I have the Scrying Eye. MATT: There you go. SAM: (singing) Scrying eyes-- ALL: (singing) -- are watching you. SAM: (singing) They see your... MATT: Anyone have the item card for the-- MARISHA: I have it. MATT: Oh, you do?
Great. So yeah, it allows you to basically do the equivalent of a scry spell once per day. MARISHA: Once a day. MATT: Yeah, all right. MARISHA: Do we want to do this here? LIAM: I think as soon as possible. TALIESIN: I think the question is, do we tell them and see if we can enlist some help with this now or wait until after we know-- SAM: Tell who? MARISHA: I mean, this is going to take me ten minutes. This is going to take me a second. SAM: Let's find out where she is. If she's still in the city, we can maybe hunt her down and track her down today. TALIESIN: Do we get any help before we do that, though? From her employers? LAURA: We'll talk to... Treev? MARISHA: You guys figure it out, I'm going to start scrying https://oncasinogames.com/canada/roulette/. TALIESIN: Figure out where she's going, what she's doing, how many of them. All these things. I'm sorry. LAURA: Percy, we'll find her. TALIESIN: That's what I'm worried about. MATT: All right, so without the gun you don't get the bonus from the item focus. MARISHA: Oh, fuck. MATT: But you also have the gun not in your presence. MARISHA: Do we want to have the gun for this? Actually, yeah. I'll do that. I'm going to go in the other room, grab the gun, and scry. LAURA: I'm going to go sit with you while you scry. MATT: Okay, you go into the room, and as you walk toward the bed, Trinket growls at you. LAURA: Trinket. TALIESIN: I have another option. I have another option. We still have her notes. We still have her notes. MARISHA: Does anything help? MATT: I mean, an object of which has some close contact with the individual could help, yeah. MARISHA: Sure, whatever. TALIESIN: It is her diary notes of how to build my gun. MATT: Yeah. You can use that instead, if you wanted. LAURA: So we're not in the room with Trinket. MARISHA: Can I use both? MATT: They would not overlap. MARISHA: Oh. LAURA: Trinket, you keep doing your thing. MATT: (bear noises) LAURA: All right, let's go back to the other room and let's get something else to-- MARISHA: I don't know, what do you think would be better, her notes or? TALIESIN: Her notes. Let's be safe. MARISHA: Okay. I'm going to use her notes. MATT: Okay. That will add five to the DC modifier. So what's the DC of the spell? MARISHA: My spell save DC is 19. MATT: All right, so now it's 24 to try and resist this, as I throw my d20 into oblivion. Fuck that dice. I didn't need it. LAURA: Do you want one? I have a bag. MATT: You know, I'll use the big one, then, that Chris Perkins gave me. TRAVIS: And thus ends Vox Machina. MATT: DM power. All right, then. This is now Ripley's wisdom saving throw. Hm, okay. TRAVIS: (laughs) Hm. LIAM: Interesting, interesting. LAURA: Does that dice go to dice jail? MATT: No. As you sit down and focus, you take the small object in your hand and concentrate with the notes in front of you, and you find that thread of connection between your memory of Ripley, as fuzzy in some places as it is, you have a very clear image of the moments you guys met in Whitestone. The notes, you connect those threads, focus on the object, and then you guys watch as Keyleth's eyes dart open once again, clouded over and white. Your vision pierces above. You can see your consciousness thrust through the clouds, white clouds passing by, passing by, and then your vision comes back down through the clouds, only instead of the desert, instead of the mountains, instead of anything in the nearby area, it's just ocean. Just ocean. LAURA: She's fucking finding another one. MATT: Waves seem endless around you. MARISHA: Oh no. MATT: You emerge once more, your vision moving before, only now there's a torrential rain surrounding you, lightning, thunder clapping. You are in the center of a very, very heavy storm that is tearing across this ocean expanse. A boat creaks, ropes swing, and you hear voices yell. A crew barely holding it together. Standing on the deck, hooded, you see Ripley, calm, and looking out into the horizon. She smiles from beneath her dark leather cloak, a shimmer of blue energy dimly crackling across its inner lining. A voice yells, "Nothing yet!" And her eyes dart up to the crow's nest, then back down to her weapon, a handheld firearm of slick design, but familiar function. Six barrels. LIAM: Oh, snap. MATT: Lightning flashes once more in the distance, followed by a very, very nearby crack of thunder. The boat lists for a second as a wave passes under it, and it catches itself again. She runs to the deck to look out across the crashing waves, and the vision fades back. LIAM: That was magical. TRAVIS: That was hot. That was hot. SAM: Is there any ocean in town? MARISHA: Bitch! She is a-- I grab the gun-- you are a piece of shit! LAURA: I thought the gun was under the bed with Trinket. TALIESIN: You've literally just grabbed my hand and are yelling into it.
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You head back up to your rooms, and you have a relative private space to go ahead and discuss the next portion of your plan. SAM: Do we leave the gun outside the room? TALIESIN: We have more than one room, right? MATT: You have three rooms.
