Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos - The Big Sleep 02

[00:00:16] The Rancors Brothel presents the big sleep of Cthulhu Mythos 5e Adventure

[00:01:24] And they actually roll down like a rope ladder. It probably works for her. No, it's worth a shot. He feeds me

[00:01:35] Oh

[00:01:37] Paws are tied. She says I assure you're not a you are not under any suspicion of crime then why must be murder on your throat

[00:01:44] Not bad after a while. That's gonna suck. No

[00:01:48] She says

[00:01:50] Just gotta keep the sentences. I couldn't help but notice you are more

[00:01:54] Useful than the other patrons. I'd like to record any of your observations while they're still fresh

[00:01:58] I believe the phrase of my people is fuck you pay me. I

[00:02:01] I

[00:02:05] Like the idea that Flynn is just silently miming like anything is a hype man to any of the things that we say

[00:02:13] thrusting in the air

[00:02:15] Licking his own ass. Oh

[00:02:17] Constant all the day do that thing where cats like hold the one hold the hind leg up and like completely spread eagle

[00:02:24] And then look at you with their butthole show. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Who loves kitty?

[00:02:30] Who looks kitty tie intimidate stand-up and I can't remember who did it anyway

[00:02:39] Yeah, no she basically orders you to come with her

[00:02:44] It just feels like she is the law

[00:02:47] It's a nice way of ordering

[00:02:51] She's polite about it being volatile. Yes, you are being volatile. I

[00:02:56] Look at the I look at the artificer I'm I'm a shrug and just like

[00:03:01] Which is gonna be easier. I also shrug

[00:03:05] I'm going up the ladder

[00:03:08] She says bring the cat do you have cleaning myself? Do you have a carrier? I'm not touching I think

[00:03:14] It probably sits on the ghoul shoulder a cast leash

[00:03:19] One of those backpacks

[00:03:22] Query

[00:03:25] Closest I've got a snare and that's first level spell

[00:03:28] No, I could see a situation where Cyrus will just put like one clawed hand on the table and Flynn could just

[00:03:36] Bound up and like nestle in the scraggly scruffy

[00:03:41] Hair pussy gross flesh of the ghoul. Yeah

[00:03:45] Yeah, we're gonna find out how far you can throw me and how hard

[00:03:52] I take minimal fall damage. Yes, I assume also includes throwing damage

[00:03:57] I mean a throw is just a fall but like horizontal. Yeah. Yeah, it's probably slower than

[00:04:03] Yeah

[00:04:06] Yeah, well, that's always do you?

[00:04:08] You just wait I got some I got I got some things coming for this build

[00:04:12] We get a couple levels in they go be some some good times. Oh, yeah, you guys are

[00:04:17] Put into a wagon and you were brought

[00:04:19] A

[00:04:20] Few streets down to a building known as the Hall of Justice

[00:04:24] I like the thought that I'm put into a wagon and everyone else is sitting around me

[00:04:28] The wagon is put into you. Yes

[00:04:31] Now I am the table

[00:04:35] It's a large stone building that serves as the city's jail and courthouse as well as the headquarters of the city guard and

[00:04:41] the faith's arbiters

[00:04:44] You

[00:04:47] Guys are put into a spare room for a minute while they sort of

[00:04:52] Enter the other two into the system if you will

[00:04:56] Are we locked in this room?

[00:04:59] It's not locked but the door is definitely closed did they not it's not a it's not a

[00:05:04] It's not observed in this room

[00:05:07] There was a guard outside. Yes, you're the refreshments standing there. That's my question

[00:05:13] foods punch a pie water sir mouse

[00:05:17] Probably is there a ventilation shaft in this room

[00:05:21] There may be a window

[00:05:24] But after a moment, is there a window?

[00:05:27] It's a very important question right now after a moment. The old man looks at you and says you you did well back there

[00:05:33] in the tavern

[00:05:35] your free thinkers

[00:05:38] You're not

[00:05:40] scheming toadies, you know

[00:05:42] It's a slur this culture think it is probably I mean thought was finally resent that statement

[00:05:52] As a cousin to amphibians, I'm a little perturbed sir

[00:05:59] and after a little while the

[00:06:02] The woman returns the arbiter or the dark herd one the Arbiter. Ah, sorry

[00:06:08] I

[00:06:09] very different scenarios the old man kind of holds up a hand and and and interrupts her immediately and says Arbiter I

[00:06:16] community for your hard work today

[00:06:18] Unless I must ask to leave now

[00:06:20] I don't blame you for not recognizing me if you have seen me outside the palace grounds recently

[00:06:25] I take care not to be noticed. I'm a tracks King. What the hell thought so

