- Hello, one and all.
Welcome to another thrilling
Dimension 20 side quest.
I am your humble Dungeon
Master Brennan Lee Mulligan,
here with a brand new season of this show
set in a place that might seem
a little bit familiar to some.
Welcome to Pirates of Leviathan.
I am so thrilled to be joined
by our amazing players for
this wonderful side quest.
I'll go ahead and
introduce them right now.
First to the table, Mrs. Marisha Ray.
- Oh, hello. Thanks for having me.
- Oh, thank you so much for being here.
The wonderful Miss. Krystina Arielle.
- Hi, I'm excited.
- Mr. Carlos Luna.
- Ahoy! Right? Pirate themed, right?
- Ahoy! You're exactly right!
That's Pirate-y.
Miss. Aabria Iyengar.
- Yar. Yar? I'm trying to,
I didn't know it was
pirates before I got here.
That's very exciting.
- We are flying by the seat of our pants.
You guys have mere seconds
to make those characters.
Mr. Matthew Mercer.
- Ahoy! Oh, sh*t, already taken, Hi.
- And finally
Mr. B. Dave Walters.
- Thank you for having me and
I hope I pass the audition.
- For those watching
you maybe noticed that we are not in
our regularly scheduled dimensional dome.
Indeed if you are watching
this years from now,
congratulations on consuming
a piece of legacy media
from the time of COVID.
We are all very far
distant from each other,
safely recording in the
confines of our lovely homes.
Able to reach out to each other
not with physical arms or hands
but with the power of story itself.
Which brings us to the business at hand.
We indeed are setting
forth on an adventure
not just an adventure, a voyage.
On the far seas
and for the first time
in dimension 20 history,
we are returning to a world
but through a different window.
For indeed, in the world of Spyre.
A land of myth and
legend and high fantasy.
We are abandoning the
far off land of Solace
and its adventuring academies
and instead flying over
the vast Celestine sea.
Night and stars fade as the sun rises
over the cresting waves.
Lighting the sky with
red and orange, blue.
As gulls caw.
Gulls far out on the open seas,
where could they nest
and we see over the waves,
the cresting mammoth, the Leviathan.
A behemoth city of shipwrecks
lashed together to and fro.
Miles of wood and spires and
masts and rigging and sails.
The gulls fly overhead, as we see
flying aaracokra with bandanas
and pirate, pirate clothing,
gold jewelry, clanging around them,
rigging and lashing things
together up on the vast Helm.
The massive palace of the pirate king.
Whose head is now stuck with a dagger
to the central mass in the, in Galleyard.
In the city square.
We see deep below the Maelstroms Maw.
The giant mouth of the
city swallowing up wreckage
and captured ships to tear
apart for spare parts.
And we see a metropolis
more than a million pirates
call this city home, Leviathan.
The jewel of the sea.
The greatest market place for stolen goods
in all of the world of Spyre
and a home for all the
hearties in the wide wide sea.
We descend through Leviathan
through the busy streets of Galleyard.
Where a drunkard sway and
merrymaking can be heard
and move through the city streets,
all the way to the heart of commerce.
Here in the neighborhood of Aftward.
Halfway between the
marketplaces of Galleyard
and the aristocratic seat of
power in the fabled Poop City.
We see, that's the name that's fine.
We see the neighborhood of Aftward.
Aftward, of course, is
the home to a different
kind of marketplace.
Not retail locations of course,
but these are the changing
houses and mercantile estates,
warehouses and places where
goods are not merely bought for
consumption but bought
for sale and resale.
Large crates move backward and forward
and large amounts of money are
exchanged here in this clerk
and banking neighborhood.
We move now to a trading house floor
for the Crescent Moon Trading Company.
Through a grimy and yet
still very expensive window
we arrived at the trading house floor,
where we see an open warehouse that
has been converted into several desks
where various merchants
are taking meetings
with various clients
to arrange the shipping of cargo.
Here's where the real money is made.
These merchants understood
for quite some time
that to work with pirates
is better than to work against them.
At a beautiful rot and
gilded Mahogany desk
with a beautiful leather
pad on top, fresh ink
in a crystal decanter
with a long quill pen.
We see a beautiful half elven gentleman.
Wearing red velvet and white lace cravat,
blonde hair slicked back across his head,
cut to a very fashionable coif.
With a rapier at his side that is gilded
but has clearly seen some use
unlike many of the rapiers with, accompanying
the merchants in this place.
Mr. Langley Sheffield-Harrington
looks at a small family
of kenku in front of him.
A mother and father with
three young children
wearing simple, coarse
linen pirate clothes.
They look like a family of
deckhands from Mast Hearth.
Their papers are scattered out
on the desk in front of them
as Mr. Sheffield-Harrington goes over them
reviewing these documents here,
signing things back and forth.
Mr. Sheffield Harrington is accompanied
by an individual that
punctuates all of the
merchant lord's statements
with a certain muscular gravitas.
B. Dave Walters, could you kindly describe
the gentleman standing
behind this merchant?
- I would just like to say
I wanted to stealth into this place
and my very first roll of the campaign
was the natural 20 so,
there's nowhere to go but down.
Marcid the Typhoon is eight foot,
350 pounds of lean lethality
and he stands there looming over
Monsieur Langley Sheffield-Harrington.
Looking down his nose at these weak kenku
giving an impressive flex
and just oddly tapping
the hilt of his yklwa on occasion.
Should the lord say he wants birds for dinner.
- You see that Mr. Sheffield-Harrington,
reviews something you see the kenku family
can sort of has their
feathery hands clapsed
as they're looking up.
And the half elven
merchant looks up regards
them for a moment.
Looks up at you, Marcid and says,
My dear Marcid, I've been
reviewing these documents
as diligently as I can
and I am left the
unfortunate assumption that
though indeed it is a
heartbreaking tragedy.
And here he turns his
face to the kenku family,
that's your homes were lost in a fire.
This was in fact a force
measure or as we say,
an act of God or Gods.
I don't mean to inform you,
your religious conviction.
And as such, the
the policy will pay out
to the trading company
as the owners of this domicile.
Although I certainly wish you well
and best fortunes in
securing a new, I assume nest,
where do you live?
And you see that the kenku family looks up,
the father sort of speaks up and says,
right sir, but,
we know that we was only renters
but is certainly we understood
that there was something
that in the case of a
place where to burn down
or something like that,
That there would be some recompense
if it weren't our fault at all.
And you see that Mr. Harry-
Mr. Sheffield-Harrington says,
Of course, it was not your fault
but nor was it the fault
of the Crescent Moon Trading Company.
Certainly, Marcid help me out here.
Is it right that our
trading company should
should be forced with our
margins being as thin as they are
to what purchase a new
home for this family?
I'm trying to do the right thing here.
- Oh, no not at all sir
I mean we'd go broke
if we had to pay off every
down on the luck sob story
that came through these doors.
- You see that Mr.
Sheffield-Harrington goes?
Yes, broke is exactly right.
He starts to unwrap a like
gilded chocolate BonBon.
He's like, we would be
the degree of misfortune.
We have to make a living somehow.
Mmm! A scrumptious BonBon.
- While he's doing this
I look down at the young kenku
and I'm like,
excuse me, you lot
speak by mimicry, right?
Like you repeat words you heard.
- Yeah, it's a bit of a nervous
tic that we repeat words
we heard words we heard, yes.
But, but not generally all the time.
- I lean down and I'm like,
I'm gonna teach you some
words that be useful:
alms for the ppor, alms for the poor.
And also, no sir, I didn't
just filch your coin purse,
wasn't me.
- You see the dad looks over.
The mom's got sort of a
little peasants bandana tied
around her head.
Stands up and puts her
baby in the dad's arms
and goes, right here, sir.
Oh, I understand that
perhaps the laws are that
you don't need to help us none.
But I'll tell you this right now.
You don't need to disrespect us.
It's not, it's bad enough
that you're not gonna help us
but I won't stand for this
and we won't be-
- When she does this I
just draw the Trident
and I just like slam it
down but first and I'm like,
Look, I was on the receiving
end of a false dejour,
what was that word you
said there, false measure.
Went to the bottom of
the very blue sea a day
and came up with nothing but me life
and this here Trident
and rebuild all of it with
the generosity of course
of Monseiur Langley Sheffield-Harrington.
You might still fly
one day, little birdie.
- You see that the dad
just leans over to the mom.
The mom looks like she's
squaring up to do something dumb
and you see that the dad,
the dad leans in and it's like he says,
Bridgit, it's all right, it's all right.
We'll find we'll find
something to do, thank you.
Marcid the typhoon and
Monsieur Sheffield-Harrington.
And he sees that
the dad kind of shepherds them out of there
with the mom still like squaring up
and puffing your chest out,
I swear, these merchants they're worse
than honest pirates, and
she shoves them out.
You see that
as the family leaves,
you see that Sheffield-Harrington
looks up to you and says,
Marcid, you have a way of communicating
to these common folk that's just so clear.
Honestly, whatever we're paying you
we should double it because you
just get the point to across
in a way that I find
escapes me most of the time.
- Well you know, sometimes you just need
the proper punctuation
and I just kind of tap
the trident it twice.
- Yes, as you see it says,
quite a point at the end of the sentence.
- You are witty, indeed
as witty as you are intelligence.
- More like, more like three
points because you know
or maybe it's an ellipsis because,
the jokes kind of getting away from me.
But you see what I mean.
- Definitely landed sir, very clever.
- Marching up to you,
in a kind of sort of paramilitary,
wears this naval uniform
but it's the private navy
of the Crescent Moon Trading company.
This sort of bearded wood elf
who has got like one of his
eyes is a little bit milky
and there's some like
clearly healed wounds.
This guy's been through some stuff
but otherwise a very sort of
like stoic, bearded wood elf.
Handsome looking sort of dark of hair,
sort of sunken eyes a little bit,
walks up, he's got a full
like flintlock musket.
There's a magical bayonet
like a rune covered bayonet
on the end of it.
Walks up and you recognize
this as Lieutenant Mardres.
As he walks up to you,
he arrives at the desk, nods to you,
Marcid, pleasure to see you as always.
- Captain.
- You see, he looks over at
Sheffield-Harrington and says,
Monsieur, we just received word we,
and go ahead and give me an insight check
if you'd be so kind.
- Hand to god that
was a second natural 20.
So now there's really
nowhere to go, but down.
I've expended all luck and fortune
in the first five minutes on
things that are meaningless.
But it's the hand to God
that's what happened.
So, you know.
- Save it, save it, B. Dave.
- It's true, first fight-
One, one, two, one, one, yeah.
Oh wait, I guess with my hang on.
With my bonuses sorry insight, that's a 25.
- With a 25, well, that nat 20, my God.
- I'm like.
- You catch something.
And look, you've been working
for Sheffield-Harrington
for a little while now.
But I would I would
say probably not longer
than probably six months to a
year or something like that.
Probably the most.
You know, Marcid—
- That, that's 10 years in pirate time.
- Right, exactly Mardres is
pretty good at, god on a nat 20
I feel like I need to give you a lot.
on that nat 20 Mardres almost hides it
but stops himself from saying
something in front of you.
There's something that's been,
there something that he knows.
And that Langley knows
that is unknown to you.
Also on a nat 20, I'll go ahead and say,
you've always gotten
the vibe from this dude.
