05:54] Speaker A: Cookbooks. [00:05:59] Speaker B: Magic books. [00:06:04] Speaker F: Magic is for nerds. I want to cook. [00:06:09] Speaker A: Cool books. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Cool books. Yeah. [00:06:11] Speaker A: I mean, field guides, two monsters. [00:06:17] Speaker B: Nothing is going to be incredibly detailed, but you can definitely find some books. Same thing with books on magic. Most books, like, most, like most incredibly detailed tomes are things you would have had to a special order when this place is open. There are basic books on the theories of magic and things like that here and some books written by various people who've worked at Ravenswood Academy. Things like that. Cookbooks. Yet again, use standard kind of cookbooks. [00:06:51] Speaker F: Yes. I'm going to take every cookbook that I possibly can. [00:06:55] Speaker E: Alistair's going through Reddit. Reddit. You're wrong. That guY's an idiot. Reddit. [00:07:07] Speaker F: Oh, I don't like the rat. I don't like the rat a lot. Now I'm gonna pick up whatever cookbooks that I can. It's always good to have more cookbooks. [00:07:21] Speaker A: Is there a fiction section of this? [00:07:24] Speaker B: Oh, of course, that's the majority of this bookstore. [00:07:27] Speaker A: Is there a romance section in this bookstore? [00:07:31] Speaker B: Of course. [00:07:34] Speaker A: Is there a smut section of this bookstore? [00:07:41] Speaker D: Here we go. [00:07:42] Speaker B: Yep, there is. Because there always has to be. It's brand. At this point, I was gonna grab. [00:07:53] Speaker A: Some romance books and I won't tell you which one she grabs. [00:07:57] Speaker C: Are you being subtle about this? Because Laithe was absolutely looking for the smut section. [00:08:04] Speaker B: Two of you. [00:08:06] Speaker F: The only thing that I want are cooking smut. If you have any spare gay smut like, monster fucker stuff, can you give it to me, please? Thank you. [00:08:14] Speaker A: This one has, like, a kraken. Is that cool? [00:08:18] Speaker B: Tamed by the Kraken. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Familiar. [00:08:23] Speaker F: I will think. Excuse him and be like, what's your opinion on Kraken? Monster fucking? [00:08:29] Speaker B: Hey, do you you do you, bro? [00:08:33] Speaker F: I'll give it a look see. I can't believe the bone alien is kinkless. Damn. [00:08:41] Speaker D: Did Yuri look for, like, some occult shit? [00:08:48] Speaker B: Yeah, you can. Are there specific things you want to find? If there are, roll me in a cultism. [00:08:57] Speaker D: My dice rolled almost onto a 17, onto a three, so I have a total of seven. [00:09:06] Speaker B: You mistake a well known series of books about monsters for monster hunting manuals. But it's not like monster. It's like. [00:09:24] Speaker D: Like. [00:09:24] Speaker B: Oh, God. What is the best search through freak? Yeah. [00:09:29] Speaker D: That'S the second time I made a cirque to freak reference this week. [00:09:32] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:09:32] Speaker F: It's called 48 hours, Yuri, halfway into a monster smut book. Wait a second. This isn't informational. They're fucking. [00:09:41] Speaker D: What do you mean? You placed a. Ah, shit, not again. Yeah, yeah, but you're. Just take them and put them into their bag. [00:09:55] Speaker F: Puts it away like you didn't see anything. [00:10:03] Speaker B: All right? I just generated a shit ton of book titles and I put them in chat for the two people who are looking at the smut section to take whichever one's interest you. [00:10:19] Speaker C: Are you going for the scoundrel's return there, Lou? [00:10:24] Speaker A: No, I was going for Zebra's rise, actually. [00:10:32] Speaker B: The great series. [00:10:35] Speaker A: It looked prophetic. [00:10:41] Speaker C: And then I will take the scoundrel's return and also any of the other ones that Lou doesn't take. [00:10:50] Speaker A: You know, we are all going to the same test so entirely. Once someone is done with one, someone else can have it. [00:10:58] Speaker C: Are you suggesting a book club, Elouette? [00:11:01] Speaker A: No, I'm suggesting a book club. I am suggesting a book. A library. [00:11:09] Speaker C: Because if you wanted to discuss them, ask them out. [00:11:18] Speaker A: I'm freaking me. You're interested in discussing anything with me. Interesting. All right, it's Alyssa. Banish. [00:11:30] Speaker F: Alyssa's like, I'm out. [00:11:32] Speaker A: I can't do this. [00:11:35] Speaker C: Yeah. Laith recoils slightly when you say that I am interested in discussing this. [00:11:49] Speaker A: Also very interesting. Considering the topic, I would have thought that would send you running for the hills. [00:12:00] Speaker C: And what topic is it that you think would send me running here? [00:12:04] Speaker A: I don't know. Perhaps this team wonders. And you're running. Last time. [00:12:16] Speaker C: I didn't realize that you were still upset by that. [00:12:20] Speaker A: Uh, and I think Lou looks like, caught, like, oops. And she goes, I'm not. Of course I'm not. Because it was a long time ago and nothing happened, did it? [00:12:42] Speaker C: I mean, I wouldn't call it nothing. [00:12:46] Speaker A: Oh, interesting. That was the impression I got from you. [00:12:54] Speaker D: Um, irido turns the corner and is like, hey, Lou, I found this, uh, series on monster. [00:13:05] Speaker A: Would you like to read about the abyss of sex? I would also like to throw myself into an abyss