3.15: Stray Creations

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Oh, I have. Does anyone have an opening bit, or should I have one that we can do if we need one? [00:00:05] Speaker B: I don't go for it. [00:00:06] Speaker C: I have an opening disclosure that I'm sick today, so I sound. [00:00:10] Speaker B: That's fair. [00:00:13] Speaker C: And I'm sorry. [00:00:14] Speaker D: In a dance. [00:00:15] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [00:00:16] Speaker B: Good to know. [00:00:17] Speaker A: Bit ruined. [00:00:19] Speaker B: No, wait. [00:00:22] Speaker D: No. [00:00:23] Speaker A: Opening bit. Sabotage my opening bit. My editor in chief. It was birthday today. Happy birthday, editor in chief. I know you're not listening, but I'm willing into existence. And his mom came and brought us lunch and cake and party hats, and I was going to put the party hat on top of the other hat that I'm wearing, and I have a little like. But then I was walking home, and I was realizing that I was still wearing my party hat on my big hat, and I felt silly as a grown adult walking around my campus with a tiny hat on my other hat. So I put it in the pocket, like the little side pocket of my backpack. But it must have fallen out on. [00:01:20] Speaker E: The way to the bus, which also makes you a litterer. [00:01:24] Speaker B: No, on the bus. [00:01:25] Speaker A: I'm sure it was a bus. I will walk the same route tomorrow just to make sure. I'm so sad about my tiny hat for my big hat. [00:01:37] Speaker D: Well, now we can't do an opening bit, so. Hi. Welcome to spells and whistles. We're a dnd five e podcast. [00:01:44] Speaker A: No. [00:01:44] Speaker D: Meg literally ruined everything. Sorry, guys. [00:01:48] Speaker B: A small hat the size of a large hat. [00:01:52] Speaker D: My word. [00:01:53] Speaker B: Which is a reference in case that doesn't come across. [00:01:58] Speaker D: I'm too glue. [00:02:00] Speaker C: I have no brain right now to process anything. [00:02:05] Speaker B: You can just laugh along. [00:02:08] Speaker A: Our opening bit is just everybody giggle. Okay, three, two, one. Okay, now I feel silly. Y'all let me out to dry. I went tee, he did not come through on discord. I was alone. [00:02:25] Speaker D: Giggler, edit it so it's just Meg giggling and nobody else. [00:02:33] Speaker E: I'll not be slandered like this. [00:02:36] Speaker D: I'll do one of just Meg, and then I'll clip in right now, everyone tee heeing. So that'll be going like. Right. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Our opening bit is just everybody giggle. Okay, three, two, one. Okay, now I let me out to dry. [00:03:00] Speaker E: Thank you, Jay. [00:03:02] Speaker D: You're welcome. [00:03:03] Speaker E: You can't sneak one in after. [00:03:06] Speaker B: It was take two. In case Jay didn't like the first. [00:03:08] Speaker D: One, I need options. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Yeah, options. [00:03:13] Speaker A: You need your select and your alternate. [00:03:16] Speaker C: That's the view with the mole card all over again. Trying to not act as distressed as I am about idioms. I'm just so confused. [00:03:24] Speaker D: It's fun. We're trying so hard, guys. [00:03:27] Speaker B: You guys leveled up last time. [00:03:28] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:03:30] Speaker B: So will you guys tell me what you did to level up and we'll go with Auden first? [00:03:38] Speaker A: Hazah. Okay. Auden leveled up. She took another level in barbarian. I rolled pretty well on my health points, hit points. So I have ten more for a total of 81. I love it. She also got something. Two little somethings. One called feral instinct. Whoa. So it says by 7th level, your instincts are so honed that you have advantage on initiative. So that's really cool. I also can act normally if I'm surprised and not incapacitated if I enter my rage first. So that's pretty swag. And then the other thing I got is an optional rule. But since anastasia is super cool and awesome and nice and lets me do things, I got to take instinctive pounce, which means that when I enter my rage, I could move up to half of my speed, so I could super zoom if I felt so inclined to do so. [00:04:35] Speaker B: It's very fun. Awesome. Ed, how about you? [00:04:40] Speaker E: I also rolled really good on my hP. I gained eleven hp, up to 80 hp, and a paladin being one hp behind a barbarian is wild and I'm very happy that it is so beefy. I got one more spell slot. So now I have three second level spell slots, which is the most I'm going to get ever. And then for level seven ability, I guess technically subclass reveal, it is currently a treachery paladin, which is a UA thing. So at level seven, he gets the aura of treachery, which isn't as much of an aura as it is. I get to do cool things. It gives me two things. One is called cull the herd, which says you have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that has one or more of its allies within 5ft of it. So if I'm getting attacked by a bunch of guys, I'm better at getting rid of a bunch of guys. And then my favorite one is called treacherous strike. If a creature within 5ft of you misses me with a melee attack, I can use my reaction to force the attacker to reroll that attack against a creature of my choice that is also within 5ft of the attacker. So if somebody misses me, I can redirect their attack onto one of their buddies and hopefully it will hit them instead. [00:06:08] Speaker B: Yeah, that's rad. Awesome. How about Myla? [00:06:15] Speaker D: Whoa. Myla has also received another spell slot. She has another second level spell slot. Now, we love half casters. I said that weirdly. But it's fine. I'm keeping it in. She has another nine hp. She rolled, I believe, a six on her die because she is a three con. So yeah, it would be a six on the die plus three for an extra nine hp. Which brings her to a whopping 62, which is not. [00:06:49] Speaker B: Take it when you get it. [00:06:51] Speaker D: It's fine. She's chilling. She also got a new class feature, which is flash of genius, which basically means that when myself or another creature within 30ft of me makes an ability check or a saving throw, I can use my reaction to add Mila's intelligence modifier to that role. And I can do that a number of times, equal to my intelligence modifier, prolonged rest, which my intelligence is maxed out. So it's a plus five for my mathers at home. Also, Myla's steel defender kind of goes up in terms of ability whenever she levels up as well, just in terms of hardiness. So model two is actually more efficient than Xander, so get wrecked. [00:07:35] Speaker A: Flavor. [00:07:36] Speaker E: Wow. [00:07:37] Speaker B: And you know what? You know what Jay and he did? He did get wrecked. How about. [00:07:44] Speaker D: Which is why I have a circle. [00:07:46] Speaker B: Now, how about Melwin? [00:07:49] Speaker C: Melwin is now a second level wizard. [00:07:53] Speaker F: Which means I get my arcane tradition. [00:07:55] Speaker C: I'm going to move my mic closer to me because I can't talk very loud, and I realized I had it like 3ft away. Isn't that helpful? Get that proximity effect. I went with order of scribes for Melwyn's subclass because I felt fitting, which means I get some fun things, including the awakened spell book and wizardly Quill, which have absolutely enormous text blocks with them. And I don't feel like reading those off. So look up the order of Scribe subclass. You don't want to know what it does. It's pretty cool. The biggest thing that that does for me is it cuts down how much time and money I need to copy spells into my spell book. I believe I also get some spells from leveling up as a wizard, but I forgot about that. So I may or may not be doing that for like 50 seconds while