That there's a lot more to
his past than you understand
and in this moment
where he begins to talk,
you get the impression that this dude
is not from Fallinel,
is not from the Elven homeland.
The way he talks, you suddenly
get an impression of this dude
that maybe he grew up on Leviathan
which calls a lot into question
about this military that he belongs to.
You see, he catches himself and he goes,
Monsieur Sheffield-Harrington we,
again clocks you stop
himself, goes back and says,
we passed over the site.
I would say roughly two
hours ago and came up blank.
It looks like it's gone,
perhaps recovered some other
time, some other way.
You see Sheffield-Harrington
gets a rare look.
He's a pretty like, full of
himself and debonair guy.
But he retreats back and this moment where
you suddenly see that this
is like a brilliant dude
you're dealing with and goes,
I see, well, it looks like the easier way
to solve this has escaped
us for the time being.
Does it seem possible that this
asset may have moved in the distant past
or is it more,
and you see that he gets interrupted
and on that Nat 20 continuing,
he gets interrupted in a
way where Mardres can tell
he's like fumbling for something
and helps him get there he says,
very likely that it was recent
perhaps as recent as today,
every indication was that it was there
as we were approaching.
You see there is that sort of like.
- With respect my lords,
I realized you got your
privilege business and whatnot.
But ain't got a tiptoe around
the front of my account.
Perhaps I can be of some
assistance and if not,
loose lips, sink ships.
- Cool, and we wouldn't want to
sink any ships now would we.
Marcid you have requested
oh so politely for
an invitation into a
deeper circle of trust.
And I must say I'm inclined
to grant you access.
Lieutenant Mardres was
referring to an assets
that we were looking
to acquire by means of
well, some operatives.
The operatives have come
up with their hands empty.
There was a object of
some deep value to us,
I don't know how to say it,
on the ocean floor and Leviathan
would have passed over it
earlier this morning during the wee hours.
Now, we've come to find
that it's not there
and we must ask ourselves
if it has been missing,
which we think is unlikely
or perhaps of some enterprising
souls within the Leviathan
might have gotten their hands on it.
This asset is of great importance
to the trading company.
You wouldn't happen to know of any local
junkers, scavengers, salvagers that
might be able to point us in
the right direction, would you?
- I only know all of them, my lord
And I also have some capability
of locating objects on my own.
If I can get a description
of we are after.
- We're looking for some
wreckage of a shipwreck.
I don't know that I'm gonna
go into too much detail
but is there someone
specializing in undersea
acquisition that you trust?
- Trust is a strong word
but I've worked with
effectively in the past, aye.
- Well my dear Marcid, let us the way.
And you see that looks
like Sheffield-Harrington
gets his stuff together.
Mardres gets some merchant marines
and they are gonna
follow you to a contact of yours,
which is going to bring,
go for it, yeah.
- And I do like as they
sort of like gather
like this party here.
I'm like, we don't wanna
think that we're coming
to invade and shut her down, all right.
We need to come in smooth.
- You see that, Sheffield
looks over at Mardres,
Mardres goes, of course Marcid,
these are merely to accompany us
through the dangerous
streets of Leviathan.
When we arrive at your contacts
we will lessen the size of our party.
- All right, it would be a tragedy
if something were to
happen to you out here
in the shady bits, aye.
Come on, try not to clink your
boots too loud, aye.
- You see it, Sheffield-Harrington
turns to Mardres and says,
lieutenant I believe
you have that business
at the Gold Gardens, yes.
And you see that the lieutenant nods
and Sheffield-Harrington says,
very well, Marcid lead the way.
- No, please. I was just
gonna say I do in fact,
lead them to my dear dear
Myrtles establishment.
However, when I'm leaving
I keep an eye out for
the kenku I wanna know
where they end up.
At least what direction they go
so I could try and find them later.
- Awesome, you see the kenku,
oh because they were dealing
with their burned down house
you have their address
or at least where their house used to be
so you know the
neighborhood they lived in.
And actually, you see
that Sheffield-Harrington
puts that address back in his desk,
he locks it but that's
not the biggest obstacle
to you in the world.
And locks his desk up.
As you depart from there
we wend our way away
through Leviathan, falling through
the streets going down, down
through the darkness.
All the way until we reach
the waterline where the sea laps
in through the very
bottom of the Leviathan.
Yes, as you approach Marcid,
you see, yeah
as you get during this deep lantern lit
subterranean ships passageway and see,
Marcid are you nervous about the sea?
- No, just the plague rats.
You see, down in here one nip on your toe
take your leg clean off.
- You see that, your Trident of warning
speaks up you can hear her in your mind.
Alycon you're trying your and goes,
Marcid I'm very worried if we go into here
is very great likelihood that you can die.
You could drown, you can't breath underwater, you know.
And the potions could wear off.
- No, we'll be fine.
Alycon we ain't drowned yet.
We won't drown today
although I hate the water.
- If you feel yourself begin to drown,
you know what you must do, you must
scream for help
as loud as can.
- You know, swim is
what I must do Alycon,
I must swim.
- I have no legs!
I can't swim, I'm an object.
- You don't need to breathe.
I do very much like
tiptoe over every puddle
and things which is difficult
but I've tried to make it seem
like I'm just being sneaky.
I'm like, they put trip wires down here
you know one false move, right.
- You see you get to the
place where the puddle
becomes an open rotted floor
that goes into dark water.
And the aquatic neighborhood of Jetsam,
you and the other marines
are passed potions of water
breathing gulp, gulp, gulp
with a splash, Marcid
and the merchant marines
of the Crescent Moon Trading Company,
leap into the water we to catch to
a vast shrine.
The rotting wood of Jetsam.
The bottom most part of
the bulk of the Leviathan
where the wood is pushed into the seawater
deep below the surface.
This neighborhood is cold and dark.
The shadow of the bulk
of the city above it
blocks out any type of light
other than small little street lamps
in the rotting wood of
bioluminescent algae
and faintly glowing coral.
Within a vast chamber,
we see floating kelp mixed with
holes in the wall and floor
where the actual ocean itself can be seen.
Passing shapes flicker
and this place is filled
not only with the glow of algae
but also braziers of undersea
flame blue watery fire.
And in the back, a throne of coral.
Sharp and spiny we see here in this temple
to the dark Goddess of the undersea.
Strange relics, piles of shipwrecks,
debris sorted into
glittering silver and gold
and perhaps mysteries far greater still.
And the mistress of this shrine awaits.
Aabria could you please
describe your character for us.
- Myrtle is hovering in
the back of this temple.
She moves slowly
and catches just a little bit
of the blue brasier light.
And you see this like dark teal green
that flashes with like silvery blue scales
and the top half of her
is fairly humanoid with these
long beta fish like fins.
Sort of creating this big
crown and like long tendrils
coming off of her elbows.
And then the bottom half of
her extends into this long
almost eel like bottom
and she's 12 feet from top to tip.
And she sort of glides around
and wraps herself around her treasures.
And as she kind of slipped, slinks
away from the brasier light,
you can just see two little pinpricks
of like golden light from
the center of her pupils.
- As Myrtle swims throughout her combo
temple slash storefront.
- It's a temple.
- You, times have been
not as, it's been a little
while since you've found
a really good ship wreck
to scavenge supplies from.
You found one earlier today.
A bunch of summoned like
eels and sharks and stuff
helped you get this stuff
up out of the ocean.
But it had, you haven't
like had even a minute
to go through it yet.
So there's just a huge chunk of like
the wood from the hull of the ship
and some chests and stuff.
I'm not gonna lie it was a smaller ship
with mostly like dry goods and cargo
that have spoiled and fishes gotten to it.
It was not like the haul
you were looking for
but there are some chests
that you haven't opened yet
and stuff like that.
But that's all in a corner,
you're sort of goods for display are here.
And you see over the
corner a giant barnacle.
A huge like crustacean thing
opens and a barnacle merfolk
emerges from the shell.
So it's like long tendril
comes out of this barnacle
that is fixed to the wall
but has the torso arms and head
with its little antenna on it.
Of your acolyte, who is a
barnacle merfolk named Rory.
You see Rory looks and says,
hello, mistress of darkness.
Do you need help sorting through
this wreckage from below.
- Yes Rory I, this is a
even a meager donation
a gift, an alm, to our dark
Goddess is appreciated so.
And then she just kind of
scooped up a big pile of trash.
Sort of litters him in it.
Yes sort through, find the prizes.
- Yes oh, okay. I love
prizes and I also revere
I'm the queen of the undersea
humbly mistress of storms.
Hooray destruction, and you see that
Rory begins to file through trash.
You see approaching
coming into, you hear sort
of approaching footsteps
coming towards your shop.
Or not footsteps I should say
but the bubbling of air
breathers approaching.
Approaching the front
of your shop, Marcid.
- I would say something to
them before we get there.
Also just for the record I
would k*ll and die for Rory.
As, as we're approaching the shop
I just look back at them and I'm like,
mind you're manners lads.
They call her Myrtle
the b*tch for a reason.
If you slight her, she'll
bury it down in the silt.
- You see one of the older pirates
and kind of like a naval uniform.
Sort of like they have a
sort of little air thing
that appears around the nose
and mouth from the potion.
You see he just goes like,
they call, they call her what?
- I think you heard me lad
and if you didn't you will soon.
- Okay. You see Mr.
Sheffield-Harrington says,
very well Myrtle the b*tch let's go.
And you see that the pirate looks over
like another one of the
guards and he's like
am I, are we allowed to say that.
- No that is, that is our word.
You don't get to use it.
- I was not comfortable,
that's that's fine with me.
I prefer not to.
You see another pirate is, you, swear words
that's where you draw the line.
I watched you burn a village.
- You see, any one could have
burned that village all right.
Now, stone face and I just
kind of slap him in the chest.
I'm all like, chin up
stiff up a little bit.
- Myrtle entering your temple
is an old friend Marcid
the typhoon accompanied
by Mr. Sheffield-Harrington and I'll say
two other guards with him.
- She looks at the people
she doesn't recognize
and then her eyes alight on Marcid
and she immediately rushes him
and is sort of like in that eel way,
like wrapping herself around him
and gets weirdly close to his face like,
you're still alive. That's fine.
How are you Marcid.
I say to her in primordial,
I'm here on business love the
fun stuff will have to wait.
- Fine, and she sort of unwraps herself
and then like, drifts
back towards her stuff.
Welcome, welcome to my temple.
- You see that, Mr. Sheffield-Harrington
looks over at this and he's like,
Marcid you didn't mention that we were
making a social call as well.
And Rory, who's like sifting
through trash in the corner says,
whenever Marcid comes
over I hide in my shell
for a good 20 to 45 minutes.
- I grab the Trident and I just throw it
like and I pin it in
the wall next to Rory.
- He just sucks into his shell.
- Yeah.
- He's a good lad.
- We're here on business mistress Myrtle.
We need someone to locate something
from the depths of the sea
and I've been told
you're the best there is.
And I do give her a wink.
- Thank you. Yes, I love
scavenging the depths for
alms to my dark mistress.
Anything I find, I'm willing
to part with for a price.
So what do you need finding?
- You see Monsieur Sheffield-Harrington
purses his lips,
looks over at one of them.
There's like a floating
vase with runes on it
but it's sort of like
attached to a piece of kelp.
That's like holding it in the storefront
and you see he looks and
finds a little like chunk,
a little chip of coral
with a price written on it.
And he's like, yes, quite a
temple you've got going here.
