Panatheon 26: Question Time

You're so listen for annoyed Hello and. Welcome to Six through 9 and I'm at the indie podcast made by Idiots. My name is Matt Gore. I remembered this time I enjoyed by. I'm hungry, OK, sorry, I'm playing it crassly. I'm hungry. How are you? I'm hungry, I'm hungry. I'm Matt Carl Nicholson. I'm playing Balsafos. Sorry, that was a deep breath.

Who are you? Augmented stick.

Augmented Stick, the jockey champion. Yes. Right. Sorry, what's going on? I don't know, I. Can't intro. Who are you playing? Who are? You. I'm playing Ruth. How are you doing? I'm hungry. Oh. Man, I'm psyched. I'm well hyped. Oh yeah, I beat the battle Royale. Oh my God, yeah. We're just going to jump right in with a, with a, a recap, the recap. That's what I do, isn't it? At the start of the episodes? I remember that I asked the question, what are we doing? A recap. Yes, because it's a week later, isn't it?

So, I mean, not for us. It feels like it's been a week. Yeah, well, the political arguing. Big long conversation about all of the England flags. We put the world to right. Yeah, we've sorted everything. God damn it. If I was in charge, the world would be angrier but better. We're banning guns and reintroducing bows and arrows, but you have to make them yourself. Yeah, yes, reasonable, because everyone I know is way too lazy to do that. Yeah, exactly. Way less bow and arrow violence and if you have to make it yourself, hell, you can have a fucking Glock if you can make it yourself.

Vambo sales will go through the fucking roof. Oh yeah, I'm investing in knives. Anyway, anyway. Last time you guys finished off clearing out the grand stables of shit after unbelievably long argument, and then having done that, most of you decided to go back to the Great Hall to report the team that you've done that. They'll suffer us. Meanwhile, head straight to the local brothel. Crazy. I was like I.

Was like I've chewed all of my nails off as I was panicking.

What's he doing? It's like, well. There are other ways to. Get. Oh, my God, we went through emotions like Belle's going to relieve some stress, and oh, no, he's talking about the Prince. Oh, no. The Prince of the child. No, no. Oh, OK, cool. It turns out he's just trying to convince the brothel matron Madam wherever she's called to help create a little spying ring to look out for dudes wearing the Mark of Thanatos. Meanwhile, you guys, Ick and Riff and the Prince went to the Great Hall to report to Matzah that you had completed his task.

While there, he met Heiman Tola, the world's number one icky. Which? A local politician in passe who happens to have not only the world's biggest collection of Ick Wrassly memorabilia, including statues, signed records and now a signed set of bagpipes actually used in Ick Wrassly performance. He also had a full chest tattoo on the grassy's face and now a permanent signature on his left arse cheek. Chunky.

He set you guys up with a bath and a change of clothes so he could get ready for a night on the town. I'm. Starting to feel like he had a peephole and was watching me. He absolutely was. Giving me that kind of vibe. He actually don't think. What what what I through the the peephole, what I down with a piece of paper that he was quickly drawing a sketch of you. The worst thing is he accidentally went to Rim's bathing chamber and saw me plucking out my beard. Oh yeah. Feather beard from a wild magic that was good Do you guys then step out hit to hit the town it Grassley went to Hyman Tobler's mansion and got to see his amazing and I feel a lot more creepy collection of all of his stuff with the Prince horse racing.

Well, they went to the horse racing trap, convinced the guy guarding the paddock with the horses in that she was one of the jockeys, instantly made best friends of a horse and then set a the same speed record and won the race, winning 90 gold for the Prince no? I've never had a better day. In the meanwhile, Belsephilis headed to the local gratitude arena, where he signed up for a battle Royale, the main event for that night's entertainment. Everyone in town was brought to see the epic clash of two actual gladiators and two poor Busters, which just got in the way.

But in the end, Belsephilis was able to best Jeremy iron. Jeremy the iron you went back to just the tips in the local brothel good drinks, where the security guard alerted Bosefinist. In fact, the man at the bar hiding told the guide of the town as of the same tattoo on his body well. It's definitely not his chest. And it's not on his left arse cheek. So that means. And. That's where we are now. So I have as a can trip. I have message so could I use that to tell Bell about my plan? Yeah. What is your plan?

My plan is we get him really good and drunk, then we take him, we get him to, we'll take him up on his offer to stay at his, and then his house is massive. It's like no one's going to be able to hear that motherfucker scream. And so we'll be able to get whatever answers we need from him. Yeah, Riven the Prince. Don't know what? What you're saying? No, I'm just telling. But I'll just say that you have a conversation. You come to that conclusion. Or I'm like Belle, come and meet me in the corner. I have something important or.

Belle, come here. And then I tell you. Who is this? Who is this ass hat? How do you know him? How do I Oh yeah, you weren't there. Yeah. He works in the I like to think. That's in character. Yeah. Honey. Oh yeah, that's right, you. Really dimly aware of all the people around me and he. Works. He works in the Great Hall and I went with him back to his and he has a whole wing dedicated to me, but lots of display cases and probably quite easily something we could lock him in. Well, we question him and no one will be able to hear him scream if Riff decides to deal with things the way she normally deals with them.

Finish him. Free him. OK, stabbed. I don't know what you meant.

I. Didn't do this, Kyle. Moves could be ambiguous. OK, cool. That's your plan? Yeah. Getting fucked. Yeah, we're just going to get him drunk now, have a party because we don't want him to know that anything is is up. My Lord. Yeah, Amos. Hey, oh, what? Amos. OK. He already knows he's the Prince, yeah. Yeah, Oh yeah. They've been hanging out all afternoon. Hey, you left to go to a brothel. So you go fuck. Yourself. The Prince, he looked at it first, had a fangirl, looked at the Prince, said oh, you're the Prince, then went back to Ick.

