C1 Ep. 12 - I Bless the Rains Down in Steamstead

The Hearth Guard get a much needed break at the hot springs village of Steamstead! Finally they can rest, relax, rage at the local economy, and reconnect with estranged relatives. But underneath the surface, is everything as it seems?

Content Warnings:
Course Language
The Occasional Bit of Innuendo
Pure Rage
Bad Accents
So Much Rain

Look for our next episode July 29th, 2026!

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SPEAKER_03 0:00

Last time at the Good Good Table. Dayload.

SPEAKER_06 0:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:04

You awakened in a workshop. You appear as as a as a pale blue version of yourself. Hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Welcome back, Delusion.

SPEAKER_11 0:16

Delusion.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Depending on where you are, they might call me Ekne. You could call me Papa. You still have work to do.

SPEAKER_11 0:25

It was really nice to meet you, but also I have a lot of questions.

SPEAKER_03 0:28

And should I start praying to you or should I You all awaken inside of a hospital room. Victor comes in and Bunaria, everyone.

SPEAKER_13 0:40

How are you feeling?

SPEAKER_11 0:42

I can't move my body, and I'm a bit concerned by that. Also, there's a period of time that I was not aware of, and this is something that I'm very uncomfortable with.

SPEAKER_13 0:49

You you you did kick one of our orderlies in the chest.

SPEAKER_11 0:53

Well, I'm I have no clue how you all got me to move while I was not present.

SPEAKER_03 0:57

Uh well, it was Ale, actually. He has got like a sizable like coin burst in his hand. 3,000 in platinum coins.

SPEAKER_04 1:04

Your efforts have drawn the admiration of more than a few lanterns who wish to join your ranks.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

As a tier one chartered free company, you have three NPC slots to recruit. Uh little little like helper NPC guys. At some point, a dragonborn with jet black scales and piercing grease eyes enters.

SPEAKER_13 1:28

My name is Kareth Shadewing. I'm a senior veil warden with the BVI. Bureau of Vale Integrity. Do you know what it was that drove him off?

SPEAKER_10 1:38

It wasn't good. Had like wings question mark.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

He's going to place his card on a nearby table.

SPEAKER_13 1:46

I hope you all get some excellent rest.

SPEAKER_09 1:49

He was looking for us to say we don't know what it is because it's important that we don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_03 1:54

Something that the nurses who were like kinda handling your discharge and whatever, they kept suggesting that you head to the village of Steamstead. But what you do at this time is up to you. Those hot springs would be really good. Yeah, yeah, you all had to bath, bath, and beyond. So Luna is is there soaking, trying to kind of tune everything out for a minute and let all that stress roll off. Then you hear somebody knock on the door. So you open the door and Lunette. I'll be your DM and your host today. With me again are our wonderful players. We got Jen as Genova.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Hey, hey, hey.

SPEAKER_03 3:04

We got Elizabeth as Dalos. Hi. We got Courtney as Lunette. What's up, what's up, what's up? We got Brandon as Venaria.

SPEAKER_12 3:11

Hello!

SPEAKER_10 3:11

We changed the seating, so now that feels weird.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

Yeah, that didn't feel weird. Like you're back and forth. Yeah, we've we've changed things around, but that's okay.

SPEAKER_10 3:17

It's too hot to play in the garage.

SPEAKER_03 3:19

It was too hard to play in the garage. So we changed locations. Now we're in my living room. We've taken over the living room. Again. My living room has turned into a studio. Somebody is recorded. Excellent. So last time we had it just teams head. And we had a wonderful little spa time. But of course, there they're then at the end we had a surprise visitor. So you know, not not long. Yeah, yeah. Like five is there. It's okay. Hold horses, hold them. Hold them. I was doing my horses. Hold them. Hold your horses.

SPEAKER_09 3:58

Okay, get the reins in your hands right now.

SPEAKER_10 4:00

I was doing my.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

Hey, Courtney, lock in.

SPEAKER_10 4:03

What is happening?

SPEAKER_03 4:05

Courtney, I need you to focus in.

SPEAKER_10 4:06

Am I developing schizophrenia?

SPEAKER_03 4:10

We're starting this episode off with gaslighting. So anyway, not long after the party settles in.

SPEAKER_10 4:15

Taking crazy pills.

SPEAKER_03 4:16

Not long after the party settles in. Persistent rains begin to fall. Washing out the roads, leaving the village, and uh leaving the village? Oh! Washing out the roads, leaving the village. Yes, the the roads out of the village. And and it's uh kind of preventing travel and stuff in and out of the village and stuff.

SPEAKER_11 4:35

But do I know about this? Can I can I make sure AL's okay?

SPEAKER_10 4:40

He was only like maybe an hour or two behind us, though. Yeah, I mean behind probably.

SPEAKER_08 4:48

No, I'm asking if he's there or not.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

It's not I mean you haven't seen him yet. It's a whole village. It's a whole ass village with a big bath complex. I mean, you haven't seen him.

SPEAKER_10 4:57

Bath Bath and Beyond.

SPEAKER_03 4:59

Bath, Bath and Beyond, yeah. It's Bath Bath and Beyond. And you know, and whatever else you need while you're there, Wink.

SPEAKER_10 5:04

Hey-o. Hey oh.

SPEAKER_12 5:06

That's the beyond. That's the beyond part. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

You define what that means.

SPEAKER_12 5:11

I I immediately said disgust, and then I was like, yeah, that's the beyond.

SPEAKER_03 5:16

So, uh, but yes. Fi uh Lunette, you there, you have you have Fi there in front of you. He's standing there in a in a bathrobe. He does have fuzzy slippers. And and he is he is holding a towel. Okay. He is prepared for taking a bath and was not expecting his long-lost granddaughter to be there standing in front of him.

SPEAKER_10 5:38

I chased him as a ghost the last time he saw her. Yeah, he did do that. He did take off and do that. Uh so to before she got into the bath, she did take her robotic arm off because she doesn't know what happens when it gets wet.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

I mean, you gotta you gotta like clean the socket and stuff. You need to make sure that it gets disinfected.

SPEAKER_10 5:54

So she is in her bathrobe. She is currently missing an arm. That is the thing I was trying to remind myself of.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

So one armed standing in bathrobe.

SPEAKER_10 6:03

Yes. She opens the door. There's Fi. The first thing she's going to do is she's going to like hold out one. She's gonna hold out her remaining arm as like a don't. Kind of like the way that you like try to try to get a horse to not spook.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

As I recall, he managed to get in a lunette. How to train your dragon, so as I recall, she is off in her private little area, so it's just it's just Lunette there. Yes. Doesn't really have anywhere he can run.

SPEAKER_10 6:30

She's just kind of like holding her arm, like kind of like, yes. What?

SPEAKER_05 6:37

Why why are you here? Wait. Oh, no. No. We know. Yes, you know. Why are you here?

SPEAKER_10 6:49

I got paid. I almost died, and this is my reward. What are you doing here?

SPEAKER_05 6:54

I almost died. So I came here to relax.

SPEAKER_10 6:57

Nothing happened at the tower. They told me nothing happened at the tower.

SPEAKER_05 7:00

There was a whole damn city!

SPEAKER_10 7:02

Why were you out of the tower?

SPEAKER_05 7:04

I was trying to help people. What were you doing?

SPEAKER_10 7:08

I'm a lantern. Killing the death knight. Good. Trying to not get fighting the death knight actively.

SPEAKER_05 7:14

Yes, well, I don't know if you know this. I'd like to help people too.

SPEAKER_10 7:18

No shit!

SPEAKER_05 7:19

Okay. Well, here we are.

SPEAKER_10 7:21

What why did you run off? What were we yelling? Why did you because you ran off when I tried to talk to you like a normal person?

SPEAKER_05 7:28

Well, I don't know if you know this, but sometimes when you when you cope with with important people just disappearing for 20 years. That was not my fault. I never said it was But you were gone. And I had to do something. And sometimes when you're really old, you run from your problems. Sometimes you just run from your premise, and sometimes you hallucinate and stuff. So yeah, I had to remind myself that you weren't there. So excuse me if I had to cope a little.

