2026-01-09
Luke Neverisky: What
Walden Briarhelm: Making
Tyram: Oh no, it's
Walden Briarhelm: tacos.
Luke Neverisky: else? Guys, we
Christopher Hooper: Hello, it's
Luke Neverisky: invited
Tyram: over. Oh
Christopher Hooper: me. I feel like I haven't seen everyone in ages.
Tyram: well.
Luke Neverisky: him. I know. It's almost been like I haven't seen you guys since the
Christopher Hooper: Yeah,
Luke Neverisky: last year.
Tyram: You know, one thing I don't get tired of is everyone saying, "See you next year." You know, in the last week of December, and I feel like it's been
Luke Neverisky: Yeah,
Tyram: since last year in the first week of January. It just it never gets
Christopher Hooper: exactly. It's so
Tyram: old every time I hear
Luke Neverisky: that's
Christopher Hooper: true. You took the
Tyram: it.
Luke Neverisky: I know you were waiting for that, too. I just knew it. So, I figured I'd do it for you.
Tyram: Now that we've gotten out of the way, if someone else comes on the call and they
Christopher Hooper: bait. You really think Justin's not
Tyram: say it, I'm going to be
Luke Neverisky: That's
Christopher Hooper: gonna say
Tyram: pissed. I figure he would actually.
Luke Neverisky: right.
Christopher Hooper: it?
Tyram: Uh, damn
Luke Neverisky: Probably
Walden Briarhelm: All right, we're I see we got to open up a bet
Tyram: him.
Walden Briarhelm: on this one. Does he do it? I think
Tyram: Who's going to take the other side on this one? He's
Luke Neverisky: not. I think he's
Walden Briarhelm: he's
Tyram: obviously going to do
Luke Neverisky: done.
Walden Briarhelm: gonna I don't know him as well as
Tyram: it. He leans
Walden Briarhelm: you guys. I'm just I would hope he does.
Tyram: into I think dad
Walden Briarhelm: That seems
Tyram: jokes. Oh well.
Walden Briarhelm: appropriate. My new recent
Tyram: I'm holding on to the vain hope that maybe Ted will just go to sleep like
Walden Briarhelm: favorite joke
Tyram: super quick and then maybe come in. But no, probably
Walden Briarhelm: was, "Yeah, that's what
Christopher Hooper: probably
Tyram: not. I don't
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: kids do." I heard a joke and
Tyram: know. Maybe he's tired. Maybe he had a tough day at the office. I don't know. I don't know
Walden Briarhelm: it was that
Christopher Hooper: not.
Tyram: what's going on with his
Walden Briarhelm: I days, man.
Tyram: life.
Christopher Hooper: It is kind of funny because like I feel like Ted is with us for most of the session anyway, so I'm not exactly sure, but I guess like towards the end they do bedtime and stuff. Um, and also I know how tiring it is, so it's not as
Luke Neverisky: I don't therefore I No
Christopher Hooper: easy. Yeah, exactly. Hey,
Tyram: That's a pretty
Christopher Hooper: Justin.
Tyram: s***** thing to say about Justin there,
Luke Neverisky: sympathy. Oh s***. Is he
Tyram: Luke. Yeah. Yeah. Just came on.
Luke Neverisky: on? Ah
Tyram: Oh. Oh, by the way, we can barely hear you
Justin Hale: You can barely hear
Tyram: a little better
Justin Hale: me.
Christopher Hooper: Oh, how about
Luke Neverisky: man.
Christopher Hooper: now?
Justin Hale: I'm walking outside so probably going to lose
Luke Neverisky: And there he lost
Walden Briarhelm: Yeah, that
Tyram: now. As was
Luke Neverisky: us.
Walden Briarhelm: timing was flawless.
Christopher Hooper: Okay.
Tyram: foretold.
Luke Neverisky: Yes. Can't say Justin. Dozens of letter when he says
Justin Hale: you. You know, okay.
Luke Neverisky: something.
Christopher Hooper: Good
Walden Briarhelm: Double
Christopher Hooper: work. Yeah, the weighted
Tyram: I got my dad
Walden Briarhelm: toeer.
Christopher Hooper: vest.
Tyram: a weighted vest for uh Christmas. He told me he wanted one. Um I asked him how much weight he wanted on and he told me 25 pounds, which I thought probably too much, but hey, we can always return it. It was too much and we had to return it. So, um I'm going to have to uh tag that out for a a lighter vest for him probably this
Walden Briarhelm: Why did he uh was Was there a reason he
Tyram: weekend. Oh, he just likes to do the old
Walden Briarhelm: wanted
Tyram: person thing and go to the Y and just like do laps around the the circuit there.
Walden Briarhelm: one? Oh, and he wanted to do it with a weighted vest. Got it. 25 pounds
Luke Neverisky: Mhm. H.
Tyram: Well, yes, obviously, but 25 pounds is a lot.
Walden Briarhelm: feels like a lot.
Tyram: Yes, it was more, I think, than he thought it was.
Walden Briarhelm: It doesn't seem easy. Is it
Tyram: Uh yeah, it's like distributed around the
Walden Briarhelm: evenly forward and back or is it more in the
Tyram: the vest, but um it was
Walden Briarhelm: chest? My lower back thinks that's a bad
Tyram: uh he uh felt the weight of it and
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Tyram: immediately knew that he had made a terrible mistake,
Walden Briarhelm: choice.
Luke Neverisky: Well, at
Tyram: but
Luke Neverisky: least he made that realization within a return period or
Tyram: yes. Yeah. So yeah, I mean ultimately it just cost him some time. uh running around that track, I guess. But oh
Luke Neverisky: something.
Tyram: well.
Justin Hale: There we go. So, I uh hardwired my gaming PC to my router and hardwired my
Luke Neverisky: Beautiful.
Justin Hale: Xbox to my router, and I'm running Moonlight streaming from my computer to my Xbox. Uh, it's nice. It is
Luke Neverisky: Oh, so you're actually getting like more than 100 megabytes per second download
Justin Hale: crisp. Uh, yeah. So my my local network taps out uh not using the internet at 10 gig
Luke Neverisky: speed.
Justin Hale: throughput for each
Tyram: Glad for
Luke Neverisky: Damn, I really I
Justin Hale: device.
Luke Neverisky: pay for one gig, but of course nothing is hardwired. So like I get
Walden Briarhelm: The super
Luke Neverisky: 50, you know, megabytes at
Justin Hale: Yeah. I
Tyram: you.
Justin Hale: uh I I spent money on our uh
Tyram: Yeah.
Justin Hale: networking stuff in this house. So all of our stuff is ubiquity. So, it's like a UniFi Dream Machine, the U7
Luke Neverisky: most.
Justin Hale: Pro uh Wi-Fi adapter. So, like the Wi-Fi that we get down, even with like 50 devices connected concurrently, I can push like 480 megabits per second on
Walden Briarhelm: That's a awesome flex.
Luke Neverisky: Damn
Justin Hale: Wi-Fi. It's
Luke Neverisky: it. Yeah, there we
Justin Hale: ridiculous. Yeah, it it costs that. It was It was expensive, but you get what you pay
Walden Briarhelm: And Moon Moonlight is
Luke Neverisky: go. I'm going to
Justin Hale: for.
Walden Briarhelm: a you stream I'm looking at it and I'm not sure I
Luke Neverisky: ask
Walden Briarhelm: fully get it, but it's you can stream your PC games to your console because you said you were streaming to Xbox.
Justin Hale: Yeah. So, um I have a an application on my computer on my gaming computer called Sunshine, which is the that's responsible for streaming the game from my computer to the other devices. And then Moonlight is the client application that you can get on everything. Have it on my phone, my Steam Deck, my Xbox, all that. Um, so, uh, it works really well on Wi-Fi, too. But, uh, it's like next to no latency when you're hardwired on both sides, mainly because it's a a full connection with no drops and
Luke Neverisky: Right. There
Justin Hale: no fighting, you know, Wi-Fi traffic for one device. So, I'm about to
Luke Neverisky: you go.
Justin Hale: drop like what uh500 or $600 more on our on our networking stuff so that I can hardwire uh our bedroom and the kids'
Luke Neverisky: So, I have a question because I'm I know
Walden Briarhelm: Awesome.
Luke Neverisky: I know s*** about this. My house has a every room in my house is has a cat 5 like output or cat 6 or whatever the f***. I don't
Justin Hale: rooms.
Luke Neverisky: know. Um, and there's a box downstairs where all the wires kind of coales. Um, one of my friends mentioned that I can get what's called a switch and basically, is that the right terminology? Basically have my wireless router hit the switch and then the switch plugs into that box which then is that
Justin Hale: Yeah. You got it.
Luke Neverisky: right?
Justin Hale: Um, I'm going to show you what I have.
Walden Briarhelm: 100%. Show me what you've got. It's
Justin Hale: See if I can get there. And
Walden Briarhelm: nice that you have a box with all the wires already ran for
Luke Neverisky: I
Justin Hale: then yeah, home runs
Walden Briarhelm: you.
Luke Neverisky: know. I've lived there for three years and I haven't taken advantage of that and I just It's one
Justin Hale: are
Tyram: I assume is
Walden Briarhelm: You'll do it and then
Luke Neverisky: of those things that I keep meaning to
Tyram: uh busy with baby stuff at the moment, right?
Walden Briarhelm: what
Luke Neverisky: do. I think so.
Christopher Hooper: That's
Justin Hale: nice.
Christopher Hooper: right. My My wife said she needed 10
Justin Hale: Just 10 minutes to
Christopher Hooper: minutes. No, with my with
Justin Hale: herself.
Tyram: Gotcha. He did leave
Christopher Hooper: Astrid. But you left anyway.
Luke Neverisky: You hear me? Like ask a
Tyram: anyway. We are keeping alley waiting is all I'm saying.
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Oh, yeah. I I know Taylor, you're eager to talk more about network routing, but I guess for Alli's
Tyram: I'm just looking out for her.
Luke Neverisky: question.
Christopher Hooper: sake, we can find other
Ali Leonard: What? What am I
Tyram: Yeah, it's like I could sit here and listen to all this talk about
Ali Leonard: doing? Girl, I can zone out with the
Tyram: uh network in your house all night, but Ally, I know can't stand
Christopher Hooper: topics.
Ali Leonard: best of them, but when you guys talk about f****** Pokemon, I would So,
Tyram: it.
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Walden Briarhelm: Did somebody
Ali Leonard: I'm just kidding. I really don't care. I have a puzzle in front of
Tyram: Oh
Christopher Hooper: We have to fix
Ali Leonard: me.
Christopher Hooper: uh Luke's um home internet speeds. It's
Ali Leonard: I
Tyram: well. Oh, but Justin, you
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. We
Christopher Hooper: very
Tyram: said you were going to show us. Did you ever
Christopher Hooper: important.
Justin Hale: Oh, I thought you were
Walden Briarhelm: Let's see that switch. I
Luke Neverisky: do.
Justin Hale: saying that you did not to see
Tyram: show
Walden Briarhelm: want that. I want to see that land
Christopher Hooper: and
Justin Hale: it. It's
Ali Leonard: agree.
Christopher Hooper: switch.
Justin Hale: not letting me share.
Tyram: I feel neutral about it, but since we're having to wait a little
Walden Briarhelm: switch.
Luke Neverisky: Mhm.
Tyram: while anyway, it's as fine as anything
Christopher Hooper: Good.
Luke Neverisky: What makes a man go
Justin Hale: Oh my gosh, it's going to make me quit out of the meeting again.
Tyram: else.
Walden Briarhelm: Starting to question this
Tyram: That's a good
Walden Briarhelm: networking. Is it network or is it
Luke Neverisky: neutral?
Ali Leonard: I see
Tyram: point. It was just boasting about the uh the power of his network, but it does seem
Walden Briarhelm: browser? I'm It looks like I'm getting one frame per second right now for him. That's not very good.
Christopher Hooper: Well, you see, you have
Ali Leonard: frozen.
Christopher Hooper: to open the moonlight to get to the switch so you can plug in your home
Tyram: to
Christopher Hooper: set and get the speeds, you
Ali Leonard: If your crystals aren't charged, you're not going to get any of those speeds
Luke Neverisky: Turns
Christopher Hooper: know.
Walden Briarhelm: Yes. You needed to say AI more. I feel like then you would have
Christopher Hooper: That's
Walden Briarhelm: been fully ready to pitch. What is
Luke Neverisky: I am sharing my entire
Ali Leonard: though.
Walden Briarhelm: this? You're you are sharing you're
Luke Neverisky: screen. It's just the
Ali Leonard: Wow, you are sharing your entire screen.
Walden Briarhelm: sharing the sharing
Luke Neverisky: banner. That's
Christopher Hooper: true. I'm I'm clicking stop
Luke Neverisky: it. Oh, good job. Nice
Christopher Hooper: sharing and it's not working. Oh, now it
Walden Briarhelm: banner. You're muted again.
Luke Neverisky: work.
Christopher Hooper: worked.
Luke Neverisky: Also, Justin's over here bragging about his internet, but he's still in
Justin Hale: Okay.
Walden Briarhelm: Mr.
Justin Hale: Okay. Here we go. No, dude. I got this new browser. I'm using I used Arc forever and then Arc they they're doing away with it. So, I switched over to Zen and all the all the things have to be allowed again. and all the passwords have to be saved. But um anyway, so
Luke Neverisky: DSL. Oh.
Justin Hale: this is my router, right?
Luke Neverisky: That doesn't look
Justin Hale: Um so this is this is easy boy that uh your internet comes into. And then I have basically all of my devices plugged into this. Currently, what I'm going to buy is
Luke Neverisky: like
Justin Hale: uh is it this one?
Christopher Hooper: I am Ron
Justin Hale: No, I think it was 400. Not in any
Tyram: That was crazy.
Walden Briarhelm: like to invite you to the pants
Christopher Hooper: Burgundy.
Justin Hale: good order. Here we go.
Tyram: Um, I think it's been 10 years since Anchor Man 2 came out. which was like 10 years after Anchor Man 1 came
Walden Briarhelm: party. Oh.
Luke Neverisky: I think there more
Christopher Hooper: You know what's infectious laughter is watching um Steve Carell's
Luke Neverisky: than it's so good.
Christopher Hooper: audition tape for Anchor Man on YouTube.
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: It's really
Justin Hale: Okay. This
Walden Briarhelm: That's a lot of ports, my
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. That's a lot of
Christopher Hooper: good.
Justin Hale: one This is the
Tyram: out.
Walden Briarhelm: guy.
Justin Hale: guy by So these little Can I make this bigger? Yeah.
Luke Neverisky: ports.
Justin Hale: See these little crazy ports over here? 10 gig ports. Um, so the router can plug a a 10 gigabit connection straight to this switch and then it can pass that locally to all of these.
Luke Neverisky: Mhm.
Justin Hale: And then these four here that are the like separated out on this graph, the PoE++ makes it to where it can pass 2.5 gigs over that versus just a gigabit on these others. And then these are also powered. So I can run um I can run off of these to my uh access points for Wi-Fi and they don't have that. That's all they need is the plug and then they're powered and
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. Huh?
Justin Hale: everything. I think they run what is POE++ is like 52 watts. Uh something like that from the actual plug itself. Pretty crazy. Yeah. Then from that up into the attic, I'm going to put this dude in there. This is going to run uh one of the access points and then all of the connections into our bedrooms.
Walden Briarhelm: Do you do you do you have like ceiling
Luke Neverisky: slicks.
Justin Hale: This thing
Walden Briarhelm: mounted uh access points? So that is
Justin Hale: looks Yeah. Uh
Walden Briarhelm: what would run it. Yeah, I see. Do you have your own
Luke Neverisky: Gotcha.
Justin Hale: yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: CCTV then? Not not
Justin Hale: Uh I do not know. We use Wise
Walden Briarhelm: yet.
Justin Hale: C. Uh these dudes. I got two of these in the
Luke Neverisky: Huh?
Justin Hale: house mounted just like that.
Luke Neverisky: Okay. Yeah, it's pretty discreet. Just looks like a fire detector basically.
Christopher Hooper: Hello.
Justin Hale: Yep, you do
Luke Neverisky: Huh. Nice.
Justin Hale: indeed.
Luke Neverisky: Um, no, that's
Justin Hale: Goodness, that's
Luke Neverisky: cool.
Justin Hale: fun. Me and my wife can play co-op
Luke Neverisky: Um, I'm just
Justin Hale: games in any room of the house through uh
Tyram: Oh
Luke Neverisky: tell your wife plays golf games with
Justin Hale: Steam. She does
Tyram: yeah, more
Walden Briarhelm: Who's
Justin Hale: indeed. We're playing Enchanted right now. I in Enchanted. It's like an overcooked but with more of like a
Tyram: games. Okay, so is it like you have the kitchen stuff from
Walden Briarhelm: better?
Luke Neverisky: you.
Justin Hale: fantasy spin to
Tyram: Over Coach, but like other like in related chores that you have to do?
Justin Hale: it. Um, so you have like steaks to cook for the food part, but then you can make potions and then you can make potions into the stakes. Uh, and then it gets complicated with front of house stuff. So like the people are like different uh races and
Ali Leonard: Hello.
Justin Hale: you have to set them up uh for diversity. So like two of the same races can't sit next to each other. They have to be separated and they have like their crest like a sun or a moon or whatever it is um like set them accordingly. And then there's uh there's magpies that come in and try and steal the food if it sits too long. And then there's these little like ninja cats that come in and try and steal the money out of your
Christopher Hooper: What are you talking
Tyram: That sounds like a lot of spinning
Christopher Hooper: about?
Justin Hale: bank. Talking about I'm talking about the uh
Tyram: plates.
Justin Hale: the information you leaked about tonight's
Tyram: No, that's a whole
Luke Neverisky: Um,
Christopher Hooper: What are you even talking
Tyram: genre of games. Like it's I don't know what you would call it like
Justin Hale: session.
Tyram: uh stress core because I don't see how they're fun to play at all.
Justin Hale: That is a great
Tyram: But I've seen a whole bunch of games like that. Like Overcooked, I guess, is kind of like the the
Christopher Hooper: about?
Tyram: the genre definer,
Luke Neverisky: Yeah, dude. Overcooked.
Justin Hale: question. Yeah, it's a
Tyram: but
Luke Neverisky: Overcook pisses me off so much because I'm just like, who designed this kitchen? This
Justin Hale: coincidence.
Ali Leonard: What's
Tyram: Well, yeah. I mean, like you're on like
Luke Neverisky: kitchen is clearly inefficient.
Tyram: floating rafts that have to like align before you're allowed to move stuff
Justin Hale: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: happening?
Tyram: between different parts of the
Luke Neverisky: I know. I'm just like I reject this game because I wouldn't have set this kitchen up anyway.
Justin Hale: Enchanted is um less stressful than Overcooked in my
Tyram: kitchen.
Justin Hale: opinion. There's a lot going on, but like I hate the the overcooked thing of like the environment moving and just like randomly messing with you. I hate
Tyram: Well, I understand that like if you're going to have different
Justin Hale: that.
Tyram: levels, there has to be some meaningful distinction between them. And like from a gameplay perspective, like they're going to make it harder, not easier, right? But but yeah, it's one of those things
Justin Hale: Sure.
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Tyram: where like if you're like trying to understand the internal logic of the like restaurant, it it's absurd, right? Oh,
Christopher Hooper: You know,
Justin Hale: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: that would be an interesting restaurant design where the concept is that it's really hard to cook there.
Luke Neverisky: Mhm.
Tyram: well, man. I just would love to go to a restaurant. The waiter's like, "Okay, we're going to f****** try, but we cannot make any promises." You know, we got to wait for the particle to accelerator to stop
Justin Hale: What the
Tyram: running before we're allowed to like move stuff between parts of the
Justin Hale: f***?
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Justin Hale: you get hired on at that kitchen. They're like, "All right, sign all of these releases. You uh you can't sue us if a swinging stove knocks you off of
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Justin Hale: the knocks you off of the treehouse and you fall to your
Tyram: kitchen.
Justin Hale: death. If you get stuck in the portal, we're not held liable.
Tyram: If a yeti reaches through the window and pulls you out into the the tundra, then like that's not on
Christopher Hooper: Hey, if your restaurant's near the
Justin Hale: Yes.
Tyram: us. Well, the in addition to like
Christopher Hooper: tundra.
Justin Hale: Um the streaming
Tyram: the way the kitchen is set up, a lot of times the location is pretty ridiculous as well.
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Tyram: Like you're on a river or like, you know, you're over like a volcano or something like
Christopher Hooper: How is
Justin Hale: client. That's true.
Christopher Hooper: uh Christina's
Justin Hale: Um, so Christina is better. About three days in,
Tyram: that.
Christopher Hooper: health?
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Justin Hale: Thea got it and then five days in from there,
Tyram: Wow.
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Have you gotten it
Justin Hale: Olly got it. Um, I don't think so. I haven't felt great, but like I haven't had any of the symptoms they've
Tyram: Well, as long as you're okay for the next like 2 and 1
Christopher Hooper: yet?
Justin Hale: had.
Tyram: half to 3 hours, that's all that really
Justin Hale: Um, mine's been mine's been much more muted from there. So, I don't I don't think I have
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Oh my
Justin Hale: the flu because they had full on like they still have fever
Walden Briarhelm: Did you get
Luke Neverisky: Damn.
Christopher Hooper: god.
Justin Hale: 103 and and
Tyram: matters.
Walden Briarhelm: Did you get tested? Was it influenza
Justin Hale: sweats. No, I didn't
Walden Briarhelm: A?
Justin Hale: get we didn't get tested, but um it's a it's the tellt tell signs of the
Walden Briarhelm: Okay. Oh, yeah. It swept It swept through
Christopher Hooper: And that's what's going
Justin Hale: flu and
Walden Briarhelm: here, too. Yeah, I had it through New Year's and that
Justin Hale: going
Walden Briarhelm: was I just slept a lot. I didn't I didn't
Christopher Hooper: around. Do do y'all sub subscribe to the local
Walden Briarhelm: move. Is that a
Christopher Hooper: epidemiologist? There's like a
Justin Hale: yeah
Walden Briarhelm: word?
Christopher Hooper: newsletter called the local epidemiologist and she uh she does like one of my favorite things that she does is like the like virus uh report card and basically she was saying like we're like on the rising action of like
Justin Hale: Oh,
Christopher Hooper: a really bad flu season and it's really bad because there
Justin Hale: heat.
Christopher Hooper: are a couple different uh strains and this one switched from K to J strain like in October. So all the peop all the like vaccines that were for it and stuff like are not the right strain and it's like one that we haven't had in a while. So everyone's immunity is like gone. Um which is what's making it like a really
Walden Briarhelm: Yeah, it
Luke Neverisky: Huh?
Christopher Hooper: bad flu
Walden Briarhelm: swept through a couple different people I know's households and
Christopher Hooper: season.
Walden Briarhelm: did the same five to seven day hop from one person to the
Luke Neverisky: Yikes.
Walden Briarhelm: next.
Justin Hale: Yeah. I'm I'm trying so hard to hold out. I'm hoping that like what I have is some sort of exposure to it and not just like full on getting it. I'm going to be so mad if like I get like actually full on sick
Walden Briarhelm: to
Justin Hale: this weekend because I've stuffy nose, headache. I've been tired, but like once I'm up and I, you know, blow my nose and do a nutty pot and take some aspirin like I'm good to
Walden Briarhelm: be I have I I
Christopher Hooper: Mhm. Yeah.
Justin Hale: go. They're not. They're very much not.
Walden Briarhelm: will give you the hope that that is how I experienced it just extreme
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Hi
Walden Briarhelm: exhaustion. for me. But like everybody that I've spoken to
Justin Hale: So,
Walden Briarhelm: has the full diarrhea, throwing up, super high fevers, all of it. And I'm like, that's just
Christopher Hooper: You're
Walden Briarhelm: terrible. And these people are sick again already with another like what you're describing something much more
Christopher Hooper: cool.
Justin Hale: Yeah, this is the first time that Thea's gotten like hardcore sick, too. So, that's been rough because she's never like she doesn't know what this
Walden Briarhelm: mild.
Justin Hale: feels like. And she was pushing almost 104 degree
Christopher Hooper: Oh jeez, that's not
Justin Hale: fever. So, there were some nights where one of us is hopping in the car. So, we got it down thankfully. The Tylenol made it made it go down
Luke Neverisky: Yeah, that's wild because you would start
Justin Hale: to 99 or whatever. So, we were good,
Walden Briarhelm: Oh F.
Luke Neverisky: like hallucinating at that point, right?
Christopher Hooper: good. Jeez.
Justin Hale: but Oh, she started to That's why That's why we knew that she had a high fever because she was asleep and she woke up thinking that um uh Christina's mom was
Luke Neverisky: Yeah,
Justin Hale: here because she was like, "Nana, I want Nana." And we're like, "Dude, it's
Walden Briarhelm: Perfect.
