Because I've been hearing a lot lately about how I'm trying to save everyone and
protect everyone and keep everyone from this.
And we're a broken family and nothing matters.
But no one seems to pay attention to the fact that we
are still family. And I still love you guys.
We're, we're watching you go down the path of trying to be family,
police instead of you trying to figure out what does m want.
I think perspectives are a bit off.
What do you want, Rhoda?
What do I want?
Mm-hmm.
. I don't wanna be here anymore.
Then what do you wanna do?
I don't know, but you know what? I'm trying to figure it out.
So am I, I have not forgotten that. I need to know what I'm doing.
I mean, sets you up to figure out what you wanna do too.
But constantly telling me that I can't do that is kind of taking away my choice
as well. Don't you think?
Life just sucks.
I agree.
Playing games with strangers, you know,
there's no danger
playing
with strangers.
On that note, let's go back to the, uh, crew.
As you go down into the under dark and traverse under the mountain
to [inaudible].
I've still got that song stuck in my head.
It's, it's really catchy. You know, I just, it doesn't go away.
Yeah, it doesn't.
You think you can, something I'll show you. I have books in my house,
like old comic books and whatnot.
As you're talking,
you wander up to the front of Olta Ed and Gareth goes, ah,
this is where my people are camped. I'm going to go check in on them.
I think with or bog in the form that he has,
he should be able to get you into the city.
And with my shoulder.
Pads, I'm gonna cast tongues on myself.
This is where Gareth part sways with the party. Are you going into the city?
We most certainly are.
So do you guys know where we're supposed to find this?
This Council of the Matriarchy?
Oh yes. The council. Yes. Uh, just a, it's that fancy building.
Yeah.
Kind of close. Wonderful.
The center of town. Yeah. We went there.
Before. Perfect.
Yep.
That's where we go.
You go, you go to the building of the council and it is locked up.
Almost like there's nobody there.
Alright. Wilder.
It's up to you. No, no, no, no, no. I am not breaking.
In. Could we knock?
Yeah, that would be the best thing to do.
It was a joke. It was a joke. Wilder. I.
Know. I'm not, I knock on the door.
After a couple seconds, someone comes to the door,
you hear a couple chains removed from it, and, uh,
sort of an o officious, uh, looking male.
Dr comes to the door. He a good, good dig. Uh,
how, how could I help you?
Uh, we're requesting an audience with the laters of your fine city.
Uh, right, uh, uh, according to what,
according to what business perhaps.
Uh, we.
Waited Ed, ed, ed Ho, should I say, is requesting,
uh,
to be party to the council of the high.
Family. I'm Callam Morda, big fan, longtime lover of the Dr.
Uh, with my friends here, whoever the house is, Sanders, me Wilder.
I don't know your last name. And, uh, changes.
Every.
Week. Our, our drow buddy. Um,
also we bring a warning, uh,
sympathizers.
Uh, uh, your, your Dr. Your Drow buddy. Who? Buddy? Who is your drow buddy?
Buddy? The.
El. Uh, so we were, uh, sympathizers with the drow and we have some.
No, no warning, no, wait, wait, wait.
Messages.
What, what family he, as he's looking at, as he's looking at Orba,
uh,
what fab are you Representative Inha or Edge?
How, how much do I know about Drow? Did I roll about this before?
What are you wanting to know? And we'll have you.
Roll. Do I know how matriarchal dra are?
Go ahead and roll a nature check on that.
I I think I know that was a natural 17 plus
a billion. Yeah. Okay. Oh no, I'm just kidding. Not plus a billion.
Yeah, I would, I would also say on top of that, you also know that, uh,
male drows are usually in like,
grunt work situation.
So the presence of a male draw would be like a messenger boy or something to
that effect. And you would also know that in these circumstances,
should a group of individuals show up at a place like this
and only one draw is present,
then that draw is going to probably be considered the primary
individual for that party of individuals who have
arrived.
Uh, he's not really representing a family, but he came with us from water deep.
Uh, but he has been in service to a family there. He.
In service to people up at David In sl?
No, no. To his matriarch.
There were other drought in water deep, you know.
Powerful.
Yes. The town of.
Tower. That's where we are now. Yes.
Uh, no, no.
We're an North.
Oregon. Yeah, no, no. I'm saying that he came with us from not this island.
So family.
Right? What is the family that you represent? Tig though? For what? City?
Water.
How? Call him. Don't worry about it. Um,
I am Or Bog Tower Fall.
I was changed into this form. No, we.
Should stop there. We should just, we just leave it at that.
But no, we, we are coming. This is important. Uhhuh. .
I don't care about any of the other stuff my brother has taken over
TowerFall. That's true. People can check this out.
And he wants to come down here and fight you guys.
So you need to, you, we,
we just came because we want you to warn people and get them ready. And,
and if you'll let us, we'll fight by your side.
He's not with us. They with me. .
But remember when we made this plan? Remember?
Is this what we were going to say? Calum?
No.
It's fine. Listen, we don't have time to play around.
We think we had a few minutes.
He bow, he, he just, he just bows and dips back and he goes, um,
I'll be right back. And he closes the door. I shorter.
Pads.
I d listen you people. Yeah.
You people.
. You people.
. Yeah, I'm listening. I heard everything that was just said.
