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Hey, buddy.

All right.

The guy sitting in front They're like, look, man, as long as you get this shit out of here, then we won't burn your boat down.

Yeah, we'll get this. That's exactly what we're trying to do. Get this thing out of here.

and they fucking turn around and walk away.

Close the door, reactivate the trap.

There was no change with the dude downstairs when I deactivated the trap.

There was no change.

Okay.

Let's go wake him the fuck up. Maybe Pat gave us like a solid way out and we just like trapped him.

He trapped himself.

Do you have disenchanted?

So when you're downstairs and you go back down there, you

No, yeah, nothing really changed in any of the rooms. He's slumped over asleep in the holding room. Yeah, okay, never mind.

I make it a point to take his ring from him.

It's a signet ring.

Okay, let me take the signet ring off of his finger.

Well, should we wake him up or should we just get the fuck out of here?

One second. Something happens when you take the ring off.

As soon as you take the ring off of his finger... The area around his finger, roaming perception.

It changes slightly, just for a moment.

The area underneath the ring looked like it changed coloration when you removed it from his finger. The area underneath the skin looked like it slightly changed color for a second.

And nothing to his face? Nothing like that?

Nothing to say.

Just a ring change. It's got it's got some sort of magical property.

Wait, what happened to him?

Who's got to identify, man?

I don't know who has it made.

This is the medge.

Rich?

Can I roll like an Icon then?

You're unsure.

Well, yeah.

Nutty says he's got it, but he can't talk in the moment.

Nutty says he can identify it, but he can't talk at the moment.

Well, I give it to Noddy.

Because we all know what happens when you just decide to put on rings, you know. I don't know.

It's not something you do here in this planet.

When you put it on the guy's shirt, you're cursed now. You lose clothes, you're fucking done, man.

Everything you wear from here on will look like a Hawaiian shirt.

You really, without compulsion, love the color red. You're like, why?

We got a nat 20 on Arcana, Knowledge Arcana.

Tell us what it is!

Oh, Nutty, the magical properties of this ring, is that a natural 20? You notice some small...

You know this is a ring of the hive mind.

And that if someone wears this ring, they will be telepathically connected and have full access to the hive mind's pool of knowledge. It will include senses of dangers and events that take place to any member of the hive mind.

We just took this guy's Spidey censoring and he's all sorts of fucked up. So wait a minute.

Which means that everybody else that is part of this hive mind knows what just happened to him.

Knows what just happened, but he's unconscious right now. They're only seeing his dreams. They're only seeing his dreams. They're not seeing us right now.

And he's no longer part of the hive mind.

Who wants

But they would be aware that he is on this ship.

Well, we don't actually have ill will towards him just yet, so we don't know if it's going to be a problem. We can wake him up.

no this is i'm going i'm going on the negatory on this one this is like

Can we wake him up, though?

We don't want to wake him up.

Why not? We don't even know what he came here for.

because we have supplies

He's under a sleep spell.

We honestly have no idea what was going on. This might have been our out of like selling the boat.

Do you have

I know, but at the same time, Pat, I want to do a...

Do you have disenchant, Rich?

I do.

Okay, so then we could probably remove it.

I try fucking sketching. Not a natural one, please. 20s and 1s. These clockwork monsters that I saw on the casino boat

You can't just roll another attempt. Because that's not how the skills work.

Why not? It's a

because it's not how it works.

Bullshit. What do you mean? I'm drawing something. I'm sorry. My skills are not up to par.

That means for this attempt,

You can come back and try it again tomorrow.

Okay.

Yeah, I mean, like, you're just having a fucking rough sketch for, like, this few hours that you're trying, or whatever time you're trying. You can't just roll a sketch over and over and over and over, and it breaks the probability aspect of the game, so... You got a natural one. You broke your pencil.

I mean, this isn't my first natural one, all right? I got it. I got it. Also bullshit.

Well, I draw the clockwork most of the time I saw or I can't do. And I tell them, I screw, I just hold up my notepad and I scream, it's got something to do with this.

You're looking at this drawing of a dick.

Let's wake this guy up and get the fuck out of here.

I want to put his ring on.

I want to. So we can see what they're seeing right now.

feel what they're feeling.

I just know my heart of hearts. We have to flee this terrible land.

So much flea. But yes. We should go somewhere.

Yeah, let's go get our ship.

We're in our shift.

But yeah, I think we should definitely wake the dude up.

I don't think we should wake him up at all.

We still don't know if you can die in that dream world or not.

Yeah, but why are we waking him up when we just robbed him?

We should...

Did we really rob him? We just took his clothes off and put him somewhere else. We could tell him that he fell ill.

As far as he knows, he has no idea who robbed him.

He doesn't know he's robbed. He doesn't know nothing yet.

that's the perfect what you're messing with perfection right now

He did see Jake for a moment before it all happened, so he will assume Jake robbed him, which is gonna be a correct assumption.

Let me tell you what happens when somebody recognizes you. Okay, they scry you for a fucking eternity and continue to hunt you down for nothing.

I stay 10 feet away from Donnie at all times.

Yes, so we should kill him so he doesn't remember Jake and we're constantly being scryed.

I mean, yeah.

But we're gonna make enemy with another faction. That's what happened last time we killed the dude which if we let him go and give him his shit back I

That's the reason why

We didn't kill that paladin, he survived. We just blinded him. You blinded him.

We didn't kill them. That's the reason we left people.

We killed everybody else besides the paladin.

yeah exactly you're giving you're giving you're giving a hunter a second chance to hunt you

Exactly. We did kill people off.

We're pretty sure he was hunting the fuck that owned the ship. Like, we've only been here like an hour. We don't, we're not getting mail yet. Enemies don't show up at our address going, this is where they are.

Like, I don't see the big deal.

That will happen in about a week.

But at the same time, like we either, we either, we either, we, you know, we can leave them here. Nothing's done, but we cannot wake them up.

He can probably wake himself up. I mean, we did, so if he's halfway decent...

Well, we need to go basically find an enchanter, have them add flying to the ship real quick. and then we should get the fuck out.

I don't think you just a chance of ship of flying real quick.

I'm going to leave a note on his chest saying we're going to be somewhere we're not going to go. Tell them to meet us there at like some kind of dawn on whatever day. And so if we wanted to, we'd get back to it.

Somewhere in the Orklands?

I thought we were heading like northeast or northwest.

no i know but i'm gonna write meet us at somewhere at somewhere and then at least

Yeah, good. Fair enough. Good decision.

We could either take a tight 20 to scout, you know, wander around this mage's boat and look for cool fucking items. Right on this guy's chest and then leave.

I mean, I think there might be some good shit being ransacked away in this dude's a little hovel.

or you can just bolt.

I think we should definitely do at least that, but I think we should assume ownership of the ship as well.

20 day I think take whatever time necessary to go look around for items and it is balanced.

Alright, yeah, let's take a solid 20.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Okay, so what are you guys doing?

Everybody fan out, look for cool shit!

In the boat.

Okay.

Are there like, is there like a deed to the boat in there anywhere?

Anyway, I take whatever writing utensils around me and I write on this dude's chest,

I tell them that the answer is

The answers to the questions you seek will be answered at Kinsess. It's a little village in Varnum north of us in a month from now. That's what I write on him.

You leave that note on.

On his body.

The guy that is unconscious. Okay.

So yeah, that was all the stuff that was on the boat.

So while you are looking through the boat, you do find a helm. like room that has steering wheel and normal things that you'd find to control a ship. It's not outside. Like a lot of boats, it's actually inside near the front with sort of like a glass. area, kind of like the, like sort of like a bridge on like a ship. It's like the area, that it's internal with all of the controls to the ship. And then you can climb a ladder to go above deck from that room. But in this room, there is a crystal that is right in front of the steering wheel or the rudder control.