we. While we move on. Don't worry about it. [00:08:50] Speaker A: Really slow. [00:08:53] Speaker E: I just also want to point out that awakened spell book also says when you cast a wizard spell as a ritual, you use the spell's normal casting time rather than adding 10 minutes to it, which is kind of nuts. [00:09:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that's insane, actually. [00:09:07] Speaker E: Yeah, take 10 minutes, my butt. Okay, recap time. [00:09:15] Speaker B: All right, now we'll get back into it after cleaning up the mess from that fight they had. The group heads out of town and sets of camp. Mila chooses not to sleep and instead makes a sphere called model two. With some help from Melwyn. Mila tells the group some of her history with the institute but doesn't give them. But that doesn't give them too many answers. Id also debriefs the group. He tells them about the symbol he saw, but not the vision. The next day, ID and Auden scare some college kids into answers while Myla and Melwyn head to the Artisans Guild for some quiet. Myla tells Melwyn not to be a liability to the group as the person most cared about. Melwyn agrees, and then she heads into a separate room, taking out six emotions at once. So you can do this. It will affect you probably tonight and not right the second, but you can feel all these things while you're holding them. But if you would like to permanently absorb them, that will happen later. Cool. [00:10:26] Speaker F: Fuck it. We ball. [00:10:29] Speaker C: Probably not the attitude I'm supposed to have toward this, but I kind of don't care. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Fuck it. [00:10:34] Speaker A: We is out for 2024. [00:10:39] Speaker C: We do. [00:10:42] Speaker B: And as a reminder, Melwyn took hope, sadness, love, shame, guilt, admiration. Yep. So we'll have those to deal with later. You will just have an arm full of objects, I think, for as long as you decide to hold these. [00:11:02] Speaker C: However long it takes until they stay with her, which we never established how long it takes for that to happen. [00:11:10] Speaker B: You don't fully absorb or have the chance to absorb them until the night, like when you go to long rest. [00:11:16] Speaker C: Cute. I don't think Melan's put that together. [00:11:20] Speaker B: That's fair. No, and I think it's pretty early in the morning still. So you've got all day. [00:11:31] Speaker C: Just imagining this small child sitting in this room. [00:11:35] Speaker D: Just kind of going like, for, like. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Hours until Myla comes to get her again. She was supposed to be working on her spell book. Guess what's not happening. [00:11:49] Speaker B: Yeah. How long does it take Myla to realize that Melwin's been gone for more time than normal? [00:11:56] Speaker D: That's a great question. I feel like Myla's gonna have to roll for that. Okay. That was a journey. Okay. So I think that with a seven on the die, I don't know how long Audin and it are taking. Maybe 3 hours. But I don't know if it and Auden come back before then or not. But if it is longer than 3 hours, it probably takes 3 hours. [00:12:38] Speaker B: Did you guys set up a meeting point beforehand? [00:12:40] Speaker A: We did. I remember because I edited the episode what was it? It's the garden area, the sensory room. [00:12:50] Speaker B: Okay, great. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think it takes us 3 hours. We're pretty in and out. Unless there was anything else that id wanted to do while we cavort. [00:13:01] Speaker E: Nope, not really. Still kind of pissed that there's college kids for being wimps. [00:13:08] Speaker A: I think that on the way back, auden's gonna kind of be quiet for the first little bit. And I think after a little bit, she's just going to say, so. [00:13:23] Speaker D: What. [00:13:24] Speaker A: Are you getting out of all of this? [00:13:29] Speaker E: Um, I'm getting some reassurance that a person that I care about is safe. I'm getting a more steady. That's actually wrong. A slightly less steady source of income than I probably could have. But it's also safer to be in a group than it is to be by myself, especially while my lab siblings are still out and about. Like that bald, slightly burned individual is the one that attacked us at Melwin's house. And things that are familiar are just more comfortable in general. [00:14:19] Speaker A: I think she kind of thinks on that for a minute. That makes sense. I know that Myla's very smart about school and education and that kind of thing. She's been kind of weird about a lot of this, and it makes sense, everything she told us and everything, but is it smart for us? We talked about going to the institute in bits and pieces here and there. Is that going to get Myla nabbed away? [00:15:06] Speaker E: I mean, it seems like they're trying to do that, so why don't we. [00:15:10] Speaker A: Just go the other direction? [00:15:12] Speaker E: Well, it seems like they want her badly enough to go after her while we're around and while there are potentially people around and watching. So I don't think farther distance is going to be much of a problem for them. We also just saw a woman make a hole in the floor that only people she wanted to could travel through. So we don't know how effective any of that is going to be in terms of us avoiding them. [00:15:54] Speaker A: So do you think then it's better to stop it at the source? We go, we, of course do them in. Problem solved. Yes. [00:16:07] Speaker D: Cool. [00:16:08] Speaker E: Chances are, at least, I think this attack yesterday and the one on Melan's house are at the very least slightly connected. So by going towards it, we might also get more answers that way. [00:16:27] Speaker A: Very smart. You are very good at keeping people safe. I think Myla is very, very lucky to have you around. [00:16:36] Speaker E: That is very kind of you. [00:16:41] Speaker A: That's all that she has to say. So we'll carry on towards the squad. [00:16:46] Speaker B: You guys head towards the artisans guild. I would say at this point, it's probably, like, 930 ish in the morning. And, yeah, I don't think. You do not see Melwyn or Myla in the garden. [00:17:07] Speaker E: It knows that there's a building attached that is, like, public access, so I'll check inside, too. [00:17:15] Speaker B: Perfect. Neither of them seem to be in this common, huge common space area. There are a couple people who are painting, but you do kind of look towards the smaller rooms and see Myla in one with no Melwin. [00:17:32] Speaker E: Myla. [00:17:34] Speaker D: Hi. [00:17:35] Speaker E: Where's the kid? [00:17:37] Speaker D: Oh, she went to go do some work. [00:17:40] Speaker E: Where? [00:17:42] Speaker D: She went that way. Just points to the room. [00:17:46] Speaker E: I know that you're busy with your orb, but we just got attacked yesterday. [00:17:57] Speaker D: Yeah, and no one's been in. I've been keeping an eye. [00:18:00] Speaker E: Uh huh. You didn't notice me approach the door until I said something. [00:18:08] Speaker D: Look, Melon just left. [00:18:11] Speaker E: She just left. [00:18:11] Speaker D: We had a talk. Okay. [00:18:15] Speaker A: I think Odin kind of makes that, like, look at a lot of this guy kind of thing where she, like, I want to make the face, but that doesn't help people listening, but kind of like. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I do think it's probably been 45 minutes, Mila. And you notice that it'd been 45 minutes. It felt like ten. [00:18:40] Speaker D: She just walked out, like, just under an hour ago. [00:18:50] Speaker B: You find her in another room. [00:18:52] Speaker C: Such a tired dad. I love him. [00:18:57] Speaker B: You find Melwyn in another room that looks exactly like the one Milo is in, but with different art scars on the wall. [00:19:07] Speaker C: Melan is clutching a collection of items, including a painting I just remembered. [00:19:17] Speaker D: And. [00:19:18] Speaker C: Basically staring at the wall, like, fully disassociating. [00:19:22] Speaker B: It's probably, like, the size of her torso. It's not, like, a huge painting, but it's not. [00:19:31] Speaker C: You know, she's also got an arm full of stuff, so she's just got to stand there, like, thousand yards, stare a little bit. [00:19:39] Speaker D: Milo will pop up over its shoulder and say, see, look, she's fine. I could take care of kids. [00:19:44] Speaker E: Yeah, we did a great job of that with Hargnong. [00:19:46] Speaker D: Didn't, um. I don't know about you, but you're the one who left for a month while he was with me, so. Bitch. [00:19:56] Speaker E: No, he went to go read. [00:19:59] Speaker D: Yeah, after spending some time learning with me. [00:20:04] Speaker E: We need to move. We've been here too long. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Where are you guys headed? [00:20:11] Speaker E: Towards the school. [00:20:13] Speaker A: I assume we were going to find the roommate. [00:20:18] Speaker E: Oh, yes. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Unless you had other schemes. That's what I was. [00:20:23] Speaker E: No, that's totally fair. I completely forgot about the roommate. [00:20:28] Speaker A: How could you forget about the roommate? [00:20:32] Speaker D: Too caught up in the teehee ha ha character angst. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Happens to the best of us. [00:20:41] Speaker B: You already found somebody who knew where Kyo lived. You don't need to go to the school to find a roommate. Unless you specifically wanted to talk to the roommate and not look at Kyo's room. [00:20:50] Speaker C: We were specifically told where lives. [00:20:54] Speaker B: Yes. Is your goal to get to Kyo's house because you already have that info. [00:20:58] Speaker D: Let's go break in. [00:21:00] Speaker A: Yippee. Okay, crime time. [00:21:06] Speaker C: The fourth row, third house in the student housing district. Yeah, I finished transposing my notes into physical notebooks because I know all the information by the session, but I don't have specifics in my head, so now I can just flip to it. Way easier than looking like I'm aggressively swiping through tinder on my iPad. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Wipe left on. [00:21:32] Speaker B: You guys head towards Kia's house. You end up passing through the same spot that you had this fight. It looks pretty much the same, except all the investigators have left by now and there's no more like caution tape or whatever left up anymore. And you head towards the house that was told to you before you go up to this house. It looks exactly, or very similar, at least to the house where ID and Auden just talked to those other three college students. Very basic, like, probably three bedrooms, one downstairs, two upstairs with a kitchen, dining room, and like, one and a half bathrooms. Not very big, but it works. Both doors seem to be locked and so do all windows, so currently don't have easy access to this house. [00:22:29] Speaker D: Do you want me to try and break in? [00:22:32] Speaker E: Well, if we break in and there's somebody there, probably going to get in. [00:22:35] Speaker D: A bunch of trouble. [00:22:36] Speaker E: So let's knock first, and then if it's empty, we can break in. [00:22:40] Speaker D: Okay, good idea. [00:22:42] Speaker E: Why are you whispering? [00:22:45] Speaker D: I don't know. I feel like that people could be watching us at any point. [00:22:51] Speaker A: Could I make a perception check to see if people are watching us at this particular point? [00:22:56] Speaker B: Sure. [00:22:56] Speaker E: I don't get good ideas that often. You should probably say it louder. [00:23:02] Speaker D: Oh, help. [00:23:14] Speaker B: No one's watching. That is for certain. Unless you're talking about Melwyn. Or you, in which case two people at least are watching. [00:23:24] Speaker A: I think she's like, looking around and then her eyes settle on Melwyn and then ID and Myla and she's like, nope, it's just us here. [00:23:36] Speaker D: Just us. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Four pals, four chums out on the town breaking into a house. [00:23:44] Speaker E: It will knock on the door. [00:23:47] Speaker B: You knock on the door. No answer. [00:23:53] Speaker E: Did you say blinds down? Blinds drawn. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Windows? No, just windows locked. [00:24:00] Speaker E: It's going to take a lap and peek through as many windows as possible to see if there's anybody inside. Signs of activity. [00:24:08] Speaker B: Make a perception check. [00:24:10] Speaker E: Happily. Make a percepti 18 plus 422. [00:24:20] Speaker B: There's definitely nobody on the first floor and probably no one on the second floor. But you can't see that high in the windows, but you don't hear anything. [00:24:30] Speaker E: Do they have a back door just like the other house? [00:24:33] Speaker D: Yep. [00:24:34] Speaker B: That's locked as well. [00:24:35] Speaker E: I'll call everybody over to the back door so that even if there's nobody around watching, less possibility of people walking by and seeing Mila pickle lock. [00:24:47] Speaker F: Do it. [00:24:48] Speaker D: Now. [00:24:48] Speaker B: The back of this house is facing the back of another student house. So they're like, in a regular sort of block shape. So you're not like, facing another road or anything. Yeah. Myla, you want to lock pick? [00:25:06] Speaker D: Yes, please. [00:25:09] Speaker B: It says God. Myla, would you like to lock pick? [00:25:14] Speaker D: Yes. [00:25:14] Speaker B: Lord. Don't ever say that again. That was the worst. [00:25:22] Speaker D: It felt really bad. Okay. Thieves. Tools are dexterity, right? Yeah. [00:25:29] Speaker B: Coolio and proficiency, if you have it, and proficiency. [00:25:33] Speaker D: And I also have right tool for the job, which gives me expertise. Whoa. It's going to be a 21. [00:25:45] Speaker B: Yeah. You hear the lock click, and you're very confident that it's all good. [00:25:51] Speaker D: Well, don't just stand there. Let's go. Come on. [00:25:54] Speaker E: Go in. [00:25:55] Speaker B: You guys head into this house. It is. As a typical college house, I think it's a little bit messy, but not uncomfortable. Maybe like a few extra dishes in the sink, like, definitely a second hand or third hand couch. And it's relatively cozy in here. There is one bedroom on the first floor, so you can check that if you like. Before going on to the second floor. The door to the bedroom is closed, so you can't see inside immediately. [00:26:31] Speaker D: Do we want to divide and conquer, or do we want to go all together for everything? [00:26:37] Speaker A: What is it? We're looking for Kyo's room in general. [00:26:43] Speaker E: Evidence of something that would make him a target. [00:26:49] Speaker D: Oh, that too. [00:26:51] Speaker A: God. I mean, it's a fairly small house, so if we split up, we should be able to get to each other quickly if needed. [00:27:00] Speaker D: Sure. [00:27:01] Speaker C: Anna, can I up my detect magic? [00:27:06] Speaker F: Yeah, look around. [00:27:09] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a lot of magical shit in this house. They're all magic students. Yeah, I think that, first off, it looks like the sponge has some kind of minor spell on it. It's not like moving of its own accord or anything. But the sponge is magical. There are a couple of textbooks on a coffee table that have just residue of magic. Like, they're not currently being affected by any magic, but