S13E04 - A Fire Sale on Apples

Now the round friends let me tell you a tale of three heroes over the world A brooded droid and a thief who is but not his old You know that my name, you know that my deaf, their west are famously daring So here I sit, singing to you an adventure that is with sharing Tell us the brooch who knows not his home, he loves to sing and find Fingers at the healthy shifts his shape and meals his name was great pride Billy's a thief, his tiny size, his master's large, his heart Best and red, his name and not be but their friendship outweighs their smart So gather round friends and listen close For the tales about his new heart Hello everybody and welcome to Spout Lawer, I'm your game master Shanohera Joining me as always to call my dome the barbarian of dual disease Hello everybody, welcome to Spout Lawer I'm just drinking a massive red bull right now as you might be able to hear A duel is sucking on the biggest can of red bull I've ever seen Yeah I know they made them that big Oh no no no no don't Don't spell it Okay, nah I'll never have heard it there Okay, I can't believe you I don't What do you attack it? I'm willing to accept that you think that Ving the half fell drew at ball-hoppers I think that if dual was having a heart attack you would jump in front of a truck to make sure that nobody knew that you died a heart attack He died a little bit I was really dealing with the faffiliy the half-ling thief just could die Yeah I think you're right here, yeah you would jump in front I would never give a train something crazy I would never give anyone the satisfaction of being right I would plunge his fingers into his own chest to tear his heart out and like this is what killed me It was me It was me I did the kali mothic I told you I'd die by kali maw I told you it would happen this way When last we left our heroes they had finally gathered the security answers to their password reset in the high spear The secret chamber at the base of the tower That's gaining the password to the wifi Oh that is what we did To reset the wifi password Yeah, no It's on its face it seems like we have a very boarding show Please go back and listen to the episode Returning to the door they entered the questions Billy's first pet many wings buff at the pedals of the Magnolia Ving's mother's maiden name all water And tuck shared the name of the street that he grew up on Trying first the tallow road Or not the right answer to the question before giving the true answer Trying to give it casually so that the other two didn't hear The broken shore Tuck grew up in some fashion on the broken shore Oh, broken shores Shores? I thought it was sure No, broken shores Broken shores, plural Yeah And the door itself opened revealing An absolute torrent of bright white light and a massive source of thalmic energy What are you guys talking about? A little slit in the middle of the guy It was like we're looking into an unshielded nuclear reaction Yeah, basically A full-on hotspot a wifi hotspot created by a wizard Many years ago And created by us Many years ago Years ago Well, lead the speaker Created a wifi hotspot as he left this realm Morris terrified at seeing an unshielded hotspot Dragged everybody back into the elevator But Tuck, Billy and Vang being the problem solvers they are Decided to say problems Yeah The problems, comma solvers that they are Decided the best way to contact Well, lead the speaker, constructor of the high spear And creator of this wizard hotspot Was to simply yell really loud into the hole Oh, yeah And against all odds it worked Because it was mainly because we weren't allowed to write a note And throw it at a barely stable wormhole Yeah Now when you say not allowed What do you mean by that?

I mean Sean Threwbore said it was too dangerous That we might detonate some kind of atomic bomb thing That would destroy the high spear There's no way to know So you just yelled super loud Getting a message through to Willy in his endless library The unshielded spell of the high spear Transmitting memories, thoughts, and communications instantly Towards the minds of all present Tuck sharing an image of the outer dark The mirrored reflected field of stars That contains all human thought concepts And supposedly connected in some fashion To Tuck's origins himself Billy shared an image of the endless bows The metaphysical pathways which connect all fairies And create the very realm itself Originating from the icon of questioning So sick Very cool So fucking cool Great great great The endless bows The endless bows And seeing all of the purest representations of the constellations The seed within Vinc's chest began to sprout So cool Ooh as he learns things that's how it grows Oh, cool What's your intelligence? Minus two Minus one How stupid am I? Yeah Tuck then passed out and the party took him back to Hitheron To rest up in front of the fireplace Mm-hmm Like a big sick dog It was that Yeah And while everyone was recuperating Billy hanging out near the mail slot Found an invitation From Prince up Callum Blackhammer To a masquerade ball in the city of Blacklass At the Blackhammer Palace Um assuming that it had to be a trap The party was prepared to crumple it up and throw it in the garbage Before a bounty hunter entered through the doors Oh yeah Jingle Jangle went his spurs As he took a drink Mention that he was here to escort the party to the masquerade At the offer of Callum Blackhammer And that their safety would be guaranteed Evidence by the fact that he walked through the doors of Hitheron Name's about 200 we'd seen before Yes, at Port Forefrost The bandaged Uh Be spectled Be spectacled Gun-wielding bounty hunter With his magical weapon and his magical accoutre maul Tuck and Ving said that they do not travel with strangers And they asked his name Before he revealed That he was the long lost villain The greatest threat you'd ever faced Lionel Mackenzie King The pomogranic guy The pomogranic guy That was I think maybe the biggest reaction I've ever given I'm the one that was up there for sure I'm the Red Bull Hey, you fucking loved it so much It was great And that is where we find our heroes now Staring into the face of Lionel Mackenzie King A man whose face you may have never even seen before Billy doesn't really react He's like Yeah, can you remind us again your deal? Remind you of my deal Yeah Yeah, you say we almost killed you When, where?

You're kidding me Was it Did we meet you in the mall? McCall or was it mudlar? Crystal Bay Crystal Bay Oh you were in the back house Library You've got to be joking Burned down a library And then we also did we burn down the hut? Did you remember all of that?

I mean, most of you remember the big cow in the library We did a lot of damage to the library Did you steal something from the store? Outside the memorial library You needed it I don't know why you just started saying that my pomogranics were So cheap And they knocked over my cart And I almost got trampled to death Oh wait, that car was my livelihood I put all my money into that ship Ship in a pomogranic I am so sorry You put all your money into one cart full of pomogranics Money's tight Pomogranic's expensive Okay What do you mean? Oh okay How's the pomogranic business can be going Bad Really bad They're really annoying to open up Hear that Yeah, they aren't the greatest fruit Yeah, do you ever think about having an apple cart? Oh, that would do well They're so cheap too Pick it up, it's handheld You can eat the skin He's so convenient Pomogranic skin Not very good He takes a deep breath He releases it He pulls his bandages back up over his face I'm here to escort you To the city of Blacklass What do you...

Okay We understand that Do you want to tell us the rest of your origin story though? Because it couldn't have just been that, right? You know what? No, I don't What?

That's a long time ago And you followed us for that long And you didn't even remember So it wouldn't matter if I told you It was you forget anyways No, we will forget And the more I explain Okay, I promise anything The angrier I become And the closer I am To breaking the rules of this place So, I am simply going to take a deep, steady, and breath Just like my therapist suggested And then we are going to go to Blacklass And then I'm going to leave this place And then we'll see what happens from there Okay, what if like Do you guys want to go to this ball? I guess I guess like this is now interesting Because we know we're not going to get killed there Yeah, sort of Yeah I mean, I'm in to go Investigate I guess Lionel Yes If that is your real name It is The only words I shared with you contained my full government name What's in it for us if we go to this thing? Yeah You don't have to go But from what I've been told The safety guarantee to offer Is contingent upon your attendance at the ball Oh, is it like a thing where if we go Then there's maybe a deal to be made And if we don't go then he's going to hunt us I just got paid to come and get you How did you find us? That's for me to know And for you to shut up about I don't like that he knew how to find us And that he could see your heartbeat And that he could see that he knew about the his or your own Yeah, Morris Parell, what's going on with these goggles?

Parell and Morris have been like kind of cagey on the outside of the room Not being part of this conversation Just like whispering to each other like What's going on over there? You see fingers come up over the bar I was just thinking Just a little schnaz on the bar top And Parell kind of sticks his nose His nose Point on top of the one of the bar And he looks at him And then he goes He like tips his lips over the bar He goes They're magical And then he hides behind the bar again Which item? These? Yeah And he kind of you know breathes on his fingernails And rubs them on his shirt I made him How did you make them?

