EP 2 - "Best Laid Traps"

[00:00:01] [SPEAKER_02]: On the tail of one of the Ironwood Vipers, the elf in veteran called Corvac HIST

[00:00:08] [SPEAKER_02]: The wolves tracked down an old associate of his to a cultist's hideout in an abandoned

[00:00:14] [SPEAKER_02]: catacom. This associate had double too much into the dangerous void magic and upon

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_02]: the conclusion of a confrontation, a terrible explosion of void energy was unleashed.

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_02]: In the aftermath of this blast, I'm going to need everyone to roll a hard discipline check.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_02]: That is three difficulty.

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Bread rolled two threats, cow rolled two successes and three threats.

[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Fin rolled one failure and one threat.

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_08]: Our North rolled one failure and one advantage.

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_07]: Coy rolled one failure and two threats.

[00:00:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And Saracot got one success.

[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Any threats that you rolled, you will take double that amount in strain.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_02]: If you succeeded, you will take five wounds.

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_05]: If we succeeded, we take five wounds?

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, is that pre-soaked?

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not saying damn it, I'm saying wounds.

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Straight up void.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm thrilled to see what happens to those of us who failed.

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_06]: No, no.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Fin just disintegrates right off the face of the game.

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm turned into dust.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And if you failed or did not roll a success, you will take ten wounds.

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you know that girl has straight up bed.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, he did explode with chaotic void energy, so that's kind of valid.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_05]: That's true.

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of him, as the lot of you are kind of crawling free of whatever rubble and

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_02]: the way he's going to be.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just shaking off the effects as best you can of this explosion.

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_02]: The major's corpse is spread into five or six pieces throughout the room,

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_02]: though all remain close enough to the altar where he stood.

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, everybody alive.

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm hurt.

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Belly.

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Doc, can't you do something about this?

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I can.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's not be in here for starters.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Breads first thought absolutely should be for the wounded as a position.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_06]: However, he is going to go to the corpse.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, and I would like to spend two of the player points from the pool to use my special building.

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Very fun.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Ooh.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody, ooh and all for bread.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Go ahead.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, we love bread.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you guys.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_06]: I appreciate the owing and on.

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Bread.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Bread.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Bread.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_04]: And then like breads daydream comes to an end.

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_04]: He realizes he's got like a chunk of rocks sticking out of his chest.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_07]: Come back to reality.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_05]: You're still on the floor and we're still hurt.

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to examine the body.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to be so happy like a seizure.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Bread's here like bread.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Bread and then reality's like all of us been like bread.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Wake up.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Bread.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_04]: We need to wake up.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Bread.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Please.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Bread.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_06]: We're suffering.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh.

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I love it.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, isn't it complete darkness though?

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_02]: No, no.

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_02]: There are torches and lamps still burning.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_02]: The structural integrity of the chamber you're in has been compromised and a good portion

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_02]: of the ceiling has caved in but there is still adequate light.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And so bread, as you head over to this corpse here.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Stepping over Finn's moaning body.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Sometimes we're focused on things that we should not be focused on.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_02]: You reach out in a mental sense as a strange tingling kind of runs up your left arm and you hear the slightest whisper though it's incoherent.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a little inkling of a notion to maybe pick through this guy's belongings and as you do so leaning down.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Your hands are guided perfectly to a small note tucked inside this mage's pocket of his robe.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Though mostly scorched by fire or stained with blood, you can make out the signature at the bottom of core vac hist,

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_02]: scrolled in cursive, kinsush.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_02]: The only other legible thing is an embossed emblem in the upper right hand corner of a two-tailed fox.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_02]: If you want to examine that emblem, you can roll a lurch.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Sure. That will be daunting.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Five difficulty.

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm good at lore.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_02]: You've never seen this before.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. Three failures.

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_02]: You do not know what this symbol is but you know enough to clean its importance and if core vac wrote upon this,

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_02]: you can kind of connect the dots that this is probably some kind of taverns or in stationery.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Signing in a semblance of relief, bread will tuck this away for later and begin attending to the wounded which is everyone.

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I will say with the worsening conditions within here just the dust and the rumbling of this catacome and the low light,

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_02]: you'll probably suffer some major penalties.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_02]: It might be better to move outside first.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. Bread will move to as if getting ready to attend to everybody just sort of like in a days because he is very injured himself.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_08]: Bread, this place isn't going to hold out for long. If they can move, we need to move.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_06]: I can everybody move.

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I think so.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_07]: I guess so.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_07]: As well as you could if you just got exploded.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_08]: We did. Now let's move.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_08]: And our normal is going to start heading out.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Cal is going to follow very closely behind.

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. I say we leave.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Yep. Kyvel follows suit.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Luckily the explosion and collapsing of this chamber has opened up the previously barricaded exit from this very chamber.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_02]: So you are able to make a hasty exit and just in the nick of time too as the last one of you steps foot outside back into this graveyard,

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_02]: the mausoleum behind you buckles.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And then you are just buffeted with this big puff of dust and smoke as you hear a deep rumbling beneath the earth behind you.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Anybody know anything about an end with a or I don't know some sort of establishment with a two tailed fox.

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyone else is free to examine the paper and do a daunting lorchek though you can only do this once.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And whoever does one, I'm going to spend a story point from the GM pool to upgrade that one of the purples to it red.

