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Pamphlets for Sharkskin. Whiskey for Garland. A monster in the arena for Ulis. Every party gold piece on the table, bet on themselves — contingent on Tanhauser shutting up about communism for one entire session. The portcullis rises on an anarchite, already forming.
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What is Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration?
Five adventurers try to survive in this comedy filled Pathfinder Second Edition TTRPG campaign within the grim dark world of Tyne. Follow the show, get custom TTRPG content, and more at https://narrativedeclaration.com
Have you ever heard of communism?
No, but I could work.
You will be sentenced to death by lethal breathing.
The puppet has stabbed this man 87 times.
I'm the hardest kind of wood there is this side of the port.
Hello, it is I, the Bart Ender.
Is that a little vena I spy with my eyes?
Oh, hello, ma'am.
Welcome to the Rock Round, everybody.
Yippee!
Yippee!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Now the speaker is dead.
Gentlemen, it's reducing the chocolate stuff is...
Thurston, I drink whiskey.
That is all.
And I'll get a hero point.
Awesome.
He gets a hero point.
Okay, add in the hero point.
You get the whiskey point.
Get a whiskey point.
Welcome, everyone, to another exciting episode of Rock Ryan.
Thank you so much for those of you who tell us, or tell people that we exist.
You know, have to be a bit of a bit of a bit.
Tell us that we exist.
Yeah, tell us that we exist.
We need reminders.
We are currently...
The drugs are working.
I ate them, and everyone here disappeared.
My friends are gone.
So, thank you so much for going around the internet telling people we exist.
Thank you so much for, you know, just on your favorite form.
Maybe it's on Reddit, Discord, Facebook, things like that.
Maybe you're sharing our fun animations around, clips that we do, et cetera.
Thanks, generally.
Just letting people know that we do funny little adventures here,
and like bringing people together and make some smiles.
So, thank you so much for that.
And, of course, you can find all about us at NarrativeDeclaration.com,
or over on YouTube at NarrativeDeclaration,
or help us around at Patreon.com forward slash NarrativeDeclaration.
But, of course, another episode of Rock Ryan means that tons of things happen because
Veena...
A lot of things happen with Veena.
We got to see possibly some of the best characters ever made,
and the worst characters ever made.
Captain Sharkskin.
Who's the worst characters ever made?
That's right.
On our way to basically delaying Veena's arrival to her homeland
after she was doing multiple loops and out of fear and anxiety.
Captain Shark...
What's his name?
What was it?
What was his name?
Wow.
I'm not good.
I know exactly what he looks like.
I don't do names, man.
So, what's his name one more time, please?
Captain Sharkskin, our friend.
Yeah, okay.
I had it right the first time.
I just...
I double-doubted myself.
Captain Sharkskin pretty much intercepted our beautiful...
Why can't I get my name right?
Why do you like that?
Because I'm terrible at recaps.
This is why no one wanted to deal with them.
No, no, you just got to believe.
You just got to believe in yourself.
I am believing in myself.
I am believing.
I am believing.
You believe.
That's how she'd be like, you don't really believe in yourself.
No, you don't chat with me on this.
No, you know, everyone in chat say that they believe in you, right?
Give the one your energy, chat.
Raise your hands to the sky.
Yeah, just like that little child gave me energy to exist.
And, of course, we get intercepted by Captain Sharkskin pretty much demanding that he is to escort us back home or back to Vena's homeland, either for nefarious reasons or not.
And, of course, Sharkskin was basically birthed out of a wish of a dying child who wanted to be a pirate.
And, of course, as they always take off their hat and lean down, they are sad that the captain is no longer with them.
But they carry on terrorizing, terrorizing the skies and sea, because I think they were fabled as being, like, the most ruthless pirate gang ever.
They're monsters.
But after a glorious intimidation from the entire crew, Sharkskin fucked off but was following us the entire way back to Vena's homeland.
Once we arrived and tried our best to lay low, the entire guard of pirates circled around us to where we met Vena's mother.
And, of course, during that journey, a slimy piece of garbage captain, which I don't even remember his name.
Uh, Rotburner.
Rotburner. There we go.
Rotburner, who was just being...
That was his nickname. I forgot what his actual name is.
I just remember that he had massive cheeks.
He's like, regardless, piece of garbage. We all don't like him.
Yeah.
And after being surrounded by all these pirates, Vena was deemed to be basically executed right on the spot for the things that she has done.
Because she basically lost the car keys to the most famous ship out there.
I didn't lose them. They were stolen.
Yeah, whatever.
Tell them to the court that Captain Vali believes that you have royally messed up, deeming to be executed.
But, of course, if a pirate lord sponsors you and then you go forth and do various deeds, you could redeem your name.
And, of course, who else to come up to our defense than Captain Sharkskin?
And, of course, we were...
And during this entire escapades, Arendelle...
Not Arendelle, yourself.
Baldrick came forth to basically look over the various laws to help with that piece of information.
After his excellent stealth skills.
And, of course, the protection of her friends.
Vena is surrounded by friends and loved ones and a new pirate lord able to help her out during this treacherous time.
And I think I got everything recapped.
Is that right?
Did I miss anything?
Oh, yeah.
You did a little good job there.
You even got no end of the sub story.
Very good.
Very good.
Very good.
And that is where we have left off.
So, Thurston, what adventure do you have for us today?
All right, so as we begin today, we begin back in the settlement right where we started with all of those NPCs and Captain Sharkskin who has, you know, made their way triumphantly down the street.
Okay, so now it's going to be up to Vena and all your friends, right?
I have no vision, by the way.
No, never mind.
I do.
I do.
Never mind.
I'm just filled.
We got it.
Got it.
All right, it's going to be up to you now to decide how you're going to deal with this.
You're going to have to make all the Viscons your friends.
Oh, shit.
I'm going to have to make all the Viscons my friends.
Try, but don't worry.
You have me out, you friend.
You want to be my friend, Captain Sharkskin?
Of course I do.
Okay.
I accept that.
Come here, buddy.
Bring it in.
I pick him up like the little stuffy he is.
I'm sure he has many sharp things on his person.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
Be like these little like nubbin hands that are, you know, full head.
Like it happens in slow motion.
After you hug him, when you release him, are you like a barrel just spilling blood of all the holes?
Yeah, all the sharp teeth.
You just have to go and you have to make friends with Ulysse and Ysa, Garland, and your mom.
Oh, my mom.
Yeah, you have to be friends with your mom.
Yeah, that's going to be really easy.
Is this the way we handle the situation?
By making friends with everyone?
Well, I've got to vote for you and be positive, otherwise you'll die.
Wheeling dealing in politics.
I've either got to make some deals or do something so crazy that nobody would, um, nobody would want to see me hanged.
Well, have you got any ideas?
The first thing I could think of would be getting...
At this point, the crowd is, like, dispersing to give you time, and it's just sort of some of the poppets and shark skin.
Your Captain Vali has turned and departed with brusqueness towards the, uh, meeting hall of the Vicons.
And, uh, the, the small, uh, you know, form of the halfling, uh, Vicon Ysa, has also departed back to the library.
Um, Garland, the, the rot burner, has, uh, taken a host of, of folks over to one of the local bars.
Uh, so you, you've kind of got a bit of the streets to yourselves to continue the conversation.
Okay, so, the craziest and most straightforward thing I could do was just make right the wrong.
Find Papa Storm's crown, and boot off the crew that did the mutiny.
Problem being, there's no way we beat them in the sky.
Just no way.
Even if we got multiple crews together, it would be incredibly difficult.
Well, what have we boarded them?
Yeah, you got us. And Gorgermonger.
Weh.
Weh.
Weh.
Possibly.
Thank you.
Weh.
Possibly, but...
The crown is...
It's got a crew of about 50, last I recall.
And, um, unless we can cut our way through 50 people.
Yes.
And about an extra dozen bird riders.
Hmm, you make a good point.
Perhaps, then, it is for the best that we develop something of an ironclad crew ourselves.
Yeah.
I highly doubt we're going to win my mother's vote without getting the crown back, but...
The rest of them, we could potentially try to wheel and deal, to...
Do favors, or win respect, or whatever we have to do.
Problem is, how long do we have to do all that?
24 hours?
We've done more in less time.
And with all our brains together, we can definitely get it done.
Absolutely.
But if we only have 24 hours, then we're best acting fast.
Right.
Best thing that we could probably do is split up.
Each of us find one of the Viconned.
Because, uh, there are...
A total of...
Hold on, I have my notes open.
Really?
There are five captains, and then my mother, for a total of six.
We've got one on our side.
And then four more.
But we need to...
Oh, sorry about that.
Bad news.
What?
There's only four Viconns right now.
Oh.
Well, what happened to the V?
Is this...
Q-hold again?
No.
No.
Oh.
Had the rumbly-tumblies.
Did not go well.
Oh, no.
They died of dysentery.
Happens.
No, they died of hot girl IBS.
Also happens.
Gross.
And it was a guy, too, so that made it even worse for them.
I see.
All right.
So, four.
Four captains in the council.
Three that we still need to win over.
Yeah, you just gotta go to Garwin.
And it's a bar, yeah, it's a library, and, well, Ulyss.
And also, potentially, your mother.
And also, potentially, my mother.
Well, if I may be so bold, Captain Sharkskin.
Uh-huh.
I have a question for you.
Oh, okay.
I like answering questions.
Is it a multiple choice question?
Sort of.
Or is it okay?
Have you ever heard of communism?
Now is not the time for that.
And Zach?
And Zach?
It's very important if we're gonna be working together.
We get on the right page of this.
We're all literally criminals.
