09: The Pink Castle - Tales From Elsewhere: Sanctuary - Daggerheart Actual Play

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello and welcome back to episode nine of Explorers of Elsewhere. Tales from Elsewhere Sanctuary. My name is Nate. It's good to see you this evening along with my five lovely players. Hello, Livy. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Hello. [00:00:15] Speaker A: Hello, Julia. [00:00:16] Speaker C: Hi. [00:00:17] Speaker A: Hello, Georgia. [00:00:18] Speaker D: Hello. [00:00:19] Speaker A: Hey, Theo. [00:00:21] Speaker E: Hello. [00:00:22] Speaker A: Hello, Dan. Yes, we are the explorer Explorers of Elsewhere. If you haven't seen any of the episodes before this one, highly recommend it. There's about nine other episodes, including a session zero that you can watch to get you understanding what the hell is going on. But you know, you can watch it from here. Go for it, have some fun. And if you do like this episode, we highly recommend that you give us a like. And if you're enjoying this channel, why not give us a little subscribe? 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I don't know whether or not it'll be finished yet. They were still playing Call of Cthulhu which is live streamed on a Monday at 7:30 UK time. And yeah, and we are playing Dagger Heart. If you're interested in playing Dagger Heart yourself, you can click on the affiliate link down below. It doesn't cost you any extra, but it gives us a little bit of kickback, which really helps with the channel. And that all being said, we now have a very interesting conversation to have with some royalty. Five of you ready? Let's play that intro. [00:02:29] Speaker C: Hello, I'm julia and I play lucretia, a lorevar wizard. [00:02:35] Speaker E: Hi, my name is theo and I'll [00:02:37] Speaker A: be playing pally a wolf. Kim seraph. [00:02:42] Speaker D: Hi, I'm georgia and I'll be playing vergil a sanguavar ranger. [00:02:48] Speaker F: Hi, my name is dm dan and I'm playing myrdden, a wolfkin guardian druid. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Hi, I'm livy and I'll be playing beau, the dragon scent warrior. [00:03:01] Speaker A: And my name is nate and I'll be the gm for this advent. Say the five of you standing. Standing in front of this. Of this gilded brightly hot pink, almost garishly hot pink castle, only the kind of thing that you can only imagine would come from the imagination of a child. But what you've just been through is not really of something that would come from a child as you've just had to face off these rather tough sort of like limb bladed limbed robots that have been created to apparently protect the people of Sanctuary, but only to protect the people of Sanctuary and not five strangers who have happened to just show up out of nowhere. But with the, with the fighting from the five of you and including the charismatic charm of Beau to sort of wheedle his way into the princess's heart with a. With a wooden carved unicorn. The monsters. Well, the monsters the robots have now been. Are laying now in scrap metal on the floor as an artificer on the stage is sort of silently weeping after years of her work now just lay sort of like scrumpled on the ground. [00:04:56] Speaker C: It's a shame [00:05:01] Speaker A: the. The tall aquin sprite who, who has just addressed a lot of you has said that it's probably time that you have a chat and she doesn't sort of like guide you in the. The princess has climbed onto the back of the dragon spawn and they have just. And she's kind of ridden her in like a. Like a steed into. Back into the castle and the. The large. The very tall aquin sprite, the unusually tall aquin sprite sort of looks up at you both looks up at you looks down at you looks down at you and kind of says it might be worth you just getting a little bit. Just. Just clean yourself up a bit. When you're ready. We will. You can. You can come in. We just wanna. We just wanna settle her down a bit and then the. The five of you can come in as. As the. The three of you. As the three of them walk back in and disappear, the you can hear the sort of crowd now coming back out from their houses as the, as the people are sort of like wondering what the bloody hell has just gone on. And one thing you do notice so Murden, Pally and Virgil, you're down on the ground with Kelphin and Rollo, they are looking at you as if. And Lucretia, if you're coming over as well, they're looking at you with just sort of like. With almost like new vigor in their. In their eyes as they. As they then look at each other and just kind of nod in, like, in appreciation, in sort of. Sort of equal appreciation of the fact that this is probably the first fight that they've been in for a good long time. But as they both look at each other and probably the four of you in front of Kelvin, you start seeing a lore of our woman start storming up behind Kelphin. [00:07:41] Speaker C: Oh, dear. [00:07:45] Speaker A: And Kelphin kind of clocks the four of you looking. And he turns around himself and he sees this Laura Var woman, probably around the same age as him, and he's just. And he just kind of takes his sword and he sort of struggles to hide it around his back and he's just like, oh, no, he's just that I was. I was, you know, I was. I was. I was just doing my duty, you know, as sheriff, I have to do this. And he is slapped round the face by this Loraval woman. And she goes, you know how important this day was to Annabelle. [00:08:33] Speaker E: You. [00:08:33] Speaker A: You stay in the Lazy Dog for the time being. And she storms off again. And he just. And he. And he sort of hangs his head and he rubs his cheek. [00:08:48] Speaker C: Who was