Episode 17 – Plans

If you like our show and want more of it, you can check out patreon.com slash Spout Lore for an extra bonus game, bonus content, videos, and more. Should we play a song to recap? Oh, sure. Definitely. Do people like Hilary Duff? I mean, it depends. I don't really know much of her music. I don't understand how to answer that question. Is she from the Disney channel? Yeah. The Lizzie McGuire show? Yeah. Is this a song people remember? I remember it, but… So yesterday… Oh, yeah.

Jessica started us off. Your mind change your clothes. I'm gonna have to change my clothes. I ate a bunch of fish with sauce. I got ketchup and chili oil. It was too hot, too hot, too hot for me. I need sour cream and other cooling food. I needed it. The fish was too spicy for me without the sour cream. My rosacea is all flared. Oh, God. This song is really hard to sing about fish. Here we go. Now, did everybody hear what Jessica was doing and remember? Yes, of course.

If you wanna, and I want to look out the door and see if he is standing there looking at us cause he is a little… Little piece of shit with a gold tooth. Really gold. And he is spying on us for the menders now. Where'd he go? His name is Dan and his last name is Durglott. I hate Dandurglott. His straws make fucking sucks. He get us into this fucking mess. This is all his fault. If, if we hadn't gone to fucking Mudlark, he would not have gotten us to investigate the Schlossmeat thing.

The Schlossmeat. I should have stabbed him with that sheared spear. Maybe we can hang out with. If you know Dan Glott, then it is the same as to hate Dan Glott and yeah, I've changed his name a lot because I hate Colonel Dan a lot. Yeah! Cause he really doesn't. Guys, I just did the stuff that I would do because I am a man who follows his wishes and my wishes to do crime and now I wanna do crime with people that will pay me to do crime like spy on you.

I don't think that I can be blamed for that and I don't think that you can be mad for me. So don't be mad because if you think about it, it's actually your fault because you trusted me and if you were smart, you wouldn't have trusted me. Wouldn't have trusted me. Look at me. Why would you think? That I am trustworthy. Smile, gold king. Oh my god, that was great. Good job, everyone. Well done, well done. Well done, everyone. So we didn't recap shit. No, we didn't. I think we did a great job.

But I think we all kind of remember and we gotta recap it for the show anyway. Yeah. We'll get into it. Let me know when you're ready. Yeah, let's do it. Gather round, friends, let me tell you a tale of three heroes, noble and bold. A brute, a druid, and a thief who is but nine years old. You know them by name, you know them by deed. Their quests are famously daring. So here I sit, singing to you an adventure that is worth sharing.

Tuck is the brute, he knows not his home, he loves to sing and fight. Fingers half-elf, he shifts his shape and wields a spear with great might. Billy's a thief, his tiny size does mask the largest heart. Best and brightest they may not be, but their friendship outweighs their smarts. So gather round, friends, and listen close, for the tale's about to start. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Spout Lore.

I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara, and joining me as always, playing Tacoma Dome, the barbarian, Abdul Aziz. Hello, everybody. Playing Ving, the half-elf druid, Paul Oppers. Hello there. And playing Fat Billy, the halfling thief, Jessica Tai. Hi, everyone. When last we left our heroes, they had set up at the clamshell pub in Wickport to meet with Maggie Cole, leader of the Menders.

A meeting that started as a tense affair and after some pretty smart negotiating in which the party decided to share their memories of the last year or so with her via the Chamberlain rings. You shared that information with her and she decided that you could be trusted because you basically clarified a lot of the information that was given to her by a Mender and now we know former librarian Sweet Caroline. Yeah, so betrayed, we felt. Yeah, I for a second thought it was Farrah who sold us out.

Oh, tuck would have been wrecked because for some reason he implicitly trusts Farrah, but yeah, if he was like parent formed on us. No far is first and foremost the master librarian of the Margani library. She would not willingly treat with another secret society. I don't think but yeah Caroline, we keep falling in with secret society. We should do yeah to that's more than most people for sure and the Medi too.

Yeah, well, you did not fall in with them and yeah, we discovered Sweet Caroline used to be a librarian and a student of Farrah Margani and had been sneaking around spying on all of you informing Maggie Cole and we also learned another character had been sneaking around and spying on you and informing Maggie Cole. We should have known fucking damn Colonel Dan Derglott who has apparently been a Mender for a year. Plus I wonder what he's getting paid.

He hasn't been he hasn't said but he has made it. He has alluded to the fact that he's getting paid his gold tooth. Yeah, he's getting paid in gold teeth. It's going to be a sunrise of a smile is what he said. They said we could grill. We could pay you a weekly stipend or you could save it up for a gold tooth. What the fuck is a stipend? Isn't a stipend like a payment thing? I mean some people say stipend some people stipend stipend. People say stipend. Yeah.

Well, I do because I've only apparently read the word and I've never said it out loud. Don't you feel stipend? And the last thing that we learned is that now that we've discovered that magic might be the answer to what Maggie thought was the problem of magic. She has revealed to you that she knows that there are at least two other wizard boxes in the world in Mender Stronghold. Yes, Menders are in the possession of two further prison boxes. Wardstone. Yeah. Okay.

