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C2 Ep. 109 Treasures Untold Chapter Two
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They find themselves looking at the life's work of a notable adversary, what will the party do with this information?
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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D20 radio, your game is rolling.
Team Introductions
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I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Successful Crime and Disguise
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You know, we, uh, we, uh, we tried to do crime again and it went really well. Yeah. Yeah. We primed. We, we, we, we, we disguised Tasha.
00:01:39
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so that we could be inconspicuous as we opened a grate to enter the tunnels in the bowels of shorn or the towers in the bowels of shorn the towers bowels um well i feel like this is an upper gi thing more
00:02:00
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We found the suit. The esophagus of Sharn. We found the suit is what happened last time. I'm sorry I introduced the elementary canal into this at all.
Exploration of Milhatch's Lab
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Yeah, you all find yourselves in presumably the lab of Northson Millhatch, and you see quite a few projects that he's working on, but in a... All of them nefarious. We're certainly operating under that assumption. There's a box you can hang in your window that's got an air elemental in it that keeps your home cool.
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So evil. But yeah, you saw in a reinforced clear case, the suit. Just chilling there. So yeah, you all are in the lab.
Temptation and Traps
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Eris has lost focus on what we were here for. Eris is walking around. She's picking up high quality tools and just sticking them in pockets. Eris is
00:03:14
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Yeah, Eris has forgotten why we were here, and this is why Eris brings more mature criminals along with her. I said more.
00:03:32
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Hobb asks Aeris to stop until we can make an appropriate check for tripwires and other such defensive mechanisms, because the man knows how to protect his stuff if he wants to. Right, right, yeah. He's like, Hobb says, I get it, and whatever you grab there, good on you, and I'm glad it was
00:03:59
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of low enough value to not set off an alarm. But let's take a moment and assess the room as a whole. And then Hob asked someone else to do that because his perception's trash. I guess we could work together again, Eris or Milo. Yeah.
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I thought I remembered Raynard's perception being good. Mine was 3k. What is checking for traps? Is it perception? Is it skullduggery? What is it? I would take either. Perception is going to be more like observing whether or not traps or their skullduggery is going to be either will work. The results just might be a little different.
00:04:42
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What about, nah, it's another cunning skill, but you're not going to let survival work, are you? I'm happy to perceive. Not in this environment. Join up again. That's just fine. Yeah. You want to join with me and we do another one yellow, three green perception. That's not my idea. Okay. And yellow, three green. What is the difficulty on perceiving? Three purple. Okay. Okay. Two success, four advantage.
00:05:11
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Okely-dokely. So first and foremost, you don't spot any like tripwires or pressure plates or anything like that. You don't observe any traps around the lab. It seems to be a functional space and any kind of
00:05:30
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if any kind of traps aren't going to be rigged in such a nature to go off due to somebody just walking around the space. There is the potential for traps, but it would be triggered some other capacity.
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But you all can move about freely in the space is what I'm trying to say the other thing that you do observe is Eris as you're like Hobb says something to you and you take a moment look around you see in one corner
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of the room up at the ceiling, a very familiar device, and another one on the other side of the lab of the observation devices that you've encountered before in Kenneth facilities. So, and based on your experience with your very intimate knowledge of the marriage, you've disassembled and created some. These are very much on and active.
Security Footage Looping
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All right.
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Right. Yeah. Uh, okay. Um, is there, is, I mean, is there an obvious control panel for those in this room or having now searched the room pretty thoroughly, or is it, or is that elsewhere? This would be elsewhere. Um, the control and, uh, monitors for these. Yeah. Or elsewhere. Then I want to climb up and try and.
00:06:58
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deal with that. Okay. Um, are you just trying to smash it or are you trying to? No, I want to, I want to artifice it. I want to do it without, without being excessively suspicious. Assuming we haven't already been spotted.
