--- tags: DnD --- # WWM New Saturday Game Session 1 - 06/06/2020 (Bunny Missing) ------------------------------------------ William Enren is being interrogated for the Assassination of the High King. He remembers a group attacking and seeing someone morph into his face. He doesn't remember much about murdering the High King. He fails to persuade the interrogator despite being a Sergeant in the guard. Frank is interrogated. He works on the docks for "Box to You". They want more information from his employer. The eye witnesses say he tried to intervene with the attempt. But, during his intervention he killed 3 or 4 innocents. Clip Rengir gets interrogated. He doesn't know the king, and he was a Sergeant First Class for the Pheonix Alliance. He has a history of violence in war. They say they have no real reason to convict me from the crime, but they want extra bodies to hang anyway. Clip says he doesn't believe it's possible to be hung as a warforged and seems to persuade him to possibly spare him for a favour. The interrogator's name is Inspector Dubois. Sara Ironwing is a gravekeeper that was also at the scene of the assassination of the High King. The executioner says that she was seen with Clip Rengir. She says that he likes to bug her while she tries to work. She is not at all persuasive. Treaty awakes and says she didn't know sleeping at the Library after hours was illegal and she'll never do it again. The man pulls out some books and asks if she recognizes him. They are books on poisons. These books were open to the poison on the blade of the weapon that killed the High King. The man claims that this Warforged doesn't seem to be acting like the same person as when she was arrested. Treaty looks down where her blade would usually hang and then says, "No, I have no idea". The interrogator shows her a blade that was with her when she was picked up. It has the blood of the High King on it. Treaty claims that she doesn't use a blade. The man says she has a sheath. She says she owns it, but doesn't use it. Xavier is being interrogated and says he is an informant (spy) for the Lolethus Guard. He was with William Enren. He was knocked out and that's the last thing he remembered. The people fleeing the scene via coach tossed him out. He says he suspected an attack. Tal'n is praying when he starts getting interrogated. He had a vision from his God about the High King being murdered. He tried to stop it but was too late. The interrogator asks why he didn't go to a guard. Tal'n says he was busy with civilians. The man states the King is more important, but Tal'n convinces him that he is nonviolent. The man frees him. Tal'n, Xavier, and Clip managed to talk their way out of the Gallows and are released. --- Everyone is taken from their cells, but there are few guards around as they seem understaffed. The prisoners are wearing horrible burlap vests with cotton clothing beneath it. Xavier decides to investigate why William Enren is being detained. As he turns a corner, a person who looks like William pulls him into an alley. The man threatens him for trying to find the King's murderer and says he won't find him again and that Xavier never saw him. Xavier tries to intimidate the man and the face of the man shifts to match Xavier's as Tal'n walks by. Tal'n asks who's who and if they are twins. Xavier changes into William and says they aren't twins. He stares at the man and says he can play the same game! Xavier explains the situation to Tal'n and asks him to trust him on this. Tal'n calls for a guard as Xavier tries to grab the Shapeshifter as Tal'n casts Guidance on him. The unknown man casts mirror image and four of them appear as Xavier tries to grab him. This shifter taunts him by changing his four faces to that of each of the perpetrators. Xavier is impressed. It seems this was a one-man job and he made them think there was more. This man is from **The Order of The White Lichen** (Says he). Back in the cells, Frank starts insulting the guards with Vicious Mockery saying him and his friends at the docks have been having great times with the Guard's Mother. The Guard asks what that was and pulls a blade on Frank. Frank throws his bucket of excrement at the Guard as he enters and charges him. Frank pulls a shiv from his well trained prision wallet and sticks the man in the ribs with it. The man falls and his keyring slides across the floor, hitting a wall. The man seems to be choking on blood and trying to call for help, so Frank sticks the shiv in his neck, stopping his wails for relief from the other Guards. Everyone hears the commotion and Sara asks about what all the noise is and after insulting Frank a few times, he unlocks her cell and moves on the rest. She motions to her hand shackles but Frank tells her to figure that out for him. Treaty casts an Eldrich Blast on her shackles and blows them off with a sting. Sara weakens her shackles with a quick cast of Frostbite. William has overheard the commontion and Frank walks by to release them. Frank asks if William is in on the prision brake. The jailed man asks him to just open the door but Frank wants him to say that he is "in". He eventually relents and lets William out, who asks for keys to the shackles. Frank unlocks his and then William's after releasing he had them. Sara asks if Frank incompacitated the Guard or not. She notices he is bleeding to death and casts Healing Word on him. The wound seals up but the man remains unconcious. William has slipped out and he uses his keys to get into the Guardhouse and the immediately relock it behind himself. Sara sees this. Mr. Enren lets them know about the breakout. Frank tries to create a false narrative, but William doesn't believe it. They say not to worry about William and head off to fight the jailbreak. William finds another Guardhouse and notices this hold has slots with crossbows in them and they are aimed towards the staircase. Sara sees the approaching guards and casts Friends on the friendliest one. She tries to persuade him that she just helped save a lying guard. Sara tries to explain to the guards that the man who tried to kill a guard is behind them and they need through. William lastest guards tell him to stop or be dropped, and then he informs them as the jailbreak as well and they leave. Sara pushes into the next room and Treaty pops in to say the man took the Guard's longsword. Frank disquises himself with Disguise Self. He leaves his cell and tries to move to the others. Xavier and Tal'n are still having their fight with the faceless man and Clip overhears it and joins the Fray. Xavier pops a duplicate and then gets stabbed, downing him. All 3 of them left turn towards Tal'n. Clip just walks in, and talks to Tal'n, then says to just let him go. No reason to leave him like the man on the ground. Tal'n uses a Healing Word to bring Xavier back up and then walks up to him and uses Cure Wounds to heal him up. She then tells Xavier to just let him go so he doesn't go down again and runs a bit back. Xavier says they have William, so he attacks the middle on this time, popping it. The man says that he should have stayed dead and stabs back at him, bloodying Xavier. He then launches a second stab, knocking Xavier unconcious again. Clip tells him to take off and that "we'll take care of him" to the body on the ground. As the man leaves, Clip slowly pulls out his warhammer and walks over to finish off the downed man. Tal'n uses Spare the Dying on Xavier and asks Clip not to kill him. After talking and finding out he was trying to apprehend the man, Clip leaves the