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The Good Good Table Season 1 Episode 6

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Our heroes take the Lantern Oath and have a day in the city before deciding on their next steps.

Look for our next episode June 17th, 2026!

Content Warnings:
Course Language
Gambling (Sort Of)
The Occasional Bit of Innuendo
Bad Accents

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Welcome to the good good tables and green flames and swears and lines and stuff. Comments and learnings can be found in the description, brother.

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Last time at the good good table.

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We found the bad guy. And well, she I mean, maybe she's a bad guy.

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She really brings the energy down in the room. So, Genova, I think I will conjure lightning. Yes. And I just curl that in her direction.

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She gets up on way too many limbs, and she will kind of climb sideways down the side of the little rise that she's on. One of those weird limbs coming out from under the cloth curls itself at you, becomes kind of this mass of reconfigured flesh. Your muscles hesitate for about a split sec before you recover after this hit.

SPEAKER_05

Guys, I I'm scared. My my plan is no longer, I don't think it's gonna work.

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And now the layer action happens. So the air in the cave stills to the point where sound doesn't sound like it's traveling right anymore. Everyone is now going to have disadvantage on wisdom saves against her. Shh. Dalos. Make a wisdom save. Yeah, I know. At disadvantage.

SPEAKER_05

I know. I would like to cast Beacon of Hope in the center of it grants advantage on wisdom saving throws.

SPEAKER_01

Wow. Now it is Drumash's turn. Oh, and Dromash needs to make a wisdom saving throw. Uh you're gonna guess he's not super great at those. Oh, oh no. No, he did, he didn't make it. It's so hard out here. The only one who understands me. The only one who understands me, boonie.

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So I am going to use Shadow Blade with my arm to like throw it at her. That's a net 20. Okay, so does that Yeah, it is 76.

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She takes all of that. So that brings us to Dromash.

SPEAKER_05

Dromache! Come on, dromash! Drumshrame dromash just gonna get it.

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He rolled a 19 on the time! Each job is her ass prone. It's done. Stop. You will have to carry the noise yourselves.

SPEAKER_05

We did it. I don't feel good. I don't feel good there.

SPEAKER_01

That's what we're going for. Good. Yes. A few moments later, you see a few people from like where you entered the chamber. I'm on the other side. You see a few people who are clearly lanterns. One of them, she just walks up right up to Put Drum Ash and it's good to see you, Wick. Alright. Now listen, y'all, we we got it from here. Um, you should go report this to Keldora. Y'all walk in into Keldora's office. Do you understand what you stopped? An S-rank warrant inside city walls is unthinkable. You did exactly what was needed.

SPEAKER_04

Did we prove it? Are we proven?

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You have done this city a great service. And should you wish to take the lantern oath, I would be honored to officiate it myself.

SPEAKER_04

Oh damn.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you all you all get your pay, you get fixed up, you are free to spend the day with only expectation of taking the oath in the morning.

SPEAKER_00

Yay!

SPEAKER_01

Welcome back to the good good table, everybody. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being awesome. Appreciate you. We all appreciate you. It's great. Actually, before we get started, I'm gonna introduce these people. Joining me again, we have Jen as Genova.

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Reporting for duty.

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Elizabeth as Dalos. Hi. Courtney as Lunette. Hello. And Brandon as Venaria. Hello. Just want to take a quick second to thank everybody at this point who has been helping support us and following and showing us love. It has been very awesome so far to see all of that. I do want to give like a quick shout-out. We had a comment on one of our YouTube videos. Well, actually, our our podcast that we're pumping to YouTube from Jacob Jacob Chicks for the Algorithm, love it guys. Well, we love you too. So thank you.

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For the algorithm. For the algorithm.

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If you have enjoyed what you've been hearing so far, you know, tell a friend about it. Let people know. Give us a follow. Give us a subscribe. You know, do do all the things. It's it's it's a good way to, you know, keep hearing from us. Yeah. So morning. Are y'all doing anything? Are you just going right to the lantern hall? Are we in the lantern hall? Where did we sleep? You sleep somewhere. Oh. One of the inns. At the capstack. The nightcap? Nightcap. No, we left email. Capstack sounds like the bougie place.

SPEAKER_05

Was it capstack the the food? Capstack, yeah, was the pile of grease. Yes. We're very greasy. Excellent.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, the nightcap it is. You wake up. I mean, for Dayless, it would be like, can I get a lube job? Like, sure, get in the vat. Okay, I want I want a scoop of grease from the grill and then a cup of moonshine. So, excellent. Well, as you all arrive at the lantern hall the following morning, Dromash is waiting for you again. But instead of sleeping, this time he is awake and pacing around. Hey, I was starting to get paranoid. Thought we might have run you off. Nah, bro, just needed a good night's sleep and some food, and now everything's better. Excellent. Absolutely. No, I I'm the same way. I had already like fist bumps and Yeah. Bro. Bromute triangle for the win.

SPEAKER_05

Bromute triangle.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. So, um. He will continue. I'm not supposed to spoil the details, but just so you know, you don't have to have the oath memorized like I did.

SPEAKER_05

You had to have the m oath memorized.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah. No, I had to pull an all-nighter to get it done. I put an MLT in front of me on the table and said, no bites for dromash until you get it right. I got it done. But then I had that MLT.

SPEAKER_05

Meat, lettuce, tomato.

SPEAKER_01

Or mutton, lettuce and tomato. Mutton, lettuce, and tomato. I'm glad it worked for you. Venari's just imagining like everything in the sandwich just going gross as she's trying and failing to memorize over and over again. Because if it was a BLT, the first thing that's going is all the bacon grease is going to soak into the lettuce, and it's just it's going to be a bad time. Oh, why do you think I got it done so fast? I had to get to that MLT so it didn't get ruined. Gotta find your motivation, bro. Yeah. That's what does it for me. A good MLT.

SPEAKER_00

Sag a good MLT.

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So, uh, inside the lantern hall, the atmosphere has shifted slightly. Uh, you may make an inside check to notice.

SPEAKER_05

I want to roll really hard.

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And a meteor descends from the heavens, and what did you roll? The meteor says.

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Thirteen.

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Thirteen.

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The meteor says thirteen.

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But now I got a dirty twenty. No, it lets you. Did did the one did the dice that hate you finally flee? Yeah, did.

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Ah, dirty twenty.

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Dirty twenty.

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I got a dirty twenty. For the love of God.

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Dirty twenty. Alright, three dirty twenties. Twin in. I did not. Yeah, Dalos, you don't know which one makes sense.

SPEAKER_05

I don't know what these who these people are. Organics are confusing guys. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

None of them display their emotions on helpful little LED, you know, things. Like, it's just you gotta figure it out by by context and stuff.

SPEAKER_04

It's this cool thing called body language.

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That's why not spot. But yes, uh, everybody except for Dalos will notice. Rather than walking past and busying themselves with like anything but the unknown upstarts who just blazed into town, the people in the lantern hall are actually starting to acknowledge you a little bit. There's a slight nod, a little smile here and there, and in a very short time you have made an im like a positive impact on the lanterns and earned some respect. So suddenly we have a reputation.

SPEAKER_04

Not dying on our first mission.

SPEAKER_01

Saving the city on your first mission is pretty good. Pretty good way of doing that. Uh-huh. But yeah, so you you can uh he will he will bring you up to Saren, who is sitting in her usual detached kind of position. Um, which you will look up. Are you prepared? I feel like Venaria is picking that up, she's not gonna let she's not gonna be a like like uh professional about it all, especially since it's early in the morning. So she's gonna do just a big wave to everybody if like makes eye contact. She is expecting you. And then she will lift the counter hatch for you, but she will otherwise remain seated.

SPEAKER_00

Wow.

SPEAKER_01

I give Saren a little like three-finger wave as I walk through. Oh, she's looking at you. Yes.

SPEAKER_05

Hey, hey, we got her to open the counter for you.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Yeah. That's by itself. Take take the victories where you can.

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She's not looking at you.

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What do you think about God damn drum ash will kind of head head on back? Uh basically you're just heading into the back but staying on the first floor. Kind of through a hallway to the side of those those stairs you had been taking. We have a room for this. Nothing fancy, but that's actually kind of the point. So, uh, the room in the back is bare. There's no decorations, no banners, no symbols of rank. It is an austere space with nothing but a small plain table in the center of the room. Keldora is standing with her back to the doorway on the far side and will turn to face as face you as you enter. And uh she will look at each member of the party in turn and give just the barest hint of a smile.