- Do you have a problem
with the way I serve my god?
Because I can drag you down
to meet her if you want.
- I have stepped in it
and that's my fault,
your worshipfullness.
If anything, I'm stunned because I wish
that more religious
organizations worked this way.
It's a way that I'm
intimately familiar with.
- Well, they all work this way.
Just some aren't quite
as overt as dear Myrtle.
- You see, Sheffield-Harrington
approaches you Myrtle and says,
your eminence, your holiness
I was wondering about
a possibility that you
might have recovered
some manner of salvageable wreckage,
perhaps within the past six to 12 hours.
I can't help but dot my
eyes over to the corner,
I noticed that you seem to
have some fresh findings here.
- Oh, those are just you
know, a trifle for Rory.
And she kind of tries to
block it a little bit.
Can I do an insight check to see?
- Yeah, you can do an insight check.
- Just a general sense.
Oh, I got the opposite of Dave's role.
That's a three I got an 11.
- You go to look at this dude and do your
like see which like,
I'm gonna look into your
soul and you see he says,
I believe a price could be arranged.
Snaps his fingers, four more guards
drag floating behind them in the water
and enormous crescent moon chest.
He says we will of course be paying cash
as time is of the essence.
- Oh, well yeah, she
completely drops the act of her
like fins kind of like calm down a bit.
What specifically are you looking for
I just pulled this
wreckage in earlier today
and I haven't had a chance
to go through it yet.
And Rory sorts so slowly for
a boy with nothing else to do
but be on a wall and touch stuff.
- I'm sorry mistress
are you and Marcid done,
can I come out?
- I do go and I just yank
the Trident out of the wall
and I'm like in primordial. I say to Rory,
we're gonna have to discuss
when you keep things to yourself, Rory.
- He pokes his head out of a
little opening in his shell
and you see he goes,
well I'm sorry, there's
a lot I don't understand
about romance between other people.
Everyone in my species can
only breed with someone
if they're within 50 feet.
- I mean, all species can only
breed within 50 feet, Rory.
- Fair.
- Myrtle is cracking
up at this conversation
that the rest of the group can understand.
- I do, I have been
here before even though
I deeply hate getting in the water.
I would like to look
around to see if I clock
something that looks valuable
because I actually may help her
try and hide it if I see it.
- Go ahead and give me a perception roll.
- That's a 24 and I'm
eerily effective right now.
So now I'm like,
I'm really afraid of
our first fight, yeah.
But it's like, like yank this out.
I do sort of like scan to see if I see
what I think they want.
- Cool, you see that,
Sheffield-Harrington says,
my dear Myrtle would be all
right as my men were to browse.
- I can make allowances for Marcid
but do you trust the others?
- You see that he rests a hand
on the giant chest and says,
also, could we put this down somewhere?
We have several others like it outside.
- Go ahead, take your time
is there anything I can help
you with just let me know.
- I'm, just, roll.
Okay Marcid, you see a couple
of Sheffield-Harrington's
guys go over to the wreckage.
You see that there's some stuff in here.
You definitely spot what
they're looking for.
There is a chest in here.
Which is still locked and
you see that one of them goes
to like undo the lock
they're having a hard time
because they're air breathers as well
and they're like floating
around under water.
They go to this chest, you
see them messing with it.
One of them pops the
top, brings it over to
brings it over to Sheffield-Harrington.
You see that there's just
some waterlogged algae rotted
can- something wrapped in Canvas.
On a 24 you see that all
Sheffield-Harrington has to do
is open a little flap of the canvas.
His eyes go wide he closes it
and motions for the man to close the chest
and he says, what incredible good fortune.
My dear Myrtle, it seems that
we have become rather lucky.
This is actually the
item we are looking for.
Would it be possible for
us to make an exchange?
- Let's talk price, yes.
We found your artifact what what was it?
If I may inquire.
- A family heirloom of
tremendous sentimental value.
You see that he snapped his fingers
for the people to open this.
They open the chest, undo
the rotted canvas on it
and you see this is a fragment
of a almost like a cameo
or like a fresco like, like relief.
It's like a partial statue
of carved section of wall.
You see it is of a beautiful young,
like young woman looking up to the sky
in this dappled blue white marble.
Looking up clearly an air breather
gazing up and then cracked
around the edges from
being like moved out of
a wall or something, obviously magical.
- I very slowly approach it
and I just hold my hand up
and I'm like my Lord, may I.
It will help me find it
if it should go missing
and perhaps others like it.
- Please Marcid.
- And I do just like slowly touch it
fully expecting to be shocked to death.
- Give me a wisdom saving throw for that.
- Oh, no.
- Let's, let's say hang on, hang on.
It's my luck might have just run.
No, it's holding, it's
holding. That's an eight.
Wait, hang on. Let me I
looked at the wrong thing.
Sorry, now I'm nervous.
That is an 18.
- 18, you feel rumbling in your chest
like when loud fireworks go off
but a distant thunder.
- Well, I hate the water.
- Rude.
- There's two, I'm sorry
what did you there?
- Did you learn nothing from
your time at the bottom,
your glorious moments, a fleeting life.
The last bubbles of air
drifted to the surface
and you joined my
mistress is dark embrace
and she's crying in the
water, there is denser drops.
- I learned the only thing
worth entering the sea for
is money and then I turn and look at her
and say, and treasure.
- Incredible, you see that
Sheffield-Harrington looks up
and says, your worship from
this time is of the essence
and these potions don't last forever.
We'd love to strike a
deal with you right now.
If we could, name your
price if you'd be willing.
- Yeah, how many chests
did he come in with?
- He has one here but he
said he has more outside.
- Yeah, she's gonna gesture at
whoever's holding this chest
to open it
and like not even make eye contact
just to get it just to
get a little sneaky peek
at how much loot we're looking at.
- This chest has 4000 gold pieces in it.
- Oh, and she looks at the
chest then looks back at him
and then starts fingering
the like large pearl
in her choker.
And I would like to cast identify on like
whatever this object is that's worth
so many thousands of gold
that I'm about to get.
That seems like almost drooling.
- You hear whispers coming back.
The daughter of storms,
daughter of storms,
daughter of storms.
And you see an image of
the distant mythic past
of a princess running across the oceans.
Her feet touching the surface of the water
and a storm cloud that
begins to take the face
of an old bearded king,
reaching a grasping hand
after this girl fleeing
on the surface of the ocean.
Frozen in stone, this is an artifact.
It is an object of deific power
and it can call storms when it needs to.
- And I think she starts
muttering in primordial again,
just so Marcid can hear.
There's only one rule.
She only gives us one rule.
Nothing that affects the
sea or the weather on it.
f*ck, maybe she'll be happy
with the gold probably not.
And she begins again in
common and what if I told you
that this artifact is no longer for sale?
- I would say that the chests outside
are filled with platinum.
- Myrtle come on in primordial
I'm like you could retire,
you could build oher a proper shine.
Please don't find a conscience now.
- Oh.
- I'll help you steal it back.
- Four more chests and we have a deal
and she sticks out her hand.
- Done!
- He shakes, the chests come
in and they take the object.
Sheffield-Harrington looks
at you, Marcid and says,
Marcid we have another
pressing engagement.
I believe that lieutenant Mardres
should be done with his little journey.
- Right, I need to go and dry off.
- As you leave, Myrtle you look at all
of your gold, platinum, everything.
You feel the water get colder,
the floor and the chests
sink away into darkness.
And your temple is filled
suddenly with a 15 foot tall face.
And you see Umberlee herself.
Mine spectral light go,
yeah, there's one rule.
- I'm gonna get it back and destroy it.
- Well, do I know you'll get back?
Dark forces are at work in Leviathan
and even now I can feel them.
And from there we cut
to five six seven eight.
We flash from Jetsam all
the way across the city
to the Gold Gardens, the premier venue
of all things pleasurable,
entertaining and in good taste.
Within the gold gardens
there are hookah lounges
and giant cabarets and tap dances,
places with fiddle music
and tavern, massage parlors,
private rooms for those that wish
for a more intimate audience.
Giant rowdy bars where some were fighting
is recommended some more
fighting is not allowed
to the dealer's choice.
We arrive though, in
the heart of the campus
of the gold gardens.
Small tables with candlelight.
This is up in the Galleyard
district of, Red Light district.
We see our chemical
spotlights hit the stage
a drum roll starts, a
band leader hits the baton
and we hear an announcer come over
with a magically enhanced
voice a little bit of Thaumaturgy
enhances their voice and
you can hear them say,
ladies and gentlemen and
persons of all persuasions
gather around the moment
you've all been waiting for
the pearl of the gold gardens,
sultury songstress of the Seraphim.
You know her you love her.
You've all been waiting.
You see one old pirate who's
got like missing some teeth.
He's like 90 years old he's
got little bandana goes like,
I've been saving up me whole
life to be able to come
and see her perform.
The one the only, Barbarella
Sasparilla Gainglynn.
Krystina what does this adoring audience
see as the curtains part.
- As the curtains start to part,
you see a very buxom lady
standing on the stage
and she's got these gorgeous golden wings
and a dress that look like gold and black
and it goes down and it
almost looks like the colors
are slimming together.
It's really delightful,
as the spotlight comes up
you see Barbarella,
but you can call me Bob.
- That was incredible Krystina, you
see the old pirate in the back,
his eyes go wide he blushes
he goes and starts to
fall back out of the chair
and you see someone goes like,
you see the proprietor of
this place Garthy O'Brien
the half ork aasimar
impresarex of
this full establishment
looks over and goes,
right, someone get that medic, can we heal this-
And you see the old pirate goes,
no, no this is how I want
to go. Let it happen.
And you see Bob, your Celestial
radiance, your wings extending
moats of light, you see
this little old pirate
on the strength of your song alone
only you can see it but almost
like Looney Tunes style,
a like little angelic version of him
kind of like floats out
of his body Halo, wings,
he's got a little harp and
you see just only to you goes
I have never felt
greatest sense of gratitude
the best show, bravo, bravo.
And begins to fly away
you see that Garthy looks
at this dead pirate's body
and goes, right, not again.
Okay, it's happened again.
Someone's, the song was beautiful enough
that someone passed.
Let's get someone in here.
And the audience roars the band strikes up
and, incredible show.
Bob, after your performance as
you are walking off backstage
you can see Cullen this
Dwarven bartender with like,
he's got a mohawk and the
shaved sides of his heads
have like cool Dwarven tattoos on them.
He points at you and starts making
your favorite drink for you.
And a beautiful like, sort of like magenta
and then with like deep
purple Indigo hair,
curling horns coming back tiefling.
You see that she's got a
little like beauty mark tattoo,
black tattoo and a little
heart on her cheek.
Bright red lipstick,
wearing clothing you know
that there is a cantrip active.
It is the only thing
that keeps the clothes
that she's wearing in place on her body.
It is a force of magic to keep her descent
as she runs throughout the Gold Gardens.
She runs over to you this
is your best friend Trixie.
She runs up to you and goes
doll you were incredible.
Your voice, oh my god
when you hit that high c,
I thought I was gonna
go you're so special,
I can't I'm so glad that I wasn't on shift
and I could come see
your performance though.
- I only lost one customer.
It's an occupational hazard at this point.
But you know, it was really nice.
He stopped and said
bye and on the way out.
- Oh my god that's so special.
You know honestly, what you
do for these guys is a gift.