Wardstone chambers possible vaults. Yeah, probably kept in similar locations and not identical to the one that you found Chamberlain in but similar to and that is where we find our heroes. Now what do you guys were talking earlier about wanting to stay on the clear water because you didn't actually find a place to stay when you came to Wickport, right? Yeah, please. Yes. Yeah.

So I think we can we can just show up like a you know, when your kids get dropped off at a birthday overnight birthday party. We have like a teddy bear and like a pillow and toothbrush in her hand. Yeah. Our gigantic rock dog. Yeah. So that's what I've got. Yeah, that's where we are. We're on the port and we just invite us. She was like, all right, let's connect later.

To discuss what our next moves are and we what we heard was come live on my boat sleep over come stay on the boat and being has a face mask with like numbers over his eyes already on it's nighttime. It's nighttime. Hold on to tuck shoulder bumping. I think the first thing that you would run into is the harbormaster being like no, no, no, no, no, don't like trying to stop you from bringing Black Spire onto a wooden pier. Yeah, but Black Spire is not listening. He's just going.

So you just see the the harbormaster following behind you like, oh, my God. Oh, no, no, no. I say he's really nice. He never bites, but you hear as you're walking Creek Creek. So you are just waddling Walt Black Spire is waddling and Billy's probably also waddling down the pier to the clear water tuck is waddling to because the weak sauce is not sitting very well. So his buns are clenched. It is loose coming in and loose going out.

My friends thing is waddling to because he is using tuck as a guy bunch of waddlers. Just everybody's wearing nightcaps. Yeah, and you guys can't see this because you're so far away or your eyes are closed, but Greg watches you approach for twenty five minutes. Just what in the hell is he actually comes to meet you? He walks down the pier meets you about a fifth of the way from the clear water is like hi. I hand him my back my overpack sack. He takes the bag from your hand and goes.

What are you doing here? We're here for a sleepover. Remember yeah, Maggie invited us. She didn't tell me about any invite. That's weird. She must not be very high on her to-do list. Okay. All right. We can't bring that on. Unfortunately, this is our son. Okay, how dare you? How dare you? I am integral to this family quite so my good man starts rubbing. Sorry, he's just talking out to the ocean up the side of the pier. Not even looking at anybody.

He starts rubbing his eyes and he's like, okay, I'm going to make this as easy as possible for you to understand and you and you he points at tucking Billy because your eyes are open and he points at the eight side Black Spire and turns around and points at the three foot wide gangplank that is leading down from the boat to the pier and then back to Black Spire and back at the gangplank and goes understand. Yes, Black Spire will walk down the plank to go on the boat.

Gosh, Greg, I'm going to go ahead and put him in our warehouse. How about no no, you dare. No, ever as long as the warehouse is on the boat. That's fine. Yeah, you guys use crane. To get big containers on boat, right? Why is crane good for box, but not grammar is falling apart. Why crane for box, but not happy dog, but why not scaly dog? Why not my scaly dog, but box? Why box better than dog gestures around himself death metal dog, not good like box. Okay, eat my box.

My friend he just he lets you finish that and then gestures around himself at which you see no cranes how you get box of boat that he points at a person walking down the gangplank with a box in their arms. Can we build crane person grab dog? Let's let's let's put him. Let's put him in. Let's put him in the warehouse. Let's put him in the warehouse. How about how about the warehouse? How about the warehouse doesn't want us to have? I'm just telling.

I'm just saying it none of it doesn't make sense. There's no way. What if we build like a dog house boat and pull it behind us like a little doggy tender. Sure that makes more sense. No, I'm just telling you that no step between where Black Spire being on the land and Black Spire being below deck on a boat makes any sense. You would live above deck. Obviously and he skimper around and we throw treats for him and it would be a grand old time that we would all have. All right.

This is what duck is saying to Greg. We cut forward to a to a theoretical future in which Black Spire is on the top deck of this boat and you're all on the top deck of the boat to Black Spire shifts one foot to the side and the whole boat tips aggressively. Okay, it's you can put a car on a boat right not on a sailboat. Okay on a bird is a galleon. It's just a wooden ship. What if we make cantilevers? You know what they called at the side of a canoe that keeps the thing out. Oh yeah.

Yeah, we've got seven months right to build and design those just what were you going to say? I'm going to say that on galleons. You bring like tons of cannons on there. So yeah, it Black Spire is like what like three cannons three or four cannons five tops five in a bulk phase so much more than that. If it's just about balance, we can make another Black Spire. Yeah, what do we do? Honestly you're parlay. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we'll roll so much. I have so much halfling pipe. We we could give to Sean.

Yeah, and he'd be on board. I have this move that we can I bamboozle. So I'm like I want to bamboozle Black Spire out of this boat. That's not what bamboozle does when you parlay with someone on a hit you take plus one forward on getting a dragon on a boat. I like to use escape route to create a route for Black Spire to escape onto the boat.

I'm just I'm I'm frantically looking up the weights of different things to explain to you how difficult it is to convince them to let Black Spire on this boat. We don't care Sean. This is fantasy. This is a fantasy boat and we can bring fantasy amounts of weight onto the boat. Oh, no, absolutely. Do you okay? So would you guys agree that Black Spire probably weighs about as much as like an elephant because he's like big and sturdy if an elephant was made out of concrete? Yes. Yeah. Okay.