right now. [00:13:13] Speaker F: Oh, are we having a lovers portal over here? [00:13:17] Speaker D: Hmm? [00:13:19] Speaker A: You cannot have a quarrel with someone who is not anything to you. [00:13:25] Speaker F: Oh, something happened. What happened? [00:13:27] Speaker A: Anger is reserved for enemies and friends. [00:13:30] Speaker D: Hey, Niall, I think we should go. I think we should go look at more of the cookbooks over there. [00:13:33] Speaker F: No, um, why? I'm asking about these. [00:13:38] Speaker D: Grabbing them by the shoulder and moving them towards the cookbooks. [00:13:41] Speaker C: Oh, wait, wait, no, you're too strong. [00:13:47] Speaker F: What is their problem with each other? [00:13:52] Speaker D: Um, well, I have been told by both of them to ask the other person, so I can only assume it's just bad beef. [00:14:06] Speaker F: Ah. Well, I'm going to be honest. We kind of have bigger things to do right now than a lover's coral. They should get over it. [00:14:16] Speaker D: Yeah. Don't. Just. We're getting our books. We're safer now. [00:14:23] Speaker F: All right. Do you guys have any. Do you have any recipes you'd like to have? Actually, I can see if I can find a book for it if it's not something I've made before. [00:14:31] Speaker D: You know, I stopped by your restaurant. Um, you wouldn't recognize me. I was, um, dressed differently. Uh, but you make this, like, vegetable stool. And it has the spice, like, good in place. But it was very good. [00:14:47] Speaker F: Oh, yes, the vegetable stew. We don't have as many vegetables for it. We have some canned stuff at best, but I can see what I can do to make that. [00:14:55] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. If I could help with anything where, like, I have dietary restrictions that are very, um. I need to abide by them at all necessary costs. [00:15:09] Speaker F: Oh, no, I understand that. Completely. I have my own dietary restrictions. [00:15:13] Speaker D: I know. [00:15:17] Speaker F: I'm allergic to peanuts. [00:15:20] Speaker D: Aren't we all? [00:15:24] Speaker F: Can I roll an insight check? What the fuck does that mean? [00:15:28] Speaker D: No, there's. There's just. Yurido is just patting you on the shoulder like, buddy. [00:15:34] Speaker F: Like having a mental breakdown. It's like patting and just both thinking, I don't. They don't know I'm a fucking weirdo, you know? I can see, though. Um, okay, just my only request. Don't try to melt metal in the. In the stove. That doesn't work. [00:15:53] Speaker D: I know. Look, I was just very tired the other day. I have a gun with no bullets, so, you know. [00:16:01] Speaker F: Oh, bullets. Do I know what a gun is? [00:16:06] Speaker B: Yes. Oh, you use guns? You've probably been shot before. [00:16:11] Speaker F: Oh, yes, I've been shot before. [00:16:13] Speaker D: Yeah. Hurts like a motherfucker. [00:16:16] Speaker F: Oh, yeah, it hurts. [00:16:18] Speaker D: Yeah. Um, no, I. They have my weapon, or at least they had it at the prison. I don't know where they took it, so I'm making do with what I have. That's why we should. Like, if things are safe, I'd like to go to a blacksmith. At least they have a forge. I was just tired and just trying to get something. [00:16:43] Speaker F: Yeah, we'd have to find a blacksmith outside of the city, most likely. I don't know if there's one in this area with the ghouls or if the smoke would attract them or not. [00:16:54] Speaker D: Yeah, you're right. [00:16:56] Speaker B: There. There is a. There is a blacksmith shop. It's a little bit further away, but it's still in. There is one in the district. [00:17:05] Speaker F: We can certainly see if we can make a trip there probably tomorrow since it's a bit of a trek. [00:17:11] Speaker D: Yeah. Let's just give a weekend from here, and hopefully we don't come back with this, people, because rivalry. I don't know what's going on with them. I really don't. [00:17:27] Speaker C: Yeah. Wait, did y'all do walk away from us, or are you having this? [00:17:30] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:32] Speaker D: I grabbed Neil. Neil Niall by the shoulder and did a thing where, like, you know, by the buddies, like, hey, let's go somewhere. I did that. [00:17:44] Speaker F: I did not consent to this. I'm being kidnapped. [00:17:48] Speaker B: Hmm. [00:17:49] Speaker F: Also, why does your cousin sister want to start a book club so badly? [00:17:54] Speaker D: Cousin? I don't think they want to start. I don't know if they want to start. I don't know. They, like. Look, they are. This is probably the most interaction with different people. That's not family. They've had a long time. Keep that, like, on the down low. [00:18:13] Speaker F: Oh, that's sad. That's sad and kind of pathetic. [00:18:18] Speaker D: I told you this in trust. If you start making it a problem, you're gonna have a problem. Okay. [00:18:24] Speaker F: Oh, no. You could crush my neck. I don't want to make it a problem, but that is still kind of pathetic. [00:18:30] Speaker D: You. Our family is very strange. [00:18:33] Speaker F: I can tell. [00:18:34] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:18:35] Speaker F: You all seem kind of weird spooning. [00:18:38] Speaker D: It lightly, but yeah. [00:18:41] Speaker F: Is. Is there something that you'd like to share with the class? [00:18:45] Speaker D: Absolutely not. [00:18:47] Speaker F: Understandable. [00:18:50] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:18:52] Speaker F: Most of my books. You want any of this