Not Another D&D Podcast - Ep. 14: Trial by Combat (The Galaderon Saga)

Episode Date: May 10, 2018

The party heads to Galaderon Castle to meet the boy king and defend Beverly's dad, who is peeved as ever. Moonshine dusts off her Crick lawyering skills, Hardwon learns more about his mysterious past, and Beverly goes all out to save his family. Listen to the end of the episode for a PATREON SAMPLE of our new after-show: Short Rest! Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to hear the whole thing and have access to a whole bunch of new NaDDPod content!Music/Sound Effects include:"City in the Clouds" by Emily Axford."Court of the Boy King" by Emily Axford."The Twinkling Lights of Galaderon" by Emily Axford."The Widow" by Emily Axford."Woodpecker and Other Birds" by Kyster at Freesound.org."Club Chatter, London" by mlteenie at Freesound.org."Crackling Fire" by sagetyrtle at Freesound.org."Grenade" by Ljudmann at Freesound.org. "Glasshouse" by Themfish at Freesound.org."CINEMATICBOOMNORM" by HerbertBoland at Freesound.org.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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You guys don't really know the details right now. Not yet, no. You just know that he was arrested. All I know is that breakfast is ruined. Apology breakfast is off. No. Guys, we have to have apology breakfast. I looked up a bunch of recipes.

I had a lot of different creams I was gonna use. Several jams, a lot of compost. This is you alone in the kitchen. That go later on, Huevos. Cool guys, so let's do a little recap. Last week, you traveled to go later on. Bev's legs were badly broken and you needed to have them healed by a powerful cleric.

You traveled to the Toe Gold family home where Bev's extremely peeved dad called the High Priestpriest Merrick High Heal to come help Bev. The high-priest healed Beverly, then left with Bev's dad to walk back to the church district, Galad-Roselle, the legendary swordsman, and Captain of the Chosen Paladins stayed behind to give Bev a pep talk and gift him a magic sword. But Galad was attacked by the widow, a mysterious foe who can command the undead.

You guys battled a group of zombie paladins, during which moonshine misty stepped after the fleeing widow and asked her why she hated Galad so much, to which she responded, he killed my husband. The widow then killed herself, but her body disappeared. Galad flew off on a griffin to find her while you guys finished off the zombies. You guys had a little slumber party and Bev's mom made you dinner and tucked you in, but when Beverly awoke the next morning, he was met with three paladins at his door who told him that his father had been arrested for the murder of Mary Cuy Hill. Tantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantantant Sleepy for the first time in my life. I'm sorry son, can we talk to your mother? Yes, of course, I'll wake her up.

I need to take the bacon off before it gets burned though. I was gonna spell out, I'm sorry, in bacon for my friends. We had a whole thing prepared, but that's okay. That's okay. Yeah, your dad is in the dungeon, in the castle. I gotta go make sure my mom's decent, and then I'll wake her up. Okay, you're a good boy.

I hustles your hair. Thank you, I head back and wake up my mom. Okay, mom! Oh God,. I hustles your hair. Thank you. I head back and wake up my mom. Okay mom Oh God, oh Beverly. What is it? Oh wait? You your father never came home He's like he'll get home late sometimes, but oh boy. He works hard, you know, I love him I don't know what I do without him mom. I don't know what I do without you father You know, huh Beverly. I know he gives you a hard time. I know he gives you a hard time, but I love him I love you too, mom. I love you Beverly

I love my little family and I'm so happy you're making friends. I'm so proud of you Beverly. Thank you You know what? There's some there's some men in the kitchen and they want to talk to you, but you just take your time, okay? Okay, Beverly. Okay. All right, tell them to hang on, tell them I'll get some sticky buns in the oven. We'll have a little brunch, okay? I think they're in more of a hurry than that, mom. Okay, all right, let me get decent.

Okay, yeah. While she's getting decent, I let them know that she's getting ready. Cool. And I go wake up moonshine and work. Beverly walks up and enters the room. You guys are sleeping in this tiny halfling bed bed rise and shine. We're in the shit again What's going on? I feel drunk my dad even trouble. That's resting. Oh

Malora what happened to your what what happened to your dad? Poppa wakes up with real sleepy eyes Papa, do you sleep also baby eyes. Oh yeah. Papa, do you sleep also? Oh, I'm a little older. Guys, my dad did a bad. He did a super bad.

Apparently he killed Marikai Hill. I don't believe it. I'm not sure what's true and what's not true. Maybe Pellor's a lie. Maybe it doesn't really even exist. But there's some men downstairs and they're asking my mom a lot of questions. Is it weird to feel a little nauseous when you wake up?

Is that normal from sleep? Yeah, mostly the crick water, I think. Oh, malaria. You gotta slow down, kid. Your dad did a bad. He's been arrested for murdering the high priest that he feels like. Potentially.

Yeah, I don't think it's true, but there's a bunch of men downstairs that are saying exactly that. So I'm gonna head back downstairs. Y'all, y'all take your time. But my mom's down there alone, and I just need to make sure everything's on the level. I went to bed at my clothes, so I can go downstairs. A moonshine has fallen back asleep. She loves it.

Cool, moonshine goes to bed, hard one, and Beverly goes down to bed. You can tuzzle me away. Papa cuddles up with moonshine and they fall back to sleep. They never sleep. They're always just in a train. I grab them both and put them over my shoulder. They carry the downstairs. Cool.

As you walk down the stairs with a woman over your shoulder, the peltons and a possible over her shoulder. Yeah. Yeah, you see Lieutenant Naman, the main white knight guy, looks over at hard one carrying moonshine and goes, oh god, did you guys kill another one? No, she's just very sleepy. She, she, oh, sorry.

I wish. And then from hard ones back, I extend my hand out and say moon shine seven. Okay. These are my scalp masters. They have to be here. You see the nights, the night's shake your guys hands. And Martha Toe Gold is obviously extremely upset

and she goes, oh god, okay, I'm sorry. I just, I don't feel like making sticky buns right now. I'm just, okay mom, that's quite all right, miss. Yeah, Lieutenant Naman addresses all of you guys. And he says, the king is quite upset because he was about to name Merrick High Hill, the high septin. So he's kind of streamlining the whole hearing

as you were. Can I just ask this gently, your king's a little baby boy, right? He's the boy king and we have great respect for the boy king and he's extremely even keeled and fair but and you said he's streamlining he's sort of streamlining the trial it's happening it's going to happen in like an hour so yeah I haven't revealed this to you before but down at the creek I've been a defense lawyer before really I've seen you fake greed for a pretty good portion of the journey I just imagine we're in time with like shoulder pad blazer on

Certainly what I wear but I should specify that the quick court of law just the lawyer the it's there you know the the defense attorney and that prosecutor just rattle you ever wins wins the trial sometimes there is trial by combat so it's not that different than the cricket honestly yeah and the boy king loves trial by combat it's his favorite thing it's true you have a lot of respect for the boy king uh... we all love the boy king we love the king we really do it's like they teach you to see the other the other guys are kind of just nodding and No, it's like anything. Yeah, y'all do any kind of like morning Hand over the heart. I pledge allegiance to the boy. He fills our hearts with blazing joy You know, we say that every day

He is our king. He is the ruler of everything. We love the boy. We sure do. All right, I get that. Can we go visit my father and try and help him in any way? You can't visit him, but you can go to his trial, which is happening right now. Oh my, oh my P. Oh my sweet P. Hard one grabbed some raw sticky buns in the head. I ask, I ask a Beverly's mom if she has a blaser with shoulder pads on it. I don't know if I'm gonna need it. Of course, yeah. Yeah, I'm a I'm a defense attorney. She goes, oh I'm so I'm so happy you're here. We need you today. We really do. Yeah. She goes in. She finds a blaser for

you. It is three sizes too small. I still wear it. I'm saying baby blzer, but does it make her look good? Yeah, then I guess I put it on pop-off. Pop-off looks professional. He looks professional and good. Rang, rang, rang, rang. Wow, I feel like he's coming to the boardroom and put the boys in their place. You know, we do have a- It's not a prepares-

The, right. Pop-pop-pop. Name and just goes, Okay, well, I'm gonna go to the trial. Yeah, yeah, we are too. We're all going, we're all going. Cool. So the three paladins take you guys and Bev's mom. You guys get a private balloon up to the main castle.

As you guys fly if you patch the church district with Taz these three grand cathedrals Then you reach the first level of the castle the castle itself is built on the peak of the mountain There are four tower structures built into the mountain that work like pillars and on top of them is a giant stone A platform that holds up the entire castle It looks like they essentially leveled the peak of the mountain and replaced it with the castle. It's quite majestic, beautiful. So you guys land on the stone platform and are brought to the castle. Unlike a normal keep, that might have a drawbridge and a moat to be more fortified. This one doesn't need that because it's a top of mountain. There's just a

giant open air archway that leads you into the castle courtyard. There are what look like street lamps all around, but with balls of purple energy. These provide a permeated control weather spell that prevents the mountain top from being covered in snow and keeps the air breathable. Ooh. Beverly, you definitely learned that in school. Oh, we learned all about the orbs.

It's for that reason that you also see a bunch of nobles out picnicking and you see some gardens and vegetation that you wouldn't normally expect at the top of a huge peak. I'm probably waving to a lot of people. Yeah, they're not waving back at you. Your family's a little disgraced right now. They kind of just avoid your stare. Your daddy stands accused of murder.

Just a slight misunderstanding. Ha ha. Enjoy your picnic. I don't want to be judgmental, but Crick-Elts wouldn't treat their kind like that. If you're related to someone who murdered someone, well, so is everyone else. We are highly inbred people. Ha ha are led into the castle itself, which is built

of stone and when you get in there, it looks like the interior of a normal castle, but then you get to the throne room. Behind the throne is a thick glass wall that lets you see the sky and the clouds. It looks like the king is sitting atop an airship. On the throne is the boy king, Robin Asagar. He's this tall skinny boy with acne and long stringy black hair. He wears a deep red silk robe and has a gold crown on his head. He's holding hands with the Queen Mother, Catherine Asagar. Next to them is the high septan Hubert Dun, who is falling asleep, extremely old. I kind of love him. Behind them is this big, hulking half-orc, carrying a giant great axe. Beverly, you would know this as the King's Bodyguard, the crag, not to be confused with the

mountain. I also kind of love him. How old is the Boy King? I'm 12. I-twelfth. 12, okay. Yeah. Yeah, me too. There are various knights gathered.

Galad is there as well as Captain Bullrich Gulbane, who's a dwarf, and he's the captain of the oath of devotion knights. Beverly, you also recognize Duncan Pebblepot, who is Denny's dad. He's a half-ling a Green Knight armor. As soon as the three paladins lead you guys in, Duncan walks up to you guys. He looks just like Denny, but you know, 40 years older.

So he walks up and he goes, hey, gang! Beverly, so good to see you! Hi, Mr. Pebblepot. Wow, hey, who are your friends here? These are my new Scout Masters. Your new Scout Masters? I'm my son, Danny, wrote all about ya! Your son, Danny, is a piece of shit. Oh, excuse you, sir! It's true.