SPEAKER_10 8:00

I'm just glad you're not dead.

SPEAKER_05 8:02

Nope. You remind him.

SPEAKER_10 8:05

Reminder that he kind of looks like Einstein.

SPEAKER_03 8:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 8:08

As but as as Alex decrease.

SPEAKER_03 8:11

Like like if an elf looked like Einstein in that picture of him with his tongue sticking out, like that's like Vi's whole vibe.

SPEAKER_07 8:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 8:18

So I'm just gonna hug my grandpa. She's like, I've been looking for you.

SPEAKER_05 8:26

Well, it's complicated.

SPEAKER_10 8:28

I've asked a lot of people where a lot of a lot of really annoying questions apparently, because they get really upset when I do it. I am here.

SPEAKER_04 8:36

I'm alive. It is wonderful to see you. I've heard many good things about you.

SPEAKER_10 8:41

Oh thank God for that. Because we've done some stupid shit.

SPEAKER_03 8:44

Uh I've also heard from some people at the Mercy House who were not super happy with you, but listen.

SPEAKER_10 8:49

Uh it's gonna be like, she's like gonna wave her hand to the side. Those guys, whatever. Where's my what happened while I was gone?

SPEAKER_05 8:59

Well, a lot of things. I don't know if you heard the the wood got burned.

SPEAKER_10 9:03

Well, yeah. How did everybody the whole thing how many people of the town made it out? Was it majority?

SPEAKER_05 9:08

Like what I we got out as many people as we could.

SPEAKER_07 9:12

Mom and dad?

SPEAKER_05 9:13

They're yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_07 9:15

Did grandma make it out?

SPEAKER_05 9:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 9:17

Okay, thank god.

SPEAKER_05 9:18

I don't know where they are. Well they they they fled north.

SPEAKER_10 9:22

North just.

SPEAKER_03 9:23

Well, I haven't seen them in quite some time. So I don't know where exactly they are, but I know they were going north.

unknown 9:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

I I have things to do here.

SPEAKER_07 9:32

What's happening here?

SPEAKER_10 9:33

What are you doing here in the like specifically the tower?

SPEAKER_03 9:36

So, after the wo after the doctor's woods were burned, right?

SPEAKER_04 9:40

The Astagian wood, giant ass I don't know if you would say giant ass. That's just me peeping through. The entire Astagian wood was burned down, right? Remember this? I'm sure you've heard this.

SPEAKER_07 9:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 9:53

Yes. So what's left behind is called the Ashlands.

SPEAKER_07 9:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 9:58

Right?

SPEAKER_10 9:59

Bummer.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Yes, it's a bummer. It's a bummer. Yes, that's awful! I'm in shock!

SPEAKER_10 10:06

Keep talking.

SPEAKER_03 10:08

Yeah. Also, we're both in bathrooms while discussing deep trauma.

SPEAKER_04 10:13

I'm trying I'm trying to find a way to restore it.

SPEAKER_10 10:17

Okay. Period.

SPEAKER_04 10:19

That's it. That's what I'm trying to do.

SPEAKER_10 10:21

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 10:22

And and I can't if I can't go north and do that at the same time. That's fair. I decided to stay here.

SPEAKER_10 10:29

That's a lot of information. Okay. Um I Yeah, well. Ooh, speaking of information, speaking of questions, uh I noticed you're you're missing an arm. You don't say. Um.

SPEAKER_07 10:39

Who's Todd? Tadoth.

SPEAKER_03 10:42

Who's Todd Tadoth?

SPEAKER_07 10:43

Chadar.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Tadoth Chadar.

SPEAKER_10 10:46

What is that? Why do they know a lot about us? Why do they call you a different name? I'm getting there.

SPEAKER_04 10:53

I'm not familiar with Tadoth. Cheddar specifically.

SPEAKER_10 10:58

The good goods.

SPEAKER_04 11:00

I assume you're talking about Granny.

SPEAKER_10 11:04

And her fuck ass nephew, yes. And her kin.

SPEAKER_04 11:08

I.

SPEAKER_10 11:09

Her gnarly kinfolk, yes.

SPEAKER_04 11:12

I know I know about Granny. Everyone knows Granny.

SPEAKER_10 11:15

Lunette is going to very quickly. She's gonna run back into the room. She's gonna pick up the f the prosthetic arm and she's gonna hold she's gonna come back holding it up. She just starts too hard and it just f- Yeah. What is this? Can you do you know about this vaguely? Do you know about this?

SPEAKER_04 11:31

That looks like a very complicated prosthetic arm.

SPEAKER_10 11:34

Yes. They gave it to me as part of some contract you also signed. Who's a shield?

SPEAKER_03 11:41

He will just he will just kind of stare at you and with his lips pursed, just mmm. Mmm.

SPEAKER_10 11:46

Do not mmm at me. Who is a shield? I don't I don't know that name. You are lying. That's your lying face. Don't lie to me.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

You can roll insight.

SPEAKER_10 11:59

I don't know that name, you dirty liar. Oh. That's a 23, Chief.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

He rolled that one. Oh, he's lying. He is lying. He absolutely knows that that name.

SPEAKER_10 12:19

Lunette's pointing at him with the fake arm, not on her shoulder. She's holding it.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

Gesturing with the arm with a stick.

SPEAKER_10 12:24

That's your lying face. Explain now. Now, yesterday. I don't know who's Racenor? How old am I? Racenor? Rasenor, whatever. Oh, hey! Gotcha, bitch. Who are we? Look, I can't.

SPEAKER_13 12:40

I I can't talk about that right now.

SPEAKER_10 12:43

Oh my god. Of course you can't, because it'd be too easy. Can you answer this? How old am I?

SPEAKER_04 12:53

Older than you think.

SPEAKER_10 12:54

That is not helpful. And you know that.

SPEAKER_04 12:56

Nope. This is the answer that I can give you right now.

SPEAKER_10 13:02

Do you know where my brother is?

SPEAKER_04 13:06

I have a pretty good idea.

SPEAKER_10 13:08

Are you gonna tell me?

SPEAKER_04 13:09

No.

SPEAKER_10 13:10

Son of a b- Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

Not eventually.

SPEAKER_10 13:13

If I if I if I hadn't been terrified that you were dead for the past couple of like days, weeks, we would be handling this very differently. But for now, I'm just gonna hug you again. I'm so frustrated.

SPEAKER_04 13:28

Thank you for respecting my wishes. And he will hug you.

SPEAKER_10 13:34

Why can't he say anything? I am trying to figure out a way to say ask that as Lunette and not crash out as Courtney.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

So she's just What so you do you have like a line of questioning in mind or like to try to do?

SPEAKER_10 13:47

I'm trying to figure out if there's anything I can ask that'll get me an answer if you're just like you have phi and that is what you have. I'm trying to figure out a way to ask without asking things I've already asked. Uh I asked who a shield was, he said, ooh. I asked my brother, he said, ooh. You can ask him why he can't tell you. Can you tell me why you can't tell me?

SPEAKER_04 14:07

It's a very big question. And it has a very big answer. How old are you? That is also a very big question. Very big answer. And I would like to give those answers to you.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

However.

SPEAKER_07 14:23

Did you sign a contract?

unknown 14:24

Is it geish?

SPEAKER_03 14:26

You you might recall the the contract that you were you were presented with. Um or you saw briefly.

SPEAKER_10 14:34

Presented with is a very generous description. She he flashed it in front of my face.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

Yes, so it was you you saw it briefly. It was your name. And something that looked an awful lot like Granny Goodgood.

SPEAKER_10 14:49

Can you tell me what the Silver Grove is?

SPEAKER_04 14:52

That is a uh It's got trees in it. It does have trees in it, yes. It's it is part of the really big question. But it is a title that used to be very important to our people.

SPEAKER_07 15:09

When you say our people, do you mean Sharathi? The Guna is sensitive.

SPEAKER_04 15:18

So when I say this is a really, really big question, I mean it's really big. So I am happy to give these answers to you. Possibly at a different time when my my old man brain doesn't feel like it's about to explode a little bit.