So maybe like a hippopotamus made out of concrete. No, he's way bigger than that. He could be about like the size of a German Shepherd. Yeah. Yeah. If we wanted him to definitely less than six months worth of groceries. Yeah. So a male elephant weighs up to 15,000 pounds. I knew you were googling something awesome. Yeah. And keep in mind that yeah, Black Spire is about the size of an elephant and covered in plates of rock. I think he's the weight of a car. That's what I think.

I think he's a weight of a car, but like what he's so big though. Yeah, cars big to car so big car so big you put so many people in it. You take those people to sit down Pizza Hut on 12th Avenue to celebrate your fucking birthday Sean and it's my birthday today and all I want is backspire on this fucking boat. It's not your birthday. I know that for a fact, even though I forget your birthday every year and I love that every time you have to think of a location.

Your brain is like this to dumpies 112 that it's a really good go to the only one. It's great. They have lunch buffet. Do they still know the only lunch buffet in the lower mainland is in the Richmond pizza. There's a still yeah. Yeah, you can still get one out there so close. Yeah, they have to say it just for listeners. That's a seven hour drive. That's a bus, a boat, a bus, a car, a bike, but at the end of all that a sit down pizza hut.

Yeah, at the end of all that at the end of that easily $150 spend you get to spend $799. It's only $799. Yeah, no, that's 1992 prices. No, no, no. I had a $699 one in Hamilton seven years ago. A buffet? Yeah. All you can eat? Yes. Question. They also have the Sunday factory. Sean close your computer. We don't care how heavy elephants are. I'm opening it up to look up the sit down pizza. They do not have a Sunday factory.

They have dessert pizzas that are like Nutella and like cinnamon and blueberry deep fried dough. It's basically an elephant ear. They have like a tray of elephant ears and then a tray of like regular pizzas and then in the middle is pastas. Black Spire cold pastas. I want those pastas. My God cold. Do they care if you mix and match? That's my question. They want you. They want you to.

You can go and take a whole pizza back to you and take a pizza use it as a plate put on past make more room with the pizza. Yes for more pasta. Yeah, a server bursts into the manager's office. She's back. She's using a pizza plate. She brought her own stone. We don't know what to do. We resolved nothing in that conversation. It's pretty funny. Can I can I ask why you want Black Spire on the boat right now? Because we love it. We love it. We love it. We love it. We love it. We love it.

We love it. We love it. We love it. We love it. We love him. Do you think that if he's not on this boat, he's gone forever? Yes. Yes, that's the way we think. Do you guys think that you're leaving on this boat? Yeah. You're not. You're going back to McCall. Why would we go back to McCall? Because that's where everything all of it all is. Like like I understand like I know that we're probably going to be planning like what the actionable thing is with these boxes.

But were you not planning on going back to McCall before you left the continent for good? That's how we take the boat down to where the broken shore that is a place that passes into the realm of a fire God. Yeah, I guess that's where okay everybody who thought we were going to get on the boat and go straight to the boxes, raise their hands. Okay, you can do that. You'll just be gone. You'll be leaving the city with all the people that you know without telling them that you're leaving.

I guess we need Perel. Yeah, we might need to go back. Oh, yeah, the guy time we didn't bring him with us. Let's let's say that Greg is standing with Black Spire on the pier and you guys can talk to Maggie about this shit to figure out what the plan is. Okay, so we're gonna break. We're gonna wait for Maggie to say if Black Spire come on the boat or not. Billy crosses his arms and he like I'm waiting. All right. I'll be right back and he walks up the gangplank in a couple minutes later.

Maggie is like standing at the top. The top deck of the boat is way above you. Yeah, yeah, obviously she's wearing a pink bathrobe and she's got curlers in her hair. Yes, great, clearly pulled her out of bed. Yeah, she's got a green face mask on just like Ving with a nice mug with a clearly a cup bag of tea in it. The tag it says mother's helper tea she's stressed out. Yeah, it says world's best mender cell leader and she's sipping from and she goes no. Why Billy?

I know you're I know you're small, but I also now know that you are old. You understand the the the come on the physics. He'll be just right over there. He'll be at the end of the pier in the warehouse. We can always sleep in the warehouse to if we feel like it. Yes. How about I meet y'all in the warehouse in 20 minutes and we can talk about this. Okay, I grab my bag back from Greg. Give me that this sucks Maggie. You invite us to live on your boat and then you say that our dog is too fat.

I didn't and then you say we have to live in a tool shed. I didn't I didn't invite you. I said I'll meet you tomorrow and y'all just showed up with a with a dragon also stop saying dragon. We did it. We said dog like a thousand times. Oh, yeah. Okay good move for I know. I always forget that you three are masters of subtlety espionage. I'll meet you in the warehouse in 20 minutes. Okay, fine. All right, Greg get him set up and I in the warehouse.

I find like a little shelf to put all my knickknacks on what are your knickknacks like the spoon and like a rock a couple rocks some more of the really sharp beach glass that I've cut myself on what it's just glass. It's nice and it's from the beach. I found it on the beach next to a bunch of teens that we're drinking. Yeah, and then a donut great. So okay. So yeah, you guys come to the warehouse and Greg is like we got to move a bunch of stuff.

There's a thing coming in and a bunch of the people that have like their laborers are like, oh my God, and they start moving boxes around to make enough room for Black Spire. Nice. He's like, all right guys, I'm in here, but I don't see any bones. I was just going to take a little bit of the like the sunstone plate that we brought cut for him. I'll break a little bit off and I'm like, all right, buddy, his tongue flops out of his mouth. I was like, is it yeah, it's it. I'm off.

