Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Sam.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Waking up dreaming dark so long I cannot find meaning hold my hand, let me stay by your side through this never ending night I can feel.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: It now it holds me all the.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: These demons always roam me in this red light because me he is reaching.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: Out consuming welcome back to Gobbles and Gays. I'm Aubrey, your gm. I'll toss my players to introduce themselves, who they are, who they're playing, and then we'll get on into things.
[00:01:38] Speaker C: Hi, I'm Maki. My pronouns are she, her and I play Gravewing, the Nagaji sylph, vigilante monk slash air kineticist who also uses she her pronouns, and she is the party mom slash strategist of the rebellion.
[00:01:56] Speaker D: Hello, hello, I'm Alyssa. My pronouns are they, them, and I play Leith Idrisi iv, the matricidal Dampier, dandy, rogue and spymaster who uses she any pronouns?
[00:02:09] Speaker E: Hello, I am Dusty. I use they, he pronouns and I'm playing Yurido.
Just Yurido. Still, they are our nephilim cursed boy of a problem.
They are going to be the party and this rebellion's firebrand. And they also use they, he pronouns.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Hello, I am Faris, I use she, her pronouns, and I am playing Alouette Valer, a totally normal Nephilim thaumaturge bard, having a very normal and good time learning all about her way more cursed family.
She also uses she her pronouns and is the anathema partisan.
[00:02:48] Speaker F: Hello, I am Sparlock, and both me and my character use he him pronouns.
I'm going by Alistair Whiskerfield, wizard detective extraordinaire, heir to the fine, distinguished family of wizard mice, Ratzerts, Esoki, Arcanists.
I swear I was always aware of it. I keep my whiskers to the ground to uncover the truth of the powers that be who subjugate us. By which I mean I'm our recruiter.
[00:03:19] Speaker G: And hello to round off the group. I am Tick, I have he, she, they, pronouns. And today I'll be playing Nile, a flesh warp sorcerer who is just a totally ordinary cook and quartermaster for the group and definitely not a cannibal parenthesis. He's cannibal, but it's a dietary restriction, so don't be too mean to him.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: So what happened last time?
[00:03:41] Speaker G: The masquerade is upon us. We got some final actions. In order to prepare ourselves a little bit better for what's coming in, we decided to do stuff that like, you know, smuggle some stuffing that we need, set up a diversion, AKA poison, the guards, alcohol, because it's kind of fun. I love poisoning people's drinks in game. In video games, not in real life. For legal reasons. This is video games only. And also, the third thing we did was find an escape exit, or at least, like, plan an escape exit on Graveling's part, because she's like, I think we should have an escape exit. So essentially, we locked in, focusing on this party. We have a lot of shit to do. We got to make sure that this goes smoothly.
Lathan Alouette had yet another very homoerotic scene where everyone was just like. They kind of. They kind of find. They'll shrug at me. It's just like, you know, whatever. Typical homoeroticness where they kind of both figured out about the. Hey, you know about the marriage. You know about the marriage.
Well, have this ring that I'm gonna put on your ring finger for no specific reason. It's not wrong. It's not me marrying you or anything. We can definitely use this for the party. You know, I think I am. This. I cannot handle one more season of you guys verbally edging each other. I need you to immediately. You know, I'm so done.
But the entire conversation was just two women desperately trying to, like, get into each other's pants. And also not at the same time.
Great content.
We fast forward to the actual day of the ball. We got to show off all of our wonderful little outfits. Everyone did such a wonderful description. Honestly, I'm just gonna.
A round of applause for the cast. Having such nice outfits planned and nice descriptors of it. I loved all of them and, like, the contrast between the rich and the poor is how extravagant they were. It's very nice. I liked everyone's outfits. That's a mwah from me, chief.
They're all very complicated. I never want to draw them, but they sound fantastic. I love you. I'm sorry that Aki has to draw them all for some art, probably, but. Thumbs up, Aki. Hitting the fattest shrug that I've ever seen in my life. And I can't. You can't see it because it's. You know, it's. Trust me, bro.
We head into the masquerade, and Avi proceeds to shoot every single one of us with an NPC that we really don't want to see at this masquerade, including me. I get Lore. Yay. And also everyone else. I don't think anyone's coming out of this unscathed. And we are now kind of preparing to attack this masquerade in the sense that we got to break out Two people from an unknown location.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Yes.
And also, if you all in the audience haven't realized it, this is our final arc of the season.
In the description, there is probably a link to our season two Q&A form. Send us questions and we'll answer them on our season two Q&A.
But, yes, the party is begun, and we're going to do something a little bit different on this.
I recently heard Find the Path do something similar in their War for the Crown actual play, and I really liked it. So I'm going to borrow it for this, but cite my source.
So the way we were going to do the party is. The party is going to be broken up into chunks of hours, and each person will have an action that they want to do during this hour. Gather information, schmooze, influence people.
Work on something, do something, and depend on what it is. You'll get different checks and things will happen and, you know, we'll figure out what. What exactly does.
[00:07:14] Speaker E: But.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: I am just going to start with the person who's on top on my screen with you, Alouette, you will get to help us start off this party in style.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: Okay, what are my options?
[00:07:31] Speaker A: Well, I guess the.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: Oh, no, no.
You take this allay.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: You know, the party is, do you want to try and talk to anybody? You did notice that one Whiskey Jack is here.
And Whiskey Jack can get your information for a secret.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: That's so true.
That's maybe gonna be a backup plan, though.
Sure do have a good secret for him.
Yeah. So is there, like, a list of options that we can pick from? Or, like, is it just what do you want to do for an hour?
[00:08:21] Speaker A: It is a bit like, do you want to gather information? Like gathering information or influencing people Seems like a very good way to start for now.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: You know, do you want to gather information or influence people?
[00:08:35] Speaker B: I think I'm gonna.
I know I should gather information, but I think I'm going to.
You know what? Yeah, I'll influence or. Sorry, I'll gather first and just try to get a sense of where two people's, like, loyalties lie, I suspect. I know this is a group of nobles. However, I think I'm looking for people who are sympathetic to the anathema caused without outright coming out and saying so.
I'm looking for potential allies.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: If it helps, I can lie to people with. With diplomacy, and I can request things with deception.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, if you want to give me a diplomacy role as you sort of move about and schmooze with people and try and get some information.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: I don't want my first row of the night to be this. So I'm gonna use a hero point.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: A wise idea.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: Much better.
That's gonna be a 28.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: A 28. Yeah. You kind of just sort of.
Honestly, the bar over near the bar is probably your best place to start. Mostly people are chatting over there and you start sort of chatting up people and. Yeah, the anathema is being discussed quite a bit.
People are hearing about it and there are a lot of people who are doing the noble thing of they. They're looking down on it as more of just petty rebellion.
You know, people who are just not. Will need to be put in their place.
But there are few people.
And you make note there are a few people there who seem at least sympathetic to the cause and are willing to admit that there are problems.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: Are there names or.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: No, I'll get you names for those.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: But you can sort of. You're collecting enough that you're realizing. Okay, starting to collect that maybe there are some people who might be sympathetic to our cause.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: Okay, I'm going to make a note of them and get a drink that I won't be drinking.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Yeah, that's how you're going to spend the first hour.
And we'll go with Alistair next.
[00:11:34] Speaker F: Oh, I'm still muted.
[00:11:35] Speaker A: There we go.
[00:11:36] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:37] Speaker F: So I'm not the type to do parties. Like, I. I have a feeling that my usual conspiracy theories won't go well in this crowd.
Like, what am I supposed to talk with these people about?
So instead, for the first hour, you know, I got a couple cases going here. I'm here to save Urido Urida and do that. That's my big case. But I still have the.
The thing with the robots in the back of my mind.
That's okay.
So I will. For the first hour, I'm not going to push for any information.
