In our last episode, Day talked some trees, there was a bad storm, and the party explored inside a strange metal pyramid where they met Dominion, the old ruler of this realm. Day turned down his offer of power, snow boarded down the side of the pyramid, and when the hags called, lied about their whereabouts. I love Dandy. Our adventurers today are Keeran who plays Whalen the Barbarian, Max who plays Playster the Monk, Theron who plays Day the Druid, nobody wants to cuddle with a big frog, and our DM Hazel.
The Leisure is waiting for the magic, what are you two doing? Welcome, fellow travelers, to Legends of Chal. Bye, click. I panicked.
Yeah, do you know who it was? They wanted to know where we were. Yeah, they believed you, you weren't lying very good. Surprisingly, I think they bought it.
Okay, have they been calling every day, Hazel? Not every day now. Not every day, okay, so that buys us some time. Yeah, I didn't know if they could like, track us through spikes, so I didn't want to say no, we hadn't reached the center of the forest.
Well, we know that they can track us somehow. So I didn't want to outright lie. Do we want to abandon all of our hag stuff? I think it's just the fingernail and spike at this point.
It got something. And the helm of the Roper. Oh. Oh.
That just came in really useful. It did, but it's a very niche thing, so. That's true. I'm willing to ditch it.
Yeah, I mean, get to get lost in this astral space would be a... I mean, if we don't pick up, they just might assume we died. Right. I feel that of anything spike though, he's been our little buddy for so long.
Yeah. Yeah, he's been really handy. Yeah, we can just ditch this if he thinks it's the right thing to do. I don't know.
I mean, it's not really a black and white issue. We're beholden to them either way, but abandoning the stuff might make it harder for them to find us so that it would give us time to figure out what we need to do and maybe how to go through with our side of the bargain without killing the guy who seems to be good, who we can't kill anyway. But I think that just being out of communication, oh, but if they assume we're dead, does that mean that they stop protecting the town? No, shit.
Probably. Are they even really protecting the town so far? Well, we can't know for sure, but I think that they stick by their bargains, they just sort of twist them a bit. You think we should ditch it?
I mean, not if it's saying communication is what's keeping the town potentially protected. Okay. I mean, we can keep it. Whatever you think.
I don't know. I don't know if it even matters. I'm just worried. Yeah.
I'm still just more worried about everyone back home. Yeah, me too. We might as well keep up whatever ruse we can. I don't know if I'm exactly a better liar than you, but I don't mind taking the next call if you want.
I hold up my hands for the. Please. So. Yeah.
It's over immediately. Oh, that's like a thing that people should take notes about. So there's that now I guess we just wait for our ride to come back in camp and all that stuff. Yeah, with the storm dying down and the minion flying away, it's not too much longer for Joaquin Shoe's backup.
Like, oh, they're all still alive. I'm pretty impressed. What was that thing up there? Did you guys see that?
Dominion. Dominion. That sounds familiar. I got that on my driver's license.
Old Dominion. Back in the day, as far as I know, Dominion was the ruler of this place, like this entire realm before the queen. I see. Scary looking chap.
Hey, how do you know all about that? Anyway, you guys just got here. I lived here years and I don't even heard about that. Dominion told us.
He did, but also we went to the library. Let's say library. Should I do the thing? I heard that was run by a coop.
No. Who are you saying? I was saying no to you, Max. Damn it.
All right. I turned my chair back around the correct direction, sitting at normally. So, what happened in there? You guys went to that pyramid?
Well, what was it like in there? Bizarre and fleshy. Sounds interesting. That's one word for it.
The one I've used is horrifying, but you know, I can tell you I won't be stopping here again. Gotta find a new spot. I do not think that he comes by very often. I talked to that tree and it told me that it had been here for 12 storms and that Dominion came during the storms and I assume that it's been there a really long time.
Mm. Where is that? I guess it might be worth the risk. I can find another place though.
I prefer to do that. Seems pretty creepy around here now. It's fair. Well, I don't have much choice right now, I guess.
Rest up? I'd like to go to sleep. Yeah. No way if anything else creepy happens.