SPEAKER_07 15:35

I feel like my brain is about to explode a little bit, and I don't think it's as old as yours.

SPEAKER_03 15:39

Uh, as Lunette is having this moment with her grandfather. Um, other other folks are relaxing in whichever way suits them. Jenova. You you are getting like the whole spa day like deluxe package. Right. That's just what we're doing here. So, yeah, you are you are in the middle of kind of a a mud soak. They they've got you like in in the bath and they've got some kind of paste on your face that that they tell you is good for your pores. You don't know, but you know, they put it on you and then some slices of something on your eyeballs. You know, you're you're relaxing, maxin', all cool, you know. Yeah. You're not shooting any b-ball, but you know, you're you're having a good time.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

I'm not like like a girly girly girl, but I love every bit of this because it brings, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:30

No, they they basically they set you up with like an attendant and she's just like, honey, you don't worry about a thing. I'm just gonna lead you around. I've got you on a schedule. And and she just basically, yeah, well, she'll come and get you after like a couple hours of soaking and just take you to the next thing and then the next thing. Yeah. You know, so yeah, you don't have to even worry about it.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

I'm just kinda prancing around, kinda giggling and happy. Yeah. Yeah. That's fantastic. Fritter's just kind of, you know, rolling around and they'll they'll do it with Fritter too.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

Like that Fritter gets a little tiny mud bath next to you.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 17:00

It's a hot, coal bath. Yeah, it kinda kinda.

SPEAKER_03 17:07

So excellent. So yeah, the Jenova Jenobas getting that done. Uh Venaria is is being manhandled by, I believe, a a a large Grunda woman. Yes. Yeah. So she is she has basically been popping every bone in your body and and and just re- like turned you into a ball of mush and then reshaped you into a Venaria-shaped person again. I feel like the ending of the ending of a treatment is essentially she's like being like committing violence on me with consent. Yeah. So I feel like the ending of it is like once I'm like been reduced to you know immobile, uh, she just like like potato sacks her over one shoulder and then but then lays her gently in in a hot spring. Yeah. To do like a sensory deprivation. Yeah, I just very carefully lays you down. But uh while while you were being, you know, puttified and and put into a bath. Yeah, tenderized. Yes, that's the word.

SPEAKER_10 18:03

What a glorious adjective.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

Well, I just I always imagine it as like there's a moment in Futurama where like Professor Farns is getting is getting a massage by this tentacled alien and it's literally turning his tissue to liquid. Yeah. So that you were you were reduced to a to a a a semi-solid state. So Daelus, I know you had mentioned previously kind of like going between hot and cold. With there being less like machine-oriented spa treatments, uh, was there anything like you had in mind for Daelas to kind of do during this time?

SPEAKER_12 18:37

Um, he was kind of waiting for a old cat to follow up because he had so many questions about religions that did not exist where he was from.

SPEAKER_10 18:47

Um but mainly he was just like keeping to the the areas he was observing as his experience with organic people is fairly limited.

SPEAKER_12 18:58

Um and just kind of I mean, he's relaxing in his own way, basically.

SPEAKER_10 19:03

Like can't, you know, take advantage of the facilities, but he can, you know, sit in the corner and watch and you know, maybe mess with his jeweler's tools, play his little Dilsomer for a second.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

Like, while you're while you're doing that, um you you being a a a clockwork person, uh you you have kind of a unique relationship with the kind of crystallized magic uh called Materium, right? You you personally have an ability to kind of shape and mess with it a little bit. Something you'll notice while you're just kind of just trying to find something to do. Um there is actually a fair amount of materium in this in this place.

SPEAKER_10 19:51

Like kind of how the like electricity and stuff ran, like in the city or well there there is that, yeah, because you can you can generate power with materium.

SPEAKER_03 19:59

Like it in its just kind of basic form can function like a battery. You know, you can use it to just generate power, do magic stuff with it. Um there's also more specialized attuned materium, right, that does specific things, like the um Iestine materium, like in weapons for fighting the Necromera. Yeah. There's there's actually a few different kinds here. Um you'll find yourself kind of drawn to one um that's you you're you keep finding it near the actual baths. Um and you're you're kind of looking at it. It's it's red, and from what you can tell, it seems to have something to do with like the water temperature.

SPEAKER_10 20:42

Is it like where the temperature controls are and stuff, or is it just like where the water is coming out at certain temperatures?

SPEAKER_03 20:50

It seems to be near the water um where it comes out, but also just like in the bath itself.

SPEAKER_10 20:56

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:58

Um, but while while you're kind of poking at it, a a an older gentleman will kind of walk up and see see you looking at it. You you need some help there.

SPEAKER_11 21:09

Oh, um, I saw that this materium seemed a bit different from the rest in the building, and I was wondering what exactly it was.

SPEAKER_04 21:18

Oh, well that is the Tuling.

unknown 21:22

Tuline?

SPEAKER_04 21:23

Yeah, well it's uh it's uh aligned with with Thule.

SPEAKER_11 21:28

Um you'll have to inform me. I'm not from here, believe it or not.

SPEAKER_04 21:34

Uh well, you know, I believe that. Yeah. So don't see many uh fully armored metal people. Yes. Well to uh Thule is the the Valerie of elemental fire.

SPEAKER_11 21:48

Oh that would make sense.

SPEAKER_04 21:51

So Tule controls temperature. Well we we use it for the for to kind of regulate the temperature here. So people don't get burned or you know freeze in cold water.

SPEAKER_10 22:04

So you were stopping me from touching it before I burned someone. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_11 22:10

Well I appreciate you sharing information.

SPEAKER_04 22:11

Absolutely. I I am always happy to to help teach the young folk.

SPEAKER_11 22:16

Do you have um the opposite?

SPEAKER_10 22:19

I know that you have a few food paths. Do you have uh if error a an alternative to the tooling that does the opposite?

SPEAKER_04 22:28

You you you you spin tooling one way, it makes things hot. You spin it the other way, it makes things cold. But there are some other times around here, I'd be happy to show you.

SPEAKER_10 22:38

Um I would be more than willing. I do have a friend coming.

SPEAKER_04 22:41

Um and I Oh it might be a little while before they're here.

SPEAKER_08 22:47

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_04 22:48

Well, I don't know if you noticed all the rain. It's uh there's there's only a few pads here, so they're they're probably washed out. It might be a little while before they're here. They're taking their time, probably.

SPEAKER_12 23:01

Um, uh can you give me just one second? And Dalis is going to use his sending to send a message, like to Ale.

SPEAKER_10 23:09

Like, hey, are you okay? Heard about the rain. Be careful.

SPEAKER_03 23:17

Uh yeah, okay, so yeah, that takes a second.

SPEAKER_07 23:23

Like Dayless doesn't know it.

SPEAKER_10 23:25

But I know my friend. And this guy's like, they're checking on me.

SPEAKER_03 24:00

Uh so yeah, you you send that off and it takes like a what do they get like a like 10 words, 25 words in the back? Um see, so it takes a minute, but you get back. I am fine. I am wet. I will be there as soon as I can.

SPEAKER_12 24:20

He's not dead. He's not dead.

SPEAKER_03 24:23

Yes. But no, yeah, yeah, I mean he's he's he's on the way. But it is raining pretty hard, so he's probably you're like probably taking shelter somewhere or something like that.

SPEAKER_12 24:35

I I suspect the 25-word limit might have limited the communication of what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 24:40

He gave you the immediate information.

