3.17: Prep Your Baggage

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Oh, we should. [00:00:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:00:01] Speaker A: I haven't done a presetion roll in a long. [00:00:03] Speaker B: Wow. [00:00:04] Speaker A: See how our travel will go. Give her a 17 for 17. Episode 317. [00:00:11] Speaker C: It's a significant. We went two different routes. [00:00:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I got this. Okay. I saw the side and it opened up my eyes, and I am happy about Lily. [00:00:46] Speaker C: Okay. [00:00:48] Speaker D: It's because the beginning of that Lizzo song is perpetually stuck in my head. [00:00:51] Speaker B: Talking about pitch perfect. And I rewatched that movie, like, I don't know, three weeks ago or something. But the cast in that is crazy. It's like a ton of people who are starting out, except, like, Anna Kendrick. I think she was pretty famous by the time that movie came out, but still, Jacob Wazaki is in it. I love that man. Why is he in this movie? He looks so different because he's got, like, super short hair and he's, like, ten. [00:01:23] Speaker E: No facial hair. [00:01:24] Speaker B: 15 years younger. It's nuts. Anyway. [00:01:27] Speaker D: Baby Ben Platt as well. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Baby Ben Platt. Oh, my gosh. [00:01:32] Speaker A: I forgot pitch perfect, like, once, and it was pretty wild. [00:01:38] Speaker B: I fucking knew you were going to start singing it. The guy who plays Charles in Brooklyn nine nine is also in pitch perfect for, like, a split second. He's one of the old guys in the old guy quartet group. He comes back in the second, sings, like, right up. [00:01:59] Speaker A: Maybe we need to do a movie night sometime. [00:02:02] Speaker B: Also. Haven't seen second one or the third one. [00:02:04] Speaker C: I've seen the second one. I have not seen the third one. [00:02:07] Speaker D: I remember they kind of get worse as they go. [00:02:09] Speaker B: I'm not going to leave that. [00:02:12] Speaker C: I remember I was watching an interview with the guy who plays. Gosh, not Skyler Aston, the other guy. The guy who plays bumper. And he was like, yeah. When I was auditioning for this role, I was putting in my tape, and I was like, oh, it's like a baseball movie. And so he thought he was auditioning. [00:02:35] Speaker B: For, like, a baseball movie. [00:02:36] Speaker C: Why are they having me sing? Yeah. [00:02:42] Speaker B: He, however, looks pretty much exactly the same. That guy does not look like he aged at all. [00:02:49] Speaker D: Pentatonix shows up in the second one and then DJ Khaled in the third. [00:02:54] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [00:02:55] Speaker D: I've unironically seen all these movies. Also, the woman who plays Cynthia Rose, the black lesbian woman, I believe I read somewhere that she wrote music for Rihanna at some point. [00:03:10] Speaker C: I think she also did stuff for the Lorax. [00:03:13] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:03:15] Speaker A: What a resume. [00:03:16] Speaker D: Unironically. Probably the best singer in that movie, in my opinion. [00:03:19] Speaker C: Oh, absolutely. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. [00:03:21] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:03:22] Speaker B: I'm also, like, starting to watch Glee again, which is like, no, I hate it so much. [00:03:27] Speaker D: It's the worst. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Well, I need background sound for my work, so I watch, like, terrible tv so that I don't have to focus that hard on it. Watch Grey's Anatomy, something at least every episode. Grey's Anatomy is the same. [00:03:41] Speaker D: Or criminal minds. [00:03:43] Speaker B: Criminal mind. [00:03:43] Speaker C: Criminal minds. [00:03:44] Speaker A: What's the best glee cover Anastasia, so far? [00:03:48] Speaker B: Oh, God, I don't know. Because they're all bad. Actually. [00:03:55] Speaker D: Not all of them. [00:03:58] Speaker E: Haven't seen the whole show yet. Jay. [00:04:01] Speaker B: That's true. Actually, the first time I watched it, I watched up through, like, season six, and then I quit because it was so bad. Finished watching it. I know. I think, unironically, I think Leah Michelle is a good singer when she's not wildly auto tuned like they do in most of the show, but they didn't do it as heavily for her rendition of rain on my parade, which I think was actually okay because she can sing like a musical theater person and not like a tv show person. And so I was like, that's probably the best one so far. And I'm only. [00:04:41] Speaker D: She never gets better than that. [00:04:42] Speaker B: Honestly. [00:04:43] Speaker D: She never sings that song better than that. [00:04:46] Speaker C: I'm about to tell you why you're wrong. I'm just kidding. No, but the best covers in that show, in that episode, the smooth criminal one with the strings is fire yet. Smooth criminal. It's in season three. I just looked it up. [00:05:04] Speaker B: I'm not even done with season one. [00:05:05] Speaker C: Yet, so just keep that in mind. Keep an eye. Keep an eye out for that one. That one's great also. It makes me cry every time. But Darren Chris's rendition of Cough syrup is so good. [00:05:24] Speaker B: I'm excited to get to season three because I think that's the best season from what I remember. And then season four goes downhill halfway through. [00:05:35] Speaker D: Darren Chris is the only person they ever let sing live for that show, and it is deserved. I love that man. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Yeah, he's very good. [00:05:44] Speaker D: I love him so much. [00:05:46] Speaker C: Who can forget the mashup? Let's have a kiki and turkey lurkey time. [00:05:51] Speaker B: Unironically. [00:05:51] Speaker D: Kind of a beggar, though. [00:05:55] Speaker C: Ben, you're giving me a look, and I don't understand. [00:05:59] Speaker E: I just know that Glee is insane, and I also know that I'll never watch it. [00:06:05] Speaker D: Honestly. Yeah. [00:06:07] Speaker B: No, it is insane. It's a terrible tv show. All the characters are bad for multiple reasons. [00:06:14] Speaker C: Yeah, I've watched bits and pieces of it. Like, I haven't watched the full series or anything. I don't think it's a good show. There's a lot of stuff that's wrong with it. However, some of the funny stuff is really funny. [00:06:28] Speaker A: The episode about grilled cheeses and that was. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Stupid episode. It's such a stupid show. [00:06:37] Speaker D: There's a really good version of. It's Naya Rivera who takes lead on it, playing Santana. They sing Valerie, and it's actually really good because her voice fits that. [00:06:50] Speaker B: I think she is the best actress on that show. Oh, absolutely. Period. [00:06:55] Speaker A: Speaking of Glee, you know what fills me with glee? Playing dungeons and dragons with my friends. [00:07:01] Speaker C: Oh, my word. [00:07:03] Speaker D: I hate it here. [00:07:04] Speaker A: D and glee, if you will. [00:07:07] Speaker D: Mom, come pick me up. [00:07:09] Speaker B: They're making puns again. All right. [00:07:11] Speaker D: Hi. [00:07:12] Speaker B: Welcome to spells and whistles A-D-D podcast. Oh, God. Okay. After we resolved Melwyn's dream consequences, Myla sneaks off in the early morning to scout out the university. She picks the arcane lock on the window of the president's office and sneaks in. She listens to the office next door and then casts alarm on the door, then heads back to camp. She gets caught by her group, and Melwyn has to be woken up by someone else. Once they're up, they head to the university and cause a ton of chaos. Auden tries to start a riot, and Melwyn fireballs the place twice, then escapes aid and Myla help people evacuate. After Mila searches the dean's office, finding a parchment with a teleportation circle on it, a vial of the purple black potion, some budgetary documents, and the school's letter Stamp. They reconvene at the artisans guild garden. So, is there anything else? You guys talked about sending a letter to Lonan. So if you'd like to do that, you can do that in this day. Just let me know what it says. [00:08:13] Speaker A: I can go over the bullet points that we discussed today in our sneaky. It wasn't sneaky. Anastasia was there the whole time. I'm not going to make up a letter on the spot because Auden's not literate enough to write that herself, but the general vibes of it. We're letting Lonan know that Kyo may have gone to Darheim. We're also going to send along the coin. And the secret phrase that he needs to get in touch with his blacksmith friend is what we have decided to do. We are going to let him know that the dean. Well, what's his name? I had it written down. Meyerstead. Mr. Meyerstead was looking for purple magic and that it's, like, illegal magic. And so if they have any involvement with that, they should be very careful about that, that we are doing well, and we're probably headed to the institute. And if they need to contact us, then maybe send a familiar. I don't know if any of them can cast familiars, but I know it's a bunch of casters, so I feel like mayhaps, at the very least, there's. [00:09:21] Speaker D: A wizard and an artificer in that house. I don't know what Brandon Lonen are. [00:09:27] Speaker A: And the secret sneaky thing that we're doing is we're making Mila write it in the cipher, so if our mail gets intercepted, it'll be so sneaky and they won't be able to read. [00:09:37] Speaker B: He and super not suspicious with a coin and cipher tag. [00:09:43] Speaker C: Well, I think we had discussed having a letter that was in common, that was like, hi, just checking in. Hope you're doing well. We have some stuff for you. And then having the second letter be like, okay, here's the t. Illegal, no hiding coin password. [00:10:07] Speaker B: Yeah, perfect. You can head to the post office. Here it is along that same main strip that the artisans Guild is on. There's kind of that diagonal, big strip, and there's a little post office. The way that mail works in this world is that there are wizards who have spent, like, years extending the range of familiar so that they are able to send a bird, typically across super long distances. So male gets there as fast as a bird can fly and travel. [00:10:46] Speaker D: As long as it's not an owl, it's fine. [00:10:50] Speaker C: Slow. [00:10:53] Speaker B: I don't know. That's up to the wizard. [00:10:55] Speaker C: It's a tweet. [00:10:57] Speaker B: It is tweet. [00:10:58] Speaker D: Fuck you. [00:11:00] Speaker C: I got a lot of different reactions, and I'm feeling very attacked right now. [00:11:07] Speaker B: So, yeah, you can drop the mail off with this wizard who charges you a silver to send it. So anyone who wants to take that off can. [00:11:20] Speaker D: I got it, I got it. [00:11:24] Speaker C: Wahoo. [00:11:25] Speaker A: Thanks. No one? [00:11:26] Speaker C: Yeah, because you're sending it to your family, so that makes sense. [00:11:29] Speaker B: You all also chatted about heading to the institute, which is on the very north end of the mountains that split rain and Gosnesh and the ancient lands of Tetros. It's the same mountain range that ID's lab was in, but they're kind of on two separate ends of it. So it still would have been a good chunk of travel if you went just straight there from the lab. But it's a little bit closer than the lab. Based on the time from last time that people traveled over that space, it took about two months to get from that lab to us by crossing the ancient lands of tetro. So you guys are welcome to do that. It'll probably be about a month and a half of walking. If you want to get horses, you can do that. If you want to airship travel, you can do that. But it's super expensive, so that's up to you. [00:12:29] Speaker A: How expensive? [00:12:32] Speaker B: In kinder, it's 100 gold per person. [00:12:36] Speaker D: We could steal one again. [00:12:39] Speaker E: We also didn't really steal the last one. We just kind of hitchhiked. [00:12:45] Speaker A: Why do I have 31 platinum pieces? [00:12:48] Speaker C: Whoa. [00:12:49] Speaker D: We got some platinum from something we stole or looted or something. We did not get paid. I know that much. [00:12:57] Speaker E: Doesn't nearly have that much. [00:13:01] Speaker D: It's either that or you accidentally put your gold in as your platinum. [00:13:05] Speaker A: It's possible. Very possible. [00:13:12] Speaker B: I don't remember. [00:13:13] Speaker D: Can we just say that we have. No, I'm kidding. [00:13:16] Speaker A: I'm working on a listener right now, so I will hold off on that for now. [00:13:22] Speaker B: I really don't care if it is what it is. [00:13:27] Speaker D: Just hand wave it. [00:13:28] Speaker C: No matter which way we go before we leave, this is just quick housekeeping. We don't have to do anything about this. Milo would love to go buy bits and pieces, ods and ends sort of store and pick up more stuff to work on her gun while they're on the road. Yeah, because she has it, but it. [00:13:49] Speaker D: Can be improved nearby. [00:13:56] Speaker B: Yeah. You head to fantasy Home Depot and pick up. [00:14:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:02] Speaker B: Do you want to roll an