I didn't do that bad. No.
Honestly.
You didn't do that good. Better.
Performances or.
Yeah. I just feel like, listen,
based on what I heard originally when I first showed up here,
it would've been best to maybe not mention that and to just go with the idea
that you weren't from Tower Fault in general.
He clearly wanted.
Your.
Name to know who I was. Mm-hmm. .
And we all know mm-hmm. .
I can't act worth crap.
Well, so if you just didn't sing anything, that would've been an option, but.
Well, you didn't say I had my tongue cut out or anything.
I could have gotten to that. I was.
Gonna say between Callum and I. Well, I could.
Do curse out.
I'll fight you right here. Listen.
Listen. I, if.
If we're going, lies are not the.
The foundation, right. For trust. That's right. Ctars are.
No, wait, hold on.
. That's what Tom said.
Tom said I had to have Ctars if I came down here and Okay.
I didn't get a chance to research a lot, but I've seen every,
every drought I've seen has had ctars. So I mean,
obviously they, they get born and they hand them ctars.
Right away. That's again,
questionable statements that we should probably not make sweeping
generalizations. Um, but, okay.
Oh.
All.
Right. Are there any drought around? I mostly like deserted.
You're in the middle of a drought city.
Be seems like it was all locked up,
so I wasn't sure if there were like people milling.
If you guys.
Oh no, it, it's just, it's just the camp, the council, uh, thing.
I'm just, I'm just keeping a ear out for anything.
Hate council culture.
Is questionable.
If you guys are scared we can run.
I've never been happier, honestly.
I've never been hungry here. Do you smell that? As.
Matter of fact all you do is eat what?
I don't only eat, I just often think about 18.
No, you think about the, the things we could find meaning of the universe.
Things.
You can find out what you're thinking about. If you put pat on.
That you shouldn't be thinking about.
Wilder. Make a per what? Uh, with your path, with your passive perception.
You notice that as they are arguing, the,
the guy who is at the front door is back at the front.
Door. I also noticed, cuz I'm listening.
To this conversation is happening, uh,
make a perception check at disadvantage because you were kind of.
Wrapped up in this. I,
well I did specifically say I was listening to people around cuz I wanna know if
anyone's talking about us.
Okay.
Sir? Yes. Uh, what did you find out?
Still 15.
A as or bog is in the middle of a rant.
You also notice that the door opens and he's just kind of standing there
listening to or bog rant.
Uh, hello sir. I'm sorry I didn't catch your name.
Or bog.
No. Orach. He's talking to, um, what's.
Just, um, if, if, if the four of you would please follow me. Uh, the,
the, the mistresses will be with you shortly.
Okay. Do you need Wait, do you need a handkerchief or something?
I'm just gonna walk. We're just gonna follow.
I Okay. . I was gonna offer him a handkerchief.
Oh, old boggle.
He sounds like allergies. I probably, it's probably bad allergies down here.
There's probably mold and all kinds of stuff.
Like you have a bad case of the allergies too.
He takes you to the council room that you guys had been in before and he steps
out.
I am living.
I'm glad cuz he might be dying again. I.
I currently, I hope not. I don't don't.
Someone with shoulder pads like this.
I think I'm less concerned about your shoulder pads and more concerned with the
things that ABAG said that could have gotten us in trouble. But maybe,
maybe I'm overreacting. That's probably it. I'll just sit here.
You can stand there with my arms cross. I don't think you're just Wait.
So you're not worried about the things his brain was thinking?
No, not currently.
His brain should not be thinking those things.
My brain is hardly ever thinking. At.
Least that's, that's what I'm talking about.
I'm telling you he's demonn possessed or here we go again.
Devil food cake possess. You want to look in my nose? No, I don't wanna look in.
My nose.
I'd like to chop it off.
I feel like there's just been a lot of tension in this room recently. I.
Wonder why.
I think after this we need to sit down.
And as you say that you hear a.
If if there is a lady in this room, I'm paying attention. .
Uh, well actually cuz where it is is you guys are down in a standing area.
There's big high judging seats that go around the top of this room.
So they kind of slipped in without you.
Noticing know bow so deeply to these ladies.
, I'm gonna bow to me.
Too.
As do I. Wilder. Learn from last time.
You hear them say, ah, do deference. Very.
Good. Could they talk in common?
Uh, currently they are. Yes. Alright.
We recognize two of you from a visit about eight days ago.
I'd imagined that there's a reason why you came back two days early, uh,
prior to our 10 days. Yes.
Your mistress is.
And you have, you have brought one of our kind with you.
Yes. Your mistresses.
If this is our friend, Callum. Oh,
you did not have the pleasure of meeting before. And I would like to,
um, have him convey a message to you all.
Uh, yes. If I, if I may. Madam ladies, uh, mistress,
uh, Callum from Vassar far north. Uh,
I only recently just got here, but we've learned of a,
a plan to attack your town, city kingdom.
We wanted to make sure we related to you as quickly as possible so you could,
you know, prepare yourselves.
Okay. And how did you come across this information?
Uh,
well we threatened the man that is attempting to surf the throne of tower
fall.
And he pretty much blatantly to our face so that he planned on bringing his
entire army down here to try and wipe you out.
And what man was this?
