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Hey. I'm excited to be here.

I've got both. So I've got the Paloma Golden Bear.

And then I've got a Sarasa clip zebra Pokemon edition pen. The music. Oh, and then I'm keeping my notes in my Irish field notes.

Oh, 20.

to get that, but the husband is one of my spell.

Entertaining to see what will fade and what will show.

Great. I'm a little nervous because last time I played D and D, my dice were not doing me any favors. So on that note, I'll just do a little brief rundown on the dice so you kind of know what you're looking at and I'll help you. If I tell you to roll something, I'll help you and show you what it looks like when it comes up, if need be. So we have the D20, which is the, the one you'll be rolling most. I'm just pulling some out here so I can be ready. You've got, at your level, you've got some D6s. Those will be used. You've got D8s. Obviously it's based on the sides of the dice, so that'll be easier. That's. That's a D10. So D8 is the like goldy color one and orange One is the D10. And you might also occasionally use the very pointy don't drop on your floor like Legos. D force.

Yep, it's. The one that's pointing up is the roll that you'll do.

All right. I think that is pretty much. There's, there's a. The D. The D10 has a like a variant Here, I'll show you. Just so you know, we probably won't use it. So you'll see this D10 has just single numbers and this D10 has double numbers. You use them to roll together to make D100 that. I've just put a couple there. I don't think we'll need them. And then the last one would be the D12. 12 sides. You guys shouldn't be. There might be some spells or something that has damage with D12 or attacks, but probably not at your Level right now. All righty.

Just. Just a couple little housekeeping sort of things. I usually have my players. I don't think it's gonna be a thing with you guys. But no player versus player, so you can't attack your fellow party members.

Unless you're, like, joking around or playing or something that's a little bit different, but not seriously attack. And then basically, if there is a ruling I make that you disagree with, oh, you guys are all new, so you guys wouldn't know if I screwed up anyway, so it's fine. But basically, I always tell my players if I make a ruling and you know it's wrong, if I've, like, miscalculated or just done something completely wrong. If you show me where it is in the. The rules, I'll absolutely retcon it for you and you can do whatever you want. But I don't think that'll matter either. Not today.

Yes. All right. Everybody got their dice?

Everybody got their character sheet?

Cool. All right, then, let's dive in. Just to give the listeners a sort of little taste of kind of what we're doing here. I'm just gonna, like, read the little blurb that we kind of made for the the little two part session. Embark on an epic journey in the enshrouded realm of Graphia, a land veiled in ancient curses and enigma. As darkness threatens to engulf this mystic plane, a brave bond of advent. A brave band of adventurers rallies together, fueled by an unbreakable bond of friendship and a collective intellect that defies all odds.

I'm sorry.

And coffee. In a race against time, they forge ahead, relying on synergy and wit to navigate through the veils of mystery and danger. Their ultimate quest, to unearth the legendary eternal Quill and the Salv and salvage not only the doomed land, but their own fates as well. Will their camaraderie and ingenuity prevail? Or will the shadows of Graphia consume all? Step into the thrilling saga and find out. I feel like I should have, like, one of those deep, like, announcer voices to read that.

So as a reminder for last time, everybody was given some sort of stationary based kit. So we will say one part of that stationary kit, your choice, has. Has depleted and you need to go refill. So you. Let's say we will put you guys in. So kind of just sort of to give you like a Brief. I kind of like to kind of keep things a little fluid. I have a general outline of where I'm going. But I also like to, I like to be surprised. So sometimes if you guys take it somewhere else that I'm like, we're gonna go see what happens. So I like to like to be willy nilly. So I kind of come up with stuff as we go and I write it down in my notebook so I keep track of what, what happened so I can reference later. So we'll put you guys on the sword coast, which is a popular D and D location. So that's where you're gonna start. We'll have you start in just a little, a little village. And you all find yourself in a. So the village we're going to call is called Alandrial. And you find yourself in a little shop. So stepping through the ornate wood door, the first thing to greet you is the faint scent of ancient parchment, enchanted ink and a hint of dragon's breath. Dimly lit by hovering fairy lights, the shop is a cozy maze of wooden shelves, each laden with exotic items. You walk in the store and each of you will see a couple of patrons filling around that would be each other. And there's a tall counter at the back of the store. Think kind of like Gringotts. At the very back there's just like the stall counter with the, with a wizened, very old tortle standing behind it. And for those who don't know what a turtle is, it is like a human sized turtle and he's got white, like a white beard and like a little fuzz of hair just poking out the sides of his head like that. And he, he's just, he's, he's really old and he's just sitting there at the counter watching you guys sort of peruse his shop. Most of his wares are out on the shelves. He doesn't sell a ton of stuff that is exotic or really hard to find. So yeah, what would you like him?

