Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos - The Big Sleep 16

[00:00:18] presents The Big Sleep, The Mythos 5 The Adventure

[00:01:24] You guys have a plan?

[00:01:25] He has a plan.

[00:01:26] I promoted a plan, but if you tell the audience the plan we have to go through with the plan

[00:01:30] otherwise we look like rupes.

[00:01:32] I think we can have multiple plans.

[00:01:35] Plans with him.

[00:01:36] We only need one good plan.

[00:01:37] Yeah, one good plan is all you need.

[00:01:40] Well, you were given some benefits and possible negatives of how you might have presented yourself.

[00:01:50] Wait, what are we supposed to do again?

[00:01:52] It's been like three months.

[00:01:53] It's been like less than a month.

[00:01:56] It was just last week Flynn.

[00:01:59] Oh my god.

[00:02:00] Last time on Brothel D&D.

[00:02:02] You guys are attending a ball that the king is putting on in order to investigate the nobles

[00:02:13] or the higher ups to see who may or may not be masking themselves.

[00:02:17] The bow-crug cult, remember that we found in the basement that led to the underside

[00:02:22] of the king and we immediately wanted to interrogate everyone in the castle and murder

[00:02:27] their balls if we thought that they were evil?

[00:02:29] No, no, no, no.

[00:02:30] I really like the concept of potential regicide.

[00:02:33] So let's get everybody together in a massive ballroom so we don't know who's who and you

[00:02:37] have to guess and play social deduction with a fucking cat, merman, living ghoul and a

[00:02:45] crazy artificer because social roles is what we do.

[00:02:47] So yeah, that's what we're doing.

[00:02:50] I haven't lost all of my sanity yet.

[00:02:53] The crazy adjective was not for the character.

[00:02:58] A couple of you also read books that may or may not have fucked with your sand.

[00:03:02] I believe it was just the ghoul though.

[00:03:04] I have no retort to that, Cody.

[00:03:07] I have no retort.

[00:03:09] Why does the king believe that it's a noble and not someone inside the house?

[00:03:15] Many of these people live in the castle.

[00:03:19] Some of them don't.

[00:03:20] He wants to get everyone here because basically with the information you gave him that it is

[00:03:26] a vast array of caverns underneath the city leading to multiple places.

[00:03:32] It could be nobles outside of the castle as well that live in these areas.

[00:03:37] That could be possibly connected.

[00:03:45] Trying to remember where I put my character sheet.

[00:03:47] Oh, this is fifth that that's why I'm clicking in the wrong set of rules.

[00:03:51] Different through that.

[00:03:52] Yeah.

[00:03:53] Absolutely.

[00:03:54] I was looking in the wrong set of rules.

[00:03:56] So you were given a guest list that I believe Troy wrote down.

[00:04:00] We're level three, right?

[00:04:01] OK, just making sure my character stayed up to date.

[00:04:04] I wish we were higher.

[00:04:07] So you know who is being invited.

[00:04:10] The guest of honor is the Lord Mayor Victor von Horadovos for whom the bell tolls city

[00:04:19] is named after.

[00:04:22] The mayor, not the king?

[00:04:25] Yeah.

[00:04:26] The family Horadovos is the city is named after.

[00:04:32] Interesting.

[00:04:34] This is clear.

[00:04:36] Sandy wrote this, right?

[00:04:38] Co-wrote it.

[00:04:39] OK.

[00:04:40] Clearly there's a whole British monarchy thing going on here.

[00:04:43] Maybe we should dig into it.

[00:04:44] Maybe not.

[00:04:45] Maybe we should just blow up the whole castle and leave.

[00:04:48] I'm not opposed.

[00:04:51] I mean, I can make black powder now.

[00:04:53] I know it's in the outro, but I don't remember who the other gentleman that wrote, co-wrote

[00:04:57] with was Jonah Baumgarz.

[00:05:01] Never heard of Jonah.

[00:05:03] And as you know, give an artificer enough time and resources and they can make anything.

[00:05:09] Explosives.

[00:05:10] Always a good go to.

[00:05:12] So you guys spent some time leveling up.

[00:05:13] We talked about that last episode and then you did some shopping.

[00:05:18] Sandy Peterson has four names.

[00:05:19] Did not know that until I just googled the man.

[00:05:21] Interesting.

[00:05:22] Carl Sanford Jocelyn Peterson.

[00:05:25] Damn.

[00:05:26] Jocelyn.

[00:05:27] Yeah, J-O-S-L-I-N.

[00:05:28] So you guys have a do you want?

[00:05:31] Do you want to go with the plan?

[00:05:32] You haven't even talked about the plan, but do you want not out loud on Mike?

[00:05:35] Do you want to go with the plan?

[00:05:36] I haven't heard a better one yet.

[00:05:38] I mean there's I said it out last night in case anyone had a different plan or

[00:05:43] wanted to comment on it.

[00:05:44] Do you like to tell the people at home what your plan is?

[00:05:46] Not unless we know that it's the plan.

[00:05:50] I don't know.

[00:05:51] If we call it to a vote, if we stick with the plan then we at least know a starting point

[00:05:55] for when it falls apart.

[00:06:01] Blame Grady.

[00:06:03] Oh okay, that's your plan?

[00:06:05] Yes.

[00:06:07] He is just a barbarian.

[00:06:10] So and I quote the message that I sent these gentlemen approximately 24 hours ago

[00:06:15] in terms of recording.

[00:06:17] So spend some time thinking about our next session and what we should do.

[00:06:20] Here's what I've come up with.

[00:06:22] Troy should dress up as a distant noble dignitary for the event.

[00:06:26] Archduke Fernensand from the Salt Deep Realms.

[00:06:29] He can play Hoity-Toy to dress up with King and Co.

