Tyrant of the Dark Star 3.32 - Family Ties

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Sam. [00:00:43] Speaker B: Waking up asleep I've been dreaming Dr. [00:00:47] Speaker A: Long, I cannot find meaning. Hold my hand, Let me stay by [00:00:53] Speaker B: your side through this never ending night. [00:00:59] Speaker C: I can feel it now it holds [00:01:02] Speaker B: me all the these demons around me [00:01:07] Speaker A: in this red light because me he is reaching out, consuming. [00:01:32] Speaker C: Hello everybody. Welcome back to Goblins of Gaze. I'm Aubrey, your gm. I'll toss my players, introduce themselves, who they are, who they're playing, and then we'll get rolling into things. [00:01:40] Speaker D: Hi, I'm Aki and I play the vigilante Gravewing, who is a Nagaji's self monk and kineticist. We both use she her pronouns. [00:01:52] Speaker B: Hello, I am Faris, she her and I play Alouette Ferrer. Also she her, a bardic thaumaturge beast kin doing her best while juggling a family curse, falling in love, and of course, the end of the world. [00:02:05] Speaker E: Hello, I'm Dusty. I use they, he pronouns. Name playing Eu. Formerly Moran, still a problem, just angrier now. They are Blood Hunter, Nephilim problem. Just. Just trying to fix things, even though it's all bad. They also use they he pronouns. [00:02:31] Speaker F: Hello, I'm Sparlock and I play Alistair Whiskerfield, the great rat detective, arcane archer and wizard extraordinaire, the revolutionary firebrand, sworn enemy to the Scriabins and scourge of the bourgeoisie and master of Nicodemus Tower. We both use he, him pronouns. [00:02:53] Speaker A: Hi, I'm Tick. I use he, she, they pronouns. And today I'll be playing Niall, who uses he, they pronouns. He cooks, he cleans, he eats people, and has an alien parasite living in his spine, slowly consuming him. What more could you ask for? [00:03:06] Speaker G: Hi, I'm Alyssa. My pronouns are they, them, and I play Laith Idrisi, the fourth Dampier Dandy, rogue, failed matricide with a minus one constitution modifier. Leith uses she any pronouns. [00:03:19] Speaker C: So what happened last time? [00:03:23] Speaker A: A lot. But to break it down, [00:03:28] Speaker D: we went [00:03:28] Speaker A: to Ravenswood Academy and split up into several sections. Laith was described disguised as someone. Wow, my words are. My words are wording tonight, I think. My apologies. Laith was disguised as someone. Well, I keep looking at everyone's names. Like shit. None of these are their character names. I'm not gonna say that Dusty went to the fucking thing. Yuri. Yuri on ice. Yuri went to see yet another one of his exes that he has consistently managed to break up with. This one specifically, he won V1 the student in class and got permanently banned from this establishment. Him and disguised. Leith was like, hey, there might be a theft and we might be doing it, but, like, trust me, bro, it's pretty ethical. And they were like, okay, I'm trusting you, bro. But only because your friend is, like, really persuasive and you're not. But I'm trusting you, bro. During this time, Pocket Alastair managed to escape and tried to break into the headmaster's office. But unfortunately, the headmaster has a lot of security and did not manage to do it. On the B plot of it, Alouette and Niall went to go visit Indigo to check out what exactly was going on. Found a dead body, proceeded to steal the dead body, bring it to Indigo's room, and then have to hide it. After the Twilight watch came involving Niall's sister. They want dead to rights at some point. Potentially. Probably. Definitely. And after basically smuggling a body in Indigo's room and then the cop showing up to her door and then closing the door on them, she's like, I. Yeah, but we got some good information about a bunch of different things. Mostly the serial killer guy, and we're gonna have to find Mr. Serial Killer and serial kill the serial killer. This is like a serial killer off. Now that I'm thinking about it, it's like a. It's. It's like we gotta out serial killer the serial killer by killing the serial killer. [00:05:21] Speaker D: Yeah, that's not how that works at all. [00:05:25] Speaker B: By. [00:05:27] Speaker D: By what words mean. By what words mean. [00:05:31] Speaker A: You are. [00:05:31] Speaker B: You. [00:05:32] Speaker D: You have implied you have said the wrong thing. [00:05:36] Speaker A: What if we turn the serial killer into soup? [00:05:40] Speaker B: Bill does not make that statement true. [00:05:43] Speaker A: Hey, it's soup just for me. And then Grave Wing went on a date with Vitora. I'm pretty sure. No. Okay. Honestly, I think. [00:05:53] Speaker G: Right. [00:05:53] Speaker A: I think I had a dream last night where Gray. We went on a date with Vitoro. And, like, I don't remember the details. [00:06:00] Speaker C: On a date? [00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah, My. My mom. My mom was trying to murder me. My dream. But also, they went on a date and it was like, to, like, a little soup stand, and they just. They were sitting down. I just remember there's a specific point where Vitoria was, like, really big for the seat and was sitting, like, really awkwardly in this big seat, and Gray was just chilling really tiny, and she was like, do you want to move to, like, other seats? He's like, no, this fine. And he said he was like. He was like, really big for some reason, just sipping soup out of a cup. That. That was my dream. My bad. That did not actually happen. My apologies. But anyway, that's what happened. [00:06:30] Speaker D: You leave this in. You leave this in. This is not. This is not blooper material. This is recap material. You leave this in, we just gaslight [00:06:39] Speaker A: everyone into thinking that this actually happened last time. Then when I go to back to watch it, they're like hold on. This didn't happen. [00:06:46] Speaker C: Yes, but Alistair still needs to give me another fortitude save because he was poisoned. [00:06:51] Speaker F: That's a 20. [00:06:55] Speaker C: You will be taking another 15 poison damage and you're stupefied. 3. [00:07:02] Speaker E: Are they still a rat in my pocket? [00:07:06] Speaker C: Yes. [00:07:08] Speaker E: So I just take out this incredibly sickly rat. It's like. I think this is Alistair. Alistair, can you. [00:07:18] Speaker B: What did you do to him? [00:07:19] Speaker E: I didn't do anything. I got him out of there. Alistair, can you transform back, please? None of us. Well, I think l could talk to you because I love talking rat. [00:07:29] Speaker F: But you, you just hear in squeaks. What would you do with the drunken rat? What would you do with it? [00:07:42] Speaker G: Harry, did you have a flask in your pocket or something? [00:07:46] Speaker E: No. Why? [00:07:52] Speaker F: Hearing the requests, I will untransform. And I just look rather sickly. [00:08:02] Speaker E: Alistair, what happened? You were hobbling when I picked you up. [00:08:08] Speaker F: There's poison in the. I don't think it was designed to kill anyone but it hits you like a truck. [00:08:20] Speaker C: Speaking of, I'm probably gonna do another shortage. [00:08:24] Speaker D: Hey, can I. [00:08:25] Speaker B: We all recollected. Yeah. Can I just give Alistair a little sip? Sip of jealous Please. [00:08:33] Speaker C: That will heal him, but it won't get rid of the poison. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Okay, that's a start. [00:08:39] Speaker F: Does anyone. I don't think I'm a medicine person. I'm trained in medicine. [00:08:46] Speaker B: I can do also just a straight up medicine checking the bonus things the [00:08:53] Speaker C: chalice does attempt to counteract check too, I think. [00:08:57] Speaker A: Unless Alistair counts as a soup, I can't use the spoon of purified food [00:09:01] Speaker B: and drink of poison. So learning me type his guts will [00:09:07] Speaker D: be soup soon depending on what this poison does. [00:09:10] Speaker A: Can we put him in the chalice? We just smoke him with the spoon and that's it. [00:09:14] Speaker B: Jesus Christ. [00:09:15] Speaker E: I would like to Medicine, please. [00:09:19] Speaker C: Please. Yep. [00:09:21] Speaker E: Treat poison medicine, whatever this poisons DC Yuri. Okay, Yuri's gonna attempt to like sit Alistair down and look through the nefarious apothecary stuff that either they have or Nile has. I, I, I, I already have to use a hero point. I have to use a hero point. [00:09:45] Speaker B: Didn't give you guidance. [00:09:47] Speaker C: Who's our fastest hero point? Use maybe. [00:09:51] Speaker E: But that was great because I rolled in that 20. [00:09:54] Speaker C: All right, what's the total with my medicine? [00:09:58] Speaker E: That's a 3536 with guidance. [00:10:01] Speaker C: 36. Okay. That is a. Because of the NAT 28 critical success, which will take him down two levels. So he's only at one. [00:10:12] Speaker E: And they get a plus four circumstance. [00:10:16] Speaker F: Gives a plus four. [00:10:17] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. That plus four circumstance bonus, which I've [00:10:21] Speaker A: also come to realize I can just whip up an elixir of life really quickly because that gives a plus one item bonus to saving throws against diseases and poison for 10 minutes. [00:10:29] Speaker E: We're just putting all this shit in Alistair. [00:10:32] Speaker A: Let's stack shit. [00:10:33] Speaker B: You know, thought Alastor was drunk now. Now they're really drunk. [00:10:37] Speaker A: No, this isn't the vodka. That's a separate container. This is an unrelated beverage. This is nice chicken stock broth from yesterday that I will give Alistair. Just quickly whipping it up, you know. [00:10:51] Speaker F: All right, so time for the next one. I'm not asking right now. Okay, so that's a plus four circumstance. And what was the item bonus? [00:11:04] Speaker A: Plus one? [00:11:05] Speaker F: A NAT 2441. [00:11:08] Speaker C: So, yeah, you are able to recover from the Mage's Bane poison. [00:11:14] Speaker F: Oh, that was. That was terrible. Never again. [00:11:20] Speaker G: I guess it could never be lethal. I imagine students try to break in all the time. [00:11:25] Speaker F: Yeah, but the. It made me feel so. So stupid, for lack of a better word. Me brain. No. Worky. Good. [00:11:37] Speaker G: Well, if you were a student, that would probably make you much easier to catch. And it's good to know that at least this was the outside of the room. [00:11:49] Speaker E: Yeah. How did you get to like, something pop up? Did you inhale anything? [00:11:57] Speaker F: When you turn the doorknob, there's a little needle that sticks you. [00:12:05] Speaker E: That will do it. [00:12:08] Speaker F: Yeah, that's why I was hobbling right in the paw. [00:12:16] Speaker G: So there might be worse traps within. [00:12:20] Speaker F: Fortunately or unfortunately, I don't want to be the one to catch them next time. [00:12:27] Speaker E: Were you able to see if the actual crown was there? [00:12:33] Speaker F: There were lots of crown looking things, but I'm not sure. [00:12:40] Speaker E: I see. I see. [00:12:43] Speaker G: Well, Girardo, given what Alistair described as the poison, you should be the one we send in. We won't be able to tell the difference. [00:12:54] Speaker A: That covers her mouth as they do actually sticker a bit. [00:12:59] Speaker C: The door also had an alarm on it. [00:13:02] Speaker E: Yeah, we heard the alarm. [00:13:05] Speaker B: The alarm was triggered. I'm gonna ask a dumb question in character because God is the one who told us this, not Alistair. The door. Was the alarm was triggered from the door or from something else? Are we expecting the security measures to now be worse since you were discovered breaking in? Or are they going to be better because Yori's Reconnection with their ex is went well. [00:13:41] Speaker E: They definitely heard us out. So I wouldn't say it went well, but it did go successful. [00:13:50] Speaker B: Fair enough. [00:13:52] Speaker E: Yeah. This one you're just like Nozzlehead had a lot of fun. [00:14:00] Speaker A: I did. [00:14:01] Speaker E: So. [00:14:01] Speaker B: Oh. [00:14:02] Speaker E: They gave us a week's time. A week's time to be prepared for possible chaotic elements of us trying to sneak in that. So I think that gives us a safe deadline to also do that and then coordinate whatever's happening at. [00:14:26] Speaker A: Talking about unpredictable elements. There is a bit of a serial killer issue on campus right now. [00:14:36] Speaker B: I I'm sorry. I think it is. I wonder if you could tell us more about the senator Graveling. Because I, I, I feel [00:14:50] Speaker A: on a date right now. [00:14:51] Speaker B: I thought graveling was here because we are all here. [00:14:54] Speaker D: I walked in like five minutes ago. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Okay. We all got home and gravel came back with the pot of, with a pot of water like Niall, we need the tea. Please. We need a strategy getting tea. [00:15:07] Speaker B: I, I, I based off of what I was told and what we observed and, and whatever about our adversaries. It seems that it is the senator. Did the senator have a. Are you aware. [00:15:28] Speaker D: Right. Because it's been like a while. What do I remember about the senor? Like I remember very service level things about him. But like what else? [00:15:45] Speaker C: For the sin eater, Very much his. His whole thing was he would always cut people open and remove organs. It was different ones each time. But generally always chest cut open, organs missing. [00:16:09] Speaker D: And who. Did he have a pattern? I'm not talking about what he's doing right now. Where the pattern is. Ravenswood. I'm talking about previously. [00:16:19] Speaker C: Previously it was he went after people he felt were bad. Quote unquote. At least following his moral code. [00:16:30] Speaker D: I have a question. Were they just poor people? [00:16:35] Speaker C: Usually. But occasionally there were other people caught in the crossfire. [00:16:42] Speaker D: And like how many people did he kill before he was put down? [00:16:48] Speaker C: Before you were you. Your sister was able to put him down. It was seven or eight. [00:16:56] Speaker D: Yeah. Senator. He went after people who were deemed bad. I do air quotes at least. Bad in his whatever moral compass. Truthfully it just meant poor people. Occasionally you get the one or two affluent. He killed about seven or eight and my sister put him down. I was there for it but didn't do the most damage. Definitely didn't do the killing blow. [00:17:41] Speaker B: And what was his armor? Blah blah blah. What was his armor? How did you know it was him and not someone Diaz to the murder. [00:17:58] Speaker D: He like to take out organs. [00:18:01] Speaker A: That does match. [00:18:02] Speaker B: What we found is exactly what we found. [00:18:05] Speaker D: They were different each time. Like, it was never like, oh, always the lungs, you know, Sometimes it was like, here's intestines, here's this, here's that. A thing that my sister and I thought he was trying to do was make something. [00:18:25] Speaker B: Did he usually leave us with Dom somewhere very public? Then I think for sure that this is what we are. It is either a copycat or. But knowing that this Indar has been assigned to Ravenswood as a district, then I think it's likely he is killing again. There have been three. [00:18:46] Speaker D: Three. [00:18:47] Speaker B: We did, unfortunately. I say we. Niall did have to eat the last one. [00:18:52] Speaker D: Huh. [00:18:53] Speaker A: Okay. To be fair, we were going to remove it to investigate it in Alouette's frenzied bird decision that I could not particularly stop. And putting it back while all the Twilight watch was there was definitely not a good idea. And I did not want to leave it in someone's dorm room. [00:19:12] Speaker D: Why'd you move it in the first place? [00:19:15] Speaker A: I look at Lou. [00:19:18] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:19:21] Speaker A: I don't speak of bird very well. I look at Lou more tensely. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Lou almost admits that she almost tried to eat it herself, decides no, she's not ready to cop up to that and just says it. And there was a brief. I regained control is what matters. And then we couldn't really properly determine what was going on with it in a public location, out with witnesses, so we moved it through. [00:20:01] Speaker D: Okay, new point of order. From now on, we put one non cannibal with someone who is a cannibal. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Lou, are you a cannibal? [00:20:20] Speaker B: I'm not a cannibal. [00:20:21] Speaker D: No, you got the tendencies, but I'm sorry, [00:20:28] Speaker A: Look, it's. [00:20:29] Speaker D: It's. It would be, quote, really awful for you to accidentally take a bite and then realize you're taking a bite and then you have a mental breakdown publicly with a corpse. Okay, I'm saying it more so of like we just think about that, all right? Shit happens. [00:20:52] Speaker A: Yeah, you just accidentally take a bite out of someone if they're looking pretty scrumptious. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Look, [00:21:01] Speaker D: I'm not shaming you here. I'm just thinking about the fact that it's your mental on the line. [00:21:10] Speaker B: Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. You know it is. No, I don't know anything to say about that. Very well. [00:21:19] Speaker A: To be fair, in our moving it, we at least managed to determine how the body died. It was left up in some statue arms, but that's suppose a benefit of a boon or a bang. You know? What's the Saying the thing about. [00:21:35] Speaker D: Okay, I, I, I know what you're trying to say. Look, just know that this guy is a freak. [00:21:46] Speaker A: I could tell. Who just kills people and cuts their chest open to make a statement. That's weird. [00:21:53] Speaker D: A lot of people do it. [00:21:57] Speaker B: I'm just saying who died? Okay, we were able to identify the victim and we left, so that is fine. Well, not fine that they are dead. Obviously that is bad. But this is the professor of Necromancy whose name I'm going to drag out my brain by scrolling up mentally through what one might consider not Atensio. Professor Atencio. [00:22:27] Speaker D: Were the other two students? [00:22:28] Speaker B: Yes. [00:22:30] Speaker A: Okay, [00:22:32] Speaker D: you might want to try to learn more about the students at the very least. Like what? What could they have done? Is that could be considered a SID here? That's, that's what I mean. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Oh, I see. I, I would imagine we could find that out pretty easily. Or at least we can learn who they are. And if there are some connection to the necromancy professor. Perhaps it is necromancy that the new tower is against, despite being presumably some sort of undead or a corpse puppet. [00:23:14] Speaker A: The. [00:23:17] Speaker D: Were the cuts clean? Were they messy? [00:23:20] Speaker A: Aubrey. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Aubrey. [00:23:22] Speaker A: We all look at you like Aubrey. [00:23:25] Speaker B: Dear God, please tell us. [00:23:30] Speaker C: Thinking about it, they were very clean. This grieving, you would know that [00:23:38] Speaker E: the [00:23:38] Speaker C: Sin Eater wasn't necessarily a surgeon. But they were. They were from Malachond. They were from. They're from Bashania originally. And they learned some skills there which they continue to employ. [00:24:03] Speaker B: And there were no cuts. [00:24:05] Speaker C: Okay. [00:24:08] Speaker D: Senator was from out of town. Shania. [00:24:17] Speaker B: I think that is why the Blackwater Collective tends to roost, park, dock, whatever pirates do. [00:24:30] Speaker D: I don't have a boat license. [00:24:33] Speaker B: I've never been on the boat, so. [00:24:36] Speaker D: Look, my, I wouldn't be too far fetched to say that this is the exact same guy operating the exact same way that he did before. He's just in a different location, maybe stuck to this location, so he's got gotten itchy or something. But my biggest concern is why did he of all people get assigned to probably the most prestigious area? [00:25:03] Speaker G: And like he was killing poor people before, maybe they thought it was a good way to restrain him, have no one around to satisfy his interests. [00:25:14] Speaker D: So bring him to the school district. [00:25:17] Speaker A: If I may, I think the idea of a copycat might be quite interesting. Simply because a very prestigious student looking down on others and being inspired by a serial killer that kills poor people is probably more likely than someone coming back from the dead. Hypothetically. Killers do inspire other killers inspire other Killers. Unfortunately, [00:25:39] Speaker G: the past few months, how many copycat serial killers have we seen as opposed to evil brought back from the dead? [00:25:48] Speaker A: I think our situation is a bit very specific and genuinely should not be used as a frame of reference. But I understand the valid point in which you are currently making right now. [00:26:00] Speaker C: All of these are outliers and should not be counted. [00:26:05] Speaker A: Do you like. Listen, a lot of the people had a lot of influence that I've got back from the dead. I. I don't. I don't know. Maybe it's a copycat is what my current running theory is. Just because why would he be in [00:26:17] Speaker B: a school but also know this. We already know he is in the school. We went and we gathered all of the people of the Blade. He's part of the Blades. Not the bloody blades. The. [00:26:27] Speaker D: The. [00:26:27] Speaker B: The holy blades. [00:26:29] Speaker C: The. The High Priest. [00:26:31] Speaker B: The High Priest blades. He was one of theirs and he was. That's. We learned specifically where he was assigned and that it was him. It is unlikely that there is a copycat and the same person in the same location. A good theory. Otherwise though, I would say if we did not know for sure that there's two of them. [00:26:49] Speaker A: I'm kidding. What in a ghost face? 1999 movie. [00:26:53] Speaker C: 1996. [00:26:55] Speaker B: 1996. [00:26:56] Speaker A: My bad. Obvious year. [00:26:59] Speaker D: You just flip the number around. Okay. It's good to have theories here. [00:27:09] Speaker B: Okay, both. [00:27:10] Speaker D: Both sound pretty logical. Now here's the thing. If we're doing a fake heist and we got a serial killer to stop. The fake heist is in a week. I don't know if we're going to be able to do both on different days. You can't just break into a school during again the high alert already and then do it again later expecting it to go flawless twice. So we got enough people, we could split up, do it on the same day. [00:28:04] Speaker B: Sorry, I am. What are the two things you are referring to? The. The crown. Stealing the crown from the university. And the other thing that you are referring to? The jailbreak. [00:28:16] Speaker D: Serial killer. The city. [00:28:18] Speaker B: Okay. [00:28:19] Speaker A: We take crown, we kill killer. [00:28:22] Speaker D: Look, I'm. What I'm saying is there's already. They already have booby traps for the students to get into the damn place. I don't think we can do the school. [00:28:34] Speaker B: I see, I see, I see, I see, I see. If it is up the senator, the most recent kill, the victim was not located on school grounds. Near the school, yes, but there was in housing outside of it. I don't actually know if any of the kids were on school grounds. Or just in the district as a whole. Not to say that you are incorrect, that we shouldn't do it at the same time, just that that might change things. It could. [00:29:05] Speaker D: My. My issue is breaking into the dean's office is huge. [00:29:15] Speaker B: Yes. [00:29:16] Speaker D: The senator prowls the entire district. Who's to say that the entire district doesn't get put in high alert? Could make it harder for the senator. But you know, this guy's got blades recognition, which means blades sanctions. So I don't think it's gonna bother [00:29:37] Speaker B: him too much above the table. [00:29:42] Speaker G: Did the people knocking on Nile's friend's door like his sister? They are lamplighters. Question mark. [00:29:56] Speaker A: Twilight Watch. [00:29:58] Speaker G: Okay. Their Twilight Watch. And they were. [00:29:59] Speaker C: There's only one member of the Twilight Watch. [00:30:01] Speaker G: Okay, so it was just. [00:30:03] Speaker C: It was just her specifically. [00:30:05] Speaker A: I don't like that, actually. That's very suspicious. [00:30:08] Speaker B: Is it actually. Oh, no, you keep asking. You might be asking the same question. [00:30:12] Speaker G: Sorry, I was just gonna ask, like. Yeah, so it's specifically just that the Twilight Watch is looking for this serial killer. And they are not under the purview of the lamplighters