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_05]: Cal is also going to take a look at the note that bread has that bread found and looks specifically at the emblem of the two tailed fox.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_02]: All right. So that will be a daunting lorchek.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And I rolled two failures in one threat as you're looking at it's your vision still a little blurry from this ordeal and you got to ringing in your ears and you're more overcome with nausea than any form of helpful information.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know what it is not a sit down and Cal is going to sit down on a rock somewhere just nurse her headache.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Bread will pass the note to everyone still look at it next if anybody and start with Cal as far as patients go.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Sarah code just happened to be standing next to bread. So he'll go ahead and take the note and he'll kind of scan that you see his eyes go up and down looking across the page and they do rest on this two tailed fox symbol and he'll try to rack his brain and see if he's got any idea what it's about that will be another daunting role.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'll spend one of my story points to upgrade it. I rolled one threat with that you to just are unable to pinpoint where this is though there's a bit of an easiness to when you see it couldn't tail exactly where that comes from.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, as bread is attending to Cal here you are currently suffering a two severity critical injury. Would you like to try to heal that first before you go on to.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, bread is not very good at taking care of himself so in sort of like not being able to move recognizes like I will not be useful to anybody until I deal with this. So yeah he'll take care of that critical first.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_02]: All right. Well, that will be then two difficulty for your medicine chain.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Two difficulty and it's all to self healing apply. Yes, it does. It does. It does. It does. It does. I actually love this is going to be a four.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. Can I spend story points to downgrade that at all? You can spend a story point to upgrade one of your greens to a yellow.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_06]: I will do that. I will spend a story point to upgrade some days because if bread can't heal, ain't nobody getting the old.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_06]: What do you get three successes one advantage one try it very. Wow. Okay. Who you are the opposite of compromised?

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you're uncompromised. You somehow did not take a head wound and all that trouble.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_02]: You're able to just center yourself and deal with your own wound that you would sustain in your arm before turning your full attention toward your patient in front of you.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_02]: And with that, I will let you take a boost I to your medicine check for kel and all of these medicine checks since their current wounds are more than half their thresholds are going to be a difficulty too.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Three successes for advantages. Oh, well then there you go. Everybody just kind of got blown up right? So I imagine a lot of it is like internal trauma and then also surface cuts and scrapes.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_06]: So cleaning anything that is like an open wound and then sort of stabilizing any tender areas. He has a very well equipped kit and is also intelligent about anatomy. So he knows what he's doing.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_03]: With three successes, kel you can heal three wounds and four strain as red is tending to the wounded doing the healing and whatnot. So Rako will go ahead and pass the note on to Finn who seems somewhat interested in it.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he takes it kind of refocusing his glance at the symbols words taking particular care to try to pull out any extra details as it were from this message.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what may not seem likely. He got two successes and four threats. You know that this stationary is not in fact from a tavern or an inn, but it belongs to a trading company that buys luxury goods, mostly food and ale's from like wholesalers and then delivers them to smaller establishments unable to deal directly with those big names.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_02]: This is a local company and since you're an R avonian, this company also has a presence in the union but they're mostly here pola based.

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_01]: We are not looking for an inn of any kind but rather a company that handles goods, working tile goods. They distribute squares to smaller companies.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I've run across them a couple times in my work, but they are fairly ubiquitous here in pola.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Should be no problem to at least find someone who can tell us where the nearest outpost is.

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Alright, well that's a lead.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Who's next on Brad's patient list?

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Who else need to link? And literally everyone.

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_07]: With all the work that I did for this operation, it seems that I need my strength to continue. Will you help me?

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I'll get to Yaka'ai and he will go to Sorako next to us, visibly less injured than Kai.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Here in the whole interaction between Brad and Kai, Sorako will look over at Kai, give her a little smile in the shrug and then like, you know, proper like one of his arms to be healed.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Five successes?

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you can clean him up perfectly and with your bonus apothecaria ability, we'll take away a strain as well.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Heck yeah.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, Brad. Master healer.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_07]: I swad you?

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_07]: Master healer, huh?

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_07]: I didn't take you as uncaring.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_06]: The more you talk, Kai, the more you're going to have to wait your turn.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_07]: Dear dear dear, I had a wrong perception about you.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_07]: I thought you were caring, a healer, kind, but I guess I was wrong.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_08]: Kai, I don't think you're helping your cause.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Brad just levels Kai with the look that is so dead inside genuinely, that it's kind of terrifying for a moment where it's like, I don't care.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_06]: And then he smiles again and we'll move on to Arna.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm seeing a lazy eye go look at me.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_05]: You have severe head trouble.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_05]: You have a concussion?

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_07]: I think that checked out.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_07]: If only there was a doctor around.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_02]: So this will be two for Arnaur.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Four successes.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Arnaur can heal five wounds.

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And last but not least, does Brad move on to Kai?

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he will heal Kai before he heals himself.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_07]: Blumenhane when people have the power in their hands, you know, you got to play nice, right?

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to hold your lives in my hands as a full campaign, baby.

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh my gosh.

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_08]: Brad, don't be afraid to skip that one.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, one success for advantage.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Kai, go heal two wounds and four strain.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Whipy!

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Thanks, doc.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_06]: You're welcome.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And then for your self-law, that's going to be a four difficulty check.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Can I spend one to look great?

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_02]: You may spend a story point.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_02]: All the dice have canceled out with some trembling hands and a lot of your instruments

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_02]: kind of stained or covered in your friends's blood.

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_02]: There's not much left for you.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_02]: And you'll have to make do as is moving forward.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_06]: He will wrap up whatever is bleeding and sit down.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Ryan, how did the health potions work again?