Yes.

The other one was Navig. NA was either forgery or navigator supplies. Can't remember which one. I don't have that notebook.

Do me a favor. Do a favor. I'm sorry for interrupting you. Do me a quick favor. I will just go around, have each of you say your, your name, your character name and just a brief description of what you look like slash what you're wearing. Similar kind of how you just did, but just, just for the listener. So they kind of know what to imagine as they're going through this. So start with shimmy at the top. Yeah, I just see him up there. So

Do you have any visible weapons or bags?

For the listeners, I will add, I gave Everybody. Was it 300 or 500 gold? Did I give you guys to shop for supplies?

Three million.

Yeah, no problem. Just, just to let everybody know, I gave them some gold so they can buy some equipment and armor and stuff.

Johnny, you want to go next?

right, Tim.

I'm sorry, I might have missed it. Did you say you have an instrument showing at all or not?

Probably keep my dynamite too. All right. The Tortle will sort of keep his eyes on you. Specifically Ralph X over there, who's. Who looks a little shifty, completely closed in his cloak. But, you know, he's old and he's got one eye that's going like that way and the other one's that way. So, you know, you get sense he's monitoring, but, you know, he's also thinking about taking his nap. Did you, Andy, you say you wanted to go up and talk to the Tortle?

The turtle will like lean over the counter a little bit, just kind of look, he's like, up, raised a little bit, so he'll kind of be looking sort of down at you and you kind of see his shell kind of over his shoulders and he's just got those little puffs of hair and he's like, oh, sorry, I don't do voices, guys. I suck out. Okay, we have some of those items, but unfortunately I like to keep things a little relaxed here in the shop. So you have to look amongst the shelves to find kind of what you're looking for. So you'll probably find some paints infused with dragon blood and gemstones. He says you'll find some paintbrushes out there, some with, with hairs of ancient beasts and stuff. You just have to go, go look amongst the shelves and find sort of what you're looking for. And then he'll give like a nod as, as you're nodding back. And then he'll say, oh, excuse me, I need to get some tea. And so he'll walk in the back room through a curtain and disappear.

Johnny, do a sleight of hand check for me. So first roll here. Let's see. So to do that, if you look at your character sheet, you'll see under skills, you'll see sleight of hand. It's under your dexterity, and there'll be a modifier next to it. So what you'll do is you'll roll a D20 and add that modifier, and if you're in it, should have already calculated your proficiency bonus in there. If you're proficient in it, you're a rogue. Rogues are often proficient in dexterity plus three. Yeah. So roll a D20 and add three. 21. Nice. Yeah. Again, very cool. To easily find just little things around the shelves and slip them into your cloak with no one. No one the wiser. Andro and Samic, roll a perception check for me. See if you notice him pocketing money.

Nice.

Okay, so, Andros, you're sort of focusing on the shelves, trying to find what you're looking for. You completely miss Ms. Ralph. Exit pocketing items. Samac, you notice him slip a couple things into his coat pockets as you're

Yeah. As you guys are kind of perusing Andros, you notice a small box on a shelf about, about this long, so about 6 inches long, maybe a little longer. About the size of a pencil case. Like a small pencil case would hold about six pencils or so just as a reference. I'm sorry for the clicking. Laggy, you. It's got a wood grain, a darker wood. It's very. It's got very pretty sort of spirally runes on the top of it. And it just sort of draws your attention and you reach out and pick it up and I am going to need you to roll a D20 for me.

No, no modifiers on it.

Thirteen. Nice. That's exactly what you need. As you pick it up, you feel it's kind of warm and defying the shape of it, it sort of gives just a little bit sort of like something slightly squishy. And as you notice that it kind of creeps you out and you drop it and suddenly it changes into a sort of treasure chest sized creature and it opens its thing and its thing, its mouth and it's got sharp jagged teeth poking out. And you are about 3ft from it, about 5ft from it because you kind of jumped back when you dropped it and you got creeped out. So I'm getting everybody to roll initially and let me change my camera here so we could put up a map.