00:07:14
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We're definitely suspicious of hearing. I don't know. I mean, this is what they're seeing right now is. Right. But yeah, go ahead and give me a you can do artificial mechanics. OK, so with my four advantage, I would like to. Sorry, you should have you should have had to boost die because Milo passed. Oh, yeah.
00:07:45
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Oh, he did, didn't he? Let me clear. Let's see if we can get this in the triumph territory. Clear. There we go. Two boost dice? All right. Yep. Three success, seven advantage. Seven advantage. Well. Seven advantage sounds like they're unable to archive the footage to me. Yeah, what I would really like to do is what I want to try to do.
00:08:12
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Um, is rather than just shut them down. I want to, I want to loop whatever was happening 10 minutes ago.
00:08:21
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OK, so that it just looks like the room remains empty. The speed corollary. Yes, I like it. No one put down any packages, so we're good. Spoilers for the 1993 glass of speed. You don't know what was happening before the butler is just going to be walking a circle in this space on the ledge. It's got a little little butler robot.
00:08:50
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OK, so that's what I'm trying to do. OK, so seven advantage. I'd like. OK, so seven advantage. Boy, that's a lot. I'm open to suggestions, gang. Obviously I can boost this artifice check I'm about to make substantially, but.
00:09:18
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I would say that since some of it's you, uh, that, that suit, not being Jerry rigged.
00:09:27
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What do you mean? A trap? Jury rigged. Yeah. Oh, isn't that what we just checked for? Yeah, I do want to go up and knock on the clear container. That's what I mean in the glass. The glass. I believe it was said in quotations last time. Yes. Yeah. The perception check that you all made just observing the space told you that you were free to move around the space. Nothing that was like sitting on the tables or anything like that. There weren't any apparent traps that you all were just going to trigger.
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Um, I did not take that to say that absolutely nothing in the space was trapped at
Magical Inventions Discovery
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all. Sure. Just how about some, um, some magical, if I want to see about anything magical, maybe around here. Oh, hold on. Let me, um, deal with this with these advantage that I've got.
00:10:14
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What's the maximum amount of adding onto this next role that I can do with seven advantage? Based on the rules, there would be either two upgrades or three boosts and you'd still have one advantage leftover. Okay. I'm going to do two upgrades. Okay.
00:10:42
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And you could also do, uh, Oh, I know. No, no, no, no, no. It wouldn't be just passing it on to the next role. It would be seven boost die or two upgrades with a boost. If you were just, you know, like everything to upgrades with a boost, because I would really like this to work. I can't wait to see what, what is the difficulty for attempting to.
00:11:09
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Basically take enough control to loop the, loop the footage. Oh, that, that, that's what you stated you were doing to try and disable the cameras, right? Yeah. So what's my difficulty? Isn't that what you rolled? No, I haven't rolled that yet. I've been, we rolled perception. That was perception. I got a whole bunch of advantage from perception. I'm tacking things onto the check to deal with the cameras. The difficulty is one red, two purple.
00:11:40
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Cool. You also have all the story points if you want to flip one, but. I feel like that would be wasteful. I understand. And I really would actually like to give you one, but. No, that's fine. I'll just be here. Yeah. That's, that's what I rolled. I rolled. Yes. Uh, all right. Sorry. So, so, so Phillip rolled three successes and five advantages. And one of these successes is a triumph.
00:12:11
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Yeah. So. OK, so first of all, the footage is now looped, so we have been rendered invisible to the security footage of the lab. For the triumph.
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And Eris wouldn't necessarily say out loud that she was going to do this. But for the triumph, as Eris is going through this, she realizes that she could. And so Eris would like to add something into this system that gives her remote access to this security system. Oh, my gosh. OK. Yeah.
00:12:56
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Sure, yeah, on her spell chart. For the house, for the building that we're in. And then Five Advantage.
Debate on Inventions
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Okay, gang, I could say Five Advantage, she also manages to scrub any footage that had already existed of us.