I hate to say it, but your son is a bit gormless. Okay, well that's rude. How are you, Miss Elf? Yeah, I also don't like your son. Okay, for three on that one. Well, you know Beverly, even though you don't like me anymore, I'm really looking forward to defending your father. Oh no, no, no, no.

We like you plenty. It's just that your son kind of us, we ran as some trouble in Moonstone and you know, your son was, and he was possible for most you know what we Pebble pots tend to get into trouble and just run off so it runs in the family. Oh Absolutely. You're a little disappointed in your son. You know it is what it is awesome. We're from a long line of Pebble pots. Where's miss? Where's miss is Pebble pot? Mr. Pebble pot. You know what, she's at home. She prefers not to watch me work. She says it dries her right up.

You're just very honest. So are you a, you're not a great lawyer, I take it? I mean, you know, I do my best and what work can we ask than that hugging? Well, you're gonna have to do the trial by contact. Yeah. Mr. Pebblepot, we did bring a backup lawyer for you. My friend, my scout master, my scout,

Mr. Stras, moonshine is an accomplished liar from the creek. Is that right? Yeah, I've defended a lot of murderers, thieves, conspires. Oh, oh boy. Well, you're certainly more qualified than me, but I think it's kind of set in stone. You can just walk in and see that? I defended one of those than me, but I think it's kind of set in stone. I hope you can just walk in and see that. I defended one of those people,

you know, steals dogs from people that they put their dog, they tie up their dog outside of brunch. Sure. Yeah, they steal them and they sell them. Wow. I defended it. You defended one. That's awful.

I know, it's kind of just a fun hobby that I put my morals aside. You know what? She's got a lot of lot of skills Beverly your dad is a good guy and I'll say if he killed the high priest He must have had a good reason if he killed the high priest well. I'll eat my hat It's very big suddenly a man with a bowl cut in a suit of finest silks with a bowl cut in a suit of finest silks stands next to the king and addresses the crowd. Beverly, you would recognize this guy. This is Edmund Lorelle. He's the king's uncle and a total prick. He's known for just kind of letting the king get away with anything to get on his good side. Is he like the regent? Or that'd be the queen. That would be the queen, yeah.

But with a completely inept high septin who can't really speak, this guy has a lot of power because he has the King's ear. So this guy speaks up and he goes, Attention everyone, bring out the accused and you see a few Paladins come out carrying Beves Dad. Daddy? In chains. Ed Beverly's dad goes, ah, come on, for peace sake. I blind. I blind, they blinded me. I didn't do anything.

I can't even see him tripping over myself here. They blinded my dad. Where am I? I don't know where I am. Wait, did they blind? I am, is that you? Dad, he's not blindfolded. Oh no.

You don't got to. He's like milky white pupils. Beverly is at you son. It's me, daddy What do they do to you silence? Beverly togo the fourth you stand accused of the first degree murder of Merrick High Hill next in line to become the high septin What say you I swear to, I didn't do it! I woke up, I was blind, and he was dead. I didn't do it." Edmund addresses the crowd.

Captain Toe Gold was discovered last night, surrounded by the bodies of high-preased high hill and three holy knights, one from each of the major fates. His sword was covered in blood, and he was the only survivor. The king is very upset, because without a high septent, now he no longer has a reason to have a party this weekend. Oh, mommy, can we still have a party? Of course, son, we can still have a party.

Oh, mommy, I think he's guilty. Can we just kill him? Can we just kill him, son, we can stop our party. Oh, mommy, I think he's guilty. Can we just kill him? Can we just kill him, please, mommy? Objection! And the queen goes, oh, then not without due process, my sweet. And Edmund goes, would anyone like to speak on Mr. Toe Gold's behalf? I say objection again. Objection! I would like to speak!

Beverly Toe Gold the Fifth, son of Beverly Togo the fourth a Junior Green Knight and a six leaf green teen here to defend my father against these foul charges Easy Duncan Bevelpot was about to like I can't read you March forward He had like a big thing of paper. He starts to walk forward. Bevely goes out from the crowd He immediately just without missing a beat just walks back and sits amongst the rest of the people. All right, well, good luck, man. Hold on, I would like to conference with my lawyer briefly. What is our plan here?

All right, so I figure, I would say your dad was a good guy. It's kind of no reason for it. Why would he want the high priest dad, right? Is that your entire argument? I mean, you know, he's a good guy. Do you have a good guy? Well, I can't really when you're gonna learn to when will you learn to stop trusting the the the the pebble pots? Do you have any evidence? In the at all. Oh, wait, hang on. I got one. I got guys. I got this.

Duncan Bellovat stands in the in the front. guys I got this. Is he a Dunkin' Battle Vot stands in the in the front? Why would he be blinded? If he was the murderer right I mean why would the guy blind himself? And Edmund Lurrell just goes because perhaps the extremely powerful Merrick Highhill blinded him during the battle? Yep you know what? It's a pretty good point. Anybody else have any ideas? Hunkang? Sir L'Oreal. May I ask, when did this murder take place? We discovered the bodies early this morning, 4 a.m.

Okay, we were sleeping then. Huh. Miss Attorney Moonshine, do you have any thoughts? Oh, usually it's just kind of like arm wrestling or leg wrestling is fun too every once in a while just sort of a regular Wrestle mode wrestle quick water wrestle Mommy let's kill him. Let's throw him off an airship And Edmund this trial by combat let me fuck out of fight the king Hard hard one really you want to go after such small potatoes and ninja says you don't fight the king

You'll fight someone in the king's place is it one on one trial by combat It is one on one trial by combat the king will choose someone and someone can choose to defend Beverly Togo the fourth cool. Let's let's huddle up Okay, I'm gonna push Pebble pot the fuck back You hear you hear Beverly's dad is just looking around at no one going what's going on here? I'm blinded. I don't know what's going on daddy will help you. I promise I Are you are pretty I'm scared to confuse them He gets louder as he gets

I'm gonna need I'm gonna need, I'm gonna need a hard one to talk me down, because I'm going to want to volunteer. I don't think that there's a better person to defend your father than you. Yeah. You've never been good enough in his eyes. You're right. And this is your chance to say this fucking line.

Yeah. Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to fight that giant half-work, so I was kind of hoping you'd talk me down, but you're right. By P, you're right, I gotta do this. I mean, I'm gonna put to fight that giant half-work. So I was kind of hoping you'd talk me down, but you're right. By P, you're right, I gotta do this. I mean, I'm gonna put on the line here. I think one of us is gonna have to do it. And my guess is that, you know, a slow war of attrition

by spores isn't gonna take down a half-work. All right, thank you guys for standing with me in this moment. Let's do this. I turn around and I say I Will stand trail by combat for the honor of Beverly to gold the fourth You hear Beverly's mom in the background just go. Oh god. Oh my god. Oh, I'm not watching. I'm not watching And your Beverly's dad go I can't see anything. I'm not watching. I'm not watching. I'm here, Beverly's dad go. I can't see anything. I'm not watching, but I can't see. Daddy calm down. I'll fix it, Daddy. I'll fix it.

Beverly, the crag is a tough fighter, Bev. I know, but we're, but we're toe-gults. And we're the toughest in town. We're green nights, and we have pellar on our side. And justice as well. And I'll do what I can Son of a beat fifth. I'm so Gusting so I can't see you but

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I only know her to hardwarn and I'm like, I feel bad saying this about Bev's opponent, but he yum. Beverly, he laughs at you and says, Good, I'm gonna kill you and then I'm gonna laugh when I chop your dad's head off. Okay, I take my young back. Yum rescinded. Beverly, you stand toe-to-toe with this giant, like seven foot tall half-orc dude, just this hulking beast with this giant axe. And Edmund Lorelle stands between you guys,

and he says, we have Beverly Togold the fifth, fighting to defend his father, and the crag fighting for the people of Galatoran, Beverly Roll Initiative. Okay. Okay, I got a seven. Damn, you lost to the crag.

Damn. It's an honor to finally meet you, and to fight you, I got a seven. Damn, you lost to the crag. Oh boy, okay. It's an honor to finally meet you and to fight you, I guess. I was hoping that maybe it would be like at the party next week, but okay. I'm gonna knock you out, possibly kill you, and then I'm gonna chop your dad's head off and throw him from the castle.

Okay, I'm gonna say the yums back. So the crag goes first. He is going to use a bonus action to go into a rage and he is going to reckless attack Beverly, which means he has advantage on his attack, but you have advantage on attacks against him. Okay, so he rolls a three on his first thing and he rolls a 21 to hit.

Ooh. So he's gonna hit you. Yep, on his first attack for 15 damage on his first hit. Shit. Okay, and he takes a swing with his second attack. Fine, roll to the advantage. He misses even with advantage on his second attack. You block it with the shield and you hear some of the green nights and stuff

like a cheer and your mom goes, oh come on, oh Beverly, please, please. It's a thing that Beverly's dad can't see this. What's going on? Is he doing all right? Okay, hard one is just gonna start whispering to Beverly's dad with that. Give me the play by play.

Oh, he definitely blocked the second hit. The first one honestly, it looked like a typical phase of play. It is your turn, Beverly. You get your two attacks, you get advantage on both of them blocked the second hit. The first one, honestly, it looked like a typical phase of... It is your turn, Beverly. Yep. You get your two attacks, you get advantage on both of them. Great. Because reckless attacks. I'm going to use ensnaring strike. Okay. And try and get them up in some vines.

Okay, so let me do that now. That's a 19 plus 8. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so he's going to make a strength saving throw. Yeah. He rolls with advantage on that, so he's going to make a strength saving throw. Yeah, he rolls with advantage on that and he passes. He bursts through the vines as soon as you shoot the matum.

Oh boy, you'll do normal attack damage because you hit him. Okay, but half damage because he's raging. All right, cool, cool. That's eight plus seven, 15. 15 damage, so seven damage. Okay, and then I get an extra attack. That's nine plus eight, is that hit?

17, that does hit. Woo, all right. It's a two plus nine, it's two plus seven, that's nine. Nine damage, yeah, okay. And that's four damage. Yep, I will also say you guys on the sideline, you guys both have an opportunity to give Beverly Inspiration. If you guys inspire him, give him some kind of speech. At any point in any of these rounds, I will give him advantage if I like what you say.

What if I speak with music? I will without New Betsy and I say today, she is New Beverly. And then I do a sick fiddle solo. And as that fiddle solo is echoing through the halls, I take out my woodblock. Oh, I see the band. I keep it down. The band, we just started this band. As I'm doing it, I'm like, you got a whole band behind you. Whoop.