We've never heard of the four pests campaign.
We need to.
There are too many sparrows here.
We gotta carry them.
There's too many vikons on this province.
Oh, no.
The ecology has been ruined because we killed all the sparrows.
Who could have ever seen this coming?
Can't believe the Bushrazi did this.
Ah.
Well, no, but I could warn.
That's the best.
Can I please introduce someone I'm going to do this?
Sorry.
Sorry, you cut out at like...
That's the best.
That's the best.
That's the best.
That's the best.
That's the best.
Literature.
Here is my literature, my konchuk skin.
You can use this and learn about the revolution.
I don't think the revolution is going to help the next 24 hours.
Tanny, I'm going to be real with you.
He takes his like little plush hand and puts it.
Um, but what's kind of concerning is that the hand is going like...
Like vertically instead of horizontally to read the words.
Tanny, I don't think he knows how to read.
He's a literal puppet.
You know, you shouldn't make judgments about people simply because...
He was dreamed into existence by a dying child.
And children can read sometimes.
I could...
Well, I couldn't read when I was a child, but I...
It's about a 50-50 here.
Oh.
Well, the pictures are nice, so maybe that can work.
Yeah, it'll inspire.
With Tenhauser's attempt at proselytizing underway, perhaps we should figure out how to divvy
up responsibilities here then, rather than wasting more time.
Right.
I agree.
Oh, wait, wait.
Before we do that, though, I have one more thing.
Is it more communism?
Yes, Tenhauser.
It is less communism.
Okay.
Vykon Chuxkin, while you indulge in the literature of the revolution, I must ask you, would you
be willing to lend your crew to the mission of returning Papa Storm's Thunder?
Crown.
Crown.
Papa Storm's Crown.
Papa Storm's Crown.
Would you be willing to aid us in an attempt to get back that ship?
Well, I could certainly try to do that.
You know, there's a lot of us.
We're the most feared crew in the sky.
That's because that's what our child wanted for us.
That's right.
That's great.
I knew it.
Vykon Chuxkin, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Okay, very cool.
I like having friends.
You know, we need friends.
Me too.
You need friends to be alive.
That was going to be the name of our ship.
We were going to call it the friendship.
That was what the child wanted.
But then the child wasn't there anymore.
So, you know, now we just have the skyware.
We call him Whalesy.
That's a great name.
All the names I tried to come up with turned out to be naval disasters.
Yeah.
Funny thing, that.
For a guy who does not read up about aeronautical disasters, you managed to name several of them
in a row.
It was really quite impressive.
I've just got an intuition for this kind of thing.
I don't know what to say.
Yeah, that's not a good thing, Tannhauser.
Yeah, but maybe we don't put him on the wheel.
Hold on.
I can drive the ship.
We haven't crashed yet.
Yet.
Yet.
Yet is the operant right there.
Let's get to the part where we can crash the aeronautical vessel after we save Vina from
being executed horribly.
That would be nice.
I'd prefer not to do that.
I'll start getting my crew already.
Well, they're all around town.
I'll go get my crew together.
And then we'll, once you've got all the other Vycons good, then what I can do, you see,
is I can come and help you.
Yes.
That sounds excellent.
Very well, Vycon Sharkskin.
Oh, we'll see each other soon now.
Okay, bye.
And he does, like, this strut walk away.
Goodbye.
I love that guy.
Vina, have you thought about what your last words are going to be upon the gibbet?
Oh, yeah, I did.
Which was, can you get me some wine?
That's good.
That's real good.
That's good, right?
Very memorable.
Apropos of nothing, Thurston.
Can I roll an outset law to find out what execution happens when you commit the crime that Vina is responsible of?
I'll allow it.
I'll allow it.
Thanks.
I just want to know.
Oh, it's a three for a 22.
Your understanding is drowning.
They put you in a cage and they drown you.
That's exciting.
In air?
That's incredible.
I don't think you could do that.
There's a river.
In the air?
No.
No, between the mountains.
In the air?
In the air?
Hi.
Hi, we're dicks.
We have the first ever sky river.
Well, presumably.
Sky river, you mean a cloud?
In the air?
In the air.
You will be sentenced to death by lethal breathing.
No.
No.
Cannot be.
I read about that once.
It's one of the worst ways to die.
I'm there with drowning on dry land.
All right.
So, let's think about how we approach this.
We can either divide and conquer, or we can all go one by one to each of the Vicon and try to convince them as a group.
Let's save time.
Yeah.
I will say as a group, yeah, we tend to fuck around delightfully, but notably.
Instantaneously, Baldrick just says, let's not waste time.
Let's split up.
Please, please, please, please.
I have a suggestion.
Is that Baldrick?
Who's that earned?
It was a little bit of both, but then again, him and I are unfortunately, like, conjoined at the hip with regards to the frustrations.
All right.
So, we have three more Vicon to contend with.
Likewise, I do have an idea of how we might win over my mother before we try to take back the crown.
We could go talk to my dad.
You have a dad?
Well, Tannhauser, when a man and a woman love each other very much.
I thought you hatched from an egg like Orin.
No, I don't think I did.
I missed my egg.
I'd have to check.
Thurston, I'd like to roll Warfare to understand the biology of sylphs.
Sure.
Roll it.
It's fair.
Love is a battlefield.
I'll allow it.
Thank you for getting what I was going for.
So, that's a 15 for a 34.
They don't come from eggs.
Yeah, they don't do that.
Who is it that hatched from an egg besides Orin?
Is that you, Baldrick?
Did you hatch from an egg?
I'm a human being just like you, asshole.
So, it was Rahua who had the egg.
Yeah, probably.
I mean, in a matter of speaking, I guess I came from an egg.
I hatched from everything else and whatever the hell this is.
Metaphorically.
That's awesome.
I have a metaphor for many things.
You can write whatever meaning onto me you would like, Wink.
I would like to write meaning onto this meeting of the minds here for a moment.
Yeah, yeah.
And consider.
My father is probably the only person in the world that my mother likes.
Problem being, I don't necessarily know if he would be on my side.
He is at least nicer.
Does he like you?
I think he does.
I was pretty sure he did.
I mean, he was a really kindly guy.
Very, I mean, you know, kind of opposites attract with my mother.
Okay, better question.
Can you make him like you?
Probably.
Well, that's an option then.
Besides, your mother can't shoot you right now anyway, so we can always just go and talk to her,
even though all you'll get is probably a tongue lashing, but hey, whatever.
Ah, another one.
I mean, I should be used to it by now, huh?
Yeah, and she can't shoot you.
Not yet.
Hmm.
Not lethally, at least.
Oh.
I mean, if she does that, it will only help us.
True.
All right.
So in that case, we split up.
Each of us finds a Vicon, convinces them to get behind the case of our crew,
and to get behind the retaking of Papa Storm's crown,
as I don't see the crown here, and I have no idea where Azara flew it off to.
If I may, I am really only good at threatening people and talking about socialism.
I think I should accompany you.
Okay, then we're going to have to take on two as a team.
Hang on a second.
Let's take stock of who we actually have as people that can be talked to first before we go deciding anything.
We have Captain Vali, interesting to say that, and actually mean it this time.
Yeah.
We have...
Pardon me, I was a little bit away when you guys were discussing.
We have...
I saw that roguish fella who kept chattering.
We had that...
Yeah, him, Rotburner.
We had the...
The gnome woman.
Halfling.
Halfling.
Halfling, right.
Uh, remind me of her name?
I'm writing them down.
Uh, that was, uh, Yiza, the Waterway Admiral.
Yiza.
And then there's Rotburner.
He has a full name, but Rotburner is fun.
Um, and then the third one who we haven't talked to, it started with an E.
I'm just putting it in chat.
Oh, yes.
Please do.
Yulius.
Okay.
Yulius.
The boar Yulius.
All right.
Uh, and Yulius is actually the only one we haven't encountered, uh, yet.
What do I know about him?
Her.
Her!
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry, women.
That's right.
Diversity fail.
Diversity fail.
Give me society check.
Society.
This is how we learned that Blessing Yulius is a huge communist.
Okay.
Uh, my society is one of my best skills.
Watch this.
Yeah.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
There you go.
Natural 20 for 21.
Watch this drive.
Watch this drive.
Let's fucking go.
I told you to read my literature.
I told you it always pays off.
Society.
Uh, I think I'm Blessing Yulius.
Uh, it's probably someone you knew from your childhood, because she's been around a while.
Uh, she runs the local arena.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
Uh, she is known for, um, bringing trade to Andacia.
In particular, um, she imports strange and interesting creatures for bugs at the arena.
Yeah.
Uh, she only represents raw martial strength.
Uh.
It's perfect for Tannhauser.
Okay, so...
Misses the boar.
Runs the local arenas.
And has a colorful array of various beasts from around the world.
And only respects raw strength.
So, unfortunately, we might have to tackle that one as a team.
Uh, unless somebody really wants to solo some kind of, I don't know, sandworm.
I like worms.
I like worms a lot.
I eat worms.
Yeah.
No, they're for friends, not food.
They're food.
No, they're not!
Orange slurps a worm.
I have a question real quick.
Throw a scrams worm by the throat.
Yeah, get him!
Get him!
People taking bets.
We're starting a new arena right here.
We're practicing.
You put that...
You pose it down right now.
All right, knock it off.
Why, you little...
Homie.
Homie.
What the fuck?
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no, no.
Fucking speaker using that voice to say homie.
Just hit me.
I have, like, Venture Brothers, Dr. Orpheus vibes.
I put these children's souls in these homies' dolls.
It's beautiful.
Homie.
Homie.