So he definitely knows who he is. I got the Prince. You done? Me and the Prince have done wondrous things. He's in the corner playing poker with some guys. He's absolutely losing guys. I haven't bet he got stuff. The idea is to gain more money. No, fuck. I want to, I want to stand behind the other guys and like strike the numbers on their cards to the Prince. They they just don't check it. Throw a slight hand. Full start using hand size.

Oh no. It doesn't go very well for you, does it? 6.

What are you doing? Everyone turns around to. Look at you and I go. Start dancing. And. Then I put my hands on the shoulders and start kicking. Rib starts to Congoli. Yeah, go Hyman Taylor returns to the table with a tray full of drinks, puts them down. I'd like to drink with hymen is my friend. I'd like to drink with hymen because he down for more than 10987 4/3. 2 heads. Up 1. Can I go do some? Chick to see how he does 12. Can I look at the Prince and go, oh, I think yours is full Fuller. Can I have yours and swap our drinks?

Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks, Ruth. We haven't, we haven't met officially. I'm bell surplus. I'm sorry. Hyman Tolan. Hello. Remember, that'll be. Cool. No, that's cool. We have a plan. Stick to it. It's truly it was an an honour to see you fighting in the arena. I've never seen anything quite like it, other than obviously a A crassly pipes. The the screaming bag thing. Yeah, it's, it's an acquired taste. A quiet. I think it should be heard throughout the Kingdom. Inside.

Oh no, you don't need to. He funny means that so I'm in home and toler what exactly? Obviously you are well to do man. Are you a noble or do you work within the the government, the local government like? I I am a member of the local nobility, actually. Mr Ick, Mr Rastley, sorry, will attest to the quality and size of my home. Wow. Yes, subtlety. I know. Well, you have to lose some of the subtlety for people to know that you're rich, you see. You're really. Humble. Yes, class comes in obvious displays of opulent wealth.

Money can't buy you class. Don't at least you can. That's the point. But I'm mostly an advisor to Lord Denzel. He has he has his military advisor and economic and so on. I'm more sort of a Home Affairs advisor, if you like. I let you know things that are going on in town, things that are going on, you know, gossip and things. And what is the local climate now that King Ludianas has been disposed well? Should be honest, we were rather taken aback it seemed. Well, initially the news that we got was that both gludianas and criminals and ideas have been killed.

The obvious courses clear pancreatitis would take take power The Prince caught miraculously surviving and muddied that a little bit. Can I make an insight on that chuckle?

Spin the wheel for those of you don't. For those of you don't see, obviously this is a podcast. I bought myself a spinning desk. DND Dice. It's got no friction on it, it just keeps spinning.

And not 20. Nuts. Yeah, I love this thing. Yeah, but then the actual dice ruined me last session. His his rambling explanation seems to track he people weren't expecting Routines to die for some time. He was in the prime of his life and he was doing a good job. He dies. The Prince is apparently dead. Routines is back. Did that charge? He is in charge. Great. Oh no, the Prince is back. He's the main thing. However, people had already started saying that they wanted to be. They wanted Pentre Titans.

To take power? Did they ever specify what happened to the Prince? Like how he was like killed and then survived? Did was that in any of the letters? Well I'm not asking him. I'm not, I'm asking the DM. Sorry, no, well they didn't say Damsel just said that they take a letter saying the Prince was. This is I'm I'm talking to not Bell, OK? Same thing. There is no difference. This is this is OK. I I don't know if maybe we try and like the more drunk he gets kind of catch him on anything to see if he knows more about well.

That's that's why, that's why I wrote the inside friend Shuckle, because it sounded like he was almost surprised that it's not so much it's it's surprising that the king died. But he was more surprised the fact that the Prince was still alive. Yeah. So that hit was actually for him. Yeah. Over to the anus to begin with. But I don't know, even though I want to. D20. The answer came back independently. Yeah. He goes on. He's had a bit of drink, You get him another drink. He continues talking. Well, there was a lot of conversation when Pancreatitis was announcing that he was assuming the throne after the death of his brother, that perhaps we might seek more local control, perhaps even a secession.

I argued in favour of staying as part of Panatheon our our connection to Alan's has been profitable and although I know the the military ties have been a bit of a stickler for some of the older generation, for the young, the youngsters amongst us, we have less heartfelt attachment to it. I think Annan's is a safe bet, and pancreatitis certainly was a safe pair of hands. He's. The boy on the other hand. Hashtag not Michael King.

The the boy is, he's interesting. I've as is as his God, as his, as his, as his main bodyguard. I was able to watch how he conducted himself and Lacerra before the uneventful event. He's it's obvious as he's not been trained for this life, but he's learning through sheer through heart, through sheer exposure and experience. He's I can't say that he actually could actually be any good. Glances over to the Prince, who's still losing opponents. Yeah. No, he's been taken away from. Yeah. No, he's at the front of the conga.

Riff did come back to the table. But he took. My spot. But he's, he's, he's youthful, useful, youthful. Both.

I'm charged for keeping the kid alive like I'm I'm I'm all in for Bank of Tai, he said. He was my patron like. Presumably the the shipwreck that nearly killed him would have been hard to keep him alive. Who you've done well to survive to keep him safe. Inside. Yeah. I just, I just want to know if I just want to know if he knows. Basically I want to know if that information was like something that he should know. Not about to. I'm literally not about to ask, OK? OK, let's get that then. Or you can make it part of the inside role if you want.

It's. Do you want to roll for that? Yeah. Yeah, roll for that and then I'll go. 15. Yeah, it seems like what I just travelled very quickly. Yeah. I find it personally miraculous, for there is no other word that news was able to spread of a vessel being attacked at open sea in the middle of the night, in the middle of a storm, with all hands lost, with not even a prayer that anyone had survived by. That's that's not concerning in any way to anyone else. Shrugs. It's a heroic action that you, you've performed.

