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C2 Ep. 93 The Way of the Dreaming Chapter Seven
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An ominous figure confronts the party.
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Introduction and Sponsor Thanks
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
Hosts Introduce Themselves and the Setting
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Hello, and welcome to Ever On Your Unit. Ask to play podcasts at the Abraham campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. Hi, I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Investigation of Gorum Sadia
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We're investigating Gorum Sadia or Sadia, I don't remember. You are... Sadia? Sadia. Sadia.
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Who is an artificer who makes strange things and whose weapon inventions may be connected to this person we're looking for called the Carrion. Yes. And where we left off, you all had just been escorted up to Coram's office by her.
00:02:09
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um and yeah so that's that's where we find ourselves starting off this episode is you all are in there so um looking at quorum's office it has large windows that look out over the city um and manages to have a decent view around the surrounding other towers in the district named for its very tall buildings and uh you see a
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It's not the size of a desk that you would go, whoa, that's a big desk, but it's a big desk, if that makes sense. It's an acceptably large desk with
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Lots of papers and things of that nature. A large sending stone that you can see is not active on the desk. And you see three comfortable seats on the opposite side of the desk where she would talk to people.
00:03:11
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a very large chair behind the desk with her back facing the windows. And then she also has a small seating area over in the corner of the office next to a small bar set up as well. And so she turns to you all and can I get you all anything to drink? Hob shakes his head. Thank you. I'm fine. Thank you.
00:03:44
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No. Thank you. Very well, we can still go sit though, right this way. And she goes over to the small seating area and takes a seat in a large comfortable chair and gestures for you all to join her. I guess hub hub sits. Yeah, I mean, if it's a big desk, I assume these chairs are
00:04:13
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They're comfy.
Suspicion and Surveillance
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There's chairs and sofas, so, you know, lots of options. I'm not gonna lay out on the sofa this time, like last time. Anybody that would like to can give me a perception check as you all cross to go sit down. This is going to be a three purple difficulty.
00:04:42
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Perception is not my strong suit. I will do it. Okay. Milo takes a quick look around. Yeah. Eris ends up with zero success, one advantage. Milo ends up with two successes, one threat. Milo, go ahead and take a point of strain.
00:05:07
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As you look around and, Milo, you can spot two notable things. One are monitoring devices, very similar to what you encountered when you went to Mill Hatch Industries Lower Division when you went ARIS, disabled, some of that stuff. And then additionally, Milo, you also spot some,
00:05:34
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You have difficulty kind of verbalizing exactly what this would be in arcane terms. It's something that you haven't really ever seen before, but they seem to be magical arcane focuses that are mounted near those monitoring devices. And you dealing with the type of magic that you typically do being very kind of
00:06:02
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evocation esque, lots of attacky magic. Um, Miley, you get the sense that these would very easily be able to like deal out spells, like attack spells, um, either remotely or you're not certain how they work, but certainly there is the possibility of things go wrong that magic could start flying from these things. Okay. Are they like, how big are they? Like size wise? Size of a wand. Okay.
00:06:33
Speaker
Yes, Trevor. Is Milo's forehead always giving out black smoke? Yes. At this point in his life, yes. But it's... I don't think it's like a coal mine. It's not just pouring out. It's like it like wisps out.
00:06:55
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It's just whistling. Mean children will walk behind Milo going, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga. It does whistle. That's important. When Milo gets really upset, it whistles. Do these wand-like thing, do they look like you could pick them up? They're mounted up on the ceiling. They're mounted. OK. Yeah.
00:07:23
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Okay. So, um, she looks at you all and so you have some questions for me. Well, we've had some rumors about, uh, well, is a, um, is someone named named Al Swar doing mercenary work in the city. Um,
00:07:52
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He's part of an investigation that we're working. And a rumor is maybe he got his gear from you. Rumors. What kind of check would you like to take? And, let's see. We have established that she's a fellow gear head, so.
00:08:20
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Yeah, and I think the thing is, I... I hear he flies. And... I mean, we have a boat that I have souped up, but it's not like, just I fly. And so I'm...
00:08:40
Speaker
I'm really kind of keen on how that works and I'll be really honest. I've honestly kind of forgotten what we want Al soir for because I'm mostly interested in what he built for him. Um, so.
