A Better Way Than Maiming and Murdering?!
Season 1, Episode 42I will give you some time now if you guys want to explore the space narratively before telling you what to do or take us into our next step.
I'm assuming. I mean, you have heard it. I didn't dictate how you heard it. I mean, I'm assuming it came through the...
Sun's beating down and I pull out a breakfast burrito and just start eating it on the ship.
You guys could have gotten takeout and you put it right into your pocket, went onto the top of the ship and fell asleep.
Is there not a bad way to wake up, especially after you get bad news about your fake butt radar?
Obviously, I'm pissed because, you know, I was under the assumption that I was a butt radar.
Could you imagine if you look up to your dad and you ask your dad, hey, dad, can I see your wallet?
After Mac puts his pants back on, he looks in his back pocket and sees that there's a business
It turns out that the one, two, three, four, five code is also the code for the mayor of Telusama.
So you don't get, like, the mayor's car, but you get, like, the mayor's, like, assistant's car, which is still pretty good.
Though the paradise is furnished like any other cantina and any other outer rim starport, there's a subtle buzz of business in the air.
Uh, we'll have you know that since you did not bring in the butt radar, that your, your bounty
And it is because if you did, if you had brought us the leader, then we would not be continuing
However, now down to business, new information has come to light concerning the Radarians' whereabouts.
Our technicians have analyzed their transmission, and it appears to have originated on the planet of Ord Mantell.
Our consortium response team has been activated in Whirlport, Ord Mantell's capital, and is awaiting your arrival.
Well, if you had kept her alive like we wanted, we would have been able to get more information
We will happily double the agreed upon compensation if you can successfully complete the next phase of the operation.
Should you decide to default on this contract, I can guarantee the consortium, and Tiber Zahn in particular, will be quite displeased.
He's a big shot gambler who knows things, and I think he'll be able to help you out if you scratch his back.
But I tell you, if you cause too much trouble, I am not going to stick my necks out for you here on this.
He's a near legendary gambler who rose above his humble beginnings and is now incredibly wealthy.
So, um, he gives you coordinates and a time when you're, you're supposed to meet this illo Vanden.
Well, then I want to stop by a casino and try to learn more about the sports that he might bet on.
I would just go in, go into the casino and look at the, look at the bets that are placeable.
Uh, and, uh, people kind of look at you sideways, uh, because they sort of expect that you already know a lot about him.
He's kind of, um, somebody people know, but you know, you start to get more information when you get someone who's, you know, eager to talk to you.
And you find out that actually the casino that you're in is actually run by illo van Vanden.
Uh, and that he actually runs a couple of small casinos and Whirlport and some other places in Ord Mantell.
You see another one, which is a sport that's, um, local on another planet that they, they watch there.
Uh, people watching it in like the sports book there and they're all watching different TVs.
And you're sitting in the back seat as one does in a cab in both our galaxy and galaxy far away.
Uh, you know, citizens are coming and going, but the traffic there isn't, it's not very heavy traffic.
And, um, so it looks like he doesn't look like he works for the security gate here into the jewel district.
Uh, and a number of warnings are also listed describing rules that must be observed while in the jewel district.
Though the pass from Vanden specifies that the PCs are permitted to retain all weapons and equipment as long as they are not restricted items.
So the jewel, the jewel district, uh, which is outside where you were, uh, like dropped off.
And, um, the jewel district is guarded by these, these people who are wearing, um, yellow laminate armor.
There's, there's two of them and they look at each other and nod and, uh, open the gate for you.
Uh, you'll be going to, yes, large, large, large weapons should be placed in, um, the receptacle prior to entry.
And as you walk in, you notice just the difference between like the rest of Whirlport and, um,
And as you like walk closer towards the direction he told you to walk, you see something that is quite obviously must be this, must be illo's estate.
Um, uh, it's very fancy, although it's not super big, uh, especially compared to some of the other ones around, um, which are just like McMansions.
Um, there are two guards and they see you coming, coming up and they, they nod at you and say, you got, you must be here for the meeting.
And they, they lead you in and they tell you, Master Vanden will be with you shortly and then leave you in the lobby, uh, with, um, of, of the estate.
Exotic fish swim languidly in aquariums built into the walls and the air is heavy with the unmistakable scent of the sea.
Though the office is filled with fine bric-a-brac, nothing stands out as being especially valuable.
Like the rest of the house, the walls are constructed of aquariums filled with marine life.
The paintings and hollow prints on display in the room depict ocean and seen scenes from around the galaxy.
Wait, you would, I mean, the guard is standing right there, so you just take the meat out of his hands?
You're just going to come in here and then as, as you're, uh, you're arguing with, uh, this guard, um, the round, the wide round office door opens, admitting an incredibly bulky humanoid dressed in a fine blue suit and matching short black cape.
Um, and as he walks in, um, and as he walks in, both of you, you, you turn and sort of push your hands at your, at your side, just kind of shocked, um, that the man is walking in.
His wide gray-green eyes take you in at a glance, and his broad mouth widens in a toothy smile.
I just happen to know that some, let's say, some rivals of mine are placing a lot of bets in her favor.