SPEAKER_02

You almost would have missed it. She likes this.

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In her hand she carries an old lantern. It is worn with age and youth. Its edges are smoothed with touch. The light from within shines through once clear glass distorted just enough to notice. There is nothing about it which would mark it as special, but something about the lamp that kind of lingers. She will set it down with care, adjusting its angle so the light falls on you. It's radioactive. Congratulations, you are now all sterile.

SPEAKER_04

It is a radium lamp. Too late.

SPEAKER_01

Uh you forget half your life. Damn it. Um, was that a radiation joke? The half-life? Yeah, you know. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Unintentional, but yeah.

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Um is a win. Yes. Uh she will then stand before each of you, giving a brief once-over, kind of looking you up and down, and then hand you each a sheet of paper, and return to her place on the other side of the table. And she will gesture to the sheets in your hands. And read it before you speak it. Venaria actually like steps forward since since the first line is I lift the lantern, she actually doesn't pick it up, but like puts her hand on top of it. Do you understand what you are about to swear? Yes. I've it's what I would have done anyway, even if my family weren't here. And even if even if my friends weren't here, this would be the path for me. But I'm glad that I'm not walking it alone. Nod look at the group of you. Stand where the light can see you. I lift the lantern to face the dark.

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I will not turn away, nor look kindly. I will name what stands before us. I will not soften danger with hope.

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I will speak when the dead do not rest.

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I will deny life that refuses its end. I will keep the contract or return with truth. I will choose restraint over ruin.

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I will answer the bell though it cost me.

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I will accept judgment by what remains. This I swear not to be ruined, but for those who come after.

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Once you have finished with the oath, Kildora will nod. Yeah. She seemed to be a little bit moved herself. It is witnessed. She will then walk to each of you and place one of those lantern pins that you've seen all the lanterns wear. She will put one in each of your hands, looking into your eyes just long enough to confirm that you meant what you said before moving on. And once everyone has a pen, she will step back and never watching this. Thirsty, thirsty bitch. Once everyone has a pen, she will step back and address you once more. You are bound to the charter now. Stand by it. And then the lantern's light flickers a little bit. And outside, very faintly, you can hear a bell ring.

SPEAKER_05

Four times, perhaps?

SPEAKER_01

No, no, no. It's not that kind of bell. It's just a lunch bell. Somebody accidentally rung it. Damn it, Jim. False alarm. Anyway, but Dromash will start clapping. He's got a big goofy dragon grin on his face. You're one of us now! Welcome to the lantern. I step over to Dromesh and like just give him a big like bro hug. Yeah, he's he's ecstatic. He's so happy for y'all.

SPEAKER_05

They also clasp arms again.

SPEAKER_04

There's just like a dromash hand-sized dent in your arm. It's just worn in for now.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. There's a whole handle.

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Cinova bows her head and says, Thank you, Keldora. We will honor this oath where with our lives.

SPEAKER_01

As it should be. Excellent.

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Lunette's whole response is it's like, at least I didn't have to sign a contract.

SPEAKER_01

This is the verbal contract. Yeah. But Keldora will pick up the lantern and gently blow out the flame.

SPEAKER_04

Is that what she sounds like?

SPEAKER_01

Your time is your own now. You are free to choose those warrants which suit your abilities and qualifications. I would recommend registering as a free company if you wish to take warrants higher than C rank. This would also give you room to grow should you wish to recruit any lanterns to your cause. For now, I wish you luck in your endeavors. Rest assured, you will be hearing from me again soon. Thank you, ma'am. And she will she will give a little a little polite bow, but she's clearly warmed up to you all a little bit. Nice. And then she will uh take take the very fancy, very old kind of beat up lantern and wander off.

SPEAKER_04

Welcome to the lanterns! Yeah! We did it, boys.

SPEAKER_01

You government workers now. I was gonna say this seems more like a private security firm, but whatever. We get healthcare. Yeah, I was gonna say. So I'm gonna turn I turned to Drummond. It's like, okay, so where do we register as a free company? Well, just real quick, let's get your uh pins set up. Oh, okay. Everybody. It's real simple. All you gotta do is attach it to your collar, put two fingers on it, and hold in there for 15 seconds.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

I promise you you will feel it when it's synced up. That's what anyway.

SPEAKER_04

Is it a magnet? You have a magnet?

SPEAKER_01

You you can you it doesn't have to technically be on your collar, it's just you you need to touch it to use it. So wherever is convenient for for you, I guess.

SPEAKER_05

Well, I was I was fine with like doing the colour thing. It's I just don't know.

SPEAKER_01

But yeah, you you you put it there, you hold it for 15 seconds, and then you feel a very mild stabbing pain in the back of your mind.

SPEAKER_05

Oh Jesus. Mild stabbing pain.

SPEAKER_01

Right. Yeah. Mild stabbing pain. I chose those words on purpose. Like a migraine. Like a like a very tiny, very quick migraine.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, that's the lady who takes migraine medication.

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Um and then there's like this white noise that thrums into your perception for a moment before it subsides.

SPEAKER_04

And that's like, oh god, there's another one.

SPEAKER_01

So once everybody has that that moment of uh you'll see Dromash will put two fingers to his pen for a moment, and then just like a moment later, you get this burst of information. It's very distinctly from Dromash, but it's not words. It's the idea of success.

SPEAKER_05

His perspective.

SPEAKER_01

Well, it's you're you're left with like the lingering thought of him going giving two thumbs up, going like, yeah, coming up. You know, like, yeah, we did it.

SPEAKER_04

So it's like it's not it's not quite telepathy, it's just kind of like implied telepathy.

SPEAKER_01

If you if you base it off of what just happened to you, is it words aren't what it can communicate, but it can give concepts.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

So he just sent the the concept of success to you. And his version of that kind of is like, hey, yeah. Huh?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I think that might be called Claire Cognizance.

SPEAKER_01

Something like that, yeah. Yeah, it's it's like it it basically it allows you to communicate, but it has certain limitations.

SPEAKER_05

You have like a danger, safe, cool, awesome, sad, happy, f oh shit oh shit oh shit, oh shit, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well they uh you know you will you will find kind of over time just above the table that there are there there are certain kind of ideas that they train you to do because you have to think about it. So yeah, there are certain things like yes, no, danger. Come get this shit. You know, that that kind of thing. Everyone is our automatically, can you send do you want to go out? You're saying can you send a you up?

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Meanwhile, anybody anybody unfortunate enough to be close enough to Lunette in any combat situation is just gonna hear oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. Like the concept of warning, warning. The concept of oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck, oh fuck oh fuck.

SPEAKER_05

Is it like like can can Delos try to like tap against it and go directly to Venaria and uh say like question?

SPEAKER_01

There yeah, actually part of what Dromash will tell you is there are kind of three modes that you can do this with. One is direct to one person there is uh you kind of sync up with a group and you can send it to the group. And then there is the group chats. Yes. Essentially, yeah, so like you if you set up free company, you would have like a group chat with your free company. Okay. And then I didn't even think about that. Yeah, it's like a group chat. Sorry. Um our Facebook group. But then the the third version is like just kind of generally broadcast. Okay. That tends to be pretty frowned upon unless something actually is happening.

SPEAKER_04

Please do not add everyone in the chat.

SPEAKER_05

Do not do not add everyone in the server of 10,000 people, please.

SPEAKER_01

You will be muted so fast. Um yeah, so that's that is what the lantern pins do, and probably why a lot of them look like they've been touched a lot. So Yay.

SPEAKER_05

Yay! Our bracers are still better for us, but if we were to talk to other people.

SPEAKER_01

Well, your your bracers might also do other things eventually. But yes. So you are now free to do other things. Drome Ash will depart at this point. It's like I do have other I character wise. I do have other things that I need to do, so I'm uh juice it for now. But um, feel free to go explore the town. There's there's a lot of stuff to do here. Um if you wanted to order one of those weapons, you can go to the Ash Mantle Forge. Yeah, you could absolutely go there. There's uh there's granny's. Uh if you want to go like gamble, I guess. Uh there's there's there's a lot of stuff. You can go to the Octagon market too, but whatever whatever y'all want to do. I'll see you later. Good to see ya. Thanks for being lanterns, you're awesome. Yeah! Bye.