unconcious Xavier as the Assassin makes his escape. William has made it out with his gear. He looks for Xavier and overhears a call for a guard. He turns the corner and sees Clip and Tal'n with Xavier disquised as the killer. Tal'n spots him and asks if he is William. Clip asks if anyone has ever told him that he and Xavier look a lot alike. William plays it off as being said before. William uses his Lay On Hands to bring Xavier back up. Xavier says we have to stop him as he'll report us for escaping, even though we were let out. William says he didn't see any guards and Clip points out that the Assassin is long gone by now. Clip and Tal'n ask why they let him out and he mentions the jailbreak. Clip claims that William broke out and that's why he doesn't want to go back and help. Frank is standing over three unconcious guards when we return to him. Treaty continues to make her way out and runs across the guards on the staircase with their crossbows. Treaty tries to persuade the guards to go after the jailbroken prisoners but fails. Frank thanks Sara for healing the Guard as he didn't mean to hurt him that much. Sara heads to the staircase and finds the guards. She too tries to convince the Guards to go after the jailbreak. This guard is in plate with a bucket helmet. The guard pulls out his large longsword and heads down, coming across the three unconcious guards. The jailed party slowly walks out and finds daylight. Session 2 - 13/06/2020 (Runkies and Kuyo Missing) --------------------------------------------------- We hear some whistles from the guards and the commotion ensues. The party heads to the port. Once we reach the docks we see large magical cranes spread about. The group heads to a local tavern, **The Bent Nail**. A man is thrown through the glass window, gets back up, and then goes back inside the pub. The glass reforms and another is thrown through as well. William decides against heading into the pub and decides to go to the **The Happy Swallow** as it will probably be safer. Clip makes fun of William for breaking out of prision and then being afraid of a rowdy bar. The Happy Swallow is an automated magical bar. Mugs here have been replaced by Cystal Glasses to drink from. This is a higher end bar with a nice chef. Three of the party buy ales as with one being Treaty who hands it off. A Short Half-elf Waitress asks what we would like to have. She hands Treaty a colouring book. William asks Treaty about what happened after he left. She says that nobody died and it should be fine. The three outside explain the assassin and the one man that turned into four men with four cloned faces. William and Tal'n say how the king died. William saw a man slip away. Tal'n saw it in a vision. Sofie is in the bar and sees a Moving Tapestry displaying four in the bar that escaped and sees them in the bar. She tells them to shut-up and is very drunk. Xavier spots something and tells us to take a look. Sofie says Xavier looks poor and offers a heal but is drunk. Xavier tries to ignore him We spot the broadcast on the Moving Tapestry. It shows the faces of the four that in prison (William, Frank, Sarah, and Treaty) and says The King's Murderers are on the loose. The bounty is 10,000gp per head. Sofie gets up and leaves. The party decides to send Xavier in to investigate, but as they go, a big fucker appears through the doorframe and he walks through (https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/716395830013329418/721549543656652907/unknown.png). He says he's is there for the bounties and blocks the door with his shield. Sofie re-enters from the back and says, "there they are! They're on the tapestry!". Xavier holds up his badge and says that he is with the guard and taking them in. The Bounty Hunter says his guild outranks the guard and argues. Treaty uses Minor Illusion to make it seem like more guards are outside. Bucket-Head the Bounty Hunter doesn't believe Xavier. William says they are the ones on the screen, but not the culprits. We are hunting the culprits. William says that he is looking for the culprits and if the man doesn't let the four go, he will be responsible for the murderer getting away. Sofie thinks we are telling the truth but the Bucket-Head doesn't. He is a little upset that Sofie swapped sides. William yells "get him" and then him, Xavier, and Treaty rush him. Xavier tries to get behind him to steal his balance and successfully lines it up. They push the big guy over Xavier's back. The big man seems to be unable to get back up. William puts his shield on the man for extra weight and Xavier spits on him. Our guards take a peek for the guy's Bounty Hunters License and Xavier find a leather wallet looking item with a written contract with the guild stamp on it. They rip up the mans license and leaves it on them. Tal'n picks up the pieces and puts them on the man and says she's sorry. Sofie offers up a place that is safe, as William's estate. She says there is a pirate hideout and introduces herself. William tells her that he is a guard, so he decides to head to his family's secret cabin then. She heals Xavier and he says thanks. Xavier helps point William in the right direction and then him, Tal'n and Clip head to the As they move to the cabin, Sofie notices some large beast tracks and she believes it to be a Peakabear (a Peacock/Bear looking creature) and the tracks are fresh. The Peakabear pulls itself up over a ledge and stares at the four and Sofie calls it out after spotting it. The other group reaches the crime site and Xavier reaches a guard to talk his way in, offering help. He brings up a lead: they are looking for a shapeshifter that can change faces and bodies. A guard captain overhears and asks that Xavier talks in his office. We head back to the prison and into the office. Xavier re-explains the story and the captain touches the parchment on his desk and a floating pens starts to draw across the page. We explain about the killer from The Order of the White Lichen. Xavier also mentions that William is innocent and fibs that he hasn't seen him since jail. The captain absolves the people who were framed. Back to the Peakabear attack, William readies himself if the bear attacks and Treaty and Sofie do the same. Treaty gets absolutely shattered by the Peakabear. William starts to run and manages to trip and then starts to slide down into the hole but grabs the ledge. Sofie falls in and asks if she is dead but William says, "not if you run". William lights up a torch and notices that Sofie in the the hole beneath him and drops as well. The decide to explore the hole as the bear won't eat the constructs body. William remembers that near the family cabin there was an ancient keep that they never found when he was a kid. He wonders if he's just stumbled into it. They continue into the hole and see a normal looking pet cat, and William ignores it and walks past. As we go to leave, a darker red tiefling points it's finger and says, "why are you going?" It says it was just in "Stalgia" and is looking for individuals that are looking to get their hands dirty. Xavier and Tal'n ignore the man, but Clip asks if the money is up front. This is for a militia for the "Libertarian Party". Tal'n signs up if she's just healing. Xavier spits at the feet of the tiefling in distate. They are offered 200gp each for signing up. Xavier shows his badge. Tal'n signs Dawnbringer and Clip signs as "Jerry Springboy" and they both are given 200gp. They finally reach the Fallen Treaty and Clip tries to patch her up. She says, "they went that way" and points, then falls over dead. Clip gives her an honourable burial... He scraps her parts and leaves her. --- **Treaty loot:** - 90gp - split gold 3 ways (Tal'n, Xavier and Clip) - Herbalism Kit - **Taken by Tal'n** - Light Crossbow - **Taken by Xavier** - 20 Bolts - **Taken by Xavier** - Arcane Focus - **Taken by Clip** - Scholar's Pack - **Taken by Tal'n** - 2 daggers - **Taken by Clip** - Shield --- Xavier finds the hole as the other 2 follow. Clip jumps into the hole. He says it's just a dark hole and and the other two follow. Back to William and Sofie, they hear something say, "who are you, and what are you doing here?". William apologizes and says he fell in and doesn't want to be here. He just needs a way out. Sofie points out the cat is the one talking. His name is **Sebastion** and he is the guardian of the ancient keep. Sofie scratches behind the cat's ears. This guardian had apparently been here a long time. When the cat talks they don't see its mouth move. The keep was previously a Bastion of Justice. The cat offers a question: **Would you sacrifice the many for the few or the few for the many?