that? [00:08:50] Speaker B: I just thought Theo writing down in his notebook. What was her name? [00:09:05] Speaker E: Annabelle Down. But sure, [00:09:11] Speaker A: Kelvin. Kelvin looks like. Like a bit like that. That joy that he was feeling just a moment ago has now, buddy. [00:09:19] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:09:20] Speaker A: He's just like, I'll. I'll. I'll go back to the Lazy Dog. And he sort of takes his sword and he's like, I'll see you five. I'll see you five later. You've got your meeting. [00:09:38] Speaker F: There you go, Kelfin. I sort of like call out to him. [00:09:45] Speaker A: Yeah. He looks around and I look over [00:09:49] Speaker F: to Rala as well. Thank you. [00:09:54] Speaker A: Kelphin sort of nods and he continues walking back in the direction of the. Of the Lazy Dog. And he. And he sort of like, no one's. No one's sort of like. Everyone's just sort of like moving out of his way as he sort of just moves back with his. With his head held down. And Rolle sort of comes up to the four of you and he's going like, it's just a. Just a little bit of problems at home. That's what he's. That's where he's staying. With us. You, you, you, you five go on ahead. Will, Will, Will let us know how it, how it gets on. And he. He's Rollo then sort of goes off and he goes off. [00:10:49] Speaker C: I say. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Really? [00:10:55] Speaker C: On was it? [00:10:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:00] Speaker B: Beau is doing everything in his power to resist sitting on the very large chair, [00:11:08] Speaker C: just ignoring the weeping artificial Isa and considering the throne. She like. [00:11:19] Speaker B: And it would just call down to the. The rest of the party just like no, it was going to go pistol. Well I say guys, we gotta. We gotta get in and meet the princess. She said, you guys need to clean up. He said I'm fine, but you guys. He just like spits on his palm and just baristas back green mullet that he has underneath his hat. His hat back on again. Oh, very, very, very, very easily over his horns. [00:12:04] Speaker A: There's just. [00:12:04] Speaker B: He's got a magic on. [00:12:09] Speaker D: Does anyone need any healing? I. I have that. That was rather a fight, I must say. [00:12:17] Speaker E: Just feeling a bit overwhelmed, that's all. Which is code for he's 5 out of 6. [00:12:22] Speaker C: Stress. [00:12:23] Speaker E: So if anyone can clear stress. I can clear my own stress, but I can. It's fine. [00:12:28] Speaker B: No, I don't think I can. [00:12:33] Speaker F: Well, I. I'm like. If you. If you ask this Maiden's actually just gonna start walking up the steps towards the like the large throne. And he's rubbing his hands together and effectively smearing the blood from the cuts where he like grabs the blade arms. [00:12:56] Speaker D: How. [00:12:56] Speaker F: How's this tinkerer artificer lady doing? [00:13:02] Speaker E: She's. [00:13:03] Speaker A: She's just like. You could see that she's got slightly tears in her eyes. But she's also. You can see that she's deep in thought, just trying to work out why things like why she couldn't get things to respond to her. And she's then sort of thinking like, well if I do. If I do this next time then maybe, maybe then it won't react in that sort of way. So maybe if it's you. Oh yeah. Yes. [00:13:34] Speaker F: And there's a very, very stern look from maiden and like with one of these bloody hands that he points. Why do they look like the things that attacked us? The things that were. Brought us here? [00:13:50] Speaker A: Well, what do you mean the things that brought you here? You mean. You mean the Shadow Swords? [00:14:00] Speaker F: I. I say nothing and just slightly nod. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Well, as I said I was. I. I just thought fight fire with fire. You know, like make them. Make them look like what they. What they are. And, and then maybe you know, they'll. They'll be able to Fight each other. There was nothing. I just thought they look. They looked good. And I thought that's what people wanted to just to just. [00:14:30] Speaker F: Yeah's face is puckering more and more like his lips are curling the longer she talks. And then one of them starts. One of the mech starts vibrating slightly and scraping across the floor. And then like the pointing hands then becomes like a beckon, like a fist. And one of the runestones that's lodged. That was lodged inside it bursts out and then returns to orbit around Midden. I suggest you do better next time. [00:15:11] Speaker A: You can see her just look completely crestfallen. She's just like, oh, okay. As she proceeds to sort of touch the. Touch the buttons on her wheelchair again so the wheels go. And then she can just sort of see slightly hover herself down back onto the ground. As she sort of wheels her then self back into the crowd. [00:15:45] Speaker B: Beau just turns to mid and always the constructive critic. [00:15:52] Speaker F: I nod sincerely. [00:15:56] Speaker D: I. I thought they did rather well, all things considering. I mean we did nearly die. [00:16:04] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean if we were intruders, they would do a pretty good job. [00:16:12] Speaker C: They are a good. They are. They are a good. A good idea. But for a chief engineer to have no control over her product is not very reassuring, is it? It seems like the princess has a lot of control in this land. [00:16:31] Speaker F: Who'd have thought that there would be threat and danger from the ones in power not being able to control it? I say, looking at you, the arcane [00:16:41] Speaker C: wizard Lucretia