Land of Eem: Actual Play
Join Ben Costa, James Parks, and George Higgins as they play the Land of Eem tabletop roleplaying game, inspired by the series of fantasy books: Dungeoneer Adventures and Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo.
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Land of Eem is a tabletop roleplaying published in partnership with indie game publisher, Exalted Funeral. and is about adventurers exploring and discovering the remnants of a forgotten better age. Described as The Lord of the Rings meets The Muppets, players portray lore-seeking travelers, fortune-seeking pioneers, and adventure-seeking heroes in a time devoid of them. But for all its post-apocalyptic doom and gloom, Land of Eem is tonally quite lighthearted and droll.
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Land of Eem: Actual Play
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Bogtown’s underbelly comes alive with gang rivalries, conspiracies, and forbidden music in this whimsical yet perilous Land of Eem Actual Play adventure! Our family-friendly TTRPG campaign takes a dramatic turn as the party dives deeper into Bogtown’s hidden power struggles.
Fresh off their victory in apprehending a Tricky Toe gang member for Detective Underbrink, the heroes soon uncover a dangerous secret world of rival factions and outlawed performances. When Brendo is invited by the enigmatic Delora the Blue to perform at a clandestine bard show, the stage is set for a night of revelations, roleplay, and unforgettable music.
Meanwhile, Hooch’s infiltration of a shady flophouse uncovers a stolen scroll mapping the Tricky Toe gang’s leadership—pointing to three potential bosses across Quagmash, Bogtown, and beyond. But the highlight of the night arrives at Pandora’s Cider House, where Brendo shares the stage with legendary musician Rupert G. Doohagenberry, delivering the now-famous “Tube Steak Mind Blown” performance.
The celebration quickly turns chaotic when infiltrators from the rival Nork’s Noodle Gang attempt to sabotage the gathering with explosives, sparking a high-stakes confrontation. Through interrogation, the adventurers discover that the true power in Bogtown lies not with the mayor but with High Magistrate Orville Creech—mastermind of the Bard Mandate and shadowy ally of the gangs.
As tensions rise, the heroes hatch an audacious plan to infiltrate Bogtown’s factions, recover stolen Copper Hat badges, and perhaps gain access to Magistrate Hall itself. But can they survive playing all sides of this dangerous political game?
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Hello and welcome. Hello. Happy Saturday, Happy stream day. It's time to do some TTRPGN. You know it Stream day, eem day baby.
Speaker 2:It's been a couple weeks. Last week we kinda had to pivot and do some art streaming, and now we're back with episode three of this new campaign.
Speaker 1:Land of Eme RPG actual play.
Speaker 2:Indeed, I guess we should rehash where we are, Catch everybody up. Indeed. You guys did a little job for Detective Maisel Underbrink, did a little job for detective Maisel under brink, um, who is part of the town watch which is formed by the mayor of bog town, sort of in not direct opposition to the copper hats who are the police force, but kind of keeping an eye on their corrupt ways and being a an actual force of true good in the town and and she was trying to catch one of the tricky toe gang, hench bosses, and you guys made that happen with some you know really questionable
Speaker 1:moral choices, I mean we may or may not have burned down the mayor's houseboat and the mayor may or may not have burned down the mayor's houseboat and the mayor may or may not have fallen in love with. Hooch, mayor. Mayor, not F, yeah, mayor mayor, not F.
Speaker 2:She'll be an NPC.
Speaker 1:That's a great NPC.
Speaker 2:I am mayor, mayor not.
Speaker 1:F I'm.
Speaker 2:Bob Loblaw. Yeah guys are in Pandora's Cider House lately Just waiting here, it's a current hangout.
Speaker 1:We ended the stream eating a burrito. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which is not canon, but you did it.
Speaker 1:There's no burritos Mexican food is canon in Land of Eam. That's not true, but there is pancakes and waffles.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess there's tacos. You know what I?
Speaker 1:mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and tacos are universal, though I mean. There's tacos but no burritos. Okay, let's get this straight.
Speaker 1:There's chimichangas but no gorditas and a multi-episode argument whether or not pizza exists. All right.
Speaker 2:So you know. Another thing is that there's this secret bard show coming up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Brenda, you got to perform in that man. I'm going to have some sweet riffs With no rhyming lines. It's gonna be really progressive.
Speaker 2:In fact, uh, delora the Blue, she comes up to you In her uh usual Blue regalia.
Speaker 1:Looking quite blue today.
Speaker 2:Nice cape Big old hat and she says Are you ready For the show?
Speaker 1:What Wait, what show? Exactly, exactly, exactly um, I mean, oh, uh, I guess I was just gonna kind of get up there and riff. You said it's an amateur night, right?
Speaker 2:well, no what an amateur night. I mean, we don't have time for amateur nights, you know, this is the real deal I mean I guess I'm ready.
Speaker 1:You can put me in coach good, good, good um I turn to hooch. I'm not ready.
Speaker 2:I don't think I can do this oh man, you can totally do this.
Speaker 1:Plus, she's the coach, she can teach you how to do it. All I have are like interesting five second intros to songs. I've never written a whole song. Do that one about the Nacadonkey Toobstakes. That one's hilarious Nacadonkey Toobstakes, put it on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do that one.
Speaker 2:Love. I knew that one, I love that one. All right Tonight 7 o'clock, where the basement.
Speaker 1:I'll be there, we'll be there.
Speaker 2:We'll be there have a ticket for my friend, you mean Hooch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I just assumed I was going Hooch can't come. But if you guys are going to be, thatoch yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean I just assumed I was going, but if you guys are going to be that way, yeah, yeah, I mean there has to be some audience.
Speaker 1:How much?
Speaker 2:of the tickets that take out an entire golden pouch.
Speaker 1:Nope, nope, nope, they should compass, they should compass. Oh yeah, that's right, you're performing, I'm, I'm his roadie, I'm like his butler. Yeah, it's perfect, we. I tell her we'll be there at 7, or do you should be here early for, like a sound check?
Speaker 2:no, that is early, that's, that's early for the sound check.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, we just sit there staring at each other.
Speaker 2:She walks away. This is amazing.
Speaker 1:Hooch, I want to play in a show I immediately throw up.
Speaker 2:Hooch, you notice a guy walk through the door. He looks like the guttermouth gang member that you told to meet him here.
Speaker 1:Oh, interesting, I'll be like, I'll kind of loudly be like hey you over here.
Speaker 2:He looks really out of place. He's all dirty, Covered in stains. Um, he just looks like a seedy individual and, uh, everyone, everyone's eyes are on you as you, you meet up with this guy.
Speaker 1:I'll like, without words, like, be like, it's cool, it's all right, okay, I know All right, so cool. Um, I can't remember what I why he's coming here, what I promised. Wait, who is this? Oh, we were going to exchange information about the. What happened with the mayor at her house. What happened to the mayor at?
Speaker 2:her house.
Speaker 1:Who are you?
Speaker 2:Who are you? Who are you? Look, this is getting weird. I'm going to go. Well, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1:Don't go anywhere. I remember you, there was a fire, somebody was getting arrested. You know what I'm leaving?
Speaker 2:I'm leaving what.