So, team.
So, team.
So, maybe dividing and conquering isn't the best idea.
We've got Yaiza, we've got Rodburner, and we've got Euless.
Euless, we're going to need to fight our way into her respects.
Yaiza is the librarian, and then Rodburner is a scumbag, but maybe we could, I don't know, outdrink him, and he would respect us?
I think it's about finding the right person to talk to them, specifically.
They do have to be on your side.
Doesn't have to mean they all have to be your friend.
That's true.
We are a crew.
I mean, we're in this together, yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah.
More or less, obviously.
Yeah.
Okay.
By your lead, Kem.
Then I think, for Yaiza and Rodburner, we split into two teams.
Tani, Baldrick, I think you two should talk to Yaiza, because the two of you are the brainiest of our bunch here.
And it's likely that you could, I don't know, have some stimulating academic conversation.
Yes.
Provided he doesn't try to turn her to communism.
She might be a communist.
That is stimulating academic conversation.
You're a terrorist.
Being a terrorist doesn't make me a communist.
It should.
He says in tears.
Why aren't you a communist?
Why aren't you a communist?
Why aren't you a communist?
Why aren't you?
Do you not like me?
Baldrick leans over.
No.
So that would mean Rahua, Oren, and I would go and talk to Rodburner.
And, you know, frankly, Rahua is a dubiously sane collection of anarchistic space goo.
Oren eats bugs, and I am an alcoholic, so I think we have the best chance with him.
Yeah.
True.
And then we meet back up, and we go fight in that arena.
And that should cover us.
I think you're assuming a lot about what we're going to have to do to impress her.
But I think I get your point.
Yes.
No, Ulysse.
Oh, Ulysse.
I mean, we're going to have to fight.
We're going to have to fight something, and we fight better as a team.
Odo is employing video game logic here, which is when there is an arena in a town, and the player characters enter the town, inevitably, there's going to be a fight in that fucking arena.
That's the Odo Roshi Rider approach here, right?
Thirsten, I want you to know.
I mean.
I want you to know that one of these days, I'm going to run a pen and paper game that's going to have an arena in it, and everyone's going to be like, oh, when are we getting to the arena?
And I'm going to have them leave town.
Yes.
Come on, Thirsten, you're going to look at me in the eyes and tell me that I'm wrong?
Which group is going first?
I don't know, man.
I leave it up to the whims of fate.
All right, yeah.
Roll a D2.
Yeah.
A flip of the dice.
A flip of the dice.
Baldrick and Tanhauser, you're number one, because you're both number one in my heart, and we'll be number two.
Because we're number one, yeah!
Fuck yeah!
All right, I'll flip a coin.
We...
All right, Tanhauser and Baldrick first.
We're number one!
I'm just so glad we get an opportunity of these two characters bonding.
Oh, don't you worry, that's why I put them together.
Oh, I know you did, you fucking monster.
You get a hero point for that, you monster.
Yay!
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh, the Miz.
When my wrestler comes on screen.
True.
Uh, all right, so the two groups, uh, part ways, and then, like, the little, um, the little, like, gloved hand appears above, and it's, like, choose your fighters.
And then it, like, goes back and forth a few times, and it settles on Baldrick's head and clicks okay, as, like, then the, the camera follows Baldrick and Tanhauser making their way towards the library.
Which is about, you know, a good, you know, a good eight-minute walk away from this area where you've got to now.
So there is, like, a bit of time for conversation amongst these.
Before we converse, I wanted to ask a question, actually, Thurston, because last episode we had, like, a bit of a time crunch going on.
I didn't want to inquire too thoroughly about this, but we have a little time now.
Why was it necessary for me to sneak into the library before?
Is it illegal for people who don't live here to go to the library?
Uh, that was what Veena told you.
Whether or not that's accurate, um...
Oh, don't worry, Baldrick, it's, it's very illegal to go to the library.
You'll have to sneak in.
Me, would I lie?
Having fun's really hard when you don't have a library card.
All right, so what exactly are we planning with this?
Because I got a, got a hint of her as we were, uh...
I asked her for help finding the law of book, or the book of laws that I was reading through.
And from what I understood, she was categorically excited for Veena to be executed.
Hmm.
Well, I mean, yeah, of course, why wouldn't she be?
That implies she doesn't like her very much.
I mean, it could just be that she likes a good execution.
Maybe.
It's hard to tell who's ambivalent and who's...
Peering from the rafters for someone to be drowned in air.
It'd be very strange for someone not to be excited to go to an execution.
It's like, what are you gonna do?
You're gonna, you know, then you're gonna act like you're not there to have a good time.
I mean, you got me there.
I live in Outset, so it's just kind of a...
I mean, executions just kind of happen, you know, in the street.
Yeah, they sell hot dogs to them.
It's good viewing.
I don't know how that guy manages to be at every arrest.
It's very bizarre.
You've probably got a guy on the inside.
Now, listen.
I don't think that this person...
Well, if you've got the impression that she wants her dead,
we'll have to discover why,
and perhaps use academic knowledge to persuade her against that.
Now, most of the intelligentsia that haven't already embraced the truth of my radical doctrine,
they tend to be quite set in their ways and reactionary.
So we should be prepared for that as well.
Are you going to attempt to convert her to our cause by converting her to your cause?
You got me.
I'm gonna give it a shot.
All right, yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, Tannhauser.
Uh-huh.
I want you to pass me the book that you're going to show her.
I want you to pass me all of your pamphlets.
Why? Okay, yeah, why?
Baldrick takes them if he's offering them,
and he's going to stuff them in his pack.
We're not going to do that this time.
Baldrick, this is...
This is incredibly irregular.
You're right, it is.
Because as far as I can tell,
this is a pirate town.
You just tried to convert a poppet to your communism.
A thing, a concept,
that has so far been so far away
from almost any other thing I've ever heard of.
You are possibly the first I have ever heard
of this political alignment before.
We have to start at the bottom.
We can't just come in swinging our bat around
expecting to get them to enjoy it.
Well, listen, I'm not going in there.
I...
These people are pirates.
They love direct democracy.
Worker control.
Pirate ships are basically worker co-ops already.
Yeah, under a captain.
Yes, but the captain is usually elected by the crew.
Or at least, as often.
Do you know that for a fact?
I'm going to roll society to see if I know that for a fact.
Please.
All right.
All right, let's go.
Let's go.
Let's see what happens.
He needs to know.
It's a 14.
37.
He's the knower.
Okay.
Okay.
So these groups are highly destabilized.
They have some leanings that politically maybe match up
with your ideations.
But on a core conceptual level, there's there's a bit more of an art like anarchism to what
they're doing than, say, the for the people, because they still want to be above the people
in many cases.
I see.
Well, listen, I know these people.
They are anarchists.
Anarchists and communists are great friends and natural allies until the revolution is finished.
Then it gets a bit weird, actually.
Yeah.
Are you planning on just lie of omissioning your way through that and just not telling her,
yes, this thing that we're drafting you into will end with you collapsing into a puddle of spittle
as people stop you to death?
Listen, I don't think that I can get communism fully going out here, but I can definitely get
anarcho-syndicalism going.
So I'll shoot for that.
Okay.
The goal is not to the goal is not to enrapture the populace with communism.
The goal is to stop Veena from getting drowned.
Well, yeah, that's my second turn of advantage.
That's my second priority.
Flip those priorities, Tannhauser, because if one succeeds and the other fails,
I'd really rather we not lose Veena.
I mean, I agree.
I don't want to lose Veena.
Look, just trust me.
I'm great at this.
I can tell because you keep doing it and no one's hit you with a rake yet.
I know.
Because my rhetoric changes hearts and minds.
Now let's go to the library and give this woman a verbal ass-kicking.
Fair enough.
Let's get going.
Hithirsten, we go to the library.
Oh, God, you heard me there.
Yeah.
All right.
With that, at that exact moment, you pass through the doors into the library,
where around here you can see back sort of moving scrolls and documents around.
is like a small halfling woman with piercings in her ears, wide eyes,
a constant smile on her face, humming as she goes about.
What are you doing?
Would you like to take the reins on this one?
Greetings, citizen.
Oh, fuck.
Oh, I'm going to die.
She looks at you.
Oh.
Is it some kind of holiday I forgot about?
Well, it's sort of like a holiday because there's going to be a public execution.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Thanks for reminding me.
Who is it?
But listen,
You know what I really like about being here?
No.
The decentralized nature of all of your power structures.
What?
She, like, quirks an eyebrow at you.
where you see every individual pirate ship out here.
It's like its own society
that follows its own set of rules
that are pre-agreed upon,
usually by democratic rule.
Of course, you have power centralized
within the captains and the Vicon,
but there's nothing stopping the cabin boy
from one day becoming a Vicon.
Hell, one of your Vicons is a puppet.
And I bet
that if that puppet
doesn't work towards the best interests of his crew,
he's not going to be the puppet captain anymore.
And that might be because he was birthed
by the dream of a dying child,
but it's also because of the values of this town.
I like those values, don't you?
Her eyebrow remains quirked.
Um,
you know the pub's that way, right?
That's usually where you have talks like that.
Right.
But you see, I need something from you.
And so I'm trying to butter you up
with pre-social lubricant,
mostly about one of the things
that I find charming and endearing
about your society.
Okay.
Give me a diplomacy check, Danheuser.
You got it.
Let's see how well this goes.
Oh, boy.
Wait, hold on.
Would you say that I'm making an impression?
Yeah, sure.
A impression, sure.
You're making something.
Yeah.
And this person as a vicont
is basically the nobility of this area.