Christopher Hooper: Did
Justin Hale: 10 o'clock at night. What are you talking about?"
Luke Neverisky: right. Did I f****** stutter
Christopher Hooper: I
Justin Hale: Yeah.
Luke Neverisky: in
Christopher Hooper: stutter?
Justin Hale: So
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, Jasmine had it pretty bad. Like we were all like kind of sick basically the three weeks of like Christmas break. So like I I was sick like the week before and then Jasmine was sick the last two weeks of it. It's like oh cool well that's
Justin Hale: yeah, I don't think
Christopher Hooper: great.
Justin Hale: I got sick. when they did. So, we went to Columbus uh after Christmas. We did like a a little mini vacay in Columbus. We went to Cosai and Legoland
Christopher Hooper: Oh,
Justin Hale: and all those different places. And I knew that going to all
Christopher Hooper: cool.
Justin Hale: these kid places, I was going to get sick. So, I was like hyper vision. I'm not touching anything. If I touch something, my
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Justin Hale: hands stay far away from my face. Um I
Christopher Hooper: Lots of handwashing.
Justin Hale: was a freak about it. Yeah. And as soon as we got home is when Christina got sick. And I was like, "You 100% got sick
Tyram: see touching
Justin Hale: at the museum. No doubt about
Ali Leonard: Ready?
Justin Hale: it." Yeah. So, I've I've been quarantined uh for the longest time. I was quarantined to the main floor by myself. So, uh have you guys heard of the show Wandla on Apple TV?
Christopher Hooper: Nope.
Justin Hale: So, uh, it's a kids show that's based off of a book, and
Tyram: There. Hey.
Justin Hale: me and Olly watched almost the whole thing because he and I were
Ali Leonard: There you
Justin Hale: camped out down here before he got sick. And then he ended up
Christopher Hooper: Good
Justin Hale: getting sick before we finished the last two episodes.
Ali Leonard: go.
Justin Hale: So, rather than watch it without him, I went out and bought the damn book. And uh in the last two days I read through the whole first one and I'm like what 10% through the second one and I bought
Christopher Hooper: job. Nice.
Justin Hale: it this afternoon. They're good. They're good
Christopher Hooper: What type of show is
Justin Hale: little kids books. Um it's a it's a CGI animated uh show made by uh what's his name? John Lacier. So the the director guy that used to make all
Ali Leonard: Hallelujah. Thank you.
Christopher Hooper: it?
Justin Hale: the Pixar movies. Um so it's got like sort of a Pixar-ish feel. Um, and the premise of the whole
Christopher Hooper: Okay.
Justin Hale: show is that uh this little girl is in um what's called a sanctuary. It's like an underground shelter. Um, and she's growing up in that shelter with a
Ali Leonard: Never
Tyram: You got cut off
Walden Briarhelm: She's here.
Justin Hale: robot as like basically a mom out of the sanctuary
Tyram: in the middle of saying
Luke Neverisky: Oh, which is funny cuz you kind of sounded like a
Justin Hale: up. Well,
Tyram: robot.
Justin Hale: Oh.
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Justin Hale: Um,
Ali Leonard: know.
Luke Neverisky: robot.
Justin Hale: welfare. And she wants to leave and she's trying so hard to get out and like find other people because she's the only human she's ever known. Uh, and then um something breaks into the sanctuary and starts blowing stuff up. So, very quickly she has to leave. Um, and everything that she had been like training for in the sanctuary is basically like to rebuild society and go out and, you know, expose once it's been gone. So like here's the things that you can look out for and like
Ali Leonard: Thank
Justin Hale: lions and tigers and here's how you survive and stuff. So when she gets out into
Ali Leonard: you.
Justin Hale: the world, it's not the world that they had left. So
Ali Leonard: I've seen clicks like that. It's really
Justin Hale: um, like crazy. It's a fun show. It's a cool little show. Ollie liked it a bunch.
Walden Briarhelm: And you guys also watched all of Avatar the Last Air Bender, right? Oh,
Justin Hale: No, I tried once again
Walden Briarhelm: okay. All right.
Justin Hale: and he was like, I don't want to watch that right now.
Ali Leonard: cute.
Tyram: Who cares what he wants? Watch Avatar the Last Airman. Watch it without him. You You'll enjoy it watching it without him if you
Walden Briarhelm: He's going to hear you talking about
Justin Hale: So, I don't doubt it. Yeah, since I've never seen it before, if I'm going to watch it, I thought it'd be a cool thing to
Ali Leonard: Thank
Tyram: have. It probably would be, but if he's
Walden Briarhelm: it.
Justin Hale: watch with
Tyram: going to be obstinate about it, you need somehow you need to watch it. It's the most important thing
Walden Briarhelm: I'm going to this party where we're all going to watch Avatar and eat
Ali Leonard: you.
Walden Briarhelm: pizza. It's going to be the best. But only I'm going. It's a terrible choice. Don't do
Justin Hale: him. Somebody else has a here, right?
Tyram: here.
Walden Briarhelm: that. What's
Luke Neverisky: What's
Justin Hale: Wasn't there somebody else in this group that hasn't
Walden Briarhelm: that?
Justin Hale: seen Avatar? Okay, that's what I
Ali Leonard: I watched it because it was a homework assignment and I did
Walden Briarhelm: You got
Ali Leonard: it. No, I mean it was a homework assignment from
Walden Briarhelm: you got graded on watching that. Oh, yes. Yes. Well, you're
Luke Neverisky: up? and airport here. I never did my
Ali Leonard: here. That was years
Tyram: Yeah. Well, I guess it's pretty
Walden Briarhelm: passing. A
Luke Neverisky: homework assignments growing
Justin Hale: thought.
Ali Leonard: ago. But thank
Tyram: clear which one of you is the best and it's
Ali Leonard: you. Finally, it's been
Tyram: Alec.
Walden Briarhelm: A+. Finally,
Luke Neverisky: up. I know my
Tyram: Well, I just I hope you enjoy
Walden Briarhelm: it's been
Tyram: being there at the bottom of the totem pole because you are stuck there and you're never
Ali Leonard: said.
Tyram: getting
Luke Neverisky: place.
Justin Hale: Oh gosh.
Tyram: out.
Justin Hale: Um, Luke, if you want to get your wife into gaming, uh, co-op games on Steam are the best way
Luke Neverisky: Mhm. Do you have a
Justin Hale: to do
Luke Neverisky: recommendation? Okay, please
Justin Hale: it. I have tons of recommendations. I can send you a
Ali Leonard: We like it takes
Tyram: Yeah. Isn't that I was about to ask about
Luke Neverisky: do.
Justin Hale: list. There's a bunch of it. Takes two is
Tyram: that one. Isn't that the one where it's like basically about like a couple that's about to get a
Ali Leonard: two. Yeah. And she is a total
Tyram: divorce?
Justin Hale: great. Yeah. So,
Ali Leonard: b****. He is a
Tyram: Yeah. He's a total doofus
Ali Leonard: twofist, but she's a b****. And so like the entire time, cuz we're almost done. We have like an hour left. And I was just like, I'm so sorry
Tyram: though.
Ali Leonard: she said that. And then he would say something and I'm like, okay, well that was a little stupid that he said that. So I hope they get
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Tyram: I honestly I've watched a playthrough of it and it's like I think they did a good job making it like I guess let's call it realistic because they
Ali Leonard: divorced. Oh yeah. No, absolutely. It's obviously the kids
Tyram: do both suck. Yeah. Well, no it's not because like they're bad parents. I
Walden Briarhelm: Damn.
Justin Hale: talking about. It
Ali Leonard: fault.
Tyram: mean, neither of them batted an eye about traumatizing their
Justin Hale: always
Ali Leonard: That's the joke
Tyram: child by like gutting their favorite toy in front of them with the
Ali Leonard: though. Like every time the kids on
Tyram: intention of making the kid cry. They're bad
Ali Leonard: on screen I go like it's all your f****** fault,
Tyram: people.
Ali Leonard: dude. She can't hear
Tyram: That poor kid. She's been through
Justin Hale: Don't you know situation that's
Ali Leonard: me. It's always her fault. But when we're
Justin Hale: always the kid's
Ali Leonard: done with that, we're going to try what's the other one they did? Split
Tyram: enough. Oh, okay. So, I read
Ali Leonard: fiction.
Tyram: a uh I read a comic book one time where like there's this one character who they were like kind of showing the life story of and like her power was that like she always
Justin Hale: fault?
Tyram: knows when people are lying and like um it causes you know trouble apparently like it causes issues for the parents from time to time and like her dad sits her down one time and he's all like um he's telling him that like hey your mom and I are getting a divorce but it's not your fault. And then like her but then like she's all like, "Yeah, I can always tell when people are lying even when they don't think that they are." And I was like, "Whoa,
Justin Hale: Good night.
Walden Briarhelm: Oh, way to break that wall down.
Tyram: damn." But she doesn't like say anything to the dad. Like he was trying to like he did believe it, right? But he was just apparently wrong about it, which
Ali Leonard: Oh,
Tyram: was heavy
Walden Briarhelm: Nice. Damn.
Tyram: blow.
Walden Briarhelm: I hope things are going well over there, Toeer.
Ali Leonard: Have you played split fiction,
Justin Hale: Uh, no, we have not. We bought it um over the Christmas break when it was on crazy
Ali Leonard: Justin?
Justin Hale: sale, but we've not had a chance to play it yet. We bought it for the
Ali Leonard: Yeah, that's what we play
Justin Hale: Switch.
Ali Leonard: on
Justin Hale: on switch one or switch
Ali Leonard: when Oh, no,
Tyram: Well, I mean, yes,
Justin Hale: two. Does it play on switch one? How does How does it look on
Ali Leonard: no, no, no, no, no. He's getting split fiction for a different console. We played it takes two. We play it takes two and switch one.
Tyram: obviously.
Justin Hale: there? Oh, okay. Gotcha. Yeah, I was going to say I think
Ali Leonard: Yeah, for SH2.
Justin Hale: Split Fiction was only available for uh Switch
Ali Leonard: Yeah. And I think it's available on like
Justin Hale: 2.
Ali Leonard: either the Xbox
Justin Hale: It's on all platforms.
Ali Leonard: whatever Xbox whatever we
Walden Briarhelm: of the Xbox whatever. That's that's how I feel. I don't have one anymore and I'm like there's too many
Tyram: Xbox has done a catastrophic
Justin Hale: Yeah,
Ali Leonard: have. At least the PlayStation kind of
Tyram: job of naming their
Justin Hale: there's Oh,
Ali Leonard: goes in
Walden Briarhelm: versions.
Justin Hale: there they don't care about Xbox anymore. Have you heard about everything
Ali Leonard: order.
Luke Neverisky: Yes.
Justin Hale: that's going on with Xbox right now? They're
Tyram: consoles.
Luke Neverisky: Nope.
Justin Hale: essentially just letting it go. They don't they don't care to
Ali Leonard: Oh,
Walden Briarhelm: There's no more
Justin Hale: continue with it anymore. I mean, there was They just don't care about it. Like, once they started making Game Pass and they were like, "Oh my god, we can print money by renting games to people. We don't care about the rest of
Ali Leonard: rippies. Yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: money.
Justin Hale: this." So, they've essentially gutted Xbox and and they're keeping
Ali Leonard: That makes
Walden Briarhelm: and marketing.
Luke Neverisky: That makes
Justin Hale: the name just for uh Game
Luke Neverisky: sense. My Xbox is a Game Pass
Justin Hale: Pass. Yeah. Well, my Xbox is a Moonlight machine now because it's it's powerful
Walden Briarhelm: What
Justin Hale: as s***. It's got um the
Ali Leonard: sense.
Walden Briarhelm: the hell?
Luke Neverisky: machine.
Justin Hale: prioritized wireless frequency for the controllers and it's capable of outputting at, you know, 4K 120 uh FPS. So, like it's doing half of the work for the game streaming. So, um, it's it's a fantastic streaming device for my
Luke Neverisky: Right. That's much better than my
Justin Hale: for my gaming
Luke Neverisky: 10-year-old first generation Xbox One that sometimes takes 10 minutes to boot
Walden Briarhelm: Hell yeah.
Luke Neverisky: up.
Justin Hale: computer. Yeah, they Xbox also did themselves no favors with their stupid naming with Xbox One uh, and then Xbox Series, but then also the iterative ones in between of like the S and the X. And it's like why
Ali Leonard: Wasn't there a 360 in
Luke Neverisky: Yeah, the Xbox Series
Justin Hale: why' you why'd you do that guys? Why'd you do
Tyram: Like I genuinely have a hard time remembering which one is the most
Luke Neverisky: X
Ali Leonard: there? Recent?
Tyram: like up
Luke Neverisky: 360. One's a dorm fridge. That's all
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Luke Neverisky: I
Justin Hale: that
Tyram: to-date.
Luke Neverisky: remember.
Justin Hale: series is the like the newest generation. So there's the series S and the series
Ali Leonard: Get
Tyram: Okay. Which one of those like
Luke Neverisky: Oh,
Justin Hale: X.
Tyram: what's the difference between those
Justin Hale: Um, so the S
Ali Leonard: out.
Justin Hale: is always the like lower quality and the X is
Tyram: two?
Justin Hale: always the higher quality. The X is what they
Luke Neverisky: that's
Justin Hale: call the fridge. That thing right
Tyram: Okay.
Walden Briarhelm: That large black
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Justin Hale: there. It's just little it's just a
Walden Briarhelm: blob looks like a Sonos speaker. Oh, it's only because it's
Justin Hale: monolithic square. Yeah, that's essentially what it looks like. Uh, it's
Walden Briarhelm: blurry.
Justin Hale: honestly it's really good engineering though. Like the way that they have it set up, it's a
Christopher Hooper: I don't want
Justin Hale: perfect little fluid dynamic
Christopher Hooper: to interrupt this. Uh, but do you all want to play some D and
Tyram: Let's do
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: Do you want to play some
Tyram: that very
Walden Briarhelm: Yeah.
Justin Hale: machine. Yeah. Are you
Christopher Hooper: D? I am finally ready. Yes. Uh,
Walden Briarhelm: I have a DND question that came
Christopher Hooper: Zack in the back.
Tyram: thing.
Walden Briarhelm: up in the back. So
Justin Hale: ready?
Ali Leonard: landing?
Walden Briarhelm: Justin kept saying moonlight and sunshine. And I've seen the old joke online about how if a vampire can't be in the sun, but the moon is just reflecting sunlight, is that any different? Uh, I'm curious what your guys' thoughts are on
Ali Leonard: like Indian in real
Tyram: in DND or like in general?
Walden Briarhelm: that. Well, I I guess indeed. I don't know if there's any application
Christopher Hooper: Um, um, I think that the moon god was actually um
Ali Leonard: life.
Christopher Hooper: pretty aligned with vampires. And I think the sun god was
Ali Leonard: Does the light affect vampires
Christopher Hooper: very anti-
Walden Briarhelm: Uh, where you do
Ali Leonard: in D and
Christopher Hooper: vampires. Yeah. Sometimes depends on your
Walden Briarhelm: it? I have no
Ali Leonard: D? We played straw and I just never
Tyram: Oh, sorry. What was the question? I was
Walden Briarhelm: idea. So, it's DND
Christopher Hooper: lore. Yes. I And I believe that there's
Tyram: Um, it
Walden Briarhelm: based. Does light have any effect on vampires in D and
Justin Hale: All
Christopher Hooper: like
Tyram: specifically has to be daylight. Like some spells
Walden Briarhelm: D?
Ali Leonard: remember.
Tyram: um produce light, but vampires don't care. If the if the
Ali Leonard: But in straw there's
Tyram: spell specifically says daylight, then it does hurt
Ali Leonard: no light so it's like who
Christopher Hooper: I think
Ali Leonard: cares? Yeah. But I just meant
Christopher Hooper: there's a DND spell cold
Tyram: vampires. There is a DVD still called Daylight.
Ali Leonard: like sunlight.
Christopher Hooper: daylight.
Tyram: There's also a sunburst and sunbeam that specifically
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Tyram: say they deal daylight. Um, so yeah, those f******
Justin Hale: right.
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, it's because the sun hates
Tyram: vampires. Yeah, the sun
Christopher Hooper: vampires.
Tyram: does specifically hate vampires.
Luke Neverisky: Mhm. The sun rises every day and says, "f***
Tyram: I also thought it would be a fun bit of lore that uh the Winter King
Walden Briarhelm: Awesome. Got it.
Luke Neverisky: vampires.
Tyram: specifically hates vampires because they're kind of like the opposite of him in a lot of ways because um he goes around at night to benevolently bestow gifts in people's homes whereas vampires stalk the night and harm people and uh they are not allowed to enter people's homes. So
Christopher Hooper: The only gift they give at night is
Tyram: like he f****** hates
Ali Leonard: That would make sense by Caspian
Christopher Hooper: vampirism. One of the worst you gifts you could give to
Tyram: vampires. Yeah. which is a pretty s*****
Ali Leonard: says first lieutenant since she has like a necklace of vampire
Luke Neverisky: What a great
Ali Leonard: teeth.
Christopher Hooper: people. Oh s***. All I got for Christmas was vampirism.
Tyram: gift. That's the thing that made
Luke Neverisky: gift.
Justin Hale: I keep on giving. And we're
Ali Leonard: Yeah,
Tyram: the Winter King uh see uh Caspian as a good recruit was
Ali Leonard: like her blood lust for
Tyram: her hatred of vampires. Well, like she goes around, does good deeds, she also hates vampires. He could
Ali Leonard: vampires. Tick, tick, tick all the
Tyram: not get those like get that contract out fast
Ali Leonard: boxes. And he doesn't really have a lot of
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Pirate. All
Tyram: enough, you
Ali Leonard: followers.
Christopher Hooper: right.
Walden Briarhelm: Well, thank you guys for answering about Moonlight Sunlight. I I don't know my vampire lore of DND
Christopher Hooper: Well, the cool thing about lore in
Walden Briarhelm: at
Christopher Hooper: a campaign, especially as a DM, is you can make it
Tyram: know.
Walden Briarhelm: all.
Christopher Hooper: all up. Um, but we already have prior that vampires
Justin Hale: Our
Ali Leonard: Exact some are better
Christopher Hooper: um maybe have a moon thing and some are pedophiles.
Ali Leonard: vials. Blackwell specifically
Tyram: Well, Blackwell is a pedophile, I
Ali Leonard: and anybody with the name
Walden Briarhelm: Magic.
Justin Hale: pedophiles. Well, all all vampires are
Ali Leonard: Blackwell. I mean
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Okay. Um I didn't
Tyram: think.
Christopher Hooper: see that but
Tyram: Well, I guess the relative age of a vampire is
Ali Leonard: probably just
Tyram: always drastically higher than any mortal they might have a relationship with. So
Ali Leonard: saying and some of them some of them try the blood of 12y
Tyram: in that sense, yeah, they are kind of uh robbing the cradle no
Ali Leonard: olds.
Christopher Hooper: okay.
Tyram: miraable age gap no matter what,
Ali Leonard: So
Tyram: you know, for the vampires
Justin Hale: bad.
Christopher Hooper: I mean, like some
Walden Briarhelm: this conversation.
Christopher Hooper: some vampires might have like, you know, a weird age
Walden Briarhelm: Amazing.
Ali Leonard: So, I mean,
Christopher Hooper: gap while not being pedophiles
Ali Leonard: some
Christopher Hooper: cuz you can I think you can have a relationship with a
Tyram: relatively. Okay.
Ali Leonard: might be like
Christopher Hooper: 32year-old and it's like kind of weird.
Ali Leonard: 952. It's still a baby
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah.
Tyram: Well, well, I guess it does occur to me
Luke Neverisky: relatively
Ali Leonard: though.
Tyram: that there might be other long lived things in the fantasy setting that are perhaps even older than the vampire. Like an elf could very easily
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, a dwarf could be a young
Tyram: be older than like a human who got turned vampire, you
Luke Neverisky: speaking.
Ali Leonard: Sure. A goblin. That's just Oh my
Christopher Hooper: vampire who could be older than a young vampire, too. But if you see a goblin and a vampire
Tyram: know?
Ali Leonard: god. Always always something wrong. You
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Christopher Hooper: together, that's gross. Always bad.
Ali Leonard: need to save that goblin.
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Tyram: I mean, any relationship with a goblin is a bad
Walden Briarhelm: That's
Justin Hale: Hold on, hold
Ali Leonard: I said save the
Walden Briarhelm: But it's not just the Australian
Justin Hale: on, hold on
Christopher Hooper: I thought we had some beautiful family dynamics going
Walden Briarhelm: man.
Justin Hale: now.
Ali Leonard: goblin. Absolutely. All goblin lives
Tyram: relationship.
Christopher Hooper: on. Um, okay. So, you know,
Ali Leonard: matter. Someone doesn't agree with
Christopher Hooper: um, we're going to dive in. Um, people have been a little
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: that.
Christopher Hooper: busy, um, over the over the month or so. And we're going to start in the market ward where we find Liliana and Ma. Currently, uh they are in Ratty's Pand um where uh Bernardo is teaching how to make some some
Ali Leonard: Oh
Christopher Hooper: pizza with um and Liliana are enjoying it as they see
Ali Leonard: yeah.
Christopher Hooper: um a young dwarf pass by or um they see Chalk Rock passing by and he chimes in and says, "Hey everybody, how uh how's it going. Everybody doing well? No
Luke Neverisky: Oh,
Christopher Hooper: uh
Tyram: The chalk rock age like 20 years. What the
Christopher Hooper: no uh funny business,
Tyram: f***?
Christopher Hooper: right? And
Walden Briarhelm: We are just learning to make Better.
Luke Neverisky: just
Christopher Hooper: uh and this um this isn't unusual to your characters, but maybe unusual to the players as you see a very um a very confident uh chalk rock walking
Luke Neverisky: Nope.
Christopher Hooper: in. chest held high. Um, and he's been uh basically running this city with uh
Luke Neverisky: Heat.
Christopher Hooper: Grim Jaw for the past uh few weeks uh pretty
Ali Leonard: Is he taking
Christopher Hooper: smoothly. Yeah. So, uh um
Ali Leonard: steroids
Christopher Hooper: You don't believe so? He's been working a lot with Olivia.
Ali Leonard: on intonation and presenting
Christopher Hooper: Um and Yes. and working
Ali Leonard: himself?
Christopher Hooper: out. Yeah. So, uh, I'd like a couple pies for the boys in the, uh, the, uh, police office. If, uh, if you can whip that up
Ali Leonard: It's
Tyram: Rock chalk rock is like Patrick Warbertton
Ali Leonard: worse. Yeah. Like it's somehow
Tyram: now. Like what the
Justin Hale: is order for
Ali Leonard: worse. Squeak them. Squeaking. Squeaking.
Christopher Hooper: there,
Tyram: f***? Somehow you found
Ali Leonard: Squeaking.
Tyram: a way for me to like this character even
Christopher Hooper: in a different
Tyram: less.
Walden Briarhelm: I assume that you want the all meat
Justin Hale: Cusco.
Christopher Hooper: way. Oh, yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: pizza. Oh, for you and your
Christopher Hooper: Yep. That's right, Ma. The
Walden Briarhelm: boys. Ah,
Luke Neverisky: What's this?
Walden Briarhelm: yes. Be right on
Christopher Hooper: usual. Thanks, bud. How's
Ali Leonard: So I see your lessons
Christopher Hooper: uh Yeah.
Ali Leonard: with Olivia are going well.
Luke Neverisky: So
Christopher Hooper: And uh yeah, you see um because yall
Walden Briarhelm: it.
Ali Leonard: Maybe I
Christopher Hooper: are there for the brunch pizza rush.
Luke Neverisky: impressive.
Ali Leonard: guess I'd help behind the counter. They
Christopher Hooper: Um you see that he's come in on with a muscle tea. Um very swole looking. Um looks like he's been uh binge pressing a lot with uh with
Ali Leonard: need
Christopher Hooper: Olivia. Yep. Uh we just finished our morning
Ali Leonard: this water aerobics.
Christopher Hooper: routine. Uh she always uh we've been at it for about 4 hours now. Pretty sore, but
Ali Leonard: Yeah,
Christopher Hooper: uh getting some incredible
Ali Leonard: only four hours.
Christopher Hooper: gains. Yeah,
Ali Leonard: It's okay. That was I mean
Christopher Hooper: we're going to be back later for D for the leg.
Ali Leonard: for Olivia that feels, you know, she's usually up at five
Luke Neverisky: She she
Ali Leonard: or four. Yeah, you
Luke Neverisky: doesn't or at least two days, but it sounds like you're on
Ali Leonard: got to start a flight for
Christopher Hooper: Oh yeah, she's so nice. She
Luke Neverisky: that.
Christopher Hooper: always makes the the muffins before I come in. It's
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: sure. I got you on
Christopher Hooper: really good.
Ali Leonard: those O brand ones. Super
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Uh well, anyway, see you around the
Ali Leonard: good
Christopher Hooper: uh police office. If uh you need any help on anything,
Ali Leonard: now.