Interesting.

And it's a very large crystal with a golden ring around it. And the crystal is set with four metal prongs going into the crystal. And the inside of the crystal has a pink hue to it. Like it's a clear crystal with what looks to be like a pink crystal set with inside the crystal.

So while you are searching the boat, you do find that.

25 on knowledge arcana. Is this something that allows it to fly or teleport or something cool?

you're fairly certain that this is tied into the ship. it does, emanate heavy,

I mean, yeah, was it 25 knowledge or Connor?

25, you can identify that this has the plane shift spell in it that affects the ship. However, you do not know what its power source is from. You do not know how to activate it. But you do know that it is a plane shift spell attached to... this crystal that is attached to the ship.

Oh god, that's better than a plane that can fly or a boat that can fly, man. A boat that can fucking do dimensions.

yeah I love the word definitely not leaving the ship behind us

Is there any writing on the crystal or on the base of it? Like...

Donnie's looking for the off-on switch.

There is no writing on the crystal. There's no writing on the base of it. It is... floating in place in front of the steering wheel. There are tables with maps and sextant type objects. There's a notebook, like a journal, that has some writings from the previous owner of this vessel in it.

Yeah, I was going to say,

I take a peek at the journal.

And it's sort of like a log of travels. And in the log of travels, it talks about various plains and places that this person has explored. And of there you see... Talking about exploring some of the inner planes, some of the outer planes. It talked about his journey to the Outlands. And basically, it seems like he has used this vessel to travel through a lot of different realms. But it doesn't say anything about activation. It doesn't say anything about... precautionary anything. It doesn't say anything about the capabilities of the boat, just except that he has been places in it.

I made my way back downstairs and I go and set the naked guy from off the floor into the binds.

lock them up because we won't be here for a second. I don't want to wake it up.

You see in the notebook in the beginning, it's talking about, okay, that sounds good. Okay. It's talking about, he's got some notes, like he's been studying. And it says like planar relationships. You see various scrawlings of circles, semicircles within other circles. And then he has like arrows that says like point of entry. And it'll show where one plane connects to another plane that he journeyed there from that plane. Like, it seems like he's mapping out the cosmology of your planar universe or however you want to call it. Like, it seems like a planar explorer.

I do. We have his journal. I'll do a sketch of it, of the map.

Okay.

And are there any devices that look like this as far as ways to set up and position it?

Yeah, is that what that weird sexton looks like?

That is the weird sextant thing.

In hindsight, we may have made a mistake killing this guy, but he was draining up of blood, so...

Well, he was like, no, fuck that guy.

Fuck that guy.

He's been to...

It looks like he's been to all the level layers of health.

Yeah, no, well, I mean, he, well, at least he knows about him.

Yeah.

I wonder which one we sent him to.

Did we? Yeah, we already, right? That's also a fucking crazy aspect. Mage is like, yeah, I fucking died. Now I got to sell my actual soul when I get it back. Did we loot him before we threw him in the bag? He's probably got some sort of activation thing on him.

Yeah, because there's no way we wouldn't

Yeah, he didn't really have anything on his person except, like, he doesn't walk around his ship with a backpack on with stuff that wasn't on that list. All of his stuff was around the house that you found so far. With the exception of his spell book, you guys did not find that.

I

Of course, yes.

Is that something to do with his incense?

What do you mean?

Never mind.

I take a look at the

There's a bag of incense in the things and that's the same feat I took. Basically use incense instead of a spell book, but you have no spell book.

Mm-hmm.

So I'm gonna take a look around for said spell book, but I'm not sure if I should have my hopes too high.

I take a look at the floor to see if there's any runes or any markings.

I mean, if there aren't any markings of ruins, then there's got to be a phrase, whoever said, take this boat running.

I check his underwear to see if he's got his name written on it.

I mean, you don't see... You don't see any of that information at all.

Sorry, I've got to go online and start looking or go through my spell list and all my scrolls, see if there's anything divination oriented that I could like find his fucking spell book.

I want to simply just put my hand on the crystal and let it ride.

Let's move the sexton. like went over and just

So...

It looks like he has a lot of the planes numbered.

I wonder if this thing can't necessarily...

Travel completely to any realm at once at any time more so like the next realm over

Yeah, because you have to jump through them, some of them.

Other ones you can just cut straight through.

Because it does go all the way down to like 27. That's on the very bottom.

Mm-hmm.

I think it's a plan. No, it's the outland.

But we are right next to the Ethereum.

Is there anything that looks like that?

nearby.

Realme is a perception.

That's a 10.

You do not find anything that looks like that nearby.

I cast Detect Magic and I would like to take 20 and scour for a book.

Okay, so you detect magic and the crystal in the middle of the game is overwhelmingly glowy.

Well, it's a power source, of course. Pretty sure powered by the souls of all the fucking pains of blood.

Yeah, how the fuck is he using philosopher stones to power his ship?

Jesus fucking Christ.

Hey man, immortality doesn't come cheap.

Oh, it's a high price.

immortality and interplanar travel powered by the suffering of someone

Somebody's got to suffer for it.

Okay. That's the only thing in this room that is very magical is that crystal. Yeah. And does Detect Magic give you the Dwomer?

I think it does, right? You can see what kind of magic it is, right?

What's up?

I think so.

Okay.

If I focus on it for like three turns or something like that, but that's why I'm taking 20. I want to find this.

Good call.

We should probably scour for secret compartments too.

Okay, so you see a solid amount of conjuration magic coming from the crystal, which is teleportation and planar travel is all part of the conjuration, Gomer. However, from the underside of the crystal, you're seeing divination magic.

Dude, this dude could be from the fucking celestial plane.

It'd be a lot harder to kill. Yeah.

Where this crystal could be.

Well, there's a lot of things that are in the divination field. This could have like a counter scry spell on it.

All you can do is view other planes, not necessarily travel to them.

No, that's just what that's what the sexton this thing does that Like that

You also see divination magic from the sextant that's on the table.

I check out the sexton. What exactly does this look like? Does this look like a standard... Sexton.

No, don't.

No, not at all. Inside those pictures is the sextant.

It's the one with the colors and the numbers on it. That's what it looks like. It's like a giant palm pilot eyeglass.

It is not the one with the colors and the numbers. It is the one that looks like it is image number. It doesn't have any colors. It has a it has like a sun on part of it. It's got the black and gray drawing with the lenses, but there are no numbers on it.

So black and gray drawing.

Okay, real quick. We need to address the dude we left like with a note on him in the basement.

He's chained up in one of the bloodletting things.

Jesus.

You did train them up in the bloodletting thing?

Jake did say that, yeah.

Okay. When you chain him up and let his blood, did you put one of the buckets underneath him?

I don't think we were actually letting his blood.

No, I was letting it explain.

You just put them in. You were? Did you put a bucket underneath them? One of the silver buckets?

No, I did not.

Okay, so he's just running onto the floor.

He's the thing like auto drains him.

Obviously not. I'm down there right now. Hooking them up.

Let me know exactly how you set them up.

Jesus Christ.

But if he is, I got to have something

There are so many extra panes of blood.

I put them in mine, in the one I was in.

I mean, it's not a bad idea to figure out what the dude was letting blood for.

Well, it's going to power the ship.

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that was like, powering is immortality more so than like, things for us, but I don't know.