The crack looks so confused, but Beverly's so inspired. You definitely get advantage on your next album. I can't let, I can't die before we record our first single Caluca live So the crag takes his first attack He's not gonna do a reckless attack because he's a little pissed that he got hit both times that time But he does hit on his first attack 12 damage he's going all out. So he's gonna take another swing

And he he actually hits with his second attack, but he rolled a one on his damage. All right, but that's not, sorry, it's seven total with his bonus. So he hits it for seven, he's taking his third attack, he's going to use rage to get a level of exhaustion, and he rolled a seven, so he fails. He misses on that one, Bev, that is you.

You've got advantage on the first attack. I'm gonna go ahead and use my amulet surge, I think. Half your hit dice plus your constitution modifier twice. 15 plus four, 19. All right, cool. 16 plus 19 and back up to 35. Nice, you go back up. Okay.

But you do hear your dad yells to you, Bev, or leave it. Yeah, Bev, I'm not totally sure what's going on But he's gonna have resistance to damage as he's raging you got to do some magic damage to a bath You gotta do some damage to him. All right if it's magic damage he wants his magic's damage. I'll give him I'm gonna use a little magic slice go for time for that magic slice It's time for that divine smite see if you hit and then you can divine smite, but you have advantage because of the band. Yeah, I hit with 17 plus eight. Cool.

What spell slot are you gonna do the second level, baby? So you do three d8s of full damage and one d8 of half damage. Okay. So first roll your long sword damage first and we'll have that. Oh, two plus seven. Two plus seven, so nine.

So four damage. Okay. You slash into him. And then there's a burst of Polar power. The power of P. P P P P P. Get him with the power of P, Bav. I picture I focus on Polar in my mind. I see his big bearded face. He's like Santa Claus, but the sun, he's like a big muscular Santa Claus, but like, you know, wearing a bathing suit. I focus on him and I slash with my radiant damage. Roll three D8s for your second level. Come on, then.

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He's not nearly on Death's Door, but you guys are looking about the same. This isn't even fight so far. You are given the rag or run for his money. I wiped the blood off my face. It's tougher than you look, you little bastard. I've got everything on the line. And there's no way I'm gonna lose.

Because my line is a golden thread descended from the heavens of Pallor. Whoa! He goes for a reckless attack. All right, he gets a 21 to hit. That hits. That's gonna hit. Another 12 damage.

Okay. He takes a second swing. And he misses with a bowl. Whoo! Yes! Yeah. That is you, Beverly. Okay, as a bonus action, I'll go ahead and cast Divine Favor, okay, which means I get an extra D4 of radiant damage

on a hit. Sweet. Okay. And I guess I'll just do another, yeah, I'll just do another radiant strike or another Divine Smite cool go for it. Take a swing at him with advantage and see if you hit You don't got a chance kid. Oh, you see he's like kind of out of breath. That's a two I would just like to the two crew acknowledge it shout out to the two's please don't keep getting to's yeah the twos, please don't keep getting twos. Yep.

That's 15 plus eight. That hits. All right, roll your damage and expand a spell slot. However, you want to do it. 4 plus 7. So 11? Yeah. OK, so then that gets half to 5.

OK, and now you're doing your divine damage. Divine damage, but remember I have an extra D4. You do have an extra D4. Go for it. Oh, come on, man. It's going to be close, guys. 13. 13 total less So wait 1317 he is looking very hurt

He is like out of breath. He's he's starting to like trickle blood from his mouth the crag is going to Recklessly attack you I know what gods you're using or how you're cheating, but I'm gonna kill you boy and then I'm gonna kill your father. Rules with advantage. He's definitely going to hit 10 damage and then he's 22 to hit. And he hits you for 15 damage. Bev's down. Oh. You see he slashes into Beverly. Bev is standing his ground.

He's still standing as he's bleeding out. Beverly is like unconscious standing up like on what need, trying to keep fighting. The crag goes to cut Beverly's head off. I said, pick on someone, I have fungus, I go wild shape into a fungus queen and I say, what are you big man? Picking on a child? He's swinging down three.

Yeah, I'm jumping in there. Cool, okay. So just as the crag is about to strike down on Beverly, moonshine and hard one, get their weapons in and block his shot. The crag stares at you both with intense fury before Edmund Lorel gets in between you. That's it, it's been decided. Beverly Togo IV is sentenced to death. Dad, I'm sorry.

I couldn't, I wasn't strong enough. I doubted Pellore, it's my fault. It's okay, Bev, I'm proud of you, okay? I'm proud of you, no matter what happened. Uh, so, Judge, what do we got? Like, a couple of weeks before the actual execution, I'm sure you have some paperwork to fill out and whatnot. The King, Gus.

Oh, mommy, can we, how can we, how should we kill him? Should we, should we chop him up or should we throw him out of the airship? Good, sir. Um, hi, just a lowly Crick-Alff, How can we kill him should we should we chop him up or should we throw him out of the airship good sir I just a lowly crick-a-l but I'd say you know be a great party for this weekend an execution party Go ahead and I love this idea Role me a Role me a persuasion check with advantage.

Oh, I got a 20. Oh, not a not not that. Okay, no, that's really good. I'm just saying, you know, where I come from, if you want to get the people out, give them something to talk about, show them something they've never seen before. You have an execution party. You see the king, the king lights up and turns to the queen mother and goes, oh mommy, mommy, if we had an execution, could we still have a party? And she puts her hand on his shoulder and says, of course, dear, of course, we could still have the party. Why don't we have

an execution party this weekend instead of naming a new high septan? And Edmund. Edmund Loreal looks a little bit disappointed and goes, all right, it is decided then. Beverly Togo, the fourth, will be put to death in two days. Okay. Oh boy. Thank you for your graciousness. My Lord. Well, I'll miss him. RIP. Edmund tells the crowd to adjourn, he joins the Queen Mother and the King. You see, the paladins who are hanging onto Beverly Togo, the fourth bring him over. You know, I couldn't see it, kid, but I'm proud of you. Thank you, Papa. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I never told of you. Thank you, Papa. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I never told you that. And I'm glad you made such good friends. And I'm sorry. I'm not going to get to see it become the Green Knight that I know you're going to be. I swear to be, I know you're going to be a good Green Knight, Bev. I'll do my best.

All right, this is real sweet. But look, number four, you gotta, you gotta try to remember what happened. We don't think you killed a high priest. Oh, I sure defeated him. What happened that night, daddy? Just start from the beginning. Yeah, do you remember even leaving the house? What under what pretence did you leave the house?

The last time we saw him leaving the house was with the high priest. I left the house with the high priest Brought him to the cathedral Brought him to his little apartment with attached to the cathedral. He has a little apartment. He has a little apartment It's it's very cute. Okay, we talked for a little bit Suddenly there was a smashing sound I went blind I heard screaming It was knocked out, I woke up, the paladins were there to arrest me, that's all I know. And he said, it sounds like foul play.

The paladins that are holding Beverly Togo the fourth, kind of put their hands on his shoulder and go, all right buddy, we gotta take you back to the dungeon. Sorry guys, and he pulls Beverly Togo the fourth back and takes him back to the dungeon. I fall to my knees. I weep openly. I weep openly from my papa. It's okay, that's a good cover. It makes it seem like he's making peace with his daddy's death rather than scheming. That's right. Can I, would, um, with lesser restoration be able to heal my dad's eyes or is it too much damage? Your dad is like cursed. would lesser restoration be able to heal my dad's eyes or is it too too much damage? Your dad is like cursed. Your dad would be able to heal his own eyes. Oh,

he is clearly like somebody very powerful fucked him up. Would I like be able to sense? You could pretty easily tell that it was like necromancy. We got to find this fucking widow. Yeah, so as you guys are kind of circled up, Galad joins you guys and he says, Oh, you again. Oh, you again. Hey, Galad. Great job, Beverly. You really? You almost beat the crack. It wasn't enough. Okay.

Hey, where'd you go on your griffin last night? I went looking for the widow. Did you find her? I equally want. Do you know crazy thing is she killed my brother. So I'm also on a vengeance quest for her. Wait, what? Hold on, roll the deception check. Okay.

13. He looks you up and down says, she's killed so many of my friends. I don't know why you would lie to me about her killing one of your friends. I'm sorry. Just be truthful. Honestly have a crush on you and I'll start to press you.

Who would press you? Actually. Roll the deception. That's okay. That could not possibly be true. Actually, I want to try a fact. I don't know how you're the only woman who doesn't have a crush on me, but I can tell that you're lying.

Oh, sorry. I'm really putting you through it. Yeah. She likes the crack. We all know who's responsible for this. It had to have been the widow, right? Yeah, you're totally right. That's so true.

If we can prove that it's... That's our best lead. Yeah. If we can prove that it's the widow, then... Then we can get him off. All right, well, we've got two days. I don't want to put you guys in danger, but I have some information,

and it's not exactly something we, as the chosen, can follow up on. Us paladins in our full armor aren't exactly stealthy and we don't blend in well. Me being the white rose of Galatoron and all. Okay, yeah. The white rose. Yeah. Yeah. Me. Glad Rose, Al.

And you don't believe that I have a crush on you. I'll roll with disadvantage to pick up on you because I'm so I rolled the one. Okay, you do have a crush on you. I roll with disadvantage to pick up on you because I'm so, I rolled the one, okay, you do have a crush on me. But I'm sorry, I'm married to the job. Don't you know it's vised. It's vised. I ain't looking for marriage, you know. I ain't getting it.

I pull out my galatine card. I'm like, what do I do? I throw it. Web of lies. My rookie card. I pull out a straighting card that says galatas never had sex. So just to prove, I give him a very enthusiastic answer. That's right, I am pure.

So sorry. Can't believe I was jealous of you. Sorry moonshine, but I don't think it's going to waiving myself for the light. I look at a hard one, I say, I think my lies are working on Bev and I feel really guilty. Hahaha. Don't worry about it.

But what, so tell us this information. Let's see, what's the information that Paladin's can't have done? So apparently the widow keeps a few contacts. The only people we've ever seen her with are this little rat man and this bear guy who worked down at the docks down in lower Galatoron. They worked to repair the airships that aren't working. Salted to the earth people just like us. Apparently the apparently the widow is meets with them occasionally.

For repairs or social calls. We don't know. She might know them or they might be allied with her. They've never attacked any of the chosen and the widow often attacks us. So I don't know totally what their allegiance is. But. All right, we're going to take a hot air balloon down to the. Yeah. Dr. Bluwick later on. They were just real, and can speak you as hot air balloon.

Are they working now? Well, would we be able to find them if we went right now? Still the daytime, you might be able to find them. You might be better off going at night. Ooh, actually, they often stay late working on a ship later than all of the other dock workers.

It's pretty suspect. We've tried to confront them before, but they're quite, they're pretty capable. Does that ship have a name blazing across it or some kind of identifiable bust at the front? I couldn't tell you. Is it the Lady Mercy or perhaps the High Wind or perhaps the regalia of the gale.

You know most of the ships down there are trade ships and such lesser military vessels. They'd probably have you know better people on it than... Okay. I see. I see. ...then these two if they were important ships. Also now is a really bad time but could you sign this rookie card? Oh my god. He already autographed your sword. Absolutely. Do you want me to write in Nelvish? Now is a really bad time, but could you sign this rookie card? Oh my god. He already autographed your sword, baby. Absolutely.