Christopher Hooper: uh let me know. I uh I'm working with Rim Jot to get this place in tiptop shape. And uh yeah, I'll see you guys
Luke Neverisky: You're doing
Christopher Hooper: around. Oh, thanks you
Tyram: Just to make sure
Ali Leonard: Okay.
Christopher Hooper: too. That's right. That's right.
Tyram: Silus isn't there, right? Okay.
Walden Briarhelm: Okay. Okay.
Luke Neverisky: great.
Justin Hale: He took me and you out of the scene.
Ali Leonard: for some
Christopher Hooper: Um
Tyram: Okay. Yeah, it's suspicious, I got to
Christopher Hooper: um across the across the way you
Tyram: say.
Christopher Hooper: see um there is a workshop um that's been um put together and you're seeing they're now hanging the symbol of Tony a uh silver wrench
Ali Leonard: reason.
Christopher Hooper: against an explosion of green background. Um and um you haven't seen these these folks around uh but they're opening the doors this morning and you just happen to notice this
Ali Leonard: I ran across the
Christopher Hooper: time. Um yeah, it is a
Ali Leonard: street.
Christopher Hooper: Hey ma'am. Uh how's it going? Uh this a this a workshop. Uh what can
Ali Leonard: Do you guys pray
Christopher Hooper: I help you with?
Ali Leonard: to
Christopher Hooper: Oh yeah, machine got
Ali Leonard: Tony? He's
Christopher Hooper: toned every
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Ali Leonard: real. Like
Christopher Hooper: day. Well, we we believe
Ali Leonard: I was, you guys are not going to believe this and maybe you will. I was told by a sheep that I need to pray to Tony and Tony should be the God that I pray to.
Christopher Hooper: so.
Ali Leonard: Yeah, it was a very cool sheep. Very cool talking
Christopher Hooper: Good shape. Good shape. You uh
Ali Leonard: sheep. I'm a race car
Christopher Hooper: What do you do? You work with
Ali Leonard: driver. Yeah, I work on my car. El
Christopher Hooper: machinery. Wait, what's your
Ali Leonard: Smith. Oh god.
Christopher Hooper: name? Else with Cooper.
Ali Leonard: Yeah. Yeah. I
Christopher Hooper: Wow. You're You were banned,
Ali Leonard: didn't do any of it and I was framed and I'm going to get my name cleared. So, please don't hold that against me. Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: right? What was the deal with the the
Ali Leonard: Yeah, there was a lot. I don't know what happened. It was like one
Christopher Hooper: prostitutes?
Ali Leonard: day and like for I think I was like everyone was against me, even my best friends. And I felt very attacked, but I was definitely afraid. There was like prostitutes. They said that I like stuffed a t-shirt in somebody's car pipe and it blew it up. And I don't
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: know.
Christopher Hooper: Mhm. Yeah, I heard that. And like the financial crimes were like
Ali Leonard: Yeah, which is crazy because I don't even know my own
Christopher Hooper: particularly egregious.
Ali Leonard: passwords to my
Christopher Hooper: Oh, you know what? I use the
Ali Leonard: finances. You know what?
Christopher Hooper: same one every time. Easy to
Ali Leonard: Yeah, that may have been what happened. Dang
Christopher Hooper: remember. Well, you doing
Ali Leonard: it. Fine. I've got a posi and we're we kind of helped bring the city back. Um my friend's learning pizza across the street. Yeah. Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: okay. Oh, at
Ali Leonard: He'd never had pizza before, which is crazy.
Christopher Hooper: Ratty's
Ali Leonard: Yeah. And so he's learning how to make pizza and it's like his destiny and it's pretty great.
Christopher Hooper: really. They started serving this like weird soup drink over there. It's awful.
Ali Leonard: Um I have not
Christopher Hooper: Uh you I used to go there for lunch every
Ali Leonard: partaken
Christopher Hooper: day and now they they call it brown. It
Ali Leonard: drink. Oh, strictly. Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: is chunky and alcoholic in the weirdest
Ali Leonard: Strictly it's a goblin diet
Christopher Hooper: way.
Tyram: Man, Terra out here doing all these
Ali Leonard: thing.
Tyram: triggering things for our characters without us being around to do anything about
Ali Leonard: Yeah. Yeah. It's not for me, but my friend I do have a friend that's a goblin and he's very into it. Apparently reminds him of home a
Walden Briarhelm: What
Justin Hale: somewhere. Bru's the hair on Brew's arms is just
Ali Leonard: lot. You're not supposed to have it cold, apparently. I don't
Walden Briarhelm: the
Ali Leonard: know. That's what Bruce
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Yeah,
Justin Hale: sticking.
Ali Leonard: said. I mean, I don't have it ever, so I
Christopher Hooper: that makes sense.
Ali Leonard: don't Yeah,
Christopher Hooper: Um, Bernardo's been pushing it really hard. Uh,
Ali Leonard: I'll I'll talk to them. I'll talk I'll kind of see what's going
Christopher Hooper: don't know what's got I think we're going to do a a gathering datonia later. Uh, probably build an engine if you want to
Ali Leonard: on. Absolutely. Can I bring anything?
Christopher Hooper: join. Uh, yeah, we can always use extra aluminum.
Ali Leonard: Absolutely.
Christopher Hooper: Um, okay, cool. Yeah. Yeah, I think it'll be uh tonight at Hey, Macy, where's the Tony thing tonight? Oh, okay. Yeah, at Rebecca's. Got it. Yeah. So, we'll be at Rebecca's tonight at uh it's uh I think the apartment uh and she points down the
Ali Leonard: Absolutely.
Christopher Hooper: street. Um there are some apartments that are above some of the businesses in the market word. Uh and she points like, "Yeah, we usually meet uh cuz it's so central and it's right off the main throwair. Uh you see there, uh Rebecca's apartment is Yeah. Uh so we'll meet there probably around dinner time. Um we usually grab a pizza and then head over. Um do you want to join? I think we'll
Ali Leonard: Right.
Christopher Hooper: um I think we're planning to make like a I think someone said they had a crystal and we're going to try to make an engine with it and stuff.
Ali Leonard: That's it. Do you know I
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Christopher Hooper: Um
Justin Hale: Spark shop guy hates brown
Ali Leonard: die? Do you kill my new friend now that I've
Justin Hale: so he must die.
Ali Leonard: finally found somebody that worships my god? I'm so mad at you. Yeah.
Justin Hale: Oh, machine God
Ali Leonard: If he turns out to be the big bad of me so
Christopher Hooper: die. Uh but I didn't I didn't introduce myself. I'm Stacy. This is my shop. Uh we build um we're we do a lot of like fabrication stuff. So if you ever need anything like fabricated, welded together, or anything, let me know.
Justin Hale: Tony.
Ali Leonard: then
Christopher Hooper: Um yeah, we got that LA here. Um cool. Well, see you
Ali Leonard: yeah absolutely I'll be there
Christopher Hooper: tonight then. Cool. It'll be cool to have a Cooper. All right. Uh well, I gotta
Ali Leonard: 100%.
Christopher Hooper: get back to this project. I'll see you later. All
Ali Leonard: Great. Look, there's like a tear going down her face because it's like the first time somebody said that in a long
Christopher Hooper: right.
Ali Leonard: time. She's like, "Great. I'll see you
Christopher Hooper: Um,
Ali Leonard: later."
Christopher Hooper: something. Uh, Hela Sana, give me a perception
Tyram: I like how Stacy seems to like endear himself to the whole party,
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Tyram: but he's like Bru's like number one
Christopher Hooper: check. They don't even know it
Walden Briarhelm: Just
Justin Hale: You must
Ali Leonard: immediately. Have we tried brown
Christopher Hooper: yet.
Tyram: enemy.
Walden Briarhelm: just an engine, bro. Kill
Tyram: He was just an engine, bro, because he's dead and doesn't know it now.
Walden Briarhelm: him.
Luke Neverisky: Um, I got a
Ali Leonard: pizza?
Christopher Hooper: 20. Great.
Walden Briarhelm: It's
Christopher Hooper: Um, so, uh, something that you've been hearing
Justin Hale: die.
Christopher Hooper: a lot around the city is, um, a lot of the haunts that used to not have music, there's now, um, a little bit of smooth jazz that you've
Luke Neverisky: Morning.
Christopher Hooper: seen. um play especially restaurants in the marker ward. It it hums and it seems to have a a rehabilitating a rehabilitating effect on many of the raers. Um seems like introduction to um bulk and smooth jazz some of the um more calming but enjoyable music um has um has stabilized them and allowed them to reintegrate into society. Um, you've noticed that there seems to be a little bit of a a uneasy ceasefire between the upper and higher portions of the High Forge. Um, Helana still seems present somewhere in the deeper reaches of High Forge. Uh, the Underlake still is basically shut off. um the food production there has basically gone off a cliff there. No one can no one trust the water um or anything to be edible that comes out of it. Um so uh you've noticed yeah a lot of that has been happening on the hood. Um, you said you you worked a lot with rehabilitating the city and I think uh you noticed that um people still come and go between the layers, but it's it's kind of these like folks that have um you you knew from your time as Helisana from the height from the um rock scene. Um, but they're able to almost like code switch as they go to work or spend time with their families, but people occasionally sneak off to the to the lower to the lower echelons and enjoy a rock night or two. Um you also see that um throughout your your regular activity that there is the the merchants aren't as busy as they were before. Um they are doing a lot of work to try to reestablish like farms in the countryside um to be able to provide food for the city, but the fact is there's just not as many people in the city, which means there's not as many mouths to feed. Uh the uh the production and export of um of uh violescence has continued and um there have been some really uh strong efforts to continue that mining even with the sometimes disruption by the by the raers.
Luke Neverisky: Interesting. Okay. So, there are Okay. So, there are basically full-time residents of the of Deep Within High Forge on the um under lake there. There are people that moonlight, so to say, there go there and do their own thing, but in their day jobs, they actually have families and whatever. And then there are folks that are just converted for lack of a better word just completely don't even like stay clear
Christopher Hooper: Mhm.
Luke Neverisky: away. They're basically normal.
Christopher Hooper: Mhm. Um and um you have been working a lot in the
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Christopher Hooper: pizza shop, but uh when you have time away from learning how to make uh incredible picacia uh bread, different types of bread sticks, um your own uh I I want to say you develop your own pizza style here. Um what do you think that pizza style would be?
Walden Briarhelm: It is not very popular but uh I I have a vegetarian pizza that I am
Christopher Hooper: Okay. And um
Walden Briarhelm: fond of.
Christopher Hooper: I think the big question is the crust. What style of crust are you running
Walden Briarhelm: I uh do not have a very large mouth. It does not
Christopher Hooper: here? Ooh.
Walden Briarhelm: open wide. So I prefer cracker style
Ali Leonard: Mhm.
Christopher Hooper: Thin thin almost like
Walden Briarhelm: crust. I have heard the customer
Tyram: Did you just say cracker style crust on a pizza? You f******
Walden Briarhelm: say that spin is
Ali Leonard: It's his
Walden Briarhelm: in that it is not
Luke Neverisky: Mhm. That is a
Christopher Hooper: flatbread. It is a thing, isn't
Tyram: freak. It's a f****** Lunchable. What
Walden Briarhelm: very
Luke Neverisky: thing. It is a thing
Ali Leonard: pizza. It's ma
Christopher Hooper: it?
Tyram: the
Luke Neverisky: though. No, it's a thing.
Walden Briarhelm: popular. It is thin and
Luke Neverisky: like a
Ali Leonard: style. Some would
Luke Neverisky: cracker. Some would
Ali Leonard: say it's been said in many
Walden Briarhelm: crunchy. You
Christopher Hooper: Let's see. Oh, apparently that's a there's another style of Chicago
Tyram: f***?
Christopher Hooper: pizza that Chicago tavern style pizza is
Luke Neverisky: say
Ali Leonard: reviews. So they kind of just do the extremes.
Christopher Hooper: apparently like cracker like crust and
Walden Briarhelm: understand? Very thin.
Ali Leonard: Then it's either a soup bowl
Christopher Hooper: square. Yeah.
Tyram: Sometimes this feels like Chicago does things just out of
Walden Briarhelm: Yes. Yeah.
Ali Leonard: or a cracker.
Tyram: spite, you know, like we're
Walden Briarhelm: Yeah. Yeah. Pizzas.
Justin Hale: f*** you. I'm from
Ali Leonard: Thank you everybody.
Christopher Hooper: They
Tyram: gonna
Ali Leonard: Every Chicago's first
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Um, and another thing, um, when you have some free time, you and your, um, you and, uh, Bernardo and, um, Litu do
Ali Leonard: words
Christopher Hooper: some research and you,
Justin Hale: Chicago.
Christopher Hooper: um, have identified some folks that have heard of the Fallen Moon um, outside Greyport um, in the sea near there. Uh, it seems that there are witnesses that saw it like land off the coast, a huge explosion. Um, and it's now like fairly shallow there. Uh, people will sometimes like visit the site. Um, and there's been some re some people that say you can see uh the fallen. Um it it appears that it's taken a human form almost like a fallen angel's uh form um off the coast. Uh and so these are some little tidbits you picked up from customers as you've asked around and and gotten to know people. Um and it seems like um yeah, should be a short jaunt. You might be able to order a boat from Greyport and uh you know check it out. Um there's a little island nearby uh known for its coral reefs. Um and um yeah, might be something to check out
Walden Briarhelm: This is good news. My customers are very
Christopher Hooper: later. Yeah. Nothing nothing to get the tongue wagon
Walden Briarhelm: talkative.
Ali Leonard: very
Christopher Hooper: like a cracker style vegetarian
Luke Neverisky: That's
Ali Leonard: specific. Very
Christopher Hooper: pizza.
Walden Briarhelm: That's a sentence. That's a sentence. Hey, when
Luke Neverisky: right. That's the key to my
Walden Briarhelm: you're recording this part, make make a point to bold that.
Luke Neverisky: heart.
Christopher Hooper: bold. Uh some other tidbits you've
Ali Leonard: specific.
[01:00:00]
Christopher Hooper: collected as you've seen the city or change. Um the iron claws have are now branding themselves as the iron hands. uh with the help of some clever tattoo work. Um you now see uh that um and they they they currently work as basically the um enforcers around the city. Um so far okay. Uh it was a little rough at first. Um there was a little bit of like uh let's figure out what we need to how we interact with each other. But um you know most of the people that were still in the city had basically created life and equilibrated to ironclaw, you know, led life. And so really this this softening of the claw to a hand was um was a welcome return to to uh the Iron Forge that they enjoyed. Um so that seemed to be pretty good. Um now it's at this point we jump to Brew and Silus. Um they find themselves after um a few weeks they have found Helga's apartment and um they are um they have led to believe that there's quite a few notebooks. Apparently Helga was a a viciferous journaler as long as um as well as um who knows what's going to be in there. Uh you see inside uh you see just outside the apartment there's this she basically took the like uh historic brownstone of the commons. Um an absolute gem of an apartment. Uh three stories even even like Olivia has a nice place. This place is like in our money would be like tens of millions of dollars because it has been like immaculately maintained for thousands of years. Um has like the original artistry um that and she took this when the as her
Ali Leonard: What a
Christopher Hooper: residence uh when they when they took over the
Tyram: So people would be at
Ali Leonard: b****.
Tyram: least a little mad if we just like burned it
Christopher Hooper: city. Yeah. Yeah. Probably. I mean, whatever. f*** around and find out,
Tyram: down. I don't know. We'll come up with some way to like tarnish her legacy like or like I don't do something to like postumously make her mad, I guess. Whatever. Okay.
Ali Leonard: You want a rumor spread? I know a little
Tyram: So, but we're looking for these
Ali Leonard: girl.
Tyram: journals. All right.
Christopher Hooper: right?
Tyram: So, um I I guess Silas is probably uh trying to find any of those journals that he can and trying
Christopher Hooper: All
Tyram: to research uh what Helga knew about the dragon orb to see if she knew how to like destroy it or
Luke Neverisky: Nice.
Tyram: seal it or just deal with our uh our evil dragon that we have trapped inside who we still need to deal
Christopher Hooper: right. And uh Justin, would you be looking for
Tyram: with.
Christopher Hooper: anything in particular in her
Tyram: Oh, and money. I'm also looking for for for money
Ali Leonard: Thank
Christopher Hooper: apartment?
Justin Hale: Um, I mean, obviously, yeah, I'm just looking for any journals,
Luke Neverisky: What?
Justin Hale: um, because who knows what's going to have specific information that we need. So, uh, probably just like full
Ali Leonard: you.
Tyram: that
Justin Hale: on, uh, like what what's the word I'm looking for? Uh, like a mole. Just rooting around. If I find anything that's like a textbook or something, I'm just throwing it into a pile in the
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Yeah. Uh why don't you give me both investigation checks?
Tyram: Oh, well,
Justin Hale: middle.
Tyram: maybe I should give Brew the help action. That might work a little
Justin Hale: I only
Christopher Hooper: Um, I'm gonna we're gonna we're going to do
Tyram: better. I have a minus
Justin Hale: have a plus four instigation.
Christopher Hooper: separate separate ones as you both um look through the
Tyram: one. All right. All right. Uh
Justin Hale: Oh,
Christopher Hooper: equipment. All right. Um, we will start with the
Justin Hale: 19
Christopher Hooper: 11. Um, you at one point uh so so you both find many things. Actually, we'll start we'll start with the
Tyram: 11.
Christopher Hooper: 19. Uh, Brew, you find an interesting journal in in the living room. Um, it's all very well organized. Uh, and you see a a reading chair by the fireplace. Um, and it looks like she was researching um a lot of the disruptions in reality. You see some books uh references um by a few physicists, a few um uh archinists that focus on on space-time fabric, stuff like that. And there's one one note that you see uh that she gathered is it says this. It says deep in the mountains to the north there's a rumor of a giant peoples larger than humans that live at the peak of a mountain. My sources tell me of a cave um a cave that disrupts the fabric of reality itself. And within that cave are they they found this ore that has a unique effect on the fabric of reality. My sources say that the tribe is able to meld or work this stone for their own ability to build a starship and have since launched a starship by imbuing it with a soul. And she has a note that this needs some more attention. Um and she and
Justin Hale: No
Christopher Hooper: this is under a section called reality stones. Um Silus, you uh you make your way to her bedroom door. Um and I would I'd like you to roll a constitution saving throw.
Tyram: Oh,
Justin Hale: Uhoh.
Christopher Hooper: But
Tyram: hell. Five.
Christopher Hooper: okay, let me get my dice. Why is it so hard to get dice?
Tyram: because it doesn't want you to hurt
Justin Hale: Don't do
Christopher Hooper: Okay. So you um you feel as you turn the trigger or sorry
Luke Neverisky: Mhm.
Christopher Hooper: well it will be a trigger but as you turn the knob it triggers
Justin Hale: it.
Ali Leonard: Mhm.
Christopher Hooper: this mechanism that it first does a small little prick in your hand and then immediately shunts several spikes into your hand and you start feeling poison um leak into your hand.
Tyram: Oh. Oh. Um, I'm immune to poison, I think, because of my
Christopher Hooper: Um. Oh, nice. Cool.
Tyram: cloak. Let me double check that to be sure, but I think that's the
Luke Neverisky: Ow. Then you don't feel
Tyram: case. Sorry, I can't see where I put the
Justin Hale: Thank
Tyram: DMG. I had the players handbook nearby. I didn't think I need a DM, but I
Justin Hale: you.
Christopher Hooper: Um
Tyram: was wrong.
Luke Neverisky: s***.
Christopher Hooper: You have resistance.
Tyram: Um, okay. Is it doing poison damage or is it giving me the poison
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Uh both
Tyram: condition? Okay. Well, I should have
Christopher Hooper: um Okay, cool. Okay, great.
Tyram: resistance to the poison damage at
Christopher Hooper: Um so uh you you feel like
Tyram: least.
Christopher Hooper: um uh what a you get let's see uh 11 points uh of damage um that's already cut
Tyram: Is that already cut in
Christopher Hooper: in half and and includes the the piercing damage.
Tyram: half?
Christopher Hooper: Um, uh, give me a medicine
Tyram: Okay. Hell. Okay. At least I'm a little better at that. Oh, I got to reroll my net one. Become a net 20.
Luke Neverisky: All right, Dr. S. You
Christopher Hooper: check. Nice. Wow. Okay, cool.
Tyram: Okay. I love the halfling luck thing where I just don't have to keep
Christopher Hooper: Um, yeah. Wait, it went from a one to
Tyram: that
Christopher Hooper: n 20. That's insane. That's That's
Tyram: ones. It
Luke Neverisky: go.
Christopher Hooper: perfect.
Tyram: did. I mean, I could have used it a minute ago,
Christopher Hooper: um you um you
Tyram: but we'll see how this goes.
Christopher Hooper: don't know I wouldn't say that you are like super proficient with like poisons and stuff but you know through your times and schemes and work honestly that there are poisons that um can leave a a traceability um in you Um, and uh you feel like this poison is not just like like corroding at at your your flesh. You feel like it is inserting something with you too, like a a trace. Um, feels like something you should check out later. But let's stick with it. Now, um inside you see, um you're able to open the the door and um you see that there is a a small study next to her bed. Um and you see a few um journals. Um they are categorized by year.
Justin Hale: Oops.
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Christopher Hooper: Um, and one of the ones you pick up is the year um that the Sisphus circle was destroyed. You're able to flick through it and it takes you back uh to her side. You see that she was um trying to obtain this orb. Um around the time you you you see this note from her that says, "I must have the orb." My mother said it would be the only way we were respected. But mother, there are other ways to gain respect. But this last thing I will do, not because you deserve it, but because I do. Later, it links to this role. She bismerches your uh Cisphus circle crew. um noting the job she gave to you, but notes at the end that while it looks like it looks like uh f*** uh Bart Bartllo Bart Bartholomew, is that what it is? No, let me see. Sorry. Let me see. looking into the journal. You see, uh, yes, you see it looks like Bartleby and Bugg were able to escape into the sewers. When I went back to the rest of the bodies, it looks like Sander was gone. Um, the rest are dead and we made sure of it.
Tyram: Brew, this is
Justin Hale: One
Tyram: important.
Justin Hale: second. All right, hold on. I'm I'm I'm peeing on some
Tyram: Oh, well, okay. Good idea. But like you'll want to hear
Justin Hale: things. Okay, hold on. I can't really stop in the middle. Hold
Ali Leonard: just bring it with
Tyram: this. Okay. Fair. Fair. By.
Justin Hale: on.
Ali Leonard: you.
Tyram: Okay. So, but just to frame this, I'm pretty sure I have a deadly poison
Luke Neverisky: just watching
Tyram: coursing into my veins. And that's not what I want to tell
Luke Neverisky: me.
Justin Hale: Oh, all right. I don't think me
Tyram: you. Probably not. But just let
Justin Hale: paying will help with
Tyram: me know when you're done peeing. God damn
Justin Hale: that. Okay. All right. I'm almost done. All
Tyram: it.
Justin Hale: right. All right. I'm I'm
Tyram: Yeah, thanks
Justin Hale: almost I'm like shaking as I
Christopher Hooper: Penis still out.
Tyram: for the
Justin Hale: She like shaking it
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Okay.
Tyram: visual.
Justin Hale: up. We're good now. All right. Go
Tyram: Sander might still be
Justin Hale: Daisy.
Tyram: alive. It said that. Okay, so this is her journal. She said she went back to where to the park afterwards when all the others were
Luke Neverisky: I'm
Tyram: killed if their body wasn't
Justin Hale: What? All right. Um, all right. What do What do we What do we
Tyram: there. I I don't know.
Luke Neverisky: out.
Tyram: Um Okay. I I'll see if there's any
Justin Hale: do? Keep reading. Read forward. Does it say anything else about
Tyram: more mentions. Yeah. Okay. Um, okay. So, I I flipped forward. Is there anywhere mention of there's
Christopher Hooper: Uh you see
Tyram: Sander
Christopher Hooper: that um afterwards it mostly talks about this order of St. George appears to
Justin Hale: it?
Christopher Hooper: be some sort of dragon hunting society. Um,
Tyram: anywhere? Oh, yeah. These were those assholes who tried to stop us from stealing the orb, which in retrospect maybe we should have listened to, but they didn't have to be dicks about it is the
Luke Neverisky: That's the plan.
Christopher Hooper: but uh you see um you you flip through, you see that there is an entry that um she had sent some people to try to find their sander, but the the trail went cold in in
Tyram: point.
Luke Neverisky: Y
Tyram: Does it say where they like how like does it uh list out like the clues that they had found? like maybe like a trail that we can maybe try to pick up
Christopher Hooper: Graport. Um they checked the um uh the bar that y'all went to
Tyram: on the cogen steam.
Christopher Hooper: Cogenstein um a few times. Scoped it out. Didn't see him there. Um but um and you know scoped out the zoo, scoped out haunts uh wherether Sander worked as a a baker uh for a little bit loading flower. Um but yeah, it's a big city and hard to find and no leads.