That, uh, Lars, I believe his name was Lars TowerFall.
Big L The TowerFall family.
Yeah.
His his brother had previously been down here with promises
of peace and.
Yes. And he still wishes you no harm, uh.
Treating.
Indeed actually would be willing to fight with you against Lars if it came to
that.
It almost seems to us as though perhaps the Tower falls are working
together for our demise. You are aware that uh,
or bog tower fall in conjunction with other members of
his party had slain our d a d?
Yes. I'm very sorry about that. It wasn't there.
I would've had something to say probably. Um, however,
I believe that in part of restitution and making it right to you,
find mistresses, uh,
we are quite willing to help you inside with you cuz we certainly don't agree
with what Lars is doing. Uh, or most of the people up on tower fall.
Although we also have a God to kill that's not related to the drought at all.
So if you don't want our help,
we could also just give you the information and let you do as you will and we
could go. Although I do very much like it here. It's very nice.
It's a lovely place. You have beautiful setup. I love what you've done with it.
Well he said.
We'll have to think on this.
Especially now in light of the treachery of the tower fall family.
They're not that treacherous. I mean, well one of them,
one pretty treacherous. Yeah. I mean, uh,
I don't remember if he gave us a timeline, but it sounded imminent. So just.
Yeah. So just to be very, don't take too long to be very clear madam.
Um, LA is the one you should be concerned with. Uh, the other one,
ABOG. That he's not always, not always the brightest.
Sometimes he speaks before thinking and sometimes just there's no thought at
all. Right, buddy? The elf.
Yeah. Yeah. Right. Wilder. Um,
by the way, I'm war bog. Okay, so I'm out.
I'm done. I'm done.
I tried. There's there's, there's, there's. Okay,
listen.
Get them shrinks. .
With honesty is the best policy.
That's away from Orach. Slightly. Uh,
he did promise he would fight with you though.
Yes.
Came here willingly. We didn't force him.
Did you? Are you attempting to impress us by dressing in blackface?
No, he is actually a drought.
I mean, he's dumb, but he's not that.
Dumb. Have you have any of your, have any of your people ever dealt with,
uh, witch named Jada? Cuz she's the one who did this to me.
I would say the one that gifted him with the ability to become one of your great
race.
Yes. Yes. I'd.
Won Mrpa this great honor. Really? Uh,
the chance to serve the mistresses in this way.
To serve the mistresses.
Yes. I do think that it's kind of the, uh, the role of Moro. Is it not?
I still want to bring peace.
Very well by this. We will know you're filthy.
Eliminates your brother Lars.
And take his place on the throne and you shall be our liaison
to the upper world.
Oh, this is not where I saw this going.
Okay.
He has like 30 archers I can't get within.
So you came down here with complete impotency to do anything about the
warning that you bring us?
Well, I don't have an army. If you want to give me an army.
Hold about, I mean, I.
Moment of clarification.
We can try. No technic fine.
Technically we do have an army
at my.
Behest. I mean, mean you got, you did, you did kill a God.
Well.
And you're saying.
Well that was one of our friends have.
A show the God yet.
That was stumble foot and he's dead now too. So even.
So you, you lack any real usefulness to this council? I.
Would submit. Well, I, I I think the warning is kind of nice. Yeah, no.
Giving you a heads up that it's imminent. But if that's what,
if that's what it'll take, then I'll go kill my brother.
And if I can't kill him, I'll die trying.
Well, that's an option.
Uh, it's fine. Mm-hmm. ,
you guys can kill XOs without me.
If they're not gonna help me and this is what it's gonna take, then I,
I can at least do this.
You know, I find, I kind of find, and this is not.
Very well, we accept your terms.
Oh, okay. Well.
We, we will, we will see you by the end of the original 10 day.
Please bring Lars head.
He may attack before that. So please be ready.
The head mistress claps her hands.
Just then this council has been adjourned and they all
begin to proceed out.
Okay. Uh, well that I.
If you would plea, if you would please cub with me.
The council has come to an ed, uh, this way please.
Yes.
And why.
I was wondering, do you know.
A good place? Did you drive a taxi before?
He just looks at you with the questioning?
Look,
you just sound like someone that we got really bad taxi rides from before. Oh.
David?
Yes.
I'm very familiar with him. He brought me up to the north.
I think he's still there outside the time bubble.
Cause I told him I'd come back for him. .
Ah yes. You're good at lying.
Um, yeah. So,
you know that was going so well until the very end when everyone spoke.
With the whole honesty thing. No.
No, no. Well.
Okay. Lead with lies and then.
No, I just think we could have gotten more help before you said you would throw
yourself in front of an entire army to try and kill your brother.
But if you want to throw your life away Sure.
Because apparently that's not valuable as someone that's lost their life twice.
I think it's kind of important, but.
Whatever. Okay, but you're so you're saying I can't be sneaky, sneaky.
No. Yes. That's, yeah. I'm saying that's exactly,
I I don't mean it as a bad thing cuz you're one of my favorite people.
I'm just saying that sneaking is not really a thing that.
Mm-hmm. .
So you guys find yourself, you've been led out to this treat level and uh, the,
uh, drought looks at you and he goes,
the mistresses did inquire as to if there are any
resources you might need to in order to fulfill your
task that are within reason.