investigation check? [00:14:05] Speaker C: I would love to roll an investigation check. I rolled a 17 plus eleven, which is an 828. [00:14:12] Speaker B: Yeah. You find a person in town who also does something like this, I think you go to a store first, and they just, like, super don't have what you need. So you try to head to another store, and they don't have what you need until somebody at that store tells you that there's this person who comes by every so often that has, like, crazy stuff that needs fixing or needs parts or whatever. So they give you the address of this person, and you were able to head to their house, and they give you some pieces, especially if you exchange trying to fix some of their stuff for it. [00:14:53] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:14:54] Speaker B: They're stuck on a problem, and they're trying to figure out how to fix it. [00:14:59] Speaker C: Well, it's because the weight distribution is off balance. So if you put this spring here to help relieve some of the tension on this end, it'll balance out on the other end. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Should have thought about a spring. [00:15:11] Speaker C: Yeah. Most people forget about springs. [00:15:13] Speaker B: Oh, thanks. True. All right, well, take. What do you want? I guess. [00:15:20] Speaker C: Oh, thank you. Yeah, I'll gather anything that I need to sort of bring up the. I think right now what I'm working on is just getting it up, because right now it's a d six for damage, which it's normally a d ten. So I'm just going to get the stuff that I need to up it to its normal damage capacity. [00:15:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Red coolio. [00:15:44] Speaker A: When Melwyn and Auden popped into kinder, I had to put this in the chat, but I'm saying it out loud also. We worked for our fair. Part of our fair as temp crew. Is that something that we might be able to do this time around as well? Or, since it's a longer journey, would that not fly? [00:16:07] Speaker D: We could certainly try. This is a steampunk world. Are there sky pirates? This is a very important question for me, I think. [00:16:14] Speaker B: Yes, because that's cool. Fuck yeah, dude. Can we go be sky pirates? [00:16:21] Speaker D: Can we say screw it to the rest of the game and go be sky pirates? [00:16:24] Speaker B: Yeah, you do whatever you want. [00:16:25] Speaker C: I think that there is a spell that artificers could take that let you create, like, a spell jammer hole. So technically, Jake, we're not high enough for that. We're not high enough level for that. [00:16:42] Speaker B: So I think that, you know, especially from the first few weeks that you were on land, Odin, that it's very pilot dependent. It depends on whatever the pilot thinks. So it's really kind of a toss up. [00:16:59] Speaker A: I think she'll go and try and talk to a pilot then, and just see if it would work. So she'll kind of head over there. [00:17:10] Speaker B: I think you see a woman who is just kind of. She's a dwarven woman with a beard with, like, a braid in the center of it. She is carrying something in a big case over to a ship. There are a couple of crew members who are loading up a bunch of luggage into the underneath of this ship. Very airplane style. Yeah, I think you're just kind of on, like, the quote unquote tarmac, where there aren't typically general people around. They have a spot to stay. So she's like, hey, can I help you? [00:17:50] Speaker A: Well, actually, it's funny you should ask that, because I was going to ask you the same thing. Me and a couple of my companions are looking to travel down south a little bit, headed toward the institute. And we could travel by foot, but wanted to see if, in exchange for some labor, if you'd be interested. In having us on board. [00:18:18] Speaker B: You know, no one knows where the institute actually is. Oh, I mean, I know the general area, but I can't get you there. Exactly. [00:18:30] Speaker A: He was going to say. I've never been there myself either. [00:18:35] Speaker D: Hey, general area would be great. I'm not there. Therefore I have no stakes in this conversation. [00:18:43] Speaker C: But maybe the closest would be, like, Gaznesh, or like that city in Gosnesh, right there. [00:18:49] Speaker A: I don't know, sort of in. [00:18:51] Speaker B: That's the capital, and I don't remember what the name is. [00:18:53] Speaker A: The capital of Gosnesh is also. That works just fine. It kind of depends on, obviously, where you are chartering your trip. We would not want to inconvenience you in any way. Just sort of tag along and help out where you may need some extra hands. [00:19:13] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:13] Speaker B: You want to roll persuasion? [00:19:15] Speaker A: Yes, I would love to. Persuasion. I have a plus two to that. Please. [00:19:24] Speaker C: It's ten. [00:19:30] Speaker B: I can talk with. Can talk with a head boss in charge, but I probably can't give you a ride for free. [00:19:43] Speaker A: No, absolutely. That makes getting tripped up with your accent, too. [00:19:49] Speaker C: Sorry. [00:19:49] Speaker A: No, you're fine. [00:19:50] Speaker B: I got messed up with yours. I think we're back and forth. [00:19:53] Speaker A: Scott's Australian. [00:19:58] Speaker B: No more accents for me. No, I love it. [00:20:02] Speaker A: I need to be focused. Obviously not if free of charge. We'd be happy to pay some of the way, but we just figured if you needed. I know that service can be in short supply sometimes, so. Figured I'd check and see if that was something that would be interesting to you. I have an experience as a mercenary of sorts, an escort. And a lot of my companions also have a lot of really great skills I don't have. They call them resumes. We can talk a lot about what we do, but we'd also be more than happy to show you if given the chance. [00:20:43] Speaker B: How many? [00:20:48] Speaker C: I can't. [00:20:50] Speaker A: The first ever DnD character I played out of scottish accent. [00:20:53] Speaker B: This is so funny to me. [00:20:57] Speaker A: There's four of us. [00:20:58] Speaker B: I just have to say so or. [00:21:00] Speaker A: No, and then I'm back in it. There's four of us. [00:21:06] Speaker B: I'll let you know. [00:21:08] Speaker C: Okay. [00:21:09] Speaker B: Come back here. Probably tomorrow night. [00:21:14] Speaker C: Okay. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Yeah, we can do that. No problem. It was a pleasure to talk to you. What was your name? [00:21:20] Speaker B: Miriam. [00:21:21] Speaker A: Nice to meet you. My name's Auden. And she'll hold out her hand. [00:21:24] Speaker B: She kind of shifts the thing she's carrying so that she can hold it with one hand and shakes her hand, also. [00:21:30] Speaker A: Awesome. Well, I'll see you then. Thank you. Have a great rest of your day. [00:21:36] Speaker B: Good luck. [00:21:36] Speaker A: Don't want to keep you. Bye. [00:21:40] Speaker B: She's kind of leaf heads off to go stalk some more things. What do you want to do? [00:21:45] Speaker A: The Garland's going to find the rest of the buds and say, I'm meeting with someone named Miriam who may be able to get us discounted fare. If we wanted to fly, we would need to pull our weight a little bit, maybe do some loading. I know when Melwyn and I came in, she did some cooking, but I figured if we are in a time crunch, as we seem to be, that might be quicker than walking. It's a long walk. [00:22:18] Speaker C: Yeah, that makes sense. Do we need to get more money for this? Because I only have, like, 40 gold, and that's really not a lot. [00:22:31] Speaker E: I have about 40 gold, too, but it reaches into his backpack and pulls out from a very long time ago, the little spool of copper wire boskite. [00:22:44] Speaker D: Oh, shit. [00:22:45] Speaker E: He's had for forever since they were stuck in the trunk, I think. And Mila, do you still want this, or could we use this as like a bartering chip? [00:23:03] Speaker C: I don't necessarily need it, so at least not that I know right now. And we have that other really big rock that is a little more of interest. Yes, that one. What did you call it? Luscite. You got it, right? You got it. So we can sell that one and then it hands it to a. [00:23:32] Speaker B: Can you make an intelligence check, Myla, just for generic economic purposes? [00:23:37] Speaker A: Sure thing. Isn't Luskite super rare roll for economy? [00:23:44] Speaker B: I don't really know. 16 intelligence makes sense. So the lusgite is definitely more valuable here than the copper wire boschite, because this is the country that mines bosgite. So if you're going to sell it, this is actually the worst place to do it because it is the most readily available here. So the lusgite is way more valuable here than the boskite is here. But if you were, like, literally almost anywhere else in the world, the boskite copper wire would be fantastic. But this country has it readily available, so it's not super expensive up here. [00:24:20] Speaker E: Well, even still, we could use it as, like, I don't have money for this, but people on the boat, you could sell this when we get to our destination or fly to a different spot whenever you want to, and it could cover part of our cost. [00:24:37] Speaker B: Also true. Just throwing it out there that this country. Bad place to sell it, probably, if you're trying to get your money's worth. It's not nothing it'll get you some money, but not as much as it would somewhere else. [00:24:51] Speaker C: Okay. Because we know that Lusci is used for arcane folkye that usually has yellow magic and stuff in it. And I know that yellow magic is sun and universe, and green is like nature. What is the fundamental difference between the two of them? Like, what differentiates the green nature magic from sun and universe magic? [00:25:16] Speaker B: I think sun universe magic is, like, bigger scale. Bigger scale. Nature magic is typically, like, what you're using from around you, or just like, the way the ecosystems work and stuff like that. It's very much connected to whatever you're standing on as a person, kind of that general area. But the yellow magic is much more like I'm pulling from some cosmic energy kind of deal. Does that make sense? [00:25:46] Speaker C: Yes, sure. [00:25:47] Speaker B: Just kind of way bigger scale. It is kind of nature, but on a huge scale. [00:25:52] Speaker C: So here's my question. Because you have a fancy shield that does shit when it's charged, right? [00:25:57] Speaker E: True. [00:25:57] Speaker C: Is there a way. Because I know that I was able to make, like, a one use battery thing for that. Is there a way I could use a piece of the lusgite for the arcane folky part, to make it sort of like, essentially mechanically, like a once a day or like, once prolonged rest sort of thing so we don't have to keep recharging it? [00:26:18] Speaker B: I think it takes some skills that you don't have. [00:26:21] Speaker C: Okay. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Mostly cutting and refining magical rock. It's not something I think Mila is particularly skilled at. If you found someone who was not yet, if you took your month and a half walk to the institute, you could maybe get, like, 40% of the way there to the skill set. [00:26:46] Speaker A: Start your 2000 hours now. [00:26:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Cutting and refining stone is not, like, an uncommon thing, but magical stone is way different. However, in Ospai, there are people who do that for Boskite all the time because they're mining and cutting and refining. So there are people here who do that. I just don't think Myla has that skill set. So you either need to fumble your way through it till you get something or find someone else to do that part. But the rest of it makes sense. If you wanted to rig it up. [00:27:24] Speaker C: To the shield, you could do that out of game. Ben, is that something that would possibly interest you from a mechanic standpoint, or is that something that you don't think you would use? [00:27:36] Speaker E: I haven't really needed to fly anywhere so far because that's what that does. And also check. [00:27:46] Speaker B: Put in more chasms, more pits, it. [00:27:52] Speaker D: Always comes back to pits. [00:27:55] Speaker C: We need more pit. [00:27:58] Speaker E: It's an action to activate which in combat is really valuable, so I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Melwin still has readily available lightning magic, maybe. So if I need a charge, I will take a shocking grasp and I'll be fine or whatever. [00:28:19] Speaker C: Sounds good. So then my question is, because we got a pretty big stone of it, from what I remember. Would it be worth it? Taking it to, like, it wasn't, like, huge, but it was like, a decent baseball size. Like, baseball size? Like, softball size? [00:28:37] Speaker B: Softball. [00:28:38] Speaker C: Softball size. [00:28:39] Speaker A: The size of some kind of ball. [00:28:41] Speaker B: Sports ball size somewhere, but not a soccer ball. Not a baseball in the middle. [00:28:47] Speaker C: Okay. [00:28:47] Speaker B: Sports ball size. [00:28:50] Speaker C: So, in theory, if we take that to get refined or something like that, I know this is thrilling content for our listeners, but in theory, I'm so. [00:28:59] Speaker B: Fascinated by what you're going to do with it. [00:29:02] Speaker C: If we take it to get refined and we're able to keep maybe two or three pieces or whatever and then sell off the rest, I think it would be worth the paying for it to get refined and then basically reimbursing and getting possibly more money for the other pieces that we're trying to sell off. I also know that this is something Auden found so mega. If you're like, I don't want to do that, please let me know. But I don't know. I think keeping a few small pieces for things here and there would be cool, but I don't know. [00:29:37] Speaker A: Yeah. If this is the discussion that's having, Auden is like, yeah, sure, I just found it on the ground. [00:29:46] Speaker B: There's probably more where that came from. Yeah, on the ground. [00:29:49] Speaker A: I'll find another one. [00:29:51] Speaker D: Fuck it. It's a cool rock. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I think finding. Yeah, let's find a place to get it refined. That'd be cool. [00:30:00] Speaker B: Yeah, cool. You guys have, like, a little bit more than 24 hours back to meet Miriam. This is day one. You're meeting Miriam. Day two, evening. So you're getting kind of closer to evening on this first day. Where would you like to try and find that info? [00:30:18] Speaker C: Maybe audit and Mila can go. I don't know. Maybe go back to that shop that I found those other pieces and just be like, hey, so you work a lot with stuff. Do you have it somewhere where I could get something refined, like a stone or a rock or a gem, and just ask basically that person where to go. [00:30:37] Speaker B: They tell you that the best people are north of here by a couple of days travel, like, northeast because that's where a lot of the mines are. What about like somebody. Yeah, there's like a jeweler in town that they think might be able to do that. [00:30:59] Speaker C: Okay, thank you. [00:31:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I can definitely head to the jewelers. It's this very old elven woman who is like super old elven woman means she's like 920 years old. She's so old. She's wrinkled and gray hair, but she looks very kind and she has like super bright green eyes and such. And she sees you walk in and the store is a little bit antique shop style, cluttered, but not quite so tight. But a lot of jewelry pieces and stuff are on stands that are just kind of different heights, different spots, different whatever. Mannequins, like array of different kind of mannequins, that kind of thing. So she's standing behind a counter and she is looking like she's going to close up pretty soon. So she's starting to count the money in the drawer and stuff. It's like, oh, hello. What can I help you with? [00:32:05] Speaker C: We were told you could get maybe possibly put this into pieces for us. Put the Luskite down. [00:32:16] Speaker B: I haven't seen that in a very long time. [00:32:19] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Well, how many pieces do you think you could just maybe two gold pieces sized. Not like worth like two gold piece sized pieces. How many of those do you think you can make out of that? [00:32:37] Speaker B: Very many. [00:32:39] Speaker C: Okay, so how about we do this? If you make us like ballpark, what, like ten ish? Maybe you can keep as long as they're all the same size. And I'll know because I can tell you could keep two of the pieces as payment. [00:33:04] Speaker B: I can do my best. [00:33:09] Speaker A: Poor old woman. Could I make an insight check? Maybe. Does autumn think that she can actually do it? Or is she thinking maybe this is like 6th eigth, twelveth. Best kind of option. [00:33:28] Speaker B: You wanted to insight, is that what you said? [00:33:29] Speaker A: Yes, I got an eight. [00:33:33] Speaker B: She could probably do it. It's cool. [00:33:35] Speaker A: Good enough for me. [00:33:36] Speaker C: Okay. [00:33:37] Speaker B: Can you come back tomorrow? [00:33:41] Speaker C: Yes. Because you're closing up. So here, Auden, here's your rock. We'll come back tomorrow morning first thing. [00:33:47] Speaker B: I meant to pick it up. [00:33:48] Speaker C: Oh, to pick it up. [00:33:50] Speaker A: She'll like bonk it on the counter. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Okay. It's like a glass counter. No, not if it's glass down. A rock shattered. No, you don't break it. You don't break it. If it's glass, she very carefully puts it down. No. So I can work on this and then give it to you. Tomorrow. [00:34:12] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:34:14] Speaker B: Like, I don't know, mid afternoon. [00:34:19] Speaker C: Okay, just quick. Milo's going to look around and find something of like a medium ish price range and he's gonna pick it. Like, let me know if this is okay with you because I would feel much better. Is it all right if we take this? Oh, this is a really pretty necklace. If we take this necklace and we'll return it tomorrow in exchange for the broken down luscite unused or anything, I would just like to have something so that way there's just a little bit of mutual trust. [00:34:59] Speaker B: Yeah. You seem like you trust me. [00:35:02] Speaker C: Oh, I trust you. It's other people. [00:35:04] Speaker B: I don't break it. If you break it, you do have to. [00:35:08] Speaker C: Absolutely. Oh, of course. I'll put it in like a little pouch and zip it up and put it in my bag of holding you motion. [00:35:16] Speaker B: Like you're going to crumble it up and stuff it in a pocket, which is really funny. [00:35:23] Speaker C: All right, sounds good. We'll see you in the morning. [00:35:25] Speaker B: Bye. Thank you. [00:35:26] Speaker A: I'll see you tomorrow. [00:35:28] Speaker B: Guys are the worst. Great. Anything else you want to do before bedtime? [00:35:39] Speaker A: Grace, I think you had a thing right. [00:35:41] Speaker D: Melon is going to go to the blue church where we initially ran into Mindflayer business and see if they need any healers that she can make some little extra money, maybe. [00:35:58] Speaker B: I love the idea. The blue church. Seems like there are a lot of people here, they have just kind of turned pews into bed shape things so that they can because they're trying to lesser restoration everybody in town, because there is a little bit of stuff left over, like in basically everybody. So anyone who is confused or feels weird can come and get lesser restoration to get some of the mind flare extra residue out. [00:36:36] Speaker D: Bet I have that spell, actually. [00:36:38] Speaker B: Nice. Great. I think there's like some helper there who is part of the church and she tells you that you can get ten gold per