SPEAKER_11 24:43

Um Thalus will turn back to the attendant that walked up and he's like, um, okay, um, my friend is fine and should be here sometime, but um you said there were other forms of material. I'd love to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:57

Yeah, so you he'll take you on kind of essentially a tour of of one of the kind of local areas. Well, you're you're near Bath Bath and beyond, so he'll kind of wander you around there. Um they have a few different kinds. There's the the tooline that that does the temperature control. They also have uh what's called Tohim. Um this would be associated with Tohim, the A Lore of Beauty, Fertility, and Passion. Um when you spin this stuff, it kind of lowers the inhibitions of people around, kind of like like you've got like a little bit of a buzz. Uh so you know, they they use it for like romantic getaway rooms, you know, things like that. Just you know, like for for couples and stuff like that. It's like a little bit of a like a like a party enhancement kind of a stuff, you know. Um which I'm sure they advertise so that people can consent to it to be. They do, yes. This is this is consensual stuff. This is anyway, there's also uh Antamine, which is associated with Antama. The the A lore of healing, medicine, and mercy. And they will use this in the baths that are marketed for like medicinal healing and therapeutic uh kind of baths. That's the one Venaria is in right now because she's she now has to recover from the massage in addition to recovering from her. It's got like this eucalyptus thing going on.

SPEAKER_10 26:21

Question. As whenever we're going next to something that's like not going to immediately fall apart if I mess up. Um the last time I tried to move aligned materium, it was the ASTIS aligned materium, which means that it did not want to move.

SPEAKER_03 26:38

Yeah, law and order. It was very resistant to being moved. Do some of these like they're a bit more malleable or uh well he's actually yeah, he's got um like how about like a little maintenance station. They've got like kind of like light bulbs. They've got, you know, little like replacement bits of materium. And and he'll let you mess with one if you want. And they are they are much less resistant. They will absolutely let you mess with them. Um, but whereas like to shape them into little uniform square.

SPEAKER_10 27:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

Um yeah, they're they're all in like kind of spindly shapes. Yeah. So yeah, you can't just put them in uniform scores and then twist them back and put them back.

SPEAKER_12 27:17

He looks at me like, what the fuck is that yeah, he is very intrigued by that.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

Because they have to use like like little like jewelry, jewelers tools, essentially. You know, to to mask up materium usually. So that's pretty much the bulk of what they use is is those three. Yeah. Uh but he'll talk about Materium a little bit with you.

SPEAKER_10 27:36

Yeah, Dalos will ask and be entertained and learn as much as he possibly can about all of us.

SPEAKER_03 27:41

Yeah, Dalos being from a completely different plane, is not familiar with the the local deities and stuff, so yeah, it'll take a minute to explain some of that.

SPEAKER_12 27:49

Yeah, Dalos will find a second to like actually do religious things though, because that is important because he leveled up cleric, so yeah, everybody leveled.

SPEAKER_03 27:59

That's right. That was that was supposed to be another thing that we talked about. Oh everybody went to a level 11. Which isn't a super exciting level up for everybody. Did anybody get anything cool from their level?

SPEAKER_09 28:11

Go for it. Both of us start.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

I got my third level in fighters so I got uh battlemaster maneuvers, and so it's very much a very much a breakthrough in like following Oberto's example. Excellent. Oh yeah, yeah, because that's that's part of like kind of her motivation, right? In get in getting that. Very much that that's I mean, because I feel like anytime we've had free time, she's just been in the corner, like practicing forms.

SPEAKER_13 28:37

Excellent, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:38

Oh, that's really good. Yeah, because I I like having like level ups actually tied to kind of like a narrative reason. That's really good.

SPEAKER_10 28:44

What kind of background action would give Lunette Umbral sight is the question.

SPEAKER_03 28:49

She's been wearing a piece of black for a while now.

SPEAKER_10 28:54

Like whatever.

SPEAKER_07 28:55

Whatever it is.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

I just imagine it has to have some kind of aura on it, then maybe it's something just a little bit of that like fff across your vision at one like you wake up and you and you like you can't see at first, and then just suddenly enhance dark matter.

SPEAKER_10 29:09

So like she doesn't know that she can disappear in darkness yet. Yeah. I imagine that it's not like a choice because it's a feat, it doesn't take any actions or anything. It doesn't have any.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

No, it's it's consonant if you're in darkness. So you all you all s spent the rest of the evening just kind of chilling, running around, finding out stuff. Uh Ale. You don't I mean, maybe he ended up somewhere else. Who knows where did Ale end up? Did you ever discuss where you guys were gonna meet?

SPEAKER_10 29:36

Yes, I did. Where? I said specifically we're going to the hot springs in Springstead. Would you like to come with me? Do you know how many hot springs there are in Springstead? Okay, but I did he make it to Springsted.

SPEAKER_06 29:51

Who knows?

SPEAKER_09 29:51

I have a suspicion that he would ask about the giant metal man that is very obvious, and he would be able to follow a very obvious trail leading to Delos.

SPEAKER_10 30:01

He's kind of a thirsty guy.

SPEAKER_03 30:02

I I just Well, you have yet to encounter him.

SPEAKER_10 30:05

I suspect that as a whatever he is at the studium, he's smart enough to figure out. Yeah, he's smart enough to figure out where the fuck Delos is.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

Yeah, well.

SPEAKER_10 30:18

You would hope.

SPEAKER_09 30:19

I I would I would hope.

SPEAKER_03 30:22

But no, you I mean, you haven't heard from him.

unknown 30:25

Fuck you.

SPEAKER_09 30:26

It's been hours.

SPEAKER_03 30:27

I thought I thought we were done with the fuck you. This is gonna be the thing now. I don't give you what you want and you say fuck you.

SPEAKER_10 30:33

Yeah. No. You're going to anger him, stall. No, no, no. This is how I get it out. I say that and I don't do anything about it.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

There you go. Just gotta release the pressure.

SPEAKER_10 30:43

You just gotta I'm like I'm an instapot. I go fuck you. Yes. You just have to accept a verbal abuse, and it'll be fine. No, I don't verbally abuse. I just say it like once or twice.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

So we're here for the rest of the evening. Are we like moving to the next morning? Yes, that is what I was angling towards, yes, before I was reminded of A.O. again.

SPEAKER_09 31:03

So yeah, it's I feel like statistically speaking, he would be able to find where I am if he can make it to Springster.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

I mean, we can talk about statistics all you want. What I'm saying is that he hasn't.

SPEAKER_10 31:18

You gotta let it go, dude.

SPEAKER_03 31:21

So it's the next day. The storm has has not abated or anything. It is still hanging out, but you do get like the diffuse light of day illuminating the the city. So yeah, as as you are kind of wandering about during the day, because you can't really go anywhere. Like travel's not really a great idea right now. Um what you do notice in the light of day is there's a lot of like groups of I I say armed, but it's like you you just notice that these are guys that that tend to have like weapons on them. They're not like brandishing them, but um they're they're they're seen patrolling or standing around in areas. They're they're just kind of keeping an eye on things.

SPEAKER_06 32:05

Um are they lanterns?

SPEAKER_03 32:08

They are well no, they're they don't seem to be lanterns. They're they're running around in they've got kind of red and white themed, like we're called Nkata. They're like kind of like short, kind of airy kimonos. Um, but they've got a mark on them. It's essentially like four wavy, like curving lines, one one horizontal and then three kind of standing upright, kind of off of a sailboat. Well, kind of like steam coming off of a bath. That that also works. Yes. Because they're kind of representing the the hot spring. But you you see them in places around the town. But yeah, aside from that, um you you you've got some time to kind of wander around. There is the Magigram station if you wanted to send a message out to like recruit any of those NPCs that you all had the the option of recruiting, um, or just send a message to anybody else from another town. It's essentially a telegram. But it's magic. So it's a magigram. Is it just like individually just like send it to them and all automatically or basically you would you would send it from one magram station to another and then they would they would have somebody take it out where it's a go.

SPEAKER_10 33:21

Uh I think I would like to send a mess I think I would like to send a message to Zaren Manor and be like, hey, found my grandpa, please prepare the spiders. Please prepare the spiders.

SPEAKER_03 33:31

You want to send a message to uh to to uh Ignacio Ignacio.

SPEAKER_10 33:34

Yes, I I almost said Ignatius as a Ignacio, yes. Hey Ignacio, hey Iggy, found my grandpa, please spiders Now you go to the Magram station. Just hey Ignacio, found grandpa, spiders underlined twice.

SPEAKER_03 33:48

That'll be one copper per word.