is just unmoved. So I didn't even register what you were getting out there. I've heard it's quite common in politics, but don't know about these things. I'm a wizard. Shall we clean up? Go see the princess? [00:17:02] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:17:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:03] Speaker F: Yes. [00:17:05] Speaker A: So there. There are like a couple of guards that are standing by the door. Some. A couple more sort of like automatons that are standing by the door, but they just hold. They. They have been told that you are going into the castle and they are just holding the door for you. So as. As the five of you and brother Talons sort of make your way through these. These blue. These bright blue doors you. You greeted in this sort of like this immaculate, pristine, sparkling sort of like entrance way. And it's something that you can again sort of only imagine that comes from fairy tales from the ginormous imagination of what little girls believe. Big castles with big ballrooms get massive sort of like curving staircases that go up onto a second floor. The. The floor tiles sort of shimmer almost like Stars. There are curtains that are grouped around and also there's like, there's sort of like clouds that also sort of just like flutter around as butterflies also flutter in between these clouds, sort of morphing them into strange shapes of animals. And in the middle of this hallway to greet you is this. I'll bring up her picture again. Why not, why not treat you is the Aquan sprite who, who you saw outside. [00:18:58] Speaker C: The aquin sprite question mark. Very tall. [00:19:08] Speaker A: The very tall Akron sprite. As she, as she kind of holds her hand sort of like in front of herself, you notice that the dragon spawn and the princess are no longer in the room. And she says, she says, I do apologize for that, for that situation. And I commend you on your bravery for, for being able to resolve the situation very quickly. My name is Lady Rondanisa. I am the, the princess's head advisor. I know very well that the five of you are obviously not from sanctuary and this is very big news to us. It means that there is an elsewhere. Elsewhere, you would say. And she, she sort of lifts up one of her hands and she beckons you into another room and she says, please, you must be tired and you must be thirsty and hungry. I've prepared some, some tea and some food in the drawing room and we can, we can talk. I'm sure you have a lot of questions as, as do I. As she sort of sort of waves you into, into one of the side rooms. [00:20:55] Speaker B: Yeah, just follow on in. [00:20:57] Speaker A: Just following her. She, she, she guides you in. And as you come into this, this drawing room, you notice that it's not, it's actually like a lot more almost elegantly decorated. Like, like this doesn't have like the, the gaudy sort of bright pinks and blues and purples that have been around everywhere else. It's more sort of like a very, sort of. It's a very, it's a very white [00:21:27] Speaker E: room [00:21:30] Speaker A: with bookcases and sofas, very elegantly decorated and it's, it's been decorated by an adult. Basically. This is, this is, this is the meeting room where the adults come into. And Lady Rondinisa, she, she sort of points to the, the chairs sort of like around you and you see sort of like in the middle there is, there is tea and there's cakes and there's sandwiches all with the cut crusts cut off, very nicely played up on sort of like built up plates. And probably, probably you, Lucretia, who is very fond of like a cup of tea. Oh yeah, you actually notice that this tea looks like normal tea. It's not brightly orange like the tea that you had at Aldous's house. This tea looks and smells just like normal. Normal tea. [00:22:35] Speaker C: Right. [00:22:37] Speaker A: And she. And she just gestures for you to. To take a seat on anywhere of the seats as she sort of sits down with you. And she says, well, as I said, you've obviously got a lot of questions. I have a lot of questions. You will have to forgive me, it's been a while since we've. And she looks directly at you, Lucretia, and she says, like, it's been a while since we've seen. And maybe even back at Virgil as well, she said, it's been a while since we've seen magic displayed like that. [00:23:22] Speaker C: The Princess is not a practitioner of magic. [00:23:27] Speaker A: Well, she is, but not obviously, in an aggressive sort of way, of course. [00:23:35] Speaker C: Forgive us for that little display. It was purely self defense, you understand. [00:23:39] Speaker A: Oh, no, I completely. I can completely understand. [00:23:43] Speaker C: Yes. Well. And she sort of looks around at the party and says, fire away. [00:23:52] Speaker A: Well, I guess my first question is, where have the five of you come from? What is. What lays beyond our land? [00:24:08] Speaker C: We started out in Avermoor, but then we're sent to a. Yes, a small town called Falstrom. [00:24:20] Speaker A: Falstrom? [00:24:20] Speaker C: You are familiar with it? [00:24:24] Speaker A: Not entirely. I know only from what I've read in books. You see, I. I was only but a little girl when. When we came here. [00:24:35] Speaker C: But you. You know the city of Solomoni Yo. [00:24:39] Speaker A: Of course, that is. That is where obviously our. Our dear Princess was part of the High House. [00:24:47] Speaker C: Felstrom is close by. We were sent there on a different mission entirely. We. Gosh, I'm getting ahead of myself. We are explorers of Elsweyr. [00:24:57] Speaker E: Okay. [00:24:58] Speaker C: We are a band of adventurers who have been employed to reassemble our understanding