00:13:27
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That sure feels well. Does the looping not take care of that? The looping means that it's not on anyone's screen at this point. Gotcha. I don't know how the security footage works, but if there are if there's a recording, there's an archive as opposed to just scribe scrying. Well, I guess we would know that sort of thing. Eric, is there an archive for this sort of thing or is it just a remote viewing enchantment?
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The way that I had envisioned it is it's just remote viewing. It's a live feed, basically. OK, so I don't need to worry about that. Either we were already seen or it doesn't matter now. OK, so then we got five advantage. That was my idea for five advantage, but if that's not a thing to consider, we got five advantage. So I'm happy to pass things along to others or if there are things anyone can think of that we can declare as part of this.
00:14:26
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Basically, we've got another triumph, is kind of what Five Advantage is, sort of, or has seemed to be, ish. Yeah. I mean, Trevor's suggestion, and this goes along with Eric's gaining remote access to the security, like any traffic that may have existed on the suits casing is disabled. Sure. You can do that if you want.
00:14:46
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Yeah, I could just I mean can I just say that while she's in there she She triggers the thing and you get the little air hiss and the door swings open on the suits case Sure. Yeah. Well, Bob is walking up to it. So you think I've been chosen
00:15:04
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It opens for you. Does the Iron Man, does the Iron Man thing opens for you? Listen, buddy, I get it, but I'm never going to be able to fit in that. I too would want to be wielded by someone with power like me, but. Um, okay. So, uh, yeah, the casing for the, uh, suit opens and, uh, it's there on the, on the stand. Right for the taken. Harris climbs back down.
00:15:35
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Hop kind of looks around. I mean, are we looking at, like, genuine, like, marvels of artifice? Or does Hop have a pretty good idea of what most of this stuff is? Because Hop's not going to touch anything. He doesn't recognize that it looks offensive.
00:15:50
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So like I said, you recognize like the chassis that Olive has built, like there is a version of that that is partially done. You see a few tools and implements, but yeah, a lot of this stuff, I mean, it's...
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It's fairly inscrutable to Hobb. It's modern wonders that, like, Norseman was hoping to unlock true capability of dragon shards and things like that for who knows what purpose. So a lot of it is like boxes or just casings for dragon shards. It's stuff that clearly the function of it is unknown until it's turned on. Sure.
00:16:36
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I think Hobb says something like, um, Eris. And I, Raynard's rich. Does Raynard know? No. I'm gonna say to everybody that I'm just gonna say, um, anything not easily replaceable. Let's get it in the boat.
00:16:57
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Anything, Hobb is unconcerned about, you know, simple hands tools, but you know what I mean? And. Heiress, on the other hand, is very concerned about quality made simple hand tools. Yeah man, if it's something she doesn't have and she wants it, that's fine, but I'm just saying. What did it arc well to? If we are at a premium of space, because we have Tasha,
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And Eris likes this workbench better than hers. Tough nuts, Eris, it stays. We're taking the enigmatic boxes. Ooh, a power washer. Right, no. Learn that spell the pirate did. You got a power washer right there, you're done. A hydraulic press. Hop things, okay. That one, Mike. It's on YouTube channel. Oh, God.
Handling Milhatch's Suit
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That is Hobbs recommendation is let's just established YouTube can't exist in shard twitch can twitch could exist because it's all live feeds but no recorded content so That means this podcast can't exist in shard and they are the better for it I Mean yeah, I
00:18:16
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I don't know how you want to handle that, Eric. Do you want me to roll something to see what she is able to find? Do you want me to ransack it and worry about it later?
00:18:32
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I believe, um, Milo wanted to make a check to like identify kind of magical stuff going on. So, um, yeah, uh, you can make it a just general arcana check, uh, Randy, to identify like some of the magics going on here, some of the implements, some of the stuff that's being utilized. Um, it is going to be a, um, a three purple difficulty is what you're looking at. Okay.