SPEAKER_10 33:51

Spiders.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

Spiders. And just spiders? That's the message, ma'am. Just spiders. Where is okay, so where where do you want me to say spiders, stop.

SPEAKER_06 34:03

Spiders.

SPEAKER_03 34:04

Where is this message going?

SPEAKER_10 34:08

Sorry. No, it's great.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

This will be the cheapest message. I need one copper from you, and then I can send this off. Just spiders.

SPEAKER_10 34:17

You're not gonna let me fix this, are you?

SPEAKER_03 34:20

Ma'am, I'm writing down what are you telling me? You said spiders.

SPEAKER_07 34:25

Uh Ignacio's a smart man. He would know.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Ma'am, I wouldn't know, sir, about this Ignacio person.

SPEAKER_12 34:32

This is this is Elizabeth talking.

SPEAKER_03 34:33

I'm stuck in character right now. No, you're talking to me, the character, the poor teller at this Magigram.

SPEAKER_11 34:38

Ignacio is very smart. He would probably he would probably know we get money.

SPEAKER_10 34:43

Um It's gonna be like Iggy, stop, Found Fi.

SPEAKER_03 34:47

Okay, hold on, hold on. I scratch this out. So not not spiders, stop.

SPEAKER_10 34:51

Yet. No. Not yet. Yeah. Not yet.

SPEAKER_03 34:54

Okay, so Iggy, stop.

SPEAKER_10 34:55

Found fi, stop.

SPEAKER_03 34:57

Found fi, stop.

SPEAKER_10 34:59

Spiders. Spiders. Please.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

Please.

SPEAKER_12 35:03

Please is important. We have manners here. Don't you know we have manners specifically.

SPEAKER_03 35:09

So I believe you. No, absolutely. I know when I send a message where I'm charging by the word, I make sure that I say my pleas and thank yous.

SPEAKER_10 35:16

Yeah. Well, you say thanks, not not thank you. Thank yous and thanks. That's too bad. You gotta draw the line somewhere. And uh at the bottom of that, Luna is going to say thank you. You're gonna say thank you.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

Okay, so thank you.

SPEAKER_10 35:29

Not thanks. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 35:31

That's very formal.

SPEAKER_10 35:33

Throwing around the slinging chain. The coppers? I'm slinging coppers. Slinging coppers around, yeah. After listen, we just made safety. I mean, you just want to swing your big dick around.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

Just flopping on the table, why don't you?

SPEAKER_09 35:49

Let's get around.

SPEAKER_03 35:50

We run on coppers around here, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_09 35:52

Sir.

SPEAKER_03 35:53

Big gold dick on the table. So the message reads, Iggy, stop. Found I broke her.

SPEAKER_08 36:09

Like a squeaky toy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:12

The body forgets to breathe. Okay, so gold dick is too far. Remember that for next time.

SPEAKER_12 36:25

Anytime you need a break. You need a break, you need to take a break from the table. Stop slinging your golden nickel. Now that one was my turn.

SPEAKER_07 36:44

That's beautiful. What does the message what does the message read? Alex.

SPEAKER_03 36:52

Uh Ignacio, stop. Ignacio. Not Iggy? Nope. Ignacio, stop. Company recruitment. Stop. Company recruitment. Stop. Tano Barung. Stop. How do you spell that?

SPEAKER_13 37:13

T-A-H-E-O.

SPEAKER_03 37:15

A-H-N-O. D-A-R-U-N-G. D-A-R-U-N-G. I'm really proud of you you got that right. I wrote it down. Yeah, because I told you how to spell it last time. No, because I got typed it. I typed it from the handout. Uh Kai Kai. Han H A N. Kai Han. Stop. Stop. Is that the message? Read it back. Ignacio, stop. Company recruitment, stop. Tano Baroung, stop. Kai Han. Stop. Anybody want to add anything? The copper a word. There's a big, big, big spender here.

SPEAKER_10 38:03

Yep, big spender.

SPEAKER_03 38:05

Behold my gold dick.

SPEAKER_10 38:08

No, we're not doing that again. Flop it on the table, lad. Not doing that again. Uh at the b can you like line break or whatever? Uh PS Iggy stop.

SPEAKER_03 38:20

P.S. Iggy. Stop. Is PS one a separate word? PS is is one. I wrote it as one word. P dot s dot. P stop s stop.

SPEAKER_08 38:32

That would be two words.

SPEAKER_03 38:34

Oh, well there you go. It's two words.

SPEAKER_08 38:35

I'm sure we'll be able to do that. Post script. You do read. I wrote it out. I wrote it out.

SPEAKER_03 38:39

Post stop. Script. Stop. Iggy. Stop. Apparently we do have saving the city money, so.

SPEAKER_10 38:47

I just it's fine. When I say it, when I say it, it's bragging, but it's fine. Um found grandfather.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

Found grandfather. Father.

SPEAKER_10 39:02

Gather spiders. Thanks.

SPEAKER_03 39:03

Gather spiders. Thanks.

SPEAKER_10 39:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 39:08

Stop.

SPEAKER_08 39:09

That'll do.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 39:11

It's something something monostross is quipped iliophobia.

SPEAKER_10 39:15

I don't remember what the beginning is. Something.

SPEAKER_04 39:18

Equipped this sip and then.

SPEAKER_10 39:20

You just wanted to add another cover on there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:22

Okay. So the the dick must be waved. The message is Ignacio, stop. Company recruitment, stop. Tano Baruch, stop. Kai Han, stop. Post, stop. Script, stop. Iggy, stop. Found grandfather, stop. Gather spiders, thanks, stop. Something, something squeal, stop.

SPEAKER_10 39:46

I love gather spiders. It's so threatening. Summon the spiders.

SPEAKER_03 39:51

No, no explanations. Gather spiders.

SPEAKER_10 39:53

We've talked about it. We've talked about it. He'll remember. He's a good he's a good staff. He doesn't have a big one. Sunbish the spider. He's a good spot. He's a good butler. He'll remember.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Maybe leave off that left that last attempt at a word.

SPEAKER_11 40:05

Yeah, we can be both.

SPEAKER_03 40:07

So no no squip.

SPEAKER_11 40:09

No something, something, squip.

SPEAKER_03 40:11

Anything else you want to add to this very communicative message?

SPEAKER_10 40:16

You're saying it like this is like really sh like over the top.

SPEAKER_03 40:19

Sir, I'm just sir, I'm just doing my job.

SPEAKER_10 40:21

This is Elizabeth talking to Alex right now.

SPEAKER_03 40:23

This is the teller talking to Delos.

SPEAKER_10 40:25

Delos is clearly not talking right now.

SPEAKER_03 40:27

You know Dalos is talking about the voice from this.

SPEAKER_09 40:29

I know. The clerk is talking to the air. It's really strange. Yeah. Dalos is staring at him confused.

SPEAKER_03 40:35

Sir, you're not answering me. Sir, what's the problem? How many coppers? Anything else?

SPEAKER_09 40:40

Uh just just the receipt.

SPEAKER_03 40:41

Just okay, so that's gonna be one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, four. That's gonna be fifteen coppers. Great, Menaria paying them. I can't make change. Oh dear.

SPEAKER_10 40:53

I'll go next door. Um over to the money changer next door. He's gonna no, he's gonna go to one of the nearest like guards and be like, can you guys break a uh break copper or get two coppers?

SPEAKER_03 41:07

Can I give you just give you two coppers?

SPEAKER_11 41:09

No, do you have change?

SPEAKER_03 41:10

Do I have change? What do I look like to you? I'm here watching the corner. There are no banks in the body. You think I just here just carry money around? There are no banks in Gaud.

SPEAKER_10 41:23

There are no banks in Gao. There are no banks.

SPEAKER_03 41:27

Do I look like a bank to you? What? Do I look like I keep track of where all the banks are here now? Wherever I go around the corner, I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 41:35

Um that is not very specific.

SPEAKER_10 41:37

I'm just we're just trying to.

SPEAKER_03 41:38

No, it's not, is it?

unknown 41:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 41:42

This is Alex's vengeance on all the shit we put him for. I have done absolutely nothing wrong with it.