The Prince by the Prince by right should be dead and we should be under pancreatitis rule by now. The Prince, as you say, he's not been best prepared for this life. Then he's you. You have kept him alive. Kept him. Have you ever met? You have met. I. Can't say that I have inside 1516. Fucking. That doesn't feel true. Yeah. You sense a little bit of panic in his, in his tone. I've shared letters with his office in Annan's. I'm scared that you 2 are questioning him so much that you're going to blow everything.

We're just having a political conversation. That's fine. Well you've just scared him so just no. No, I was just the DM just said you scared him so don't. Not an army.

I was also just wanted to the reason I swapped the beer with the Prince is because I don't trust this dude and he handed the beers out. Unless he did that. Unless he did that weird double beta switch thing. I was like, OK, there are two glasses and one of them contains poison. And you handed me one of the glasses, and you could have handed me the glass with poison, or you could have thought. He seems fine. Well, I gave him my drink. Poison. Poison couscous. Poison.

I sniff my beard. Make, I guess, investigation of medicine. Maybe if you want to. Yeah, 12. Seems OK, head's gone off it a little bit but. Would you like to meet Panko Titans like this? When you can, you can attend with us when we journey back to an ends as as the as the Prince's Royal Guard, I can arrange for you to have a private meeting in this personal chambers. The Prince is actually looking for an advisor if you're. He's drunk. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Yes, he is. He he strokes his chins like I had heard that an advisor had already been.

Yeah, Manny. 'S epic. Though no it. Was a big mix. You don't. No, it wasn't. And Bell leans in, conspiratorial. Yeah, one of the one of the signs of the great families of Panathena that's been chosen. You don't, City of Amnesty support the Prince. You don't honestly believe that whole pageantry, like a Kingdom, cannot be ruled on a vote of personality? You need knowledge, you need connections, you need to understand how the world really works. Have you? Prince can run it, however. You can watch.

I have met the individual that won that talent show. He does not have a fucking faintest clue of how the sun rises in the morning, let alone how country should be run. It's it's, it's a show. It's it's, it's not him. It's it's a traditional thing. I think personality is important, that people who rule the the country need to have a certain amount of charisma about them. Knowledge and experience is obviously important, but then that's why they go to the college, the experience they gain through doing the job.

There are other advisors. Archimedes are still at the palace, presumably in Adams. Imagine he'll offer his services to the Prince. He's a good man, Always have my vote. Tell me you you questioned the the veracity of news spreading of the shipwreck that you survived, if you survived the shipwreck and made your way directly to Allen's. You seem to have gotten to Amber's incredibly quickly. So what's the other end of the country? How did you manage such a feat? You really are. He's not pissed enough and you've blown our cover.

A man of extraordinary talent.

Yeah, I'm it wrestling. Wait. It don't need from hunting. We walked. No. He's getting shitty. He's on to you. We walked from Anne's to Amnes and then we were teleported. You were teleported from Amnes Anne's to Amnes. Well, why is that? Because that's halfway across the fucking. Country I know, but why is it such a secret he was doing his duty as a Prince to. Learn Archimedes was able to provide us with a teleportation spell that has certainly cut down the travel time and the gods have been really generous in their favour recently as to not lay way us with any unnecessary issues.

Waylay. You indeed seem to have been favoured greatly. There are times where I do feel I am blessed. That is, that is true either through the either through fairies in war and combat or Nike through victory even somehow managed to win the eye and just and Bell looks around conspiratorially and he's especially looking at like Rev because they don't know this. I've even been approached by this this up and rising religion, this this cult of Shuress. Dionysian apparently in nature. Certainly something to keep an eye on, especially if the movement makes its way from Amnest further inland.

Shuress you? Said I believe that's what I I fumble through the, I fumble through my my knapsack and I produced the flyer. I still have the orb that's not being on display. I hand him the flyer. I can't say I've never heard of a charette. I'm not a particularly worldly man of Miss Lee.

He's not drunk enough and Belle's doing exactly what he knew he would do, even though I said don't do this. I'm not killing the man I. Didn't want you to kill him. I didn't want you to question him. I thought we were going to get him pissed and take him back. We're just talking. You're not just talking, you were asking. You're like. He's like, OK, He's like, OK, so how did you get here? And I'm like, well, you know. You remember to start talking to him about fucking. That's not How did you get here?

You wanted. To know. So I gave him some information. I got that 20 on inside. Yeah, he seems like he bite, like there's a twinge of the eye and the name of shares and the the he kind of a cursory glance at the flyer, but sort of hands it back instantly. I. Told you he's not drunk enough. Bell just can't let loose and have a fucking party, can he? It's so annoying. He's just angrily playing bad fight for the corner. Yeah, pissed off now. That's I believe this this conversation is better suited for a more official setting.

Cigar and a whiskey later. Oh, I have an excellent drawing room. Fantastic. We'll enjoy that, so I'm happy to take you home as soon as you're ready. I would do you know what enough party for me IK you ready to go? Yeah, but has anyone seen the print he's. He's. Conquering. I'm like, I'm like following the line of Congo there he's. Going up the stairs along the balcony, he's got a bunch of the hookers like, oh, just conquer as well. Do we want to give him 5 minutes?

Yeah. And then I run and catch up with the Congo. I then gather him up.

It's such a great day. Real. This has been really wonderful. Honestly, it's been a great day. Thank you. It's going to call you Amos. Thanks, Princey. Tap him on the head. Princey Winsey. Skips out of the Tavern. Go over I I go over to the bartender and I hand him.

Sizable amount. Of money. Well, I'm assuming that our good friend Hyman Turtler has settled our tab, but this is not for that. Hand them a further. I've found them. 100 gold coins. Jesus, that's so much. Money. So much money 5050. No 100.

I was. Fucking rolling in it.

This is for neutral friend. He kind of knows. Mind's dipping his hat. Can I take a sip of the beer? Yeah. ID yeah, is it fine? Make a constitution safe. What make a constitution? Safe. Wait. OK, You're serious. OK, cool. I feel like I put this idea in your head and now you're using it against me. Yeah. Yeah, I've been cautious. It's probably if it's the DM. Unfair. Nope, that's 6 or 9.