Tyram: R through. I think we need to move up our trip to Greyport. The ironclaws weren't able to find through Sander, but what if competent people were to look?
Justin Hale: Yeah, that's a good
Tyram: I meant us, you
Justin Hale: idea. Who are we going to get that can do that? You
Tyram: a******. Well, we knew
Justin Hale: think? Oh, yes, of course.
Tyram: there Sandra. We might pick up on something that they
Justin Hale: Us. That is
Tyram: missed. All right. Okay. So, we were going to go
Justin Hale: true. This is true.
Tyram: there anyway, but yeah, we need to get there sooner rather than
Christopher Hooper: It's at this point you hear smooth
Tyram: later.
Justin Hale: Oh, I love
Tyram: Yeah, I guess we'll just like kind of
Justin Hale: this
Tyram: groove to it a little
Luke Neverisky: Oh,
Justin Hale: one.
Christopher Hooper: jazz
Tyram: bit. Where's that smooth jazz coming
Christopher Hooper: downstairs.
Tyram: from?
Luke Neverisky: whispers.
Justin Hale: Um, I'm going to grab like the next couple years
Tyram: Yeah, throw them into the
Justin Hale: of the journals just to be
Tyram: hole. Like if you like unfold the per the portable hole, we can just like throw them all in
Justin Hale: safe. Oh yeah, throw them in the pee
Tyram: there. Oh, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You haven't been pissing in this, have
Justin Hale: hole.
Tyram: you? No. No, it's not.
Justin Hale: That's why it's called the pee hole,
Christopher Hooper: Okay.
Tyram: You shouldn't be in it.
Justin Hale: right? Oh.
Tyram: You're cleaning it.
Justin Hale: Oh, I I I haven't peed in
Tyram: Well,
Justin Hale: it
Tyram: whatever. Um, are there any like pictures of Helga anywhere
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, there's
Tyram: in the um in the apartment here? I'm
Justin Hale: today.
Christopher Hooper: a few like bigger gun and like at the
Tyram: gonna like go to investigate.
Christopher Hooper: company retreat. Um, and there's one uh quite um elegant
Tyram: Okay.
Christopher Hooper: photo. Uh, it was it looks like it was painted a portrait of her sitting in her chair by her fire that she had done and it's right at like right next to her bed
Tyram: Okay. Does she have like does she have like a cat? Is there like a litter box
Christopher Hooper: bedside.
Tyram: anywhere in the uh in the apartment
Christopher Hooper: Um, there there is a cat and a cat skeleton in
Tyram: here?
Ali Leonard: I was gonna f****** say that guy's f****** dead
Christopher Hooper: the there's a uh
Ali Leonard: now.
Christopher Hooper: there's a litter box and a cat skeleton in
Tyram: Oh, that's kind of a bummer, but you know, whatever. Okay. Um, I'm going to go try to find any like feces I can just like smear them all over her portraits. Um, try to use like um
Christopher Hooper: it.
Tyram: I'm if I can, I'm going to just like poke them at the end of my daggers and just like smear it that
Christopher Hooper: Oh, okay. Gotcha.
Tyram: way. I don't want to touch it with my hands.
Ali Leonard: Are those now poison
Christopher Hooper: Gotcha. Yeah.
Justin Hale: I'm going to draw Dicks where he's not smearing
Tyram: I'm just like casually doing this like not even like put like just kind of like doing it as I
Justin Hale: food.
Ali Leonard: daggers?
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Yeah. Great. Well, that's great.
Tyram: go
Christopher Hooper: You want to give me performance
Tyram: by.
Christopher Hooper: check? Uh,
Tyram: Okay. Maybe slight of
Christopher Hooper: maybe. But give me the performance
Tyram: hand. Uh performance is still pretty good. That's uh uh
Christopher Hooper: first 42.
Tyram: 22
Christopher Hooper: Okay.
Justin Hale: Yeah, he's got a plus
Christopher Hooper: Um uh I have a rogue feat where I can't fail. Uh smearing poop on the
Tyram: 22. It would have been a 32 if it had been slight of
Christopher Hooper: wall.
Tyram: hand, but it might be possible to boost something all the way up to a 40, but I I at least I
Christopher Hooper: Uh you do an immaculate job.
Tyram: I don't have that yet.
Christopher Hooper: Um and you make your way downstairs uh
Justin Hale: 20.
Christopher Hooper: where you're you're smearing more poop. Uh and this is where you see a record playing um the smooth jazz Careless Whisper. Um, and you hear a humming um in the kitchen.
Tyram: I want to try to use stealth to like come like like if I can like sneak up to the kitchen's doorway and see who it is without them
Christopher Hooper: Um, okay, cool. Yeah. Uh, go ahead
Tyram: knowing I'm there.
Christopher Hooper: and give me that stealth
Tyram: All
Justin Hale: I'm just sneaking right behind
Christopher Hooper: check. Okay. Give me also a stealth
Tyram: right. Uh
Christopher Hooper: check. 27.
Tyram: 27. And I can make it better if you want me
Justin Hale: him.
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Um. All right. Yep. Mhm.
Justin Hale: Roll net
Christopher Hooper: Okay, that's one. Okay, cool, cool, cool. All
Tyram: to. Hell
[01:20:00]
Christopher Hooper: right. Um, so you sneak up and you see um you see a young
Tyram: yeah.
Christopher Hooper: dwarf. They have an apron on and they appear to
Justin Hale: 20.
Christopher Hooper: be cooking something in the kitchen. They um it looks like some sort of pasta dish and they are currently working on the sauce in a large uh pan. Um and they are humming along to the sweet
Tyram: All right. It's It's not
Christopher Hooper: jazz. Well, it's funny you say that
Tyram: somebody that we
Christopher Hooper: because eventually you get a peek at his face and
Tyram: recognize.
Christopher Hooper: it appears to be Jonathan. Jonathan the vault
Tyram: Oh, the one who he set up with his uh coworker,
Christopher Hooper: guard.
Tyram: right? Okay. Oh, so he would recognize us or he
Justin Hale: Can
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Tyram: would at least recognize me. He wouldn't recognize Brew. Brew wasn't there with
Justin Hale: I before we
Tyram: him.
Justin Hale: show ourselves, can like as he's prepping and like turning his like turning the corner and stuff like doing different things, can I like go up and steal like handfuls bowls of
Christopher Hooper: Uh yeah,
Justin Hale: pasta out of the pot.
Christopher Hooper: sure. Yeah, you got a net 20 on your still. Um yeah, give me a I don't
Justin Hale: Okay. I just want to like just randomly steal
Christopher Hooper: know. Okay, cool. Give me
Justin Hale: ingredients and then like slink
Christopher Hooper: a constitution saving
Justin Hale: back
Tyram: I'm going to go ahead and activate psychic
Justin Hale: should boil some pot. Is that
Christopher Hooper: throw.
Tyram: mode. I'm gonna activate psychic mode with brew so that we can talk to each other during
Justin Hale: what you're saying?
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Tyram: this.
Justin Hale: Okay, that's a
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Okay, cool. You only receive uh three three damage from from putting her hand in a boiling water. And you get a fist fist full of
Justin Hale: 17. Shake
Christopher Hooper: noodles.
Justin Hale: them. Stealing. Can I steal some cheese? I'm just gonna I'm just
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sure.
Justin Hale: gonna keep stealing his ingredients as he as he walks away.
Christopher Hooper: It's like uh I feel like one of those scenes where like every time he turns you're like behind and like um and he he doesn't notice. He's in the zone. He's just flowing. Um he steals some some
Tyram: Oops.
Christopher Hooper: uh uh parmesano oregano and um yeah youab um a little bit of the um the bacon he's going to make. It looks like he's making cabinara.
Luke Neverisky: Mhm.
Justin Hale: All right. All
Christopher Hooper: Um he's uh yeah looks like it's a special
Tyram: So, he's doing
Luke Neverisky: All
Christopher Hooper: dinner.
Tyram: date night with uh what's her name?
Luke Neverisky: right.
Christopher Hooper: Jessica is got it going
Tyram: Okay, Brew. I think he might
Luke Neverisky: Oh.
Justin Hale: right.
Tyram: be uh sitting. Does is he related to Helja? Like why is he
Justin Hale: Does he not realize his stuff's going missing as he's making
Christopher Hooper: on. He's in the zone,
Justin Hale: it? I mean,
Christopher Hooper: man.
Justin Hale: okay, stealing it
Christopher Hooper: You're too
Tyram: here? Victim of your own success.
Justin Hale: like surely surely he would he would realize that
Christopher Hooper: sly.
Justin Hale: like he just grated cheese and now it's
Christopher Hooper: Oh, you steal the whole thing.
Tyram: Okay. Okay.
Justin Hale: gone.
Christopher Hooper: Um, he he'll like it takes a little moment and he's like,
Tyram: I'm gonna I'm gonna take advantage of
Christopher Hooper: "Oh, oh
Tyram: uh I'm going to take I'm going to
Justin Hale: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: well."
Tyram: walk up the wall and like walk along the ceiling, which my cloak
Christopher Hooper: Okay.
Tyram: lets me do. And I'm just going to like hover right over his head. And I'm going to try to uh um just I just like insight like I just not sure why he's
Christopher Hooper: Um, you want to try to understand why he's This
Tyram: here. Yeah. I mean like it seems like he's setting up for like a date night or whatever, but like I don't know.
Justin Hale: Oops. I just can't assume that he's squatting
Tyram: Yeah. You know what? I'm just Let's just cut to the chase. I'm just going to like uh clear my throat from like above his head, try to spook him. I'm going to look down at him, point a dagger at him, and be like, "What the f*** are
Christopher Hooper: What?
Tyram: you doing here?"
Christopher Hooper: God,
Tyram: Yes. What the f*** are you doing
Justin Hale: here. So, it turns out we didn't need to
Christopher Hooper: I'm I'm Hi,
Luke Neverisky: What was
Justin Hale: sneak up on him, I guess.
Christopher Hooper: God. This is Jonathan. I'm
Tyram: here? I f****** know. What are
Luke Neverisky: that?
Christopher Hooper: making Right. Uh
Tyram: you doing in this
Christopher Hooper: well, as you know, I'm making capabara. Uh by the way, he hasn't
Tyram: apartment? Why are you in this
Christopher Hooper: looked up. He think he like hasn't realized you're like above him. Um, okay,
Tyram: apartment? That's fine. That's fine. As long as he's explaining
Christopher Hooper: cool. Okay, good. Uh, because it has one of the my friend let me in here. Um, and it has one of the best kitchens in the city and I know it's empty. But
Tyram: himself. Who's your
Christopher Hooper: Trevor, he's a nice guy, but he has
Tyram: friend? Does he have uh is Trevor like someone who is in with
Christopher Hooper: connections. Um, well, God, if you're wondering if I have done wrong, I I think that he was with Helga. Um, but I think he has turned a new
Tyram: Helga?
Christopher Hooper: leaf. And I think he's a nice guy now. At least I hope so because he let me into this apartment so I could do a date night with
Tyram: I'll be the judge of
Christopher Hooper: Jessica. Okay,
Tyram: that. Trevor might need to die. We'll
Christopher Hooper: God. Uh, whatever you
Tyram: see. As punishment, I've stolen some of your
Christopher Hooper: will. Let it be
Tyram: pasta.
Justin Hale: Oops.
Christopher Hooper: so. A gift to you.
Tyram: Okay. All right. I guess I'll think of Brew. Um I don't know. Do you want to leave this guy alone or do you want to mess with him some
Justin Hale: I I guess I guess
Tyram: more? I mean, I don't I don't
Justin Hale: that's fine for like
Tyram: care.
Justin Hale: free mail. That's
Christopher Hooper: Um, at this point you hear the front door
Justin Hale: cool.
Christopher Hooper: open. Um, and you hear Jonathan, I hate this album. Can we put on some rock or something? Come on. Oh, what are you cooking? It smells really good. Is that garlic? Uh, and she's walking towards the
Justin Hale: There we
Tyram: Um, can I drop a rope for Brew to climb up to the ceiling
Christopher Hooper: kitchen. Uh, sure.
Tyram: with me? I feel like we don't really need to do any of this, but I think it's fun.
Justin Hale: go.
Tyram: So, okay. Okay. So, I just I I lower a rope for
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Um, yeah. Brew,
Tyram: brew.
Luke Neverisky: Absolutely.
Christopher Hooper: do you you take the rip? Yeah.
Justin Hale: Uh yeah. Yeah. We got to keep this room
Christopher Hooper: Okay. All right. Um, she walks up to the kitchen and she looks up at you and like Jonathan, there are people on the ceiling. Oh
Tyram: Oh, f***
Christopher Hooper: god, what? Oh
Justin Hale: going. No, we are we are God.
Christopher Hooper: no. Hey, I know
Tyram: it.
Justin Hale: We are we are God.
Christopher Hooper: you. Um, I know you from the
Justin Hale: Yes, you're God. Bow before your
Christopher Hooper: bank. What? You're those people I saw from the bank. You You robbed it while we were guarding. It was not
Tyram: Well, is it true or not true that uh we gave you the courage you needed to ask out
Christopher Hooper: good right now. Uh I was going to ask her out anyway. You
Tyram: Jessica?
Justin Hale: God.
Christopher Hooper: had But you were a good friend that day.
Tyram: Yes, I was. All right. Well, whatever. We're going to
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Um, did you take my pasta? Okay. I thought that was
Tyram: leave. God did. Weren't you
Christopher Hooper: God. Just making sure. Well,
Tyram: listening?
Christopher Hooper: uh, I would ask you to stay, but we have a a where it would be, uh, if you want to say I made enough. And uh you want
Tyram: Oh. Uh, I
Justin Hale: Oh,
Christopher Hooper: to you want to roll me
Tyram: don't know. Besa, I don't
Justin Hale: wait.
Christopher Hooper: inside? You want to give me an inside
Tyram: know. I guess we'll never um uh oh uh
Ali Leonard: Come
Christopher Hooper: check? He does not want you to
Tyram: 26.
Christopher Hooper: stay. Um,
Tyram: Actually, that was a 30. Sorry, I got my inside check wrong.
Luke Neverisky: It really That's kind
Christopher Hooper: he he is definitely afraid that you are going
Ali Leonard: on.
Christopher Hooper: to accept his polite invitation to stay for dinner on what is obviously supposed to be a a very private date. He likely had to do a lot to get this
Ali Leonard: Thank
Tyram: Okay, that kind of makes me want to stay more, but now I'll I'll
Christopher Hooper: together. All right. Uh,
Tyram: leave.
Christopher Hooper: cool. So, y'all got some stuff headed out. Um, and so it's um several weeks
Luke Neverisky: of
Ali Leonard: you.
Christopher Hooper: later, y'all are at family dinner.
Tyram: Did I ever get my poison um extracted if it was
Luke Neverisky: Oh, you're
Christopher Hooper: Um, you you died. Is that your funeral? Sorry, did I say
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Tyram: weeks later?
Christopher Hooper: dinner? Family funeral.
Tyram: s***, man. That is
Christopher Hooper: Um, no. because
Tyram: a bad end for Silus. Wow.
Christopher Hooper: you're able uh so well to identify it, you're able to um get it extracted out. Um you found it wasn't
Luke Neverisky: dead.
Christopher Hooper: actually harming you. Um but it appears to be some sort of interesting poison magic that uh basically puts a tracker in you. Um, so, um, you believe that it probably, um, you know, somewhere there's something that like send a little alert that her room had been
Tyram: knowing that. Can I like drop the
Christopher Hooper: opened. Oh, extract
Tyram: poison in like a urinal or
Christopher Hooper: it. Um, you got a 20. Yes, you can.
Tyram: something? Yeah. Okay. I want them to like trace the the intruder to like
Christopher Hooper: Um yeah. Yeah. So
Tyram: something some place that's very unpleasant for them to go
Christopher Hooper: you're able to work with the physician to extract it out um and uh release it into to the sewers. Um okay, cool. Uh so you all gather um I'm going to say
Tyram: to.
Christopher Hooper: every Thursday. Um, now we'll say every Saturday morning um while uh you y'all all gather for family brunch. Um, and at this point y'all check in with one another. Uh, Olivia's not able to make this one. She uh was called away for business in the countryside. There appears to be while she still is retired, she occasionally pitches in to settle some disputes, look into some concerns, and that has her called away. Um, but we were able to connect with her if you need to. Um, and at this point, Scarlet uh has gotten your notes about the
Ali Leonard: Heat.
Christopher Hooper: stones and says, uh, kind of opens up the breakfast as as you all kind of are relaxing and says, um, so Brew, these reality stones, they could be used for the, um, the pocket village. I think I think we could use them to stabilize the internal entity.
Ali Leonard: Heat.
Christopher Hooper: Uh yes, that's what it calls for here in these in these diagrams. Some sort of stabilizing agent uh so we can transfer u materials, people's um within this this isolated reality. It's would get us a far way towards that our goal here if if we got those. I know it's a hike, but ju just saying. Um, she looks at you,
Justin Hale: All right, confirming what I already knew. Thank
Christopher Hooper: bro. I know it's it's obvious,
Justin Hale: you.
Christopher Hooper: but I say it out loud because I would think it's a hard trek for us all to go. I think we would need some help. Or what do you I don't know. I think we could all go. Or does anyone have any else? Anything else they want to work
Luke Neverisky: You said there's a hike.
Christopher Hooper: on? Oh. Uh,
Luke Neverisky: I love a good hike.
Christopher Hooper: okay.
Tyram: So, we're going back to the Goliath
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Uh, it says there's a near there that
Tyram: Village. I f****** hate that
Luke Neverisky: It's
Christopher Hooper: village.
Tyram: place.
Luke Neverisky: not that
Justin Hale: Well, Silus and I need to stop at Grayport
Christopher Hooper: That is um that's not on the way at all, but okay.
Tyram: That is significantly farther. But actually, yeah.
Justin Hale: first.
Tyram: Um, we found out something important. Um, somebody that we um, a friend of ours from Graveport might be alive, someone
Christopher Hooper: Oh, well that's Hey.
Tyram: we thought was dead. I I
Luke Neverisky: bad.
Tyram: I wasn't really talking to you. Um, but Scarlet, but yeah, just sure. Like I I don't mind you knowing but I was
Christopher Hooper: Oh,
Tyram: really talking to the group here more
Christopher Hooper: okay. I I don't care
Tyram: so Oh okay. was a
Ali Leonard: Scarlet, you're great. Scarlet, you're
Christopher Hooper: anyway. I do
Tyram: little hurtful that you don't care,
Ali Leonard: great. Scarlet, you're
Christopher Hooper: care. Thanks. I don't know. I'm just
Justin Hale: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: I'm I'm trying to read the
Luke Neverisky: You're doing
Christopher Hooper: situation. Oh, thanks everybody.
Tyram: but don't get inspired
Ali Leonard: great. You should make stuff. That's
Tyram: to make
Luke Neverisky: great.
Ali Leonard: her whole
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, that's my whole thing. Like this pocket village
Tyram: anything.
Ali Leonard: thing. She's been working really hard on it and I haven't done like anything
Christopher Hooper: I've been working months for
Tyram: Well,
Ali Leonard: except research a little bit and help a little
Tyram: Well, I um I'm gonna activate
Luke Neverisky: Yeah, that's her whole thing.
Ali Leonard: bit with
Tyram: psychic going with everybody with Scarlet. Um okay.
Justin Hale: jealous.
Ali Leonard: Scarlet or
Christopher Hooper: on
Tyram: Um without Scarlet. Um I I'll think in
Ali Leonard: without
Tyram: everybody else. Okay. Scarlet's alternate self like someone alternate Scarlet was involved in creating a time gun
Ali Leonard: This is a different
Tyram: which blew up the f****** universe. We have got to do everything we can to
Ali Leonard: scarlet. This is a different
Tyram: make her not want to build a time gun.
Ali Leonard: Scarlet.
Luke Neverisky: Yeah, some alternates can actually be better, you
Ali Leonard: Okay,
Tyram: Okay,
Ali Leonard: point and she's doing the
Tyram: that's fair. But still, you know, we're
Justin Hale: We're
Ali Leonard: research I don't want to do.
Tyram: talking about blowing up the universe. So, I feel like we need to like, you
Luke Neverisky: know.
Ali Leonard: I'm never paranoid except when I'm
Tyram: know, be a little paranoid about it
Ali Leonard: always
Tyram: here. Except then,
Luke Neverisky: He's stepping on
Justin Hale: just except
Ali Leonard: paranoid. Who's framing me all the
Tyram: right?
Justin Hale: for
Tyram: Okay. Anyway, so just, you know, just so you know, that's why I'm like trying to harsh her vibe a little bit on the whole inventiveness
Ali Leonard: time? Okay. I mean, she's following plans.
Tyram: thing. Okay, sounds like we're almost done with these. We need to make sure she doesn't move on
Luke Neverisky: it.
Justin Hale: Yeah, we just
Ali Leonard: We have another project in
Tyram: to a next project that's, you know, building the time
Ali Leonard: line. Don't worry about
Tyram: gun. Okay, good, good, good. Okay, good. Okay, that that's that's what we need to do.
Ali Leonard: it. There's so many
Tyram: Yeah.
Justin Hale: won't so many projects in the pipeline.
Ali Leonard: projects that I'm just so
Tyram: Thank goodness.
Justin Hale: Yeah, a timeline is not part of this
Ali Leonard: lazy slash keep forgetting to roll for it.
Justin Hale: timeline. More the memory
Christopher Hooper: Water has
Justin Hale: part. All right. Well, tell the water to
Christopher Hooper: memory.
Justin Hale: remember to do this
Christopher Hooper: Okay.
Justin Hale: thing.
Christopher Hooper: Um you uh at this point y'all are all like silently looking at each other. So Scarlet uh walks in to the
Ali Leonard: He
Christopher Hooper: kitchen and starts making scrambled eggs. Um Kevin is uh is
Luke Neverisky: Nice.
Ali Leonard: knows.
Christopher Hooper: currently like jumping on the table. Um just like up and down. Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing. Um, and he's being chased by Pepsi, who um is currently jumping after him and nearly destroying the
Ali Leonard: Absolutely. Okay.
Luke Neverisky: Love
Christopher Hooper: table. Um, they finally sit uh beside um Brew and curl up next to him. Scarlet comes back with a huge batch
Luke Neverisky: it.
Christopher Hooper: of scrambled eggs along with some freshly uh
Ali Leonard: Hell
Christopher Hooper: cooked bacon uh fresh from the oven and lays it out and
Ali Leonard: yeah.
Christopher Hooper: says, "Well, I hope everyone's done with your little private pow-wow. We can dig into some breakfast."
Ali Leonard: Girl, you're great. We weren't talking about
Christopher Hooper: Um
Luke Neverisky: You're
Christopher Hooper: now, yeah, I know y'all y'all do the thing. And Brew always
Ali Leonard: you. Yeah, he hasn't
Christopher Hooper: says out loud, "Who's
Ali Leonard: learned yet. He's just a
Christopher Hooper: this?" It is very helpful to know
Ali Leonard: baby. Yeah. So then he can kind of like read or do
Christopher Hooper: when y'all start the
Ali Leonard: whatever. Yeah, we're pretty great.
Christopher Hooper: thing.
Tyram: All right,
Luke Neverisky: great. That's pretty conservative actually.
Tyram: you know what? Hey, let let's move on. Let's move on. So, I noticed that uh Chalk Rock is really thriving lately, and I am not here for
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. What? What do you
Tyram: it.
Ali Leonard: It's too much,
Christopher Hooper: mean?
Tyram: I mean, he's like he's he
Justin Hale: Okay.
Ali Leonard: right? I think it's
Tyram: just I f****** hate it to be
Ali Leonard: just him that you
Tyram: honest. That's true, but I also hate the change
Ali Leonard: hate. I mean, it was nice of Olivia to try, but I don't think
Tyram: as
Ali Leonard: it's kind of working out for me. But it's fine because I don't live here and he's not my mayor, prime minister. What is
Tyram: well. That's true. I mean, that's one of all the more reason for us to hit the road soon, you
Justin Hale: Okay.
Ali Leonard: he?
Tyram: know, get out to Greport.
Ali Leonard: So, there's also was telling me something that he had heard about the moon.
Walden Briarhelm: Yes. Apparently, the moon goddess fell just off of the coast of
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: Cuz we saw
Luke Neverisky: Heat.
Ali Leonard: that, right
Tyram: We did
Walden Briarhelm: Greyport. Oh, yes. It was
Ali Leonard: guys? I thought we saw something
Tyram: see the moon explode. I guess I I'm not enough of a geographer to know where it
Walden Briarhelm: terrifying.
Tyram: fell to. Yeah. I just I'm not I didn't know exactly where, but in
Christopher Hooper: Oh, I saw that. That was
Tyram: that direction, sure, it could be
Ali Leonard: fall. That was crazy.