[00:06:30] If you need confirmation my of my identity send for a captain Rahak and the arbiter just laughs she says oh

[00:06:36] You're the king

[00:06:37] It's one I haven't heard too often and they kind of engage in conversation for a moment until someone

[00:06:43] Literally runs up to her and says the king is missing. I

[00:06:47] Shit, you know, this is how it's written

[00:06:49] What would think the sheriff would know what the king looks like regardless if he's been outside the palace a lot

[00:06:53] He's in disguise

[00:06:57] Technically, she's not a point that they run in and say the king is missing

[00:07:01] Literally Cyrus just lifts one massive paw and points at the old man. Yeah, and she she just looks at the messenger and says

[00:07:09] She says

[00:07:11] Sin for Katherine Rahak we have what he's looking for

[00:07:15] And the guy runs off. He says your highness. Let's get you situated. Sorry. She says your highness

[00:07:20] Let's get you situated in a more suitable room and she takes him out and leaves you alone for a moment

[00:07:24] So both she I want to go with the nice room

[00:07:27] Yeah

[00:07:29] We're the princess

[00:07:30] After assault a crime and found the king

[00:07:33] Your cat you could have just followed out

[00:07:35] See this is where we need to have your voice because all this fun stuff needs to be said to

[00:07:39] NPCs so that Lucas has to respond to your sass

[00:07:44] About ten or fifteen minutes later

[00:07:46] doorbell opens back up and they say a guard says please come with me and

[00:07:52] They bring you to a completely different room

[00:07:55] You need to be absorbed you need to absorb a helm of telepathy Flynn. Yep, that's the one

[00:08:02] I can make one of those look later

[00:08:05] King a track sits on a plain wooden chair

[00:08:07] I got a job for you golden light streaming through the windows behind him a

[00:08:12] Pale thin man and gleaming plate armor bearing the black bore sigil of Axe vane stands beside him

[00:08:18] Arbiter Reinhardt is also present standing on his other side

[00:08:22] Both warriors sort of appearing to be competing over who can seem more stoic

[00:08:27] the king seemingly completely unaffected by or

[00:08:31] Simply dis disinterested by their lack of good cheer addresses you as I was saying before

[00:08:37] You

[00:08:39] Equited yourselves well in the tavern

[00:08:42] It is clear you are individuals of skill and savvy

[00:08:46] And with that mind I have a proposition for you and he takes a long drink long drink of wine as I almost dropped my book

[00:08:54] From an enormous gablet gablet goblet

[00:09:00] Yeah, it's a Wisconsin goblet

[00:09:06] You know what now I want it to be shaped like a turkey leg

[00:09:11] Like it's

[00:09:14] You know it's a it's got the bone

[00:09:16] But it's got the whole like thigh going up and it's just carved in the middle gap to get it

[00:09:21] It's got the little little dangly thing and he sets it on the window in the bottom

[00:09:26] He sets it on the windows though and in the window so you see you also see next to where he sets the gablet

[00:09:35] I'm gonna go with it now

[00:09:38] For change his accent that's his accent from now

[00:09:40] Wisconsin for

[00:09:44] Leather pouches and

[00:09:49] The captain and the arbiter who do not drink and do not move sort of stand even more still

[00:09:56] So King wipes his mouth

[00:09:58] on his sleeve he says

[00:10:00] These damned cultists are getting to be a real problem

[00:10:04] And I'd like to hope I'd like you to help me track them down root them out

[00:10:08] Find out where they're meeting

[00:10:11] Where they get their victims

[00:10:14] Where they dump the bodies?

[00:10:16] Track it all back to the source so we can strike them down before they plunge the city into chaos

[00:10:21] buddies

[00:10:23] victims yes

[00:10:24] they're

[00:10:26] sacrificing people I think

[00:10:31] Lunch for this guy. He'll be eating well for days

[00:10:37] I mean

[00:10:38] He says one man's trash

[00:10:40] He's gonna meet three-course meal. He looks over his shoulder at the window

[00:10:44] So and looks back to you says hey the pay is generous

[00:10:47] 250 gold pieces right now just upon acceptance. That's a trap. I don't have pockets

[00:10:54] Somebody hold on to your gold for you don't worry

[00:10:56] Throw in our guild fees and you got you guys have a deal killed fees good fees

[00:11:01] Oh spell casters done see how that works fellas

[00:11:07] You are a prime

[00:11:10] So 250 upfront you never said anything about the other parts of the payment though to be fair

[00:11:15] I don't know what kind of world this is but normally 250 G's is a pretty solid pay. Oh, yeah pretty decent

[00:11:22] 250 gold not thousand

[00:11:25] 250 G's to enter the gold letter for gold is G

[00:11:31] 250 a use

[00:11:34] Perfect now you can see 250 hours

[00:11:37] It's a lot of money. Yeah, you know wrong do we do we have the cord do you need the bodies back?