I have my ways You're saying someone who decided to spend their life savings on a pile of pomegranates Was smart enough to make magical sunglasses That's a kind of investment move That my real life dad would make Losing an entire house on Nortel Network When your entire life is dashed to the ground before you You make some questionable decisions In an attempt to find a new way forward And then I lean over to And then I'm like, here comes It's this origin story He wants to say it's so bad He's not going Yeah I do But I won't You're not giving out of me that easily I don't know I think you really want to tell us Mother never was You think I would make a deal with Mother never was? I think that it's possible I mean you did buy a bunch of pomegranates I may have considered it Excellent point actually Yes I may have considered it At some point in my life You see when I was at my lowest I considered all possibilities Over a whole lot of seconds Yeah You're trying to get me to dive into my secrets And it's not going to happen What if we do it? They were like Come on guys This guy doesn't have a cool best story at all Yeah, let's do that He's trying to rock a risk Okay, yeah reverse psychology Yeah sure So I'm seeing multiple people pick up us And everyone's putting it back down So what's going on here? I guess what he was like What's the last thing that happened?

He started talking and went Wait a second And then I look I'm like Lionel We understand Not everyone has a cool origin story And then I look at these two guys And I go Come on Let's go find an assassin With a cool origin story to talk to And we start slowly putting our colors So we're like last thing that we don't have Walking towards the door I'm sure there's someone out there That wants to kill us That has a really cool origin Yeah full on my boots And I'm like I know he's got nothing to tell us You're boots Well Billy's just walking around in socks He's just walking around in socks Much as Ken I guess the truth Yeah, he's an indoor boy Yeah, I'm not American I'm not the fucking shooty Good point Good point Chuck takes There's a giant leather duster And a big cowboy hat on Kind of coat right by the door That's just been there That's from our costumes from us A reenactment I was like the idea that he takes a coat That he just found on a wreck Let's get out of here Rip one on top of the rip Come up So it's sleevel Come on guys He's got the sleeves on And he just torn away He flips it on Rips down the middle Throw the cowboy hat in Guess we'll hit the old dusty trail Unless you want to come with us and tell your tale Well actually I'm supposed to ask Court you Take a ball We only get escorted by People with cool backstories Yeah, so that's a one in three Great Plus charisma That's not gonna do it No, it's seven Seven Whoa He's got three charisma This is All right, so Do you want to tell us Why you hated so much? I don't hate it, I just don't The character just doesn't I just don't understand Because he's so charismatic Yeah, I know I understand That he's crazy And then bad at other stuff Yeah, just feels like there's like A lot of plate spinning right now And this is the least important one I'm sorry I'm welcome to spell Lord This is what the show's about Because you think that's gonna get me And it kind of turns around And cups up a drink That mirrors put on the table for him What do you want to hear? You want to hear that after You destroyed my life I saw I'd vowed revenge At all costs Is that what you want to hear? I'm not going to tell you that How does a man so low And trampled After I vowed my revenge And after the burning of the memorial library And the destruction of my precious Promagranis I was ready to kill you And I still am I will kill you All three of you one day He starts sliding out the door Sweet But I got Shafts I swear I vow That until my time comes Your time has not come And maybe I consider it a several options for revenge No, but not yet But we see a series of flashbacks Of him in the background Of a bunch of shots Totally Yeah, you guys are in McCall Eating falafels At the cafe outside Abbudi, bro And he's like crouched on a rooftop You guys are in the Chandler's District At Wickport And he's crouched in an alleyway Tread like a candle bicker I'm picking candles And he looks over I always knew where you were going And I was one step behind Periff Humble break And Crystal Bay When I vowed My revenge And all of my options had gone out And I'd been evicted from my apartment Like, hey my boyfriend said He didn't want to see me anymore Because I became so obsessed with revenge Which at first I thought Maybe he would think it's hot But he didn't Because of all the pictures That I drew the three of you Pictures like this one Holds up A very crude stick drawing of the three of you I looked at this picture every night And I swore that I would find you and kill you Most of you are just like shapes Like Billy's a little circle Things along rectangle And tucks an upside down triangle These images burned into my brain And into my flesh Any open-school shirts Because there's a little circle And a long triangle And an upside down triangle Cholds backwards And an upside down triangle tattooed on his chest I look at this tattoo in the mirror every night Swearing that I would kill you And at that time when I was at my lowest A teacher Appeared Taught me long lost skills Takes his goggles off Kind of spins them around To the strap on his finger Who was this teacher?

That information I can't share with you Until the time is right Because you got a 7 to 9 Damn But trust this teacher Wishes your demise just as much as I do Whoa what? Why do we do this teacher? That information I can't share Slide them another drink Alright No no no No I can't No just It'll make me too angry And then I'll be forced to kill you And I'll be ejected from this place That's all you're gonna know about Lionel King for now You have to progress further In the story before you can unlock this conversation Thanks for sharing What? Hey I didn't you got me talking Goddamnit Lionel get it together You're so close to your revenge The time is almost time No way But I got it It's like What?

It's like He's butts being pushed out of the bar The chair is leaning Yeah No no no But I swear I won't do it yet But don't worry You'll die By my hand It's like Yeah don't want us to try and Just holding the door open Please Wait wait wait wait wait wait I need you guys to come I need you guys to come to this bar I am under contract Okay fine Fine fine Okay so What are we gonna walk Are we gonna walk or are we gonna Where is it in the ordinary now? It's above high sphere It's black glass city Yeah let's just take the hater in the oven there Oh thank God Yeah I walked quite away To get here You walked here from the firefield There was you know I walked I took a horse I hit underneath a cart for a few days You stole a horse? I just rode one I didn't say that I bought it or who owned it I just was there and I hopped on You said you took a horse I said sorry yeah We see a horse run by us Don't That's an unrelated horse Robertive Lee naturally We all wear like a little blanket with Brandon off Yeah His blankets And so uh Lionel clanks back into the bar His spurs janglin I decided he does have spurs on I love it And uh he sits by the bar Alright Let's get this bar on the road Okay since you know where we're going exactly If you can't drop the intention to take us there Is that how this works? No tricks There's nothing we can do Yeah If you're straight with us we'll be straight with you This is a place of safety Alright Now let's go to the one place I want to go in all the world The pomegranates 1999 A year before we hit a trampoline With this pub word of time pub I can go back and write all the wrongs I've made in my life Oh Mackenzie How I loved you so And all the shutters close And they slammed back open And you're immediately struck by the smell of Smoke And smog It's got a like a pungent, accurate kind of industrial smell outside And it is just cacophonous There's music Lots of music Like hooting pipes And the the riddles of carriages And the clomping footsteps of what you can only assume Or you see like mechanical legs walk by outside Whoa oh oh In the city of black glass Does black glass kind of have like a Victorian steampunk vibe Everything is wrought iron though So it's like got brass gears But it's all black Kind of I think that's exactly what it is It's like if during the Victorian industrial revolution There were actual like robots walking around Oh cool Yeah and lots of stained glass Yep right we said It's a city of artisans Right Of various stripes So there is beautiful architecture The mechanization of the city allowed them The time to dive into art Cool As they became more mechanized Art also kind of was pushed to the side For like mass produced stuff So there's like newer parts of the city That are kind of without that soul Right That black glass was bounded on Right that makes sense Dessert Uh oh yeah I know you can roll Uh with a Cen Uh 10 Yeah so you get three questions Off the Dessert in reality list What here is useful or valuable to me?