elsewhere after the events which led to the creation of Sanctuary. Amongst other things. We call it the Eschaton. Oh, it was a great disaster for many. So we are exploring and remapping the world. We were sent to Felstrom and we ended up here. [00:25:32] Speaker A: Okay, well, may I ask, was it a. What. What exactly did bring you here? Like, was it. Was it your own magic? Was it some other magic? [00:25:50] Speaker E: We were attacked by children what think people are calling Shadow Swords and with. [00:26:04] Speaker A: And. And this was in your own elsewhere? [00:26:07] Speaker E: Yes, [00:26:10] Speaker A: she. She sort of thinks a bit, and she's like that. That means they're finding a way out of Sanctuary. This could. This could be very dangerous. [00:26:29] Speaker E: You tell us more about them. Sorry. [00:26:33] Speaker F: After you, Virgil. [00:26:36] Speaker D: We have reason to believe that they've attacked other people in our elsewhere, as it were. They've left them in a comatose state. Is that something. Something you've witnessed? We're quite eager to see them uncommatosed. [00:26:55] Speaker A: My goodness. Yes. Yes. That is, unfortunately, what these Shadow Swords do. They. They're able to. They're basically able to absorb all manner of essence from a person. [00:27:14] Speaker F: Their. [00:27:14] Speaker A: Their magic, their manner, however you call it. The very spirit of the very being. From a person to power. Something much greater that we're. We're unaware of yet. And so that's why we. We have sanctuary. Not only to keep the people safe, but to keep the Princess safe. Of course. You. You've noticed that her. Her magic is quite unwieldy, as you would say. She can power those machines like nothing. And she can power this world like it's nothing. She just. Which is no magic that I have ever seen. She can do this to me. And she kind of goes all to herself. She just kind of brushes her hands. Obviously you all know of sprites. Not being the height that I am. This was my gift from her. [00:28:23] Speaker C: And so you have a child who was chosen in the Friendship Ceremony? [00:28:33] Speaker A: Oh, no. I was a child who was chosen in the Friendship ceremony. I was her very first friend. [00:28:43] Speaker C: How delightful. [00:28:45] Speaker A: And because of that, I became her closest friend and then her closest confidant. Obviously, I grew up too old for us to be true friends, but I wanted to continue to look after her. I wanted to continue to watch over her. Of course, I now act as for her as an advisor. I think very fondly of her. [00:29:14] Speaker C: Of course you do. [00:29:15] Speaker A: As if she was my own sister. [00:29:19] Speaker C: A very powerful sister who never ages. How very unique a situation. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Yes, I will say that it is. It is very unique. But that's the reason why we. We bring other children in. So she can continue being a normal child. She can have friends. She can have fun. And along with that, she is able to bestow gifts onto them. We are able to give their families gifts. They live with us in here in the. In the palace for a couple of years, and we give them all they could ever wish for. And then, unfortunately, when they do get too old, we have to ask them to leave. But they can carry on their lives in safety and happiness with their families and sanctuary. [00:30:14] Speaker C: It all seems rather harmonious and lovely to hear you speak of it. [00:30:22] Speaker A: Well, we try our best. Obviously, everyone has been through so much since the eschaton, as you call it, and we want to just keep it and still there are such dangers outside. But we want to. We want to keep them safe. [00:30:45] Speaker F: Have you never tried to. To leave this place? It seems you've had quite some time and you are capable of a great many things surely. [00:30:58] Speaker A: Well, this is what we've been trying to work on. We. We don't were one. We didn't even even know if there was more of an elsewhere out there. All we've ever known is sanctuary and the Void. But while when we have gone to try and explore further out. Obviously you understand that these. These Shadow Swords and even greater adversaries out there have made it difficult for us to venture forth. And while we do have many an old soldier here who could probably fight for us, we don't want to put them in that danger. Because we know how powerful these creatures are. Hence why we have the robots. They can go out for us to gauge their power and to hopefully destroy them for us. [00:31:59] Speaker C: The. The Shadow Swords. Any knowledge or ideas of what they are, where they came from. [00:32:08] Speaker A: They. They were here from the very start. They. They have been here as long as I remember. And as far as much. The much more older people in Sanctuary who know much were older than me when this. When we came here. They. They just know that they have always been here. But with the five of you here, we now know that there's a way that we can harness the Shadowswords in a way for us to leave Sanctuary. [00:32:58] Speaker C: Is that something people would want? [00:33:03] Speaker A: Well, I guess this is also the thing as well. We would. It would have to come to a vote. But obviously this world can be. This land was created by the princess. We don't know what would happen to her if she was to leave this place. What would happen to all of us. [00:33:40] Speaker F: But surely the. To refuse to answer this question would be to. There are a lot of people that live here. You're making a decision for a lot of. A lot of people. [00:33:59] Speaker A: Unfortunately that feels like a burden that we as a corporation