I'm already sitting sit lay down. I'm I'm laying down. Look at me. Yeah, you're a good boy. I am a good boy. Yes, you are. I am. Yes, you are. You better give me that. Okay, quit playing games talk. All right, here we go, and then I flick it into the air for him. He like shoots his head forward. Yeah, not very far because his neck is so short. Okay, he's got jump is like, okay, okay, so good. I will be good for a little bit, but I'm gonna need some more but you do your thing.

I must stay in here. Yeah, we're gonna hang. We're all gonna stay here for a bit, right? And he immediately rolls over onto his back. He like starts to crush a crate and then goes whoops and he's on his back and his feet are up. Oh, scratch his belly. Oh, whoa. What no, that's so nice. Nobody's ever done that before. It sounds like a xylophone because I have iron fingers.

And he falls asleep and Maggie shows up in like leather pants in a linen shirt and sorry, I said leather pants and Paul looked at Abdul Tuck respects all women equally no matter what kind of tight fitting cloth they make their pants at it and she looks a little tired. She's rubbing her eyes and she leans up against a crate. So I suppose we need to make a plan. Yes. Yes. First we have to get Perel back, I guess. And he is back in the city of McCall. That's right.

Yeah, he's working at the library trying to find more hot spots. And that's two days from here. Yeah, it's about a two day trek. Yeah. Okay. All right. We can we can get some horses, camels or something. Make it a little bit faster. Okay. I mean, this is assuming of course that you three want to be involved in the retrieval of these boxes or box or whatever. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Take your time. Take your time. I think we should supervise this.

I don't know if I trust all the menders with those boxes. Well, yeah, they're a decentralized network. Yeah. And they also have had very negative intentions up till now. And they always like believe the wrong people. You know what I mean? They have a history of it of like putting their faith in like fucking, Dan and the fucking torture McCall and stuff. They're very under the board. Yeah. But a lot of the ways they operate. Yeah.

Also it's like it's really important to us that Pearl gets his magic back. Right. And two is our Perel angle. And I don't think they're going to give it back to him. We have to fulfill this promise. And if it's going to be the thing that brings balance. Yeah. Maybe these wizards can help Perel figure out how to get his magic back. And maybe if we're there, we can help convince Maggie that the wizards aren't the worst thing. They're not the only problem. Yeah.

Because for us, we traveled with Perel for a few months and we were like, oh, he's actually a chill guy. Once we got that dick monster out. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Okay. Maggie, we want to be there to look for the boxes. All right. Yeah. I want you to understand this is not a this is not nothing. The retrieval of these boxes, even the locating of these boxes. Is not going to be a small undertaking. It will take you to reach as far from here. You may face challenges many and journeys perilous. Nice.

Okay. All right. Yeah. No, we're into it. I just want to make sure that you understand that this is going to be at least a season, maybe two, perhaps of your time. Billy holds up his hand. Yes. Do I have to go on the ocean again in a boat? Unfortunately for at least one of them. Yes, you do. So she tells you there is a cell that operates in the frozen north.

I have corresponded in the past with the leader of their cell and they have a vault that is located at a hot spot either inside on top of it's it's in a in the region of a glacier and that is where you should find one of the boxes. Okay. Or we should find because I'm not letting you do this without me. Well, yeah, probably a good call because the first time you sent us out alone you sent us with a cat and then the second time you sent us with a 14 year old line cook.

I now know that you are much more dangerous. There probably still will be a cat involved. That is how we often find our ways to to different cells. Is Wicker back? Oh, you didn't. What? Wicker? Wicker? Wicker? Wicker's my cat. What? Are you serious? Yeah, I brought her with me. Wicker? Where's Wicker? She's on the boat. Smash cut to is running onto the boat and bursting into every room. People are trying to stop him flying up the gang like on either side. Billy's knocking people away.

The opposite of in a hook. Yeah, it is rolling down the thing. He's rolling up his game into the boat. I'm defying physics to find this cat. Oh my God. Billy's Billy is like thud, but from hook. Oh, yeah, that's the name of that character. By the way, is thud, but that's great. Yeah, and you are running through the boat and you get to what you believe to be Maggie's. You don't have to roll. I want to certain realities to find certain realities. Yeah, sure. 36 plus wisdom. Well, look at that.

Holy shit. Five. Somebody just got experience. You know what? I'm going to put that one in my pocket. And you run around for a long time, so much so that you're like panting and sweating. Yeah, it didn't take long. Yeah, and you've gone into the same room like four times because you keep forgetting which room is following you from room to room. Yeah, exactly. Opening these doors. Whack. I you keep busting into the privy over and over and there's one guy that's like I'm trying to take a shit.

I'm sorry, sir. And I slam the door and then I lay down defeated. I'm like, I had always hoped I would see you again. Wake her wherever you are. I hope you are well. And then you hear and you feel a wet little nose press against your cheek. You open your eyes and there is Wicker the cat. Oh, I love you. Never leave me again. She starts curling around you and she's just nuzzling up against you. So happy to see you. Wow. So I carry her like a baby.