[00:06:31] Complaining about illegal fishing and trying to suss out the guilty amongst the bourgeoisie.

[00:06:36] I will play Greaves, the Archduke's bodyguard slash advisor slash servant slash concubine.

[00:06:42] My surly attitude and general smell should keep people away from me,

[00:06:44] but I will still be close enough to prevent the obvious regicide that we all see coming.

[00:06:49] Alex will be part of the waitstaff, Gerald Cobblewobble, a slightly dim-witted and clumsy nephew of a cousin

[00:06:54] to the king's favorite aunt.

[00:06:56] Important enough to be in an executive role on the catering at the party,

[00:07:00] but mingle with the scullery as well.

[00:07:01] By bumbling through all sections of the castle he can serve as our MacGyver posing as Mr. Magoo.

[00:07:06] I expect secret explosives, cool tools, and magic hidden in odd yet convenient places.

[00:07:10] Flynn will be the shadow in the dark, lying in wait and gathering until inconspicuously

[00:07:14] or by posing occasionally as a royal mouser.

[00:07:17] He can then surreptitiously provide key info to any of us at any time.

[00:07:21] Each of us should have a convenient pouch sewn into our garments by which Flynn can approach

[00:07:27] and easily jump inside that way he can spring out at key moments in a flurry of fur and claws.

[00:07:32] I also want to be able to yeet that damn cat in a feline fastball special.

[00:07:37] I then send a gift of Danny Ocean to which Flynn said,

[00:07:40] you son of a bitch I'm in.

[00:07:41] So that's basically all the planning we've done in three months.

[00:07:46] It's big, it's big hat.

[00:07:48] I vote for the plant.

[00:07:49] It's actually only been one month since we played.

[00:07:52] They don't know that.

[00:07:54] It's been 87 years.

[00:07:57] Still 2020.

[00:07:58] Time is relative.

[00:08:00] Things haven't gotten that much better.

[00:08:03] I mean fair.

[00:08:05] Yeah, but it's still 2020.

[00:08:07] So they're stuck together down here?

[00:08:09] Your, uh, the three options that you were given if this sways either of you.

[00:08:17] You can continue your investigation openly like as you have been by right of power granted to them,

[00:08:24] to you by the king, demotized as arbiters of the faith,

[00:08:28] which grants you total freedom of movement and no cover story to maintain,

[00:08:31] but guilty parties may be more defensive and secretive around you.

[00:08:36] Assume false identities as visiting nobles or other official guests of King Atrax,

[00:08:44] in which case you are told that you can actually keep a guest room.

[00:08:50] And he will assign palace servants and guards who are tight-lipped,

[00:08:55] but you must be able to glean information from folk of higher station

[00:09:01] or you go undercover as palace guards and servants,

[00:09:04] in which case you get put in the barracks instead of an actual guest room or the dormitories.

[00:09:10] And with this cover, you might be more restricted on movement

[00:09:15] as well as equipment you may be able to carry.

[00:09:17] So we're doing both of those.

[00:09:19] Yeah, we're doing all of these.

[00:09:20] All basically yeah.

[00:09:21] B and C in part kind of A, but not C.

[00:09:24] We're still in the party.

[00:09:25] It is the bad one.

[00:09:25] We also have the ability to go bam, arbiter.

[00:09:29] So it sounds like you're doing less of A and more of B and C.

[00:09:34] Troy, I would also like you to seduce anyone we think is clearly a cultist.

[00:09:38] Deal.

[00:09:39] I mean, once they go gills, they never go back, Troy.

[00:09:44] Big ol' fish dick.

[00:09:46] Don't know that that's a saying.

[00:09:47] Can't you do multiple arms?

[00:09:49] No.

[00:09:50] Oh, was that not your thing?

[00:09:51] No.

[00:09:52] That was the other...

[00:09:53] Oh.

[00:09:54] I feel like they could be very beneficial at sexy times.

[00:10:00] Like just having six hands.

[00:10:01] Then you'd be the sexy, multiple morphing, fish person.

[00:10:06] I'm already...

[00:10:07] You jerk off so many cultists for information.

[00:10:13] I'm already clearly the sex magnet of this party.

[00:10:17] Right.

[00:10:18] I mean, it's true.

[00:10:21] That's so sad.

[00:10:25] I'm competing against Fishman, a cat, and a dragonborn.

[00:10:28] Maybe I have competition as a dragonborn.

[00:10:30] It's not something I thought I would ever put in my Pornhub search,

[00:10:33] with Green Candle at Bukaki.

[00:10:37] Just multiple arms on all the cultists.

[00:10:40] Somebody's rule 34-ed it already.

[00:10:43] Does anyone have any questions about the guest list before we move forward?

[00:10:49] Which I think Troy has the guest list written down, at least.

[00:10:51] I don't know if...

[00:10:52] I have names.

[00:10:54] Who's the most shady?

[00:10:57] Always a legitimate question.

[00:10:58] Who has the most to gain?

[00:11:00] I mean, at this point you're talking to the king.

[00:11:03] The most shady person in the mall.

[00:11:05] You can ask the king anything you want about these people,

[00:11:07] and he will do his best to answer the questions.

[00:11:09] I will meow at the Fishman to ask the king

[00:11:14] what suspicions he currently has.

[00:11:17] Dude didn't know that there were cultists in his fucking basement.

[00:11:20] He gonna be useless except the guy.

[00:11:25] How many of the nobles...

[00:11:26] What do you mean?

[00:11:27] It's all suspicion.

[00:11:28] He doesn't really have the evidence.

[00:11:29] That's what you're here for.

[00:11:31] Yeah, but you know, a hunch sometimes means something.

[00:11:35] I mean...

[00:11:36] Do any of your nobles have like black pencil thin mustaches

[00:11:39] that they twirl when you're not looking?