I want to seek out the people that are kind of the.
The investor class, like, who might have a profit incentive in that area.
And I just want to start ingratiating myself with that crowd as my alter ego that I have taken on for this. I imagine I'm acting like really pompous, like.
Like the golden age robber baron type caricature.
And it's. It's overdone because of my conspiracy theory. Ish. Theorist.
Theorishness.
Theoristishness.
We can figure out how to say that word later.
But yes, I would like to get them to think well of me as a colleague before I start pushing for a little More information, since I have a little time to blow.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: Yeah, you give me a diplomacy check.
Oh, goodness.
[00:13:48] Speaker F: This is going to go badly.
[00:13:54] Speaker E: I.
[00:13:54] Speaker F: Can I use the pursue a lead bonus on that?
[00:13:57] Speaker A: For sure.
[00:13:58] Speaker F: That least a plus one. Me with my zero charisma.
Oh, goodness. I. I'm gonna use my hero point on that.
That was. That was bad.
Mind you. It's kind of in character, but I actually do want some information.
And so that went from a 4 to a 2 for an 11.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: So, unfortunately, you.
You don't ingratiate yourself.
The caricature of the robber baron is apparently actually offensive to them because they don't want to think of themselves like.
[00:14:48] Speaker E: That.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Even though they are.
So you.
You unfortunately don't make any headway on that.
[00:15:02] Speaker C: I think when I noticed the Larks. The Larks are talking to the high priest.
And those are.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: Those.
[00:15:11] Speaker C: Those are my biggest ops right now.
But seeing them all in one place in this horrible house is a little too overwhelming for Grave wing right now.
And so I am going to walk around a lot and maybe accidentally draw attention to myself.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: That's it.
[00:15:41] Speaker C: I'm just walking, but I'm dressed in such a way, I am accidentally moving away from the people that I came in with.
I am gonna put myself in a bad situation.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Carla is gonna keep with you and at least, you know, act like, you know, you're looking around. But tell me a memory, a memory you have of this house.
What was the last masquerade ball you remember going to, or at least working at this house?
[00:16:17] Speaker C: So my job was to.
I was a glorified nanny.
It was my job to watch over the children. At the time, there were only two children in the Lark estate. There was not that little third guy, who I actually don't really know much of. I don't have much of a relationship with him, but I had with the oldest son and the only daughter.
And so it was my job to make sure the kids didn't come downstairs. But the kids want to mingle because it's cool and it's a fancy party, and it's a party in their house.
And as the help, it is also my job to take the punishments of my betters. So while I can, while I did keep the kids away for a good portion of the night, children get hungry, and there is cakes, really good desserts. So if.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: If.
[00:17:21] Speaker C: And when they snuck into the kitchen, we were caught. My punishment was dished out the next day.
And I hate sweets. Well, not all sweets, but I hate the sweets that are here.
[00:17:34] Speaker A: Yeah, just For.
For me. Kohlhezer ribs.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: Bless you, Highs.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: Well, it is on your side.
As you're thinking about this memory, you remember something else of that night.
You remember as you were sort of hurting the children, you passed by.
You passed by the father's study, and you heard an argument between the couple.
Apparently, Tristan's father has a bastard child out there.
Apparently.
You know, the rumor is that she works, is part of the Black powder collective, and apparently he, you know, had some sort of fling with this pirate at some point.
And there's a daughter out there soiling the lark. Name.
You catch the name Octavia?
[00:18:51] Speaker C: I put that in the bank. I put that deep, deep, deep in the bank so I can remember to follow up on it, honestly, outside of this, after this, because that seems like a really good thing to follow through, but also, like, you know, if I can.
If I could make myself actually function like how I want to instead of reliving my traumas, then like that. That's a good thing to. To remember.
We got. We gotta put a trigger warning for all this child labor and trauma here. Okay, guys, this is. This is a reminder for Aubrey and me to put in some trigger words.
Yeah, I think that's it. I think that's it for now.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
All right, moving on to laithed.
How are you spending this first hour?
[00:19:53] Speaker D: How many hours do we have if we were to be at the party the whole time, we didn't cause problems.
[00:20:01] Speaker A: Theoretically, the party goes all night.
The party will probably end somewhere around, like, four or four in the morning, maybe, when they finally kick people out.
It's probably like, eight at night at this point.
[00:20:18] Speaker D: Oh, okay, Cool. Great.
So since we have a little bit of time to kill, I am going to not start with Yordo, and instead, I'm going to start with my own private issue, which is the Scriabins. And I would like to find nobles who are not a fan of the Scriabins, just sort of, you know, listening into gossip, who's talking a little catty about them, not necessarily making contact, just, I want to know. They might not be on the anathema side, but if they're against the Scriabens, I would like to know who that is.
[00:21:02] Speaker A: Yeah, you.
Would you like to give me a gossip lore check?
[00:21:08] Speaker D: Absolutely.
22.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: You find some of the older nobility, for sure, does not like the Scribbins because they turn their nose up at new money.
You come across someone from the Marthaen house and the.
The.
The Seppa house, both sort of spreading rude gossip. About the.
This grievance and being old and catty about it.
[00:22:01] Speaker D: My people.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: Yeah, well. And that'll bring us to Urdell.
You also get to do things.
I.
[00:22:18] Speaker E: Yes, I. Okay. So I would like to know, is there any indication that we could tell that today? Like, we could probably. Like, Tristan's been keeping count that we know today should be the ball masquerade. But do we know where it started? We could hear it.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: It's loud.
[00:22:41] Speaker E: Like, a lot of footsteps. Like, maybe right above us or something.
[00:22:44] Speaker A: You hear a lot of footsteps. You can kind of hear the music and the talking in the distance. It's very far distance, but, like, especially with the way this hallway is built, this hallway is almost an echo chamber.
[00:22:57] Speaker E: Fascinating.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Makes great, great way to listen to what people say in the hallway.
[00:23:03] Speaker E: Yeah. I think I want to start off by, like, talk. Like, telling Tristan.
Well, at least we know you're counting your days, right?
[00:23:16] Speaker A: Got that.
Brain is brain. Works that way most of the time.
[00:23:21] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:23:27] Speaker E: I really wonder if they're just gonna leave us here all night.
[00:23:35] Speaker A: Imagine there'll be a time where they decide we'll make a good statement piece, show off dissidents.
Maybe if I'm incredibly unlucky, they'll try to do show this is some sort of sign of faith to the high priest of. Look at us executing our oldest.
[00:24:06] Speaker E: Well, she gives him a good show at least. Or at least try.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I'm down for it if you are.
[00:24:16] Speaker E: Just got a.
I didn't get a moth back, but it would be useless sending it one way.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: Yeah, let's.
[00:24:28] Speaker E: Let's see.
Let's see who likes to chat. Could I, like, go up to one of the walls that has loudest noise, press my ear against it, and try to hear anything useful?
[00:24:40] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Give me a perception check.
All right.
[00:24:44] Speaker E: Cousin Dice.
They've been doing so well for me.
Okay. I mean, that's not bad. To start off, that's a 24.
[00:24:55] Speaker A: 24.
You're guessing that this time they probably did post guards near this hallway.
And you hear a brief conversation between two of the guards, and apparently one of them thinks they might have eaten something bad.
[00:25:21] Speaker E: I'm gonna say in a quieter tones, like, oh, we have friends nearby.
Not you.
Heavy parentheses friends.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: Heavy parentheses friends.
[00:25:36] Speaker E: We could maybe use that to our advantage.
[00:25:41] Speaker A: Maybe.
If you've got an idea, I'm game.
[00:25:46] Speaker E: Well, they sound sick.
Do you think they'd care enough for us if we were pretending to die?
[00:26:00] Speaker A: Maybe.
I don't know.
It's worth a shot.