You know what's useful to Billy? Is the door opens And Lionel walks out And he goes ah The place that I want to go more than any All the world And right across the street Is a store called like Doug's Subs And he walks right through the door Ah here we go Greatest of the world The best of the sandwiches And all the precepts Yeah I mean I look both ways Of course but crossing the street Yep I follow him into Doug's Subs Yeah you go through the door Doug's Subs We follow Billy because he's Following a sass and he wants to kill him I see a photo of a sandwich I'm like Yeah nothing can hurt me in there No you have no idea what a sub is But the sandwich above the door That's long There's a long sandwich Nailed to the wall above the door of the shop Don't know what a sub is But we have all we ever Talk about Party subs Don't know what a short sub is We only have ever seen a party So we call sandwiches short subs Yeah Sub stubs Where's the rest of the All think that sandwiches are made Initially in party sub 4 And then they're Slice to give it to us So they're smaller Yep so there's a giant sandwich On the door above the shop And you all go right in It's a beautiful sight And you hear Oh my god If it isn't Lionel Mackenzie King My best customer This is where all the artists ends up working Yeah Sandwich artists Yeah He's a sandwich artist Yeah Come on over Lionel I'll get your orders started He goes ah Douglas It's been a long time And he just starts ordering a sandwich I'm looking at the window of the sub place I'm thinking What here's not what it appears to be Ah what here is not what it appears to be Okay so you arrived You assumed that it must have been a distance thing In black glass Where like all the street lamps are on Like there's lots of gas lamps Throughout the city And it's quite dark And you're like oh I guess like The distance we had to travel Means that like the light just changed Cause like the time is different here But it is As Billy can feel Through his very connection to the sun It is daytime But it is pitch black here Whoa It's absolutely covered in the smog Yeah the smog Okay Oh no Do we feel that agitize Oh probably Yeah even just like At the edge like Chewing away at the edge of your perception He's like Tuck has a nose whistle He's like Can you breathe out of your mouth Why is everybody talking about how loud I breathe the last few days You guys are already snapping at each other What should I be on the lookout for then You would assume Billy Knowing that it is daytime And that the smog is like completely blanking the city Anyone could be a demon You think Oh yeah Oh shit Demon City Anyone in the city could be fully possessed Or everyone What did we walk into? Are these subs cursed as well? And you look up and you see Italian herbs and cheese Mayonnaise Mustard Salami Pancetta Provolone Green peppers More provolone Spinach Mo-ta-dello Toasted in the oven Moda-dellip But and then toasted again Once the moda-dell is added And then ranch Oh shit This is a Lionel sandwich Lionel sandwich Two please Right away Anybody can get this sandwich It dug subs Because I don't actually know How to make a different one And you can start in another sub So those are your questions And you know We cut forward a little bit Lionel's sitting in a table Eating a giant sandwich We're all eating a sandwich He's kind of like Working it through his bandages Why did you just take it off?

I like the way they feel like it's my skin Makes me feel contained And they're getting real ranchy Around the mouth Actually that's not a bad idea I feel like we should Wear something around our faces here Yeah I was thinking of getting Safron from the pub And then wearing a mask Like making a Safron concoction Dipping some rags at it Where does it mask? What happened to you on me? Maybe not on you But back in the bar for sure Maybe for the ball We can keep the mask on I mean it's a masquerade right? Yeah And I'm already dressed like a cowboy Kind of a cowboy strip or It's really formal Thanks And Tux starts like swishing back and forth And he's like I like the duster too I feel like it's cool It's pretty good Everybody that wears a duster thinks the duster's cool That's what Lionel says And I was like Your phrasing was really specific Back How the fuck do you even wear spurs?

Yeah but my spurs Are cool Because I'm playing against type The rest of me It's mummy The mummy wears spurs So the masquerade ball is Not tonight but the next night All of the well to do People of the firefields Will be in attendance All of the Most influential families Uh uh And then you also And then I'll be there as well As a bodyguard to Callum Blackhammer As is my current profession You're currently Callum Blackhammer's bodyguard? That's right I'm one of the deadliest men In the firefields This is kind of a cool I kind of like this move that Callum did Where he's just like I know that they killed my brother So I'm gonna approach them first Sort of diplomatically And have my bodyguard escort them here It's kind of cool It's very cunning Yeah It's quite a shrewd and cunning moves I might say Yeah For a tyrant Mm So I trust that I can leave you To your own devices in the city And that you will be in attendance On Maro's night You have our word Very well The black glass palace You'll know it by the chimes of the bells Alright And he shoves this rest of the sandwich Through the bandages right into his mouth He's doing that thing where like He's doing like multiple pushes Into his mouth Because there's so much sandwich Oh my god For Marr Jingle, jingle, jingle of his spurs As he leaves the sandwich place Okay Alright Well We walked straight into the belly of the beast Let's go back to the pub Let's go back to the bar Show you what I want to explore I would rather debrief with you guys In a safe place Before we make next moves All of my sandwiches go please You get a wrapped up Everyone can get it to go sandwich at dogs Already mine But I think one for the road please And one for the bar One road pub Sandwich Road two Yeah one for the road One for when I get to the pub Hey one for crossing the street And then one for when I'm home Yeah We don't have any money Oh Let me run across the street And see if Mira has money You two stay Okay And he puts a sword on the On the same as mine On the same as mine Oh my god I already stole some money Oh shit I get Oh you stole money I stole money from that masterly guy I can text as I love I have six coins How much is it? Six coins Ah You should have said you had four Six coins please Six coins How much is he just ordered two He ate one That's five sandwiches And I'm pretty sure Lydal Didn't pay That's six Do not Point each What do you want? That is the capital city Yeah it's reasonable We live in a city where You could get a burrito for 30 Dollars Yeah I can't wait to have a burrito People are financing smoothies Oh you can buy it on Klarna Klarna That's really funny What's Klarna?

It's like a Binal Paylator Yeah basically Or paid installments And Did charge you interest? Yeah probably I don't know Well the company is Basically swiftly going bankrupt Because everyone's defaulting On their burrito loans Yeah Actually I think we partnered With like DoorDash and stuff And so it gives you the option Like paying Stolen That's so funny So you pay your six coins You go back to the door Where the hittering yawn once was Oh no And the sign above the door is gone No The shutters looking on What would it be? Oh a pig pen A pig pen There's two windows in the door And you know what the door Is that you? No My name's Carol Come on in Thank you Carol Nice to meet you Our friends I'm working for our friend Lots of room in here Why don't you just open that door real quick It tucks starts padding his pockets And he realizes that his key am Big's key to the back door We're in the loincloth And he's wearing the duster Now Oh He's like If only somebody Let me hold onto my own key Your key would be Underneath a toilet At a best western Is where it would be You hear the pig from inside Go where you looking for your wallet I think there's a wallet in here Just open the door No Just open that door real quick I think your wallet's in here with me I open the door No It comes running out Yes It's just Bull's billy over It takes off into the city Where's the wallet?

I'm free Squeeel I can't believe he left us We're gonna die over here Wait is there a market Stands around? I want to discern reality and grab some I do have some saffron uses on me So if we want I have three uses Oh shit Yeah let's make those rags Yeah you could probably find a market If you walked around for a bit Okay There's a very nighttime Victorian England vibe There's like People walking you know like A guy in a top hat Walks by arm and arm with another Guy in a top hat and a long twisty mustache And they're like Ha ha ha ha ha Tapping their canes as they walk Look at everybody There's a bunch of check the rippers around Yeah they could be murdering us at any moment There's a figure in the alleyway With a long cape flipping a knife Hey gotho Now why don't you come in here Oh my god I've got some rippers in our water Day There's a lady making pies Not normal mean pies Yeah There's a little ripper There's a couple of rippers She's rolling up pies Come over here pies for sale There's a barbershop above And I'm doing shavings up here Come up here You look like you got a lot of meat Oh you're bode Oh you're a bode Crazy big fella Wasn't we watch there's a ripper over there It's just you guys If you look up and you see a sign on the alleyway This is Ripper Lane You know we gotta get the fuck out of this Everybody run They're all careable They're gonna rip us We're gonna get ripped We're gonna get ripped We run out we don't see this But it's very much everyone's an actor So then a shift bell Man And it's a colonial Williamsburg thing Where they just get ripped Yeah Everybody's on the next shift Okay Wait a sec This is what they want They want us ready and breathing really deep So breathing all the smoke We're gonna have to Do I don't know I just grabbed some flags from a store A cart You just ripping them off a cart Yeah Alright so you're making masks Is that your plan here? Yeah I wrap them around my face like a mummy So you all wrap Put these rags around your faces Full of saffron That saffron's gone You know each have like a A degree of protection Something's being filtered through the saffron I look even more like a cowboy Check out So what do we think we need to do in preparation Well I guess one you're lost in the city It's a pretty fancy event Fancy Uh huh Costumes Oh yeah There's probably a cart actually Right we're in sort of a fake historical section Is that what we're doing? Yeah Of an older age of black glass city It's like a gas town Yeah They're trying to revitalize the tourism industry Totally Yeah In a immersive city experience Uh yeah There's clothing stores around If you want to if you want to wander and find some stuff You don't have any money You just spent your six coins on sandwiches Why did Hitler and Jan abandon us here?