and sickness, technically. [00:30:26] Speaker C: Okay, yeah, they are. They are different. They're different. Like. Like the Holy Blood is a hunter organization. The Twilight Watcher. Hunter organization. And then there's the third hunter organization called the Nighthawks. Which you haven't had any encounters with yet. [00:30:39] Speaker G: That we know of. [00:30:40] Speaker C: That you know of. [00:30:45] Speaker G: And why are we hunting down this serial killer when the Twilight Watch is already doing it? [00:30:53] Speaker D: Cuz they suck at it. Three people have dead. [00:30:58] Speaker A: Pretty much. [00:31:02] Speaker D: Also, the more of the blades that we take out, the easier a lot of this becomes. [00:31:09] Speaker G: Why does it matter who takes them out as long as they're gone? [00:31:15] Speaker D: I don't think the Twilight Watch will take him out. [00:31:20] Speaker G: Did you tell us that it was your sister? [00:31:23] Speaker A: No. None of you guys know Shiv. [00:31:25] Speaker D: Literally. [00:31:25] Speaker A: Only Graveling knows that lore. They are adopted. They don't. [00:31:30] Speaker D: But I. But I don't know that. I don't know that she was there either. So, like, I'm going off of. [00:31:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:39] Speaker A: I haven't been able to tell you in private yet, so I don't dox myself for the entire group or not. [00:31:46] Speaker D: No. [00:31:46] Speaker A: Shut up. [00:31:46] Speaker B: Open up to us. Come on. No. [00:31:48] Speaker A: Shut up. Oh, my God. Wow. Mind your own business. You first. No. I would like to deal with the serial killer, at least for peace of my own mind. There is someone at that school that I care about deeply and is important to me. And I would like to make sure that it is dealt with before. There's a chance that the Twilight Watch lets her become a victim instead of a student. [00:32:13] Speaker B: I think it is also possible that the Twilight Watch could be stopped by officials. Or as we don't operate under them, it is very possible the Twilight Watch might identify and find them and then be told to let them go. [00:32:32] Speaker A: That is true. I am entirely operating off of selfish desires right now, which has happened in this group before in order to save someone we care about. So I would like to be on the table that I want to deal [00:32:42] Speaker B: with this myself, personally, actively, in the middle of doing one of those things. [00:32:46] Speaker A: So thumb, you get a thumbs up. [00:32:48] Speaker B: That's how that started. [00:32:50] Speaker A: While we're here, if it is required, I can make some extra snacks as bribes if you guys would like that. [00:32:59] Speaker F: Bribes sound good. [00:33:02] Speaker A: I'll give you an extra piece of cheese from the cheese drawer. Alice drawer. [00:33:08] Speaker D: I. [00:33:08] Speaker G: No, wait. I'm not saying that we let him kill your friend, but surely there's some members of the Twilight Watch who would chafe at orders to let a serial killer go should they bring him in. And the more discord we can soar so in these organizations, the easier our entire mission becomes. [00:33:39] Speaker B: We could one of the Toilet Watch members that was asking around the sight of the victim. We could tell her what we have, what we know, not necessarily in person. We could just drop a note and let her go after them. [00:33:59] Speaker G: We do that episode of Leverage where they are behind people who think they're doing a heist and they're just like, setting everything up for the people to do the heist. [00:34:10] Speaker A: Look at the serial killer over here. Ignore the fact that there's 17 thefts going on in the background. Don't look at that. You know, just. What about the serial killer? You know the fire alarm went off, right? [00:34:20] Speaker B: What we needed it to. [00:34:22] Speaker A: Wow, how convenient. Oh, my God. [00:34:26] Speaker E: Do we know this Twilight Watch member or is just someone that seems like they'll actually do something? [00:34:34] Speaker A: Niall looks pretty disgusted. The idea of working with this person pretty visibly discussed it actually. Like, no, we should not be doing that. [00:34:41] Speaker B: I. I think that Indigo. I think she gave Indigo her contact information so we could get it that way. Giving Niall, like a weird side eye. [00:34:51] Speaker E: I mean, is Nyla. Is this any. Anything more than just Twilight Watch or you, you? I. I say this with respect, my friend. You are bad at hiding emotions. [00:35:06] Speaker A: I'll give you an answer and I don't want you to dig. Is that acceptable? [00:35:11] Speaker E: I can't promise anything. I've seen how you all talk around Me and my exes. So I think it's a little fair, and I think it's a little fair that I ask follow up questions. [00:35:23] Speaker A: I'll decide if I answer them. She is someone that tried to kill me in the past and I want her dead. [00:35:29] Speaker E: Okay. I mean, that's like, you know, that. That makes sense, I guess, But a lot of people tried to kill me and want them dead. We could still use them. Doesn't mean you have to like it. [00:35:42] Speaker A: If you guys want to talk to her, that is entirely your prerogative. But if I see her and we are fighting, I will kill her. Am I clear? [00:35:54] Speaker E: Just wait till. Just wait till we get into a fight. And you could kill them all you want. [00:36:00] Speaker A: All right. [00:36:02] Speaker D: This is why I hate these monster hunters. You're not unionized, so them. [00:36:11] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, you're unionized. You don't have any workers protections, I'm afraid. [00:36:17] Speaker E: Oh, no, I have no insurance. You're right. [00:36:21] Speaker D: You're just. Yeah, you're just. You're just freelancing around. [00:36:24] Speaker E: I don't have dental. [00:36:26] Speaker D: The Twilight Watch doesn't have dental. That much I can confirm. I just dislike them because they're all boot lickers. [00:36:35] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, yeah, them out of 10. [00:36:37] Speaker D: Out of 10 of them, only one of them actually genuinely only wants to protect the people. And then a solid eight want to rise in ranks. And then the other one. The other one's opinions doesn't matter. They're just there. They'll surprise you. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Well, if you, Lou, would like to talk to this person, that's up to you. I cannot promise it will go well. And I cannot promise anything, really. I'm all right with being on the team that can deal with this serial killer simply because I don't want my friend to become a victim with how long the Twilight Watch might take or if they'll even deal with this person. Given their name and reputation, the heist team truly probably should include the people that are good at heisting. I am not very good at heisting. [00:37:27] Speaker B: But you have magic. [00:37:30] Speaker A: My magic is not very good at stealing. My magic is very good at beating people up. [00:37:37] Speaker D: Look, if we deal with the senior, there's a good chance that the Twilight Watch trickles in. What I am gonna ask you, though, is that you. Can you control yourself for a bit? Because if your desire to kill this bitch is more than our. Our as a collective desire to kill that and leave, it's gonna be real messy. [00:38:03] Speaker C: Anybody who wants can give me a society role about the Twilight Watch. [00:38:07] Speaker A: Okay? And While you do, I can agree to that because I respect you, Graveling. But if this person turns hostile to me, I will not hesitate. Is that acceptable? [00:38:16] Speaker D: I don't think you are listening to me. Then I said, should this person show up hostile or not? You just stated that you want to. You have you without hesitation, you're going to kill them on site. What I'm saying is don't do that. This is not the time or place. [00:38:41] Speaker A: Let me rephrase. I wanted to say that while I want to do that, I respect that if this person is not hostile, I will not take any hostile actions towards them. But I am unsure if this person tries to kill me if I'm able to not kill them back. [00:38:59] Speaker D: I'm asking if you can stop yourself mid trying to kill them. This is a thing that we've all done. [00:39:06] Speaker A: My emotions are controllable and I will not do anything to jeopardize the mission as long as I'm not put in peril by this person. Is that. [00:39:16] Speaker E: Who is this person? Someone that way you're acting. I know the way you're acting is a little bit more than that. And like, you know, a lot of people tried to kill me. I don't shoot them in the middle of the street. [00:39:27] Speaker A: This is a person who was close to me. And that's all I really want to say about it. [00:39:36] Speaker C: All right. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Not an X. [00:39:38] Speaker A: To clarify, I'm not like you. I don't collect those. I don't have any X's. [00:39:45] Speaker C: Well, I'm sorry. Or some information about the Twilight Munch. The Twilight Watch. They are not from this part of the country. They are all located in Tercelka. They. That's where they are headed? Like headquartered and located. They formed shortly after the portal to Mog Mel opened up and started pouring creatures into the world. Their. Their whole thing is all about being that last line of defense between our world and whatever comes through them. Being here is incredibly uncommon. And there aren't many here. And if they are, they're probably on some sort of diplomatic mission. And if they were to start ending up dead, that might cause more attention from the rest of the Twilight Watch. [00:40:54] Speaker G: So what you're saying is we need to kill this one and steal one of their organs so that it looks like the Sin Eater did it. And the Sin Eater is being protected by the Lamplighters. [00:41:10] Speaker A: I. [00:41:12] Speaker E: Sorry, A rift. [00:41:16] Speaker A: That is actually really funny. What the. Stop being funnier than me. My own Discord Channel. [00:41:28] Speaker C: Very famously, the Three Hunter orders do not get along. They all have Very different ways about doing their jobs. The whole. The Twilight Watch very much does not approve of the Holy Bloods methods. [00:41:43] Speaker A: Does Le suggest that out loud? [00:41:45] Speaker G: Yeah, absolutely. [00:41:47] Speaker A: I was going to pause and be like, actually, it's an incredibly good idea. [00:41:51] Speaker B: Okay, I don't think so. [00:41:54] Speaker D: I mean, like, I understand, but I'm just going to say no outright. [00:42:00] Speaker B: Agreed. [00:42:02] Speaker E: Maybe after we deal with all of this. If we want to really get into political wars and now we just kind of have to save the world. [00:42:14] Speaker G: But after we deal with this, we won't have the leverage of the Sin Eater. I'm assuming part of this is dealing with them. [00:42:23] Speaker A: I think dealing with them to protect the people of the Ravenswood Academy is all that I really need. [00:42:30] Speaker B: I think that we should just tell this one Twilight Watch what we know and see how inclined she is to do something with it. And if not, then we have to ourselves and if so, great. One less thing for us to have to deal with. [00:42:50] Speaker A: I think it'd be best if you. You or maybe Le did that simply because you're both very. [00:42:57] Speaker B: I think it's going to have to be me because Leif wants to also murder her. [00:43:02] Speaker A: I. I understand the. I understand the risk of doing that, so I understand that it's not an option right now. I'll have a nice shot of vodka when I get back home as a treat. [00:43:19] Speaker G: I'm not saying that I want to murder her. I'm just saying that if she ended up dead, it would be politically expedient to frame the Sin Eater. [00:43:28] Speaker B: Well, at the moment, the only way to do that is to kill her ourselves. So let us not. That's an option only if she happens to die. But I don't think we should go out of our way to make that plan happen. [00:43:42] Speaker A: All right, so I suppose the option is for Lou to speak with her and to give information and potentially see what can happen in best case that this problem can be dealt with without her interference. And I'm going to assume we can focus our efforts in the best case towards dealing with the Crown heist. Is that the correct trajectory right now? [00:44:06] Speaker B: Okay. [00:44:08] Speaker A: I suppose we need to contact her to see what happens anyways. Or in this case, Lu can and I will withhold any violence [00:44:23] Speaker C: while the rest of you puzzle out how exactly you're going to steal this crown. I guess I'll follow you, Lou, as you attempt to make contact. [00:44:38] Speaker B: Does the Twilight Watch have a known place they are working out of here in Malachi. [00:44:47] Speaker C: Give me a society check. [00:44:49] Speaker B: Okay. [00:44:51] Speaker E: Who's going with Lou? We can't just be sending people alone right now. [00:44:56] Speaker D: I can go. I can go. [00:44:57] Speaker E: Good. Thank you, [00:45:01] Speaker B: guys, for being better than the last time. Lucid Society. I think that's 31. Let me double check. Yes, 31. [00:45:18] Speaker C: 31. All right. After asking around a little bit, it certainly sounds like the few agents of the Twilight Watch, they're kind of spreading. Spread out. They don't have, like, a. A base. They're assisting with various things that are happening in the city. There's, like, maybe six Twilight Watch agents in the city currently. You can figure out, with this Hester being among them. And you learn that Hester is usually in the Ravenswood district, usually, depending on the time of day, patrolling or enjoying a drink at the tavern in the evenings. [00:46:06] Speaker D: Tavern might be the better way to approach me. [00:46:10] Speaker B: Trying to decide if I should approach her directly. I can wear a. I can wear somebody else's face. I don't have to go up myself. You want another face, too? [00:46:24] Speaker D: No, actually, it might be better if I show up in the full look. [00:46:28] Speaker B: She may not know your reputation. [00:46:31] Speaker D: Exactly. [00:46:32] Speaker B: Okay. [00:46:33] Speaker D: And if she does? Well, even better. [00:46:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then, yeah, I'm just gonna grab the most, like, neutral and nondescript face possible to disguise myself as was. Just like, the person. You see them, you walk away, go, what do they look like? I can't pick them out of a catalog. And I will go to the tavern with graveling and see if I can't spot her again. [00:47:11] Speaker C: Give me perception checks, [00:47:15] Speaker B: 28 net, 20 for 38. [00:47:23] Speaker C: You realize that her look is very striking. She has the. The white hair and sort of this sun, The white hair and sort of this figure that is of someone who has spent a lot of their life training to fight. And you notice the shield that's sort of leaning up against the table of the symbol of the Twilight Watch, of the sunburst eclipse. [00:48:01] Speaker B: I will buy her a drink and then approach and ask, excuse me, are you the. Are you part of the Twilight Watch? [00:48:16] Speaker C: She looks up at you and guessing, probably half health, maybe. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Oh, probably. [00:48:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I think also in student clothing. I think I found some student clothing. Yeah. [00:48:35] Speaker C: And sort of nods as she sort of takes a sip from her drink. You do notice that she's not actually imbibing any alcohol right now. It is. It is water. And she nods at you and says, yeah, that would be me. Can I help you with anything? [00:49:00] Speaker B: I've heard that you're the one to talk to about the deaths. Is that true? [00:49:10] Speaker C: Well, I will certainly listen to anything you have to say anything you can help us find out whoever's doing this. And we'll gesture to the seat across from her. What are you doing? Graveling. [00:49:20] Speaker D: Well, high key. I'm just right beside Lou. I'm not doing any of the talking unless necessary. I might have taken a seat already. [00:49:36] Speaker C: She looks over at you and will sort of look up and down, take you in and give you a nod. You're relatively sure that she might know who you are and a little bit at least of your reputation. [00:49:52] Speaker D: Nice. [00:49:54] Speaker B: So I've heard. I. I've heard I knew the professor and. And I've heard that. That the Sin Eater is in the district. Are you? Have you heard of the Sin Eater? [00:50:16] Speaker C: What other