00:19:03
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Whoa. Unreal. Did Tasha just drove? Did we grow a Tasha trailer? Two triumphs. Wow. Wow. I know. Take care of your threat. We know you're ancient to hurt us. The ram kicks down the door. We got all this stuff to mess with him with. That's what we open. We open a cabinet and it's just the ram.
00:19:34
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Seal them in. The Rambo Montalato, let's do this. Okay. Milo, just take two points of strain. We'll just keep it simple there. So let me describe what you can identify, Milo, real quick, and then we'll get into the two triumphs. So you, looking about, spot,
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So notable about Olive's arm implement that they were working on. You having seen Olive operate with her arms, know that there is a certain level of manual engagement that Olive has to undergo in order for the arms to work and move and manipulate. And so Olive's mind is occupied when she's utilizing these arms.
00:20:29
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It appears that there was some attempt to insert an elemental or some other kind of entity that would be capable of utilizing the arms in concert with the person that it would make it easier for the person to utilize. It would be a great boon for anybody utilizing it.
00:20:51
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So that's the first big thing. Yeah, you spot a lot of these things that Norseman was working on. Seemed to be almost piggybacking off of the concept of trapping an elemental in a dragon shard. Completely unoriginal.
00:21:12
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where he got that idea, who's to say. But, so there are a lot of like very, I don't wanna say mundane items, but to your eyes, as somebody that lives in like our world would be relatively mundane of, you know,
00:21:33
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automatons that are more intelligent, more capable, but it's just like the head implement. You know, it's the early processes. You do spot a weapon that you recognize as a weapon. It's just a long shaft that seems to be
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there's no like runes or anything. It seems to be just a very long metal shaft, very smooth with a small spot at the top that like a dragon shard would slide down into. And you get the indication that this would freeze any moisture that it touches. It's like an ice implement, but you could like tap it on, you know, a puddle or something and it would just freeze it almost instantly.
00:22:33
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Um, and the last thing is a very, uh, Milo, as you're looking around, um, you spot, like you pull a drawer open and you spot a very blatant ripoff of Erisus Fletcher sitting in, in a drawer incomplete, but clearly an attempt to replicate. So that's what you get the indication of.
00:22:47
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God help you if you touched a sweaty person with it.
00:22:59
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So Milo's walking around, just basically reiterating and saying all this stuff as it occurs, and pointing it out, and then opens the drawer. There's also general maniacal stuff, like some of the bombs that he used, the source lead, like the other implements of his madness that you all have seen. That is also present, so. Right, and then he pulls out. Does anyone else need a flying vehicle?
00:23:29
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I know you want to be a cool skateboarder. Probably not. If I could see, I could see Raynard doing that, but not Milo. Anyway, he pulls out the diagram and shows it to Eris, look familiar.
00:23:50
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Is it a diagram, Eric, or is it? No, no, no. It's an actual attempt. Oh, it's an actual. Yeah. Okay. He pulls out the prototype and says, this looks almost familiar. Eris. Eris picks up. Eris would like to examine it and see whether Milhatch had any good ideas.
00:24:09
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Um, so there is, once again, he clearly got on a bent. Um, there is an implement for a dragon shard to be put in that, um, you get the sense that if this were utilized correctly, this version of the Fletcher would have had an auto fire option. Like it would have been capable of like automatic fire. Um,
00:24:34
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Clearly was still an early prototype phase, was not ready for even testing at this point, but that is the element that Milhatch thought could be improved. Yeah, and listeners still got really big, really big during all that. And he's like swiveling in his chair, so. And to be clear, Milo did pick up the rod thing that
00:24:55
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Okay. The moisture, the moisture rod, whatever. Milo dies. Finally. He's just a wet guy.
00:25:10
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What? He's been paying attention. What a strange comment. You can't deny he's been paying attention. Eris is definitely going to take that. Eris is also definitely taking the ARM implements. OK. Because I know it's a really bad idea, but Eris thinks it's really cool. It's a really smart upgrade. I'm really mad at you.