Constitution ba ba ba +60 So thank you 15. Take the beer tastes weirdly bitter, like it has like a almost burnt taste to it. I I can I go up to the bar and see if they have like a like a jar or something. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to tip some of the thing. Enjoy. Put it. Yeah, OK, cool. I find an entire jar of pickled eggs. It's just like. On the floor. I like your thinking and I put the beer into the jar and then I put it in my pocket. You saving that? Yes, it's.

A roadie. Right. Hungry. Sorry, I didn't realise what I said. Me too. The road. Cool. So you head back to his house. You're heading back to Hunter's estate. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Can I hang back a bit and let Ick like, yeah, take him forward and like talk to him and like, and I just want to let Val know I can't. Believe I Ickrassley is staying in my home for the night. He. Knows too much about what happened. He has met pancreatitis and he is most surely knows who stresses. No.

I can't my server. As you walk, as you walk through town, make a perception check as you're walking past the big pillar that was in the centre of town. Is that everyone? Yeah. Yeah, that had Poseidon's strawberry on it. 20 Unnatural 20 but 20. Like AI got 17. 21 Cool. So you guys will know. So you have to cut off this wheel, the centre of the city, and you go past that big obelisk that had like Poseidon stuff and scribbled onto it, edged onto it. But in front of it is a guy in sort of like sackcloth.

Like, he looks like this crazy old guy. He's unwashed. He's got a bit of rope as a belt, like he looks his hairs all over the place and he's just like yelling at people as they walk past. He seems relatively harmless. He's just like loud and sort of anime and he's like, the cords are abandoning us. They don't listen. They don't accept our offerings. They don't listen and answer the prayers. Poseidon has abandoned us and the rest of the gods. We all as well then, it looks. Up and goes oh hey Hon.

We are doomed.

Oh, hi. Haven't I heard you were trying to assassinate those guys? What? And you noticed because they're this pillar has like little sort of like quite large stone bowls in front of it and they're piled up with like bits of fruit. Or. Wine and like, and you would know just from general culture that you live in that offerings are made to these shrines or temples or whatever. And when they get given to the gods, they slowly disappear. And the gods, that's the gods accepting the offer. Except all of this stuff in this altar that you're looking at as you walk past with your various versions of 20s in perception, you see that all of this food is just piling up.

And it's not, it's not rotting, it's not going away. It's just it looks like pristine and fresh. There's not enough homeless people in this city. Say that like it's a bad thing.

That keeps the rabbit in line if they can't. See their political systems work. Oh my God. Beautiful, but yeah. It's about my men, just so you know. You don't know that. Yeah, this guy screams. He kind of like points at you guys and sort of yells the same sort of rambling stuff that he's been saying to everyone else and they will pass. But he doesn't follow you or anything. He just stands still or stays at the altar screaming at people. I'm going to, I'm going to slink off, OK, going over. OK, I'm.

Just going to see what's going on. I'll join you. I just want to go over the questions, OK? Go Where are you going? Are you are you stealthing or just generally hanging back? I think I'm going to stealth enough that people don't notice that I'm hanging back. So stealth, Yeah, Yeah. Sorry. Stealth, but not really. But I have to roll for it because it's stealth, right? Yeah. 18 Yeah, you successfully sort of like hang that you're already in the back of the group anyway. Hyman Toler is still like, excited when you help you dig.

That was a bit half cut, Bell shouts out to the old man there. He squatted me victory, and so did Nike. No fucking lesson. My man, I saw you in there, Darren. This guy gets it. This guy knows. Bell's found his place. I don't want to leave. They know me here.

I just wanted to see if anything's changed on the shrine like anything. Different is make an investigation from the. Obelisk or whatever it is not very good 12. Yeah. See, apart from like all of the offerings, again, you would know from just how the world works that people put these offerings in these in these Ultra bowl things, these offering plates. Even in little shrines people will put little bits of incense or a little bit of wine. I kind of, I kind of just, I guess it would be an insight, but I kind of just want to get the vibe of whether this guy is just a fucking madman or if he if there is some like true fear behind it.

I'm. The crazy man of his dreams. Well, yeah, he seems to like really be trying to get a message out to people that something's going on. He's saying like he he keeps repeating that like Poseidon has abandoned us. He's not answering our prayers. He's not taking his his sacrifices, his offerings. Nothing's working. He starts going on slightly more detailed things that saying that like the wild horses are becoming harder defined and tame, that the river going through the region has been less predictable.

Get a time frame. How long? Yeah, that's what we're going to do. I guess I'm going to just like, walk up to this guy. Make yourself known. You're approaching me. Are you insane? This this has never happened before. I, I, I just sort of say, I just say sounds like you have sounds like a lot's going on. Do you know when did they stop taking the offerings? He he, he turns to you and he's like wild eyed. He looks like a crazy old guy like the the last. The last few weeks certainly have gotten worse but I think it's been going on for some time.

I've been praying to beside and normally he would answer my prayers. Normally I get some kind of response, but I haven't had anything in weeks. Weeks, but you think it's been going on for a longer, perhaps longer perhaps. Do you do this? Has something triggered you to want to tell everyone? Yes, I'm worried. I'm this has been going on for weeks now and it's got to the point. Look, look, look here. It takes you around like the size of the things of one of the older bowls and it's like literally to the brim with red wine.

I was like, I I added this weeks ago. It's still here. Why? Why is it here? It shouldn't be here. And besides, he should have taken his pill by now. What do you think happened? I he doesn't want it or he won't accept it or he can't accept it. I don't know. I don't know. I haven't heard anything from him. You can speak to gods. You don't know that you can't. I'm not here. I'm with I, I think I kind of want to, I kind of want to calm him slightly and just just be like, maybe like be like, I believe you and I don't know what I can.