much? [00:18:56] Speaker D: Do we end the scene there? [00:18:57] Speaker B: Yes. Can everybody give me a perception check real quick? [00:19:07] Speaker A: Every time my dice rolls past a good number and lands on a less. [00:19:12] Speaker F: Good number, I got a ten, which is mid, but it's okay. [00:19:17] Speaker C: 1517 for late. [00:19:26] Speaker D: I use the heel for Alastair. [00:19:30] Speaker B: What did you get with the hero point? [00:19:32] Speaker D: 29. [00:19:33] Speaker B: 29. Literally everyone but Alistair hears this. You hear what sounds like growling. It doesn't sound like it's coming from in here. It sounds like it's coming from somewhere behind this store. You hear growling. You hear a couple of barks, and then you hear some sound of something like tearing bone and gristle and muscle. [00:20:04] Speaker F: Ooh, dinner. Can I check it out? [00:20:07] Speaker D: Ooh, nope. [00:20:07] Speaker B: Sure. There's a door that would take you out back. [00:20:13] Speaker F: Is there a window I can look out of? [00:20:17] Speaker B: None of the windows. Look out back behind the store. [00:20:20] Speaker F: I'm gonna see that everyone wants to leave, and she'll be like, okay, we can leave. Are you sure you don't want whatever that is? [00:20:32] Speaker D: No. I had enough interactions with ghouls today. [00:20:38] Speaker B: The growling didn't sound like it was from a ghoul. The growling sounded like it was from a hester hunder, which all of you would know is, like, very, very large dogs that you at all use as a mount. [00:20:56] Speaker A: It sounds like the bone tearing. Did that sound like. Did the growling stop after that? [00:21:02] Speaker B: No, the growling didn't growling. There wasn't a sound of pain that followed it. Interesting. There was the sound. You haven't heard any more growling, but also there wasn't. Weren't any, like, sounds of pain. Let's put it this way. [00:21:18] Speaker A: A Hester hunger ate a ghoul, or a ghoul is eating a hustle. Hopefully the former who requested a dog whose plot point is this before we. [00:21:39] Speaker F: Run away, it might is. It's not. It's not Akis, is it? [00:21:46] Speaker B: No, because I wouldn't do it when Aki was. [00:21:50] Speaker F: Was this mine? Did I want to do? [00:21:52] Speaker B: Not a plot point. For anyone. It was. I have a random of rolls, I have a random table of events, and I rolled on it. [00:22:01] Speaker A: I was joking. [00:22:03] Speaker F: Do we want the. Do we want the dog? I mean, having. [00:22:10] Speaker A: Perhaps what we can do is we all go outside to leave, and then whoever is sneakiest and quietest takes a little peek around the building. We just make sure it is not more dangerous. [00:22:28] Speaker D: Was Alistair. [00:22:32] Speaker E: I'm in the corner angrily reading a magic book and, like, arguing with it out loud to myself. [00:22:43] Speaker D: Alistair. [00:22:45] Speaker E: What? [00:22:47] Speaker D: Quietly? There's a big, big animal outside. Oh. [00:22:56] Speaker E: Maybe we should stay in here then. It's that big. It won't be able to come in. [00:23:08] Speaker D: I don't want the chance to. I'd rather just get away. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Okay. [00:23:12] Speaker E: Okay. [00:23:14] Speaker D: Um. Leith, I think you have the lightest footsteps of us all. Did you want to take a peek? [00:23:22] Speaker C: I mean, not particularly, but I can. [00:23:25] Speaker D: I would appreciate it. [00:23:28] Speaker C: Aubrey, can I talk to the hesterhunder? Are they creatures of the night? [00:23:36] Speaker B: No, I had to think about that there for a second. [00:23:46] Speaker C: They're basically wolves, right? No, that's fine. Okay. But I will sneak out and take a look and try to assess the situation. [00:23:54] Speaker B: Please give me a stealth check. [00:24:00] Speaker C: And he is here. [00:24:01] Speaker A: A point. I'm gonna give you guidance. [00:24:03] Speaker B: Yay. [00:24:04] Speaker C: I got another nat. Every time you're like, I'm gonna give you guidance. I get a Nat 20. So that is 29 with the guidance. With a Nat 20. [00:24:15] Speaker B: Yeah, you can sort of move around and peek around the corner as you see this large hester hunder with its sort of beautiful. It's a little less beautiful right now because it's kind of covered in blood. Great coat. You see the saddle that's on it? And it appears that this was heading through the district. Maybe it was one of the people who was with Helena. And you see sort of a. It's a. There's technically still a body and the saddle, it's kind of like half of a person. The dog's maw is all bloody and stuff from where it ripped apart the ghoul that ripped apart its rider. But now it's kind of wandering. It's a little bit. Doesn't really understand what's going on. [00:25:19] Speaker C: Is there an animal handling here? No, it's just nature. [00:25:23] Speaker B: Nature? Nature. You know, if you could speak to it, diplomacy. [00:25:30] Speaker C: But you said, I can't speak to it. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Can't speak to it. I mean, they're very, very smart, so, like, I could. I would like. It's not going to talk back to you, but you could probably use the diplomacy, because these are. These are. These are trained creatures, so it's not like you're trying to tame a wild creature. So I would allow diplomacy because you've ridden these before, you know, the standard commands and things like that for most of these, yeah. [00:25:58] Speaker C: I think that Laith sort of puts a hand out slowly and very gently, sort of says, hey, there, you want to come over here? [00:26:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Give me a diplomacy check. [00:26:25] Speaker C: My. Any sex? [00:26:27] Speaker B: Any sex, yeah. As you softly speak, you know, it looks up, and slowly, because you can tell you are not a ghoul, so immediately probably rather excited and will sort of trot over to you. These are massive beings. This is big enough for a normal person to ride on, like, six foot dogs. [00:26:53] Speaker C: Yeah. I think that she sort of reaches up and will scratch it behind the ears. Say, you did a good job, didn't you? Protecting yourself from the ghouls. Do you want to come back with us? [00:27:11] Speaker B: It'll cough a little bit and trying to clean off where its mouth is and it has a reins and stuff, so you can coax it and lead it along to where the rest of the group is. [00:27:31] Speaker C: Yes. Laith comes back with a giant hound, and we'll say to niall, you have enough supplies to feed him too, right. [00:27:44] Speaker F: I'm looking at this big ass dog and just, does. Does he eat ghouls? [00:27:51] Speaker C: I mean, he ate one. I can't imagine that it's their preferred food, though. [00:27:57] Speaker B: It's kind of eating, like, rotten. Like, eating rotten meat, you know? Don't make a habit of it. [00:28:04] Speaker F: I can certainly see dogs are mostly carnivorous. We don't have a lot of meat, but I'll see what I can do. [00:28:13] Speaker A: The corpse still on the saddle, or did that get dumped? [00:28:17] Speaker C: I didn't dump it. [00:28:19] Speaker B: Yeah, there's. There's still, like, the bit of the corpse. It's sort of like legs in, like, half of a torso. [00:28:25] Speaker F: Is it torsos around here? [00:28:27] Speaker B: It is a human corpse. [00:28:30] Speaker F: Oh, my God. Wow, how interesting. Wow, how fascinating. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Lou will go over and try to get the corpse out of the saddle without spooking the dog. I don't know. Do hesterhunder spook like horses do? [00:28:53] Speaker B: I mean, as long as you move slowly and you can kind of see what you're doing, it could feel like it had a bit of dead weight on it, so it's kind of like, glad that it can move a little easily again. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Sorry about your previous rider. I'm going to just take this from you and put it around the corner. Is there anything in the pocket. That I do. [00:29:19] Speaker B: It has sort of. This remains of a knapsack, like a rucksack. They have a bandolier with what looks to be a bunch of bullets on it. And there is some vials in its pocket. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Accident. I will bring band of the arts yohe immediately. [00:29:48] Speaker F: I can. I can go dispose of the body. [00:29:51] Speaker A: What do you mean? [00:29:53] Speaker F: Don't just toss it somewhere away from here. If we're gonna come back to the shop at any point, we might want to add it. We might want to not have a human body near it. [00:30:01] Speaker C: Can we insight or vibe check this? [00:30:06] Speaker B: Deception versus, like, perception. [00:30:09] Speaker F: Deception. [00:30:09] Speaker A: DC. [00:30:12] Speaker C: So tick is the one rolling? [00:30:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it would be deception versus all of your perception DC's. [00:30:18] Speaker F: Oh, that's disgusting. Oh, no. What is my deception? My deception, I think. Yeah, my deception's okay, I guess. Please do not blow this for me. What is that number? That is a terrible number. Oh, no. So I think I failed to everyone. That is a twelve. [00:30:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that fails to everyone. [00:30:42] Speaker F: Can I use a hero point, actually, because I have so many of those. [00:30:45] Speaker B: Sure. [00:30:46] Speaker F: Please. I can't look that sus to the group this early. Oh, thank God. That is a 26. Now I have to use a hero point to not get caught for cannibalism. [00:31:00] Speaker A: You beat me. [00:31:02] Speaker B: I think it beats most everyone. [00:31:04] Speaker F: I got a fiver and then a 19. I was like, please, please, I cannot blow this for me. I'm just totally normal. I'm definitely making sense. I can be trusted with human bodies. [00:31:19] Speaker A: Okay, but just be quiet. You know, it's really good because it will attract gurus. Right. [00:31:28] Speaker B: And the. In the. You go off camera. Right? And whatever happens to that body happens to that body. [00:31:39] Speaker F: I'm winking at you right now. I'm winking. Whatever happens, happens, you know? [00:31:42] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever happens. You've moved so far. Camera. Right? Yeah. In the rucksack itself, there are a number of rations. Again, there is a spyglass. There are. There is a. Yeah. Ration spyglass. There are. There's a journal, and then there is a set of keys. [00:32:18] Speaker A: Ooh, did you say there was? The bandolier had bullets. Did it have a gun or something, too? [00:32:25] Speaker B: Um, yeah, on the. On the hip, there's like a. There's like a dueling pistol on the. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Hip that also goes to Yuri. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Yuri has two guns now. [00:32:36] Speaker D: Thank goodness I don't have to with bullets. [00:32:40] Speaker B: You have ten bullets. [00:32:43] Speaker D: Ten bullets. All right, good. Um, I will just. They're gonna holster both of them on their empty so far. Bandolier. Okay, good. Okay. I feel safer. [00:32:57] Speaker A: You look better. [00:33:00] Speaker D: Gracias. Wait. Thank you. [00:33:09] Speaker B: Welcome back, Niall. I'm sure that body is very far away now. [00:33:13] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, that dead body is definitely gone. I'm gonna come back. I totally, I totally don't have any blood stains on me or anything like that. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Just, like, wiping your mouth? [00:33:22] Speaker A: No. [00:33:23] Speaker F: Well, that one in the stomach. Mouth. It's just there's nothing anymore. You can't, you totally can't tell. Maybe a little bit of blood, but that was definitely from, like, the fight earlier with the ghouls. [00:33:31] Speaker B: You know, I got totally, totally. [00:33:33] Speaker F: I'll just be like, okay, body is safely moved. We can go now. [00:33:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Um, and yeah, you're able to spend some time with the Hester hunder and, you know, calms down and seems to just be happy that it's all right and people are paying attention to it. [00:33:59] Speaker A: If there's just regular rations, is there like, the default jerky in those rations? [00:34:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it's like your basic trail rations kind of thing that are in here. There's a lot of dried fruit and stuff in there as well. Dried fruit and nuts, some bread. [00:34:23] Speaker A: I will give the Hessehunder some of the jerky. [00:34:27] Speaker B: Oh, that'll make endear him to you even more. [00:34:33] Speaker F: Aw, you got a puppy and I stole his fucking lunch. [00:34:38] Speaker A: What does that mean? [00:34:40] Speaker F: No, that's not a character. Oh. But he is very cute, though. I don't want him to bite me, so I'm not gonna pet him. [00:34:51] Speaker A: I don't think he has bite anyone. Such a sweetheart. [00:34:55] Speaker F: I will gently and carefully put my hand out towards this dog to see if it will bite me. I am an aberration. Just letting you know. [00:35:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. Not gonna bite you. [00:35:14] Speaker F: Oh, can I pet the dog? [00:35:15] Speaker B: Yes, I pet the doggie. [00:35:18] Speaker F: I put the doggy too much. You get so many pets. Was it safe? It's just like pet pep pet. You are going to be so spoiled. You are going to get so much good food. [00:35:29] Speaker A: We should probably go back now. Probably. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Good idea. [00:35:33] Speaker A: And see. [00:35:38] Speaker F: Is it starting to get dark out or. [00:35:41] Speaker B: Um, no, it is starting to get like mid afternoon by this point. It's always dark out. That's the thing, right? [00:35:49] Speaker F: You know what I meant. You know what I meant. [00:35:57] Speaker A: Is there any sort of name on the hesterhunder's saddle or reins or anything, any identifying? [00:36:05] Speaker B: Yeah, you don't see one, but yeah, you're able to between carefully and quickly make your way back to the mansion. And the mansion itself has a place out back behind it. That one would usually have a hesterhunder, sort of like a very large combination, somewhere between a stable and a doghouse. You can sort of prepare for him. [00:36:41] Speaker A: Unless somebody else wants to do it. Lou's gonna stay out back to clean the hesterhunder up. [00:36:49] Speaker F: I have to. I have to do other stuff, like digest. Oh, what do you mean, digest? Leith, do you have something to say to me? [00:37:07] Speaker C: Laithe doesn't. Alyssa does. [00:37:12] Speaker F: Okay, fine. I guess I'll just tidy up the mansion. Honestly, I'll make sure the kitchen's cleaned and spotless. Check in on schism, because now I have eaten something for this pathetic little man. If he's gonna be stopped whining. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Schism is taking the equivalent of an after dinner nap. [00:37:27] Speaker F: Okay, can I take the equivalent of an after dinner nap? [00:37:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll take the equivalent of an. [00:37:34] Speaker F: After dinner nap too. I just ate a lot. I mean, it was a very hearty lunch we had earlier. That's what I mean. [00:37:44] Speaker D: Good Eurudo. Show Lou the cool monster books they got. [00:37:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:53] Speaker D: So I'm not sure what else you'll found, but I found these books. Seems to be like a whole series of monster things. The back has a lot of reviews. Huh. [00:38:11] Speaker A: That's one that means, like, peer reviews, like, lots of other people have verified the information inside, or are they like, fiction? [00:38:26] Speaker D: I think I may have grabbed the. I think, actually, these would be great for your book club. [00:38:36] Speaker A: Uh, okay, so that's not really a book club. It's like a. It's like a book trade. [00:38:45] Speaker D: With, uh. I thought you and Niall. [00:38:49] Speaker A: No, I don't know if Niall wants to. I haven't asked Niall, actually, though I should because he was my roommate. I actually asked Alistair because of the books we found at the tarot shop. It had some interesting things and Aristotle wanted to read them and I wanted to read them, so I said, oh, we should read them together and you should come visit once in a while over in the other room. And I didn't actually ask neither about it. And now I'm thinking maybe I should have. And I don't know, though. Is