I'll let you use this feat
that you've waited so long to use, yes.
Let's have those.
Let's see that number.
Let's not.
Give me the number.
A natural one.
Here it comes.
Foolish.
Okay.
Okay.
Not bad.
Okay.
Well, you have me interested, I guess.
You're a bit nicer than most of the other assholes
who come through here.
All right.
Take a seat.
Excellent.
I'm very nice.
The fee is 200 gold.
Ooh, Baldrick, I need you to spot me 200 gold.
I need to remember how to get access
to the people's loot again.
Oh, yeah.
So if you go into the character listings,
there should be the party up at the top
and then a little open sheet button beside that.
And then I think it's in there.
Currently, you have 500 gold pieces in your stash.
Okay, we'll deduct 200 from that then
to facilitate this.
Because I don't have that much on my person.
Now, what exactly am I paying for?
I say before I hand over the gold.
My time.
How much of it are we getting?
I'll give you a good half hour.
Good enough.
I feel like she meticulously inspects the coins
as they're being passed over,
biting into some of them.
I feel like you should haggle too,
but I don't know if you'll succeed.
Honestly, money means nothing to me.
Unless it's in the house.
So you can give me more, 300.
Tazer, shut up.
Don't get smart about this.
What?
I don't know if you know I'm a powerful warlord.
Oh, yeah.
We need to talk about Veena.
All right.
We're going to find Papa Storm's crown.
We're going to bring it back.
One way or another.
And when this is done,
the books that you're holding
is going to be written about them,
and not as just a footnote
towards the itinerary for the local execution,
but as a real mover and shaker.
Okay.
Now,
in order to do this,
it would be great
to have your support.
So to that end,
I ask,
what do you need from us
to get that support?
There's like some nods,
and then she's like,
well,
first of all,
it's a really dumb plan,
but okay.
You see,
the problem is,
is what's to say
that I give you the support,
and then you don't just
go off
to the
Taha Vale Islands
and drink
Taha drinks
for the rest of your lives.
Ma'am,
I do not have a throat anymore.
All right.
I don't care.
This isn't about you, though.
This is about Vina, right?
Yes.
You think she's going to go off?
I like,
I think you start this sentence,
and then,
what,
you think she's just going to go off
to some tropical island
to drink for the rest of the,
boss,
boss,
thinks of Vina,
boss,
boss?
Listen,
I know that Vina
has a reputation
for irresponsibility
in this town,
and it might well be one
that has been earned,
but the woman
has literally died
in the intervening period.
Well,
she looks pretty good
for someone who's died.
Yes,
she got better.
It's a long story.
We have been
through adventures
all across
Tyne.
Well,
I mean,
really just Golgotha
and Outset,
but also the swamp
as well.
And we've done much
in our time.
Like what?
Well,
just recently,
I wound up
cutting off
my own arm
to unlock
the imprisoned
spirit
of the elder
god of fire,
and in return,
I got this
skeletal hand,
and I reveal
the skeleton
emerging out
of my metal.
Ooh.
Of course,
this was after
crushing
a citadel
underfoot
and leading
a citizen's
revolution
against the
tyrant
Golgotha
himself,
where we
crushed
the tyrannical
rulers of that place,
and we smashed
him beneath
our iron
boots.
And we will
do the same
in this town
if we must,
for Veena
is no longer
the girl
you once knew.
Now she is
a fearsome
captain,
a selfless
warrior,
and someone
who I,
Tannhauser,
leader of the
People's Revolution,
have placed
my utter faith
in,
and I haven't
regretted it
since.
Do you want
to give me
an intimidation
with that?
Is that kind
of what you're
going for?
Sure!
No.
Well, you know,
intimidate's not just,
it's not,
remember,
it's not just
an alternate
diplomacy.
It is
short-term
benefit,
long-term
harm.
Oh, that is
true, isn't it?
Yeah.
Hmm.
This is the
real reason
why Oda
was like,
Erndale
could be
there,
too.
Oh, no.
Would you
accept a
crafting?
If he's
accepting a
crafting,
I'd be
better off
doing it.
Look,
I've been,
I've been,
like,
I've been
watching a
lot of,
a lot of
Pawn Stars
lately,
so,
like,
I feel like
crafting is,
you know,
I just
can't take
it.
I need
a profit
out of it.
You know,
the audience
has laughed.
Yeah,
exactly.
You know,
like,
I don't
know,
maybe,
like,
maybe I
could,
like,
maybe I
could let
you,
you know,
give me a,
give me a
diplomacy
instead.
Like,
you know,
that,
that,
that would
work.
Will I have
a lower
DC?
DC?
Yeah.
Yeah,
don't mess
up.
Am I wearing
high flash,
I'm not
wearing high
fashion clothes.
How bad
could it
be?
Could have
said that.
That is
a three.
With your
minus two
to one.
I'll
spend
a hero
point.
Yeah,
that sounds
great.
That is
a 13.
Which is
a great
number.
If we do
the,
well,
yeah,
yeah,
you got
a 13,
so,
yeah,
you're
screwed.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
don't worry,
even the,
even the pity
math doesn't
save him
here.
All right.
This,
this,
I do enjoy
that your
debuff
minus one
is emotionally
unaware.
Oh,
yeah.
Sedan,
droid
buff,
baby.
Yay.
This
halfling
just looks
up.
Oh,
you know,
that was
very good.
It sounds
like you're
a really
important
person.
Really,
really good.
Nothing you
said there
really gave
me anything
to care
about Vina,
and I
like myself
a good
execution.
All right.
Let me,
let me step
in,
Tanhauser,
if you,
if I may.
Very well,
but if you
fail,
I'm talking
about communism.
And you're
already doing
that.
You're
already
gearing
up to
do that.
I'm just
letting you
know ahead
of time.
Baldrick,
Baldrick turns
to the Vicon
for a moment.
Excuse me
for one second
as he turns
to Tanhauser.
Of course,
of course,
30 minutes
are almost,
we're getting
there.
Tanhauser,
if I fuck
this up,
I will give
you every
single pamphlet
that I took
from you
just now,
and you
can take
as much
time as
you want,
because after
this point,
we are
screwed.
All right.
And he
turns back
to the
Vicon.
Very good.
Right.
Thank you,
by the way,
earlier for
assisting me
in finding
that law
book.
It was
actually
quite helpful.
Of course,
of course,
you know,
that's anyone
who likes
a book,
you know,
reading's so
important.
Not a lot
of people
can read.
Yeah,
I've gone
to college
and I've
managed to
make something
of myself
back at
outset.
It's unlikely
you've ever
heard of me,
and that's
honestly probably
for the
better.
But I've
not heard
of you.
Yeah.
Yeah,
not a problem
at all,
but wait.
Do you
have a cousin?
Are you
about to
say that
you're
thinking of
someone else
who was
wearing a
slightly
different
looking
helmet?
I am!
Yeah,
see,
here's the
thing about
that.
The guards,
the law,
the constabulary
back in
outset,
you know,
the Tyrant's
Guild,
they just
have a
really,
really shit
artist who
can't seem
to recall
what a
cylinder looks
like to
save his
life,
or her
life,
who cares?
I was
wondering,
because I
saw the
dodecahedron
headed man,
and that
seems strange.
Are you
still worth
the hundred
gold?
I am,
but a few
people have
tried to
collect on
that,
and that
hasn't really
worked.
Okay.
I already
know what
you're
planning,
ma'am.
Trust me,
I am flattered,
but I don't
think that you
nor I would
enjoy the
outcome of
that either
way.
Fair enough.
I'm just
a book
person,
so.
Yep,
it's good
to have.
In any
event,
I've spent a
lot of time
learning,
and I've
spent a lot
of time
enduring the
company of
my compatriots
here,
spending time
enjoying it,
and what
we've been
doing is
trying to
alleviate the
problems that
are spanning
across Outset
at present,
because,
to put it
bluntly,
it seems all
the gods have
up and
vanished,
or have
been,
for lack
of a better
term,
sealed.
Well,
the air's
definitely been
something a
bit looser
lately,
and the
water's not
moving as
much,
and,
okay,
I can see
where you're
coming from.
it is a
bit far-fetched
to assume
that we
are going
to be able
to stop
it,
however,
we have
been hand-picked
for this
by the gods
to try and
fix it.
Yes,
that sounds
extremely full
of myself,
but you
can understand
that I
wouldn't be
saying this
if I didn't
actually have
that kind
of opinion.
Thirsten,
I'd like to
roll a
diplomacy.
Yeah,
please.
Please do
something.
The Secret
Baldrick
Trained in
Diplomacy
score,
19.
Trained.
Should I
re-roll that?
You do have
an extra
hero point.
You do have
an extra
hero point
that you
had,
yeah.
Let's try
that again.
It's gonna
be better.
Better?
Okay,
okay,
you're,
you've got
an interesting
story here,
okay,
and wait,
looks over
Tanner.
He's picked
by the
gods too?
Different
one.
We've already
handled his
end of the
bargain.
In this
situation,
we are now
here to
attempt to
get necessary
progress
towards freeing
Pop Storm.
In this
situation.
Is that why
she came
back?
Yeah,
she wouldn't
have come
here to,
you know,
put her head
on the chopping,
block if it
wasn't for a
good reason.
She's the
one who's
been picked.
Okay,
okay.
It's like
pausing and
you can
definitely tell
that there's
thinking going
on here.
Hmm.
He'll try to,
he'll try to
add a little
bit more while
she's thinking.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Hmm.
What's worse
about this is
that we're in,
we're left in
the very
precarious
position of
not exactly
having a lot
of time
to show
people that
we are
who we
say we
are.