It was needed somewhere else I guess I who though? I guess it was someone that needed it more than us I guess that means we'll be okay That's what that tells me That's probably true Should we head towards the palace at least? Out of this weird district? Yeah we should probably get clothes We should probably kind of suss the city We closed it to help us blend in probably Yeah Some realities Yeah Yeah Some realities 2d6 plus wisdom Looking for some sort of clothing shop 12 Okay Yep 12 3 questions What here is valuable to me?

Yeah you wander these streets for a while Just trying to get a vibe for where you are And eventually do find yourself in sort of a like a Taylor's district There's lots of clothing shops Of various stripe But mostly like as you would expect in a place this Fancy feeling a lot of like Tailored suits And finally made dresses And clothing of all kinds A hatters A habitationary Mm High-end finery Yes high-end finery Right, you cannot afford And it seems like there's a lot of people kind of Milling about in and out of these stores Coming up with bags And there's a lot of tittering about Oh, oh the masquerade It's tomorrow evening Yeah we must prepare for the masquerade I have two ideas Like either like Nick one of these bags Or I could do an alms for the poor kind of performance Okay here's Let me give you a little something to build on that Sure Because he talked to the saying of the stability He's like Billy I don't think what most of He's we go into a wide where you can see His size difference between him and everyone else I don't think most of these people's hats and clothes will fit So the clothes you're currently wearing don't fit These reds of a leather dust or clothes don't fit you This duster looks great on me But could you maybe steal like money So we can buy our own clothes that are tailored to us Yeah for sure kids Right, so I yeah I'll go into I go into thief mode Oh nice I'll go into the port Billy by doing riff-raff straight rat To see if there's any threats in the crowd that he should be aware of Yeah totally So riff-raff straight rat you just get to ask what's the biggest threat here Yeah what is the biggest threat? There are This is a crowd of high-end shoppers And a variety you know people there's like a cart selling Handpies or whatever to people shopping around Hi bros that's the biggest threat right now Yeah I just actually buy a pie distraction Yeah he's looking at all the money but then he's like But then the smell wafts him and he goes He's like lifting up off the ground Uh-huh And uh but you do see like you hear like a click click Click and on the far end of the lane A walking into view is a smaller looking version of a war Mac That kind of has like a British Bobby style hat Oh cool A cop bot There's a robot cop My enemy And uh they're kind of escorted by two other uniforms guards There are these mechanical machine officers We're not at threat Here as known commodities for the war You know what I mean? There's wanted posters elsewhere Oh I see which I mean like are you wanted in this place? Yes It would seem like as you were walking around You didn't see a lot of wanted posters And I think we were given specifically to be in the city by Calum in whatever like machinations he's got Yeah So actually I think you see the guards notice you and tuck Because you're towering above everybody else And they make eye contact with you And they kind of say some words to each other And then they just keep about their patrol Okay They like watch out for those cops One of them is like a robot I know Watch out for the robo cop Yeah it's about probably seven, seven and a half feet It looks like it's got really long legs Unlike the other max which had shorter legs Uh for running Mmm He really says he looks down at his own leg I never make it Uh you are looking around at the crowd And you see a couple figures in the crowd Like maybe two that are like making eyes at each other And spreading throughout the crowd And you see you think the flash of a knife At a waist and a snatched purse Oh It looks like there is a gang or at least a couple of pickpockets Somewhat finely dressed, somewhat older Like maybe late teens or early twenties Maybe a little bit older And they are currently working this street Okay Alright I have competition I would like to try tricks with a trade Yes absolutely Yeah Okay So yeah that's specifically for picking pockets or locks Yep Uh eight Okay Okay so on a seven to nine I still succeed But the GM will offer two options Between suspicion danger or cost So your ankle level with everyone in this crowd All you see as far as the eye can see is coin pouches Yep Just hanging off belts People with like little wallets Purses hanging low I get in the line to the pie cart behind a couple ladies And one of them has a coin pouch dangling Yeah And I look around and I quietly take it Oh And Tuck and Ving during this are kind of like leaning Like next to like an apple cart Kind of like trying to like survey the crowd See if there's any threats moving towards you Yeah And Billy hides us by like tugging on the lady's skirt And he's like, Mom, Mom Oh, oh, hello to the boy Yeah, my mom Did you notice your mother?

Yeah, um sorry Oh, come here little dear Oh no, it's okay I think she went into the other store over there Dash away through the legs And then a few moments later You hear My pause It's gone And you guys see the two thieves that you spotted Look at each other when they hear that And start looking through the crowd Oh shit Someone's gonna have to give me an escape role of some kind Okay, so Tuck from where he's standing He sees that like the pattern of movement For like the little thieves starts to change And they're like Zrowing in on where Billy is like escaping So he's just like Uh, uh And then he looks at the apple cart And he's like, Hey This guy's selling apples so cheap How much we raffle? It's a fire sale on apples Not again, no No I've just set up another multi-yury villain review Maybe not Uh, this will be a 2 to 6 plus charisma Okay So that's uh, 5, 6 plus 3 is 9 Okay, sorry Hell me Maybe it's 8-ing Uh, like um And they're the most delicious apple He just takes an apple and needs it Uh, I got 6 plus my blonde is 7 People here Cheap apples? What apples are the swag you sing A regular ball to a person like me? You can eat the raw and you can No, you're fruit in a bummer Yeah Way better than a bummer Granny You see the two thieves in their fine suits Get like pushed forward by the crowd And start fighting the wave And uh, Billy you are given Basically clear passage to make it back to Tuck and Vang Yeah Yeah, I hide, I climb up your leg Like to hide behind your coat Yeah, okay And there's like, that makes me look like I have a huge ass And the apple salesman's like, No, no, no Me apples!

Not me apples, no make you a price A sea of rich people You take over And when you hear like, Tweet, tweet As the bobbies start like rushing forward The giant robot starts moving people aside And there's chaos on the streets And then it took us, I'm sorry I had to do it And you see the apple salesman make eye contact And start mouthing words through the din The only ones you make out are never for guests And you have escaped with Billy's ill-gotten games Into a shadowy alley And what should you get? I don't know, do I roll? Uh, so I look in the pouch So you're gonna roll 4d10 Holy shit Oh, I'm glad you look like Yes, yes, yes, yes Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is so fun This one Oh my god 22 22 coins Alright In a very beautiful kind of velvet coin purse Nice As if she had just arrived for an evening shopping Yeah, I hand just the coins You guys, I toss the bag Okay, smart I knew I got her splashes into a puddle A rat grabs it runs away It's a nice bag It's a good time The rat, uh, yeah, we follow this rat Through a wet alley And it goes through his rat way for his making the clothes For the masquerade We can't wait to go to the masquerade So excited to go to the rat's parade The rat's parade Holy, this is the finest dress I've ever go down I'm so happy And they, uh, oh darling, nothing but the finest for you The rat's parade No, no, no, no We are going to carry much favor with a rat doggie tonight And you see all of their children See their parents so in love All 90 children Watch their parents kiss lovingly as if It was the day they started courting The king is going to ask us to join him tonight I just knew it I just know it And then knock knock What's that? At the window?