[00:26:08] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:26:11] Speaker E: Could I go, you said there's, like, a tiny bar in the door, right? Like, window with bars.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:22] Speaker E: I wanted to go to. It's like, hey, hey, someone here.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: Give me a diplomacy check.
[00:26:34] Speaker E: Diplomacy? You sure?
[00:26:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:37] Speaker E: Can I say it angrily and do deception or dimitation?
[00:26:41] Speaker A: Maybe you can work up to that.
[00:26:42] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: You said especially the way. The way you phrased it, it sounded more like you were just getting somebody trying to talk to you.
[00:26:50] Speaker E: I mean, with my whopping plus 2.
That is a 17.
[00:26:55] Speaker A: A 17.
You.
You unfortunately do not coerce any of them down the hallway, but you do.
[00:27:05] Speaker F: Get.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: One of the guards does bark down the hallway for you to be quiet.
[00:27:12] Speaker E: No, I think I had something bad I need.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: Come on.
That sounds like it's a deception.
[00:27:26] Speaker E: Yeah, Yeah, I could do that. I'm much better at buying who the guest.
I'm gonna use a hero point. I'm gonna use definitely a hero point on that.
Okay. All right. Cousin Dice coming through. That's a 25.
[00:27:46] Speaker A: 25.
All right, so Nile is now your turn.
[00:27:55] Speaker G: I have two options.
One, I.
I want the group opinion on this one. I kind of want to scope out the room and see, like, what paths exist and maybe use message to see if I can, like, ping dusty or not dusty. That ping Yuri anywhere on, like, a certain side of the building, like, left or right. Because I have message. It has a distance list. So, like, if I walk around just kind of muttering messages like, every five, ten minutes, I could try to roughly get what direction he's in, is my thought that. Or accidentally befriend a really eccentric millionaire while talking about food in the back corner.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: It's the first hour. Definitely the first one.
But also, I also just remembered Message and was like, oh, crap, I meant to do that.
[00:28:35] Speaker G: I forgot I had that.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: So either one works for me.
[00:28:38] Speaker G: I want. I want to avoid the fucking Twilight watch like the bubonic plague.
But I want to see if I can roughly ping what direction Yuri is in using message. And also, like, the rough layout of the building, if that's possible.
[00:28:59] Speaker A: So give me an it's hard to do layout of the building.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: Mostly just gonna tell you if you're within 500ft. But you will get to talk to you.
[00:29:11] Speaker G: 120Ft.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: Talk back, which is no, 500.
[00:29:14] Speaker G: No, mine's 120.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Oh, well, mine's lying to me, I guess.
[00:29:18] Speaker G: Oh, it scales up. Hold on.
Mine just said 120ft. I'm a fool. I guess it is heightened. Never mind. It is 500ft. Okay.
I just want to Get a lay of the land a little bit and see if I can identify what direction Yuri is in roughly.
What. What, do I make a roll for it?
[00:29:43] Speaker A: Yes. I'm gonna need an arcana roll.
[00:29:46] Speaker G: Okay. I'm actually okay at arcana.
That's a 24.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: So you figure out what areas Yuri isn't in.
[00:30:04] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: But you do spend your first hour kind of doing this unsuccessfully because also, you. It is a very packed, packed area, and it's hard to find areas where you can be on your own to do this.
And you do actually have to do, like, hand gestures to somatically cast message.
[00:30:30] Speaker G: Emoji.
[00:30:34] Speaker A: So finding places where people don't, like, realize you're doing magic, because that would be a very big faux pas.
[00:30:42] Speaker G: Yeah.
Oh. Is says auditory concentrate illusion, linguistic, mental, occult, and subtle.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: You. You would still have to, like, either say words or do hand gestures for it.
[00:31:00] Speaker G: I can just pretend to be really, really a sidetrack. I'm like, wow, this food's great, but also, like food.
Don't tell me what to do. I'll get poisoned if I want to.
[00:31:11] Speaker A: But it is. You did not roll high enough to successfully find Yuri.
And especially it is very slow going with something like that because.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:20] Speaker A: You don't want people to realize you're casting magic.
[00:31:22] Speaker G: Currently, I'm avoiding the entire Twilight watch. I guess Yuri is still on ice.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: But now we'll be back to hello at.
[00:31:34] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm also gonna try to at least talk to Yuri because I figure.
[00:31:42] Speaker C: Well, I'm.
[00:31:42] Speaker B: I'm gonna go to the bathroom and try to message Yuri from there.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: Hi. That will be also another arcana check.
[00:31:53] Speaker B: She's in the bathroom.
[00:31:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
This is more about, like, you know, seeing if you just happen to be close enough that the message gets through.
[00:32:04] Speaker B: Gotcha.
Okay.
23.
[00:32:11] Speaker A: 23 is unfortunately not going to be enough.
Okay, then.
[00:32:29] Speaker B: Hang on. Just checking something.
Can I. This is so silly. You can say no to this. I have a feat called Eyes of the City that lets me track down targets at the help of locals.
Could I try to, like, find out where Yuri would be in this house?
[00:32:52] Speaker A: Where. Where.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: Where someone who might have displeased the larks would be held until they could be turned over to the authorities. Like, where's the drunk tank in this house?
People come here, they make fools of themselves as soon as they drink too much.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: Is there a role associated with that?
[00:33:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it's either diplomacy or society.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: Right. Diplomacy or society.
We'll do a society role.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: Heck, yes.
Fancy dice. Fancy dice. You failed Me?
[00:33:27] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: You know what? This is important. I'm gonna use my other hero point.
I didn't use one last episode.
No fancy dice. You're getting retired.
Okay, that's gonna be a 17.
[00:33:43] Speaker A: Yeah, unfortunately the, the, the big problem with this house is it the, the configuration change.
Yeah. And there's really no way to figure out truly. Unless you could get to the control room.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: Fair enough.
There's. There's no one else like interesting here, is there?
[00:34:11] Speaker A: Like, I'm not gonna run into like.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: A family member, am I?
[00:34:18] Speaker A: You haven't seen them so far.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Okay, just have to double check.
[00:34:24] Speaker A: Masquerade makes it hard, but yes, everyone's keeping those masks on and that'll bring us from Alouettes to Alistair.
Yes. Yes.
[00:34:40] Speaker F: So I will sneak away from my terrible conversation to go get a drink.
What's the volume level in this place?
[00:34:52] Speaker A: Loud. There are probably in the ballroom alone probably close to close to 100 people here having conversations.
[00:35:06] Speaker F: So I will whisper into my drink hey, Graveling as I cast message.
You can answer by the way.
[00:35:20] Speaker G: Oh, okay.
[00:35:21] Speaker C: Okay. I thought there was war after. Hey, Grave wing. Sorry I I. But then I remembered you could just keep casting it because it's a cat trip.
[00:35:27] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah.
[00:35:31] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:35:32] Speaker F: This is going pretty badly and it looks like you're just walking around.
I wonder.
[00:35:41] Speaker A: Walking around with Lorelai. Lorelei is doing her best to like just be like, oh, we're just wandering around seeing the sights.
[00:35:50] Speaker F: I.
They don't believe me. I'm trying to get information on the robot attacks but I think that and I'm sure I could say this more concisely since Alistair is smarter than me, so forgive my humming and awing, but I should be. Maybe I can like kind of weird out anyone that's in on a conspiracy. Can you keep an eye out to see if anyone reacts strange after I leave them?
[00:36:32] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:36:35] Speaker C: I'm gonna let you know right now just based on the vibes, I think everybody's acting strange after you talk to.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: Them.
[00:36:48] Speaker F: But like, you know, goes and talks to other people and just reacts more strange. I can.
[00:36:58] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:36:58] Speaker F: I may not be good at these parties, but I can tell how badly I'm doing. You don't have to rub it in.
[00:37:05] Speaker C: Why don't you try talking to the help?