SPEAKER_02

Bring me to triangle on three. One, two, three.

SPEAKER_01

So he will he will go do other things. But you are free to uh run around. Um, as he mentioned, yes, there's granny's, which I might have something prepared for. There is also uh Ash Mantle Forge, which I might also have something prepared for. But there's also other things should you wish to fuck about.

SPEAKER_05

Should we wish to fuck with the DM's plants? I would like to go visit the parents of the children that we're still grieving.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01

We just need some closure.

SPEAKER_05

I I I just want to go to Ashville. Yeah. That's my priority one because I need I need to know how much money I've got. I'm gonna have because I have the least money out of everyone. How much do you have? 435 gold. Oh, just barely. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

The starting gold and the 400 that I just gave you.

SPEAKER_05

Yep. Well, actually, not even the starting gold. I sold my scale mail because I didn't. And I bought a dulsomer, so 35 gold was what was left.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, at the very least, if we can go and like put in orders or get prices, and then once that we start those wheels turning, then we can go do the stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Excellent.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you all kind of start heading that way. And you take a turn. And that looks awful familiar. And you take another turn. That looks really familiar.

SPEAKER_05

I don't want to go to Brannies yet, but you take another turn.

SPEAKER_01

And gosh, it it it looks like you just keep going the same direction.

SPEAKER_04

Lynette is going to like rub her eyes a little bit. She's like gonna look around. She's looking for the door. And she's just like, God Hells woman, where are you?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you you take a left this time, thinking you'll change it up, and in front of you SPR is a right. Is is a is is a right. No, uh it in front of you you see an unremarkable building. It's made of pretty much the same sandstone as everything else around it. Except there's bright red varnished double doors engraved with the letters G G on the front. And on there is a small handwritten sign that says, please knock. And as you watch, you actually see people walk in and out of this place. And they don't even they're they're like the door's not even there. But you see the door. Lunette, you're in Lausarnton.

SPEAKER_05

I was hoping to go to the forge first.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, well, I'm sure she has other plans. Clearly. Uh Lunette's gonna go up and with her metal arm she's gonna knock on the door.

SPEAKER_01

Uh you disappear.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, hey.

SPEAKER_05

Daeless will follow suit.

SPEAKER_01

Dailus also disappears. Aria disappears.

SPEAKER_00

Knock knock knock.

SPEAKER_01

Excellent. And then yes, Jenova disappears. I like how this used to freak y'all out, and now it's just like, okay, yeah. Um but yes, so once once you all have entered, you will find yourselves arranged in a straight line, standing at parade rest in a dark, boundless chamber, with periodic fluorescent lights hanging by chains from the ceiling over a series of tall shelves. The darkness outside the pools of light holds whispers and promises of power that can just barely be heard. A service bell sits on a narrow pedestal in front of you, directly in the center of one of the pools of light.

SPEAKER_04

Uh with her metal arm, Lynette's gonna walk up and just like eyes rolling, annoyed body posture, just like ding.

SPEAKER_01

So you didn't see any movement or anything, but suddenly from behind you.

SPEAKER_04

Well, damn, I was wondering if y'all was gonna show up. Sorry, we were busy trying to uh not die under the city.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, is that what y'all were doing? Uh-huh. Oh hi. Hi, granny. Well, how are you doing, sugar? I'm doing good.

SPEAKER_05

Is this spider granny again?

SPEAKER_01

She just looks like a little little old woman. Okay. Um, she's she's got thick glasses and her hair is in a she's got gray hair in a beehive.

SPEAKER_04

Do not be fooled. They lose his own.

SPEAKER_01

Behind you is a young man in a black suit with blonde hair and a mask over his face. You don't recognize it.

SPEAKER_04

Luna is going to point at him. Which one's that one? Who's that? That's not the usual one.

SPEAKER_02

Who's that?

SPEAKER_01

Who's who?

SPEAKER_04

The one behind you.

SPEAKER_01

Which one?

SPEAKER_04

The blonde one. The blonde guy? What?

SPEAKER_02

That one. Who?

SPEAKER_01

And alright, he just walks up and like puts a hand on the young man's shoulder and just like, this one, granny.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no, he he's he's new. No, you don't need to worry about him. He's fine. You can go elsewhere and he just disappears.

SPEAKER_05

Uh, what the fuck? Your hand falls. Yes.

SPEAKER_01

That was fun. Yeah, he does like a little bow, like very politely, and disappears. Uh, Lunette, you can you can make an inside check.

SPEAKER_04

Ooh. Is that a 19? Oh, it's a 19.

SPEAKER_01

Ooh, 19 on the die.

SPEAKER_04

Plus 10. Plus 10? Oh shit, I forgot about that. So that's a 29. That's a 29. Me thinks I recognize me thinks I know something.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that guy definitely looks familiar, but you cannot quite place where. Despite the 29.

SPEAKER_04

Damn. So Lunette's kinda like, she's like looking at his face where he was. She's got like a like a furrow between her brows, and then she just kind of like, her face kind of like draw she like she looks confused, then she looks kind of mad, and then she just like Again, another one. What? Do I know him? Do you know who? No I don't see nobody there. Granny. That's me, I'm Granny. How many of your possible relatives have I had encounters with in ever? Are you not related?

SPEAKER_02

Well, no, I mean you might be, well, I don't Related? Who knows? I don't know. Why would I tell you something like that? Um, Granny. Oh, that's me. Why would you ask for us to come here? Well, that's a good question. Here's another one. How'd y'all like talking to Volta? Back in that big contraption, what do you call it? The um the time ball? The guy with the weird shoes?

SPEAKER_01

The origin.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Yeah. Like Volta. You know Volta? Oh wait, what was he calling himself? Um Horatio? That Hortense? Horace! Horus. Oh, I was trying to. I was hoping it was like, wait, I'll get it. No, no. No, that's that's right. It was one of them uh time clone things of his.

SPEAKER_04

None of these words are in the Demorin Bible.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that's lovely.

SPEAKER_01

We got to meet the little little um clockwork guy who sits at the center of everything. He seemed like he was having he had a good job.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, he had having a great time. Yeah, he he just he just always danced around. He's a happy guy.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, we so to answer your question, yeah, we did. So did you wanna did you want to see us for something?

SPEAKER_04

You what is this? She's gonna hold up her arm. What is this? That looks like an arm to me. No ma'am, what is this? No ma'am.

SPEAKER_02

A limb.

SPEAKER_04

What is it made of metal? Why can it do weird stuff? What kind of metal?

SPEAKER_02

Black metal.

SPEAKER_04

Unhelpful. No, ma'am. What? What why can it do weird stuff? And why do I wouldn't do that?

SPEAKER_01

Why does Lunette sound like a rest home worker?

SPEAKER_04

No, ma'am.

SPEAKER_01

We're supposed to take your meds, ma'am. No, ma'am, we wear pants out in the hall.

SPEAKER_04

What is this? It's an arm. No, ma'am. No, it's no. Did you give this to me or did Shadoth give this to me? Well, you see. Looks around the room. That was part of the Looks at the notes. That came from part of the deal. I don't know what the deal was. I have not received my copy of the deal yet.

SPEAKER_02

Now you listen here, Sugar. We don't we don't have a deal and the deal is done. But I don't know what it is. Once the sense is there and you're worrying about it now. Because now I have this and weird shit keeps happening. Well you're standing here right now worrying about your arm and not face down in the Faye realms. That was the deal. You want to know more of that? I expect you'd be wanting to talk to your granddaddy. Oh my god. Honey, hold on, hold on. How about how about I give you a little handy poop? How's that sound? You want a hint? You want a hint?

SPEAKER_04

Sure, granny, I would like a hint. Don't you want a hint? He's a lot closer than you think.

SPEAKER_01

She will she will like she like disappears.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, Lunette's gonna go into the shelves and she's gonna find like an empty like a stocking box. She's gonna open up the flaps of the box and she's just going to uh scream into the box.

SPEAKER_01

After that, while she's screaming, she will reappear in front of you all. Like to try out the slots. And she will snap her fingers, and a gigantic slot machine, over 20 feet tall, with a pole chain hanging down from its big old lever. Appears under one of those light sources.