Because if
we let
this sit
any longer,
it's just
going to get
worse.
Soon,
all the streams
are going to
start going
still.
All the
air flows
are going to
start becoming
stagnant.
You're going to
have every
scent across
the entirety
of the globe
wafting up.
No air
pushing it
anywhere.
Airships
will be totally
useless without
propulsion.
And that's
only with the
air and the
water.
water.
Okay.
And you
think you
can do
something about
it?
What are you
looking for
here?
Mainly,
we are looking
for your
approval for
Veena, so
we can try to
get this
execution
overturned.
Okay, but
what does that
have to do
with why
you're here
in the
first place?
Well,
what are
you looking
for here?
I'm just
curious.
Okay, I'm
going to
be sus
now.
I'd like
to try
and interpret
her motive.
It's called
sense motive,
and that's a
perception check,
my brother.
You got it,
boss.
Nat 20.
Oh, the
motive is
sensed.
Oh, she
is like
absolutely
like trying
to get as
much leverage
on you
as she
can.
She's asking
questions because
she knows she
can use the
answers against
you or against
her rivals.
This, this
person is,
is an utter
shark, more
so than perhaps
the Viconned
named Sharkskin.
Baldrick will
happily wait for
Tannhauser to
interrupt him.
If you haven't
been convinced
already, then
I'd like 50
gold back
because I don't
want to waste
my time any
further.
We've given you
more than enough
rope, enough
advantages.
Hell, the money
paid up front is
essentially quadrupled
in value.
Now you can
help us and
you can get a
slice of whatever
comes next, or
you cannot.
You can refund us
50 gold and we
can leave.
Refund you
50 whole gold
pieces?
We're not using
the whole time
and I'm afraid
it's rather
short.
What will the
answer be?
She slides
75 back.
It really looks
like you could,
you could use
this.
Take it
back.
I'll add that
back to the
people's loop.
What's the
word then,
ma'am?
She just
gave it.
You'll have
my answer
the day of
the event,
she smiles.
So be
it.
One of
these days
you'll choke
on that.
And then
I'm going to
get up
and leave.
Baldrick
will look
after
Tannhauser
and he'll
just gently
wrap his
knuckles
on the
table
that she's
seated at
as he
turns back
to her.
I do
hope that
for all
of our
sakes,
you make
the right
one and
not just
the one
for yourself.
Oh,
well,
it's hard
to tell in
this day
and age
which is
which,
isn't it?
All I
know is
that if
we're
going down,
everyone
here is
coming soon
after,
so I'll
have a chance
to rub
it in
later.
Good day,
friend.
and he
will go.
Okay.
All right.
That was a
resounding
failure.
As you
go through
and walk
the cut
is the
two of
you
leaving
the bar
to the
other
three
entering
leaving
the library
into a
conversion
to
into the
bar
yeah
where there
is a
raucous
raucous
cheer
that
Veena
you
and your
companions
hear
as you
in.
The bar
itself
is filled
to the
brim
with
dozens
of pirates
some of
them
including
some
puppets
who are
just
like
around
and
celebrating
and
drinking
there's
at least
one
who's
playing
a song
called
the
drowned
woman's
dirge
which
seems
to be
a song
that's
picking up
steam
here right
now
for some
reason
playing
a dirge
in a
bar
come on
let's
get
something
a little
more
lively
in here
are you
ready
to
party
all
right
oh god
are we
singing
for sin
ah
shit
oh
I didn't
warm up
I'm not
ready to
sing
I'm
kind
of
embarrassed
it is a
coastal
town
wait
before we
go in
who's
who's
at the
front
of your
blitzball
lineup
this is
an
important
question
the
blitzball
I don't
want
Waka's
special
attack
no
it's
so
boring
the game
mode
sucks
mad
is
these
old
bad
men
I
want
to learn
the
language
the
entire
game
I
rather
dodge
lightning
for a
thousand
times
you
got
some
old
bad
in
you
don't
bring
it
back
the
memories
must
stay
oppressed
I'm
a
member
of
the
Xanok
in
Braves
triggered
everyone
now
good
good
fucking
good
good
see it's a
serious arc
for you
Veena
who would
have
thought
that the
Veena
arc
ended
in a
blitzball
game
oh my
god
ironically
if it
did
that would
be so
funny
I wouldn't
even be
mad
I'm ready
to blitzball
it's a
time
just start
preparing
that
encounter
all right
I know
Jamie
played
FF
FF10
a bit
so you
know
we
can get
the
grid
going
it's time
for us to
partake
in the
ancient
piratical
sport
airball
just
make sure
you
camp
the
goalie
and
just
keep
kicking
it
in
and
kicking
it
in
as
quickly
and
as
often
as
possible
Veena
has to
do
the
volley
shot
are
shoe
puffs
native
to these
lands
right
the
shoe
puff
for
those of
you who've
never
played
Final
Fantasy
I
apologize
for that
entire
diversion
yeah
yeah
stop
watching
this
and go
play
Final
Fantasy
or the
new hit
single
X2
yeah
you
don't
have to
play
X2
guys
we're
not
going
to
make
you
you
don't
we're
really
not
going
to
make
you
yeah
before
we
so
it's a
raucous
it's a
raucous
interior
and like
standing
atop a
table
you know
just
just
enjoying
their time
with the
folks here
you can
see
Vicon
to Garland
rot
all right
before we
go in
I'm gonna
pull
Rahua and
Oren
into a
huddle
I'm gonna
say all
right guys
so
we are
in a
lawless
pirate
town
or well
pirate
laws
which is
functionally
lawless
whatever
point is
Rahua
you are
one of the
most chaotic
people I
know
people here
they respect
chaos
they respect
anarchy
they respect
what you're
putting out
so
now's the
time to not
dial it back
now's the
time for
chaos
all right
are you
sure
well
you know
what
yeah
oh no
oh no
my brain
just like
is like
Rahua runs
into the
crowd
like yeah
fuck that
bitch
gonna drown
whoo
not that
kind of
anarchy
not that
kind of
anarchy
fuck
fuck
fuck
the
anarchy
where you
try not
to let me
die
no
that's the
most ominous
okay
okay
okay
yeah
you know
what
yeah
yeah
I trust
him
are we
doing
miss
weena
no
no I
think I'm
I'm think I'm
totally okay
so for
you
Oren
don't let
them intimidate
you all right
okay
there's a bunch
of big guys
who think
they're big
and scary
but you
gotta remember
you
kick
major ass
yeah
I eat
nails
without any
milk
that's true
I saw you
do that
once
yeah
it really
hurt
don't do
that again
okay
you can't
exactly
you have
been through
so much
shit
you may be
a little
guy
but you've
got a bigger
heart than
any of them
there
yeah
my trauma
holds me
together
word
me too
bud
okay
what's up
just making
sure
they respect
chaos
right
they also
respect like
shows of
strength
right
making sure
we're on the
same page
here
yeah
generally
okay
Rahua
walks back
off
I like
the idea
this is just
gonna be
like a
recurring
thing
like
Rahua
is gonna
come back
and forth
like
fucking
like
times
or something
back
again
oh
yeah
what's up
what's up
is there
anything
like a
major
is there
any
faux pas
that will
get me
immediately
killed
that I
should
avoid
uh
faux pas
that will
get you
immediately
killed
yeah
um
well
don't
steal
something
and get
caught
you can
steal
something
but you
can't
get
caught
um
let's
see
I like
I like
the idea
that you're
standing
outside of
the bar
and then
suddenly
you hear
this guy
just called
me a
lily-livered
air-sucking
scumbag
and you hear
a gunshot
you hear
a gunshot
a gunshot
the gunshot
not the gunshot
a bullet
oh my god
um
all right
thurston
um
would
would any
immediate
social faux pas
jump to mind
as somebody
who was born
and raised
here
because this
is a pretty
chaotic
lawless
place
generally
speaking
the faux
paws are
don't pick
a fight
with somebody
who can't
fight back
and
uh
um
if you're
gonna do
some crime
don't get
caught
that
is
is very
very
accurate
yes
um
almost
as though
you know
almost as
though to
to illustrate
the point
um
as you're
thinking about
this
in one
corner
of
of the
room
a very
very
drunk
pirate
his voice
is audible
above
everything
even above
the
the background
chatter
of the
room
uh
i just
don't
uh
i don't
get it
i don't
think
you're
all
that
i
i think
i
i
you're
not
all
that
i think
i think
it's all
made up
i think
i think
you just
you just
pretend this
you just
pretend this
there is a
hush
before you
start hearing
this sound
it's like
a
the man
starts
staggering
back
and
what you
see
is standing
like on
the table
in front
of where
the man
is
is a
small
metal
uh
like
full
knight suit
armored
individual
except it's not an individual
it's a poppet
the poppet has stabbed this man 87 times
87 times
87 times
as he like chokes on the the fluids that are now leaking out of him like a strainer um and falls back
yeah that sounds about right so yeah rahua um don't fight anybody that can't fight back
we don't like push over little old ladies here we take care of our little old ladies here
um
the poppet jumps off the table onto the man's chest and begins to parade march around causing blood to spew out of some of the holes
yeah yeah um don't get your shit rocked um
yeah that's pretty much it
good to know
rahua walks back off
okay
i trust him implicitly
let's go inside
he's gonna make his way to like
a crowd of people assembling
oh it's a tree
oh look at the tree we don't have many walking trees
what kind of arboreal are you
i'm the hardest kind of wood there is this side of the port
which one of you scallywags is ready to see that traitor die
what
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
there's roy
rahua looked at the person who was cheering the loudest
uh that would be a character i'm gonna make speaker roleplay right now
ah
yeah
i'm fucking on the elimination
yeah
are they at the bar right now
i'm at the bar right now
right on right on
there's also a cowboy
let me
bartender let me get a drink right here
i will have the bartender be played
by by erndale
hello it is i the bartender take this drink
yeah thank you bartender i love sitting at the bar and drinking and uh executions and trees and shit
oh volume down that is so loud
i am the bartender
rahua will take
i regretting no choices i made
rahua will
get himself a flagon of ale
and propose a toast
a toast
to the doomed captains
before us
yeah
doomed captains
fuck you guys
i'm gonna live your night
please all patrons of the bar
drink whiskey
me is gonna look at oran just
i sense that perhaps a mistake has been made
somewhere
the bartender is an automaton by the way
i couldn't possibly tell you what it is
i should have left home
rahua toasts
he clinks his glasses
with
this rowdy patron before him
um
as as
as you are
you're clinking glasses
uh
vikon rot burner
just to hop off a table
and come towards you
uh hello my friend
seems you have
changed your colors a little bit
since we last saw each other
oh really i
i didn't think that i've changed it
to my fancy dress
one moment
rahua looks back to the
drunken captain
he
with his mechanical hand
grabs the back of his head
slams it into the bar
into the person's glass
and just starts
mashing his head
oh yeah
please do not do that
ah yeah i love this shit
this guy's the best
never mind i made exactly the right choice
i've never been wrong in my life
there's blood everywhere
rahua will do this until he stops
oh
bye american
the bartender begins
wiping up the blood with a damp rag
the
the
the
the wish toy
comes over
and begins poking
the man with his sword
not stabbing him
just poking for any signs
of life
he's all yours
you can do whatever you want
with him now
he starts stabbing immediately
87 times
oh yeah
i'm gonna die
oh no
rockburner i'm more of a face half full kind of person
i've never lost faith in my captain
and to any of you who doubt
good captain vena's tenacity
that kind of energy
that kind
of ambition
i warn you
and caution you
to not stand against her
because that kind of ambition
will lead this port to new heights
and far greater scores than you had any realization
rahua will raise a glass again
so here
to greater fortune still
a toast
and rahua will
take whatever remaining gold he has
and throw it out on the bar
here here
around on me
my bar is rapidly depreciating in value from the fatality
i will accept this
yeah
yeah
woo yeah yeah yeah
give it some free drinks
i like free drinks