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_02]: You just immediately take it and it heals you for five wounds.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, me fully forgetting I have healing potions?

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I have some too.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_05]: So if you want to use one of yours, you can, if not, I'll give you one.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_07]: They're just dangling off of bread.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_07]: No, we're both healing potions, go.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_06]: No, I'll take one.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_06]: He will sit down and drink a healing potion.

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_06]: The health elixir, if you will.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_02]: You down this bitter concoction and you can recover five wounds.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_02]: What time of day is it?

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Is it nighttime?

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_02]: No, you got here pretty early in the day before the sun had truly risen.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And now it seems to be just before noon as you all are exiting this musty graveyard,

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_02]: trudging up the little hill back to the grove where you had hitched your mounts.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_05]: We all got concussions and it's not even noon yet.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm like exploded some guy, I killed three people.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_05]: We all have concussions.

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_05]: Just another day on the job.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_02]: As you move away from, you know, this sight of the cultists.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And toward your mounts, four horses settled and bridled look uneasy,

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_02]: sharing a hitching tree with two sizable lizards, Elvken riding

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Cadax, bristling with colorful scales and feathers.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: For each of you that has a horse, give it a name and describe its build.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_02]: And then for Chris and Ali, name your Cadac and tell us the color of its scales,

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_02]: feathers or fins.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Breads horse's name is Daisy and she is a mayor paint like brown and white

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_06]: and bread will mount.

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_07]: Kai's Cadac, his name is Tama and the main scales on his body are kind of like a muted yellow

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_07]: more of a mustard color and his spine is a light green.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_07]: Kai will come up to Tama and will mount on top of him.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_07]: Well that's what mountainy and sorry.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_07]: And will mount beneath him.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_05]: No, they're freezing if that was just a little awkward.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_05]: It's awkward.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_05]: It was so awkward.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know how to mount him.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_05]: I can't go home.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_05]: I shouldn't be here.

[00:15:38] Okay.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_05]: That was the spirit of Nick coming through you, just then.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_07]: Okay.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_07]: Kai will walk up to Tama and will mount up.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_07]: Does Mount write up?

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_07]: See you later.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_03]: And Sarako will go to his horse Nassad, a big beautiful black stallion built for speed.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_03]: And in one very smooth, practiced motion will let himself up and take a throwing.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_05]: Kai is going to wander over to her Cadac, and Sril kind of pat it side and just slowly

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_05]: get into the mail.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Still a little hurt from before.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_05]: And Sril is a female and she's like dark brown and has like a slight tint of green

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_05]: almost kind of like a camouflagey type situation.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_08]: Our Nour will approach his large pure white war horse, calling out his name, attacks that's

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_08]: been going and mounting his horse.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Finn walks up to his middle-sized horse.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's probably the most closely analogous to real life horses would be like an American

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_01]: quarter horse and it's jet black.

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of more raven black with undertones of just like blue if it catches the light

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_01]: just right and he walks up to her.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Pressus is forehead to her head and just says, let's see the thing.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's do this again and he's going to give it a couple strokes on the nose and then we'll

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_01]: mount up.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_02]: All right whoever wants to one of you can roll an average geography check.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Not Finn.

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_08]: Our Nour after mounting his horse will look in his pack at a map to attempt to ascertain

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_08]: the correct direction for them to be heading to the two tailed fox trading company.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_08]: Our Nour rolled three failures and one threat.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_02]: As our Nour consults his map and hands out a set of instructions, everyone kind of just shares

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_02]: a look like what the hell is he talking about?

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_07]: He's looking at the map outside down blue is land green.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Looking over at the map that our Nour has it's not even a map of Poland.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_05]: Our Nour is also the guy that's been in the same spot for like 20 something years.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_06]: So I don't know why we would be listening to him anyway.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_06]: I think you're going to want to consult a different map there.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, but Ed if you have a good map, please use it and delete the way.

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if I should lead but I do have a map.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Two successes for bread.

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_02]: With that check, Laurel, two successes.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_02]: You reveal that the nearest town is a quarter days ride away and it is called Clarel.

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Though a larger city, Lavion lies a half days ride away from where you are now.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_02]: We're incredibly they are not in the same direction.

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_02]: You could feasibly travel to Clarel then Lavion, but you wouldn't arrive in Lavion until late in the evening

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_02]: if you did so.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_02]: And if you decided to go to Lavion first and then Clarel, Clara would have to wait until the next day.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Lest you ride through the night.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Anybody have any particular lanes towards either city?

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Well I think it would be a bigger city.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_05]: It would probably be better if we could stock up on supplies.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_05]: If this is truly a mercantile place wouldn't you think it would be in a bigger city?

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_06]: True, but it's also a mercantile place that deals with people that don't have the sway to

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_06]: barter with bigger companies themselves.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's true.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_01]: My vote is the smaller town.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Lest we could meet without front time-wise and I think you are right there, Brett.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_01]: They would not be dealing too much with the middle sized to large scale in that could be located in...

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_05]: Clara?

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_01]: In Leror.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_08]: Then may have a point.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_08]: I may have been looking at a wrong map but that is the same direction in which I said we should go.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not saying that.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_06]: You're a very lucky sort, aren't we?

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I say at the small town because each of us are very...

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_03]: ...this healthy.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_03]: And not good.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_03]: So we go to small town, get some rest, take it easy for half a day and then we continue.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_03]: We look for two-tailed fox.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_03]: We find that very good.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_03]: We not find that.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Then we go to the big city.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Understand?

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I follow that.