Walden Briarhelm: verbatum. A if we could rent a boat,
Ali Leonard: Um, apparently there's
Christopher Hooper: crazy.
Walden Briarhelm: we could get to where she
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: almost there's like a like a person in there where she
Tyram: there.
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Walden Briarhelm: fell. Yes. I I had heard rumors that she may be had personified into a humanlike
Tyram: Well, hey, all the more reason for us to head out that
Walden Briarhelm: character.
Ali Leonard: fell. Is that in the same direction as or
Tyram: way. I
Walden Briarhelm: I would very much like to see
Ali Leonard: no? I have no
Tyram: thought, didn't just say off the coast of
Ali Leonard: idea. He did. Okay,
Christopher Hooper: Oh, I think he did.
Ali Leonard: great.
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Tyram: Brightport. Okay, I was feeling a little crazy there, Elizabeth. I didn't
Walden Briarhelm: your
Ali Leonard: I'm always a little crazy.
Tyram: know. I'd appreciate if you
Ali Leonard: So, it's a little fun
Tyram: stopped accidentally gaslighting me is all I'm
Walden Briarhelm: It
Justin Hale: Oh,
Ali Leonard: though. Yeah, it's part of
Walden Briarhelm: comes with being a
Justin Hale: If it's
Ali Leonard: it. It's all the gas that I've
Justin Hale: accidental, is it still gas
Ali Leonard: been, you know, the
Walden Briarhelm: racist.
Justin Hale: lighting? Oh, there's lighting on
Ali Leonard: fumes. It kind of messes with my head a little
Tyram: saying. Oh, speaking of being a
Walden Briarhelm: Oh, because there is no gas. I
Ali Leonard: bit. So
Tyram: racist, I see you've made some new friends, you
Walden Briarhelm: understand.
Ali Leonard: far, so good. I got to go,
Tyram: know.
Justin Hale: fire.
Tyram: I'm glad for you. I really
Ali Leonard: y'all. So,
Tyram: am. I mean, I I am genuinely surprised that you made
Ali Leonard: Yeah. And they they appreciate they said, "We're happy to have you
Tyram: friends.
Ali Leonard: here." So, isn't that
Christopher Hooper: That's so nice. That's so
Ali Leonard: great?
Christopher Hooper: nice. Yeah.
Tyram: That's great,
Ali Leonard: Hasn't happened in a
Christopher Hooper: Great. They said they said
Tyram: kid. Someone who's probably older than me now that I think about it,
Ali Leonard: minute. They said happy and they used my name. So, it wasn't like they were talking to somebody else, but I was also in the room.
Christopher Hooper: happy.
Tyram: but
Ali Leonard: Yeah. Is it a setup like for like a
Christopher Hooper: Wow. Is it a
Walden Briarhelm: I love that for you.
Ali Leonard: trap? Like a prank? Yeah. I don't know
Christopher Hooper: setup?
Ali Leonard: yet, but maybe. I mean,
Justin Hale: Sounds like you might have joined the
Ali Leonard: every religion's a little bit cultlike, don't you
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah.
Justin Hale: cult. Sounds very
Tyram: I've infiltrated a few cults in the past for uh you know various scams
Ali Leonard: think? I mean,
Tyram: and honestly they're fun at least you know in short
Justin Hale: true.
Ali Leonard: this has been pretty fun. We've been putting together engines.
Tyram: doses.
Christopher Hooper: That's pretty
Justin Hale: It's fun to be a follower. You make more
Ali Leonard: It's pretty
Tyram: Hey, Ellmith.
Justin Hale: money
Tyram: Uh, correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't your like uh big kurfuffle also in
Ali Leonard: great.
Christopher Hooper: cool.
Tyram: Greyport? So, yeah, we could go there and f*** over
Justin Hale: either.
Ali Leonard: Maybe they don't live
Tyram: the guys who screwed you over.
Ali Leonard: there. That's just where the ra
Tyram: Yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: You sound very sad
Ali Leonard: was. I don't
Tyram: When's the next
Walden Briarhelm: about
Ali Leonard: know. I only hear about the underground race because that's the only one I'm allowed to be in.
Tyram: race? I'm going to think over at Brew. Just Brew and be
Walden Briarhelm: this.
Tyram: like, "Brew, Ellen needs to be
Ali Leonard: So
Tyram: exacted." This calls for mischief on our parts. God damn it,
Justin Hale: Oh, I thought this call was from
Tyram: Brute. I'm trying to scheme. It's me,
Justin Hale: silence. Oh, your name is Oh, so hold on. So,
Tyram: Silus. Put your f****** hand down.
Justin Hale: okay. We
Tyram: Well, yeah. I mean, there's all those people who screwed over Ellmith. They like apparent they're going to
Justin Hale: also
Tyram: like gather in Greyport eventually. Maybe we f*** them over when we go there.
Justin Hale: Yeah. Yeah, that would work. All right, we can
Tyram: Ellswith is too good of a person to do
Justin Hale: do
Ali Leonard: I think she's just
Tyram: shenanigans, but that's not a problem we
Ali Leonard: incapable of doing shenanigans.
Tyram: got. Also, she would suck at it. Yeah, that is
Ali Leonard: Yeah, she probably had like a journal with like all the racers names and then like
Justin Hale: that.
Ali Leonard: question marks next to them like
Tyram: true. Racers. What the f*** is a
Justin Hale: You
Ali Leonard: racists and then like Scotty Mac is on there and then like crossed off because there's no
Tyram: racer?
Walden Briarhelm: Just a
Justin Hale: don't
Ali Leonard: way Scotty Mac was a part of
Walden Briarhelm: bit.
Ali Leonard: it. Well, she thought she
Tyram: That's That's kind of sad, but
Ali Leonard: had a friend.
Justin Hale: maybe
Walden Briarhelm: Somewhere Scotty Mack is like using his thumb to wipe away the teardrops from a picture of El Smith and him standing outside of the garage of one
Tyram: okay.
Walden Briarhelm: of one of her first
Justin Hale: Careless whisper playing in
Ali Leonard: His daughter's like, "Why is Auntie Elsa coming
Walden Briarhelm: races.
Luke Neverisky: Yep.
Justin Hale: the
Tyram: Always careless whisper. The only
Ali Leonard: back?" The only one that exists.
Justin Hale: background.
Luke Neverisky: It's all you
Christopher Hooper: Um so uh y'all
Walden Briarhelm: something. I don't know.
Christopher Hooper: um y'all get ready. uh you start packing up
Tyram: jazz
Christopher Hooper: the room fall um hitching up the Zoomfall. Um and
Justin Hale: Oops.
Christopher Hooper: um so to remind you, we haven't we haven't been back in a while, but the gold road uh gold road um is a road that heads up north. It lead eventually leading to Elderin. Uh before it does though, it branches off and that is um the route that heads to Greyport, but that happens after you pass through one of the the valleys that basically takes you through the mountains. So you actually pass the the um the village that was at the foothills before you went up to the Goliath's village. um that split off happens like basically just before you get to that mountain pass. Um and that's why that like crossroads um town was there because it's a kind of like a bottleneck place where everyone has to go through to to exit the region. Um so y'all pack up, you start heading there. Um you uh you make your stop at um Redbrook uh you see that it is thrived into a real little town. Um it's central uh nexus point between all the farms and the footlands and highforge and everything passing through. It's really developed as this as market marketplace. Um
Tyram: Now we just clarify we are bringing the Bugatti with us,
Ali Leonard: So, we have three
Christopher Hooper: you Oh yeah.
Tyram: right? Okay.
Justin Hale: The bank of
Ali Leonard: cars. Four cars. Did we take the
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Oh
Tyram: Okay. We might have four. We could use the F-150.
Christopher Hooper: yeah. No, that stays at Great
Tyram: I want to take the
Luke Neverisky: How can
Christopher Hooper: or Y'all gave it to High
Tyram: F1. The f*** we
Ali Leonard: F-150? He did say they could use it.
Christopher Hooper: Forge. You did. You did.
Walden Briarhelm: We would never have done
Luke Neverisky: we? Ahead.
Justin Hale: Bugatti.
Tyram: did? Why would we hand away the marble of engineering that is the
Walden Briarhelm: that.
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, you
Tyram: F-150? We're basically invincible with that on our
Christopher Hooper: would think, but that's that's what happened. That's in the
Tyram: side. You just don't want us to have it because you know that we'd beat any challenge you
Walden Briarhelm: Truly, we are not going to let this Oh.
Tyram: put in front of us with the power of an
Luke Neverisky: Clearly the superior vehicle.
Christopher Hooper: notes. Honestly, it's more uh logistically challenging to to bring this Bugatti everywhere.
Ali Leonard: So, are we
Tyram: F-150. All the more reason to finish our pocket village and have a
Ali Leonard: doing Cuz right now we had
Tyram: little garage for the
Ali Leonard: the roomfall attached to the
Tyram: Bugatti. All right, Brew
Ali Leonard: back like in
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Tyram: got it.
Ali Leonard: a you know like wheeling behind in like a
Tyram: Yeah. Yeah, we're the the broom the zoom
Ali Leonard: thing. Do we make a like a
Tyram: falls on a trailer and
Ali Leonard: two-tier trailer or is somebody driving a
Tyram: um somebody could
Christopher Hooper: It's a vehicle. It's a
Tyram: just we could have like a team driving those the broomfall and another team uh also hey actually we should bring that up. Do we want to keep calling this the doomfall? The sorry the broomfall now that we don't have doomfall in
Ali Leonard: Bugatti?
Christopher Hooper: beauty.
Tyram: the group
Luke Neverisky: You got to change your whole identity and things like that. I don't
Justin Hale: Mhm.
Ali Leonard: Oh, how do you feel about it,
Luke Neverisky: know. I think it's
Ali Leonard: Liliana? You like it? You're not like drawn to your past
Tyram: anymore even though she's like your
Ali Leonard: life even and like your evil half
Tyram: evil
Luke Neverisky: great. Well, she's just she's just
Ali Leonard: yet.
Tyram: half.
Luke Neverisky: rough around the edges. It's I think it's great.
Ali Leonard: Okay. I mean, technically my car is called Tim Cooper, but it's okay.
Tyram: Okay, let's have a we call it
Christopher Hooper: Um, cool. Uh, so y'all um uh so were you planning to take up the lead to go to the Goliath village or
Ali Leonard: I guess if it's on the way like if we have to pass by
Tyram: though. Yeah, I mean it's
Christopher Hooper: no?
Tyram: not too much of a diversion if it and it would really help
Christopher Hooper: I mean, y'all are
Tyram: to finish the uh the village
Christopher Hooper: very wealthy, so like food and
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: stuff is not a problem for you. Um, it'll take probably four 4 day diversion
Ali Leonard: Heat.
Christopher Hooper: to make it up back up to the mountain. In the meantime, you
Tyram: here.
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Christopher Hooper: can um you can pop into Milstrom uh briefly uh which you see it's done pretty well. Um, it seems like a lot of the people that uh work in Redbrook uh a lot of them live in Milstrom um and do like a three-hour commute on horse.
Justin Hale: Okay,
Christopher Hooper: Um yeah, you
Tyram: that they were staying the
Justin Hale: better pay.
Christopher Hooper: know, it's like that thing where you like you take your weekend
Ali Leonard: Damn.
Christopher Hooper: trip and you open up your stall and all that stuff. Um it's
Tyram: Bugatti.
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Christopher Hooper: pretty because Melstrom has been there a while. There's like established um like mountaineering um resources like hides and stuff like that. Um a lot of manufacturing and stuff has already been established. Um, you you stopped there, you say hello. Anything you wanna you want to check out of Milstrom before you head up the mountain?
Luke Neverisky: What's the music scene
Christopher Hooper: Um, seems like uh not a lot of music, not a lot of artists come through there. if you're
Luke Neverisky: like? That's a shame. All
Ali Leonard: Yeah, maybe on the way back we'll have like
Christopher Hooper: interested.
Luke Neverisky: right, let me think about that for a
Ali Leonard: a open mic
Luke Neverisky: second. What I'm
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Um you see they they they regularly have open mic nights. Really it's just like there's kind of a dusty dusty
Justin Hale: Night.
Christopher Hooper: um stage in the bar. um now that they're not
Luke Neverisky: saying
Christopher Hooper: they don't have like uh cultural revolutionaries um preaching from there and not a lot of
Ali Leonard: Hey,
Christopher Hooper: performances come through. It looks pretty dusty. Um but the the inn itself is pretty busy and gets a decent amount of traffic. Um they do mention to you
Ali Leonard: of course they
Christopher Hooper: that elder soldiers have come through and up to the mountain peak um to check it out. Uh they didn't know whether they were still there or
Ali Leonard: have
Luke Neverisky: Okay. Well, I understand we're on a mission here, but way back. Might be nice to liven up some music here.
Christopher Hooper: not.
Tyram: Oh, it's time to restart the machinery. It's time
Ali Leonard: Absolutely.
Tyram: to get these audiences hooked on the new superior talent of Liliana
Justin Hale: Carlber.
Ali Leonard: I think you're going to have to pivot
Tyram: Goldspring.
Luke Neverisky: Oh jeez. I don't know.
Ali Leonard: your selling strategy there,
Tyram: I
Luke Neverisky: Maybe
Ali Leonard: Silus. It's a different vibe. It's a different
Tyram: mean, it's a different vibe to be sure,
Ali Leonard: crowd. I think it's a it's not as much of a hard cell as like
Tyram: but I mean, people go crazy for this like spiritual
Ali Leonard: a I think it's more like that's vibe.
Tyram: s***, you
Ali Leonard: Yeah, you're
Tyram: know? Okay. Okay. You're right. I need to sell. This is a vibe that I'm selling, not
Ali Leonard: it's a vibe. It's not like
Tyram: like Yeah. Well, hey is is if
Luke Neverisky: As long as we're
Ali Leonard: a Yeah,
Tyram: there is a way to monetize this, I will find
Luke Neverisky: vibing.
Ali Leonard: absolutely. I believe in
Christopher Hooper: That's it.
Tyram: it.
Luke Neverisky: I know you
Tyram: Oh. Oh, Brew, can you make me some like s***** little crystal things? I I don't care what they do. They just need to look like
Ali Leonard: you.
Tyram: f****** like, you know, like funue or whatever. I'm going to sell people
Luke Neverisky: will.
Tyram: like meditation crystals to go with like the Liliana
Ali Leonard: Don't touch my
Tyram: vibe, you know. You don't have crystals.
Ali Leonard: crystals. No, she has vi she has a bunch of
Tyram: That's a different
Justin Hale: function.
Ali Leonard: like violesence
Christopher Hooper: She has at least one large
Tyram: character. Okay. Not by No. No. We want like
Justin Hale: Oh
Ali Leonard: crystals. I could see Bruce stealing my car crystal
Tyram: cheap We want like cheap useless things to sell to
Luke Neverisky: No, just normal.
Ali Leonard: and smashing it into a million pieces and saying, "Here, here's some crystals.
Tyram: people. No, I'm not going to sell people actual
Christopher Hooper: one.
Tyram: valuable things. Cuz the whole point is I'm telling them like useless crap that I'm pretending
Ali Leonard: That's why I was
Tyram: is
Justin Hale: no. I'll I'll uh I'll take a couple minutes and mess around and then hand you um three ball bearings, but they're all like they're all gussied up. They look like little
Ali Leonard: warning
Justin Hale: like you know powdery marbles that you know those like stupid little decorative balls you can get at like um Kirkland's or home decor
Tyram: valuable. Yeah. Yeah.
Justin Hale: stores. It's that and they smell like poperri. They
Christopher Hooper: Mhm.
Tyram: Perfect. Okay. Um All
Justin Hale: smell like that store.
Tyram: right. I need to set up a stand here. Liliana, hit him with the vibe. Oh, whenever you're
Luke Neverisky: Oh, right now.
Ali Leonard: three. So, is this a
Tyram: ready, I
Ali Leonard: cult? Because now we're kind of like
Luke Neverisky: Okay. What?
Ali Leonard: come and then take our like give us your money for
Justin Hale: Huh? No,
Ali Leonard: nothing. Okay. I just
Tyram: guess. shades
Luke Neverisky: I'm just happy
Justin Hale: this is called a grift. It's not a gold. Two different
Ali Leonard: feel like I'm always in a cult. I just want to make
Tyram: of
Luke Neverisky: we're working
Justin Hale: things.
Tyram: distinction. There it there's subtle differences between the
Ali Leonard: sure. Would you tell me if I was in a cult? If you
Tyram: two. I would tell you if you were in a
Luke Neverisky: together. I
Ali Leonard: were the leader of the cult, would you tell me we were in a
Tyram: cult. No, I would lie
Luke Neverisky: mean,
Ali Leonard: cult? R. Would you tell me we were in a cult?
Tyram: to
Ali Leonard: Ah, dang it. We're
Tyram: you.
Justin Hale: If I knew we were in the cult, I would. This is the grift, though. The difference between the two is with
Ali Leonard: screwed.
Justin Hale: the griff you're just you're convincing people
Ali Leonard: Do a
Justin Hale: enough to buy things and then you leave before they figure out they suck. A
Ali Leonard: semantics question. Do cults grift? Do
Justin Hale: gold
Ali Leonard: cults grift? So, we could be
Tyram: Yeah.
Justin Hale: Huh? Gold skin griff. Yes.
Ali Leonard: in both in a cult and grifting.
Tyram: Like I mean
Luke Neverisky: You know,
Justin Hale: Griff.
Tyram: honestly I'm not asking anyone to like stay with us
Ali Leonard: is a major part of the cult. You
Tyram: permanently which I feel like is a very distinct feature of a
Ali Leonard: kind of all want to hang together and not kind of like Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Tyram: cult. Yeah. This is a this
Justin Hale: Uh,
Ali Leonard: Okay. Okay. Okay.
Tyram: is a fleeting transaction that we're going for rather than like a lifetime
Luke Neverisky: And and hey, you know, the good thing is the
Ali Leonard: Cool. That feels
Luke Neverisky: the best part is we're working together and having
Justin Hale: yes.
Ali Leonard: culty, right? That feels culty.
Luke Neverisky: fun.
Justin Hale: Yeah, that's that's definitely what we're
Tyram: commitment. Should we get Liliana to start a cult? I feel like she'd be really
Ali Leonard: I'm on cult watch now and I don't
Tyram: good at
Ali Leonard: know. As long as you guys tell me I'm in the
Tyram: it.
Ali Leonard: cult, I'm fine with it. I just need to know that I'm in the
Justin Hale: doing. If we're in the
Ali Leonard: cult.
Justin Hale: cult, you're in it, too. But I don't I don't think we are.
Ali Leonard: Okay. Well, if someone figures it out, let me
Justin Hale: I don't know. This This is the the pre the foreshadowing of
Ali Leonard: know. being a cold
Justin Hale: Liliana being like so much
Luke Neverisky: You thought was bad. Get
Justin Hale: worse. She's a fullon
Tyram: Helisana was the good side this whole
Justin Hale: like crazy cult leader. Was just upfront about her
Luke Neverisky: ready.
Ali Leonard: leader.
Luke Neverisky: Right. It's just
Justin Hale: corruptness.
Christopher Hooper: Um, so at some point you start playing at the
Luke Neverisky: vibes. It's vibes.
Christopher Hooper: the common mug, right? Cool. And you play more like a a folk style, is that
Tyram: time.
Luke Neverisky: Yeah,
Ali Leonard: Hell
Christopher Hooper: right?
Luke Neverisky: that's right. That's
Christopher Hooper: Um, yeah. You see that?
Luke Neverisky: right. I need
Christopher Hooper: Um, as you
Luke Neverisky: a new
Ali Leonard: yeah.
Christopher Hooper: um as you play your your music, um, you you notice that um, you see a um,
Luke Neverisky: playlist.
Christopher Hooper: well, go ahead and give me a performance check.
Luke Neverisky: So, I am crashing my screamy metal playlist and building something else. All right. Uh, performance
Christopher Hooper: 27.
Luke Neverisky: 27.
[02:00:00]
Christopher Hooper: Okay. So you see that uh very evidently that before um Helisana's music would would drive people into a mania um you your music um seems to clarify and calm people in a way that there was almost a you kind of step up to the mic you you start playing and the hubbhub of the the inn it is noticeably quieter. It's uh it's calmer. um you see some of the um more intense like arguments that were happening in the back uh just seem to settle down and um you see a few couples uh start to snuggle up and and watch you as you're playing and um you see a a very evident and obvious uh reflection of the comfort and uh calm that your your music is providing um uh to to the room. Um, and it's very it's very different and very jarring difference between before from the music that you played before and it seems to and you see it in the eyes most distinctly uh where people would have you even saw remnants of the old raver ravers in some folks and even the like the uh inebriating effects of alcohol that are obvious in people's eyes as they begin to drink. Even that seems to clarify in people's eyes and they they seem to see with a a greater clarity. Um
Ali Leonard: I'm not as worried about cults
Luke Neverisky: Wow. All
Ali Leonard: anymore. That
Tyram: I want
Luke Neverisky: right. Do you think they like
Ali Leonard: was that was the best thing I've ever
Christopher Hooper: yeah.
Tyram: to try to set up a little table and sell my uh my little
Luke Neverisky: it?
Ali Leonard: heard.
Tyram: crystal dealies like while they're all kind like you know vibing with the
Christopher Hooper: Okay, sure.
Tyram: the performance here.
Christopher Hooper: Um, yeah. About uh give me a persuasion check.
Tyram: Okay. Nope. Um, got to take my minimum on that, which is uh 17. Um, you want me to boost
Christopher Hooper: That's up to
Tyram: it? Uh, this is money's on the line. I'll boost
Christopher Hooper: you. Okay. How
Tyram: it. Okay, it is now a
Christopher Hooper: much are you trying to sell these
Tyram: 19. I'm trying to sell them. Um, I
Christopher Hooper: for?
Tyram: guess I'll try to start a little conservatively like uh maybe like
Christopher Hooper: Okay. And
Tyram: uh maybe like a silver a
Justin Hale: Yes.
Christopher Hooper: what was your what was your total persuasion check? 19.
Tyram: piece.
Christopher Hooper: Okay.
Tyram: 19
Christopher Hooper: Um, you see, it's interesting. So, the people that come in early, uh, you're able to talk into, uh, you end up creating a little bit of like a a betting war as, um, there's a couple dudes that, uh, come up to you and one says, "Wait, you're saying that these gather the power of the moon?" Like the new moon, you just put them on your window sill and they gather a power up.
Tyram: You'll feel much more in
Ali Leonard: Uhoh.
Tyram: touch with the moon when you have them.
Christopher Hooper: And another guy, hey, hey, really? I need to be in touch.
Tyram: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: My wife's been on my ass all day. Wait, how much are these a
Tyram: Oh, well, I'm just selling them for a silver a piece, my
Christopher Hooper: piece? Uh, will each one, if you get
Tyram: good
Christopher Hooper: multiple ones, will it make it even
Tyram: sir. Oh, for sure. Yeah,
Christopher Hooper: better?
Tyram: they uh the effect definitely compounds as long
Christopher Hooper: Um, how many
Tyram: as you believe it in your
Christopher Hooper: crystals do you think you
Tyram: heart. Uh Justin, how many did you make? Keep making them. This
Justin Hale: Um, I only made three, but I can keep making
Christopher Hooper: have?
Tyram: is This We need to have a
Justin Hale: them. Okay. I I can make three at
Christopher Hooper: Okay, we'll say at the
Tyram: lot. All right. How long did we have to
Justin Hale: a time basically as it as we go.
Christopher Hooper: be we'll say at the beginning of this uh concert you have about
Tyram: make
Justin Hale: So,
Christopher Hooper: six. Um and it says, "Well, oh my gosh, in our house we need all six." Like, hey, no, I was here first. I want to buy at least one.
Tyram: them?
Christopher Hooper: Like, I'll I'll pay you an extra silver to get all six
Ali Leonard: What?
Christopher Hooper: right now.
Tyram: Well, that is a mighty generous offer. Um, does someone else have an even more generous
Christopher Hooper: Well, like I I want at least one. I'll pay you six silver for one of them.
Tyram: offer? Okay. Yeah, I'll sell you this one for uh seven silver and you, sir, can have the rest for a
Christopher Hooper: Well, all right. Oh, man. I need these. Thank you, sir.
Tyram: gold.
Christopher Hooper: uh and and they pay you and you turn out more and uh three at a time, right? You know, turn out through the show show and people show interest, but uh eventually at some point in the show um you see that uh at some point people are like, "Wait, are these are just broken apart rocks?" Uh oh. Yeah, I don't I don't need these at all.
Tyram: Silus is furious. that Liliana is giving these people like clarity
Ali Leonard: I love it.
Christopher Hooper: And um yeah, and you you made that that big initial sell and then I think you sell maybe one other crystal for for a silver.
Tyram: somehow. All
Ali Leonard: Yeah, I'd join your call, I I'm your Can I be your first
Tyram: right.
Luke Neverisky: Yes.