Do you want me to write in Nelvish? Absolutely. Like your sword? Yeah, that'd be super great. Okay. Do you want me to also sign it from Rosalene? Yes, if you could. Who is Rosalene?

My sword. It's a sword. Okay, but what's your name? Your sword after? Dead cat? It's just my sword's name. She speaks to me. You fucked your sword like once.

That's why she always strikes true. Okay, got it. So you masturbated onto your sword. I do not masturbate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you let the light flow out of your nether bits onto the sword. I gave you your information and now I will go. I'm gonna go.

Good day to you, young Beverly. Very well, sir, Roselle. What dreams? I'm gonna go hug my mom. Okay, yeah, your mom. Oh, God, Beverly, oh, seeing you out there. Oh, you did such a good job. I'm so proud of you, but.

It's okay, I gotta get stronger, mom. I gotta learn how to protect you and everyone, and everything's gonna be okay. You know what? Paloar works in mysterious ways. I don't know how he works framing your father for murder and then having my son fight a giant half or... Seems bad. And I'm upset to say the least. Hard one is coming through her purse. She hasn't eaten snacks. Okay, you know what? Let's go home. Let's all go home. Let's have a snack. Let's all just go home, we're all very upset. Yeah, do you have any more cheese sticks?

I, yes, we have, we have polio cheese drinks back at the house. Y'all haven't even spicy. You know what? I feel like it's just sweet. I'm so, I'm just awful. I'm just awful. I could say that.

I'm awful, I'm awful. I am. My own spins can again. My own spins can get killed. I'm not in a two days. Let's take are gonna get killed. I'm not gonna do that. Let's take you home. We'll let you in on. We'll maybe going on. Tell you what, in moonshine, she's a mean cook.

So she just opened up your kitchen and she'll cook she'll whip something up. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Okay, you know what? I'm not I'm not particularly in the mood to cook right now. I gotta be honest. I'm just not in the mood to have guests. You go lay down mama. We'll handle it. We'll just raid the pantry.

Sometimes the best hostess is the one who knows when to be hosted. That's, you know, I'm just going to get on. Okay. I just want that whole bond. True words have never been said. So do you guys go back to, do you guys go back to the total residents?

Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I like that. Cool. I think we'll go because we have to, we need somewhere safe to talk, although we should sweep the residents for any kind of bug. Yeah. I want to, I want so. I like that. I think we'll go because we need somewhere safe to talk. Although we should sweep the residents for any kind of bugs.

Yeah, I want to rifle through maybe my dad's quarters and study as well. Let's see if I can find any extra information. I'm doing a sweep for bugs or spies or anything like that. Bugs, spiders, worms. Oh, you know what? I'll take a peek through Bev's telescope. Oh! So you guys go peek through Bev's telescope. Oh, so you guys go back to Bev's house. You're looking into the telescope. It's about like four or five p.m. now.

You guys have had busy morning slash afternoon. Yeah. I guess can I just like look over towards where the widow slitter throat see if there's anything interesting over there. Yeah, you look and it appears to be someone's roof. You look in the gnome who is reading before that's Moonshine noticed and he closed his blinds. Looks over, sees you pointing a telescope at him and closes his blinds. I nod, that's fine. I wanna, oh, you were gonna check the box.

I'd like to case the house. Yeah. You can- I want to sneak to another. I just have a good instinct to wear someone might. Go ahead and roll an investigation check. Bev, are you gonna look around too? Where are you gonna look? I'm gonna look in the bedroom. Well, no, my mom's sleeping in the bedroom.

Your mom's not asleep. It's still it's the early evening. I don't know if she was laying down. No, she's just sitting in the living room. I'm gonna check the bedroom and my dad's study, which I had to engineer. Cool. Go ahead and do an investigation check. It's a 16 plus what's my investigation. Oh, it's zero, okay, so 16. Yeah, so you look around your parent's bedroom, you don't find anything super special,

except when you look in the bin, you remember that very cold letter that you got from your dad saying that you did an adequate job. Yes. You see that there are like 20 copies of him like trying to write you that letter and say that he was proud of you

and he kept throwing them out. My heart just started. Like he kept, he kept sliding. He kept sliding. I take all of them. A teeth collection and an aborted dad letter collection. Yeah, so yeah, your dad wrote you, one of the more complete letters,

your dad wrote you about how so many of the toe goals were killed in battle and your uncle Ronald died being a goof and he just was hard on you because he didn't want you to make a misstep and die and be another person that he lost. And Moonshine, as you look around the house, you to make a misstep and die and be another person that he lost. And Moonshine, as you look around the house, you don't notice anything super suspect. So my sense is that this is a safe place to speak freely.

Yeah, that would be your sense. I guess we meet up and maybe kind of like discuss this. Yeah, let's circle up. All right, so your neighbor hates us. Yeah, that guy, I definitely got to let Paul Paul leave a little gift on his well. That's right. Still wearing the, still wearing the, uh, the 80s business.

We never use that. Yeah, he had an airtight case. Yeah, man. He presents some files. Talk about how it was. How was it? It was circumstantial. They never went through the DNA.

I wanna ask my mom just about the history of our family. And actually, maybe I could just do a role for this because I know a lot about our family. Sure. We're green nights in town. My dad is the captain of the green nights, which is one of the factions. There's multiple factions.

Cool, you would already know this. Yeah. Since they've had this high septent spiritual advisor, the city watch as well as the glater on army is led by the different factions of paladins. So you've got the chosen, which are kind of the newer ones. Those are the ones who just worship the light. Then you have the green nights who worship Palor and then you have the white nights who are the oath of devotion, paladins, who they worship Bahumat or they worship Moridan. And they have kind of

like an alliance. The white nights are kind of the by the books regular paladins. The green nights are the more nature-focused paladins and the chosen ones are the ones that are a little bit funky. Well, I think we gotta, I think we gotta head down to the docks y'all. I don't think there's anything left for us to do here. Yeah, I would like to reassure your mother though that I don't know if it was obvious. I don't actually want a party for your husband's execution. I was trying to buy us time to hopefully save his life. That's a stalling. Oh, thank God. Oh, I understood. I really appreciate it.

Okay. But Beverly, your father wouldn't want you to put yourself in danger. You've already done enough. We've lived a good life. And if Polora takes them in two days, then Polora takes them in two days, and we just have to accept that. That's unacceptable, mom. Miss Beverly, if I may, we will make sure

that your son does not put himself in danger and instead me and hardwan, put ourselves in danger. We're scout masters. We have a- I have a pretty bad track record of putting myself in danger, but we're trying to play it smarter. You know, I am just so happy that you are his, you know, the green team program has really gotten it together

because it used to be Scoutmaster Denny. And I just didn't trust him around the kids. I gotta be honest. I didn't trust him around the kids. That makes sense. I believe it, I believe it. But I sure, you seem like good people. Thank you for helping my son.

Do you know Irland? Of course I know Irland. He's a good boy. Irland's a very good boy. I'd be proud to have him in my family. Oh, Erlin's like another son to us. We love Erlin. Yeah.

Erlin's son and long. Erlin? Erlin's OK. He's a little bit of a knucklehead. Grand. Grand. Wonderful. I love one.

Great. Great girl. We're going to head out. We're going to go to the docks. Time to go to the docks. OK. I can only. Hey, come in. Come to the dock. Time to go to the docks. Okay. Okay. Hey, come in, come in.

Everybody, let's do a little group hug, okay? Hold on, hold on. Okay, hold on. Hard one, shore foot. Moonshine, Sibon, was it? Sibon, was it? You're very important to me. Beverly Togol, my strong boy, I'm so proud of you.

I'm so proud of all three of you. You are all my baby children. I love you all so much. Please be careful with fighting back here. Please be careful. I think Mujjit is too. Mujjit is sitting here being like, I felt so bad for Beverly for having a dad

who didn't give him enough love, but the amount of love that your mom gives you just like negates that. And the love that is that just had bottled up. Yeah. It wasn't a lack. It was just a plethora. I'm blushin', I'm blushin' big time.

Two guys, would you guys like some sticky buns before you go? Yes please, yes please. Yes please. Sure, she makes hard ones some sticky buns. Maybe you could maybe just douse it in some paprika. I can't stop this, it's so sweet. Do you have any Chalula for moonshine?

Please. Well I'll make it as spicy as I can. Thank you. All right, to the docs. We guys are off. Off to the docs. What do you guys think? So I think that we got to try and spy on these people.

Yeah, we got to stealth up. Before we go, I do want to say that I probably switched into a lower glater on clothes. Oh, nice. But I think they're still probably a little too clean. I did my best pass at looking a little less. Your Halloween costume of a sailor from a few years ago.

Exactly. I'm in a sailor boy outfit. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So just a little boy in a sailor boy. What a fellow sailor. I don't know if they're gonna buy that. I roll around in the dirt. This might be good for deception though.

Yeah, maybe I come out in the sailor outfit and I'm like, what do we think? We shake our heads, yeah. Okay, I'll come back. I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back.

I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back.

I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back. I come back. I come in the dirt and those. There you go. That's very good. Tell me how you guys have the tram system and you guys have the hot air balloon to get down to lower galator on. I think if you take the tram, I'll get a little skittle butt. Yeah. Like olibians. Cool.

Try a blend in. There is a rarely used upper glater on tram station, but you guys go to the tram station. It's a man-made cave. There's a little platform that leads out to the track, but the trains don't run on normal train tracks. There are four rails to at the top and to at the bottom. The trams each have a conductor who pulls an igniter

that powers the tram, then it slides along the rails. So you guys wait a little bit and see a tram pull up. The train has many individual cars that fit about 15 people and there are huge windows so that you can look outside. And you see you guys are at the station. There's maybe only one or two other people, people that are just maybe maids or housekeepers for the rich people up here. You know, there's a couple guys that have like tool belts on them that were maybe working on some kind of construction project for the people

on upper glater on, they get on the tram with you guys. Cool, so you guys hop on the tram. It's normally associated with the lower class of glater on, but it's a beautiful ride. Some of the tracks tunnel through the mountains, but they also frequently run outside around the mountain, giving you a beautiful view and and it's sunset, guys, so it's so nice out.

Does our speaking stone work on the, on the tram? You could definitely service. You could try calling Ol' Cobb on the phone. Um, I will send, I'm not gonna call him because it's so awkward. There are no text messages. You gotta, they're call Ol' Cobb or don't. We're, we're only supposed to call him

if we see the widow anyway. Oh, that's fair. I think that we should call him. I think we should do a little self because like the less people, the better the stealth anyways, I think we should figure out what's going on, then figure out what we need to do about the situation,

then call an old Cobb when we got a plan. So you guys are on this tram. There are a few just like construction workers and random people. It's pretty sparse up here. Then you guys hit middle glater on. This is where a lot of like the artisans and the people who sell things to the rich people live and they might, they're either traveling home to lower glater on. They were working in middle glater on, you know, running their shops or they're going down to lower glater on to go to like a kind of shit show tavern and get trash.