00:09:03
Speaker
So I'm hoping that's charming, uh, by which I mean mechanics. Go for it. Um, this is going to be, um, against her discipline. So that is going to be one red to purple. Okay. So I am. You'll get four advantage on the end roll.
Eris's Elemental Skills and Gorum's Interests
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Yeah. Cause hob got, hob got musk. I'm so strong. It makes you so charming.
00:09:35
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Four advantage, and you said the difficulty was what, I'm sorry? One red, two poipole. Okay. Zero success, two advantage, one triumph. So you have to succeed to get my four advantage. So that's zero success, two threat, and a triumph. Ah, I think that's right. Well, that's worse. Give me 10 seconds to double check, but I think that's right.
00:10:07
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Yeah, successful charm deception negotiation joke. Did it on five. Good job. Not a good role is what I'm saying. Sorry. Right. Thanks. I've had a couple bad ones in the past, so it's okay.
00:10:33
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she um yeah she regards you coolly um at your words and responds well see why i said only nice things about her well what if never mind sorry it's not mine to go ahead um well regarding what we may or may not be supplying our clients with would be regarded as trade secrets unfortunately so i would not be at liberty to uh
00:11:03
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share such things unfortunately um and with the two you wouldn't be at liberty don't you own the place i had this impression you were an independent
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entity. You wanted to say woman. You were an independent woman. I wanted to say, I wanted to say contractor, but I'm not sure that's the right term. Throw your hands up at me. She kind of smirks. Well, whoever gave you that impression, I would not trust the information in the future. Interesting.
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Um, and the two threat, um, Okay. Um, I will say as a result of Milo's earlier perception check that, um, you all could have noticed this, um, the security guard that let you all in as you walked past his desk, um,
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You could hear that he was calling someone else to let them know about Ural's presence. Not that somebody's kicking down the door, but, you know, somebody else. I mean, that would probably be really convenient. If Al-Swaq had kicked down the door, that would just be... We've been looking for that guy. That would be ideal, frankly.
00:12:36
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You all have one triumph. That we do. Three rolls into the session. I had a thought, Phillip. Go for it. What is your thought? What if she's still in this failure? She does find Eris, in fact, charming, and perhaps you might get some advantage down the road on... I mean, I think I'd like to see this set up as a mentor for Eris, frankly.
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And we could pull tug on that thread later, but that was a thought I had was you still, Eris still, but if you've got something better, I'm happy to hear it. I liked that. That was kind of the direction I was thinking in my head is that while Eris is not, I mean, this entirely tracks Eris is not going to somehow like trick someone into revealing something. Um, although kind of, she did. Now we know she's working for someone, but, uh,
00:13:37
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Yes, she's, I mean, Eris has walked in covered in artifice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so Eris is still, Eris is still interesting. Eris is still... She still finds you intriguing. Yeah. And yeah, she would like to know more about you while she is not at liberty to share more information about... Al-Swa. Yeah. Whose name I will never tire of saying.
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Um, apologies though. Um, it does seem like, you know, what you're doing, you're that bird creature that you knew about the building. Very interesting. Yeah. She's pretty excellent. What's the, um, power source Kyber shard. I mean, there is a Kyber shard. Yeah.
00:14:35
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It's a small air elemental. And she kind of sits forward. Did you did you contract? Did you bind the elemental yourself? I mean, I like to think that she's more, you know,
00:15:04
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likes to hang around with me, but yeah. Interesting. Don't let House Sivus hear about that. I mean, I'm not gonna tell him. Don't worry about it. I don't know if I could do a bigger one, but
00:15:34
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Even so. Done a little work with small ones. You've done other bindings? What is the check to not be seen? Consequences? I don't know. Is it discipline?
00:16:00
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There's no insight or discipline. To what end? It's not really very smart for Eris to run her mouth about this stuff to someone she doesn't know. That's true. And I'm just trying to decide if
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Well, you could make a discipline check against her charm, like her charm is the difficulty, if you want. Sure, what's her charm? Her charm is she has two yellow, one green, so it'd be two red, one purple. Well, now I'm worried about the despairs. The tower falls.