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, very good.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Then it is settled.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_03]: We go to small town.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_06]: I go to the small town.

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Who's leading the way?

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Brett will lead.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I was just going to say, well, Finn, I trust you judgment.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_07]: We'll go in whatever direction you tell us.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_08]: Actually, maybe I want to change my mind now.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Not changing it is settled.

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_03]: We go to small town.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_03]: And please, a bread.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_03]: A full speed ahead.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_06]: And Brett's already like 20 feet ahead.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Love it.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_05]: Brett is regretting healing everyone at this point.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_02]: So the party is underway to...

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_02]: ...clare all.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_02]: The day passes.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a quarter-day ride away.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_02]: So you get there about as evening is upon you.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_02]: This town is not too big, not too small.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_02]: It's situated on a little hill amongst some other rolling geography.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Most of the buildings are flanked by farms or small vineyards.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_02]: And as your party comes upon the town proper.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Going from the outskirts, inward up one of the roads toward the town square,

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_02]: your presence is immediately noted by the mostly human populace.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of them avoid you speaking in hushed,

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_02]: tail-ish whispers before moving off.

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Though as you come to a stop around a small dry fountain

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_02]: in this little plaza that is the town square, one man.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Hazel haired, stout probably in Merrick,

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_02]: wearing a leather jerkin and a small brown cloak steps forward.

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Padding his protruding belly with one hand,

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_02]: the other resting on the pummel of his sheathed blade.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_02]: He gives you all one's over, the lot of you, and then gives a deep sigh.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, what pleasure do I owe the fine companions of the ironwood company?

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Your kind have a reputation, you know.

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And as the martial here, it's one I would rather keep as far away as possible from my town.

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, then you help us.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_03]: We find we need a food and sleep, and the totaled fox company,

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_03]: and you help us and we leave easy.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Am I supposed to interpret that as a threat?

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_03]: No, no, okay.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Please forgive the illiterate one.

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_07]: That is sad.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_01]: We have money, and we will pay you for services.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_01]: But we need some time to recuperate, and then we will be on our way.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_02]: We only have two ins here.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I suppose they could probably house you, but I will not speak for them.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I must have your assurance, however that you will not cause trouble while you are here.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_02]: You have my word.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Your word means nothing to me.

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I know the reputation that proceeds you.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_06]: What sort of assurance would you like?

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_02]: If you are to stay here, at one of our establishments,

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_02]: I will need collateral, such as something of value of your choosing.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Our weapons, perhaps.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Your weapons will do well.

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And Finn, without a word, just takes his dagger out of his sheath, drops it next to him.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_01]: It may become part of the property of this town.

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I can find another one easily enough.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And Finn looks at the others around him.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_01]: But perhaps you have some sort of storehouse, guard shack, where the others may store theirs,

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_01]: if they are willing to oblige.

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I will have one of my WTs, take them off your hands.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Though I would prefer also to know your business here.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_01]: If you've worked with us in the past, you likely know we do not disclose such information willingly.

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I have had the great fortune to have never had to cross paths.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_02]: With the Ironwood Company stocks before.

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_08]: We are here to rest in gather information.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_08]: And what information would that be?

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_08]: The location of the two-tailed Fox Company.

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_02]: There is no company here of that name.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_08]: Yes, and we are hoping somebody might guide us in the correct direction.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I do not recognize it's perhaps you would have better luck in a larger city.

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_02]: If you like, I can provide directions to Lafayon or Zero.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Either I'm sure we'll switch on Needs better than here.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Is he telling the truth?

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, why don't you roll?

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Vigilance.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Is this just a contest?

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep, one success, one advantage for me.

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_06]: One success.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_02]: You think he's telling the truth, but he is awfully confrontational.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So take that as you will.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Could I flip over a story point from the player pool

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_01]: for Finn to notice that there is kind of far from the distance from this town

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_01]: a potentially void-powered machine that is for farming purposes or whatever

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_01]: that could potentially be a need of repair

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_01]: that he could offer his services to take a look at.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Flip over that point, sweet.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And in the distance, over these rolling hills accompanying some of these farms

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_02]: you see a number of windmills.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_02]: A good handful of them are running though.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_02]: There's notably no breeze in the air.

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a very still day.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_02]: However, one seems to have fallen into a state of disrepair.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of softening his town a little bit because he also has been fairly

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_01]: confrontational in this whole thing.

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Finn gestures towards this malfunctioning windmill off the distance

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_01]: and says, look, we would appreciate at least some time

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_01]: to stay rest recover as my companions have said.

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And I can't help but notice that some of your equipment is malfunctioning.

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I have spent a great deal of service in the Air of On Engineering Corps

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_01]: dealing with exactly these machines.

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I would be happy to take a look at it as payment for our time here

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_01]: or at least some assurance that we have no ill intentions.

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_02]: I am sure it would garner goodwill from whoever owns that particular plot

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_02]: but since I cannot dissuade you, obviously, please then carry on

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_02]: with what you must do and do so without causing more trouble than you already have.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we can weapons then?

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Brad would also like to look around and see if he can see any signs of the hollowing

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_06]: here or like having seen it pass through or people that might need to be treated.

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_02]: You don't see anyone on the street besides the martial

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_02]: and there are no houses bearing any marks from various doctors.

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_05]: Cool, play safe.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_05]: That's so good to know, genuinely.

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_05]: Forgot that was like a whole thing we could run into is the plague.

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh yeah, geez.

[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_05]: We had concussions earlier and we have the black dust.

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_05]: It's fine, you've got Brad.

