another realm is a narrative driven tabletop role playing game podcast. For this season, we're using the Dungeons and Dragons five e rules. Kinda. Sometimes the language on this podcast can get a little spicy. But if that doesn't bother you, my name is Wil. And I play six.
Bruce:Hi Bruce, and I'm the voice of Archie.
Fraser:I'm Fraser and I play Mark bark smooth.
Tanner:And I'm your game master tenor. And this is what happened on the last episode of Nother realm, the Neverthere there the voice needed the purpose and this is the one that I've given them.
Unknown:What I'm trying to say is if you want to cry I'll give you something to cry about and I elders blasting
Will:six gets his mace out, pulls it over his head just gonna throw his bass at the at one of the two guys and then tackle the stone
Tanner:and inky blackness begins to pour out and ride around it and wrap around your body
Bruce:alright Mark bar get ready to run and I'm going to try to grab I'm just gonna try to grab six and just yank him out of this inky blackness Yeah,
Fraser:I reached out and grabbed a stone and just well I tossed him the bag of holding
Tanner:where you guys had back to Leylen Leylen booking it but so what have you got
Fraser:guys I have a confession then he reaches into the bag of
Bruce:holding mock put it back in the bag
Fraser:Oh shadow shadow shit and I put it back in the bag very
Will:quickly sick fesses out
Tanner:before you pass out you notice you feel hunger again which is really weird for you I'm so Alright, so let's gonna do like a really cool introductory scene where we just continue from last time but also hey you guys leveled up so let's leave some suspense hanging in the air. You gained two levels so we went from three to five
Will:that's because yo s forgotten to make us go to four at some point no
Tanner:well it's because I've wanted there to be more suspense because you went through so much you really earned it like this was like a double milestone milestone so it was completely planned and not because I forgot to put you at level four. Yeah, yeah,
Will:for sure. For sure. For sure. Good job. Yeah,
Tanner:thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I just need you I what I really need you to do is believe me more often? Because if you don't I'll give you a disadvantage.
Will:It'll give you is that the DEM disadvantage is all
Fraser:died during this die betas.
Will:Yeah, six six now has live betas. Live betas got it. Hey, okay, so here's. I'm guessing you want us to describe what happens when we turn level five?
Tanner:That'd be the Yeah, just give me some give me some cool.
Will:All right, cool. I changed the cantrips I now have a farmer Terje and mending on top of spare the dying I got rid of all the dead it's sucked so much. And I kept guidance and I have access to third level spells
Bruce:not suck you just keep missing
Will:that I've I've used that spill five times hit one time I as I'm editing through I'm making mental notes of how many times I've used that stupid ass but what works and what doesn't so he doesn't so so I got that. I took dermatology meaning it's going to be super good. I have plans for those. It's very nice. And I have a sister love as well as fun fact. As a cleric. I don't naturally get access to the spell fireball, but I have fireball.
Bruce:Know you don't know
Will:why. Hold on, hold on. Okay,
Tanner:I give me give me give me give me a good reason why you would have Arbol
Bruce:because he's metal make and make smart smart sport. Bam,
Will:Boo Boo. Hey, I'll give you
Tanner:I'll give you access to the cantrip.
Will:Far, far.
Bruce:Far more, but you have to say it like that.
Tanner:I can't. At least 90% Makes
Will:my nose run. Just kidding. This tape makes you it's Tara making fun of you. That's not to say it knows.
Bruce:Yeah, you got to know just just talk about the smile and it doesn't automatically
Tanner:if I talk with a smile. It makes me smile. God That sounds
Will:terrible. Grandpa the outfit, okay. I also took a feat for my level four. I took Google you know, just to Well, I get stupid Alright. Thanks I only have one for you don't know why I said to all right that I have taken skill expert because I okay here's the here's the logical reason why ticket okay? I wanted to show his growth in in his conversational skills with both the mask upgrading and the stuff so I took both proficiency and expertise in persuasion. So now I have a plus five persuasion with the advantage of when I help when I'm trying to save people's lives.
Tanner:Jesus Christ I fucked up
Bruce:he's doing stuff that like you, you know, you're like hey, I'll give you this cool thing. And he was like, I'm gonna embrace it instead of just never fucking use it
Will:ya know? And also put an extra point in wisdom I'm almost at plus for wisdom
Tanner:Awesome. That's a lot of fun stuff well, Bruce would you get
Bruce:I just became a lot better at the whacking
Tanner:Oh yeah. Barbarian hit
Will:more hits twice now you get two attacks in the turn. Oh, and
Bruce:I also and I also and I also got a another or I got a skill point ability point addition to my strengths and my strength is now plus four instead of plus three and the best part is the best part this is amazing I'm so glad I got this at this level because it flux everybody's retreat everything away up and that's that I when I'm unarmored can now move 40 feet per turn instead of 30 Nope.
Tanner:Oh very nice. Oh yeah.
Bruce:Which means that technically anything that can only move 30 feet can never escape
Will:in your in your jump like half your movement too so you can jump 20 feet is that correct?
Tanner:Ah it forward but
Will:what's the up
Bruce:I think you can jump up like left to look up jump
Tanner:jumping up is a bit of a I think there's a lot more like limitations on that you cannot jump 20 feet in vertically
Bruce:after moving at least 10 feet on farther up and you can jump your strength score in feet straight forward or three plus your strength modifier in feet up so I can jump seven feet up that's that's pretty impressive now that is running
Tanner:seven vertical dunk
Will:yourself like
Bruce:yeah i could i No no no that's not a vertical because I'm moving vertical a vertical would be three plus or I'm sorry a half jumped distances have so I guess technically I could jump like four feet. Okay, yeah Morphe straight up is still pretty high. That's still a pretty pretty heavy vertical Yeah, for a 200 pound person. Yep. I Fraser
Tanner:What did you get for upgrading to level five? Oh wait, we forgot scrolled on your charisma and make that
Unknown:go Shit. Shit. Bonk
Tanner:you can see so much more damage
Fraser:well for my level five I got more charisma which makes me a big strong scary damage at dealin boy but also get packed with a blade which means that I can pretty much do whatever kind of weapon I want. And it's my my special special weapon that does more damage eg thirsting blade also lets me attack twice which is super dope. So I can just wham and then bam. And then thank you ma'am.
Tanner:Yep, and remember your sword. So long sword variant allows you to do versatile which means you can hold it in two hands and do one D 10 damage instead of just one D eight so you can quack twice with it. That extra demolish is very good. All right. So now we move on into the story. The scene stands the three of you are standing in outward enterprises with Bates Sae'Shiir After your conversation explaining to him what had happened in Arcus. Your boy Mark bark decided to pull out the stone and it is currently tendrils of the same black kinkiness or reaching out from six his face as he falls backwards. Saying something about I'm hungry. Um, but you hear the crash as six falls against the floor. tendrils still reaching from his face underneath his mask as the tendrils reach out from the stone that you are holding Mark bark. What do you do? All of all of you but six six, you decided that you passed out sorry but
Fraser:so you can at the end of the last episode I was more or less like oh shit and put it put it back in the bag quickly.