00:16:43
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Here, I'm gonna give myself a simple one just to see how smart Eris is being. And I will not, obviously, expect anything to come of advantages and whatnot. Okay. Well, yeah, I mean, just, you know, experiments. Interesting. I mean,
00:17:11
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It doesn't, it doesn't pay the bills or anything. Obviously you figured out how to do that, but who does pay your bills? I, I do, I do handiwork or repair stuff for freelance or do you have an employer? Um, I mean, I, yeah, I do stuff for lots of different, lots of different people, just folks that need, what's it needs to think needs things fixed. Hmm.
00:17:43
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Interesting. Very interesting. And then sometimes we do this. Yes. Um, I guess my question regarding your question is what are you after? Why do you want to know who's asking?
00:18:07
Speaker
Well, that last one ruins Fahab's response. We get paid at the end. That's why I want to know. That's why I'm trying to find out. Well, we don't really.
00:18:23
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We don't really get all the details in our line of work. If I may, Hobb says, we also have to act with a certain amount of professional discretion. I'm sure you understand. But our understanding is this, this how SWAT characters got himself into, into something a little more,
00:18:51
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on the shady side other than bounty hunting and we're just trying to really just trying to figure out what what actually happened we're just on our end we we've been told some different versions of what happened but we're just trying to kind of know interesting well um unfortunately i
00:19:22
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know nothing about what our clients do once they have our equipment in their hands. That's not much of my concern. As long as they're not endangering other avenues of business. And I I've never dealt directly.
00:19:48
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with client pickups. I have people for that, if that makes sense. So it allows for a certain level of deniability. Yeah, who do you work for if you don't work for yourself? I mean, this is a really swanky place. Oh, well, in my line of work, oftentimes requires a certain level of professional discretion. I'm sure you understand.
00:20:20
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Yes, I would say that's what you said. I noticed the up at the ceiling there, the monitoring device and not sure what those other things are, but I can see what you mean about discretion. And Milo says that. Yes. Thank you. What are those other things, Eric? Yeah. What does Hobb notice?
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Looks like yellow sticks on the roof. Magical arcane focuses is what Milo thought. Yeah, I mean, they essentially look like very clearly magic ones that have been mounted and... Are they guns? Are they threatening weapons that might blow us into pieces if things get unpleasant in here? They could be. They could also be non-lethal deterrents. What would be the check to know what they are?
00:21:18
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Mechanics? Artifice? I would let you do an artifice check. Three purple. But I'm going to flip a story point just because, you know, oh, sorry. Milo has thoughts about who she might work for because of the monitoring devices. Hob can't stop thinking about if one of those things falls, it's really going to mess this big desk up.
00:21:45
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We got Eris. One success, two advantage, and guess what, gang? Another triumph. The wands feel a sense of fealty to Eris.
00:22:06
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Yeah, recently rigged up Bluetooth on my gauntlet. So you just, they're mine now. Yeah. Okay. So what are the success? They are basically they allow for offsite.
Monitoring Devices and Professional Discretion
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You get a sense that there may be some controls at her desk, but also
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controls at other places that would allow somebody to cast spells through them as if they were standing there with that level of range. So right now you are essentially within short range of somebody's ability to cast magic at you. Based on what you can see... It's a remote arcane focus. Yes, and basically they could cast any number of spells through it. It's not necessarily a gun, but they certainly could
00:22:59
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Sure. Just light up the whole room. That's neat. That's be helpful for reading. Yeah. And the other monitoring implements, Aris, you can tell that they are remarkably similar, if not the exact same design as what was seen at Mill Hatch.
00:23:29
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So two advantages and a triumph. Well, I already have a talent that causes me to now be able to attempt to build those. So I don't need that. Oh, I have something for the two advantages if you want. Sure. You know someone's watching you right now.
00:23:57
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Like you can tell that the monitoring devices are active, but they were not when you first came in the room. Right. I sort of looks at them for a minute and then just raises a hand and waves. Um, gosh, another triumph. Another triumph.
