While you guys are in this place Enoch you suffer two points of exhaustion Due to the exertion of having a celestial being burst out of your soul and for its time Take a significant amount of your power with it. So you are I think that's Disadvantaged on all skill checks and half movement. Yeah. Oh my god The closer and closer you get to six the worse it gets So, yes, meanwhile Sina having addressed you guys and taking in the situation leads everyone out of the factory along with her guards and With the assistance of the Chester City guard and Includes all of these subdued protectors that you guys so nicely tied up and Ready for them to have manacles put on them and all that some such Possible for me to carry Scorpio Yes, you are able to kind of put Scorpio's arm around your shoulder and lift him out I will of course be Requesting that we keep Ketrig for further investigate interrogation Asking to keep Ketrig you approach one of the guards and do so I'm going to require a persuasion check from you because although they do see you as another you know Like the law authority. Yeah, they want him first Luckily as I said, I have like pre-written scripts for this. So let's defer to this one They know the witch taker, but they still they still want to you know Basically, you're trying to convince them who gets Ketrig first. Okay, that's fair boom. Boom.   We got to him first, you know, it's just kind of like Thirsty's chooses Yeah And of course Seeing how this little goblin talks and how willingly he's able to give up information on on the protectors as well as God, what's their name the leader the earth jennasi? As willing as he is to give information about Castelia They don't see him as much of a thread and with your swaying words They're willing to give him to you first But they insist that they will do some more questioning of him over time and ask, you know Where they can find you when that can happen That is fair but for now we're just going to you know, just like patting Ketrig like well now You know, we're just going to make sure that he's all set at the end, you know, just when you're patting him He just kind of like swatts away your hand Great Ketrig as some child. I am not treating you as a child I'm treating you as someone who is it was important enough to get the pat on the back of a good job Important yes, the great Ketrig is very important and he just kind of brushes his Give Renee a look shaking my head. Finally someone who acknowledges the great Ketrig's greatness You you can find him either in Chester City or Rockerwood. I'm not sure yet We'll figure it out. All right the rest of them they Kind of slowly one by one just like after some questioning each one bringing them to a teleportation circle presumably to take them in for further questioning in custody and Could I stop them from taking the tiefling real quick? You can yes You you pull one guard aside and you can see the the tiefling there and let me show the portrait one more time I was just hoping I could have a word with this one for a moment the guard looks to Sina who she nods at them and at her command they let him go Manacles and in wrists Uh She she's like it. She's been generally pretty gentle with this one because you know, I feel like out of all of them She's the one she probably feels the worst for mm-hmm. I don't know where you guys think you're going to end up after They're done with you Are you going back to balcony's proper? Hmm. They'll probably ship me back there When I came here. He was still closed off. I had to resort to not very nice means of getting out So I've got a warrant for that. Well I'd like to confine you in balcony's proper I think you probably have earned someone to buy you a drink and uh Help you find your feet I was planning on doing a I think I want to find sawpola and if I can't At least use some sort of funeral service for him. I can tell you approximately where we found him Did like I would like that very much and uh, just for the sake of simplicity I'm just gonna say she like writes it down. Okay.  I'll be going back to balconies proper in about a week assuming I finished my current job And I'd be happy to help you And help bring him back and perform whatever funeral service you want done And what's your payment? Why would I need payment? At this he he actually looks up and his eyes start to water a bit And he he clearly trying to hide it like he just turns his face She just like puts a hand on his shoulder. You're not the only person who's been affected by the necromancers I can see somebody's head Pretty easily He just rubs his nose with his shoulder to kind of clean his face All right, what's your name? My name is Mortan. My name is Luna. It's wonderful to meet you Luna You know Luna Oh, and that was a bit wrong about you adventurers. You're not so bad You could at least hold yourself in a fight Yes. Yes. I like to think I can Thank you Luna Of course There's no reason to thank me. Just try not to get in any more trouble like that. All right All right Okay And uh, she'll let the guards take him Real quick. Yep As as he's passing by me. I just want to without looking at a mask That's a curiosity. What was your bounty? Uh, about 50 gold pieces for exit in the city without proper authorities Oh I say nothing after How big is the fine ah too big Okay, yep, and he goes along with the guards, uh, oh I see there was a different insinuation than what I meant to give I was I was saying how big's your bounty because I'm a bounty hunter But anyway, no, I think that's why I was concerned with that Good. Yes. Now. I was going to pay his bounty and set him free. No, no Yeah, good the witch takers are taking him in for money Poor choice of what the bounty sent out by the guards, but the guards have him now Ah, well, hmm. Damn. I mean technically we're the ones who brought him in That is a separate problem to be solved later Yeah, that's like future witch taker problems That's paperwork And while you know while the guards are leading the uh, the now Kind of captured protectors one by one. You can see that rotech as well. Just like walking along just completely calm Stealing a glance at you, renais for continuing onwards.  I'll see you when I get out Oh Just do sort of like a little She everyday will wink back It does sort of like a drinking motion of like we're getting drinks after All right, and while this process is going on asina Approaches you all let me find her portrait one more time Not me. I'm never going to escape that with her name. Am I?  I mean we all left well. Well, they yeah, they led you they let you out If you insist to stay there But you will have to leave eventually as the guards are investigating the area and just like picking apart what has happened and stuff Yeah, no, I I'm very much noticeably dragging my feet.  Well, that wasn't exactly my plans today. He just kind of happened Scorpio just speaks up. Just me officer. You'll get used to it Oh, you two haven't met yet Oh, and who is this? Scorpio told you about him Ah, yes The confident one She gives him a little smile. Ah, so this is going to be that like in-law scenario, isn't it?  Oh my gosh Maybe later. I don't want to think about numbers right now And he just kind of like lays two fingers on his forehead You can see that Sina is having a little bit of a laugh as well As much as I would love to continue questioning him about this I think I need to get him to a bed and Ah before you do Seeing as we already have an investigator and his assistant in our midst He she looks over at the two witch tapers. May have you'd be so kind as to give me your side of the story Oh Wait a moment wait a moment wait a moment Oh So Renee, you don't have to role play this entire conversation if you so wish I will ask you Is there any information you intentionally leave out? um Personally, I think she would leave out the fact that they were like purposely recruiting people She would leave out the fact that like she kind of looted the place. Um, she would leave out the fact of How they got so like Roughed up in the sense of I don't think Enoch wants everyone to know that his dad literally launched out of his chest Do we want to hide the spine of death information too? I'll hide the spine of death information. I don't want her knowing about spine of death information too We were specifically told by We're talking about the the um protectors. It was all the protectors, you know, that's a big ask Huh, that's a big ask the protectors will probably they're probably gonna interrogate the protectors They take in and that's gonna be the first thing they mention I mean, we don't we don't know if they will we don't have to be aware of Listen, we didn't see any of them. We didn't see any of the spine of death. So we Yeah, and I'm assuming you just like uh, not mentioned it rather than say there was no spine of death You're just gonna omit the fact that they were even part of them. She's like, I saw lies of omission. Good job Lies of omission. Listen, I'm a pro. Listen, we were told not to lie Listen, we're on and off the book's job that we're specifically hiding from other balconous officials You don't need to explain lies of omission to me. That's fine.  There were a lot of explosions I think there were a lot of robots involved. Yeah All right. Yep. So sena listens intently to each word and takes uh thorough notes and never interrupting Except for like very few times where she asks very simple questions And after you finish your story, she finally speaks up and you Chose not to go to the authorities for this because We were already in the area and it seemed like it was a little bit of an important situation I listen. I love and respect you very much The authorities do a great job. However, when it comes to, you know, all of the itty bitty little details I'm making sure that they are organized ready to go. You're planning and everything There wasn't a lot of time to do that and we were also a little bit She holds up her hand to stop you All right Yeah I get it Fine I'm assume I'm anticipating that this will be the best answer I get for a time She looks over at Nathaniel. Mr. Gainesby I will require some time in the coming days to meet with some of your people so that we may hash out The legal details of these protector proceedings and your organization's involvement It's a standard procedure. I hope you can understand. You'll have to forgive me for right now I have multiple shots of glass stuck in my abdomen. It's making me a bit lightheaded Oh, yes Yeah, no, I would very much like to take care of that with him Yes, my apologies. She calls out to a couple of healers who kind of just with their hands You can see bright kind of gold emanation coming from them removing bits of you know damage and debris from your bodies and slowly kind of Closing any wounds that you may have You all heal for Five hit points. Give me them. Yay. That's a quarter of my health While we're getting dealt with by healers, um, could I give Scorpio my healing hands? Yes, you may That doesn't look very good. I'm like touching like a bruise like on his I got his cheek And then I'll give him six hit points. Yep. You can see him flinch a bit. How much should we heal? How much should we heal? Five five. Okay. Yeah, you can see him flinch a bit. Oh gentle. Love gentle. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know It's as all the glass is being pulled out of us. I'm saying give him to me. Give him I'll use them. Really?  I could use I can use the feathers Give Miss Sina Yes If I may ask the tiefling that initially ran to get you Where is he? Well, he seemed to Be a part of your organization from what I remember. I assume he would be in your building Yes, but with the aforementioned shards of glass and many fights breaking out I lost track of him. I was wondering if you would have seen him Yes, we told him to stand aside It didn't seem like he was well equipped to take on an entire organization that might be trying to Start up a war forge factory. He did not seem to have any very well equipped weapons on him. We'll say Very good. I suppose I'll have to go find him myself then. Thank you Of course and As much as you imply that you didn't take anything Miss Renee. I think I know a little bit better but That war force that war force factory does have a lot of important things. However As payment for your services, you may keep all that you've found within the factory with a few exceptions May my may just detect magic on you all briefly It will only take a moment and it's merely to make sure that there wasn't any world ending or alternate dimension artifacts in there It may cause give cause for concern Oh, of course So she says she says she gently like puts her hands behind her back and quickly takes off the hit the fingerless gloves Because I don't know if they're magic or not and I want to keep them. All right I want those as they're important to me. We also probably need to make sure I don't think they're going to be world ending. So I think you should be fine As she As she takes a couple of actually, you know, you know what? I'll wait. I'll wait Okay, I will stand and say nothing, but I won't object. I know it's gonna come next But I'm gonna be hurt to happen She calls forth a another wizard guard who kind of goes through you guys one by one and They wave a wand kind of over you guys from head to toe And just like it seems to glow at certain points Throughout your body and he's like mara and interesting and going through each one Until he reaches you Nathaniel and it stops at one point. Whoa now hold on there, buddy Looks like we got something of unprecedented magnitude to magic on yet I give him my most pessimistic stare No cause for alarm. I'm just gonna have to search you a bit more thoroughly You might enter in your pockets there, mr. Witch taker.  That won't last you any further. That thing needs to be recharged by some powerful Like wizards or something you could keep that Uh, I look confused and I know what they're talking about reach back What is in my back pocket?  That's a mighty dangerous artifact. You got there right there. That's sadly Sadly, you're not gonna be able to keep that one Mighty dangerous that didn't even come out of that.  Yes I did pay for this You're not allowed to see you are not allowed to seize my property without giving me compensation No, listen, you don't have to go back to that thing and likely ravage your mind before it upload your organs Then I'm sure that you can pay a very hefty price for it Well, I can't quite know because it's not from this world Fact we don't know is why it's so scary. This thing ain't from our dimension. No sir.  So she doesn't know she's trusting this wizard Uh, she she lets you know that she trusts this trust this wizard's uh judgment No, no, I refuse I'm using my inspiration.  I'm not losing this I am not Not before we get identified. Yes. Yes Much better I don't want to keep the stick. I just want the money.  Thank you, sir. Thanks for keeping the realm safe And he's holding it very delicately with like two fingers and quickly conjures a portal and tosses it in We need to find some more shit from not there Sina Yes Where did they say that was from she puts one hand on your shoulder? Trust me. You don't want to know I think I absolutely want to know because we've been carrying that thing around I'd like to know if we're cursed or something perhaps another time I wanted to know and he told me you shouldn't have told me and she points to the wizard What you did trust and I'm telling you you don't want to know Right now Thor's done is rolling over in his chains. I'm looking at I'm looking at Sina. I'm holding the warforged soul at this point and I'm like Would you like to make another straight? You know what?  Yeah, of course. I think with that we are done here. Thank you for your cooperation Oh, thank you. You have a good day. Mr. Gainesby.  Are you going to save up for something special? I imagine that at the very least I can go for some tea Oh, at the very least of course When Sina's out of your shop just going to kind of lean over I would suggest you check out the marketplace because if we're about to leave the cloveway You might want a few more healing potions, but I have enough I have enough gold that we can all afford something. It's not too much, but it should be something for all of us At the very least I'm going to want to take time To recuperate. As I mentioned before, I have multiple stables Yeah, you also don't look that good. Why don't we get you patched up, too?   It seems okay. So what is what is the plan? Everyone wants to do one by one. Let's go down one Uh with luna. What is your plan? Take her voice back to him and take care of her voice Okay, so what I assume you're gonna go back to the uh old inn that you were staying at with Scorpio and Renee that first time Next in line Renee. What is your plan? I'm probably helping luna with the guys and then Once everything sort of settled and if Nathaniel is comfortable enough to give the coat over so I can mend it then fantastic if not no worries Um, but then at the end of it all I'm probably going to send a message to my dad Oh Because I still have that third level spell and I I was saving it specifically for this reason Because I've been stressing about that forever I'm I'm here for Renee. You're like okay. I'm here for that Uh, we can either do that now or do that after everybody else is done I'll wait until everyone's like figured out what they're doing. Okay. I have I don't I don't mind All right, uh Nathaniel. That's what I'm gonna do. What is your plan? So I don't know what dingy inn you're trying to take us to but unless there is a very good reason for you to Take us to it I'm taking everyone to my good inn because I have a lot of money now Oh Yes, and I and I will uh, I will pay for everybody to have a room to like At the very least spend one night. It's it's like about end of day, right? I don't know what day it is. It's like late evening almost nighttime. The sun has nearly set pretty much I imagine regardless. We're all tired enough to just relax the rest of the day Exactly once Once there I'm absolutely not giving Renee my coat because this is supposed to be Like relaxation time. I'm going to give it to her here.  Julius Julius. Yeah Uh, yes, and you know, he tells you that uh, he he insisted that they follow your plan to the letter But apparently there was a scuffle between Julius and Cyril and an argument and something led one thing led to another And apparently the guards were called Even though it was not a part of your instructions Does that mean Does that mean they are in jail? Where are they? No, they're not uh, raheer tells you that they are back at the office Which office, uh my office. Well the office that is behind, you know, raheer's little, uh, You know market store that where he sells strange wares that nobody would buy I see Understood Does it seem like they would be in the mood to be sent for like if I asked for them to come here? Yes, if you asked for them, they would right here would call them immediately Right, right. No, I understand that Did it seem like they were in the mood that they would respond like they would they would absolutely okay fantastic. I'll do that Okay, and then uh I'm not gonna yeah, that that's all I'm gonna do for now because I don't want to do too much And inok, do you go along with luna taking you to the to the fancy in as paid for by nathaniel? uh, of course And by the time I get there, I do ask uh to see if somebody would fetch a Would uh fetch serene to come here, uh for Yeah, you're able to you uh, you tell like one of the Kind of servants of the in if they're able to get somebody or you give a description and directions and they head on out for you All right, and as I make my way to the room in which I was given delightfully to which I Are we all staying in in rooms of like are we splitting are we all getting our own room?  He said everyone gets a room. Oh my I think we all just got a room. Mm-hmm.  Mm-hmm and I am just gonna piece by piece start taking everything off And dress down the shirt Okay, and I am going to just start stitching away at whatever I can Yep, and since we're on you we might as well start with you with what you're doing So after you're stitching down and making sure you're all Cleaned up and like he'll like closing wounds as best you can Yeah, I'm a bit shaky right now as I'm feeling my body just revolt. Yeah And uh, yeah, so serene Rather you do hear a knock on the door and the recognizable voice of serene. Hello, uh, inock. Are you in there? Yes Come on in. Yep.   Let's just say My mother's memory is well insecure Oh now I need your help Because I have a few more wounds on the back. Oh, yes. Yes, of course She just kind of like yeah stumbles a little bit but like quickly goes to kneel down and help you Yeah, uh, as she might notice, uh, because this will be the first time I think Well, nobody from the party knows this but from serene's perspective, uh the entirety If not the entire torso and a majority the arms are just riddled with scarring and pock holes from stabs and also, uh, a severe burn mark around where the uh, the arm was initially cut off Which pretty much was the cauterizing of You know a lost limb She if she helps you just like kind of holding some wounds and like kind of dabbing some like wet cloths to like clean up Different parts of you and she speaks up multiple different sounds and grunts through the pain So you say the memories of seatura came back to you So you know then Yeah As far as i'm aware whatever it was That plagued seatura plagued me And it's gone now She's you can see that she stopped cleaning for a moment and something dawns on her She was trying to protect you She was trying unfortunately With my birth Something latched on and decided to stick around longer than it should have She like like wagging her finger as if she's connected a few things That's why she went mad Vinoch makes sure post part of depression and um, relatively sure fear of The lost voice that was probably in her No, no, no you see I didn't believe it until now, but I had my suspicions Therm was attempting some forbidden magic Worse even the necromancy to gain immense power to destroy seatura and apparently that was enough to Keep him around after his demise.  