Tanner:Okay, so you stuffed it back into the Bag of Holding which was is as good idea as now as it was the first time and yeah the the tendrils of course you see this stone disappear into the bag the tendrils that are coming out from underneath sixes mask are still now they're sort of reaching aimlessly and slowly pulling back into his faith
Bruce:six What's up with your face? You know you should probably see a doctor about that one six says
Tanner:oh it's good it's good in it a podcast you do a face you did a face Facebook stuff
Bruce:I can't I get away with that all the time and yet the one time well does it he just fucking call me call.
Tanner:Base looks stunned at this point. He looks between the two of you that are standing Mark bark and Archie and then looks down at six and says I don't know if smelling salts will work on him. i What is what the fuck guys? i Sorry. No, I don't know YOU WHAT THE FUCK Archie.
Bruce:Tried to tell you about you and listen. You told me I was crazy.
Tanner:Okay, okay. Okay. First things first. We need to wake him up. This seems to be a problem.
Bruce:I poke six in the side of his head with my toe my boo.
Tanner:Six from some space in your remaining consciousness. You hear? But it sounds like a drop of gentle. Sounds like a drop of water.
Will:And what am I experiencing? Am I actually just like
Tanner:you just unconscious? I didn't prepare anything for whatever your current state of Electric Sheep of electric. Thank you.
Will:Yeah, there you go. Makes good. Good. I actually wasn't even thinking about when I said it. But you did good. You're doing good thing. Thanks. Um, I guess I attempt to wake up do does that serves me it serves me yeah, that serves me.
Tanner:I didn't like it impose the unconsciousness? I'm not gonna make you.
Will:Have you guys notice how I get in sixth voice? I do it every time. Ah. I gotta get her face off. Oh.
Tanner:I mean, we cut all the versions of me getting into voices.
Bruce:Now I'm gonna Yeah, the time will does that. I'm going to be like queue for will to get into his six four.
Will:Mmm hmm.
Bruce:Queue for will to get into. Well,
Will:hopefully you believe us now. Looking at Baeth Okay, I am even if you don't believe everything we're saying. It's pretty, pretty obvious something funky is going on.
Tanner:Certainly something funky is going on. I can 100% believe that. Right? Like, you have shown me this stone that is now connected somehow to your face. You know, I was saying before, it's all in your head. But now it kind of seems like it's all in your head.
Will:So it's a funny one. I like that joke.
Tanner:Sometimes you have to
Bruce:not as the problem is that it's trying to get his head in his head. It's fine.
Will:has six ever left. Ah. Oh, that's gonna be a new fun thing I get to do.
Tanner:Six discovers laughter and achievement pops up.
Will:Well, Mark Bart, I think that thing needs to stay in the bag. Obviously I have a connection to it. I don't know what it's about. I'd like to talk to
Bruce:someone.
Tanner:I mean, I don't know any particular you know, physicians that deal with darkness emanating from stone and noggin. You know, we might. I don't know those kinds of people in specialists. You could find that Castor Haven or the capital city. There's a lot of people it talked to it just depends on what you want to do
Will:B or B or belcam. Have you heard that name?
Tanner:P What now?
Will:P bail. Calm
Bruce:goes on tight.
Tanner:Yes. Okay. Thank you.
Will:They'll come in. Watch me. I'm trying not to say the word come.
Tanner:Wait, wait, here's a question. I just want to pay Tarbell called I want to know because of just morbid curiosity, not morbid. I don't want to say sexual curiosity either just out of pure curiosity, the amount that you know, you don't want to say come.
Will:Why? Truthfully, I don't know what the word come means. We should talk about come for the next few minutes of this. Sure. Come come come coke.
Tanner:Actually that is the name of the book that hang on one second and he goes off to a shelf titled Kham Kham Kham Kham Kham.
Bruce:RT takes that crossbow six ever found and he just points it under his chin pull. Alright, boys brains all over face fucking Okay,
Will:joke's on you. I don't have braids, owl, green. Orange
Bruce:does your best friend anymore either.
Tanner:Okay, look, I am a little out of my depth here. I have been through many adventures, traveled the seas and found my own way across countries and continents. But this is something that they have not had the pleasure of dealing with before smoky stones. Who knew that was a thing. So what would you like to do? I can potentially lead you in a direction but I am I get out of my depth here.
Will:Specifically, we met a we met a gnome. His name was Pedrycz. He's the historian of Arcus. The number two historian and he told us of I don't know that he's still up a thing. Oh, ah, Mark. Mark. Do you remember partridge? Do we already asked him that question? We probably did.
Tanner:Maybe it didn't matter. Baskin. You do? Yeah.
Unknown:Yes. Little short bald guy. I tried to attack before I flung myself out of the window. How could I forget?
Will:Ah, it was
Bruce:safe to say he survived. That's a very, very, very detailed memory. What happened in that room?
Will:It is that's good sign. Well, I guess we could start by I have a few questions for him at this point. Like what? What is this stone? What if you could tell me anything about Navarre day taste? Anything?
Tanner:Do you know how to find this man again?
Will:No. But he did tell me about the Queen's historian. The number one historian in all of Lear. I thought maybe we could try to see him. I don't know if Archie would be okay with this. Archie.
Bruce:As long as aren't gonna look at her ugly face here.
Tanner:Who is her ugly face?
Will:I think it was talking about the queen. Oh, she's very beautiful.
Bruce:Are you sure you're not blind might
Tanner:Yeah, no she's like good. It is a well known here for hot girl summer she was very loaded
Will:Yes,
Bruce:I don't know what hot girl summer is.
Tanner:But do you remember golf girl summer.
Will:GGS Jin's? DGS Yeah,
Tanner:we all remember golf grossular. Umbrellas everywhere. Okay. All right. Look, look, look, look. Okay. If that's the plan, if that is the only lead that you have speaking to them. I I do have some connections within the Capitol. And luckily, I guess we put up well, there was a lot more to the cover. But so now we can start here on the secondary portion of the conversation. You finish the job in Arcus. Yes.
Bruce:No, no, the job was. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Wait. We agreed to take Arcus back from some punks who went to Casta Haven, not disabled from some from some big black inky monster so that voided the contract. As soon as that thing showed up. Okay, I don't
Tanner:write so. What is his name? The asshole that came in? He is
Bruce:John Drew. Abernathy. Abilene?
Tanner:Yeah, Chandra. Thank you. Yes, Chandra airberlin. So he is still in town. News, still staying at the edge. And we could do one of two things. Now. You see, I like having good business relations. So if this was like you didn't quite finish the job. And we need to keep how, if what you say is true, and this thing just takes people what is the likelihood that it took all of the next inheritors from the city?
Bruce:I mean, it's highly likely it took everybody from the city we barely escaped.
Tanner:But but but but if they don't, if people don't remember people being in the city, this is one of those gray spaces, right. So can we say
Bruce:technically the job was still completed? I see what you say yes.
Tanner:Is this a technicality we can lean on?
Will:The part of the job was to keep dentists safe. We didn't even meet him.
Tanner:If you didn't meet them
Bruce:or say but that was written in auto.
Fraser:He probably has no memory of dentists. Ooh,
Bruce:that's a good one. Why don't matter if he's does because there was a clause in the contract that clearly stated If harm were to come to Dennis before we were able to locate him is not our problem.