[00:11:42] There might have been a picture of a guy with a pencil mustache in here.

[00:11:45] That's him.

[00:11:45] Like yeah, get him.

[00:11:47] That's suspecting no more.

[00:11:48] Oh no, he's clean shaven.

[00:11:49] He's just fat.

[00:11:49] It's on site.

[00:11:51] Is he bald?

[00:11:52] Yep.

[00:11:52] He's a bald fat guy?

[00:11:53] Yep.

[00:11:54] He's a bald fat guy.

[00:11:55] I've seen the Maltese Fall Falcon.

[00:11:57] He's the bad guy.

[00:11:59] And I think that's just a picture of a guy with a pencil mustache.

[00:12:02] Pella's guards look kind of cool though.

[00:12:04] Let's see the guys.

[00:12:05] Those are dope.

[00:12:06] Is it Hewlett Bremmer?

[00:12:07] Is he bald?

[00:12:08] Yes, Hewlett Bremmer is bald.

[00:12:09] Also a bad guy.

[00:12:11] All right, we start killing all bald people.

[00:12:13] This guy's last name?

[00:12:14] Buell.

[00:12:15] B-U-H-L.

[00:12:16] Buell.

[00:12:17] I'm...

[00:12:17] I'm...

[00:12:19] He's a bad guy.

[00:12:20] That's the steward.

[00:12:21] Anyone with a limp?

[00:12:22] Take him out.

[00:12:23] Take him out?

[00:12:24] Yep.

[00:12:25] Anyone with excessive open cleavage?

[00:12:28] Nah, I'll let them stay.

[00:12:31] Well, we're gonna seduce them and then kill them.

[00:12:34] Oh.

[00:12:35] That's darn it.

[00:12:36] You Ed Kemper?

[00:12:37] Jesus Christ.

[00:12:38] No.

[00:12:39] I'm a fighter for justice.

[00:12:41] An arbiter.

[00:12:42] It's called the honeypot.

[00:12:44] Is there anybody here?

[00:12:45] Does anyone know the story of Ed Kemper?

[00:12:47] Yeah.

[00:12:48] Anyway.

[00:12:48] A while.

[00:12:54] I'm just waiting for us to play the game.

[00:12:56] I'm asking you in the end game if you have any questions about these people.

[00:13:00] Who?

[00:13:00] Yes, fishman.

[00:13:01] Do you have any questions?

[00:13:02] I'd like to give you what the king can give you.

[00:13:05] You gotta do voices there.

[00:13:06] I tried to ask a question.

[00:13:07] I got shut down.

[00:13:08] I didn't shoot you down.

[00:13:09] No.

[00:13:10] Everybody kept talking.

[00:13:12] I don't know what your question was.

[00:13:14] Who are you suspicious of?

[00:13:16] King?

[00:13:17] Yeah.

[00:13:17] And like I said, the king, he's a good fighter.

[00:13:19] He will respond like everyone is suspicious.

[00:13:21] We're all politicians and you are the investigators.

[00:13:26] You know more than I do at this point.

[00:13:27] You guys have given me information but I don't know everything.

[00:13:29] You're like the least kingly king I've ever heard of.

[00:13:33] This guy was sitting in a bar when you met him.

[00:13:36] Fair point.

[00:13:37] How does one become king of this?

[00:13:41] Kill the last one.

[00:13:42] Yeah.

[00:13:42] That's a good question.

[00:13:43] It's not in the book.

[00:13:44] I couldn't tell you.

[00:13:45] Right of combat.

[00:13:47] Rage.

[00:13:49] It doesn't seem to be through blood since the guy whose last name is the name of the city is not king.

[00:13:55] He's Lord Mayor though.

[00:13:57] King's just figurehead.

[00:14:00] Kind of like England.

[00:14:01] Weird that.

[00:14:03] Okay, so what are we doing exactly?

[00:14:05] The plan as soon as we can move on with it.

[00:14:08] All right.

[00:14:09] As time continues throughout the day you begin to see

[00:14:14] nobles and dignitaries walk into the front door.

[00:14:17] We're acquiring a particular accoutrements and we are

[00:14:22] customizing ourselves to the layout of the manner and different places because

[00:14:26] Flynn's going to need to scout and you're going to need to scout

[00:14:29] and we're going to need to start understanding who the players are.

[00:14:33] So we know that Mrs. Booffer Lady is whatever.

[00:14:36] You know what I mean?

[00:14:36] Like we got to get all that sorted.

[00:14:38] Booffer Lady?

[00:14:39] The Booffer Lady.

[00:14:41] It's a Dracula reference.

[00:14:44] What's her face?

[00:14:45] I mean the other one.

[00:14:47] Lucy?

[00:14:48] Yeah, Lucy Wisterna when she gets

[00:14:51] she starts tricking kids into the graveyard and I think they call her the Booffer Lady.

[00:14:56] Boffer.

[00:14:57] It's been a minute since I read that one.

[00:14:59] Isn't boofing drinking beer through your butt?

[00:15:02] I hope not.

[00:15:03] That sounds terrible.

[00:15:04] Maybe you could call her the Booffer Lady.

[00:15:06] I always just assumed that it was the Booffer Lady.

[00:15:08] I'm pretty sure that might be a more modern term but

[00:15:11] Booffer means something over cross pond.

[00:15:14] Yeah.

[00:15:14] I think it's still butt related.

[00:15:18] Depends on if it's 2-0s or 2-f's.

[00:15:23] So Troy and, oh okay, Troy you are a, you're becoming a noble.

[00:15:28] Yes.

[00:15:30] And you are becoming his bodyguard.

[00:15:32] Slash, servant slash, butler slash concubine.

[00:15:37] Certainly.