Back to the way you mean like a baby carries a baby carries a cat. Yeah, arms under the arms cat arm sticking straight out in front, but she does not normally let anyone carry her like that. Yeah, and you come back to the warehouse and Maggie is looking very happily at the two of you. She's like, oh, she's so happy to see you. She doesn't let anybody carry her like that. This is very special. She's trained not to like most people, but for some reason she gets along with you just fine.

I want to introduce Wicker to Black Spire Black Spire like rolls over and you can feel Wickers body start to tense up. Yeah, and then he opens one huge eye and he like sniffs her and she sniffs him and then she like bops her nose on his nose and he's like, ha sick Black Spire. She is not bones. So you can't eat her. I would never. Look at this little thing. Yeah, look at her. She's like she's like smaller than you and you're already so small like she's like the size of one of my eyeballs.

Yeah, and he puts his eyeball up to Wicker. I hold Wicker up to his eyeball and they just they're fast friends. He really enjoys her, but he tried. He knows that he's big so he stays back a little bit and everybody I guess just watches Billy play with a cat for like 10 minutes thing says hello to Wicker. Hey, Wicker. It's been a long time. Good to see you again. She nods to you very stately and she's like thing pleasure.

I hope all is well well enough and you oh the wonders I have witnessed it's been so many years. Presumably. I am a cat passage of time is unusual to my kind, but I have perhaps a few more gray whiskers than I did when we parted but I it does my old eyes well to see you and you let's catch your let's catch up over a plate of sardines. One of these nights let's and Maggie continues talk. Chuck snaps in front of it's rude when you speak languages. I don't know.

It's rude when you snap in front of my and yeah, so that is what so now we know one Wickers here. Sorry, and then you had other spell or yes, there is a Spout Lore to do for the second box because we know now that the first one is in the frozen north in a glacier and the second one. I think I'm going to go ahead and invoke Jessica's failure and say she only knows the general region of the second one. Okay, thanks a lot. Jessica. I'm so sorry. You did leap into danger without a plan.

Yeah, you just burst onto a ship because you're like a cat is I wasn't even wearing a life jacket or anything Billy water wings. So what do we think this general region is? What if it was in those forests where mother never was? What do you think? Yeah, that would be kind of sick. Yeah, so it's in a boggy region in the river. There's those caves. We're talking about.

Yeah, which case I think during that that session we were talking about the that area because it's like mountainous and lots of rivers. There's lots of caves. Oh, there's like underground rivers. To the underground rivers and so much crystallization of all those minerals to which is a very like power magically powerful place. Yeah, if this box is why she doesn't have a bead on exactly where it is it it part of it's keeping it safe is that it does move around within an area. Oh, yeah. Oh shit.

So cool. Somebody who like trumps the there's like a transport who keeps it safe a troll a troll. One of the trolls is like there's too many details. You guys are going to have to do this. You don't know all this. Oh my God, you don't know all this part of his back and like a rock troll award. The more you say the less it's going to happen. You got to shut the fuck up right now, but I will say that what we remember in spelt more Mall Brats.

We are patreon show available for five dollar listeners and up. We did introduce the black tree principality as well. So I think that this boggy region is on the border of the ways in the black tree principality. So it's like south eastern principality. That's so sick because like black tree is like so creepy sounding and then into bogs. Yeah, we're heading into timber and territory. Oh, yeah.

I can't wait to see Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp do something racist even more racist than a Tim Burton movie. Wow, get ready guys. Season 11 is going to get us all kids. Yeah, so she tells you yeah in the second box. I'm aware of is it was kind of close to where our vault is, but it's in a boggy region on the border of the river ways in the black tree principality sort of in the south eastern area.

It's location exactly is not possible for me to know because the box itself is almost constantly moving. All right. Well, seems like the easier one is the one up north. Also, we get to meet things family then my dad's not there you I for I'm sorry. I forgot you. Yes, you are part elf. Yes, and you have family dangerous family. I mean, I don't yes. Yes, my could be a problem. He's a ranger King.

That is something that would be something to consider because while the glacier is as far as I know a decent distance away from the great forest if your father has I'll intent and is a ranger there is no distance that would be too far. That's true and then tuck he leans into Vang and he's like, yeah, she definitely didn't hear you say King after Ranger. I have no respect for Kings. What? I don't care about bloodlines and inherited titles being high fives you Kings mean nothing to me.

Okay, but if he is a ranger that means that he is skilled if he is skilled and dangerous. That is something that you will need to be aware of. Well, I've been avoiding him this long. All right, let's hope you can avoid him for a bit longer. So the glacial vault it might be time to meet him. I'm sorry continue. Sorry. No Ving snaps back. Oh, is this something that you would like to address when you arrive back on that side? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I'm ready.

I don't know if he's ready. There's ways of staying away from him. I still have friends in old sheer. So maybe they can hide us out and help us. Yeah. Okay, but if you change your mind, if you want to go see your dad, I might we will back you up. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Well, if this is the case, if we're going to be going north, how much time do you need? Do you need to return to the city? You need to go get Perel. You need to I assume tie up some loose ends. What do you say a week?

Yeah, I guess a week gives us wait doesn't should we bring Maggie to the library? I was hoping so. I was hoping to bring her with us and at least Caroline wouldn't she be going there too because of her connection with fire. Yeah, Caroline has concluded her business at the library. I don't think that she would wish to return. Oh, so I would be happy to come with you. It seems like a once in a lifetime opportunity for me. I think you should if you can convince master Margani to allow me entrance.