All right, so let me draw like just a quick little map for you

Where would you guys like to be? So we're going to put this guy here. He has fallen sort of in front of that little shelf. So that would put Andro sort of right here. Where would Rafex and Samick like to be on this little map here? Let me adjust it just a tiny bit.

All right. And then Raphael, would you like to be.

Okay. And up here, back a little. Yeah, go over here. Okay. All right. Put you there. All right. Let me see if I can switch this around. When I play magic, I'm able to switch my camera view so it shows it from my perspective. So I'm trying to see if I can do that with zoom, but I do not see it. No, I don't see it. So hopefully. Hopefully the listeners can see it, or they can go into the mode where you just have the big video pop up there. All right, so initiative. Tell me what you guys rolled.

Did you add your modifiers to that? So on your front page of your D and D beyond or at the top of your sheet there, there'll be initiative. And sometimes it'll say. At the top, it'll say plus, whatever. So you have a little more

11.

It. It. Basically, it's part of your dexterity, so it adds. It means. So sort of initiative is how fast you could react to the situation. And so that'll put the. That'll put you in order based on the action. So whoever has the highest initiative goes first, lowest will go last, and et cetera. So let me roll for the. The monster here, he got low, so he is going to be last. It's a three.

Nice. So Ralph X is going to go first, Andros will go second, Samick will go third, and the mimic will go last. And I will roll here on my. I. When I'm playing with my players, I usually roll openly. I don't use a screen, mostly because I'm short and I can't see over it when I'm rolling. So. But it just. That's just how I do. So I'll roll it here, and that'll be easier for the listeners to. Or that are watching at home to be able to see what's going on. And I'LL try to remember to tell everybody what I roll so that they can. So people who are just listening know. Okay, so what happens now is Andros will go first and you have an action. So you have an action and a movement and a bonus action. So those are the three things that you can do. I think you can do them in any order. So however you want to do. Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. The ralph. I'm sorry. Yes. I had the wrong list. Go on. There we go.

Again, I'm sorry. Okay, so you got. So you've got an action, a movement, and a bonus action. You can do anyone that you want to do. So sometimes it's more beneficial to you to do your bonus action first. Like if it gives you an. An extra boost or ability and then you've got movement, you can it also you'll have to move before you can act sometimes if you're not close enough to hit stuff like that.

Nice.

Okay, you're. Are you going to go up and hide behind Andros?

Okay. All right.

Tell me one more time you're gonna.

It's cutting out a little bit. Sorry, I couldn't hear you.

Oh, nice. No, you are behind. You're Samax pockets. So make a sleight of hand check.

Yep. Your sleight of hand modifier.

You said six.

Yeah. So you. So Samick, roll perception check for me. See if you feel him trying to roll to 13. Nice. Yeah. So you absolutely feel someone reach into your pocket and still are.

And I thought we were doing. We weren't doing PvP. Great. So. Yeah. So you'll just kind of hold him back. Did you have Bone Section RX or anything else you want to do? Nope. Yeah, you've not successfully robbed Samick, but you will stay there.

So next up would be Andros. Your turn.

You can.

Yeah, it's a classic.

Yeah. So what you'll do is you'll roll your D20, and then on there, there is a thing that says hit slash dc. If you're looking at your. Your tablet or something, you'll roll your D20 and add that modifier, and that will tell you how high the number is, and based on the stats of the monster, will tell it. And I will tell you if you do.

Nice.

Yeah, that will definitely hit you. So you rolled Eldritch Blast. So that hits. So now you'll calculate your damage. So if you see there's a little thing on the end there that says one D10 plus three. So you'll roll a D10 and then add

Yes. You can. You can use that. The single number one is considered the ten.

The one that looks the same but has single numbers.

So you rolled a one?

Okay, so you're gonna only. So you're only gonna add three. So the D10 is whatever you roll plus your modifier, which is three, so four.

So it's the damage the monster takes.

Yeah. So you focus. You see this monster, and you kind of center yourself and you tell me what your eldritch blast looks like.

Usually they're considered like, a beam of some kind. It's just like a. Just a straight shot, like, kind of like a light beam going at the creature.

Nice. It'll let out like a screech, and you'll see a long tongue shoot out and just flap around for a second. And so Eldritch Blast has two beams, so you'll roll again and do. Do that again. So roll your D20 again to hit it again.