spell per lesser restoration. That you do. [00:36:58] Speaker D: Okay, now we're slightly regret. [00:37:01] Speaker B: Oh, wait. [00:37:01] Speaker D: No, wait. Fuck. Hold up. I can get cheeky with this. Hang on. Well, because either. And Ben, help me out here a little bit because you probably be able to finangle this a little bit more. But I can either twin spell twice and cast it up to four times because I only have one third level spell slot, but I have three second level spell slots still. Or I can convert some sorcery points into spell slots. [00:37:33] Speaker E: Well, how much does twinning cost? [00:37:36] Speaker D: Two. [00:37:37] Speaker B: And I have five sorcery points equal. [00:37:40] Speaker E: To the spell's level. So if it's a third level spell, second level spell. [00:37:46] Speaker C: And also it's, alas, arrest is second. [00:37:50] Speaker E: I heard Grace say I only have one third level spell slot. [00:37:54] Speaker D: I have one third level spell. [00:37:55] Speaker C: That's true. [00:37:55] Speaker B: But you can three second level. [00:38:00] Speaker E: Getting a second level spell slot again costs three sorcery points. So it's more economically sound to twin. [00:38:09] Speaker D: To just twin spell it. Yeah, I can do that. So that would be eight people I. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Can do that for. [00:38:18] Speaker D: Because it doesn't do anything if you upcast it. [00:38:21] Speaker B: So two of your second levels are twinned, which is four. [00:38:24] Speaker D: Which is four. I can't. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Second math. Plus your third, which is six, I think. Yes. Nice. So six, which is still 60 gold. [00:38:33] Speaker D: It's ten gold per person. You can do 60. [00:38:38] Speaker E: And you could also come back tomorrow morning and do it again if you wanted to. [00:38:42] Speaker D: Oh, 1000%. [00:38:46] Speaker B: Yes. Spell slots, right before we spend multiple. [00:38:50] Speaker E: Days on a skyship. [00:38:54] Speaker B: No, the airship is basically instant. [00:38:57] Speaker E: Oh, that's right. Because of the gate teleporty things. [00:39:00] Speaker D: Yeah, that's right. [00:39:01] Speaker E: I forgot about that. Okay. Good thing to keep in mind. [00:39:05] Speaker B: So you get there the same day? [00:39:07] Speaker A: Same day shipping. [00:39:09] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:39:10] Speaker B: Really? [00:39:10] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. [00:39:11] Speaker D: So Melon will go back to the group with a baggie full of gold. [00:39:18] Speaker A: My wages. [00:39:21] Speaker B: Hard day's work. I won't lie. [00:39:23] Speaker D: I was very tempted to go. Can I go find my boy Jared? [00:39:25] Speaker B: But no Jared, he's left town. No. I don't know. Not my boy. Yeah, you guys may camp outside of town again. [00:39:37] Speaker A: I think so. [00:39:38] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. Who's doing watch? [00:39:41] Speaker A: I'll take a watch. [00:39:42] Speaker E: I will as well. [00:39:44] Speaker C: Mila will take it with some. Well, I don't actually know, because then Melwin would have to be on her own for a. Huh. [00:39:50] Speaker D: I don't think you're allowed to take a watch by yourself after. [00:39:55] Speaker C: That's what I'm thinking. But I also don't know if Melwin keeping a watch on her own is something the group wants to do either, so I will leave. [00:40:02] Speaker D: It's fine. She's done it before. [00:40:05] Speaker A: Trustworthy. [00:40:06] Speaker C: I'll take a watch with Auden, then. Because everyone else scares. [00:40:14] Speaker B: Melan. You're trying to grab a couple of emotions, right? Yeah. [00:40:20] Speaker D: I will get back to you on which ones they are because I don't remember. [00:40:23] Speaker B: Because it's three left from that group of six. Yeah, I don't remember what they are either, so that's not. [00:40:31] Speaker D: Give me a minute. [00:40:33] Speaker B: Can you make a concave id? [00:40:36] Speaker E: Sure. Am I conscious for this? Concave? To get my aura or am I unconscious and sleeping while this is happening? [00:40:44] Speaker B: No, you're conscious. [00:40:45] Speaker A: Okay. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Sleep before I go to bed. [00:40:49] Speaker E: Six plus eight is 14. [00:40:52] Speaker B: Okay. This is the first time you're getting information about this. Hey, there's just a very split second where you're kind of internalizing your own heartbeat and it gets a little bit weird for just like one heartbeat's worth where it's just not quite as strong and it does like a little skip just slightly. But that's the only thing you feel? [00:41:18] Speaker E: I'm going to be honest, I don't think it is worried about that. I feel like in the time of him growing up and being experimented on, having heart palpitations was not weird. And he's like, oh, all right, that's fair. Guess those are back. [00:41:32] Speaker D: Guess those are back. Poor dude. [00:41:34] Speaker A: Oh man. What an old man. [00:41:38] Speaker B: Does anyone actually know what heart palpitations are? [00:41:40] Speaker E: It's like a muscle spasm, isn't it? [00:41:42] Speaker B: Now I know. No, it's when you can feel your heartbeat in other places of your body. [00:41:47] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:41:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Like in your hands or your head or your chest. Or literally anywhere other than just like right here. [00:41:55] Speaker D: Guilt, shame and sadness. By the way, I found it. [00:41:59] Speaker B: Cool. So whose first watch? [00:42:03] Speaker D: I can take a watch first. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Okay. [00:42:05] Speaker D: Especially because I have a guess of what might be happening. So just maybe. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Sweet. [00:42:15] Speaker D: Do you want me to roll a perception? [00:42:17] Speaker B: No. [00:42:18] Speaker D: Excuse me. [00:42:19] Speaker B: Constitution for watch. I think it's a. Oh yes. Sorry. I thought. Sorry. My brain skipped directly to dream. Yes. [00:42:29] Speaker D: I was so concerned. [00:42:31] Speaker B: I was like what happened on the. [00:42:33] Speaker D: Watch that I need to do a concave Anastasia. [00:42:37] Speaker B: No. You guys. [00:42:41] Speaker D: What is my perception? Not good. That's a tent. Yeah that's a ten. [00:42:54] Speaker B: There are some very loud people in town like probably partying but other than that it's all really chill. [00:43:01] Speaker C: Them university ragers that they throw on the weekends they have to let out. [00:43:07] Speaker B: Steam after being evacuated from the university fair. [00:43:13] Speaker C: Honestly so valid of them. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Not sorry. [00:43:19] Speaker C: Meg just said in the chat it's fantasy Thursday. [00:43:24] Speaker B: I honestly know because Grace wrote in. [00:43:28] Speaker A: The notes that I looked at today that it was fantasy Wednesday. [00:43:31] Speaker B: Last. [00:43:32] Speaker D: It was fantasy Wednesday because that was. [00:43:34] Speaker A: A bit we had going reason that I know that it's fantasy Thursday. [00:43:40] Speaker B: Anyway, I'm not writing it down. [00:43:47] Speaker D: I've not been keeping track of time. Neither I. None of us have. [00:43:51] Speaker B: If the number of times enhances A-D-D campaign very much if you're keeping track of specific days. Unless you actually need to. That's my hot take. [00:44:01] Speaker D: We've been very bad about tracking overall time as well, because both Jay and I have completely forgotten how long it's. [00:44:09] Speaker B: Been since things have happened. [00:44:10] Speaker C: Yeah, like a few days. [00:44:13] Speaker B: If any of the listeners out there want to be our timekeeper, that would be so cool. [00:44:19] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. Make us a timeline. Make us a calendar that may or. [00:44:24] Speaker B: May not have been part of my. [00:44:25] Speaker D: Plan in the future. [00:44:27] Speaker C: Okay, never mind. Don't do it, guys. [00:44:30] Speaker A: You're not allowed to do the podcast. [00:44:34] Speaker C: Wasted. [00:44:36] Speaker B: Okay, second watch me. [00:44:40] Speaker C: Great. [00:44:40] Speaker B: Can you make a perception check? [00:44:42] Speaker E: I sure can. 13. [00:44:44] Speaker B: Okay. It's all very quiet. Nothing exciting. [00:44:48] Speaker E: That's good. [00:44:49] Speaker B: Last watch is Auden and Mila. [00:44:53] Speaker A: I think Auden paces a little bit, just kind of, like, walks around the camp, makes sure that everything is all good before eventually sitting down and just kind of, like, tapping her feet together and just kind of, like, occasionally, like, looking up at the sky to see if there are any stars, and then she'll look back toward town and just kind of, like, just kind of putter about. [00:45:15] Speaker C: I rolled a natural 20 for perception. [00:45:18] Speaker B: Damn. [00:45:20] Speaker A: Okay, that's good, because I rolled eight again. [00:45:26] Speaker B: The sky is looking pretty cool, Odin. Like, a little cloudy, but you can see the stars. [00:45:32] Speaker A: I think she might kick back and just kind of stare at it. If Mila is being more diligent, she'll just kind of, like, stargaze. [00:45:41] Speaker D: You're on Myla watch duty? [00:45:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:45] Speaker D: Your job is to make sure Myla doesn't leave. [00:45:49] Speaker A: She's just kind of, like, kicked back on her sleep sack and just kind of know. Back home, you're so deep underwater, we couldn't see the sky, so we couldn't see any stars. I really like looking at them. [00:46:03] Speaker C: Did you get to go up and look at stuff when you were home, or was it pretty much, like, all underwater? [00:46:15] Speaker A: Sometimes we'd go up, but most of the time we'd stay down in the deep. [00:46:25] Speaker C: Sounds. I mean, I've been underwater only fully underwater, like, once, and it was pretty cool. It's a little hard with the hair and all. [00:46:37] Speaker A: I imagine that would be tricky. [00:46:40] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just a lot of, like. I don't know, it gets really weird, so I just have to be very careful. Yeah, I think maybe, like, a few minutes pass, and Myla's just like. I think the reason she's so intensely perceiving everything is because this is like she doesn't know what to do with herself. So she's like, yes, I'm on watch. And, yeah, she doesn't really know what else to say. [00:47:15] Speaker A: I think after a couple of minutes, Arden is going to say, are you going to be okay going back to the institute? [00:47:30] Speaker C: Hmm. My brain tells me that I should be okay. And then she sort of lets that trail off. [00:47:48] Speaker A: I think your brain dictates a lot of what you do. From what I've seen, you have a very good brain. [00:48:00] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:48:02] Speaker A: But sometimes, I don't know. What do you feel about it? [00:48:15] Speaker C: I feel like I've put up a lot of walls because, and I think she thinks back to a very eerily conversation that she had with Melwyn where she had talked about Melwyn's feelings. [00:48:46] Speaker B: But. [00:48:46] Speaker C: I think she sort of swallows it down and she says, I feel like I am confused and I don't like that feeling. So we're going to go find answers. And I don't know, I'm learning how this works. [00:49:12] Speaker A: This. [00:49:14] Speaker C: Yeah. Having like, not friends isn't the right word. I've had friends. Something that's like more, I don't know, more personal than that. Like, I don't know. It's hard to put a word on it. [00:49:46] Speaker A: If it makes you feel any better, I'm kind of in the same boat, so we can figure it out together if you want. I know you like getting answers. [00:49:58] Speaker C: No, I'd like that. I'd like that a lot. I don't know. I feel like you guys don't know these people like I do. And they're really scary and I don't want you guys to get hurt and I don't want. I mean, I was around Melwyn's age when I went there for the first time. And I don't know. And then there's id, like his, his lab is pretty close to it. And then, and then like, I know you have sort of been looking for new things and knowledge and a place to belong and they can be pretty good at making people feel that. And I don't know, and she seems kind of uncomfortable. I have this gut feeling that something more is there and I don't know what it is and I don't like it. [00:51:29] Speaker A: That makes sense. Things we don't know are always scary, but at least for me, it's a lot less scary knowing that I've got other people in the same boat. None of us know what we're going to find when we get there, but we know that we have the same goals and you're looking out for all of us and we're all looking out for each other. And even if we don't know what it's going to look like, we know what some of it will look like because we'll be doing it together. We'll be there together. And I think that's much better than going there alone. [00:52:27] Speaker C: I think so, too. I don't want anything to happen to you or it or Melvin. That's all. I care about you, and that's scary. [00:52:48] Speaker