00:24:26
Speaker
It's just like an awkward moment for it. So it's like, what? Now she wants to be Eris's best friend. She's having a party and now Eris is invited. Eris is invited to join the cool Artificers Club of Sharn. And Eris gets a plus one. The Pompous Rogue Inventors Club.
00:24:57
Speaker
It could also relate to another aspect of this investigation or not at all. Yeah, I'm trying to, I'm looking, I'm having to look back at my notes to see what were our other lines of... We've already established that the owner of the spider is going to be friendly to you all because the Reynard's cousin... His name is Findfjärland. Yeah, Findfjärland. Findfjärland. Findfjärland. Findfjärland. You who? You who?
00:25:24
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Um, we had, we had a lead on the Umbra club, the Umbra club dragons blood club run by a drug drug club club. Yeah. Yeah. Drug club. We get discounts. Is there, okay. You said her desk is covered in a bunch of stuff. Is there anything
00:25:55
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Okay. Is it possible that the stuff on her desk in the course of this conversation, uh, one of us is able to observe, um, something on her desk that clears up whether
00:26:17
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who else she's connected to, like that, that gives us a, a direction as to who she's connected to besides Al-Swa because I get the impression Al-Swa is just a client. She's not really involved in what Al-Swa is doing is the impression I'm getting, but obviously she's mixed into this web of stuff. Yeah. And so is there something that's been carelessly left on the table on the desk?
00:26:45
Speaker
That would give us a clue as to where, where that thread of this web leads. Okay. I, I have, yeah, I have something, um, that will provide both that and a little bit of info about Al Swah as well, or rather their
Tension Over Defective Fireball Detonators
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dealings. So, um, as you all are sitting there, um, you hear a magical thrum as the sending stone on her desk becomes active and you hear a voice.
00:27:12
Speaker
come through the sending stone that says, Ms. Sadio, we just got word from Mill Hatch Industries that that batch of fireball detonators that we threw in with Al-Swa's last order were defective and they won't go off. So you may want to let him know.
00:27:36
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And she just tenses up. Thank you. No problem. That was inconvenient. Indeed.
00:27:49
Speaker
Um, okay. I, I realized Eris doesn't, Eris is obviously not very concerned about what the laws are on what you're allowed to build in your garage. Yeah. Uh, but fireball detonators sounds super illegal. Yeah. Only fireball detonators in my garage is my punk cover band. We are the fireball detonators.
00:28:12
Speaker
Gosh, I want that to be in character. Yeah. Um, yeah, definitely. Um, something that destructive, um, would not, there's a reason it would be dealt by a weapon smuggler and not a house or something like that. So yeah. So, Hmm. Feels like that was,
00:28:43
Speaker
indiscreet yes yes um well put because it's you know that's in their defense i don't have anything on my calendar right now so i'm reasonable to assume that i would be alone sure sure do you worry often because i mean
00:29:13
Speaker
Do you, do you worry about what he'll do with something like that? Like I said, in this line of work, it's difficult to, it's difficult to, uh, invest yourself emotionally in the doings of every person that purchases weapons from you as a weapons smuggler.
00:29:39
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even not something as audaciously named as a fireball detonator, uh, can be used to harm other people. Is that alchemical or is it? It's arcane. Is it just straight magic? Okay. Captured a spell releases upon activation. Well, it's on a timer. So you activate it and then you can throw it. And then, in fact, it'd be useless if it just activated as soon as you
00:30:10
Speaker
I feel like I would worry. Well, like a while ago, you probably saw this in the news. There was a Danny and Danny Tavix. There was a
00:30:26
Speaker
There was an attack by, you know, a crazy man on a saw sled. It was flinging explosives around and he caused a section of one of the one of the walkways around the tower to collapse. And, you know, I never heard how bad it was down below. But it seems like I would worry about reading things like that in the paper if I. If I was just selling weapons to anyone.
00:30:58
Speaker
We don't sell weapons to anyone, to be fair. There is a vetting process. We don't engage with people that we feel like would be a erratic danger to those around them. Typically people with military training of some kind and some level of discipline in how they're going to make use of the tools that we provide them with.
00:31:27
Speaker
I did read about what happened and I did not supply that individual with the things that they used. Anybody that would like can give me a perception check on that statement. What's the difficulty?