Ali Leonard: fan? Hell yeah. I'm making everybody
Luke Neverisky: Yeah, I
Ali Leonard: friendship bracelets now.
Tyram: All right. Well, I think we made a total of uh 18 gold, so I'll uh sorry, 18 silver with the gold. Um so I'll I guess I'll split that with brew.
Justin Hale: Oh yeah. Add it to the
Ali Leonard: Get me a freaking tambourine. I'm going to be in that freaking van,
Tyram: Yeah, let's keep you in brown for a minute. This This
Luke Neverisky: mean,
Justin Hale: pile. Open the
Ali Leonard: man.
Tyram: is bad news, Brew. Somehow Somehow
Justin Hale: door. Toss it
Tyram: Liliana is making these people savvy. I don't care for that in the
Justin Hale: in. We don't like smart shoppers.
Christopher Hooper: You're going to have to roll down
Tyram: least.
Christopher Hooper: your
Tyram: No, I just need to scheme
Luke Neverisky: Ouch. He's a lot better.
Christopher Hooper: prices. Um, okay. So, um, you have a great performance, uh, Liliana and, um, yeah, El Smith,
Tyram: harder.
Christopher Hooper: are y'all, uh, y'all interested in doing anything before heading up the
Ali Leonard: before? No. But Liliana is going to teach me how to play the
Christopher Hooper: mountain?
Walden Briarhelm: I have no interest other than
Luke Neverisky: Kill
Ali Leonard: tambourine. You want to
Walden Briarhelm: these tambourine lessons I get to listen to. No, I uh I I I
Ali Leonard: drum? You just want to
Christopher Hooper: Okay.
Tyram: Just like one of those little like handheld drums. Just
Walden Briarhelm: am okay.
Ali Leonard: vibe. This look a
Tyram: go like
Walden Briarhelm: Oh,
Luke Neverisky: it.
Ali Leonard: little
Walden Briarhelm: I may have found
Ali Leonard: The tinier the drum,
Walden Briarhelm: a small interest after that example. A little hand drum
Ali Leonard: the better. It has to be super tiny.
Walden Briarhelm: may be
Christopher Hooper: All right. Yeah. And the uh the new band is is gradually
Ali Leonard: The band is called
Christopher Hooper: forming.
Walden Briarhelm: fine.
Ali Leonard: Vibes though,
Luke Neverisky: Oh, that's a good
Ali Leonard: right? Liliana. Liliana and the
Luke Neverisky: question. For now, we can call it
Christopher Hooper: Um
Luke Neverisky: buzz. Okay. Okay. and the
Ali Leonard: Vibes.
Christopher Hooper: It's an acronym, but you
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: wouldn't
Luke Neverisky: vibes. You understand? You had to be
Justin Hale: You have to join
Christopher Hooper: understand. Just fill it
Luke Neverisky: there.
Justin Hale: to
Christopher Hooper: out. All right. And you uh you make your way up the mountain.
Justin Hale: know.
Christopher Hooper: Um takes quite a period. You pass the farm. Um the sheep at some point um gay
Ali Leonard: Not a freaking
Christopher Hooper: trot around
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: You make
Luke Neverisky: So
Christopher Hooper: it up to the Goliath, the village. That is You find
Ali Leonard: sheep.
Christopher Hooper: one, no two figures up there, two Eldoran soldiers. And they have a small tent in the middle of the
Luke Neverisky: cute.
Christopher Hooper: village. And uh they are not doing anything. Um it looks like they are they have set up a telescope um and have a campfire going and they don't see you even though you're not trying to be stealthy and they're just hanging out.
Tyram: Hey, it's been a minute. We hate these guys, right? Yeah.
Luke Neverisky: Did we hit
Tyram: Oh yeah, one of them was the one who we had to fight
Luke Neverisky: you? Maybe.
Justin Hale: Mhm. Mhm.
Tyram: when uh but then again like she was here to kill the Goliaths and we hate the Goliaths
Ali Leonard: Yeah. Well, now we do.
Tyram: too. Yeah. At the time we were like trying to defend the Goliath, but it turns out they were
Luke Neverisky: Maybe
Tyram: like a bunch of assholes who murdered Red to turn him into
Ali Leonard: Yeah, I don't love that. And I still hate them. And any
Tyram: a battery. So f***
Luke Neverisky: That's
Justin Hale: Yep.
Ali Leonard: Goliath I see is going to die by my
Walden Briarhelm: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: hand.
Tyram: them. But the Eldorans do still suck
Luke Neverisky: right. So I
Ali Leonard: Yeah. No, for sure. They suck
Tyram: though. So, how do we want to deal with these
Ali Leonard: harder.
Tyram: f******? Yeah. Okay, I guess. Yeah, we don't I guess we don't need to deal with them at all
Luke Neverisky: guess it's
Ali Leonard: We don't have to kill
Luke Neverisky: not
Tyram: really. But can we
Luke Neverisky: If we can't hug it out, then might as well just not
Justin Hale: Mhm.
Ali Leonard: everyone. That's on you. As long as I'm kind of like,
Tyram: mess with
Ali Leonard: you know, you need me out of the way when before you mess with
Luke Neverisky: bite.
Ali Leonard: anyone just cuz I will mess up
Luke Neverisky: Yeah, that's even
Ali Leonard: your plan. Not on purpose.
Tyram: them?
Ali Leonard: It's just kind of what I put
Justin Hale: Practice makes
Ali Leonard: out. You want me to practice messing with
Tyram: Yeah. I mean, this is a low
Luke Neverisky: brute.
Justin Hale: perfect.
Tyram: stake situation where you could try to get a little bit better or at least slightly less incompetent at messing with people.
[02:10:00]
Ali Leonard: someone? As long as I don't have to speak to them and lie because I just can't do
Tyram: Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. We're not That is That is not
Ali Leonard: that.
Tyram: your role in the messing with people uh messing with people uh arrangement ever. Yeah.
Ali Leonard: Yeah. And at least
Tyram: But we've got a lot of really talented liars, so we we can handle that
Ali Leonard: we know that before we head into like a bad
Tyram: part. Yeah. You know, yeah. Like, know what you're good at. Know what your limitations are. You are not the liar in our in our
Ali Leonard: situation.
Tyram: schemes. All right. So, how should we mess with
Ali Leonard: So, they're kind of vibing in their tent
Tyram: them?
Ali Leonard: or like outside their tent or in a
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Why don't you go ahead and give me
Ali Leonard: fire. Okay, I'll look
Christopher Hooper: a perception check? Mhm.
Ali Leonard: my I don't think it's great, but it's not bad. What do I add to you? probably
Tyram: I got
Ali Leonard: nothing. I got a
Tyram: a uh
Ali Leonard: 14, so I can only
Christopher Hooper: All right. All right.
Tyram: 23.
Ali Leonard: see see
Christopher Hooper: Um, so Elizabeth,
Ali Leonard: stuff.
Christopher Hooper: um, you're looking at them. You're checking them out.
Ali Leonard: Mhm.
Christopher Hooper: Um, it looks like they are putting together some sort of um you kind of see they have this like tarp tent um that's emanating. They they mostly have their gear in there. They have this shack next to the tent and it looks like they're trying to build something. They're working on build building something in the shack. Um you see them go in and out. It looks like they kind of have this pile of junk right next to the tent. Um that you see
Ali Leonard: H
Christopher Hooper: them going back and forth and you see them like soldering things. And Silus, uh, you see around the tint there is, um, a little defraction in the air. It seems like something like arcane magical is like bubbling around the tent.
Tyram: Do they just have the reality stones on them right
Ali Leonard: I just see them soldering
Tyram: there? Well, hold on. Look, look this way. And I like try to like uh move Elsit's gaze to the the ripple
Ali Leonard: something and I squint even
Tyram: effect. You see what I'm talking about, right?
Christopher Hooper: Um, Elizabeth, why don't you
Luke Neverisky: One of
Ali Leonard: harder. Okay, I do have a I do have
Christopher Hooper: give me an arcana
Ali Leonard: a plus on
Christopher Hooper: check? Yeah. Should be pretty
Ali Leonard: that. Oh, yeah.
Christopher Hooper: good.
Luke Neverisky: these
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. So, you recognize um you remember from the dragon attack what felt like years ago now. Um
Ali Leonard: 19.
Christopher Hooper: they have uh they're able to create um arcane shields um by diffusing the power from their crystals. And it looks like they've set a little like pylon within their tent um that creates a little like force field thing around the tent area. Um and it looks like that's what Silus uh was able to see. Um, it looks like with that check, we'll say they're definitely building something um uh almost like a like some sort of box like square uh cube structure type thing with two holes in it. And they're they're building and and working on it. And inside the box is glowing this like blue light from either end. There's two ends going straight through it. Almost like a wood planer. And you see them feed stuff into one side and it doesn't come out the other. It kind of goes straight through and then disappears. Uh they do that and then they they start working on the box again. And there there's a panel that's connected to the box and they're um working on that. Um, and you see that the box is connected to this relay, a huge like wall of different um you see these like m like metal bays that hold these um these pieces of rock and stone. and they are glistening with this like blue and silver light uh that's coming out of it. Um and it and it looks like there are these lines arcane lines that are connected to those into this cube.
Tyram: Don't love that. But
Ali Leonard: Yeah, I
Tyram: hey, you see how you should really just squint extra hard from the start,
Ali Leonard: really should start just squinting really hard. Maybe I need glasses.
Tyram: right? No, I just need to
Luke Neverisky: H.
Ali Leonard: It definitely helped for
Tyram: squint. That's what I'm
Justin Hale: The hard kill
Ali Leonard: sure. Whatever they're doing, I don't love
Tyram: saying. Okay. So, yeah, it
Ali Leonard: it. Is this like a cosmic
Tyram: seems like we should put a stop to this. Like anything they want to do is like
Justin Hale: is
Tyram: automatically bad, you
Ali Leonard: shredder or is it like a scan? I don't know. They're like putting something in something and it disappears. I don't love it.
Tyram: know. All right. So, messing with them might have to be upgraded
Ali Leonard: Maybe.
Tyram: to thwarting
Christopher Hooper: All right. And y'all uh head back down the
Tyram: them. Uh, no.
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: mountain. No, I'm just kidding. What do
Tyram: What do we
Christopher Hooper: you want to do?
Tyram: Okay. Well, maybe we could maybe we should send a scouting group, get a little bit more information. Oh, I'll go because I'm Yeah, actually,
Ali Leonard: I just I'm
Tyram: you don't need to know
Ali Leonard: not I'll squint from over
Tyram: this. Yeah. Yeah. You're not the liar and you're not the the sneaker. Those are those are both
Ali Leonard: here. I'm just saying I know my
Tyram: nonsworth jobs. It
Ali Leonard: rule.
Tyram: that's good. That's a great thing. We should all We should all stay in our lane, you
Ali Leonard: I'll hug her back though. I'll definitely squint from this from over
Luke Neverisky: Jesus winter.
Ali Leonard: here. I know
Tyram: know. I'll I'll be at ease knowing that you're squinting. Um
Ali Leonard: it. I know
Christopher Hooper: Well, I I'll ask this question of you. You're talking about a scouting party. Um, so you have a pretty good view of what's going on. What, um,
Ali Leonard: it.
Christopher Hooper: like what are you trying to do with this scouting party
Tyram: actually I want to get close enough to listen them to them talk to each other to see if they'll like say anything that
Christopher Hooper: ting?
Tyram: is worth listening
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Um, it
Tyram: to.
Luke Neverisky: Hey,
Christopher Hooper: you it's like their work is loud. Um, I don't even think you need to get very close. Uh, you're able to skitter between the huts and houses of the old village pretty easily to get into to hearing distance. Um, why don't you go ahead and give me a perception
Tyram: Okay. Uh
Christopher Hooper: check? 17.
Tyram: 17 need a boost.
Christopher Hooper: Um I don't think so. Um so so you um you get pretty close the I think the group is able to stay like within reach but you kind of peak peek a little closer.
Tyram: Okay. I can just thank
Christopher Hooper: Um yeah and you hear um
Tyram: them if I need
Christopher Hooper: they are talking about uh you hear
Tyram: to.
Christopher Hooper: aspects about like uh stabilizing the the threshold. Um, and you hear some technical jargon about um needing to adjust a few of uh bays three and four's frequency to be able to maintain the threshold um to be able to stabilize it for its connection with uh with point alpha And you kind of hear this these types of terminology going I think you yourself it would be difficult to understand but I think the rest of you could all kind of like come to some conclusions
Tyram: Yeah, I was wondering if I could like relay all like the the terminology to the
Christopher Hooper: here. Mhm.
Tyram: nerds. See if it makes any sense to them. Does any
Luke Neverisky: Ala
Tyram: of this nerd talk make sense to you
Ali Leonard: Then I think real hard about it. Does
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Tyram: nerds?
Ali Leonard: it? Can I do a thinking
Luke Neverisky: spooky.
Ali Leonard: check? I don't get
Christopher Hooper: Um, do you want to use your real brain first and and we'll see if y'll come up with Is
Ali Leonard: it.
Christopher Hooper: there
Tyram: I assume they're probably trying to shut down the the portal that we used to go to the to the
Ali Leonard: Do they want to shut it down or do they want to
Tyram: tree zone, which is
Ali Leonard: get into
Tyram: also well, we don't want them to shut that down
Ali Leonard: it? your
Tyram: because that's like my portal to like go like see my girlfriend. So, yeah. That has to stay open. That
Luke Neverisky: Oh no.
Tyram: is the number one priority for
Ali Leonard: girlfriend.
Christopher Hooper: This feels a little different than that. Um because uh the portal that you went to um to the tree was in the cave and you're currently like within the huts of
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: the village like you're outside the
Tyram: Silus.
Christopher Hooper: cave. And so they seem to be like reusing some of the mach existing like village machinery um that they've like collected out
Tyram: Okay. So, is this another portal like the like the demon
Ali Leonard: Oh,
Tyram: portals and stuff like that that we've seen popping up in different
Ali Leonard: Are they trying to do like a
Christopher Hooper: here.
Ali Leonard: spaceship?
Tyram: places?
Christopher Hooper: So go ahead, Elizabeth. Go ahead and give me that arana
Ali Leonard: No.
Christopher Hooper: check.
Tyram: Can
Ali Leonard: Nine. Oh, I think so. Didn't
Tyram: you flash a genius yourself
Justin Hale: Oh, can we double flash of
Christopher Hooper: Nine.
Tyram: now? I would assume they don't stack, but I don't know that for
Justin Hale: genius?
Tyram: sure. Usually when you get like the same ability used twice, you just take whichever one is better. You don't add them. But that's how like paladin uh
Luke Neverisky: Makes sense. Makes
Ali Leonard: I? That's a plus five,
Tyram: auras work for
Ali Leonard: right? No, wait.
Tyram: example. It's whatever your in mod
Ali Leonard: Plus
Tyram: is.
Luke Neverisky: sense.
Justin Hale: Yeah, only one
Ali Leonard: four. That' be a 13 plus. Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: 13. you're hearing some of this
Justin Hale: will
Ali Leonard: 13.
Christopher Hooper: terminology. You don't know a lot about Eldor and tech necessarily. Um, what it looks like to you is is they're trying to create some sort of you hear gate and you
Ali Leonard: Mhm.
Christopher Hooper: think like like portal threshold. You hear threshold. You hear and you see that stuff is going into the box into
Ali Leonard: That's what I was confused
Christopher Hooper: the light and and basically disappearing.
Ali Leonard: about cuz it was going it was disappearing like it was either being teleported or like destroyed. So like maybe it's being they're teleporting stuff to Aldora.
Christopher Hooper: Exactly. So, they're talking about relay A, uh, point A. So, it seems like it could be teleporting to another location.
Ali Leonard: H I tell you guys my suspicions that I think it's teleporting to another location possibly Aldora.
Tyram: Oh man, you don't think they're trying to mine the reality stones
Ali Leonard: Absolutely they
Tyram: themselves, do
Justin Hale: If Helga was talking about him, that would make sense. Wasn't she working with
Ali Leonard: would. They weren't against each other,
Tyram: Um,
Ali Leonard: but
Tyram: may maybe I mean they didn't seem to wart her from ruling over or anything. So, at the very least, they had some sort of uh
Justin Hale: them?
Tyram: parlay with each other. I don't know.
Christopher Hooper: Um, anyone who wants to can give me a
Tyram: I guess we can ask them if we were like
Ali Leonard: Yeah. History check.
Christopher Hooper: history
Tyram: we can kick these guys ass and interrogate them
Ali Leonard: History
Justin Hale: I'm okay at
Ali Leonard: check. Oh, now it's a 20. Okay. Not
Christopher Hooper: check.
Ali Leonard: twice.
Christopher Hooper: that uh 20
Tyram: maybe.
Justin Hale: this.
Christopher Hooper: history. I think that there there was a movement from Elderan against Helga's High Forge, but you
Tyram: Yes.
Christopher Hooper: thored it uh when uh because Lady Corwin was going to
Ali Leonard: Right. We were like,
Christopher Hooper: hire Eldoran mercenaries to take the city.
Ali Leonard: "f*** that." Right. It's just a lot of memory checks because I don't remember. Got it. Hey, so they're not working with each other. We should stop them from doing whatever they're doing cuz this tech will make you sacrifice some of your friends and send them to
Luke Neverisky: That's not
Justin Hale: That's not
Ali Leonard: space.
Justin Hale: great. I don't
Ali Leonard: Yeah, I would rather it not happen a second
Luke Neverisky: great. Yeah, that that
Justin Hale: love that.
Ali Leonard: time. Yeah. So, and I
Luke Neverisky: is not vibes.
Ali Leonard: have to learn that too. So, I will make a list of what is vibes and what is not
Tyram: Oh god, there's going to be a whole
Luke Neverisky: I know you did
Ali Leonard: vibes. It's going to be the gospel. I'm making
Christopher Hooper: Hey,
Tyram: thing with you, isn't
Ali Leonard: a
Tyram: it?
Luke Neverisky: great. Elus
Ali Leonard: cult.
Christopher Hooper: good.
Tyram: I'm still mad about
Luke Neverisky: will be my
Tyram: you have making me work so much harder to fool people at your
Luke Neverisky: profit. Just because I know you're so talented, you'll do great.
Ali Leonard: She wants to be at your full
Luke Neverisky: That's
Tyram: concerts. I have to ascend to a higher level of
Ali Leonard: potential.
Tyram: scamming.
Luke Neverisky: right.
Christopher Hooper: Um, all right. So, they keep working. Um, y'all keep scheming.
Ali Leonard: Hey guys, we should probably stop him
Christopher Hooper: Any any thoughts on
Ali Leonard: from
Christopher Hooper: action?
Tyram: Yeah. I feel like just like as a rule of thumb,
Ali Leonard: this. We get them to stop
Tyram: if the Eldorans want to do something, we don't want them to do
Ali Leonard: doing that thing because I feel like they're probably going to be getting a lot of information we don't want them to
Tyram: something.
Luke Neverisky: All
Ali Leonard: have.
Tyram: Yeah.
Luke Neverisky: right.
Ali Leonard: But we also don't want him to tell
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: Eldorans that we were doing this, that we were that we did
Tyram: Oh, so are we
Ali Leonard: it. I mean, maybe not killing, but
Tyram: coming all the way back around to killing them
Ali Leonard: like knocking them out and taking their
Tyram: then? Oh, well, I do like taking
Ali Leonard: stuff. You know what I mean?
Tyram: their
Justin Hale: Mhm.
Ali Leonard: Like, no. Stop it.
Tyram: stuff.
Ali Leonard: Bad. Grounded.
Luke Neverisky: I think they're not going to just, you
Ali Leonard: No, I don't think
Luke Neverisky: know, yeah, they're not going to take to ask asking
Ali Leonard: that's not I don't even think that's option this
Christopher Hooper: Cool. All right. I'm gonna I'm going to do a a dagger heart thing. And if y'all leave me an opportunity, I'm going to do
Luke Neverisky: nicely.
Ali Leonard: time. Uhoh. I'll give them an
Christopher Hooper: something.
Luke Neverisky: Neato.
Tyram: Okay, here's
Justin Hale: It's a wrong game, sir.
Ali Leonard: opportunity.
Tyram: a here's a plan. What if I go in try to like just gum up their machinery? You know, they're like, "Oh no, it it's broken." And and then then when they come out
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: We jump them. Yeah. And make
Tyram: to try to fix it, we jump
Ali Leonard: sure it's really
Walden Briarhelm: Oh, I like for the attack being a
Christopher Hooper: I'm
Tyram: them.
Justin Hale: here. Take Kevin with
Christopher Hooper: Kevin.
Tyram: Okay. Now, remind me, is Kevin going to be an asset in my my
Walden Briarhelm: secret.
Justin Hale: you.
Ali Leonard: broken. Pass.
Tyram: scheme?
Justin Hale: Yeah, he can be he can be a decoy at the very
Christopher Hooper: I like
Tyram: Okay, that's true.
Ali Leonard: Yes, he
Tyram: I give Kevin a little pat on the head. That's right, gun big
Luke Neverisky: Oh, I like
Tyram: guy. Shut up.
Luke Neverisky: hugs,
Justin Hale: least.
Christopher Hooper: hugs.
Tyram: Anyway, all
Ali Leonard: does.
Tyram: right. So, I'm gonna try to stealth my way over to their machinery and then I'm if there's any like um now since this is like
Luke Neverisky: too.
Tyram: ostensibly like a steampunky setting, there's obviously just a bunch of like exposed machinery and like moving gears for me to like try to
Christopher Hooper: Give me
Tyram: plug up here, right? That that is the that is the aesthetic,
Christopher Hooper: a uh give me a cell
Tyram: right? All right. Uh
Christopher Hooper: check 29. Um something that uh we are beyond steampunk. Yeah,
Tyram: 29. Damn
Ali Leonard: You're so
Christopher Hooper: that was 200 years ago. We are
Tyram: it. I just remember all the steampunky guns
Christopher Hooper: too.
Tyram: from like Ellit's image a few weeks ago. I was hoping that some things just like I was hoping they just kept the
Christopher Hooper: Um, we are too uh sleek
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Tyram: aesthetic.
Christopher Hooper: like no exposed. Uh, not not
Tyram: Damn it.
Ali Leonard: Oh,
Christopher Hooper: as much. It's a I think I once described it as
Tyram: Okay. Like diesel
Christopher Hooper: um it's the it's the aesthetic of Star
Luke Neverisky: That sounds
Christopher Hooper: Wars really, which is like I think I looked it up and it's like uh disco punk is what it's
Tyram: punk.
Ali Leonard: Disco
Christopher Hooper: called. Um which is basically
Luke Neverisky: nice.
Christopher Hooper: like 70s sci-fi tech.
Tyram: Okay. Okay.
Christopher Hooper: Um uh but uh with that uh you are
Ali Leonard: bug.
Christopher Hooper: able to get um you see they they kind of work on routines. Um where one seems
Tyram: Okay.
Christopher Hooper: to be hauling more as the other is working on the machine, turning dials and working on the terminal. Um, you're able to sneak on the other side of this machine that they're working on and you get a really close look and you feel this like energy and heat being like contained within this cube. The cube is large. It is the size of an oven. Um, uh, a full like yeah stove oven piece. And it basically the entrance um that they're putting things through is the size of an oven door. Um you're able to you see more exposure coming out of the back, but there is this they're basically using the back as this exhaust where all the energy is exhausted from. Um and as you get close, you feel it's almost scalding to you to you as you get closer. You see the figure on just the other side of this uh cube is wearing protective gear um as they like work uh on the
Tyram: Okay. Can I also see what materials they're feeding into
Christopher Hooper: machine. Yeah.
Tyram: it? Like what are they uh what are they transporting
Christopher Hooper: Weirdly, they seem to be moving boulders. They seem to be tearing down uh a lot of the shacks in the village and moving
Tyram: here?
Christopher Hooper: like long beams that they can like slowly feed like pieces of lumber into the machine long ways.
Ali Leonard: I thought it would be like it's
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. So, kind of like a mixture of those two
Ali Leonard: weird. Is our radio
Christopher Hooper: things.
Tyram: I got psychic phone going. So yeah, I'll I'll relay this information to you
Ali Leonard: on? This is going to sound more
Tyram: guys.
Ali Leonard: good. Can we push them in the oven?
Tyram: We don't know if
Luke Neverisky: Oh, that is more
Justin Hale: I have
Tyram: that would uh be okay for
Ali Leonard: I'm just
Tyram: organic things to go through here. There's a lot we don't know. You wearing protective
Ali Leonard: saying it would probably break
Tyram: gear, so it's maybe not great to go through this
Justin Hale: nothing.
Tyram: thing. Do uh you
Ali Leonard: it. I
Tyram: got your psychic push thing, right?
Ali Leonard: do talking. I shove. I could shove them.