Speaker 1:I'm leaving.
Speaker 2:I legit can't remember what he was about. It's so insulting. But amazing.
Speaker 1:Alright, get out of here, get out of here.
Speaker 2:If I ever see you around, you're dead hey no threats in here.
Speaker 1:My best friend's a bounty hunter, that's right. What did this guy look like?
Speaker 2:He was a skinny little boggart.
Speaker 1:Looked like a punker wow, from the 80s, he just had like spikes and studs and yeah yeah, he had. Like he had rickety stitch pins all over his his jacket, wow he had street cred up in beasleberf. He's a fan, like some personal content. Yeah, I say well, uh, I don't know what that was all about. Yeah, man, I mean like I kind of remember that guy, but uh, you know, a lot's been going on, supposed to get that show tonight. Do all boggers look this? I can't tell them apart.
Speaker 2:Hooch, you finally remember that? Uh, that guy was Coming out of the building where Cat Jeebles was being arrested.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because she's the one that broke in on the mayor. That's what I was thinking. Can I run after him? Let's see if we can bounty hunt him down. He shoots me with a crossbow. Oh my god, Find the doctor. I'm going to chase him down the street and grab him and be like catch evils. Now I remember. Sorry, man.
Speaker 2:It was a long night. Make a search check though, Alright.
Speaker 1:I do it.
Speaker 2:Alright, you see him going down an alley down the street.
Speaker 1:Chase after him. And no, I won't do that just yet, not going to use my powers, yet I'm going to rely upon my skills. I'm going to chase him back and be like hey, you know, I remember you, I just didn't want to, you know, make a big scene in there. Cat Jeebles, she got arrested.
Speaker 2:He has a knife in his hand and he says listen, man, I risked a lot coming out here.
Speaker 1:I know we're safe in this alley, I promise. Yeah, that's why we chased you out here at catch up.
Speaker 2:All right. What is it you want to talk about?
Speaker 1:Why I heard she got pinched. Like why'd she get pinched?
Speaker 2:That's it. That's what you want to know. Yeah, you're going to give me some info.
Speaker 1:Maybe I can. We've been in the Copper Hat headquarters.
Speaker 2:We got it. Yeah, we've seen things man. Yeah, where's she being kept? We ain't seen that man In there Inside of there.
Speaker 1:Can I give him a detailed layout of the thing and point him to where the cells probably are? Um maybe one of the maybe I can do like a some kind of like memory check, uh perception.
Speaker 2:What do you think ben um?
Speaker 1:maybe like a lore, or yeah, okay, okay, I'll say, uh, this is, this is how I remember the layout of the copper hat place was I mean the cells are back here. Seven I mean the cells are back here.
Speaker 2:Seven All right.
Speaker 1:It's like a simplistic map, but you've got the general direction. It's just a box with cells at one side.
Speaker 2:Okay, are there a lot of guards in there?
Speaker 1:I say there are guards here and here. Can I see if I actually remember, if it was guards, like another check.
Speaker 2:No, I mean, you're Okay.
Speaker 1:I say there is like at least two to five guys like right here, and then the bullpen's right over here. There's a lot of them too. Alright Well what do you want to know from me? We want to know why she got pinched. Why'd they?
Speaker 2:come for her. She was breaking into the mayor's, so she's the one. What was she?
Speaker 1:after, though, what was she trying to get from the mayor's house? Who put her up to it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I won't put Kat up to anything. She's the boss of the gutter mouse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but there must have been something besides street cred that she wanted from the mayor's house.
Speaker 2:Well, the mayor, you know, with their new town watch program, you know what I mean. She's kind of ruffling a lot of feathers. She wanted to scare her.
Speaker 1:That's all. Did she scare her life? She stole some stuff, anything valuable.
Speaker 2:There's a bunch of chaskies.
Speaker 1:I didn't get to see it.
Speaker 2:You didn't get to see the haul. She doesn't share Papers, whatever.
Speaker 1:Boring stuff Papers. Yeah, that is pretty boring.
Speaker 2:So I can understand why she wouldn't want to share that stuff with you guys.
Speaker 1:I can't even read, so you know. She probably just stashed it back at the hideout somewhere. That's my guess. Maybe there's some coupons in there Coupons.
Speaker 2:Coupons you know for like uh Nork's Noodles or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean that'd be kind of worth it. Plus, you wouldn't miss those right who would miss some coupons?
Speaker 2:You got a point. I'm hungry, you buying. Well, coupons buying, let's do it.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna put my hand up to give him a high five. Got a bogo. I hide the gold pouch. He high fives.
Speaker 2:You Got a bogo, I hide the gold pouch. He high fives you. He says you guys looking to join up?
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe let's discuss it over some eats. We're not affiliated with anybody. None of your business. None of your business, gang.
Speaker 2:None yet.
Speaker 1:Alright well show us the ropes while we're having our Norse noodles. Let's go grab those coupons. Uh huh, alright, alright. I'm going to whisper to George as we're going through the streets like make sure you grab the papers when we find the coupons. You know what I'm saying? Okay, because I'm the one with the state fingers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely it'll work out really well you know distractions tube sticks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to try out some music on him.
Speaker 2:All right. So he leads you back to the place where Cat Jeebles got arrested.
Speaker 1:It's like a flop house. My body is my body. My body is my body. I'm little too big for my body.
Speaker 2:You think the Copperhats are still Casing the joint?
Speaker 1:Maybe, maybe Do they know who you are Of course. Maybe we should go in, then you could keep an eye out.
Speaker 2:They don't know who you are, nah maybe we should go in, then you could keep an eye out. They don't know who you are. Nah, you said you've been there. They might know who I am, you were in disguise.
Speaker 1:I wasn't in disguise, you were sort of in disguise, I was posing as a new recruit.
Speaker 2:Infiltration. What happened to your butt, by the way?
Speaker 1:Whose butt? Whose butt, my butt, your butt.
Speaker 2:Where'd the feathers go?
Speaker 1:Why are you looking at my butt? Hey, my eyes are up here, my eyes are up here. See, that's not appropriate man. Don't go looking at another guy's butt.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, you look like a plucked chicken.
Speaker 1:I feel like a plucked chicken. They whooped me good, they definitely remember me. All right, I'll go. I'll go. Nobody remembers me. I'm like a shadow, I'm a ghost.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right, make a sneak check as you enter the building. Make'm a ghost. Okay, Alright, make a sneak check as you enter the building.
Speaker 1:Make a sneak check. Alright here we go, y'all Bam.
Speaker 2:That's a nine Alright. Alright, you creep in. You see some shadows, Dark shadows in some of the rooms. No, but no one shadows dark shadows in some of the rooms, Um, but no one notices you as you head deeper inside and there's some stairs that go up. You remember that, um, this guy and cat or this guy jumped out of a window like second story window.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm going to see if I can't track to that window and look under the mattress or something for a mustache.
Speaker 2:Alright, yeah, you make it up to the next floor. There are a few rooms that you can search through. Make a search check.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:That is an eight, okay, okay. You search around these rooms, looking under the mattress in one of them, and you do find like a. It's like a, you know 401k A hole. Like a folio. Yeah, you find a hole under the mattress, all right. With a whole bunch of stuff in there, nice.