We'll do. So he lays back down and goes to sleep. Okay. I guess we set up watch.
You guys can set up watches. Nothing happens. So you all get your rest in. The pyramid opens again and sucks you in.
I had some second thoughts, says something. Shit, we should have the minion to come with us. Here we go. Overthrown by Margaret.
He's not going to help that much. That doesn't mean shit around these parts. Yeah. Actually, in the morning, when we wake up, I slap Whelan on the shoulder and say, you're necklace.
You got that evil necklace on you. Oh shit, I forgot. That's part of the evil. Yeah.
Is everything out here still fucked up saves? I would say it does. Yeah, it does. So, yeah.
Actually, and it was a wisdom save? Actually it does. Yeah, so wisdom save. I think you've gotten a 16 before.
It seems like it's a high save. I will let you remove it. So, we will say that was how this world works. That being under is good because it's like a spell thing, I guess.
I'm so excited. So, you have that off. Oh, hey, cool necklace, can I try? No.
Finally, God. Damn. I don't know why you're so adamant about not being undead. I wonder why.
You have to die in the first place. You might as well be undead after. Due to fucking worship the sun, sure. Right.
And so, only we will eventually be very, very hard to kill anyway. Okay. Do we want to do anything with that? Just hold onto it.
And then it here in the, in the Missiness. I do come just want to throw it dramatically into the astral soup. I'm okay with that. I'm going to find later.
Yeah, it can be, it can be in further campaigns that way. Well, fucking me. And lobs it out to the nest. Not getting my soul today.
Cool, cool. Okay. Is that what we're doing before leaving? Yeah.
And I feel like that cool was, this is the first time that I screwed myself over with this backwards AC thing. So I'm happy. Wow. Listen, sometimes we're all here to have fun.
Sometimes it really is you versus the D.A. So walking is like, oh, what did you do that for? It's like a expensive piece of jewelry. You probably could have sold it for a bit if you didn't want it.
It was cursed. Yeah. Oh. And I couldn't in good conscience give it to someone else.
So into the astral soup it goes. All right. Probably be lost out there. Perfect.
That's a good distance. Exactly. Meanwhile, it just like floats onto the neck of that where less could be could be. Can I on our journey here entertain Joaquin with some of these animal facts on my cookie sticks?
Oh, God. If you would like, I guess cat has nine lives. Is that I'm sorry. That's an animal fact.
Well, technically, according to this packaging, it's a fun animal name game. What's a what's the cat? Oh, I can do that one. And I make a cat appear and like walk around on on Joaquin's back.
I can't really see that. See, small though. I tell the cat to fly out in front of him so that he can see. All right.
Everything was weird. Yeah, they're a little weird. I tell the cat to come back and I cuddle it in my arms. That was like a small rock shot.
Oh, yeah. Kind of. That's a rock shot. Right.
Right. Right. Right. Right.
I can't say it. And with that one appears. I feel just another person. We got lots of people around here.
It kind of looks like that cat thing. Okay. Interesting. All right.
We ought to make it to drones by tonight. Jerome's. Yeah. Jerome's this this minute are got a shop.
Yeah, he's got a shop anyway. It's got a long name. I can't remember what it says. Okay.
And you guys fly and you fly for a while. I can come up with some other flying music maybe. So in the distance, you start to see these like wispy clouds ahead of you. And walkies like, hmm.
I don't know what that is. I've never seen it before. You guys are up for exploring it a little bit or you want me to go around. Would it be safe to explore it?
I don't know. Can't be worse than that pyramid. Let's do it. Okay.
Sounds good. I'm glad I had some adventures. All right. Umm...
You can't be worse than that pyramid, let's do it. Okay, let's go. Alright, sounds good. I'm glad to have some adventurers.
Alright, let's uh, let's go up there and see what's up. And that travelers was the last they've ever seen. So you move up to these clouds, and as you get closer, you see a bunch of goats, mists, mists of clouds streaming from their horns and feet as they rush out to the edge of the cloud and look at all of you. Goats.
Ghost? I'm trying to combine ghost and goat, and it's not happening. Goat. Are they, are they ghosty goats?