TALIESIN: Can we leave the gun with Trinket in the other room? MARISHA: I don't know if he's qualified to handle firearms. TALIESIN: That's precisely why I want to leave the gun with Trinket in the other room. LAURA: He won't shoot it. He'll sit on it. Is there a safety? TALIESIN: It's not loaded, it's all right. SAM: You could always put it in the Bag of Holding. LIAM: I mean, Percival, be sure there's nothing in the gun, please. TALIESIN: It's so complex to make it work, it's fine. MARISHA: If Trinket shoots himself in the ass... TALIESIN: It would be very funny, but-- LAURA: He won't. TRAVIS: What do you want to do with it now? What's the plan? TALIESIN: We're going to leave it with Trinket in the other room for the moment, and we're going to discuss things. Leaving it under the bed with a bear in the room. LAURA: Trinket, sit on the bed. MATT: (bear noises) LAURA: If anybody walks in the room that's not one of us, well. Make them very scared and make sure they-- SAM: Shoot them with the gun. LAURA: (laughs) Shoot them with the gun. MATT: Licks the side of your face and gets back in a restful period with the front of his paws and his head leaning over the edge of the bed, and the bed itself is bowing under his weight. LAURA: Don't you fall asleep. MATT: All right, so you guys head to one of the other rooms, then? TRAVIS: Yeah. MATT: Okay. You guys close the door behind you. TRAVIS: Should I keep watch outside? LIAM: Yeah, that's a good idea. TRAVIS: I'll stand watch outside. MATT: And you do, Grog. This hallway is yours. LAURA: Don't you fall asleep, Grog. TRAVIS: (snoring) MATT: All right. TALIESIN: I think we need to tell her employer that we are not responsible. As we were the last people to attempt to employ her, suspicion automatically falls on us, and we need to let them know immediately that it was not us. LIAM: All right. Should we scry now, though? MARISHA: I have to study and then sleep on it, because that's how my process works. (laughter) TALIESIN: Fucking method. LAURA: Okay, yeah. MATT: You do have an item. MARISHA: Oh my god! I have that thing you gave me. LAURA: The ball, yeah, that I gave you. TRAVIS: You have one ball? LIAM: You have been holding out on us. LAURA: Just the one ball, though. MARISHA: I have a secret. SAM: Vax's face. LIAM: It's not necessarily a bad thing. Anything is workable. Stupid. TALIESIN: Bless you. MARISHA: What is it that I got? I have a little ball-- LAURA: The ball of seeing. The ball of scrying. MARISHA: Scrying Eye! You all eventually make your way to the end of the secret tunnel, Vax leads you up at times when it's least likely to be noticed in the alleyway, and eventually you all make yourselves up into the top, close off the entrance, and then are hiding off, and then carefully, nonchalantly make your way into the main thoroughfare up here. And it isn't a large street, it's one of the secondary side-streets. Occasionally you have a person that comes by with a large cart, or a couple people walking arm-in-arm, but no one seems to pay any attention or notice your alleyway entry, and you have successfully obscured yourself within the rest of the denizens of Ank'harel.
TALIESIN: Can you find her without her knowing? MARISHA: I mean, all magic has a risk factor depending on-- SAM: We have to look. Otherwise we have no leads at all. LIAM: Let's head back to the Debt's Respite. LAURA: And get ready to leave, because we can't hang around-- TALIESIN: Talk to her employer so they know it wasn't us. SAM: Wait, wait. Should we not scry from a different place than the place we're staying at? TALIESIN: It's the place that she knows we are already. TRAVIS: True. TALIESIN: She knows exactly where we're standing anywhere we're holding the bloody gun. TRAVIS: And when we do, we should set a little ambush in case it sets off any alarms. LAURA: Can she hear us? When you scry, can you hear? SAM: Yeah, you can. MARISHA: I can hear, but I don't think they can hear me. It's like looking through a little window. LAURA: Yeah, so if we're talking about her right now, she can hear-- MARISHA: I don't know how this runic magic works on his gun. MATT: Yeah, you're not sure what the actual enchantment is. It's subtle. MARISHA: This is something different than what I would be doing. LIAM: I grab Keyleth's hand and pull the gun over and say, but for now, we assume she can hear everything that we are saying. TRAVIS: Ripley's a piece of shit. LAURA: You're a piece of shit. You're ugly. LIAM: Percival's going to fucking murder you. MARISHA: You're not that ugly. She just meant that to hurt your feelings. TRAVIS: Keyleth, don't soften the blow. She's a piece of shit. MARISHA: But you are a piece of shit. TRAVIS: Nice job. (laughter) SAM: It's The Wire. Except terrible. MATT: Omar's challenge rating 30. MARISHA: Was Ripley a magic-user, did she ever engage in magic? TALIESIN: Not that I really was aware. I didn't know her that well. SAM: We know that she used some magic. She disguised her hand with some illusion spell. TALIESIN: Nothing complex. MATT: She disguised her hand, she also a short distance seemingly teleported or managed to break away from you guys and Trinket to make her escape. TRAVIS: If she's anything like you, she might've paid someone to magically upgrade it for her. TALIESIN: She is like me. LIAM: She's also potentially listening to us right now, I mean, time is of the essence. TALIESIN: Let's head back to the tavern. MATT: Okay, you guys make your way back to the Debt's Respite. |
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