A little rat window opens And it's Peter Rat Come away fuck this And uh, I was in So I got on in the city You guys got 22 coins Yeah Burn in a hole in your, uh, well there's no bag anymore So just in your hands Tuck puts it in the pocket of the duster Great Yeah So now you got 22 coins What are you gonna do with them? Let's go to a clothing store You gotta go to a tailor Yeah, go to a tailor So you guys unfortunately caused a bunch of trouble On the nice, uh, Taylor Street So you got the outlets You're gonna have to go to the outlet stores No, no No, it's something nice No, you're going to blue notes You're going to Randy River I'm gonna have Bommie Jill figure Bommie Jill figure Nah, can't even get Tommy Hill figure That's the outlet So you leave this like Ancient beautiful black Glazian street And uh, you're walking through town You're like man We really fucked it up And we end up on an alley where it's like thrift stores And like, consignment shops And then outlet shops Yeah, there's some outlet stores Much more low-class casual shopping Uh, what would a food, what would the food place On this corner be? Meat ends Yeah, it's got Doug's stubs Oh, nice Doug's It just ends up the sandwiches People didn't need a Doug's stub There's also an apple cart But it's like all the bruised apples All the pours? Yeah Just pours It's called just course Apple course, yeah Apple course, richy-harsh-nick Rich and ours Apple course are rather expensive If you want a cheap apple You're gonna have to go three streets over But I hope it's not going so good for him anymore And uh, yeah You have a variety of shopping experiences here Available to you Alright, shop Do you guys, did you really, feels like You wanted to go to the thrift store specifically If we go to the thrift store We might be able to make a treasure roll Oh, yes Let's do that Yeah, okay, cool, let's do that Okay, yeah, so the first thrift store you find The guy really tries to sell you some apple cores Really hard Three coins for three cores No, that sounds terrible You know what, I'll throw in a fourth call For an additional coin Hey, hang on to your cores, you have a good day Ah, you piece of shit Well, what the fuck?

Give me fucking sight You just watch your mouth young man My cores aren't good enough for you, eh? Jesus, it's rougher here You're better than me Oh my God, I'm just gonna walk away You like it if I ate all these cores Meself, weren't you in fucking dawn Whoa, holy shit Who hurt you? God, wait, there's a... And then Tuck Hills back Because we're walking away Because we're with our son, okay?

Yeah, your son looks like he needs some cores To grow big and strong Is he... are you crying? My face Okay It's only your fucking business Shots crying I don't know why I'm crying Shots swearing around our kid He gave me the fuck to him, he's sorry I'm making myself crying I don't know how it's happening I don't know how it's happening He gave me the fuck to him I don't even want to start giving me calls He wants I think he might have had a me dad, guys He makes up his cart, the handles And he starts walking away Cores are falling all over the place And he walks around the corner He's casting one more spiteful glance That's a tear-out day of space And you're able to go to this thrift store On the costume Where you'll forget his face You find a thrift store called Leavings There's bins of old clothes out front Ooh This is velvet Kind of What do you pick it up? It's a huge shawl But it's like, it is velvet But it's also been worn through in some spots Looks moth-eaten Yeah, there's some moth Splying out of it There's a moth family trying Try to get ready Try to get ready for the best I'm so sorry, guys The moth's great Oh my god Let me keep picking the right animals That's a lot A lot of them do Spill-or There's lots of clothes out here There's some stuff inside There is a- What's the shopkeeper at Leavings Like?

Not like that last piece of shit I think it's a purple lady Oh yeah, she thinks everything's spunky Yeah Yeah Where's a lot like moo-moo's Hasby glasses Nice Is it Clover Ivy fur? Purple hair That'd be great Tape Possibly Maybe she's undercover They're pulling another job Oh yeah Yeah Yeah, it's Clover Ivy fur She's got lavender hair It's long kind of frizzy glasses Purple cloak Wait, how did she enter 60s or 40s? Uh, so it's 40 years ago So she'd be in her 50s 50s She's got 50s Shot kind of graying Kind of purpley hair Yeah A lot like wearing moo-moo's But she's fully undercover Fully undercover Big glasses Come on in welcome Welcome to Leavings Oh thanks Please what is it that your heart desires We need fancy wear for a ball Well you've come to know Find a place Then Leavings These clothes have been sourced from the trash Is of all the most wealthy families in black glass Perfect, the trash you say Of the richest family Of the richest families Let's have a look then shall we? He's got a monoclonal Yeah That's interesting My first apartment was The trash My middle name is leaving Great so what are you guys Well how are we doing this?

You're just going to describe your outfits That you find and then you're going to have to pay for them? Yeah or should there be Because we have to hurt So should there be some kind of a role To find the thing that we want? Do you like the rules? Yeah, it's fun to do the role We're doing treasure rolls Is that what we're saying here?

Yeah sure Okay so I think for outfits I think what we're going to do Is Ooh we'll do it like this You'll describe your idea of outfits Then you'll roll flat Either get your ideal one or it'll be fucked up in somewhere Polaris Okay so who's looking first? Well I know exactly what Tuck is looking for Alright then lay it on us Cowboy So you want like a cowboy hat? I have to tell you exactly what I want To talk to be dressed as Uh huh I want to be dressed like wax From the wax in way in series From the bread in Sanderson Cause of air universe Pull it up Sean Alright Which is like kind of like fancy Like sort of Victorian 1800s era Like suits So like kravats Like those kinds of like When men would wear those kinds of suits But then a tuster over top and a cowboy hat Is wax the Batman or the Robin? He's the Batman Okay yeah so yeah it's like It's like a guy that wears fancy suits Yeah And then has like an old west cowboy Yeah Coat over top And if I can find some cool steampunk goggles I thought That's a fancy coat Yeah you saw a guy with goggles recently So that's all that's in your head So it's not a cowboy hat Yeah it's not a cowboy hat Goggles a cowboy hat I'm gonna go kind of steampunk I'm in your inner-seer and steampunk town Very fitting Try and get a cane I can lynch you my bandolier Band-oh yeah that would be cool That would be cool Let's finish it off The sketches Uh it is a masquerade So what masquer are you wearing over top?

Oh masque So what is a masquerade? Yes It is a masque party Yeah you were Cool faces Do they have to be animals? No Okay It's just whatever masque The idea is that it is an anonymous party What do you guys think I should do for masque Tookas Well you've already got goggles Well they're for your hat Ideally The goggles are for the hat Yeah Okay the goggles are for the hat Yeah you could do You could do on the nose This is you could you could bake it a little on the nose And have like a cow mask So you're a cowboy Uh that's a good idea He says and then he's like Okay I'm just gonna do the cowboy mask Just do a right A cow mask No I'm doing cowboy You can vent it I'm gonna vent it Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah So both flats see if this actually happens Okay here we go Please let me look cool tonight Allison might be there Nine Nine so Someone help me No this is a flat roll No you're not It's a random roll That was the good one That was the good one To look cool for Allison You have to accept it Okay fine Tell me Who are you? I know Still pretty close It is very close So there's one thing that is not Exactly what you wanted it to be And undercuts it a little bit What is it?

Goggles Could be the goggles Could be the goggles Could be the goggles Now you just look at the cow Like you're just like a cow Yeah I like the idea that she's just like Okay I'm quick to live it with you I only have a cow I don't have a bandana large enough for your head In your size Which I have never seen before I never seen before I never seen before I was married to a boy who had a huge head And he always wore a vampire teeth And his head is tiny compared to yours I'm gonna be honest I just don't have it But I do have it And she holds up a mask shaped like a cow's face Fine And it'll fit your beard Keep you anonymous That's true You know what? That is true Lady What was your name? My name Why? You know what's asking me?