[00:11:47] He kind of looks at he looks at Arbiter Reinhardt and she says

[00:11:51] No, but I'll give you 15 gold apiece for every sigil that you bring back to me, okay good

[00:11:59] I

[00:12:00] Said oh sigil doesn't sound like the word hole to me

[00:12:05] Saying do some cool shit with some bodies

[00:12:09] Sigil I mean we're talking like a house thing. It's a it's a silver necklace

[00:12:15] With a pendant on it that is the emblem of the cult of South Agua, okay?

[00:12:20] So oh

[00:12:22] Okay, it's not bad. Just get to court yet. It's a cult

[00:12:25] pendant is one of this okay?

[00:12:27] cult personality

[00:12:32] Nobody gonna sing it look at my

[00:12:34] That's it. What do you see fucking sing it? It's parody

[00:12:40] God knows no one's gonna mistake us for the originals

[00:12:44] So you will receive 250 gold right now

[00:12:49] Try to wrote it down plus plus the

[00:12:52] taking care

[00:12:53] guilt fees

[00:12:57] Yeah spell casting the area are can go piece to care tuna

[00:13:01] Hmm all the tuna you can handle well we tuna

[00:13:04] Bubble be good. Why albacore?

[00:13:07] Hmm what albacore?

[00:13:09] white

[00:13:11] done

[00:13:12] that cheap shit

[00:13:14] Done do you have any magical weapons that help us our quest?

[00:13:18] Magical weapons that can help me speak with my mind. No, but I wish I could I

[00:13:23] Didn't really read that part of the book

[00:13:26] I mean our magical items

[00:13:29] more or less

[00:13:30] Present in this yeah, no they exist they exist there are specific magic items to this scenario

[00:13:36] Yeah, which will come up when they come up, but as of now. It's it's whatever he says

[00:13:42] He says I'm gonna give you each a letter bearing the king my sigil

[00:13:47] My seal explaining that you are deputized members of the faith arbiters as he points to Reinhardt

[00:13:54] Says you're authorized to gather evidence you can question suspected cultists

[00:13:59] intervene to stop cold activity in progress and

[00:14:01] Till the city guards your faith arbiters arrive of course most citizens will respect the seal

[00:14:07] They will cooperate with your investigation

[00:14:10] Reinhardt does step in and says let's be clear. You are not city guard you are investigating the situation I

[00:14:16] Know what I heard

[00:14:24] Kind of I heard we've been deputized and our officers of the law

[00:14:28] She says she has my resources are kind of stretched at them, so you are

[00:14:34] Key to this investigation there are four main questions that I want you to help sort of investigate when you're talking to people

[00:14:41] Or when you're looking around

[00:14:45] What do the cultists believe

[00:14:47] Sathagua where do they get one recruits and funding?

[00:14:51] Sathagua water their plans

[00:14:55] Sathagua and why are they murdering people?

[00:14:58] That was definitely Sathagua like I feel like we're at least two for four already guys

[00:15:04] It's like when you get the quest in the RPG and then you back out of the cutscene

[00:15:08] It's already check marked off the boxes question the third. What are their plans?

[00:15:12] She says you can bring me progress reports at least every two days

[00:15:16] Unless you have something significant that you need to interrupt my day with

[00:15:20] Can also order a city guard

[00:15:25] To lend you assistance if I need to

[00:15:28] cannon fodder

[00:15:36] Can I get a city guard

[00:15:39] She says

[00:15:40] For one that's not too lean but not you know, too chunky. I'm trying to watch my figure. She says

[00:15:48] She says these are

[00:15:50] If you don't already know they're they're they're cultists connected to an ancient idol worshiper known as the green monks

[00:15:57] Say that one more time. Sorry. They're an ain't they are a they're cultists

[00:16:02] Connected to an ancient idol worshiper

[00:16:04] Known as the green monks

[00:16:08] Billy idol any solid info

[00:16:12] That you can find please absolutely bring to me they worship something called the toad demon we also know it as the sleeper

[00:16:19] Whatever that means

[00:16:25] It's asleep like four times on the cover yeah, it's a it's a cult that's been around for over 400 years

[00:16:35] Someone in power with some guards or police they weren't

[00:16:40] They weren't really active until very recently

[00:16:44] In fact, we thought we had snuffed them out it was the previous administrations problem

[00:16:49] They didn't handle it is is the cult mostly a concern of this kingdom or do you know if the other kingdoms?