Will:That's true. We never located him never located
Bruce:a loophole. I like loopholes or you think you're dealing with here but I
Tanner:mean that's what I am saying like if we I was trying to get you to come to that conclusion because if we can argue that to Chantry then we can say we accomplished our parts of the deal again, I was paid my entire fee up front. I know you got 50% up front. Chandra has not let me forget that so if you want to collect the remaining 150 Well, how about this? You said that this thing when it takes when it takes people right they can't remember it? Is there someone we can ask that if met these people? I remember Duddridge
Will:Okay, hundreds didn't get taken. do you where
Fraser:do we find him?
Bruce:Um Well here we could just we could always just ask Abilene if he remembers who is fucking Baker was
Will:oh yeah, we could just ask abolade about Zeke glad foot
Tanner:you could ask Abilene about did you know about the cloud foot before?
Bruce:I apparently he was Jones with his boots on now here's the interesting part is the problem started with dentists in the first place is when we let these kids in there
Tanner:okay well here is even with that information. Was there anyone else that you brought or know of to find that would be able to be a third party source that is objective in this whole situation? That might be able to say something's
Bruce:a gesture my hand over to Aaron Berger
Tanner:All right, I forgot about your ass.
Fraser:Oh, he's here with us. So
Tanner:yeah, I personally I personally didn't I just referred left about side okay,
Will:he literally wrote on the back of Archie sorry about that.
Tanner:Um, so you gesture over to Aaron who's just staring off into space I mean, they're going there could be just the the answer to life itself right in this room and he would not see it at this point.
Bruce:This guy what he's a bar he knows everybody in the city. Okay,
Tanner:I mean it's worth a shot. Like I said, you know, what's his face is in the edge. And if you can convince him that's on you. I can say that I maintain that to my contract position. That's what I like about having you guys under contract is like saying you know, hey, now I pay them just as much as you pay them so we won't work with those guys again but they would just means that I won't work with John three again, so it's no big deal.
Bruce:I don't really loss.
Tanner:No, no, no.
Bruce:It was his god captain. Oh, we rescued from the basement or whatever.
Will:You mean Harry?
Bruce:Harry. Harry. Harry. If he if he remembers Harlan and that means horror and survived
Will:horror and could definitely be a good witness for what we did what we face he
Bruce:would be because while he also pretends to be a witness in saying that we ran away and everything died but wait, hold on. He knows
Will:Bark Bark you remembered horn hards alive that's good that I did. Or maybe he's not alive but he's certainly didn't get swallowed by big smoke
Bruce:in that zip glad foot fucka is
Tanner:you asking him if he knows the glad foot
Bruce:Yeah Mark Mark Oh
Fraser:yes,
Tanner:no. Oh no not remember. God foot hoo
Will:hoo Oh, it was so fun for me yes, I'm
Fraser:trying to like I'm thinking in my head now like Who should we remember I will tell you because we will remember in real life and so we're like oh yeah, that person but then yeah,
Tanner:nope. If we shouldn't barn we shouldn't Mark bark does not remember is he glad foot no so why
Fraser:would mark bark specifically not remember his eeglab foot
Tanner:you have not been taken
Bruce:Mark Mark was not taken by the the big bad black inky monster thing we were okay so hold
Fraser:on so anyone that has been taken by by the Neverthere there oh he's getting it will will remember anyone else no matter what. Yep. But I'll fucking shit
Bruce:I just realized
Fraser:who is Zeke and Why are his feet so goddamn happy
Bruce:I just look at six and I go that's your fucking proof. All right. That's,
Will:that's more than enough. Let's go see Chandra. Get our money.
Tanner:Yes, either. I mean, you know.
Will:And he does like either
Bruce:if you were a Mullah by Mamane, you know, legal tender place,
Tanner:I would say rest but a lot of this stuff seems to be like, really time sensitive, especially if whatever this thing was that you met in Leylen ruins is now closer into the continent. Like I don't know where it would have had to come through in order to get here. Right? Like,
Bruce:it came out of some mountain pass over the opposite of the splinterlands. Yeah,
Will:I can. I can tell you how it came. I did the book. Yeah. Okay, here
Tanner:comes
Fraser:my favorite book. Um,
Will:when and when that stone is around me, I've pretty much the only thing I can think is I become the smoke.
Bruce:Oh, you smoke when it ate professor? Oh yeah. Margo. Our Agha Agha Melkite that doesn't make sense.
Will:But I did eat Rangi
Fraser:ha I reach into the bag and kind of peek the stone out just a little bit. Yeah, yeah, you can see my shoulder back in real quick and then I pick it out and then I shove it back in real quick and pick it out.
Tanner:Um, so yeah, okay. You're doing if you're doing this kind of testing thing, the there's there's a little reaction the stone is certainly still reaching out. And like, I will say at most you get a little bit of tunnel vision from this.
Will:Six. Huh? That's quite the effect. I don't like it. Please don't do that.
Fraser:What did you feel?
Will:Well, I felt like I was in a tunnel. Over and over again. in rapid succession. Not yet.
Tanner:Okay. The episode of sex jokes. Love it.
Bruce:Ha ha ha ha ha.
Will:That's actually not where I was going with this.
Tanner:Oh, okay. My bad. I got a dirty mind come.
Bruce:Ostrich head you fucking parrot.
Tanner:All right. This is good.
Will:This is this. This is this podcast
Fraser:just keeps getting better. Good. keeps getting better.
Tanner:Alright. Okay, look so you guys can go. I would we're making
Will:something at one point. You know?
Tanner:We still are a baby. You guys could go you should go talk to John three. He is. He is you know, certainly not staying in one of your excellent rooms at the edge. You're welcome. But, you know, I know stable grandpa probably has your horses taken care of so they will be rested and fed. A couple of things that we need to kind of consider before you do take off. Mark bark. Well, I guess Archie and six I am already in business with you. We have contracts signed. Is this man here? And he points to the drought.
Will:Is he part of the deal? I
Tanner:think we've gone through a little bit together where I could kind of trust your decision making skills you have made me money and that is what matters right now. What? What I'm asking for is do I need to go buy an extra horse?
Will:No, probably not. Mark Barker's not really staying with us. I don't really like him.
Tanner:Alright, thanks for being
Fraser:here. Thank you all so much. Fuck you all fuck you.
Bruce:Such a sad sad.
Will:I think that that question is best left up to Bark Bark Bark Bark. Just speaking from my sake. You were a big help. In Arcus you helped us a lot you broke down the barrier with your cool glowing purple sword and hit people with your purple over and over again. What is that? That's pretty cool.
Fraser:That's a special friend of mine that comes with me.
Tanner:We got to stop using that word.
Fraser:Special friend you know what I mean?
Will:Come together a lot
Fraser:Oh yes.
Will:With this stuff I'm gonna have to leave it at the podcast if we don't stop
Bruce:I think we're past it otherwise it was just come again.
Will:Please help Okay, listen
Tanner:what I'm going to do as a good to get you set up we're gonna have we'll have a good discussion about contracts and everything later what what are the I think what we need to figure out is if this this thing sweeping the land, is it a plague it's going to continue on moving is something controlling it. I have jobs for you guys, but I think this might seem a little bit more important right now. Agreed.