[00:15:38] You're a cat.

[00:15:39] You're kind of this wandering around in fairness.

[00:15:42] You're playing the role of?

[00:15:43] Cat.

[00:15:44] Cat.

[00:15:44] Yeah, I can do this.

[00:15:46] I can do this.

[00:15:47] I can do this.

[00:15:47] Just imagine everywhere you prance.

[00:15:49] And what are you doing?

[00:15:50] Service staff.

[00:15:52] Servant staff.

[00:15:54] Service staff.

[00:15:55] But he's executive level.

[00:15:57] Are you like particular to the kitchens, to the cellar cleaning?

[00:16:03] Everywhere.

[00:16:04] They can't, there's no door that can stop me.

[00:16:10] I've got thieves tools and high decks.

[00:16:14] The king kind of thinks about it and says, I'll put you with...

[00:16:18] Oh now he's shoehorning me.

[00:16:21] Wow.

[00:16:22] Hey he can, the DM starts by shoehorning you.

[00:16:25] A lockpicking and explosive goes a long way to getting through any gates that he puts up.

[00:16:30] I also have a pistol.

[00:16:32] I can put you with Sylvie our chief housekeeper.

[00:16:34] She will be wandering the home cleaning messes ensuring people have what they need.

[00:16:41] She's less of a servant, more of a helper.

[00:16:43] Odd question.

[00:16:45] How old is this individual?

[00:16:47] Sylvie?

[00:16:49] Has she been in service a long time?

[00:16:52] Yes.

[00:16:53] She is, she is grain.

[00:16:55] Like she is probably over 40 close to mid 50s probably.

[00:16:59] And yet fit enough to be in charge.

[00:17:01] Shut up.

[00:17:03] Most executive positions are older people.

[00:17:07] Good to know.

[00:17:10] She is a half elf.

[00:17:15] So she's still young?

[00:17:18] I've always been kind of confused about that one.

[00:17:20] Oh yeah, no if she's 40 and she's a half elf.

[00:17:23] She's probably still incredibly young and good looking.

[00:17:27] Yeah like mid 20s for most human species.

[00:17:31] We can probably make some comparisons.

[00:17:33] She's worked for many kings.

[00:17:37] She's Heidi Klum.

[00:17:39] Got it.

[00:17:40] Mmm.

[00:17:42] Let's run with it.

[00:17:43] Brooke Burke maybe?

[00:17:46] Hey I'm going to be working very closely with this individual.

[00:17:49] I need a picture.

[00:17:50] Heidi Klum is aged better than Brooke Burke.

[00:17:54] But it's a half elf, what does that matter?

[00:17:56] We all remember watching Wild On on the E-Channel at 1130 at night right?

[00:18:01] The hell?

[00:18:03] Except for you.

[00:18:05] You didn't have cable apparently.

[00:18:06] I didn't skip very late except to play D&D.

[00:18:09] Fair enough.

[00:18:10] That is a fair point.

[00:18:12] What were you doing in high school at 11 o'clock on a Friday?

[00:18:16] Howard Stern at 11 and then Wild On at 1130 and then other like...

[00:18:22] Heidi Klum had a late night spicy show didn't she?

[00:18:26] I don't know.

[00:18:26] I think so.

[00:18:27] I'm just going to run with it.

[00:18:28] It was just like a it was like a travel show but it was like a it was kind of a spicy

[00:18:32] travel show yeah E-Channel.

[00:18:35] Not quite soft core porn.

[00:18:37] No no it was no nudity everything was if there was it was blurred because it

[00:18:41] was still television but like two channels up was like the scramble channel the playboy

[00:18:45] channel that you couldn't actually see but you could hear.

[00:18:48] So yes he will put you with Sylvie and you can work with her.

[00:18:53] I'm perfectly fine being under Sylvie.

[00:19:02] I hope that was on purpose.

[00:19:06] Is it most things I say?

[00:19:08] Sometimes I don't know I haven't played with you long enough but I'm starting to think

[00:19:11] that it is.

[00:19:12] Listen to some of the other stuff he's edited from me.

[00:19:18] As time goes on you'd see more and more guests coming in this is a mask and

[00:19:23] raid ball people are wearing masks.

[00:19:25] He didn't tell us that before and I fucking knew it.

[00:19:28] Because of course not everyone but gonna be a fucking shooter Flynn I hope you know that

[00:19:32] you're on you're on the goddamn yeah in the gallery.

[00:19:35] Not everyone but most people are wearing masks and around

[00:19:41] around dusk you see the doors pop open there's a couple of guards behind an individual wearing

[00:19:51] a bright gold mask a very nice cardinal red robe and from under the mask you see this

[00:19:59] very long sort of pointed beard very strange bob cut like you do back in the day.

[00:20:07] And he is presented as Lord Mayor Victor von Radevaz the guest of honor has entered the main

[00:20:14] hall so I drew out very rapidly the area it's not to scale because there's not enough room on here

[00:20:23] but I wanted you to get an idea of like that's that's the main hall this square room

[00:20:30] there are all kinds of other hallways and areas that you've never been inside of

[00:20:35] which is why I didn't detail the map there are you know that to my right there is sort of

[00:20:43] more servants and bunkers for guards to my left is more where low nobles and Captain Rehack reside

[00:20:55] there's also a chapel over here the kitchens are to my north and right here to my south

[00:21:03] is the front door so that main hall is very literally in the very center of the palace

[00:21:08] on this floor continuing to cast this are you saying that the lord mayor looks like

[00:21:13] Ming the merciless from Flash Gordon sort of what I got when you started describing it

[00:21:18] sort of it's more it's more biker beard I when you started describing him I was thinking

[00:21:25] cardinal Tim Curry from that would be a great casting to hell of a get