Well, we're like basically like the bosses of the library now. So whatever we say goes. All right. Very well. Then yeah, I'll okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll accompany you and it actually would be good. I yes. I would also have some business to attend to which would be easier done in McCall. So I will accompany hell.

Yeah road trip road trip road trip road trip road trip road trip road trip road trip where the boss of the library road trip God our chance are getting less and less cohesive we have so much to be excited about so okay I guess you guys pack up and just head to McCall. After we sleep. Yeah, the warehouse. Yep, you sleep Black Spire has a great sleep wicker sleeps next to Billy Maggie goes back to the ship and do they have a tender at the ship?

Do they have like a little like a small quick boat that they're not using? I would just wanted to convert some boat to you know, there's that we said that there's a conversion place in Wickport that will turn it into a sand ship. Oh, yeah, we can just do that for getting back way faster. Oh, yeah. Like we are mode of travel. Yeah, that's cool. I like that. They they have they have other boats in the harbor that are quietly owned by the vendors as well.

So yeah, they they take one and great start getting it set up and that's done shockingly fast like half a day and they're done and yeah, you had start heading back to McCall the next day and you're just fucking ripping ass, you know, there's a day where you have to post up and camp anything you want to do talk about during the camp time. Black Spires at the warehouse still. Yeah, I assume you're probably just going to leave him and then come back.

Oh, I don't know because are we taking Black Spire with us? Oh, yeah, Black Spire would be better near the library. Are we taking him with us? Are we not? It would make almost no sense to take him. Unfortunately, fuck like it really would like even if you could get him on slash in the boat. He wouldn't be coming back out. You know what I mean? Like it's either. To build him into this thing. He would freeze up in the frozen North. No crunch is under foots of ice fucking shit. It sucks.

I know you guys all got to get pets. You got a cat. It's not my cat fucking bird. I can't have pet tucking tuck it no pet. Okay. Okay. Okay, tuck it. No pet. Then you can tell he's really upset. He's talking with a lots of words. Loses to goes on the other side of the sand, but he's like I'm gonna go eat alone next to a cold fire. Gold fire made out of your betrayal. Oh man, tuck. It's not like that.

We're just thinking of a Black Spire like I don't want to leave him behind either and I only get to borrow wicker for now. Like eventually I have to see by a wicker to I haven't seen my bird in so long. I you why you you should take Black Spire with you to the fire and you guys have so quiet time. Yeah, tuck it Black Spire leave it's like Black Spire. Let's go. I have more shiny crunch for you. Okay. All right. Yeah, this sounds good.

Took me a while to catch up because I didn't really fit on the sand boat either, but I'm here and I'm tired and I want some shiny crunch and get you take him out just into the sand. I yeah, and I just I just give him shiny crunch nice and I do because he can jump. Really high, right? Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm like kind of like like standing in the valley between two giant dunes and like throwing shiny crunch directly up in the air and it's pretty because it's nighttime. It's pretty bright.

Yeah, and then he'll like jump from one sand dune to another and like gulp it. Yeah, he's having a blast. Yeah, I bet when he's mid jump his tiny wings are flapping trying to fly. He's finally was like just a tiny little bird. Yeah. Yeah, he's having a blast. Yeah, and then I'm like Black Spire. I have bad news for you. What's up, bro? I have to leave you behind in the library when we go look for that box. Oh, man. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's fair. You're too big to go in the boat.

And people say that you're too something called cold blooded to go to the frozen north. So it's dangerous for you to come. It's called the frozen north. Yeah, it's so fucking cool. Oh man, I don't want to go there. Yes, I get. Yeah, that's cool. So it's probably better that you don't come. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. I'm fine with that. Uh, but you know, I'll stay here. I'll just kick it. I got my pad and the pad has crunch and I'll crunch my pad crunch and you're coming back, right? Yes.

Okay, fine. That's cool. I'll be here just vibing and chilling out, maxing, relaxing. All cool. Yeah, the librarians will take care of you. They'll take really good care of you and I promise I'll come back. This guy's fucking nerds. I know. I know it's going to suck, but when I come back, we're going to have a fucking metal time. I promise. Okay. And tuck knows he's probably like he's so sad. Yeah, that's cool, bro. It's cool, bro. You will be bro. We're bros.

Yeah, bros are bros bros are bros and I'll see you again, bro. Hell yeah. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. Fucking hell. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. Check it out. And he does a somersault in the sand. It's so loud. He's just like boom. Fuck. Yeah. And then you hear everybody hears from like three sand dunes over like just dragon screaming. Yeah, and you guys just have a chill time flipping in the desert doing stunts. Yeah, we just do stunts at each other.

Yeah, I keep I feed him the rest of the shiny crunch head butting each other. Yeah. Wrestling. Yeah. Yeah, and he lets you win a bunch of times. Yeah. Oh, no, you've got, uh, yeah, man, I guess. Yeah, we got to leave Black Spire behind. Fuck. It's a bummer, but the next morning, unless there's any other camp things we want to do. Uh, do you want to do any?