Is there anything you think we can do? I don't. I don't know what the immortals can do. I happened to not be a mere mortal. And this is the big.

Yes, you won the Derby. Yes, the 7:15 I remember.

I was, yeah, I was kind of getting in contact with mum. No, I wouldn't be able to get. I'm going to just yeah, OK, I'm going to, I'm going to wander off and then maybe find a quiet place to just like God, I'm about to call my mom.

Yeah, somewhere quiet where I know that there are people. Yeah, if I had a quiet alleyway somewhere. I'm gonna just like stand, calm myself down to see if I can get a hold of mum. Yeah. Are you just a prayer or? Yeah, make. Kind of religion Check. I'm shit at religion. That makes sense. It does, doesn't it? I don't know why. Yeah, you don't want to be. You're not interested in Mummy's business? I'm not interested in mummy's. Business fucking you. Watch that YouTube show. Homebrew IDE. Homebrew DND ideas Wishes.

Shooting stars do grant wishes, but Wizards and sorcerers give up their right to have their wishes granted because they can cut magic. I kind of want to get this, so I think I'm going to tie the chaos, OK. How did you roll? I wrote a three. OK, now you get your blame blade out and do it again. Yeah, I got it 18. OK, so. What do you? Say and pray. I think I I put my head down and I I owe something. Are you there God? Yeah, my head down and I go something. I I go, something is, is is happening in to to.

Well, if I think something's happening to gods, I'm somewhere that if they they've stopped replying, they've stopped taking offerings. It doesn't feel right. Are you good? How are you? Yeah. I go, I go. I know we're not talking. I won the Derby. But but do you have any information? It's very like kind of business like. Yeah, you feel like it's dark out. You're in. You're in a dark alleyway, but you feel almost like a creeping cold coming over you. Yeah, and I think I've braced myself a bit. All of the light kind of seeps out.

He's being washed away. I. Shake my head. You don't see, you hear this like penetrating voice, like just reverberating in your head. Look who's come crawling back. I. Want to say crawling? I had a really good day, thanks for asking me. I was disappointed in you, but you've come back. It's fine. You've been a terrible influence on your sister who ran away well. She's doing good things, Kate. Leave her alone. She. Can do what she wants. I assume this is your roundabout way of asking. I am OK, I am sick.

I'm more asking about. Poseidon. But why do you care if you saw him? Oh that's right, last I heard you were famed pirate.

I don't say that. I, I, I see, I scoff and I go. You wonder why I lie. You think I'm proud of what I am? It's a pride thing. Deciding won't answer your calls so you phone me to find out where he's at. I. Just want to know if there's anything going on and yes, maybe in a roundabout way I wanted to check it. I I'm flattered. But it's you. The second thing you thought about after trying to find out if Siding was OK was to find out if I was OK. I wasn't just Poseidon, there was like other gods. I just that was the one that was named.

I'm fine. Great, just what I wanted to hear. Fine, everything. I'm fine here. He is fine. The Hells are fine. Was Haiti someone I saw in a copy of Boy Zeus? Oh shit. OK. And Pan. Yeah. Was DNS yesterday as well, no? I almost slept with Zeus. You never wanted to go barking up that golden tree, I assure you. I almost did what you did, I'm sorry. Speaking from experience, not. Well, say a lot of us have that experience of Zeus, especially amongst the gods, I.

Regret saying something? I can find out about Poseidon if you're desperate. I can get back to you if you're desperate to hear about. Some information, OK, it'd be great. And maybe, while you're at it, give Shiv a bit of a break. I can't do anything to Shiv. She left. She took she took a leave out of your book and ran away from home. He ran away from me. This is our Did we agree that there were more siblings? No. There was just the two of us. It could be more if you want, but I haven't planned any.

OK, that's fine.

It's typical typical of Shivari to just try and ape everything you do, I think. He. Knows magic. Shivari needs to know magic. Rivari runs away from home. Shivari has to run away from home. Rivari gets involved in the Prince and the running of the Kingdom. Shivari tries to get. Involved. You know that there's a rising cult.

Is it a real God or isn't it a real God? Is this a bullshit cult? What was it a real thing? Quick question, mother dearest, after your tangent about all the children that have left you, I've.

Heard my brother called so many things so me. It's the mother, dearest, not one of them. I also I've heard some talking about cults, something Charez Charez. Where do you hear about charette? I have a acquaintance that found a leaflet, I think. I think that's about a leaflet pamphlet, a pamphlet that was talking about Charez, Charez Charez. Is there something I should know? It's. A really, really long silence and you think she's just hung up on you. And then you hear. You have hurt my feelings Rivari.

You have heard my pride. I am doing things to protect the Hells though. I'll offer you this advice. Stay away from Shiraz. You will not like Path that she is treading. She's real. She is real. Well, maybe I'll visit soon. Is that your way of saying I'll see you in hell basically?

The gates to hell are starting to close. Close. It's. Becoming harder. It's come and go. You heard me reviring and I'm taking steps to protect. Are you closing them on me? I'm. Closing them on everyone. I have to do what I have to do to protect what's left. So you let your own quote unquote flesh and blood. Get locked out of hell. Not that I particularly want to be there. Yes, there are worse places to be locked out of. Yeah, well, if I see you in hell, I'll see you in hell, but I can't guarantee that right now.

I feel like there's a lot more that you're not telling me, but I've had my fill so I'm going to. Go live well Mafari, if I see you I will welcome you. I know you don't tend to listen to what I say, but repeat. Stay away from Charest and the black starts to recede and slowly you become or you find yourself back in the poorly lit alleyway. OK. I I think I feel pretty drained. I'm like, I also didn't drink at all while I was there because I was holding this beer that I thought was poison. So district isn't.