people have told me. And they're all pretty gruesome stories. I wasn't in the city last time he attacked. This is my first time in Malachant. [00:50:29] Speaker B: Well, so I consulted and kind of gestures at Grave Wing to get more information because I didn't see any of the initial attacks firsthand. But it is my understanding that this. What's been going on is the same. That it's probably the same person and I don't know. Are you familiar with. The High Priest has a task force called the Blades. Are you familiar with them? [00:51:02] Speaker C: If they are what you would like, give me perception checks. [00:51:05] Speaker B: Yes. 27. [00:51:14] Speaker C: She certainly isn't seeming to hide her disgust at the mention of the Blade and kind of just mutters, thieves and criminals keeping order. What else? [00:51:28] Speaker B: We'll lean forward kind of conspiratorially and be like, I think the same thing, but like, what can you do? And then we'll say there's a sort of unofficial list going around the city kind of through like word of mouth. But I have it under good authority that it's pretty accurate. And the Blades were all assigned out to different districts to keep order, as it were. And according to the list, which again, my sources are very, very accurate, the one who was assigned here was the Sin Eater. I think that's who you're looking for. [00:52:17] Speaker C: Kind of nods. And unfortunately, things you're saying do appear to line up. [00:52:26] Speaker B: I think it's also important to note. And we'll look at Gravewing and hesitate for a minute and try to just send mentally to Gravelink without magic, because I think the message spell is still technically audible. It's just very, very soft and subtle, like in your ear directly. And just try to be like, should I tell this woman that he. He's dead? Because that could change things. When you bring him in, [00:52:57] Speaker D: I Think based off of all the information that you said so far, I can figure it out. And so I. I'll pipe up. I was there when we killed him the first time. If he's back and it's looking like his work, it's either really enthusiastic copycat or something undead. And look, I punch really good. Phenomenally good. I don't mind taking one or two zombies out. I'm not sure I've got that firepower that you might have better access to. And we both know that the holy blood's not gonna be doing. [00:53:44] Speaker C: He's probably Titan cursed. [00:53:49] Speaker D: There was. [00:53:51] Speaker B: Professor Atencio had a theory. I don't know if you're aware. He was. The necromancy professor had a theory that there's something extra going on in the city. It. It's. If he thought that there were a few people who were coming back who shouldn't. Shouldn't be coming back. [00:54:15] Speaker D: Did you say Titan first? [00:54:18] Speaker C: That's what we call it. Give me a diplomacy check. [00:54:25] Speaker D: Is there any way I can aid in this? [00:54:27] Speaker C: Yes. [00:54:29] Speaker A: You guys can res up my sister, I guess. [00:54:32] Speaker B: I like that one. [00:54:34] Speaker A: We. [00:54:35] Speaker D: We both actually got the best. Riz track record here. [00:54:38] Speaker A: Okay, Rizza for the lore. [00:54:42] Speaker B: Plus, Lou is never more character, like, good at what she's doing than when she's not herself. And the dice always back me up with that. The more I bless Lou, the more the dice are like. Would you like a high number, honey? Anyway, I got a 35. [00:54:56] Speaker D: I have a 24. 28. 25 to 8. [00:55:00] Speaker C: So there would be 25. So it would be critical success. So that's a plus. Two to your number. [00:55:07] Speaker B: Sweet. [00:55:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:11] Speaker B: So 30. Actually, no, sorry. I like, it's 36. 36. [00:55:15] Speaker C: 36. [00:55:16] Speaker B: And mismatched. Or I missed. Whatever. It doesn't matter. I was wrong, but now I'm right [00:55:22] Speaker C: and she kind of lowers her voice and, like, leans in and just like. That is partially why me and the rest were sent to the city to investigate this. We're getting more and more reports of people showing up. Titan cursed. Possessed by these creatures that come through the portal. It's become worrying the level of infections we're seeing. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Are they. When they're Titan Burst, are they like themselves, except they were previously dead and are not, or are they like. Like a ghoul and sort of not as they very much. [00:56:07] Speaker C: If they are dead, they're sometimes like themselves. The ones who are dead who are returned eventually do become true monsters. [00:56:23] Speaker A: What. [00:56:24] Speaker B: What is a true monster? [00:56:29] Speaker C: This thing takes whatever evil is inside them. And warps their bodies and eventually they are unrecognizable. [00:56:47] Speaker D: Is there anything else we should know about them? [00:56:49] Speaker B: Abilities? [00:56:50] Speaker D: Powers. [00:56:54] Speaker C: They are usually just as skilled and powerful as they were in life, but they can tap into the energy from the portal, allowing them to drain life energy. And they feed on. Feed on it. And sometimes feed on human flesh. [00:57:28] Speaker D: Just humans. [00:57:31] Speaker C: People. Just whoever's around them. [00:57:35] Speaker D: All right. I've got a really specific question then that you might be able to answer. [00:57:45] Speaker C: Of course. [00:57:45] Speaker D: There. Black goo. [00:57:50] Speaker C: Yes, that is something we've noticed. And we'll say, like you'll notice the. The black veins and the sclera and black Icarus blood. [00:58:03] Speaker D: We might be able to help each other out more than I thought. [00:58:08] Speaker C: At this point, I welcome any assistance. [00:58:13] Speaker D: Is there. How much jurisdiction do you actually have here? [00:58:18] Speaker C: Almost none. [00:58:21] Speaker D: So you and your. Your squad. I will say basically rogue here. [00:58:29] Speaker C: Basically. We have been ordered to act alongside the going guard and bring this killer in when we find him. [00:58:40] Speaker B: If the killer was. If the killer was not to come in alive, would that be counting as breaking your diplomatic ties? Or is it? Oh, no, they resisted. [00:58:55] Speaker C: As long as I'm not implicated or any of the members of my squad are implicated. [00:59:00] Speaker B: I mean, I doubt the senator would not, you know, attack. [00:59:06] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I've been told of that. To restrain. Bring him in alive or whatever state of being he is in anymore. [00:59:17] Speaker B: They're just gonna let him go. [00:59:19] Speaker C: I'm aware. [00:59:22] Speaker B: Is that. Is the cooperation only required within Malachd, or is it the greater country as [00:59:28] Speaker C: a whole that's theoretically just the city? [00:59:32] Speaker B: So if for some reason he were to be outside of the city when you caught him, you would not be required to return him? [00:59:40] Speaker C: Well, at that point, I would just bury him and let the ELD have it and say nothing. [00:59:47] Speaker B: That's not a bad idea. Gravering. You had a question? [00:59:52] Speaker D: More like a statement. Can you meet us here tomorrow? Same time? [01:00:00] Speaker C: Yeah, it's about the time I end my patrol anyways. If I'm not here, leave a message with the innkeeper. I'm renting rooms above. [01:00:11] Speaker D: All right. We'll keep in touch, [01:00:17] Speaker C: of course. Extends her hand. Says Hester, by the way. [01:00:26] Speaker D: Grave wing handshake. [01:00:30] Speaker B: Estelle. Children. Handshakes. [01:00:35] Speaker C: Yes. I'll see you all tomorrow. And if I learn anything else, I will let you know [01:00:43] Speaker B: as well. Wait. [01:00:45] Speaker D: I just give a firm nod and will kind of go, but, like, I'm waiting for Estelle. [01:00:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna see if I should. No, yeah, I'll just. I'll just go [01:01:07] Speaker D: you all leave and wait one second. I need to read. I need to read this item again. Did I not. Oh, maybe I didn't put it on my sheet. Oops. The. I. I'm the one who owns the Greater Sigil ring. So if I. And. And that. That ring is currently like tracking. It's currently tracking Lorelei. What role do I have to make? I'm