i can't breathe
yeah
and like all the speech of course is like backdrop to the stabbing
that's like still going
oh he's still going
it's a squelching sound
at least i don't have to go to work tomorrow
yeah
mood
yeah i feel that
yeah
yeah
um
dear god
well
with that
with that
with that
you can see rock burner
well
i will raise a toast to that as well
um
rahua do you want to give me a social check
i'll let you do intimidation or diplomacy
but i feel diplomacy is kind of the route you're taking
yeah i'll do diplomacy
yeah i'll do diplomacy it's a little bit lower but i don't want to like invoke a hey you remember
when you mashed that dude's face into the bar and turned him into a fucking ceviche
yeah i don't i'm not really kosher with that
do it
do it up
it's 14 on the die
oh very nice
for a total of 28
very good
very good
yeah
you know
i do think that
captain vena deserves a chance in
in the future
thus i
will also raise my glass
eh
come with me everyone
come away with me
and he raises
that's not what you were saying
in front of the vicon council
ah you know their politics
you know
yeah
yeah
at that point i will uh approach from behind
uh uh uh rahua
and uh uh give rahua a thumbs up
rahua will give vena a thumbs up back
drink his flag in the veil as it just falls out of his chin
i love him so much
i love drinking
i have a dangerous question
it is it is a bar
um are clearly young
uh young orrin is in here
what is
what is orrin doing
get him a shot of tequila with a worm in it
he's like
he's of drinking age
get him snake wine
well here he is
he's like i don't know why he put the camera on me
i got nothing right now
there's nothing orrin can insert himself into
he's following along
you can go to the bartender
you can go
you can go to the bartender
and ask him to serve you a coke
the same way that this bar has been doing
for the last 97 years
kid i have a milk
yes
thank you
he takes it
it's alcoholic
he leaves
as you
as
as you receive the milk
the bold wish comes up to you
oh hey man
want some milk
good day fellow traveler
how are you this spine morn
oh i'm fantastic
i got milk
and i'm hanging out with my captain
oh yes
if i had bones
i too would appreciate milk
you know
the captain child loved it himself
oh you did well
i love milk
we have something in common
yes
you should do a toast
with that milk
to the captain child
long may he be departed
but never
never gone
intro
we're here
um
orrin looks around
is there like a
like a flipped over
like
something that would imitate
a small cup
that i could offer to him
yeah yeah
i do not mean to mock you at all
thurston
i'm expecting him to say
why i'm remembering
my child that created me
a young man
in the land of legibet
i forget his name
quite crunch i think
he said that he wanted
to sound like me
when he was older
that that would be really good
orrin will uh
kneel down
fill up the tiny
little receptacle
up and offer it to the night
he's like
well as much as you might not
be able to enjoy it
we can toast to his memory together
very good of course
of course
of course
of course
of course
he places down his weapons
picks up
picks up the like
weird thimble of water
and pours it
so it like fills
like much of his armor
it starts leaking out
joint plates
and other such things
oh so refreshing
as i remember
when the captain child
would place it on himself
or we'll kind of clink
with him a little bit
and he'll drink his milk
and he goes like
so i've noticed
you've been stabbing
people around here
what's up with that
oh yes
it is what the child
envisioned me for
a brave warrior
who defeats
vile foes
well that's radical
well
i'm here to try
to protect my captain
oh
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
the one
the one
the one
that
that vikon sharkskin
has
has ordered us
to do our best
to protect
in these trying times
yeah we appreciate it
it's like
you know
i hope my captain
can one day find
you know
happiness and clarity
and stuff
did your
did your captain
ever find that
there's like
a black
sort of like
gloom
that comes
over the
over the scene
as like
the lighting
around the toy
just seems
to naturally dim
no
no he did not
oran puts like
a little hand
on his shoulder
died in a bed
with all of us
around him
no
we did what we could
the disease
was too much
and then we made
a pact
that we would
endure
that we would
do our best
to carry on
so that
we might
make his
legacy
worthwhile
and that one
day
we might
all find
death
ourselves
what
that's rad
cheers
cheers to that
he drinks
cheers to you too
he picks up
the uh
he picks up
like the
the sword
and the shield
begins to like
march away
go
day
i'd like
like you could
just hear
like
like milk
like continue
to rattle
out of his
interior
that's all
i got man
you were
you were saying
nah that's fine
i think i think this
was better than my
bit
i just had a stupid
bit that i was
gonna do
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tell a friend start
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again start again all
right uh you guys are
um you've all recently
been captured by the
tyrant's guild uh you're
inside a jail um oh fuck
you're all in the same
cell together oh i think
i was still high level
hold on i have to go get
my bad mic for this one
watch out for that bear
all right i rolled a kill
pick turn wait wait we're
back in time we can save
our other party member
technically yeah that's
true we can save jeremy
jimothy who cares
whatever go get him
maybe he was the other
prophesized one who will
unite i unite all the
powers as we get the
pieces he's the he's the
real final boss he's gonna
be like a lich there's no
there's no maybe about it
it's the long time comes
back it's like you left me
well remember remember
remember uh marlene's
nefarious plan involved him
surviving but then bruhua
showed up
that is literally that was
literally in her speech so
and we owe it all to you
rahua
i'm uh i'm going to assume
that as the cheering in the
in the like and celebrations
and drinking happen this is
when baldrick and uh tanhauser
uh enter back onto the scene
yeah uh oh continue we're
back
how'd it go
adley
oh
yeah we didn't do it
uh mr rockburner's on our
side right and i like loop an
arm around his shoulders and
like slap him on the chest
smiles
but seriously no of course i'm
with you from from the now
until the next life and the
life after i want to sense
motive really yeah sure yeah
sure yeah i want to stare into
his fucking soul that's a 10 on
the die for total of 30 he's
very perceptive um he's he's
very fixated on on veena and
probably would follow veena into
the next life yes
getting getting the sensation
that mr rockburner is uh trying to
get on her side so he could be
like ah yes and now
yeah we are we are set to be
married let's go
ah
i push
turn it to arnold
can i try a sense mode
yeah for sure of course yeah i
mean everybody's high but this
is a town full of pirates yeah
this guy's to the death this is
great
you join in the hug
oh come on this thing's not so
bad
yeah right yeah to put it more
succinctly veena we tried to talk
with her however she seemed to be
very mercenary in her intentions not
only that she was kind of looking
for angles for the most part
we'll have to see how she i get the
feeling she'll be a swing boater
i see so if we get ulis on our side
then she'll be inclined to join us
because she'll be outnumbered maybe
we'll still have to probably talk with
your mother
well you know you're probably right
you know who we don't have to talk
to
uh-huh
this guy i'm gonna
that's right i'm right here
that's right
you know captain rotverner have you
ever learned about socialism before
tanhauser
yeah
can you go get a drink
oh yeah of course a drink for my
new friend
captain rotverner
yeah
wait wait wait you speak of socialism
oh no
for the people right
and the thing you can do is that you
can spread your wealth around and buy
everyone in this room drink right now
distributing you dude
you know what that's the least reactionary
thing i've ever heard someone say
drinks for everyone baldrick i need some
money
the bartender
looks over to tanhauser and says
hello brother please drink whiskey
okay i sure thing i will mr bartender
can the bartender like also look like baldrick
but like he has the actual triangle helmet
the problem is is the bartender the bartender is an automaton
so he's a little bit more he's he's impassionate his head can be any shape you want it to be
yeah i just want him to have the triangle bucket i don't care what he is
he just says i i escaped here after being chased and outset for many years
i was built i was built to model for wanted posters
and now in my long and old age i can finally retire as an owner of a bar in a pirate town where the value of my bar depreciates consistently and repeatedly
one of the wishes comes in and fires an uzi kill
check this out a black car helicopter behind him
down it goes again i do love depreciating value of my bar
you know if you wanted a bar that wouldn't depreciate in value you could ban stabbings
you misunderstand sir i love it when my bar depreciates in value
what he lives for
sorry hi i'm finding the similarities here of we arrive at someone with a bucket like head and destroys home
i i i need you to understand that discord just kicked me off and i made like a comment of like
oh and then like a wish comes in with an uzi um and like it kills the bartender um and then like it was
i was just met with silence and i'm like oh okay i don't kill the bartender that would be bad
and it was just like still silence because discord was disconnecting i'm like guys guys are you like
really really connected to this nbc guys guys they're saying it's really not fucking cool
what you did to the park so guys everyone doesn't have a bartender everyone don't talk at thurston for
three seconds okay
thurston yeah i am perfectly happy to lose value in my bar i wanted to depreciate so badly
that i will have to pay someone to take it this is part of who i am don't take this from me
oh so how much i hate i hate that accent because it reminded me of like a
a skit from a very weird like british tv show called man to man with dean learner so thank you for
that please drink whiskey okay i ever told you like the the most horrible thing you can do to somebody
in like a social environment what oh no this oh yeah this thing uh so basically you target one
person that they'll never know about this and you you continuously talk like you're normal and stuff
like but every time they talk you shut up stop and stare at them you just do that for like a good
solid couple seconds and then you turn back around and start talking to everybody else you do not talk to
that person but every time they try to talk to you you stop and stare at them that's diabolical so
that's what you were doing at k barbecue yeah
i was wondering about that oh oh yeah no that's an evil fucking thing that's darkness that's black magic
yeah you do that that person will not like you anymore ever there's there's a whole rolodex of
creative ways i have to get people not to like me and i'm adding that into it
um how much of baldrick's money do i spend on money or on boosts roll a 1d1 roll a 1d 100
all the bartenders one for one dollar traces how much how much how much money do i take from one of
verndale's characters and give to another of her i would like you to know something very important
if you wish to purchase libations that will allow you to become friends with everyone i ask that you
roll this and he pinches from beneath the bar a 100 sided die and passes it to tanhauser
64 very good i shall get out the whiskey
i can only imagine what else i could have rolled if you had rolled anything other than 64 i would have
served poison that's just how it is here this place sucks yeah welcome to you roll 64.