** The cat offers a riddle: "You must first give it to me before I may keep it." This pair passes the test and they give their word to work for justice. A door appears and the cat does no longer. On the other side of the door is a big cathedral hall that is partially ruined. There is a wing for Knights and a wing of assorted quarters as well as an armoury. William visits the armoury and finds a few weapon and a sarcophagus, the latter of which which he knocks on. Someone inside kocks backs. William says he is sorry, and the creature knocks back. William upons the sarcophagus and inside he finds an old skeleton that is not moving and doesn't look like it has since it's grim conception. There they find a shield with a long dead kingdom's symbol emblazened upon it. It appears to be giving off a magical energy, so William picks it up. It brings a profoundly nice feeling to William when he does. He also looks through the longswords on the wall and they appear to be silvered. Sofie finds a gold bitted axe as well. "Here Lies King Yalemond, Conquerer of the Lands" is what Sofie spots on the sarcophagus, but she doesn't share this. Sofie finds a vault in the keep with William following her. It has a large iron door that is locked barring the way. In her search for loot sees a weird looking book (Codex Mirror) and then pages through it. She then attunes to the book. **She can now learn, prepare and cast, spells that are 4 levels higher and they cannot be resisted. It also causes weird side effects upon casting.** Sebastion meets the rest of the party and takes us to William and Sofie. William explains the Peakabear killing Treaty and then talks about Sebastion. Sofie and William fight over ownership of the keep and everyone agrees with William keeping the keep for justice. Session 3 - 20/06/2020 (Runkies Missing) -------------------------------------------- Sofie and William find an old and dusty training room and Sebastion's litterbox (the sandpit in the room). Xavier and William spar a bit and then Xavier grabs a silvered sword. Tal'n finds a broom and starts sweeping up the Cathedral and righting the fallen furniture. Sarah takes a look around for poison traps in the keep as she searches for things that might interest her. She runs across a Barracks, the Mess Hall, the Cathedral, the Vault, misc rooms that could be bedrooms, a dungeon, a lower level, a second level, what seems to be a Wizard's tower, and a Forge. On the floor of the room with the Forge, Sarah finds a boarded up door. She takes a look at the door. Tal'n finds something shiny on the ground and picks it up. He feels sometyhing bearing down on his mind and hears "unworthy" in his head. Clip overhears Tal'n cry out and he's just sweeping after throwing it. Clip finds a chunk of silver on the ground. He picks it up and it says that he is worthy as he has shown in self in battle. Clip calls it a "Mind Rock" and keeps it as a pet. **It's a Alert Rock that screams telepathically when you are in danger.** Xavier beats William in sparring. He feels that if he continues to practice he might get better at it. (10/100 Xavier 1/100 William) **Barb is a Goliath Barbarian** (played by Rockachaws), 6'2" and fairly musular and heavy with green, red and blue, tattoos on his body. He started adventuring as foreign forces encroached on their land his his Father sent him to meet someone to stop it. He rides an elephant named Kabier. He has a greatsword and a shield. **Cassius is a Human Fighter** (played by Howizter), 6'2" 210lb Human with both a greatsword and greataxe. He was a farmboy and was sold by his family. He left the Army honorably. He walks as "God didn't give him a horse". Both men seemed to be compelled to head to this location for a feeling of power and adventure from some entity. Barb reaches an old looking building and start to head inside. Sofie overhears the elephant stamping and stops reading to go figure it out. She alerts the party except Xavier and William who are still sparring. Clip comes along. They head to the massive door to the keep. As we reach the door we hear large knocking. Clip asks who is fisting our entrance. He has a deep voice and seems nice enough and says to be just looking for a place to sleep. Clip's Pet Rock says "stranger danger", so he throws the door open and runs up to Barb to hug him. He quickly gets embraced back amazingly. Tal'n gives a hug as a well and Sofie reluctantly shakes hands with Barb. Barb is asked about his Tattoos by Sofie and he says that every one denotes a story and usually a battle won. Sofie asks about his tribe and seems to look down the ground, zoning out. **The Bentwater Tribe**. Barb asks for Kabier's entrance to somewhere safe and Sofie points out the stable outside. He says that he is seeking some guidance (like a sign from gods or whatnot). William is introduced as he and Xavier resume looting hot and sweaty from their grunting performance (giggity). Barb goes for more hugs but Xavier slips away so he shakes hands and introduces himself. Sofie asks if Barb has any Ale and he extends a large flask, which she swigs from twice and returns. Sarah manages to break into the old door and it's a closet with a mirror in it. She detects that this mirror is Enchanted, so she inspects it for inscriptions. She notes that the bezel of the mirror is runed and gets closer to read it. Suddenly a face appears in the mirror. The mirror responds when she speaks and about all the info she gets is that this is a mirror named Kabusin. It's there to help people on their journey to their inner-desires. She says that her depest desires are beings that are dead and you can't bring them back. The mirror says it's possible. Their discussion shifts to her suspicions about the mirror. It was locked up because the last owner didn't like the repercussions of their dreams coming true. She is a little shocked when the mirror says she can't show it to anyone. It asks to be kept in her chambers, it doesn't mind be spotted, as long as it isn't in the mirror. Sarah decides to take the mirror to her room. An hour later, another person knocks on the door and through the peephole Clip sees Cassius. He opens the door and Cassius just freezes up for a bit. Cassius says Tempus told him to travel to the old keep through a dream. Clip and Xavier believe him. After some conversation it seems that he will wait here for his next sign. **The keep would cost 25,000gp to restore it. (If we do it, people will take notice on the political side of the world).