Nice. 14 will hit. So now you roll your damage.

Yeah, you're. Yeah, you're good. And that's what we would call a dirty 20. You don't get stress for that. It's just nice.

Nine. So you rolled a nine.

There is. Yeah, right. It'll. Its tongue will flap around a little bit more, and it'll kind of open up wider, and you could see inside more teeth just around its tongue, and it'll just kind of kind of shudder for a second and then kind of go still.

Stamek, you're up next. What would you like to do?

I apologize. Hold on. I got a Andros, did you have a bonus action or a movement you would like to take?

Yeah, just move back a little bit. You want to go, like, right there? Okay, let me turn everybody around here so you guys can read your name. Great. Samick, now it is your turn.

Yeah, not. Yeah, not usually you won't know. And I'll give you, like, little hints as we go based on the type of damage it takes, like, whether it's taking full damage or if it's resistant, sometimes that means it'll take half damage on attacks, depending on the attack type, stuff like that. So I'll. I'll inform you as we go. When it gets to a point when it's looking almost done, I will alert you to that.

Nice.

first. Let.

Show me or tell me. You don't have to show me. Tell me what you do to inspire Ralph X with this bardic inspiration.

Yes, so you will. It is. I don't think it is a roll. Sorry, I don't have all spells memorized. Doesn't seem like a roll. You just cast okay.

Okay. So second, I'm checking the spell itself so I can know sort of how to answer your question.

Yes. So it will need to make a wisdom saving throw.

So that is a 10 on the wisdom save. So your spell will hit and you focus your mind on the creature to try to figure out what is wrong with it, how you can help it. But nothing seems to happen. Just as a FYI for anybody who ever played before, if a creature has an intelligence of three or less and. Or doesn't speak a language, it will not be affected by detectives.

That's it. But this is how you learn how to use your stuff, so.

Didn't you have anything else you wanted to do a bonus action or.

No. So you do. So your.

Oh, Bardic inspiration. You could do bar inspiration as a bonus action.

Yeah. Cool. All right, just to double check right here. So we know that Ralph X is inspired. Next up is going to be the mimic. It will. And just as a kind of what this guy looks like.

Yeah, kind of. He is going to. He is going to move over here towards San and he is going to. Sorry, I'm just reading his. It's going to make a bite attack against you.

It did not roll well. So it is going to snap out at you and you're just going to jump back completely misses you. Yeah. That's all it's going to do.

Okay. Yeah, it didn't. Yeah. It only rolled a three, so. And it only. It doesn't have much on its bite to buff it. So next up is going to be Rafex

I like it. So roll. Roll a D20 to hit 19. That will definitely hit. Yay. All right, so you will calculate your damage and I believe because Samic is right there, you will get sneak attack. Or maybe it's only when you have advantage. Let me double check on that. Yep. So within. So if you have a another person within five feet and they are incapacitated, then you will have sneak attack. So what you're going to do is you're going to roll your damage dice, pull it up. So you rolled seven.

Think you're damn. You're using dagger stats, right? For your all. Okay, so add whatever modifier you have for that and then you're going to roll 3D6 for your sneak attack damage.

So if you go on your. Oh, you have to equip your dagger. So I'm going to equip your dagger for you so you can see it. So now on your action. Are you. You're on paper? Are you on paper? Okay, so you're. Oh, okay. So your dagger damage is a D4. So you will need to roll a D4 and add three. And then you have a plus six to hit with the dagger. Nice. So you'll. You'll add three to that. So that'll be seven. And then you're going to roll three D6DE attack damage. 14. 18. 18 total. And then so do you have an all in each hand?

So you're going to get another strike. So you will roll again to hit.

18. Very nice. That will hit. So this time you can only roll sneak attack on the first hit. So you'll just roll your regular D4 and add three. Nice. So that is going to be 22 damage total. Not bad. Did you have a bonus action? Anything else you would like to do? Andros, you are next.

Yep. Yeah. If you want to while he's attacking it with the awl to pin its tongue to the floor, which I will allow since you roll, you hit twice. Your all. Your all will say embedded in its tongue into the floor. Though if you do it that way, just FYI. So you will lose one of your alls at the Moment, and then at the same time. Anders, what are you gonna do?

Okay.