[00:21:31] the three musketeers you don't have the budget for Tim Curry you don't know me these days but

[00:21:38] the way you just described his outfit and everything it's just basically I'm thinking

[00:21:42] cardinal Tim Curry with a golden mask on let's get let's get AI in here we'll make it work

[00:21:48] I actually bought an original stage soundtrack to that to Rocky Horror that it was it's it's

[00:21:56] sounds so good how big is the main hall hell or how big is the what main hall

[00:22:01] but this is in manhole and I was like wait a minute how big is your manhole um happy always about

[00:22:08] about a 40 by 40 area okay with a double door here at the bottom on my side so there are there

[00:22:17] are you like the entry hall or yeah this is the entry entrance to the building the main hall

[00:22:23] is through this double door there are also double doors so the main hall like where the party is supposed

[00:22:28] to take place yes that is where the party is supposed to take place so it's only a 40 by 40 space 40 by

[00:22:33] 40 space um and there are also up to eight guards at a time either patrolling or standing guard

[00:22:40] around the whole this floor of the palace the back there there they're off off of the main

[00:22:46] hall there are doors into a smaller room and then beyond that room is where the kitchens are at this

[00:22:55] I can't reach it I'm sorry this little scratchy thing I drew back here are actually the stairs to

[00:23:01] the cellar that you guys would have walked up into the kitchens before coming out when you

[00:23:06] they have guards on the cellar door the secret door making sure no one's on the cellar itself

[00:23:12] probably not but there would be guards in the back of the main hall well could someone ask the king

[00:23:18] to put at least a guard down on the secret door or at least a very large rock I grabbed two guards by

[00:23:24] the throat okay as you're probably not gonna help put a large piece of furniture that's something to

[00:23:33] block up that hole you do have to figure out how to present yourself as a somewhat normal person

[00:23:37] for now I don't have to Lucas it's gonna help you don't know him he can be whatever he wants to be

[00:23:43] that's not what i'm trying to go for here I want to darken incredibly scary which I feel like I pull

[00:23:48] off um 40 by 40 is not big how many guests are coming to this fucking thing six um I gave you a list

[00:23:56] of you didn't give me a list of a lot of people but yeah it wasn't very many is this like a clue

[00:24:02] situation where we just are like hey this is why I give you a list of roughly 15 notable names but

[00:24:09] there are upwards of 40 to 50 people total so they're 40 to 50 people partying in a 40 by 40 space

[00:24:17] you might need to scale that up a little bit scene from the second matrix movie

[00:24:21] everybody's partying it's all sweaty

[00:24:23] oh we have gone to a medieval rave one more time

[00:24:31] so the the idea of this this entire chapter is that there are multiple rooms to look into

[00:24:38] as well as investigate with people it's an investigation slash dungeon crawl the thing

[00:24:43] is is that sort of what i'm waiting for lucz to say is that they're not all in there and then

[00:24:47] we're gonna have to fucking wander around this like goddamn masquerade party and you're

[00:24:52] gonna find fucking one dude over here sleeping with some other guy's wife and you're gonna like

[00:24:58] i can't just want to start just hurting people do it is there a balcony over the main hall

[00:25:04] or is it simply a one-story room um it it would it's a tall room but there is no balcony over

[00:25:13] looking there is no vantage point from the top no but you're looking at 25 foot

[00:25:20] ceiling like it's massive are there tapestries on the wall of course tapestries leading to the

[00:25:26] ceiling all the way up not all the way up but you get away probably about halfway okay yeah

[00:25:32] i'm gonna climb one of the tapestries okay i mean perch up there for a bit servants looking at you

[00:25:40] i lick my ass at him fucking cats how big is your manhole not big enough who loves kitty

[00:25:50] you do have a bag hold on you got a vantage point you can look up i don't have a problem with that

[00:25:55] and over time you many of the people are presented and the party is party has begun you have

[00:26:04] what is his name jürgen gilman the royal musician has struck up the band

[00:26:11] many servants are coming through the kitchens bringing out wine and ciders and ales

[00:26:18] and everyone is mingling and having an interesting time what other rooms are the

[00:26:23] is the party expected to spill to um i something you'll have to learn over time

[00:26:33] silvi where's the dark place that people can congregate can you show me lead me to it

[00:26:40] i mean as of right now you're you and silvi silvi is kind of showing you how to help

[00:26:45] clean up some of the mess here in the kitchen we know the kitchen is back here

[00:26:48] what's this is a hallway uh it appears to be what um um see because it's unnumbered it's not

[00:26:55] actually that important it is literally a uh i always want to say it's like a servant's quarters

[00:27:02] three seated table when you walk through there's a door on either side of it there is a

[00:27:08] five ten fifteen twenty foot long table up against the wall closest to me serving table have you

[00:27:13] never worked catering before with chairs where people can sit neat that's interesting yes what's

[00:27:20] this area this u shape around oh that is that is all that is the main hall the square in the middle

[00:27:26] is like a giant carpet and then it's stone around it so that's the way it's drawn in here so this

[00:27:31] is all that whole area is the main hall that's not actually a room that is sorry yeah so i thought

[00:27:40] the south two doors to the north leading into this small area and then into the kitchen what is the

[00:27:46] distinction between the small servant area and the larger room is there a door a curtain uh

[00:27:52] yeah this this i wish i had a thing i wish i had what you hadn't had

[00:27:57] there's a door here just like there's a door here it's and then it just goes into this area

[00:28:01] there's a couple of double doors there's a door on either side of these going from the kitchen

[00:28:04] to like a servant staging area and then it goes into the room proper correct the chairs are probably

[00:28:10] there in case they have to do any prep work beforehand so that probably slides under the table

[00:28:14] so they can move the food so it's probably exactly what kody said if you were to walk around there