We're just finishing the job he started. He created a magical trap for thieves who wanted to come and take over the ship, and he lets their blood to fucking travel the universe. It's a zero-sum loss. I think this guy wasn't a bad guy at all. He just did it to the wrong people. You're going to get got one day.

When you don't expect anybody to ever wake up from your fucking dream trap.

Fucking liked.

Yeah, Pat, I just put him in line.

I looked through the looking glass on it.

Okay.

Oh, right. when you look through the looking glass,

The image is sideways, right?

It is sideways. I won't. Yeah. Show you another picture of it too.

This is what it looks like when it's not. sideways.

Okay, yeah, cool.

Yeah. Okay.

Is there a use magic device skill still?

I don't think so. Only double check.

Yeah, there is actually.

Roll me use magic device.

23

As you lift it up to look through it unfolds. And opens up a little bit. A series of crystal lenses and a myriad of knobs and levers unfold and look like they could be controlled.

Yeah, the sides fold down.

Um,

As you are looking through the lens, you see a series of magical writings flash over the lenses as you're looking around the room. And you kind of get a feeling... I'm not.

I try and describe these symbols to the party as they're coming up because I don't think I'm actually going to be able to read them, but I think I can describe the symbols.

Well, it's very quick. It's like when the Terminator just arrived and he looks around and there's all this information flashing on some sort of HUD. And he's looking at everything and it's like... And you can't read any of it. It's just happening hella quick.

Could I maybe a limited number of characters that I could maybe remember or explain to the party as it's happening?

You're doing that right now. You're like, I'm seeing some writing, you know, like just looking at it like you're doing it right now.

Yeah, I mean, you're doing that. Yeah.

Um,

In a minute, I'm wondering if I can cast share memory and just like see it.

Yeah, what does Share Memory do?

Let me go look into the rules.

Keep describing to me while he looks in that because he can't do that until after. Anyways, it would have to be a memory.

Okay. So you're using that and you're looking around and it's kind of displaying information. And then that's kind of where it's at with what you're looking at. Do you adjust anything or touch a dial or a knob?

I stop and look at the party before any of that and ask, you know, do you guys want me to interact with this thing? Because if we end up in another dimension, I don't want everybody to not be

Not just yet.

Yeah, and I'm putting the bucket and hooking up the guy exactly like we were hooked up, and he's letting out his shit right now into the Not on the ground.

I'm downstairs. I can't hear him.

So besides that flash of characters, what else did I see through the looking glass? Like, do I see, like, different...

Do I see like a map kind of thing?

All right.

No, you don't see a map, but you do, you just see a display that as you look around, it's displaying some sort of information. And as you change what you're looking at, it's displaying different kinds of information because the characters are changing. That's all you can get.

I cast Comprehend Languages on Donovan.

like if i pull if i pull away that front red lens

Newcast comprehend languages on Donnie.

Yeah.

Okay. Let's see.

The range on that is personal.

Oof.

Okay, I mean you could start interacting with it, Rich.

Rich does the hip butt out of the way and slides into the microscope.

Oh, that's so sad. I thought it was a touch. But, alright.

I guess I cast that on myself then.

Okay.

then take a look through.

Romeo used magic device. As soon as Donnie takes it away from his eye, it folds back up and appears to power down, sort of. It no longer displays.

You have no idea how to activate it. You have no idea how Donnie activated it. It doesn't appear to have needed a command word. Somehow it responded to Donovan's touch.

So I pick it back up.

All right then.

I'm going to go back to the share memory thing. Maybe I'll just comprehend it when looking through it.

So I go back and pick up the device.

Okay.

Um,

It immediately turns on with no struggle, no nothing. It unfolds to you and starts displaying information again.

The ship has chosen its captain.

Why don't you put it on a different language setting? It fucked us off.

I'll see you.

Ha

the worst. I've

Of course.

I point the lens at the maps.

at the maps. It shows you some information with a line coming from the map as you're looking at it. You can't really tell what it's saying. But as you're looking at the... Yeah, that's why you see what you put in the map.

What if I peel away like that front red lens in that picture you posted?

Okay, so you change the lens. Oh, right. Once you change to a different lens,

All of a sudden, it shows vertical lines emanating up and down all over every single surface. And it shows one simple value. It shows 1.0000. And that's every single horizontal surface. You're seeing 1.0000. Like...

Oh my God.

Like a tabletop, the floor, and you see a downward arrow. And every single on every single thing, there's no it's every single horizontal surface has a downward arrow and 1.0.

Interesting.

I don't really want to touch the knobs again. I see at least three lenses on it, so I changed another lens.

Okay. When you change this lens, you see a representation overlay appear in front of you, and it shows outward arrows in all different directions. And then those outward arrows appear.

Oh sweet Jesus.

eventually look like they come around, they create, they flip over on themselves, and they connect back. And it shows one long continuous arrow that makes one turn and then connects back into itself. And it keeps going in this sort of like pattern where it looks like it's moving infinitely in one circle with one twist in the move.

very interesting.

You guys have any suggestions here? Is this making much sense to anybody?

I'm gonna do a share memory with you and we let's both view your memory.

of the last Two minutes. wait single memory of no longer than one minute so the last minute of you around with it

OK.

And let's see if I can read any of the stuff. And if so, I say it as it comes up or as much as I can.

Okay.

of comprehend languages.

You are.

Trying to see if it's the same kind of thing.

It's not really a language. You are unable to determine what the symbols represent because it's not technically a language.

Interesting.

And that was just on that first lens.

Hmm.

I mean, I could start pulling knobs, but we might end up somewhere.

i'm also gonna resume my search for the spell book and cast detect secret doors

Oh, okay.

And did we ever turn the lock back on? It's not safe here.

He did.

Okay.

Okay, what's the range on detect secret doors?

60 feet cone-shaped M-Nation. 10 minutes.

Yep. Go scouring around. Oh shit. Never rolled for life. Forgot we leveled up.

Damn, I didn't level up either.

Roll me perception while you are looking for secret doors moving around.

27.

Very high roll. You have the perception roll on. You find a hidden panel in the boat near the office, basically where he sleeps in his bedroom, where you find a spell book.

Oh, shit.

And I start looking through that.

Okay.

And

and did we ever read the notes to see if he described like how to steer this shit

I did read through his journal and we didn't see anything like that in there.

And here is the contents of his spell book.

FUCH.

Life is d10 plus constant.

This fucker had to have a lot of good spells.

fucking know it.

10 marks.

if you forgot to level up to level 10 we all did apparently so

Say what?

I don't gain anything, really. Life and... one to my b.a.b

You're going to fucking, please, you're going to need that BAB.

How often did you get a stat point? Is it every five levels or something?

Yeah, we'll get another one at 12, I want to say, or every four level.

Yeah, cool. Yeah, that makes sense.

Oh, that was every, yeah, I thought it was every three.

One, three, six, nine.

Oh, then that would be 11. Right now, 9 plus 2, yeah, 11.

Alright, I'm gonna take a little while and get to know these spells. Try not to send us to literal hell, Donovan.

Yeah.

All right. What are you doing, Donnie? Or Nutty. I've never been Nutty in a while.

I was kind of zoning out. I didn't think a navigation would take this long. So what is everyone trying to do is figure out how to read this thingy?

They all.

Donnie's got this crazy sextant that's that is changing weird views with different sliders of the lenses. They got some big fat magic emanating crystal. There's a steering wheel. Rich just found a big ass spell book full of spells. I'm just trying to figure out what the fuck's going on in here.

Has anyone tried identifying the item?

Donnie's using.

You mean the crystal or the sexton thing?

the sextant thing.

I don't think anyone's tried identifying it.

I want to try,

I was just trying to...