00:25:38
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Uh, for trapping me in this dramatic irony. Have we, um, uh, looks at Eris carrying these things. Where are those going? Back to the cauldron. You think, okay, is that safe or smart? Both Harbin and Olive are also at the cauldron. Well,
00:26:09
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I mean, I want Olive to see it, and Harbin, I think, doesn't know about this place, and so he might not recognize any of it, but also, I was thinking we would put something over it when we're flying home. Right, I also think that there'll just be a pile of stuff, and then after Harbin leaves, I can show Olive.
00:26:34
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Okay. So you're prepared to let all of know what we did tonight. That was my question. Well, I think once it's clear. Um.
00:26:55
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Yes. All right. Okay. All right. You did the thing with your eyes when you see the things that you want where you stop thinking about all the other stuff. And I wanted to address that one with you.
00:27:11
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Yes. All right. I did do that. And Eric, did you say like a little little dragon shard fits down in these things? Yes. Like that rod. Housing's housing's for dragon shards. None of them currently have dragon shards in them. And there are no dragon shards lying around. Dragon shards. Exactly.
00:27:35
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No, you do not see a giant crate of dragon shards sitting around. Small pouch. A junk drawer. It's just got loose dragon shards. It's like a battery drawer. You get the sense that perhaps Norseen Millhatch has a vault somewhere that he probably would keep the dragon shards locked up if you had to venture a guess.
00:27:59
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but based on your perception checks, your very, very, very good perception checks that you made earlier, you do not see a vault in the lab. So the vault would be- So did we spend those two triumphs yet, Randy? We have not seen those two triumphs yet. No, we have not. The vault is easy access right outside the door. The house is now ours. Eris leans against the control panel and the vault opens.
Planar Box Explanation
00:28:30
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I... I have... Okay.
00:28:35
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Um, sorry, we're not trying to actually break your game. No, no, no, no, that's fine. I'm about to do something that might break it. Um, so in the same vein of like what y'all are asking about and the work that clearly mill hatch was doing, um, there is one last thing in the room. Um, and, uh, this is, uh, is this one or two triumphs? We'll say one triumph.
00:29:02
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if you all want it, you all can say, no, we're not interested in this. It looks like a, I mean, for you all's mind's eye, it looks like a 3D printer on a stand. It's like got a large like kind of a stone stand with clear casing around it and it opens at the front and there's a stand in there that clearly is designed to hold something. But there's all of these runes
00:29:30
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And it's clearly artifice, magic, all kinds of crazy stuff going on in there. But the stand, the one thing that you can tell from the triumph definitively, the stand is designed to hold dragon shards. So Milhatch has built something that he could put dragon shards in, close it, and something happens to the dragon shards.
00:29:54
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uh hob recognizes that as a danger and would like to roll to destroy it in front of Eris um well you know what you you got a bunch of success on the the the runes milo you can recognize as being planar in nature it's something to do with planar magic
00:30:16
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oh not this again like you know milo milo looks at this machine i guess whatever whatever it is and he keeps looking at it and studying it and all of a sudden inside his head he just he just knows what it is you
00:30:37
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Whether all of a sudden Kylie pops it in his head or he just all of a sudden for some reason knows it. That's the two story points back to me. Milo, you kind of realized looking at this and yeah, you still don't hear Kylie's voice. There's something blocking that, but knowledge floods into your mind.
00:31:01
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of realizing that essentially what Norsen has created is an implement to where, rather than trying to capture an elemental as it exists in the wild, like you assisted Erisen doing when you all captured Tasha in the Dragon Sword, he's created something to where he could, in theory, you know, the elementals reside on the plains of fire, like all these, so he could just,
00:31:29
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go to the source and try to draw an elemental from another plane and trap it in a dragon shard. Okay. So it's an easier way of doing this work. Yes.