it serves whiskey it's not dry here i don't understand
orin togs on vena's coat why would it not be dry here we're in the air i don't get it it's not dry
what's up warren it's like i'm and i know everyone likes drinking but since we got
i assume this guy's on our side but is there anybody else we need to talk to
we're on a timer is that's true we are on a timer as much as i would love to get drunk right now
there is ulis at the arena so i'm going to uh uh look at robert one more time
we're counting on you we are counting on your support bud
of course you can always count on me okay so when the time comes
you're gonna say that they shouldn't drown me or hang me or shoot me or whatever even if even if
the dread captain says that she would prefer to drown me or shoot me or whatever
all right can you promise me that he looks into your eyes into your soul into your very being
of course
all right i got you didn't even have to shameless request him
and i pat his shoulder hand him a drink all right we're gonna go fight in the arena
you also have the support of me the bart ender
bartender are you a vikon no we have the bartender's support which means he is probably one of the most
important people in this town because he runs the bar i just wanted you to know though that i can offer
you something even more powerful than what a vikon can offer yeah is it whiskey
his arm slowly raises up from beneath the bar and he gives you an earnest thumbs up
thank you bartender thank you a real homie
please drink whiskey yeah man i'll drink whiskey can i have a glass of that please
that's gonna be a shirt just please
please drink whiskey that's just gonna be our convention shirt from now on
they don't know that in the town of the pirate the bartender is the most powerful person especially
literally true especially if the most powerful pirate's name is bart
they call him the bartender because he ended old big bart
big bart and big bart
very tall bart yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna slam back a glass of whiskey and then i'm gonna be like
all right to the arena thank you rahua i knew i could count on you you are the most perfect chaotic being
i'm three years old yeah man i'm so glad
i'm glad too rua drinks again failing to do so
the the law refuses to let him drink
every time he tries he just gets a pop-up says you can't do this right now
you can't do this right now a bunch of oblivion guards begin rushing at him
welcome
i'm gonna get crushed into the ceiling
goodbye nightmare
all right so i'm gonna gather up so ready to go to the arenas and kick some ass
absolutely i look forward to only being slightly betrayed
all right i'll do the talking this time since i am i guess the um the government assigned dps
in this group what are you talking about what the hell does that mean
you know i i read it in a book once when i knew how to read did you burn it afterwards
wait you forgot how to read yeah i just forgot what do you mean you forgot
alcoholism is scary kids can anyone in this party read my literature yes i can i just choose not to
i i've only
you've read my literature right yeah but i'm an anarcho-primitivist i don't give a
shit about communism oh my god the toy soldier in the night armor uh approaches orin on the way out
hey man i want you to know that you will do fine in the arena i am rooting for you alas i can have
come the vikon is bringing the crew together in support of you we will be ready to help you retake
the vessel i look forward to going in battle alongside you it seems he's man he kind of gives
him like a little bro like little little bro fist like yes yes i cannot wait we shall have
yes instead of them 87 times you best believe if i'm ever started out that's going to be an ability i have
before version of the 1000 needles yeah exactly 87 stabs
orin will uh i gotta do something real quick um and he he will approach uh rot burner as everyone
else is kind of leaving leaving and stuff leaving kind of hanging back and be like oh hello my young
friend uh orin will um will look over at the smashed corpse that were who is left behind and he will look
at rot burner just kind of eyes locking with him as he takes a remnant of his arm and just bites into
it taking a good chunk of flesh and starts chewing and going i remember people who mess with my captain
takes another bite and just as he kind of munches a little bit and goes i hope you remember that
and he can i roll intimidation yeah yes no no yeah that's sick as hell yeah this is awesome i mean
i just said about intimidate being a short-term game long-term
i got 34 16 16 on the die for a total of 34. hello uh i will i will remember this like the the weird
like like accent kind of drops as he just stares at you a bit it's a fake accent yeah
what do you think he like seriously talks the entire life like ma'am come away with me no of course not
orin drops the arm drops the arm as he's in just just leaves it there silently
as he returned back to everyone he's already like brushed the blood off his mouth and said like
sorry about that toy soldier guy wanted to talk to me uh miss veena he says the crew's ready to fight
for the uh uh for the crown with you up in the sky whenever you're ready hell yeah
that's awesome you know orin you're such a nice guy i'm so glad i ruffle his hair no thanks
thanks miss veena oh i think you got a little something in your teeth huh oh
like you go oh well there's time did i get it yeah yeah what was that
oh i found i found some meat on the on the table no one was looking
oh okay yeah we love mystery meat let's go yeah i was hungry happens the bartender returns to the
kitchen where he has roasted a whole person oh he just he just has bodies back there like how else
are you supposed to get rid of the people that die in the goddamn bar mr
he makes a wonderful stew
don't worry don't i'm not worried don't i'm fucking worried i will never worry
all right we're gonna go to the arenas yeah it's gonna be perfectly fine um
um okay okay so making your way to the arena uh no you can't say it like that okay you can't you
have to say it right okay to the arena there you go okay you gotta be like welcome to the arena
gotta really get your wes johnson on yeah you gotta get your oblivion announcer going
okay i don't know if you know the bit that we're doing here
this is vague but yes oblivion is one of our stupidest meme games and of course we reference
everything like it's a joke victor from the blue team yeah so grilled chicken we're referencing the game
so eat grilled chicken and rest rest now you've earned it earned it sorry you're you're fucked man
capitalize now thurston all right we go to the arena all right i was just gonna go more with like
duncan fisher quotes from solaris 7 but that's i'll take it i'll take it i'll take it i'll take it
whatever man all of our influences here so yeah i know i know i know i'm i'm going more with the
mech warrior but that's fine that's fine that's fine i i know there's people out there who who love
oblivion i i i i need to play it more i'm a bad bad human um to the arena all right so you make your way
doorway to the arena which is a fascinating um space here in the city because it's not just like
one battlefield it's eight of them um different battlefronts that have been established with sort
of like viewing galleries and pits one of them completely submerged one of them is some sort of like
maybe acid lake with with different like hopping points and islets to fight on um one of them seems
to be a more traditional like sand with with rock um makeup like as though it used to be a part of a
beach with rocks and even like a dilapidated boat that's been strung off to the side uh and one of them is
just like a section of city that has had a um had a raised area placed around it so people can watch
like alley fights
oh that's really good yeah you you sort of like walk around all of this and there's fights going
on like in the alley there's clearly two people who are just like fisticuffs engaging as like maybe a
dozen people watch and throw like coppers on the winner uh hoping to make a little bit of extra
coin uh in the underwater arena there is actually like a fishing derby that's happening uh but one of
the fishermen pulls out a knife and stabs the other fishermen not quite 87 times uh but then turns into
like a brawl at close quarters uh where one man is using a knife and the other man is trying to
bludgeon the other to death with his fishing rod
i love this city
right city
we got a quite a beautiful culture out here yeah sure is isn't it
let's go find the vicond and uh what would i know which of the arenas the vicond usually hangs around
or do i do i have to ask you begin to to look around give me a perception check all right perception check
i could hear a point that in fact i probably will just to save us some time
that's not that much better but i got the plus 10 so that's a 39
you see who is clearly uh vicond blessing the boar eulish uh the vicond is standing over uh the
the sandy sort of beach swept arena uh imperiously looking down from stands uh her gaze locks over to
all of you as you uh enter into the area she's a heavily scarred woman uh very lean but muscular
dark skin she has an impressive necklace a corset that raises up her bust she has a jacket on top
uh and she just looks like someone who has seen a lot in her life
oh hello ma'am
so go johnny bravo oh mama
true
vicon ulus
i'm gonna call out to her and raise a hand
well well well what do we have over there
is that a is that a little vena i spy with my eyes not so little not so little anymore ma'am
she comes over to you all six foot three
hmm
looks at your companions
one has a big goofy smile
smiling so neatly
all right i give
i heard about what went on it looks like you're looking for a blessing for me
you know you gotta earn that that i do so which one are you offering up
how do you mean i don't think i don't think the one with the wings as much
maybe the bucket guy's feisty
all right sure fighting no no no who i'm putting in the area oh you want to fight
yeah we could do that of course we want to fight what was your other option
well if you're gonna trade one to be in my roster of monsters
oh no no no you don't get to keep these ones these ones this is uh we're a crew
could keep her sticks together no we're not giving crunch away the right crunch isn't for sale