My name is quite some time She's a terrible crook My name is She's just looking around Kesserin Rose Okay Well she's sweating a lot now Okay thanks for the mask That was a fake name I would have it to you mean You know what a real life has that name What's your name? I don't tell strangers my name Smart Smart I'm Ving All right Ving Then what outfit can we help you put together You're gonna do things I just I think I would like to have a Are you okay? It's just the voices a lot to do Just you don't have to do the voice Fine We don't know who you are You're gonna be anonymous and not do a weird voice She looks around and goes I don't know What are you talking about? Goes over to the door and locks it and flips the clothes fine All right I'm gonna stop doing the voice My throat hurts a lot What are you looking for?

I just need some sort of tuxedo-esque thing All right So you're just going for tuxedo Straight tuxedo I'm looking for the longest Tails tuxedo Maybe a frilly undershirt So I'm kind of a liberatch It'd be pretty hot If you dress this tuxedo mask I think I've already done that too Oh What are we? I'm picturing a fan drawing of us In these costumes that we're trying to make There is a fan drawing of Ving Is a sailor Jupiter? Yes Okay But yeah do whatever you want I just think You know Ving is it has the kind of figure that looks good in a tuxedo Pretty tux tuxes Tall slender? Yeah Just give me a regular old tux White tie Like a seven Okay So it is a tux Black suit with a white shirt and the white tie Yeah White bow tie It has no back at all No backless Just fully backless Somebody use it to cut a pattern No Missing from the front looks good Places called leavings For a reason we got this out of the garbage Okay So yep sorry No back on this thing No hat No hat You can get a top hat But it has it's a spring loaded top hat And there's a little bird on an arm that comes out This is hilarious I'll leave that Thank you Yeah you know what You look great Wait I forgot a mask Oh what kind of mask you want I don't know I forgot a mask Uh I don't know Mask is great What were you thinking?

I was just thinking like one of those like Vails That was like lady The dancer lady Oh yeah Very hell good Yeah Alright I'll get a belly dancer's veil Okay Thank you Thank you So a belly dancer's veil A tuxedo is no back In a top hat that a bird comes out of Yeah This is ridiculous Great Oh what are you little boy? Billy He's thinking about Victor because he misses him I'd like to be a wolf I think they're the fanciest animal That exist Okay Yeah you know you're not completely wrong Wolves are very fancy So 2d6 flat Eight Eight She finds you Uh It's a wolf pelt A wolf pelt You know the head goes over the head It's really big I think that's the problem here It's really big and long It's a wolf A raccoon A boy Yeah Yeah Like a turduccan Yeah you're like a mittrached kid All Of animal pelt Okay I'm like a one of those skulls Uh yeah so I think the problem That she sees is like Alright I've just got this big wolf pelt It's not really not big Perfect I don't need anything else Uh oh Okay So there's just a wolf pelt That drags far behind you Yeah I take my t-shirt off And I uh A t-shirt I take my shirt Work across the store watching your dude Look at how the t-shirt is way That's really loose This is just like yeah a regular shirt He takes it off And he ties it around his face to be the mask Like so that his bottom half is covered The top half is covered The wolf head And also it makes him look more like wolf Because no clothes Right yeah like a wolf Yeah A wild wolf Uh huh So he's dragging around a big long wolf cape With no shirt on Little pants And a t-shirt tied around his face And Billy starts like walking around on his all fours Like making wolf suits You were inferior He thinks it was good And tectured to ving where we are Because we're looking at earrings Uh yeah And it was what he was doing What about these? Those are nice We gotta start setting some firmer boundaries With these kids He's so little Yeah Castering ropes Is just standing watching Billy Concerningly they come Hey uh your kids done Billy's um he's face to face with like a turtle shell That's leaning up against the wall And he's like barking at it Alright okay Alright okay Oh no he's in a dog face now He's not gonna pee in here is he? Billy's lifting up his leg No no no no no no no no no You can't knock Alright well you know what let's call this uh Ah man it's a lot of clothes I mean these are all garbage So Wow wow Just because I told you that I got them out of the garbage They're garbage all up is done Yeah so price of the quarter go yeah Wow interesting By the way your entire outfit is tear away Uh you know they call that Two points Five coins Five coins Three coins Three outfits Three full outfits five coins Is it because this is an actual wolf?

Well I don't actually think it's an actual wolf Look the eyes kind of bug out like a cartoon It's a golden or tree repel Dud spray painted gray I'll give you five coins if you throw it A leash for our dog Wanna walk your kid on a leash? Uh huh He's gonna like I agree to do it I'm like look If he's gonna insist on it If we don't just get it here It's gonna be a problem that we don't have it Okay I don't have a dog leash But I'm one of those kid harness leashes That's better honestly Thank you Yeah I think so too She throws it in five coins Okay cool We have 17 coins left over Nice Job being in spy Pleasure Good luck You should get out of my story Okay We live And you leave ding ding Door closes Wow we look great You guys leaving these outfits? Yeah All right Uh huh And so what now I guess Is the next castle? What time is it?

Oh let's not until tomorrow It's like till tomorrow We could camp out outside Yes We could have enough money That we could get like a hotel room for the night Oh yeah Maybe there's an in that overlooks The castle we could spy from Oh yeah That's a great idea Yeah Okay Go to the inns around the castle Okay It's the it's the kings It's the god I should not talk Until I have an idea Welcome to my world Kings is a great star The kings Is this the name of the inn? Yeah The kings carriage Yeah that's it Kings carriage This is a carriage house Oh kings carriage house The sign above the door Is a full carriage Holy shit Full size carriage Straining Yeah Two chains Jesus You can hear it Is he walking underneath it Kind of like Oh we kind of hustle away Throw him away Throw him out Be careful They have an employee Like they have employees Take shifts like holding a third change Just like after It's a guy upstairs right now His arms are shaking Hurry up And uh you walk into the kings carriage house It is uh Finally wooded place Uh there's a bar along one side Well counter I guess is what they're called When people aren't getting drunk With many cubbies for keys And it's kind of It almost reminds you of hither and yawn But nicer And all the furniture is uniform in here It's all made by the same person Which is crazy And you're able to get a room Quite easily Hey we have welcome to counter Hello Hello Welcome to the kings carriage house We're uh We're staying in town for the night Cause we're going to the Mascarae tomorrow Oh go to the Mascarae Yeah yeah yeah It's quite a hot ticket event I know Pretty nice to go to I think Myself We'll bring you If you give us a room for free Huh? God I'm your walk Yeah why not Yeah we got a plus one I'm sure Roll apart layer I'm sure somewhere on there It said plus one Flat four Okay Holy shit I'll take that Whoa what a wild failure No way So you're saying You can get me Into the Mascarae ball I'm saying we could try I now fully believe That I am going to the Mascarae ball And the three of you Are getting me in Okay That's my reality now Okay And you know what Any clop clop over the wall pulls a key off Slams it on the counter And they fall in his room for free Oh wow Because you three Are getting me into the Mascarae ball Okay Oh my god My mother's never gonna believe this Okay She can come too Oh Rodney Come in it my mother Kick her home Mascarae My mother's gonna My mother's gonna My mother's gonna Go to the Mascarae ball Rodney in his money Go to the Mascarae ball His name is Rodney We just learned And he turns around He runs back He opens the door There's an old lady sitting in a rocking chair Mummy We're going to the Mascarae ball She goes Oh my god She clutches her pearls Oh my pearls Have never clutched himself Oh my god She comes to huttering up Because of these three You three are taking me and me Old boy Rodney in the Mascarae ball Yes Yeah She comes around she scoops you up in a hug Thank you so much for giving an old Island woman a raisin to live Oh Jesus It's gonna be okay Oh no Rodney make sure they get the finest room Free a chance Way out of your mumsie And she wanders back door slams I have to go get ready for the Mascarae ball Okay Enjoy your room And I look so angry with Nick And he just picks up the keys Wow I wouldn't have even done that They're could have been heartbroken or furious What if his mumsie dies I'm gonna like we could figure it out First we piss off the apple guy And we piss off the apple core guy Or piss off mom and Rodney Yeah Everyone in this town is kind of like a razor's edge So close to breaking down It's all like goddamn smog in the air I know Speaking of which Let's put our fucking masks out of go upstairs Yeah You haven't been wearing your masks Yeah Guys are being such dicks And you go over to uh There's an elevator You walk into the elevator And there's like a mechanical torso Head and arms Put it right here And he like A little thing opens in his chest And there's a key slot Can put it in there Do I turn it into And it turns and goes Top floor Dang And the door closes And it goes It starts rattling slowly up Hi Hi So what are you folks in town for? We're here for the Mascarae ball You're going to the Mascarae ball Yeah What do you know about the Mascarae ball Everyone seems to be preparing for it It's like everyone in town is obsessed with it What do you don't know But you're going and you don't know about the Mascarae ball We were invited We were invited It's only the hottest ticket event in black glass Why is it?