SPEAKER_05

Just the ching ching ching ching.

SPEAKER_01

How big is the coin slot on this thing? It is like dinner plate size.

SPEAKER_02

No, it's a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01

And then I guess we gotta buy some tokens from the jet from the front desk.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, yep, yep, you gotta get some tokens. They're worth a hundred gold each.

SPEAKER_04

But how much is my my favorite gonna cost? I have two thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_01

We were gonna go price check.

SPEAKER_04

Daylus, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, I have almost 2,000 gold in the house.

SPEAKER_01

Daylos is like releasing steam out of everything.

SPEAKER_05

No, Daylus expression doesn't change at all.

SPEAKER_01

Just feel like at some point you'd like described your body as like floating pieces of metal around the core, so it's like they just expand outward and stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Uh still like pacing, angry, muttering to herself, like she if she's like kicking empty boxes around. Uh Lynette's just going to like full overhand throw her coin first at Daylos. Stop overthinking it. Stop.

SPEAKER_05

This is this is a conflict between Elizabeth as a player over the table. I want to do all of this shit. I don't know. I don't know if I can.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you see, you put the money in right here, and there's a little like one of those like token buy things that you see at arcades now. Uh like you put your twenty, you put your hundred gold in there, and I'll pops a token.

SPEAKER_02

And then take your token, you take it over to the coin slot, and you go boop, and you pull the chain, and then and then stuff will happen.

SPEAKER_01

Well, since Lunette's paying, how about each of us take a round?

SPEAKER_02

There's money bags over there. Hey, hey, hey!

SPEAKER_04

I was giving a loan to Delos, not you.

SPEAKER_01

But so, over the table as a DM, the way this is going to function is essentially you put in a token, you pull the lever, and then you're going to roll 3d6. You will then be able to choose using what you rolled there from six categories. One is weapons, two is armor, three is wondrous items, four is wands and stabes, five is rings and ambulance, six is potions.

SPEAKER_05

So it's it's it's ring in our favor on this one.

SPEAKER_01

So you roll the 3d6, and then you choose from one of those to then get an item from. Um if you roll like doubles of one, you get slightly rarer items. And if you get all three of the same, then you get like pretty rare stuff. Some really good shit in there.

SPEAKER_05

Pretty nice shit.

SPEAKER_04

So just be sure to test it for passengers before you use it too much. Granny.

SPEAKER_01

You can you can always also, if you like, you can um you can double or nothing to basically just get another token. And you can re-roll one die, but you have to keep the result.

SPEAKER_05

That one die, you have to keep that one?

SPEAKER_01

You have to keep the whole result.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

But you can re-roll one die if you if you double. Okay, another hundred quick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05

Gamble style. Gambling.

SPEAKER_01

So basically you will you will roll, and then we will go to one of the tables associated with what you rolled there, and then you will get an item from one of those tables.

unknown

God.

SPEAKER_05

Do we get to pick from the stuff or is it?

SPEAKER_01

I roll.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. We roll for the cat. I should give you my bracelet.

SPEAKER_02

Who would like to gamble first?

SPEAKER_01

Ooh. Lunette's apparently paying up everybody. I did not say that. Free gambling.

SPEAKER_04

I did not say that. I said I said Dalos could have one. I said Delos could have one.

SPEAKER_01

Well, Dalos. Would you care to roll first?

SPEAKER_02

Sure.

SPEAKER_01

Excellent.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, Sugan now, put your money in the thing. Get your coin. Your token. Get the thing. All 20. No, not twenty. I keep trying to say twenty-five coins. That's very cheap.

SPEAKER_01

No, it's a hundred.

SPEAKER_05

What? I don't get to go four times.

SPEAKER_01

No. So you put your hundred gold coins in.

SPEAKER_05

Lunette's hundred coins. You all suck.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, lunettes. Yes, a hundred of lunette's gold coins.

SPEAKER_05

This is from this is for nullify.

SPEAKER_01

And and out pops a dinner plate-sized token with granny's face on it and Gigi on the other side.

SPEAKER_04

I'm just imagining like an evil fucked-up Chuck E. Cheese coin.

SPEAKER_01

Uh uh, so you go over to the huge slot machine. There is a coin slot waiting for it. Excellent. And then you gotta pull the pull the chain.

SPEAKER_05

I don't have another sound effect for pulling the chain.

SPEAKER_01

I edit this shit, I put in the sound effects.

SPEAKER_05

I'll pull the chain.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, there you go. So it goes ka chunk ka chunk. And then the the the three slot spins. Yeah, it's it's very much like a typical like slot machine that we would see going to the casino. Very colorful, very grab your attention. Very, very dope of me. Go ahead and roll 3d6.

SPEAKER_05

It looks as like whoa. Three, four, five.

SPEAKER_01

So that is wondrous items, wands and staves, or rings and amulets. Or you can double down to re-roll one of those.

SPEAKER_05

I feel bad to use more of Lynn's money, so. Wondrous items.

SPEAKER_02

Wondrous items! Mmm.

SPEAKER_01

So the the coin, the slot machine makes a lot of noise and then makes the worst grinding machine sort of sound you have ever heard. And then a little capsule comes out of it. It's about bread loaf sized.

SPEAKER_05

Like like wonder bread loafed or like like Italian loaf.

SPEAKER_01

We're we're we're talking, yeah, like like wonder bread loaf.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

There you go. Open it up. So inside is a lantern. Appropriate.

SPEAKER_05

Wow. For my induction.

SPEAKER_01

Um, but yes, it it looks like a plain brass lantern. It it actually matches you. Uh, but there's a little tag attached to it that reads Lantern of the Mood Ring.

SPEAKER_05

They also pick it up to look at it closer.

SPEAKER_01

Excellent. Um, so do you light it or anything? It has like a little switch.

SPEAKER_05

Sure.

SPEAKER_01

Excellent.

SPEAKER_05

So I he'll like look at it, notice nothing's happening, switch it.

SPEAKER_01

So as you switch it on, the light shines out. Um, and it doesn't appear to be using like oil or anything like that. It's just it just turns on. But everybody that you point it at, they have an aura glowing around them that matches their emotions.

SPEAKER_04

What color is pissed off to the nines?

SPEAKER_05

Red flashing.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, you are flashing red.

SPEAKER_05

Does like does like can everyone see the only you can see it.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. This is gonna turn into like do me next.

SPEAKER_05

Can I point it at myself? You can. What does it look like?

SPEAKER_01

How are you feeling?

SPEAKER_05

Curious.

SPEAKER_01

It is kind of Robin's egg blue.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

That was the color I was thinking.

SPEAKER_01

That's weird. There you go, brain sick. We've been playing long enough.

SPEAKER_04

Just imagine Taylor swinging it over like to Venaria and being like, hmm, and then swinging it over to Jenova and being like, hmm, and then swings it over to Lunette. It's just like, oh.

SPEAKER_01

You now have the lantern of the mood ring. Wow. There you go. It's like you pointed at Lunette and it's like um ambulance red light flashing. Actually, it hurts a little bit to look at Lunette. Then you pointed at Venaria and it's like red light district red.

SPEAKER_05

Is Granny with us? Is Granny still there?

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah. Do you point it at Granny?

SPEAKER_05

I mean I pointed it at you, whatever I was gesturing, so yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh well, I'm not there. I'm running. You are granny. I am the machine center of the universe. You are granny. I'm maybe I might be. You are granny. I might be granny.

SPEAKER_04

You do like weird old women. Is Granny, is Granny your weird your weird old woman Sona?

SPEAKER_01

Maybe.

SPEAKER_05

The lantern is pointed at Granny.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. What is it? You hear her cackle distantly, and she just disappears. And and reappears just to the side of the lantern. I was gonna say we found every time you try to point at her, she just disappears. She doesn't appear to be upset by it. She just it's not staying where you point that light.

SPEAKER_05

She's just like, uh uh-uh. Feels kind of disappointed.

SPEAKER_01

She she pat like she so I should clarify, she's like two feet tall. Her arm stretches up and she pats you on the shoulder.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

It's okay, she'll go. Who's going next?

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

No.