support have to bear because we. Until we are completely sure how us leaving Sanctuary will affect us, we can't risk it until we are fully sure. [00:34:19] Speaker C: This requires research and study. [00:34:23] Speaker A: Exactly. And I was wondering if the five of you would be able to assist in that research and study. You? I have. Have you 5 heard of the traitors camp? [00:34:43] Speaker E: Yes, it's been mentioned in passing. Yeah. [00:34:49] Speaker A: I. I would like for you, if the five of you would accept it to venture to their camp to infiltrate it if you can. Quietly. I'm not asking you to do the same as you've done to our robots. But they have. They have a. They have a mage there. One of the very few other people. People besides from the princess who has some element of magic in this world. And I know that they have elements of knowledge that might be beneficial for us that I feel like they're holding from us. If you are able to infiltrate their camp, find a way to gain the same information and bring it back to me, then we might be able to find a way to get the five of you home and the way for us to be able to see whether leaving Sanctuary is a safe option for us. [00:36:09] Speaker B: And this mage is called. [00:36:14] Speaker A: Unfortunately, I am unaware of her name. I have only heard of tales about her. [00:36:26] Speaker E: Any distinguishing features or any way we might recognize on sight. [00:36:33] Speaker C: I will. I will recognize a fellow mage, pally, from a sure thousand yards, I assure you. [00:36:44] Speaker A: Lady Rondonisa sort of smiles at that and say I'm. I'm glad. I'm glad to hear that. Yes, I know. [00:36:54] Speaker C: She. [00:36:54] Speaker A: I. All I know is that she left. She left Sanctuary much when I was much younger. So I unfortunately do not know her how she looks like [00:37:07] Speaker C: very well. [00:37:09] Speaker B: Infiltration workers is very dangerous. It's very costly. [00:37:18] Speaker C: She. [00:37:19] Speaker A: She. Well, I mean, there's not much we can offer. And unfortunately. Unfortunately, yes, there is. There's not much we can really barter with besides from helping you to return back to your elsewhere. [00:37:44] Speaker B: Well, how do we know that this secret knowledge this mage has, you're going to take it, and then you're going to close the portal to elsewhere. It seems like you want to stay exactly as. As is. [00:37:58] Speaker A: Well, unfortunately, it seems like. Why would. Why would I be bluffing? And also, do you. Are you really in a. In a place to be questioning me on that question? [00:38:13] Speaker B: Whoever I want to question, lady. But I don't know. I just. Everything I've seen in this place, I don't trust any of it. [00:38:26] Speaker C: But Bo, remember, you don't trust anything or anybody. So maybe. Maybe we can, you know, just proceed with caution on this one. [00:38:39] Speaker B: I'm saying we'll proceed with caution, but caution comes at a cost. [00:38:43] Speaker C: I'm sure we can negotiate price when we get back. [00:38:47] Speaker B: Maybe a little blessing from a. [00:38:49] Speaker A: A princess or something. Well, I mean, she's. She's lost legs. I mean, she's taken quite a shining to you. You. She was very pleased with the unicorn, so thank you. It's. It's always nice to see her calm down when she gets into states like that. Say thank you. [00:39:18] Speaker B: Well, that's okay. [00:39:21] Speaker C: Blush on those cheeks. [00:39:26] Speaker B: Well, I Guess maybe we will go infiltrate a camp and go find a major. Maybe she'll give me tall legs and I could be as tall as you, you tall drinker water. [00:39:41] Speaker C: She. [00:39:42] Speaker A: She smiles and goes like. Well, I'm. I'm glad that we're on the same page. You are. You are more than welcome to. To rest up here for the time being. Please enjoy some. Some tea and some food. And when you are ready to. To head off, we'll be able to. To supply you with anything that you might need for your journey. I. I also hear that you found an explorer bot out where was there. Is he still here now? He's not here. [00:40:22] Speaker B: There he is. [00:40:23] Speaker A: Hello. She says. She says, Laney has told me that she has taken back the explorer bot. But you are more than welcome to go and talk to her and reclaim this explorer bot. And he'll be able to help you out to in the direction that you need to go. [00:40:45] Speaker C: Oh boy, we love explorer. [00:40:48] Speaker B: Don't think she wants to see our faces very soon again, but. [00:40:51] Speaker C: Oh, I'll go talk to her. Fine. She seems like a. She seems like a sensible gal. We'll go talk to her. It's fine. [00:41:04] Speaker A: Lady Randonisa sort of stands up and she says, if you can excuse me, I have other business to attend to. As I said, you are more than welcome. [00:41:12] Speaker D: Before Virgil leaves, or just as she leaves, can Virgil put a hand, sort of very gently on her arm just to inquire this, the coma you say that these shadow creatures can perform, is there any way for it to be reversed? [00:41:35] Speaker A: She looks at you and says, unfortunately, we've not been able to find a way. We've lost quite a few good people through them. They just ended up there without the basic essence in their bodies. They just unfortunately just faded away after days. So I see. We've not been able to find a way to cure them, unfortunately. Hence why we do the next best thing and just protect everyone from them. [00:42:13] Speaker D: Well, by Goldin's grace, I shall find a way. [00:42:20] Speaker A: She. She looks at you and goes, who? [00:42:26] Speaker D: He'll. He'll just reach into his. His cloak and he'll. He'll bring out the leaf