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Emerging from one of these larger buildings probably a state house of sorts is a

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Taylor-K boy, probably no older than 16 or 17 though he is in a similar get up to this martial

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_02]: and he comes around then expectantly to each of you in turn to collect your weapons.

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Brad will give him his dagger, he is not attached to it at all.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_02]: And he'll also pick up Finn's dagger from off the ground.

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_05]: It's been good even had it do we drop it?

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_05]: Kelly's going to have a much harder time letting go of the great sword

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_05]: as she's going to hold it in front of her and kind of stared out at it like white knuckle grip

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_05]: on the handle and before passing it over she'll say, you be careful with this now

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_05]: because I want it back exactly the way I give it to you.

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Do you understand?

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_02]: The boy will just not really acknowledge that he'll only glance up at you with his eyes before

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_02]: glancing down at the sword as he takes it and the martial though will catch your gaze

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_02]: and he'll furrow his brow at you.

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_05]: And I'll just look right back.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Sarako will take his sheath drape your off of his hip and to the boy he'll speak in tail

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_03]: like and he'll say, please do not worry about her.

[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_03]: She is a little on edge from where we have just come from.

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_03]: It is no problem.

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_03]: We will be in and out very, very simple, not terrible.

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, hand it over and the boy and fell as she says, I don't speak tail.

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Where?

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_03]: You will need to learn about your ancestors.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_03]: See you for a year.

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, they'll shrug.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Take your sword.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, okay.

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Everyone here, everyone here is it?

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, okay.

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_08]: As the man comes to our north, he'll go ahead and give him a spear.

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_07]: Kai would go forward but before she does she actually touches the shoulder of the martial

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_07]: and will say, a martial please, to be a dear.

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_07]: Can you just offer me one simple favor?

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_07]: And she will actually activate her special super duper power right now.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm using our last two player points.

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Using the last two light story points.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I have a feeling that Kai's ability will often be used for selfish reasons.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_07]: Are you betcha unless we get to be not the same side?

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_07]: I love it.

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm so obsessed with it.

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_07]: How does she do this, by the way?

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_02]: As you lean down off of your crack and you know, graze his shoulder.

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_02]: He kind of bristles a little looking between you and the great beast of a lizard that also just seems to wear a strange smile as it looks in him sideways.

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And he'll look up at you and say, I can offer her help.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, what can I do for you?

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I favor what favor.

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_07]: And then as Kai's speaking to the martial, she'll look him dead in the eye and her eyes as she's looking directly into the marshals.

[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_07]: She'll start to glow a yellow sapphire and he'll start to hear her voice booming in his mind.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_07]: In echoing as she says, I really can't pot with my weapons.

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_07]: Will you allow me to keep them?

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_05]: I call his honor, graze.

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_05]: Just watch it like what?

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Like he's actually falling for this.

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_02]: He'll glance over at his boy deputy that's come up behind him with all the weapons and he'll just wave him off back to the other side.

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure the statehouse and say, I think it would be an eminable arrangement to allow at least one of you to keep your arms and such.

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And then he'll kind of roll his shoulders uncomfortably and take a couple steps away.

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And now please, is there anything else I can answer for you before you are pleased on your way?

[00:30:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Kai is actually...

[00:30:52] No.

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_05]: It's no gold leaf, please.

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_07]: It's before the deputy walks away with all the weapons.

[00:31:00] [SPEAKER_07]: She's going to glance at the group glanta, the deputy as he's walking away and we'll say,

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_07]: And one more theme, Marshall. Why not let us all keep our weapons?

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Just in case something gets hairy.

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_02]: If something truly got hairy, he'll say as he takes a few measured steps away from you.

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure you will use your discretion to just leave town and you have that wicked bow across your back.

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure you'll be fine.

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And you'll see this like angry flash in his eyes as he turns on his heel and walks toward the statehouse with the deputy.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_05]: Would he know that the staff across my back is technically a weapon?

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_02]: That would have been taken, yes.

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so Kel will also submit the giant staff that she has across her back much easier than she lets go of her pre-sort.

[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of you are free to roam, Claire-O.

[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_05]: Kel is just going to walk around then.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_05]: She's just go for a stroll.

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Brad will pull up his hat and probe the town a little more intently looking for a plague.

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_01]: As soon as the Marshall walks away, he kind of heads off, Finn turns towards the rest of the group and he just says,

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to take a look at this windmill, but I think we should probably pick one of these ince and just hold me there later tonight.

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_01]: What the rest of you do, who is you well, but we need to rest.

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_05]: Kel will accompany Brad then if Brad's going to go.

[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_05]: Kel will use it as a guide to like check the town out and kind of see what's there.

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Lady Kayako!

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes? I'm sorry, what's Rako?

[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, so the Katrones of this town do not know what I have seen.

[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_03]: So you must come with me and we will find a room.

[00:32:45] [SPEAKER_03]: We have many rooms, not one room.

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_03]: They are all of us.

[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Many rooms.

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_03]: So we go together.

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_07]: Darling, what you feel more comfortable speaking in a native town?

[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_07]: We could do that no problem.

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_03]: You speak daily. He says in Taylor.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Sure respond in Taylor.

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, of course. It was required to my education growing up.

[00:33:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay. Very good then.

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Then you and I must go together to find some rooms for us to rest for the night.

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_03]: And then perhaps afterwards we can go look around.

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_03]: See if we can find a total of few symbols and we can see if we find any leads on anything like that.