Honestly, I wish that
I could have that with the people
that I work with
and you see that she looks
over waves at someone.
You see that Garthy walks
over at this point and goes,
darling Bobby, oh my sweetheart,
incredible performance.
We love it, listen.
I was wondering if you
could, if you wouldn't mind
going up again at the midnight show.
We have a bunch of tourists coming in from
out of house from high court and solace
and they just showed up.
Do you think a double
performance you'd pull it off.
I don't wanna ruin your voice
wherever you feel comfortable, yeah.
- Well, I really was planning
tonight to, to study my books,
because I think I'm really
really close to becoming a pirate.
- Darling Bobby, listen piracy is,
you've got a real gift lovey
your voice is essential,
it's holy, it connects
us with the primordial
and the celestial darling.
I know that you want, you
have this dream to be a pirate
and ultimately I support you
whatever it is you want to do
but I can't help but feel like well
maybe I'm just sad because the thought
of losing you breaks my heart lovey.
- But just think about it.
I could sing on the sea
and oh, oh I'd just have
so much fun and so many adventures.
But if you need me here I can, I can stay.
I don't have to go now.
- You see that Trixie gets
on the other side of Garthy
and puts her hands on Garthy
shoulders and he's like,
Garthy come on, don't be
such a strict disciplinarian.
Why can't Bob go on an
adventure on the high seas
I bet she'd learned a bunch of new songs.
Come on but listen,
we can take you upstairs and
convince you if you want.
You see that she puts her her mouth close
to their ear and goes,
haven't you ever wanted a devil
and angel on each shoulder?
You see, Garthy sort of
raises their eyebrows says,
listen, if we get 20 minutes
free I'm not opposed to
and we can all put each other
on each other's tabs, yeah
but for right now let's focus,
we've got some work to do.
You see Garthy moves away to
go handle some more business
and you see Trixie
looks over you and says,
listen I was talking to
some people that might know
some other you know like,
pirates they're looking for crew.
I know that you've been wanting
to go on an adventure for a while.
I'm gonna organize a meet as soon as I can
but I got to go upstairs.
I got this guy coming by my room.
This guy is loaded.
I've been seeing him for a little while.
So I'm just gonna go take care of that.
I'll be like 20 minutes
and I'll meet you down here to tell you
what I found out, okay?
- Just, just make sure that
you say something really nice
that makes him feel good about himself
because if he thinks a
really happy thought,
while you know, the stuff then
he's gonna feel more inclined
to like, like you.
- Sweetie, that is, listen
the guys who come for you,
I'm sure want that, the
guys who come from me
want me to beat the
absolute sh*t out of them
and call them nasty names.
So you know six and one
half dozen than the other
but honestly we should
like switch up some time
because I'd like to see
you try to do my thing
and I do your thing because
that would be I don't know,
I think that would be fun.
- Huh?
- You see she gives you a
kiss on his cheek and says,
I'll be right back down.
She scurries off to go to her room.
Bob, as you are in your dressing room,
beautiful vanity, flowers,
notes, people are coming by
to drop off fan mail, more
flowers, chocolates, gifts,
all manner of things. People
that have watched your show.
It's been about like an
hour and Trixie is not back.
And Trixie is not normally like this.
Trixie is, you know the gold
garden is a very small campus.
What's on Bob's mind as
Trixie does not return?
- I'd like to go and talk to Garthy.
- Garthy pokes their head
in, yes love what's wrong.
- I haven't heard from Trixie in a minute
and we're supposed to
spend some time together.
Could you check on her?
- I'm lovey, I'd love to I'm
a little busy, take this.
You see Garthy hands you
the key up to the suit,
up to Trixie's suites.
And come, let me know if she's not
up in the rooms, all right?
- All right.
- As you are looking, investigating,
you've got the key here.
Are you gonna go check on Trixie's
bed chambers, her boudoir?
- Yes, I'd like to go and check on Trixie.
I'm gonna go and I'm
gonna tap on the door.
- Tap, tap tap no response.
- I'm gonna unlock the
door, Trixie are you decent?
- You open the door in
the center of the room.
You see that there is a,
in there's a beautiful
like mosaic stained glass lamp,
like a hanging candle
holder made of stained glass
that has strange runes on it
and is broken and shattered on the ground.
Very clearly magical.
- Trixie, I'm starting to get the feeling
that you're not in here.
- You go and find Garthy.
What I'd like you to do,
and you see they scoop up the broken lamp,
wrap it in a little
bandana and hand it to you
and say it they say forget
about the second show tonight.
You know Trixie best, you know her friends
you know her likes or dislikes
where she might have gone.
Take this to my friend and
you see they write down a name
on a piece of paper.
There's an elder pirate
up at The Ramble, yeah.
They will know what this is
they will know how to find it
and they might be able
to use some kind of magic
to find Trixie, okay.
Can you do me that favor, all right.
- I can do that.
- All right, love.
They give you a kiss on each cheek
by the way, you were
wonderful tonight, incredible.
Be safe, tried to do this
errand without sort of getting
a taste for adventure
more largely in your mouth
and getting sort of
addicted to the lifestyle.
You know what, honestly
one task at a time,
just go talk to my friend
and and we'll worry about
the rest later, all right?
- Sounds lovely.
- You depart and as you depart,
we go up, up, up through the sky,
into the neighborhood of Riggaba
which is the rigging huge
gondolas full of buildings,
houses, windows, all manner of places
that are suspended in thousands
and thousands of sails
that propel the city of Leviathan.
We move away from the Gold Gardens to
in the morning light
scintillating in the sun,
the ropes hanging the creaking of the jibs
and boom arms of this
neighborhood ever present.
We go to a house with no door.
Instead, the entrance is
a little sliding curtain
on a balcony because nobody
needs to access this house
from the ground because
everybody who lives here can fly.
Within a kitchen, where
a lovely little breakfast
of bread and butter things are being made.
We see a wonderful family of blue
and yellow parrot aaracokra,
a mother, a father,
a group of siblings.
The eldest of which is only 18
and we see that the
family is, some members
of the family are singing
as they like wake up
and get to work.
In a round, they're singing
a little happy song.
There's a big symbol of Sol
the sun god up on the wall
and no hooks or pirate
or treasure to be found.
This is a family of honest sailors
and as they sing
Marisha, could you please
describe your character for us?
- Yeah, you see, I'm
just this kind of scrappy
looking at young youthful
pirate or sorry, not pirate.
A parrot person who
loves and respects Sol,
the family's chosen deity.
We all love Sol just sol much.
That's the joke, we say
in the Biscotto family
and you see, teenage aaracokra.
Who has her feathers kind of pulled back
in a messy ponytail and she's
got a little bit of like
molting happening but she
doesn't like to talk about it.
So try to be respectful.
She's trying to clear it
up but you know, puberty
and she's got kind of
scrappy pirate looking garb
but her parents think she's
just going through a phase.
As well as braces that look
like, they were kind of
mish mashed together to make braces.
But it's just kind of wire
and some chunks of wood
that are kind of wedged
in between certain teeth.
This is Sonny, Sonny Biscotto, and Sonny
starts picking up all of the dishes
and looks at her mom, Polly and Roger
and says is everybody
done with breakfast?
You guys know, I have to go
and do some missionary work
in town for wonderful Sol.
- You see that your mom
Polly turns around and says,
oh my goodness that's so exciting, Sonny.
Yes, is everybody done with breakfast
and all your four siblings go,
yes, mom, and you see that they, she says,
and what do we say when
we're done with breakfast?
And you see all your siblings put
their hands together and go,
thank you Sol for this wonderful breakfast
and for our wonderful lives,
keeping the city of Leviathan
with wind in it sails and
sun on its decks, amen.
- You guys are getting so good at that
prayer I'm so proud of you.
- You see, you see that your
littlest brother Dante goes,
last one to get to the
toy chest doesn't love Sol
with their whole whole heart
and they start piling over each other.
And you see Roger shakes
his head and goes,
all right now kids just
remember everybody loves
Sol with their whole whole heart.
Your mom goes over and
puts a feathered hand
on your shoulder and says,
Sonny, I just want you
to know I'm so dang proud
of the work you're doing and
and Sol knows we would
love to meet the pastor
that's helping you out with
this missionary work sometime.
When are we gonna get to meet
this gosh dang mission group?
- Yeah, you know, gosh,
we're just so busy you know
and Sol demands our
full attention you know.
So you know, maybe if the next bake sale.
- She see, she nods and says,
great, the next bake sale
and I just want you to know
that the fact that you've
been going on these missions
for almost eight months now
and we haven't met anyone
and we don't have any physical
proof that's happening.
None of that bothers me and your dad
because when your hearts full of faith
you never have doubts.
- That's so true, right.
Like, faith is just the best.
- It sure is, kiddo. Can't
wait to meet the pastor.
You have a great day out there.
So your mom stuff some
snacks in a little satchel.
You dad sort of straightens
your stuff out and he says,
oh, that's my sweet girl.
You go out there and you
spread the word that hey,
it's okay to live a
life of simple hard work
and never go on an adventure
and never get any respect
and just work and completely
vanish from the world
with no great deeds to your name
and no bounty and no treasure.
That's a good life because
then we all get to be together
simply and humbly in Sol's light.
- I agree, what more could anybody want,
when we have this family, right?
- We are all like, in the other
room all you siblings go,
we are all alike.
- We are all alike.
- I'd like to yellow x
due to my Southern Baptist
upbringing, thank you very much.
- You see Sonny, you take off
from your family's wonderful home.
- I just kind of, I grab my,
I have a little bit of a staff that I have
fashioned with an old pirate
hook and kind of wrapped it
with some rope onto a long stick
and I grab a rum barrel lid
that I fashioned into a shield
but I just kind of take it and
hope that mom and dad don't
really notice and then
you know on the way out just say
like better safe than sol-rry.
Am I right?
- Sonny?
- Yes.
- You take off out through
the skies of Riggaba
fly through, you can—
- As I'm, as I'm flying I just kinda,
let out an exasperated sigh.
- You alight on a balcony
on the newly constructed Ramble.
The old Ramble burnt down.
The Ramble burns down all the time,
people try to destroy the Ramble.
The Ramble is a 12 story tavern.
Not structured like a skyscraper,
like a house that they just
kept building more house on.
It is a monstrous, teetering
house moving castle esque
abomination of porches
and balconies and chimneys
and you land on one of the balconies.
You can still hear hammering and wood
other things like that.
And again, none of this
is like fresh lumber.
This is like recovered
shipwreck they're building
this all out of.
Almost like very "Walrus and Carpenter"
from Alice in Wonderland,
putting it all together.
You alight on a balcony where
you are planning your rendezvous.
And you see above the balcony
a figurehead that you can see
is from the mast of a ship
and it's an old ship.
Ships like this are very rare these days.
It's very few pirates
who keep the old ways,
who keep their word and the code
and who revere the shining
ones, the first pirates.
Now most of those first
pirates, as you well know
we're cutthroats and scoundrels and
of a more villainous sort.
But you see, this figurehead is your deity
and you see that it has
clearly been placed here
waiting for your next
arrival by your old friend.
You see Jane Ren,
goddess of the horizon,
freedom and adventure.
Her divine arm stretched and
pointing to that faraway place
which some say is the setting sun,
some say is the Northern
Star and some say is always
the next adventure.