that normal when you have a roommate? I don't. I have never had one. Everyone was pretty much moved out by the time I was old enough to care. [00:39:31] Speaker D: Well, if you like to. If you'd like to socialize with them. A lot of people with roommates, they. They just go day by day. You know, the other person exists in their home, but they don't really exist to talk. [00:39:47] Speaker A: Oh, that's sad. [00:39:53] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:39:53] Speaker A: What is the point then. [00:39:57] Speaker D: Well, in this economy, um. [00:40:04] Speaker F: Renting an apartment in the gulf area would cost $2,500 in this economy a month. [00:40:11] Speaker D: No, it's just, you know, it's. Some people just need a roof under their heads. Over their heads. They need a roof. They need to have. Be under a roof. I'm not so great at the advice, Lou. [00:40:26] Speaker A: I think you'll do a great job with advice. [00:40:32] Speaker D: Um, Lou, Yuri's gonna, like, put a hand your shows. Like. You, uh. Have you been feeling okay recently? No more blacking out or anything? [00:40:43] Speaker A: No. I mean. I mean, yes. Wait, how do I answer that? All is normal and good. So I have many questions for you. [00:40:57] Speaker D: I understand. Just when we're safer. I keep saying that. I know, but we're currently not safer. [00:41:08] Speaker A: Okay? It cost you. [00:41:15] Speaker D: And I do trust you. I just, you know, as these people that we're traveling with, I've been great so far, but I do not know them yet. I do not know what information will spread. [00:41:31] Speaker A: This is true. I mean, you know it, but. [00:41:36] Speaker D: Yes, and we both know it's not as comforting as you wish it would be. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess not. [00:41:50] Speaker D: Do you want to talk about that? [00:41:53] Speaker A: No. I got mad at her again, and I was trying to apologize, and now I still have to apologize, but now it's like, why would I do that when I just got mad at her? This is weird. [00:42:19] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah. You know, fighting for our lives and after, like, dealing with that at the same time. I still don't know what it is, but. [00:42:33] Speaker A: I don't know either. I mean, I know, but I don't know. It was just a whole lot of nothing that changed everything. I guess. [00:42:53] Speaker D: You heard, though. Just nods, doing like the. Just like the older sibling nod, like, yeah, I know what you're talking about. I'm not gonna say anything, though. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Yeah, well, if you want to read any of the books I found, you are welcome to them. They're not all romance books. I did pick up many books, and the tower shops that I think are interesting. And also there are multiple journals, and I am very excited to go through them all. [00:43:29] Speaker D: I definitely will. I just. I think I'm going to go over all our supplies and all my gear, make sure everything's in shape. [00:43:38] Speaker A: Okay. [00:43:38] Speaker D: I don't know how often we're gonna be fighting things. [00:43:43] Speaker A: I mean, I think we did much better this time than we did the times before nobody went unconscious or almost died. I mean, most people didn't even get all that hurt. I didn't get hurt at all. [00:43:57] Speaker D: Yeah. I just got a small bite. [00:44:00] Speaker A: That's not gonna like. You're not going to like, you know, cool it up. [00:44:09] Speaker D: I do not think so. But that's also what I was gonna look over. [00:44:14] Speaker A: We should have looked for medical books. Yeah, I got distracted. I'm sorry. [00:44:21] Speaker D: It's fine. I should have looked too. [00:44:25] Speaker A: We can always go back if anybody gets less. I'm only good with that under pressure and also the time. I don't know what to do. [00:44:39] Speaker D: I think I got it. I will go inspect it. If you need me, I'll be in my room. [00:44:45] Speaker A: Okay. I'm going to. I'm going to do something else and then maybe go apologize to Les, but I don't know. I got to work it up to that. [00:45:04] Speaker D: Just go when you're ready. [00:45:09] Speaker A: Okay. I'm gonna give you a hug and your do. [00:45:13] Speaker D: Hugs you back. Hey, right after that touching scene, could I go to my room and see if I have ghoul fever? [00:45:21] Speaker B: Sure, yeah. Give me a medicine check. [00:45:24] Speaker F: All right. I might have ghoul fever too. I forgot about that one. [00:45:30] Speaker D: Uh, medicine. All right, I'm treating medicine 15. [00:45:41] Speaker B: The. The bite does not appear to be infected or anything, so. [00:45:47] Speaker D: Okay, that's good. Weirdo. Just like, look at it wince and is like, I've had worse. It's gonna like, do the thing where there's like, a bottle of, like, clear alcohol. Take a swig, pour it on the wound. Take another swig, clean it up. That's all. [00:46:14] Speaker F: Do we have anyone that is good at medicine? Because I did get scratched. I got bit and scratched a lot. [00:46:21] Speaker B: There's like three of you that are. That have medicine. [00:46:24] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know if good is the word we should use, but passable. [00:46:31] Speaker B: Plus five. None of you are groomed. [00:46:35] Speaker F: Check me out. [00:46:36] Speaker D: I have no answer. [00:46:38] Speaker A: I think we all have, like, plus five, plus six something I think you're the most. [00:46:42] Speaker F: I'm gonna. I'm gonna go over