00:31:52
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um one red one purple oh no then no thank you i will be abstaining how close is his eyes and goes la la la we'll give that a go hey oh no no no hold on i've done a bad thing what have you done i just clicked a bunch of reds five reds let's roll
00:32:18
Speaker
Oh, hey. Why? Because I haven't done anything. It was going really well. Surprise. So Eris gets three successes. Milo gets one success, one advantage. Reynard, zero successes and un despair.
00:32:42
Speaker
Well, let me tell you the, the results of the success and the perception check real quick. Eris Milo, you can definitely tell that what her statement, uh, she did not supply those things to that individual. Um, there is some aspect of that statement that is either untrue or omitted there. Yeah, there's, there's something off about the statement. You don't get the sense that she's outright lying, but, um,
00:33:14
Speaker
Yeah. The despair. I would like to use my advantage to cancel the despair. If only that's how this game works. Well, that's up to you, Eric, isn't it?
00:33:31
Speaker
What Trevor I said just turn him into threat instead Okay, so The the threat or the despair that I have written down for this conversation The doors to the office open and an individual walks in And you see a very large bald man about as wide as the door that he walked in turn and regard you all and smile like
00:34:01
Speaker
Hmm. Back in my business. I see you see Solomon Callaway has just walked in the office. I did not know he was bald. Um, one advantage, but Milo, but I just pass the boost. Okay. Um, Coram stands up. Hello, sir. Um, can I help you?
00:34:31
Speaker
And, um, Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm going to make him, I'm going to make him horrible. Um, yes. Uh, Coram, um, coffee would be great. And she just kind of gives a curt nod and walks out of the office. No, it's funny when he's a jerk to Vigo. It's not funny when he's a jerk to anybody else. Nope. Especially the woman who worked for him.
00:34:59
Speaker
Yep. He goes and takes this guy, the chair that she was sitting in. It's like, what can I do for you? I liked it when you smashed Vigo's face into a table. I did too. It was pretty good. I liked that. I did too. That mask he had to wear afterwards was very funny. Yeah.
00:35:30
Speaker
Yeah, just lay on his back for a really long time. I'm trying so hard to remember how well we completed things for Solomon last time. Like, how does he feel about us right now? We recovered, that was the thing where we recovered a cache of stuff and delivered it to his little garage, right? Yeah, we did the thing we were supposed to do for him. Like, we did a... Yeah. Yes. Entirely successfully.
00:35:57
Speaker
You got, you got Reynard back. Um, so, Oh yeah. Yeah. That'll be notes to Reynard. Can't win them all. Harris looks so great. This is the guy that kidnapped you. Oh, how was lunch? Did you enjoy it? I knew you looked familiar. It was wonderful. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure Kipling had a great time too. Kidnapping is such an ugly word. I,
00:36:27
Speaker
He was, you were wonderful at it. I didn't even know. I'm trying to use the word kidnap. I feel like he probably did. He, no, he just simply showed like we've got rain arts dagger and said, yeah, do what I want. Or I am sorry. I recall that we ended that job.
00:36:56
Speaker
not at all happy about what Callaway was up to. I don't remember why. And I have this beautiful new notebook that doesn't have all of my old notes in it. I think it was, you were getting a bunch of dragon shards for him. And I don't exactly, like you really let the prima fit have it at the drop off point, but I don't remember why exactly.
00:37:27
Speaker
Um, right. It's either what we were told to do or what we thought we were told to do. So I guess my first question is why are you here? And how did you come to be here?
00:37:56
Speaker
Well, the second question is really easy because we just flew up here. Look, Solomon, it's not going to surprise you to learn we're here as part of a job. Nothing to do with you guys except for we were told this might be a good place to find some information. That's all about our goal. It really doesn't involve your organization outside of that. As far as we know, we don't know what your organization is. What's your organization? I have a diverse portfolio.
00:38:27
Speaker
Well, then I suppose we should ask your financial advisor who she thinks of as the businessman in the group and just with a look of blank lack of understanding. Because he's written more numbers down in his lifetime than the rest of us. He's the business one. He also apparently owned a bar. Yeah, that's true.