00:31:51
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And Milo, you don't see any potential downsides to this at all. I mean, this seems like... Yes, no question. And Milo is just explaining all this as he's looking at it. And Eris, come, come, come, look at this. And just tells Eris everything he sees and what this thing is all about.
00:32:19
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can actually just go to the plane and do you go or does it just like suck one out of the plane into this shard it just sucks basically yes like you say it sucks one out of the plane into the shard how do you know you get the right one and how do you know it wants to come some of them are intelligent
00:32:46
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I don't know exactly how that works or if they have a choice. That seems... Huh. I don't like that very much. It's like... It's like kidnapping someone.
00:33:12
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Well, I mean, isn't that sort of what happened with Tasha? No, Tasha's like we caught a wild bird and have been training it to falconry. Is not this possibly the same thing?
00:33:35
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It could be, but couldn't you also use it to abduct intelligent? Like there are, there are elementals on the plane that are like intelligent in the way that you and I are. Yes. Yes. They're not bad, but does Milo know if it does that or not or what?
00:34:00
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Um, so the amount of arcane runes and you get the sense that there's a great deal of control over this. Like Milhatch has set it up to where, because, you know, from a purely arcane theory standpoint, Milo, uh, you would understand and Eris would also understand this too, uh, with dragon shard binding, like
00:34:20
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a small dragon shard, like a very small dragon shard, if you attempted to capture a greater fire elemental and like a hyper intelligent, it's just gonna shatter the thing because it's too powerful to be contained by it. So that necessitated a level control on Milhach's part to where, sure, if he got a huge honkin,
00:34:45
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Stick dragon shard in there. He might be able to crank it up and try to like capture a very intelligent fire elemental, but you're in control of that is what you get the sense with this machine. Implement Eldritch nightmare. So yeah, so it explains to Eris that it's, you're in control. Basically you can choose.
00:35:13
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Having a decent understanding of magical runes, is it possible to tell whether you could change the runes and target a different plane? Could you start sealing pixies? Yes. And souls?
00:35:35
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Um, I mean, I, I guess you could extrapolate to a certain point, but in practical capacity, that once again might be more difficult, but possible. Um, you know, somebody, somebody who would be in favor of doing that would just push back of like, well, it's no different than what the Iranian do. We just capture a soul to where it can exist and reside forever. You know, big whoop. Um, so consent.
00:36:03
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Yeah, no, I I'm yes. It just seems like a fine for the bad takes night. It seems like the sort of thing that a good and responsible person might not do anything terrible with. But that it would have the potential to do something really terrible.
00:36:31
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You also get the sense that you would be able to take this with you. It's not like nailed to the floor. Well, then, you know, I would agree with that. So it's it's more of a do we take it with us or do we destroy it?
00:36:49
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Because I'm not a fan of just leaving it here for Milhatch if he, you know, ever happens to be back in this abode and back in this lab. No, no, it shouldn't. Yeah, that's true. Right. None of this is staying in its current form. It's either getting smashed to pieces or extricated.
00:37:10
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So about that, I was thinking about the other end of this plan where we turn over Milhatch and the armor as evidence. How do we explain that part of the where did you get this? What if you all still have a triumph to spend? What if we just leave it here and have the authorities come here somehow?
00:37:39
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Because then Harbin is here and I don't want Harbin to find out about this. Or for the police to confiscate his house. What is keeping us from disabling the suit and presenting him in it as though we had simply defeated him in a battle? Nothing.
00:38:12
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I like that plan. Let's do that. That would be, I mean, you want to put, if you want to justify all the reasons we would have seen it out in the wild, well, because of all those times we kept seeing it out in the wild and this time we won. Yeah. Yeah. He put the suit on. Well, Raynard's not here to be asked. You can just talk. We should hand over some of the bombs too. No, no, you didn't.