They have no say in if they can or cannot talk to you in this party right now, if you approach them first.
[00:37:20] Speaker F: What should I.
But would they know about it or what should I ask them about?
[00:37:26] Speaker C: They work in the house.
They know everything about the house until they're Let go.
[00:37:36] Speaker F: All right, I will take that advice because it's more comfortable for me anyway.
So I will go and I will talk to a couple of the help people.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:55] Speaker F: And now I will be more in my conspiracy theorist mode.
I'm like, I'm still keeping in my robber baron. I'm going to be like, hey, hey, I. I hear that there these like, you know, those robot attacks there. I. I think they're being done purposefully and I'm trying to figure out like, for investing who's gonna be next.
Like.
[00:38:34] Speaker A: So I am. I am going to.
To just like, let you know, out of character, like, there's nobody from the union here tonight.
They wouldn't be invited to a party like this.
[00:38:48] Speaker F: Not looking for union people. I'm looking for people.
[00:38:55] Speaker A: Okay. I'm just trying to figure out, okay.
[00:39:01] Speaker F: Like, if somebody who works for a butler who has seen something weird or.
[00:39:07] Speaker A: Hurt that's gonna be here, works for the Lark.
[00:39:15] Speaker F: Well, at the very least, I can eliminate the Larks because I think Grave Wing has a good idea.
So I'm gonna go with this.
I've tried to make a push for using conspiracy lore instead of my nine in diplomacy.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: And just what do you. What are you asking specifically from the people?
Because if you're asking about investments, like who might be invested in something, I. I don't know if the.
The help can help you with that.
[00:39:56] Speaker F: No, no. I'm about what families have more to do with robotics or have been or. Well, it's not robotics, but automatons. I. Yeah, yeah. It's hard to words.
[00:40:14] Speaker A: They do. They don't have like actual intelligence.
Yeah. But yeah, if.
[00:40:23] Speaker F: See if anybody's been acting weird with.
[00:40:26] Speaker A: Regards to that, I would let you use Society.
Okay.
[00:40:31] Speaker F: Society, I'm also trained in and have intelligence is so much better. Yeah, it's that.
Okay, 29. They probably don't know anything, but at least they rolled.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: Well, they do, but all signs literally just point back to the scrae ovens.
[00:40:57] Speaker F: Okay.
So that means I think Ferris is my next or Lou is my next ally.
Wait, who was. Who was researching the Scriabin's lathe?
Okay, but yeah, that's my hour.
[00:41:22] Speaker A: Yeah, you do that for all of the stuff that's happening. Clark recalls all signs, points, which scraps like there may be some other minor nobles tossing money behind it.
But unfortunately the Larks, the servants really, the Larks themselves are at least not letting their servants in on it. If they are, you know, making any of these deals.
[00:41:46] Speaker F: Are the. Any of the Sc Albins at the party.
[00:41:53] Speaker A: With that role. I will let you know.
No, Alexander is not at the party tonight.
Claimed unfortunately last minute illness.
But yeah, I think that'll bring us to Laithe.
Yeah.
[00:42:23] Speaker D: Does it seem. I mean, we've only been here an hour, but is there a guard rotation or does it seem like it's sort of. Folks are stationary in the room.
[00:42:35] Speaker A: Give me a quick perception check to sort of like over the last hour or so to like notice things like this.
[00:42:45] Speaker D: 28.
[00:42:46] Speaker A: 28. You sort of see their general, like house guards.
It does seem like occasionally you see somebody come and relieve. But it's not like we're here for 30 minutes and then we're moved to another spot. It's like they are. They're posted at most of the entrances and exits, just watching people come in and out. And occasionally someone comes by and just swaps the place of one. And just being like you, you're deeded in the. Like the.
In the yard or what, you know.
[00:43:16] Speaker D: Okay.
I did not use my scarf in coming in here.
So I'm just gonna get the face of a guard. I'm not gonna use it right now, but I just. I want to get a good look at a couple guards for now and then with the rest of my time.
Okay. This is a bad choice that I'm going to be making.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: They're only good choices.
[00:43:55] Speaker G: I love bad choices. Please make it so I feel less bad about mine.
[00:44:01] Speaker D: So I think the bad choice that I would like to make is that I would like to go into the bathroom.
And at this point in time, this early in the night, I would like to use the scarf to make myself look like one of those guards I clocked and approach another guard and tell them that I think I heard something near the control room and need backup.
[00:44:40] Speaker A: All right, then give me a deception check.
[00:44:50] Speaker D: Okay. That is a 34.
[00:44:57] Speaker A: 34. Okay.
The.
The guard looks at also as you. As you notice that the.
The twilight watch is also apparently helping out with some stuff here.
You know, this guard sort of goes over and essentially gets one of the twilight watch to take his spot for a few minutes.
This woman, I'm sure she's not important.
[00:45:28] Speaker D: Lovely. And I will follow the guard to the control room is my plan.
[00:45:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Especially with a critical success like that. He will start leading you towards the control room.
Do you want to let Juni know what's going on?
Because you will need her for the control room.
[00:45:46] Speaker D: Yeah. I mean, so my thought was that I could find it and then bring her there later, but if we can just all go now, then we might as well do that.
[00:46:01] Speaker A: It was more of figuring out your plan. Are you just figuring out where it is or are you making a move?
[00:46:09] Speaker D: I'm gonna have to knock this guard out. So I think I'm making a move.
Knock out. I'm gonna have to murder this man.
So I have a cantrip card, I have message. So I think in the bathroom, before I changed into my guard face, I messaged Juniper and let her know what I was doing and to keep an eye out and then to follow when.
I don't know if Juniper's stealthy. She got kidnapped before, so she's probably not very good at this.
[00:46:43] Speaker A: But it's been five years.
[00:46:45] Speaker D: It's been five years and you'd think she'd get better at hiding having been kidnapped. So, yeah, I will let her know and tell her to trail behind, but not close by.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
As you are led, there is a locked door off of the ballroom that the guard uses a key to open.
And you'll notice it will sort of like lock as it closes behind.
And, you know, it kind of leads to sort of a large spiraling staircase that will lead. That's several floors above the ballroom.
I'm gonna ask, are you going to try and do anything to stop the door from closing to give Jennifer a second?
You could also just steal the guard, kill the guard and still his keys.
[00:47:49] Speaker D: I mean. Yeah, I think that that is what I will end up doing because I don't think. Think that I can subtly, like, I don't have anything I can drop to like leave in the doorway or whatever to keep it from closing.
[00:48:02] Speaker B: So, yeah, you.
[00:48:06] Speaker A: You do that. And you know, as you are led up these several floors, a door opens into. Apparently there's actually a catwalk above the. The ballroom.
And sort of, you can kind of see at one end there is this. There's a door to what you're guessing is probably the control room. But currently you're on a. You are on this catwalk with this guard.
[00:48:29] Speaker D: Are there any guards posted outside the room or anything?
[00:48:34] Speaker A: None that you can see.
[00:48:41] Speaker D: I don't super trust that.
So I think that rather than killing this man, what I'm going to do is attempt to. Did it the door lock from the inside as well? Like, will he need the key to.
[00:49:04] Speaker A: No, it only locks from the outside.
[00:49:06] Speaker D: Okay, great.
I would like to attempt to pickpocket the key, please.
[00:49:13] Speaker A: Okay, give me a thief recheck.
[00:49:15] Speaker D: I do have the pickpocket feat, but I don't know what it does. I think it might lower a DC.
Yeah. Something that is closely guarded without taking a minus five penalty.
I'm gonna use hero point.
Okay. That's a 29.
[00:49:36] Speaker A: 29, yeah. Now you kind of wait for a moment where they're kind of like on a thing on his belt and they kind of just like, are a little bit swinging back and forth as he moves. Just wait for a time where it swings back towards you and snatch.