Yeah, you could press that. That'll. That'll keep track of your spell slots so that when you click it, you'll know that spell slot is gone.

So it's usually on a long rest. You get your spell slots back. So you have to. You have to learn as a caster how to balance your spell slots so they don't use them all too quick or, you know, at the end of the day, you're fighting something bigger, and, you know, you don't have any spells. That's why cantrips are so popular, because you don't. They don't cost spell slots. They're just.

So that is a sort of, like, a little sort of trick spell. It can create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as, like, some sparks or a little bit of wind or a little sound. You could just do little things so that you can blow out a candle, you can clean a person or something. You can just. Just. It's just like a little, little trick spell that covers a lot of different things.

Your main can trip that you're probably going to use to hit will be Eldritch Blast.

Sure. Do a. Let me have you roll something here. Do an. Do. You said you want to distract it. Make a performance check for me. See how well you distract this creature, and I'll roll its perception.

So you. That is a charisma. So you'll just roll your performance. And it looks like you have a

Yep, D20. Okay.

Okay. It. You'll see it's got, like, two, like, sort of googly eyes. I'm making hand motions, and you can't see them because you're looking at my. It's got, like, two, like, googly eyes on top of its head, and they'll kind of shift your way to, like, beady black pupils, like, staring at you. Now, is there anything else you would like to do?

Sure, yeah.

All right, then. Next up will be Samick.

Find out. It is a. It is a medium monstrosity.

Let's see.

Let me see. It weighs about 44,500 pounds.

It's pretty easy. Boy.

Yep, absolutely.

Give me one second here, you. So just as an FYI for you guys who are using your tablet and for when you print so on Easy beyond, you could see it's got these little squares here under your inventory. If you click that square, that square means it's equipped to you and you have it and you can use it. And then if you roll and then if you go over to your action, that's where it will show you your. Your stats to hit and your damage. So if you have. You have to have that clicked for it to show it under your actions. Oh, just as an FYI, I clicked yours. So you're good. You should be good. But that's so you can see it yourself.

And yes, you'll roll a D20 and you'll. Looks like you add five.

Yeah. That will not hit. You'll swing down to hit it right between its eyes, and it'll give a little shake and kind of sift back a little bit, and your club will miss and hit the floor next to

Did you have anything else you wanted to do?

Okay.

Yeah, you're good if you have the. You can cast. If you have a bonus action that you can cast a spell on. Otherwise, yeah, you could only do your action.

Yeah.

Next up is going to be the minute it is.

Bouncing back and forth through my phone windows here.

Going to shoot out a sort of fleshy sort of tongue like arm from, like, the side of its mouth. And it's going to go at Ralph X. It will not dice anymore.

So this is its pseudopod and it rolled an 8T and it has five to hit. So that will definitely hit Ralph X.

And it takes. You're going to take six points of blood ging damage RALPH from its pot attack.

And that is. It is actually going to try to break free from your all there.

It will on that roll. So it's going to stay pinned to the floor by Ralph X's.

I rolled a 10 on that. I was putting out a DC 13 on there to release that. All right. Now we're back at the top of initiative with RALPH X.

No, you just take damage. You'll just. You'll subtract that damage from your current hit point total and your hit points will be restored once you take rest or use your hit dice to fix, which we'll go over a little bit later. But yeah, you just subtract that from your health.

Nice. Yeah. And then roll your D20 to hit.

Yeah. Let me just double check.

I don't know if it. If it stays like Bardic inspiration is just.

Okay. So. And they won't stack. So you're. Yeah. Your body conspir still good from the last time you gave it.

Yeah. So it would stack on there.

Yeah, that'll definitely hit. Just roll your damage,

It is Ralph. It's a D4 plus 3, I think. Yeah.

Nice. That's 4. And then you'll roll 3. D6 sneak attack damage.

Nice. And then you have one more strike.

That will not hit. Well, you have a plus 6 to hit. So 8, 9, 14 will hit, though. So if you rolled an 8, you got a plus 6 with your dagger. Yeah. So that will hit. So roll your damage one more time.

No. So every creature has what's called an. An a. An armor class. You will have. If you look at the top of your sheet, you could see your armor class. And that is. So whatever you roll, you have to get match or beat that armor class to hit them.

You're welcome. Okay. You said four plus it was three. Yeah. So it's gonna. You're gonna come down with the. Your all do one quick swipe, and then another swipe, and then you're all gonna sort of embed in the top fleshy part of its head, and it's gonna give a shudder, and then it's just gonna kind of sink down on itself.

