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C2 Ep. 64 A Performance to Die For Chapter Two
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The crew sits down for the first step of their investigation.
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Introduction and Recap
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Murder Discovery at the Theater
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Oh, there's been a murder at the theater. There it is. Somebody say the thing. Are contractually obligated.
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Yes. There has been a murder in the theater. Yes. Um, we found out that the director who's been collaborating with heiress's favorite playwright has been found murdered in his home, stabbed in the skewered in the belly. And, um, we are now at the theater that was putting on his show to speak with some staff members there to see if they knew anything. Yep.
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And you were brought in by Verla to take over this investigation because something's going on, something fishy is going on with the Sharn City Watch.
Eris Interviews Marvert about Billy
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It's where they're not wanting to investigate it. Okay. Well, where we left off, Marvert, the dwarf sound engineer for the theater has entered.
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Um, Harris has taken up residence behind, uh, the theater owner's desk and has offered Marvert, Marvert a seat and called him grizzled. So, um, I, I understand that you all are, uh, looking into the, uh, unfortunate business with, uh, with Billy. Yeah. We've been asked by some interested parties to just take a look, another look and see if we can get a better idea of what happened.
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Um, uh, and she reaches over and it takes one of the, um, nicer looking empty journals and opens it and takes out a pen to take notes. Um, you have plenty of crime going on. Did you, um, did you know Billy? Oh, of course. Yeah. I, uh, I worked on the, the first show that Billy did here, um, and got to know him real well. He was, he was new to town, excited to be an actor. Um,
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And, uh, yeah, good kid, smart kid. Um, so yeah, I don't know why anybody would want to want to hurt him.
Insights into Jealousy and Clem's Dislike
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Do you have any enemies? Erin says mimicking what she thinks of as. Yeah.
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Police investigators. Whatever the Eberron equivalent of Dashiell Hammett, she's red. I don't know if enemies is the right word. I mean, most people really liked Billy. He was a good guy, really friendly to most people. You know, there were people jealous of his success. There were people jealous of his closeness to Luca.
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So there, there were definitely people that envied Billy quite a bit. Um, the only, the only person I can know of that I've ever seen, uh, you know, raise their voice or, uh, or get uppity with Billy was, uh, Maryland's mom, Clem. Uh, she's not a fan of Billy. Um, but, uh, yeah, that's the only person that I can recall. Um, I,
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He kind of stops himself for a second and is clearly thinking about something. Yes.
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Probably nothing, but Billy recently had some turnover in. Harold, his valet is a pretty recent addition just in the past month and a half. Harold has been his valet before. Billy had a different valet named Eddie. And Billy didn't really want to go into details when I would ask him about it. We were friendly. I wouldn't call us close, if that makes sense.
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Um, like I couldn't tell you Billy's grandma's birthday or anything like that, but, um, I just know that there was there, uh, him and Eddie didn't part on good terms.
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Eris is distracted trying to decide if she can remember her grandmother's birthday. I know right. Right now, Jeff is thinking, Eric, we're close and I don't know your grandma's name. OK, what's mine? Grandma. You might be right. That's all I ever called. Come on, Grammy. Mima. Anyway, so I know there was some unfortunate business with Eddie, but I don't know the details of it. Just some reason why Billy wanted a new valet.
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So, but anything else? Eddie said anything about being concerned that something happened that he found troubling. Is it maybe he talked about hiring extra security or wanting more protection while here at the theater or anything like that? No, nothing like that. He, you know,
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Like I said, it seemed like a pretty happy-go-lucky type of guy. Didn't really have many
Eris Charms Marvert for More Information
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concerns. Um, he, uh, he spent a lot of time with, with Luca. Um, they, they were, they were, their working relationship was very close. Um, outside of the theater, I have no idea what the relationship was like. Um, but I know that they, they were talking pretty constantly here and both of them started spending less time here, I would say, but you know,
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Luca is more hands-on than most playwrights are anyway. And once the show goes up, I mean, there's not much for Billy to do while the show's happening. You can't change the blocking mid-show. So. I've always thought it was really the thing that made theater come to life.
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is the technical side of it. And it, without that, it just, it's really just, well, my friend here said, it's just people talking, you know, without the, without the technical side to enhance it and make it, you know, more like, just because I'm never going to get to do it again. I want to use,
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my talk shop talent. Talk shop talent, yep. I want to roll mechanics to charm him. Okay. What's the difficulty? Two purple, add a blue. Okay. Hey. Three success, one triumph.
00:08:27
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triumph is easy, he knows something, and he's feeling comfortable. Once I get him going a bit, I'm gonna say, so, I gotta ask, if I was in your place, I'd be kind of, I'd feel a little bit betrayed that Luca and Billy were thinking about moving uptown.
Marvert on Talent and Opportunity
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Yeah, I mean,
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At the end of the day, the diamond has always been a stopgap for talent. People that work here a long time, he gestures himself. We've hit our ceiling here, but that's not the way most people want to live. So I've seen plenty of people come through this theater. I'm honestly shocked that Luca has stayed around as long as she has.
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So I wouldn't say betrayal, sadness at them leaving. Anyone feel something more than sadness? Marilyn on multiple occasions, once word started spreading, made it very clear that she wanted Billy to take her with him and seemed very
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distraught at the concept of, of Billy leaving her behind. Um, was he going to? Um, I don't know. I mean, you know, it's, it's up to the director to cast. So it's entirely possible that once they got their first show going up at the temple, uh, that he call up Marilyn and say, Hey, got to roll for you. But, uh, based on the way that she was acting, Billy hadn't made any promises because you know, there's a different caliber of actor up there also. Um,
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So I would say Marilyn is better than most that have come through the diamond, but it's all different world in the, in the university district. And she was also close with Billy. Yeah. Um, yes. Uh, Billy kind of brought her into the diamond as far as I know. Um, I mean, her, her mother brought her to auditions. Her mother is very involved in her career.