SPEAKER_04

No, uh, Lunette's gonna come over and she's gonna I'm imagine Venaria like looking at at Lunette's purse and she just like grabs it back.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, put your coins in the thing and get your token.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, I put my hundred in and got my token.

SPEAKER_02

Um put your token put your token in the thing. Pull the chain.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Alright, now roll your 3d6. Okay, I got two threes and a five. You got two threes and a five. So you can roll re-roll one of those if you like, or you can take from the enhanced wondrous items. I was gonna say, I feel like I'm I'm committed on the wondrous items anyway. Yahtzee. Okay. But a third three. Yeah. Yep, they'll just call you cast you another hundred. And you can maybe get from the uh the very rare wondrous item list. Of course, I'm also like I'm also I've also filled all of my attunement slots, so unless there's like a holy avenger or some shit in there, like who knows? Also, that's not a weapon, so no. Okay, I'll just I'll just go with the two threes. Alright. So, from the enhanced wondrous items list.

unknown

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01

So the the horrible machine sound. And then Yeah, it almost sounds like it's screaming. And then a small little little package comes out. Maybe maybe like a six-inch sub-sized. So there you go. You have this. You have a pack. Yeah, I'm trying to sail by it. Open the package. Inside you find what looks to be a vial. Uh, it has a a cork stop on it, but otherwise appears to be empty. And the tag attached to this calls it the memory vial. The vial of narrative weight.

SPEAKER_02

Like, uh, why don't you try taking that cork that that stop that cork that that open it.

SPEAKER_01

So, nothing happens for a minute.

SPEAKER_02

Alright now. Hold on for just a second.

SPEAKER_01

But people just kind of start, you know, are chattering, you know, doing kind of the nervous, like, okay, nothing's happening.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, now put the cork back in. Mm-hmm. Alright, now hold on just a second. Now take it back out.

SPEAKER_01

Nervously and out of the vial you hear a recording of everything that, like all the sound that was happening around the vial while you had it open before. Oh well. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that that's that's called memory vial. It stores recent conversations.

SPEAKER_05

How long does it last?

SPEAKER_02

Until you open it.

SPEAKER_05

Or to close it?

SPEAKER_02

You open it, you leave it open, and then you close it, and then it will play what what was there up to 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_01

As a 10 minute recording time. I I say establishing a rule. So it's not a broken item.

SPEAKER_04

Next question is is the current city we're in a two-party consent recording state?

SPEAKER_01

They they have they have a hard time dealing with children being missing. I don't know if they care too much about whether or not people are aware of who's there.

SPEAKER_04

We found them though.

SPEAKER_02

Oh good. So, who's who's next? Who wants to go? Who wants to gamble?

SPEAKER_04

I guess I'll try. I'll never fucking learn my lesson from people.

SPEAKER_02

What you mean, you people?

SPEAKER_04

I think you know.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, now take your money and put it in the thing and get your token.

SPEAKER_04

And then it like shakes out like a hundred and she's just like, eh.

SPEAKER_01

You gotta put it in one at a time.

SPEAKER_04

I hear. She's just like, what if I just put it on the counter?

SPEAKER_01

She just smiles at you and watches you put every coin in.

SPEAKER_04

I get this place. I get this place. I get this place.

SPEAKER_01

And then yeah, you get your your your big old token.

SPEAKER_04

Put it in.

SPEAKER_01

Excellent. You gotta pull the chain.

SPEAKER_04

She's She's not gonna go if you don't pull the chain. She's looking so frustrated and annoyed while she does all the like the she's like puts in the coin, pulls the chain. She's like, alright, go. Alright.

SPEAKER_01

Now roll your 3D thing.

SPEAKER_04

I am using one of I am using one of Elizabeth's, so prepare for impact. I'm talking about the middle one. Prepare for impact.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, gotcha.

SPEAKER_04

I got a four, a four, and a five.

SPEAKER_01

So that is enhanced on the wands and staves, and one option on the r uh from the rings and ambulance. Amulets. I keep You can re-roll if you want to double damage.

SPEAKER_04

I'm gonna take the enhanced one, but I do look over and I look at Granny and I say if I get a if I get another one of your relatives If I get another staff with one of your relatives in it, not break me.

SPEAKER_02

That's just a that's just the ta-da thing. That's just kinda how he he likes to he likes change and sometimes he turns into an item and sometimes he turns into a dog. That's that's just how he is.

SPEAKER_05

Sometimes he turns blonde.

SPEAKER_02

Some no. He's I've never seen him blonde.

SPEAKER_04

These just some tips that should never be frosted.

SPEAKER_02

I don't know, maybe he'll try bleaching his hair. That might, you know, that's kinda how he is. Hey! So, you're going with the enhanced ones and staves.

SPEAKER_05

Maybe see if you get a very rare instead of a rare.

SPEAKER_04

This is how gambling addiction starts. This is how gambling addiction starts. No, I'll just take what I've been given to you. No.

SPEAKER_02

Are you sure? Because you could get very rare ones and staves.

SPEAKER_04

I will simply take the ones and the enhanced ones and staves.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, alright. Enhanced ones and staves.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

You get a rod of ten of When I tell you who that would like go outside and bury that thing immediately.

SPEAKER_01

Alright, so what comes out is a trying to think of what size.

SPEAKER_02

It is it is about two feet long.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so you get about, you know, a little two foot long thing comes, you'll go.

SPEAKER_04

Like it's a bomb.

SPEAKER_01

Inside, you see a wand. The wand has a little dial on it.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, for a second I was about to pass out. I thought you were gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, this is a different one. Okay. It has a little dial on it, and it's got symbols. You would have to roll arcana to identify the symbols. But there's there's seven of them.

SPEAKER_04

I have to roll Arcana seven times. No.

SPEAKER_01

Roll one time.

SPEAKER_04

I was like, damn okay. No. Uh so that's a that's a ten. I probably don't recognize them.

SPEAKER_01

You you you are you feel like they might have something to do with magic, uh, but you don't recognize them immediately.

SPEAKER_04

No shit.

SPEAKER_01

Um but she will she will uh the the tag on it says wand of changeable damage.

SPEAKER_02

The wand of increased ass kicking? Why why why don't you try um why don't you cast you got any kind of spells you can cast? Yeah, I know you can cast some spells. Why don't you try to cast some?

SPEAKER_04

I got shadow blade. Ideally just like a fireball.

SPEAKER_02

Like a melee canton. Yeah, can you do like firebolt something? Like what shot! Why don't you try casting that?

SPEAKER_01

But we're gonna so like kind of turn the knob on the like the dial a little bit.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, now try casting it. Yeah. Okay. With the woman. What am I aiming at? I don't know, just somewhere. Anyway, look over there.

SPEAKER_01

Anything other than the lights. There's like a jar of pickles over there.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, see what I want to do with that. Okay, so I do that and I take aim and I cast firebolt.

SPEAKER_01

You thought you were going to cast firebolt, but what comes out is an ice bolt.

SPEAKER_04

Oh damn.

SPEAKER_01

And and the the jar of pickles is frozen and shattered with your attack.

SPEAKER_05

Damn. Turned again. Is there another jar of pickles? Is there another pickled?

SPEAKER_01

Spin the dial and then above the table, the wand of changeable damage allows you to alter the damage type cast after the spell is declared.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. So that could be nice for certain creatures.

SPEAKER_01

Or say you only have firebolt and it's immune to fire damage, you could change it.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, fine. Lunette's gonna very like slowly put it in her put it in her bag.

SPEAKER_01

You hear a voice in the back of your head. No!

SPEAKER_04

Not again!

SPEAKER_01

Huh?

SPEAKER_04

Is it attunement?

SPEAKER_01

No.

SPEAKER_04

Oh.

SPEAKER_01

Are any of these? No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Lunette's just gonna very slowly slide it into her bag and just kind of be like, thank you.

SPEAKER_01

So it's like no sugar.

SPEAKER_02

Who else? You won't go, honey?

SPEAKER_03

Yes. Alright. You put your money in the thing, get your token. Can I purchase two tokens or is it only one? You can purchase as many tokens as you want. Okay, I'll purchase two. Yeah, there you go. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

And yeah, you get two dinner plate-sized tokens.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, here we go. Okay. I'm gonna pull the chain.