I'm going to try a spellcraft to see what it is, if I can figure it out.

I was just thinking.

Yeah, and I kind of botched my Use Magic device and I'm afraid to touch it again.

Now, you've heard of planar sextants before. They're really rare, and you're not sure how they function. They know that their primary uses are for navigation of the planes and identification of planar properties.

Okay.

Can I use my perception check to see if there's any instructions on the device itself?

identification.

never hurts to check.

Just like Donnie, you're able to identify nine different separate positions of the controls, but there are no writings or anything that would describe their function.

We've done three of the different variations so far. Just playing with the lenses, I think kind of scared to touch any of the buttons.

You got to do a full trial, Donnie.

So...

I don't have a use-magic device, so that could end poorly.

Wake up.

Is there a pencil on the table?

Yeah, there's a pen, inkwell.

Blank paper as well, or just the maps?

Just in the journal. There's blank sheets.

I open the journal and I start, as I change the position of something on it, I start jotting down what it is I've done.

Well, then we will call the first position that you were in with the lens position one. We'll call the second position that you were in with the numbers and the arrows indicating direction as position two. We'll call the arrow that was rotating in on itself kind of over and over. that also had one twist in it. We'll call that position three. And as you continue to change settings, I'll just name that setting a position number and then we don't have to remember what exactly you did on the device. We'll just remember it by position number.

You guys want me to go for this? adjusting things and taking it out.

So in that position four.

Okay. Position four is another lens. But that won't matter. That's not how we're going to remember this. We're going to move positions. Okay. So...

It would make sense that I would try all the different lens variations since I started with that.

I kind of figured. So... What this one shows you, is

As you're looking around the room,

It is

showing you like each object that you are looking at is, has a grid surrounding it. Kind of like if you were to look when you, when you're looking at wire mesh, 3D models for stuff. It's kind of made out of a grid. Everything gets an overlay of a wire mesh sort of And then that wiring mesh is showing whether or not, like, it's showing how, like, it's hard to explain this. You see one... type of wire mesh on everything that is normal and you see another type of everything in the room that is magic it is a different color this is the first thing that you notice the only thing that is very different as far as so magical items have a different colored mesh on them You're not really sure what this is representing. It doesn't seem like this would have a detect magic function. It seems like this is probably has a deeper meaning, but you're seeing a correlation to magic on this. And then you see another type of another color and it's the mesh that's covering the crystal. It's purple. Let's just call it a different color that you don't see anywhere else. Even your magical items you have on your person have that magical grid overlay on them that shows that they are magic or that it shows something, but that's the correlator.

I wonder if it's like compositional, like, you know, this thing's like a biological thing. Like... I don't know.

Okay. I'll make a note of... what I notice and the position of everything and I go on to the next position

Okay, so you're on position five. The first of the knob positions. Okay. This shows a, As you look around, the entire room is washed over with a color and the color is gray.

Only noticeable to me. I ask the party if the room looks different to them at all.

Doesn't look different to anyone. You just see a gray hue saturating the whole room.

No other discernible features about it.

Make a note and we go on to the next.

Okay, so the next one... you see kind of like a vibrating wavelength overlay on, in front of you. And it is, as you look around the room, it is unchanging. and it says, one, 1.0 next to it. And you just see it's a moving sine wave. It's like a regular wave that is a regular curve and it is moving and it looks like it's plotted on a graph. And it is plotted where the wave starts right at the axis and it's going at a constant rate.

Maybe shows direction of the tides.

You should roll knowledge planes on some of these things because like we might have shifted into like a real plane

I don't think we're moving planes. In fact, I actually don't think this actually has anything to do with the control of that crystal. I think this is strictly for navigational purposes.

Okay, position seven.

Okay.

All right, position seven, when you look around the room, actually the moment you toggle to position 7 an arrow is pointing to the left of your view

I turn it left.

And as you turn it left, the arrow eventually starts pointing to the crystal. And then as you're moving away from the crystal, the arrow, kind of like a beacon, is flashing back towards the crystal. And when you look directly at the crystal, it's just flashing like a beacon.

Interesting. So you can get back to the crystal maybe? I always have a way to find it.

Does anything change as I move closer to the crystal?

The beacon gets a little larger in the viewfinder.

OK.

How close do you get to the crystal?

Get pretty close. I don't think any of us have touched the crystal yet, and I don't want to do that with this in my hand.

Larger and larger Notifier like

I look over at Doug. I'm like, you sure you don't want to touch a crystal, man? That's how it goes.

I don't have a very good use magic device rules, so I think it should be you.

You're the captain. You're the chosen one. Do it.

I touched the

I touched the crystal.

Okay, the moment Donovan touches the crystal, the room flashes with an intense, bright light, and everyone's body starts feeling a burst of electricity, and it feels almost like your consciousness is trying to be separated from your body and snaps back into place, and everything goes dark for a second, and we're going to take a 10-minute break while I prepare this.

Jesus Christ, which plane did you send us to?

The first the gray one was the ethereal plane. We wanted that one Where the fuck did we just go?

Well, that's that. That's the best part because we can't really go anywhere crazy right now.

what color was it flashing what color was it flashing

I don't know, man.

have to

Donnie, you just drove us here. What color was flashing?

I don't know. I don't remember him specifying a color that it was flashing.

I'm just glad we could breathe. It's not space. Space is way scary.

And I only have enough spells for me.

It's a dream fucking world.

Hey, we didn't steal. He tried to fuck you guys up and you rightfully took it.

or me and Nettie thought we were going to have to

Yeah, this was Law of the Jungle. This is probably...

We thought we were gonna have to fight a minotaur, like...

This was one of the most justified acquisitions we've ever had as a team.

Totally. 100%. This was like fake. This shit fell into our hands.

Fuck that guy.

Yeah. They will not be missed.

That mage probably though. That mage just got a guy. It was just his time.

He's like, people trying to steal my ship. I let out their blood, which powers my ship.

Because we've got to figure out how to use this thing from scratch. The only dude that we know that knows how to use it is the guy that died in that fucking stairwell.

We just got his ship. We could sell it on like wizard list or whatever, like plane shifting vessel only used twice. Like...

This is something we stashed in our secret garage somewhere.

I'm surprised it's a ship. That's actually pretty smart that it's a ship. Because they're going to land somewhere.

Oh, turns out I'm in a fucking lake of fire. Sipping on this magical ass ship.

Oh man.

Everything goes black, the electric feeling happens, and then all of a sudden everyone's body starts feeling like you're stretching extremely thin. Like the front half of your body exists a thousand years away from the rear half of your body. Everything snaps back together. the lights turn on you're looking outside the window and you start seeing what looks to be like a burlap material in front of the window like you're covered in fabric the entire the entire front of the of the ships and then you see the fabric start to rupture And then you see light. You see some, looks like blood. And then you see some trees. And then you feel the ship go, and what feels like hard ground and then and as everyone starts feeling less disoriented you look out the window and it's daylight and you look like you're in the middle of a road and there's a tree line and yeah that's where you are

Does everything look... normal.

Yeah, like when you said there's lights and there's trees outside.

Yes, everything looks normal.

Okay.

Fuck, as I get a little bit more conspicuous place, Donnie. Come on now.

But on the glass, there is a splatter of blood.

On the glass? Oh, because there's like a windshield, isn't there?

I'll

Kind of, yeah. It's like it's built with the control helm set underneath into the hull just a little bit.

Inside, yeah. Yeah.

And there's glass in the front.

You fucking killed somebody.

There's probably somebody under the ship right now. With our...

What a way to go, man. That's my teleporting shift.