Great. And are you going to follow him all the way to the control room?
[00:49:59] Speaker D: I am, yeah.
[00:50:01] Speaker A: All right, yeah. You.
You follow him all across, all the way to control room. There is. He opens the door and he's essentially going to stick his head in and, you know, make sure everything's okay inside. You can kind of see this is this. This large room with all of these levers and knobs and gauges. And what you can tell now is that the. The wall, the entire wall that like, faces the ballroom is a, like a two way mirror.
So they can see out of it down on the ballroom to sort of let people make sure everything's all right.
So if you had done a murder, they most definitely would have. Would have seen.
But yeah, no, other than that, you know, he is making sure that everything's okay in the room. He gets in okay. He's just, you know, he turns back to you and it's essentially just like, I think you're new. You must be new here. People like to do like this all the time, you know, give us a hard time on a night like this.
[00:51:11] Speaker D: As if there's not enough to worry about already.
[00:51:13] Speaker A: Right.
Yeah, we got the.
I got the big speech in an hour.
[00:51:22] Speaker D: Okay, Good to know.
I don't say that that was Alyssa heading back down.
[00:51:33] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta get back to my post.
[00:51:38] Speaker D: So how did I get a glance into the control room to see how many people.
[00:51:44] Speaker A: There looks to be about four people operating the control room right now.
Okay.
[00:51:51] Speaker D: And I will follow him down. And I assume Juniper did not get through the door, so I will sort of waylay her as well.
[00:51:58] Speaker A: Yeah, no, she's kind of like hanging around the door.
You know, she's talking to just some people, like a group of nobles near the door. They look to. They'll be roughly about the same age, and she's just sort of like doing the, you know, the laugh and things like that.
[00:52:19] Speaker B: Great.
[00:52:19] Speaker D: I'm going to make eye contact with her and sort of.
I'm going to pretend basically that we are hooking up her as A noble and me as a security guard. And it's all very sordid and I'm trying to get her to sneak away with me from this group of doubles so that we can talk.
[00:52:40] Speaker A: Yeah, no, you do that and you're able to sort of pull her off to the side and. Yeah. What do you say?
[00:52:59] Speaker D: Do you have a way to talk to reach anyone else?
[00:53:06] Speaker A: I got a little moth.
[00:53:10] Speaker D: Now, that's too obvious.
We've got an hour.
There are four guards in the control room.
I have the key to the catwalk, but I don't see you taking down four guards on your own. So we need to rally a little bit.
[00:53:29] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Yeah, come up with the. Come up with a plan.
Let me know what the plan is and I'll do my best to help.
[00:53:43] Speaker D: Yeah, and I think that right now I will just task her with finding anyone she can. I mean, priority on Alouette or Niall or actually Alistair, like the people with message, priority on finding one of them so that we can spread this throughout.
[00:54:09] Speaker G: Spreading the gossip at mock speed using message.
[00:54:13] Speaker A: Yeah, and this will move to Grapeling.
[00:54:23] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:54:25] Speaker A: Hello.
[00:54:28] Speaker G: Let me, let me, let me, let.
[00:54:30] Speaker C: Me do my flippy flip, please.
[00:54:34] Speaker A: Ha.
[00:54:34] Speaker C: Okay.
I can function a little bit.
I had my.
I had my flashback, which I forgot to state. I might have been talking out loud like, or specifically mumbling out loud. So like, feel free to laugh, Lorelai. Just eat that up.
When I was having my little memory, I wonder, were there. Usually big estate houses will have entrances that the help can go in and out of. So that way they are relatively unsafe seen not necessarily during parties, but during regular day to days. And I'm wondering if perhaps I recognize any spaces or something like that.
That could be one.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Give me a perception check.
Or no, actually give me a Society Ch.
[00:55:54] Speaker B: That's one second.
[00:55:59] Speaker C: 29.
[00:56:01] Speaker A: 29. Okay. Yeah. Well, you definitely notice like some of the telltale seams in things where, you know, a door to door to like a servant's passage should be.
It's. Most of them are like essentially have guards posted near them right now just so nobody goes snooping.
But also with that, you. You spot. You spot whiskey by the bar.
[00:56:31] Speaker C: Oh, I can get.
I can get rumors. Yeah, why not? If I see him, if I see the pet, the passageways are basically blocked.
But I will move to the bar where Whiskey Jack is.
[00:56:49] Speaker A: Yeah, as you move, he's his sort of latest group of people moves on around the same time you approach and he looks you up and down and he just goes, my, my Aren't you Cypher sore eyes?
[00:57:06] Speaker C: You can recognize me on this. What's the point of this being a disguise?
[00:57:11] Speaker A: I mean, my dear, as you know, I am very good at what I do.
[00:57:20] Speaker C: Well, you got any interesting rumors here that can help me out with a potential break in entering?
[00:57:32] Speaker A: I mean, it really depends on what you're looking for or who you're looking for.
[00:57:39] Speaker C: I think you know who I'm looking for.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: Well, I like to play my game, but I might know something.
[00:57:53] Speaker C: Is it going to cost me a rumor?
[00:57:56] Speaker A: You know how it goes, darling.
[00:58:01] Speaker C: I like, lean against the.
I lean my back against the bar table.
I look for a very particular window.
Maybe I see it, maybe I don't.
And I will kind of lean into mumble whisper.
22 years ago, the Larks held a mass execution where they killed all their help staff that lived in here.
Is that juicy enough for you?
[00:58:40] Speaker A: Nods and gives you a smile and sort of just for.
Just for effect, kind of fans himself with his hat, says, my, my. Now that is the juicy River.
And I may have heard something about the Larks deciding to send a message and show their allegiance.
There's going to be a big demonstration in an hour.
[00:59:19] Speaker C: What kind of demonstration?
[00:59:23] Speaker A: Show force.
[00:59:27] Speaker C: Their favorite kind.
[00:59:28] Speaker B: I see.
[00:59:31] Speaker A: And I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that our friend Tristan has been scrubbed from any wills or documents.
It's almost like he never existed.
[00:59:53] Speaker C: I mean, that's a plus.
At least he's as dead to them as they are to him.
[00:59:58] Speaker A: Yes. My worry is that they're gonna try to make him dead. Dead?
[01:00:01] Speaker C: Yeah, that's. That's. That's the kicker. In your. In your professional opinion, would you say.
Would you say a rescue before or during is more viable here?
[01:00:22] Speaker A: Honestly, Especially if you want to send a message during.
Everyone will be here, and you can certainly show them that you're more than willing to fight for it.
Getting them out, especially with the number of guards that they've got placed around, is a problem.
[01:00:57] Speaker C: You got room for one more rumor, or should I have to pay up first?
[01:01:04] Speaker A: No, Bo's got room for you.
[01:01:12] Speaker C: Any of that blade tomfoolery here.
[01:01:20] Speaker A: I think that what I hear, the high priest has brought a couple of members with him, but not the whole contingent.
Rumor has contingent sweeping tonight, looking to wipe out more dissidents.
[01:01:42] Speaker C: Well, all right.
I take. I take whatever drink was there. Very awkwardly.
[01:01:50] Speaker G: Have to drink it. Put it.
[01:01:52] Speaker C: I'm gonna, like, add all of that to my tab.
[01:01:57] Speaker A: Duly noted. And he will put the hat on. His head and like tip it to you and then look and just like says, dab Real. And Laura will nod and say, misky.
And he says, well, I have to go see if I can enrich my coffers with some more secrets and rumors before this party goes to.
Have a lovely night. You too. And maybe you'll get a time to get in the dance before everything goes to hell.
[01:02:40] Speaker C: I look to Laura like, ah, oh, we gotta get a root. We gotta get everybody.
[01:02:48] Speaker A: And he, he says, he may not look it, but Grave Wing certainly can dance.