Will:Well, yes. But Mark Bart, you'd ever gave me an official answer. Are you? Are you wanting to be a part of the Black Wolf brigade That's our name by the way that I Archie came up with a very cool,
Tanner:I need to make patches EWB.
Unknown:I didn't pick that name, but I guess I'm here already. I don't really have much better to do. And I'm invested in the story. Let's go. I mean,
Tanner:servitude, you can leave any time. All right. So I'll get you set up all the men contracts. I'll send it
Bruce:online man. All right. Harner means family and a family means nobody gets
Tanner:diving into other IPs. I don't know why I'm saying this in bass voice. But hey, we've broken so many walls. Why not the fourth one. All right. So he sends a message out, he goes, he walks back over to his desk, he starts sorting through contracts. And you guys kind of walk up as he waves you over as he's sorting through contracts, aren't you you notice for a moment, something that makes makes your makes your heart stop for a second. What you see on paper as he's sorting through that quickly gets shuffled under other things. Is a sigil. And in the middle of a sigil of the sigil is a wolf. And this sigil is white. It's a wax stamp that's put on this, but you can read within the indentation around it and the inking of it that this sigil says Hadley and Sons
Bruce:use fuck
Tanner:it what does that?
Bruce:Are she just like Alec, he owns the place just starts finger down on a paper very forcefully and just slides it off. And just does it again until he finds the specific
Tanner:few but you get to it. I pick it up. Okay. Yeah, you pick up this, this sort of yellow tinted piece of parchment with this white wax seal on it. I'm going to examine it. Okay. Yeah. As you're looking down, it's a basic, pretty basic bill of sale. You can see through a few items that are you know, typical exports to places most of them are just simple weaponry. Basically what you think that bathe is keeping his armory stocked with it does say that it comes from your hometown, your home city of Portway worth.
Bruce:Should like hold it out to bathe with my finger pressing against the seal advice for you Sure. I just lose this little groupie here. I learned signs are that
Tanner:I've been working with them for probably the past two and a half three years about. They are a an import export business out of Portway with
Will:DID YOU SAY Hadley?
Bruce:Oh, yeah. Have you ever seen him in person? Yeah.
Tanner:Well, no, I mostly I've I've dealt with his sons. He's got two sons. Two of them.
Bruce:As soon as you say
Tanner:big fellas, you know, it doesn't seem like they would have much brains but one of them actually is pretty smart. The other one is clearly the muscle.
Will:This is a good mark. BART
Bruce:has good to know. But so so since we're it's a business acquaintances, I really love to meet them.
Tanner:I mean, yeah, sure. I've I've got semi irregular shipments in I don't need anything now since we are pretty well stocked up from you know what you guys might need on your next exposition. Expedition. So But Wait, who
Unknown:are the WHO ARE THE Hadleys? Oh, boy.
Bruce:Yeah, what is i?
Unknown:Why do I get Archie? No, these fellows
Bruce:now never met him before in real life.
Tanner:Okay. Yeah. Well, that is a weird thing to point out then because it kind of seems like you do. He sets the paper back down. I feel like this is a conversation that's not going to go anywhere. So yes, if it's if it's a blood feud to the name that you have, I don't mind you meeting him. There are always always other people to ship me things. So I don't care. We can always build new business relationships, but like the thing is, I don't need you stabbing me in my back. Because you are closer to me than they are. So. Hey, man, whatever you wanted to
Bruce:know, I always smack people square in the face with this axe.
Tanner:Okay, well. Cool. Do you have any other questions upon that line of conversation? Are we can we move on to the black thing? Smokey object that moves across the land and takes people so that they are forgotten?
Will:I don't know. This is this was a new one for me. Yeah,
Bruce:sure. We can shelf these factors for a while. Okay,
Tanner:I mean, like I said, it is up to you what is more important in life? But you know, you got it.
Will:Well, I think we know where to find him. Archie. Find who? Archie's old best friend before he met me.
Bruce:Hmm he's a fucking wind goes away.
Tanner:All right. So with this new amount of information after Bates flips through the other few things
Bruce:nice. Since you're such a good guide rough. I'll give you a wee bit of advice. Anybody who uses that symbol is not me. You probably shouldn't trust them.
Tanner:Yeah, okay. I don't really trust anyone. I do business with you. I mean, you guys are the exception and He winks convincing, that's probably good. I mean, I you know, you know that business.
Bruce:Exactly. Yeah, there you go.
Tanner:Okay, so here's the, here's the I can do this real quick. It amends the original contracts that you guys have. And he has a couple places for you to initial Okay, so you sign here, here and here. And then on this third page, you sign here at the bottom we date here or the stamp on this side. So if you go ahead and do that, don't worry about reading it, and he thrusts a pin into your hand Marburg, and kind of just points places out.
Unknown:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I need my lawyer to go over this.
Tanner:You have that you have lawyers?
Bruce:I take his papers. Okay.
Tanner:Archie starts going through it for you.
Bruce:I'm reading them. Hold on.
Fraser:I need six.
Will:should I should I trust this contract? Oh, absolutely.
Fraser:Nevermind, Archie, should I trust this contract?
Bruce:Well, I'm on page four or 573. So you're gonna have to give me a bit of time to figure that same contract you
Tanner:already signed? Fuck it. Where
Fraser:do I sign?
Tanner:Okay, so you sign in. You sign in six different places in initial in 42 different places. The contract is now sign. You have a horse outside. There's a space at the bottom of the paper for you to name because no one wants to hear me do stable grandpa anymore.
Fraser:Wait, what I have to name a horse who has just said hey, you can
Tanner:you can either name it now sign another contract. Or you can go talk to stable grandpa about what his opinion might be.
Fraser:Oh, yeah, we're definitely gonna talk. Alright. So we're sure
Tanner:that you'll name it once you meet it because you can't name a horse without seeing it in the face, of course. Alright, so you're all signed up. You will also have your own room at the edge you'll be set up with a horse and able to get in none of these contracts once you've you know, stopped people from being swallowed into nothingness. The three of you finally leave out word enterprises. And look back real quick. And does anyone grab Aaron as you are? Who is again just staring at the ceiling?
Bruce:I'm still reading. Nope. I keep signing it while I'm reading.
Will:Eric. I forget all about others, or he's just chilling in base house that showed a base place. Poor bathe. Oh, do we don't really need him?
Tanner:You might forget laundry.
Bruce:Hey, Aaron. You're on go do something fun.
Tanner:Oh, hey, baby. I didn't even know I was here for a second. I love fun. I mean, we were on a horse that pays off Chaudhry. Oh yeah, they do care hell yes. Involve
Bruce:Well, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go over talk to him and you're going to tell them that right all the ways which disappear Oh, sorry because they were doing drugs
Tanner:drugs Okay, not that you did the deal of getting rid of them but because they were doing drugs you see the problem that we got rid of them because they were doing well the problem is is that I do drugs so if we start so not saying okay we're doing that they're doing that that chemical drug oh no baby you gotta do just natural well okay no other scrap that for a second I do a lot of stuff that was made in a laboratory if you cut you know I'll try anything thrice
Bruce:was the guy's name is Dexter was oh yeah yeah, you know they always yell at some girl to get out is
Tanner:her name is BP
Fraser:no
Will:bad Oh
Bruce:well, I don't want to hear it.