You see a that a voice
booms out from the shadows
as you alight says,
young mistress Biscotto
I thought you might enjoy
this latest find, a towering
11 foot tall minotaur
in a captain's coat, enormous tri-corner
that's bent a little bit from
the bulge of his horns coming out.
See, his eyes have gone a little bit milky
he can't see as well as he
used to his far is green.
He's got looked at sort
of cows tough beard
from his big old bulls head.
You see that he marks that giant,
you see that his flintlock
is just a small cannon
that was put on like a stick with a handle
sort of underside, greying again.
And he has an old walking stick,
his normally 11 foot tall
frame is more like about
eight or nine feet tall.
He's stooped over with age
but he walks over and goes,
My dear Ms. Biscotto.
- Tulwar.
- Yes, indeed you see this
is your wonderful friend.
This is Tulwar Zuhari-Royce
admiral of the blood fleet
and Captain of the Lady of
Sundering back in the day
but now he sits in The
Ramble and tells stories.
- Tulwar, Tulwar I've wanting
to, I've been practicing
my traditional accent but
what that's not important
'cause when you look at
Jane she is so beautiful.
- I thought you would enjoy,
it's very rare to come across
these old figureheads
pirates mostly don't keep
to the shining ones these days,
the demigods of the open
sea but I thought Jane's
beautiful face would inspire some
I don't know, some thing in you.
I know that you've been
looking for an adventure
for some time.
- Yeah, she's incredible.
Wow, what are we learning today?
- Today we'll be learning
patience, I'm afraid.
And you see that he pulls out,
pulls out a bunch of scrolls,
pulls a table out here and
pulls a chair up and says,
you know, my eyesight isn't great
and me and the other elder
pirates have to go through
James Whitclaw burned the old Ramble down
we're building this new one and
since there's no pirate king
here as he puts this stuff out,
says, there's no pirate king anymore.
Back when there was a monarchy at least
stuff was a lot faster.
Now, there's all this
insurance information
and we have, we have to
get the Ramble insured
and it turns out there's
not that many banks
that want to insure
anything in a pirate city.
- I don't remember anything
in the code about insurance.
I just think we just need to
go back to the pirate code.
- You see, he nods and
sort of from memory says,
right, the only contracts
are signed either in blood
or occasionally in spit, but most,
but that's not how these trading
companies work, I'm afraid.
I'm, so listen today I was wondering
if you could help my old eyes.
I, and you see he looks up
and can sort of see your face
as like another day is going by
without like an adventure or a quest.
You see, he looks up at you and just goes,
Sonny, I'm, I'm very sorry.
You know the world changes and
and I know you believe in
Jane with all your heart but.
- Well yeah, I mean she
was a real person, right.
She was, she was a real person, right?
- No, she was absolutely.
Oh, the pirate demigods were all real people
who either con disordered
or just pirated their way
into deity hood.
It's incredible you know the stories but
Jane Ren was the only of those pirates
who saw fit to share her wealth
with the common folk to make
the sea a brighter place
for those need and
and you see that as the radiant
light kind of wraps around
you in the setting sun and he says,
and you clearly wield her
magic, it is obvious to see.
He says, but you know,
there hasn't been a miracle
from the shining ones in ages.
Adventures don't just
barge in through the door
like they used to.
Barging in through the door is Barbara—
Bob, you have come all
the way up to the Ramble
to see this beautiful balcony.
There is a table with a bunch of paperwork
and you see this ancient
piratical minotaur
and this sort of scrappy,
heroic young looking
parrot aaracokra with a
rum barrel as a shield
and a hook on a stick.
The name Garthy gave you
on this piece of paper was
Tulwar Zuhari-Royce
and you have been directed through
the Ramble to this balcony.
- Oh, hello, hi young maiden.
Welcome to our humble abode.
Am I doing it right, Tulwar?
- You are doing great. I
think the accent is a stretch.
It doesn't, I don't wanna denigrate
the work you've been doing on it
but it just feels like
you're kind of reaching
for almost every word you're saying.
Like I don't have that
voice you know, I don't—
- But you kind of do, I
mean sometimes I mean,
sometimes you can't hear yourself, right.
But you do a little.
- Little bit yes, I understand.
It can, you know what
it's one of those when
it comes situationally
like when you're pillaging
you kind of you know,
like when you've it's it's
very hard to say avast
without sort of saying
avast like that but.
- Right, okay, you need
a situation I got, okay.
- Excuse me.
- Hi, sorry.
- My name is Barbarella Sasparilla Gainglynn
you can call me Bob.
I just needed a little bit of help.
You see I had this friend
and she's my best best friend
and we work together in the Gold Garden.
And I went to a room and she
wasn't in her room anymore.
She was supposed to be up there,
she had a friend of the visit.
If you know what it means and
so I really needed some
help to, to find her
'cause she disappeared.
I thought that she was
gonna still be in the room
'cause we were supposed
spend time together.
But when I went back to the
room she wasn't in the room,
she wasn't anywhere to be found
and I found this on the floor.
And so there was this but I'm on a mission
because I need to find out where Trixie is
and I don't know where to start.
But I thought maybe if I came
here, maybe you could help.
- Did, did you just say a mission?
- You see Tulwar looks
at you Sonny and goes,
easy, easy we don't know
what's happening yet.
- Tulwar this could be a
chance, this could be it.
- Sonny, you're like Paladin
define since you see that,
that the sort of like lacquered wood
of Jane Ren's figurehead eyes.
You could swear for a second
the figurehead turns to
you and cracks a smile.
And you see Tulwar's, all right you see
also Tulwar looks at you and he says,
Oh my God the Barbarella
Sasparilla Gainglynn
I'm a huge fan, I'm an enormous fan.
Incredible, I can't believe Oh my God,
I just my eyesight is not great
as I approached about
the lamp that's amazing.
- I'm, I'm a big fan too.
- What's your favorite song?
- I love that one that you sing
about chips and Leviathan and ships.
- Oh, the ships they go
sailing, I love that song.
- That's the one, it's so good.
It just speaks to me.
- Tulwar looks at the lamp
in your hand for a second
and he has to get real close.
You have to think of like
this giant Minotaur head
and sort of you know, like
big animals near you moving
or like well, he just
sort of has this weight
to his movements, comes down.
Sort of snorts and sniffs the lamp
and as he does so, he looks up and says
this is, this is infernal. Very powerful.
You would need to find
some sort of dark cleric
to appraise or identify this.
This is, this is bad bad magic.
Let me see says, I know
one I could send you to but
it's a risk.
You see he looks up and says, Miss Gainglynn
the woman I'm thinking of lives in Jetsam
deep below the water.
I wouldn't recommend
going there if I were you.
It's dangerous.
- Yeah, very dangerous.
- You could come with me.
You could come with me
and it wouldn't be as dangerous
because there would be
more than one person.
- You pointing it at me or him,
or both but he's just so big.
It's kind of how it's in
your field of vision.
- You know what they say
about minotour with big horns.
They don't have fingers.
- That's right.
They do say that and I've never knew why.
You see Tulwar looks
at you Sonny and says,
Sonny, you feel
that you can go ahead and
accompany Miss Gainglynn.
I wouldn't dare to stand in
the way of Ms. Jane Ren
and her wishes.
- Oh, wait, I'm, sidebar
one second, Ms. Bob.
You're not gonna come with me?
- I'm so old. I'm so incredibly old.
- That's agist to your self.
You are healthy.
- I'm what, healthy.
No I'm big, big is not healthy.
I'm very infirm, I'm listen,
I'm incredibly strong
but if I tried to run
I would probably break a bone.
I'm so old.
- This so demeaning to yourself Tulwar.
- No, well okay how about
this also I don't want to.
How about that?
- Okay.
- I'm going to go inside
and get some brandy
and smoke a pipe and talk about cool stuff
I did when I didn't hurt all over.
- Here's the thing, being an aaracokra,
we're kind of covered in feathers
and feathers and water.
Have you ever seen those,
have you ever seen like a seagull like,
get wet and covered in oil and stuff?
It's not good.
- You see that Tulwar says,
oh, very well.
Well, perhaps staying in Riggaba
your whole life is for you.
Perhaps this adventure's passed what you can-
- I'll come.
- You see Tulwar turns
to you Bob and says,
very well you have some accompaniment
on your mission, Miss Gainglynn.
You see, as the two of
you get ready to head out.
You see Tulwar calls after you it says
and you know Sonny.
If it gets to be hard going remember
there are plenty of people
who would have loved
to have been up here in the air
and the crows keep this whole time
so it's never too late to turn back.
- I can't tell if you're
trying to encourage
or discourage me.
- It's always both and you see
Tulwar turns to walk inside.
And as those words echo of
the people who have longed
to be up in the crow's keep
we cut all the way down.
Deep, deep deep in the bowels of Leviathan
and there is a series of
three holes in the deck.
So we're three layers
down below Galleyard.
And in a tiny ill bedecked room,
looking through a telescope all the way up
at the crow's keep
and the compass points library
with all of its tomes of
lore and wizard craft.
We see a little room decorated
with star charts and symbols
and all the little scraps of things
that could have been gathered
and we see a little boy
looking through a spyglass up
at the places far, far above.
Carlos, could you describe
your character for us?
- Yeah, I guess if I had to
you know, describe myself.
You know, I'm a thinker, I'm a planner.
You know, I carry my keeper everywhere
I got my little trapper
keeper and Velcro sticky.
I think the camera pans
over and shows like
like all his little trinkets on his shelf
like carefully, like
place, like little figure
like pirate figures facing
each other about to do combat.
Two orbs that are used for like
arcane focus are also there.
They're put together like a yo yo
and he's in his shorts and his
shirt from Cannonball High,
which has like a mascot on it
and his pirate coat and
hat that are two sizes
too big for him are on
his bedpost as looks on.
- Cheese you're looking up
there's the compass points up there.
For some people, the path
to wizardry is an easy one
but you only ever had the scraps
you can find your trapper keeper
and cannon court can be a hard place.
And speaking of being a hard place
the door to your room flies open.
Wearing a little pork pie
hat with big bushy mustache
is your father Fitlock Stormcrank
and behind him in a gown that's honestly
way more expensive than
anything in your room
is your mother Keydum Stormcrank.
Your father burst on and says,
Cheese what the hell are
you doing lookin up at the ding dang,
that thing spyglass.
- Cheese scrambles he's just
like trying to like put it
put it away and like put it,
oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, I was
I was just about to find,
I was just about to come out and find you.
What's going on Pops?
- Your mother and I are gonna go see her
on a show and have a nice day.
We're getting some escop
dough and some caviar
and some other things.
But I don't understand for the life of me
why you aren't out there working.
- I'm, this thing. I'm
working wait later on tonight.
I mean, we're not even.
What time is it.
How long have I been, oh, no, I'm sorry.
I'm late, I'm late, I'll go.
I'm heading out of, and he's
like putting on his coat.
And he's like, putting on his hat.
- That's right, what did, and you see that
Your mother comes over and says,
What in the dang, what is this,
you see, she picks up your
trapper keeper and says,
you looking at your
runes and your spells again.
You gonna be a big time magic man.
No, no magic mancy in
this house, all right.
We focused on things that are real,
like crazy doodads and
machines that do cannon
stuff and blow up, okay.
- Yes, mum but, but some
things don't have to blow up.
Some sometimes you know,
sometimes you can get just move it
and like you don't have to put
a hole in it or break it or
or try to sell it sometimes
things are just good and-
- You don't want things to blow up
'cause it seems like you want
your old man to blow up, Cheese.