I think now she can finally be at rest well When I decided to put him down. I told him that he should go apologize I don't know that will happen. I don't know that she would accept it I'm not saying that she should I'm just saying that he needs to apologize. That is true because it's the right thing to do My god My body Well, she gets up a little bit. I think that's the best I can do short of you know any magical healing Unfortunately, I'm a little spent after today We actually had a few people come in and I said a few prayers.  Oh, yes, of course, of course you um Rest well inoc Thank you.   He slept for a little bit. Yeah Yeah, I guess I I guess I'd probably just be coming back in the room seeing him awake Yes, he would he would be awake actually because he has a lot of concern for you Uh And he would just be just kind of scratching his arm. You can see that uh, thanks to the guards He has like a little bit of a wrapping and like arm cast kind of not a cast but like arm sling rather He's been he's been patched up my boy Uh, yeah, no should I just go over again? Oh, there you are Yeah, yeah, well, I wanted to say good night to you first and thank you for rescuing me It was a pleasure. Um Actually I have something for you. Oh, yay more gifts It's something I've Want I've been thinking about for a while and I think I've just put it off too long, um And she'll like I'm assuming he's like sitting on the bed He is yes, he's sitting and listening intently and he is you can see he he was going to go crack Why something but he holds his tongue Oh um, she goes to sit down with him and uh, Like the guest takes the hand that's gone in the sleep. Yeah. Yeah. He handily takes it as well We have been together for quite some time, you know I don't remember a time where we went It's funny how we met too But we've always been a really good team even back then when He didn't exactly uh want the other to take the job That's true. You you stuck with me For all of this And honestly, I can't pay you enough for that most women find me incredibly obnoxious Well, mostly men all missing out Um, and uh, she goes into her pocket Uh, and she takes something out and keeps it clasped in like her hand Didn't exactly know how to do this kind of thing but There's no one outside Rather Ask this You said you wanted to go into being partners You can see that, uh, his eyes start to water a bit Yes, yes, of course. Yes And he goes he goes to grab it to like lunge for you, but he just like gets up an inch. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow I've got no minute. Calm down. Calm down. I Oh, I know green's your favorite color So and I open my hands and one of the stones that I took from The factory has been set into a silver band Aw Luna I swind I do Good good. I don't know what I'd say if you said no and she will kiss him Oh, yep. He with his good arm just like holds your back to him and you guys share the night together Yay Gently gently, of course Oh god. No, that boy is very hurt. Yeah. Yeah Welcome to my It's like please don't not tonight Uh, yeah, so, uh, renee what are you doing in the meantime? Finally by herself the smile just like drops and her whole body like sags um She just like has taken a baths like probably a nice hot bath in the little like bathhouse area So she's like getting herself in company clothes just Relaxing or trying to relax, but there's still one thing she's got to do and so she With the one thing that she had saved and thank god She didn't have to use it for the other thing that she would have had to will cast sending And she is going to message her father Uh the following words Not dead In case you want to ask Seeing if you are either dead or stood us over No, just That's me. No, and you after a little while get a message back doing fine Your alchemist friend Is accelerating too fast I'm trying to stall them from ascending Be careful With cara Is rubbing her eyes like with one hand He said be careful of who cara. Oh cara. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. I don't trust it though since it's him, but I'll just make sure to Tell people in the morning, but for now I gotta get some sleep Mm-hmm Okay So yeah, you go to sleep and Nathaniel, what are you doing before you call it a night? There is a hot springs There is I am a cold-blooded creature. I need warm warm things I go to that hot springs and I lean my head back and Float atop it. Yep And uh, I assume you're more importantly you're I assume you're anticipating your uh, your employees to get there at some point Yes, correct. Yeah, and eventually eventually you do hear a knock on the door Uh, is this the door of the hot springs or the door of my room? Well, you're you have a hot springs in your room Oh, right. Good. Of course. Good in that case, you know what perhaps Uh, perhaps I will be a bit professional and ensure that I am robed and not floating around in the water It's not like they interrupt you just as you got in either It's like, you know, you were able to get some time to clean yourself off and stuff Fantastic In that case, I will uh, I will call out One moment and I'll get Some dressing on so that I'm not just in a bathrobe. I need to look presentable. It's very important. Yep And so after a bit of time, I'll Look Through the people if there is one Yes, you open up and you can see that raheer actually has both the tiefling and the human kind of like Holding them from behind their shirts As if a scolding parent There we go Please enter inside and I'll open the door all the way. Yep They all come in and raheer waits at the door hands just kind of like behind his back standing Guard almost but you can see he's not that intimidating Thank you. We're here Julius and Cyril. I'm gonna show their portraits real quick Once again I got you Well, I got you for me. Yeah, I need to show the audience again So, yeah, Julius And Cyril the day after being just kind of let go by raheer Julie speaks speaks up. Listen boss. I ain't snitched on nobody's plans It was Cyril here who got all scaredy-backsy and ran off to the chief in the first sign of trouble Hey, you're the one who said that they weren't looking good during the stakeout That one elf supposed to take up all those protectors anyway I told you that's what we jump in and bash him with in the head with a lead pipe And then they continue to bicker and argue back and forth Both of you please They they both quiet down and just kind of like nudge each other with the elbow just like pushing I've had a very long day. I killed an angel Perhaps it was a god It's hard to tell I've been stabbed.  I've been stabbed punched many Annoying things happened And when I returned I was shocked my Employees were nowhere to be found You can see that they both look at each other and they're both kind of sweating I understand that situations like this are very frightful It's very difficult to know what to do But the one thing that you must understand you cannot do is flee Even if you go to get the guards, you need to return immediately Why didn't you you went to get them? Where did you go after? Raheer speaks up they went straight back to the office, sir And you could see julius just darts daggers at him That is unfortunate Well Luckily we did not need the Protection of the guard we had things settled where we were However, if we had gotten ourselves in this bad situation Then the guard would have been a welcome sight You can see that siril just has a little smile a little bit looking to julius as if see as if to go like Wow, I see things worked out pretty all right Of course Running to the guards implied that you didn't expect us to be able to Get our job done And his smile immediately it goes away You didn't you didn't trust me siril And that's very unfortunate to know Listen boss, I'm just I'm sorry man. It's just all these necromancers and the protectors This is so much and I don't know if I can handle it all so I guess I panicked I'm gonna put a shoulder or put a hand on his shoulder and lean down and I'm going to say I will work to reinstall that trust in the future Please the next time that you need That you find the need To go running for the guards Won us first Without saying a word he simply nods his head Besides that and I raise up the Things in Chester City have gotten Complicated well less complicated but for you I'm going to need you to ensure that What was the cop's name I can never remember kettrig I was being facetious.  I'm sorry. Anyway kettrig He's going to be interrogated soon. I need to make sure that once he's finished we have him They both nod And then afterwards I'm going to Ask politely for the two of you To ensure he finds his way to Rockerwood There is an agent there a dragonborn I would like him to meet this dragonborn And from there I would like this To travel with kettrig as he sees fit They both look at each other at the mention of Rockerwood And you can see that Yes, I know The two of you have Complicated history with the town. I don't expect you to show your faces there and if you do then you are going to be Well, I don't need to tell you All right boss, and uh, you can see that julius is nods as well. I will get right on it now Ensure of course that this dragonborn understands that kettrig is not now his personal plaything This is a temporary period to take stock in the Virtues of the gob You see, I'm not certain if he is a trustworthy sort And I believe that this dragonborn has the naivety To suss that sort of thing out for me Does that make sense? They both look at each other shrug and nod Good Well, if that's all then And I'll motion to the door. Yeah right here opens it.   