[00:17:00] Have the same issues or if they've if it's spread that far it's a very good question

[00:17:05] I mean over 400 years they could have

[00:17:08] spread to

[00:17:09] empires beyond our borders

[00:17:11] How as I'm aware how will how will our

[00:17:15] Deputization go over in those other kingdoms. Well, I mean obviously like we want to see they have the same

[00:17:23] you have the seal of of a tracks of vaccine that's as far as you make out in terms of

[00:17:29] investigating the situation currently

[00:17:31] His seal will probably not get you far and yeti even or ends. I mean

[00:17:35] Yeah, so I'm trying like I don't know are these you know

[00:17:40] two houses of Verona situation or

[00:17:43] Atrax almost chuckles a little bit and says Queen of yeti would have me dead if she could

[00:17:49] So don't show these outside of city limits got it. He's sort of shrugs and smiles. She says

[00:17:57] It's a broad investigation

[00:17:59] I could suggest maybe starting at the Abbey of st. Berthold father. Yokai is an expert in heresies

[00:18:06] demonology eldritch threats

[00:18:08] He might be able to supply you some information the two individuals that you brought to us were found guilty of

[00:18:16] Being cultists

[00:18:18] The woman's name was

[00:18:21] Zusanna z su z sa n na

[00:18:27] The the man's name was Dominic

[00:18:29] dum I n I k he said she says

[00:18:34] We found on them both

[00:18:39] Emblems of sathagwa so your investigation and does that count as delivering two symbols to you guys like 30?

[00:18:48] She sort of chuckles and says no

[00:18:54] But she she has confirmed that they they were they are found cultists for sure

[00:18:59] What was the our contact at the Abbey? What was his name?

[00:19:04] father

[00:19:05] Yokai

[00:19:06] A o a c h i m perhaps it's yokim. She says the woman's Zusanna

[00:19:13] She had a room in a small boarding house

[00:19:15] Mrs. Vanders is what it's called. It's in the slums

[00:19:20] Dominic was often seen and an end called the copper coin

[00:19:24] He runs out of room there if I were you I would start with

[00:19:28] the Abbey

[00:19:30] any other

[00:19:33] Areas of

[00:19:35] More than heavier cultist activity

[00:19:39] That we're aware of no

[00:19:42] victims

[00:19:43] Corpses have been found across the city in every corner of the city. We're not sure where they're being killed

[00:19:50] But based on the victim we found today

[00:19:52] He was not killed where he was found the body was dropped off somewhere and perhaps was being

[00:19:57] Transported to another location at the time that we found the suspects before we chased him down. We'd be allowed to examine any

[00:20:05] Victims that you may currently have

[00:20:12] We if you wish you could see the body that we found today it might help sure um, and she

[00:20:22] Bowels to the king who gives her a nod and you can all follow her to a different room

[00:20:26] She brings us a different room. She says um, uh, we believe his name was greger gregor zim. He was some sort of uh,

[00:20:34] You know passerby a visitor to the city we found no blood in the alley where the cultists were carrying him

[00:20:41] So he was likely killed somewhere else and when we asked around

[00:20:45] We found that he had been staying in a an inn called the felled oak

[00:20:49] It's not too far from the alley where he was found actually a couple blocks down from the three skulls

[00:20:53] You can investigate there if you wish kind of wounds this homeboy half

[00:20:59] Multiple stab wounds

[00:21:02] Any pattern how many

[00:21:04] seems

[00:21:05] completely random front back side

[00:21:08] everywhere at two

[00:21:11] At two brutus at two

[00:21:13] How long has the corpse been dead?

[00:21:16] Not quite a day

[00:21:17] Happened probably this morning at this point. You're getting on into the evening of the day, right? So are we still in prison?

[00:21:26] We're not in prison we're in a prison

[00:21:30] Sorry, let's move forward

[00:21:32] Uh, you've seen the victim and you have some leads

[00:21:36] You're a lot of leads. Yeah, you do have a lot of leads

[00:21:39] It's almost as if they laid out the entire goddamn campaign for you. And now are all these locations here

[00:21:45] Yeah, everything's in the city

[00:21:46] Well, you started talking about leaving city limits and then you started talking about geographical locations

[00:21:49] He was asking about leaving city. Well, I understand that

[00:21:52] I was just I didn't know if some of these were outside of city limits

[00:21:54] Which by the way is like a three week days travel

[00:21:58] Like a three week travel to get to yike any if you wanted to get to yet fiend

[00:22:02] Real fucking far. It's not just over the border. Let's do it

[00:22:05] I still don't know why the fuck we're here because we're like literally in the ass end of nowhere with no reason other than to

[00:22:10] Solve this mystery, which is fine. Welcome to d&d but I was also like

[00:22:13] So much it never matter. It always starts in a tavern dude. It doesn't always start in tavern