they seem to have a tiny, tiny bit of an aura. You see one that has, like, green coming off of it and one that has blue coming off of it. And then you also notice that there are a couple socks that have been draped over the couch arm that have a tiny spell on them, and they both are giving off a tiny bit of white magic. Yeah, and I think that's, like, what you can see in the common space. [00:28:17] Speaker C: I'm going to head upstairs. [00:28:21] Speaker B: Okay. Anyone staying downstairs? [00:28:23] Speaker C: I don't know why? [00:28:27] Speaker A: I think Otoman might stay downstairs, see if there's anything, like any closets. Are there any rooms down here? Or is it just kind of the common area with rooms upstairs? [00:28:40] Speaker B: There is a bedroom down here that has a door closed. [00:28:43] Speaker A: Oh, I want to open that door. [00:28:45] Speaker B: And a half bath. [00:28:48] Speaker A: Mila, are the doors here? Are they? [00:28:59] Speaker D: Um. Melvin, did you see. Oh, she's going upstairs, sort of goes up the stairs. Melvin, did you see any weird magic on the doors? [00:29:09] Speaker C: Melvin shakes her head. [00:29:12] Speaker D: Myla won't run back down. The doors are okay. [00:29:17] Speaker A: And she's going to. [00:29:19] Speaker D: Thank you for asking. [00:29:20] Speaker A: Downstairs door. She gives like two thumbs up and a big pointy smile. [00:29:25] Speaker D: We're learning. [00:29:27] Speaker B: Who else is going upstairs right now with? [00:29:31] Speaker D: Um, Mila will go back upstairs to look around and. [00:29:36] Speaker B: Ed, what are you doing? [00:29:37] Speaker E: I'll stay down here. [00:29:40] Speaker B: Okay. Are you going into the room also or just waiting for Auden to be done? [00:29:45] Speaker D: Sure. [00:29:45] Speaker E: I'll go in the room and help out. [00:29:48] Speaker B: Okay, Auden, you open the door. Seems to be fine. It's a little creaky, but other than that, perfectly normal. There is a twin size bed in here, a desk, a chair, some posters on the wall, some books on the desk, papers on the desk, a couple piles of clothing on the floor. You can make an insight check if you're trying to figure out whether this is Kyo's room or not, you can make an investigation check if you are just going to search through this room. [00:30:22] Speaker A: Regardless, I'll make an insight check because I'm a little bit better at those. [00:30:28] Speaker E: I will also make an check. [00:30:30] Speaker D: Just kicks and goals. [00:30:33] Speaker A: I got a natural 20 for a 21. [00:30:37] Speaker E: I also got a 21, but from a 17. [00:30:40] Speaker A: Just say you're better than me. [00:30:44] Speaker E: I have proficiency plus one. That's it. [00:30:51] Speaker B: I think you just immediately go over to one of the papers on the desk. And you see that this person has written their name on it. It is not Kyo's name. So this probably is not. This wouldn't be Kyo's room unless Kyo was stealing other people's papers, which would be weird. [00:31:07] Speaker E: Or was like a TA or something grading other people. [00:31:11] Speaker B: It was like a ta or something. But I think you confirm that it's not that because multiple papers have the same name on them. So unless he's stealing homework from one specific person, probably not Kia's room. [00:31:26] Speaker A: Bullying nerds, not for their lunch money, but for their academic papers. [00:31:30] Speaker B: Oh, God. So this is not Kia's room. [00:31:35] Speaker A: Well, probably upstairs then. [00:31:39] Speaker E: Don't leave just yet. It's going to start investigating the room anyway. I know this is going to sound weird, but we don't know who is in on it or not. And if Kyo is a target, it's possible that somebody close to him was relaying information. So we should look for evidence of communication with somebody from. We should look for evidence of communication from someone, like, from Myla's school or the names that Myla told us of these professors or something like. So. [00:32:21] Speaker A: Could I take the help action with id's investigation? Because that'll be better than anything I can do. [00:32:30] Speaker E: I have plus zero investigation, so let's see how this goes. [00:32:33] Speaker A: I have minus two. [00:32:35] Speaker E: Okay, good team. I got a six and a 16, so a 16. [00:32:42] Speaker B: The person whose room this is, their name is Drake Blackthorne. And you can see that they are a student of mostly blue magic. They seem to be focusing on knowledge studies and attempting to merge two spells or come up with new spells or new ways to do the same spell that might be more efficient or less material, cost consuming. This is, like, typically what blue magic students do is that they're investigating and researching to try to make current magic better or discover something new. So that is what this person studies. You don't find anything that would indicate that they've been communicating with anyone suspicious or in ciphered ways or anything like that. [00:33:38] Speaker D: Cool. [00:33:39] Speaker B: Seems pretty on the level. [00:33:41] Speaker E: Sounds good to me. Well, all done. [00:33:56] Speaker B: Melwin heads upstairs, and Melwin, you get. Just because both rooms are on one side, so the left side of you, it just is, like, glowing through the door. It seems like one room has a lot of blue and white magic stuff in it, and the other one has a lot of green and white magic stuff in it. And so, yeah, both bedrooms, doors are closed. Can't see through the door to see what the objects are. [00:34:30] Speaker C: Based on Mellon's upbring I think she knows a little bit more about blue magic than about green magic. So she's going to go look at that shit. [00:34:38] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. You open the door to the bedroom, you go to the further room on the left that seems to have a lot of blue and white magic coming from it. You open the door and you see kind of the same setup that Ed and Auden saw, though you wouldn't know that. Twin size bed. There's a desk, a chair, and, like, a closet. This room is very neat. Everything's put away or in the right place on the desk, the beds made. There's no backpack here. So this person is probably at class and not just, like, out for groceries or something. And most of the objects that are giving off blue magic are books and the like. And some of them are giving off a little bit of white magic as well. Yeah. I think you're also noticing just a couple things, like in desk drawers, but you can't see them unless you decide to look through the desk. Myla, are you going into this room as well or going into the other bedroom? [00:35:52] Speaker D: Mila will peek her head in. Ask Moen, is this. [00:35:57] Speaker F: Probably not. [00:36:02] Speaker D: Okay, I'm going to go look in the other one then. [00:36:06] Speaker F: You do that. [00:36:08] Speaker D: Okay. I'll go to the other door. [00:36:12] Speaker B: Yeah, open the door. And again, it seems like the furniture here probably stays here. So twin bed, desk chair, for sure. And then I'm going to immediately start rifling through shit. [00:36:25] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:36:27] Speaker B: Do you want to make an insight check first to try to figure out if it's Kia's room or you're just going for think? [00:36:35] Speaker D: I think Milo's just going for it. I don't think she has. [00:36:38] Speaker B: That's fair. [00:36:40] Speaker D: Want to check? Sorry. You can do your description first if you want. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. [00:36:44] Speaker A: I was just like. [00:36:45] Speaker B: No, I just wanted to check. Go for it. [00:36:47] Speaker D: Okay, so I have a really good thing for this, but I am exhausted, so I have disadvantage. [00:36:53] Speaker B: True. [00:36:58] Speaker D: Which paints because one of them was an 18, other one's a seven, which is an 18. Total seven plus eleven. [00:37:10] Speaker B: Okay. On an 18, you know that you notice that this room has a lot of bits and pieces in it, kind of similar to when you were at Melwyn's house. Like how there were just kind of like little metal bits and bobs everywhere or like, wire pieces, things like that. Same kind of vibe. In this room, there seems to be a canister looking thing in the closet, kind of tucked into a box that looks like a very well worn cardboard box. Like, they use this all the time. Pull it out from the closet, work on it, push it back. It's like a glass canister that has some metal pieces wrapping the top and the bottom and a couple of wires sticking out of it. So you do find that there don't seem to be any other complete pieces of anything here. You do find a little balm in a little container that's kind of lotiony texture when you open it up. Maybe a little bit like grittier, like an exfoliating lotion, I guess so. You do find that in the desk. If you want to collect a bunch of these little pieces, you can do that. Not sure if she's into stealing it or just wants to see what's going on. [00:38:39] Speaker D: I think that Myla, who thinks about stealing it, then she's like, nah, these are like college kids who are working on things. I think she maybe finds a piece or two that are like the perfect size for the gun she's working on. And she's like, okay, but this one could save my friends. So I'm going to take this one little part as collateral for almost dying last night. So she sort of takes those and then she picks up the box, the cardboard box. I think she gets the little ball lotiony thing, and she picks up the cardboard box and she goes over to the other room. Melon. Melon. Is this magic? [00:39:25] Speaker B: You tell me. [00:39:26] Speaker D: Honestly, I don't know. [00:39:28] Speaker B: The stuff in the box is not. There is a tiny bit of boschite like wire in there. So you do see, like the tiniest bit of magic. But other than that, it doesn't seem like the big canister itself is magical or anything. Just like the copper wire pieces, which is pretty common with your dad's at home. Like, same kind of deal. Whenever you did detect magic, like tiniest bit of aura from wires typically, I. [00:40:01] Speaker F: Think you might have said this before. [00:40:03] Speaker C: But what color of magic is associated with boschite typically, or is it just kind of conduit for anything? [00:40:11] Speaker B: It is relatively conduit for anything. It's weird because it doesn't inherently have magical properties, but when it's processed into something like this, it has the ability to either travel magic along or store magic. So it seems like these wires might have passed some magic through them relatively recently, but didn't store any of it. [00:40:43] Speaker F: There's some basket wiring, but that's about it. Not too dissimilar to what you use or what dad use. [00:40:53] Speaker C: I just want to make a note because in my head I thought this was evident. But Melwin hasn't put down her little pile of stuff that she's been carrying. [00:41:02] Speaker B: She's still just walking around with. [00:41:05] Speaker D: Oh, okay. I think that every time, just to play off that every time like turns to Melwyn, she gets very ADHD, distracted looking at every single thing in your hands at least once and then her eyes start back up to yours. Okay, well, I'm going to go tell ID and Auden about this because it sounds like the thing that they explained to us on our way here. We didn't say in game that we did that, but I'm just going to rp that we did because I'm assuming you guys would tell us unless you want. [00:41:35] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. [00:41:36] Speaker D: Okay, I'm going to go show them because this looks exactly like the things that they were looking for. I also found this weird lotiony stuff, so that's fun. Cool. [00:41:50] Speaker B: I will also note that there's more stuff in the room that I haven't explained yet. Oh, wait, there's a lot of other. [00:41:56] Speaker D: Stuff in there too. Should I just puts the box down 1 second, puts the lotion in, it goes back in. [00:42:05] Speaker B: Jay said, I'm running with this one thing and you can't stop me. And I was like, all right, fair enough. [00:42:11] Speaker C: No one's just going to go call down the stairs to ID and Auden. [00:42:18] Speaker F: And be like, I think Myla found something. And it kind of sounds like what you described earlier. Even if the drawing that you got wasn't the most detailed. Come take a look. [00:42:33] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:42:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I think you kind of hear this. You're wrapping up looking through all these things and being like, pretty sure that this person didn't have any sketchy communications. But you guys finish up in this room and can hear that. [00:42:52] Speaker E: Head upstairs. [00:42:54] Speaker B: Great. Audan will follow Melwyn. Not Melwyn. Sorry, Myla. You are going back into this room, I assume? [00:43:04] Speaker D: Yes, I'm going back. [00:43:10] Speaker B: I think you started with the bottom drawers of the desk and then you found this lotion. And then we're like, I should take these things to Melvin and see if she knows what's up. And then you go back and you continue going from the bottom up and on the top of the desk you see a picture of Lonan next to somebody else who's like a black haired half elf with a tattoo on their hand. Difficult to tell what the tattoo is of from this picture. It's kind of at an angle where you can just see that there's ink on the skin without the actual design they seem to be wearing pretty similar casual clothing, and they're giving a thumbs up with their other hand. They took this picture. [00:44:04] Speaker D: Pick up the picture. Hello, kyo. Nice to meet you. Put it in the box of stuff. [00:44:12] Speaker B: You're looking through this desk, and in the top drawer on the right, you find a tiny little slot underneath the drawer that doesn't quite fit. You can feel that there's some kind of mechanism there, but you can't figure out how to unlock it with just the investigation checks that you're doing. The last thing you find in here is a piece of very thin plywood that has been scratched into with writing, and that is barely sticking out under the top corner of the mattress. [00:44:52] Speaker D: Can I lift up the mattress and see what it says? [00:44:56] Speaker B: Yes. You immediately can tell that this is a cipher of sorts. [00:45:05] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Myla stares really good at it because she knows she has it in her brain. [00:45:17] Speaker B: Aid and Odin walk into Myla, like, staring at the corner of the bed, just holding the mattress up. [00:45:24] Speaker E: Mila, what are you. [00:45:30] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. Ed, look. There's secrets here. It's secret writing. Auden, come here. Look. There's secret also. There's a hidden compartment in the desk that I'm about to take a look at. In a second. [00:45:47] Speaker E: It will go over to the desk and break it open. If you can. [00:45:51] Speaker B: You're just going to smash the drawer. [00:45:55] Speaker E: Or pull it out of the desk, and just, like, if he could pull it completely out, then that would make it easier to work with. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Pull the drawer out. That's fine. There's, like, a thing underneath. [00:46:07] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:46:08] Speaker E: Great. Then it will pull out the entire drawer to make it easier to work with whenever Mila's done. [00:46:14] Speaker D: Great. [00:46:14] Speaker B: I didn't know if you were just going, like, just throw it right on the ground. I don't know. [00:46:19] Speaker D: Slams into the side of the desk. [00:46:20] Speaker E: It remembers that sometimes there's fragile things inside other things. It does not smash it on the ground. [00:46:29] Speaker B: Yeah. You dump out all the pencils and erasers and whatnot that are in this drawer and flip it over, and there's definitely, like, a sort of small square compartment underneath that has a little latch to it, but you're pressing on the latch, and it doesn't open like it's locked in some way. Myla, if you want to try to decode this cipher, it's going to take you time, which you can do now, if you'd like, or you can do it later, so let me know. [00:46:57] Speaker D: Myla feels very confident that she can remember exactly what this is because of her feet. So I think that she absorbs it, wipes away a little drool, puts the mattress down, and she's going to go over to the desk drawer. [00:47:16] Speaker F: Cool. [00:47:17] Speaker B: Yeah. You can try to lock pick it if you'd like. [00:47:19] Speaker D: I would love to. I would love to do that. [00:47:24] Speaker B: I would love for you to do that. [00:47:28] Speaker D: Oh, wait, these are disadvantaged, too. Hang on 1 second. [00:47:31] Speaker B: This is true. [00:47:32] Speaker D: Okay, that's fine. I did roll another 18. That was the higher, but the other one was a 15, so that 23. Yeah. [00:47:43] Speaker B: You slide everything just into the right places and you click this latch and there's just a small coin inside of it that has one side has crossed blades on it, like in an x shape, and the other side has a symbol of an anvil on it. [00:48:06] Speaker A: Could I make a history check to see if I recognize that in my travels? [00:48:15] Speaker B: Go for it. [00:48:17] Speaker A: I asked for this last time, so you can say no if you don't want to do it. Could I make it like a wisdom based one? Based on experience, not just like sheer raw knowledge of stuff? Yeah, you can. Totally. [00:48:28] Speaker C: Okay, can we all take a look at this? [00:48:31] Speaker B: Sure, go for it. [00:48:33] Speaker A: Everyone takes a peek. Okay. [00:48:38] Speaker C: Fucking 26. [00:48:40] Speaker A: I was feeling really great about my 13. Wow. [00:48:45] Speaker E: 13 doubled. [00:48:46] Speaker B: Never seen it a three. You've never seen it a 26. You know that there is no country that uses this as its currency, so you know that much at least. But I don't think you know what this coin is or what it symbolizes or anything. But you're very confident that this is like a specially made one for some purpose, which I know is vague, but that's what I got. [00:49:20] Speaker A: I think Odin looks at the coin, looks at the gibberish on the cipher and says, well, it's all dwarvish to me. [00:49:33] Speaker D: I think the funniest part is I'm pretty sure Myla actually knows dwarvish. [00:49:37] Speaker B: I do, too. [00:49:40] Speaker D: Look at us go. [00:49:41] Speaker F: I can confidently say it's probably not dwarvish. [00:49:45] Speaker D: Oh, I concur. It's not Dorvish, but I've never seen this before. [00:49:52] Speaker F: But I don't think it's money for anything. [00:49:56] Speaker D: So it's a symbol. It's a sign, like for a cult or for criminals or like, some of. [00:50:05] Speaker A: The guilds I worked with had, like, little symbols that would represent. [00:50:10] Speaker C: So maybe Anastasia. I don't know if you described what this written cipher looks like, but does it look like I'm about to show just how much of a fucking nerd I am? Does it look like normal writing in some kind of language, but it's gibberish, so it's all kind of mixed up. Or does it look like some kind of symbology? Or does it look like numbers? Because there's different types of ciphers, so there's, like, substitution ciphers, there's skip ciphers. [00:50:40] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not like thieves can't. Or druidic or whatever, where there's a hidden meaning within regular words. This seems to be like a symbolic one that translates either directly to letters or potentially to letters that have been scrambled around or things like that. It's all symbols and hieroglyph. [00:51:07] Speaker C: Like, twofold substitution cipher would be really mean. [00:51:10] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:51:11] Speaker C: This is what I do for fun. Anyway, I'm just saying. [00:51:15] Speaker F: All right. It's also possible that the symbol could be part of the cipher. I read. [00:51:23] Speaker D: That's a good idea. [00:51:25] Speaker F: Sometimes in history books, spies and stuff would use, like, they'd have something like a symbol. Right. That they would use. And it'd be like, the key. [00:51:38] Speaker C: I'm gesturing so much. Melwyn has her arms full. But you know what I mean? [00:51:43] Speaker D: That makes sense. I like, um. You know what? I have the cipher in my brain, so we can go if we don't want to get caught. Or we could stay here and we could sort of, like. [00:52:00] Speaker F: You're not going to take it with you? [00:52:02] Speaker D: The cipher? [00:52:05] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:52:06] Speaker D: No, I wasn't going to. Well, I guess I could. I should probably take it with me. Wait, but it's carved into a piece of plywood. Is it, like, a part of the bed frame, or is it, like, a loose place? [00:52:21] Speaker B: No, it's just tucked underneath. [00:52:23] Speaker D: Understood. [00:52:23] Speaker B: The mattress. [00:52:24] Speaker D: Got you. I thought I was under a different impression. Okay, so then, yeah, that's my bad. [00:52:29] Speaker B: No, it's just a loose piece of thin plywood. [00:52:32] Speaker D: You were all good, my little picket up. This is ours now. [00:52:38] Speaker F: Speaking from experience, memory can be kind of funny about stuff. [00:52:43] Speaker D: Not my memory. My memory is really good. [00:52:48] Speaker F: So is mine. Or it was. Maybe it's still it. [00:52:53] Speaker D: I don't. I. Mila thinks about her practically, photographic memory, and she's just like, I believe that you believe that. [00:53:07] Speaker F: It'S different for different people. [00:53:10] Speaker D: True. You can do a lot of things I can't. [00:53:12] Speaker F: So we talked about this before. You're smart in ways that I'm not. But let's move on. [00:53:19] Speaker D: Okay? [00:53:21] Speaker A: I don't think there's anything else that we. I mean, we had maybe thought about going down to the archery range to talk to Kyo's roommates. But I think other than that, I feel like we've kind of maxed out what we can learn. [00:53:35] Speaker C: So we weren't going to talk to Kyo's roommates. We were going to talk to the person running the archery range. Because the archery range is in a very kidnappable spot, is what I have in my notes. [00:53:46] Speaker A: Yes. [00:53:49] Speaker D: We could do that. Honestly, if we do that, Myla might go start trying to decode the cipher because she has no reason to go in her mind. She has no reason to go talk to anyone. I don't know. [00:54:05] Speaker C: I grace don't know how much more we're going to be able to learn from people because it seems like everybody kind of has the same information to tell us. But that's above table. [00:54:21] Speaker D: Let's figure out what the cipher is and then go. [00:54:24] Speaker A: I think there, I say, let's see what we can learn from that. And then if we. [00:54:28] Speaker C: Back to our grass field. [00:54:30] Speaker D: Back to our grass field. Can we go get another 11 miles on and can we go get another one of those eleven and a half foot long sandwiches? [00:54:41] Speaker A: Sure. I'd be happy to go and get one. [00:54:44] Speaker D: It was really good. [00:54:45] Speaker B: You don't