SPEAKER_01

So, yeah, you you pull the chain now, roll three D6. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

One, two, and five.

SPEAKER_01

Excellent. Alright, so that's weapons, armor, and rings and amulets. Or you can use that second token to double down and re-roll one of those.

SPEAKER_03

Um, I I want armor.

SPEAKER_01

Armor. Okay. So rolling from the armor list. Standard armor. Out comes a a a a newspaper-sized package.

SPEAKER_02

There you go, she'll go.

SPEAKER_03

Alright. So Jenova begins to to tear it open.

SPEAKER_01

There you go. So inside you see chain mail shirt of some kind. Um and attached to it is a tag that says uh chain shirt of mending.

SPEAKER_04

I know that term from Minecraft. I know what that does.

SPEAKER_01

So she will go, here, let me let me show you something. And she will reach over to the chainmail shirt and just kind of effortlessly just like rip it in half. Like she just popped the buttons on a button-down shirt.

SPEAKER_02

Now hold on just one second.

SPEAKER_03

And you will watch very durable, granny.

SPEAKER_01

It knits itself back together.

SPEAKER_02

Oh. There you go. You can you can ruin this as many times as you want, and it will always come back to the original shape it is supposed to be in. That's hot.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

It's useful. Ah, that's hot. If that's what you want to do, yeah. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I like you.

SPEAKER_04

Granny, no! No, ma'am. Oh, oh, granny. Alright.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. Um, so basically, yes, this is this is a chain shirt that will uh never it will it will always repair itself so it doesn't really stay damaged. Other than that, it is a plus one chain shirt.

SPEAKER_02

Then you got one of the token if you won't go ahead and do that. Roll all. Yeah, yeah, you put another token in, right? Yep. Yep, all three dice. Five, four, and one. Five, four, and one. Okay, so that's rings and amulets, wands and staves, and weapons.

SPEAKER_03

Rings and amulets. Rings and amulets.

SPEAKER_01

So, out comes a very, very tiny little capsule, like you see like a grocery store capsule machines. Uh, and and inside are two rings. And and a little tag that says bands of shared breath. Well, as long as as long as whoever's wearing that other one is is alive and well, you will you will you will be okay. Effectively, if the other person is also stable, you will stabilize automatically.

SPEAKER_04

So if you like run out of hit points but the other person is fine.

SPEAKER_01

Like, yeah, if you're going into death saves and the other person is wearing the ring is is also is is Standing or Stable?

SPEAKER_05

What do you think?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, if they are standing or stable and you are not, you will automatically stabilize.

SPEAKER_05

And it doesn't impose like a disadvantage if both of you are down.

SPEAKER_01

If both of you are down, it won't function.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

So if both of you are down, someone else needs to grab the ring. For quicker worse.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, that's interesting. Okay. There you go, Sugar. Alright, thank you, Granny. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_02

Shout breath. Yeah. Alright now. You all done your gambling here. What? Do you want to stick around and and shoot the shit? What you want?

SPEAKER_01

Luna, did you want to try for some health potions?

SPEAKER_04

I don't know if I want anything else from this woman. Are you sure? Do you have health potions with you today? In an inventory? Not on my person, no. Do you have them in the inventory? In an inventory, sure. In the fancy machine.

SPEAKER_02

No.

SPEAKER_04

I don't want to gamble for healing potions.

SPEAKER_02

You just want regular healing potions. You should go buy some healing potions. Why you won't get them from me?

SPEAKER_04

Alright, whatever, it's fine. God forbid I try to support a small business.

SPEAKER_01

So if nobody else has any business with granny, she will very very quietly go, it's okay, now by now. And then you will all appear outside of a gambling hall, which no longer has the big red doors.

SPEAKER_05

There no longer is a gambling hall.

SPEAKER_01

No, the gambling hall is still there. No. Just not granny's. But the big the big shiny red doors are not.

SPEAKER_03

Come on down to get Granny's gambling.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, it's gone.

SPEAKER_03

Dang, I forgot I wanted to put a hundred on red.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Alright. And it's just like a thousand yard stare. Still to straighten up and be like.

SPEAKER_01

So now we can go to the Ashman. Now we can go to the launch. We probably have some more shit to try to trade them to get more money for stuff we actually want. Alright. You are you are outside of Granny's. Now that you have left it, having not been, you know, like dragged to it, kicking and screaming. Um you find yourself, you're actually pretty close to the nightcap. So, yes, you find yourselves on Cinder Way over by the nightcap. And you're wanting to go to the Ashmantle Forge, which is just like a couple of blocks up.

SPEAKER_05

So it'll just take no detours.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you you actually basically could just go up one of these like side streets and just go right to it. So it just takes you a couple minutes. You will find yourselves near Ash Mantle Forge. And Drumash is actually over there. And he'll say, Hey, good to see you. You you all you all going to see the the the blacksmith? Yes. Yes. Hey, cool. Yeah, I'll I'll introduce you. Corin's great. Um, yeah, you this this is similarly to a lot of the other buildings, this is kind of sandstone-based. Um, but it has some pretty heavy stacks to to vent out a lot of the smoke and stuff from the Smithy. As you approach, you actually see there's a cart outside, and there's uh there's a dwarf offloading goods from the cart and taking them inside. Dromash will walk up and greet him. Emberscale. How's the blade? It couldn't be happier. He pulls his sword from his sheath and kinda holds it out in front of him. He's sharp and beautiful as ever. And he will examine the blade. Aye. Keep it up with the whetstone. I didn't want to see you out here again with some banged up piece of shite. Dromash will then turn to the party. This here is Corinne Ashman. Best blacksmith there is. Hands down. Cornbolt. Kind of wave that away. I I wouldn't listen to his nonsense. I by acne I swing the hammer the same way as my ancestors before me. I don't know. What can I do for you?

SPEAKER_04

We are new lanterns and we need Materium yesterday.

SPEAKER_01

Materium.

SPEAKER_04

Materium weapons.

SPEAKER_01

I all for fighting the necromera.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I'd be happy to do that for you. I don't have the materium.

SPEAKER_04

Right?

SPEAKER_05

Is there a way that we can find materium? I was interested in looking at it.

SPEAKER_04

I smell a fetch quest.

SPEAKER_00

Well.

SPEAKER_01

As uh members of the the lantern hall, I would be happy to do the labor of putting the weapons together for you. But there's two things. One, I cannot put it on something that's already been enchanted. So we can either disenchant what you want to put it on, or I'll have to make it from scratch. Either way, I don't have the material. You're gonna have to go grab that. But it can be any materium. It has to be aligned with Ayestis, a lore of law and order. So you'll have to go to a village called Oldstone. And there you can get it. And bring it back here, and I will be happy to put the weapons together for you.

SPEAKER_04

And how far away is this village?

SPEAKER_01

Uh it's about three days away.

SPEAKER_04

How how uh safe would you say on a scale of like one to fucked is the journey?

SPEAKER_01

Oh well, that's we we patrol like the village rings. That's that's an area that we have pretty nailed down. It it shouldn't be hard trip at all.

SPEAKER_04

I believe the last time we heard that, we got our asses handed to us by a sneaky little necromancer, and it culminated into us flying into KM through a portal.

SPEAKER_01

Uh no, really, we it it it'll be safe.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

We can do that. That'll be that'll be on the docket.

SPEAKER_05

I'm just really ready to not have to worry about having outside help any time that we need to deal with Necromera. Because so far it's been very prevalent in our day-to-day capacity.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I mean, you you should have plenty of time if you wanted to go do that. Gildora is not, you know, assigned anything. You're not required to take any any warrants, so now would be the time if you wanted to do it.

SPEAKER_04

Lynette is going to crouch down a little bit, and she's gonna hold her arm, like in her hand out towards the blacksmith, and she's gonna ask, Do you think you could maybe add some materium to like the tips of the claws of this?

SPEAKER_01

He'll look your arm a little bit, and then he'll he'll tentatively kinda reach for it, like, can I can I take your arm? No. Yeah, and it's like it detaches, and he kind of goes, uh.

SPEAKER_04

It does that.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Waves at him a little bit, and you're like, uh, okay.

SPEAKER_04

Am I s uh is she still in control of its hand movements when it's off her shoulder?

SPEAKER_01

It I mean, you can try.

SPEAKER_04

Can I try to give him a thumbs up?