[00:28:18] you would probably see that there are trays that do have hors d'oeuvres and finger foods and

[00:28:24] drinks that are being prepped to be brought into the main hall from the main hall we only go out

[00:28:29] to the foyer when we go back into the prep station there are no doors left and right no doors left

[00:28:35] and right in the main hall there is a door left and right inside of that smaller area i don't want to

[00:28:41] draw all the doors but that's from where you're at just erase the solid lines i feel like that would

[00:28:45] that would function it's not dry erase it's not as easy as it looks um i tried wiping that

[00:28:51] finger and it just smeared so okay um cool we want to talk to you first try arch duke arch duke

[00:29:02] fernan sand i'm trying to give a good seaweed joke i wanted something and sand but i also wanted

[00:29:08] to suggest vaguely that uh troy's gonna get shot um so what's the name you're using again

[00:29:14] arch duke fernan sand from where from the salt uh salt deep realms the marshes you

[00:29:21] as the king would he would immediately walk to the lord mayor as the lord mayor would come in

[00:29:31] thank him for coming and obviously introduce him around to anyone he's he's not quite met and

[00:29:38] the arch duke will be would be one of them he says ah yes this is the uh the arch duke uh

[00:29:44] fernan sand already have we you've never met the mayor oh not the mayor no okay um curious

[00:29:49] be like you're that asshole that started that bar fight lord mayor victor von radovaz

[00:29:56] and he sort of he sort of just puts his hands behind his back and gives you a curtain

[00:29:59] odd does not shake your hand pleasure to make your acquaintance indeed lord you said lord

[00:30:04] mayor lord mayor so would the proper way to just and be lord or lord mayor lord mayor

[00:30:11] is his full title okay would you like to piss him off or not piss him off

[00:30:19] because it hurts early to be decided and he would he would begin speaking to you about

[00:30:27] the economy and uh what you know what does it you do for where you're from what is your

[00:30:33] economic specialty speciality uh import export

[00:30:39] yes of course much like every city or what is it you import and export uh goods and services

[00:30:46] in particularly in particularly export uh or something that could help our fair city

[00:30:52] seafood seafood he kind of just looks over to the king and says seafood

[00:31:03] excellent best cod you'll ever taste

[00:31:08] he kind of stifles a chuckle and says is there cod on the menu and the king kind of

[00:31:16] stiffens up and says uh yes it it it came from uh what is it was it what is it called

[00:31:21] the salt something sorry but luke is this forgetting salt deep realms yes it's the

[00:31:26] salt deep realms yes that's we imported it directly for this party salt deep cod

[00:31:32] and the lord mayor just sort of just sort of gives you a nod and and uh

[00:31:37] whispers something into the king's ear and then takes his leave he's a very busy man see you later

[00:31:47] um luke is i would like to post up in the back corner here somewhere along this wall

[00:31:52] and i'm looking for anyone that goes out to the foyer or anyone that's not a servant that

[00:32:00] goes into the servants area okay um i mean at least as of now as the party is getting on

[00:32:09] it's just once a character leaves then i want to interact absolutely but until then there is a

[00:32:14] lot of activity of servants the servants are going in and out in and out in and out

[00:32:18] bringing in food bringing in drinks people are laughing they're having a good time

[00:32:23] music is lively all your bombs start sticking as you are passing out cocktail weenies

[00:32:32] are using a fake name i specified one for you but you do you man we don't have to follow this

[00:32:37] plan at all i just thought it was fucking funny and so i wrote it after work because it amused

[00:32:41] me there's magna so weird enough name i think we'll just go with the normal sounding name of

[00:32:51] marten martin martin martin the butler

[00:32:57] silvi looks to you at some point and says we need to make a round ensure that there is no one walking

[00:33:03] around the halls and she will lead you into this area and then out to i'm going to call this west

[00:33:11] so west there's your point and basically what you're doing is you're kind of patrolling to ensure

[00:33:20] that no one is drunk and wandering around this is part of what she is used to doing when parties occur

[00:33:28] what a party pooper um kitty cat you are just sitting at the top of a of a tapestry yep just

[00:33:38] kind of bouncing there i'm going to be looking at just the the crowd anything that i noticed that's

[00:33:46] give me a little give me a perception check let's roll some dice in this game yeah buddy why

[00:33:52] perception yeah i perceive 16 um 16 at least at this point no one looks suspicious but what you

[00:34:02] notice coming out of the kitchen walking and uh and uh perhaps carefully trotting to the main door

[00:34:15] is another cat the fuck you were told that grim colgan is the mouth sir here in the palace you

[00:34:23] do know that grim colgan exists you never met her her and she sort of stops and sits she sort of

[00:34:32] sits down in front of the uh the main hall door and looks up at a guard who then opens the door

[00:34:36] and she sort of trots her way out the main hall so she's out and she is now into this for ya okay

[00:34:46] hmm want to follow her oh graceful are you getting down that tapestry i mean i have a

[00:34:51] straight climb speed so and it's keep forgetting you have a climb speed you're a fucking cat

[00:34:56] yeah it's 50 50 that's fine what you need you know what you need you should get like a ring of

[00:35:01] featherfall so you just fucking leap off the top of building um you wander your way up to the front

[00:35:09] door and look up at the same guard who then looks at you kind of confused as if wires there more

[00:35:16] than one cat here and then just kind of shrugs and opens the door dipshit uh all right i'll

[00:35:23] i'll wander out and i'm gonna i'm gonna take a take a sniff and see where that that piece went

[00:35:31] it's not what i thought you were going to use when you started with a p word

[00:35:35] it's a family podcast sniffing out would sniffing out be a perception check

[00:35:39] oh you're gay i get advantage on sniff checks i don't think that the thing in this game