A: I care about you a lot, too. We'll be okay. I've never met anything that's been able to kill me yet, so I think we've got a pretty good. Pretty good start. [00:53:04] Speaker C: I wish I could say the same. [00:53:07] Speaker D: Why would you tempt fate like that? [00:53:11] Speaker C: As war flashbacks for a second? [00:53:16] Speaker D: Fine. [00:53:19] Speaker C: Gosh, the sun's already coming up. [00:53:24] Speaker A: You'll be okay. [00:53:26] Speaker C: Well, I'll be okay. [00:53:29] Speaker B: I think your 20 perception gets you as you are kind of moving around, getting ready to wake up and do morning things. The center of the campfire has, like, burnt out. And in the middle of this campfire is this perfectly circular stone that is probably. That's probably the size of a baseball. It's not a sphere. It's flat, but the width of a baseball. It's got an eye symbol, like an eyeball eye kind of thing. In a very artistic way. Not like a genuine, like there's an eyeball on it. Like a symbol of an eye with a kind of, like, hook around it kind of shape. [00:54:19] Speaker C: I know I pantomimed and the listeners couldn't see, but I pant on picking it up. But I think if I see a weird eye symbol on it, I'm not going to touch it. [00:54:29] Speaker B: Okay. [00:54:30] Speaker C: I'm going to wait till everyone else wakes up. Can you. [00:54:34] Speaker B: 20 for me. Yummy. [00:54:40] Speaker C: Of course I can. Yummy. A two. [00:54:49] Speaker B: Cool. [00:54:51] Speaker C: I hate that. Yeah. I'm going to wait for everyone else to wake up. [00:54:55] Speaker B: Please. Okay, Melan, we are going to go to your dreams before the night is actually over. [00:55:02] Speaker C: All right. [00:55:02] Speaker B: Can you go through again which of the four. You also asked me to grab a fourth emotion. [00:55:08] Speaker D: I did ask you to grab a fourth one. I am grabbing envy as the fourth one. [00:55:14] Speaker B: Envy, shame, envy, shame, guilt and sadness. Guilt, sadness. Okay. Thank you. [00:55:21] Speaker D: It's a very fun combination. [00:55:23] Speaker B: Sadness, pills, ceilings. [00:55:28] Speaker D: Really loading it up. [00:55:29] Speaker B: All right. Fantastic. [00:55:32] Speaker D: Okay. [00:55:35] Speaker B: Can I get you to describe this dream? [00:55:38] Speaker D: Yeah, you can. [00:55:40] Speaker B: So I just dm. I can do anything I describe. [00:55:46] Speaker D: You love it, actually. Anyway, I described last time that Mellon was in a field watching a bunch of birds flying overhead. Very symbolic of her family and her party members. [00:56:04] Speaker B: Actually. [00:56:07] Speaker D: I never actually said which birds represented which party members, but I can disclose that after we're done recording, if people are interested in that. So Melon wakes up back in that field for a little bit, and then all of the colors fade until only the brightest hues are magic like colors of the magic as it would be. And similar to what happened when she had her fear dream. She starts having these flashes of things that have happened, kind of dark echoes of conversations that she's had. The first one that she hears is the puppet. And when she made her deal. [00:57:00] Speaker B: I have them right here just for you, Melwin. [00:57:03] Speaker D: The next one that comes up is her conversation with ID, asking why he saved her and why he made himself a target. I want to understand why ID did what he did. I think that we probably could have found another wife. [00:57:22] Speaker E: Probably. But we decided to go to this cavern in now and not later, when we had a better plan. [00:57:30] Speaker D: The one after that is the conversation she had with Myla and the artisan guild, where Myla was basically saying, don't be a liability. [00:57:38] Speaker C: They need to know that if you are going to be the top of everyone's priority list going into dangerous situations, that you're not going to be a liability. [00:57:49] Speaker D: And through all of this, she starts hearing echoes of. You dragged Odin into this. [00:57:56] Speaker B: You want to lead someone to your death, to their death. [00:57:59] Speaker A: If it means I and the rest of my friends get out of here, I will do whatever. [00:58:05] Speaker D: You made your parents worry. [00:58:08] Speaker B: We thought maybe you've wandered off into town or something. So we kept looking and kept asking people, and no one had seen you, and we were devastated. [00:58:16] Speaker D: If she hadn't been saved back in kinder, maybe none of this would have happened. [00:58:20] Speaker B: You're trying to, like, pick Melwyn up. [00:58:22] Speaker D: I think Melwyn's first reaction would be casting shocking grass. If she hadn't taken the deal, maybe none of this would have happened. Maybe she'd still be with her family. [00:58:31] Speaker B: But you have to collect them. [00:58:33] Speaker D: And she ends up kind of stuck in that spiral for however long she's stuck in this for. [00:58:43] Speaker B: But we're going to have to roll to find out. [00:58:47] Speaker D: We're going to use this guy. [00:58:50] Speaker B: Con. Save. [00:58:52] Speaker D: Are you fucking kidding me? I will give you one guess, and precisely one guess. What I just rolled. Yeah. The dice love to tell the story with me. [00:59:07] Speaker A: Jesus. [00:59:07] Speaker D: Fuck. You're going back jail. [00:59:10] Speaker A: Drown the dice. Put it in the beverage. [00:59:17] Speaker D: I don't have a beverage right now, unfortunately. Otherwise, I would. [00:59:23] Speaker A: That's a threat. [00:59:24] Speaker B: Die. [00:59:27] Speaker D: I'd throw it, but my room is a black hole. It will get lost. [00:59:33] Speaker B: It's a good call. It's okay. I still like you, dice, even if you rolled one. Okay. Yeah, same as before. You just don't end up waking up at a normal hour. Stay stuck there for as long as you know. [00:59:53] Speaker A: Hello, it's Meg here from the podcast. If you are enjoying yourself here with spells and whistles and you want to keep up with us throughout the week, did you know you can find us on social media, on Instagram and TikTok? We are at spells and whistles pod or on Twitter or X or whatever mess that is right now? We are at spells underscore whistles. By following us, you can get little snippets of our sessions. You can know when we post, and you can just kind of keep up with us throughout the week. Another way to do that is by joining our community discord. We do regular d and D trivia, questions of the day, share pictures of our dice, all kinds of very fun stuff. So if you're looking for a larger community of fellow tabletop nerds, look no further. 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