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_03]: While the others are off, I don't know.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Here's, I think Fien is going to go and check out a farm or something.

[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_03]: He's a farm or I do not know.

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, yes, if you and I can go together, that would be most preferable because it appears that the people of this town do not understand.

[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_03]: And when I am poking.

[00:33:41] [SPEAKER_05]: I like to think we as a group barely understand you also, but we just have to totally agree with that.

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_04]: And like Sarako was like speaking kind of fast that whole time.

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Like as soon as you said like, oh yeah, I speak Taylor.

[00:33:54] [SPEAKER_03]: He was like so weak and then he just finally.

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_03]: And then after his discourse with Kayako, Sarako will turn around to Fien.

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, it is settled.

[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it me and Lady Kayako, we go find rooms and you go farming together with our nor.

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, good.

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Is settled.

[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_07]: Gives a universal thumbs up.

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_03]: And then without waiting for like any sort of confirmation he's going to go ahead and start writing off into the town.

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_02]: So, Kell and Brad have tried it off down one of the side streets of the town and are just poking around.

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Kayako and Sarako will head to one of the ends and then Fien and R nor head to the outskirts toward the farms on the northeastern side of town.

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's start with Kayako and Sarako.

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_02]: After looking around for a little bit, you realize you've got two choices to choose from here.

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_02]: You can either take a stay at the sleeping serpent or the Heather Hen.

[00:35:00] [SPEAKER_07]: That's really cute.

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_07]: Anyways, is there any, I mean like in all them have availability for all of us?

[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_02]: The town is not busy. You can surmise that either would have adequate space.

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, your pick, Sarako, you seem like a great judge of character.

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_07]: Which one would you choose?

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's go to the one with the chicken on it. It seems more comfortable than a snake.

[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_09]: Like a snake.

[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_09]: Cute.

[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_02]: As you too head over to the Heather Hen and hit your mounds and step inside, it's a comfortable atmosphere.

[00:35:29] [SPEAKER_02]: There isn't much noise. There isn't much of anything, really.

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_02]: It's completely empty, save for the in-keeper who stands in front of a bar just organizing

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Stools and whatnot.

[00:35:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And as he turns around you see he's a slight man probably fellish and he says,

[00:35:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, welcome to the Heather Hen. I'm Dari and if you're Nathan, I'll be down here for most of the night.

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Tell me brother comes in in the barn.

[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Hello, we require six rooms. Do you have availability?

[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_03]: It, how many beds in the rooms?

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_02]: One, I've got four, four of the six rooms have one bed each and then two rooms have two beds.

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_02]: But the single room beds, those are a little bigger, can fit two.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And the ones with two beds that can fit or your one each.

[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_07]: Great, we'll take three rooms to the double beds in one by itself.

[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Savvy?

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely. That'll be 15 a pop is no problem.

[00:36:31] [SPEAKER_03]: And Soraka will reach into his pack, pull out a little coin purse and hand it over to the in-keeper.

[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_02]: In-keeper Dari will go through all your silver and see that that's all of it.

[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_02]: He'll empty it out, kind of behind the bar and then return your empty purse to you.

[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. Then to Kai he'll give three keys.

[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_02]: First floor for the two doubles and then third floor for the single.

[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you very much.

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_03]: And as Dari walks away, Soraka looks over at Kai.

[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_03]: He says, a U-O-Me being.

[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Outside along the streets of the town as the sun starts to fade,

[00:37:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Kel and bread.

[00:37:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Just drapes along a top-view mounts.

[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_02]: You do not see any markings that would denote a plague presence here.

[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Is there anybody that is an obvious need of medical attention?

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_02]: You barely even get a glimpse of people.

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_02]: They are quick to shut up themselves behind windows and doors.

[00:37:28] [SPEAKER_02]: The second they catch a glimpse of you.

[00:37:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Friendly advice?

[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, looks it. What are you looking for by the way?

[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank doctors relieve signs for each other if they counter-contrate when it's come through an area.

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Sort of my whole thing.

[00:37:40] [SPEAKER_06]: He gestures at the hat.

[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_06]: No, that's horrifying.

[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_06]: He will lift up the black arm and sort of twittle the fingers like, yeah, it is.

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_05]: Can I ask about that?

[00:37:51] [SPEAKER_05]: Or is it rude?

[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I don't find it rude but others might.

[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_06]: So I'd be careful who you ask but I contracted the plague several years back.

[00:38:02] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:38:05] [SPEAKER_05]: You seem to have made it out all right but still doesn't sound exactly pleasant.

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_05]: It's not. I'm alive but that's not saying much.

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_05]: That's any consolation. I'm glad you're here.

[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_05]: We wouldn't have done too well earlier if you weren't around to help us out so I do appreciate everything you've done for us.

[00:38:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Bread will not.

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_06]: I'd very thoughtfully.

[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_06]: It look sort of crosses his face of like gratitude but also because it doesn't quite go in like the compliment does not settle.

[00:38:33] [SPEAKER_05]: The way that it should and Kell is kind of as she's saying this.

[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_05]: It almost looks like it pains her to say it.

[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_05]: Not necessarily that she doesn't want to give you the compliment but more so that she's like uncomfortable.

[00:38:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Like telling you like, oh I'm so glad you were here to save my ass kind of thing.

[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Like she's kind of uncomfortable having to admit a weakness to you specifically.

[00:38:52] [SPEAKER_06]: It's nice to be useful.

[00:38:53] Yeah.

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I get that a lot.

[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_05]: I understand.

[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Sort of on opposite ends of this spectrum you and me.