Tyram: That'd be a pretty effective way to do
Ali Leonard: Is that
Tyram: it. All
Ali Leonard: crazy or is it
Tyram: right. I think it's a
Luke Neverisky: So Elizabeth went
Ali Leonard: gross? Like I do
Tyram: wonderful
Luke Neverisky: from Frank's like to
Ali Leonard: no pranks or I kill
Tyram: idea. There is no in
Luke Neverisky: 11.
Ali Leonard: someone. Pranks are not
Tyram: between. Um, well, hey, actually, that's great because that's also a way for us to uh not get
Ali Leonard: true. Our fingerprints aren't on it. Well, mine is, but you know what I
Tyram: uh get IDed by these guys
Ali Leonard: mean.
Tyram: either. Yeah, even if he survived, he wouldn't be able to
Ali Leonard: who shoved him. Okay.
Tyram: like identify us as the ones who did anything to
Ali Leonard: Well, I'll just have to wait until they're like up against it and then I'll shove
Tyram: him. Okay, so you guys go ahead and get in position.
Ali Leonard: it. I see how far away
Tyram: Um, I want to see if I got anything that I can uh help
Ali Leonard: I have to be. Um, but then 30 ft. Can I hide and still be 30 ft away?
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, I think the bigger issue is the
Tyram: with.
Ali Leonard: Okay.
Christopher Hooper: terminal. So, it's a cube, right? So, he's working perpendicular to the entrance of the
Ali Leonard: Yeah. So, like the door like that's the door and they're here like on this side.
Christopher Hooper: cube. Mhm. That's right.
Ali Leonard: Okay. Okay. Can someone throw a rock in front of
Tyram: Well, if we need to get you closer, we might be able to If we need to get you closer, we can maybe like stuff you in the in the in the
Ali Leonard: it? I'm not going in that thing until it's
Tyram: pee
Luke Neverisky: Wait. Oh,
Tyram: hole. It was cleaned. Brew Brew told me he cleaned it, so I'm assuming it's
Luke Neverisky: wait. Wait.
Ali Leonard: cleaned. If Brew cleaned it, it's not
Justin Hale: I cleaned it. I
Ali Leonard: clean. Brew, look me in the eyes. Did you clean
Tyram: clean.
Justin Hale: totally cleaned it. You can fur, but I
Ali Leonard: it?
Tyram: See, I mean, I don't love that he says he can't prove I didn't, but um what the
Luke Neverisky: friends. I can just make you invisible. Would that
Tyram: hell? What the hell are we doing here? Yeah, go ahead,
Ali Leonard: So, we'll need someone to Well, we need
Tyram: Lilian.
Luke Neverisky: help? All
Ali Leonard: to get the get one of the guards in front of the door, in front of
Tyram: I
Luke Neverisky: right.
Ali Leonard: the
Tyram: love the I love it whenever like people are coming up with like some cockami scheme but then like some
Ali Leonard: oven. I can
Christopher Hooper: What
Tyram: spellcaster is like I have the ideal spell for this
Ali Leonard: do this perfectly if you want.
Christopher Hooper: about
Tyram: situation.
Luke Neverisky: Have you thought about
Ali Leonard: Can someone like distract them or like plant something in front of the oven or like throw a rock or something to get them in front of the oven?
Tyram: Yeah. Oh, I can take care of that.
Luke Neverisky: magic?
Ali Leonard: Okay. And then Bruce, clean the
Christopher Hooper: magic?
Tyram: Is there
Justin Hale: You have
Ali Leonard: pea
Tyram: like you said there's an exhaust to this thing. Are there like smoke stacks like
Justin Hale: Kevin. It's clean. It's totally
Christopher Hooper: Oh.
Tyram: uh on top of it or
Justin Hale: clean.
Ali Leonard: bag.
Christopher Hooper: Um, what I meant by that is like um it's like it's like a like a grate that's like emanating heat out the back of it.
Tyram: anything? At the back of it. Okay. Okay. Okay. I
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Tyram: was trying to think if I could like drop like a like a rock inside of like a smoke stack or something. Um Um Yeah, I can probably find a way to sab it. I I can at least make a distraction even if I
Ali Leonard: I want to shove somebody in it, but they need to be in
Tyram: can't break the
Ali Leonard: front of the machine and I keep them perpendicular or
Tyram: machine. All right, just let me know when you're ready and I'll try to make that distraction for
Ali Leonard: whatever. Okay. How long does invisibility
Tyram: you. an
Ali Leonard: last? Okay. Make me
Luke Neverisky: last for one hour. They give you a little
Tyram: hour. Um, it it'll wear off
Luke Neverisky: poop on the nose.
Ali Leonard: visible. I'm still gonna
Tyram: immediately if you do damage to someone or if you force somebody to make a saving throw. So, I
Ali Leonard: hide behind something for
Tyram: think Yeah. So, I think that your uh
Ali Leonard: sure. So I I h
Tyram: your your push will break the
Ali Leonard: I go about 30 feet away at the
Tyram: invisibility.
Luke Neverisky: Yep.
Ali Leonard: most and try and
Tyram: The other guy is just like going back and forth,
Ali Leonard: hide. Think
Tyram: right? The one who's not like feeding stuff
Christopher Hooper: Yes, he's like
Tyram: into the
Christopher Hooper: going he's basically the one doing a lot of the physical labor of
Ali Leonard: so.
Christopher Hooper: like adjusting the one at the terminal is like calling out these like instructions to adjust the relay which is this like huge wall where like there's these
Tyram: machine.
Christopher Hooper: cavities that hold like these like illuminating stones in them, rock. And then he when he kind of goes does that for a while and then he moves to like start feeding material into the
Tyram: Okay. So, um, he's the one we need to push in, right? Because he's the one who's feeding stuff
Ali Leonard: Yes.
Christopher Hooper: cube.
Tyram: in. Okay. Um, hey Kevin, do you have any
Christopher Hooper: I'm
Tyram: of any bruised bombs on
Christopher Hooper: Kevin.
Tyram: you? And even a nod or a headshake from you there,
Ali Leonard: and also says
Justin Hale: Yeah. Hey.
Tyram: Kevin. Of course. Of course. All right. All right. I want you to can I like roll something to see if I
Justin Hale: Yes.
Tyram: can like identify like a really effective place to throw a
Christopher Hooper: I
Tyram: bomb at on this
Christopher Hooper: mean, the exhaust seems like a good
Tyram: machine. Okay. Okay. Um All right, Kevin, when I give you the
Ali Leonard: Okay.
Tyram: signal, I want you to uh throw a bomb at that
Christopher Hooper: place. I'm
Tyram: exhaust. All right. So yeah, we'll do our
Christopher Hooper: Kevin.
Tyram: distraction right as you're ready to push that guy into the uh into the threshold. Oh, but just in case that doesn't work, uh Ma, maybe you should like be on standby to like just go up and like physically push him if you need
Walden Briarhelm: Okay. On
Tyram: to. Use your like mad physical ability to just like run up and push him if you have
Walden Briarhelm: standby.
Tyram: to. All right, just let me know when you guys are ready.
Walden Briarhelm: Understood.
Ali Leonard: I'm ready.
Christopher Hooper: I'm Kevin.
Walden Briarhelm: has positioned himself to be
Tyram: Okay. Um, I'm going to have uh Kevin throw a bomb at the exhaust and I'd like to simultaneously uh go up to the guy at the console and I want to
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
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Tyram: pants
Ali Leonard: Damn.
Christopher Hooper: Um, okay. We'll start with a
Ali Leonard: Yeah. Absolutely freaking vicious, man.
Christopher Hooper: pancing.
Tyram: him slide of hand obviously,
Christopher Hooper: Um, uh, you can, but I don't think you can fail. You can, um, roll it just to see how high you go.
Tyram: right? Okay. uh
Christopher Hooper: I thought I thought so.
Tyram: 27.
Christopher Hooper: Um, yeah, your
Tyram: Yeah, I'm very good at uh at pancing
Christopher Hooper: pancing of
Tyram: people. Read into that what you will, I
Christopher Hooper: him, your pancing of him. Um, it takes him a while to notice, but the uh the gale winds of the the mountain peak um begin to
Tyram: guess.
Ali Leonard: Oh, damn.
Christopher Hooper: shrivel up his testicles and he quickly
Tyram: Good.
Christopher Hooper: realizes, "Oh, I've got no pants
Tyram: Good. Uh, after I pants him, I want to
Christopher Hooper: on." Okay. Um, at
Tyram: teleport away so that he doesn't find me next to
Christopher Hooper: this point his labor friend is feeding in a uh large um beam of
Ali Leonard: And
Christopher Hooper: aluminum and he
Tyram: him.
Ali Leonard: then so he's
Christopher Hooper: is very close to the
Ali Leonard: feeding it, but is he in front of it? Perfect. Then
Christopher Hooper: cube.
Ali Leonard: I shove him into the
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: cube mentally.
Christopher Hooper: Okay, cool. But yeah, give me that uh athletic uh give me an athletic check or an
Tyram: I think her psychic push thing she has
Ali Leonard: You have to make a shrink
Tyram: the victim has to make a strength
Ali Leonard: save cuz it's it's a
Christopher Hooper: arcana. Okay.
Ali Leonard: spell. It's a mental
Christopher Hooper: Is this spell? It's
Tyram: save. It's technically not a spell, but it is
Christopher Hooper: a spell.
Tyram: a it's a magical ability,
Ali Leonard: push. The DC
Christopher Hooper: Okay. What's it DC?
Tyram: I guess. It's from my
Ali Leonard: is 8 plus my int. What is it? 8 plus my
Tyram: feet. Eight plus proficiency plus your intelligence
Ali Leonard: intelligence 8
Tyram: modifier. It should
Ali Leonard: 14. I think
Tyram: be Wait, your DC is only 14? It should be the same as your spell
Ali Leonard: so. I'm
Tyram: DC. There's no possible way it's only
Ali Leonard: going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. It
Tyram: 14. Um what's your
Ali Leonard: says, oh, 16.
Tyram: modifier? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Your your proficiency is plus4. Your end is
Ali Leonard: Sorry. Yeah, I saw proficiency is
Tyram: you said it was plus4. Yeah. That makes it
Ali Leonard: plus two and that's on me. That's my
Christopher Hooper: So, there was one moment
Tyram: 16.
Christopher Hooper: where it seems like it might not be enough, but
Ali Leonard: bad. I think
Christopher Hooper: then it just seems like it's enough and you push him
Ali Leonard: harder.
Christopher Hooper: in and at that point Kevin
Tyram: Okay.
Luke Neverisky: He
Christopher Hooper: yells
Tyram: Wait, I'm stronger
Christopher Hooper: Kevin and he throws a dynam dynamite at the
Luke Neverisky: squinted.
Christopher Hooper: exhaust and it the machine eventually uh like not eventually but uh gets hit by this dynamite stick and about uh
Tyram: now.
Christopher Hooper: a 3/4 of the way this body is through this cube. Uh the bottom half gets severed and falls limp and cat caterized to the to the snow below. It explodes. The man at the terminal uh trips over his pants and it machine explodes in his face. Um, and uh he's quickly trying to crawl away into some shelter um as uh the explosions happen on the on the machine there. It It's
Ali Leonard: Excellent.
Christopher Hooper: weird in that you you see an explosion happen and it almost reverses and then happens again over and over again. Um where like goes in and out with this explosion over and over again causing the effect on the outside but seems to be repeating on itself. Um, and the the the the guy is uh crawling towards one of the shelters. He he uh he gets into the shelter. He pulls up his pants. Uh he be you kind of hear him uh he seems to be talking on a radio. Hey, we got an issue here. The whole thing's coming down. Um and uh he um you hear you lose track of him in the shed at this point. Um the uh machine is just like exploding over and over
Ali Leonard: That's probably not
Christopher Hooper: again.
Tyram: I guess we should probably leave.
Justin Hale: Yes, time to
Ali Leonard: good. So, is that a prank that I
Walden Briarhelm: on
Ali Leonard: did?
Tyram: Hell yeah, Elizabeth. It went exactly as you
Walden Briarhelm: it. I think
Ali Leonard: It seems it seems pretty
Walden Briarhelm: you you nailed
Tyram: planned. Extremely
Walden Briarhelm: it. You think you think so
Justin Hale: go.
Walden Briarhelm: now? I would listen to Silus. He seems to have the
Luke Neverisky: That's
Ali Leonard: extreme. I feel like we kind of just killed a guy and then
Walden Briarhelm: right mindset about it. No,
Ali Leonard: broke
Tyram: effective. Well, I mean, he could be alive. He doesn't need his legs,
Walden Briarhelm: no, don't overthink
Justin Hale: Did you see him
Ali Leonard: reality.
Walden Briarhelm: it.
Justin Hale: die? Did you see him
Ali Leonard: I guess not.
Tyram: right? He doesn't need his
Luke Neverisky: Did you confirm the
Justin Hale: die? If you didn't see him
Tyram: legs. He's
Justin Hale: die, you don't know he's
Tyram: fine. So, we maimed the man. We didn't necessarily kill him,
Justin Hale: dead.
Ali Leonard: Okay. It doesn't make me super
Tyram: man. At the end of the day, these are Elderon f****.
Luke Neverisky: kill?
Ali Leonard: confident. You know what? Fair.
Tyram: Who cares?
Walden Briarhelm: Just drink cold lotion. It'll be fine.
Ali Leonard: True.
Tyram: Okay, so we're uh running away. Um wait, I guess we still need to Where are the
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, the
Tyram: reality stones? Like where were we supposed to be looking for
Christopher Hooper: notes you saw, they were in the cave.
Tyram: those? Okay, let's let's head to the
Christopher Hooper: Cool.
Ali Leonard: looking at the machine. Did that probably have a reality stone in
Tyram: cave.
Christopher Hooper: Um
Ali Leonard: it?
Christopher Hooper: um you did see a whole wall of stones that were bunch of in in some like loading bays and then some that were getting loaded in the machine. Um they look kind of interesting.
Tyram: Are they still around enough for us to grab
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, they are close to this like repeating explosive machine, but you you could probably sneak in and get
Tyram: them? Okay, you're up. Well, the guy who moves the fastest and is the strongest is, I think, a good choice for this
Luke Neverisky: Makes
Christopher Hooper: some
Walden Briarhelm: Okay, here we
Tyram: task. And he's willing to do it. That's a big
Christopher Hooper: Um, I don't know.
Walden Briarhelm: go.
Christopher Hooper: Uh, I How How are you approaching this? I
Luke Neverisky: sense.
Christopher Hooper: almost want you to tell me what check you want to run right
Tyram: plus.
Walden Briarhelm: it. I would almost leave it up to a group vote. I I truly am just
Tyram: Um, well, the real question is what are you good at? And then we'll try to
Walden Briarhelm: in it for the
Christopher Hooper: here.
Tyram: think of a way to justify it.
Walden Briarhelm: fun. I'm I'm strong
Tyram: So, you're probably good at athletics. Athletics, honestly,
Walden Briarhelm: and I can Yeah, athletics
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Christopher Hooper: most
Tyram: is probably like the the most obvious name to roll here
Walden Briarhelm: is
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. Yeah. I'm
Tyram: anyway, right? Like, he's trying to move fast and lift something. Those are those are athletic
Luke Neverisky: going to hold this.
Christopher Hooper: appropriate.
Tyram: jokes.
Christopher Hooper: Um, okay. I I want you to make two checks. I want you to make an athletics check and a slight of hand. And if either of them are below 20, I'm going to have you make some saving throws.
Walden Briarhelm: Mhm. Oh, that's great. I'm going to do slide of hand first so that maybe bad things start at
Ali Leonard: Are these stones small enough for me to mage hand
Walden Briarhelm: 20. Okay.
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Um, the ones you see are pretty
Tyram: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: also? Okay. Well, I just thought I'd
Christopher Hooper: large. I don't know
Tyram: What does Mage hand cap out at? Like
Christopher Hooper: what
Tyram: five
Walden Briarhelm: Uh
Ali Leonard: check 10
Tyram: pounds. Oh, I was only giving it half as much credit
Walden Briarhelm: I think I can
Ali Leonard: pounds. How
Tyram: as it
Walden Briarhelm: full with 25 strings. I think I can full sprint with like 375 pounds in my hand. So we're
Tyram: deserved. Oh, f***. That's right. You have that Giants belt. Like, you're even
Walden Briarhelm: good. Uh, so I got a 21 on slide of hand.
Tyram: stronger than I thought you were.
Walden Briarhelm: Yeah. Yeah. I
Luke Neverisky: I don't need
Walden Briarhelm: Yeah. And I rolled a 26 on
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Okay. Yeah. you
Walden Briarhelm: athletics. 26 and
Ali Leonard: dare
Christopher Hooper: um I think he you seem it is it is a dance of like pure athleticism, speed, and
Walden Briarhelm: 21.
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Christopher Hooper: strength as you like like zoom into this like huge array with mounted stones and like one after another you're able to just yank out a stone, toss it, toss Toss, yank, toss, yank, toss. As you work through the whole array, you sling them out. Um, and then you move through, you see um this cart that has these stones um waiting to be loaded into the machine. And you then slide um uh I think either shell or knee slide under the machine's uh perpetual explosion into this cart and then slide it into your team. And then uh you collect what looks to be um close to 500 pounds of these
Ali Leonard: Hell
Christopher Hooper: stones.
Walden Briarhelm: Not not even a sweet.
Tyram: s***. I love it when our bad
Christopher Hooper: What a
Tyram: plans yield like really great
Walden Briarhelm: Not only did I ever
Ali Leonard: yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: think this was a bad plan, it may have been a bad prank, but it was
Ali Leonard: I'm learning so much from you
Christopher Hooper: prank.
Tyram: results. Well, hey, the stupid plan
Walden Briarhelm: not a bad
Tyram: works. It wasn't a stupid plan, right?
Walden Briarhelm: plan.
Christopher Hooper: Um, it's at this point you see
Luke Neverisky: Mhm.
Christopher Hooper: uh the guy in the tent come out and he
Ali Leonard: guys. Oh, right. They
Christopher Hooper: just blasts off into the air and starts
Ali Leonard: have jetacks.
Christopher Hooper: like blasting off into the uh horizon. Um, yeah. And you've uh you've collected um about 500 lb of this stone. Um, now you can you can carry down the mountain.
Ali Leonard: PE bag. Pa
Justin Hale: Don't let
Ali Leonard: bag. Sorry. Pee hole. Pee
Tyram: the pee hole. Thank you very
Christopher Hooper: Um I think uh what
Ali Leonard: hole.
Christopher Hooper: the portable hole caps out at What?
Tyram: much. Um, I think it's a matter of space more so than weight. Um, here I'll double check, but I think it holds like
Ali Leonard: this a little
Tyram: uh let's see. Uh, like it's 10 ft wide when
Walden Briarhelm: It will be
Tyram: it's all the way unfurled.
Walden Briarhelm: 500.
Tyram: Um, okay. So,
Justin Hale: Oh,
Ali Leonard: bit.
Tyram: um, this fine black cloth soft as silk is folded up to the dimensions of a handkerchief. It unfolds into a circular sheet 10 sorry 6 feet in diameter. You make a magic action to unfold the portable hole and place it on or against a solid surface where upon the portable hole creates an extra dimensional hole 10 ft deep. So it's a 6 ft diameter 10 ft deep cylinder. Basically uh the cylindrical space within the hole exists on a different plane of existence. So it can't be used to create open passages. Any creature uh inside the open
Ali Leonard: and
Tyram: portal hole can exit the hole by climbing out of it.
Ali Leonard: smelling
Tyram: Um, it does not list any sort of weight limit as far as I can
Christopher Hooper: Um,
Tyram: tell. It's just it's a matter of space, not a matter
Christopher Hooper: okay. Um, can y'all recall what is already in the
Tyram: of weight. A bunch of journals, I know for sure. And probably some
Ali Leonard: like just a little bit.
Christopher Hooper: hole?
Tyram: of Bruce's
Walden Briarhelm: No, he he
Ali Leonard: Hopefully he
Tyram: piss. He did clean it. He We We can't prove that
Walden Briarhelm: cleaned it. He He said
Ali Leonard: didn't clean it. He had Kevin clean it and Kevin can't clean
Tyram: he did it. Well, you know what? Maybe you shouldn't be so f******
Walden Briarhelm: so. He peed in it. He did not s***.
Justin Hale: Whoa. Whoa. Hey, I'm
Ali Leonard: s***. I've had to babysit Kevin. I know
Tyram: ableist with Kevin. Thank you very
Justin Hale: here.
Ali Leonard: what he can
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. He can't clean s***, but he can clean things.
Justin Hale: Kevin, I'm so sorry that it's all right, Kevin. You don't have to cry about it. It's
Ali Leonard: do. I love you. I
Christopher Hooper: Oh
Tyram: much. Well,
Justin Hale: okay. The bad lady won't hurt
Ali Leonard: love you,
Tyram: I hope you're proud of yourself, Ellsworth. You've made
Ali Leonard: Kevin. Well, if you teach him how to get up
Tyram: Kevin cry.
Ali Leonard: after himself, we'd not all be
Christopher Hooper: god. Okay. If the
Justin Hale: you.
Christopher Hooper: journals and the reality stone are the only thing in the hole, then that should be fine.
Tyram: Hell
Christopher Hooper: Um, cool. Okay. Um, all right. Y'all
Walden Briarhelm: Oh,
Ali Leonard: here.
Christopher Hooper: uh y'all head down the mountain and uh you load up and you make your way across to Greyport. Um, I'm curious,
Tyram: yeah.
Christopher Hooper: uh, how many of our characters have been to Greyport
Walden Briarhelm: easy.
Tyram: Um, Silus and Brew and Ellit very explicitly have
Ali Leonard: me and Olivia has been.
Tyram: been. Yeah, Olivia was there for Ellit's
Christopher Hooper: before?
Tyram: uh
Walden Briarhelm: has never traveled this far north.
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Yeah. All right. And,
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: uh, Liliana has not maybe
Tyram: race.
Luke Neverisky: I don't think so. I mean, no. But I'm wondering if Helisana in if she was she popular enough to perform there in that case, then she would have at least passenger seated there. Or if Helisana hadn't
Tyram: I feel like Elsa
Luke Neverisky: reached that yet, then no, she Yeah, I would
Tyram: was pretty much in her fledgling days of her career or
Luke Neverisky: know.
Tyram: the campaign, right? You were
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. So then Nope. Yeah. on
Tyram: still playing at like, you know, like like bars, right? Instead of like
Luke Neverisky: there. That's true. I was
Christopher Hooper: All right, then.
Tyram: console.
Luke Neverisky: underground kind of. Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: Um, I'd like I'd like uh folks to all come up with something that uh you would see as you enter the city that's noteworthy. Um, we'll start with Taylor.
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Walden Briarhelm: Oh, not to interrupt. Do you have a a brief description of
Tyram: Oh, sorry. Yeah, Graport was like the main city from the last campaign. Um so I guess most of us probably
Walden Briarhelm: Greport? Oh,
Christopher Hooper: Well, as the prompt, you can start
Tyram: are uh thinking
Walden Briarhelm: okay.
Ali Leonard: Where are
Christopher Hooper: with like the the main visage if you
Tyram: about okay well um what
Christopher Hooper: want.
Tyram: had existed before at least um Greyport is located on the east side of the continent. Um it's called Greyport because it's kind of got like a London atmosphere where it's pretty much like overcast and gray skies pretty much all the damn time.
Walden Briarhelm: Mhm.
Tyram: Um um there is a river that runs through it. Um it does have like uh you know uh like medieval style walls surrounding the town, but um it's kind of
Walden Briarhelm: Mhm.
Tyram: outgrown those in a lot of ways. It does have like big like skyscrapers like reaching up. Um it uh probably the tallest tower in the old campaign, maybe that's changed, was like the governor's residence. It was kind of like the the the seat of power for the uh for the town. Um, I'm going to say that maybe the first thing that we see as we approach town is that um in the archway over the uh main entrance to the city, they have erected statues of a uh a water janasi, a dwarf with a prosthetic arm, a war forge with a uh with a uh daft punk mask, um two gnomes, One of which looks to be a forest gnome. The other one appears to be a stone
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Tyram: gnome. Um, uh, a cowboy human.
Christopher Hooper: Oh, and Chad
Tyram: And I think that's everyone, right? No, not Chad. Chad Brad didn't make the cut. Um,
Luke Neverisky: Uh, I said
Tyram: well, not Chad, Brad, but
Christopher Hooper: Brett.
Tyram: um, would uh, Princess Val have been included as part of
Christopher Hooper: Feel like she has
Tyram: the group, I guess, is a question I'll ask
Luke Neverisky: that. Oh, she was pretty good. She's pretty big.
Christopher Hooper: her own statue somewhere else in the
Tyram: you. She probably does have her own statue somewhere else, but she was
Christopher Hooper: city.
Tyram: probably like the most important NPC in the last campaign. So, I don't
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Up to
Tyram: know. You know what? No, it's just the Steve squad. Oh, and of course,
Ali Leonard: And of course, Steve, you almost left off
Christopher Hooper: you.