00:38:44
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Look at me now. Stop looking at the box. I'm a different bird. Call me goblin verde. He's in one of those cylinders. Found the dragon shards.
00:39:15
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Do you have something for Maynard to have been doing or do you just need to pick a joke? I found things too. It's not quite as important but I thought about this about 12 minutes ago so... No, I wanted to see if there could be like a table or a display of different really cool arrows that did fun things.
Reynard's Trick Arrows
00:39:39
Speaker
like explode or freeze or paralyze or kind of green, green arrow. Yeah, just big old boxing glove, a net. Yeah, totally. But they're all just poison tips. Well, I want to start that poison. You can flip a story point to say that, yeah, you found a little cache of of trick arrows or could they be like one of those, you know, those pins that when you click it, they add a different color.
00:40:07
Speaker
Could they just like do it? You click and they do a different thing. Oh. I, I literally think they're a different color and I was like, I can't imagine why you do that. That's what we find. He's, he's, he's invented the multicolored pen.
00:40:24
Speaker
This is genius. Look, look, it's not going to change the world, but it's neat, right? So what you find, Reynard, is essentially it's Hawkeye's Quiver from Avengers, where, you know, there's tips in the bottom and you can like adjust which one the arrow grabs as you pull it out of the quiver. I want that. Does that make sense? So, yeah. OK, that actually is pretty cool. Yes, now I have to tie them out.
00:41:02
Speaker
HOB just has an arrow poking out of his thigh. Yeah. That's what HOB gets out of this. You guys get amazing new toys and HOB's like, I got a minor injury. Okay. Are we taking the box with us or are we destroying the box? Because if you all are just going to destroy the box, then I'll say that's not a... I was trying to give Aeris a cool new thing to utilize at the cauldron.
00:41:28
Speaker
Hob's not destroying the box unless he's asked to destroy the box. That was a joke. If they want to be like they can keep it. I mean, if we're going to destroy the box, we need to do so clinically and carefully anyway, so.
00:41:41
Speaker
I think that it's a bad idea for us to spend too much time here. So we'll take it with us. And because, you know, it's like this sort of thing in stories has a tendency to go terribly wrong and then it opens like a doorway into another dimension and terrible things come out. So I don't want to like just hit it with a hammer. Yeah, you know, you could show it to all of us like a ball. I would think I would think all of it would be interesting.
00:42:12
Speaker
She might be, I don't know. I have mixed feelings about it. Yeah, we should take some of the bombs, too. You have another triumph. We get out of here, Scott, free, baby. There's a hand cart for us to carry all this stuff. That's so much for a triumph. That's hours from now. Yeah.
00:42:42
Speaker
What do you what do we use it trying for right now? I mean, I mean is anyone have anything on a wish list? Is there anything hob? Is there anything hob once that wishes he had? If it I know I know you're not a tech guy, but is anything anything hob would wish wish that he had That we could
00:43:08
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I guess give me an event to wear. Or do we find like a picture of all of the collins?
00:43:17
Speaker
I mean, it's still all jacked up. Yeah. So we can just pin them all in their nefarious speech. Now we know everyone who was involved. I mean, it's not. You know what, though? That's not. I mean, that is that is dumb, but it's not dumb if you take it and twist it to be. Can we just find damning evidence for the truth? That's what I mean. Like just like, hey, I, Norse and Milhach, I'm a real bad dude. Can we?
00:43:47
Speaker
I would also suggest perhaps a twist on that. Can we find some sort of documentation of what exactly Callaway is up to with Norsin?
00:43:59
Speaker
Sure. Yeah, you can find documentation of communication between the two of them that outlines, you know, it's a whole lot of like confirmation of funds transfer, making sure that Norsen is fully funded and getting everything he needs.
Callaway's Communications Revealed
00:44:19
Speaker
Norsen making requests on more Dragon Shards and like various materials.