[00:22:18] It almost always starts almost always starts in a tavern. Well, those are their exceptions that prove the rule

[00:22:23] It's the cliche starting point horde of the dragon queen does not start in a tavern. Yeah, it did. Yeah, pretty sure it did

[00:22:28] No, it didn't you're on a caravan and you ride into town and the place is on fire

[00:22:33] I was gonna say uh

[00:22:35] Moving you also altered the end of that to make it more interesting

[00:22:38] Uh, the one where we had the carnival. We started didn't start in a tavern. Yeah, that's newer though

[00:22:44] That doesn't kill us different you started at the carnival. I was gonna say, uh, I would say fun tavern

[00:22:49] Ravenloft but ravenloft absolutely. Yeah, I was absolutely starting a big tavern

[00:22:53] You're not in a tavern for long, but you're at a tavern

[00:22:55] Well, you have to burn down somehow tavern along the way

[00:22:58] Uh, you do often start a lot in jail and out of the abyss we started in jail

[00:23:02] Yeah, pretty solid jeff rothig is why bethesda took that as a cliche

[00:23:07] Starting point for every game they put out. Oh, yeah starting in jail is pretty solid

[00:23:11] At least you know why you're there

[00:23:13] It's true

[00:23:15] Unless you're in marowind and then you're like, I don't know

[00:23:17] I'm just gonna go watch you dive off a tree and then never fucking finish that quest

[00:23:22] I

[00:23:24] Track my side quest

[00:23:27] Very much walk out of city and some guy dies out of a tree and you're like

[00:23:30] I'll never pick this up again because the journal in this game is garbage

[00:23:34] I feel like this is

[00:23:35] lucas's impressions

[00:23:38] If you ever finish whatever fucking quest he's talking about in marowind

[00:23:42] Right in tell me how to do it because I have all lucas an idiot

[00:23:45] Um send us a message I just want to get on a strider and go to vivek and hang out in the library

[00:23:53] nerd

[00:23:54] It's a beautiful city

[00:23:56] Says the man playing a cat

[00:23:59] Beautiful city. It's a beautiful city of mayan pyramids that are for high elves

[00:24:03] If he's a cat it's all sass

[00:24:06] It's required so it sounds like we were supposed to go to the abbey because that's the narrative thing

[00:24:10] But the place where the body was found sounds like combat and I feel like yeah, there are bars

[00:24:14] There are seedy brothel places. Yeah, no, there are options like the abbey seems like the last place they're gonna be like

[00:24:21] Oh, it could be so thalegwa. I'm like I knew that my cat sense

[00:24:27] Father because he may have more info but

[00:24:30] It's gonna be annoying right 100 percent

[00:24:33] me

[00:24:34] All the characters in here are gonna be from goddamn letter kenny

[00:24:38] Is miss vander's boarding house on the way to the abbey?

[00:24:42] Uh

[00:24:43] The city map not really a city map. I don't even think they'd give me a city map

[00:24:48] I ain't not gonna lie with the cat care about the brothel a sense of camaraderie perhaps. Yeah true

[00:24:55] Guys, I think we should go to the cat house. I don't know what it is, but sounds pretty cool

[00:25:01] Here's a lot of pussy there. Yeah

[00:25:04] See now we need to add in the clips if we're gonna get seven seconds

[00:25:06] We need from dusk till dawn. So the copper coin

[00:25:09] Um is not that far from the tavern you started then

[00:25:15] Um, it's in the same section. We're not in the tavern we started in right now

[00:25:19] So no i'm just giving you i'm giving you a bit of a layover spot

[00:25:24] We're throwing in a wagon and taking somewhere else the filled oak end is in a different area of the city

[00:25:30] It's in a nicer area of the city actually

[00:25:32] Um, it's actually still close to the tavern you're in but it is in a slightly slightly high upscale area

[00:25:42] um

[00:25:44] The

[00:25:46] Abbey of saint berthold

[00:25:48] Is well based on where everything else i'm going to assume it's on the southern portion of uh

[00:25:53] Of the city. Oh, no, I see it. Oh, it's actually outside of the city

[00:25:57] The abbey is outside of the city the place we're not supposed to go

[00:26:01] It is uh, yeah interesting it's on the um, oh god this map is fucking stupid

[00:26:07] Technically, it's on the western southwestern side of the city

[00:26:11] Because for some reason north is on

[00:26:13] Right side of the page instead of the bottom of the page terrible way to make them out

[00:26:18] Um, hey, would you like me to fix that for you?