** William looks for Sebastion and cannot find him. He walks up to the vault and is able to command it open. After it opens, he finds a treasure horde. The are 3 pedistals with items on it (that Sarah feels are enchanted). The rest of the party overhears the noise and heads to look. Each pedistal has a weapon: A dagger, a bow, and a spear. William tries to close the vault and Sofie interrupts him, trying to look at the treasure. He closes her inside the vault. Xavier gets a little cross with William from doing this. The party argues over letting her out and votes to do so. Sofie starts pocketing some gold and the Horde of treasure collects and turns into a Horde Golem. She screams something about a Booty Golem and William starts to open the door. Sofie runs through the opening and gets behind the party. William slams the door behind her and there is a loud bang, followed by the creature going dormant. Sarah asks who the extra people are and Xavier changes his face into that of Williams, alarming Barb. Other than Xavier and William, the rest head to the Wizard's Tower, which has a hole in the wall to the outside. At the top we find a door with a room. Upon a table in the room, there is stacks of books, and a alchemical setup. There is another hole in the side, leading to a decent view of the outside right now. It doesn't seem to be very stable, so the party starts lugging things down the stairs. Session 4 - 27/06/2020 (ITGH Missing) -------------------------------------- Written by: BunnyKristin **Missing Howizter, Thatguy, Rockachaws** 20 feet long table in dining table town walking distance 30 minutes 10 minutes away was a fawn me and Taln killed for smoking lat pond 20 minute hike from keep. Sara drains and prepares the deer as we head back out to fish, drains blood all over kitchen. William, Xavier, Frank, head to town for provisions, but they go to William's family home instead because theyre loaded. they go into the house, William's father shot black powder. Williams parents tight on money now, but gives his son horse and cart and some foods big pork, salt, Frank needs pearls and feathers Frank loads and unloads boats. Xavier is suspicious why he's here. he's not sure why Tal'n and I fish, i teach him how to fish. William wants to be ruler of the world to make it better. Alex Drumfield, someone William and Xavier knows, has left the family crest and weapon and stuff behind and has left the town to follow Williams dream. Alex went to temple, he was at peace wearing green and black hood. Xavier and them gets back, he goes in first and slips on blood. Sara makes a giant mess, but cuts so gracefully and we don't lose meat. Me and Tal'n caught 14 salmon fish together deer we caught got Vinison 78lbs Frank finds a small pearl in the head of a fish talking at dinner time. abolish slavery and equality. not creating a black market and we regulate slavery. +2 if suffer crit, within 30 dice roll to heal shield of andrim. must attune to it, rightful king to area. - Williams magic shield Session 5 - 04/07/2020 (Bunny Gone) ------------------------------------ Barb's tribe has been under attack. He is trying to protect them. He is driven by his Wanderlust and Curiousity and would follow that. They start an arugment at the table over religion and William breaks it up as Xavier left. Sara keeps the bones from the deer and takes them off to her room. The party notices a bunch of gear left by Sofie and take their pick with Barb taking her Gold-Bitted Battleaxe. Sara spends a few hours rebuilding the Forge to a useable state with the rubble. She then takes a look at her mirror and asks it what she should do. She asks about the keep before she arrived. It was the mirror's prison created by Sir Pelleton. It wants her to earn eachother's trust. The Mirror offers up bringing Sara into power or her desires. It used to be a Moon Elf that got trapped in the mirror. Sara asks to have her family back from death in any way she can and then introduces herself and introduces the fact that she is in a party. She thinks that some of the party are too dumb to earn any real money. Starting a "new graveyard" is mentioned, and she says she needs more people for it. Barb plays with his new axe and then heasd to sleep. Clip goes inactive at the table with Cassius, who doesn't leave the room. The party heads to town on wagon and elephant, except for Frank, who runs back inside and Xavier then follows. Frank runs back into the wagon and Xavier isn't there. Cassius follows along but his God warms him "to watch that William Fellow". He apparently has "an ideal vision for the world", but he is warned to follow wisely and be a consultant to him and support him. Xavier never finds Frank and he didn't have any belonging to snoop into left in the Keep, so he starts walking to town. As the party rides, William spots an arrow firing from the woods and about to hit him. It tags the wagon near him, they seem decently accurate with their shots. William yells out, "Alex". Another arrow seems to be zooming in on William's balls and hits where they were most recently, seemingly in response to the yelling of "Alex". Sara grills William for info on the Attacker. The party spots 7 men on each side of the road. All are dressed in green outfits and leathers to blend it. They are all masked and hooded, with arrows knocked and pointed at us. One on the right has a boomstick, but it's not readied at the moment. A man swings from a rope and drops into the middle of the road. He is a black-leathered individual in front of the wagon wearing a green cloak and a completely black mask that looks like a skull. The figure keeps approaching and William asks it, "Who are you and what do you want?". The individual stops 10ft away, draws 2 daggers, and then stares. William draws his sword and gets ready with his shield. He asks if they know "Alex Drumfield" and gets no response but it does seem like the figure in the road gets into a more agressive stace. He then charges up and tries to knock the mask off of him. Frank casts Bane on the figure. Cassius runs over to one the the seven men on the right to engage them. He sees the man with the scoped bow, who then freaks out and then tries to block with his bow. His Greatsword comes down through the bow and into his neck, clattering the man's collarbone and killing him. Cassius tries for a swing at another archer, but misses. The figure Ghost-steps through William and then turns around with a dagger up to his neck. He shouts at the party not to kill another one of his men. He says that William brought savages into his woods. The figure reveals its face, the face of "**Alex_andra_ Drumfield**". She says that they thought the party could be an easy target before she realized who they were. William calls off Cassius. Sara reminds William that Alex had tried to remove his "pride and joy" before. She seems to rob the rich and give it to the poor. William reminds her that her family is quite rich itself and her men overhear and complain about he being rich. She stares angrily at William to shut him up. She lies that she is from the streets like the rest of them. William tells her about fullfilling his dream of taking over the world to make it better and informs her of the Ancient Keep and that he finally found it. She doesn't believe him. Suddenly Xavier arrives, looking tired and winded. He looks angrily for Frank, and says hi to Alexandra. Frank appologies for fucking with Xavier, and says he's glad he's here for the fight. The fight like childhood