and he'll press into her hand. [00:42:35] Speaker A: She'll. She'll take the leaf and she'll look at it and it's obvious that. That she's really studying it. Like, I'm guessing it's just a regular gold, like a regular. [00:42:44] Speaker D: It is regular, but it is a leaf from the elsewhere that we have come from rather than the elsewhere that she. [00:42:50] Speaker A: She she looks at it and she then sort of takes it with her and she's like thank you please excuse me. And she wanders off. [00:43:06] Speaker D: Why do I feel like I've just done a really bad thing? [00:43:10] Speaker A: Why do I feel that I may regret that? [00:43:16] Speaker B: What we needed to create the multi [00:43:19] Speaker F: bomb [00:43:21] Speaker B: genetic material from elsewhere. [00:43:25] Speaker E: So lady will remember this in the corner. Your actions have consequences. [00:43:35] Speaker C: I, I, I think, I think we should forget all about that because that's not important and we'll definitely not come back to bite us. And I think we should find Lainey and get our explorer back and head, head on off. And then head on off. Yeah. Sorry. [00:43:52] Speaker B: And have a cup of tea. [00:43:54] Speaker C: Oh yeah. We have another cup of tea. I help myself. [00:43:57] Speaker A: You are, you are more than welcome to have a short rest. [00:44:01] Speaker B: Cup of tea. Short is a short tea. [00:44:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Cup of tea. Short rest. [00:44:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:44:09] Speaker C: What does it, what does a short rest do? [00:44:11] Speaker B: Looks knife and fork at the top of your character sheet and you can do two moves. You could do tend wounds. Clear strength. [00:44:19] Speaker C: I'm going to clear stress. I have no W2 tea. [00:44:25] Speaker A: So yeah. Your role. It's like a D4 plus your tier. [00:44:30] Speaker F: Correct. [00:44:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:44:31] Speaker F: That's it. [00:44:43] Speaker C: Cup of tea. [00:44:46] Speaker F: Who would like to prepare with me? [00:44:49] Speaker A: Me. I'll prepare with you. [00:44:52] Speaker E: I will. Cuz I can do three. So. [00:44:56] Speaker F: Okay. [00:44:56] Speaker A: Amazing. Amazing. [00:45:02] Speaker F: I'm happy to have a little golden exclamation mark above my head if you want to natter during the prepare. [00:45:12] Speaker A: Yes. [00:45:15] Speaker E: Cool. I'm just preparing my armor. Preparing all the things. Great. [00:45:24] Speaker A: Preparing all the things. [00:45:29] Speaker E: Yes. In terms of preparing I guess if Miradan and Palia kind of putting their heads together about how to deal with the traitors camp. Maybe like are they going in infiltrating it? Softly, softly sneaky, sneaky approach. Or are they going there pretending that they've been cast out? Like that's maybe the convention. The palace have been saying no in advance before they arrive. Like what's the best strategy here? [00:46:09] Speaker F: Out of character. Hat on. What have we been told about the traitor camp by like Rollo and Kelphin and company. [00:46:20] Speaker A: So most of what you know at the moment about the traitors camp is that this is where people are sort of outcasted for not believing that what the princess does is for everyone's good. [00:46:39] Speaker F: Okay. [00:46:41] Speaker C: The doubters. [00:46:42] Speaker A: Okay. [00:46:42] Speaker F: In which case yeah. If you're haters. The best way for us [00:46:50] Speaker B: the haters count. [00:46:55] Speaker F: The the impression I get is that the term traitor is used somewhat flippantly. I there is a part of me that imagines that these so called traitors would have no reason to will have no quarrel with us once they know that we are not from this place. Perhaps we could be as brazen as just walking straight in. [00:47:28] Speaker E: It's true. [00:47:30] Speaker F: If we impress upon them that we mean no harm and we have little ties to this place, they may be considerably more welcoming than how they've been described as reacting to the others off Sanctuary. [00:47:55] Speaker E: We might need to be careful about the explorer bot then. If it's leading us, that might give us a way [00:48:04] Speaker F: potentially. [00:48:06] Speaker C: Well. Virgil. Apologies. [00:48:09] Speaker F: Go. [00:48:10] Speaker C: I was just going to suggest that perhaps Virgil would be an obvious choice to put at the front of the group. Given the people here have never seen Sanguvar before. They would know that Virgil could. Sanctuary. [00:48:24] Speaker D: Yes. Yes, of course. Sometimes I forget all about. I suppose I am quite an oddity. [00:48:32] Speaker C: Only here, Virgil, it is just a suggestion. [00:48:36] Speaker B: And the rest of the world. [00:48:38] Speaker C: Well, perhaps Explorerbot should still stay out of sight to begin with. [00:48:46] Speaker F: Agreed. And Virgil, if it does go to. If. If everything does go to hell, [00:48:58] Speaker A: I'm [00:48:59] Speaker F: sure Pally here is more than happy to swing that axe arm of his. [00:49:04] Speaker E: I can't. If needed prefer to not do it if. You know. I'd rather make more allies here than enemies. [00:49:15] Speaker D: I. I'm sure they'll see how friendly we are and that we mean them no harm and it'll all be fine. I think behind him or like on his head, Brother Talons is like fluffed up. [00:49:31] Speaker B: It's a robot in its mouth spitting out wires. [00:49:43] Speaker F: Okay. Yeah, [00:49:46] Speaker E: I'll. [00:49:47] Speaker F: Pally, after we discuss this, I'm going to clap you on the shoulder. And you did well. [00:49:56] Speaker E: Thank you. That was. It was great to work with you