Will:I guess I don't have the Hello, dear listener, this is will aka the voice of six and your editor for this podcast. If you would like some more nerdy world building information, check out At our website at Nother realm.com That's n o t h e r realm.com. Our next episode will release on February the 27th. So make sure that you're following the podcast on your favorite platform so that you don't miss any of the new episodes, or the bonus content that we are planning to release. And if you're enjoying the podcast and want to help us grow, the best way you can do that is to leave us a five star review on whatever platform you're listening. And as always share it with your friends. Now please stand by for a message from one of your favorite characters. Hello, it's me six. And I'm here to talk to you about my new upgrades. First, let me show you my laser eyes.
Tanner:No, absolutely not.
Will:Okay, then my refrigeration core.
Tanner:I know that this is supposed to be a yes and thing and all this kind of improv but no that I mean that would that would break any sort of survival stuff. No.
Will:Invisibility armor.
Tanner:How do you think invisibility armor? Would would would even work? Like we got a system we have rules No.
Will:Fine, then I will just use my newfound powers of persuasion to persuade our wonderful listeners to share the podcast. Please share. And don't be afraid to tell me what you think of me. I give you all my feelings. I love you.
Tanner:Do you want a magical exhaust port? As the four of you the party and Aaron assur are leaving outward enterprises and sort of collect your thoughts on how you're supposed to handle Chandrika coming up. The from the sky. That is crystal blue. It's gorgeous day from the sky. flies in the black raven, gold tipped wings, and it lands on the ground in front of you. And coccyx head back and forth like ravens do. And look between each of you
Bruce:kneel down in front of it. And I go I love how you doing.
Tanner:As soon as you say that to it. It opens its beak wide. And without moving it. You hear? Hello my dearest Archibald and six. Don't worry. I'm not jealous of that strange power that was strolling through Arcus and back to Leylen with you. Wink wink. No, no, no. In fact, I bring you exuberant tidings and scandalous news from the twigs the golden grape vines. It seems as though ye old ascendant Navarre has found himself a member of the great chorus mayhaps you'll hear their solemn songs and soon a warning however, they're circumlocution can be quite tedious. Good luck getting any actual truth out of them. Get it because Novar truth Truth Novar. In other news, I sense that you've passed on one of my lovely coins, and is quite pleased. Please accept this extension of curse word power. And remember, the people live for indulgence. Carry on children carry on. And then with a snap the bird closes its mouth and begins once again looking at each of you. expectedly
Unknown:um, what the fuck did
Bruce:I right? Wait, yeah, we'd have caught him up on that part. Did 106
Will:Ah, yeah, my my mask. I mean, I know. I know that you recognize what I am at this point because I told you but yeah, it has a lot to do with this entity. All of this is weird.
Fraser:When you that's a word quest.
Will:Weird. Question. Is it weird?
Bruce:Is this weird? Oh, it's weird. Okay, it's going to fucking weird.
Tanner:The weirdest thing is Mark bark. As you look at six. You could see the golden cracks on his mask continued to lengthen down the side of his face and one of them connects with the hole where his teal going through your eyes peek out. You feel a greater connection to this six. Go ahead and tell me what the boon is on it currently.
Will:So my current boon is that when I gain advantage when I I'm trying to persuade someone when it is helping save their lives.
Tanner:That Boon now extends to a deception.
Fraser:Oh shit. Okay, well, that's good,
Will:bro. You're making me broke.
Tanner:I'm for it broke his fuck. Okay. Now, Archie, you see this vision too. And as you think about it, you think about the mark on the back of your hand. The crescent moon that's there begins to fill out and become a fuller moon. And you can feel the powers of your boon also increase Can you tell me what the current boon is?
Bruce:The basic, I think, idea was I had advantage on perception checks using smell or hearing so non sight, okay.
Tanner:So as this moon fills out more, this power now extends to insight. So if you're trying to suss out of someone's you know, what their motives are, if they're telling the truth or something like that dog typically have a connection with people they can sense good people bad people. And they certainly don't do it through sight. It's typically holy,
Bruce:yeah, no, I get what you're saying. I mean, people people's biology changes when it changes when they lie so what should most people should some people I Okay,
Tanner:yep. So there you go. You guys are even more broken in social situations. Alright. This is it is certainly a weird thing that you're seeing Mark bark you can you can feel kind of this this power pulsing out of it. The the weirdest thing is the breaking up of whoever this person while this to you Raven was talking about because you did hear the static within there but
Bruce:that I hear in a in their herd and this
Tanner:is just you at this point six you heard the A Archie, you heard in a in
Bruce:an in a n and n was That was that was the first the first universe mummy movie. Oh knock Sula,
Unknown:Moon knock tsunami. Yeah, nice. Good rest is such good movies. Oh, they
Tanner:are such Scorpion King.
Bruce:Brendan Fraser mummies are such good movies. Brennan vago Tom Cruise mommy terrible. I assumed as much as because they tried to make a horror movie, didn't they?
Tanner:Well, they also tried to make a universe with it. So they brought in Russell Crowe who plays hide. Dr. Jekyll
Bruce:Ah,
Tanner:I see. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And it's so they were going to build like that. Yeah. Okay, we are gonna go in that. Okay. All right. So yeah, this happens. The Raven is just sitting there. Thank you.
Will:We'll see you later.
Tanner:It nods and flies off. Okay. Hey, you just dismissed it,
Bruce:man. It's not a crow. So I'm not gonna like give it a piece of bread. I feel like that'd be insulting. Yeah.
Tanner:Okay, so now you guys make your way back over to the look around
Bruce:and see if anybody else noticed screaming Raven.
Tanner:People are walking by and not paying attention. Okay,
Will:what did Aaron is your do
Bruce:do during this time? It doesn't matter because he's on drugs. So yes, our he's an outerspace do. He
Will:is fairly certain he is tripping balls. Yeah, my boy
Fraser:is gone.
Tanner:He's gone. But always there. It's very impressive. Alright, so okay. What plan are you formulating as you go to the edge? Alright,
Bruce:so here's how we're gonna do this.
Unknown:We no one's gonna explain the talking fucking bird. Really?
Will:Well, you're gonna have to meet St. Sebastian to understand the talking fucking bird. And as you say eloquently put it somewhat difficult
Bruce:because he's under
Unknown:seat seats, talking birds tattoos that change cracks on faces.
Bruce:Fingers crossed anyway.
Will:What was that? Oh, no. I heard an A it was more like
Bruce:I don't know. Anyway. It's not relevant right now. Let's let's let's handle what's immediately in front of us. And I'll explain that to you. On the way to the next spot. Yeah,
Fraser:we're starting to regret signing that contract.
Bruce:The contract has nothing to do with this. So it suits alright. Plus, you'll find out that every contract is breakable in some way shape. You
Will:can't say you can't say this isn't a little interesting.