friends. The party tells her that they are heading to town. Xavier complains that something around her doesn't feel right to William. He says that something about her has changed. She doesn't seem right and he feels she is nervous and hiding something. Frank asks Alexandra where he can source some "illegal substances". She tells the men to lower their weapons, and they don't. She tries again and they don't. Sara casts a Fog Cloud onto the group so they have trouble hitting the party. She recommends that we flee. William asks Alex how long she has known these men and why they won't listen. She says she trusted some with her life. Xavier calls out that Alexandra killed her own family for being wealthy, but they see through the lie. The fight starts again. Clip drops off the elephant and attacks one with his warhammer. The hit leaves the man looking poorly. William slashes one with his longsword. The Boomstick Boi fires a magical projectile from the weapon, which hits Xavier. Other shots fire into the wagon, but the shots don't find anyone with all of the fog. One shot makes it through the fog and into Barb, who's Stone's Endurance kept him fine. Frank inspires Xavier and then attacks the man holding the Boomstick with his rapier. Then man readies the Boomstick pointed to Xavier's face. Tal'n prays to Lathander for a Shield of Faith. She gets near the edge of the fog and launches a Guiding Bolt at an archer, but misses and makes her way back to the wagon. Alex draws two swortshords and rushes down a man, killing him. Xavier jumps from the fog and attacking the man, stabbing into his vital organs and rendering him to death's embrace. He then dashes back into the fog. Barb steps the elephant out of the Fog, and sees the men, then charges a man on the left. The elphant misses, so Barb dismounts and attacks another man as he flies into a rage. This kills the man. Sara grabs her necklace (a symbol of the "Spore Mother") and casts Chill Touch as she tosses spores onto the gentleman. They hurt him as they land after her touch. Clip smashes the man again with his Warhammer, killing him. William hits another and the man tries to retort but misses. Frank gets a stab in. Tal'n misses with his mace. Alex moves to the next and goes for another stab, but misses and knicks herself. Xavier does a sneak attack on the one in front of him, landing well as he dashes away. The bandit manages to slash him as he backs out. Barb swing his Greatsword into another bandit, almost killing him. The elephant gores the man to death with a splash of blood. The spores activate on the man near Sara, killing the man as she casts Infestation. Both the man and the one beside him died. Clip misses one and William kills another. The Boomstick goes off and clips Framk a little bit. Frank kills the man by Viciously Mocking him instead. The one of the last bandits tries to run and Alex stabs him as Clip smashes him, killing him. Two bandits start running away. Frank takes the Magical Boomstick. Tal'n fires a guilding don't, killing a man instantly as he runs. Frank and Barb start routing around for useful items. --- - 10gp - **Taken By: William** - Magical Boomstick - **Taken By: Frank** - 3x Longbow with Scopes - **Taken By: Xavier**, the rest taken to town. - Dispelling Stone - **Taken By: Sara** --- Sara casts Decompose on the bodys outside. **Alexandra decides to join us for now.** --- **EXP:** 544 --- Session 6 - 11/07/2020 (Frank, Sara, and Tal'n leave) ------------------------------------------------------- We make it to town and find people on their sending stones (like cell phones) and walking around. We also spot an individual being mugged in an alley. William and Barb run in. William pushes the mugger and then starts asking if the victim is alright while Barb holds down the Mugger with his foot. The dagger the man drops seems to be made of glass and William pulls some coin off the man. William ties up the man and lets the mugger go with the extra coin from the Mugger. The group loads the Mugger up and drops the man at the guardhouse. The men greet William as their Captain and he hands over the prisoner and gets 16sp for it. Sofie spots the Mugger being instantly released and lets William know. Clip, Cassius, and Xavier run off after the escaping man. Barb, Sofie, and William go to question the man who just released the Mugger. Clip catches up and lands a big smash into the back of his head with his Warhammer. The man falls and tries to collect himself and get him back up. Cassius tries to put his boot on the man to stop him from getting up, but the man manages to slip out from under his foot. Xavier runs out of the shadows and asks what the Clip is doing. Clip says tieing him up didn't work before, and Xaviers says he'll talk to William about what happened and restrains the Mugger again. William and Sofie interrogate the man who let this Mugger go. They say that they can't lock up the son of a noble. This man is of the House Bureacrast. Barb doesn't think the man is being dishonest, and neither does Sofie. Sofie asks if this man steals from civilians often and he says this is the first. The family runs one of the coal mines and should be wealthy enough to not need to rob. Barb doesn't like a businessman being a robber. Sofie asks for Confiscated booze (ale) and doesn't goven any. They leave to find the rest of the party and the Mugger. Sofie, William, and Barb catch the rest and find Cassius sitting on the Mugger reciting war stores to the restrained man. William explains the noble standing and they lug the many to the Bureacrast Estate that is just outside of the town. Cassius continues his captive war stories while Barb listens in looking happy. They both start exchanging stories. The wagon riding group finally reaches the Estate and Barb waves to the Gatekeeper and Barb lifts up the Mugger and follows William. With anger the Gatekeeper (a gruff looking human male) asks what **Edmond is doing there**. William explains how he was caught and the man admits it. William asks Xavier to do most of the talking, but then he decides to do it himself. They want to blackmail the Bureacrast family with this son's crimes. The fancy house is themed like a mine. The Gatekeeper goes to get James Bureacrast. Sofie spots the maid and asks her why Edmond might be stealing. She says they have been in trouble before, but not stealing yet. She learns that Lord Bureacrast has some enemies. There is a Bureacrast and Bureacrask war going on for control of the mine. The maid asks if the man was a spry looking old man that was being mugged, but Sofie didn't know. The two families were one at first that broke up. The man who gave them the mine gave part ownership to one of each family. Xavier remembers that the man being robbed is Jacque Bureacrask. Edmond was trying to plant something on Jacque. It's was a red gem from his Father's ring. Xavier asks if his father put him up to it and then threatens to erase him from the town if he isn't honest. The Father didn't put him up to this, his Mother (Joanne) apparently did. They wanted the guard to find the jewel on him after reporting him for stealing it. The gruff man says for someone to enter through the door as a representative of the group. The group tries to get James to meet them out here and Xavier flashes the red Gem. The man returns to James and can be heard talking about "the Stone". James Bureacrast enters the room with short black hair, a goatee with some grey hair, and a monocle. William explains the situation and that Edmond was trying to plant the stone on