[00:35:44] well perception checks based on scent do you really yeah okay then fine sniff check

[00:35:50] you sniff that piece that 20 sniff uh she would she knows what good piece smells like

[00:35:58] she went east this direction as do i you began to wander that direction

[00:36:05] am i seeing anyone out here there are there are two guards in front of the main door

[00:36:12] there is also a guard literally walking back and forth who will eventually open up this door

[00:36:18] to let you out okay and let you through so what you're wandering into is what you know as like i

[00:36:25] said more servants guard barracks that's where to think on that side of the palace so we'll come back

[00:36:30] to you weird with how many cats there are there aren't more cat doors you think that'd be

[00:36:36] fucking easier wouldn't it um at some point you do uh kody you do see the seller or thomas

[00:36:45] the what uh the seller thomas the seller do you not recall finding thomas in the seller

[00:36:50] two months i want to know yeah but i i had to have reacted the same way when you told me it is

[00:36:54] it's a dumb fucking name like seller master or something else would have made more sense but

[00:36:59] the lord of the cast the seller lord of the cask would have been funnier lord of the cask is um

[00:37:05] little dance maybe um use it use that instead yeah just use that one so thomas

[00:37:13] lord of casks you see thomas cask master cask even better you do see thomas step out

[00:37:21] who you you recognize now you're in you are in a uh i guess slightly different costume but i think

[00:37:30] he knows he would probably probably recognize him he would probably recognize you above anyone

[00:37:35] else because you picked him up um and he kind of looks at you and gives you a kind of gives you a

[00:37:41] strange look and wanders over and says what are you doing here mind your own business

[00:37:50] he just sort of says very cordial okay can i at least get you a drink

[00:38:01] um yes

[00:38:03] um he walks out he walks to the kitchen into the kitchen i follow him you can follow him

[00:38:13] you really want that drink i don't trust him this guy didn't know that there was a giant

[00:38:20] yeah in his basement he's the cask master how does he not know he there's a giant man hole in his

[00:38:26] casks how'd that get there wow crazy he he sort of looks back and says all right uh you walk into

[00:38:35] the kitchen you see um the master of kitchens bozina minger who is a gnome bozina minger she's uh

[00:38:44] she is like just spouting off all kinds of orders to other people um who are chopping up meats or

[00:38:52] fruits or vegetables or whatever they're preparing all the food that they can

[00:38:57] frying the cod um better batter at first that's prime salt realms cod there doing doing the salt

[00:39:05] bay thing um which we carried for like 3 000 miles because i remember the map the oceans

[00:39:10] know where fucking near where we are and she she's spun it's not that it's well yeah it is but

[00:39:16] it's up a river it's not like you can't get seafood here portals and she turns and sees him

[00:39:23] and looks up at you and says what's the meaning of this this is my kitchen what can i do for you

[00:39:28] i just look at the cask master he says uh your finest gobbled up blood and she walks over to

[00:39:37] do a small room that has a freshly killed deer that's not yet been bled second at all remember

[00:39:43] the woman gives you fresh blood that's fair no no it was a very cool thing and it makes me

[00:39:50] i still don't trust the cast master but i want to rip his insides out less so fair you say

[00:39:56] he just sort of looks up at you and says will this do i'm pretty sure we like questioned and

[00:40:00] cleared him the last time yeah but that's not have you have you met cyrus i'm suspicious of

[00:40:07] everybody i think one or two of you may be in the cult that's a it's the cat no he he very will like

[00:40:15] swirl it around sniff it you know it's a little more fresh than you prefer i assume i assume

[00:40:23] i'm sorry it's all we have not bad for not being and i look at him human and he just gives you a

[00:40:31] nod as if to agree as as well as like a sigh of relief of agreement of agreement he clearly

[00:40:36] didn't take the subtly implied threat so i'll walk out maybe no he did it's a sigh of relief nod

[00:40:44] like thanks for not biting me dude got your blood please move on but yes periodically uh as he

[00:40:49] wanders around as my goblet is empty i will simply tap it and hand it to him so i can get

[00:40:56] periodic uh drafts of fresh blood yeah that's fine and he will he will ask if you if you

[00:41:02] don't mind returning to the party he will continually bring you or have servants bring you

[00:41:06] blood as needed uh i'm holding the goblet and with the other hand i grab him scruffily by the

[00:41:14] by the collar again and pull him close watch the seller and he says indeed hey let him go

[00:41:25] as requested as requested there is now i guard on the seller you guys requested a guard

[00:41:29] speaking we could put a whole goddamn contingent down there let's go make sure that that doesn't

[00:41:33] work so we are going to get ambushed there will be regicide someone will turn on somebody else in

[00:41:40] a fit of passion while in the middle of lug making it's just a classic story that's gonna be me here

[00:41:44] in a second another man walks up to uh to you Troy uh extends a hand says uh anders fricene i

[00:41:53] don't believe we've been introduced i am the chamberlain pleasure to meet you he says uh i hear

[00:41:59] you are from another country yes and what is your business here and uh and her out of us

[00:42:08] um setting up some some trade routes for our for our fresh seafood ah yes the cod i've heard of it

[00:42:17] it'll be delicious i certainly hope so it is to be uh to be eaten this evening correct

[00:42:23] it is one of the things on the menu excellent excellent and you are here alone uh my servant

[00:42:32] who just he walks right back out of the kitchen at that moment um don't mind him though he's

[00:42:38] a bit rougher on the edges yes um how do you how do you deal with the smell

[00:42:45] fish man he kind of laughs at the joke excellent excellent sir

[00:42:52] is do we have the sense that the cult is fairly known or like people are aware

[00:43:01] the king seemed completely oblivious but he also reminds me of the of the king from space balls

[00:43:06] too so well he was unaware that it was that it led to his to the castle but yeah we're here

