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The Adventure Zone

The Adventure Zone: Ethersea - Episode 15

The Adventure Zone

The McElroys

Games, Comedy Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Mcelroy, Leisure, Rpg

4.937.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The Abyssal Auction: Part Two After an unfortunate journey, the Coriolis arrives at a fancy, clandestine deep sea auction house. Time to do what exactly one-third of this party is good at: Shmoozing the room. Additional music in this episode: "Creepy Bell Music 01" by Magmi Soundtrack https://bit.ly/3aXUcSt; and "Piano" and "Late Jazz Piano" by Szegvari https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/

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0:00.0

Previously on the Adventure Zone Ethersea, sign a good faith these jobs if they're still available are yours for sure Uncle Joshie

0:09.0

of course who has an invitation to an exclusive auction where he hopes to purchase an undisclosed surface relic

0:15.8

and he needs representatives to attend the auction. I'll bank roll you you get what I ask for and then you come on home.

0:23.9

It's a journal. It's a journal from an old, delmer architect. I have zero need for it but I know

0:34.3

plenty of folks who would. It is 20 lux. I'm gonna give you whatever else you have left.

0:40.8

You can keep nobody there can see anybody else's faces. If you don't succeed the fairway

0:47.8

you could try and come about it another way. Roll that beautiful D100 footage.

0:52.4

Dad out of a hundred you got a one. It's a squid about the size of your ship and it attaches one of

1:01.7

its tentacles to the front of the ship and then blasts out an enormous all-encompassing black

1:09.7

cloud of ink and then you feel the Coriolis move. The fuck a one? What happened to a one?

1:19.9

I'm sorry would be a good start.

1:49.9

I

2:17.9

have taken a great deal of duress and criticism for rolling a one on my hundred-sided die thing.

2:28.3

I would like to point out that if it had been any other number any number you roll is a one

2:36.8

and a hundred chance. If it was a seven it'd be a one and a hundred chance. It was a 99 it'd be a

2:42.5

one hundred change. So to criticize me you're rolling something that was exactly the same odds.

2:48.8

You you are misunderstanding. There's a mystery to the situation dad. The criticism is not how

2:55.5

you rolled the die. I mean you rolled the dice and it came up. The criticism is rather how often

3:01.7

lady luck likes to take a shit on our dad. A big dump of runny. It's just a big old

3:07.2

old show. I shouldn't take it personally. No I mean you should because you've done something

3:12.2

to anger the fates clearly. I don't know what choice you made at some point but the criticism

3:17.0

isn't like oh you got a number it's that you got the worst number. No one's done of them. I understand.

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