Can I inspect the... Brits atonal. Can I, yeah, can I inspect the fingernails of our fellow train riders and see if anyone's got dirt under their fingers? The guys who got on the train with you guys, there are like two human construction worker guys who for sure have dirt under their nails. Okay, so I go over to them and I say, hey y'all, I'm an assistant for one of those high full-luten, up in the hills, Hobbit people. Ugh, I can't find one part in me. We're working for the Pebble Pots and I gotta say, that guy is annoying, do you know him?

Oh, I didn't Pebble Pots, is the worst day is. I put my hand on the furlier I shove him away. is annoying do you know him? Oh I didn't pebble pots is the worst day is. I put my hand on the front of my head. I shove him away. Sorry about my idiot son. I won't disturb your conversation any longer then. I'm a common folk like you, so I use it right here. Is that your son or is that a halfway?

He is my idiot son. I had it when I was very young. Roll up for his ways of check. I was born sick. Roll up persuasion check. I was born sick. That is a 12. Okay, this guy looks at you and goes, I know what a halfling is, man. Why are you lying to me?

I'm adopted, I am. And I rolled persuasion. Go ahead, roll up persuasion check. I have no clue who these people are, honestly. Roll up persuasion check I have no clue who these people are honestly roll up persuasion moonshine Okay, I got a I got a 20 okay He believes moonshine that she doesn't know who you guys are if you need if this is a private conversation

Sure that you need it. I don't know who these people are up there. You're friends. I can stop on or any of them They're not my friends, but I believe this kid you're adopted But this isn't your dad. Have you been kidnapped, son? Are you okay? We're taking the piss out me, dad. He's my adopted pup. Oh.

Hey, he's right. And he's a moron. I'm sorry. I'm just gonna go back to watching this. That's abusive. I'm a dirty boy, I am. Because I work in the streets. He turns to moonshine.

Look, it's been a long day of work. What's up? I was gonna ask you about some stuff, but if you wanna deal with this, I can deal with what these crazy people on the chart. I know who they are, if they're gonna be. I'm gonna start yelling, does anybody have any change?

I don't wanna bother anyone. I'm just gonna ask him to go. Everybody puts their heads down, and pretend that we're talking to you. Show time, show time. I started dancing. Everyone's ignoring the shit out of us now. Okay, he turns to you, Moonshan.

These people are nuts. Yeah, I don't know what's going on. I thought you were with them. I saw you with them at the train station. Just because we got on at the same station, doesn't mean I have anything to do with these knuckleheads. Amen, sister. I got nothing to do with them either.

Yeah. Basically, I'm trying to get down. I've got sort of vague instructions from one of my half-ling bosses that he needs something repaired by a bear or a rat man, or something like that down at the docks and sending me on this hair brain mission. I don't know.

I'm just wondering if you could point me in the direction of either of these repairmen. I mean, if you go down to the docks, you'll find the shipyard. I work, I do construction for the people up on upper galatorons, so I don't work in the shipyard personally, so I don't know anybody who works there. I have seen a rat guy and a bear guy who are friends.

Yeah, I've seen them hanging out at the hunter and the bow that's a tavern down in lower Galatoron, but if you're looking for the shipyard, yeah, the shipyards down by the ocean, that's where they repair the airships. Great, that's helpful. Yeah, okay, great, thanks, I really appreciate it man. Hard one is off, just beatboxing as definitely. Guys, do a performance check to see if anybody serves you any copper. Wow.

It's 11. Yeah, I got 11 as well. Cool. I'm gonna roll a D4 to see how much gold you guys earned. You guys got one gold. All right. I bite it. It's a real gold piece brother. Cool, so guys, you guys get down to lower galatoron. Again, I exit separately from them to maintain the illusion that I'm not with them. We double back around.

And then I meet up with them. And I'm like, okay, so this is what he told me. We could just go straight down the docks or we could go to the hunter and the bow. Let's go to the hunter and the bow. Look for a bow. It seems like that's gonna be easier than trying to knock on.

I hold up that single gold piece that I'm like drinks around me. He said he has seen them there before and not that they would be there tonight. Okay, I think we could go to the docks then. We should probably head to the docks. Also, what did you think of my commoner accent? I thought it was pretty good.

I thought that you would definitely endanger Ducy at again. Okay, all right. Good to know, I'll just use my normal voice from here on out. Thank you, Scott Mistress. Normal voice or accent voice, you also don't have to use it all the time. So just don't talk. Sometimes.

Okay. Silence? Yeah. Okay. I would say sometimes you paint the best picture, but not just throwing a bunch of colors at the wall. Sometimes the best picture is still life. Exactly, exactly.

All right, so you guys want to go case the docs, see if we see them. And then if not, we go. I got something I want to do to try and gather some intel from them. I have something I want to try as well, but I'll let you do your thing first. Cool, so you guys make your way through lower galator on.

You see that there are modest cottages and shelters tightly packed together. There are blacksmiths and tanners and you know minors and stuff packing up for the day. Some of them are going to this tavern, the hunter and the bow. There's a thick smell of sweat in the air. This is you know unlike Esri where the outer rim was like complete poverty. These are just kind of like a hard work in people doing their thing. But as you guys pass the hunter in the bow, you do see Ol' Cobb drinking by him.

Like as you look through the open door, you see Ol' Cobb drinking by himself at the bar. I see if we see, he looks lonely. Can I look past the old Cobb and see if I see a mouse or a bear creature in there? You do not see a mouse folkler of Bear creature in there. Let's kind of be really discreet about going in. Yeah, cool.

Not make a big deal, because we might be back here later. So you guys entering the bar? Yeah, great. So you guys enter the bar, instantly attacked. Roll initiative. Old Cobb is drinking this grizzled, old dwarf bartender who is serving Old Cobb. Yeah, we'll go to Old Cobb is drinking there's this grizzled old dwarf bartender who is serving all Cobb. Yeah, we'll go to all Cobb. Okay. Moonchan, how are you doing? How you doing? Oh,

Joe's already started. I looked for the widow. All Cobb couldn't find her and all Cobb's a hell of a tracker. He's the best old Cobb. It'll make them like you anymore. He's the best old cop. It'll make him like you anymore. Sure as hell don't. I'm 375 years old. Wow. How can I believe you?

You sure as hell can. You see he pounds a whiskey back. Guess I'm mixing drinks tonight. Good man. Good. God. I just smell him. I just take him in with my nose.

He smells like shoe polish and whiskey. Hell yeah, a leveled guy. I'm drunk on old cop. You want a drink, young guy? No, he's saying so. Whoa, old cop, we're gonna meet up later. Bruce, you're on that shit, huh? Oh, is that how you do that?

That's his dream. Yeah. Is that the trick? Yeah, I got your call last night. After your call, I went up to the corner that she mentioned, but there wasn't nobody there. Had old Cobb a little worried. So what happened?

Basically, the widow appeared. She had undead servants. They went after Galad. What's your read on Galad? Do you know Galad, Ros glad? Galad Rosel? Galad Rosel. It's kind of a local hero. Captain of the Cho's and I'm familiar. What's your read on him? You take a liking to him or...

Doesn't turn his nose up at Crick folks, but then again... Takes a little bit to get old cops trust. I don't know. Fair, fair, fair. I don't know them so I wouldn't pass judgment. So basically they go after Galad and she pieces, I go after her, she tells me that Galad killed her husband and then she takes a knife to her neck

and turns into fog. I'm so sorry. Till O'Cobb exactly what's going on. Alright, O'Cobb, I just did. Well, let me through it because O'Cobb's been around the block a couple times. Yeah, I don't know if I want to do this song in dance. What she killed herself, you got to tell a lot of booze on your breath, sir. Yeah, I'm certain of worry that you're kind of drunk. And that this is maybe a dead end. I think I've been around the block a couple of times. You let old cop talk.

He might tell you something. Okay, okay. All right, he holds up the wanted poster. You think it's a little funny that somebody who's out there killing the chosen, trying to kill Galadro Zell is wanted alive. Yeah, yeah, I would say Maybe she can die and come back Yeah, that's this much. Yeah, I assumed this much. I'm just trying to think about who stands to gain if

If all of the chosen are killed and and the the septin gets to remain in place without a new one being chosen with what with meric with dr. meric having been killed and there's only one person I can think of and you got cast blame on that poor old Hubert's name no it couldn't be Hubert I think that it gosh this seems bad to say I don't think I can even say it I think that I'll get in trouble just for saying it. Could it be the Queen Mother? Could it be her? The Queen Mother.

She's the only one that stands to gain. She's the region who stands beside our precious boy king, our sweet little boy. I don't think he's to blame. But if the balance of power does some shift, it could be her. I think that I think we got gotta keep an eye on her. Is all I'm saying.

I don't trust the person. I'm sorry, I'm sorry for even suggesting it. I don't trust anybody in a position of authority. Yeah, but I think the King's also a piece of shit. I pull out a coin with a Queen's face on it and start kissing it. Interesting. Well, Ol' Cobb, we are gonna go do a little investigating,

but I know you got that stone on you. Interesting. Well, all Cobb, we are gonna go do a little investigating, but I know you got that stone on you. I'd love to meet up later. You give a Cobb a call. Hey, if you see anybody that looks like a mouse or anybody that looks like a bear You call a new information for me. Oh, correct. Yes. Oh, oh you are you on my rock phone? My stone phone. Can I put my how do I put my stone on silent? So if I'm in the middle of a sneak your phone call doesn't interrupt me Tell you what I don't how about I don't call you you call me Okay, you call me when you're done up to see a mouse folk or a bare folk You're the man old Cobb. Hey, you're the man, hard one. Thanks, old Cobb.

You're the man Beverly. And you're the woman, Moon Johnson. I prefer a bitch, but thank you. I would never call you that, but if you would like to refer to yourself as that, I feel that you're right. And that's just how old Cobb feels about the situation. Old Cobb, you are woke. You're a lumpal Cobb.

You're like Sam Waterston with big ol' ears. You know, I've been around a while. Sam Elliott, let's go to the docks. Yeah, all right, we'll be at the docks if you need us. Let's try to clarify that I'm at Sam Elliott. So you guys go down to the shipyard. Shipyard is all the way down on the water, on the ocean. If you guys didn't know any better, it would look like a normal marina.

There are docks made of wooden planks with many boats, doctor out, but these are airships. So the fact that they are in the water means that they are out of commission. The workers down here fix up the ships until they're ready to be back in the air, which is a little bit of a sad existence because these guys all have extensive knowledge of the inner workings of an airship but are landlocked. So it is, you guys are down here, it's after quentin time, it is dark. Are you guys sneaking around? What do you guys do?

We're sneaking around, but I would also like to look for like a crit goal. Okay, you could probably find like a seagull or something. Yeah. So first of all, go ahead and find like a seagull or something. Yeah. So first of all, go ahead and roll me a stealth check because there is a drunk dock worker stumbling around on the docks. Oh hell yeah, you're not gonna see me. I got it.