assuming it's stealth, but like, we were chatty as well and we just gave like. We just like shook hands. Can I like, put the sigil on. On Hester? [01:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:52] Speaker C: Give me a stealth roll. [01:01:55] Speaker D: Nat20. [01:01:57] Speaker C: Yeah. No, you're fine. She doesn't notice anything. [01:02:04] Speaker B: Cool. [01:02:05] Speaker D: I put a sigil. I put. I put a little sigil on her. I like to think that the little sigil is little moth [01:02:15] Speaker B: cute. [01:02:17] Speaker D: And when we are like out of the. The tavern a little ways, basically, until you decide to change faces again or something like that, I stay quiet. And then we'll drop a marker. [01:02:37] Speaker B: Oh, with the. I did that too long with the marker. The signature that you have. [01:02:45] Speaker D: Yes. Not that. Not that I. Not that I don't trust her to show up again, but it's better to [01:02:56] Speaker A: have a [01:02:59] Speaker B: more a question of where she goes in the meantime. [01:03:02] Speaker D: Pretty much. [01:03:04] Speaker B: Especially since you are. You introduced yourself as yourself and they. Gestures broadly at the city. Are aware that Garrison means anathema. [01:03:18] Speaker D: Pretty much. [01:03:20] Speaker B: So she says. No one. That is a good sign for us. [01:03:24] Speaker D: Yeah. But also if these guys are going full rogue, they seem to know more about schism. [01:03:33] Speaker B: Yes. Niall is going to hate the suggestion, but if. If this works out, we could find some allies among them. [01:03:43] Speaker D: We could. Oh, God. Nial's got fucking. [01:03:47] Speaker C: It is. [01:03:48] Speaker B: Do you know anything more specific about why Naya HR so much? [01:03:57] Speaker D: I do. [01:03:58] Speaker B: Is it warranted? [01:04:01] Speaker D: It is. I'm. I'm not one to really judge on the matter, to be honest, but. Can't say that I don't understand where he's coming from. Can't say that I 100% support it. I just know what would happen after it's done. [01:04:27] Speaker B: I see. [01:04:29] Speaker C: It's. [01:04:30] Speaker B: But would it be a problem? [01:04:35] Speaker D: It would only. Realistically, it would only be a problem to Nile in the long run, but socially, it would be a big problem for a Twilight Watch member to die here. [01:04:50] Speaker B: Sure. Yes. That's a. Yeah. [01:04:53] Speaker D: So technically, is this a greater problem? Yes, it. It's. This is. There's emotions, there's connections. There's so. There's so much that is so deeply personal denial. But so much bigger than him. So it's really. I. It's. I sound like a dick. But [01:05:17] Speaker B: if there is anything that we are all learning, that is that personal things, sometimes people decide for the greater good. [01:05:26] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:05:27] Speaker B: Well, [01:05:30] Speaker D: at the very least. Oh, God. [01:05:33] Speaker B: If I can work with Talis and all. Nail can avoid one woman without killing her for 10 minutes. [01:05:43] Speaker D: Did you tell Grave Wing about your connection to Talis? [01:05:49] Speaker B: I think someone did. I don't remember if it was spilled beans. I'm pretty sure it came up. Yeah. [01:05:55] Speaker C: Yeah, it came up. [01:05:57] Speaker D: Okay. I was. I'm not 100% sure what we keep secret anymore because we. [01:06:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:02] Speaker D: So much I'm not fairly sure. [01:06:05] Speaker B: I think the only thing that Graveling doesn't know that happened in the hole is that is. I think she just doesn't know that, like, Bernard turned her mom into a bird because Talis was having an affair with her. I think like that specifically. But the fact that he was down there and clearly like, bunking up with mom kind of thing, I'm pretty sure you know that [01:06:29] Speaker C: at one point. [01:06:30] Speaker B: Yeah. You may not know the timing. [01:06:32] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:06:32] Speaker G: Okay. [01:06:33] Speaker D: Okay. I'll not. Okay. Draven will nod. Like I said, I'm not one to talk with my family matters kind of all over the place. [01:06:43] Speaker B: But yeah, [01:06:47] Speaker D: at some point, we all gotta. We all gotta figure ourselves out. And if regret really is worth anything. [01:07:00] Speaker B: You know, it does occur to me, I don't think, you know, just since we're talking about family, just because I don't think, you know, my father is part of the cult. [01:07:19] Speaker D: Oh, I put that. I put that two and two together. Full offense, actually, because technically you shouldn't be the one getting offended. There's no way that this guy, this weasel looking guy could actually do anything without the help of someone else. He is the definition of. Of getting carried by someone else's bootstraps. Someone else's career just feels very incompetent. Full offense. You should not be the one feeling offended. [01:08:11] Speaker B: I'm slowly coming to terms with not feeling like everything that reflects on my family reflects on me. So only a little offended, and that's progress. [01:08:25] Speaker D: I think there's a. There's a difference between my family sucks and it's our fault versus my family sucks and it's my fault. There will be a very clear line in when it's your fault. [01:08:44] Speaker B: Yeah, but even if it is the first one, I think it is my duty to correct where they went wrong. [01:09:00] Speaker D: That's what makes you much more likable than the rest of your family. [01:09:05] Speaker B: You've Only met Yori. I think you'd like to. I think you'd like my sister. She was wonderful. I think you'd like her. [01:09:19] Speaker D: Most people can grow on me like moths. Also, I've met your. Do you call him uncle now? Because technically the relation is very great. Yes. [01:09:34] Speaker B: My grandfather. I don't know what to call him. He has told me to call him Victoria, and I am. That is very difficult to do. [01:09:47] Speaker D: When I was little, I just called everybody Uncle Auntie. That's it. [01:09:51] Speaker B: Oh, that seems much easier. No. Opera. Destruct the pad. Use the correct, proper term of address for everyone, and if they are too far older than you, then you use their title, Nobles. But, hey, maybe by the end of this, that won't matter and there won't be any title. It's worthless currently, but that's not the point. [01:10:20] Speaker D: Grieving's doing a really good job at the pursing of lips and not saying anything or trying to. Like, I want. Like. It's like you could tell. There's like. Maybe it's a snide remark. Maybe it's something I know that you don't know. I'm. I'm like. You know, like, I'm just. It looks like I'm chewing my lips and that's exactly what's happening. [01:10:44] Speaker C: Deception. [01:10:45] Speaker B: Check for that. [01:10:47] Speaker D: Oh, my God. Can I lie? Yes, I can. Okay. You know, I don't. Do I want to use a hero point? No, I don't. So in theory, I can lie. But when you roll a two on a die and it becomes 15. I can't. I don't think so. [01:11:09] Speaker C: I'm relatively sure that beats your perception. Dc. That doesn't both be your perception. [01:11:13] Speaker B: Perception flat. My perception is an 18, not even counting the DC. [01:11:19] Speaker C: Yeah, see, graveling is definitely lying. And. Or holding something back is. [01:11:26] Speaker B: Do you. You can say something. I'm used to it at this point. You. You don't think? I don't everything ever. [01:11:35] Speaker E: No. [01:11:35] Speaker D: See, I don't think you're gonna be used to what I. What I wanted to say. And. And it's not even that I wanted to say. It was like I. Impulse and I stopped myself. [01:11:47] Speaker B: I mean, you can insult my family, that's fine. [01:11:49] Speaker D: It's not. I don't think it's an insult. I mean, it could. Maybe it's an insult, like, to you. Like, maybe you could consider it an insult. I don't know if you would consider. Your grandpa asked me out. [01:12:03] Speaker B: To do what? [01:12:06] Speaker D: Courting, I believe was the term. [01:12:09] Speaker B: Courting? [01:12:10] Speaker D: Yeah, like. [01:12:12] Speaker B: Like a Courting like. Like, like just like a gesture, as if Leith is standing next to her and like keeps gesturing like between me and the non existent lathe like that. Oh my