He is. And that guy is dead. At the same time, the turtle is gonna come out of the back room and. Oh. Oh, where did. Where did that come from? He's gonna look around a little confused at you guys.

Nope. Now. Initiative is done. Combat is over. The creature is dead.

Okay, so now that you guys know how combat works a little bit better.

He's gonna. He's gonna make, like, a. One of those old person noises, like, oh. Oh, yeah. And he's gonna. He's gonna reach out and extend his hand to. To shake yours.

He's. So he's gonna. As. He's gonna shake yours. He's gonna reach out to shake all of your hands kind of. Kind of like one at a time while, like, real fast. Do you shake hands with him?

Ralph says no covered in his little monster.

He's going to, like, clasp your hands kind of one at a time, moving, like, down the line, and then he's going to reach out, and he's going to clap Ralph X on the shoulder, and everything will go dark.

You guys are unconscious for a moment. One second.

Just pausing your head. Okay.

All right, well, you switch. I'm going to run to the restroom, and I'll come right.

Be a shame.

I just.

You will hear a voice in your head saying, you'll need this. And then everybody's going to wake up. And as you open your eyes, you'll look above you and you'll see some tree canopy overhead, but it's kind of cleared down the middle. Like you're laying in the middle of a. Like a gravel dirt road.

Yes. Everybody will have everything that they originally had on them. Plus, you will each find two small sort of bags, sort of like a canvas. If you open it up inside, you'll kind of touch and you'll feel a very soft, fine, like, particle. And for those who sort of know, just as an FYI, it is a graphite dust in one bag. And then if you open the other bag, you will find a small, pink, squishy blob, which would be an eraser. Each of these has five uses, so make sure you note that

Five times total. Yep. They do not replenish after that unless you do something.

Graphite dust and the eraser both have five uses.

Yes. That's. Everybody has everything that they. They had originally had on them when they went into the store, plus these two additional items.

Yeah, you feel normal.

Nope.

He's still missing that little tiny bit of health.

I will have each of you roll perception for me. This is going to be a group

No, you can do that anytime, anytime you want. Some spells are better for combat, so you would want to save those for combat. But some spells you would use outside combat, like prestidigitation, you're covered in dust. You could use your precedent to clean yourself off, that sort of thing.

Yep. Everybody roll a D20 for me and add your perception modifier

Nice.

Nine. Okay.

It should be under your skills.

Or if you're on the app, it'll be the second. So swipe over and it'll be the second thing you see.

Nice. So that, as a group, is a success. Just as a general overview is how I do group checks. Everybody will roll their D20. They'll get their whatever perception is total. Natural ones count as two failures. Natural twenties count as two successes. And then it just depends on who. How many successes and failures there are, depending on how the group does as a Whole you guys succeeded on your perception check. You look around, you see the trees towering overhead. It looks like you're on the edge of a forest about. Maybe about a half a mile up this sort of, like, gravel path, you see some wooden fence posts. And then beyond that, you see a small village.

Who has passive. Passive perception. Let me take a look. Samick and Ralph X, you both have a little bit higher passive perception than Andros. As you guys look around, you see everything looks normal, but you'll notice on, like, a tree trunk, you'll see a swipe of white. Or on the gravel, you'll see a swipe of white. And if you just look around, you see just like, just little. Little swipes of white everywhere and an occasional gray swipe across it. So it's like someone erased on a piece of paper and then drew a line over it.

Nope. You don't have to roll perception.

Roll an investigation check to kind of see if you get a feel for.

Anybody is welcome to. Yeah, anybody who wants to investigate, which is like, look at something closer. Try to figure out how it works instead of perception. Just looking.

Nice.

Yeah. So you guys look at these sort of spots, and you notice as you, like, rub at 1. If you rub really hard, it sort of smudges at the edge and the tree. You'll give a little rustle as you do that. Yeah. And it just smudges just slightly into the white as you sort of rub it.

Nice. I will roll. No, I'm not gonna have you roll for it, actually. You'll. As you. As the graphite hits the tree, you'll notice that the white disappears and it looks like a normal tree again in that spot. Looks completely normal.

You'll see some rocks. You'll see some like small bushes, maybe A little flowers around the bushes. You've got the gravel road leading up about. It's about a half a mile to the fence posts.