00:38:52
Speaker
Eris has lost a lot of confidence in his competence as a mage, but she still thinks he ran a bar, at least relatively competently at some point. I mean, it did burn down, but, um, that's true. Eris has not ruled out that that was not, that was not an act of sabotage, but just carelessness. Uh, I do a lot of different things. I'll just put it that, Oh, okay. Yeah.
00:39:23
Speaker
Why are you here bothering Coram? I guess is the specific question. Bothering Coram. We were having a nice conversation about all this. Yeah. She has specific bodies that she should be doing right now. Instead of talking to you all. Is it getting coffee? Stop her.
00:39:46
Speaker
You're there, do something. I love an opportunity. Eric has a habit of not waiting for the person to quit talking before she starts responding. Hobb says, look, something was stolen,
The Carrion and Boromar Clan Theft
00:40:00
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we've been asked to recover it. Now, no one in your, as far as we know, no one here stole it, but they used past associates, not quorum herself, someone here. That's all we know. That's why we're here, period.
00:40:15
Speaker
So you don't know who? Don't know who what? Do you know what? Well, you're not giving me a name. That's right. Who stole something? Do we have any reason to believe Solomon would know more than, I mean, Oh, I have no reason to believe. Seems to know more than everyone. Sure. I have no reason to believe he would help us. Like, I don't know if as soon as, as soon as we say he probably knows. Right. But as soon as we see how sua, he could go to ground.
00:40:44
Speaker
if we say it to solve it. That's possible, too. Of course, he already. Yeah. No, you also may already could have because who knows who's watching us. Right. Which still doesn't know that that's what those are. The monitoring devices are no longer on. Oh, OK. Someone hit the key fob on the way in. Boop, boop. You know what? He's going to say some fella calls himself the carrion.
00:41:16
Speaker
Ah, the bounty hunter. Well... You steal one of your friends? No, he's moved just to Grand Larceny in general. It appears to be his new MO. What of Boromars did he take? He took a shipment en route, just like you had us do not too long ago. Only this one we're less happy about.
00:41:47
Speaker
Okay, Carrion. Yeah, he's bought some stuff from us before, mostly weapons, transportation suit as well. But whatever he stole, it wasn't at our behest. And he kind of smirks, I do know,
00:42:16
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where we drop off the deliveries. And that's great. I'd love to hear it. And would you be kind enough to share that with us? Oh. What are you willing to give? I know that Hob is not in the least bit intimidating to Salomon Calloway, so.
00:42:43
Speaker
Well, I think I still owe you a lunch. God, you absolute monster. Solomon genuinely laughs at that, laughs at that statement. Raynard, I like you. Raynard was still like, I had a great time. I don't know what the problem is. It's a great start. Yes, we can go grab lunch.
00:43:06
Speaker
Does Raynard get to roll show? See if that's enough. Does that work? And Raynard's just like, oh, amazing. I forgot my wallet, though. I mean, my understanding is you don't want for much, so I don't know what we could give you, but. Oh, I love information.
00:43:34
Speaker
information is my favorite. We're here to get it from you. What do you think we have? I think that you all have been working for the Boromar clan for some time. And they are a remarkably opaque organization. Sure, for 97% of the organization, we're on the same side of that window as you. Oh, yeah, yeah, also to us. Well,
00:44:06
Speaker
I would wager you know more about the Boromars than we do, frankly, Solomon. What would you like to wager? That's a dumb question, sorry. Hob doesn't know how to respond to that because it was not legitimate. It's called a rhetorical device, Solomon. I didn't actually intend to wager anything with you on this ephemera. I'm simply saying I can't imagine that we have any information to give you.
00:44:32
Speaker
We work for a fellow. Well, we work out of the four sales, but you knew that already for a guy named Vigo, who I believe you've met. Well, um, yes, I know about Vigo. I know about the black lamps. I know about you all. Um, but you know, there are,
00:44:56
Speaker
As far, insofar as I can tell, I know there's lots of other different bits of the clan that do many different things. Smuggling, gambling, but I don't, I don't have names. I don't have places. I don't have faces. I mean, clan has a lot of interesting resources that I don't know about, that I don't know where they're stored or located. So any of those things.