Unknown:That's not the word I was going to use but I guess it fits
Bruce:the I said it was fucking wicked the first time I heard it too. Anyway. Alright, so the right whale summary. Purple golden bird is familiar of a circuit. I buy. He believes this is the last one to know are the names of a dying God wants to bring him back? Oh no man. Look at my character sheet it says fucking maybe near deity but that's just summary pretty much. Point is we're weed we almost died in a cave in some other cave as some dude there he cursed us it's kind of fucked up what he says his call I say it's fucked up because this
Will:um he did curses with these boons so
Bruce:that's some weird shit going on here but I don't have time to worry about that that's the least of my worries because he's not hurting me. So there's your summary. I really can't give you much more until we go find the guy again and we're gonna we're gonna find the guys if we go under the chasm on a nice sex was that city gold won't hold dear wound hold here that place went all those caves underneath it that lead to the side of it. And that's how I found a guy.
Will:I think we'll have to see St Sebastian again. So we'll make sure to introduce you. It'll make a lot more sense then.
Bruce:No, it won't. It won't make any more sense. It'll be just as fucking weird. Which is why it's kind of true. I want to explain to you in the first place. Doesn't help.
Unknown:I feel like my life is about to get a lot weirder hanging out with you too.
Bruce:Oh, we shouldn't wait. All right, let's make sure so let's get fucking weird. And the old space
Fraser:cadet over here.
Tanner:Oh, if you've never been to space, you should totally try it over us was I mean, the kosmos are the cause of everything that is most good.
Will:That's why they're called the castle. That was
Fraser:oh, that was good.
Bruce:Thank you. Thanks. So plan is blank. It's not a good one. But it's all I got. I mean, really, it's all we got. So we're gonna say that we interrupted the ritual of trying to summon some guy named dorm louder. I don't know. Bongo breath. What it Yeah, that guy. We interrupted it. We hit something on the stone. And some black myths came out. And all the Nixon overdose whatever the name is inheritors. The guys who aren't gonna get anything because they're all dead now. They started like, convulsing and dying. And so we ran and well, I shouldn't be dead and gone. Contract completed. We never saw Dennis so we assume he escaped already. Or something. I don't know. It doesn't matter. He was hurt before we found him. So it's irrelevant.
Unknown:It sounded like you were trying to come up with a lie. But you explained exactly what happened.
Bruce:Right? The lie is that we caused it. I mean, this was like 90% True, but still. Don't worry. I'll do all the talking. Say this is why I let him do talk. Hey, so
Tanner:what part do you want me to play in his whole fabrication? That is not a fabrication, but 10%? Apparently, I'm good at math.
Will:We need you as a character witness.
Bruce:You just got a thing. Come into the city.
Tanner:Yeah, no, I saw that. Yeah, it was.
Will:Also tell him that you don't know. Zeke glad foot. I don't know is the grab foot. Exactly. as well. Same
Fraser:page.
Bruce:No, don't. Don't wait. Don't bring up sake. You wouldn't even know if he knows Zeke. I went to him. He gave us his dentist. True.
Tanner:Oh, the nurses son. Their kids a fucking square.
Fraser:All the way do I remember? Yeah. You remember
Bruce:I said okay. And it's made it to mean does
Will:it did make it?
Tanner:Well, you never met Dennis. So it wouldn't be a sort of contradiction you would you were told that name from something else and it was Yeah, but Aaron is your does we didn't see it.
Will:Yeah, yep.
Bruce:Good Yeah. In our case is do the but in the fact that Aaron remember Sam is
Will:yeah, something What's the worst that could happen? Let's go
Bruce:I mean, nothing. Fucking tool.
Will:He ever
Tanner:he can make your name worth dog shit and all the red circles.
Bruce:I cut his fucking balls off and all the right circles.
Tanner:So you guys, you guys make your way over to the edge. Now just because it's it's a been a sticking point the few times that we visited this particular in slash tavern.
Will:How do you open the door? Mark Bart, will you open this door?
Unknown:Wait, wait, wait, wait. I learned from example pretty well. Okay.
Fraser:I punched the door.
Tanner:Hi, go ahead and roll an attack. Please just add your proficiency bonus as a D 20 plus three i think
Bruce:I'm slacking.
Fraser:That's a 13 plus three so 16 second
Bruce:love it. Okay.
Tanner:The door wasn't latched. Whoever went into it last did not close it all the way so you punch this door and it swings back and hits the wall behind is everyone in the bar turns towards you. The first thing they see is Mark bark there with a with a fist extended.
Bruce:I walked by and I fist bump his extended fist
Tanner:so weird scene in an anime where everything works out for the protagonist. pansy notices you come in, and tansy
Will:Good to see you again.
Tanner:I'm god, this is not going to work out well for me. Hi. Hello. Good conversation. What can I do for you? Are you here to
Will:alcohols? Oh my god, wait no that's not a signal guys don't do it
Fraser:up pulls my hands down just as they're going
Bruce:to see RG slowly as vein slowly going back into his skin as he comes out of his rage.
Will:We were actually here to meet that guy and appointed to charge him.
Tanner:Oh yeah, he's flipping through a book over near the fire. The weirdest.
Will:Come, come, come come.
Tanner:No, it's not it's not it's it's okay good. Um, the weird thing that you guys notice about him right now is he's in a chair that does not fit this place. This motherfucker got a chair somewhere and brought it into pansies in and has placed it there for him to sit in while he's in front of the fireplace.
Bruce:I'm not surprised. tawdry
Will:great news.
Tanner:Oh, good. Good. You've finished the the job that I've paid you for already in full.
Will:Well, no, you still owe us more money.
Tanner:All right. Did you finish the job?
Will:Everyone's dead.
Tanner:Everyone one in the town is dead.
Will:No doubt your son is still alive. We believe we'd never met him.
Tanner:So wait. So how could my son denef? How do you know that he's alive if you never met him?
Will:Because you remember him?
Tanner:I would remember my son whether or not he was alive. If he died, I would still mourn his death.
Bruce:Do you remember the sound Baker?
Tanner:The town Baker? I have my own Who else
Unknown:do you Who else do you remember from town names and folks?
Tanner:Well, there was Lord Commander Heron there was 600 Yeah, we helped
Bruce:him I met him Yeah, okay
Tanner:there was the commander of the church God who I didn't hire him so
Bruce:you should fire all of them and they're not they're not worth what you're paying them
Tanner:the church really pays for them I don't have any control over who they choose.
Bruce:All right, well then if it's free, it's free.
Will:It's kind of like yeah, clergy such I understand.
Tanner:But then the there's there's the the the person who runs doting doublets and other grateful garments in town and then name is and you could see the the the look wash over his face this sort of confusion of
Bruce:he didn't make it. She didn't make it. They didn't know. We they?
Tanner:I don't have I don't remember everyone that's in town. I'm I'm an important man. There's not. Did you get rid of the next inheritors?
Bruce:Yeah, actually, I got some bad news for you, though. Your sons the reason that they
Tanner:might do dentists Would not I sent him to that school. And he would I'm just nodding.
Bruce:I'm just nodding, like very slowly, like, at very knowingly, like there's clearly no lie in my face because it's true.