I go turn off the alarm. and then go outside and check the front of the ship.

Okay. You see the remnants to Romeo Knowledge Arcana.

Working on it.

Only a 15.

You can't really identify what it is that's on the ground, but you see some... It looks like the remnants of, like, some... Okay, well, there's definitely three... There's three people that are completely crushed by the boat. Their swords, their armor, their belongings, and then the remnants of what looks...

their horses.

Or is the boat okay?

The boat is okay. It's just laying on the ground. But you also see the remnants of what looks to be a bag that's been ripped open and a bunch of items that shouldn't be able to fit in it strewn about.

we smashed into somebody's bag of holding. I loot the bodies and gather the stuff from the bag.

Those poor bastards.

It looks as though you play and shift it into somebody's bag of holding.

I wonder if we...

Yeah, like we ran into it on the ethereal plane or whatever the fuck.

The bag of holding is technically another plane.

That's awesome. Holy fuck. What a way to go.

Yeah, we just... Okay, yeah, let's gather up these items.

Dude, this is how we kill people? This is dope. It's the perfect crime.

Ha.

We'll just explode out of your handysack and kill you with a giant ship. It's fucking OP. Give Baxel holding his gifts out to all our enemies.

The fantasy equivalent of a hit and run. Goddamn. That was fucked up.

Do this shit right now. Do this correct.

Here's a backpack that will or will not turn into a house and kill you.

Okay, so you got all the belongings. These guys look pretty broke. The things in there are in the bag of holding. Some low-level tier gear. But, you know, you see some swords in it. There's, like, some shields, some armor, mostly, like, goblin armor, small creature's armor. Out of the bodies, there's four or three little satchels of gold. You find a totaling 87 gold pieces worth of gold total. And then, so you can write that down. One of them has a Ring of Protection, plus one. And one of them has a potion of Cure Light Wounds. And the rest of their gear is mundane, or not enchanted.

Goddamn. Poor guys.

i'll take i'll take that sweet ass ring i don't have one yeah pat is this how you is this how you kill anybody else's little game

I bring the stuff up into the boat.

Is that how you end them?

Yeah, so we opened the door and got pulled into a dream.

That nearly killed us. It was a really evil place. Nutty was like, it was like a carnival and Nutty had to like, and, an ice sculpting competition he entered and he starts chiseling into the ice and realizes as there's blood pouring out, there's a child inside the block of ice.

Yeah, and when we woke up, he was, yeah.

And then he just woke up.

deep in the dream that mage was draining us of our blood.

Yeah. And Jake just hooked a new guy up that knocked on the door of their newly found boat and did the same blood machine just to see what it would do.

Put the guy back up.

Yeah, it...

So they were hooked up to a like chained upside down

He was harvesting our blood for something.

And that price is someone's got to pay, you know, I mean, if you want to, you know, back to the future ship that ships through planes, you got to use, you got to use a couple of human souls. I mean, you know, it's give and take until we find a better source of energy. We'll be using that for this time.

Love it. So the blood machine sucks blood and gives you immortality?

It drains into these silver tubs that magically make it appear in files. Yeah.

That's great. Wait, so you guys have a blood machine?

Well, it seemed to be powering some lich's heart and Donovan just stepped on the heart and killed him. So we never really addressed the details of the machine. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the power source. I think it's just a lich thing. I think it's just a lich thing that you guys are doing.

You guys have a better machine.

I forgot about the heart inside the fucking thing.

Oh, hey, Jake, let me see that. Fuck it. Smash.

You guys are using the machine now?

Yes, and that was our first

Now we're using the crystal inside the ship that apparently is trans-dimensional.

Yeah. And we use the ship now and that's what put us in that guy's bag of holding. And we're here.

instantly reappeared in the dimension that was his bag of holding.

Okay, so...

Okay, so yeah, you guys are standing outside the boat. You see the three crushed people that are underneath the fabric that appeared over the windshield type of, you know, the part of the boat that had the glass is in tatters below. You've looted the bodies. Now you're on the road in the middle of somewhere that has roads on the dimension that looks... similar to the one that you were just on. You're not sure?

Knowledge, nature, role,

You know what? I don't like it. Let's go back in the boat. Fuck this. Let's...

Going back and about.

I'm in the boat still. I got a six on knowledge nature, but I was going to see if there's any, like, discernible nature to hint at which region we're in.

Yeah, no. Okay, I go back in the boat.

Once everyone is back in the boat, we lock the doors again.

No. That door trap's a bitch. I'll catch it.

It'll get you.

I don't want anybody just covered in the boat. It's gonna suck.

I like how that guy knocked first. He knocked. I opened the door and backfliped out of it. He didn't activate the draft.

You guys are in the boat. What do you do?

botched a Knowledge Nature roll to try and see if I could identify the region we were in based on trees.

of knowledge and nature with the trees. Okay.

I botched it, though. It's a six.

There are trees.

They are green and they have leaves. So it's probably not winter.

There are trees. That's wood.

Not pine needles, so it is not a northern hemisphere thing as well. We are in a temperate zone.

Shit. This whole world's going to shit.

there any discernible structures or signs or anything like that I can see through the windshield?

me perception check.

So y'all think it's a direct correlation between the little navigator thing and the crystal? Just touch the crystal with a certain setting?

I think you said it, you know. 1985, whatever, June 12th.

There's no way there's only...

And then you go and you touch the crystal.

nine possible dimensions that it can end to.

Yeah, I think you're setting like directions and...

Hmm.

I mean,

Roll me that perception check there, Donnie.

perception sorry

Mm-hmm.

14.

14, you see a sign. It says Neo.

Are you kidding me? Go through dimension.

What's it say?

Neo?

NIO.

disappear in a road

says 15 miles and there's an arrow

Do I know where Neo is with the natural 20 and the 31?

knowledge geography? Yeah, you totally do. You know that Neo is a small town in the country of Gaethier. It is in the... It's in the continent of Gaethier in the country of Manhee. And it is the...

I think it's by YoVox.

Western most city.

and then 50 assets.

Westernmost city on Gaither.

That was a good knowledge geography roll.

To be fair, this is exactly the region we wanted to go.

Then again, now...

What do you guys do?

Let's get back in the boat and try another dimension.

I think so.

what the fuck are we going to do? Just leave it on the road?

Yeah. I mean, we could teleport anywhere. There's no shame. This is fucking...

Get out of here. There could be witnesses.

Uh...

Yeah, it's up there.

So we are Neo.

Who's by the front window of the boat?

I'm on a perception check.

I urge Donnie to get moving. Find another spot.

Servation chips. Garbage.

I randomly urge him to get moving based on no out-of-game knowledge.

try

Position eight.

on the

Toohickey.

do Hickey. Okay. Position eight.

remember you got you gotta move yeah you gotta move a couple dickies to do it you see good in there

and look up position eight.

Okay. Position eight.

Position eight, as you look At the crystal in front of you.

It's showing a smaller representation of all of the other information from the other views that you saw. And it's all that kind of information. You're seeing the arrows with the 1.000. You're seeing that sine wave that is focused right on the axis that is a very nice gradual wave that's unchanging. If you're seeing that information, you're seeing everything that you saw previously in like a small view focused right on the crystal.

You guys want me to touch the crystal again?

Okay, I touched the crystal again.

Nothing happens. OK.

Did you not adjust anything?

I go outside and collect what's left of those bodies and hook them up.

I'm not on position seven.

Okay.

I take off the lock, go outside.

I go to position 9. That should be the final one, right?

Wait till I get back in.

Yeah, okay.

Position nine.