Speaker 1:I'm going to roll a perception check to like determine if there's a trap in there or something. Just to be safe. Just like rip your arm off. It's like just a hole with a bear trap in it or whatever. Yeah, oh sure, all right, it's clean. Hole with a bear trap in it or whatever. Sure it's clean, totally safe. You've actually made a trap by searching it. Yeah, that's how an unprompted roll should work.
Speaker 2:It's just yep, there's a trap in there. Yep, yeah, uh, uh, yeah. When you reach your hand in you, um, grab ow uh, basically a scroll case at first and there's some other goodies down there, but your hand gets caught in a snap trap. Oh no.
Speaker 1:I am going to try to wriggle out of it.
Speaker 2:First you take five dread.
Speaker 1:Oh, Hooch is just unconscious now.
Speaker 2:Someone appears behind you and says what are you doing?
Speaker 1:Would you come over here and help me? I gotta get this stuff out of here. Jeebles is gonna be pissed Make a trickery check. Alright, I'm gonna use fibbing and get advantage on this once for quest. Can you use Fibonacci sequence?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna give you a minus one because your hand is in a trap. Alright, alright.
Speaker 1:Which agrees plus two, seven, that's a seven.
Speaker 2:Right, success with a twist. The guy says so she sent two of us.
Speaker 1:Huh, two of us what are you getting at?
Speaker 2:I'm here for the goods too. Oh, oh, I think I say this I'm here for the goods too. Oh, oh, I think I. They said three of us.
Speaker 1:They said three of us. No, I'm gonna say, oh, I get it. She must want to split the loot.
Speaker 2:Split it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hide it in two different locations so they can't find the whole stash. She told me she wanted me to come because no one would recognize me. I already got the scroll, but I'm stuck in the trap. Help me get out of it. There's more loot down there. What are you a rookie? No, I just. She didn't tell me about the trap. It's not entirely true. I just I slipped. Okay, I made a mistake. What?
Speaker 2:do you want to do? Oh man, that's on you real bad. Huh, it's on me real bad.
Speaker 1:Don't you tell nobody.
Speaker 2:Alright, he's going to try to.
Speaker 1:Um, try to. Oh crap, I'm stuck too. It's like really awkward. You guys are basically holding hands at this point, and not so easy, is it yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, well, we can get out of this. We can get out of this. Just don't panic.
Speaker 1:It's like we'll bend ourselves into pretzels, Like all right, you put your foot on my shoulder, I'll use the leverage to push to squeeze out. Maybe we can pull one of these planks up. Can I narrate this?
Speaker 2:You'll have to sneak in to be here.
Speaker 1:It's going to be bad. I'll see how it plays out. Jeez, I don't have anything. Wait, wait, wait, um, jeez, I don't have anything. A little bit weird, all right, there's gotta be a way for us I'm gonna sneak in. I cause a commotion in the front.
Speaker 2:You are stopped by. You walk in and immediately you see like two Sort of beggars Off in some rooms.
Speaker 1:They're squatting.
Speaker 2:They take off their disguises and their copper hats and they say we gotcha.
Speaker 1:I say hey guys, it's Jonas, You're gonna blow my cover. You're gonna blow my cover.
Speaker 2:It's Jonas.
Speaker 1:You're gonna be a rookie cop rat and then I'll narrate. I'll narrate it and then I'll say and then who are? Brendo turned around and showed them his torn up backside and they immediately recognized him that's amazing.
Speaker 2:Alright, roll it up, man.
Speaker 1:Come on, you got that one out of your system. Bernard guides your hand. Nope, nope.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:This is horrible. I start to run.
Speaker 2:One calamity.
Speaker 1:I start to run.
Speaker 2:I think well, I mean using your power.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Is that a one?
Speaker 1:That's a one. That's a one. Wait, it's a one plus. No, no, no, no, no, no. Sorry, it's a one plus it's a three. It's a three, it's a three. Okay, that's not catastrophic.
Speaker 2:A failure with a plus If it was a one, I would say you were just like instantly apprehended and they're taking you downtown, instantly incinerated. But yeah, you have a chance to run.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I look back and I see that they don't recognize me, and me showing them my backside only pisses them off more so I start to bolt out the door and then I'll try to blend into the crowd all right, um, why don't you make a roll for that? Uh, probably a sneak, and I have proficiency, so it'd be yeah okay, um, I have proficiency, so i'll'll roll twice. All right, there we go. There are the good rolls. There we go, maybe a 10.
Speaker 2:All right, you run into the streets, into a crowd of people and you're playing it cool. You can still hear them pushing people Out of the way. Criminal Pardon me, excuse me pushing people and like out of the way. Pardon me, excuse me, um, back in the flop house, all right, just shimmy up over here.
Speaker 1:If you can get your hand, um, can I do, I'm going to. Can I do a tinker? Check to see if I can't like find like some sort of like pin or or like disengaging thing and then slingshot it. Check to see if I can't find some sort of pin or disengaging thing and then slingshot it. Actually, I only have one hand to slingshot, so I need this guy to hold.
Speaker 2:Use your foot.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have the guy hold the slingshot and maybe I could do it at a disadvantage like a minus, because we both have only one hand. All right, let me first. Let me do Tinker first. That's a four. Probably should have looked at my Tinker. I forgot that I wasn't.
Speaker 2:Riley? Yeah, you're not Riley. I don't know how this is going to go.
Speaker 1:I'm going to do Tinker, I don't know, just down there.
Speaker 2:Okay, failure with a plus. What do you think that means?
Speaker 1:You shoot this guy in the head.
Speaker 2:I'm going to shoot it.
Speaker 1:I still have a chance to actually hit it. I just can't see it. It's like disadvantage or something. Like minus three, Like it exists but it's hard to hit yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll just go disadvantage.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, that's good 11.
Speaker 2:All right, you guys are both knocked back by the Force.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm going to tell the guy like all right, this never happened. No one has to know. This is embarrassing for both of us. I'll see you around.
Speaker 2:Wait, wait, we got gotta divvy up the goods.
Speaker 1:Okay, alright cool, I'll grab the scroll and something else, Like I grab the scroll first and then I'll grab something else Leave him all the jewels or something.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, we gotta Rochambeau for first pick.
Speaker 1:Just kick him in the nuts. Okay, let's rush in Bo, and then, if it doesn't work, I'm gonna do something.
Speaker 2:Alright, let's go. Alright, here we go. Are we going on three or One?
Speaker 1:two. One, two shoot. One, two, three shoot Okay, Alright. One, two, three shoot Okay, all right. One, two, three shoot.
Speaker 2:You got it. I had scissors One, two, three shoot.
Speaker 1:Scissors.
Speaker 2:All right, it's one one.
Speaker 1:One, two three shoot.
Speaker 2:All right, you win.
Speaker 1:Norc's Noodles coupons for me. You don't take the scroll, you just take the coupon. Oh my God, I'll take the scroll. I want the scroll and the. You know, we'll see, I grab the scroll. Whatever else doesn't matter, you take it all.
Speaker 2:This guy grabs what looks to be some like badges Ooh, like copper hat badges, some official government badges or something.