Jacque Bureacrask, conspirated by his wife Joanne. Xavier throws on the blackmail thick and asks to see Joanne. Apparently she is on a business trip and Xavier threatens to come back later (the group thinks this is the truth though). Apparently, her business took her to the next town over. James pulls back his sleeve and shows that the skin of his forearm is entirely burned (by Joselin Bureacrask). He is angry that the Bureacrasks did this to him and William would just let them off easy. He then threatens to get William fired based on the corruptions and bribery in the Guard Force. James says he will "fix his family". Cassius and Barb talk about being guards now and William getting them uniform to wear. Xavier says he's just a "concerned citizen", but refuses to hand over the man's son and they argue back and forth for a while with Barb tossing a few spicy quips in that seem to hurt James's feelings. He then threatens to take the son to the Bureacrasks to "apologize in person". Cassius asks to get one of the Bureacrasks and take them here. The leaves with Edmond and he says "Thank You" as Cassius starts sharing more stories. Barb asks how he feels about the Bureacrasks. He says they are evil, but not as much so as his father is. As we get to the Bureacrask house, we find ourselves moving into the nicer part of town. Xavier parks the cart behind the house and we talk to Edmond again. Edmond says his father used to beat him using that very ring he took the Gem from. Xavier inquires if Edmond's father was no longer around. He says instead that he would be happier if this feud wasn't happening. We continue to bring the Young Man into his enemy's home. They meet a happy looking Drow woman wearing curvy looking apparel. Sofie complements to woman says she is a gatekeeper. She makes a comment about Drows not liking the sun. William gets a good feeling about this Drow. This is the Joselin Bureacrask who burned James and she is a Cleric of Lathander. William introduces himself and starts to explain the situation and that he and Barbed helped stop Jacque's Mugging. Xavier what James's plan for the mines is. Edmond responds that it's just good business thinking, getting the mine for his own. Barb asks Alexandra if James is that ruthless as a buisness man and she says he is, and makes a lot of money on it. Sofie asks about making money and getting her Pirate Ship through killing the co-captain. Alex says she should get in with the crew and start a proper mutiny, otherwise. Edmond doesn't think violence will work to resolve this conflict. He also doesn't know why his mother would have planned to start a war. Session 7 - 25/07/2020 (Smash and Striker Missing) --------------------------------------------------- Sofie tells the party the backstory of "Ron", the co-captain who is "evil". Edmond, Alexandra, William and Xavier all decide to stay back as we head to the boat. The party follows Sofie and we make it back to town unscathed and sneak past the worried looking guards to the docks. We find the ship, a smaller ship with 2 masts and a mostly flat looking top to it. A long brown bearded individual with a long brown coat is there getting everyone ready to take off without Sofie. Sofie starts stomping over to the boat while drinking, absolutely fucking livid m8. She shouts "Ron!" and the man says they'd never leave without her, they were just preparing to leave when needed. Cassius makes it across and a figure carrying a curved blade starts hacking at his hands. He climbs up and tosses the man into the water. Sofie yells out for her supporters to stop the mutineers. Sofie makes it across as well. Clip follows but catches some netting that snaps, dropping him near the water. He pulls himself up and makes it onto the boat. Barb starts running to make the jump and completely misses and starts rolling down the side, falling into the water. He asks for help and notices a man in the water with him, swiming towards him with a dagger. Barb takes a quick poking and responds with his greatsword, killing the man. As he continues to swim he climbs a ladder and makes it out onto the docks again. Cassius tries to toss another off but he falls on-top on the man instead. He starts recalling more war stories as the man is confused. Clip gets up and kills one with his warhammer. One of the men says, "you killed Frank" as they turn towards them. Cassius pulls out his greatsword and knocks the man out. Ron admits to trying to leave Sofie behind and they argue over morals and past issues. She talks about them attacking civilians instead of big merchant ships and vessels of other countries. Ron tosses one of his apparent supporters off the boat in anger. Barb sees a pirate falling from above, so he climbs back up and goes for another jump across. He makes it this time and pulls himself up by the netting and pulls out his greatsword with one hand. Loyalists start fighting on the boat as Clip bashes another in the head. Sofie calls out to inspire her loyalists and calls them to arms. Cassius moves to the distracted Ron as he yells to Sofie and stabs him through his back with his greatsword, killing him with both blade and surprise as he poised him to die by the blade. As Cassius withdraws his blade he rounds it to swing back and cleave the head from his shoulders, ending the argument instantly. The crew screams "he killed Ron!". Something big starts thumping around on the deck with massive shoulders. It's some sort of fat Goliath they call Jose. The Goliath asks "who awoke me from my nap?" The crew tells him that they killed Ron. He grabs a large plank and walks towards the group. He closes in on Cassius but stops a few feet short of reaching him. Barb flies into a rage as he jumps into the Goliath and attacks with his greatsword and then draws his shield. Clip smashes the man's meaty thighs as Sofie talks to the crew. Apparently this is some old man tied up in the brig. Sofie clips the man's heel wounding him. Cassius swings beautifully, dropping the Goliath nearly instantly. The men finally surrender as the party intimidates the crew. --- EXP: 300+500+100 (1444 total) --- Session 8 - 01/08/2020 (Bunny Missing) --------------------------------------------------- Xavier and William meet with the Joselin Bureacrask at their estate. They try to get Edmond to appologize to Jacque who he tried to rob. She gets Jacque from the house and drags him out the party and they overhear him complaining and Joselin saying she doesn't care. The show the jem that was being planted on Jacque and William tells him what the plan was against him. He asks Edmond why, but it seems like Edmond is unable to talk. He seems to be incapable of opening his mouth. Jacque says there's a caster name Picard in town when asked, but that Joselin is the only other they know. They want to see what's wrong with him. Joselin gives Alexandra a wink and the party leaves the estate grounds. As they leave, Xavier tells William that he blew it by playing his hand too early. William just says that he now knows Joselin can't be trusted. Suddenly Edmond is able to talk. He says he was unable to talk about the Stone in the presence of the others. They try talking to him again about the stone and he's magically unable to talk again. William threatens to find someone to dissect the kid if he can't be fixed... Edmond seems concerned. The quartet make it to the town and hear a ruckess coming from the docks. William calls for some guards and they head to find the scene. They arrive on Cassius killing Jose, the large Goliath, by slicing his head off. There's