Position nine. has a box. that is like outlined in front of you. and it says 0 and you notice that the number changes while with this lens down when you adjust a little dial next to the lens and that number goes it goes up from like zero one zero two and then you'll see another button that once you press it, then that number changes to what appears to be a random string of characters that you cannot quite understand. They don't look, it's not a language, it's similar characters to the first, that first screen. But the moment that you hit that button, that string of numbers that you can understand that are like normal numbers you're used to, switches to a character set that you are unfamiliar with. But once you hit that button again, it switches back to the characters that you do recognize.

Okay, I switched back to the characters I recognize.

And you said it outlines like a box, like that box is just like in the view at all times, or is it like outlining a specific area on the ship?

Just in the view.

Jake, are you in the ship?

Yeah, I'm back in the ship now. I'm going to go take some of the bodies that I'm holding downstairs and put them into the racks and start letting out their blood.

I wonder if it makes a difference if it's dead blood or a live blood Because why wouldn't the maids just kill us?

Throw the dead bodies out the door.

That's like some vampire shit. You know how a vampire can't drink?

Are there any difference in the levels of blood since we used the place once?

Like, has that actually been affected?

These things are still fresh. We've got to get them hooked up now.

Didn't we smash most of those files though?

Rich. All of the vials are empty.

Oh shit.

Okay.

So that's a thing. That's how we power it.

They weren't all entirely empty prior to us jumping.

they were not.

So this ship is blood powered.

Well, fuck.

Well, that got interesting.

Okay, so we have

The answer is one of our questions, though.

I mean, we're all evil-ish, right?

We could have magical flying installed upon this. and just have a separate flight instrument as well for it. Do we want to try and

Yeah, I want that, Rich.

pay that out now

Pat, how much blood does it look like it requires for the ship to have usage?

Well...

It looks like the full vial wall needs to be filled because...

It was very full. And then now it's completely empty.

Maybe that dude was trapped there trying to get enough blood to get to another dimension.

Yeah, but when he was trapped, he just was like, you know what, I'm just going to go write a whole bunch of words of magic on my, so people will try to come in and break into my shit. And then when I come back, getting some sweet bread, because I know they've got sweet bread here, there should be a body or two in my fucking place, and I'll just go let their blood so I can.

So, I mean, Rich, we could do that, but we're near the town of Neo in Manhai.

I don't know that there's going to be somebody there that could do that.

Fair enough.

We'll probably go to a major city. And the closest one to us is...

Mabiru?

because as it were we could have general flight with like a backup of teleporting the out

Yeah, because Pat, we're outside of Neo, right?

Yes, you're about 15 miles outside of it.

So, I mean, Rich, you could shrink the item right

Rich?

What's up?

You can just shrink the boat, can't you? Oh, no. No. There's a weight. Yeah.

It's too big.

Like it does shrink down, but only to a 16th of its size.

Yeah.

which is much smaller than a 100-foot boat.

terribly small. What does that make it?

Well, I'd still be down for that.

1 16th of its normal size for one day a level. Okay, in each dimension. So, 100 foot long boat divided by 16. As far as length goes, makes it to a 6 and a quarter foot boat.

I mean, we could pick it up and move it. Yeah.

which is manageable.

Yeah, we could fucking...

Alright. Let's do that.

and that's one touched object. Oh, this was it, of up to two cubic feet of level. So you can only do up to 20 cubic feet.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I can't.

Yeah, that's right.

That was it.

So

Well, fuck.

Are we... It looks like there's a river that runs between a major city right there and Neo. How close are we to this river? Can we see it from where we are?

Because I could probably dig out a river in a trench. Or I could make a trench and get direct running water towards the boat. We could probably just slide this bitch down.

if we're within 15 miles of Neo is on a river. Like, literally on the river.

Yeah, and the road to Neo is parallel the river. So from where you are, if you were to go outside and look around, you are probably very close to the river. Like, if the road... So you are... 0 to 18 miles is about that long. So you...

You can't see the river directly next to the road, but it can't be more than a mile.

We can't be any more than...

That's exactly what I was just going to say.

Can you make the boat float, Rich? Don't you have that sphere thing that can...

I think so.

I'm pretty sure there's something I can do. Let me just look through my spells.

Because if we only have to go a mile... If we can get that thing to float, we can even just push it over the river. And from there, we can sail it up the river as something that's widened up at that point.

And actually, we're a lot closer to a major city than I thought. That's definitely a larger rating right here at Man High.

Because we could sail the boat down the river, well, hopefully down the river.

It would definitely be. That's going towards the ocean. Downriver to...

man high and get the boat enchanted there

Well, I'm trying to think, because levitate, if I...

Man High's name of the...

but I can only do it up to like a thousand pounds and it's definitely more than a thousand pounds.

I see what's happening here.

Yeah, the city behind Mannheim, that's the name of the country, is Mugoki.

But yeah, that looks

Probably the same height same size as Neo, but that will be downstream so

Well, I've got a couple of... scrolls of floating disk if somebody else can cast it with me.

Okay.

and have two right underneath it.

So to cast this Frual, you need knowledge of the...

you need to be of a type of class that can do it.

The only other person that might be able to help you out would be Jake.

Jake or Nutty?

I'm divine, not arcane.

Yeah, you're the Unarcones spellcaster.

I just checked. I can't learn it.

shit.

I know I can't. But yeah, Jake might be able to.

Jake, you said you can cast arcane spells, right?

No, I am Divine, not Arcane.

Oh, okay.

Floating distance evocation, and a Magus's psychic sorcerer wizards can learn it.

To see you, Rich.

Otherwise, we just leave it here and go into town and see what we can find, but Fourth, option three, we lure some people here and drain their blood and teleport out.

Yep. That's like,

Well, maybe we can use animals too.

I am thinking that it has to be a living being's blood, though, because otherwise there'd be no reason that the wizard wouldn't just fucking, like, gas cloud as we walk through the door and pretend.

Exactly, that shit's premium gasoline. I mean, humans, yeah, I mean, like, you know, you don't want to be using these wolves and shit out here in the tundra. Like, that's fucking, you know, you know, you're just gonna fuck up your engine. Yeah, exactly.

Well, I...

It just ruins the ship. What it does, it just degrades the ship.

I'm sorry.

I know.

I go to the main room and go get my spider. We go outside and I cast animal growth on him. And he goes up a size category.

Didn't Jake bleed out that one guy? Shouldn't we have a bucket of that blood?

Well, he's being bled out. So hopefully the vials are being restored. I mean, he's hooked up.

Okay, so you hooked up the guy. You set it all up. The first thing that you notice is... the vials are filling up and the first row let's call the wall put the wall in thirds you got one third of the vials filled and the vials kind of look like a meter like it's a row, a row, a row, and they're filling up one at a time from the bottom right to the left. And then once the bottom left vial is full, the next row of vials start to fill. They start to fill, they start to fill.

And once it gets about one third full, you see... The guy looks like he's very, like, gaunt and desic. Like, it looks like he's, like, completely – there's nowhere blood in him. At all. Like, he's just vacant. Dead. Obviously dead at this point. He is not. But he was. He was for a significant amount of time. He also doesn't look like he ever stirred from the dream realm.

I was going to say, still alive.

Quick, someone cast heal on him.

You know, if you think about it, this wizard had it all backwards. Like, why would you have like a nightmare area when you're like putting someone to sleep it should be like a happy place you should be quick surrounded by kittens and stuff not wanting to leave

Yeah. Yeah. He's just... He's just evil. Nightmares make better fuel, man. It's...

I guess he was just a dick.

The blood's better when they're scared.

should probably ditch the body.