with that. It was great. It was. Thanks. Gonna stare into middle distance realizing that he's being weird. [00:50:13] Speaker F: The lip begins extending the more the void of. Yes. [00:50:22] Speaker E: Thank you. [00:50:24] Speaker C: Shall we drop in on Lainey? [00:50:27] Speaker A: Cool. So you're all. Are you all leaving the castle and off to go see Lainey? [00:50:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. [00:50:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:35] Speaker A: As. As the. As the five of you and. And Brother Talons, as the. As the six of you sort of make your way out of this drawing room, these guards have. Have sort of left the door open. You walk out back into this like. It's almost like after you've been in actually quite sort of like a nicely decorated quite posh looking drawing room to come back out into this very garish like childlike hall again. But from. But from the one of the distant rooms. Sort of like not too distant sort of like in. In the background you hear sort of like the small tinklings of a music box. Just sort of like playing like a soft tune that someone. Let's have a look here. Could everyone roll me. Roll me a knowledge roll, everyone? Well, actually just an. Just a reaction roll. Roll. Knowledge roll for that. [00:51:43] Speaker C: How do we do a knowledge reaction? [00:51:47] Speaker A: So arrows. Yeah. [00:51:55] Speaker C: 22 with roll. [00:52:00] Speaker A: Cool. [00:52:02] Speaker E: So hold. [00:52:05] Speaker A: Let me refresh my page. Don't think I'm seeing anyone's roles. [00:52:14] Speaker F: Mirin and Virgil. Heads empty. [00:52:17] Speaker D: No thoughts. Only nature [00:52:21] Speaker F: actually. [00:52:21] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:52:22] Speaker A: Okay, so Lucretia, you got 22 with 26. 22. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Oh, mine go twice. Take the lower one. [00:52:30] Speaker C: 13. [00:52:31] Speaker A: Okay, so you got a 13 team with Hope 8 and a 4. [00:52:33] Speaker D: So Lucretia, you are a single brain cell. [00:52:38] Speaker E: We knew that already. [00:52:40] Speaker A: I mean all of you, all of you can hear this music box. But Lucretia, you. You probably know the song that comes from it being. Even though you're sort of like a Laura Vi yourself, you've been around, you've been around high society as a. As a. As an academic and you. You recognize this, this song as almost like a sort of pre war lullaby that used to. That you've known people to sing to their. To their babies and children back in the day and you. And it's very. And it's just softly coming from one of the. One of the rooms in the back. [00:53:32] Speaker B: Oh. [00:53:33] Speaker C: Oh, that's a rather. I know that tune. I think she'd start to follow it. [00:53:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Is it just yourself or is anyone joining Lucretia? [00:53:48] Speaker E: Oh, I'll follow Lucretia if I might notice. Where's she going? Yeah. [00:53:53] Speaker C: Pally, you're young. You've heard this song before, surely. [00:54:02] Speaker E: If I have. It's been a long time. I'm not great with music's not my forte. [00:54:10] Speaker A: Pally, with your six and probably as a young. As a young boy, you. You and. And sort of more nomadic life with your family, you probably wouldn't have heard this song. It's a little bit too. It's a little bit too fluffy for your wolfkin sure. Family to have probably sung to you. [00:54:34] Speaker E: I mean it's quite. It's nice. I just don't. Sorry, I don't know it. [00:54:40] Speaker C: Oh, you would. Deprived as a child, dear boy, she carries on towards the door that she hears coming from. [00:54:48] Speaker A: As the. As the two of you go back into this room, you two of you sort of. The doors open and the two of you peek round and you notice that there's. It's sort of Like a. For how big the palace is. This room is very cozy and it's filled with just sort of like drapes and blankets and pillows. And someone's made this out into like a small, almost like a small pillow fort in a way. And there's a very dim light that sort of comes out from the blankets that you can see shining. And inside this little blanket fort that has been made, you can see like this music box. And in the music box is the silhouette of sort of like, well, a little model of like a small woman holding on to the head of like sort of cradling the head of this dragon that sort of sits there as it twirls around as it sort of goes with the twinkling of this music box. And sitting there looking at the, the unicorn, carved unicorn that Beau had earlier on is the princess. And she's sitting there just sort of like looking at this unicorn, sort of, just like sort of trailing over the marks around its mane as she listens to this music box. [00:56:25] Speaker C: I think Lucretia would probably beckon Beau to come and she would step back and allow him speak to the princess if he wishes to. [00:56:38] Speaker B: Yeah, Beau will come over, put this little head just doorway. Just around the doorway. It can. [00:56:49] Speaker A: The. The princess looks up and she's just like, oh, hello. [00:56:55] Speaker B: Hey, how you doing, little lady? [00:56:58] Speaker A: She's like, I'm okay, thank you again. And she sort of shows you the. Oh, you're looking after Dusty for Dusty. [00:57:12] Speaker B: I don't think we've been formally introduced. Takes his hat off again, does a little bell. My name's Beauregard Flint. And you are. [00:57:23] Speaker A: She. She giggles and she smiles and she gets up and she sort of pats herself down and she does like the biggest curtsy that she can. She goes, my name, My name is Princess. Rejoice, Rejoice. [00:57:35] Speaker