Will:Yeah, unfortunately. Dennis, let's call it a rebellious phase.
Tanner:Dennis doesn't have a rebellious bone in his body, nor the strength of character to lie to me in any state of form, or to go against my best wishes. So I'm disinclined to believe you. I think he wanted to look cool. Got enrolled persuasion with advantage because everyone's opening that around you.
Bruce:And it's also the truth
Will:okay, so that is a 14 plus five now Holy shit 18 Again, game planners fun thing that he gave me is
Tanner:boy has always been a little shit. A disappointment Well, I'm not done ruminating on this particular thoughts if you'll please allow me to finish my stay.
Will:I was just gonna suggest he has a stupid name
Tanner:it's not easy enough. Now please continue
Bruce:well, that's probably a smart decision, honestly. But yeah, next inheritors, gone. It's a stupid name. They don't hear it. And
Will:look, I don't know that you really care about how happen, but
Bruce:he doesn't he specifically told us he doesn't care how we did it and he didn't want to know.
Tanner:Did you leave a lot of dead bodies? No, no No probably not. I
Will:don't think you can find too many dead people. Well
Tanner:there's someone cut in half there's someone that smoked you don't know if it takes dead bodies or not. Oh, I
Bruce:was gonna say there might be two people shoved in the closet but and also those bodies were all burned to unrecognizable and he told us I didn't even know they were able to be seen as body because it was magic burning so I figured it cremated him and I could be wrong.
Tanner:They'll leave a smell but okay,
Bruce:but the body is not there so it doesn't matter because he asked about bodies
Tanner:what's his name was pit was just chopped in half and left in a corner go yesterday
Will:I wrote a 15 Minus one but as late as part of this whole explanation, I'll say yeah, you we did catch two two guys are going through your study. There. They're currently locked up in the closet. they ransacked that place. I think they took a few valuable items. Very very messy. Another one took like a really nice bottle of wine. Oh boy. You're gonna need to get these things checked out. A bottle of wine it was a frown. Merkins Chablis
Tanner:Oh, okay.
Fraser:Sure Billy
Tanner:weighty protects the Chablis.
Fraser:I told him not to
Tanner:wait if you if you if you caught them all would would they not? Did you not did you not? Did you not find did you not find it the bottle?
Fraser:Nope, it was gone.
Tanner:You can see his eyes
Bruce:start to tear up bad look at six and I just I just give him a very wide eyed. Keep your fucking mouth shut. Look.
Unknown:Did did this bottle of Chablis have some meaning to you? You seem attached to it.
Tanner:It is grown at the Queen's Own vineyard on the castle aisle on the lake. It's her there's only the grapes don't exist anymore. They brought them over from the old country when?
Will:Oh wow, that sounds expensive. How much is that worth? The amount that I already told you? It was like three said 3000 either. He would say
Unknown:man I can't wait to I mean, I wish I could get a taste of that way extinct Great.
Tanner:Choudry finally recognizes it turns to you? Who the fuck are you? Well, I'm
Fraser:Marbach. Smooth, of course.
Tanner:Oh, as if it's supposed to mean and he's
Bruce:a bit out we brought in because they were doing some kind of weird ritual.
Tanner:Where do you find him? On the road? In business. Okay. All right. No need I feel
Bruce:I feel like me on the road six would not have been in the prison but okay. On the road
Tanner:in prison in what? Prison?
Fraser:He's confused. He doesn't know what he's talking about. I was never in prison out. No, the road feels like a prison
Will:to me.
Tanner:Roll deception advantage with the road. Oh, wow.
Bruce:You're already given an advantage and Okay, nevermind.
Tanner:I'm gonna allow that because I liked it. I I work before before you say anything. I just want to want to give some sort of visual idea of of wills current state of being I can only describe it as a little boy pee dance.
Will:I have. It's even better than that. I haven't rolled it that 20 it'll allow me Yes, I did get in that 24 By advantage. Thank you for the advantage because the first role was a natural one.
Tanner:Wow, either end of the spectrum. Chandra, you know, his face remains the same he he's sort of sniffs up his tears actually pulled back into his tear duct. Wow. And again, a little bit alright, he nods at this and as he looks you up and down Mark bark. What he does notice is the bag hanging from you. I'm sorry. That's a very nice bag that you have there. Oh, shit.
Fraser:Hello, thank you. I have acquired this in my travels over the years. It's a very special bag to me. Oh, and I need
Bruce:you like 95% There was no this gription given for that bag,
Tanner:I said it was a black bag but bags. Yeah, but it
Fraser:was black leather. No,
Bruce:my point is there's no there's no obviously indicating factor that we've noticed that was owned by somebody so that means we may have just shot ourselves in the foot.
Tanner:Oh, yeah. Tell me where? On your travels. Did you get such a thing? I think I would like to pick one up myself.
Fraser:Oh, I couldn't possibly remember I've had so i
Tanner:i You must you must try. No, I
Fraser:I swear it was a gift from an old friend.
Tanner:Oh, do you remember the name of the old friend?
Fraser:Round Oh, hold on. Let's Randall maybe. Randall Yes. Yes, that sounds right it like I said it's been us Sure. Yeah. How many years? Oh, many,
Tanner:many great. Your deception for me.
Will:Please get them at 20 Oh, cool. That's your bag. Nice bag.
Fraser:Oh, that is a 10 plus seven.
Will:Oh shit. Yeah,
Fraser:that charisma has really helped me Oh,
Tanner:the funny thing is like I have no I have a bag that looks just like that. So good taste I suppose. Sorry for the massive amount of inquiry.
Fraser:Oh quite alright. Great Minds my friend great minds.
Tanner:Sure. Sure. Okay, so the three of you are telling me that the job is done now Forgive me if I don't quite
Will:have sorry. I'll just have we did this thing for this guy getting paid by him We robbed
Bruce:like anybody listening to this podcast site going any other way.
Fraser:I knew what was in my bag.
Tanner:So okay, I once again I'm sorry if I if I seem a bit distrusting of you. But this is a contract and I would like prove that the contract has been fulfilled before I pay you the remaining 75 either. You have any proof that you got rid of the next inherited problem?
Will:Aaron is your
Tanner:he finally looks over to the bar who is actually wandering through the bar just touching people on their shoulder. Man this is like us like heaviness. Like you know if you ever wanted to rubber like the softest cow and it's just made of butter. I mean, it is such a good feeling man and the guy that he's rubbing. It's just he is so weirded out at this point. He's just rubbing his suede jacket.
Will:My phasers.