It I had a super poison and now, yeah, I think I'm going to walk back and I guess. Haven't you been gone like a really long time? Yeah, I'm going to. You don't know where this goes like. You don't know how long an astral prayer conversation. Lasts. We should talk to the other guy before that as well. I'm going to misty step like 8 times and I'm joking. Yeah, I'll just catch up. Times of castle every fucking time, you know. Yeah, about when the Prince have been kind of like hanging back a little bit just so they can like, keep track of where you are.

Me and the Heineman guy have our arms wrapped around each other and we're like signing and singing songs in the street. You make it back to Heineman Tolan's mansion. Big high wall with guards on it, big metal gate. They see him coming, they park, they open the gate for him and you've got this huge like villa, mansion, big, big pillars at the front, hedgerows, like a water feature in the driveway. We're Italian. I know you can't help it. There's so many hand gestures going on guys that you can't see here's.

A couple. Fuck you.

Yeah, Yeah. You go to his mansion and you sort of like sway, you like, would anybody like to see the wrestling? I you talked about drawing room. Oh, yes, that's right. Yeah. Drawing room and a. Cigar, Yes. Yeah, yes, yeah. That is a fucking brilliant idea. Drift genius. Yeah. Go Brandy. Thank you, love. Brandy owe yourself a fan. Oh my God, I've got some rastly tobacco whiskey. Even better, I'm gonna, I'm gonna tug on. You have your own brand of whiskey. Uh huh. Didn't. Well, I signed a licencing deal.

Didn't. Have much to do with the whiskey itself. They just use my face on the bowl at. No point did did he ever bother to like. You didn't care, you didn't care, you didn't. Care about my talent, You didn't care about my music. You didn't care or give a shit when people recognised who I was. If anything annoyed you so why would I tell you? Give me a good reason it does. Have a point, Bill I. Mean, yeah, I find the bad post really annoying, but you know, you figured like for someone with the biggest ego as his, you'd find a way to drop in the conversation.

Oh yeah, by the way, don't you know? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, did you just call me out for having a big ego?

Proceed to walk over Diamond Toyler and just turn it towards towards egg. People don't have tattoos of my face on their bodies. In my defence, I didn't know that people had tattoos of my face on their bodies either. My face. Your face would make a fine tattoo, but obviously better. This. So did you. I've clicked the end of the cigar. Yeah, they're fucking disgusting. To the drawing room. And he hands out cigars. He's like, I'll go, I'll go get the whiskey. I'll be right back. I will have the Brandy.

Brandy for you. Bitter bitch. Oh, man. OK, a cigar. What happens, guys? What happens? My voice. This is this. Is that the Prince? That's the drop. This was the origin story. This is the day you become a man. It's. Wow, it's great. OK, why you tell me, you're supposed. To go smooth. Smooth.

Oh guys, it's fixed my voice talk like this forever now. He has another take. The Prince is absolutely going to be a fucking vapour. Really. That's Chad. Hey you guys, I'm going to go get the whiskey. The Brandy few, of course.

Such a good host. Need to close the door? So where did you fuck off to? I just. Want to know what that guy said? And I had a little trouble with mom. Any news?

So look, you have to understand we don't have a great relationship. So I got. She called you a bitch, didn't she? She told you to go fuck yourself. Yeah, she's done with you. No, I. Said you're a huge disappointment. Shut your mouth. You've shut your mouth. Oh my, I she she hasn't mentioned any she knows of any weird goings on with Poseidon or the My Gods, but she said she'd look for me. She also mentioned the gates of hell are closing, that she has to protect hell. Would anyone actually want to go to hell though?

Like do we care the gates are closing? I spent my childhood there and it's very nice. What do you? Burning eternal hellfires. I live in like a dead forest somewhere. What do you mean the gates of hell are closing? She said. I said, hey, look, I know we don't get along, but maybe I'll pop home and see her. And she said you might not have time because the gates of hell are closing. What about the mortals? I didn't ask. I was, I was pretty exhausted. But but she's always saying dramatic shit. Yeah, just wasn't You wouldn't even imagine.

Like I literally just I prayed and I was like, hey mom, where I. AM and. She like made it all Moody and dark and. A little cold. Do you wanna maybe get back on down on your knees and start asking what's going on to happen to the I mean? Maybe don't do that while we're waiting for the guys to walk back in the room. I'm very sensitive. I didn't talk to. Her anyway, because I need to talk to Shiv, but also your weird little pamphlet. Yeah. Yeah, real God. Don't know if you need. That no fucking way.

Yeah, for sure. She adamantly told me to stay away, she said. This person is not good. Yeah, but. Whenever you have a listen to your mum, you know. Look, I have rebelled against my mother because she is. I think they call them helicopter mums, right?

What's a helicopter? I think Grecian. I think Grecian was about like a gryphon. Mum, yeah. She just, you know, all up in my space and I didn't need it, but. Happy. I don't think she actively wanted to cause me harm, I might even go as far as to say she was protecting me. So when she tells me to stay away from something, yes I might do some investigating into why, but I tend to believe it. So did you ask why we should be staying? Around no again, I can't find it honestly. I might do some of this again, but.

Anybody have it? I hate talking to her. You don't understand. She like questioning all my life choices. And she was like, I'm really disappointed in you, Riv. And I was like, well, I don't want to talk to you then. Smart.

You don't need people like that in your life. Is he back yet? When she. Comes back to me with some information. I'm going to have to talk to her anyway. He's listening at the door, isn't he? You've got a weird look on your. Inside Jack when? You drag that conversation out so fucking long. The pair of you and he went to get a drink. Yeah. We don't. We don't know how. Far away, the wine cellar is. Go all the way to the raspy wings fucking.

Fucking running and skipping and singing. He's doing that. He's having well, all the time. It's his best. I want to clear enough, it's his best day as well. I told her about my horseman. Ever gonna eat cute? Yeah. Did you happen to mention that I want? Fire. For you, you are. I called you an acquaintance. I'm. Really sorry. Ohh, what? Even is this. You who you were and I didn't wanna like dub you in and didn't work. I'm does only use it? Now I'm a follower. I'm a follower of. Fuck. Fuck fuck I'm a follower of Aries like.