Speaker 1:Oh, interesting.
Speaker 2:That would have been great to take, but you see the coupons still there.
Speaker 1:Okay, grab the coupons, just so we don't screw up the relationship with the other guy. Yeah, then this guy takes the three bags of platinum.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, four bags of ancient coins. Oh my god, your choices are weird, I gotta say. But more power to you. I guess you know something I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we do, I'm not there.
Speaker 2:What are you talking?
Speaker 1:about.
Speaker 2:I don't know why didn't you take the money Uh?
Speaker 1:I use ruffian and try to knock him out. I got nothing. I use ruffian. I mean, you have no concept of money. Oh, I fail, I fail. Not a good day for rolls no, it's not.
Speaker 2:What are you doing what you had a fly on you? I'm sorry it was. No, it's not. What are you doing what you had a fly on?
Speaker 1:you. I'm sorry it was. I used disappearing act immediately after.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you're like about to be in a conflict, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to try to disappear, oh please, oh my gosh Six.
Speaker 2:All right, but do do it. Success with a twist. You either got to keep the scroll or the coupons because you kind of jumped back real quick and dropped something. I keep the scroll.
Speaker 1:I keep the scroll. Too bad, I keep the scroll and I hope that the guy watched Brendo get chased down the street by Copperhats. He did. That is my only hope.
Speaker 2:All right, make it out of the building Completely hidden. Just fast forward. You guys can meet up.
Speaker 1:Oh man, what happened to your arm? Oh, nothing, was it those bite marks Bit by a rat Bit?
Speaker 2:by a rat.
Speaker 1:It happens there's rats everywhere and I couldn't get the coupons. Some guy lifted them before we could grab one. What the heck? Some guy? There was another guy there. Yeah, I think he was messing with Cat Gibles. My guess is he was stealing from her man. What do you think of that low life? Who would do that? Who would steal from catchy? I don't know I'm not lying to george. I'm lying to the other guy. I think he's lying to me.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I'll tell george the truth after we're out of here yeah hey, um, I forgot that other guy was still here oh the, the other guy split. Oh yeah, so you're just lying to me at this point, yeah hey, sorry it was a rat that I continue to lie about, but I'm going to be like hey, come on, let's go check out this scroll. This is what Cat Cheebles was after. Should we bring it to Underbrink? We can just look at it ourselves. I mean, we're going to totally take a peek. Do we know how to read?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean as a bard.
Speaker 1:You know you really can read sheet music. No, yeah, we check out the scroll.
Speaker 2:All right, it looks to be actually some tricky toe stuff Interesting.
Speaker 1:From the desk of the tricky toe gang it's from.
Speaker 2:It's like evidence that uh, the mayor had oh god oh, like stealing evidence interesting.
Speaker 1:We should take this to underbrink.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah in fact, uh, yeah, yeah, in fact it's. It talks about the tricky toe bosses.
Speaker 1:Like it gives an entire. It's like an org chart. It shows us, like, who's in charge of what section. Yeah, we could bring this just back to the mayor too, or no? Yeah, under brink in the mayor are tight, so we bring it to her'll be fine. Yeah, um, and then. And then you do you tell, yeah, we can, so let's, yeah, let's go back to um cider house rules. Wow, and all right, I uh hook up with Underbrink.
Speaker 2:Actually, hooch, make a lore check when you bring it back to Underbrink. She is actually having trouble reading all of it. Not completely. It's written in Thieves' Cant. I rolled a nine so I of it. I completely. It's written in thieves Can't.
Speaker 1:I rolled a nine, so I do it. She doesn't trust any of your translation. I am eating Nork's noodles as I read it, cause I stopped for some on the way back. Cause I got hungry for him, I spill some on the paper.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it it's. It talks about the uh controversial history of like who is the true leader of the tricky toe gang, and there are three main candidates. Um one is hard, twin beard. They say he has a hideout in quagmash somewhere.
Speaker 1:Um hard twin beard, harn Twinbeard, they say he has a hideout in Quagmash somewhere, harn Twinbeard.
Speaker 2:The other is Terry Quickfeet Allgood. His location is unknown, but Chumbray really wants him found.
Speaker 1:Interesting. And the last guy.
Speaker 2:The last guy is Dwag Old man Chumbray. They say that he lives in Bogtown. Very few people within the organization have seen him and his location has been crossed out.
Speaker 1:Yeah because we got a lead on Dwag Chumbray. That's why we were kind of like heading towards Grunknug interesting. So he wants probably to take out terry quick feet, all good, harn twinbeard long name is pretty far away, terry.
Speaker 2:All good, we're just quick feet quick feet, feet.
Speaker 1:And Harn is way out in Quagmash probably riding out the storm. I mean he could, I mean I guess the Quagmash could just be like a hex outside or something. He's somewhere out here. He's in Orchstuy with Elberry Berryton.
Speaker 2:He's in Orchstuy with Elberry Berryton to really figure out where these things actually are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, can we ask Underbrink about what she knows about Terry Allgood?
Speaker 2:Ah, yes, mr Allgood, let, yes, mr Allgood, let me consult my notes.
Speaker 1:Okay, terry, with a P yeah Parks like pterodactyl.
Speaker 2:All I know is that he's enemy number one. He's basically the only thing standing between Dwag taking over the Tricky Toe gang as the undisputed leader Got it. You know some say that he all good started the gang and they were a bit less cutthroat in the old days Sort of a rift between them and how they handle their practices.
Speaker 1:Got it. What about? Yeah, I was going to ask yeah, same thing.
Speaker 2:Harn Twinbeard.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's not Twingbeard. Twingbeard is pretty good, though.
Speaker 2:He is a Dwerg.
Speaker 1:Oh man, is it Dwerg, dwerg, exa.
Speaker 2:Chumbray sort of forced him out. He's got some loyalists.
Speaker 1:But he fled Twerg loyalists, I see.
Speaker 2:Fled somewhere in the Quagmash. No one's been able to find him.
Speaker 1:Interesting he might be anti. He could maybe give us some weaknesses for old man Chumbray that we could. If we could find another one of those guys, maybe we could learn some stuff, yeah.
Speaker 2:I have no idea where Chumbray resides, but everyone says he's actually in Bogtown.
Speaker 1:Got it. Maybe one of the hideouts for the Turkey Tail Gang or something Like a safe house or something. I turn to Underbrink, and I say so. Who said there were a bunch of badges?
Speaker 2:there too, badges, I don't know like of badges, there too Badges.
Speaker 1:I don't know like official badges or something.
Speaker 2:We don't need no stinking badges. I was just waiting for them to come up. Yeah, yeah, that's why I brought it back up again actually. I wanted to give Ben the opportunity Um yes the mayor, uh she um.
Speaker 1:She's a badge collector.
Speaker 2:She is a badge collector, just to uh, to get through certain areas of Old Town.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the guttermouths had a few badges, but I don't know what they were for. I see.
Speaker 2:That's not great if they're able to infiltrate Magistrate Hall. What's?
Speaker 1:in Magistrate Hall Magistrates, the High Magistrate and all what's in Magistrate Hall Magistrates.