SPEAKER_03 41:46

Like, what do I look like? You look like one of those who make you look one of those who make change in Omaha. I look like a change machine to you. Do I look like some some some kind of person who just carries around money to to make make your day easier?

SPEAKER_11 41:59

I've met someone who is just a person who carries around money to make my day easier, so uh you should you put.

SPEAKER_03 42:05

He's like, okay, he's gonna be back at some point. I'm debating it's it's after about eight seconds, she'd be like, You go outside and go because it's on the corner. No, forget that. No, she will go into keep the change mode. She will put a gold down for this.

SPEAKER_09 42:18

That's a lot.

SPEAKER_03 42:19

Bernard just slides a gold coin across the counter. He's like, treat this as a donation to the widow's orphans fund, so you can send a fucking message. Oh my god! That's so much money. Well, I hope you enjoy it.

SPEAKER_10 42:31

It's what we have. Oh no, that's a corner. It's what we have.

SPEAKER_03 42:35

Hey, hey, you know what? Don't make it just kind of like reaches across, puts a hand on your shoulders, like, don't make a big time the economy here. So yeah, so Venaria pays for the message. And then you bites the gold coin and cries. Well, he doesn't having having paid for the transaction, Venaria doesn't fall like a bat face and gets the fuck out because it's not.

SPEAKER_10 43:29

And it's over your rage of local commerce. Are you fucking taking it?

SPEAKER_03 43:39

Oh fucking with the fucking thing.

SPEAKER_01 43:58

We cannot. I blame the golden thing.

SPEAKER_10 44:03

I need to follow the pain and suffering. I want my 85 cents.

SPEAKER_03 44:18

The the Magigram station, which I will note, had literally two of the smallest paragraphs I have ever prepared for anything. Yeah, was like the most ridiculous thing. Like we have ever recorded.

SPEAKER_12 44:33

It's the first time I've ever peaked my mic.

SPEAKER_03 44:36

I found the way to enrage Elizabeth.

SPEAKER_12 44:39

In regular commerce.

SPEAKER_03 44:41

So fast. That was like zero to murder in the holy crap.

SPEAKER_09 44:48

I do this every day.

SPEAKER_03 44:51

Became personally invested in this shitty little bit. We didn't have enough to make change. See, and now and now our next quest is gonna be revitalizing this economy of this tiny ass town. I don't even y'all y'all like leave the Magikram station and set it on fire or something. During during the rest of your day here, because you're you're basically just kind of hanging out in Steamstead. You know, it's a spa town. There's at least some stuff to do while you're while you're waiting for the storms to clear up and stuff like that. But as you are running around, you encounter on the side of the street there. There is this young woman. Looks like she's probably blind. She's kind of got like mousy brown hair, you know, and and she's she is busking on the side of the street. She's like telling fortune and stuff like that. But she will kind of try and get your attention as you're walking by.

SPEAKER_06 45:48

Can you make change? Fuck you.

SPEAKER_03 45:52

I can't make change for small bills. I only deal in gold.

SPEAKER_06 45:59

Oh good.

SPEAKER_03 46:00

Gold one one gold for her fix.

SPEAKER_09 46:03

Okay. Wow, high experience apparently super expensive because this place doesn't represent gold.

SPEAKER_03 46:07

It's for simplicity. Otherwise, people fly into unreasonable rages.

SPEAKER_10 46:13

No one would ever do that.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

Um, what kind of fortunately did she like to have a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of eyeball on me pretty hard? Does she have like a tarot card table set up or she's got like a very she's got a shot like a shallow metal bowl when look what looks like like bits of bones with with uh with wounds on them?

SPEAKER_10 46:31

Oh, she's throwing knuckle bones.

SPEAKER_03 46:32

She throws the wounds.

SPEAKER_10 46:33

Okay. So Lunette's gonna see the bones on the table and she's immediately intrigued. She's like, what's that? What you got there?

SPEAKER_04 46:38

I can use the bones to tell your fortune or tell you the secrets about herself.

SPEAKER_10 46:46

So genuinely, how much does it cost to have your bones tossed?

SPEAKER_00 46:50

A gold.

unknown 46:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 46:51

Lunette is going to uh place one in her palm because she's blind. She doesn't want to be in the world. It's fortune telling, it's woo-woo. Hang on. So Lunette is going to look over to Daos and she's like, it's fortune telling, it's woo-woo, basically. Maybe she'll throw the bones, I guess read the runes, or read the braille on the bones, and uh tell us what the big what the sentence fragments mean. It's similar to cards or tea leaves.

SPEAKER_13 47:19

Daylus is like, I don't know what any of those are either, but cool.

SPEAKER_10 47:22

It's like uh minor divination.

SPEAKER_03 47:25

Yes, what she said. I'm standing right here. I was like, I'm right here, I could have told you what I do, but sure, we'll let this random person who walked in and just tell you all about what I do.

SPEAKER_11 47:36

What deity do you follow?

SPEAKER_03 47:38

Oh, I follow all of the power. They they all together help me and tell the the secret truths of the world.

SPEAKER_10 47:47

I uh I'm a lunette, and I will give her the gold.

SPEAKER_03 47:50

You said you were placing the coin in the palm of her hand, correct? Yes. Okay. So you you give her the money for this, and as your hand kind of makes contact with her. Um up until this point, she was kind of, you know, doing the the very like performative, you know, fortune color-y thing. Her eyes will roll back as she makes contact with you.

SPEAKER_10 48:13

Oh bad feeling.

SPEAKER_03 48:15

And she will stop and kind of seize a few times. She doesn't say anything. But as as she comes back, you know, she can't really see out of her eyes. They're they're like uh they're they're milked over. You know, they're she's that kind of way. And she will take a breath.

SPEAKER_13 48:36

I do not know if this is your past or your future, but I see a young man pleading with you at the trunk of a great burning tree. I see you signing a contract with a groomed expression. And I see an older elf man laying you down in a strange metal case.

SPEAKER_03 49:09

And she'll kind of shake her head a little bit. It's a a very strong reading from you. Um is there any questions that you would like to ask specifically?

SPEAKER_10 49:25

Oh, I have so many questions.

SPEAKER_07 49:28

Does the young man kind of look like do you have any descriptors for the young man?

SPEAKER_03 49:34

It is vague. He is he is Elven.

SPEAKER_04 49:39

He is blonde. He appears to be a young man.

SPEAKER_10 49:48

I think Lena's just like having like the spinning wheel of like, I I regret. I wanted answers, but I regret. Okay, um, what does the tree look like? Other than on fire.

SPEAKER_13 50:00

This is the biggest tree I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_10 50:04

I thank you for that. I don't like that answer. Um are you alright? I notice you're shaking.

SPEAKER_03 50:09

Oh, I'm I'm fine. Some sometimes seeking the truth from the powers takes more energy than than other times.

SPEAKER_07 50:19

Can someone get her a Gatorade, please?

SPEAKER_13 50:21

I'm running low on electrolytes.

SPEAKER_10 50:23

Can someone please get her a cookie before she passes the fuck out?

SPEAKER_03 50:27

Would anyone else care for a reading? Me next. And I actually like take Yes. Um I actually like take her hand in mine and then place the gold coin in it with my other hand. So she will she will take your coin and then she she goes and she reaches into the bowl and and she she takes up the bones. And she she seemed to be breathing a little more evenly than she was before, and she'll kind of shake them up and then cast them into the bowl. Oh yeah, which I was gonna say, which hand uh of Lunette did the making contact? Was it the metal hand or the regular hand?

SPEAKER_10 51:03

Ah, fuck. Wait question. She didn't roll the dice for that. Which hand which arm is it? Your right? Are you right-handed? Yeah. Then it was probably your right. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 51:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 51:13

There you go.

SPEAKER_10 51:13

Uh poor lady.

SPEAKER_03 51:15

Because yeah, she didn't she didn't mess with the with her bones for you. It just was like physical contact.

SPEAKER_10 51:18

I just magic bombed a poor blind lady.