Mr Steph, that's. Not being funny. My mum has more to worry about. Demi fucking listen to anything they're saying. Demi God. Bull crap. Why did you feel what we were doing? Did you think any of that? I knew you guys were. He'll never listen to it. I do listen to I. Reckon what they were saying was way more important. Well then, can you play it back?

Not listen fine. Look, don't take it to a fence. I was trying to. Protect you, a fucking acquaintance. I'm cordial. And worried about this guy because I. Didn't want. To give. Any information? Oh yeah, sure. No, I bet. I bet you called Riff friend. I. Didn't even mention it. I'm Ick and also not Riff. And also he's probably back and listening at the door because you've been talking about this for ages, really. Quite loudly. Having an argument. That's fine, yeah, but. It's not about anything to do with him.

Is he back now? Yes. No, I don't trust. Him, he's been gone a really long time. Guys, I get up. And open the door. OK Is he there? OK, great. I close the door. Don't close it. We need to see if he's there. More. More. Importantly, I didn't even mention the Prince. More importantly, he bears the mark and he has guards. She didn't say that either. I can have like maybe 10 minutes maximum. Would you like us? Like, let us know the next time you plan to have a secret conversation with your bloody God Mum, and then we will write down a list of things to say, I promise.

You you do not want at all. If it gets the information I need, I'll talk to anyone. Honestly, I'm going to go to Hades. Don't do that.

I'm going to sleep with Katie's and then get the information. What? I've already slept with your mum, daughter of mine. That's disgusting. Though so. What are you trying to say about me? Maybe it's me, you don't know, but don't call me disgusting. You know who my dad is. Is it ick? It's not joke. There's. Something we can roll for it to be it make. An inside checker. It's the check thing. You can remember who your dad was. It's me.

Oh. Fuck history. Check to see if you can remember ever meeting the God of night and Magic. So 15. So 15, Yeah, OK, you make a joke about it, she says. You better not be my fucking test. I swear to God and I'm. Bunny buns. You get like TV static in your head and your nose beeped a little bit. I'd like to. Roll to think about heck attack. I'd like to roll to surgically remove half my DNA. OK. Why do you hate eggs so much? I don't. I just don't. I don't want him as a dad. I. Weird, you're not the same age.

Are you good? Yeah, you said OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. So according to historical account and record, there's been many accounts that state that Heceter isn't actually married off to another God. However, there is one source, just one in the Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Histolica, that attests that Heceter was actually married to Eetis, who was the brother of the Titan Perses, and has two daughters. ETS does sound a lot like ICK. I'm a fucking nerd, what can I say? Madea and Cersei OK?

Which one are you? Wait, what? Sounds like ick a ETE. SA EE TESETS. Ah, the the shock. The Hector has two daughters. But anyway, what's something because? A random husband that no one said of. So yeah, he's marked. Yeah, for sure. The guards. I know the guards are marked. No, but they're going to be an issue. We could legit be in like. I told you we should have gotten drunk but you just wanted to ask him a shit load of questions. Well, he's going to bring back some whiskey eventually, I think. I mean, we wouldn't be.

He's not coming back. Is it with alcohol? He's coming back with guards. What's his name? Guys, guys, guys, he's going to come back with the guards. And I've got, is there bookcases in here? Because I've got a good idea. We should climb up to the tops of the bookcases and wait for him to come back in and then pounce. I'm telling you, he's coming back with guards. Can we just hide? Yeah, but I'm hiding on top of a bookcase so I can pounce.

Gargoyle. Like fucking Batman when you drop down. Yeah. Fucking what? You look like you ate Bane. It was moulded by the. Night I am bad. Brick. I mean, I pull out the jar of beer and I'm like, I'm pretty sure I've got poisoned. I'm not going to drink the beer that he poisoned, is he? He doesn't know. He doesn't know I get out the hip flask. That is kind of. I'm joking. I'm joking. So we're hiding? Yeah, agreed. Well, it's for once, just do something that someone else wants to do. Investigation check on the room or like just a quick perception check just to see if there's any place where I can actually fucking hide.

Yeah. Make a check. Should I roll to see how well I'm hidden on top of the bookcase? Yeah, 20. OK, make it. Acrobatics Check to get to the top of the bookcase and stay there. Wait, where's Acrobatics 9? OK. So books 4. OK, you're able to get to the top of this bookcase and it's pretty God damn precarious. Roll a stealth check. I can say I'm tempted to say a disadvantage. Institutional. Just one thought. I couldn't get worse, you know? I don't know, four and I don't have proficiency in it, so five, yeah.

OK. I. He comes to the top of his bookcase purchase and the bookcase is still forward.

So he just shit. I want to get behind the the door that he's going to come through. I want to just be to the side of it. Should I roll to find someone better to hide in like a panic? Is like is there anywhere to hide? Like what is the? 17, yeah. 3020. 3020 So there's a lot of like bookcases, there's a lot of furniture, there's stuff that you could like duck behind, but you're not going to be able to like hide for like a really long time. So search the route and they'll find you fairly easily. So I roll to see if I can find someone new to hide.

Yeah, or if I'm just stood in the. Room and panic. Do you have any? Oh, it's not like a good. What do I add to it? Do you have any spells up your sleeve that could hide us? I don't suppose I can use performance or persuasion on that. No survival, have to. Be a perception or investigation to look for somewhere to hide. Can I throw a blanket over it to give them advantage?

Oh, perception, I have +3, so 6 I sort of stood there going. Oh shit, oh shit. I throw a blanket over it. I throw a blanket over the print. Now I think the Prince should roll to find his own fucking hiding place. Let's see where he ends up, yeah? Now rolling to hide 17. The Prince did better than I did. Hang on, what spells do I have? Throw the couch. Oh, no, no, no, no, I have, I have disguise self. Oh. Shit, so do I. So I can just blend into. No disguise self changes like so you look like another person.