Did you do pass without trace? 24. I have 22. I got it. Okay, 18. This drunk guy does not notice you guys. He's just shambling about going, I used to fly in the air

Now I live in the docks Any passes on what if he used to be some kind of bird? Why would you fly in the air? I think he used to be like a hot air balloon. He's talking about the airships Yeah, the airship yeah, they've all been taken out of commission airships. Yeah, they've all been taken out of commission. So, and if anyone has something else they'd like to do, that's cool. But I'm looking for a crit goal or whatever you call it. Okay, a goal. I mean, you could walk out onto a dock and find a goal. Yeah, that's what I want. Okay, specifically walk out into a dock. You do want to cast people with animals? Yeah, I'd like to say. Ah!

Ah! You ever seen a rat in a bear spending time together? That would be silly. I've seen a rat in a bear on a bone here. Would you, may I cast a spell that gives me a link to your brain so we can kiss brains and you can go take a look at them. Kiss brains. Okay, I cast the, let me see how long it will.

Okay, it's last for a while. I'd like to cast Beast Bond on him. Okay, great. And then I say, why don't you go to that ship where that silly rat and that silly bear hanging out and your friends? Yeah, and then tell me what they're talking about. Ah!

Ah! This gall takes off and starts flying over this one ship. What are they saying? Getting closer? What are they saying? I want to hear that silly conversation. Okay! getting closer what they saying. I wanna hear that silly conversation. Okay. You see it flies in and then you hear a thwack.

And he flies back up and he goes, the rat slapped me. Okay, try again at this time. Pretend like you're playing hide and go seek. Okay. You see in the distance the bird goes in and doesn't come out and you don't hear anymore from the bird.

But now we know what ship it is. Let's stealth over to the ship. Stealth over to that ship, right? Excuse me, everyone. I just sent in a gold today. We gotta go save that gold. I don't think they're just taunting him. We don't even know what's in there.

Oh, Malora, I was too calm, too cavalier with his life. Yeah. Okay, well, that's the ship. Okay, so I'm just gonna stealth over there to try and spy. Okay, go ahead, roll stealth. I got 19. Okay, you just barely, you just barely passed. Yeah, they got big ears.

So Moonshine, you sneak up to the ship and you see that there is indeed a Mouse folk and a bear folk Working on this one ship. They're the only workers that are still working You see the mouse folk clearly had read for it some point, but it's mostly turned gray He wears a dirty white shirt under a brown vest and a little newsboy cap He's got a rapier and a dagger on his belt. The bear folk is this big hulking bear who wears only a dark green vest. He's got a shield and a spear on his back.

And are they eating a seagull? The bear is eating a seagull. Oh, Laura, what a terrible death he could have died of old age, but I sent him to the end of the prison. And you see the mouse folk turns up to the bear folk, and he goes, go through with your focus for a second, would you stop eating that damn goose or whatever the hell it is? And you hear the bear go,

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, and the mouse just goes, I know it's an airship, I know we don't gotta worry about any leaks, but what happens if you're in the air and you slip through a hole and fall a few miles to your death, think, gunt, they're, think, and he's just quietly nailing a plank in the airship.

I'd like to take note of where that plank is. Cool, there are lots of holes in this airship. This is a, you know, a broken down airship that these guys are quietly trying to fix. They're trying not to get caught. They're trying to make it airworthy, it seems. Yes. Okay. I run back and I tell everyone what I heard.

So I'm wondering if they're trying to create some kind of escape vehicle. Seems that way. I think we might need to try and garter more information. Really trying to go. Yeah. I mean, I got one of escape vehicle. Seems that way. I think we might need to try and garner more information. We're really trying to go. Yeah. I mean, I got one of their names. The bear's name is Gunther.

If one of us wants to waltz in and try and pretend like someone sent us for Gunther, or perhaps even pretend to be from the queen. I've, oh. Interesting. That would be really placing a lot of stock in that theory. That's a lot of weight on that theory. I don't know how sturdy the legs are on that theory.

Young bib, I know you had some problems. I've got another idea. Do you all want to just be ready to come to my aid in case it goes sour? Tell us where you're going to be. Just try not to do a bare maiden pull. What I do is I pull out the vials of arcane that I've been holding and I say Hard ones are ice go big. How do you have arcane? Hard one gave me the leftover arcane? Oh, so you have one vial? Yes. Yeah, I want to see if they'd be interested in making an exchange

Arcane for what information? You think they're drug addicts. I think that everyone wants to get their hand on something illicit. It could, it's probably worth a lot on the black market. And these- I'm not honestly into this, I think. These animals- I'll stealth and be there in the event of something going wrong. Let's just consider the facts.

These animals are up to no good. They're clearly doing devious tasks under the guise of moon light. I think they might be into some drugs. Worth a shot, huh? I'm gonna let you decide a hard one, because I know that moonshine has a taste for the dramatic. Well, I'd hate to see my arcane leave. I like no one that's close. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Hardwood, hardwood, hardwood-doth protest too much. So I'm gonna like walk over.

Is there like a door or like a hatch or something? Where are they on the ship? Where's the hatch? They're just in the middle of the ship fixing planks. So I'm gonna roll a perception check if you're just gonna walk right up there. Go in there pretending like you're from something. Do we know any crime bosses?

Say that you're from schoolists. Oh yeah, I'll say that. I'll say that, call us. Bev, as you're from some, do we know any crime bosses say that you're from schoolists? Oh yeah, I'll say that. I'll say that. Cool. Bev, as you're approaching, roll a perception check. Okay. I got a one, I get to roll that one. We roll, let me have it.

We roll, let me have it. We roll, let me have it. Da da da da da da da da. Oh my God. Ha ha ha ha. Band of two is delivered. That's insane. Band of two is always delivered.

Bev, as you walk up, as you walk up, you get to the ship. Yeah, nobody's on it. It's a magic shit. Yeah, because he's an idiot. He has no perception, right? Okay. All right. So there's got to be some sort of hiding. They heard you approach. No, real quick question though. Do you think, yeah, because they're hiding? Do we think that we want hardwanna join you and pretend to be part of this, or should we send Bev on his own? Hardwann, let's do the classic drug dealer valet.

The good cop, that's how you call it. Good cop, dumb cop. Yeah, that cop, dumb cop. Beverly needs something to waste his good roles on. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, I'll go up to the ship, but I want to posit something to you guys. Yeah.

Is there anything to just telling them that Bev's dad was framed for murdering the high priest and we're like looking for information? I don't think they would trust anything resembling a cop. It's my thoughts. I would say if we were going to try that, we send just one of us in to not ruin the rest of our good names. That seems smart.

Should we just knock on the boat? I guess. I mean, yeah, we have to talk to him. I'm self-in, I'm not, I'm not here. That's cool. You hang back, I'm gonna go in and see, I'll talk with Dev. Cool.

Let's start with drugs and then we go on to the truth if it doesn't work. Yeah, drugs first, truth second, love it. Go ahead. All right, so we bang on the side of the boat? Yep. Well, I think we do like a noct, a practice knock. A pull out.

Right, no response. Hmm. I say into the air, it's like, I know you're on there, and I'm here from Skullis to see if you're interested in his wares. Uh, roll a deception check. Okay. It's good though. He's getting better.

I know. Uh, deception, or can I use persuasion? You could use either. Okay, persuasion's gonna be a 20. Uh, you hear a sigh. Ugh, kid. We're not... I don't want any drugs.

Get the hell out of here. This isn't just any drugs, sir. This is one of Skullus's finest, direct from the bubble city of Ezri. This can make you do things, this can make you be things. You can forget your old life. You can start a new one with just one sip.

You here, just these guys have not poked their head out or anything, they're still just hiding on the ship and you hear the dude just go, you okay, get the fuck out of here. Okay, you don't want drugs. But how do you feel about uncovering the truth? Don't give a shit. Okay. Okay. All right. I think hopefully while we are distracting them with our pitch, Moonshine maybe is stelting onto the boat.

Sure. Do you want to stealth Moonshine? Yeah. Go ahead and roll. Stealth check. Two fours. Two fours in a row. Two fours in a row.

But I do have six so 10 okay first off doing me a perception check they saw you whether or not you saw them is up for debate it's gonna be a nine okay moonshine you sneak on to the boats you hear a voice go oh shit Gunther I know she's not, but I think we got to take off. Gunther, I'm pregnant. Suddenly you guys hear some scrambling and moonshine. As you're sneaking onto the boat, you see the rat dude at the front of the ship, the part facing the ocean.

He's taking the steering wheel and he goes to grab a lever next to it. What do you guys do? Because you guys aren't on the boat. Hard one in Beverly Hills. Okay. Three, two, one. Yeah, we're on the boat. We're on the boat. We're on the boat.

We're on the boat. Okay, so you guys see this rat pull down the lever. Suddenly there's an explosion out of the back of the ship as a rear thruster ignites and blows up a big part of the dock behind it. The ship rockets into the sea like a plane on the runway. And as you brace yourself to not fly off the deck, the bear dude reveals himself from behind the mast

and begins charging at you with the wind whipping around him, everyone roll initiative. Hell yeah. Oh boy. So nice. It's not too late if you just want the drugs. Eight. Nine.

Not 20. Hell yeah. There it is. Eight. Nine. Not 20. Ooh. Hell yeah. There it is. Forgive me since I, I must go all out. Beverly is feeling very ready to prove himself. Bev, you act first. OK, I want to cast, uh, who's driving the plane? Uh, the mouse folk.

Oh, right. I want to cast, uh, command on the mouse folk. Go for it, OK. He passes. He's very smart. Dammit. Okay. Um, that was my action. Cool. That is Gunther. Gunther charges forward at you, Beverly. Fine. That is going to be 24 to hit.

Oh, that's going to hit. That's 14 damage. Okay. On his first hit, he is going to take a second attack and he's gonna miss and he takes a third attack with his spear and he is going to get a 21 to hit. I'm gonna send that hit. Yeah. Another 10 damage. Okay. Wow. I'm at 2 HP. Cool. He is a big bear. He is a big bear man. He is a big bear. He is a big bear man. That's fair. He's a bear. Cool. That is that is hard one. Cool. I guess Should I grapple the bear try to like I I think these guys are good guys. I know that's what I think that we shouldn't I don't think that we should try to kill them

No, I agree. I'm gonna I want to I want to yell to this rat guy. Yeah, I'm just gonna pick up my pickaxe Yeah, I will fucking tear this ship apart and bring us all down if you don't Relax and talk to that look man. I don't know who you are kid But gone through and stop it for anything. We're taking this thing into the sky. No, you're not you want to know who I am I'm hard one shortfoot pride of the door finish faster to the mountain I've borne further into iron deep than anybody else, and I will tear the fuck out of your ship. This guy takes his eyes off the prize and looks back at you,

and he goes, you said you were from a from a doorfinage! Yeah, holy fucking shit, Gunther, don't kill him, don't kill him, all right, we're going up. We're going up you guys all take off Into the sky together finally the airship finishes. It's a sense. You're now fully in the air Gunther climbs up the mast and let's down these giant sails that allow the ship to just glide and The mouse folk walks over to you hard one a Lies to just glide and the mouse folk walks over to you hard one. Elias? Oh, God. That's my fucking dad.