quite a crowd watching. Inspector LeStrange shows up at the same time (a higher rank than William is in the guard) and asks what is going on. Alex and Edmond are told to stay back so the Inspector, William, and Xavier can stop the fighting. As the Inspector boards the boat from a fresh plank, he fires his gun in the air and asks everyone to calm down. He says they are commandeering the vessel. They overhear the party intimidating the crew and the crew surrendering to Sofie's control. William points out that this is his party and he'll find out what happened. Cassius waves and Barb points out who his is as he's so soaked in blood he's hard to make out. William asks the crew who's now in charge. Barb and Clip try to intimidate the crew and fail. Xavier stares menacingly from across the boat as Cassius intimidates the crew. They respond that Sofie is back in charge. With a quick report, Inspector LeStrange is told that this was a Mutiny that was shut down. A gnomes walks up to the Inspector and points to the party, saying "they did it" while pointing at the dead (he's also part of the crew). William invites the Inspector to a bar for a drink, but he decides to go home instead and invites William. Instead William decides to go yell at the guards who let out Edmond. As the Inspector leaves, Xavier tells William to kill LeStrange and take his job. Clip starts dragging bodies below deck after asking Sofie if he can use the meat grinder. She pulls a small one along too and Clip starts chopping them up. Xavier, Sofie, and Cassius go and talk to the prisoner. He's an old man with white hair and has a while coat. In his hands he has a screwdriver and some metal object. Xavier asks what he's working on as he appears to be tinkering. Xavier says that Sofie is his captain. He says he has no captain and has been here for 3 days locked up. Cassius pulls out his blade. The man says his name is Kwalish and he's a famous inventor. He says he's inventing time travel and Xavier just walks back above deck. This man is clearly mad. He seems to be some sort of mystical inventor. _Kwalish_ has a metallic looking eye socket with a red lense about it. Apparently he doesn't eat, he replicates food inside of his stomach with some creator. Cassius offers to take a look with his knife out. Sofie tries to convince Kwalish to stay on the boat. He decides to stay and they say they'll help find his apparent friend that knows how to talk to Kwalish (he was kept captive in another place by the now deceased Ron). Ron's crew caught Kwalish when he crashed his flying scooter apparently. Xavier finds the Captain's Quarters, picks the lock on the door and then sneaks inside. He finds nobody inside. A Parrot (Barney, owned by Sofie) and a Monkey are in the quarters. While searching, he finds a large chest the in the room. There's a massive key with a weird looking end and it's made of gold. Ron's log says that they will take Kwalish down toward Neanderal and see if he has some bounty on him. Xavier slips out with the key and sees Sofie approaching. He leaves the door unlocked as he left. Sofie finds none of her gold left in the room, and is pissed. She leaves in a huff and looks for her stuff on the boat and brings it back to the quarters. Barb runs into Xavier and asks what the news is with Edmond and the Bureacrasks. He tells him that William blew it and he should check in with him. Xavier seems really angry about it and sarcastic, saying the guard are always so useful and amazing. The crew says that Ron burried most of the gold and they don't know where it was. Sofie collects Ron's head from Clip before it is disposed of so she can ask it questions through a priest. Cassius takes a thigh-bone and then guards the Captain's Quarters with it. The party leaves to find William in town. Xavier slips out and meets with his criminal contact to get the key identified. He then rejoins the party and Sofie asks what he was doing. He looks to Barb and says "I need a quick drink". The rest of them find William at the Guardhouse yelling at the guards. Xavier gives William an angry nod. William and Xavier fight a bit, and Xavier leaves with the party to get a drink at the bar the Guards typically use. Xavier stares at the men on his way out, which intimidates them a bit and they seem to better listen to William. The party seems to want to go to the bar where Xavier was just at but he says it was actually a friend's house. William chews out the guards to try to improve how they handle things. Eventually he does the same and joins the Guard's bar. Session 9 - 08/08/2020 ----------------------- There's an old pain humanoid with thick rimmed glasses and a massive handlebar mustache he has an Admiral coat (leader of the local Guard). Cassius talks to him and talks about his days with the 7th Legion. Apparently the rest of them died says the Admiral and he seems very impressed. Admiral Thunderbar (?? maybe heard wrong) is enthralled with Cassius, but he throws him off. The Admiral buys his drinks and leaves, rejected. Xavier seems happy as he seems to dislike the Admiral. Cassius draws a crowd as he retells his war stories. Around the room are city officials and guards wearing cloaks and sharing drinks. William finds a man passed out in a bowl of soup. He notices he's dead and then he starts yelling at everyone in the bar. Xavier refuses to look towards it. A recruit says the man is Nintzky and he says the man is a dead man. Apparently this is an Awakened Undead. William has this recruit pick him and thinks he is dead. Shortly before he leaves the bar, we hear Nintzky screaming. Somehow Cassius has managed to get a attractive female guard on each arm. Sofie robs random partrons and Xavier starts listening on conversations. **There is some sort of Bureacrast drama. Lady Bureacrast slept with some Bureacrask and ran away.** **Apparently there's a monster down in the mines and Lady Bureacrast knows of it and is keeping it hidden.** Joselin is said as a sketchy person again. A person spooks them in a black cloak and then leave after telling the person to shoo. The cloaked figure follows. Barb tries to flirt with Alexandra but she seems to have snuck off. Xavier and Sofie follow the couple. Barb and Clip do an arm wrestling match, and Barb fakes out Clip while he rages and wins. Cassius walks out with a lady. Barb rages again and they go for round 2 with the win going to Clip. He doesn't rage for the tie-breaker and loses again. William follows Cassius. Xavier and Sofie find the man ambushing them around the door. Cassius walks out and dismisses his women, expecting a fight. The cloak reveals to be Alexandra that was pestering the city officials. As Xavier and Alex argue to swap info, Sofie blurts out that there is a monster in the mine. Apparently it's a beholder in the mines according to Alex. Eventually, William meets back up with the group with Barb and Clip leaving shortly after. Xavier takes William aside and they talk about their friendship and why Xavier is being cold to William. Nothing much is explained and Xavier just says, "Water Under the Bridge" and "I think I'm good". He puts the conversation as well. Alex butts in on their conversation and asks what's going on. Xavier tells her that we are going to go to Joselin Bureacrask's house. She still feels that they are fighting in some way, she can feel the tension. Cassius, Clip, and Barb start headine to Joselin's house. Xavier walks off and joins them. Cassius will teach Barb how to break down a door. William doesn't seem to understand why Xavier is mad. They make it