Speaker 2:The High Magistrate and all his cronies and the mayor.
Speaker 1:Dang. I wish we had those badges we could infiltrate. We should go hunt that guy down.
Speaker 2:You see, the mayor is pretty much a ceremonial position at this point. Let's see See Interesting, they don't include her on much of the legislation.
Speaker 1:So was it always this way.
Speaker 2:No, no, high magistrate Orville Creech took a stranglehold of Bogtown. He's the one that made the Bard mandate.
Speaker 1:Interesting. I hate Bard mandate. Interesting. Oh, I hate that guy. Yeah, I mean, I'm not a Bard at all, though, so whatever, it's cool, you're a Bard, you got that show tonight, I mean.
Speaker 2:Don't worry, I'll be there.
Speaker 1:Oh, you like accounting. Nice, nice, nice. Can I balance the books tonight? It's like launching to five minutes of terrible accounting. I'm going to like miss the whole thing so when you say like you're going to be there, you're going to be at the bar show, or like the fake accounting one, she's tired of us I say I I actually want to ask like is orville creech associated with any of the gangs?
Speaker 2:yes, I mean yes, there's no. There's no denying that he's in their pocket.
Speaker 1:And do we know which gang Is it? Tricky Toe or Tricky Toe?
Speaker 2:Okay, those tricky, tricky Toes. But you know, orville Preach, he also is also in control of the Board of Dungeoneers also is also in control of the board of Dungeoneers and the board of Dungeoneers.
Speaker 1:is that just like what Dungeoneering companies can work in Bogtown?
Speaker 2:All of the Mucklins.
Speaker 1:All of the Mucklins, all of the Mucklins. Thought that was run out of dunk. Those are the trolls.
Speaker 2:They have their own weird traditions.
Speaker 1:I see the toll tellers.
Speaker 2:Precisely, precisely.
Speaker 1:Okay, Gosh, I say we maybe try to find that guy. Get those badges from him. I was this close. Yeah, I mean we certainly could. We can look him or try to hunt him down. Okay. Is it like nighttime. We have some time left in this day.
Speaker 2:Well, the show's coming up.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. Well, let's, let's do the show. Then I was going to, I was going to use the power, I was going to use bar fly to invent a tavern and. Npc to go visit to like look for information.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll say you probably don't have enough time.
Speaker 1:that's cool for the show brendo, you're gonna do a great show. After the show, maybe we can. Uh, you know yeah uh I'm freaking out, man, I'm really freaking out. I'm telling you, do the nakadaki tube steak song I wish I was a nakaked Donkey Doobstake. That is what I try. Oh, that's not how it goes at all.
Speaker 2:Now, I can't get that out of my head.
Speaker 1:That's what you sing when you're on the toilet. I hear you all the time. I didn't even know that you know mushroom men use the toilet, but all I Mushroom men use the toilet. All I do is hear you in the bathroom singing about your Nacogdoche tube stick 24-7. I'm going right now. Spores emanate from my hands.
Speaker 2:It's awkward, it's inside my beak.
Speaker 1:It's inside my beak. Nox noodles the best.
Speaker 2:Simply the best.
Speaker 1:Simply the best. Alright, let's go to the show. Simply the best.
Speaker 2:All right, let's go to the show. I'm excited. All right, there's an energy in the air. It's in the basement of Pandora's Cider House and you guys are getting ready. And you guys are getting ready. You see people trickling in. A lot of them look a little uneasy. Brendo, the first time that you've seen really, some other bards. They're like clearly bards. When they walk in they all have like all of them are like color, yeah, making their clamboyant uh-huh um ben.
Speaker 1:Can I do good news to make a positive fact about a place or thing, the place being this concert hall? Sure I want to say that the acoustics of the concert hall are, like, particularly well suited to welkin tones. That's why my mom loves singing here, so I'll get maybe like a bonus on my my barding. Uh, realms check. Let's make some good news happen realms is plus one. I gotta pump these stats. Ooh six.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Alright, alright.
Speaker 2:What do you think the twist is?
Speaker 1:Hmm, people hate welkins, just flat out.
Speaker 2:Wow Well, I'll just keep that in my back pocket.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe keep it in your back pocket. I don't know, maybe it increases the critical failure range, but I get a bonus. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2:I'm going to make it something more narrative. You don't know about. I love it.
Speaker 1:The cops are going to bust in right when I'm singing, and I'll be the only one who's singing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some bards come over to you. Bust in right when I'm singing. I'll be the only one who's singing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some bards come over to you Say hey, I really like your guys' capes, all those feathers. I'm a welkin.
Speaker 2:I have feathers too. Yeah, I think we need to get you some other feathers.
Speaker 1:You're looking a little drab, my friend. You at my backside I got into a thing you know, it's not, that's not polite well, I like you look really down uh, some pantaloons or something oh I, I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't like pantaloons. I look down at my like bird legs. I say I have trouble keeping them up on my waist. I have to use belts. Oh, I don't know, I don't like pantaloons. I look down at my bird legs and say I have trouble keeping them up on my waist, I have to use belts. I like being free.
Speaker 2:Well, that's fine. Pantaloon with a belt would be great. I'm in a supply closet, looking for blue paint.
Speaker 1:You guys selling pantaloons? Where do you guys get your threads from there? Can't be too many bard-friendly thread shops out here.
Speaker 2:That isn't. You must go to Beelzebub.
Speaker 1:Beelzebub Beelzebub for bard clothes.
Speaker 2:Beelzebub. Beelzebub for bar clothes.
Speaker 1:Beelzebub, beelzebub, beelzebub.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:They all talk like this. They're singing voices as well. It's like a circle of parts talking yes.
Speaker 2:One of them has a long, long filter. Yeah, comically long.
Speaker 1:It's like four feet long.
Speaker 2:Oh, hello, who are you?
Speaker 1:He puts ash out in people's drinks from across the room. I say, guys, I'm Brendo. I say, uh, hi, guys, I'm Brendo. Um, I'm a bard too.
Speaker 2:Oh, pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 1:Say you've got a lovely voice.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:It's wonderful to meet you.
Speaker 1:Let's say what is this instrument You've got got here, I've never seen such a thing.
Speaker 2:I said wait, what? What's your name? Uh, do hagenberry, perhaps you've heard me do hagen, you D Hagenberry. Well, I'm A D Hagenberry, One of. I'm Rupert G D Hagenberry.
Speaker 1:Ooh canon. Oh you go by the nickname Rupi G. Right you play Alto Sax.
Speaker 2:No no. I am the former frontman of Dragon Saddle. Perhaps you've heard of me.
Speaker 1:I have to sit down because Dragon Saddle was like one of the most formative bands in my childhood. Dragon Saddle eh, you guys really wail. I loved your second album Back in the Dragon Saddle. It was so good.
Speaker 2:Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 1:We've all moved on from those days, but say you kind of inspired, my song for tonight, just your melodies, you know.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you. Some people say I have a sing-song voice. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I do, I do, I do, but I think that's a compliment.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you, my young bardic friend.
Speaker 1:Say will you be my dad? I mean, would you mind teaching me me? Sorry, would you mind giving me some pointers?