Or are they... No, they're not, they're not ghost goats. They just are just goats. And when they moved through the clouds, they had the cloud streaming from them.
Yeah, they kick up their steps. Like bouncing in their seat like goats, cat pet the goats, cat pet the goats. Uhh... Be careful, but yes.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know if they're close. Do I have to like get off of walking or... Yeah, you'd have to get off of walking.
Oh, I don't know if I want to do that. Walking. You'd see ghosts out here a lot. Are these cool?
Like I said, I've never, never, never seen this before. This weird white mist stuff, or the only other thing these things either, they're about, about your size. I guess maybe a little, a little smaller. Could be dangerous.
So I say over to the goats, like, hey folks, what's up? Oh shit, did they talk about that? See, ours. Stay away.
It's ours. You can have it. We're friendly. We make a persuasion check.
Yes, thank you. Can I do animal handling instead? Sure. Ten.
Ghost and goats. Mmm. No. My friend wants to pet you.
I think he wants to steal our clouds. I wouldn't know what to do with clouds if I had any. Mmm. What's a pet?
I reach over and I give Felicia a scritch on the head and I say like this. Oh, oh, that's so good. Oh my god, Dave, why have you never done this before? It seems...
I didn't know. God, that feels so good. Okay, it seems like real weird that I would normally do something like that to touch somebody, but you know, animals. They look at place red now.
They're reacting. Mmm. You don't want our clouds? Nope.
Yeah. He's got fur and horns. He looks kind of trustworthy. They use they, them, for an ounce actually.
Ah, they can come over if they want. Okay. You stay back though. You look weird.
Sure. I tell Felicia that they can go pet the goats. Yes. Place your floats over and like...
No tricks now. Try to cut, huh? Bleh. Yeah, you can understand that.
No, yeah. And Felicia just like goes over and starts petting these goats and giving them tummy rubs and scriches behind the ears. And the any of them want a headbutt? Yeah, you'll get some headbutts.
We do some headbutts. That's a real good time. And then I guess I go, oh, I'm sorry, I can't stay any longer. But thanks guys.
It's just, I really miss my goat friends back home. Bye. One of them grabs onto your clothes and the other say mine. Oh no.
This is ours now. Nope. No. No.
No territorial goats. I try to pry the goat's mouth off of my clothes because I don't want to tear my new clothes. Make an athletics check. Oh dear.
All right. It's a 25. You pry the goat's mouth open and you free your clothes. Cool.
I escape back to Joaquin. Make a dexterity saving throw. Okay. Nice.
That's a 23. 23. That's really high. How is this working this world?
That's not great in this world. Oh, that's actually terrible in this world shit. It latches back onto you and they say ours. You can go.
You can't keep them. There are. This is the fucking blink dogs all over again. Yeah.
I got to stop playing with animals. What is it? I'm getting kidnapped by animals. I just have animal magma.
I don't know man. I say they were ours first. You can't have them. What she said.
That seems like you're trying to make a persuasion or maybe intimidation check. Yeah. I think it's an intimidation check. I think I stand up as I do it and my hands have some sort of big magic in them.
Okay. Five. With the weird magic thing on you can have. Advantage.
Advantage. Wait, five is good. So five, right? This is a skill check, not a combat check.
Okay. So 12. You can roll. It would be curries, probably.
What? These fucking goats. They rolled really high. They rolled 19.
So they are not intimidated. Like, no, no, no, no, no, no. They are. Okay.
Let them headbutt place for like in the side. Hey, no head butts are for heads. So I like a whisper to Whelen and hopefully also to Joaquin. Like, I think we can probably distract them by pretending that we want to take some of their clouds.
That seems more effective than trying to fight them. Okay. How do we steal their clouds? I rip another patch off of the roof of many things or whatever the fuck it's called and it's just a big sack and I hand it to Whelen and say get out there and gather some clouds.
I'm just going to look up. What is my life come to? Gets up and starts floating out towards the go. It's all I'm going to go steal your clouds.
Better let go of my friend or steal all your clouds. Stay back. This is ours. What are you going to do about it?