00:45:25
Speaker
be more than enough to exchange for the location of Al-Swa's drop point. In fact, if the information is good enough, I'll even send in a communication that we have something for him. He'll be there waiting for you. You can talk to him all you want. Trying to remember who Hobb would be willing to sell out. It's not making it easy.
00:45:53
Speaker
While Milo sits there thinking, I wonder if I could hire him to get rid of Jason. Is there a warehouse location, like just some warehouse location that we could just be like, Hey, there's some stuff here you could go look through. I guess that's the best we got right now. If we want to know that centralized garage, a relatively valuable secret about Jason.
00:46:21
Speaker
Hey, do we want to put our... I can't tell if he's a dude or antagonist or... I can't tell what he is. Pain in the butt. Do we want to tell him that? I'm just saying, Milo does know that. Milo knows a relatively, a potentially at least valuable secret about Jason.
00:46:46
Speaker
Mr. Callaway, how do you feel about hot goss? Is that something you'd be interested in? It's not so much a location or perhaps the coordinates of a cache, but it is some pretty hot goss. Eris is just staring at Hobb.
00:47:10
Speaker
offering him gossip here's the thing yes it is true it's not gossip gossip but if we say well we happen to know that Vigo's buddy is actually a member of the mark of shadow in disguise could or could not be important but it is it is certainly hot gossip who is this gossip pertaining to
00:47:36
Speaker
If I'm understanding my friend, Hob, I would say it can... Sons, Viggo's right-hand man, Jason. Hmm. Am I correct, Hob? Yup. Interesting. Okay, well, I mean, if you're telling me that he's...
00:48:07
Speaker
having an affair on his wife or something like that, then frankly, I don't care. But if it's good, then sure, we can exchange that information for the location. Well, now, how do we- Go ahead. I'm a man of my word, Hob. I... Well, I mean, okay, fact of the matter is that we've come to find out
00:48:36
Speaker
that it is very possible that Viggo is unaware that his best friend is actually a member of the, and I can't remember the name of the house, I just wanted to mark a shadow. What's the house? Well, I don't know that we would know which house would we, because they both have the mark of shadow, so do we know? Okay, so I would just say, Milo had a chance to see Jason in his,
00:49:06
Speaker
A natural state as an elf bearing the Mark of Shadow. And as far as we know, that would also be news to Viggo. Hmm, now hit me with that address. One of the houses has infiltrated the clan. Interesting. Very interesting. Huggles, not just one, talking about Reynard. Yes, yes, yes. Location.
00:49:35
Speaker
There's a shard processing plant down in lower Dura. Uh, it's off the books. Um, not run by a house, but that's where, uh, the carrion or Al Sua, uh, picks up his gear. I don't know if he lives there, but that's the address he gives us to drop off his purchases from
Al-Swa's Drop Point and Drow Management
00:49:58
Speaker
us. Is it shard processing plant? Where? Sorry.
00:50:04
Speaker
Lower, lower. Who who runs it if it's not run by a house? It's I mean, that seems like a very expensive operation for independent. I invested on the ground floor. It is pretty pricey, but it's it's a group that came up out of Zendrick, a group of drow, actually. So they're. Handling it. Calm down, Laura.
00:50:38
Speaker
Uh, so yeah, there, um, do not, I, I would caution running afoul of them. I will say that much. Um, but he meets, uh, yes, the drop point is, um, there we do the drops on the roof of the building, uh, during, uh, middle of the night. So I can.
00:51:08
Speaker
Reach out to him and let him know that we have additional shipment of goods that he's ordered that'll be dropped off tonight. You all can do what you will. All right. Now, question for you all. I'm going to ask this in a specific way to where you can just answer it any yes or no. To your knowledge,
00:51:39
Speaker
what he stole. Does it have anything to do with me or my dealings? No, I don't think so. Not that I'm aware. But your dealings are also very opaque. Yes, they are. Extensive portfolio.
Solomon's Authority and Instructions
00:52:04
Speaker
Right. Basically, I can confidently say it has nothing to do with anything that I know you do.
00:52:11
Speaker
Yeah. Like I said, to your knowledge, at this point, Corum walks in with two cups of coffee and hands one, two. I'm so angry about this. Thank you. He does not give back the chair that she was... It has been a while since I hated anyone this much in this campaign. Is there anything else that I can do for you?