leftovers from the first eleven and a half. [00:54:48] Speaker D: No. [00:54:50] Speaker A: Anaconda swallowed the last three and a half feet. [00:54:58] Speaker D: You're severely overestimating how much of that. [00:55:00] Speaker C: Sandwich Melan probably actually ate. [00:55:03] Speaker A: She's a growing girl. [00:55:05] Speaker B: She's dining. [00:55:09] Speaker D: I really like that sandwich. It was really good throughout all of this. [00:55:13] Speaker A: What has model two been doing? Did they try and roll up the stairs? [00:55:22] Speaker D: That's so funny. I think model two probably has climbing features, like a little, like kickstand, I guess, just to flavor it. Like, it rolls up and then has, like, a little kickstand that comes out of onwards that pushes it up the stair and it gets up there eventually because it can still do all of the. Essentially, it can still mechanically do all of the things that Xander could just. It just functions a lot more differently. So it just sort of, like, lifts itself up. [00:55:50] Speaker A: Vested in this fucking orb, my horrible, twisted brain is imagining two legs popping out the bottom. Like weirdly human automaton legs. [00:56:03] Speaker B: I kept thinking about tigger style. There's a spring that makes. [00:56:10] Speaker A: No. [00:56:10] Speaker D: It's like, I hate to be the buzkill, but unfortunately it's just very mechanical, very boring. It just sort of picks itself up and it keeps going. And I think that whenever people are trying to refer to it or try to tell it to do something where Xander would kind of listen or would like when Xander stayed back with it that one time that it was holding it back. Model two does not. It doesn't do any of that. It follows Mila's commands to a t and it doesn't have any sort of sense of agency or urgency outside of Mila's commands. So it just sort of. [00:56:50] Speaker A: Yes, I'll go get it. An eleven and a half foot sandwich for us. Same order. Should I shake it up this time? [00:56:59] Speaker D: Ooh, do they have, like, meatball marinara? [00:57:03] Speaker A: I bet I could get a quarter of it. Meatball marinara for you. [00:57:06] Speaker D: Ooh. Okay. Can you put some jalapenos or like, some other kind of peppers on it? Like banana peppers or something? I hate it here. [00:57:13] Speaker A: Yeah, sure thing. [00:57:15] Speaker D: Amazing. [00:57:16] Speaker B: Each person gets 3ft of sandwich. [00:57:20] Speaker A: I imagine there's, like, a terrible intersection between meatball marinara and, like, peanut butter and jelly. [00:57:26] Speaker D: Oh, correction. [00:57:27] Speaker C: Ed gets 6ft of sandwich. Everyone else has to deal. [00:57:33] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I'm not cool. And I don't have an actual interactive cipher for you guys to solve. [00:57:44] Speaker A: That's fine. It would be so hard to do on a podcast. [00:57:48] Speaker B: I know, but it would be cool. But no. Mila sits down and begins transcribing everything you remember onto a separate sheet of paper so that you can work on it, probably leaving space between each line so you can write notes underneath and whatnot. It's going to take you a while, depending on your check and how well the check goes. But you can make an intelligence check also manage, though. [00:58:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:58:21] Speaker B: You are exhausted. [00:58:22] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:58:23] Speaker C: I don't have guidance. Never mind. I thought I did. [00:58:29] Speaker D: Okay. I rolled a 19 and a 13, so it's an 18. But I'm going to use flash of genius to give myself a plus five for a 23. [00:58:53] Speaker B: I want to tell you that I had two dcs for this. One is you get word for word what it is, and number two is that you get the gist of it. If it was lower, you rolled exactly the lower one and then you added five and got the higher one. Like, literally right on the dot. It was 23. [00:59:12] Speaker D: Mila likes ciphers. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Lord. Okay, she's so us core. It starts out with Lonan. I think someone is following me. I keep looking over my shoulder and seeing no one, but I can't shake the feeling I found something dangerous. I'm pretty sure dean is in on it. Illegal magic. I shouldn't even be writing this down, but this cipher is tough to crack. It's purple lone and purple magic. Can you believe it? I didn't think it was possible. I think the dean is on to me. So I'm leaving tonight. Find me in Darheim. I have a friend at the blacksmith there. He will help hide me. If you want to find me, ask him if he can sharpen your blade and give him the coin on the underside of my desk. Good luck. Stay safe. [00:59:57] Speaker A: So maybe Kyo didn't get nabbed, but maybe also they did. [01:00:06] Speaker E: The dean is in on it. [01:00:07] Speaker D: The dean is in on it. [01:00:09] Speaker A: So I guess we are going back. [01:00:10] Speaker C: You already knew that much. [01:00:12] Speaker E: Well, no, the dean, basically, you talked to the principal. [01:00:17] Speaker B: We talked to both of them. You barely talked to the dean who. [01:00:21] Speaker D: Barely talked to the dean. [01:00:22] Speaker E: Yeah, said, go talk to the. [01:00:24] Speaker D: Right. [01:00:25] Speaker A: They both basically garbage advice. Just kidding. Sorry. [01:00:32] Speaker D: I think Mila gets done deciphering this. [01:00:37] Speaker B: Cipher, which, by the way, takes you like 6 hours. This is not a fast process. It takes you forever, I think. [01:00:45] Speaker D: Yeah, it's like almost evening at this point. It's like four or five or something, right? At this point. And so Milo looks up and she says, I want to go find the dean. I think we should. Ooh, I don't know. I kind of want to hurt him, I think. And she sits down. [01:01:15] Speaker F: Do you want to go now, or do you want to wait until tomorrow? [01:01:20] Speaker D: Milo will read word for word the cipher, and she'll fold that piece of paper that she has and she'll say, I think I want to go tonight. The question is, which do we do first? Do we kill him or do we try to talk to him? [01:01:37] Speaker F: Well, you're unlikely to get very many answers if you kill him first. [01:01:42] Speaker E: If we wait. One of my siblings had this trick that they could do with their goop where they could kind of turn it into a truth serum. I've been trying to do that, but I need to figure it out first. Don't type goof serum in our discord chat. [01:02:13] Speaker B: We're throwing Meg under the bus. That was Meg. We're throwing Meg under the bus for this one. [01:02:17] Speaker D: Oh, my God. 100% Goose Sarah episode title sorry, I'm. [01:02:21] Speaker E: A silly goose, but I need a long rest and it might not. [01:02:28] Speaker D: Oh, got you. Okay, we can sleep first if that's helpful. [01:02:38] Speaker A: What day of the week is it? Because if we're like, what, Friday? Crazy, it's not school on Saturday. Let's go kill him on Saturday. With fewer witnesses. But if it's like a Tuesday. [01:02:52] Speaker C: Meg, what the fuck? [01:02:53] Speaker A: No, because if we're going to attack this guy. [01:02:59] Speaker B: No, I get it, but what the fuck? Yeah, it's Wednesday. [01:03:05] Speaker A: Fantasy. Wednesday. [01:03:06] Speaker C: Wednesday, my dude. [01:03:07] Speaker D: Wednesday, Wednesday. [01:03:11] Speaker B: Days the week are named the same because having other names for days of the week is awful and I'm not doing that. [01:03:17] Speaker C: It's cool. It just takes forever. [01:03:20] Speaker B: It's mostly that I would forget all the time. I don't want to have to think about that on top of other stuff. [01:03:28] Speaker C: Fantasy Wednesday. [01:03:31] Speaker D: Fantasy Wednesday. We're going to start keeping track of fantasy