Will that be all mr. Gainesby? uh Sorry, I'm All of a sudden my I just my head. You're okay. Yeah. Yeah, you're okay gentle reminder very sick It's okay Uh To them saying that yeah in response to to that little bickering between syril syril and julius I am going to speak up and I'll say I would like to have someone positioned everywhere How do you think it was so easy to find the two of you? They both look at each other and uh, you can see syril is like, oh, yeah, that kind of makes sense Uh And then to uh to we're here asking Uh, yeah, that will be all I will of course say No, I have My uniform has been damaged again. I was stabbed multiple times Very good And as well I've been holding off on asking you to do this until I was sure that I was going to be leaving the city but By the morning, I'm going to need you to copy down a few things for me And I'm going to take from my coat all of Uh, the maharian diary pages I'm gonna hand them to him and I'm going to say I'm going to need you to copy these down And keep them incredibly secret Yes, of course, mr. Gainsby This this investigation that I am on is very dangerous if something were to happen to me I want you to release these to the public But only if something were to happen to me is that understood Yes For for once like raheer has narrows his eyes in confidence and viewing you as a partner Of course, mr. Gainsby Very good In that case that is all Raheer looks like he's got like a satisfied smile carrying your clothes and uh kind of Packing the papers in a hidden compartment in in his pocket and they head out and you are left to your own devices Very good For the rest of my time, I'm going to use my encode thoughts spell to look back at multiple points just in These past few hours just looking back at them studying them again trying to Both detox from the situation, but also get a better grasp of everything that has happened. Mm-hmm. Yeah And that'll be me nice, okay, and everyone has a nice night relaxing recovering the day breaks you all Are incredibly well rested after doing an exhausting dungeon crawl in the previous abandoned warforge factory you all wake up and how does your morning routine go? How do you think it goes as per usual? I'm dulling myself up Making sure that none of my weariness is showing Let's go do our little charisma check. Why don't we? Let's see Oh If Zoom in hyper realistic stars everywhere It's a good thing you said that you're not and you're not a competition for rottach's uh little Audition because you would have taken it Oh Listen if like I could actually radiate sparkles and like radiating sparkles Amazing Damn no one will ever know how tired I am I was hoping to sneak out before scorpio wakes up and talk to renais, but I guess renais is going to be No, it's probably by the time you're like get out there knock on the door. She's like just finished. Yeah Oh, yeah, scorpion would be knocked out. He would be knocked out I want him to sleep as long as possible. There's something serious. I need to talk to renais about Oh, no, we'll like open her door and just be like, oh good morning. You know, what can I do for you? What's going on? You look lovely today renais Well, I try it looks like I succeeded No, no, I think you succeeded all right If I can take away a woman who's already taken that will be a success in my book.  There is a ring on it now. Oh dad.  Um Congratulations Thank you. Um I wanted to ask you something Yes, I meant to a few days ago, but Obviously we've had a lot more going on Oh, yes, we've had plenty plenty of happenings on just kind of a little bit chaotic May I may I step inside and she'll like gesture to ask if she can like Sure Do you want me to do your hail again? Are you trying to intimidate someone else today? What is going on? Um as the door shuts I Had a question about your father actually I just didn't know how to ask this with You know everything going on ah Well, there is no good good way of asking about that considering all of this Yeah shit that you've kind of already seen there's probably a lot of questions already Which makes sense. Well, there's one thing that he's something that he said doesn't make sense And it's been eating at me for a few days Hmm And that's his story didn't make sense as to why he raised my father Because the statue was also severely damaged if he was just running from phone Why would the statue be damaged too when it's so far away? I think there was something more he was trying to do that he wasn't saying and I I don't I don't know thought maybe He you know him more than I do and frankly if I see him again, I can't guarantee you I won't put a sword through him, but I'm not going to be nice either I'm not expecting you to be nice to him Especially after what he's done I just I wanted to know if you think maybe I'm reading too far into something or maybe he was lying I don't I don't know. I don't know his motive. I don't know this thorn I just know that it doesn't make sense that the statue in the middle of yes Though was so heavily desecrated and then the grave and then not connected All I know That that man can do is lie I Don't know why he would in that case though Although then to save his own skin in a very peculiar situation But that's what that's where the destruction of the statue makes no sense if he was really just Using him like a tool to protect himself. Then why was the statue burned? Why was the grave demolished? That was that was very deliberate. I very much doubt bringing a corpse out of the ground is going to Shatter the stone and destroy his statue hundreds of yards away It probably wouldn't but I don't know necromancy If it would make you feel any better I can ask but I don't know what kind of enter enter I will get and I won't be able to Really tell if he's telling the truth or not unless we find him again She kind of tilts her head Do you ask if you don't know where he is? Uh Just jazz hands magic It's a hell of a thing It really is and I have a very uh I have a very limited understanding of it and admittedly Don't worry. It's a very complicated thing and especially with all the different kinds of magic you can do it It's it's a lot to take in and it can do a vast variety of different things I would appreciate if you were able to find the information but I also If I'm just in if you don't want to speak to him either.  I don't really care what happens to him. So Well, if he would not mind if you're able to get that information It would be appreciated If not just for a bit of closure for what happened I'll try to save something for the end of the day to ask If it would make you comfortable Thank you Um, of course You want to come downstairs to get breakfast then? I have to wait for you My gods, I could use something to eat Me too. Me too. Um, let me go wake him up real quick I can go with you to wake him up. I have a hell of a way to do so All right, if it involves dumping water on him, please don't no no no no no. It's something much more fun. Sure. Why not? And yeah, I guess we'll do that All right. Okay. Very nice. So you guys are gonna go do that. Um, Nathaniel Your morning actually someone comes to you before you do anything in the world It well someone knocks on your door very gently This better be right here. All right. I'm gonna open the door. Yep And indeed it is as instructed first thing in the morning He comes to you Folded clothes and the papers the original papers that you gave him Right on top and on top of those your hat repaired back together In pristine condition For you, mr. Gainesby Fantastic, I'm going to Put all of this back on put the papers back under my cloak and I'm going to say to him once more Now you must remember these papers these documents you have are very Important to keep secret keep safe Like they were my own life, sir Well, that's good because they very well might be well In any case, I'm going to be leaving shortly Leaving out of the city, sir. I believe so Well, it was nice to have you visit once again, mr. Gainesby Best of luck with your job and I will be here when you need me Yes, it has been pleasant having you around I'm with that. I dispense with the pleasantries and Get back to setup Yeah, and then the door closes mid-sentence And he is such a good boy. Let him do his best. He did and I gave him a compliment God and then I ended the conversation All right, and lastly Enoch, how does your morning go?  Uh, you can only get one one level of uh exhaustion I'm not here Oh You're so generous kind This is a top. This is a top tier in Yep, remember we had like never benefits for staying here We massage that psychological damage away Firstly, it's a top tier hotel I'm also considering it was one of the first well, you know Well rests that you've had in many many years Oh my god. Yeah rich people don't suffer exhaustion rich people are doing so well.  He's got a fun little like Mustache thing going on now. You were drawing on him Yeah, I'm not sure how much that Luna would have held out Yeah, I was gonna say Luna. How much did you allow to this to happen?  Can you just let him wake up? Come on at least give me a little credit. I fended for myself.  I'm glad you're a good sport I love it. I don't know what's wrong with you guys. Of course.  Are you guys going to have like an alope kind of thing or are you going to get like a I think that's a future bridge. We need to cross some of the time My thoughts were just getting it officiated at church and dealing with the after thing later, but you know Perhaps after the job is done. Yeah. Yes. Yes I think we're heading out today. I I have a quick question. Do I hear all this ruckus as I'm walking back? Talking about this as they've made their way down to the breakfast table, and they're just discussing the whole thing All right, I'm I'm down to my skivvies in a towel I well actually first I have to fix all the holes in my jacket.  Oh my goodness.  Is it always been blue? Hi and looking sharp my friend Take it that you got a good rest last night, you know It was for the first time in a long time one of the best rests I've ever had And I am Hungry what does freedom feel like enough? And she's giving you a very genuine like expression No, that makes sense when your entire world gets pulled upside down You don't really know what to do with it after it takes a hot minute to even realize what you might even try to do to escape a little bit later Well, not escape or say but more like discover would probably be what you'll do.  Do be careful not to take anything from the northern region. They are far too strong Believe me.  You guys have at your hometown and I immediately regret telling him that Yeah You saw what he drank what air escape him, right? Right, but I thought that was a one-off No, it's probably crazy enough to do it again Oh, well, here's the thing. I know I could do this one and I try to look for anybody on the wait staff. Well, uh Uh, yeah, you're you're able to catch somebody just kind of like going around and Okay, I told him to come over And I'm so sorry. Uh, I do have to ask this Can I get a bottle of whiskey from you? You see that it is a drow man. He's leaning down.  No, this is for later. This is celebratory See I thought you were going to start early and I was going to be so excited Now I'm just disappointed in you. Will that be the entire problem? I'm depressed and not a drunk You're not fine. It's what you are I'll share good and and also, um, if if you mind Uh Can I just get like a long I wonder if I could ask for this can I get an inch thick piece of round steel for about five inches long? Uh, sir, this is an probably find that yeah This is a windy I'm just testing it out. This place is very fancy.  Thank you I Okay, you asked for the realest things. Is that just like a prerequisite for places for you to stay?  