The goats are like split between like trying to head off Whelen and trying to keep Palaestra. Make an intimidation check. Oh god. Not deception.
Well, it could be. They're both exactly the same. 13. They rolled a three.
So the goats run over to try to block Whelen from stealing their clouds and let go of Palaestra. I escaped to Joaquin. Okay. Run, run, run, run, run, everybody run.
Because they pass Whelen. He also puts it back to Joaquin. All right. So everybody makes it back to Joaquin and Joaquin zooms out of there around the cloud and goes like, Hey, wait, come back.
There are. There are. Bring them back. Bring them back.
That was a pretty good time. Interesting. Interesting creatures. Those goats were not shell.
You have a weird effect on animals. Apparently. I was not playing a goat kidnapping, but there we go. What happened?
Kidnapping. That's true. As you continue along, you start to see these billboards appear. Ooh.
The billboards say stuff like Jerome's middle of nowhere. Stop eat sleeping shops. Cool. Cool.
Jerome's middle of nowhere. Stop eat sleep and shop. Cool. You got that very well.
I have lived with you for a long time. And there's like a big arrow just pointing the direction as well. And a lot of these billboards are all kind of old and faded. They don't look like they've been maintained recently.
But they're there. And you see that Joaquin basically follows the direction of the billboards until you arrive at this floating island, a place that has this long, low building on it. It's made out of wood. And there's a sign up above the door that says Jerome's middle of nowhere.
Stop eat sleeping shop. Cool. So that's just what we're saying for the night Joaquin. This is the spot.
Found this guy a while back and been living out here for a while I guess. Had all these billboards. It wasn't too hard to find them. They got billboards all around here in every direction.
So if you're anywhere near here, you can find the shop. But I said a lot of people come out this way. So I don't know. I think I might be the only person who knows where it's at other than Jerome.
And Jerome might not know where it's at either because they just live here and don't go anywhere. So they might just not know where anything is and just live here. Who knows? I hadn't really asked him.
Maybe I should ask him that. You think I should ask him? I probably should. So yeah, this is where we're going to stop for the night.
They got, they got lodging and food and everything you can want really. Don't know where they get it, but they got it. That's good. And yeah, we'll fly right on in and he'll look you up.
I'm picturing like a rest up with the truck wash and and walking just sort of like flies through an automated truck wash. Oh, it sounds pretty good. It's like the car wash in a shark tail. Nope.
Okay. Right now, it's good. I'm sorry. Joaquin flies through the car wash.
Why not? He's a car. Why not? This is what they're called cars.
Well, he lets us off first, right? Yeah. Okay. He lets you off.
And yeah, you guys can head on into Jerome's middle of nowhere. Stop eating. Sleeping shop. Absolutely.
You should probably take a lead on this one. Okay. You all walk in, bell jingles as you enter and you hear some clattering and then you hear a door open and you see Jerome step out and it's like, oh, customers, don't get very many of those these days. Hello.
I'm in a car. It's so nice to see you. Yep. Have you seen anybody from the clans lately?
Be good to hear about what's going on back at home if you've got time. So what can I do you all for? Yeah. So I give Jerome the traditional minotaur greeting, whatever that is.
I don't know if we ever decided that. I'd say, well, we're coming out this way with Flocking and we're just looking to rest here for a bit before continuing on our journey. Oh, well, King Bratty did he. That makes sense.
Don't see him very often, but he's about the only person I do see. Really? With all your signs and everything, you don't get more customers? Yeah, kind of out in the middle of nowhere here.
So don't see many people come through. So yeah, it's nice to have visitors. So you guys want, you hear for some shopping, you want to room food, food in a room. So like a great stuff.
A little bit of everything, right? Yeah, I would shop. I didn't get to shop up. I had to be a nerd at the library.
Like what you got? What kind of store is it? You didn't have to be, you chose to be. Somebody had to know what's going on and I could be like, oh, look.
What kind of store is it? Does Jerome have any magic items? That do not need to be tuned to. You have a few minor magic items.
What are you putting in the market for? A bag of holding? Maybe. I don't know.
It's the first thing that came to mind. It's always useful. And Ichabod had ours. So.