Wednesday. [01:03:35] Speaker A: On fantasy Wednesdays we wear green. [01:03:42] Speaker D: Yeah, we can wait. Let's wait. You're right. I'm actually really tired because I didn't sleep last night. So I think that that works for me. [01:03:50] Speaker E: Yeah, that's a good point. [01:03:55] Speaker B: You guys spend the evening finishing up the leftover sandwiches. Fucking damn it. Probably so sick of sandwiches at this point. [01:04:04] Speaker D: That meatball stupid fucking sandwich melanin can. [01:04:08] Speaker C: Cook for you guys. [01:04:11] Speaker A: How much of these sandwiches cost? Let me. [01:04:13] Speaker B: My fucking lord. An eleven and a half foot sandwich. You have a loyalty program probably like, it's probably a golden five silver. Like, it's not cheap, dude. [01:04:30] Speaker A: Okay, we're good. So is that for one sandwich or for the two total? [01:04:36] Speaker B: For one sandwich. So three. [01:04:38] Speaker A: We got one the first day and. [01:04:39] Speaker B: Then we got the second one. [01:04:41] Speaker C: I thought you meant for tonight. [01:04:42] Speaker B: I was like, Meg. [01:04:44] Speaker A: Okay, so two gold, ten silver. [01:04:47] Speaker B: Which is three gold. [01:04:48] Speaker D: Yes. [01:04:48] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [01:04:49] Speaker D: In total, it is done. I think Milo's so tired that she probably requests the last watch. She's like, can I just go to bed, please? [01:05:01] Speaker A: The last watch is the no watch. That's great. [01:05:07] Speaker D: I'm already tired. [01:05:10] Speaker A: Heck yeah. [01:05:11] Speaker D: For sure. Yeah, she'll probably. Yeah, she'll be like, okay, good night. And then she'll just like faceplant. [01:05:19] Speaker B: Okay, who is taking first watch? [01:05:23] Speaker A: Odin will. Since she didn't watch, if she feels bad about it, she's like, yeah, let's take a watch. [01:05:30] Speaker C: Both of you said yes at the same time. [01:05:35] Speaker A: If you want to id. Go for it. Second watch. [01:05:38] Speaker E: Go for it. [01:05:39] Speaker A: I want to go first. [01:05:42] Speaker B: Great, thank you. Yeah, make a perception check. [01:05:46] Speaker A: Okay. [01:05:50] Speaker B: Ten. All right, Melwyn, you go to sleep holding all these things in your arms and you again start to have dreams related to these feelings. So first dream, what do we got? [01:06:09] Speaker C: Do you want to do these now or do you want to do watch first? [01:06:12] Speaker B: We'll do these now. Okay, we'll do the first. [01:06:15] Speaker C: At least the first one, I kind of combined them. So there's really only like two. [01:06:20] Speaker B: Okay. [01:06:22] Speaker C: Because I took so many because this will take so long otherwise. [01:06:27] Speaker B: Got it. If you've got two, is it like three each? Yeah. Okay, we'll do at least one dream, then. But I do need you to make a constitution. All right. Breakfast dice. Breakfast dice. [01:06:44] Speaker D: Eat those eggs. [01:06:46] Speaker C: The eggs did not want to be eaten. Concave, you said? [01:06:51] Speaker B: Yes. [01:06:52] Speaker C: Total of seven. [01:06:54] Speaker B: Got it. Tell me about your dream. [01:06:57] Speaker C: So, the first, I'm going to start with the happy one, because the other one gets woo. So the three more positive emotions that Melwyn pulled were hope, love, and admiration. And Melwin sees. I just realized the number is the same. I promise I'm not ripping off of the adventure zone. But Melwyn sees seven birds in her dream, four that are clustered together, and three new ones, because the symbol for Melwyn, for love, is certainly her family, and very much like for Melan, everything with love and admiration. And I'm pulling a little bit from Emily Dickinson with the idea, like, hope is the thing with feathers, right? So Mellon's family are all named for birds, and she's not. So there's a raven, a blackbird, a kite, which is a type of bird of prey, and a virio, which is actually a songbird that has kind of, like a pale green plumage. And the three new birds that are on that, that are flying with that kind of strange assortment are a blue jay, a sparrow, and a hummingbird. Three birds that either represent protection or change or the future. And, yeah, birds for Melwyn are very much like their home, their safety. They are love. And that's very much like some things that she has started to feel for the party, but has not really been able to understand that past the short period of time that she had when she was home and she had everything. [01:08:46] Speaker B: I think for the first dream, time feels weird, but for the first couple hours, at least, in dream feeling, it feels really nice and calming, and then it starts to get a little bit more panicky as you kind of feel like this is going on a little bit too long. But we will come back to that second watch. Is id perception? Yes, please. [01:09:24] Speaker E: Seven. It is very focused. He's basically meditating, but he's trying to force a bunch of the magic in his artificial pacemaker heart magic thing up into his brain, just like with willpower. And it works a little bit. But this is ed preparing the spell zone of truth for. [01:09:57] Speaker B: Can you also make me a con save? [01:10:00] Speaker E: Sure. I didn't say this earlier, but depending on how we are arranged, would my buddies get aura, or does that only work when I'm on watch? Because I would be awake during my watch. [01:10:16] Speaker C: Aura only works when you are conscious. [01:10:19] Speaker B: And not incapacitated, so it'd only be during your watch. [01:10:23] Speaker E: Yes, it does say you must be conscious to grant this bonus. [01:10:26] Speaker D: Okay. [01:10:27] Speaker E: Searches for myself. I'm pretty sure I will be just fine with a 24. [01:10:36] Speaker B: Okie doke. Yeah. I think you don't notice very much during your watch. Neither did Auden. It seems like pretty quiet night as it was the night before. I think we only need three watches. So we're going to skip Melwyn and go to Myla because Melwyn stayed up extra the night before anyway. So I think it makes sense if you're okay with that, grace. Yes. And then we'll go to Mila's. Watch the last one. [01:11:04] Speaker D: Coolio. I shall make my room. [01:11:08] Speaker B: Yes. First make a perception, please. [01:11:13] Speaker D: 15 okie doke. [01:11:17] Speaker B: And now would you like to do the thing? [01:11:20] Speaker D: Yes. Whoa. Dirty 20 okie doke. [01:11:29] Speaker B: Do the audio words thing. Words paint. [01:11:32] Speaker D: Cool thing. I think that what happens from a storytelling perspective is that people eventually start waking on their own and they realize Myla is not there. And it's probably a few hours. So maybe like two. She's probably 2 hours ahead. And in those 2 hours, I'm assuming if everything went well and she's on her way back. She's on her way back. She went to the school while it was closed and she's going to try and break in. [01:12:05] Speaker B: Okay. We will conclude all of that in the next episode because we are out of time. [01:12:11] Speaker E: Oh my gosh. [01:12:13] Speaker B: But goodness, it's going to be fun. So what you did roll was stealth just to make sure. And I'm pretty sure no one's got a 20. Passive. That was passive insight or perception. [01:12:28] Speaker D: My details are do we be good. [01:12:34] Speaker B: Thanks for hanging out for this episode. We learned a whole lot and it's going to be really fun to see where it goes. [01:12:38] Speaker D: Oh my gosh. Wait, is that a microphone? Hang on 1 second. Oh my gosh. I always wanted to be on a podcast. Wait, hang on. Okay. Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into our show. You can find us here or anywhere else. 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