[01:02:59] Speaker C: Can'T.
I don't say, I don't say about that.
[01:03:02] Speaker B: I don't say about that.
[01:03:09] Speaker A: He smiles and sort of moves off and we'll bring, it'll bring us to, to Nile.
[01:03:23] Speaker G: So everyone's just learning the entire plot of this night.
I, I feel like I should do something based on this knowledge that's been got, but I don't think anything's been given to me yet. So I'm just kind of sitting here, I think, I think trying to find Yuri. I know it's a moot point because I think we're probably gonna make a big epic stand. And everyone's been doing stuff and I'm like, I guess just kind of listening in to see if anyone says anything interesting, like even amongst the guards and stuff. And again, staying away from the Twilight watch. Please, I am begging you. I don't want to get involved with that right now.
I just want to. I just want to probe around for some info, I guess because I don't have any info right now.
[01:04:14] Speaker A: Right? Any on anything in particular?
[01:04:20] Speaker G: I guess listening to the wait staff and stuff, seeing if we're talking amongst each other about anything. I love the wait staff, you know.
[01:04:27] Speaker A: All right, give me a perception check.
[01:04:30] Speaker G: I will open my little ears, my little gay ears. Like anything that might be a nice little add on to everything that everyone's cooked already.
I feel like I can get status updates the next two to three minutes anyway, so let me just turn my light on perceptions plus eight.
[01:04:49] Speaker D: Let's roll my cute little gay dice.
[01:04:52] Speaker G: That is a filthy, slutty 20.
[01:04:58] Speaker A: Mostly, mostly the, the help is working on getting, making sure that everything is ready.
In about an hour there is a.
There's going to be a speech made and the help is all making sure that everyone has.
Because there'll be a toast essentially and everyone, everyone will have drinks for it.
[01:05:22] Speaker G: Okay, so some sort of interesting speech in an hour. That's all I got from the lore currently, I guess. Is it possible for free to just check up on people and get a little bit of information. Or is that like a whole.
[01:05:35] Speaker A: For any of the other group?
[01:05:37] Speaker G: Yeah, like tweeting emoji at graveling or just messaging at graveling. Be like, did we learn anything? There's a speech in an hour.
[01:05:46] Speaker C: Yeah, they're gonna try and probably execute my brother in law, so.
[01:05:51] Speaker G: Ah, fuck yeah, we're gonna make a stand.
[01:05:56] Speaker C: I don't know yet. I gotta get everybody. Can you start getting people here?
[01:06:00] Speaker G: Okay, discreetly.
[01:06:02] Speaker C: Bar.
[01:06:04] Speaker G: I'll just start sending messages when I can. Then if possible with the time I will have to tell people to get to the bar discreetly.
I'll gather them all like a. A thing.
Also I will. Can I tell Grave wing one more message.
[01:06:21] Speaker C: It's free. Like, okay, you gotta be the one to cast it.
[01:06:27] Speaker G: Graveling.
Don't let that Twilight watch person notice me.
She's gonna try to kill me.
[01:06:40] Speaker C: Above table. Are there. There's multiple Twilight.
[01:06:43] Speaker A: There are multiple. There's like. Okay, there's like 10 people.
[01:06:47] Speaker G: Cool looking or is she like average looking? Is she like special?
Like is my cool sister special or she basic.
[01:06:55] Speaker E: You could physically describe them. You just say that you physically describe them.
[01:06:58] Speaker G: Yeah, I'll physically describe and be like, don't let that person notice me. They will kill me.
[01:07:04] Speaker C: Do I see him?
[01:07:06] Speaker A: Yeah, you'll see the. See the woman that Nyla's talking about. She's currently sort of taking the place of a guard temporarily. Looks like I'm sitting by one of the doors.
[01:07:20] Speaker C: I'm picturing just a big white haired anime woman, but like built like a fridge, you know, like built big.
Goodness, that's what I'm picturing.
And I'll just.
I'm an older sister. I clock it and I. Okay, yeah, that's good to know.
[01:07:49] Speaker G: I do want to remind we're all adopted.
But I think it's funny. We can be.
[01:07:53] Speaker C: I don't know that you're adopted.
[01:07:55] Speaker A: Did hoe.
[01:07:56] Speaker C: I don't get your lore.
[01:07:57] Speaker A: This is new.
[01:07:59] Speaker G: I don't even can Just thumbs up like. Yeah, just like I've been.
[01:08:05] Speaker A: I didn't like letting you decide what she looks like.
Things like that.
Because it is your sister. And I didn't want to.
[01:08:13] Speaker G: I think it's funny if they both have white hair, but then nothing else is the same.
It's just a sweet hair connection. White hair to white hair.
[01:08:21] Speaker A: Aura.
[01:08:24] Speaker C: In this family.
White or silver hair, nothing. Sorry, little Jimmy. You fucking brunette. Starve.
[01:08:33] Speaker G: Okay.
Thumbs. Verbal thumbs up to graveling. I Say the thumbs up emoji out loud, and that is all that I need to do personally.
Oh, yeah. Okay. We're executing ERA two, probably, it seems.
Let's kill him finally.
Stop saluting the K. Okay, I'm done. Aubrey, thumbs up.
[01:09:01] Speaker A: Okay.
Yeah, yeah, they do bring a lamplighter down to check on both of you. Can you give me a will save?
[01:09:12] Speaker E: Oh, me? All right, yeah. 100. I could do a wheel save. Is that my best save?
[01:09:18] Speaker A: Almost.
[01:09:20] Speaker E: Cousin Dice.
Cousin Dice. So cousin dies.
How's it? Sixteen, zero point.
I don't know about that.
[01:09:33] Speaker B: Have you used one? You've got two more.
[01:09:37] Speaker E: There's gonna be a speech.
I'd rather get a little hurt now, actually.
[01:09:43] Speaker A: Hurt you?
[01:09:44] Speaker B: It's a will save. Okay, that doesn't imply that implies brain.
[01:09:49] Speaker A: Problems.
[01:09:51] Speaker B: Like they're gonna take your mind.
[01:09:52] Speaker E: Over or something as so. Okay, quick clarifications before I decide on this. Aubrey, how has, like, my healing been? I know it's been over a week, but, like, I've been purposefully been, like, I imagine only getting healed, like, resting. Have I healed up? Am I all the way up or my half?
[01:10:17] Speaker A: I, I, I would say, like, even, Even with, like, you know, you, you heal. What, like your con times your. Your con modifier times your level each time you sleep?
[01:10:28] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:10:29] Speaker A: So in a week, yeah, you would be healed up.
[01:10:32] Speaker E: Okay. Just. Just want to make sure they weren't doing any to me.
[01:10:35] Speaker A: Cool.
[01:10:35] Speaker E: Let me, Let me do that.
[01:10:38] Speaker A: They're providing you with food and you have a place to sleep, so.
[01:10:42] Speaker E: All right. Except more. More health, please.
I'll do hero plank. I'll do a hero plank. That's a no role.
[01:11:07] Speaker A: So.
[01:11:10] Speaker E: That'S instead of.
Instead of a 16 total, it's now a 17 total.
[01:11:19] Speaker A: 17.
Well, that's not a critical failure.
That's good against the calm spell.
But any emotion that would affect the creature are suppressed, and the creature can't use hostile actions, is subject to hostility from other creatures. It ceases to be affected by calm.
[01:11:44] Speaker E: How long does this last?
[01:11:46] Speaker A: It's a while.
Mechanically, they're. They're getting ready to move you.
You and Tristan.
[01:11:57] Speaker E: I think I started going like, hey, you, big D.
I have no. I know what this is.
What's your name?
[01:12:19] Speaker A: And the. The lamplighter is like, it doesn't matter.
[01:12:24] Speaker E: I.
[01:12:28] Speaker A: You're not gonna remember it anyways.