I'm about to blow up right now.
- No, sir. No, sir. I wasn't.
I wasn't looking to upset you at all.
I completely understand.
I mean, yeah.
Are you kidding me, I'm
totally into blowing stuff up.
I was just, I was just pulling your leg.
I pull stuff up all the time.
I'm, I'd shake up.
I shake up the soda before I open it.
I don't even care anymore.
It's just don't even care, ma'am.
- I see, just yeah, I bet you don't care.
Look, you get to work, all right.
Raise it a kid is expensive, okay.
How I mean, your mother's
supposed to raise you
without an income.
- You're 100% all right.
I've been slacking.
I'm slicker but you are
setting me straight, Pops.
I totally get, I appreciate it.
Don't get don't give up on me sir.
Roll my hat, put my coat down.
- You put on your hat your stuff says,
don't you forget it.
This family you sees as,
you see your mother goes,
if your brother Spaulding
was still with us
you know he would have
taken care of the family.
What a beautiful boy.
Oh, perfect boy so perfect.
Your dad looks to you and says,
Spaulding know what he had
to do and what it took, okay
and you're wearing his ad
you're wearing his coat.
He wasn't messing around with magic.
Go get paid, we are gonna
go see a show, good night.
And you see that slams the
door and they take off.
And Cheese, you see over in
a corner of your room.
There's still the little portrait
of your older brother Spaulding
who has been you know, MIA
for some time.
And you see he's got you
as a little little guy
like on his knee in this portrait.
And unlike your terrible
parents, is smiling
and rustling your hair
and as he always did
have a wonderful older brother.
Cheese, work awaits.
What's Cheese thinking to
do as he as he walks his way
towards his work in cannon court.
- Yeah, I think it's a like a
Charlie bucket scene, right.
Like he's running through
saying hello to everyone like
but like perfectly in
sync with the city, right.
Like as soon as he's
running like it looks like
he's gonna hit this guy but
that guy always bends down
to water his flowers
at this time you know.
So he's like able to jump over him,
he's saying hello to like, the trash guys.
There's always like fourth trash guys.
I always picture like,
Heart, Dash, and the Ians.
- Yes, you see, Cannon Court
is a big mechanical neighborhood.
All the canons of Leviathan are made here.
There's chains and foundries and smelting.
There's like tons of dwarves
and gnomes here so you're
like sliding underneath
moving chains was like
conveyor chain belts
of like buckets of water
and coal moving around.
See a bunch of dwarves
shoveling coal into a giant
furnace all go,
Oi there, Cheese good luck today.
- Good luck to you folks too,
he's like warming his hands
as the coals are like under him,
like, like warming up.
- You run by just like,
there are two gnomes
that are like pilloried in stocks.
You see that they have
like their head and arms
like in the public stocks.
This is Milo and Winnie
who are like they're almost
always committing crimes and so
in these stocks for some reason
but they're a great neighborhood gossips
since you they both
look at you and go like
Hi there Cheese, late again it seems.
- I'm always late Milo and Winnie, hey!
I've been working on, I've
been working on sparkle darts
check it out and like you
cats like magic m*ssile
but he doesn't know like the
name of Magic m*ssile you know
and like he like he like
calls it sparkle darts.
- This incredible also
looks highly dangerous.
Be careful with that, my friend.
- It's gonna be great.
It's gonna be great.
- You squeak through as you squeak through
your arcane focus your
magical yo yo made up of cracked
crystal orbs begins to glow.
Go ahead and give me a perception
check with disadvantage.
- So that is a 11 and
the other one is yeah 11.
- Cool, you dip off to the side.
Your globe starts to glow a little bit
indicating the presence of
a nearby magical artifact.
And normally it like flickers or like,
like spritzes a little
bit with some sparks
at like a scrap or whatever.
It illuminates the entire
passage that you are in.
Something big, not just a
scrap something big is nearby.
You're late, but you
have never seen your orb
indicate anything like this before.
- So he kind of stops in his tracks.
Cheese just like stops in his tracks
and he's just like,
Oh, want me to this is by
oh, I know, the Waldo.
And like that's he cast the
Waldo which is locate object.
So I wanna see if I can find exactly
where this is coming from.
- You, you detect a
powerful piece of magic
up through a little grate
in the ceiling up above you,
you can sense the object
through that great.
It's in a sort of locked
off private dwarven foundry.
Even a regular sized gnome
couldn't get through this hole
but you're like a scrawny 16 year old kid.
You think you could get
through here if you needed to.
- Or I start like stacking
like little boxes from better,
like misplaced or whatever
and try to like, crawl up into it.
- Cool, awesome. You go into it.
There's a place that
like where the thing ends
but you see it there is
an area of rotted wood
there's like a, a plank of rotted wood
that is like partially
folded into the space
that you could dip your head
in it you sort of crawl up
on the spar of wood
but you can peek out.
You are up you're like
about 40 feet up above
this massive foundry floor.
They have like riveted
steel into the floor
to have big crucibles like
we're talking like huge 30 foot
tall crucibles like giant boundary works.
There are all these dwarves here that are,
you see all of them are like
like Leviathan dwarves that have been here
for a long, long time.
So they don't have,
they're not wearing
like armor or like tons,
they've got like tons.
They're like punk dwarves,
they got like tons of gold
earrings in nose piercings.
Their beards are all dyed
like wild pirate colors like
cerulian and lime green
but still braided tons
of rings and jewelry.
You see, there's this
massive dwarf who is talking
to a group of people.
There are about a 30 elven, half elven,
and human naval officers
along with a bearded a musket
and bayonet wielding elf,
a lordly looking half
elf, as well as a bug bear
that we're pretty familiar with.
Marcid another stop on the way,
you and these other soldiers
have teamed up again.
Lieutenant Mardres is here.
At the back of the
group Cheese you see it.
There is a chest the chest
is closed but not locked
and you know that the
artifact is in that chest.
This could make all the
difference in the world to you.
You see the scene unfolding
beneath you though
and immediately get that little that
sort of childlike thing of like
oh, I'm seeing some
serious grown up stuff.
Marcid, you see that Langley is speaking
to one of the dwarves here.
- Can that Dwarf be wearing
a my clerical romance shirt?
- 100%, you recognize this
dwarf as Bowser the broad.
Bowser is this sort of the
format of this foundry.
You see that a, so Sheffield-Harrington
looks over and says,
My dear Bowser I assure you,
this will be the last such
task that we require from you.
You've been paid handsomely
and I understand the crises
of conscience do play a part in business.
But let's please be reasonable,
I can assure you that
the bodies will come to no harm at all.
You see, Bowser goes,
right, it is what it is.
This is the last one, right.
The dwarves go and carry this huge 15 foot
carved copper like tube
but you see it's like sealed on the end
almost like minarets and there
are runes carved into it.
And there are the runes
are carved into the tube
all the way so they're almost
like a cookie cutters looking
into the inside of the hollow tube.
Such that if a candle was lit inside
it would illuminate all
these open runes in there.
You see that, Marcid, you watch
and Cheese you're seeing this as well,
that the captain of this
sort of naval fleet motions.
There is a woman in a deep cloak
cannot see her face cannot see her body.
But you see, the
lieutenant shoves a figure
that is bound and gagged.
That was on her knees.
You see a very familiar looking tiefling.
Trixie is thrown to the floor.
The woman grabs her hand and
doesn't look trying to do this
but grabs across the floor.
Trixie has been like blindfolded, gagged,
hands tied behind her back.
The dwarves bring this tube out
and you see that the woman
draws a black serrated dagger.
Takes Trixie's hands
that are behind her back.
Stabs quickly into the palm of her hand,
draws the blood across her mouth.
Trixie like wriggles her way out of the
binding the gag and goes,
I don't know what all your problem is,
but when Garthy and Bob find
out that you did this
y'all gonna be in a heaping helping of trouble.
The woman just says, I'm
afraid all the Leviathan
is in a heaping helping of trouble.
And lashes this forked
tongue out of her mouth
that stabs into Trixie's neck.
And vomits this flame the
giant 15 foot copper tube
filled with fire and then settles.
The inside is filled with a helix
of this like stable magical flame,
casting light from the runes.
The soldiers come grab
that from the guard.
And you see that Trixie is alive
but just staring ahead and
just goes, Bob? Bobby? Bob.
You look at,
Sheffield-Harrington looks over,
looks at the woman
and Mardres and says,
take her body to the stern
wood with the others and says,
men let's go and get that
tube placed, shall we.
Cheese, you can tell
that they're wrapping up
and can still feel that
incredibly powerful artifact
in the chest.
You know something very bad is happening.
Is there anything Cheese is thinking
of doing in this moment?
- Are they all distracted
from the chest? Are they all—
- It looks this big mag- actually when
that big magical thing is going on,
that seems like the
best time for you to try
to do something if you want to.
- Yeah, I want to try to sneak down there
be a little sneaky sneaky.
Oh god. Okay, Cheese, Cheese, Cheese.
Get down there.
Was trying to like hype himself up.
His brother, like his brother
has always led the way.
His brother super brave.
He was like well known in the neighborhood
unlike Cheese is definitely a soft boy.
He's definitely a little cheez whiz.
So he's gonna try to, he's a gouda boy.
He's definitely gonna try
to like like hype himself up
while he's in that like
little like, vent or whatever.
And try to sneak down there.
- Go ahead and give me a stealth check
with I'll say make this with advantage.
- Cool, 19, oh 21.
- 21, little wizard boy you
like the zip on your yo yo
snap it back into your hand.
You go over the chest, not locked.
I'll say that same stealth check
let's you open it.
You see the daughter of storms.
You see this statue
underneath, it looks big
but you you would probably be like
your full encumbrance to carry it.
But you probably could
lift it if you needed to.
- Can I get out of this
room, did I jumped down or?
- You did jump down but you could climb up
back the way you can.
- Okay, Cheese's like oh,
oh, oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Like looks darts left and right
and then like, and then
like heads heads back.
- Cool, you're like.
Go ahead, I'm gonna say.
Go ahead and give me an athletics check
and then I'm gonna say give me, give me
an athletics check first.
- Five.
- Give me, okay
give me a stealth check
with disadvantage.
- There we go.
First one is pretty good.
Second one, 10.
- Okay, I'm gonna be generous here. Cheese—
- And that is under my passive perception.
- 10 is under almost
everybody's perception.
I'm, Cheese I'm gonna be generous here.
You make it all the
way up back to the hole
up near the roof that you climbed out of.
You've got this thing
like strapped to your back
this giant block of stone.
You get up, pull yourself in
but that rotten piece
of wood fully collapses.
You are hanging into the wall and
a huge chunk of the wall just collapses
and slams into the floor.
The entire foundry turns
and looks right at you.
Hanging 40 feet up in the air
with the stone, Langley goes, oh,
the stone Marcid my good man,
could you catch and k*ll that child?
- Absolutely sir, I hit
him with Hunter's Mark.
- Did you see this bug bear hit you
with some spell, you're marked,
and what a Cheese what do you do?
- Do I still have the stone in my back.
- You have the stoned you no one else
can get up here quickly.
So you have your runaway passage.
You can run if you want to.
- Yeah, I'm going to cast,
I don't even know if I have time to do,
control all delete. Invisibility.