Oh, no, I just while tuck was out playing with Black Spire, I went into his, uh, coin purse that he left behind and took one of the obsidian coins. Oh, I just I just I have something I want to do. All right. Cool. Sick. Yeah. Sick secret move. Does Billy notice that, uh, tuck is or that Ving might be stealing from tuck? Yeah, and he's all suspicious. He doesn't. He does it in front of you. Okay. Okay.

I've got an idea for a gift for tuck that I think he's going to like, and I think you'll like it too. Okay, but I had to take this. So don't tell tuck. I won't tell him it. My my lips are sealed. I know what that means. I should have done this in secret. I will try my very hardest to not say anything like Billy immediately goes to tuck and is like nothing like Billy's is looking at tuck like nothing Billy. Why are you giving me your secret smile?

Nothing does like a backwards high five low five to Billy. High five. Yeah. Is there anything that like do you guys want to talk to Maggie at all? Or are there any spelt lores that you want to do about topics you want to know more about? I think I'm good. I don't know. Yep. Oh, actually, I do want to ask Maggie a question. So I go over there to where she's sitting. She's just stoking the fire. Hey Maggie, what are you eating? Oh, the this it's a it's a like a fruit jerky kind of thing. Cool.

Can I have some? Yeah, sure. Here you go. Thanks. Have you seen mirrors lately? No, I haven't. Last I saw he was with you. Okay. Yeah. I think he's fine. I think he's I don't know. I've been trying to track him with with the pin and it's a it's odd. He keeps moving or the pin keeps moving or something's maybe wrong with my instruments, but he keeps popping up everywhere and Billy smiles and he's like, okay, that's all I wanted to know. Do you know something? No, I don't know anything.

Okay, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, come here. Come here, Billy. I just want to know is mirrors. Okay. Yeah, if he's moving around, he's fine. She nods and looks at the fire. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks for the jerky. Yeah, no problem. It's a it's a it's pomelo. Oh, yeah. Gross. Yeah, because to make pomelo jerky, you would have to get all the juice out of a pomelo. Yeah, it's just pulp like thick, hard, dry pulp. I eat it anyway.

And the next day you load up the sandboat and you know, it's sun starts coming down again and but you see the you see the city of McCall rise above the over the horizon. Just the tower. You always see the tower first. Yeah, you see the lighthouse glowing in the the dusk sky and then the city rises and you sail around McCall through the Alcoly Desert to get to Elaine Springs.

And as you pass the city of McCall, Maggie is standing on the side of the boat with like one hand on the mast just watching the skyline because he's never seen this place before. Yeah, and she isn't it? It's incredible. You know, you forget sometimes that the world is so big. When you're so focused on what you do in your life, it feels like the world is just small, like you could cup it in your hands, but there's so much out here. I don't know. Like holding on to a judgment for too long.

It puts blinders on to what's really going on. Like how you thought about wizards. How I thought about you three and the one wizard that you know, I think that maybe you have have taken your experiences and you've maybe become a little too, you've become biased in a different way. There are dangerous people out there. Sure. We don't know who's going to be in these boxes. They could be a thousand times worse than Perel. Sure. I'm just saying it. The desert starts with a grain of sand.

She nods looking out at the sands and the lighthouse. Yeah, you're probably right. And a few hours later, you arrive at Elaine Springs and you are not, you're not immediately let into the sandboat area. The doors stay closed. It looks like a stable. Billy slams himself onto the ground like, please let me in. I'm so thirsty.

Somebody that you recognize from as just like a librarian that you've never actually talked to, but is dressed in like I work at a fruit stand outfit sees you and nods and waves you over and gives you some water. Thank you. What's your name? Uh, bingo bingo. You have saved my life today. They nod happily when you say bingo like gotcha. Where's Farrah? Why is the door locked? Well, we don't traveling with someone that we don't recognize or know.

Well, she's safe and she bingo is like, okay, I'll go let them know and disappears. Goes into like the house behind the fruit stand and then is gone for way too long for how big this building is. Yeah, I've long since finished my water. Just working your way through every piece of fruit in the store. Taking a bite. I'm like, oh, I don't know what that is, but it's really good. I'm so sour and bingo comes back and sees that a single bite has been taken out of every piece of fruit in the stand.

You're lucky. This is a cover identity. Sorry. All the fruit around it. Okay, you're good. And the stable doors open revealing the sandboat funicular and you load in and click, click, click, click, click, click, click. They take you underground to the Margani library as the doors close behind you and yeah, you're in the library. Randy and Balco are working on their sandboats and Balco sees you all and goes, what up brothers? It's like, Balco, what's up?

Oh, you know, just working on Big Mama here trying to get a couch in there. So awesome. Yeah. Yeah. You know, just got to be comfortable. I'm out there riding a lot more lately, so I got to be ready to rest. It's pretty sick. Yeah, thanks. So what are you? What's going on? You guys got to talk to Farah? That'd be good. Heard you have a guest. Yeah. Yeah. Balco, this is Maggie. Maggie, this is Balco. He is the coolest nerd I've ever met. Yeah.

Balco just crosses his arms over his chest and is like, yeah. Okay. And Maggie nods and is like, I'm charmed. I'm sure. Oh, yeah. I'm also charmed. I'm sure. And he puts his hand up for like a predator style, like grasping of the hands and she grasps his hands. Like firmly. And he's like, oh, shit. And I'm like, book. This is Maggie. She's known as the spear maiden. Fuck. He turns around and he puts one hand on Big Mama and you can see him breathe really hard.