Oh, he's not done letting it. So just like let him.

He's done. He's drained.

I'm wondering if you can find something with fast healing that you'd be able to just like perpetually have set there.

continuously drain someone.

Yeah, man, human battery.

I like it. I'm down.

Right? Find somebody that's really an asshole. Fast healing plus a ring of sustenance. You really have to hate that fucking person though. Like you have to go find the leader of the church of St. Cuthbert.

We would need someone to actually be...

My character is staring at Nutty right now. I'm just staring at Nutty and I'm just like, man, you got fast.

you would have to have somebody attending that room like a nurse almost. They'd have to know when to heal them when they were looking specifically weak.

Ed again.

I get the feeling we should just get flying cast on this. It would be a much easier process, less evil in general. Less going wrong at any given time.

Well, let's see how much Ring of Fast healing is.

Like we could Oh, yeah, you got your ring of fast heal, Nutty. Hook him up.

I don't have a fast healing ring.

Oh, okay.

He does it naturally even better.

Alright.

Mine has like a set limit though. I can't, it isn't constant.

Oh man! I just realized... wait, I don't know if it has to be live blood. Supposedly I can get... I can make a bleeding skeleton.

Really?

Yeah. I'm wondering if that... Yeah, it's got Fast Healing 1. It literally doesn't need to eat

Yeah, I think, let's give this a try. I just need,

You don't have to try it.

dead buddy. We have one.

Well A, save me the Mage's Corpse because I want to do something else with that. I want to like animate like a bodyguard thing. But I just need one of the mostly intact bodies.

That's the only attack body. I'm pretty sure. We smashed all the other ones.

Well, this guy is about to be dead.

That's the one I'm talking about. Didn't... Oh, we saw...

We still have the mage. And I plan on doing things with the mage as far as like, I'm gonna have a high level cast or undead.

Then yeah, the guy that's been bled out, summon your bleeding skeleton.

look into the details of this you guys get to know the ship and it's random evil things

Or keep an eye out for shit that's about to come, like, traipsic upon us.

Also, I was thinking about it. That mage that we did kill, I can, as long as I get some metal and rare ink,

fuck are those

I could cut off his hand and I can create a treasure map from a couple of his dead body parts.

So what do you guys do?

Rich is going to try and summon a bleeding skeleton.

Yep. Uh-huh.

with fast heal one.

Yeah.

I do...

I cast animate dead

This guy.

I have Onyx for his eye sockets. and it costs twice as much for a bloody skeleton. So I put in maybe

250 GP worth.

And I try to summon a bloody skeleton out of him.

Okay.

And what was the gold for?

And that's part of the spell for casting.

You created the blood of Skilton.

he commands my or he obeys my commands so i'm just like get in there drain blood into the pan see if it works

Okay. Bloody Skeleton is destroyed when it reaches zero hit points. It returns to unlife one hour later at one hit point, allowing its fast healing thereafter. A bloody skeleton can be permanently destroyed if it is destroyed by positive energy. It is reduced by zero hit points. It is undead. It can... blah.

Skeletons are animated bones of dead, wrecked life through foul magic. Okay. And you hook it up to the blood draining machine?

All right. And as you hook it up, It does not seem to have the same effect as the human that was placed in the machine next to it.

Damn it, I think it has to be life. Oh yeah, I unhook him. Fuck.

Well, I mean, we could just literally go to a tavern, get drunk with some people and bring them back to our place for a party. as I walked through the door. BAM victims.

That's basically what's about to start happening.

I really think

I think given that,

Okay, so if I cast Levitate on the boat

Animal growth on my spider. and a floating disc below it, can I levitate the ship enough to be able to push it down the road?

The disc at your level will only allow you to lift 1,000 pounds.

plus the levitate, which would take another 1,000 pounds. would that get it potentially an inch off the ground or make pushing it easy enough that a And what size would the spider be if he was huge before? And he went up a size category.

Large, huge.

Colossal?

But if it's not off the ground, like...

because that spider's fucking huge at this point we can probably like push it down the way if we're lightening the load.

if we only have to get it about a mile.

Let me find out how much a 100-foot wooden boat weighs.

way more than a thousand pounds.

Far more. A 20-foot boat that's made of fiberglass weighs like 3,000, 4,000.

I'm hoping that taking 2000 pounds, 2000 pounds hopefully off of the weight

I don't think it'd be enough to make that much of a difference.

giant spider pushing it.

Well, I could also turn it something big and we could drag it too.

Yeah, but if we drag it, we risk destroying the bottom of the boat.

Or we could do the thing where we put logs under it rotating.

Go old school go a mile. It's doable

How far away are we from a place?

No more than a mile from a river.

Honestly, we could just...

How about we just send someone to go to town to even see if they have an enchanter and see if the enchanter can come to us. Instead of having to roll a boat a mile, it seems a little ridiculous. Or maybe they have something in town for the specifics.

We could definitely do that.

I do have a couple of casts of teleport. I could just go back to that fucking like pirate island where we know they have the enchanter. I could teleport right to there and be like, come with me.

I could literally soften the earth.

Yeah, but if you're really going to want to teleport with you.

I can soften the earth and we can push it into the river.

I don't know.

Would it be able to navigate the river? Is it small enough?

Okay, so I'm going to go with this guy's answer on boat weight, and I'm going to post it. And he's talking about a 50-foot boat wooden. And so this dude says that blah, beam, this.

I'm gonna go check it out.

I'm sure it's huge.

12,000 pounds.

A 50,000 pound boat, but if it was, it was just the whole million back. There's no below deck out. There's no, there is some internal structure. The motor, there's no motor, there's no ballast. So 12,000 pounds. So 12,000 pounds for a 50 foot boat. This is a, this is going to be double that plus some internal structure. This is going to be a 25,000 pound boat.

Well, fuck.

So yeah, our only other option is to go into town and see if we can find somebody that can

either get this to levitate for us or enchanted to fly.

Or we check exactly how far the river is, because, I mean, it could just be just out of sight, like...

I'll turn it over.

We're not even sure if the river next to us is wide enough to support our ship. Our ship's fairly wide, isn't it?

I turn, yeah, I turn into a falcon and I fly up. See where the closest river is to us.

Alright, the closest river, when you fly up, it looks like there's a tree line next to you, and then about 500 feet, there is a river.

I'll shoot down and check out. Check it out. Which way is it flowing?

The river is flowing away from the town sign. You see the direction of flow kind of be it's the direction of the boat is pointed the wrong direction to be if you were just to move the boat like over to the river, it would also need to flip around. to be going down the river in the appropriate direction. However, the river is very wide. It looks to be about 100 feet wide, and it looks very deep.

So it's like 500 feet away.

What do you guys do?

Well, I mean... I could start dragging it.

While we...

I can only basically...

Wait, what's the ant hall ability? I think I have a scroll of that.

Yeah, well, I can also

I've

colossal richer a gargantuan creature can look up to 1400 pounds

I have a potion of ant hole, I'm pretty sure.

So I guess...

1400 pounds or less, last one on the bracket.

up to...

Ant Hall triples your carry capacity.

So that would bump us up to 4,200 pounds of the spider to carry as a gargantuan creature.

And if he's doing a heavy load,

That's with a heavy load.

Oh, okay.

Still don't think it's enough.

Yeah, we can just go into town and check it out, I guess.

I mean, with the boat's trap ability, worst case scenario, we catch a few random pedestrians to fuel our ship.

So which way do you guys go or do you leave the boat?

Everybody down to heading to NIA.

We got to keep, I mean, Yeah, we can lock the shop up.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We can just activate all the fucking traps and follow today.