Run as fast as I can like,
like start shimmying through
because I know they can't go through that
like they're way too
big to go through this.
- Yeah, Marcid is gonna
have to find another way
to get through here.
So you've got a big head start
but you got some spell on you.
- Yeah.
- Terrifying bugbear by the way,
the moment Marcid moves he
is vanished from your sight, right.
- Okay Cheese, you chained for this
is like he's freaking
Bruce Willis in "Die Hard"
going through a vent.
You got this, you got this.
- Incredible, you just flee into Leviathan
just like looking for a place to hide.
You can't go back home,
your parents will probably
kick you out onto the street
if they find out that you stole some thing
that a person coming to hunt you.
You're just like fleet as you can.
You run as fast as your legs can carry you
all the way through Cannon Court.
Just terrified out of
your mind until you arrive
in a neighborhood in your
have never been in before
you're in The Bilge.
This is the dark rotten underbelly.
This is a neighborhood
that some say is haunted.
This is where the people that
can't exist under the daylight
come and hide away.
Here's where the
lycanthropes the vampires,
all manner of folks that live
better away from the light
of the sun.
You're running, you get
to a part of The Bilge.
That you feel cold
and there's like mist.
You're deep in the shipwreck city,
like you're probably like five, six, seven
decks below the surface.
And you begin to hear music lilting.
Lilting around you, you
can't even tell necessarily
who's singing it but you hear this song
begin to echo throughout
from these ghostly voices.
You hit something as you're running
and a towering figure in the cold mist
turns around to regard you.
Matt, could you describe
your character for us.
- As you look up
in the kind of darkened atmosphere
the mist just barely parting
as you see this towering shape,
slowly turning around to kind
of meet your direction you see
about a six and a half
nearly seven foot tall,
humanoid rat, one of the
various rat folk that live here
on the bilge, and in the bilge,
but on the Leviathan as a whole.
But this is the largest
rat man you've seen
in your time here on the ship.
You see his, his legs
themselves are long and spindly
but the torso itself
widens toward the shoulders
meet with this giant muscular upper body.
You see bits of kind of
tattered deckhand clothing
and this kind of long gray mustache
that drags from the end
of the older rats snout.
This, this is a rat poking
there's his later years.
Probably in what would
be the human equivalent
of his late 50s or so.
With the green rag tied
over the top of his head
kind of sunken dark haunted eyes
and you see kind of held by the right hand
hanging over the shoulder
a massive thick piece of wood.
Almost like a like a support
or part of a mast that he kind of clutches
and hangs one arm over
as he spins back over
looking at in that direction he goes,
Right, right, so... Hello?
- Hello, excuse me I'm sorry.
I seem to be a little lost right now.
You know you, you look busy so I'm
sorry sorry whatever
you're you're building
a house or something,
I gotta go.
- Right, as he go to turn
the other hand kind of just reaches out
and grabs the top of the stone
and just holds you in place as he goes,
no right, right just wanted to say hello.
- Hello, my name is Cheese.
My name is cheese. What's
your, What's your name?
- You see like a small smile
kind of curl across the face.
My name is Jack.
You, you ain't running from me are you?
- No sir, no sir wasn't, I wasn't running.
I wasn't running from you at all.
Just I haven't been in
this neighborhood before.
So you know
around, there were also carolers
or something I don't know.
- As you say the carolers thing you see
the mist kind of swirls.
Jack you're grabbing this stone
and you flash to something for a second.
You just flash for a moment.
First of all, you see for a moment
translucent hands placed themselves
on your hand wrapping around the stone.
Cheese for a moment you feel
the stone become lighter.
Two years ago,
Jack your ship is in pieces.
You cannot tell which way is up.
You cannot tell where the air is.
It has become more than water
it is foam and wreckage.
The waves in the sky have intermingled
lightning and thunder is everywhere.
You can't tell where to swim to get air.
All of your dreams, your life everything.
Something is moving away from you
in the madness, chests, crates, cargo.
A chest you don't recognize
it opens it opens for a second.
You see a face in stone.
You see a face in stone and then
the wave is on you and the
mast that saves your life
in your arms.
This moment of horrifying relapse of
a vision of this traumatic experience.
You're back your hand on the stone
as you look beneath it
you see the face you saw
in the water in that stone.
- All right, you little one.
Where did you, where did you find this?
- I just, I picked it up I found it.
It was in a chest I, but no one was there.
I mean it's probably mine.
You know it, they called me,
yelled for my, for a minute
you know I should be on my way.
- At this point you watch as
Jack kind of puts his hand over
the mouth of the child for a second. Shhh.
- It's like my entire face like he just
pumps my head like a basketball.
- Jack kind of stands
up a little more upright
from his hunched position,
his usual posture and
glances around the space.
Shouldn't be out here holding onto
something quite as dark as that.
Come with me, and kind
of releases his face.
And without dragging him just
kind of lumbers off to a nearby alley.
- You begin to move.
- The scenario is really weird, but okay.
- You begin to follow this dude
who seems to recognize this stone somehow.
As you are walking through the neighborhood
you begin to come through an area
that is less kind of catacombs
and more full ships holes
that have been hollowed out
and are now filled with
shacks and tenements.
So weirdly, it's almost like
a hilly neighborhood again
because the swell of like ships
inner keels like the
inner hall of the ships
makes it a more natural geography.
And this little ram short
like there are some tenements
with multiple apartments.
Jack as you walk along,
you see that there are
like little buckets of tar
that had been left out and like hammer
and nails have been left out in places.
Cheese as you look over
you see that a mother
wrassling, like this rat folk woman.
Who's wearing like a washer woman's dress
and has sort of a little
bonnet around her head
comes out with a little linen shirt
sort of pirate shirt and
little shorts, little rat boy.
They come out with a little mending kit
as well as a crust of bread on a plate
that they and you see the little boy
has the plate and you're probably
like half a block away from this.
Little boy walks out to the
to the sort of curb side
as much as this like wooden
street has a curb side.
And it goes to put the
plate down and looks up
and Jack the little boy
meets your eyes and goes
and you see the mother
just quickly pinches
his ear and says,
don't look at him boy.
Just leave the food, leave the mending kit
and walk back inside.
And you see that the boy sort
of mutters an apology and say,
Mom, I'm not cursed, am I?
She says no no, just get back inside.
- Yeah, cheese is just following behind.
He's super nervous and when he's nervous
he keeps talking and chattering.
I imagine it's something very similar
to like you guys ever see
the movie "d*ck Tracy".
d*ck Tracy with the kid.
Like where the kid just keeps talking
like that's what's happening and like,
I'm so this wher you hangout,
this is a pretty cool spot.
And then like sees like
the kid runaway he's like,
oh my god.
- For every major
question that comes up to
the only response it gets is.
- Pretty cool, pretty
cool like a lot of nails.
Nails are cool they hold stuff together.
Are we going far down, are we going out,
do we have, should I
call someone should I?
Maybe I should.
- You're a bit far to be calling someone
around this parts here child.
- As Jack passes these offerings
what sort of what's,
what's like the expression
on Jack's face as he's
passing these places
and is he stopping or is the stone sort
of more important to him right now.
- I mean, he gives he
gives us a sidelong glance
and kind of step pauses for just a moment
and he gives us the
tail end of a mild sigh.
Before he picks up his step once more.
kind of takes a piece the
bread and keeps walking.
- There was a whole plate of muffins
we should I mean, it looks good.
I would have take it.
I haven't had muffins since forever.
I mean, you can't really floored
those types of blueberries
where I come.
- I have lost my appetite, let's just say
keep walking child, that's been taken.
- You move further into The Bilge
and you arrive at a small dwelling place.
Matt, what do we see when we enter
Jack's dwelling place here
at the edge of the Bilge.
- This ragged hovel, that constitutes
largely one singular chamber
of about 10 by 12 feet.
It is, it is not too
terribly dirty necessarily.
It's just rough, it's barren.
You see a single bed that
is obviously too small
for this, this poor fellow.
You see, it looks like a
a portrait on the wall
of two older rat folk
that itself is kind of just weathered
and starting to mildew on the bottom.
You see there, it's a
rope slightly sagging
from one corner to the next.
Where little trinkets
hang from like fragments
and in pieces of broken wood.
And you see there is what
looks to be one rather
unsightly collection of kind
of a greenish brown mold
that is gathered on the far corner
across from where the bed is settled.
There's a table with a single chair
and a couple of small
kind of scattered boxes.
It is, it is a very sad space.
- You enter the sad space and again
the temperature around there's, there's
just kind of chill in the air.
And for a moment in the
port like sort of the sheen
or whatever metallic
substance there is here.
It's burnished like sort of brass.
So it's not like a clear reflection
but for a moment almost looks
like there's other figures
in the room in the reflection
from the small little candle holder.
You, this sort of this dank
smell and you see over in a corner
there is a thick growth of mold
of this like again thick,
just like lack of care
in this place and you hear a voice say,
oh welcome welcome to the masters return.
And the mold you hear a little like
as two eyes open up in the mold
and a mouth kind of heels open
and you see that this mold
looks up and goes.
Master Jack, back so-
Oh a visitor well, let's put out a spread.
- By all means Stimey
but we've got seemingly
important matters to discuss.
Close the door behind me
if you don't mind child.
- You see that Stimey,
like you know how mold is
like if you can see it,
there's way more behind
it that you can't see.
See Stimey grunts with
effort and some fungal stuff
in the hinges of the door
like pulses like muscle
and closes the door.
- Okay, love, love what you,
love what happened to your place.
This is a pretty cool, hey,
I'm, your friend's name.
My name's, my name is Cheese.
- Have a seat and he kicks the one chair
over in your direction it kind of
skids right towards you.
He turns the large piece of mast over
and set it on the ground
and then sits on it like a bench and goes.
Name's Jack Berkow, handy man.
I've seen that stone
on your back there and
I don't like it.
How did you come about such
a strange artifact there boy?
- Well, I'm new to it.
It's brand new, so I haven't
had time to like work
work out anything so how
it's gonna affect people
I didn't know.
I honestly didn't know
so I apologize in advance if you're,
if it somehow offends you in some way.
I can read all those things on it.
I found, found, found it. I found it.
I found it because it's mine.
I found it because it's mine.
- He leans in a bit and the
faint bit of candlelight
kind of just quivers and darkens ever
so slightly as it kind of under lights
the older rat face as
it leans towards him.
You carry a piece of ill omen you do, boy.
Wherever you found it, either
be placing it back
or keeping it far from
the hands of those here
on the Leviathan, lest it befalls
the fate that I have.
- As you say ill omen,
Cheese you hear sort of often
a distance like.
And both of you hear
rumbling of distant storm clouds.
Myrtle you are within the temple
the vision of Umberlee fills this space
with rage you see that she,
she begins to sort of fade says,
find them, find them who have it
and find who it was.
That brought it on this
ship in the first place
and vanishes, you see
Rory looks over and says,
my mistress it looks like
the lady with the big head was so angry.
- Yes Rory, she was justifiably
filled with rage from the
ill omens, the bad magic.
I will do as our mistress commands.
You stay here guard the,
As she kind of looks at
like the hole in the bottom
of her temple.
Crevasse and I'm going to
go find that stupid stone.
- You see that, as you say that
you see Rory says
okay, funny stone that those
are funny things today.
Funny name for a ship too.
You see that Rory reaches out and pulls
a chunk of driftwood out of the refuse.