[00:26:21] No

[00:26:24] Not gonna move my book get the fuck off. What was the other place I gave you miss vanders

[00:26:29] The copper coin miss vanders copper coin, you know, mrs. Vanders mrs. Vanders

[00:26:35] Didn't you say that was next to the tavern already? Yeah, well mrs

[00:26:38] Vanders is not far from the tavern either. So most places are close to the tavern which we have no idea

[00:26:44] Well, I guess he said was a few blocks away from the

[00:26:47] courthouse

[00:26:48] Yeah, it wasn't far from the courthouse but

[00:26:51] This bitch wants us to go to the farthest place away first

[00:26:54] First

[00:26:55] Well, no, I mean she just suggested it you don't have to go there first right i'm just saying

[00:27:00] We don't work for her

[00:27:02] To suggest that it seems weird because he is an expert in heresy's and demonology and elder threats

[00:27:07] That was why she she suggested that first

[00:27:11] Hmm lower dump got it

[00:27:14] You're cool

[00:27:16] So do you want to go to the brothel the bar of the back alley first or all three?

[00:27:21] Me

[00:27:21] Wherever the body was found. I feel like is a great place to start. I agree so felled oak

[00:27:28] felled oak

[00:27:29] Uh, so the felled oak end is

[00:27:32] In the northern part of the city. It is a half timbered structure

[00:27:36] The house is an end it's popular with visitors in the city

[00:27:40] A variety of rooms available that meet the needs of almost any travel

[00:27:44] It has a communal dining room a tavern for guests. It also features two baths

[00:27:49] That are rentable by the hour

[00:27:52] It's built around a courtyard accessible to the guests with benches flowers herb garden

[00:27:59] Uh, the six foot wide stump of an ancient oak dominates the middle of the courtyard

[00:28:03] Lending its name to the end rentable by the hour the bathrooms are rentable by the hour

[00:28:09] If you don't wish to

[00:28:10] Rent an inn anybody else have the desire to wonder what those truck stop showers are like real bad. You think so?

[00:28:17] Yeah, real bad

[00:28:18] I don't know. I actually saw a tiktok video where people are like these are amazing and like they did a tour of it

[00:28:23] And i'm like i'm actually really impressed

[00:28:26] Like yeah, I got to imagine that some of them are cd like

[00:28:30] You know, oh, yeah

[00:28:31] Get a get jerked off in like a weird corner or something crazy shit going on like absolutely but flying jays primo loves

[00:28:39] Yeah, yeah, yeah, no there's gotta be a scale right and it's just like

[00:28:43] Like

[00:28:44] I've been in some decent truck stops like yeah

[00:28:46] No, like in that place where it's like a single occupancy and like they clean it after people leave like

[00:28:51] I gotta imagine that there that might be a really nice shower. I would definitely be tempted to try it

[00:28:56] You walk in you see a woman standing behind the check-in desk. I fling fling at her

[00:29:03] I'm allergic to cats

[00:29:06] But you see you see a woman say man that I hop up on the counter

[00:29:13] Hello

[00:29:14] She kind of scratches your chin. Oh

[00:29:17] Mr. Wimples

[00:29:18] Mr. Wimples, oh, he's adorable. We do we do accept animals here

[00:29:23] No, it's too cute. You had a choice welcome to the felled inn. What can I do for you?

[00:29:27] Uh, yes, I will immediately show our

[00:29:30] The badges nice ballerina. It's the felled oaken

[00:29:34] um

[00:29:36] We are here on

[00:29:37] I want I don't want to say where's the body king. Well, the body's not here. We just saw the body dumbass

[00:29:44] You literally have like I know from the king. I know I just said I immediately show I start sniffing for dead things

[00:29:52] Um, we're here to investigate the murder from this morning. She murder. Oh, there was a murder nearby

[00:30:00] um, a mr

[00:30:01] gregor zim

[00:30:04] Apparently was staying here

[00:30:06] She goes to her books. Um

[00:30:08] I stayed in room six. It's one of our smaller basic rooms

[00:30:14] If there is adequate signage, I begin walking towards room six

[00:30:18] she says um

[00:30:19] It's it's currently empty and already walking out of the room

[00:30:23] Uh, and you are showing her like the king's red. Yes

[00:30:27] She says, uh, okay. Yeah, sure and she hands you a key to it

[00:30:31] It is a unremarkable 10 by 10 room

[00:30:34] God damn it contains a bed and a chest

[00:30:37] I really wanted them to walk around the corner as I kick the fucking door off of its hinges

[00:30:42] Let me just find the key

[00:30:45] There's the idea that she's like hold on i've got the spare you guys come around the corner and it's just

[00:30:51] Flown off his hinges as i've kicked it

[00:30:55] Troy bends down and puts the key in the lock the door legs on the ground got it

[00:30:59] It

[00:31:03] Hmm bed chest

[00:31:06] I go into the bed in bed chest what's under the bed?