[01:12:31] Speaker E: I have, I have. I have a good memory.
[01:12:37] Speaker A: I guess we'll see how it goes.
But come on, we gotta get yuhl and the other one loaded and ready.
There is A party going on, and it would be a shame if you didn't get to attend.
[01:12:57] Speaker E: I should be angry.
I should be.
Okay, let me just turn around and get my stuff, Which I don't have. Oh, but that's, like, hostile actions against this target, right? Like, I'm still, like, aware of myself. I just can't get angry at them.
[01:13:19] Speaker A: Yeah, you can't get angry or make hostile actions unless they make hostile actions against you.
[01:13:27] Speaker E: I do. Paul, you say.
[01:13:31] Speaker A: Huh?
[01:13:33] Speaker E: Well, let me just get my stuff. Oh, maybe it's under this bed over here.
I'm gonna dilly dally.
I'm gonna spend a lot of time not listening to them, because list not listening is not a hostile action.
[01:13:52] Speaker D: That's so hostile. Actually.
[01:13:54] Speaker E: Shut the up.
Are they, like, actually getting us out now, or are they just saying, like, soon?
[01:14:03] Speaker A: Yeah, they are.
And, like, you know, you can kind of hear the doors being unlocked, and they.
They are going to.
I guess.
No, they're not, like, trying to hurt you, but they are going to secure your hands.
Hey.
[01:14:29] Speaker E: Yo. This is. Oh, I don't like this. This isn't cool.
I thought.
[01:14:35] Speaker A: It's for your safety. It's for your own safety.
[01:14:39] Speaker E: Hey, Fred. I thought we were cool Fred, right? Our Caleb.
[01:14:45] Speaker A: Whatever is easier for you.
[01:14:52] Speaker E: Nope, nope. I was gonna make a dumb joke that doesn't make any sense.
Okay, cool.
Do I. Do I get to see Tristan finally?
[01:15:05] Speaker A: Yeah, you. You do.
[01:15:07] Speaker E: Are they leading us, or are they, like, behind us?
[01:15:10] Speaker A: They are behind you.
[01:15:13] Speaker E: I want to, like, look at Tristan's, like. Oh, hey.
Hey, honey.
Are they taller or shorter than me?
[01:15:26] Speaker A: They are. They are taller than you.
[01:15:29] Speaker E: Taller than that.
[01:15:30] Speaker A: Because you're short.
[01:15:31] Speaker E: I'm sure I'm a short kid.
[01:15:32] Speaker A: Yes, you are.
[01:15:35] Speaker E: Okay. Taller than I thought.
[01:15:37] Speaker A: Cool.
[01:15:37] Speaker E: Cool, cool, cool.
[01:15:38] Speaker A: Narrow. They're in a. They're an Oread, so they've got, like, sort of this, like, their hair almost looks like crystals, and they've kind of got, like, a beard that almost looks like it's made out of crystals.
Is.
[01:15:54] Speaker E: Were they affected by the calm spell?
[01:15:56] Speaker A: Yes. They were.
[01:15:59] Speaker E: Just gonna be like, how you feeling?
[01:16:02] Speaker A: Better than I have in weeks.
[01:16:04] Speaker E: Ah.
And while going forward, I want to just, like, kind of, like, mostly whisper to Tristan as we're being marched. I just want to say, you got. You got kids, right?
[01:16:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, I do.
[01:16:27] Speaker E: All right, well, we'll make sure you see them.
[01:16:32] Speaker A: Yeah. And you are sort of both eventually sort of put in what we can colloquially describe as an elevator and told that everything will happen soon. It will all Be over soon.
[01:16:52] Speaker E: I, I, I need clarification for the calm spell. It's specifically this guy.
[01:16:58] Speaker A: It is. It is. Well, it, it is just you cannot use hostile actions against anyone.
Just like hostile actions in general. You cannot use hostile actions.
It doesn't say it gets this one person. It's just in general.
[01:17:17] Speaker E: Until something takes a hostile action against me.
[01:17:20] Speaker A: Yeah, or like that. The. Because they can sustain it for a little bit until they stop sustaining it. Or someone takes a hostile action against you.
[01:17:29] Speaker E: Could I try to notice anything distinct about the stamp lighter?
[01:17:36] Speaker A: They are a, they are. They're an elf.
They possibly like, they're an aquatic elf, you know. Also you notice that.
[01:17:54] Speaker E: Are, are they. Do they have like a special, like, insignia or a certain rank that I could pull off of?
[01:18:02] Speaker A: They are.
They are a they. You see on their garb the symbol of the warden.
[01:18:13] Speaker E: Okay, okay, okay.
Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
I guess I'm just gonna look at Tristan's. Like, you can't punch me, right?
[01:18:29] Speaker A: No.
[01:18:33] Speaker E: We're gonna have to think on our feet.
[01:18:38] Speaker A: Yeah, probably.
Well.
[01:18:46] Speaker E: Get ready to run or something if, you know, if we can't do fighting right now, I guess. But running isn't fighting.
[01:19:01] Speaker A: Well, since they try to kill us, it'll break the spell.
[01:19:04] Speaker E: That's true. That's. That's true. You know, you know, that ax comes down, I could probably do something.
[01:19:12] Speaker A: Exactly. Think on the bright side.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:19:17] Speaker E: It'll be fine.
[01:19:18] Speaker A: It'll be fine. It'll be fine.
You know, my sister in law will be here and she's, she's got a plan.
She has to have a plan.
[01:19:28] Speaker E: I think, I think there's definitely people here. We could hear them.
They said they were going to be here, so.
All right.
[01:19:38] Speaker A: Okay.
This is a weird question. I mostly didn't ask it because I honestly didn't want to know the answer. Do you, do you know anything about my wife? Do you know where she is? Is she okay?
[01:19:51] Speaker E: Who's your wife?
[01:19:55] Speaker A: Craving sister.
[01:19:57] Speaker E: Which one.
[01:20:02] Speaker A: Is known as widow?
As it's in there. Think.
[01:20:07] Speaker E: I think I'm gonna like, bring closer. Are they at the midnights?
[01:20:16] Speaker A: No.
[01:20:19] Speaker E: I don't know.
[01:20:19] Speaker A: I don't.
[01:20:20] Speaker E: Do I know other character? Do I know? I don't think I do.
[01:20:23] Speaker A: You. You know that great Wing has like a half sister essentially, like CR Wing.
[01:20:28] Speaker E: Don't talk to me.
[01:20:30] Speaker C: I think the only thing I mentioned to the group is that I'm pretty sure my brother has my sister.
[01:20:39] Speaker E: Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. And then, like, I think I would start going like. I don't.
Sorry. Your. Your sister isn't great friends with me. I don't think that's surprising to me, you know? You know, I am.
I think they said her brother has her sister is the one thing I remember.
I don't know if that's good news or not.
[01:21:07] Speaker A: That's very not good news.
[01:21:09] Speaker E: I'm sorry.
[01:21:12] Speaker A: It's okay.
We'll.
We'll figure it out.
[01:21:18] Speaker E: We'll figure.
I'm. We were. I assumed just we were talking. We were left here in this elevator thing. Right?
[01:21:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Things will happen soon.
[01:21:27] Speaker E: Okay? I'm. I'm gonna like. Look at him, look at Justin. Say, hey, it's gonna be okay.
You're gonna get out of here.
You're gonna get to see your kids again. Okay.
[01:21:39] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Yeah.
[01:21:40] Speaker E: Make sure that happens.
[01:21:42] Speaker A: See, I don't know. You. You got people you care about, right?
[01:21:48] Speaker E: Yeah.
[01:21:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. You'll see them again.
[01:21:51] Speaker E: Yeah, I think they'll be here.
And you know, I need to make sure they're safe too.
[01:22:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And we'll cut away as the.