Tyram: Steve. Um yeah, there there's a
Luke Neverisky: Oh gee, how do we forget
Tyram: wolf in the middle clearly in like a central leadership
Christopher Hooper: I was thinking like the other people
Tyram: position amongst the uh the different members of
Ali Leonard: Steve.
Christopher Hooper: are like the backdrop to Steve like in a very majestic
Tyram: the
Luke Neverisky: speed? Yeah.
Ali Leonard: Dire
Christopher Hooper: pose.
Tyram: Steve is like disproportionately large.
Ali Leonard: wolf.
Tyram: Like he had sunglasses.
Luke Neverisky: He has sunglasses, right? Okay. Okay, that's all
Tyram: Yeah, Steve had drip. I mean honestly
Luke Neverisky: right.
Justin Hale: Indian
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Tyram: like
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. Yeah, man. Steve. All
Walden Briarhelm: May I ask another question for settings? Is the uh
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: are the Eldorians present in
Justin Hale: trip.
Tyram: I think Greyport is like the the main city of like that uh Free
Luke Neverisky: right.
Tyram: Republic, right? That like um extends over like the collection of
Christopher Hooper: That's right.
Tyram: islands out in the sea here. Yeah. So yeah, I think this is like one of the last few places that's like standing in resistance to the Eldorian Empire if I remember
Walden Briarhelm: Graport? Perfect. Perfect. That's what I needed.
Christopher Hooper: Um Um All right. And Justin, what
Walden Briarhelm: Thank you.
Christopher Hooper: uh what else do you see as you like enter Greyport? What are some of the first things you see?
Tyram: correctly.
Justin Hale: How how far away was
Christopher Hooper: I
Justin Hale: um Fluke's shop from like the main drag of
Christopher Hooper: think pretty
Tyram: If we're coming in from the west, like the the landward side,
Christopher Hooper: far opposite side.
Tyram: Flukes was all the way on the other side of the
Justin Hale: Greyport? Oh, okay. Okay.
Ali Leonard: the
Justin Hale: What about uh what about the park that Dane hung out
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, that was pretty central, I
Tyram: city. Yeah, I think
Justin Hale: in? Okay, I'm gonna
Christopher Hooper: believe.
Tyram: so.
Justin Hale: say that's become more uh more industrious. So, like before it was like a little like podunk like
Ali Leonard: zoo.
Justin Hale: farm zoo and now it's like a big legit zoo um like San Diego zoo style thing where it's like that little park area has like bought out the areas around it to make more of the zoo and there's like sanctuaries for like species that have never been here before and
Tyram: Hell
Justin Hale: uh that kind of
Christopher Hooper: All
Tyram: yeah. Got to build that owl bear petting zoo after
Luke Neverisky: That's
Justin Hale: thing.
Christopher Hooper: right. So, they see So, as you come in, you kind of
Tyram: all.
Christopher Hooper: see off to the side there's a huge entrance and there's like a long line to enter the zoo. There's like just
Ali Leonard: too many.
Christopher Hooper: so many strollers. There's so many strollers and
Luke Neverisky: right.
Christopher Hooper: like a bunch of tired moms with crying babies and toddlers in their strollers. Um, huge line out the
Justin Hale: Yes.
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Christopher Hooper: zoo. Um, and inside you can hear the like of uh
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: various monkeys and animals and growls. Um, all right. Uh, Ally, what do you got? Uh, as you make your way past the zoo, deeper into the city, what do you
Ali Leonard: Um, I think I see cuz my eyes are in the road, but there's a big construction kind
Christopher Hooper: see?
Ali Leonard: of coming up and it's for the future home of the Kenny G Museum, Lenny T Museum.
Tyram: Who the f*** is
Ali Leonard: There's
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Tyram: Kenny G? What
Christopher Hooper: um the Linu Museum
Ali Leonard: a
Christopher Hooper: uh getting constructed. Um uh we'll say we're on like a
Tyram: the
Christopher Hooper: boulevard where kind of the the main sites are getting are are being set up. Uh, as you work your way, you see um it it's basically an
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: old opera house that they that was pretty dilapidated and they are uh recently got uh revitalized after a big donation and is now being rebuilt as the uh the Lin uh
Ali Leonard: a memorial.
Christopher Hooper: museum and um performance space and
Ali Leonard: Oh, hell yeah. And performance venue. He's
Christopher Hooper: memorial. Yeah.
Ali Leonard: like ghost of It's like Phantom of the Opera ghost and Lenny T is just
Christopher Hooper: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: there.
Christopher Hooper: Uh yeah. Um and Luke,
Tyram: Oops.
Christopher Hooper: uh let's see. As you work your way down the boulevard and then move, uh deeper into the city, what do you
Luke Neverisky: question. I don't remember about Caspian's um epilogue there, but did she start like a winter king church or
Ali Leonard: I
Christopher Hooper: see?
Luke Neverisky: anything like
Ali Leonard: left to my assistant and she was She did become the governor, but she was in
Tyram: She eventually became the governor. Remember
Ali Leonard: charge of like the refugee
Tyram: Yeah, I think that community
Luke Neverisky: that?
Ali Leonard: center. And then because I did
Tyram: center like really expanded
Ali Leonard: my winter king stuff outside of Greatport, even though I think Great is
Luke Neverisky: Okay.
Ali Leonard: probably the central hub of people who follow the Winter
Luke Neverisky: Okay. Okay.
Tyram: afterwards.
Luke Neverisky: Um Okay. Then I guess I'll see a maybe
Ali Leonard: King.
Luke Neverisky: um uh nestled within the the buildings of the city are um is a uh serene looking campus um um with uh a visage of a um of the winter king seated in the center of
Christopher Hooper: What type of
Luke Neverisky: this uh of this campus. Um, and then like I'm thinking like kind of like a almost like a college quad kind of. It's just like there's grass. It's nice and natural, but
Christopher Hooper: campus?
Luke Neverisky: um and it is the um um it's kind of what the uh casket's assistant has um grown and evolved to a more kind of um keystone in the community of um this outreach center and um with some small humble dedications to uh
Christopher Hooper: All
Luke Neverisky: their the patron saint uh winter
Christopher Hooper: right. And it so is it like a religious co college college? Is that what you're
Luke Neverisky: king.
Christopher Hooper: thinking? Gotcha. You see uh various students in their um they have these like um beautiful like um gowns. Um but they're all like mesh seethrough. Um, very like they're like almost like blue
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: robes with like very tasteful and sexy parts
Ali Leonard: No.
Christopher Hooper: that are mesh and um and
Luke Neverisky: naturally. Yeah.
Ali Leonard: Mhm.
Christopher Hooper: transparent. Um, and it's an is an incredible sight to see
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: as they kind of like waltz through the quad. Um, yeah, beautiful beautiful sight to see.
Tyram: wasn't that closer to what like fake Caspian was
Ali Leonard: Yep. That's the artist to pick me
Christopher Hooper: Um um Zach, if you're there, um was going to go to you
Tyram: wearing the pick who has Ellmith you're not
Ali Leonard: as.
Tyram: Caspian
Luke Neverisky: Oh man, really missed
Christopher Hooper: next. Yeah,
Tyram: Oh, f***.
Luke Neverisky: the opportunity to have bangers and mash making somewhere.
Christopher Hooper: you all had your opportunity.
Tyram: Damn. s***. Maybe that's what they
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: Cassia
Christopher Hooper: Um
Tyram: sell in the calf, you know. The Caspian
Luke Neverisky: That's the cap. Yeah. Winner
Ali Leonard: never
Tyram: Center
Walden Briarhelm: So,
Christopher Hooper: Um,
Tyram: here. Hey, it's the Caspian
Walden Briarhelm: I've been
Luke Neverisky: gang.
Ali Leonard: visits.
Tyram: Center.
Walden Briarhelm: traveling classic But riding along with the group, I've uh almost grown a slight sweat on my brow looking around at all the establishments and going through the deep city. And it it it had almost seemed like we were in a a desolate area, but just as we passed the uh the grounds of the uh the church that we just passed
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: by, uh it was a church, correct?
Luke Neverisky: Mhm.
Christopher Hooper: a religious
Walden Briarhelm: Uh as we're passing by, I Sure. Sure.
Tyram: Maybe like I guess I think of like a very broadly
Walden Briarhelm: Sure. Sure.
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. Be on
Tyram: purpose like community center, right? There's probably like a chapel and like
Luke Neverisky: site. Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: school. Yeah. Like a large
Tyram: a there's like a rec center, you know, stuff
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: lawn. In my mind, there's a large lawn with like a chapel and
Tyram: like
Ali Leonard: the winter solstice
Christopher Hooper: like the humanities building and
Luke Neverisky: Right.
Christopher Hooper: the Yeah. Yeah. Right in the middle of
Walden Briarhelm: So, as as we're
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. Winter S is
Christopher Hooper: it.
Walden Briarhelm: passing by, I'll call it the campus grounds, and uh my my worries begin to to surface. As I look around, I I I I keep trying to see if there's any gathering of people around. I I see almost no congregations.
Luke Neverisky: obviously
Walden Briarhelm: And as we pass the campus, I'm very pleased to first see what looks like a group of people all gathered in this in a common area. And then to smell the aroma of some caramelizing mozzarella in the air. And it's at this point I grow very thankful to find out there's at least one pizza place
Ali Leonard: That's definitely a stoner Oh
Walden Briarhelm: in this town being a place I've never been. It was uh it was a deep concern of mine having grown so fond of pizza recently to go without would be torture. So, one of the things that notices is that there is
Christopher Hooper: Yeah, I mean this this
Walden Briarhelm: a standout pizza
Christopher Hooper: place is bogged down with
Ali Leonard: s***. God damn
Christopher Hooper: very like sexy, beautifully clad
Ali Leonard: it.
Christopher Hooper: um students um eating eating
Walden Briarhelm: place. It's sexy
Christopher Hooper: pizza. Uh you you
Tyram: I don't remember
Christopher Hooper: see
Tyram: there being that many people like this last time we were here,
Walden Briarhelm: pizza.
Ali Leonard: A lot has
Christopher Hooper: This place is really
Tyram: bro.
Walden Briarhelm: Sexy
Christopher Hooper: gentrified this part.
Tyram: It's
Walden Briarhelm: people eating
Ali Leonard: changed.
Tyram: like the hookers really expanded into this part of town, I
Walden Briarhelm: pizza.
Ali Leonard: No, don't say that word around
Tyram: guess. Oh, right. Sorry,
Justin Hale: Oh, that gonna be it.
Ali Leonard: me.
Tyram: I forgot. Wait, do I even know about that? I actually
Ali Leonard: No. Did I tell you? Did you
Christopher Hooper: Um, you just know that Elspa
Tyram: don't
Christopher Hooper: reacts strongly to the to
Tyram: know. Asith told us about um her like tragic day at the racetrack. I
Ali Leonard: ask? I think I would have told you if you'd asked, but it depends on
Christopher Hooper: hookers. I don't think so.
Tyram: I actually don't
Ali Leonard: if you would have
Christopher Hooper: I don't think y'all ask. I don't
Tyram: know. We've had a lot of downtime. I feel like Silus
Ali Leonard: asked.
Tyram: is like trying to grow as a person, like get to know his friends better. He probably would have
Walden Briarhelm: Is it not common knowledge what
Ali Leonard: I mean, it depends on how plugged into the papers you are, you
Walden Briarhelm: happened?
Christopher Hooper: think um from what
Tyram: asked. I don't think Silus is super like
Christopher Hooper: we've from
Tyram: fingers on the pulse with the racist world, though.
Christopher Hooper: what we've seen in session I feel like we have not dug a
Ali Leonard: know.
Christopher Hooper: lot charact there have not been a lot of character uh explanations and stuff and maybe Silus
Ali Leonard: I start
Christopher Hooper: like asked and it was like man this is boring and
Ali Leonard: bringing out my my hypothetical journals and you're like, "All
Tyram: Silus kind of tuned out after he found out there's like an enemies list. He doesn't really care about the rest.
Ali Leonard: right.
Christopher Hooper: so um and then uh the last thing you see along the boulevard is a uh is a Um, is a what the f***? I Why did I do this? I had it up and then for some reason I I uh I turned away from
Justin Hale: We just completely broke your game where you're just like, "f***, I don't
Christopher Hooper: it. Yeah, I was like, "Oh, we're done." Oh,
Justin Hale: need any of these notes
Christopher Hooper: wait. s***. I wanted to do one more thing.
Justin Hale: anymore.
Christopher Hooper: Um, sorry. One second. Oh my god. Oh, it is
Walden Briarhelm: Why don't you just use
Christopher Hooper: our AI is not good enough.
Walden Briarhelm: AI? That was that was
Christopher Hooper: Okay. Um, you
Walden Briarhelm: my deepest sarcasm.
Christopher Hooper: see a gains brewery, bakery, and bakery at the the very end of the of the boulevard, which Elsa still has a
Ali Leonard: Oh, I have a lot of VIP
[03:10:00]
Christopher Hooper: VIP ticket party for. Um, and you uh you sit in the middle of uh of um Grayport.
Ali Leonard: tickets.
Christopher Hooper: Um, and at that point, uh, you're looking around, you're making yourself at home, you see, uh, the Gaines Brewery, Bakery, and Bakery, and you see, um, uh, one of, uh, your friends, someone you haven't seen in a long time, You see the uh the Sander stepping out and that's where we'll end this
Justin Hale: Oh, you
Christopher Hooper: day.
Luke Neverisky: Oh
Tyram: Does Ally still get to voice their Sander next
Ali Leonard: I'll do
Christopher Hooper: Uh, that's up to her, but probably
Ali Leonard: it. Except all I'll say is my sister's dead
Tyram: time?
Luke Neverisky: s***.
Justin Hale: Mother
Ali Leonard: and I'll say it over and over and over. Ask me a
Christopher Hooper: not. Okay, cool. I
Ali Leonard: question. That's the answer. No.
Christopher Hooper: was going to give you lines, but that's fine,
Ali Leonard: No. No. But it's not. Yes.
Christopher Hooper: too. No
Ali Leonard: And no
Christopher Hooper: butt.
Tyram: Oh well, we'll have our nice little emotional reunion next time, I
Ali Leonard: butt. My sister's dead. I'm really
Tyram: guess.
Ali Leonard: trying to get into the
Walden Briarhelm: Well
Luke Neverisky: Easy. Yeah. Yeah.
Tyram: just constantly like working that into
Walden Briarhelm: done.
Ali Leonard: character. Does he remember that he's their
Tyram: every
Ali Leonard: Xander? I think he's just full of grief.
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Tyram: conversation. Like anytime like the the bankery brewery is uh not getting a lot of customers, someone's like, "Oh man, business is really dead tonight." You mean as dead
Ali Leonard: My sister the light of
Tyram: as my
Luke Neverisky: Wow. My sister
Justin Hale: What's
Ali Leonard: my life. How dare you bring that up
Tyram: sister? Was that
Luke Neverisky: You know who else like
Ali Leonard: again? No. Like my best
Tyram: canon? Were you guys also romantically involved? I remember that was thrown out there,
Ali Leonard: friend. Like that way.
Tyram: but
Luke Neverisky: biscuit?
Justin Hale: Sure. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.
Ali Leonard: No. Gross. You remember her?
Tyram: okay. Oh, I guess we also get a I
Walden Briarhelm: Just go go go go
Luke Neverisky: Okay,
Ali Leonard: She was
Tyram: guess Thirstander also might have thought that Brew and Silus were dead.
Ali Leonard: awesome. Well,
Tyram: So, I don't
Walden Briarhelm: go.
Tyram: know. It seems like you don't seem to give a s*** about peaches and cream and spoons
Luke Neverisky: great.
Justin Hale: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: maybe they weren't my sister and my sister is
Tyram: is all I'm saying. Okay, I changed my mind. I don't want Ally
Justin Hale: And she said, "By the
Ali Leonard: dead. Maybe it's like a like the next
Christopher Hooper: Probably better that
Tyram: to place their
Ali Leonard: time you talk to me, it's like Bruce's dead. It's like every time it's
Christopher Hooper: way.
Luke Neverisky: Duh.
Ali Leonard: just a different name.
Tyram: standard cycle
Ali Leonard: Yeah, that's why he has to be the dishwasher at places so people
Justin Hale: way,
Ali Leonard: can't hear
Tyram: through
Ali Leonard: him. Or maybe he's forgotten. Maybe he has
Tyram: I I have no f******
Ali Leonard: amnesia. We'll find
Tyram: idea.
Ali Leonard: out.
Walden Briarhelm: Glad to be back, guys. Thank you for the
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Welcome back
Walden Briarhelm: evening.
Luke Neverisky: Yay.
Justin Hale: main campaign. We're so
Christopher Hooper: everybody. We're so
Tyram: Nothing. Hell
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: back.
Tyram: yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean,
Walden Briarhelm: I look forward to finding
Justin Hale: bad.
Tyram: we got to do so many things that we haven't done in a while. Like, uh, Luke's
Walden Briarhelm: out
Tyram: character got to play a concert. Uh, Silus got to try to do a
Walden Briarhelm: more.
Luke Neverisky: So,
Tyram: scheme. We like blew the f*** out of a f******
Luke Neverisky: That's
Ali Leonard: Thank
Tyram: um, Eldoran contraption of some
Ali Leonard: you.
Justin Hale: So for conveniently didn't have any sheep in this session.
Ali Leonard: We passed some
Christopher Hooper: I did. You had your steep galloping around the
Tyram: sort. We did pass him. He mentioned sheep
Luke Neverisky: right. You can pass
Justin Hale: So
Ali Leonard: sheep. Yeah, we could have
Tyram: explicitly. Oh, were you out of room at the time?
Justin Hale: wait. Oh, I missed that. Damn
Ali Leonard: sucked. Oh,
Christopher Hooper: farm. This session had
Tyram: Oh.
Walden Briarhelm: Yeah, his network might have been
Luke Neverisky: this. I don't know.
Justin Hale: it. My internet's
Ali Leonard: dang. Had
Tyram: We landed ass backwards into
Walden Briarhelm: down.
Ali Leonard: everything. What you got
Christopher Hooper: everything.
Tyram: our
Justin Hale: Ironically, all of the internet
Ali Leonard: there?
Tyram: objective,
Justin Hale: talk, my internet's been dog poop
Ali Leonard: Yeah, you really karma
Tyram: man. It Yeah, it sounds like you really like set
Walden Briarhelm: You probably need a new
Luke Neverisky: Uh, you need to throw more money in
Tyram: yourself up for some b**** slaps there. from
Walden Briarhelm: switch. Yeah, you need like a 10
Christopher Hooper: Mhm.
Walden Briarhelm: gig line, I
Luke Neverisky: it. Yeah. Have you tried not being cheap by your
Justin Hale: today. Yeah, I
Ali Leonard: yourself.
Christopher Hooper: Mhm. It's probably because you're trying to
Tyram: Karma. You said it yourself, man. You get what you pay
Walden Briarhelm: bet.
Luke Neverisky: internet?
Justin Hale: just I'm using
Christopher Hooper: play You're probably trying to play D and D on your Xbox, which is not
Justin Hale: the
Christopher Hooper: going to work.
Walden Briarhelm: He's rolling his
Justin Hale: It's
Ali Leonard: Yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: controller.
Justin Hale: every every time my my ISP like goes
Tyram: for.
Justin Hale: out or dips below a certain amount, my router will tell me like I'll get a notification and it's just been dinging all night. It's been so
Tyram: Are you guys getting like inclement
Walden Briarhelm: Check this.
Justin Hale: frustrating.
Tyram: weather? Is that affecting
Justin Hale: Yeah, I don't think so. It shouldn't. It's
Christopher Hooper: Cool.
Justin Hale: it's normal like broadband. It's um spectrum which is
Tyram: it? I'm just I'm just trying to wrap
Justin Hale: essentially Comcast but people people complain about it all the time.
Tyram: my head around it because you spent a full 45 minutes earlier talking up your internet. Okay.
Justin Hale: So I was talking my network not
Christopher Hooper: Um,
Justin Hale: the not the not the line coming
Christopher Hooper: excuse me.
Tyram: Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. Well, that
Walden Briarhelm: Okay.
Christopher Hooper: It's like you're not
Tyram: just shows how much I know about all this, I
Justin Hale: in.
Christopher Hooper: even paying attention, Taylor.
Walden Briarhelm: Actually, is
Justin Hale: Great.
Walden Briarhelm: this Are you Eastern time or are you central,
Justin Hale: Yes. Do
Tyram: guess.
Walden Briarhelm: Justin? Are you central at Eastern
Luke Neverisky: Excellent.
Justin Hale: what? Uh, I'm Eastern
Walden Briarhelm: time? Like 11 still really early for people to be doing the resets and s*** at
Justin Hale: now. I have no idea. It's probably
Walden Briarhelm: night.
Justin Hale: just garbage because our internet goes out at weird times. Like I'll get uh
Walden Briarhelm: Mhm. Yeah, that's
Justin Hale: alerts saying it was out from like 2:00 to 3:00 in the
Walden Briarhelm: that's what I'm thinking of. Everybody's got to do their server
Christopher Hooper: Wow, we're no longer
Walden Briarhelm: resets and blobby blue stuff. I don't
Christopher Hooper: majority central time. Our central time dominance
Justin Hale: morning. They're
Christopher Hooper: is
Tyram: It occurs to me now that like maybe Silus would have said to Bruce or Sander walks out like damn we are so good at tracking people
Ali Leonard: Mhm.
Walden Briarhelm: understand.
Justin Hale: not We don't need Olivia for
Christopher Hooper: lessening.
Tyram: down. Hell
Walden Briarhelm: That's why
Justin Hale: this. We're so good at
Tyram: yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: she's
Justin Hale: this. We should totally rib Olivia and be like,
Christopher Hooper: Look at
Tyram: Yeah. Oh, we need
Justin Hale: "We're the new detectives."
Christopher Hooper: me.
Tyram: to get like fedoras and like uh like like big like collared coats to
Walden Briarhelm: retired. I want Brew
Luke Neverisky: Yeah. Yeah.
Walden Briarhelm: to have a big
Luke Neverisky: Yeah.
Ali Leonard: I
Walden Briarhelm: mustache. Just a full broom. full sweeper
Tyram: wear. Brew with facial hair like
Luke Neverisky: Yes. Mhm.
Justin Hale: Unm
Tyram: kind of like grew with facial hair seems
Walden Briarhelm: mustache. That's
Justin Hale: sash.
Walden Briarhelm: exactly right. Why? Like I don't it looks bad in my head and I'm like
Christopher Hooper: Yeah. Okay.
Walden Briarhelm: yeah definitely a spy op
Christopher Hooper: He's unrecognizable with his mustache,
Luke Neverisky: Mhm. Yeah, it all
Justin Hale: There's
Tyram: wrong.
Walden Briarhelm: investigator.
Justin Hale: the
Tyram: It would be a good way to go in disguise since it's a well-known fact that police
Christopher Hooper: though. Yeah, it's
Tyram: investigators never have
Justin Hale: rules.
Tyram: mustaches and that is a very specific reference to something
Luke Neverisky: works. All
Christopher Hooper: now. All right.
Tyram: from the past. Oh
Christopher Hooper: Have a good weekend
Tyram: well, see you. We get We're probably playing next week,
Luke Neverisky: right, let's
Ali Leonard: probably.
Christopher Hooper: everybody.
Tyram: I guess. Hell yeah. Looking
Ali Leonard: Oh, I can't because it's my my boyfriend's mom's birthday and we're going to
Tyram: forward to it.
Christopher Hooper: Probably good.
Tyram: Oh, but what if she were to go to
Luke Neverisky: go.
Ali Leonard: Asheville, but it's her 60th
Tyram: hell? Okay, you know. Yeah,
Justin Hale: Ever think about that?
Ali Leonard: birthday. Yeah.
Christopher Hooper: What? That seems
Tyram: that's fair. That's
Luke Neverisky: Let's see. What is
Christopher Hooper: fun. Asheville's a fun city.
Tyram: fair. It actually
Luke Neverisky: that?
Ali Leonard: Yeah. Well,
Tyram: pretty dead after like 7 o'clock, though. So, yeah, probably lo
Ali Leonard: she's 60, so you know, we'll see. So,
Christopher Hooper: That's true. Yeah. Can
Tyram: and play D.
Ali Leonard: yeah, if we're at the hotel, cuz we're driving Friday, so I'll bring
Christopher Hooper: you Can you find a coffee
Luke Neverisky: Mhm. All
Ali Leonard: my laptop. I doubt, you know, we'll probably be go out to dinner and stuff, but I don't
Tyram: Okay. Well, I appreciate you humoring me
Ali Leonard: know. I'll
Tyram: about leaving the door open. All
Ali Leonard: try.
Christopher Hooper: shop?
Tyram: right. That's that humoring I was looking for. Cool. I'll see you. Good night.
Luke Neverisky: right. I guess.
Justin Hale: Hi guys.