SPEAKER_01

Uh roll. Oh, what am I wanting to do this?

SPEAKER_04

Oh no!

SPEAKER_01

Roll wisdom.

SPEAKER_04

I just got a two.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you're flipping him off.

SPEAKER_04

Oh my god, I have to add my I got a feet.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, you're flipping him off slightly less. I'm still I'm still- You're not actively caving in his skull with the middle finger.

SPEAKER_04

I'm still figuring it out.

SPEAKER_01

It's kind of new. You it's it's strange to me, so I'll take your word for it. Uh, but this metal though. He'll take like a kind of a tiny hammer from his belt and kind of tap it a couple of times and listen to it. Yeah. I could probably put some in there.

SPEAKER_04

Great. Awesome, cool. Okay, can you put it back?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, uh he kind of like holds it up and it like magnets into place. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know either. I have no answers. Um, I had a bit of a question.

SPEAKER_05

Um, as a middle worker, I am am pretty new here. Um I think so. I was curious about your use of materium and how you do it. Is it is it a secret? Is it not something I can do, or can I can I learn about that?

SPEAKER_01

You absolutely could. I uh I wouldn't call myself a teacher. However, there's the uh the studium. You could you could take a course there.

SPEAKER_05

I was curious specifically about the properties of this aligned materium. I I I can't say I'm familiar with it as well.

SPEAKER_01

Well, materium aligned with a yestis. The uh the Aelor of Law and Order. People make oaths in in in her name, and the oath stones help sanctify those words. So it's uh kind of self-perpetuating at this point. Yes, okay, above above the table. Basically, they would get one of these oath stones, uh, and then if you like stand on it and make your agreement or give your oath, then it's uh perceived as sanctified in the eyes of Augustus.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

So people like to get these for like marriages or business contracts.

SPEAKER_05

Not lanternos?

SPEAKER_01

Uh there may have been one there. Maybe it was the lantern.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe it was in the lantern. Maybe it was in the lantern.

SPEAKER_01

Uh but yeah, so it it's kind of one of those things where it kind of started as, oh, they found some materium that did this, but then because they keep doing it, this the quarry kind of perpetuates itself. This this materium keeps showing up there. So it's just been a longstanding thing. You would go to a place who has ordered us an oath stone from that place.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, okay. I just want to get my hands on it so I can mess with it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Well, you'll be uh you'll be having to go there, and then they will knowing them. Is this weird? Knowing them, they'll probably have you do it yourselves anyway. So I imagine you'll you can get some while you're there.

SPEAKER_04

Hmm. Wonderful.

SPEAKER_05

Really, the materium where I'm from was concentrated to one spot, and it was a bit odd to try and take some. So this is in uh interesting.

SPEAKER_01

I will.

SPEAKER_05

Do you hear that your walls have materium in them?

SPEAKER_01

I for the air conditioning. She kind of like stomps on the floor a little bit, like aye.

SPEAKER_05

No, no, no, no. Like the outside walls. I assume she's gonna go back.

SPEAKER_01

And actually, as he as he mentions the Ec9 Annex, um, any any of the Demorin-born people can make a history check.

SPEAKER_05

Damn.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Demorin raids?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's like if if if Dalis ever wants to take a history course from the studio, then maybe you can start making some of these history checks.

SPEAKER_04

17.

SPEAKER_01

Excellent. I got a 17, but just because my headband lit up. Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_03

Sixteen.

SPEAKER_01

Sixteen. Okay. So Genova, you you you you recognize it as familiar. You don't quite get it. Yeah. Um Lunette and Brand not Brandon. Yep. Venaria. Um you you would recognize there was a place called the Ecknine Institute way way back in like the Empire days, but they were supposed to have been disbanded and and put away somewhere. Um so it's it would be kind of a stretch for this to be the same place, but if it was the same place, they are responsible for some pretty nasty weapons that were uh part of the Thaxian Civil War. So.

SPEAKER_04

Do you know how much materium they allow someone to like a lantern to I don't know what's the word for? Not harvest. Uh oh, mine? Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Uh, well, it is part of their business. So I would imagine, you know, there might be a bit of a of a limit, but uh, you know, if you do the water cry imagine they'll let you keep what you get.

SPEAKER_04

Like a lot, a lot for the arm, I'm thinking. So like I'm wondering.

SPEAKER_01

Oh. The basically what you're going to need to get is ten chunks of materium per person. If you all want one of these weapons made, then you'll each need ten chunks of material.

SPEAKER_04

Above the table, you, Alex, would that be like the thick the thing that I had planned? Would that be something that you would allow?

SPEAKER_01

Do your hand and then knives or something. Like a group of five knives, but you'll have to keep track of them and retrieve them when you use them.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. I can do that.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. There you go. That will work. But yes, you you get the materium, I'll be happy to put it together for you. Other than that, that's that's all we need. What's your right? What's your usual price for this labor? Oh, you're with the lanterns. I don't I'm not gonna charge you. Um I mean if you need it repaired in the future, yeah, I'll charge you for that for maintenance, but but for this, you know, it's in our best interest that you have what you need to do your job.

SPEAKER_04

Do you think maybe over the next couple of days after we get the material you could kind of help me take a deeper look at this thing? Lunette's kind of moving it around at the wrist because it feels like a real limb. Like she can feel it.

SPEAKER_01

Like you would take a whole blow to the head suddenly you're having a lag. Uh no, we I'd I'd be happy to take a look at it for you. Um, I'll probably need to call my buddy from the studio.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_01

Uh but You just can't keep it. Well, no, I assume you you need your arm.

SPEAKER_04

One last thing before I think Venaria might have some questions for you. Do you have any idea where I might find the person named Drift?

SPEAKER_01

You could you could ask Drum Ash, because he knew he knew the their team leader. Yeah. You looking for Drift?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I would check the dancing mare.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Does anyone else have questions for the good blacksmith? No, I was gonna ask about price, but I did, so yeah, uh, she's gonna offer the metal hand to shake, and she's gonna say, Thank you so much. I'm looking forward to working with you.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04

And uh Oh, I had it and I lost it. Alright then.

SPEAKER_00

Well, good to see you.

unknown

I had it and I lost it.

SPEAKER_01

Uh see you all. Head up to the dancing mare. Um, this, because you didn't actually go there before. This place is a little nicer than the nightcap. This is where you see a lot of students from the studium going. Sometimes you'll see lantern hall uh lanterns. You'll see lanterns coming by here for like just patrolling around or like checking with uh like contacts, things like that.

SPEAKER_05

Seeing all the lanterns inside the nightcap like we did before.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well yeah, at the at the nightcap that's like guards and Saren is in like a corner booth with like just her own pitcher. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well okay, yeah, yeah. The nightcap's kind of like a cop bar. This is a this is a university bar.

SPEAKER_00

Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so they're it's a little more lively, and you got people who are celebrating a little harder, yeah, kind of enjoying their own. It's the middle of the day, they're still Well, it's also um We're done with finals. Um bloom right, kind of basically like May Day. Um is coming up, so a lot of people are getting, you know, they're a little festive, they're like yeah, they're pre-gaming a little bit. Um but yeah, it's it's it's a it's a jumping little place, it's nice. They've got a nice nice fire going. Um they have actual alcohol rather than just booze and moonshine.

SPEAKER_04

Looking around, do I see any sign of the Sharati that I'm looking for?

SPEAKER_01

Roll investigation. Because I remembered that investigation and perception are different things, and I've been making you roll perception for everything four months. We're rolling a bunch of investigation because I'm bad at investigation. Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_04

I got a five. Since I know who I'm looking for, do I get advantage?

SPEAKER_01

You could also guidance right here. Yeah, go go ahead and go ahead and give him advantage. You you you have seen this person before.

SPEAKER_05

Dills goes, don't get distracted. Don't get distracted. He's gonna pass guidance on me, so roll a different thing.

SPEAKER_04

Said please find him. I want to go somewhere else now. Well, he can't have any uh investigation. So that is an eight plus two plus another eight. So that's a dirty twenty. No, it's not. 18. It's an 18. It's almost a dirty 20.

SPEAKER_00

I'm so proud of you.

SPEAKER_01

It's a dirty two at me.

SPEAKER_04

No, ma'am.

SPEAKER_01

So close.