00:52:42
Speaker
Nope. It's been great. Hob gets up. Sir Saliv. Oh, well, I don't think so. And, um, as you all are getting up, you hear Solomon turn to Coram and say, um, the tithers is waiting on that report. So get that to him now.
00:53:02
Speaker
Wait, is that we know that person? Yeah, we know. I'm sorry. That was an heiress's voice for no reason at all. That was Philip. Who's the titers? Is that the fella from the titers was the. Yes. Oh, the one with the stuff on the train that you wanted us to kill him, too.
00:53:25
Speaker
Yeah, just make sure he doesn't get right. But Vigo wasn't. But but he was not that subtle about it. No, it was like, no, no. In case you didn't get my meaning. Kill him. I love that you did that as Eris impersonating Vigo was. Yes. We're leaving.
00:53:54
Speaker
I think so. Raynard, I'll be by. Raynard's the last to leave the room and he says, I'm typically free on Tuesdays. Good. I'll come by. Yes. Raynard, I don't think he's, he's going to. By the way, I have no doubt in my mind you are definitely a man of your word. The crudite was to die for. What'd you say, Randy?
00:54:17
Speaker
So Raynard's going to end up working for this guy. Hey, he's always hiring. Um, okay. Uh, gang, you now know a location that actually an Al Swah will be at. It is midday. I think is what we established when you headed up to the tower. So you have some time if you want. So it's midday.
00:54:41
Speaker
Yep. So, um, you could wait a little bit. Probably the spider will open up, uh, like late afternoon ish. Um, and then umber club will open up a little bit after that. Both of them will open up before the middle of the night, the very specific time that you were given for the drop. Um, so, or you all could just cut to confronting elsewhere.
00:55:09
Speaker
Uh, Hob makes it clear that he's not interested in going to the spider unless they have to. Not a, not a place he wants this. But gambling hall. Wait, I thought that was the dragon's board place. The umber club. No, that was the umber club. Hobbs would rather not go to both of them are connected, but both of them are connected to desk. Yes. Oh yeah. I mean, we, we know Oswald's working for desk and so is there any reason
00:55:39
Speaker
Is there any reason for us to follow up on that lead if we know where he's going to be? I don't think so. Or are we just risking trouble because they really don't like our organization.
00:55:51
Speaker
I think it might be more. I see no. I see no trouble in this world. That Dask is an active rival gang? Yes. Yes. And you all know that especially the goals have had a lot of confrontations with. And I have to assume for more than a couple of them and is on site with our particular group, considering I just stole one of their motorcycles. Wouldn't he Dask? That's also fair. That whole crew is Dask. Yeah. He was Dask. We don't know that he's dead. Yeah. So basically,
00:56:22
Speaker
Um, yeah, you just knew that Al Sua hung around those two places a lot and was spotted, um, there. And also that, I have, I have a note that says Al Sua is working for Dask. Was that me over assuming something that we did not actually learn? He sold that shipment to Dask, but you also learned from lady Briar that he had basically that, that shipment was on the open market essentially.
00:56:49
Speaker
So he wasn't working directly for a desk. He just sold that shipment to them. Okay. Okay. So, um, I'm happy to wait until the middle of the night
00:57:17
Speaker
Or you all could go and like scout out the area, uh, in lower Dura around that place, just to get a lay of the land. Um, or you can just wait. I'm totally fine with either. Are we under the impression that we'll have, we'll have unencumbered or not encumbered unhindered passage into this place. Like that. Well, the drop point is on the roof. Uh, Callaway said, okay. Sure. Cause he can fly.
00:57:48
Speaker
I was just thinking like we don't have to sneak past guards or anything, right? Cause Callaway told us where it was and it's his building. I have to assume that we're allowed to be there. He, he's an investor. It's not his building. Okay. Plausible deniability. So I don't like the new Eric. I like corporate Eric. I feel like this is a, I feel like this is the point at which we need to have a conversation because what are we going to do when we find this guy?
00:58:20
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End of episode. Good button.
00:58:40
Speaker
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00:59:06
Speaker
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