SPEAKER_03 51:22

Uh so yeah, she she will she will take the bones and she will cast them, and then she kind of like feels across them with with her hands.

SPEAKER_04 51:31

And and then she will come back with a you protect those around you fiercely, yet you often feel that no one truly understands the weight of the secrets you must keep to ensure their safety.

SPEAKER_07 51:46

We aren't here keeping secrets, Fernar?

SPEAKER_03 51:49

Not that I knew of, but you you are welcome to make a uh an insight check.

SPEAKER_10 51:59

What do I see with my special eyes?

SPEAKER_03 52:01

Twelve. That's it. Okay. I mean she she seems to be sincere in what she says. Okay. Who who else would would care for a fortune?

SPEAKER_01 52:13

I would like one, please.

SPEAKER_04 52:14

Oh, lovely. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 52:16

And Jenova. Here you go, ma'am.

SPEAKER_04 52:18

Thank you. And she will she will take the coin and she will put it with the others, and she will take the bow, and then she will cast them and feel around on them. You are an incredibly considerate and selfless person who takes care of others. But if you are honest, you recognize a stubborn or selfish streak within yourself.

SPEAKER_07 52:47

That's happening. Evil Genova is happening.

SPEAKER_04 52:50

You are welcome to make an inside check.

SPEAKER_01 52:52

I would love to make an inside check.

SPEAKER_03 52:55

Anyone who is watching this can do that.

SPEAKER_13 52:58

Not twenty. So 25.

SPEAKER_10 53:03

I got a six. 14. And it's plus nine. I rolled 12.

SPEAKER_03 53:10

So if you've got above a 15, and certainly a nat 20, um, this looks an awful lot like what you might have seen other fortune tellers in other places at other like festivals and stuff like that do it. It seems an awful lot like it could be cold reading. So what happened with Lunette seems to have been probably more legit, but but what she's doing with the bones is maybe not like she's basically saying things that could be true for the majority of people at more hold.

SPEAKER_10 53:37

Yeah, okay. So she got like I got sorry guys, I magic bombed the the spiritualist, and now you guys all get bogus readings. She got like the perfect lead-in, basically, which there's like, oh, a real physical vision.

SPEAKER_08 53:52

Now I look like the real shit.

SPEAKER_03 53:54

Look at me, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 53:55

They want me to address Peter.

SPEAKER_03 53:58

Yeah, so she, you know, she is she is really good at what she does. Uh, but yeah, you you can you can kind of see like the the rest of this is just, you know, she is trying to.

SPEAKER_09 54:09

I would still really like to do that because I don't I don't want to know what you're gonna cold read off of the country.

SPEAKER_10 54:16

I just met the country.

SPEAKER_03 54:18

Yeah, if you want to give her a coin, go for it.

SPEAKER_10 54:20

I feel like we all just look at each other like meh. All of us.

SPEAKER_03 54:23

For lack of a better word, the magic has died.

SPEAKER_10 54:26

All of us, wait, what what did you roll for Jenova? Uh 14. Okay. So all of us except for Jenova.

SPEAKER_03 54:32

Yeah, Jenova, you you believe her. She's like, yeah, she's she's telling your fortune. I was hoping to get some useful information.

SPEAKER_11 54:38

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 54:39

Yeah, when you think about it, like what she's actually said is more like what you'd get out of a fortune cookie. Yeah. Might as well have been a coin slot machine.

SPEAKER_10 54:47

Like she scared the shit out of Lunette, and then the second after she was like, Are you fucking with us? Um, Dalos will be like, um, it this might be a bit of a different uh sensation, but uh here, and he'll give her uh the coin, and it's just cold metal.

SPEAKER_03 55:05

Yeah, she'll like she'll like take the coin and her hand kind of touches you know your your metallic hand for a second and she kind of goes, Oh, uh yes, of course. And and she will she will do her thing, she'll cast the bones, my fortune cookie. She'll she'll do, you know, very make a big deal about who the rooms. You like to be liked. But sometimes wish you were better understood by people.

unknown 55:26

Man.

SPEAKER_12 55:28

Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 55:30

Cool story. You are you're welcome.

SPEAKER_03 55:33

Like I basically went up and looked up a bunch of phrases that people use in cold reading. Well, doesn't that you like to be liked, but you like to be liked, but sometimes you wish you were better understood by people. Oh god. So, yes, she will she will read off those fortunes to you and and she will kind of linger for a second. Now that I have done you a good turn, was wondering if you would be willing to help me.

SPEAKER_11 56:01

What's up? To my understanding, that's not normally how services work, but I am we're more than willing to try and help you.

SPEAKER_03 56:09

To be fair, the transaction is completed. I don't know if you've noticed this, but I I can't quite see very well. I I'm trying to find my brother Johnno. But he's gone missing.

SPEAKER_10 56:26

Do you know where he dis like where he was last at? I almost said where he was last seen. My bad. Also, what is your name?

SPEAKER_03 56:33

My name is Mira.

SPEAKER_01 56:35

What does Johnno look like, Mira?

SPEAKER_03 56:37

I was born blind. Thanks for asking. I don't quite know. He is the most beautiful man in the world. I love my brother.

SPEAKER_01 56:47

Just go pull tough.

SPEAKER_03 56:49

Yeah. No, he he is he is. It's been a long time since I lost my sight, but I remember he is a handsome man. He is slight but strong.

SPEAKER_11 57:04

Does he happen to carry something in particular that um he would have kept with him this whole time?

SPEAKER_03 57:09

His his tools, he was a boiler man. He he helps work on the the steamworks.

SPEAKER_01 57:18

When's the last time that you saw him?

SPEAKER_04 57:21

He's he's been gone for some weeks.

SPEAKER_01 57:24

How um was he leaving for a a certain place or was he just suddenly gone?

SPEAKER_03 57:31

He didn't he just didn't come back one night.

SPEAKER_01 57:33

Well, okay, how old is he? So we know like the the age.

SPEAKER_03 57:39

Just a little older than me. He's he would be twenty-eight.

SPEAKER_10 57:44

Can I put my lamp of the mood ring on her?

unknown 57:46

Twenty-eight.

SPEAKER_03 57:48

What would she look like? She looks frightened and and worried.

unknown 57:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 57:55

More worried than frightened.

unknown 58:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 58:01

I'm making sure this isn't some random scam run on the ground. It's like, oh no, the last place I saw him was in this dark alleyway. Just make sure your purpose is all in the same pocket.

SPEAKER_01 58:11

Or does he work for himself or does he work at a location so that we can ask around for him?

SPEAKER_13 58:20

He works for the the the red termi.

SPEAKER_03 58:24

They they run the the baths and he became indebted to them. Dalos, you feel somebody tap on on your shoulder.

SPEAKER_13 58:43

I think I unless uh unless my eyes deceive me, I'm pretty sure I've I've found my quarry.

SPEAKER_11 58:49

Ayol! I was nervous that you weren't going to be able to get here.

SPEAKER_13 58:53

I know a spot of rain isn't gonna stop me from getting to you.

SPEAKER_03 58:56

I'm trying to decide how Delos would respond to that. He's like trying to like kind of like reaches for your hand a little bit.

SPEAKER_10 59:02

Delos will like grab his hand, like clasp it, and be like, I'm very glad that you were safe through that. It's a lot of people were telling me that you were not going to be okay, and I was a bit nervous.

SPEAKER_13 59:11

Ah, well, it was uh it was uh a bit a bit rainy, a bit wet, but uh I I just kept kept walking, you know, one foot in front of the other, as we say.

SPEAKER_11 59:22

I so we've already checked out of the or we've we're staying at the hot springs, but we've already gone through the hot springs situation and everything. But what I wanted to talk to you about is the last time that we met, you talked about this progenitor thing. Did you? And I've talked to I talked to Corin the other day about it, and he didn't have a lot of information.

SPEAKER_10 59:40

And um So you already know that I died.

SPEAKER_04 59:45

Um, and manner of speaking.