Do you just erase like a tiny part? Do you erase all the way across it? How do you erase?

So as you swipe across, the branch will break in half in your hand as at the spot where you erased.

It's one of your erasers. Yep.

And I'm keeping track as well, if you guys forget.

As an FYI, the constraints of the eraser and the graphite is a six foot cube.

So as you're erasing or doing, you have a six foot cube to work with for each use.

Are you guys gonna walk in towards the village?

Just to speed things up because listeners don't want to hear about walking. You'll enter the through the fence post. It doesn't take you long to get there. The weather is actually very nice. It's about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, very, no rain cloud, blue sky, just a couple little dots of clouds. The sun is out, it's about noon here. And you enter the village and as you walk your feast, your feast, your feet kick up a little dust from the road and the gravel as you enter town. The street sort of changes over to cobblestones as you walk. And you'll notice as you enter the village, the, there's white spots in the, in the cobblestone, on the ground. Just, just like little, little worn spots that looks like they've been worn away over time as people have traversed this road. And you'll hear, you'll hear someone shout from an area a little ways ahead of you. Let me, let me show you guys the map here so you guys get to get a visual. So you have just such a little town. So you're going to enter here,

And you'll hear a guy shout from over here. He's going to yell, oi, get off the road.

He's going to be standing off the road here. The little dice is going to symbolize that guy okay. He's kind of a short. A short elf, probably about five feet. He's got pointed ears. And you'll. You'll notice part of his head's got a white stripe across the top that just. It just looks like it's gone. It's just, like, completely erased off the top of his head. And as you approach, he's gonna, like, gesture at you guys, sort of waving his hands like, get. Get off. Get off the road, like. And as you guys sort of get off the main, sort of cobblestone path, he visibly relaxes, and he'll. He'll wave you over toward him and he'll. He'll say, sorry for the tone. We are just trying to preserve the road as long as possible.

And he'll, like, look you over a little bit and look at your clothes and everybody and just kind of look you guys over and.

He's gonna. He's gonna. He's gonna ask, what brings you to Graphia?

How.

He'll kind of look towards the road and he'll look back at you guys, sort of just kind of looking you over again. Gonna. Pretty decent perception there. He's gonna ask how you arrived here. Instead of answering your question.

I like it.

he'll kind of. Oh, sorry. Go ahead.

Yeah, he'll kind of. Kind of like, look at you guys for a second again. Just. He's just. He's just trying to size you up and get a, like a feel for you guys. He's gonna say he doesn't remember how he arrived in Greia. As most of the inhabitants of this area, most people don't remember how they got there.

He'll nod for a second and he'll point you in the direction over here and he'll say, you want to head to the Sword Swallow Inn?

He'll. He'll like, he'll say, just kind of be careful on the cobblestones. Don't scuff your feet, because that can cause. That can cause the eraser to be worse. And he'll just point you off and he'll say, don't be too alarmed about Tricia, the owner. Just, Just don't stare.

She. She takes it badly.

You're going to rub off on him from him?

Oh, from the. Okay, cool.

Are you trying to be stealthy about it?

Okay, so roll a sleight of hand.

Yep.

Nice. You beat his perception of 15 so he won't notice you do this and think.

When you pick it up, it feels normal, like a piece of brick or something that you would. You would hold. And I'm gonna switch back to the thing, so you can. Because I talk with my hands more than I realized. So you'll pick up the sort of cobblestone piece and where it's white as you touch it before you put it in your pocket, there's nothing there. Like, it's like a hole in the cobblestone.

It's white. It looks like. If you're just looking at it, it looks like hole, but just white on the spot. But when you touch it, it dips in, and you don't. You don't feel anything.

No, no, you're good.

Yeah, you can. So as you scuff your foot, you'll notice that it starts to blur just a little bit, but not enough to see white.

Yep. You're going to the end, right? Great.