Speaker 2:well, uh, I don't know how to play your instrument. I mean, I've never seen such a thing oh, it's.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's a portable shrimp keytar and I play some chords on it. I I say it's a lot like a piano, but there's little gears and electronics inside. I make some cool sounds. I make some synth noises.
Speaker 2:Wow, I mean the things they do today.
Speaker 1:It's true, it's true.
Speaker 2:Well, good luck up there.
Speaker 1:I say thank you, thank you. Thank you so much, rupert G D Higginberry, it's an honor to meet you.
Speaker 2:He gives you his hand to kiss.
Speaker 1:I just peck it to my beak because I don't have lips, but it's basically, it's a welcome kiss and then he expects the same. It's like kiss your hand I say I'm not worthy, we're not it's the way of the boards I offer it to him and I swear that I'll never watch it again comes from the land of munch.
Speaker 2:You see, oh, that's how they do it in munch. You know it's a great place to do shows. I'm a three-time Golden Turnip Award winner.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's amazing that they haven't even had that many Golden Turnip Awards and you've won that many. It just goes to show how prolific and amazing you are.
Speaker 2:Yes well.
Speaker 1:What are turnips?
Speaker 2:I'm going to go. What?
Speaker 1:I'll say I'll see you in the audience, mr Duhagenberry, sir.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:This is my favorite exchange, this entire campaign so far.
Speaker 2:Alright.
Speaker 1:Brenda feels. Inspired.
Speaker 2:The festivities start to begin, the lights dim. There are quite a few people in here now, but there's still sort of this uneasy air and Pandora locks the door to the basement.
Speaker 1:Somebody else fire, we all die. I'm going to go sit next to under brink Nice.
Speaker 2:All right, the first few acts come on. What are some of these acts that appear at this show?
Speaker 1:I want there to be like a mime bard the Tuba Kings, you said.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Tuba Kings are there?
Speaker 1:There is a mime, yeah, a mime. Bard is entirely a silent performance, a ventriloquist, and that ends up being my favorite one, I just think it's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Yeah, there is a an air loot. Uh player plays the air loot. It's all very avant-garde. Yeah, Somebody somebody cranks like a music box right next to him. Yeah, he's just going Sweet riffs. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You also see the Organist from Twins.
Speaker 1:Oh, canon, look at these two.
Speaker 2:They come from Bogtown. They come from Bogtown.
Speaker 1:They're the only ones who are actually any good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they get up there. They're two spindly Boggarts and they're carrying this giant Organistrum, which is this big instrument With a crank. The one person cranks and the other person like, manipulates the Whatever I forget Little knobs and manipulates the whatever I forget.
Speaker 1:Knobs. It's a real instrument that's extremely complicated.
Speaker 2:It's a two-person instrument and they have proclaimers like Harmony, wow, and it's just like preternatural Amazing. And then it's up to Brendoo. It was a hurdy-gurdy. Is that what they're using?
Speaker 1:it's sort of like, it's like related to that. I think that's amazing. Um, it's uh, it's up to me. Oh, boy, I, I uh get up in front of the people and I say hey, hey, guys, my name is. My name is Brendo Sim Woo. Hey, that's my boy Hooch. I'm going to sing a song for you tonight, you know, inspired by my. You know my upbringing. I came from like humble roots. Sometimes the only thing I had to eat at night was a knack of donkey tube steak. So this is called tube steak.
Speaker 1:Mind blown and uh I start I start like playing on my keytar and I go knack a donkey, make me chonky, I'm a junkie for that knack of donkey, tube steak my blow. And then I like gauge the audience and like huge is loving it and it gives me courage to continue. I'm like on the bayou tube steak desire you get you some numbs and put them in your tongue naka, donkey, naka donkey. Rolled meat substitute. Eat it, gonna make you toot Tubestake, mind blown, tubestake, mind blown. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you very much. I'm gonna have you make a charm check, just by the nature of the song. It's not like an aspiring song, it's a charming song.
Speaker 1:It's a charming song, it's a jingle.
Speaker 2:There we go. Yes, there we go.
Speaker 1:Finally.
Speaker 2:I love it. Yeah, the crowd loves it.
Speaker 1:The first one to stand and clap is Cade Caterin. He's like I grew up on tube stakes too. I can relate to this song.
Speaker 2:He takes off his helmet, it's.
Speaker 1:Shia LaBeouf underneath Wow. Real, actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf. I love it.
Speaker 2:Hooch. Make a perception. Check Hooch.
Speaker 1:Sorry.
Speaker 2:Make a perception check during the show.
Speaker 1:Boom Eyes like a hawk. Wow, this guy.
Speaker 2:You're noticing someone who looks like they really don't belong.
Speaker 1:I'm going to sidle up to him and be like I know everything.
Speaker 2:Keep it down, your cover's blown he looks at you and shakes his head. It's a fin folk. What are you talking about? Get away from me. Look, we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the fun way.
Speaker 1:What are you talking about? Get away from me. Look, we can do this the easy way or we can do this the fun way. The fun way I'll crack my knuckles and try to intimidate. I like that mushroom men have knuckles. I have them to zero intimidate. Yes, oh, come on Seven.
Speaker 2:I'll take it.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, come on Seven, I'll take it.
Speaker 2:I'll take it that could have been bad. Right, you've intimidated him, but but what I'm?
Speaker 1:going to say spill it. Why are you here? Well, what's the twist? The twist is he's not alone. That's exactly what I was about to say Sorry, he's not alone.
Speaker 2:I like music. He obviously has been not enjoying anything Shaking his head.
Speaker 1:Oh, you like music. Oh yeah, who's your favorite musician?
Speaker 2:The one guy with the no, the two girls.
Speaker 1:I scream NARC. There's a NARC here, Right here I'm going to use snitch on someone. Infiltrator. I scream infidel.
Speaker 2:Wow, what does snitch do?
Speaker 1:Oh no, it's my flaw, I'm snitching on somebody.
Speaker 2:oh okay, that's cool all right, everyone uh goes into a panic and then you see that, uh, this guy is is with another person they've got bombs strapped to their chests. Oh my god, they're gonna blow up the speakeasy uh, he's with a big bugbear and they, they go for the door to run away.
Speaker 1:yeah, um, I'm going to use, uh, I'm going to use, a quest point and use Slingshot to like bam and then, like, hit the latch to lock the door, like the little thing to lock it, so that they have to unlock it before they can run out.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:I fail. My total is three.
Speaker 2:My little silver bullet just pings off the back of the helmet of Cade Caterat and he turns three with a vengeance well, it's a failure with a plus, so you'd actually I'll say it actually just grazes one of them. Alright, anything else, rendo, do you want to do something?
Speaker 1:still going over my notes for my song, thinking how I can improve it. I didn't even notice what's going on. I guess I could try to tackle the small guy. Is that a thing you think I can make my way over and do?
Speaker 2:You'll have to make an athletics check.
Speaker 1:I mean I'll give it a shot. I think that's the only thing I could think to do right now. Minus one, that's a seven. Okay, maybe I injure both of us in the process.