Oh, no. You know my father? You like to spin the image of him. Welcome to the SS Stormborn. Oh, cool name. Everyone's going to be a cool name. It, there would be a cool name. Everyone's gonna be a cool name. It's gotta be a cool name.

This is my parents' ship. Oh, this is fathership. Hi, I'm Beverly Togo. All the fifth, my dad isn't big trouble. I put my hand over his mouth and say, let hard one have a damn moment. I spend my entire life in the mountain. Are you telling me my father spent his in the sky?

Kid, your dad was the best captain that I ever worked for. Since he died, we've been trying to get this baby back into the sky. And it's like the, you know, I don't believe in a higher power But the first time she gets back up and and you're here. Kid, I haven't seen you since I dropped you off at the doorfinage you

You brought me to the doorfinage I'm your uncle red kid nice to meet you and it's nice to meet you guys too. And this mouse, folks, she shakes your guy's hand. Hard one's just looking out through the front of the airship, seeing all the lights that go later on, twinkling, sparkling. I turned to red, and I just say, what? I mean, your dad was the best airship pilot in all of Bohemia. I was his first mate. I'm very, very excited.

Yeah, I, kid, I'm excited too. You know, she wasn't ready. You guys spooked us. You, I thought you were one of the chosen or something. You guys were coming down to arrest us or something, but we've been trying to steal this baby back for a long time. Where we at it, Uncle?

I mean, we're getting the hell out of the dodge, man. Listen, we- Oh! You weren't fixing this up for anyone else. You were fixing it up for yourself. You got tied into something, you don't want to be involved in anymore? We were told you were working with maybe some nefarious folk, but seems we got some bad information. I mean, you see, LooksDanny goes, what do you mean,

nefarious folk? The widow. Do you know the widow? Which for the record, I don't necessarily know that she's nefarious. She's kinda neither. You're no where there, but uh... That's your mom, kid. What the fuck? And that's where we'll end our episode. Woo! You guys fly off.

Was I calling my mom hot for a little bit? A little bit. Oh, I'm sorry about how much I wanted to fuck your mom. I think I said something about being a crumb on her coffee. I do, that's right. I'm so sorry. That's so true. I'm so sorry. That's so rude. Oh, man. Oh, man.

Real quick. That means that, that means that glad murdered your dad. Oh, you were still wrong to doubt him. Oh, my God. Glad to be with you. No, he wasn't wrong to doubt him. He is correct to doubt him. I was wrong to doubt him. You were wrong to not doubt him. Yeah. that one. Whoa, all right. This is...

I'm kind of glad. I'm glad that I, when I missed he stepped to her, I was like, I don't know if I'm glad that I didn't try to fight or anything like that. I was like, I think I might be on your side. I don't know about glad. Yeah, man, our instincts were right. It seems like multiple factions are at play.

Holy shit. Oh, stop trying to redeem Collade's name. All factions are at play. I'll just say you got to see her full side. You little Collade fanboy. I knew I'd have liked her from the beginning for a reason. Oh boy. What an episode.

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Beautiful. I might leave in this big bang of the short rest right now, this creation of it. Oh, go ahead. I like that. Because we're casual on this short rest, unlike the podcast. Hi everyone.

Yeah, all of our pants are undone. Yes, welcome to our first ever short rest. Everybody unbuckle the top button because we're getting loose. Yep, I'm here with hard ones, short foot, Jake Hurwitz, moonshine, Sibon, Emily Axford, Beverly Togold,

cold wool Tanner. I like the way, we're all a little depressed to say how real this is. I am kind of like, I have to go back to bed, Jake Hurwitz, he has injured feet, he's good. I had to take like, oh. I have to go back to being Jake Herwood. He has injured feet. Yeah.

I had to take off the veil. I love that veil. Yeah, guys, thanks for, thanks for supporting us on Patreon. This is the first ever short rest. Oh, man, damn. This is a big up. It really was. It was a big up.

A lot of fucking father stuff this evening. Yeah. Well, I would say my biggest thing for the past two episodes where we met Beverly's family was that Beverly's mom is so nice that now Moonshine and I as a player, Moonshine as a character are kind of like, huh, what does that feel so bad for Beverly? Yeah. It was a time where it seemed like Beverly's parent,

it was gonna be sort of like a Sam Tarlie situation. Right. You're like the dad really disdained Beverly. It was definitely a Sam Tarlie light. Yeah. It's also my fault, not Carl Dwell's fault for that, because I think- Yeah, I wasn't blame for that.

Right, it's a fault, I think it's just like, no, I fucked up. It's funny to twist. Did you want to make his dad- No, I think, I think it's just like, no, I fucked up. Okay, did you want to make his dad be here? No, I think Caldwell was, you know, because when, you know, as the direct messenger, you know, Caldwell's feeding me stuff about how his dad like doesn't approve of stuff and everything.

So it's kind of on me to then create a character like that. But since it's a comedy podcast, you can't just have him be, you know. I'm really a good deal. I really stern, awful guy it's a comedy podcast, you can't just have them be, you know. I really, I really, I really stern, yeah, awful guys who's not funny at all. Merch, can I give you, can I say though, I actually don't think that's your fault. I thought it was very true to life that I feel like I,

especially when I was like in my 20s, I met so many guys who were like had all these daddy issues, and then you always meet their mom and they have the sweetest fucking nicest mom. And it's like, oh, if you could just like realize they have a great mom, like you don't need your dad to like not be mad at you, they didn't play sports in high school or something like that. I think a lot of the time it's not like that the dad actually hated anybody. It's just that like he had a tougher time expressing how much he loved. At least that's what I tell myself about my

relationship with my dad. It's definitely less like mean dad and more stern distant dad, which can be equally damaging in some way. But I'll tell you what, I think one of my favorite writing things on that episode was Bev finding all of the all of the notes in the trash can

that your dad wanted to send to you. It was fun because I was like, I'm gonna find a cool clue. And Murphy's like, JK, you're just gonna find an emotional attachment to your father. What's the coolest clue than the greatest clue of all? Well, you know, you got Lady Birded is what you did. Does anyone see the very good film Lady Bird? I should have known that it happened.

So hard. In Lady Bird. Met Caft. No. The best. Ha ha ha ha. And D&D, as the DM, you're trying to metCaft. Ha ha ha. Clare's.

There's, yeah, here's a question for you. Like when, with something like that, with Bev finding those notes, did you ever like make a mental note that he was going to find those things? Or was that like once he started looking through the room, you like just knowing his dad's character, like imagine that's something that would be there.

Right, yes, that's improvised based on like kind of knowing the relationship that Bev has with his dad. Oh wait, since we're asking questions to the DMAK, the direct messenger, I think that a question that we should ask every single short rest is, Merf, what surprised you? Or are you willing to go there? If you would like to keep up the DM screen, an emotional DM screen and not even show us your hand,

that's fine. I know. I think it's kind of fun. I liked, I really liked that you guys chose to have Beverly defend his dad. I thought that was dope. Cause it was obviously, it was your guys' choice. You guys could have kinda done whatever you wanted.

Right. It's weird, you edited it out like the 20 minutes where I tried to argue that moonshine should do it. Because she needed a moment of glory. We held Caldwell down in the studio for a little bit. I'm listening back to that episode. It's like Mr. Pebble-Petal Pot, S-Quire, was gonna be a really... Pebble-Petal Pot.

It was basically what I was... He was going to be a terrible lawyer. And we sort of like cut him out early. Yeah, we jumped ahead. Would you have let that full trial go on? And... My plan was always to just, it was just going to be a very bad trial. You were planning to throw the fucking trial.

My plan was for Duncan Vepop, Denny's dad, to give a very bad defense. Without your guy's interference at all, what happens there is, Vepop gives a bad defense. Yeah. And then Beverly's dad gets his head cut off by the crack just there. Just imagining the three of us just taking it just lean and back and letting you and narrate this for like 20 minutes and we say nothing.

Just awful radio. Just me talking to myself in four different voices, stuttering, stammering because nobody's stopping it. The rest, hard one continues to look at his feet. To the couch, just be careful. Munchine is looking at the stone, is scrolling through the stone that Old Cobb gave her to look for text messages. There was a great moment where you were like switching between the crown or the young king, the boy king,

and like the boy king's regent king and like the boy king's regent and like the boy king's mom. And it was like just, there was a brief Murph audio drama going on and it was very, it was very nice. Yeah, that's how I fucking hate doing that. I hate when you're like having a one-man show. Yeah, when people are like, I sneak in and I listen to people talking, I'm like, oh god damn it.

That's what you're doing. Now I'm like, oh god damn it. That's okay. Now I'm gonna pinp you into that all the time. There'll be people that were supposed to meet and I'll be like, moonshine sneaks in and listens. That's what you see sets up a little camping chair so that she can really take her time and listen. It's really fun to be here. It's a good career.

My favorite thing is so close to my least favorite thing. My favorite thing is when you guys are in character, just kind of playing amongst yourselves, and I'm not doing anything. Like when you guys were with like Nathan and you around the fire and stuff, it was so fun to just like listen to you guys playing character. And then my least favorite thing is right next to that

is when there's just so many goofs that I can't talk. Ha ha ha. Right. I love that when you guys have fun, but hey, when you have too much fun. I hate when you have fun out of character. Yeah. Can I go back to asking you another question?

Mainly because essay experienced D&D player, I live to try to outsmart the DM. Obviously, it never fucking happens in any of my campaigns because DMs have pages and pages of notes and have prepared for every situation. I hope you have notes. However, did I throw you off in the slightest when moonshine interjected and suggested

that the Boy King make a party for the execution to try to buy time? I don't know if anything like super, super surprised me, but that impressed me. Like, I loved that. Okay, wow. Yeah, so like, super surprised me, but that impressed me. Like I loved that. Okay, wow. Yeah, so like in your head, after the trial was over, you were going to kill Bev's dad.

Yes, if whoever lost the trial by combat, lost the trial by combat. I just realized the short rest is just gonna be us probing. Yeah, yeah. Let me behind that screen. Don't see God back there. Let's see those numbers.

But yeah, that was an intense duel called well. Yeah, it was with a level six barbarian. So he was a level ahead of Beverly, but it really is in a duel like that. It is kind of like if you lose initiative, that is one less round. Yeah, and it's very fucking hard to recover. How close did it come?

He was at 15 HP. So he would, you would have got him, yeah, because you get two attacks. There's kind of no, unless you miss, and he's a barbarian, I believe he swung recklessly in his last thing, so you would have got an advantage on your attacks. Yeah.