As you enter, you'll notice it's a lot of wood, a lot of wood everywhere. Um, but you'll also notice white sort of slashes here and there. And almost everywhere there's little white like marks. There are several tables scattered around this sort of open floor plan room. At the very back there's just an old countertop that spreads almost the length of the entire back wall. And behind it you'll notice a shelf with just various tankards and jugs against it. You'll notice some stools kind of perched in front of it. They all look kind of worn. There's a couple that are sort of on the ground completely white at the bottom that are at towards the end. They kind of tucked them up against the bar. We also notice around the room there are a couple tables and chairs that are similarly placed against the wall that have sort of. Their bottoms are white and they're completely kind of pressed up against the wall. They look like they're non functioning anymore. There are a few people scattered around. I would say about five between the stools and the tables. And then behind the bar there are two people. One is a sort of short halfling like standing on top of a stool. She looks to be in her like 30s, she's blonde, she's got her hair sort of messy bun on top of her head, wearing an apron and she's sort of just drying like a tankard glass situation. And then beside her you'll see a red tiefling with black horns that kind of swirl back like a ram. And she like the whole side of one of her part of the horn and then all down her face is just completely white. So she's. You could just see one, one black eye and then just her face and

The halfling will wave you up, like, wave you in and say, come on in, come on in, Come on in. Strangers get a drink. And she'll ask if there's anything she can help you with.

So, yeah, I'll kind of, she'll kind of look at your coins for a second and she'll say, she'll like, kind of scoot some back and she'll say, I'll take one of these, but this isn't the currency you used to pay here. She's, she'll, she'll say, I need a, a quarter, a quarter of graphite dust for drinks for all of you.

One of your uses.

No, just for total. A quarter for all. For drinks for everybody.

She'll put a little, a small little tray that's sort of shaped in like a V, kind of like this in front of you to put the, the dust on.

Sure.

She'll give, like, a quick glance at her tling friend and make sure she's not, like, listening. And she'll sort of lean across the bar and she'll say, this is the most valuable substance here. It's not readily, readily available. It seems when everybody showed up here, they came with a little bit. And occasionally someone will come back with more than others. But it's the most valuable commodity because it's what they use to fix stuff when it's erased or broken. So it's always, always needed and always necessary.

Roll Ralph X and Samick Roll a perception check. Andros. You're sitting around. You're just kind of enthralled by both. Just. Just this entire world.

You're not paying attention at all.

Nice.

9 plus 4. Nice. You'll notice a few of the patrons keep kind of glancing towards you guys. Just kind of, just kind of just keeping you in their sights.

You. You notice. You. You are smudging.

And it sort of feels tingly. Like when you hit your elbow on a table, it sort of feels tingly. And when you expose the white just in a tiny, tiny bit in one, like, little spot where you first started the rub, it'll. It'll feel cold.

You will. So some. A young sort of human male. He looks maybe 19. He'll come up and kind of sloppily, like, lean on the table and plunk his hanger on the table and say, have you guys heard of the Eternal Quill?

He'll, like, lean in close and sort of, like, get in, like he's telling you guys a secret. And he'll say, there is a myth that deep in the forest there is a temple where you can find this Eternal Quill. And whoever finds it can restore graffia to its former glory. And as he turns, you'll notice he's got a white spot where one of his ears are. And he'll just take a sip of his drink, and he'll say, of course, everybody goes to look for it, and most of the time, people don't come back. But he always thinks it's out there, and he's got that sort of hopeful exuberance of youth about him. Like, one day he wants to go find that quill himself, but he just hasn't gotten the courage up to go do it yet.

You can ask him, and you can make a persuasion check.

Yeah. So you'll do your persuasion check. We'll have him talk a little bit. It's. He's gonna have to go back and forth a little bit on. You're gonna have probably made a couple persuasions because it's very dangerous in the woods around this area.

And. And then we'll probably just end it with whether he agrees or not.

Depending on your roles.

Yeah, he'll. He'll, like, look at the table for a second and kind of flex his hand on his. And his tankard and he'll kind of look you over, look all of you over a little bit, and he'll say, what makes you think that you can find it?

Yeah, he's just looking around all like.

He'll. He'll take another, like, sort of belligerent swig of his. His drink, slam it down on the table again, and.

It's.

Make a persuasive check.

Not bad. Not bad. He's gonna kind of. He'll just continue to kind of leave it. Lean in, like he doesn't want anybody to hear what he's talking about. And he'll say he will not venture into the woods, at least not yet. He's not ready. But he will share some information to try to help you get started. Based on the accounts that he's taken over the years from the people that have come into the tavern and went in search. And then the few that have come back, he'll lean in real close and kind of whisper, and he'll say, what do you know about Mechanical Golems? And then that's where we'll end today.

It'll be exciting.