Speaker 2:Say, you tackle him, but you injure yourself.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:You take one dread as you hit the ground, the bugbear gets through the door and you've got the fin folk on the ground with Brendo Cade. Cateran gets up and he's in the mix. Now, say Cade. The bug gets up, he's in the mix. Now Say Cade the bugbear.
Speaker 1:Because we're friends, we want to be so bad. He's so cool.
Speaker 2:He's still not in the best position. He's behind you, guys.
Speaker 1:He just steps on us to get through Hooch.
Speaker 2:What do you want to do now? Bug bear is out the door.
Speaker 1:I'm going to give chase. I'm going to try to chase the bug bear with a full run.
Speaker 2:Alright.
Speaker 1:Make a nimbleness check.
Speaker 2:I do it nice, he. He actually toss, tosses a barrel down the stairs and you're able to like, leap over it.
Speaker 1:It immediately goes into like 8-bit pixel graphics and it's just Hoots jumping over barrels like very Donkey Kong style.
Speaker 2:You're able to catch up to him, the barrel crashes into Cade Cataran.
Speaker 1:It does nothing, he just splinters on him and he keeps moving. Let's see. Should I use another quest point and try to knock him out?
Speaker 2:Well, he's not unsuspecting, oh right.
Speaker 1:Should I try to? Is he a goon, you think? Should I try to turn him? Yeah, he's not unsuspecting. Oh right, Should I try to. Is he a goon, you think? Should I try to turn him? Yeah, he could be a goon, Gus.
Speaker 2:He's not a goon. Oh jeez, I'll tell you what. George, you want to take an action.
Speaker 1:I'm going to try to man catch her in conflict mode. Okay, can my action be to get the rest of the crowd to pin this guy? I'm going to try to man catch her in conflict mode. Okay, is is. Can I my action be to get the rest of the crowd to like pin this guy so I can go help hooch?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, I like whip them into a fervor. I say we don't, we don't want bardic music to end, keep this guy here. And they immediately start to like lynch him or something, and it's terrible and I run away. No they, I. So I, after they've kind of subdued him, I run out the door and I try, and I catch up to hooch.
Speaker 2:All right. Why don't you make an inspire check?
Speaker 1:Okay, inspiration, inspiration, my inspiration. So it's an eight. I will actually just use a quest point to bump that to a nine.
Speaker 2:Do you have plus two inspire?
Speaker 1:I do have plus two. I do have plus two, yes, sorry.
Speaker 2:All right, yeah, a bunch of bards come and say, no, music must live forever.
Speaker 1:The mime is is there like tying him up with a fake rope, but somehow it's like it works and everyone is like that's his bardic power is like the power to materialize. This mime stuff he's a wizard? Yeah, he's's a wizard. Yeah, he's just a wizard. I love it All right.
Speaker 2:I'll head up. All right, the bugbear is going to attack. Actually, let's just say this is a new round, start from the top. You're face-to-face with the bugbear hooch. You could try to parlay, you could do an action or you could go to combat. I'm going to try to parlay.
Speaker 1:Nice and say, hey, I can make this worth your while if you didn't see nothing.
Speaker 2:All right, what are you going to make?
Speaker 1:Quiche.
Speaker 2:Like a real inspire, like you're actually going to make Quiche. Like a real inspire, like you're actually going to give him something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm actually going to give him. I'm going to try to bribe him. Nine.
Speaker 2:Are you showing him your gold pouch? Yeah, I look at my waist like how'd he get it your gold pouch? Yeah, oh, I look at my waist Like where'd that?
Speaker 1:how'd he get it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he sees, uh, he sees Kate, caterin and uh and Brendo coming up the stairs. He says all right, all right, I know how this works. You won't hear nothing from me.
Speaker 1:All right, you're going to make a little bit of money on the side, or else, uh, I'll point to Cade and be like or else he's gonna come get ya, I gotta alright. I didn't actually have the gold, so I like grabbed the pouch from Brendo and give it to Cade. Oh, we're poor again, but I have more inventory slots. We'll just get some more. That's not how it works, hooch. That's not how any of this works.
Speaker 2:I can't make promises about the other guy and he runs out the door.
Speaker 1:Oh, the other guy won't be a problem. He's like hanging from the ceiling, Like bound upside down. Thomas is about the other guy and he runs out the door. Oh the other guy won't be a problem. He's like hanging from the ceiling, like bound upside down like a, like a spider victim. Yeah, you can't see any. That freaking mime Did he get? Ok, let's go interrogate the other guy and see who sent him. Yeah, the other, the the bugbear, got off easy. He like got paid and he got away, and this guy got nothing and is getting beat up like a bunch of bards throwing feathers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're gonna start tickling him with our feathers. Stop it.
Speaker 2:Stop it. What do you want to know?
Speaker 1:Actually, that's exactly what's happening. He's like wriggling, they're like tickling him with their feathers. Who's got you now? Alright, you want him to stop. You're gonna spill.
Speaker 2:Alright, I'm a tricky toe. What do you want? I'm a tricky toe.
Speaker 1:You're a tricky, tricky toe. And what do the tricky toes care about, bards?
Speaker 2:You know, alright, I'm not a tricky toe, care about bards. You know, uh, alright, I'm not a tricky toe. What? Just quit it, stop it Never.
Speaker 1:Keep going.
Speaker 2:Alright. Alright, you got it out of me. I'm with Norks Noodles. Okay, Just don't tell the boss Norks Noodles. Okay, Just don't tell the boss Norks Noodles.
Speaker 1:The delicious treat. It was coupons. What does?
Speaker 2:Norks care about Barretts. You do realize there's a gang, norks Noodle gang.
Speaker 1:Oh, less delicious. What does he get out of you know?
Speaker 2:being a snitch. It's all about business. You know no offense, pandora, but you're making business tougher and they're trying to shut down the pancake house.
Speaker 1:Cider house, cider house, cider house.
Speaker 2:Will you quit tickling me, though, please? They don't stop, they don't stop, they can't stop.
Speaker 1:He kills him, he dies with a rictus grin on his face Like a Joker victim. Yeah, okay. So I'm like what's her name again? Penderbrink, no, pandora.
Speaker 2:Penny, penny, penny.
Speaker 1:So is this the first time Norks has been around? What's going on between y'all?
Speaker 2:I mean they've in to intimidate me before, but nothing like this, hmm this is real low, even for norks well, how'd they even find out about?
Speaker 1:it is the real question.
Speaker 2:Delora, the blue looks at you and says that is a good question. Have you guys been loose loose with your lips?
Speaker 1:I don't think that I have been.
Speaker 2:Don't look at me just because I wanted to pack the drink okay who was that guy that came in the other day or earlier today oh, the guttermouth gang guy.
Speaker 1:They got big guttermouths. He must have spilled. We got to find him and for a lot of reasons. Yeah, we also can't let Norks shut this place down. This is our like, this is our hideout, this is our place. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, what are we supposed to do with this guy? And Kate says I'll take care of him.
Speaker 1:No, hold on here. Nobody's taking care of anybody.
Speaker 2:I mean Unless you're gonna spill.
Speaker 1:Are you gonna spill?
Speaker 2:Wait, is there a?