[00:31:09] You're a cat. Take a look. Um, give me an end an investigation check. Oh, that's

[00:31:17] What about perception it's cooler

[00:31:21] Ie I have a better score in that

[00:31:25] He didn't say no investigation god damn

[00:31:29] Oh, that's a cat one

[00:31:31] That's bad. You you find nothing. I found a bug

[00:31:35] And i'm i'm gonna totally chasing a cricket right now

[00:31:39] Seeing that he's looking at the bed

[00:31:41] I will go over with one hand lift the bed up and completely reveal everything underneath said bed. I just do that

[00:31:49] Still an investigation check

[00:31:51] Still an investigation when I move the bed now i'm just looking at the floor. It's a magic floor

[00:31:56] I gotta find something to punch soon guys. It's just just throwing it out the shakes

[00:32:01] I haven't eaten dead flesh

[00:32:04] Uh or punched anything yet in the first two hours of recording

[00:32:08] Uh investigation i'm sure that'll go well

[00:32:11] Uh

[00:32:14] Plus imp modifier 13

[00:32:18] Everything seems normal god, um, would you like a little guidance to it? No

[00:32:25] It can be the role can be added before after the check. Yes, but the spell must be cast before the roll

[00:32:32] hmm

[00:32:33] yeah

[00:32:34] I will also uh

[00:32:37] Uh open the chest

[00:32:40] Boycott bad gming. Oh man. I really wanted to throw that chest against the wall

[00:32:45] If you haven't figured out how i'm playing the game you just find some uh

[00:32:50] Some standard clothes. That's really all that's in there

[00:32:53] Um, I root through and see if there's anything interesting in the clothes and all that like turning out pockets

[00:33:01] Nothing strange. Nothing cultish

[00:33:06] Has the room been cleaned

[00:33:08] Uh, no, okay

[00:33:10] um, I began strongly banging on the walls and like

[00:33:15] Like slamming my elbow in and then slamming my forearm against it then moving and slamming it again

[00:33:19] It's like you hear people in neighboring rooms going what the fuck is going on boom

[00:33:25] Boom someone's having some good sex. I'm just going all the way around trying to sleep in here boom

[00:33:32] It's afternoons

[00:33:34] That's it

[00:33:35] Go through the wall

[00:33:38] He has a night job there's no other furniture besides the bed in this chest

[00:33:42] That's it. It's a barbarian version of looking for traps

[00:33:46] boom

[00:33:47] Set off the trap boom

[00:33:50] I think you would like delicious and dungeon if you've not seen it. I haven't i've heard it's good. I

[00:33:54] I really can't do anime like I'm not a big fan

[00:33:58] Because it just it starts and i'm like, okay, this is really and we're off on another team

[00:34:02] It's like squirrel. I'm like, yeah

[00:34:05] But like that so you said there's an investigation check under the bed

[00:34:10] for everybody

[00:34:11] Who checks it? I have two people have already rolled one. We're gonna move forward good. Nobody saw anything weird

[00:34:17] boom

[00:34:18] Nothing strange on the wall. It's just people wondering why the fuck someone's banging on the walls

[00:34:23] Yeah, they can come talk to me about it if they have a problem

[00:34:27] Let him fight something people come out going. Excuse me

[00:34:35] I'm gonna go back to my room now

[00:34:37] I just get the sense that

[00:34:39] Whenever I make the growl noise

[00:34:40] He's just intently staring directly into the eyes of whoever's looking at him and like the little dog thing

[00:34:47] Where the lip curls over the canines? Yeah

[00:34:50] You see uh you do see like a a painting of a ship on the water

[00:34:58] In the room catches your eye for some reason

[00:35:02] I flip it off the wall

[00:35:05] Wait in nothing behind zim's room or

[00:35:08] Okay

[00:35:10] There's nothing behind it. Just for some reason it caught your eye

[00:35:14] Is there anything else in this room you did not mention

[00:35:17] First there were only two things in this room now. There's a third thing

[00:35:21] No, it's just for some reason the ghoul looks at this painting and goes

[00:35:26] Huh, and then for some reason rips it off the wall

[00:35:29] I will pick it back up

[00:35:30] It's a beautiful painting

[00:35:32] I'm going to to stare at it because my visionary lets me see weird stuff in art and words if it's there

[00:35:40] if there's anything that's like

[00:35:42] Esoteric or

[00:35:43] It's uh weird or I wouldn't say it's esoteric. It's uh, it's a ship sort of teetering to its side