to. I guess I can get Lou too, because Lou, I at least kind of know. And we're roommates. I'm taking a power nap, but I guess after I wake up for my power nap, I'm gonna go find Lou and just be like, can you check if I have ghoul fever? [00:46:59] Speaker A: Oh, um. Okay. I'll do my best. [00:47:05] Speaker F: Thanks. [00:47:06] Speaker A: That's a medicine check? [00:47:08] Speaker B: Yep. [00:47:09] Speaker F: Am I gonna rot away like a ghoul? Why did I get. [00:47:16] Speaker A: The bite? [00:47:16] Speaker B: Doesn't appear to be infected or anything. [00:47:19] Speaker A: It should be alright. Yeah, I will do the cleaning thing and you should just wrap it and. [00:47:24] Speaker F: The bite is on one of the mouths, so it's really fucking weird. [00:47:28] Speaker A: It is. If I plug it into the mouth, is that going to be fine? Um, it's like antiseptic. [00:47:39] Speaker F: How would you feel if someone blew in your mouth? [00:47:42] Speaker A: I mean, it's liquid. [00:47:44] Speaker F: It's fine. [00:47:45] Speaker A: I don't know. I would take a drink, I guess. [00:47:48] Speaker F: You're probably fine. It doesn't matter. [00:47:51] Speaker A: Okay, but tell your friend I'm sorry. [00:47:54] Speaker F: You have ventriloquism act. [00:47:56] Speaker B: Your gargling sounds also, does your friend have a name? [00:48:03] Speaker F: I. I don't really name my ventriloquism act. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Wait, it's action ventriloquy. I thought. Oh, I thought you had, like a parasite or something. [00:48:16] Speaker F: No, I have a sense of humor with it. You mentioned ventriloquism, and I thought it would be funny to play along. [00:48:25] Speaker B: Yeah, that's hilarious. [00:48:31] Speaker F: I'm gonna jokingly just be like, oh, we quiet you internally thinking, like, they could kill us for this. We might want to play it chill until we get out of here. Oh, yeah, don't worry about it. So thanks for checking to make sure I don't have ghoul fever. Okay. [00:48:58] Speaker A: Welcome. I hope you had a nice nap. Now I am going to go places. [00:49:07] Speaker F: Oh, where? [00:49:09] Speaker A: I don't know. Read the book or something. Hmm. [00:49:14] Speaker F: I did hear you were starting a book club. [00:49:16] Speaker A: Would you like to join it? [00:49:18] Speaker F: No. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Okay. [00:49:21] Speaker F: You're not having it in our room, right? [00:49:27] Speaker A: No, I will do it in the library, which is a normal place for that, probably. I don't know. I've never actually done book club, so I'm making it up. [00:49:38] Speaker F: Do you guys want snacks for your book club? [00:49:41] Speaker A: That would be amusing. [00:49:43] Speaker F: Okay, I can see what I can make. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Thank you. Hello. [00:49:53] Speaker B: Hello. [00:49:54] Speaker E: I haven't had a chance to come by and say the books leave immediately. [00:50:01] Speaker A: Aw, it's okay. Okay, here we go. Here, you can look here. I will spread them all out. And you can look. Except for this one and this one, because I am going to read them first. And yes, that is all. That is the only reason I am grabbing two of them. [00:50:16] Speaker E: Which two are they? Is one of them the journal or there's some interesting conspiracy theories that you want to find out about. Can I read them right after you. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Of course. I just like to. I just like to learn things about people, you know? [00:50:37] Speaker B: Totally. [00:50:40] Speaker A: It is normal. It's a normal thing to do. You like to read. You read people's stuff all the time. Probably. I don't know. Anyway, I have your pick. Read them, take them back. Just make sure we all share with everyone and tell me which one you read and I will read it next so we can talk about it. I think that is a book club works. Yes. [00:51:06] Speaker B: Let's do it. [00:51:07] Speaker E: And I will pick one of the books on the how to read the cards because I need to study up. In fact, I think I will tell her I need to read up on these cards because I think that it's suspicious that the bookshop owner left right before the ghouls came. Maybe they knew something. [00:51:36] Speaker A: I think he did, actually, but maybe. [00:51:41] Speaker E: It was just the cards. [00:51:43] Speaker A: We can look at this journal, the bookshops journal together. I mean, the tarot shops book journal. Goodness. We can look at the journal together. Okay, here's the wheels. I'm going to go because I have to. I have to go. [00:51:58] Speaker E: And I will scurry out. [00:52:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:04] Speaker B: Speaking of things you found at the tarot shop, Laith, what are you doing with the deck box? [00:52:10] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that after everyone has finally left Alouette and Niall's room, Laithe will drop by and will just leave the harrow deck. And also a deck of Cantrick cards that she found on Lou's pillow with a note that says, since we had to leave the bookstore early, unsigned, but Lou or. [00:52:42] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:52:43] Speaker C: Yeah, but Lou might be able to recognize her handwriting. I don't know. That's up to Ferris. Yeah. She will slip in, drop those off and leave. [00:52:56] Speaker B: There. You see that at some point. [00:52:58] Speaker A: Mm hmm. I probably see leights before I see. [00:53:01] Speaker F: That. [00:53:04] Speaker