Happens once a year It's held by the Princeps People can eat love that stuff Music Apparently great Gifts Everybody receives like lavish gifts It's actually been a bit of a controversy before I don't know I guess before the smog rolled in People had a real problem with the Mascarae ball A lot of the city's coffers go to funding these kinds of parties Uh, huh But now everybody wants it to happen Everybody wants it to happen People want to go so bad It's crazy Yeah Ever since the smoke rolled in, hey Ever since the smoke rolled in Probably fine Yeah Probably just a coincidence How long has the smoke been here? It's a great question I guess it'll have been What? Probably Uh, when did like the Victoria LeBlanc stuff happen? Oh shit That was months ago You were like close to a year Holy fuck I don't know I can only see About 8 feet in front of me Whenever the door opens And just kind of in this direction And he turns his head like 2 inches to each side But from what I hear From people complaining about the weather Probably about 9-10 months ago Okay, sounds good Thank you And you get to the top floor Ding Penthouse sweet And a little thing opens in a stomach And there's a little bowl of mints inside Help yourself to a mint Thank you Have a great night Thank you too And the door closes And there's just a single door in front of you Go through it Yep, open it up Beautiful Fine woodwork Plush furniture You've got like a living room With like a kitchen area Beautiful brand new appliances Sunken living room Ooh, conversation pit Kind of stuff Sunken living room Yeah The kitchen is like a multi-kind of like oven situation Oh yeah With like little attached hot sink Yeah Nice Nice That's cool What one more thing about the kitchen Hot water on demand Hot water on demand On demand Yeah From the constant roaring fire Oh yeah There's like a like huge French doors That open onto like Kind of like Jasmine From Aladdin style like balcony That like overlooks the palace grounds I always run into that album Yeah, it's huge I always want Jasmine's room Yeah And it's got like it's got trellis It's got trellis on either side With like plants growing up it Yeah Hours and like a purgola over top With more like fine plants over top Which are seem to be having a tough time Yeah In the last of life Yeah, it's not blooming No, it's definitely not blooming Uh and then you know Off to the right side A couple other beautiful stained glass French doors That open into a massive master bedroom Uh And here you are You're home for the night And uh as you're walking around Billy You spot Just like off the uh Sunken living room A small beautiful little ice chest I got to it You open it up Inside there's many small bottles Of delicious drinks And little chocolates and candies Little bags of nuts Billy don't touch those I wasn't Sorry for yelling you I just Let me And you think goes up And I want discern realities And how fucking expensive things are Yeah, you can see pretty clearly There's a menu on top These things are unbelievably expensive Look at this Bag of nuts for coins Well For coins or a bag of nuts Do you think there's a way to eat this stuff And they wouldn't know Like to put other stuff in there They wouldn't charge us I mean Normally other boys know you maybe You get this but true Yeah Billy What we've always told you is If you can get away with it You should do it But now I'm suspicious I'm like why is there a bunch of stuff In the middle of the room just for me That is quite a thing to take From this situation For Billy I would like to do traffic Okay 2d6 plus dexterity I mean it's Absolutely Okay so 7 Uh not bad Alright is there a trap here And if so what activates it Is there a trap here You have to assume Your thief instincts Taking anything from this little ice chest Would cause unimaginable Financial hardship upon your family They did this to us on purpose They knew if I took it That they This is how they rob us It's like a robber But in rocks form Don't touch it you guys That's a great idea Billy Billy's just like Arms spread in front of it Don't come over here Don't worry I'll lock it up Okay Thank you Billy Yeah so Billy starts getting like More and more hungry Yeah more and more hungry And then he like pulls some strings off the curtains And he's like locking up He's like Yeah I'm not following for this Yeah Yeah Yeah me but Really close to this So what's your plan for the night?

I want to camp by the window To watch the guards Mm-hmm Yeah This city has a weird vibe Right? Yeah It's a fucking crazy place This smoke is really messing with people Like it's making them crazy And compliant it seems And also sort of angry and sort of crazy Yeah Maybe tonight I can commune with whispers And just get an idea of what's going on That's smart Yeah It's gonna go out on the balcony And do a communion Yeah Okay With my saffron mask Mm-hmm Yeah that sounds good Alright Sitting out on the balcony You go and you set yourself up a little meditative place Yeah get a little cup of mint tea Yeah Is that a rug with me? 2v6 plus wisdom I believe Yeah It is Ooh nice 12 Oh So this is a vision With a clear meaning What are you trying to gain here? Clear and helpful How can we best ensure our safety?

And I guess maybe like what's Callum's game here? Intention As best as we can gather It's kind of tough because you are surrounded Absolutely surrounded by demonic influence Right now the smog In the city Even from your meditative place You're like Looking up Seeing this dense layer of deep dark coal smoke Hanging over this place Lit from below by the kind of ever burning gas lamps Creating this image of like a sky on fire Oh yeah the orange clouds Yeah Birds coming in and out of it Yeah dipping down and like back up The plants around you like Gripping to the pergola and the trellises Are like sickly Without the sunlight I think that's part of the spirits The residents spirits are very very unhappy Yeah totally The nature here is As you saw in the coal mines Like the very like the natural world The spiritual realm Is in this place corrupted By the scale of the demonic influence Like the breeze is not refreshing in any way The wind barely blows Keeping the blanket of smog above like still Everyone like It's all so crowded When you look down Like tuck is looking over the balcony And it's like everyone is jostling and shoving And everyone doesn't look great Yeah people are pushing past each other Like masses of movement And there is a real feeling of A populace about to snap He has a lot of shoving like Get out of my face Like very aggressive Yeah in what way You think they're gonna break You're not sure But you do feel That it is soon But the caging of the spirits By the demonic influence You feel like This won't be as simple as like an elemental mastery To clear this place You do know that if you wanted to help Trying to find a way to Re-invigorate the spiritual aspects Of this land would be a huge step forward In terms of visions That are helpful to your current situation I mean it might be that It might be that like any spirit Any help that you can get from the spiritual realm Or any way that you can help the spirits Would be greatly appreciated Maybe as we get closer to the palace There's less of a spiritual presence Oh yeah the plants They've really stripped it back It's very You think back on like your walk to This district And the intensity of the natural Erosion that's happening in the plant life Is greater the closer you get to the palace Interesting It's like false flowers And false trees and vines Yeah there's more like As we get closer to the palace It's more like Like a metal rose Yeah A lot iron waterfall Yeah They're sort of The natural is giving way to the man-made What does the palace look like? I'm imagining like You know in old pallet When buildings in old cities For rich people Like because it's still in a city It kind of has to fit The structure of the city I was imagining like Big Rectangular building That's really nice This is what I'm saying I can't imagine like Fucking a palace Which looks like shit on the outside Because it's just a big cube I bet like the original palace Has been added onto Oh yeah So maybe the original one was built From like stone and iron That's the big box part Yeah and the like And stained glass and stuff But then they've added on like Black glass Yeah I think I was making sure It's quite gothic Yeah it's totally yeah It's like it's aspires Yeah me too Totally Spires made of black glass And so they're like Yeah they're like jutting out of Different parts of the original building Yeah is it huge? I think it's quite big It's like Buckingham Palace It is It is a royal family's palace Like Coleman and Callum When they were both alive Like lived here and probably grew up here Yeah massive indoor court Like a giant park Yeah within the walled city It's almost like the Vatican Like it's a city among itself Totally And I bet there are more More recent additions That look quite vicious In comparison to the old construction Like sharp and angry Yeah sharp angular glass Construction of like the black glass Of the city That you have to assume Colmour Callum commissioned Once they took power That's so fucked And tuck has like He's been looking over the balcony Well Ving has Metatary Well first he made a duck bet for Billy Uh He's loving it Still going around in circles Trying to find the perfect buck It's really tiring I don't want to do that I don't want to do that I don't want to do that I don't want to do that Uh yeah I put a bone In the bed Can't be a chicken bone The hill chuck on it Yeah don't chew this too hard Billy Cause you don't have actual dog teeth That's a really mean thing to say Holy What the fuck I have no idea which way you really was going to take that Uh that's so rude How can you say that to me?