You have men willing to defend the city.
Small group.
This, uh,
this task has been given to the four of you a load.
But I don't think they specified it had to be own. They just said that.
Or Bogg had to be the one to kill him.
Okay. So I'm, I'm just gonna assume that's a no.
You have all the resources that you d.
No. Is there some,
do they have anything that can help me quickly get close to him?
Some sort of teleportation. You.
Happen to have like two rocks that you could keep separate.
Say that and talk to each other through them.
Because God could really save me a lot of spell slots.
STDs of odes of fire speech. Is that what you're talking about?
Yeah. That'd be great.
Yeah, we do have a couple of those. Okay.
We're gonna talk 'em to death.
No, this is just so I can.
That's the plan.
Hear your death as you throw yourself in front of an army.
Cuz I've not been traumatized enough in my life. Oh.
Okay. Yeah.
So there's nothing that you can help me get close to him
to kill him or.
Hey, Wilder.
Or like a spell to like make me like multiple people or give
me wings or something. Or.
Do you still have that knife I gave you? I.
I I do. Yes he.
Does. No, it's in my back.
Oh, stop. Yes, I've still.
Just in case they don't have something, I'm just keeping that open.
I do. Um.
As an option.
Wouldn't happen to have like a,
a cloak of, I don't know.
Shadows.
Stealthing or something that we could make the loud one
quieter because I had one I thought, but I don't have one.
No, don't ask any questions.
Why does.
Callum.
But I'm gonna need, why does Callum need a clo?
I'm gonna need a burlap sec.
At least 50 feet of rope and a bag of fellers. .
That's it. I've got a plan.
Do you have a really big like slingshot? .
Sending.
Stone cannon would.
Be great. Sending stones something to sneak with. And anyway,
for orach to get close to something would be great.
He thinks about it. First. Second, wait here, I'll be right back.
God bless you. And a.
Hat.
He's already got it by.
Got a hat. Hat. We need a hat.
Course.
But my ball, this ball isn't, isn't very comfortable.
It doesn't go any head poo.
Maybe a t-shirt.
I went to ultra Oreo and all I got was this
shirt.
I would wear that.
The, uh, door opens again. He hands you two, two stones of fire speech.
Aye, take one.
And he gives each of you a cloak.
Ooh.
I dig it large.
Are they different colors? Like power rangers?
I want the pink one. No.
You would.
Red's my favorite color.
Uh, they're called cloaks of el vd kite.
So with that I bid the aou.
Uh, just just one thing for you real quick, if you could,
nothing else that I need from you in general,
but I don't know how seriously the warning was
taken, but just if you have, you know, friends or family,
I do think Lars is coming soon. So if you want to warn them, spread the word.
Anything like that, just to be aware,
just for your sake is all, you know.
He just kind of nods to you and closes the door.
All right. Um.
Who takes the other sending stone?
I'll take the other one.
Solid.
It's, it's probably a good idea to, you know, even if, do they,
okay. Do we have to think to use them? Does anybody know about these things?
Like do we have to think or like when we put 'em on or when we put the hood on,
does that, like how do they work?
Uh, yeah, you,
we just gotta sit and think about them for about an hour and then boom.
I've already started.
So we should probably wear them. Yeah. Cuz Lars could be coming any second,
right? Yes.
Also, just if we, I mean if we want to get the jump on him, I can also, uh,
help us disappear, so to speak. Uh,
not necessarily literally,
but I have magic that can help us, you know,
be pretty undetectable.
Can it help us be pretty or can it help us be undetectable?
Well, nothing can make you pretty, but I can do the second.
You're prettier than he used to be.
Oh, I've missed you. Callum.
I miss you too. You are prettier than he used to be. Yeah, I will live.
That is true. Yeah.
I'm taller too.
So.
That's what I like about it.
Case. Anyone noticed?
If we could gather Gareth and
maybe head out, that'd be a good idea.
I think I could probably do without the.
Cloak. We missed you.
I could give it to Gareth.
Okay. So, well this added new things to our plans.
So do we Okay. Lars's planning on coming here soon.
So do we take care of this first and then go find Eileen after?
Like we should go try and take care of this post-haste like right now?
Yes.
Uh, okay. So we're gonna get Gareth, we're gonna go kill Lars.
We're gonna find Elaine. We're gonna get out of tower fall. Oh no.
You're gonna become king after that. Oh, well we didn't consider that. Yeah.
Okay. Well, I don't kill Lars. That, that's find alene. You'll become king.
We all leave powerful. Zao. STEs. Bob's your uncle.
We come back and have a party.
.
Let's go get Yameth. And I'm just gonna walk to wherever we lift Gareth.
Hey. So I've got a crazy idea.
Of course you do.
Okay. First talk and walk.
Yeah. While, while we're walking. Right? Do you remember how long,
how far that knife lets you pop over to it?
As far as you can throw it.
Between, yeah. Between 20 and 60 feet.
Okay. Do you think you can get within 60 feet of a war bog?
I mean, at one time that was like 20 oil bogs. So.
Yeah, right.
Now it's like 10.
Um, probably.