So it's rather than you not being able to hide, it's going to be some random stranger. Just sitting in his room. Actually, that could work. Oh my. God, he's a bit drunk. That could work, I did say. I do have the sleep command and the sleep spell so I could when they walk in, theoretically cast sleep if he comes back with guards and put the guards to sleep. I'd say, yeah, if it's God, do it. If it's just leave it looking happy, yeah, then we leave. It OK, so now I'm not the bookcase ever so. Maybe I'm like, I've put the bookcase back up and I'm stacking books back on it just yeah, I think I'm going to be beside the door kind of hiding if there is not hiding, but like out of the way.

Yeah. But then I will pretend to be looking at something if he comes back in. Bill is using piece of his token to clean Cyprus fan. He's giving a Polish. So. And the Prince is under a blanket. So casual, guys, so casual. Yeah, I really act natural. Why do you think he's polishing his sauce? Now we wait. Yeah, eventually he does come back with a bottle of whiskey, a bunch of glasses. OK, you have a fantastic collection of books here. Yes, yes, I was just admiring. I piled up the ones I wanted. To read it, it likes to look at them spread out on the floor.

Yeah, OK. I was looking for a book with pictures. Yeah. I do have some excellent art collection surround. Please put some of these glasses on a low table and you start uncorks a bottle of whiskey, starts pouring it into these glasses. Slanger.

Pretty certain I asked for Brandy. Shut up and Slanger. My apologies. He takes the glass back, offers it to the Prince. He's still under a blanket. Thanks. I can I nothing for you. Can I give the Prince eyes? Yeah. And be like, do not fucking drink that. OK. I don't say I'm like. You don't have a Brandy, so you're just not. Drinking. Sorry the bee, just I'll go get the Brandy and EBS. No, no, no. It's OK. He'll be fine. He'll be fine. He'll be fine. You say so anyway. I'll teach. I'll teach you a toast.

OK, So I'll say Sanja. Sanja. And you say Sanjivar? Sanjivar, yeah. 123 I throw it behind me. Make a deception. To fit into the pot part. Bell does not catch up. Bell doesn't have a drink. You gave it back another one. You. Decided he was fine with the whiskey after. All fine with whiskey after all. So I take the shot. 13 No Yeah, he's. Not really watching, so yeah, fine, fair enough. OK, each make a constitution safe. Oh, you took the shot as well. No, I didn't. So why are you making a constitution?

I'll. Make a deception check then or a slight hand. I'm natural 20. OK, cool. You're fine. I. I I'm hoping the Prince saw what? We yeah, the Prince. OK, same thing. OK, yeah, but how did his deception go? 13 Nice. Yeah. Well, you only fucking who drank it. It's it's. That's constitutional safe. Yeah, does. He drunk it. Yeah, he does 17 no. 17. Yeah, yeah. Have a nice mellow low key slightly sweet caramel and vanilla. A bit of rum and Raisin on the. On the This is like the best fucking whiskey ever.

Stands there, he's like still holding his glass. This kind of watches you for a minute. Hi Manzola, I apologise for my rudeness earlier on. I will gladly accept another another round. Well. I think you've had enough mate. Still holding his. Own glass. He shrugs. He's like, OK. Picks up, pours another glass. Now who wants some home brew shit? Anybody else? I'm good for now. I can't perform my fun. Are you drunk? But you can't enjoy it unless you're drunken up. So drink up. OK, knocks it back. We love.

Shot Constitution, say 1018. I can I. Not 20. You're slightly more drunk. Than he is. Sorry, can I can I go? Anyone want some home brew? I've made some especially for you. What? I think. Yes, yeah, wow. And I I pull out the jar. If he was, if he was smart, he would make everybody roll to see like who drinks that like Russian roulette, the. Bell, I didn't make it for you. I make it for our friend. No. For me, yes. Takes this. Jar straight from the straight from the jar made it. Myself. Yeah, picks up, proceeds to slightly.

I'm going to slightly take the bottle of my skin. I would like to. I would like to knock it out.

Because that's a really good oh, where the fuck is slightly hand though Dick? Sorry, there it is, 15/16/17. 18 Yeah. You take the ball and no one noses it. Pulls the top off of this like the stopper out of this jar. A bit of a slosh nose, sort of like puzzled weird face. Sorry, it's now. It's made with Goblin here and I'll. Let me see if you can get some spices.

We love to drink. With time advantage advantage. Third shot down. I rolled 219 and then my persuasion is +6 so 25. Yeah, I got 18. He. He. Kinda. He looks a little like I'm sure to start with, but then he kinda likes something. He likes to drink it. We'd like to drink the kitchen. Drinks it down in 10987654321. Hey, yeah, if he's. Down in the whole thing and you did roll 26. He's gonna down the whole jar. It's. Real funny. He's got a raw disadvantage on his constitution save. He downs this thing.

He looks at it funny, drops the jar on the floor. Fuck you man, just got. Asses to the crowd, you fucking weeping. I'm pretty sure the same shit's in there. Drop it. And as well, we'll end the episode. Sounds good. Fucking call me an acquaintance, try and tell me what I kind of got our drink. Save you. From whatever the fuck you drink. Cool. Thanks everybody for listening. Yep, like crazy. Subscribe, share. I'm going to set up a bend mode so if you can send us money or something. We'll figure something out once me outside, right?

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Yeah, but War put the answers on Instagram so that people have to see that. Yeah, we haven't posted anything on Instagram, so that would be weird, yeah. I get a lot of junk e-mail in my e-mail inbox about stuff that we should like on Instagram, but we don't. Have any content yet? Because we don't have any pictures of characters so it's like a whole thing anyway. Maybe not. OK, bye. Bye, goodbye. Why? Never going to ick you up. Never going to ick you down.

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