You have a piece of driftwood
of the name of the ship
that sank with the stone.
You see on the side of it,
it says "The Late Bloomer".
Funny name "The Late Bloomer"
Blooms is saying flowers
do, anemones as well,
more more familiar with the
anemones and other things.
- She, she wants to be mad at Rory
but he is really cute.
And now that there's no one else around
she's just kind of like,
oh, you dummy. I love you.
- I'm not really bright I'm I?
- No you are brilliant, I,
and she's gonna go and grab it.
Do I have any,
like, would I recognize this name at all?
- You could cast identify on it
and maybe get some more
information out of it
if you wanted to.
- Yeah, let's do that.
- Hell yeah, as your
casting identify on it,
amazingly two more air
breathers walk through
into your temple.
Sonny and Bob both of you walk
or have gotten water
breathing potions from Tulwar.
You are down in Jetsam
and you both walk through
into the temple to see Myrtle here.
- As she's busy casting this spell
I think this sound of
like even underwater.
It's like echo sound of
bells beginning to toll.
Starts kicking up and she looks
and she looks up and
her eyes are jet black
as she is beginning to cast toll the dead
'cause she wants to be
left alone for two seconds.
But she'll stop. Yes?
- Bob and Sonny, you are in
this crazy underwater temple
with these artifacts floating around
and see Myrtle and
incidentally Rory in the back.
Oh, be the mistress
we've been looking for.
- Maybe tell worse right,
I don't know if the accent.
- It's really working.
- Honestly, it's kind of a lot.
- I am Myrtle Templar of Umberlee.
The sea b*tch, what can I do for you?
- Why act like we don't know each other
I saw you a couple of weeks
ago you came on my show.
You looked so sweet, you
didn't even say a word
you just like didn't even do the whole
Myrtle the b*tch thing.
You just came right into it.
I'm so delightful to see your face.
- God damn it.
Hi, Bob. I'm, I was trying to
do a thing for the for the—
- For the boy?
- Yeah, come come in.
Do you, do you need a top
off on the breathing thing
that you all do so often, you good?
- Sonny?
- Yeah, come Sonny. Come on. Come on.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sonny is also like, very awkwardly
just trying with her feathers wet
and trying to like flap swim over
in this very uncomfortable situation.
- So you're not really
descended from those birds
that dive underwater are you?
- No, no I didn't.
Yeah, that's not us, yeah.
- Well now that my cover
is blown, hello Bob.
Hello Sonny, what can I do for you?
It's just kind of chucks the
piece of driftwood to the side.
- So, we're looking for Trixie.
You know, Trixie my friend.
She's really really sweet with the thing.
- Yeah, says mean things if
you give her enough gold, yeah. I'm aware.
- Oh, yeah. I forgot you guys are familiar.
Sonny here is coming with
me, we're on adventure
and we're trying to figure
out what this is for.
Because this was on the
floor in Trixie's room
someone took her
or I don't actually think it took her.
I think she ran off to be a pirate.
So I decided I'm gonna run
out to be a pirate too.
So I'll go on an adventure myself
and I'm gonna take this here bird with me.
You want to come too?
- We're trying to uphold
the pirate traditions
of the olden days.
You know, just like it's really hard
to find good pirates these days
and just a feels like a valuable thing
that we should have as a society
and it just feels like we've
really like lost our place.
You know in Leviathan, sorry.
- That's fine.
You want me to find,
you want me to be a pirate with you?
I got lost, there was a lot of words.
- We kind of, we kind of
makes it up doesn't go along.
- Yeah.
- It's just kind of an idea
'cause you don't really lose your friends
that often to the point where you
just don't see them anymore.
And you just saw him like
20 minutes to an hour
maybe and then all of a sudden that gone
but we can't—
- Okay, I'm just gonna swim over
and put her hand over
your mouth just, okay.
Wonderful, yeah okay.
If I say yes will you talk less?
- Well, you see I just feel like you know
to Bob's point we're
making it up as we go along
and spirit of adventure you know,
that you just kind of don't have any more.
So, I can't really make any promises
and I don't want to speak for Bob.
Of course, I'm I think
there's lot to talk about.
- I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Yeah, okay yes,
I have some work to do
in and around Leviathan
so I'll come with you
and help you be a pirate.
- Myrtle, you can detect
through your pearl
the faint glowing magic of the broken lamp
that they've brought here as well.
And I'll let you do one identify and double up
on the driftwood and
on this thing as well.
- Okay, yeah and I think she
kind of like swims around
and gets very low and
close to this lantern.
And kind of like touches it
and like takes it and what is this?
And yeah, I cast identify.
- So, starting with the broken lamp,
powerful infernal magic here.
It looks like there was something here
that was like bringing out
some expl*sive infernal fire magic.
And also you sent some enchantment magic
around it such that like
it seems likely to you
that if there had been
someone with infernal blood
or some kind of infernal heritage
that this would have
been like enchanted them
with something from the
enchantment school of magic
bound them potentially
in some way or another.
It's also very interesting
because you look at
the sort of workings of this.
It looks like this was mass produced
made that there were that
there was something fairly
and you see a small little
stamp on the bottom of it.
The idea of someone making magical items
in a assembly kind of way.
It's pretty offensive.
I think just to your like whole vibe.
A little mark of a crescent
moon stamped into the base.
- Crescent moon, and I think
as she looks up from it
and makes eye contact
with both Sonny and Bob,
she inadvertently like
crushes it in her hands.
And it just sort of drifts down
and becomes part of like the
drifty rubble in her temple.
- Oh, we were, it's fine.
- It's something that if where did you,
where did this come from?
- That's what I was trying to tell you.
When we went to look for
Trixie, it was on the floor.
- This has powerful compulsion
and enchantment magic.
I, and that crescent moon.
Where do I, where have I seen that?
- Oh, like that company.
The crescent guys you know
the guy with the big guy
and the other guy that work in the town.
Crescent uh, crescent...
You know is that, moon is it?
- Yeah, looks like we need
to go find my friend Marcid
and get to the bottom of this.
- Do you guys like,
how does everyone in this
town know each other.
I haven't met any of you all before.
- I get why we haven't met.
I'm assuming you live in
that cloud or something.
- Riggaba, there's I mean,
there's really only clouds
on certain like low pressure
you know, storm front days
but I wouldn't say I live in a cloud.
- Myrtle the last identify is you also get
the last owner of the ship
because you have literally
where the name was on
the prow of the ship.
The last owner was
a man named Jack Berkow.
Who you know because
you love cursed things.
This is one of the most
first dudes in Leviathan.
- Oh Jack, it's finally
time for us to meet
this will be sweet.
All right, I'm in.
- Which, which lead are you
kind of heading after first.
Are you heading after Marcid
or are you heading after
Jack for the moment?
- Let's go find, sh*t.
I like Bob a lot.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna follow up on Marcid
and get to the bottom of
Trixie being gone first.
- Hell yes. You take off after Marcid.
I'm sort of again using magic
to find your way there your
your pearls are good at finding treasure.
And because you gave Alycon
the Trident of mourning to Marcid
you can always just find Alycon
'cause Marcid is impossible to find.
So, Marcid, you have arrived in The Bilge,
you are approaching Jack Berkow's place.
You know your quarry is in there.
- Can I.
- Go for it.
- Can I see the kid through a window?
- Jack I don't think, you have
windows in your response, no.
- No windows it's just straight wood.
- Just straight wood,
it's like a sad f*cked up cell.
You're looking at a
not great living place.
- I need to wait for them to come out
because basically everything I do relies
on the element of surprise.
- How about this, speaking
of the element of surprise,
speaking of the element of surprise,
you are pretty damn
surprised to watch Myrtle,
Barbarella Sasparilla
Gainglynn and Sonny Biscotto,
walking up with the look of people
almost like people that have like
a GPS thing on their phone and like.
- If I know their coming and
they're gonna ruin everything
the hunters mark, do I
know like the nearest wall
that it is near?
- Yes, you do.
You either have to do the hard thing
of like busting through the wall
or you have to you can wait
for this kid to come out
because it looks like, yeah.
- I know she'll she'll find me.
Well actually I get in position if I feel
'cause I really cannot overestimate.
Everything I do requires
the element of surprise.
The moment they tip
anybody off that I'm here
I'm kind of ineffective.
So awesome, Jack and Cheese.
Hey Jack Cheese, as you are,
As that thunder rolls
you begin to hear voices outside
of Myrtle, Bob and Sonny all approaching.
- Yeah, this neighborhood man
is really creepy neighborhood.
I haven't really been down here.
- Are those your friends?
- I just wanna clarify that
Myrtle is in like little watery spheres
and she's curled up in it.
And she's kind of deriving it
like a little watery rascal
and she looks like,
like all of her stuff are droopy and saggy
and her makeup is the
opposite of waterproof
it's not air proof so it's
all like melting off— awful.
- As he's asked this question,
you see Jack has perked up, kind of ears
turning that direction goes,
sorry child I don't have friends.
Stand back and kind of puts
a big arm out in a motion
to kind of get the child
behind him with the stone.
- Rad, cool.
You guys are approaching.
So you three are looking for Marcid
but Myrtle you also know
this 'cause you're like,
why are we near Jack right now.
You know you're near Jack as well,
so Marcid, you see them approaching.
Looks like the people
inside are not coming out.
Go ahead, I'll just say give me a DC,
it's not, it's pretty rotten.
So just give me a DC 15 athletics check
to bust through the wall.
- That is 19, so aye.
- Incredible, Marcid,
you bust through the wall
rather than rolling initiative.
I'm gonna look into dissolve
this attack really quickly
but I will say make your attacks
with disadvantage because Jack
put the kid behind me
put Cheese behind him.
- I will say Cheese has his yo yo out
and he's like building up steam
like walking the dog like waiting for it.
- Is 22 enough to hit you.
- Almost 100% yes.
- Right.
- Yeah, he hit me twice with that number.
- But at the Trident though like boom.
For 28 non lethal.
- 28 non lethal is exactly
enough to put Cheese out.
They call it Marcid The
Typhoon for a reason.
He blows down the wall,
knocks it out the butt of a sphere
and in the sort of spray
of debris and rubble
Myrtle, Sonny and Bob are all framed
in the hole in the shack wall.
Being like, oh my god, Marcid's here.
- I just look at them for
a second and I'm like,
Jack Berkow, it's been a dog's age mate.
- Jack has after kind of sitting
up to push the child
behind, watching Cheese
just get knocked the f*ck out by
seeing Marcid immediately just reaches out
and grabs the mast
and picks it up in a
defensive position and goes,
I ain't gonna ask but I'm
certainly gonna return.
And I'm gonna go after Marcid.
- Sonny, Bob, Myrtle, you
watch as Marcid The Typhoon
and poor Jack Berkow go at it, mast and you see
Alycon the trideny say,
master I think we are in a great deal of trouble.
You've lost the element of surprise
and this man is cursed to
be virtually unkillable.
- I think I know that I might
be in danger girl, you know.
- And with that we are going to
conclude our first episode.
As all the Pirates of Leviathan have come together
deep in the Bilge around
the daughter of srorms
and our little Cheese is unconscious.
- Little cheese!
What new adventures wait? Tune in
next week for pirates of Leviathan.
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06x01 - A Heaping Helping of Trouble
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A tabletop role-playing game show produced by and broadcast on Dropout and created and generally hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan as the show's regular Dungeon Master.
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