to the Bureacrask Estate and Cassius starts shaking the gate and asking to be let in as William asks why they are here. With a sight, the party explains the Beholder in the mines and confronting her for it. Xavier sneaks off out of the way of detection and finds a way in (hole in the wall in a bush) as Sofie picks the gate and Barb climbs the wall. Cassius tells Barb to stop and he does while Xavier tries sneaking in through a window and he is blown further in during a firey blast that happens after he sees a sigil. He's pulled into a garbage chute and dropped into garbage in a basement. The party overhears the sound of this and Barb tries to break the lock on the gate with his sword to try and break them out. Xavier notices a creature in the basement with him and he seems to be in some sort of trash compactor. Barb breaks the lock as a Drow woman with silvery white hair, a massive frying pan, and wearing just an oversized baggy t-shirt, starts to walk before Barb. This is Joselin Bureacrast, she asks who broke the lock so Barb apologizes and points out he came for the explosion. The drunken Sofie says they are here to talk to her about the monster. Suddenly Joselin's happy mood snaps and fades immediately and she asks if we know about the monster. Sofie blurts out, "it's in the mines". William joins in and starts talking as Joselin tries to hit him with a pan. William grabs onto her. Session 10 - 15/08/2020 ------------------------ Cassius draws his greatsword and asks William to let Joselin go. He refuses. Barb joins in and William lets her go and steps behind the rest of the party by a large margin. Joselin says she was just going to knock some sense into him. Clip says William probably couldn't take the extra blow to her head. She says clip probably couldn't take the blow to his head. Clip pulls out a hammer and wacks himself in the head. It glances off the armour with a hollow thud and seems to do nothing. Cassius pretends they heard the explosion and then they broke in and she believes it. The explosion is apparently their home defense system. Sofie says she'll check around back as Joselin looks inside. Her drunken blabbling doesn't seem to convince Joselin though. Joselin ask's Cassius name, but he says "no one important". Clip gets asked to keep watch over the party while she goes inside. He says, "got it, break their legs if they run" and she winks and leaves. Joselin goes inside and finds the chute that leads to the trash storage has been used and the window exploded. She goes behind the house and into the basement that houses the trash. Xavier hears her coming and the large pan hitting each step. He tries to hide. She slams down the pan, scaring Xavier. Joselin then asks if anyone is in there and Xavier says, "no, nobody is here". This strange lady seems to be tricked by this but Xavier says, "but if there was, a ladder would be nice". She threatens to turn on the compactor and he mentions there's something down there. Joselin undoes the latch and she waves at Xavier. He says, "I went in the wrong door, it was really dark out". Apparently the house is so big the windows look like doors to him. Joselin says she likes him and then looks to close the door. Xavier tries to make a deal to get out, saying he'll only tell her if let out. She reaches a hand out and pulls Xavier in. He tries to explain it off as everyone drinking too heavily. A figure seems to be in the doorway and Xavier sees that the person must be 7ft tall. Apparently this thing is called "Jeeves". It seems to be protective of the house and Joselin. Xavier is healed by Joselin. He asks about the pan, and she says it's her weapon of choice, the Rogue Deterrent. It's strange that only these few people are around in the house, nobody else seems to be around. Xavier takes a look around as he leaves. He heads up the stairs as Joselin walks past and she seems to have put her hair up since last seeing him and put on some pants instead of just her nighty. Jeeves walks right past Xavier up the staircase. (He seems pretty dense). Xavier enters a large study upstairs and looks to see if he weird key matches anything in the house. He checks the desk and finds **a drawing (sent privately to him) and a small bag of 7gp**. Eventually Xavier leaves and sees the party and Joselin outside. He says to her that he tried to find the bathroom but was unable to so he came out. Xavier is visibly dirty and Sofie comments on it. Barb says he didn't even know he was missing. William insults Sofie by saying Xavier smells like a pirate. Xavier glares at William and gives him a nod as he rejoins the party. While he passes Xavier comments that Joselin cleans up nice, then realizes he's covered in trash. Xavier hands the drawing to William (https://i.imgur.com/A60KRgv.png) as he asks Joselin about the monster in the mine. Apparently the monster has been there for 1.5 months. Xavier gets his note back and shows it to Cassius. Cassius explains that both families blame each-other and whomever put the monster their would lose control of the mine. He then says, maybe a third party did it. Cassius says we are a investigative service. We have Edmond as a representative, so we need one from this family too. She decides to come with us, and Cassius says we will leave at first light. Cassius heads back to the Inn and back to his two guards-ladies, one Human and one a fair looking Orc. Sofie wants to go after Picard the Wizard but Barb wants to stay in Joselin's stables. Sofie, Clip, Xavier, William, and Barb all head in the wagon to Picard. As they travel Sofie fails to read some magic and creates a small bang. The Wizard Tower of Picard appears to be floating and as we approach Sofie yells out "Picard" and "hello". Sofie asks to be thrown up to the Tower that is 20ft off the ground and Barb and Clip throw her at the Tower. Barb is a little tired but Clip puts in the extra effort and she clings to the edge and heads up for a drink. Sofie then bangs on the door with the side of her battleaxe as she calls out "Picard". She notices a colourful bird on the door and it wakes up. The bird is confused on how she got up. The bird tells her to walk off, that's where the Wizard is. But she doesn't believe that and keeps asking for Picard. This bird squalks about business hours, apparently they open in 3 hours. William calls up to ask what's taking so long. Sofie tells him there's a talking parrot and he wants us to wait 3 hours for the tower to open. Barb and Xavier sleep on the wagon with Xavier's stinking mass spooning Barb. William heads to the Inn with the Wagon and finds a bruised looking Cassius who seems happy. Xavier heads in and takes a bath. He takes Sofie's form and then heads into the woman's bath. As he bathes, Alexandra heads into the baths as well. After 3 hours, the Tower descends to the ground and the iron door disappears, causing Sofie to hit her head on the cold floor and wake up. Sofie and the bird chat for a bit and she bargains to do manual labour in exchange for talking to a head and fixing Edmond. Apparently she can clean the tower for it as an exchange. First she asked for the exact location of the treasure and secondly she asked why Ron wouldn't tell her. The Bird asks her to clean tomorrow in return and holds the head until Sofie has more questions. Sofie heads to The Platinum Shave (a tavern for the rich) and starts drinking as Clip isn't awake. She says that she is there on Bureacrask dime and then man hands her a mug of Ale. The pirate also asks about work there, but the barkeep just says, "I'll keep you posted".