Why? I'm an engineer.  So I think we need it Actually, breakfast is on me. It comes with the rooms All right, so we got we have mom and dad obeying us then I suppose so I guess Mom and dad by me. I'm not one to to watch a gift force in the mouth. I'll take it I I stare at Scorpio for a moment trying something new then Listen, let the man be spoiled. We're celebrating A couple of things actually I'm gonna say reaching out scarfing down a bunch of eggs and bacon right now Celebrating our survival. I suppose Molly a survivor freedom also imprisonment Well, not imprisonment. I'm saying that very Ashley. I'm sorry you too Scorpio looks looks over to luna and just kind of like rubbing his shoulder against her as well The worst prison mates to be with That's that's also true I narrow my eyes. It couldn't you know, it could have been was it could have been when I met you Oh I look at their hands. I look at Scorpio's hand. I see the ring. I look at Luna's It clicks Scorpio stole a ring made Luna his accomplice Ah, that's not how that works Nathaniel I didn't say that out loud I know I see Congratulations to both of you.  We need someone to appreciate the wedding Can you do that? I think I got someone I know I can I think that's that's a bit further down the road. I'd like to come back alive from this job first But there was something I wanted to ask if we could do before we leave the city Huh? What is that? Uh Luna knows the name of this place because Luna definitely heard about it But that temple the temple of all the gods. Oh the temple of the eternals. Yeah. Yeah. Ah, yeah I wanted to stop by the temple of the eternals to see if there was Anybody who might follow the Raven Queen? I had my sword looked at yesterday when I have a few questions I need answered Oh Well, I wish that I could make this a shorter journey but Religion love these things are Outside of my portfolio. I'm sure we can wait at least 10 minutes for her to try and figure it out. It's well Uh, actually as I begin to kind of start pulling out some tools I might be able to know. I mean how many times have this has been identified for Christ's sake. It's That's the thing. It's not the sword. It's me Oh My My mother cleared some information for me yesterday And Do you remember that story I told you Luna got my father in the war Yes She pretty much confirmed what I Already assumed is that my being the way I am was because of the deal But I did not know that the woman that he made a deal with was the Raven Queen Oh The goddess of death Shit Well, uh, that is definitely uh Interesting what would she have to gain from a mortal soldier? That's what I don't know Apparently she doesn't have She doesn't She doesn't create champions She doesn't create followers So her reasoning will appearing to my father the way she did doesn't make any sense I mean Yes, she pulls necromancy, but there was plenty of necromancy going on at the time with the hell Why was it my father that she chose to go to? And why did she decide to gift him a sword and a Blessed child I don't know and I Not exactly that Good joe religion Uh joe in in my Knowing my history as a church boy, um, would I have any Extra information on the Raven Queen just as religion stat Uh, my religion is plus two Plus two, you would know just about the same thing that luna does about the Raven Queen that she's explained Let me see You would know that of course that she doesn't make champions as she said She does have a few followers just a as a reasonably well known god and well respected and Practiced god that it's you know help ferry people to the afterlife and stuff like that. She is not one you You pray to To you know help help give yourself strength not like a war god or like a Like a prosperity god or anything like that It's more so someone who you pray to to give last rights to someone You know put them to rest make sure that they're able to travel to the afterlife soundly So someone calling upon her in an hour of need such as that is very strange and unordinary, uh, you know, not very ordinary Would the nature of someone much less her answering in that manner specifically now There have been instances of her answering. This is common knowledge that sometimes the gods will answer prayers Um, the Raven Queen doesn't usually have much to answer for because You know, what can she do with someone dead aside from ferry them to the afterlife, you know So this is the only instance you've ever heard of of her answering a prayer That doesn't have to be putting someone to rest If I were to probably say it like if I were to think about it Fate well, believe it or not your, uh, lovely Raven Queen is kind of one of those creatures that String together fate I'm gonna I'm gonna step in and do a little lore correction there and that is yeah, not the general belief of what the Raven Queen is Yeah So generally speaking just That is not the common belief I've always seen it. Well, I will say that's not how the general general populist does Yeah, it's a way the answer is very vague. Luna. Can I be perfectly honest with you? I don't think any of us really know a lot about the Raven Queen like at all I'm okay with going to the church, but unless we find someone who actually follows the Raven Queen in the church I I mean that's it. We're going to get any more information specifically By all means we can continue to to think about it and even after all this is over Find out more but Something tells me I'm going to continue to find out more Hopefully Well, there we go.  Just to give a man a sword and a magic daughter. It doesn't make sense. And that's why I'm hoping to find someone who may Actually have followed her test your father your father will fighting to stop the necromancers Yes, that's reason enough, but so were so many others I will warn you There have been more than one occasion where On investigations the culprit has been a person driven to madness trying to understand the will of gods He's right there Are you pointing at enok? I'm not pointing at enok Okay He's right there and I thought you were alluding to enok Okay In any case In any case We've been in just a city for far too long. We need to move It will be quick. I just want to see if there's anybody who follows her and if not I'm going to leave and just keep working it out on my own. It's worked out this Yeah, I would say that this would take only like an hour or two. Yeah Yeah, I understand. I'm not as a character. I'm as a player. I'm not saying she can't do it. I just I'm trying to press uh motives Yeah, yeah, I know we're I know we're on a time crunch, so Well, if y'all are going to be heading out for an hour I got an hour to start looking at some of those things that we found in the factory if y'all don't mind uh You know, oh, that's right. Identifying for a bit. Yep I am going to be ritual casting Several items for the next hour. Okay So let's do that first if everyone is in agreement that the plan is to go to the church, uh the temple of the eternals Uh before you head out of chester city Mm-hmm the glove renais glove. I'm gonna paste it in the chat are called helping hands You can see that. Okay. Okay. Let's see. Oh my god. I love them. Oh my god. Uh next the wrenches here are the wrenches They're called gravitan wrenches They're a throwing weapon Here are the work of the boots. They're called workers boots Here is the sword hilt. It is a mechanized flametong Oh I'm definitely keeping this Emerald orb. Okay. So the orb Here it is That gem of sensory sensory protection So I I am all glasses and And nothing but little tools sitting at a table kind of just inspecting I have all these magical items and i'm all like Shit, sorry. Let's get that There we go. Yeah, so that's uh, that's all your magic items Okay, I I think you got a rod, right? I think I accidentally called out the name a lot of rod, um, but Yeah, we had a rod and I don't remember what it is because I remember I remember specifically accidentally calling out the name despite the fact you guys don't know what it is So this is that okay Yes Yeah, because I gave it to you last time remember All the items are back with me right now. Yeah, the unidentified wand wand. Sorry. Got a gravity rod Okay, so it's just like I'm I'm currently writing things down Tagging them on the item and then just kind of putting them side to side. So that way we can know what's going where Make a nice flame. That's interesting.  Oh wait. No, it's not It's not supposed to provoke attacks of opportunity. Sorry. It's I it says does I think it does does not It's supposed to be does not It does not I don't know why I didn't write that in the docs. It it does not provoke That sensory protection sounds real good for That is my mistake first stuff All right, but yeah, no Okay, I'll know what this stuff Well, uh, I'm definitely taking a pair of workers boots and that mechanized flametongue, so And it has fun getting closer. Mr. Ranged fighter.  He did get hurt yesterday and I'm not taking any chances that boy He speaks up. All right, but when you leave I do want to see you off. That's all right It's your fiance not your baby it's going to be okay She's like, I don't think you understand how often it is that he ends up with new scars when I leave him places I'm just Oh my god She points to like the big scar that goes up her cheek.  They're gonna be fine. Let's go. All right. So yeah, you guys are gonna go. Um Could I say that enok finishes his identifying and goes along with Uh No for each uh because it's ritual cast it's 10 minutes for each ritual So I am here the entire hour. Can I I'm waiting for them to come back Okay, because I really don't want to split the party, but if that is the case That is the case.  Let's make this a plot point I will stay with enok Okay, wow because I And my character has nothing to do with this plot line That's fair, but does have plenty to do with enok Well, if we're gonna leave the boys there then Yeah, the reason the reason being I'm gonna I'm gonna reveal the curtain a little bit now Is because luna going to the church is an important thing I am afraid of not all the characters being there for it, but if you guys I'm gonna Get to the church He's just identifying as he's walking and nothing will be his guide. Okay. Yeah Of course, I'll I'll have the assistance of coro. Coro will will terry. There we go. Thank you Yeah decision made. Um, yeah, coro pulls you from the front. There we go. Thank you for going along with my slight railroading I promise it's more fun I finished an item as soon as I finished one item. It's like hey rena. Uh these gloves do this Yeah, they're as we're walking. Yeah. Yeah, it's like hey rena. These gloves. They're super awesome. Here you go And much appreciated. Okay, so yes done.  