You all congregate near the bar.
In less than an hour, there'll be a speech.
[01:22:15] Speaker C: It's gonna be a show of force. Less than an hour. We could grandstand or we could break them out, but if we're doing that, we gotta act right now.
[01:22:29] Speaker B: We should absolutely, totally break them out. Because there are a lot of powerful people here in terms of like ability.
Not to mention all the guards and. And Yuri and your brother in law may not even be in a state to do anything.
I haven't been able to get in contact with him.
[01:22:54] Speaker C: Couple more things you should know. There's going to be at least two blades members here.
[01:23:00] Speaker B: To do a breakout and not a full frontal attack.
[01:23:05] Speaker C: Do we know where that.
Do we know where the control room is yet?
[01:23:10] Speaker D: Yeah, I've got a key to the door. But as soon as we're through, they'll be able to see us. Four guards in the control room.
I'm not sure if they have a way to contact other people.
[01:23:26] Speaker C: Probably they absolutely gotta.
[01:23:31] Speaker F: Can you transform again?
[01:23:34] Speaker D: I think that because I have an hour on the scarf, I have not untransformed the guard.
[01:23:41] Speaker A: So we're just.
[01:23:42] Speaker F: We're just talking to a guard.
[01:23:45] Speaker B: Yep.
[01:23:46] Speaker G: You know, why not?
[01:23:47] Speaker B: Cool guard.
[01:23:48] Speaker F: In that case, we just need to do a Chewy.
[01:23:52] Speaker D: I think so too.
[01:23:59] Speaker B: In terms of. What do you mean?
[01:24:03] Speaker D: Oh, you never saw that play?
[01:24:04] Speaker B: I did not.
For people who are perhaps unfamiliar.
I assume you mean Like a prisoner play, right?
[01:24:13] Speaker G: Yeah.
[01:24:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:24:14] Speaker D: Okay.
[01:24:15] Speaker F: I. I just don't know of another word for it for that matter. It's probably not called a chewy even amongst.
[01:24:33] Speaker A: Okay, so that's. That's what the plan is gonna be.
[01:24:37] Speaker C: That's us.
[01:24:37] Speaker B: I mean it. I don't know a chewy or an orgy.
[01:24:41] Speaker C: I don't know what the is happening.
[01:24:45] Speaker D: How else we can explain bringing what eight other people.
[01:24:53] Speaker B: Can also become a guard?
I mean that's a little help.
But also it is still seven nazar people to bring back.
[01:25:08] Speaker D: We could save.
[01:25:10] Speaker F: Could be six people and a rat.
[01:25:15] Speaker B: All right, narrowing it down.
[01:25:19] Speaker C: Still a lot of people.
[01:25:22] Speaker D: And you could say that the Larks asked us to give a tour to some VIPs of.
[01:25:30] Speaker G: Oh, that is true.
[01:25:33] Speaker D: Might give us a second.
At least get the first hit in.
[01:25:43] Speaker B: We also have thrown around the idea in the past of causing a large diversion which is also perhaps an option.
[01:25:56] Speaker G: Yeah, why hasn't out of character. Why hasn't my beer poison been doing anything yet? I forgot about that.
Have they not been doing anything?
[01:26:03] Speaker B: Sick guard there.
[01:26:05] Speaker A: There are other guards that are sick, but unfortunately I rolled and it's mostly seems to be the guards that are on the outside that are affecting it. Current being affected by it currently.
[01:26:13] Speaker G: Damn.
[01:26:14] Speaker C: Actually grandstanding. Why are you sounding better now?
[01:26:19] Speaker B: We don't know that.
[01:26:23] Speaker F: Where's the weapons cache?
[01:26:26] Speaker A: It is in one of the like the. One of the side rooms. You've been told which one it is and where it is.
[01:26:34] Speaker F: But is it like on the way to the. Like inside that closed off area?
[01:26:38] Speaker A: No, it is not.
You would have to go to a different part of the house to get it.
[01:26:50] Speaker G: Oh no. This is hard.
I. I still think that getting them out early is a good idea. But yeah, two blades in the twilight arch is still a lot.
[01:27:04] Speaker C: I have a feeling we're gonna encounter them both no matter what we do.
[01:27:08] Speaker G: I would also like to let the group know without elaborating that the current person on watch, if they recognize Wumi will try to kill me on sight.
[01:27:18] Speaker B: They might do that regardless of if they know you.
[01:27:21] Speaker D: Oh, that could be a diversion.
[01:27:23] Speaker G: No, I don't want that to. I don't want to be the diversion. I will die.
[01:27:29] Speaker B: Just run really fast.
Liz, can you explain about the mirror again?
What do you mean that they will see us?
[01:27:37] Speaker D: Yeah, I'll explain the setup of. Of the, you know, catwalk and the fact that the wall looking in is basically a two way mirror and that.
[01:27:46] Speaker B: Mirror looks out at the catwalk. Where is it? It's between the control room and the catwalk.
[01:27:52] Speaker A: Catwalk. It looks out on the catwalk and the ballroom.
[01:27:55] Speaker B: So we can see in the control room right now.
[01:27:58] Speaker A: Or a one way mirror, essentially. Essentially, they can see out, but you cannot see in.
[01:28:05] Speaker B: Okay, so if we kill them in the control room, nobody in the ballroom is going to see us murder them?
[01:28:10] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:28:10] Speaker B: Okay, so we can still super murder the control room people. That's easy.
[01:28:14] Speaker A: Yeah. I just hope that they can't, like, get a message out before you murder them.
[01:28:17] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:28:18] Speaker D: They'd be able to see us coming, right?
[01:28:23] Speaker C: Oh, that explains a lot.
[01:28:26] Speaker F: How long would it take us to get from the stash back to the control room? Realistically, just from our knowledge, not like, specifically.
[01:28:41] Speaker A: It would. Especially if you're trying to not draw attention. It will take a bit.
I have to make sure that, like, nobody sees you. So you're not gonna be able to move quickly and sort of only move when, you know, guard guards are moving or people aren't looking.
And you'll have to get the weapons back.
That's the thing.
[01:29:04] Speaker B: That's the easier part, actually. I think it would be.
It might be better to just in this small group to get the weaponry.
I can hide a great deal of it in my skirts. They are goofy for a reason, and it is not for fashion. I thought this might be a problem.
[01:29:29] Speaker D: If we had someone under your skirts and then you transformed.
[01:29:37] Speaker B: I think they would. They would then be visible.
[01:29:43] Speaker F: Or they would be crushed.
[01:29:46] Speaker B: I mean, it is like I.
How do I describe it? It's like an illusory disguise well within.
Hang on.
Let me read the spell carefully.
Don't kiss my face.
[01:30:10] Speaker E: Thank you.
[01:30:15] Speaker B: We create an illusion that causes the target to appear as another creature of the same body shape and roughly similar height.
[01:30:25] Speaker F: So they would also have to. You would have to be a poofy guard.
[01:30:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:30:31] Speaker B: You can change the appearance of clothing to make armor look like a dress.
Held items are ineffective and worn items were removed return to their true appearance.
So I guess that's an Aubrey call.
[01:30:48] Speaker A: It really depends because it's also just like if somebody is under your skirts, that's unfortunately even. No matter how poofy they are, they might get distended a little bit because, you know, your legs are still under there too.
[01:31:03] Speaker B: Not if I ride on their shoulders.
[01:31:10] Speaker C: Y' all ain't trained lion dancers. Get out of here.
[01:31:18] Speaker A: But I do think this is a good question to let you all think about what your plan going forward is for. For next week.
I do think that as this is going on, you do notice that the servants are going around and starting to hand people these wine glasses with this sort of purple wine in it.
[01:31:49] Speaker B: Poison.
There it is. Guys are quite.
[01:31:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
So, yeah, take us out.
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