Billy closes his eyes and then took puts his hands over Billy's ear and he turns around and you can see he's like squinting his eyes trying to like stay composed. And he's like, nice to meet you. I'm Balco and I'm known as I'm known as the speed master. A bunch of the guys in the back start laughing really hard. And he turns around. He's like, shut up. Don't piss off the speed master. Keep it together, speed master. And Maggie smiles. And laughs a little bit.

And she's like, it's a pleasure to meet you, speed master Balco. I believe I have some. I believe I have a meeting to attend. I'm sure I'll see you around. He's like, yes, I'm sure that I also will see you around spear maiden by many dives on top of Big Mama and crawls into the hatch. Cool. And you guys just head into the library to meet far. Yeah, yeah, totally. Yes. Do we go to our office?

Yeah, you're actually met at the door of the motor pool by Burke, the dwarven librarian and another speaker of the silent word and they walk you to does the jester, the greeting points to his eyes, does the finger over the lips and then does an open hand to the side. Did we say that that's what the gesture was? No, he never told anyone. Does it on the fly? They both look at you like what is he doing?

But then as everybody turns away, they nod at you and they walk you very obviously under guard to far as office and she's there when you arrive and she says, ha, hello, you've returned with a guest. I see. Yes, this is this is Maggie Cole spear maiden and mender and lady who was looking for us mender. Very well, take a seat and Maggie does and I'm not doing a back and forth between two NPCs. So what are we talking about? We're just telling her what's going on.

Yeah, we're giving her the business of everything that we've discussed. I assume. Yeah. And we're going to be leaving and blah, blah, blah. There are two more boxes. We have to go to the north to find one. We accidentally tell her about Caroline. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. And she nods. She's like, I actually came to this conclusion after you'd left that that the orc that had been contracting the Magi and had been spotted around town was I can't remember the name.

She said Kareen Kareen was indeed Kareen, my old student and yes, I understand that she's now a mender. And that she has been turned against her old colleagues. And Maggie kind of leans back in her chair and crosses her arms a little bit. Betrayal. We are sitting on either side of Maggie. We shuffle our chairs away from her a little because we realize that it's like this is like two lionesses fighting. Yeah, you can tell both of them.

Look like they're at ease, but they are ready to fight like at a moment's notice. It's like a tumbleweed blows across the office and you can hear bong bong in the distance. And then Billy goes, I'll be right back. And then he leaves. I'm going to go look for Perel. Oh, yeah. Okay, good. And Maggie says to Farah turned against is maybe a bit strong. You know, people have times in their lives where they're one thing and then their values are revealed to them and they become another thing.

And Farah says becoming a Margani librarian is not a time in your life. It is a dedication that you undertake from your initiation to your dying breath. And Maggie, you know, it's a back and forth like, well, it doesn't really sound like something that someone would choose to do then, does it? And then you hear. And they both of their heads whip around and look at you popcorn and Farah puts her hands on her desk again and goes, could you two please give us a moment? Yeah, totally.

And I that's when I come back with Perel. No, no, no, leave, leave, leave all of you. What all of you, but I've just found him getting good and you are shooed out of the office. Sorry, Perel. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to like get you out of your bath. It's fine. What was going on in there? He's wearing a towel up to his armpit and a towel around his bald head. Yeah, what's going on? What's what's in there? What's is that? Oh, fuck.

And he starts like doing that thing where he's running on the spot bouncing up and down like, okay, because he's wearing a towel. It's like flapping open. Yeah. And you see he's wearing you see he's wearing full swim trunks underneath the towel with hearts on. Yeah. Oh, fuck. What's she doing here? It's fine. She knows everything. It's fine. We explain it all and she's on your side now. Kind of. Well, yeah, we're not going to leave you alone with her.

Don't worry, but she believes us that you're not the worst thing in the on the earth. And you believed her that she believed you. Yes. Yes. We believe whatever anyone tells us. No fucking shit. Perel. It's okay. The most important thing though is we have to tell you something. What? Maggie said that there's two other wizard boxes out there. And hold on. We're going to find them and we're going to see if we can get your magic back. Maybe these wizards know something.

He slumps against the wall and like and puts a hand against the wall to like steady himself before he slides down it. There are other there are other boxes. Yeah. Vincroches down and puts a hand on his shoulder. Yeah. Things might have we didn't we didn't get a lot of details, but like from what Maggie said, like I think a lot of wizards during the Exodus like after you got trapped by these have you ever heard of any other wizards getting trapped?

No, I mean, I heard of other wizards disappearing, but I didn't know. I always thought I guess stupidly that the box that was used to trap me was the only one. I mean, you remember what it looked like, right? Like it was a slapdash kind of like runes on runes equations kind of mashed in wherever they could fit pretty pretty shoddy fucking work. If you ask me, sorry, I'm stunned. Okay, so what's the plan? We're leaving. We're leaving. Okay. All right. I'll go get my stuff.

Yeah, the first one the one that we know the most about is up. It's in the frozen north, right? Yeah. Oh, the frozen north. Okay. I'll see what I can remember. Is it's at a hotspot? Yeah, they said it was like a it used to be a tower, but it's in like a glacier. Oh, what? Fuck not her who and I think that's where we're going to end it for this week. I'm your game master Sean O'Hara.

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