Okay, we can we can divvy out the Well, we'll divvy those out at the end of the session So yes, you guys head over to the church of the eternals the Warforge at the front recognizes unithennial gives the same spiel and you head on inside And they make you pay for It's extortion. It is absolutely extortion. I'm gonna start flipping tables and whipping people.  We're leaving you here It is most certainly extortion and you guys head in to the various you see you pass by The various different halls of the different gods and pantheons and stuff and you do find That there is One to the raven queen unattended.  Yeah, so Keep in mind. This is a what would jesus do moment because flipping tables and whipping people out of the house of god It's not off the table. Okay. Okay. Um got it I um Can I just And then when you approach it as well, uh luna your your sword goes ice cold um I kind of look at the others and like may I have a moment It's doing that thing again as i'm listen if it's doing the thing and then all the more reason for us to stay together Look, I know that you all we just said you just said you don't want to be doing anything crazy But this isn't the being a metal of you being smothering. This is a metal of just like oh, no That's not what I meant. That's not what I meant. Just oh, I just wanted to pray for a moment. That's all okay Sorry after everything has happened. I got a little bit uh Can we do it? It's not you're loving it for me What did you just say you're loving it for me now i'm becoming a metal No, it's not that bad. Come on I mean it's not bad, but I just wasn't expecting it anyway. Go play go play Yeah, um I keep a candle on the sword and I approach the uh The shrine I suppose. What does the shrine look like? So the shrine has various different types of candles a uh symbol of the raven queen insert here I don't exactly know uh, how it's just the raven queen symbol is just a ravens head on like a blue shield Right, right, of course the feyron one that I use so and if it looks as though this place has not had The best upkeep. It's a little bit dusty. You can see the particles kind of floating through the air lit up by the light coming through some of the windows And it doesn't seem like anyone comes in here all that often But there is a there is there is a mat to kneel at And kind of a bowl, you know for offerings and such it looks very empty This is the rest of the room Could I light the candles? Yeah, you most certainly can I think uh, she'll loonable like the candles um and set the sword in front of the kneeli of the prayer mat It is almost unbearably cold to hold now like almost frostbitten Yeah, I'll set it down. Um in front of me uh, and kneel I don't exactly know how to do this Never really reached out to anything like this before But you put me here for some reason and you came to him for some reason and I know it is your it is It was you That is the reason my father is still here isn't it The sword Starts to levitate above the ground Blade pointed down still in the sheath And it starts to warp and change and flash and as if it's Something's about to burst out, but it stops and you hear a voice emanating from it. You have done well child Keep going It is not a voice you recognize I don't understand And just then the blade drops Onto the floor Did we all hear that voice or was it just luna? Just luna, but you did hear like a little a little Yep That thing was floating Do you believe that's not the weirdest thing this thing has done so far? No, absolutely That was really cool.  Before I even respond to all of that I want to pick up the sword and summon echo dad Yep, you summon echo dad and he looks just the same as he always did I think I know why you followed her.  And uh After a moment, I'll dismiss it let's pick up the sword re-sheath it And uh turn to the others have a good conversation with dad No, not him I heard something else Oh great even creepier. It's said to keep going I was doing well Okay I've never heard that voice before and she just kind of shakes her head This is why I don't get involved in this kind of thing You don't get involved and yet here we are in the middle of a church in the middle of a place that it literally worships the goddess of death So Even if you weren't part of it then you probably are now I'm gonna be 100 honest. I'm very uneasy here At the commotion you hear from kind of like the you know, like a pastor's room Just rummaging and a muffled voice Is there anyone out there the the normal priest is not here And you can you can see out of the room a very familiar looking goblin comes out Wait wait no it can't be the goblin from the That art has got has his entire has his entire being improved I needed it There is just to know but his shop is not here notice that there is a shopless The shop is not here because you didn't you guys didn't see him at the shop He's here.  Oh, what do you form? Oh long story grit yak found business savvy merchant He say business is gamble so we gamble with grit yak's few coin if grit yak you lose Admit business world not for him and if grit yak win he let grit yak start own business. What happened? grit yak lost Not give up and merchant said that is good what good business person does never get up give up He showed grit yak how to sweet talk and offer special deals and give grit yak several of his wares to start grit yak's own business backup What are you doing here? Oh five counts slowly open up travel for select few guard folk royal family and certain merchants including grit yak Oh, well, well, that's good. But I mean, what are you doing in the church?    Usually comes here to pay worship and visit family not hurt of him for a few days grit yak very concerned Though grit yak has already been given much from friend adventures. May you do one final kindness? Of course. Of course. What do you need? Please assure that tortoise if torto friend is alive name is bulworth Still needs to help grit yak move heavy cargo Do you know where where he usually is? Hmm Has plates where family stays around this area and he kind of describes a uh a path to Where he is somewhere in the kind of urban District of chester city not too far from here. I'm still in chester I I just look at the others We can we can do this at a different time. I know that we are picking on a tight schedule Hmm, I mean, I think that would be best honestly. We don't even know if they're leaving here I'm gonna have to admit it. We are running out of time Right, you can see grit yak lower his shoulders and disappointment I I'm sorry. No, I did not say I wouldn't do it. I'm just on a job first I'm going to I'm gonna I'm gonna look at grit yak How much oh Oh grit yak pay lard some great business partner and better friend would give anything to ensure safety Name price They are inside of the city How far how he like motion he told us about where He said an hour away We less than an hour away and however the majority of the time would he just says like a general area where he might be But through his searching was not able to find him Yeah Uh in that case wait, wait, wait. He said a general area. Mm-hmm. Yeah That that he could not It's I will I will say it's not going to be a whole last thing Okay, so here's what I'm gonna do instead then in that case I'm going to reach into my pocket. I am going to pull out some gold However much it costs because I can't think right now. I'm very high And then I'm going and then I'm going to drop it And then I'm going to drop it in grick yak's hand and I'm going to say This will afford four horses that will make up for the time that you are wasting us I'm going to find your friend and then you are going to give me the restitution money Is that acceptable? Oh, yes very much so. Thank you. Thank you kindly adventurers close Very good Renee is kind of like out this little cheeky red hunter face of like I turn and walk out without further questions Okay, so how much was that and how much are you expecting back? I don't know how much a horse is That is a good question. Yeah out of character. I do not know how much a horse is let me Hold on. Hold on like but of course I will be giving him enough money to get four horses from here to city of name town so we can save time Yes, exactly. That's that's my goal here Your sister according according to roll 20 riding horses are 75 gold each Uh, I can do it. I can afford that. I mean, I was gonna say we can do three and I don't mind riding Yeah, this this is yeah, sure. Sure. How about two horses and then we'll double up on them. Fantastic 150 gold Fantastic, I will give him 150 gold.   Can I roll insight just to be just just to be safe You can see that he's got puppy dog eyes and like at the the near like as you guys were like gently turning him down You can see that he he is kind of like very disappointed. He's kind of looking down towards the ground You can see it looks like he doesn't have a lot of options Damn it.  All right.  Yeah, Luna looks taken aback and look at it Like there is she looks like surprised Rene's just got this face of like I knew it I am walking out without a question You gotta catch up. Yeah, no, I imagine we're all walking together. Yeah, okay speed walking I am speed walking. I'm very visibly. I'm very visibly annoyed by this Thank you, Nathaniel. You didn't have to do that. This could have waited No I had to for multiple reasons All right, because it's just greek yak or No, I don't really care about greek yak But this person might have infamic I'd like to insight on that Well, like you're so powerful. You don't have stats.  I care. I care about greek yak in in some kind of way But not not in the oh, he's such a cute goblin way A lot to explain I will say Firstly, firstly, this person might have information regarding the Raven Queen or it will help you Secondly, greek yak will be a merchant, a merchant that has very close ties to me Close ties to all of us really, but I see I see where you're going with that Other business ventures don't matter But having a merchant with close ties to my organization would make for a very good fellow He wants to help Still regardless of your reasoning Respect on the bottom line, but Yeah, okay Thank me by getting this done post-haste. I still want to be out of here very quickly. Yes, sir I will be quick. All right.  Yes. Thank you, please It only takes it only takes a few sharp questions to a few individuals Like very well awarded questions to get the right answers that you need Following the tracks and trails hearing about a band of hooligans And following into an alleyway now. This is a reused map, but it's just for functionality This is not the same map that you saw before That's okay lore wise But you see I turn on bat vision a bunch of uh, humanoids cornering a Turtle detective vision in a an alleyway And you can see that they're all kind of out of breath seems like they were chasing him for a little while and they're they you hear one say Yeah Finally got you and you guys can put your tokens on the board as you can see that there is a fear bolt to back see Uh gnome and air genasi Uh, I've never seen this map before in my life. I saw it. It was mine Remember when I got castelia that first time with the cart Yeah, no. Yeah, all right. Great never mind then. Yeah. No, you have never seen this before it's cool. You've never seen this Well, yeah, you can see that. Uh, also inock make sure to be on a full hp. You finish your long rest Yep. Oh, uh, I don't think it well No, we all have low hp.   