Tanner:That is your arm. I mean, I recognize Aaron as you're sure if you can get him out of a drug induced stupor for long enough I could potentially see him as a decent witness in this situation. He was chronicle lysing the whole thing
Will:Hey, Aaron, Aaron. Yeah. Oh,
Tanner:hey. Oh man. What are you guys doing here? How did you i It's been so long
Will:Oh, yes. Oh, five minutes. Blog type Hey, can you please tell John Kerry what you saw? Oh, I don't leave anything out. I can sing it please fucking do
Tanner:my mouth he sings the song of his people was sitting outside it's been a day light with my own company I was so high then I'll look to the town and owed something crushing glass buyers past left Milan drag dude those fellows I help stir up trouble there disguise left my eyes double but I held it the skills that I casting down songs I'm weaving words leaving so fast. In the silence she came from the east. Run my eyelids jobs I didn't know save. I could say to the latest new monster. Dark in stock sounds of signing Jim buster. Caught in Smoke inks the choke all I'm feeling Ha ha I know is to run but I really forces dark at the heart. Now it's chasing, realizing, despising, disgracing all the earth that it touches for God 10 For the moment inside it is carved in and it reveals like it feels something pulling rushing out is not far this door calling for walls flutes it always it seeps through cracks and seams stones beams just like dreams do. But the city have empties on broken. Nothing dead left unsaid for the scroll King. Now the reason I sat on the stove has me stumped like a chunk off for nothing. Is this darkness in my head? Or is it some new plague that is paid for a visit. That's all I can decry within I dread the mask and the sword and the wolf herd Chowdhry is I don't want to have to roll persuasion for my own fucking song. So what I need you guys to do is you know what, this was all the truth. It's all the truth. You've told him the truth. It's up to him whether or not he wants to believe it. And he looks over this over over the four of you. All of this is so immensely unbelievable.
Bruce:Imagine how we feel we lived it. I agree.
Tanner:Is my home safe and free of the incursion placed upon it by these young people?
Fraser:The only way you're going to believe us is to go home and see it yourself.
Tanner:Well, then I won't pay you until I see this. If that is your argument,
Bruce:you seem trustworthy. I don't believe you to withhold payment on a job complete. There's a less of a threat in there. And by the way, just so you know, turn your
Tanner:role intimidation
Bruce:17 Okay.
Tanner:You can see his face. It goes sort of very neutral. When you say this, the severity that he's carried on his face kind of disappears. Fine. Put it this way, every thing in life is business Correct? Indeed. So what I will do is I will go ahead and pay you your remaining. I will go ahead and pay you your remaining 75 either. And I will go home, assess the situation and if I have any issues I will get in contact with you. If you're not opposed to that, then neither am I.
Bruce:Two things one things sure your armory was open some other gotten the armory, I would you would definitely check that out. And two, you will find two greencoat stuffed in a closet. Your study they've been in there for how long are you gonna say Baba now about 50. So ours probably won't survive much longer. So when you get there, you're sure that you're gonna clean up dead bodies. Fine. All right.
Tanner:And he pulls out his purse and begins counting out a few coin. He counts out 75 fighter and hands it over
Bruce:to you divided into three and hand it to six and
Will:wait. Yes, 70 wasn't? What was the original agreed upon amount?
Tanner:Are you asking him?
Will:No, I'm not I'm asking the
Bruce:agreement was 150 Now 130 later?
Will:Yeah. I'm actually looking at it. You know, I don't really care about either. But Archie if you remember. Was it the agreement for 150 and 150?
Bruce:Parties just counting out three stacks of 25 He's waiting to see and not even really looking at challenge. Are you just waiting to see what his reaction is at six asking that question. Well,
Tanner:now we agreed on 150 and 75. The upfront was for the extra items you needed to complete the quest.
Unknown:Then why did you say you had paid us half Yes, why?
Tanner:He looks over at you and he a bit of a snarl comes on his face. Fine, it is the you got to deal get a deal where you can. You don't keep money by spending money and he counts out the other 75 and hands it over to you.
Fraser:No hard feelings. Everything in life is business.
Tanner:Yes, it is.
Will:You know that's kind of noble but in its own way.
Bruce:Archie is going to take his two stacks 25 and combine them together and he's gonna say he's gonna slide them back over to Chandran. He shouldn't be like, consider this an investment on some of the damage I may have caused. On some damage you may have caused. Well, no fight goes. If it goes, Are you always playing it to go?
Tanner:Alright. And he takes it back and puts it back in his purse.
Will:Shit. I didn't expect that from Archie.
Bruce:He's already got he's not like well, it. Huawei
Tanner:is hard business. Okay. Look, so I, I believe we're on the level at this point. I don't have if you can imagine many allies, like you understand where I'm coming from.
Bruce:As far as I'm concerned, after you walk out of here, I've never met you. I might meet you again down the road, but I've never met you up until I meet you again.
Tanner:But how would you like to actually have met me? And also help me out with my new barony in parotia? I need people who can get things done. dangerous people.
Bruce:Are you implying the ability to act under authority of the Barony?
Tanner:Well, of course you would have to leave bathe, yes. But yes, you would have the authority of a barony behind everything you do.
Bruce:Oh, I see. So it would be a direct employment not an employment of all of us so to speak, would be cutting the cutting the fat from the meat so to speak.
Tanner:Sure, no middleman.
Fraser:I knew I shouldn't have signed that goddamn contract.
Will:Well, we're unfortunately we are under contractual obligation. Maybe when the contract is up, we can talk irony does sound pretty powerful.
Tanner:I could buy out a contract easily.
Bruce:Six and mod my head was here but I like bass. I like working with him of his gym and go hang out here.
Will:I was only going to go if you were going to go Archie. I'm staying bathe as well
Bruce:as a smirk on Archie's face and kind of note denotes it and he's definitely smell and what Chandra is stepping in there.
Tanner:Aaron comes on, you know, between you guys and puts his arms over you guys. And um, you can't buy on a zoo or either baby I'm sticking with the life that I have chosen and that is making the greatest music you've ever heard, but also chronicling the whole Adventures of these two dummies and this new dummy to so these are my best friends ever. You cannot buy me out Choudry Abla
Bruce:thumbs back towards Erin. Yeah. Well, Erin said
Tanner:John Kerry looks completely unamused at this and says fine. Should I have need of your assistance in the future I will reach out to Baeth I believe that we could greatly assist one another. I have connections that Baeth does not have especially in the capital. So when I make my move on parotia and reclaiming the area I will call upon you if you would like to make more either.
Bruce:However, whenever you need a skull cracked, you let us know. Very good.
Tanner:At this point. I bid you adieu I am going to turn in I have an early morning trip back to morrow. Back to well at home for now. I can't tell you parotia It was a beautiful place before it well was abandoned. So have a wonderful night everyone. I will see you in the future. And he begins to walk off
Will:parotia was a bed and
Bruce:he walks out so I guess he goes upstairs right? Yeah, he goes alright, it's pansy over the bar. Jess, I walk over there and I slide 10 gold over and I say that if you want a down whatever he's orders in the morning. Well,
Tanner:I'd have to double water it down but sure. Perfect. Alright, so at this point Choudry has gone back up the four of you the three of you and Aaron is your are still at the inside. What do you do?
Bruce:I'm gonna get well okay. Oh boy the six asked about why Archie gave the money back.
Will:No. Six first of all doesn't care about money. Second of all, trust Archie with everything at this point so maybe Mark BART has something to say
Fraser:yeah Marburg looks at sixth and Archie and says, Don't you gentlemen think it's time to celebrate and reaches down into the bag of holding and pulls out a very fancy bottle of Chablis and pops that sucker open and takes a big old swig and passes it to Archie.
Tanner:Except when you reach down into the bag, something grabs ahold of your wrist and pulls you down in