SPEAKER_04

Do not no ma'am at me.

SPEAKER_01

No ma'am. It's an 18 with an olive. It's a dirty 18.

SPEAKER_04

It's a 20 if you love me.

SPEAKER_01

So you got a dirty. How dare you manipulate me that way. Uh no, uh so yeah, you you gotta you got a dirty 20. No, you're dirty dirty 18.

SPEAKER_04

Because you don't love me.

SPEAKER_01

That's the name of the signature cocktail, the dirty 18. But yeah, no, you so you you you do spot him. You do spot him. He's over about the bar. Just chilling.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, uh, I'm gonna go over and kind of like get his attention and just kind of like gesture at the seat, like not necessarily like right next to him, but yeah, just like, is it okay? Can I I'd like to talk to you, please?

SPEAKER_01

Kind of shrugs and gestures at the stool.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, great, cool, awesome. Uh it has been a very long time since I have actually seen another Sharathi, so that's kind of cool. But also, uh how often are you kind of like down below the city at all? I'm Lunette, I'm new.

SPEAKER_01

I'm struggling to decide on a character voice for this guy.

SPEAKER_04

I thought I was just getting like dead eyed now. No I don't want to hear that.

SPEAKER_01

What okay. Well one more time.

SPEAKER_04

Uh, so Lunette's gonna come over, she sits down after his after he gives his permission. Uh, and she is going to say, I'm Lunette, I'm a new lantern. We kind of had to deal with the whole kid snatcher under the city thing. You were there. Uh Are you by any chance aware of a Sherrathi named Fi?

SPEAKER_01

Fi?

SPEAKER_04

Fi. Really old. You know him? You know of him?

SPEAKER_01

I have heard the name.

SPEAKER_04

That's my grandpa.

SPEAKER_01

Uh congratulations.

SPEAKER_04

Do you n do you have any information on where he might be? I kind of have a lot to get on to him about.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know if you know this about us. We like caves.

SPEAKER_04

No sh manners. I've been told I need to work on that.

SPEAKER_01

Like you feel your magic arm like ball into a fist and like a big thing.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, like no, she like she goes like this and her human arm just her elf on this.

SPEAKER_01

You kind of like having to restrain yourself and he just laughs a little bit. No, no shit. I'm pulling new chain.

SPEAKER_04

Sorry, I am fine. Yes. If if you have any access to him at all, where we have to go run an errand to get uh materium so we don't die out here. Could you tell him his granddaughter's looking for him? Lunette.

SPEAKER_01

He will he will take a drink out of his tumbler. Said Lunette.

SPEAKER_04

Lunette. Yes. Lunette if you're a lie. Technically, yes.

SPEAKER_02

Sure.

SPEAKER_04

I hope he means that. I can do that for you. I hope he means that. Thank you. I really, I really do appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah?

SPEAKER_04

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. We're all just bunched up at the door blocking traffic.

SPEAKER_05

Oh yeah. Loon kind of like slinks up. We're just standing in the middle of the bar.

SPEAKER_01

We're just we're tea posing.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

This guy, he's sitting there, like, and and and in his kind of casual wear, he's like basically wearing like a sleeveless shirt, uh, like the equivalent of just jeans. And he's he's sitting at the at the bar. Um, he's got actually a mohawk. It's a it's a pink mohawk that kind of like fades off to the side. And and he's just just nursing this drink. He looks as aloof as you can fucking possibly be. Like he gives no shits about. Yes. This is a cultivated look.

SPEAKER_04

Like, are there any other like descriptors you would want to give about drift for like in case he comes up later?

SPEAKER_01

Uh he has a scar over his right eye, which is milky white.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. She hears that like through the gauntlet, and she just once again just claps her hand over the gauntlet as if that's gonna stop anything. Uh, and she's just like, thank you. I can kind of tell you want me to leave, so I'm gonna go do that. Uh, we gotta go get sword.

SPEAKER_01

And do what you gotta do.

SPEAKER_04

Very hard to talk to. Very hard to talk to.

SPEAKER_01

So it's like you step away and you hear someone like, oh my god, Drift, I keep telling you to stop talking to strange women. We're in a committed relationship. Brother what? Shut up, I'm trying to have a drink. Brother what? You walk away and you see like this other other like one of the people from his team. That's right. Yeah, it's uh dwarf. Yes, the dwarf comes over and like kind of like elbows him and they're like a dwarf.

SPEAKER_05

Someone someone's like a halfling at that point.

SPEAKER_01

Well he's a no, he's a bearded twink. He's a bearded. Yeah, yeah, he's a bearded, but he's got like a really tight t-shirt on and it's like turned into like a belly shirt.

SPEAKER_04

I'm just kind of imagining like a really sh dwarf version of like Magic Earring Ken. Yeah. I can't tell if the team is giving him shit for weirding out a new person or if he's giving him shit over the fact that someone sat there and talked to him until he talked back.

SPEAKER_00

Maybe both.

SPEAKER_04

Someone got someone actually, someone actually stuck around past the monotony.

SPEAKER_01

It's like you had to deal with people. Yeah, somebody like lost a bet vibe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so like now Lynette's reapproaching the team, and she's like, I asked him to tell to tell my grandpa if like if he's in contact with him to let him know that I'm in town and looking for him, and I don't actually know if he's gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01

So he's getting a noogie. From a dwarf. Yeah, the dwarf has him in a headlock and giving him a noogie.

SPEAKER_04

He has pulled him off of the barstool.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_04

But yeah, so she's like, I have got no idea if he's actually gonna do that, so I think we should just go.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so are you all prepared to head on your journey to Oathstone? Yes, first but Naria does double back and like offer a high five to the dwarf giving him a noogie. Yes, goes in for it. High five. There's a there's a very healthy bro culture in Ogun.

SPEAKER_04

It's a bro council. It's a bro council. The prolumverate. The brolumvirate! Oh man. So excellent. The prolumvirate of the homie council.

SPEAKER_01

It's no longer the Bromuta Triangle, it's the Brometer of the Square. It's the Proptagon. Excellent.

SPEAKER_05

Bro square.

SPEAKER_01

Alright, so onward you go. Onward. Come on, Cloud! Thank you for listening! If you liked what you heard, please tell us what to comment, rate the show, let us know how you feel, and I promise you we will be very happy to hear it. We've got social media links in the description, uh, including our Discord. Subscribe to this show on your favorite podcasting platform, and then brag about it to your friends, your coworkers, that weird relative that's secretly your favorite. Honestly, the best way you can support us is to tell people about this podcast you like. Friends, relatives, your loved ones, anyone that you want to share something fun with. Our wonderful players were Brandon Rhodes as Bonaria, Courtney Craig as Lunette, Elizabeth Nichols as Dalos, and Jen Walkup as Jenova. I have been your DM and host, Alexander Wright. Thanks again for listening, and we will see you again next time at the Good Food Table.

SPEAKER_04

You said perception?

SPEAKER_01

I said inside with my mouth holding. As opposed to other holes?

SPEAKER_04

You make it so hard sometimes.

SPEAKER_01

That's what she said. That's what he said. He said. What's getting hard?

SPEAKER_04

I got a dirty 20.

SPEAKER_01

For the love of God. Dirty 20! Dirty 20.

SPEAKER_05

Oh.

SPEAKER_01

I felt that with my hand.

SPEAKER_05

Now you're recording, so now that counts as much. I didn't even touch the microphone. You shook the table enough that I hate all of ours. I think that's fine.

SPEAKER_02

You just knocked Jen out of her chair.

unknown

I didn't do that.

SPEAKER_02

You did that, multi-kill. That was your fault.

SPEAKER_04

No! Are you okay? You'd be nice to Jen. I didn't know such a thing. I love Jen. Are you okay?

SPEAKER_05

It happened in such low motion. This week on behind the scenes at the YouTube. You're okay. Slow motion.

SPEAKER_03

Knock the sonic crystals out of me.

SPEAKER_01

Your time is your own now. You are free to choose those ones which suit motherfucker. What the fuck was that? God damn it. Take three. Una mastiambo.

SPEAKER_04

By the shadow.

SPEAKER_01

Shadow take you.

SPEAKER_04

Those are strong words for an accident. Have you read the timeline?

SPEAKER_01

That one did the homework.