Speaker 1:bounty on this guy. I can't help you. If you're going to spill, cade's going to take you away and he's essentially the bad guy boogeyman. I make a song called Bad Guy Boogeyman. It's an instant hit, yeah.
Speaker 2:Cade is already walking up the stairs with this guy slung over his shoulder and he's screaming Please, no, no, not.
Speaker 1:Kate Catterett.
Speaker 2:Look, I'm just a measly guy, you know, no one cares about me.
Speaker 1:All right, I'll walk up behind him, but I'm not going to intervene until we get into, like, the main area, so that he's sweating the whole time. I'll be like hey, kate, let him down for a second. I got an idea. Kate doesn't listen to any of this. He just looks at you and keeps walking. Hey, cade, come on, we're buddies, where's Underbrink?
Speaker 2:I'm trying to stop him, but he just walks forward and I slide the clock before I got an idea we could use this guy.
Speaker 1:We could use this guy, we could put the hurt on On the turkey toes on everybody. He's got information.
Speaker 2:He stops and looks at you, look.
Speaker 1:If we can get some information About how he heard about this guy I don't know how much you know About what's going on with Underbrink, but what kind of spies or whatever and if we can get our hands on those badges that were stolen from the mayor's office, we could infiltrate the magistrate's office and, I don't know, bring back some info that could not only get rid of the copper hats but maybe make us all a little bit of money.
Speaker 2:He doesn't say a word, but he just throws the guy to the ground. He falls unconscious.
Speaker 1:From the impact of being thrown to the ground. You did good, big guy. He drops him on his head. Don't touch me. Never again, never, never again. Gonna do that. Um, but we should. We should find out where that gunner mouth guy is. Through this guy, use him as bait. What do you say? What I was gonna say put a wire on him. But this land of him, I mean we have, we can get a shrimp wire there's, there's gonna be a shrimp listening device. Get a shrimp wire. Yeah, have a giant sting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, same as uh coming out in the shrimp uh sandbox in yeah 26 2026, yet it's gonna be a lot of things that you can craft. That'll be one of them a shrimp wire, Shrimp wire.
Speaker 1:It's actually based on the series the Wire. It's set in the mythical land of Baltimore.
Speaker 2:Except it's. I don't know what the first recording devices look like.
Speaker 1:It's probably like if you're talking in in real life. It would be like ridges and etchings on wax discs or like pottery. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's a phonograph. It's like this giant thing that you put on your back.
Speaker 1:So it's really obvious yeah, we'll do is, we'll put it into a Nadaki tube steak stand and yeah behind him in a disguise. Um, but yeah, maybe we follow this guy like, maybe we like are you saying you just um?
Speaker 2:are you saying you just um, you're not having him?
Speaker 1:you're not coercing him into being in on it, you're just kind of following him. No, no, I think we should coerce him to being in on it, or else kade will come get him, like that's what we can threaten him with, and then like if whoever his contact was to find out about this, we just follow him and like spring on the contact, like in the mall, and then get those badges back because it's got to be the gutter mouth guy, because we invited him to the thing yeah unless the gutter mouth guy told, like somebody else, that the norks noodle gang, in which case like spread like wildfire yeah, it's spread like wildfire.
Speaker 1:These guys took advantage of it, in which case we've got to have him secretly initiate us into the gang.
Speaker 1:So we're going to join every gang in the in bogtown yeah, we're just gonna and I'm gonna go back and complete my recruitment with the copper tops or copper hats, so we'll join every faction, every faction we're going to, we're going to you know the crap out of this. Yeah, yeah, actually, that's what I was thinking. We're going to, you know, jimbo the crap out of this. All right Should we end it here, I feel like it's more than we can possibly do. It's a lot to chew on right now. Yeah, we'll set up our sting next quest all right, let's do some XP, xp's.
Speaker 2:All right, what we got over here?
Speaker 1:I guess some XP for singing about Naked Donkey tube stakes.
Speaker 2:Complete a quest or objective. You know you did the.
Speaker 1:Bard show.
Speaker 2:Didn't encounter a new creature, significant NPC encounter.
Speaker 1:Do Hagenberry, yep.
Speaker 2:Solve a problem creatively.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean Like getting the scroll and creatively, yeah, I mean Like getting the scroll and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one, two, three, get into peril or hijinks.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:This is hijinks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, many, many hijinks, yeah, many many hijinks.
Speaker 2:Okay, travel, explore, find. I don't think you did anything else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's no, no.
Speaker 2:So that's, four.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And then James, James used snitching thing yeah.
Speaker 1:I also talked my way out of trouble at the beginning, georgie. I did not do my ideals or flaws.
Speaker 2:Did you want to change those?
Speaker 1:I will probably change those Because I know I randomly rolled them and it's not. It was originally with the intention that it would make me like a more diverse player by trying to stretch to those, but they're just too difficult for me to do. I think they're not in keeping with my brain.
Speaker 2:Your homework is to remember to change them.
Speaker 1:It's going to happen, it could happen. It could happen. Missing out on XP, you know, know that's the hardest part is uh not getting xp.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, you gotta think about it, this stuff you gotta be, you gotta pursue your personal quest you gotta build on your relationships you gotta do your ideals and flaws.
Speaker 1:You know I mean, uh, personal quest. Uh, you know, played, played in this uh concert hall. My mom used to play. I'm just saying, no, that's, that's not part of the question, just gonna find her.
Speaker 2:I think you could pursue it by asking some of these people yeah, if they knew.
Speaker 1:Do you know my mom?
Speaker 2:are you?
Speaker 1:I do it right now. Are you my mom? No, yeah, it's. It's true. Now that I have some contacts in the Bardic community, I'm going to go talk to the mime first. He can't speak to you, he just makes lewd gestures at me. Yeah, we'll look into that.
Speaker 2:Cool. Cool tools All right, Awesome Cool tools. All right, Um, awesome Cool stuff. Uh, if you want to play along, play along. If you want to play the game, you can download it at uh land of Veeamcom and, uh, you get the beta version. Uh, you go to drive through RPG as well and uh, we're going to be launching a crowdfunding campaign this year at some point, to be announced. It's going to be crazy, it's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1:And if you already have the beta rules and you are looking for a group, check out our Discord. The link will be in the bottom of this video or you can grab it at LandofVeemcom.
Speaker 2:Excellent Radical.
Speaker 1:Bossa Nova, chevy Nova, wow Sorry.
Speaker 2:All right, guys. It was a great time today, indeed, A nice short, compact session, kind of exploring Bogtown, getting to know the sandbox here, getting familiar with all the factions within Bogtown. We've got all the gangs Tricky Toes, we've got Norks here. Getting familiar with all the factions within Bogtown. We've got all the gangs Tricky Toes. We've got Nork's Noodles. We've got the Gutterballs. We've got the Copperhats.
Speaker 1:We've got the.
Speaker 2:Bards. The Bards are.
Speaker 1:They're basically a gang. Death by, feather by.
Speaker 2:French Tickler.
Speaker 1:Here come me and KG with the French Ticklers.
Speaker 2:I feel like we should add some of these details to the sandbox.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to add gang of bards. All right guys.
Speaker 2:Until next time, have a good one, see ya. Goodbye.
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