[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I suppose so both protectors in a way I guess you could say both are needed.

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Both are definitely needed.

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_05]: So you see in any signs of the plague.

[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_05]: No Halloween here.

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_02]: As you try to long little ways further.

[00:39:14] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Kell is incredibly awkward by the way.

[00:39:16] [SPEAKER_05]: She's just I like it trying to make conversation with you but she like it pains her to like have to like start a comfort station a little bit.

[00:39:24] [SPEAKER_05]: No Halloween here that I can see except for me.

[00:39:27] [SPEAKER_05]: Well if that's the only piece of good news that we get today I will take it.

[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_05]: What do you uh, what do you make of the whole viridian thing of aethal ward supposedly going?

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_06]: It's hard to say.

[00:39:41] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean whatever's out there it's wild and untouched and that's a lot like void in a lot of ways.

[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_06]: I think it's very appealing to some people and very dangerous to everyone.

[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_05]: As soon as you mentioned void, Kell is like almost like she shifts in her mouth just to be a little bit closer.

[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_05]: To wherever you are just to hear you better because she's so interested in whatever you're going to say about the void.

[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_05]: And it's not something it's like you think you would think she would try to be subtle about it but it's like she can't help herself.

[00:40:16] [SPEAKER_05]: She's so intrigued by what you're about to say that she almost just completely forgets to be mysterious and cool.

[00:40:21] [SPEAKER_05]: And it's just like oh and then it's just listening very intently over the top of her mask which is probably at this point because she had a bloody nose earlier.

[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_05]: Maybe like a little speckled with dark red and a little crusty looking not looking great but she's listening very intently.

[00:40:38] [SPEAKER_06]: I get interested in void.

[00:40:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah you could say that it's uh, it's unknown it's weird but I like it in a way.

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Curious about it.

[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Bread will not very thoughtfully.

[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_06]: As quick as you can get rid of that interest I'd recommend you do.

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_06]: What if I could?

[00:40:56] [SPEAKER_02]: By this point in your conversation you've kind of rounded through the entire town and have come back through the square and then up to the streets where both of the ends.

[00:41:08] [SPEAKER_05]: Like can we see the horses outside like would we know exactly where everyone is?

[00:41:11] [SPEAKER_02]: But you can see down the street at the Heather Hem in an open barn beside it where Siddako and Kai are emerging after hitching their horse and Kanoch respectively.

[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Outside of town making good time as night approaches, Finn and Arnor arrive at this farm and this decrepit windmill.

[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Now there does seem to be a bit of a breeze though the windmill is still stationary.

[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Is it apparent if there is like any sort of residence attached to this one mill like there's a keeper of it or is it just isolated?

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_01]: There's no field workers out there.

[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_01]: It is anyone who appears like someone who peek at contact as he's approaching.

[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_02]: You hear some commotion inside the small farmstead home and then a fellow swimman with a lantern steps out and she says,

[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Who's there?

[00:42:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Eh?

[00:42:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Do not mean to disturb you madam but I was told by the town marshal that perhaps this windmill could use a once over.

[00:42:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Well take it at this time and I have, we did not arrive in town until just now and let's say we're hoping to have a pleasant evening at the inn and the marshal made it clear.

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_00]: He would rather not have us here.

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to do a good turn.

[00:42:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Well no one's quite been able to crack it trippy told.

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Who's come to look at it so far?

[00:42:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Well when I first broke down I believe they sent someone from La Vioan over but fooled and no his head from his arse so didn't think he'd know much of an windmill inside.

[00:42:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Now especially with him voidsels running.

[00:42:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Eh, and then perhaps a day or two back someone from town came and looked at it a boy and some older kin from town.

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_02]: This town?

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Well yeah, I don't much go into town except when I need to so couldn't say who they were but said the marshal sent him won't have a look at it.

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Regardless if it does not disturb you then we'll be on our way hopefully out before too long.

[00:43:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Right um, I'll come along and lock it for you.

[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_02]: If you want you can hit your horses here at the farm proper and then she'll walk up the hill with you to the windmill.

[00:43:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Sounds like a plan.

[00:43:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll do that.

[00:43:22] [SPEAKER_02]: On the walk to the windmill she's very quiet and as night proceeds and the wind picks up there's just a chill that runs through the air and as she glances over her shoulder by the time she reaches the windmill she'll unlock the door and hold it open and say

[00:43:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Lock her said no one says how to crack out it was really out of any look but if you can get it on again we might be grateful.

[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_02]: We're expecting a bit harder on the sun nice since well it broke down away back.

[00:43:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I imagine so I'm sorry to say though I couldn't tell it's just tales of the inner werking's they are complex.

[00:43:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Right and he'll just kind of wait at the door for her to either stay or go if she's going to indicate one or the other.

[00:44:05] [SPEAKER_02]: She'll just kind of scrunch up her face and pattern legs and go right um if you need something other and she'll head down the hill.

[00:44:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, taking a quick glance around does it appear that there is any sort of like workbench or area that has tools available?

[00:44:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Not really you'd be taken from your own supplies here.

[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, addressing our nor now.

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_00]: A fin hands his satchel with uh his supplies in it and just says there should be sufficient here to do what we need but I need to get the closer look at what's as wrong first.

[00:44:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Very well come.

[00:44:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I can try to explain it if it's of interest to you.

[00:44:44] [SPEAKER_08]: You might as well maybe I'll learn something and I tend to pick up things here in there from our conversations anytime you've worked on a project.