A: Because we was finally going to go look for her. But try to be super casual about it, like, oh, you just happened to be here. [00:53:11] Speaker B: You just happened to be coming out of my room. [00:53:21] Speaker A: I have, um. Hello. They, um. Some rooms all look the same, don't they? [00:53:31] Speaker C: I don't know that I'd say that I think they're pretty well defined now, but I suppose you're used to one space mostly. [00:53:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that is true. And. And that is true. Um. Um, I wanted to talk to you, actually, if you had a minute. Unless you're busy, in which case, never mind. [00:54:04] Speaker C: I think laythe sort of looks around at where they are, you know, in the middle of a ghoul district, aren't we? [00:54:12] Speaker A: Back at the house? [00:54:13] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, yes, but back at the house, in the middle of a ghoul. [00:54:17] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:54:17] Speaker C: I get it. [00:54:18] Speaker A: I get it. [00:54:18] Speaker C: Yeah. There's not much for her to be doing here. So she says, um, sure, we can talk. Did you want to do that here, or. I don't know if your cousin is lying in wait somewhere? [00:54:33] Speaker A: I think he's always lying in wait somewhere. That's kind of what he does become. One of those spiders, the ones that make burrows and they hide and then they go and they eat the fry. I mean that in a flattering way, of course, I think. [00:54:52] Speaker C: Of course. [00:54:53] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, I don't. [00:54:55] Speaker F: I don't. [00:54:56] Speaker A: It doesn't matter. Everyone seems to be busy and elsewhere. Since I'll be quick, I don't want to bother you for very long. I just wanted to apologize for I have been a little rude to you lately and I wanted to apologize. I've been perhaps the most stressed I have ever been in my life and I unfairly took it out on you and that was in over me. So I am wanted to say sorry and it will not happen in the future. [00:55:38] Speaker C: I think Laithe is sort of scratching at her thumb where the fidget ring used to be. It was confiscated, but she very much wants something to be doing with her hands. And she will listen to your apology and seems almost upset by it. And after a moment she will say, I don't know why you're apologizing to me, alamed, you don't. You have nothing to apologize for. You haven't treated me in any way that's not served. [00:56:29] Speaker A: That definitely, I think, catches Lou off. [00:56:31] Speaker F: Guard. [00:56:38] Speaker A: And she says, you know, it is unfair too. Ultra grudge over things that happened years ago that I have no bearing on the people we are now because we have no particular relationship now. So it would be foolish to hold you to the same standard of friendship that we had before. [00:57:15] Speaker C: Leaf, I think, definitely visibly winces back when you say like no relationship. [00:57:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I think Lou cringes a little too, like, oops. [00:57:32] Speaker C: I see. [00:57:37] Speaker A: Well then, yeah, so we can, you know, start fresh. Because that's what you do when you meet someone you don't really know anymore. You just pretend you're not meeting them again. I think. [00:58:02] Speaker C: Do you really think that you don't know me anymore? [00:58:07] Speaker A: I. Sorry. [00:58:09] Speaker C: Yeah, no, that's. [00:58:14] Speaker A: I don't think. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know much anymore. [00:58:23] Speaker C: Right. Yeah, no, of course. That's great. A great idea. [00:58:37] Speaker A: I said you want you to books before Alistair could grab it because. I don't know, I thought you'd like it. [00:58:48] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Thank you. [00:58:50] Speaker A: And also these are keys. I don't know what they go to, but you like keys, so I thought you would make use of them. [00:58:56] Speaker C: Where did you find find them. [00:58:58] Speaker A: The Ted vati that was on the dog. [00:59:02] Speaker C: Was there any identification? I assumed it was one of the senator's people, but there was a journal. [00:59:10] Speaker A: But I haven't been through it yet, so I will let you know when I find out. [00:59:18] Speaker C: Great. I'll be interested to hear that. If you'll just excuse me for. [00:59:26] Speaker A: Of course, yes. You're busy, I'm sure. I will go, I guess, into my room. That's where I was going, so I'm gonna still do that. [00:59:36] Speaker C: I think that Yuri actually was looking for you. [00:59:40] Speaker A: Oh, okay. All right. Sure. I can go find Yuri somewhere. [00:59:49] Speaker C: And Laith is going after Lou leaves, Laithe is going to sneak back into her room and leave the two gifts. But take the note and, yeah, throw it away. [01:00:09] Speaker B: Well, I do think that is a pretty decent to end that episode. You know, I think it's probably getting closer to around the time one would have dinner. And I think everyone's coming together next session to discuss plans. [01:00:30] Speaker F: I can't dinner. [01:00:33] Speaker B: So. Yeah, if you want to serenade us. Aptic. [01:00:38] Speaker F: Well, everyone, thank you for another wonderful episode of Goblets and Gates. If you like what we do here, feel free to follow us on Twitter, gays, Instagram, X, whatever. We are everywhere. We have claimed everything. You cannot escape us. 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