Oh, it looks like some adventurers and up in business.  Okay, the sound of a reloading gun Look, Luna, you can want to be in front all you want, but if you keep taking sess for we're both going to be in melee range All right Give me a combined intimidation from Luna and inock That's what I was trying to do is intimidate them because I really don't want to be in combat today Yeah, that's fair I fought an angel and these guys are oh, okay Okay, so look this is where I start stepping into and being like, all right Cracks my that is an insight friend.  Hey, that's that's the lieutenant's kid. Come on. Let's get out of here What she has a kid. Yeah, of course. She's got Do you want to deal with the guards? I'm gonna raise my eyebrows.   They were listen You put out your gun so many times that I don't know whether or not you're going to okay. You flick me out Really am I that terrifying?  I don't want to this is like 90 of my personality I I realize that all right. So yes, you guys find Fullworth as fits the description given to you by greek yak And this is art made by cammy Oh It was very hard. I'm very I I like the I like the texture you did for the uh, the shading the brush texture is very nice. Thank you You can see that. I really love his dtf is Hello And he uh, you can see that with him is a small drow boy. Let me put a token on there the uh The tortoise speaks up, uh Bulworth speaks up Thank you adventurers. I hope I owe you much and more I will be returning to my business partner momentarily. I simply have a wound that I must nurse And you can see that he is clutching his side with one of his arms. Oh my god Oh Um, and I'd like to approach and he backs away. He backs away and holds up his other arm No, no, no, please. It is none of your concern. You have already done too much Service for me. She's going to do it anyway. I Please I was I'm kind of specifically looking for you Ah, then you are a friend of greek yaks? Yes, and he tells me that You're the person who takes care of the raven queen's altar in the church. Yes I I am I had some questions for you Hmm Well, I guess those questions might change depending on how you feel About this and he shows his arm.  And you can see you can see as he pushes you see that he was also hiding something within the drow boys arms a A little decrepit kitten, which is somehow still moving Oh I Would like to know why a follower of the raven queen is dabbling in on death He gestures over to the to the drow boy. This is kondorin The small cat was his alive and well before those thugs took it away and murdered it I attempted to save it, but he was too late The boy simply wanted one last chance to be with it before laying it to rest If you wish to turn me in so be it I know only yes that the boy have his final moment with the kitten first That's Not my place Frankly, I Starting to believe there's a lot of gray area Listen But I'm I'm not going to do anything about what you've done back in That's between you and the queen of ravens I Oh also as you approach him your sword goes cold again That's calm down. I am Incredibly lost I And I need some form of guidance and I believe that only a follow of the raven queen can help me in this Even if said follower may be a necromancer Think I've met worse lately Very well And you see the little boy kondorin just walks up does that mean well worth not going into prison not by my hand I'd like to speak up. Uh, just from behind Do you have 75 gold? uh perhaps Quick you can spare. I do not take the Arms given to the church of the tunnels. I do not see it. Right fantastic. I would like you to come with us So that we can talk on the go um Nathaniel, do you need 75 gold for something because if you're doing this to I'm extra horse if he's going to leave the city if this takes an exorbitant amount of time It depends on how much information that you need from him Consider it a payment. Luna's going to go into our bag and I'll cover it. This is important Consider it a fine from the city or whatever you would like I will take care of it Fantastic, then let's move Yep, and he continues with you hiding his hand while his other takes the boy And uh, he stops for a moment and just waits and and bulworth kneels down to conran I'm afraid it is too dangerous to walk around with that any longer kondrin You must say goodbye now And the drow boy just hugs the kitten which just kind of pause like Unthinkingly around his back And he holds up his black veined hand And you see a dim green glow as the cat slowly Stops moving and the boy sniffles a bit. I'm going to go bury him in the graveyard Very good. Please Stay safe In the meantime, I've been watching renae kind of take a walk. Yeah renae Are you doing she as soon as the cat was pulled out? She just physically like moved as far away as she possibly could she's keeping her back to the entire thing If anybody's looking she has like her hands kind of up Um a little bit towards her face and she's taking very like controlled breaths I Am going to approach renae Just very carefully You okay Tell me when that Is over I can't I don't need to be kneeled at night now. I just No, it's understandable. I get you And I'll tell you So I just I speak in elvish I do understand And I turn around and I'm gonna keep an eye and make sure that it stays out of sight of renae Okay Yeah, after the short conversation you guys do walk and talk back to the church of the eternals With bolworth hiding his arm when you get it back in there You're greeted by greek yak who has been waiting patiently. Ah, you found him. Oh, thank goodness And he goes to hug him. Oh pardon his arm. Pardon his arm Bulworth's gone through many and bulworth just lifts and a hand they know. Yes. He broke it Obviously, have you gotten the horses for us? Yes, they are waiting right outside greek yak found good merchant Fantastic. Luna. Luna. Have you gotten the answer that you need? No, I have not had a chance to speak with him yet because we have been walked Sorry, I'll say on the way. That's my bad. Retroactively Let's get out of here. Let's get out of here. Retroactively Let's get out of here. Retroactively on the way while you're walking on the way. What do you ask him?  And uh, he tells you that sword was made in the raven queen's image Whoever made it must have Had strong bonds to her in some way not in the personal sense, but really religiously so believed in her very much It is unprecedented that the gods would meddle in mortal means such as this especially the raven queen That's why I'm so confused Whatever reason it must be I know the raven queen and What I can say is I think you will be safe Even I and he holds out his hands have sins to pay for regarding her, but She is oddly forgiving And kind She I believe she was the architect of the sword. I don't think it was made by any mortal hand Creator of the sword that is very peculiar The story that I was told was that she appeared to my father And gave this to him and that's how it all began It's been I've had it looked at a thousand times, but recently it's been acting strange There have been instances of the gods taking mortal champions, but not the raven queen. Why would she want to do now? I do not know I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you'll require someone even greater than I a tune to the raven queen I am merely a praiser no priest I Do not speak to her Thank you Honestly, that's more than I've been able to get from that And I thank you You Are very much like her You are very kind Considering what I am I've just learned a bit of perspective is all Thank you Yep, and then the whole thing where he goes back to krikyak krikyak Buy some horses with you and I I will say while leading you out retroactively Once the session is over you can look through his wares and buy what you wish from him Man aren't we so good with all of these new items we have Ah Many items Yes, good Well, who's getting their own horse Did we just buy four?  So you buy three horses Yeah, let's do that.   Awesome. And you start to head. I assume this is the last thing you do before you start to head out of the city Yeah, yeah I did for narrative sake we do not have to play it out luna did see off scorpio because she did say she would Yeah, of course, of course you see You see him off like uh, he he meets you at the gate actually and um He he sees your horse and he seems very impressed and he follows you To you know through the the back end of the city the northern part until you reach the gate And uh, just you know while you're there just conversating with you and laughing and talking about the plans afterwards Because there's no like have dismounted and been like leading your horse by bridal Yeah, yeah, yeah, and like once you reach towards the end and knowing that it's time for him to go He just kind of takes your hand with his one good one. So there's no way of convincing you to take me with you then She'll take you out of the ceremony I would very much love for you to come but I also I need you here Just in case all hell breaks loose. I need a competent sword here Oh, but maybe if I slay a flesh golem or something. I'm sure I can find out any clutches on his side After attempting to flex Yeah, you make a good point or maybe I'm uh laying bed for a bit Yeah, I'd like you to rest and just keep an eye on things here Of course I won't be gone that long this time. I promise you'd be safe out there. I Of course Do you know made to be any different? I might come back with a new skull too, but you won't be mad about that Hmm.   Oh Oh, no, go on.   Oh, please You can see her standing there in the middle arms crossed looked looking dead ahead at you luna I had suspicions that you didn't come here just for a simple visit Uh, I'll dismount and like Something wrong I swore to myself that I would Have the guards not keep any special treatment in or additional attention on you out of suspicion But I still cannot help hearing what goes on in the city, especially after what happened at the factory Luna you mean to do something incredibly dangerous, don't you? Do you know me to be any other way? I know you stubborn enough to not be able to change your mind Something I got from dad Very well, she just takes one hand to like put on her forehead Then I take no pleasure in that. I'll have to inform the viscount that I was Successful in my attempts to stop the traveling group of adventurers from approaching cloveway And she gives a little smile at you and pulling out her notepad gives one swift scratch with her pen Well, I'm sorry that we were such a handful I'll make sure that we leave the city quietly And hopefully this will not mow your record too much The other two guards just look at her in astonishment. Lieutenant. Are you sure about this? Oh, believe you me.  