goodness. [01:12:27] Speaker D: I nod. It would appear that he finds all of this. I just. I do. I like flip my cape up. Finds all of this fascinating. [01:12:41] Speaker B: Well, that is found. You are fascinating individual. He is very old. He is so old. [01:12:51] Speaker D: It would appear that that is the type of man I attract. [01:12:54] Speaker C: Old. [01:12:55] Speaker B: You have done this with other men? [01:12:58] Speaker D: We just found out that. I'm not telling you this. I'm. What is this? [01:13:06] Speaker B: No, no, this is good. We are bonding. [01:13:10] Speaker A: Oh God. [01:13:13] Speaker B: Hey. I mean, no, I cannot judge your. Your romantic partners. I am in love with Le. You know, like, she is beautiful and very talented, but she cannot tell the truth to save her delight. I think in fact, if she were in mortal peril and telling the truth about her feelings would save her life, she would still die. I would have to find a way to bring her back to New Zealand and then she would still lie about it. [01:13:43] Speaker D: At least you know what you're getting into. [01:13:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, what's working out? [01:13:49] Speaker D: I think we just kiki all the way home. [01:13:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:13:55] Speaker D: I feel like at this point we're. We're at the fucking door. Like we were just like yelling. [01:14:02] Speaker C: Yeah. And I guess you come in as everyone else is. Are you all debating what to do for the heist? [01:14:16] Speaker D: What I want to understand about the heist is we're still doing it despite not like knowing that the doorknob is booby trapped and we don't know where this crown is actually. Like we know like vaguely where it is, but we're still doing this with like no other preparation besides. Hey, we're stealing it in a week. [01:14:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, we have a week we can use. Not a guild, a rebellion move on it. If we want to get more like for preparation and then also successfully stealing it isn't technically the plan anyway. We just have to look like we successfully stole it. [01:15:04] Speaker D: We have to give a trade off still to some degree. So like that's where a whole bunch of other comes into play and where I would like to suggest that we somehow try to stage a meeting with this Dean or something like that. Because if anybody's gonna help us and then has the resources to help us, it's the guy who has it. [01:15:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:27] Speaker D: And knows what it looks like. Yeah. So it's like, I personally don't think it's a good idea to actually do the heist yet. [01:15:34] Speaker C: Don't know what it looks like and so therefore you can't even create like a facsimile of it. [01:15:44] Speaker F: But I will second that. He's quite effective at things like poisons. I say as I get a far [01:15:56] Speaker E: off look, we have a week if we could attempt to do an actual meeting if we like. I mean we have ends with the school. We get this disguise as a student there and like have a private meeting or you know, disguise those one of the professors or just go talk to the man at this point. [01:16:25] Speaker A: Could be a good idea. Technically if he has six days to make a fake for us to steal, it would probably be a better option than anything. It would get hypothetical thieves off his tail if he's wanting to work with us. [01:16:34] Speaker B: And by this point he has already been notified by your ex which was the point of meeting them anyway so that somebody else told him in a way that would make more inclined to speak with us. I thought is what we are doing. [01:16:47] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [01:16:48] Speaker B: So we're on schedule according to our plan. [01:16:51] Speaker E: We could just do a follow up meeting in regards to the situation. Actually that's probably already good. We could just say we want to talk about what's happening in six days. [01:17:02] Speaker B: We want to. The best case scenario is that we get to have a fake heist with their food permission. That looks really convincing, you know. [01:17:13] Speaker E: Leif, would you like to cause another distraction with the students as disguising SSL again? [01:17:20] Speaker B: Is that what you did? [01:17:22] Speaker E: Don't. [01:17:23] Speaker B: I wanted to go. [01:17:24] Speaker E: Don't. [01:17:25] Speaker G: I wanted to go talk to the headmaster. [01:17:30] Speaker D: I was. I was. I was gonna say, you know, you just apologized to that person and I. I don't think it's a great idea wearing their face. [01:17:43] Speaker E: I was seeing them as Nath was wearing their face. [01:17:46] Speaker D: I don't think that's great. Look, okay, I know that's what I'm saying. [01:17:50] Speaker E: I wasn't having fun with this. [01:17:52] Speaker D: But why did you approve of it though? [01:17:54] Speaker E: I did not approve of it. You think I could stop place? [01:17:58] Speaker G: Oh, you don't think you can stop me? [01:18:00] Speaker E: Shut up. [01:18:02] Speaker G: You're right, but I didn't expect you to acknowledge it. Irido. [01:18:07] Speaker E: See, what I'm talking about is the only way they would help and I unfortunately needed their help. [01:18:13] Speaker D: All right. Okay, okay, okay. I would rather the talkers be. I would rather all of us actually be there for this headmaster meeting. [01:18:25] Speaker B: It just makes. [01:18:26] Speaker D: Just makes more sense, more numbers. I doubt he. I doubt they do anything stupid. Also, we can leverage a lot of things like promising to deal with the serial Killer. I don't think it's. I'm not educated, but I don't think it looks great on like any. Any transcript. Any. Any. Any form of. Of publicity to be like, hey, it's super hard to get into this school. Send your kids here and maybe they'll end up inside out on a statue. I don't think that's great. [01:19:05] Speaker A: Attraction. I don't. [01:19:07] Speaker D: I don't think that's great. We have a. We. We officially have a two out of three chances that you will receive a body. [01:19:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:19:16] Speaker D: For a burial. [01:19:17] Speaker B: It could be the headmaster. Who is next. I mean, they got the professor. [01:19:21] Speaker E: That's true. So we do a follow up and make a plan for that and then we get ready for the handoff. Splash. The prison break. [01:19:35] Speaker B: Yes. [01:19:38] Speaker E: Right. [01:19:39] Speaker B: Look at us. Plannings are cooking now. [01:19:45] Speaker C: Certainly sounds like a plan where half of you will go and talk to Hester and the other half will go talk to the headmaster. [01:19:56] Speaker D: Oh, we're not splitting that up. I thought Hester would be like, I don't. The head. Is the headmaster gonna take 24 hours with us? [01:20:02] Speaker C: No, I was probably not. [01:20:04] Speaker D: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I was like. I was like, this is just. This is just gonna be like a. This is a free coffee day. [01:20:10] Speaker B: Come on. [01:20:12] Speaker D: And I just shut that. [01:20:13] Speaker E: The GM house. [01:20:15] Speaker D: I just shut that down. [01:20:16] Speaker G: No, I. [01:20:17] Speaker D: The GM is my enemy. [01:20:18] Speaker A: We never give that too much, Aubrey. [01:20:22] Speaker B: Well, we sent two of us off in a dark alley by ourselves. That was your time to jump us. [01:20:28] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. [01:20:29] Speaker E: That's how they got marrow. [01:20:30] Speaker B: Exactly. Now, I think we would have been fine. [01:20:34] Speaker A: Wait, had. I'm sorry, did I miss that? There's that. We're now to going. Working. Like, did everyone say. Yeah, we're working with Hester now? [01:20:40] Speaker D: And also we. We didn't. We didn't. [01:20:44] Speaker B: We. [01:20:44] Speaker D: We have agreed to meet up with Hester again. We haven't taught. We have. We have not had the chance to mention any of the Hester stuff. [01:20:53] Speaker B: Yes. [01:20:53] Speaker C: Talking about the heist, I was like, [01:20:55] Speaker A: did I miss it? Now we're at the heist. Yeah. [01:20:56] Speaker C: No, all of that is a thing for next time. [01:21:03] Speaker A: Can I take us out? 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