[00:44:54] [SPEAKER_01]: And fin will lead our nor over to primarily the area with the void cell and he's going to try to see first what's wrong why the wind blows in functioning it.

[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Trying to eliminate any mechanical issues like gear shafts that are broken and stuff like that.

[00:45:07] [SPEAKER_02]: The windmills like base components seem to be intact to the point where if you removed this void powered mechanism that seems to have stymied it.

[00:45:17] [SPEAKER_02]: That's really a kind of jury-regued accessory to the whole thing.

[00:45:20] [SPEAKER_02]: If you got rid of that you could even operate this by hand or it would probably work in the current breeze but something and this automation mechanism is keeping it from moving completely.

[00:45:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Then he's going to dig deeper into that try to figure out if all of the connections, conduits things like that or whatever they're called are working properly.

[00:45:38] [SPEAKER_02]: All right roll a hard mechanics check.

[00:45:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Sweet and I'm going to give you a setback because you're kind of coming down.

[00:45:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh that's right.

[00:45:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay however I do have the inventor talent which means I get to add one boost die when constructing or modifying items so.

[00:45:53] [SPEAKER_02]: All right you can have that boost three difficulty mechanics and you know what I'll spend a gm pool and I'll upgrade one.

[00:46:00] [SPEAKER_01]: That's roll all said and done fin god one success and one advantage.

[00:46:05] [SPEAKER_02]: You are able to crack open this mechanism and start digging through you know it's inerts you see you know there's all this tubing really shoddy work honestly.

[00:46:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Most of the iron has been rusted away there is some brass that's well in intact that seems to have like superseded whatever was in there before.

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_02]: The mechanism itself is probably older than you are it's probably one of the very first like deployments avoid cell technology and then has just been continuously refurbished rather than being replaced.

[00:46:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay and already like I said this is a pretty jury rigged kit onto the windmill.

[00:46:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah you can identify pretty quickly the like little latches or whatnot that are keeping the mechanisms from operating on purely wind power alone even on an empty cell.

[00:46:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Fin turns to our nor and he says.

[00:46:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea how they even managed to keep the other tool running if this is how the others look.

[00:46:58] [SPEAKER_01]: You see here this this patent design was before even my time he's as kind of just burning at himself.

[00:47:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And all the man who designed this was brilliant.

[00:47:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Full hard yes but absolutely cunning in how he was able to harness void in and of itself.

[00:47:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing but metal couple of raw elements pulled from the end.

[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry I'm boarding you it's an easy fix should be fairly straightforward and he's gonna motion for a couple of tools out of the satchel.

[00:47:32] [SPEAKER_08]: Our nor has assisted with a couple different projects so he has a general idea of what the tools are and so he'll give them the tools and then if there's something you know a bit off thin can correct him.

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah it is just like couple simple calipers, runges, who drivers think like that that are fairly basic but with it being you know still harnessing void and directly the void cell.

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_01]: He is going to activate his heroic ability hands of the ancients when attempting to repair this device just to prevent any mishaps.

[00:48:04] [SPEAKER_01]: So we will flip over those two story points.

[00:48:08] [SPEAKER_02]: All right and what am I looking at here for a check roll a daunting mechanics.

[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'll take one of those points back and upgrade a purple to a red and you're going to have two setbacks from an unknown source.

[00:48:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Is it on the roll away?

[00:48:26] [SPEAKER_05]: All right.

[00:48:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Wow.

[00:48:30] [SPEAKER_07]: That's right.

[00:48:32] [SPEAKER_07]: Those are straight up failures and grip right.

[00:48:36] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna blow up in this windmill.

[00:48:39] [SPEAKER_05]: That was a near you.

[00:48:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Finn rolled five failures.

[00:48:46] [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to remove one of the difficulty die with two things just for three failures so if that doesn't anything three failures great.

[00:48:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so what our nor sees as this is going on is Finn seems very, very confident in self assured in himself as he takes these instruments begins twiddling around and he even starts kind of humming to himself.

[00:49:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Just this kind of simple tune and he's not even really looking at the thing that he's working on. He's more kind of just passively staring off in space as eyes are kind of darting around in different directions and then something happens.

[00:49:23] [SPEAKER_02]: You are humming you're kind of just in your head as you're doing something that should be utterly routine until one of your tools just hit something that otherwise shouldn't be there and you hear a pin drop.

[00:49:35] [SPEAKER_08]: And as soon as you hear that pin drop, our nor knowing that when Finn is in his zone he does not make mistakes.

[00:49:43] [SPEAKER_08]: He's going to grab Finn and pull him behind his shield.

[00:49:47] [SPEAKER_02]: In town back in Cladrol.

[00:49:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Ryan, you're evil outside the inn.

[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Seneca and Kai wait as Cal and Brad stroll out of the barn having just hitched their mouths.

[00:50:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, as far as I can tell nothing to see here just a lot of unfriendly folk.

[00:50:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, we have enough rooms for everyone and now we wait for Finn and our nor to come and we sleep easy tonight and I see no two-tailed fox here.

[00:50:18] [SPEAKER_03]: So tomorrow we'll leave go to the big city. Good.

[00:50:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Works for me.

[00:50:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, very good. And as Seroco turns on his heel to head back into the head or hand,

[00:50:30] [SPEAKER_02]: the night is just lit up with this massive blue flare across the way.

[00:50:38] [SPEAKER_02]: As you all are buffeted with a shock wave that follows a couple seconds later emanating from an enormous explosion on the horizon.