00:44:25
Speaker
But it's very clear that Callaway, for his part, was very... Not encouraging is the wrong word. Callaway is constantly undercutting Milhatch anytime Milhatch expresses any kind of sense of a breakthrough and that he needs to be going bigger, he needs to be thinking more, he needs to be... And Callaway was very much focused on the planer box.
00:44:54
Speaker
that Callaway seemed very encouraging and pushing on as well as basically like the more mundane like I don't want to say household items but like quality of life things Callaway was like fine yeah I work on it but like the stuff that had the potential for uh big big things to happen with like the modified arms the Fletcher the weird ice staff thing
00:45:19
Speaker
Things that had the capacity for destruction or to go awry, all the reasons why Eris is feeling leery right now. Those were the things that Callaway really was pushing. But you don't get anything. I don't want to feel like I'm undercutting your triumph, but just genuinely like you don't get a grand master plan from Callaway. Like there's nothing in the writings that is an overarching, maniacal end goal.
00:45:49
Speaker
So before we go, and I don't know that we're necessarily leaving right this minute, but before we go, Eris wants to go through this place and find every schematic, every schema, every, uh, spell shard, every, every bit of documentation of how. Okay.
00:46:09
Speaker
and take it with us. Okay. Because she does not want anyone to be able to come in here and repeat it. Yes. Not sure all this stuff is evil yet, but just in case. There is one last bit with the documentation. She doesn't feel great that her Fletcher was on the list of nefarious things that Callaway was pushing.
00:46:34
Speaker
A few times in the documentation that you're reading through, Callaway makes reference to a third party. It's purely they, or their, or them. It's never solidified, and Callaway speaks about them with reverence and deference. There is somebody that Callaway feels like they are operating on behalf of, to a certain extent.
00:47:05
Speaker
That's alarming. A new mysterious person enters the chat. Okay. Uh, you all managed to get the schemas and, and everything that could allow somebody to come back and resume work. Um, and yeah. Um, are you all taking the box? Yeah, you all are taking the box. Um, yeah. Okay. We're taking everything that fits in Tasha, right? That feels important. Like, yeah. Yeah. Um, okay. Well.
00:47:36
Speaker
With that like you all managed to take off and you head back down to the cauldron I'm guessing is where you're gonna drop all this stuff off Jeff said Once Harbin's not there. Yeah, what time we can join As we as we go Eris will Call Olive again Hey, um
Strategic Exit Plan
00:48:05
Speaker
So we did something and something has sort of come up, nothing terrible, but is Harbin still at Cauldron? Yeah, we're still working here. Everything okay? I don't know. When will he not...
00:48:33
Speaker
be there. Um, well, you know, it's about lunchtime. So we were thinking about breaking for lunch and, um, we can, um, we can be out of here for a while. Or do you, do you need it to be done for the day? No, for a little while, for a little while is okay. I can, um,
00:48:58
Speaker
I can, I need to stash some things that I'll show you later, but I can't, I don't want him. Okay. I don't want him to see. Um, and you use, the line is still active and you hear all of just kind of detached from, uh, from the speaking students say, Harbin, do you want to go grab lunch and then we can meet up with Jerome at the facility and take a look around there and Harbin.
00:49:23
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, we can. Yeah, sure. We can do that. Okay, great. Um, we'll, we'll probably just finish out the day there and then you can head home once we're done. It's like, okay. And all of us. Okay. So, uh, we're going to go grab lunch and I'll just see you when I get back. Okay. Okay. All right. Bye. Um, okay. So do we want, I mean, we should stash these things before we do anything with the armor, right?
00:49:55
Speaker
I would think so, yes. All right. Yes. They're going to clear out so we can go back to the cauldron and stash most of it and then take the armor wherever we're going. Okay. End of episode.
Conclusion and Call to Action
00:50:16
Speaker
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00:50:32
Speaker
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00:51:02
Speaker
and I'm Jeff. We'll see you next time.