I know that you, oh, sorry. Oh, no, I was just gonna say like, I don't know what I could have done differently though. The only thing I could have done differently is if I tried some dumb thing and got a good role. Because otherwise I was just gonna have to spam divine smite. Or what if you did divine smite first instead of the staring at it?

Yeah, if I had done that, maybe it would have worked. It was, yeah, the ensnaring strike is, you never know until like afterwards, it's very easy to be like, oh, I should have done. Well, you probably edited that when I said use divine smite. I don't know if anybody was saying at home. It was nice.

When Jake looked up from his dog-eared players handbook, I was like, he has every single thing. It was nice of you to give hints in the form of my dad. You'd be like, you gotta use magic. Which is all right. Yeah, resistance, barbarian resistance is fucking tough to overcome.

Yeah. They take half damage from bludgeoning and slashing and all that good stuff. I'm gonna tell you guys my shenanigans that I'm sure Murf would have killed me for. That you wanted to do while I was fighting. Yes. So I had this plan that I had like a earth tremor,

something like that. And I had this plan that if you whiffed and missed, that when you're, that I was going to try to time it so that when you're, when your weapon hit the ground, I would, I would try to secretly cast earth tremor so that you could do some damage. And everyone would think it was just the impact of your weapon on the ground. Yeah, I think Merve's answered that would have been something along the lines of everybody here is a wizard scientist night.

Yeah, they know magic really well. I know, but when you're on the sideline and watching a one by one on one combat, when you're a spellcaster and more of a supportive character in general, you're constantly being like, how can I help them? What can I do? Yeah, I think that there's, it would have just been a deception check, but it would have been a deception check with dire consequences.

So if you think I would have had a role to do that, see there's different levels of plan. A much less ridiculous plan would be, if Beverly like stumbled back You pretended to like push him back in and did some kind of like healing touch or something like that That's a little bit sneakier than pretending that his sword made an earthquake So I would say like maybe like a DC 15 deception check on something like that

What is DC 20 on something crazy? What if moonshine had been talking loudly from the audience about how this young lad was so strong that he makes the earthquake? Okay, yeah. He would set up in fiction, this is a thing. Do you think how to, in fiction, how do people detect magical spells? Is there like a smell to it or what? It's not a, I mean,

like your eyes go white in your head and you're like, oh that's sort of, that's so cool. I think sometimes what people don't understand is that NPCs aren't all dumb fucks. Yeah. It's like if you guys are in a room and you guys were in a bar brawl and it was like you guys are fighting this paladin

and he keeps getting healed and his friend keeps touching him or he keeps hitting the ground and then there's an earthquake like if there were 30 of you in that room yeah one of you would figure it out yeah this is not me I'm done but it's also like other characters if there were other characters there that had earth tremor also, I just spell memorized, since there's a lot of sharing amongst the classes, they might be like classic Earth tremor. I recognize that from anywhere. What would have happened if Bev won? You would have just freed his dad,

and we would have been, well, you guys, I guess you guys don't really know. Yeah. But you had a plan either way? Yeah, I mean, you have to have a plan either way. Were you happy that Bev lost? I think it's narratively more interesting that Bev lost, but I wasn't, you know, like that fight wasn't impossible

to win, you win initiative, you win that fight, but it was like a tough fight. Like the opponent was a little bit tougher than Bev. My dad would have been twice as proud of me. I would have instantly gained another level and gotten two new swords. I would be instantly gained another level and gotten two new swords. I would be the new king.

Bev, how did it feel? I mean, I'm sorry. I called you. I called you. What? I'm sorry to insult you by calling you called well. Disgusting. So happy to shed that stupid, too many syllable name

for a normal name like Beverly. The extra syllable. How did it feel? Did you feel emotional at all? Did you feel like pressure? Or were you just like, this is another fun fight? No, my hands were crivering and I was like looking at my spell cards and feeling just instant and great remorse for every decision. I felt like, I did. I felt like the weight of the campaign was on my shoulders for a brief moment It must have been like how you felt when you had to fight in the fighting pit Yeah, I did I felt like the center the center center stage for a little bit during that of course you had magic drugs then Yeah, I feel like you just wanted to do we talked on this afterwards

Yeah, Beverly had the arcane on him. What if Bev had done the arcane in that moment? I know yeah, but that was I think I would You would have had to do drugs in front of your parents. You would have had it in front of your parents. You would have had it in front of your parents. That would have been a big, that would have been, here's the thing, I guess, for you to have strategically optimized that fight that would have been very against Beverly's character,

there was a version where you could have done it in character, but it would have been after you were like, almost already dead. If I'd screamed, I'm so sorry, mommy. Yeah, and then I just dropped. When you were at half-age beer, something if you had taken it out of desperation. Right, I can't lose.

I also think so. I'd animate character style. I would wonder, I would wonder, because later on seems like a more hoidy, toy-dee, uppity kind of place. I would wonder if he took drugs in the middle of a fight. Yeah, they probably would. If they would be like, you're not allowed to do that.

You got the DQ. Yeah, I don't think it a red card. Should they have a doping loss? I didn't establish that ahead of time. And I would, I mean, taking a potion takes like an action. So if you really wanted to like take a potion during a fight, I think you could, that just one less attack you could do.

You didn't mention it, but there was a wizard in a referee robe, like a black and white striped robe there with a big rule book, and he said, saying no to drugs. There was also, there was also an establishment called a magical usada. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Um, how would hard one have felt watching Bev take his drugs? Jealous. We missed that was that hard one is fully addicted to our candy. I'm gonna get rid of those drugs somehow. Yeah, it's good that they're gone. Oh wait no we still have them. You just tried to still have them. Yeah, your uncle didn't want them. He's a kid. He got that uncle. Every single every single time we take a rest it's just like hard one can't sleep and it's just staring at the drugs and the socket. Yeah, it's sort of like the ring when it falls out of photos. I'm surprised that moonshine doesn't have more of a taste for them after

she got to fly. After she got to, oh, but all she wish was for pop out of get to fly. That's fair. I don't think moonshine. I don't think moonshine. I don't think moonshine. I think't think moonshine. I don't think moonshine. I don't think moonshine. I think moonshine has enough access to weird drugs. It's like our kid is like cocaine and she's more of like, she's the backwards meth. I know, so she's kind of like, I don't need that. I'm just gonna say mushroom, but meth?

Well, also mushrooms, yeah. I like to think that. Many like mushrooms are spiritual reasons, but if you're up late partying, some kind of meth I'm sure it would be a mushroom, but he would have a meth-like effect I just imagine a crucial meth lab. I think we just It's okay. Oh shit. Yeah, yeah

Anything to make you just cheery and hospitable. That's right. It's funny to me that The Crick Alves use mushrooms for everything, but it would be blasphemous to use them as drugs. Oh no, no, no, no, we would, the Crick Alves definitely use mushrooms. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Oh yeah, it's like part of like an initiation, right? Everything, I haven't gone into it on the show. Once you turn eight, yeah.

Yeah. I feel like we haven't really talked about the fact that we just like revealed who your parents are. Yeah, I do want to get into that. Yeah, I do wanna get into that. Yeah, it feels like this episode had two really big haps, like Beverly's battle and then my realization. Yeah, that fucking rocked me, man. Just as a guy playing, I got misty eyes.

I was listening back and I was like, oh, did the recording stop or something? And I was like, oh no, we're all just stricken in this moment. Yeah, it was like a powerful moment. Yeah. I was mesmerized. The part where you're like hard one

looks over the twinkling lights of Glater Out. I was just like, whoa, it just painted such like a great cinematic picture of you just like watch it like in a beautiful place like suddenly feeling like you aren't a bastard anymore. Oh god, oh man, yeah it was, there's something really cool about him being up in the sky like somewhere he's never been before and realizing that that's like that's like his rightful home to him. Oh, that was another really good line that moved me.

Was you being like, he spent his life in the sky and I spent my life in the mountains. Yeah. I even like, I mean, I'm assuming I can talk about this, but so I like to write music for the show now, and I wrote a bunch of hard-won themes to, like, give to Merf to put in. And one of them was the Mountain meets the sky.

That was the name of it. The Mountain meets the sky. And the other one you said was a bastard no more? There was a bastard no more. The Mountain meets the sky. This was my father's airship. And the one that is in there right now, which is my favorite,

is the twinkling lights of Galator. Yeah. And then I had one, I don't know if I sent it to you, Murf, that was called air to the air. Oh, sure. That was like a little goop here. Yeah.

Dude, we, this episode has been out now, right? Like, it, it, cool. So everybody listening to short rest can go back and listen to these songs. But hearing that song for the first time, just like five minutes ago, was also insanely moving. Yeah, because you shared the Galator on track with us a little while ago.

And we were all stricken with that one too, because it's, I think at least for me, it's just, you've somehow managed to take everything I loved about video game soundtracks and like Final Fantasy and just compress it and make it relevant to my exact life and story within this campaign. Yeah, like all of our improv is like getting scored.

Yeah, having like Final Fantasy music to my town feels awesome. Yeah. It's extremely good. Congratulations. I'm glad that video game music isn't, because I love like sort of vaguely synthesized instruments. So like that have like a little bit of a video game sound to them. So if you were like, I like it,

but it sounds a little fake. I'll be disappointed, but I like that have like a little bit of a video game sound to them. So if you were like, I like it, but it sounds a little fake. I won't be disappointed, but I like that. I can just put in like weird acquires. Now, if it doesn't sound like it was made on a PlayStation 1, then I'll go fuck about it. Yeah, we should, you should do a song for when, have really eventually, does the arcane. Oh, like a truck trophy song.

Like a real one. Oh yeah. Fun key time. Like a truck trippy song. Like a real funky tune. Like a, I was picturing. Yeah. And then like a real like needily saxophone, like a, Rang, rang, rang, rang, rang, rang, rang, rang, rang, rang, or maybe that's the, maybe that's the pop-up track. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.

Oh, pop-up has like a Benny Hill theme set, anytime. We'll just go back in retcon when he goes and gets Pater. And we'll say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. For like the 45 minutes that he's gone. It just sounds like a little rascally possum scatting. What you don't know. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What we don't know about pop-up getting Pater

is that Pater is in another plane and they were there for 30 years. Pappa trained, he's level 35 now, which is crazy, it's not even possible. Oh, that means such a fucking relief for me. Because that would mean that his AC and hip points were better. Am I related to the bear? I mean, what? The rat guy is my uncle.

He meant like, I'm your uncle kid. He's not your brook. He's're fucking rat Emily god, it's like a master splinter situation. Yeah, it's not actually their dad. Well, he was actually their master You caught you know, I got it. Yeah, I got his You know I got it. I figured it out. Yeah, I thought it was Michael. I thought it was the uncle too.

You guys, if you're out of breath, or this is terrible. Yeah, we didn't mention that. Hard one looks at his hands. The rat is like, no, you moron. The rat's here, the rat's here. Thanks for listening, everyone. You can hear the rest of this episode at patreon.com slash

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