So crazy idea, right? Uh,
what I'm thinking a wilder. If you would give or bog the knife,
let him get all attuned to it. Mm-hmm. ,
all we need to do is get you within 60 feet while I have
the knife in my possession, but not attuned to it. I stop time,
I walk up to Lars, I start time. You pop to the knife. Men's dead.
How's that sound? It could be bloody, it could be a problem.
There's still a lot of archers,
but I feel like the archers would be worried about hitting Lars. So, you know.
Yeah. But they did kind of specifically say, Lars should, I'll help.
I'll also dig a knife in. But as long as you know,
you're also digging a knife in, I suppose that's right.
Right, right. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Ugh, this thing's really cool. So
, you're gonna need to.
Spend a little bit of time. I'm just.
Gonna need to spend a little bit of time getting used to this thing,
getting a feel for it before you can actually use it. Okay.
Same thing with like the cloak.
Oh.
Not out loud. Not out loud. Yeah.
I have to do the same with the cloaks. I have to, I mean, like,
chances are good. If we're sneaky enough we could get real close to him.
What's the, the tune? I have to tune to it.
Yeah. Oh.
You.
Didn't bring a tuning fork with me, but.
Ah.
So if we can, okay. If we can sneak into the castle, get close to him,
I can get you even closer.
And then maybe we kill him before he even has time to alert the archers.
Cuz I doubt they're just all standing there staring at him all the time.
Cuz I'd get boring. Ooh.
Ooh. Question.
Yeah.
Or bug. What do you know about your brother's habits?
Is he a smoker?
He likes to sit on a throne and not get off of it.
Like, I could give you a hammer.
Does he bathroom then? Does.
He go.
?
Yes. Exactly. Is is there a time.
There of a rash?
Does he like go out and, um, pace or,
or walk the city or, or smoke or sleep in?
Or is there anything like that from being a family member that
might give us an extra edge?
All right,
so you guys make it to the outside of Alta Ory Ed to the
encampment from the TowerFall refuge refugees.
And, uh,
Gareth is out there kind of taking care of some needs of the camp
as you guys are.
Struggling. Was it, it was nighttime, right?
Yeah. Uh, on the, on the top side. Yes.
Okay. So do we want to rest?
Do we think Lars is gonna attack in the middle of the night? Because if we rest,
I can prep some real good spells for this.
I I don't think he's gonna attack in the middle of the night. I mean the,
I mean, but, uh, most of the Dr. Drought can see in the dark, right?
That's true. And it's,
I don't think he's pretty much always dark down here though.
My question.
Yeah.
Would it be better to go for your brother in the middle of the night though?
Possibly.
Because I've used a few spells though, so my, I just, you know,
50 50 we get the drop maybe. But
I was really planning a lot of diplomatic spells currently based on my,
I don't think we have to spell list.
Got a lot of.
Ah, hello my friends.
Who's.
That tough voice? I don't recognize that voice.
I don't do a good Steve Pearl station. You.
Guys though is a cup that, that wasn't bad actually. You're just mean.
One metal cup and that's all you need.
I don't have a metal cup.
Work in a pinch.
I, I I I I trust by seeing that the four of you are still here, that, uh,
your meeting went.
Well, it went.
It, we met.
On a scale hypothetical question for you, Gareth. Uh,
on a scale of one to 10,
one being the Bible says never to do that,
the Bible and being the Bible has different interpretations. Ah,
how do you feel about killing a king?
Here we go.
Well,
there was a time when a lady drove a tent peg through another
king's head. So.
But how do you, how do you feel being parties? What's.
Her name? Peggy.
.
There is a time for.
Everything. I believe the timing is in about six hours.
Right? Potentially. Yes.
Uh, but I, I feel like that,
that there's parts of this concept that you're not presenting to me to.
Uh, no,
the main concept is we need to go kill Lars because they're not going to,
and if we do, our boy becomes king and everyone's happy.
It's it does. No, they, if, if we do,
then they know that we're serious about wanting to have peace between.
Oh, also that.
Them and.
Tower fall, they did say they'd established him as a liaison.
That's.
Yes. Whatever that is.
So what you're telling me is that one must die in order for many to
live. Yeah.
Yes.
It might be more than one that's depending on how many archers get in the way.
Live long. Yes.
And there is no way of convincing your brother to step down.
From the dropped as a child. Yep.
That's a hard pass that maybe.
Kicked. No, he's, he's
meaning meaning twice.
Or something.
Or maybe a way to incapacitate him so he can no longer be effective.
On permanently.
Decapitate decapitate. Decapitate.
Yes. Decapitate. Yes. That's, he's the,
I believe there's nothing he's wanted more.
Than to be de decaffeinated.
Look what he wants.
Let's go de decaffeinate the king. I mean the future king.
Let me get rid of his tongue.
Hmm.
Okay. Good talk. Let's go. Oh, we're going.
To rest. So are, are we going now? Are we gonna rest? Because resting could be.
Very good. Oh, we're resting. Sorry. No, we're resting. I'm sorry.
I I would advise that perhaps you come up with a
way to incapacitate him rather than the wanton or the wanton use
of violence and.
Okay. Well actually here's the thing, Gareth.
Look at those nights, man.
Part of the, the conversation we had in there, Omo,
Callum and Berg had while I were just watched, um,
it's gonna to specified that they want Liza's head.
So I.