unless the price is really high is that a troll sounds like a troll name i like trolls
but it's it's the guy he's just but we know he's just a big man oh you ever heard of no
yeah
you've heard of a guy
you've heard of guile
so my vicond what exactly do we need to beat to a pulp to get your vote oh i'm not telling you
you're gonna go in the arena and you'll find out when you're there oh surprises i do love a surprise
you know it'll be kind of the point i appreciate it but straightforward this is
but you know if i do that looks over some of you might die but definitely the bird
nah again i don't know how wily the bucket is oh man
my lady vicond i can assure you we have survived the stuff of legends
we have fought a living manifestation of a god and looking at look at us all here
we're still standing we fought a rot-infested dragon
you start hearing chalk
like chalk writing happening all around you now and like
ulis just like shakes her head slightly you didn't have to
why did you do that
why'd you hype us up now they're gonna throw something now now i have to
look at the odds now
and like you could see that all around are bookies that are tabulating numbers now i have to
throw something a bit more against you hey don't even worry about it we can take it i mean oh scary
ulis you're trying to kill me prematurely huh
oh god wise
ma'am i'm not even letting you make a deception check for that vena it was so bad
yeah understandable uh baldrick will address ulis uh ma'am
did we get any extra credit for particularly violent ways of dealing with whatever you're going
to throw at us i mean i do have quite a lot to use and he will open up his uh
his coat to show the myriad of explosives he has available to him
the rules are simple two sides enter one side leaves if you want to get some extra coin from
the crowd for performances you can do that i recommend it too because if you don't the crowd's
gonna start shooting you during the event yes but the question is will you like that
i mean i'll give you your support if you win i don't need to butter me up too much for this i'm
gonna make my coin more than just you would know that ulis is definitely not um exaggerating essentially
any fights in any of these arenas have effectively a complex hazard that's the crowd and unless people
routinely make like performance checks to appease the crowd the crowd will start shooting and casting
spells at them that's awesome yeah you're gonna want to put on a show so give them the big guns
all right but more than just your blessing in not having me drowned my lady vicond i ask for one
additional boon i'm getting the crown back and if you want in on that glory then
i open up that opportunity to you and i can assure you we're gonna put on a damn good show
and make you some money well you survived the show first and then then we can maybe talk that is a
guarantee all right all's over there you got a hour for prep in there i'll get it going
looks like you've got a crowd garland sent some boys here looks like as a hell's even your mom might
pop by for this one oh my mom great yeah it's gonna make the audience harder to impress
oh vena don't have to appeal to her just do what you gotta do and if she likes it she likes it and if
she doesn't that's not our problem if i know how to do one thing it's put on a show
good enough let's do it to it
so what are we fighting all right
find out
to find out in the arena she says take some time i'll get something real good for you
can you not worthy for you
no oh okay i thought i asked i really didn't think that was gonna work on it yeah
all right real quick can you do a handstand yeah i do a handstand give me a performance check
now you've done it i got a uh 16 for a total of 20. someone does like one of those kid handstands
but it somehow works out yeah
that's great all right yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna try and do a handstand okay okay all right guys you
don't need to shoot you don't need to shoot the wads watch this
seven oh my all right
can it be pathetic can you like try to get it but you can't even lift your legs and just get
like you can't like you can't do it correctly exactly like it's not like you even hurt yourself
but it's one of those just embarrassing like you can't do it like oh oh uh oh i can't oh it's
it has a no i can't do it
i can't do it i can't do it i can't do it let me out give me out
it's okay come here come here it's all right he's following he can't get up
he starts crying how many how many people start scribbling the odds of survival
oh oh yeah like like the odds are going down like like the odds in your favor just keep going down now
can there be like those like flip number things like somewhere on a big board somewhere that
everyone collectively agrees on and the percentage chance of like okay you got like a 30 chance of
winning and then as soon as after that it goes 20 yeah it's called it's it's called poly pirate market
and it's happening right now right here not poly pirate market uh uh wait wait wait uh
baldrick
i'm saving my performance for the ring like you should be fine can i get some money
you hear the you hear the loud metallic heavy footsteps hello
i have arrived again what the hell i didn't ask you i am here to watch the show
you look like you could use some whiskey i know i it's like liquid curly courage mr tanhauser
i'll take a whiskey i'll take a whiskey i pay myself i pay myself two gold and you get a whiskey
i am desperately hoping that ulis is left whiskey an item in this game i'm gonna i'm gonna reach into
our inventory real quick if that's okay yeah it's okay 375 gold from uh the people's loot oh okay
hey i'm putting this on ourselves by the way
are we allowed to do that
it's a pirate town that's the rule that can't be the one rule no no no no see that's the thing
you've got to be fucking sneaky about it you've got to tell somebody you've got to give somebody
some money to bet on you and then they get a cut and then you get the rest are we allowed to bet on
ourselves
yep you can't bet on yourselves
yeah it's like venus said it's exactly like venus said you have to you have to find someone you
can in the pirate town trust well you know who you can trust who has your who has your back in anything
i hope he keeps the gold
can i help you with something android i've got a task for you my fellow mechanical man
what do you need to take 375 gold and you need to go and put it on us and if you do this i'll give
you a cut of the winnings do you have the money now yeah i say as i reach into the people's loot
pocket dimension where glub tops floating quartz is the bartender takes the sack of gold and he
carefully weighs it for a few moments before he reaches down and gently places the sack on top of
your head there i have placed the gold on you
i look at i look at the bike count does this count
i think she's like on his left yeah it's illegal
it's just illegal the bart the bartender takes the 375 gold and goes to invest it in the fight
betting on your behalf that you will win handily and you will do so without talking about communism once
it's like sports betting where they have those like hyper specific bets yeah but it's like your
team doesn't just have to win that certain players have to do certain things that's the only way that's
the only way that they'll accept that bet the only way they'll accept the bet is because that adds so
much stake to it that they'll even that they will thirst and i'm narratively declaring yes my man next time
if we manage to go the whole bout without tannhauser mentioning communism once
that we will get quadruple that amount
well well i also i see i like that you're i like that you're you're in on that and like omitting
the way you started it which was win handily which is what i was which winning handily in
my mind says that we don't die maybe we don't need to win handily maybe we just win we win without
him mentioning communism once will you accept this narrative declaration thurston that we get quadruple
that money if we manage to win without a single mention of communism courtesy of bart ender a character
you gave to me to play hey uh chat come into my office for a second all right don't listen to him
come here come here come here chat he doesn't rule you're going into my office uh zoran can you close
the door for a sec no okay i'll get the door here you go thirsty thanks thank you hang on i can do
i can do that even better yeah okay perfect thank you okay hi hi chat hi hi everybody hi hi thanks
like i said you're looking good today um so if i accept this i feel like i feel like it's the way
to go right but i feel like if i accept it i'm gonna need your backing of the next episode right
like you're you're gonna be there for me right to to enforce this law right and that that if if if
communism is mentioned once during uh during this fight and like we can also extend that to you know
semi-related like you know if there's a marxist comment or something i think that's part of the
but you're gonna you're gonna have my back on this right you're you're all here for me
right okay good i just i'm glad we could have this discussion it really
it really it really makes me happy um you know next day when i come into the office i'll bring
some donuts for everybody um i really appreciate you i also think that um you know you all deserve
a hero point um and um that hero point can also be used during the fight uh if you want me to
re-roll any dice so uh you you have that power remind me of that next time all right thanks uh uh
uh uh but or no can you open the door all right all right good welcome back okay hi everybody uh
chat and i talked it over uh i think we have a solid plan here and i will accept uh i will accept the
offer that was placed on the table we're gonna make so much money all right but you have to remember
the the you have to remember the terms of the bet tanny yeah i can't well what are you gonna do with
that money we'll find out next time next time i'm trying you know what that's a great that's a great
that's a great that's a great i didn't want to go because there were several moments where we could
have done that and i was like i don't know if this is where you wanted to end it this is perfect
this is perfect 10 out of 10. oh my gosh thank you all for watching this amazing episode of what uh
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