Right. Yeah, that'd be a good thing to get. Yeah, you could have picked up a lot more gold at the castle if you had a bag of holding. Yep.
Yeah, I think that if you want a bag of holding, he's probably got one laying around. Okay. I think those usually go for, it's not much. It's like a thousand, I think.
I can find the price list. This says 4000. It's a little more than I want to pay, to be honest. Can we get a minute or discount?
I will let you buy one for 2500. Okay. Is everyone okay with that? Sure.
Yeah. Then we will. Oh, yeah. Those can be very handy.
Especially if you're going around exploring things or need to carry around a lot of food. Actually, yeah, we should probably stock this out with supplies because I mean, we have to get home. Yeah. Certainly.
Like I've got all kinds of food stuffs, dry goods, good for adventuring. Yeah. You'll have to be non-perishable. Well, I mean, we always have the good berries.
It's not the best, but at least keep us going. I've got some canned goods. I want like all the canned peas, stuff like that. The canned goods sounds hilarious to me for some reason.
And a can opener. I'm going to put that in my valuables. Can opener. Canned chicken.
Pickled chicken. I'm going to get like a month's worth of rations for everybody. Cool. How much do you want me to charge me for that?
Nine gold. Nine gold. That's a low price, are you sure? Low of gold.
Give me a second. Food doesn't seem like it costs that much, really. Like, it's coppers or maybe silvers. I got distracted in the middle of my mouth.
Five silvers. So, 15 gold for the month. Per person. Yeah.
Okay. So, 45. That was good. Great.
Okay. So, we buy food. And lodging for a night. Jerome, do you have any interesting stories to tell out here in the middle of nowhere?
Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I have a lot from being out here. I can tell you about my days back at the Minotaur clans a bit.
Yes, please. I'd like to talk to your friend here, learn about what they're up to these days. Oh, yeah, you too can talk. That's fine.
I'm just. I'm willing to talk to all of you. If you want to listen to me, pride along. I know you've been riding with Joaquin.
I know Joaquin just talks constantly. So I thought you might want to cool your ears, but if not, I'm willing to talk. That sounds like if anybody wants to cool their ears, now's the time because I want to hear about all of this Minnetarshi. I'll sit there and listen while I'm there.
Yeah, drinks, food, and stories from both of our good Minnetars. Well, I'm wondering how long Jerome's been here because, like, I mean, Minnetarh clans and families and stuff are pretty spread out across the world. It's not like old days where everyone was in one spot. So I don't know if Jerome has been here for hundreds of years or whatever.
Time might flow weird here, which is our home. Yeah. Yeah. Can I like, I don't know, insight check to see if I can get that, pick that up from the way he's talking or?
I mean, if you're going to disbelieve him whenever he says that he used to live with the clans in the homeland, wherever that is, then you can do an insight check. But other than that, you can just talk it out with him. So Jerome, I noticed the way you're talking. It sounds like you're talking about if all the clans are in one place together.
Yeah, I mean, usually are. Sometimes one of them goes out to war for a bit or come back and... I don't know how to tell you this, especially because my parents won't really talk to me about it. There hasn't been a minotaur homeland for several hundred years at least.
We... Well, I don't really know the whole history because, like I said, my parents won't really tell me about it. But my dad has some big book that he won't let me read that I think has the whole history of our people and stuff in it. I didn't know that.
We're pretty scattered. I mean, clan name doesn't really mean much anymore. It's more about maybe individual families. That's only when there's more than one family in a city.
That's a shame to hear. I wonder what happened. I wonder if I've got a copy. And he walks over to a bookshelf and starts looking through it.
Out of character, he wouldn't because the book was written specifically after the fall of the minitars. You know what it's called? You know what? It's called?
You know what? Polaister definitely does. Max is desperately looking to see if they wrote it down in their notes anywhere. It's called Follow the Minotaur.
Oh, glad I think you have it. So it's since Kaleisha knows. I didn't know if Kaleisha knew or not. Yeah, Polaister has seen it.
They just haven't been allowed to actually like go through the whole rite of passage with it. Oh, here it is. Don't look at the books much. I didn't know whether we had it or not.