Think I have a thought.
Okay.
Would you like to put the hat on?
Um, would they accept his soul instead?
Well, that seems questionable for you to offer Gareth.
That seems really questionable. Who are you.
Put the hat on him. What.
Do you mean by his soul?
You mean his foot? No, bottom of his.
I think he's meaning we captured his soul in a soul stone and bring that to
them.
I.
He just kind of taps on the end of his nose, as you say. So.
I cannot, that's not what they asked for.
I also can't think of a worst thing to do to someone.
And I'm talking about killing someone right now.
Yep.
Ah, but if we have his soul and keep his body alive,
he technically isn't being killed.
To, I mean,
to rip a soul outta someone's body sounds pretty antithetical to most of the
things I've been learning recently.
Is, is that the way Peggy did it too when she did the,
it's not fun Peg through his heart.
As someone that didn't have their soul for quite a while. That sucks.
And I no, I I know.
I, I know I know what you're saying. But to.
Deliver,
to deliver a living body with the soul in TA attached,
you would be able to deliver him up to the judgment of the council and
not have to murder yourself.
I'm not going, but that's not what they asked for.
I mean, we could still bring him alive down here, but
I'm not taking someone's soul out of their body.
I don't even know where you find the soul. Can.
I even do that?
He'd be so full of soul holes.
And Yeah, I don't know. I wouldn't, I mean, I wouldn't want to just in general.
I mean, if you don't want to come Gareth, you don't have to come. I,
whether or not your conscious is, you know, good to let you do it.
But the idea, you know,
taking the man's soul and not allowing him to, you know,
find rest or whatever it is, judgment
kind of a pretty horrible.
That's almost like slavery.
But like eternally.
Right? Which you were against. No.
I am against the wanton murder of anybody.
The loss of life is not something that we,
that should be just taken lightly and walked into.
Why.
Willy-nilly.
Why do you think we're taking it lightly?
This is Aman a threatened to come down here and kill an entire civilization.
Yeah.
Which is why I'm suggesting that we incapacitate him.
So he cannot.
I suppose
he still is probably gonna die.
I I don't like not doing what they asked for because they already think I'm
dishonest.
I would almost think that they would,
might possibly be impressed if you were to provide them with the ability to
execute judgment rather than just being,
allowing yourself to be used as a simple.
Hitman. I mean, I know for bringing him down here,
I just don't think we should like incapacitate him if he like jobs done. Uh,
cuz that would be bad cuz they think that they're in league together,
you know? So.
Uh, Gareth,
I thank you for offering a opinion a different
than some of the rest of us have is always good to think through
options at this point.
I think it seems like we have come to a conclusion.
Um.
Well, we'll think about it for like about six hours Exactly.
And, uh.
We'll do our best to bring him here alive. And that may not happen
whether by our hand or someone else's.
Cuz it might get pretty dicey as a disobey ro.
I don't understand what you mean by that.
It's a game of chance really, when you're coming up against an army. That's all.
I mean.
I just think that if perhaps we, you could isolate him as, uh,
individual and incapacitate him, uh,
steal fully and minimalize the loss of life. Well.
That's his goal.
It'd be.
Do you think that could happen? Uh, Gareth.
Uh.
We do believe our plan was kind of to sneak up before everyone else gets there.
Yes. Take care of him. So ideally
thinks she's really don't go ideally for us.
Instead of, instead of isolating him as an individual,
I can dissect him as twins.
Oh, what if.
I don't think you're quite understanding the concept being presented to you.
Or if I do, I just don't,
I don't think that there's any way around it.
Well, just trying to say something.
So what if I take advantage of having the Thieves Guild? They.
Story of his life could.
Potentially, uh, either keep an eye on him,
figure out his routine by the time we get there.
If we could get close to, well,
if I could get close to laws,
I could guess sleep on him and then
we could get him out of there somehow.
I had a really good plan.
We might have to knock you down a bit before we can cast sleep.
God.
Well.
What about your girlfriend? Why.
Don't you,
why don't you go talk to the Thieves Guild and maybe assess what
resources you have there.
Yeah. So.
You go talk to your girlfriend.
Yeah, talk to your girlfriend yours. Cause she can like.
Both of yours. I'll talk to your girlfriend while.
No. You want me to? No. Yeah.
Um, yeah, but can, can't she like, orach.
Has a.
Girlfriend, him and poor Sharon?
No. No. Oh my. No, no, no.
.
Congratulations.
.
I'm always the last to know these things, but very,
very glad to.
Hear it. You know what, before this skids dicey,
I think I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna, I'm gonna head out. You guys can rest,
do whatever you need to. And I don't know, Callum,
send me a message and we'll determine a place to meet.
You could just meet at the Thieves Guild.
Hit hit you on the stone. Yep, I gotcha.
Oh, okay.
Sure. Sounds like a plan.
But as you go andow,
that that stone of fire speech that you have to talk to Callum,
you hear it clack against another stone of fire,
spar fire speech that you also have.
Oh, do I have, I have one of those.
Oh.
That's right. I do have one of those.
Mm-hmm. .
So, um, yeah, I I hear that Clack.
I was like, oh yeah, shoot. Um,
and I turned back around and go back to everybody. Um,
hold on a second. Um, alright,
how do I figure this out? Kai sounds like right.