B: What a beautiful name. [00:57:38] Speaker A: She's just like, you're. You're new here, aren't you? You? [00:57:42] Speaker B: Well, yeah, we just came a visiting. [00:57:47] Speaker A: She's. She nods and she's kind of going like, that's, that's, that's cool. [00:57:55] Speaker B: We heard that's the biggest, pinkest castle in all of Sanctuary. And we thought, well, we got to have a look at that. [00:58:04] Speaker A: She kind of looks at you really oddly and she goes. And then giggles and said, that's because it's the only castle. Oh, [00:58:14] Speaker B: well, that'll be why it's the biggest, pinkest one then, wouldn't it? [00:58:19] Speaker A: She, she sort of laughs again and then she kind of sits down and she's like, she's just like, are you. Are you going to be staying around for a while? Do you live. [00:58:33] Speaker B: I should. I should hope so. I mean I've got the. You know, I've got things to attend to back at my. My home. I gotta see my daddy. This gonna cause some trauma. [00:58:56] Speaker A: She. She kind of looks down at. At Dusty again and she doesn't kind of say anything. And you can see her sort of just like eyeing at the music box and then looking back down at Dusty again. [00:59:10] Speaker B: That's a pretty song. [00:59:14] Speaker A: She's like, yeah. He's like, my. My. My. My mother gave. Like Rhonda Nisa says if. If I ever feel like lonely or scared, if I just play it, then my. My mother's always protecting me. She's always looking down on me and protecting me. [00:59:38] Speaker B: Well, that Ronda Ronda Sir Ronda Rousey. That's WW. That's a. That's a ufc. That's just the lady lady of my dreams. She could put me in a thigh lock if she wanted to. [01:00:03] Speaker C: Oh yes, she could. [01:00:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Off my train of thought, she's got. He's got some braids on her that. That Rondonisa. She's. That's very true. And now if you ever got no some worries, you can. You can tell Dusty about him. [01:00:27] Speaker A: She's like, thank you. And she. She kind of looks back and before you can say another thing, you just hear this as this looming shadow of the Dragonspawn sort of is behind you. [01:00:44] Speaker B: Oh, well, fancy seeing you here. [01:00:48] Speaker A: She's like, the princess has other things she needs to be getting on with. If you do not mind, it's Miss Potty Pooper here. [01:01:00] Speaker B: But I'll see you soon, little lady. [01:01:04] Speaker C: That's a little. [01:01:05] Speaker B: Another little bow, [01:01:08] Speaker A: Princess. Rejoice. She. She giggles again and she. She gets up and she kind of. She gain sort of curtsies at the lot of you and leaves with this dragon spawn. [01:01:23] Speaker B: Right, off we go. [01:01:26] Speaker C: Lucretia just sort of eyes you up as you come out of the room back into the corridor and says, you're full of surprises, Mr. Flint. [01:01:35] Speaker B: I just see my magic trick earlier. [01:01:39] Speaker C: Yes, that among other things. No, very well done. [01:01:49] Speaker A: Right, so as the. The five of you are allowed out of the castle, you are heading off down back into Sanctuary. You have accumulated quite the crowd. There is now a crowd sort of standing outside who are interested. Rumors have now gone around that says like, who are these. Who are these people who have come into Sanctuary as a sort of like a. A storm of people almost sort of come up to you with. With a. With a plethora of questions, kind of going like, who. Who are you? Where have you come from? Where you. Where. Where are you? Who are you? And as you're sort of stopped by this sort of wave of people, we will end it there. [01:02:39] Speaker C: Oh. [01:02:46] Speaker A: Meanwhile in Sanctuary, Tucker is sitting in a rocking chair with his. With his. With his eyes closed and sort of humming like a small tune to himself as he rests his. As he rests his hands on his stomach. His ears then suddenly sort of prick up and he. You can see his face sort of look around and he's like, well, don't think I've ever heard your face before. Oh, now, now, now, calm down, boy. There's no need to rush into that. Oh my, you're a chatter, aren't you? Blimey. Well, what was that? Look after your friend. Well, we're getting all the visitors now, aren't we? Well, I can. I'm sure we can. We can make him at home. As this voice then suddenly stops in his head and he hears this as he then hears a thump of a body that's right in front of him on the. This porch. And he. He kind of turns his head as his vision is blurry, as sort of like a. A tall, slender figure sort of stands up and he says, well, another stranger. Welcome. Welcome to Sanctuary as a tool. Ace of our man with sanguine gems sewn into his eyeballs. Looks around and he goes, where am I? [01:04:56] Speaker C: Are you kidding? [01:04:57] Speaker A: We'll end it there. [01:04:58] Speaker C: No. [01:05:01] Speaker A: So if you've enjoyed that, why not give us a. Like, why not give us a follow? If you really want to know what happens in episode 10, you can. You can watch it right now. It's part of the members and it's part of our Patreon. So if you want to watch episode 10 right now, you can do that. It's only two pounds a month. You can join our Discord as well and find out what the bloody hell that was all about. But you might find out more if you go back and watch Campaign 3. Just watch a little bit more about that. Just watch all of it. And while you're at it, you can watch all the other campaigns. We're playing Call of Cthulhu at the moment in the Cult of the Lamb setting on our streams Every Monday at 7:30. You. You can join our Discord. 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