I didn't even think to look to see if I could read up about what's been happening. Yeah. If you've been here all this time, how did you get a copy of the book? I don't think it's just kind of show up here.
Huh. That's pretty cool. Strange. Yeah, it's a pretty neat place.
I found it a while back and this full of stuff and lived here for a while and just got to being full of stuff. So I opened it up for business. Not many people came around, but I put a bunch of billboards so they could get here. And there's actually two copies here.
I don't know if you want one. Sounds like you haven't read it. Yeah, totally. I would love to read it.
All right. I feel like I should know these things. Here you go. You can, you can, it's on the house.
You can have this one. Thank you. Especially since you let me know it existed in the first place. Live forward reading this or maybe I don't, but, yeah, don't live back home anymore.
No, I mean, I would love to know what it was like. But yeah, we live in Chancicae now. I mean, that's where my family is. But I know there were a bunch of other families up further, even further north than us.
But I think there's just lots of little Minatar communities all over the continent. See, so we've got people living in Chancicae, huh? Over on Sanjanshi, right? Yeah.
Yeah. Had a lot of fun with the Black Rot last night. I knew of a lot of people were getting out of there. It's good here.
They got it under control. Yeah. Yeah, that is good. I'd be happy to tell you stories and I don't know.
You want to get a cup of tea or something? We can go over here and chat a bit and read our books. Yeah, absolutely. All right.
So they'll do that. They will tell you stuff about the Minatar homeland, which that's kind of your thing. So I don't know much about it myself. If you want to talk about it to us a bit, that would be good.
And if not, that's fine. I don't know. Sorry. I'm not here.
You're fine. Okay. Yeah, you didn't miss anything. Okay.
I was just going to ask if that's something we think that we should, that you guys think is worth me giving to the audience or because I don't know what's going to be of interest to people. I feel like it'll be of interest. I think it'll be like a good episode. We don't really know that much about police draft and we don't really know that much about Minatar's on Shell.
So I think that people would be interested. Yeah. So I imagine Jerome's stories would have been a lot of stories about just really grow up like what it was like to grow up around a majority of Minatar's instead of being like the only Minatar's in town and I would probably be able to rattle off some of the various tribes and what they were known for, probably some good war stories about essentially they were like Renta Soldiers or Renta Cops, the Minatar's mercenaries. Yeah.
Basically, everyone left them alone and would call them up if they had enough gold or whatever to help fight a war or something. They also, I guess when Jerome was around they would still be very pretty wealthy because they also, their land was kind of in between like four or five other countries. So anyone trading had to go through them and pay their taxes and their tolls and stuff. And then I guess when these two actually look in the books what they would find is that eventually that all came to an end when the government kind of became sort of corrupt or rather allowed corruption to spread and people got fed up with being overtaxed or having to pay bribes in addition to the tolls on the roads and things like that.
And eventually the surrounding armies built a sort of machine army that put, well it was made to wipe the Minatar's out but really just push them and anyone living on their lands out of there and just scattered them. So that book, The Fall of the Minatar, was written by the last sort of great Minatar scholar who survived this invasion and in the book there's instructions that each name of each generation is written down and whenever a child comes of age they have to read the entire book and then add their family's history to it up to that point because there's a bunch of blank pages after the end of it. So yeah, that's kind of me trying to keep it concise. All right, cool.
Very cool. To be explored further in the future I'm sure. Hopefully anything else that you guys want to do while you are here? I'll poke around and see if he has an enhancement jewel plus two.
Yeah, so I've had the plus one for so long. Oh, can you not upgrade though? I could remove the jewel and put the new one on my side. Okay, I thought that we had talked about that and it might destroy the size.
I thought the description said removing the jewel destroys the jewel. You're probably right. If you could make a D100 roll for me? Mm-hmm.
99. Wow, that was the opposite end of where I was going for. Yeah. So yeah, you don't find one.
Sorry. All right. I don't have anything else. All right, well then you all rest up and if you think of anything that you would like to do here before next time you can, I know it's a little early but that's all I've got.
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