So I'm gonna put this in my right pocket and then Callums, whatever's left over.
Alright. Okay. So.
.
That sounds, that's the way I feel about Callum.
Right now. That's how my father felt. Too.
? No.
Oh.
.
Uh, Callum, you fe you feel a part of your own soul deep down inside.
Get sad as you say that.
Just Josh and you Oh, you know, you didn't mean it, you just did it anyway.
Ugh.
They're there Father.
Hey.
Kai. Uh, I, I hope I'm not inconveniencing you.
No, no. What? Hey, uh.
Did I wake you up?
Uh, yeah. Yeah. But, um, um,
yeah, what's.
Up? Okay, so some friends and I,
you've met most of them, uh,
we're down in ol bur bur bur. And,
uh, we, I need you to keep an eye on.
Lost TowerFall.
What, what kind of information do we have? That's a lot.
I know. I'm sorry.
Um.
Well, I, I offhand I don't know much outside of,
he's a walking dumpster fire.
And wait.
Did you say you're down in Alfa Ort?
Yes.
Why are you telling.
Couple days early that crap.
Hole?
Well, um, long story short,
Lars is declaring war on the drought and
we were kind of in peace talks and we wanted to warn them.
So now because of Abar and whatnot,
we need to take out laws and bring him down here.
But based on a conversation I've had with one of my other friends that I don't
think you've met, um, I don't think I'm gonna kill him. We,
so I just need intel at this point.
You don't want us to pick him.
Up? I mean, if you could pick him up and not kill him, I trust you. Just,
that's kind of the main thing. We need to incapacitate him and get him here.
You do,
you are aware that you are in charge of a vast criminal empire.
Right? Yes. I'm still coming to, to terms with all of that. Okay.
Well, I mean.
Whatever it is that you want us to do, but.
Um, just.
How about this? I'll let you rest, I'll rest,
we'll talk as in me and my friends and then I'll give you a buzz back
with a definitive plan.
Cool, cool, cool. I wish you would've done that first, but, uh,
good talking. Good, good. Uh, talking boss. Um,
is it cool if I go absolutely to bed?
Don't call me boss. I don't like it. It sounds a.
You got it. Go and out.
On your way back towards the city from the shadows
around you, you hear a voice. Hello.
? No.
Uh, you hear a voice that says.
And what is it that you are trying to accomplish? Year
wilder.
Just everyday business. Does it have anything to do with you?
I don't think so, unless your name's laws.
Mm.
Trying to play the hero now.
We both know that you are incapable
of doing such things.
Between.
Murdering
murder and your master as well
as Marion a demonn.
Queen. I know. I'm full of surprises, right?
So I might just surprise you this time.
Why don't you just take it easy out and I enjoy
us.
No, cuz then I have to move. I don't feel like moving. I've moved a lot lately.
So, uh, you know, uh, no.
You feel some fingertips drag across the back of your neck.
As you say. Definitely not moving. That, that I don't. Nope.
And then you hear a whisper in your left ear as it says.
William.
Fun.
Okay, fun.
Oh my elder.
You're back. Indeed. Uh.
Have a good conversation.
Two wonderful conversations.
Oh, you're alive. That's good.
Would you,
did you think I was gonna like trip over a rock and like break my neck or
something? Okay.
Oh no. I thought when you said you were going,
you were like going to talk to the guild.
I, well, I,
I was and then I remembered that I have a second pH uh,
yes. A phone of star speech. Not, that's not what it's called. Could be,
um, .
That was wrong on so many levels just now.
. Okay.
No.
That's.
So that made perfect sense to me.
I scr as I scribble into my DM notebook for another IEM.
Phone of star speech.
So anyway.
Yeah, take that O g l.
.
I was, I I I was able to talk to Kai. Um, he's not real happy with me.
Uh, but.
Who's Kai? Uh, have I met him? He's he's her.
He's the, uh, you,
did you not know that I'm in charge of the Thieves Guild here in
now?
I believe it was mentioned in one of the very short recap sessions we had. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well.
Yeah, he's, uh, he's a godfather.
Caius.
Congratulations. No.
Oh, Wilder is.
Oh, you're right.
I'm always the last person to know. Congratulations.
Anyway. I didn't, I didn't know either. Pooh.
So anyway, Kai, Kai, um, is my right hand man. I mean,
to be real honest,
I can't wish he was taking things over because I hate making decisions like
this. Anyway. Uh, so I had a convers.
Can you just put him in charge?
I mean, I could, but I'm sure there's some kind of ceremony.
I'm not read up on all the rules.
I have ceremony. I can cuss that.
. It may come in handy, but for now anyway, carry on for now. Uh,
so I wanted to kind of get him up to speed about what's going on.
And I think I'm gonna have him do a little bit of recon,
uh, gather some, some of the, the guild members, do a little bit of recon,
figure out LA's you know,
patterns and things like that. And if you guys are up for it,
they could grab him for us and not kill him.
And then we can bring him down here.
You mean you could have just had a guild this whole time. Take care of the king,
right?
Yep.
I'm new to this count. Do you want, do you can,
you could be in charge if you want.
Okay.
I mean, if you're offering.
You're a terrible criminal master mastermind.