[00:35:51] the waves appear to be

[00:35:53] Somewhat choppy the stars kind of are in a spiral pattern

[00:35:57] Oh

[00:35:58] Uzumaki most i'm just gonna stare at it for a minute

[00:36:02] Nothing strange the stars start to move

[00:36:06] Hitting the cat pretty hard so the boats are on the boat is on the left of the painting

[00:36:13] So that means the stars are right

[00:36:17] Start it out there. It's a massive connection

[00:36:19] It's all interconnected the king's behind it all. It's a really nice painting calling it now

[00:36:25] Turning the frogs gay man. This is what happens. This is Tagwa

[00:36:29] Buy my water

[00:36:32] Uh you find anything else of use in this room at this point the young woman comes to the door and says

[00:36:40] any anything

[00:36:42] Is this painting uh

[00:36:45] Your guys's painting you put in this room

[00:36:47] Um, i'm not sure. Uh, the owners must have purchased it when they decorated the room every room has a painting in it

[00:36:56] Uh, which person came out of what room the one room to the left or to the right?

[00:37:00] To the left boom I bang on their door

[00:37:04] Because I know they're there

[00:37:06] They're not coming back out

[00:37:08] I bang again

[00:37:14] Police

[00:37:17] No, you're you're not the police that was the instruction I don't care they don't know that

[00:37:23] He has the badge. He has a badge to the people

[00:37:26] Can I can I help what what are you what painting?

[00:37:29] What about it in your room?

[00:37:32] Yeah, I will try and push past him to look at the painting that's in their room

[00:37:36] Uh, it's of a couple of cottages in a nice setting

[00:37:42] stylistically similar

[00:37:43] completely a different style

[00:37:46] much more vibrant beautiful

[00:37:48] different signature

[00:37:49] uh

[00:37:50] I will knock on the next room

[00:37:54] You will find a different painting in every room

[00:37:56] Sure, but is starting to look at them. Is this one of the series is this included?

[00:38:01] Is this anything weird? It's almost like they went to hobby lobby and just bought what they could

[00:38:06] Just curious. I didn't know if it if like the only one looks like starry night or you know

[00:38:11] Edward munches the scream and everything else has a pastoral scene then that seems more important. It's beautiful painting. It calls to you

[00:38:18] Yeah, I failed my investigation check. So nope

[00:38:21] I

[00:38:22] I'll go evidence and I tear the painting out of its uh

[00:38:28] Out of its um, oh

[00:38:30] Frame and roll it up and shove it in my bag

[00:38:34] Sure sure

[00:38:35] I what I he also goes back and hangs very properly the flame the frame

[00:38:42] The empty frame little bits of fabric still in the corner, correct

[00:38:45] Oh, no, he's his his claws are very sharp. Like this is a nice clean exacto knife cut

[00:38:50] There's probably very little phrase there

[00:38:52] Sure

[00:38:53] um

[00:38:54] If there's nothing else i'm adding it to my character sheet we uh, how long how long was mr. Zim?

[00:39:01] in this room

[00:39:03] Um a couple of days

[00:39:08] Do you happen to know did he say anything about where he was from?

[00:39:11] What where he was going why he was here most of our patrons we don't exactly get to know them firsthand

[00:39:19] A lot of them are visitors to the city

[00:39:21] Some of them are merchants. Some of them are simply passing through. Did you ever see him talking with someone?

[00:39:27] I will meow to you to ask her

[00:39:31] I'll ask that question

[00:39:36] And then he turns and says did he have any guests

[00:39:40] Um, no, no, uh, he didn't spend a lot of time here. He was out and about in the city

[00:39:47] um from what I recall

[00:39:50] He didn't have anyone visit. He's a very nice man. Did he seem to have

[00:39:55] a particular

[00:39:57] Routine did he like did you notice if he always left and went right outside when he left, you know

[00:40:04] Does that strike you in any way?

[00:40:06] He had coffee in the mornings. Um

[00:40:09] And you would have seen there's just like a small like table with like fresh coffee there

[00:40:15] It's not exactly like a continental breakfast, but like that's basically what they have

[00:40:21] Um

[00:40:22] And then he went about his day. I'm not sure where he went from here

[00:40:25] But again, he was only here for a couple of days. I didn't really get a chance to

[00:40:29] gather much

[00:40:31] Cyrus will start to stock out. It seems this is dried up as a source of evidence moving right along

[00:40:41] I don't think that's one of your leads, but you can find one. This is somebody's

[00:40:46] Mr. Vanders sounds naughty as a boarding house

[00:40:49] We know we know

[00:40:53] I mean, that's what we are in some countries the rancors boarding house

[00:40:57] Is

[00:40:58] So are you going to mrs. Vanders? Yeah. Yeah the brothel. Thank you all for listening

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