SPEAKER_10 59:49

As a Claire Governor Lady Natanya, uh, generally what I would expect for in my afterlife is to get to see her and her resplendents.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:00

I did not see her. Uh I met a I woke up in a workshop of sorts with a large, vaguely dwarven, uh man is a question, but um and I a lot of more questions were asked than ever answered. And uh you talking about this cult and um the unique conversation I had with Ekni uh was that who you spoke to? Um yeah, it was a bit strange. I was I asked him I asked this person in what I can only assume was my afterlife in this time.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:48

Um, I asked them who they were, and all I got was maker pop pop. And then I asked again in a bit more uh explicit terms, and uh th said that Demorans know him as Ekni. Um I have very little knowledge of the deities of Demora, and I have a feeling I should know quite a bit more about someone who claims such boldly and large claims as maker.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:24

Well for one thing, you have mentioned before not being from here.

SPEAKER_13 1:01:32

And while I was in there digging around trying to bring you back.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:36

Oh, I did some improvements and he gets a little distracted.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:40

He's like, oh wait, sorry, sorry.

SPEAKER_13 1:01:41

Oh, I saw those, yeah. No, I I was able to confirm I yeah, you your your material is not from here.

SPEAKER_11 1:01:50

I'm glad you took me at my word.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:52

Well, you know, usually when someone tells you they're from another plane, you kind of uh y you send them to a doctor.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:01

I guess not a common thing, plane hoppers.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:03

Uh not really. No, unless you're uh like an like an an angel or a demon.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:09

I don't think I'm either of those.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:11

No, not from what I can tell. Uh maybe an angel.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:15

I was waiting for that. I was waiting for that.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:20

I did it way up. But no, the it sounds like you were talking to Acne, the the all-father of all dwarves. Uh he would be called the maker, yeah, I.

SPEAKER_11 1:02:34

I I had um I guess a degree of suspicion, considering the fact that um well, as you are more intimately aware of my internals than I would be comfortable with in most situations, uh As you know, um I am not organic and not made by someone won from this plane. Uh but I've heard that he is also a um a uh deity of creation and mechanics.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:11

Aye, the the Aylor of of of craft, technology, the the making of things, the the seeking of of new knowledge. Is is Ichnis.

SPEAKER_11 1:03:24

That doesn't sound like a terrible deity to be attached to.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:27

I know. He's great.

SPEAKER_11 1:03:29

Um, I I was just wondering I don't know, if you had any suspicions of whether or not I should be more concerned about uh that, or if I should take it as a general iron mechanical as the maker of all things mechanical, he is my maker.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:47

Hi, well. You being a mechanical being, I um can't say I'm surprised that you would see Acne. Uh I don't know much about Natanya, he said. I I don't know much about her, but Acne. I I know he loves all things uh crafty, you know.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:07

She is uh she's a goddess of life and joy and blight and change.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:13

I will say the progenitor, as you mentioned, was said to be mechanical in nature. So it is possible maybe you have something to do with that.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:26

Who knows?

SPEAKER_10 1:04:27

He can kind of smiles like you're that's silly, but you're the only one that I've heard talk about that in any reasonable, straightforward manner. Everyone else has simply asked what I was talking about, and so that was why I wanted to speak to you in particular.

SPEAKER_13 1:04:44

It's it is is one of those old religious uh schism issues from from long ago.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:51

Most people don't know about it.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:53

It's it's really only applicable to those in the church.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:56

Why do you think Why do you know about it then?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:00

I well, I used to be a priest for a little while. Oh. I I found myself drawn to the to the old stories.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:08

Can I ask you more about the details of the the progenitor stuff? Um, like what exactly is it? Um Acne said a few other things to me.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:18

Um mainly, I'm here too early, and that I need to go back. Um and that was what I was more concerned about.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:26

Especially considering the fact that I am not a cleric of Acne.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:34

And you didn't seem terribly bothered by that, but it it feels very strange to me. Uh I would never betray my Lady Natonia, but having someone else appear to intervene with my soul was a bit conflicting.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:52

Well, I can I cannot say for for your people, but for the dwarves, Acne cares not who we we worship. We are all his perhaps is the same with creations such as yourself. You are alive, yes, but someone someone need build you. Perhaps Acne lays cla claim because of that. The progenitor is is supposed to be a prophecy. Right?

SPEAKER_11 1:06:21

So of good things.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:23

Well, it's is said to be the brig the beginning of uh the the second coming of Acne. Children? Some some said.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:32

So good things.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:34

I well some some folks believe the the second coming marks uh destruction. Like uh like an end to to to a world. Uh well other interpretations take that as just change.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:51

And people don't like change, especially to our so you can see where where the line was drawn there.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:58

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:59

I uh was simply a bit concerned, and because you happen to have suggested that you have knowledge about something that every other person that I've asked about this has not known anything about. I saw it fit to seek you out.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:13

Ah I'm just bookish.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:16

Well, wonderful. Um well now that you're here, we can show you around the places that we've been. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_13 1:07:24

He is on ya.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:25

You're like, yeah, let's go.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:27

And yeah. He's going to happily lead him around and be like, this is this thing, and this is this thing, and there's this really cool thing, and look at all these different types of material. And he's gonna start asking questions because that's literally ALS.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:42

Like, yeah, I'll tell you about this materium and this material.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:44

And he'll find the same uh like like assistant janitor that like showed him the little replacements, and he'll show him the like moulding it like Play-Doh and put it back together, and then he'll be like, Oh yeah, and also I did this, and this is the explanation for his con his con buff. He was like, You did this, but you did it wrong.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:03

This is how it's supposed to be. Uh stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:06

Yes. That is where we will end today's episode. Will the Hearthguard be able to do something?

SPEAKER_11 1:08:14

Find the brother of the mysterious fortune teller.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:17

That. Yes, will we find the brother of mysterious fortune teller? Will will ALO Ale get through that hard metallic exterior of Daedos? Will will Will Lunette find anything out from Fi. Find out next week the fate of our heroes as they continue their adventures in tomorrow. She can find it. I believe. Our wonderful players were Jen Walk up as Jenova.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:50

Elizabeth Nichols as Halo's. Corny Craig as Lunette.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:55

I'm so tired.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:56

And Brandon Rose says Venaria. Alright, you can follow us at the Good Good Table most places and at that GoodGoodpod on X. Talk about the show using hashtag the GoodGoodTable wherever you do your social media, and we may use your name for an NPC or location in the show. Remember to subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and then brag about it to your friends, your co-workers, that cat that you keep seeing on the corner there that you just really want to pet, but you're not sure if he's gonna turn around and bite you or not.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:24

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SPEAKER_11 1:09:41

Getting those waitings up to five stars.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:44

Yeah, a five-star waiting or nothing. Get the fuck out.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:49

I have been your GM and host, Alexander Wright. Thanks again for listening, and we will see you again next week at the Good Good Table.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:57

Been You are a benevolent DM.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:28

I am that wishes all the time. Anyone would tell you this.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:31

Anyone would tell you that I am the nicest DM.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:33

My ass.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:34

I have death.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:35

You killed Dalos last. My arm!

SPEAKER_03 1:10:40

I didn't kill Dalos.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:41

Yes, he did.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:43

The falling rocks in the wall.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:46

Death Knight. Wow. Dalos dying.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:51

It sounds very exciting to me.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:53

Wow. Wow, exclamation point. Dalos died, exclamation point.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:01

I'm locked in.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:02

I don't know what your problem is.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:03

A gas leak in here?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:05

It's the gas leak episode.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:07

Son of a bitch. That's what you open the bed for.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:10

Yeah. I'm totally drugging all of them.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:14

I'm sorry, I'm hot today. You can't tell. Woo! I'm not looking at you aggressively, I promise. I'm just looking at you. I look at you every time, and I feel like you're making a lot more eye contact with me than you normally do, but I promise it's not pointed eye contact.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:27

I can see it. I can see it in your eyes. It's not. I can see it.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:30

It's not. It's like way back there. It's only in like one eye, and I'm like covering that one. Come on.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:35

So somebody's just like when you can feel someone just like fuck it.

unknown 1:11:37

Fuck it.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:38

No, no, no, no. I'll I'll say that out loud whenever I mean it.