Well, if we wait until the spider is small enough again, which will just be in like 10 minutes.

Although... Actually, we can't... The switch is on the inside. Is there another way off the ship? If we activate that door?

Yeah, I think we're just going to either...

top deck I guess

I don't want to leave this boat, man. Someone's going to stay back.

I mean, we could send a couple of us.

Yeah, I'll stay behind. You guys go do that. You guys stay behind. Or, I mean, you guys go get it. I'll stay here with the spider.

We have four of us. We can leave two and send two.

Let's split the party.

Go get us a wizard. A better one than I.

And make sure he knows a lot of shit.

Who's coming with me?

I'll go.

I'll stay with Rich.

Okay, which town do you head off to?

He's on the boat.

To be fair, Nutty, last time we stayed together, the rest of the party died and we got out of there. We made the right decision.

Neo, I believe he said it was a

Yeah, we all got out of there.

Roll me a will save.

Stop scrying me!

16.

Okay.

it was, I was fully prepared to cast Mages Private Sanctum on this area, but it seems like Donovan already got caught.

What does Mage's Private Sync do?

It's nifty, but he would have to stay in the boat.

spell ensures privacy. That's the first thing it says.

Richard, do you have permanency?

Yes.

Because alt river doesn't have a minimum caster level or a gold cost to it. So we can permanently alter the course of the river.

There is also, however, in the permanency spell, a discrete list of which things can be permanent.

certain level requirements.

Yes, Alt-River is.

Oh, cool.

But what level does it require?

It doesn't have one or a GP cost.

None.

Interesting.

What is Alt-River?

Alter River, no shit.

to the direction of a river.

And I suppose,

Freshwater channel, so it's just a river stream.

I am literally in the process of still choosing the spells I want to learn, so I guess I could do that.

Can we make her with the permit to spell?

But I mean, we don't need to alter the course of this. We need to find this enchanter.

Well that's why we just go get a fight. Me and Jake.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They get back. They're fine.

onto the road so that we can get out of there.

No, unless it's permanent.

Because water...

Because a river always flows to the ocean. So if you send it back the other direction... You're gonna flood some places. You're gonna flood some places. Valleys are gonna become lakes.

like tectonic plates haven't been doing that for millions of years. We're just speeding up a little bit. Those people are going to be fine. They can move. What? We have to stay here. No, you go to where the food and safety is. You don't stay in one place forever. How'd you get here? You know?

wipe out entire villages

Alright, I start heading towards Neo.

All right, Donnie, you're heading towards Neo. Is anyone accompanying you on this journey?

That would be me.

Okay. Jake and Donna are heading towards Neo. Okay. Neo is only 15 miles away. You guys walk a couple miles an hour unless you're enhancing your speed in any way. Are you or are you just walking regular pace?

I'm still a bird, so I'm just flying with Donnie.

Oh, wait, we have a flying broom. I take that thing.

You guys go much faster. You guys can get there. Flying brooms can go 15 miles an hour. I'm going to call it. You guys get there in an hour.

All right. So you arrive at Neo. You're in the air. You're kind of looking down. You get like a feudal Japan vibe here. This is like a very old school culture. Everyone's... I've...

I go, I go, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going.

Everyone is wearing that sort of, you know, banded layer over layer style armor that's so culturally associated with like ancient Japan. Yeah. The stylings are like that, just to paint the picture before I start describing the people. So you look down, the city looks to be medium size. The river splits off into various districts, and it looks like there's sort of like lots of boats and lots of things that... Like you see many vessels going up and down of the river and into these inlets into the city. The main river also goes all the way through and cuts the city and the town in half. You see multiple districts. The ones down by the water's edge seem to be the ghettos. You get a good bird's eye view from up here. And as the and as the hill kind of rises away from the riverside, you see nicer neighborhoods. And then up overlooking the entire town is a very large house looks to be a town hall or maybe a rich person's estate. But there seems to be one main building that kind of like is very opulent looking. Other than that, that's kind of all you get from the bird's eye view.

Okay. They have like a sustainable market area.

Yeah, kind of in the midway point, you see on the side of the river that's leading towards the richer neighborhood, you see what looks to be a hustling and bustling area. Could very well be the market.

Okay, probably head down to that direction.

You fly on down on your magic broom. You get a lot of looks, but nothing like you're doing something too out of the ordinary. Just sort of like, ah, fucking another mage. and you land and it's a big market where people are selling all sorts of things it's an open marketplace tables fruits vegetables spices people who are selling curios and artifacts on blankets and then there are indoor areas where the market goes into more permanent shops. Still open air, kind of like they'll roll up something to close down their doors and then they'll open it up in the morning. And those are more of the shops that sell more items that you'd see in storefronts. instead of just like random wares. It seems like there's a lot of tables that are just selling random shit, but you see like real storefronts that look like they carry an inventory inside those indoor areas.

Okay.

So I'm assuming the storefronts are all marked with signs. Is there anything representing like a magic shop kind of enchanter?

Yeah, it's all in a language that you don't read. So, yes, there are signs. No one is speaking common here. We're speaking a language and you're not really sure what it is.

You can train the guy with comprehend like Jake, you got any comprehend language thing?

Do I see any cat folk around?

Walk up to the nearest person to me and ask if they speak conference.

He turns around and says, yeah, of course I speak common, man. Yeah, absolutely. What can I help you? It's not very common around here to speak common, but I'm not from around here. How's it going?

I'm doing great. Do you have any major plans for the evening? Or could I borrow your services?

Oh, he goes, whoa, man, I'm not really, not really like that. But there's a red light district. You get anything that you need. Yeah.

No, I'm wondering if you could translate for me for the evening.

Oh, I...

I would be happy to pay you. I'm just trying to buy, I'm trying to find an enchanter at,

you for your services.

I'm kind of busy tonight. I don't really need the money. I'm kind of not really. I'd love to help, but I've just got stuff I've got going on tonight. So good luck.

Could you at least point me in the direction of Local Enchanter?

Yeah, I mean, you're kind of almost there if you go in this building. He doesn't speak a lick of English. I can go help you talk to him, but I definitely can't help you all day.

I would greatly appreciate that.

Sure, yeah, that's fine. Cool. Yeah, my name is Ronald, by the way.

Ronald, it's a pleasure. I'm Maury.

Yeah, Maury, good. I think he walks with you over to the Enchanters. and he goes through like a, an area like beads and heavy incenses. And this seems to be like a very, like just, when you walk into like an old person's house that like loves like weird occultic shit and like you can just smell like a decade worth of incense burning. It's like what it smelled and feels like in here. Yeah. There's like a lot of animals around the room and you see this old woman and she looks damn near blind and she's got like five to six necklaces all overlapping each other and like eight bracelets on each wrist and she's got like eight rings on her left hand and like ten on the right and her eyes kind of Don't look milky. And she's like staring over this like pot. It's like a very big pot of soup. And she looks like she's casting a spell or saying something gibberish, but I think she's just preparing to eat the soup. That's what you see when you walk in.

Okay.

Yeah.

if Ma'am, do you... happen to know how to enchant a ship to

She walks up to you and immediately starts speaking in a language you don't understand. And she starts shushing you and putting her, putting her hand on your face. And then she closes your eyes and starts saying things in a language you can't understand.

I got a...

Oh, baby.

I look to the guy next to me that's supposed to help me translate?

And he gives you kind of a shrug and he's like, I don't know what the hell she's saying. And she starts speaking in like these tongues and things like that. And then she like turns, she turns to the guy and says something to him in a frantic way. And he says, he says, she says that you have a curse upon you.