Me either was I I'd like to pipe up from the back real quick I'm sorry. I must have misheard. Were you given orders to stop us? I'm given orders to stop anyone from going from to cloveway. That is a dangerous city filled with necromancers It is closed off Of course, my apologies Though Luna, if you would, I know you're in a hurry, but I do want to make this believable And seeing as you seem to enjoy more unorthodox ways of passing the time Would you like to have a sparring session with me? I Mother, are you sure? It seems like you like to fight and I don't like to resort to violence all the time, but it's We've wanted to spend more quality time together. Yes Yes, trust me. I'm not used to this either. I don't even know I I believe you're You've won the war. I know that you know how to fight Don't think I don't know some of the beasts you fell back in the upper Mountains as well I just look back at the others Um, what is with your family and constantly fighting all the time? Do you think me and my father were any different? No, I just find it very strange that this is how you show affection Just actively punching each other like I just like hold up one of the scars on my arm Yes, this is exactly how we show affection It's just from the last time my father knocked me on my ass Now you don't want to know what ever happened in the church.  I know how to fight And I guess I'm gonna Are we going into initiative or are we just saying what we're doing here? We're gonna we're gonna say what we're doing just like the same thing as Renee did with her dance battle Okay, well So yep, he appears and she turns her head ever so slightly. Oh, that's gotta be freaky Yeah, that's gotta be scary.  She's like such dirty She just uh looks at it. Oh, that's dirty. That's dirty. That is going to take some getting used to That was very As well. All right, if you want to have come back into my life again, this is just something I can do All right. That was very uncouth Renee I'm gonna need you to roll initiative. See who goes first who has the first No All right, uh 100 I pull out the bottle of whiskey and start passing it to the other two Renee's taking a swing.  I Think I have some issues to work out. That was easier than I thought That is some Dad And she's going to sidestep over here and try trying to disorient you. I'm gonna need you to make a dexterity saving throw Okay. Well, you know, I should I shouldn't be surprised. This is the woman my dad was waiting for that's a three She kind of does a little fancy footwork and trips you you fall prone Oh Back away back. That's how it's going to be. Okay. Well Half move it to stand up bonus action echo dad right behind and I am starting to take uh some slashes Okay, give me some attacks And Absolutely again. Oh my god.    It's nothing Okay, it's just a little slap like she doesn't mean to harm you and she's doing very non-lethal blows She's just showing you where she could hit you. Yeah, if you really wanted She's like you're open here. You're open here. You're open here like Luna just like she just kind of like It really is steady your aim.  She's calls out. No, this is good. Sometimes you'll be distracted in the midst of battle Oh, yes, just not by that idiot And she is going to twist her She's going to twist her sword She twists her sword to be pointed backwards behind her and she takes a very strange stance And now it's your turn Do you really uh before I do what I may or may not be doing I just look at her Do you really want me to not hold back? Hmm. I want to see what all that time hunting monsters has done for you Well, um, I think it's time for uh, might need to use a new class ability guys. Oh, shit Oh, I think I think it is time for a rage Oh There is a way this looks Um Because every time luna summons echo dad her shadow elongates and connects with him You see the shadow her shadow again rise up behind her And it is like another much more see-through visage of her father As I enter my rage my father encouraged me and I will begin to take my baps. Um We'll show me the backs That is plus two to hit 14 14 unfortunately is parried.     That is true. I'm getting a little bit more than I bargained for keep going Yeah, that's why that's my turn.   It is a 17. Unfortunately. She rolled a two even with her bonuses. That's not enough She goes she goes to do an unarmed strike with her offhand However, you're able to just like move out of the way It looks like something akin to something you're fought. You saw your dad do in maybe a tavern fight once or twice Very familiar form So that's why he learned that Oh bollocks and that was one that risked a lot. She is now in a disadvantageous position. She's off balance Oh attacks on her now have advantage. Oh Attack again, then you may yeah absolutely 14 16 it Uh, is that a 16? Because advantage that's right 16. Yeah, yes that hits She tries to go parry it but it hits and it kind of you can see See it ring throughout the blade as she parries it and you can see that her hand stings a little bit Uh, again.  Show me. What is that a a it's it's just an instant transmission It's an absolution bap.  Yeah.  Well done, Luna I'll dissipate echo dad. Yeah See nice to know where father picked up some of his tricks Oh yes And she just looks where echo dad once was and you can see her smile fades a little bit and she looks to you and she gets up and Just puts both hands on your shoulders just rubbing them gently up and down You've grown into such a beautiful strong woman, Luna Uh Luna smiles a bit um I Thank you And she pulls you in for a hug She'll she'll hit her Yep, you embrace for a little bit and she lets go I Understand that you need to be somewhere so No more time wasting. I think if I wait any longer the witch taker might charm me next You know, it's never too late to go to college Very well gods and she calls to them they pull the gate open She steps aside And she salutes you all mother I thought you should know um Might be getting married when I get back in it. I'd like you to be that Oh Well, she just looks down she you can see that for for once she's caught off guard But there's so much to do I I don't have time to get a dress and I did She she just puts both hands to like do a little breathing motion I just want you there. You don't need to do anything special I'm so happy for you, Luna I am too So you want to get back I will see you then Hey Remount You ride off on I think it's day eight or nine. I can't quite remember. I have to I believe it's day eight Day eight of 14 as you ride off To the necrotic city of cloveway.  So who here has actually been beyond the border That sounds like a nobody aside for me Oh, yeah That Just this coat of god um This cloveway Yeah right It looks better from a distance. Trust me That does not make me how much better about what we're going into This is our final destination No Getting back to belkin is proper is our final destination. This is just along the way Which reminds me I have to tell you or something Hmm What is it? Dear old dad says that Our little friend from back in rego would Is Probably not in the best place right now and might be moving too fast in the currency And that we can't trust karami halligan I don't think we could trust her in the first place I know but the thought of mirth has always been in the back of my mind, but I'm starting to actually feel a sinking feeling in my stomach Well, then that just means we need to get to them faster What are we going to do when we find her? I'll find them. I don't know. I'll handle them. I think we all need to handle them Because I have a feeling it's going to take all of us If we want to get them out of life If we actually want them to have a second chance We gave them a second chance I'm gonna ask you guys something very personal Yes, please I just I want to spend a bit of time on them You did they are no more time After all this they are probably going through something Life-changing everyone who has gone through necromancy is experiencing something life-changing. That's what necromancy is life changing life Or trying to change it At the risk of Going off on a long speech Inaka made a promise to give you the truth I feel it put in it Tell you a story Well, then let's set up camp and You can tell me your story I think that's a good place to end it. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, right. Welcome You guys are outside of balcony's borders on your way to clove way.


Well if you're out on the water and your hook catches a fish, congratulations, but if your hook catches you, Rain Mandi are here to help you out with a little bit of first aid. So tonight we're going to talk about something that's pretty serious for fishing people. And if you've ever been to any area hospitals with mannequins and you've seen the fish hooks in people, you will realize all the places they get hooked. It's unbelievable. There's not a square inch of the human body that I don't think any of these hospitals have not seen. So we're going to talk a little bit tonight about how to remove a hook. And I want to be sure that you understand that I'm only saying hooks that are easy to get to, not hooks around the eyeballs, around the nose, hooks that are very, very difficult to get to. There you need to have a professional do it.  And if that doesn't work, then they might numb it and they might cut it out. But I want you to imagine that this hook is in a person's skin right here. And they're usually down a little bit deeper. I'm going to put it down just a little bit deeper. But here's the basic technique. You need string and you need a fairly powerful piece of string. You don't want that to break. And you're going to put it right above the hook itself. Then you're going to hold down on the back part of the hook. It's important to push down and then you're going to pull up. And I usually tell people I'm going to count to three. And then I'm going to pull it. And I usually pull it on two. So they're not so scared. So I go one, two. And that hook usually comes out exactly where it went in. And if you can notice, it really hasn't torn the cardboard. And usually if you do this right, it also will not tear the skin. If you're going to be in the boat fishing, make sure that you have a big pair of sharp side cutters. If you actually get that hook and it penetrates completely through that skin, you're going to want to take that side cutters and cut that barb off of the hook and pull it back through to remove it. For Lakeland News, I'm Ray Gildaw with the Niswa Guides League. And I'm Andy Erick, the Basin Biologist. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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