[00:43:12] here the cult was known about yeah because and it's in the history books that there was a war

[00:43:18] literally 400 years ago against it but it never was completely eradicated it's not that the cult

[00:43:23] doesn't exist or people don't know about it people don't talk about it because they don't

[00:43:27] want to talk about it the same way people don't talk about the holocaust now it is um

[00:43:31] oof there's a comparison if you if you read what i read yeah um like the cult was like all

[00:43:39] about sacrifice every fucking person you can to try to bring some dog what do it to earth um

[00:43:42] was gonna go a little more rain of terror but fair enough they attempted to yes like the war

[00:43:48] was an attempted coup on the earth realm um through multiple not just this city but multiple

[00:43:55] cities so people know what the cult is and they know about it they don't talk about it

[00:44:00] um it's not proper lucas said in their quotes um so i'll lean in and

[00:44:09] in a little like quieter say what do you take on this business of this uh this uh nasty cult

[00:44:17] oh everybody seems a hasn't quite finished yes i've heard um it's bad for business

[00:44:24] well it's very bad for business i've heard uh i've heard rumblings recently of um

[00:44:31] uh perhaps these secret tunnels and uh

[00:44:40] sacrifices of course which of course we know about people have gone missing for years

[00:44:46] um i mean people in this particular palace have gone missing over the years although

[00:44:53] i'm not entirely sure that that's cult related him knowing about tunnels seems suspicious now

[00:45:03] maybe it's missing out of the this is probably something we got should be asked though

[00:45:11] it's been six months so i don't remember if we got information about somebody going missing

[00:45:17] you know it's hard to remember before 9 11 it's always hard to remember when it's been a year

[00:45:22] since the last seven cycles of the moon it's been 2015 since we play this game i don't know

[00:45:29] who who's gone missing uh from what i had heard servants um in fact

[00:45:37] some people who you know kitchen help house help

[00:45:44] initially i had heard that there were thefts within the home within the we're sorry within the palace

[00:45:51] um i don't know i'm i'm not entirely certain that it's all related to the cult perhaps they were

[00:45:58] simply let go and let out of the home out of the palace and the dead of night rather than making

[00:46:04] a scene how long have you been a chamberlain oh now i'm going on 15 years now i believe

[00:46:13] what do you what do you make of uh the current regime king a tracks yes king a tracks is uh

[00:46:22] humble modest but humble um and quiet doesn't talk much when we do our council meetings but he

[00:46:32] listens and that's the most important thing anyone anyone in these council meetings that you

[00:46:38] raise an eyebrow to it's an interesting question perhaps all politicians should be raised an eyebrow to

[00:46:45] it's fair no one is perfect but not all are also corrupt what a political answer

[00:46:52] he did it now if you're asking me if i believe that anyone in this room is part of the cult

[00:46:58] i couldn't tell you what i couldn't or won't what would i suspect anyone would i suspect

[00:47:04] anyone specific would be your next question i imagine i don't think i could perhaps it's my

[00:47:09] introvertedness i when i work i don't really speak to anyone else i really only speak during

[00:47:14] council meetings when necessary and do my job it's not my job to observe the nobles of this land

[00:47:24] fair enough give me a perception check real quick that's 19 on the day nicely done one thing

[00:47:31] you do notice as you are you know focusing on him and as he's speaking he does have a green

[00:47:37] tent to his eyes now he's wearing a mask but that's something that kind of piques your interest

[00:47:47] he's a frog underneath his eyes are green the whites of his eyes have a green tent

[00:47:54] the whites of his eyes have a green tent not like forest green dark right just it's

[00:48:00] they're not white yeah yeah and a little bloodshot maybe are you enjoying the party

[00:48:10] uh quite quite i haven't um been able to talk to many yet but uh you know still early sure sure

[00:48:17] but just trying to gauge uh the folks interest here of of you know what we've come to sell

[00:48:25] of course of course is there anyone in particular you're looking forward to speaking to

[00:48:28] so we're a bunch of names most certainly who was um miss al-Alazzi

[00:48:37] miss al-Alazzi i don't know okay met see met the royal archonist emise emise emise emise

[00:48:45] met see emisee i that was the royal archonist who is here um i know because you said you gave us

[00:48:57] 15 names and i only have like a dozen so i'm must have king a tracks queen selena

[00:49:04] guard captain reyhak arbiter lina rinehart lord mayor victor harad vaz chamberland andres

[00:49:12] fricin steward saundra buell tom the celibate thomas presensories the royal archonist emise met see

[00:49:22] chief housekeeper sovi ben narva the master of mice krim kolkin the cat and then other staff are

[00:49:30] master of kitchens bozina minger the court chaplain uh enelina laner the royal musician

[00:49:39] yurgen gilman and then multiple guards and servants who are walking around who is who is

[00:49:45] what was she buell steward buell is the steward saundra buell is the steward it's a human male

[00:49:52] thick bald man stole face probably he's the bald probably the fattest man in the room yeah

[00:49:59] easy to spot bald head three plus 300 plus pounds floating in the air tackling calling himself a

[00:50:08] man screaming shit like the spice loud though so he did yeah if there's any of those people

[00:50:19] you're interested in he is asking if you're interested in seeing it's terrified by mice

[00:50:23] it's a deep cut yeah i want to talk to the bald guy are the steward yes steward is an interesting

[00:50:30] man a bit evasive doesn't like talking to people very long uh i can send him your way if you

[00:50:35] wish or if you'd like i can bring you to him yeah what you bring me to him that's sure yeah he sort

[00:50:41] of scans the room and says ah there's the man now very easy to spot very boisterous loud man his mask

[00:50:49] isn't even really on his face just sort of propped up um uh bright green garb uh please come with me

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