How can you say that to me? That's what really mean That's what I mean Oh my god Raising the Raising at eternal various uh It's not enough to worry You have no idea You don't know what you're talking about Uh but yeah I gave I apologize to him after I said the teeth I was like all right go to town And it's a really mean thing to say Really stewing it down to a uh like a small point Like a like a like a like a Like a weapon Yeah oh nice Bone knife For tomorrow yes in case I also do have a bone handled knife if you want it Billy Why don't you tell me that before I did this I'm just doing it I'm just doing it Thank you hung on And then tuck is like You are not allowed to talk to me like that Okay Fine I speak to you with respect all the time That's the last episode I think says from his meditancy Thank you Bing See that's a lie Why would you apply to me? And then tuck walks over to vey And he's like I expect you to fucking back me up What I'm trying to deal with this When you're off fucking doing your stupid meditation shit I have to deal with this alone Which your mask on tuck And yeah you tuck You're like fuming at vey You look up at the smog And the sky and you go right I see what's happening I Billy listen to your mama I angrily like just break some of the trellis Ron I just throw it out of the ground And then go and tuck like He's used to cities He's like He's seen cities This city is fucking weird He's like staring at it And he's like what the fuck Why does this city make me feel so uncomfortable And he notices The thing he notices is that There's like in addition to like the jostling and the anger And like the sort of manic energy Everyone has Like there's no funeral banners They know they're king died Like there's nothing There's no funeral rites There's no If they're throwing a party Proclamation There's no announcements They're throwing a fucking party I was like the city makes no sense Right now That's a great point So yeah he's just like Something is really fucking wrong With this place And he wants to use demonized To inspect the castle Yeah So it's trap expert But just with demon stuff Yeah Totally Here we go Five Fuck what's my wisdom Six Okay somebody help me I can help you Okay yeah Billy stop showing on Okay so 10 Billy stop showing on the bone He's doing his little binocular Okay Looking around Okay Do you want Do you want these? I do Thank you Billy That's You just hold on my hands I'm holding up like binoculars Yes No I love when you do that That's what things That's what things I love when you guys do that It's okay And I'm holding it in the crook of my arm It's like he's like putting his things And it does let me see Into the castle What do you notice?

Uh so what are the questions? Oh Is there a demonic influence here And if so What is it? What is it? What is it is it?

But we know that already It's tyranny What does the demon do And activated We sort of know that And then what else is hidden here So what else is hidden here? Uh what else is hidden here? So you're looking around And you're real Like you're looking at all the people In this kind of perpetual night Brought on by the blanket of smog And the way that it's just affecting them In their day to day Like god Gotta do something about this Like we have to help these people Yeah and we also sort of low-key We didn't promise Call him to save his brother but he didn't ask Because to save his brother So there's like a thing there too And I think you're looking through the windows of the palace Basically with the bill knock you Is trying to get a layout You see guards moving around Not in any way That would allow you to like you know Map their movements or something But also tucks an idiot He wouldn't be able to You see them moving furniture around inside Like they're preparing for the masquerade They're in some kind of furniture Moving detail right now And you see at the very like top of the palace In a window What must be Callum Blackhammer Um Aline Man You know shoulder length Ish But finally swept back Red hair like his brother Not nearly as powerfully muscled as you At first assumed Colm to be Yeah wearing very Finally tailored like black silk Like a like a casual suit Uh huh Does he have a mid way down his long hair Kind of kept with a Black velvet bow Oh yeah Oh yeah Can't see Viewing the beast times Right yeah he's got his hair tied With a black velvet ribbon Super angular features Yeah oh yeah He's looking at the window At the streets below The people milling around the palace Outside the gates of course He's got in classic kind of insidious Guy fashion a glass of what appears to be wine He's sipping him You see him turn over his shoulder As if someone calls to him And he nods laughs Says something back And then he's joined at the window By a tall, lean, blonde haired woman Batoria LeBlanche And that's where we're gonna end up in this Oh shit Fuck shit I'm gonna gay mess and shot on her Fuck That was you To come to the barbarian of dual disease Oh no she's my wife She's my wife I forgot that You think that half-elred You had Paul Roberts Take care everyone And Fat Billy the Halfling Thief Jessica Ty Bye Thank you to all of our supporters Around the world If you're listening to the show and you support us Thank you so much We wouldn't be able to do the show without your sport If you would like to support the show And get access to bonus content Like the up-to-date mall rats feed Merchandise Games run by Abdul and myself And more Find us at patreon.com Or spelllord or spelllord.com Please Thank you to Aaron Reid for our intro and outro music If you would like to hear all the music produced for the show You can find that at Spotify And if you want to hear Aaron's original music Aaron Reid.bambcamp.com Thank you finally And most of all to all of you for listening We'll see you next time Fuck Chuck is like I'm gonna get fucking stabbed again I'm just like I'm going She's stabbing me again for sure Yeah we should have bought healing potions That's how I came to mind That's how I came to mind Yes There's a liquor store down at the Colton White store In the water throat Fuck No Shit Ah Yeah Something about this family and this clan They keep stabbing me through the chills They can't get enough of stabbing me Yeah And so ends the tale of adventures Three who tried the best they can The dumb and scared in loss They'd be For times abreast in revelry And though our journey may be lying We will not leave you without a res And we'll ship Turn next week to hear some more Whilst you commute Or do your chores And for you I'd gladly spout the law The fable and falling network Where fiction producers flourish Friends, half-orcs, countrymen, lend mere pointy ears Of mice and men and monsters is a podcast Which combines the art and beauty of classic literature With the fun of Dungeons and Dragons roleplay These episodes are led by me, Kate, your master teacher Which is Dungeon Master, meets high school language teacher We take on quests in these fascinating worlds Meeting and adventuring with the greatest literary characters of all time Solving puzzles set up by the dubious Dr. Frankenstein One eye is over there In the other eye is rolled over there Hunting Moby Dick alongside Captain Ahab I rolled a one Oh you rolled a one Of mice and men and monsters is a faithful yet irreverent way To interact with the stories Which have influenced us for centuries Plus it's a much more exciting way to experience literature than writing an essay Essays don't have swords which burst into flame Or poop monsters hiding in toilets Anybody gotcha poop for me A new episode of mice and men and monsters is released Every other Wednesday, wherever you listen to podcasts Spout lore is proudly a Spout lore studio's production A podcast for best friends, bye best friends