Just I have a God to pop first and then we'll talk about it.
Fair. So anyway, uh, thoughts,
opinions on all of that? I know everyone's tired, but.
Sounds great.
Hey.
Well, Bob.
I not use what we have.
What.
Are, are you good with that? Is that fair?
Sure. As long as they don't chop this head off.
Gareth. That's cool.
You guys can do what you want. I'm, uh, I,
I'll be honest with you, I've been having a lot of thoughts and I'm.
Would you like the hat.
?
The what Now? The.
Hat. Do you wanna put the hat on?
No. Um,
I think my calling is to stay here.
Right here.
Right here in this spot.
Um, in this encampment.
Ooh.
There's there's nobody here.
I mean, you know. No, I think they're probably.
Sleeping. We, we, we have the water. We have the water. Deep refugees.
And we've been proselytizing to the drought to
a relatively decent response.
And there God did die recently. So.
Yeah. It's Can you proselytize a little faster?
I just,
I I I feel like my
time as an adventurer has come to a close.
Oh.
And my.
Speaking of clothes. We just got some new clothes. We got these cool clothes.
I saw that. I see that. They're, they're, they're very nice.
Okay.
Well, Gareth, you do what you need to do. Yes.
I will stay here and I will continue to provide advice as
necessary. Um, but I think it's my time to
step into a, a new,
a new focus in my life. You.
Mean based on what I understand, church planting is candy of calling,
so Right. That sense.
But you're, you're more than welcome to rest here though.
Well, I think we, I already said my cop's here.
I already put the blanket down and everything. I'm.
Already asleep.
Excellent.
. And where better to plant a church than in the ground?
I mean, it'd be pretty cool if you could do it in the sky,
but the ground is a pretty reasonable place.
You're not wrong. You're not wrong. Right.
Uh, Gareth looks at you and he goes, but you have wings, right?
I do. Yeah. They're, they're nice again. I mean, they were pretty cool before.
He looks at you Orach and he goes,
and you have a race of sky creatures that serve your throne, don't.
You? No. Kind of.
They're um.
I don't talk about them on this show. I.
Mean, you try not to. They're.
They're, they're.
Not, they're unionizing. So we're not talking about them .
I'm just,
I'm just saying that it is would be a possibility to do a church plant in the
sky.
Well,
I feel like you're ready to push me in a direction and I'm not ready to go there
yet. But.
If, if you think about it one day we will all meet together.
In the clouds in the sky.
You know,
now I hear this song in the back of my mind and it's not the Mickey Mind player
song.
Wild.
Could you hum a few bars of that one? Cuz Mickey Mike's still in my head.
Nope. Nope, it's back now. I, yep. No, it's kind of both of them.
What a weird tune.
Oh. All right. So you guys rest overnight.
Feel free to refill your HP and MP.
M is refilling herself.
. Yep. Have another.
She didn't use any spells, so it's fine. Let's see.
Not a single usage of Grave was cast this day.
We know that. We haven't seen any m Learns magic videos.
So Oh know, she, well give it, give it an episode. Maybe she will.
This next one.
We're gonna, we're gonna head back.
Um, uh, once Ro goes to Ben, I'm gonna go find a fella.
That particular fella, not just any fella. I'm not gonna go out looking for a.
Guy. . Okay.
I'm assuming best aid's still in the house. Oh yeah.
I'm gonna go find him wherever he may be.
You, you, uh, come across him. He's, uh, he's looking a little bleary-eyed.
He's tired and a little bit in his cups.
Ugh.
I've been meaning to get there all day. It's been busy.
A as you walk in, he just kind looks, goes, Ugh. What's up?
Sugar butt. I m Emin. M Rin.
How you doing.
Emin? That is my name. Yes. I have a question for you, kind of.
Okay.
Were you serious? What you said before.
I apologize, but you're gonna have to be a little bit more specific.
About your plan for your crew.
To eliminate the TowerFall family. Yes. Well, I mean, yeah,
you take out the, you cut off the head of the snake, the body's gonna die.
So I've been thinking,
which I would say is a new thing,
but it's mostly cuz I've avoided it the last few weeks, um,
about what I want in general, not just because of our conversation,
although that's spurred on slightly, I suppose.
Well, uh, well why don't you, uh, tell me what you want,
what you really, really want.
I will tell you what I want, what I really, really want.
I wanna I want to help you kill the tower. Fall family.
Excellent. Well then that's Subtled.
Great. Let's do it.
I'm going to go ahead and shut it down there. Uh,
cuz that's a delicious little twist of the knife.
Um, no, it's ala it, it's a grave John. It's a grave.
Oh yeah. It's like a knife with a really long, a.
Really long knife. Yeah. .
Um, so I wanna thank everybody for, uh, for hanging out.
Certainly appreciate your support. Uh,
in regards to Steve and
Gareth. Steve is still on the show. Gareth is taking a backseat.
There was a lot of conversation that went into it, but, uh, um,
Steve didn't feel like that character really fit the campaign anymore. Uh,
he will still be playing with us just as something else that's something for you
to look forward to in future episodes. Uh,
just wanted to go ahead and say that now.
So nobody spent the next two weeks thinking that Steve left the podcast because
he did not.
Steve is coming to play. Aos , Steve,
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