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Uh, but I have noticed that her and Billy have grown very close over the past. Do we know how old Marilyn is? Oh, you came and saw the show. She looks to be, um, teens, like late teens. Okay. Um, and, uh, Billy, you would know is, would have been in his early forties. Okay. Um, so, you know, um,
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they were very close and Billy or Marilyn's mother did not seem happy with the nature of their relationship, whatever that may be. People talk, people don't know anything. Um, but there was one time that I heard Billy talking to Luca and I don't know
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Context like I said just people talk people don't know anything But I did hear Billy say if I ever see him again, I'll kill him That's Billy saying that and obviously Billy is the one On the wrong end of that sentence, but probably sometimes when you try to kill someone they kill you instead it's true, but I Yeah, I guess no denying it
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So, um, yeah, that's, that's all I know regarding that though, is that piece of sentence. I was walking by trying to rig up a sound panel. Eris looks over at Reynard and Hobb and Kat and Sana.
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I mean, Hob looks genuinely impressed at how much Eris was able to get from this person and has nothing further. Just starts slow clap. And Hob grabs his hands and says, no, no, no, no, we don't celebrate this. Not in front of the witness. You've been very helpful. Thank you. Thank you. If you could send Marilyn in. Yeah. I'll go let Davis know that you're ready for it.
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Thank you. I think Hobb is legit proud of how Eris has just fallen into this role that she doesn't know what she's doing, but is making it work, and that's the best part of it to him. If she were good at it because she worked at it, he'd be like, hey, way to go, but she's good at it, faking it. He's like, hell yeah. Eris has read the right books. Yes.
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uh i wish this was a world where i could say aris has watched a lot of law and order yeah and just making it up through that surprised aris hasn't grabbed a pen and started fake like so um you know what your buddy told me your buddy told me he's in there right now with my partner and he's saying everything
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After a couple of minutes. What buddy? Wait, you have a partner? Wait. What other room? You hear a very faint knock on the door and it opens and you see a human woman, you would put it about 17 or 18 entering, still the remnants of show makeup on her face.
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hair a bit messy. She clearly is in a post-show state and hasn't gone home to clean up yet.
Marilyn's Concerns and Clem's Hostility
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And so she kind of looks around and is like, I was told that some people are looking into Billy. Yeah, yeah. Have a seat. She shuts the door behind her and sits down.
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clearly very uncomfortable by the presence of five people in here surrounding her. And not good looking ones either. Giants, we've all looked pretty beat up. A couple of really big ones. Raynard looks great. For Raynard, maybe. So, Billy...
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What's the word? Discovered you, right? Uh, yeah, he, he cast me in, in my first show at the diamond. We saw you the other day. You were really good. Thank you. Uh, you worried about Billy going uptown? I mean,
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I guess, were you worried? I know it's not. Billy wasn't my first audition in in town and he was the the only person that was willing to cast me, it seemed like. And so, you know, I was I was worried that if he left, then my my career would be in jeopardy. And so that
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Yes, I was concerned because he's a director I enjoy working with.
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You all can feel free to ask for roles at any point or anything like that. Right, yeah. What is the insight equivalent? Perception. Perception, okay. Would you like to make that role, Hob? I will make that role. Okay. Because I can't imagine that she doesn't think if this has been successful that she's actually going to be destitute when this shows over if the lead of it of a successful show. Yeah.
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Okay, so it's going to be a two purple difficulty. Okay. Would you like to flip a story point? Yeah, I'm going to flip a story point simply because I haven't rolled yet this time around, so. Okay. And so just two purple, no setback or anything? Two purple. All right. Three success.
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Um, so you can tell that she is definitely, uh, lying. Like her, her concern is not professional in nature with Billy potentially leaving. But she's not lying that she is concerned. She's understating the nature of her concern. Yes. It is very hobbed to your eyes. This is a very practiced and regimented, like,
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she has clearly thought about this is the reason that she has been told to state why she was worried about Billy leaving. The concern is real on her face. It's just that she's clearly like, this is what I've been told to say. So the lie is that she is concerned
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The reason she's giving is not truthful, but the concern in her voice is genuine. Right. And the reason is she's concerned about future employment prospects. That's what she's giving. Yeah. Okay. I think that Hobbs is going to say, you know what? It strikes me as odd that you would be still scared of your, um,
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of your future career, now that you've been discovered. You're playing the lead in what I'm told is a very good and successful show. So, how can he say this without just regurgitating what I just learned from the role? Now I do believe that you're worried about, or not worried about, he's dead. I do believe
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that you're sad for your friend's passing. I do believe that you'd like justice to be done. But I also do believe you're keeping something from us. Do I need to roll with something? Yeah, give me some kind of social check to get her to crack. Okay, he's not trying to coerce. Or I'll punch ya. Yeah.
00:19:31
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negotiation. He's not charming. He's not deceiving. That's the thing. Well, negotiation is inherently if you're offering her something in exchange for if there's no offer, then it would be just charm.
00:19:45
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Is it violate our family friendly spirit if Eris digs around in this drawer until she finds Divas's pack of smokes? No, that's fine. We'll put the truth.org warning at the beginning of the episode. Smoking on the show? Yeah. Have we? Not from a child. Well, Eris, I know. Well, she's under 21, didn't she? Yeah, that's true.
00:20:10
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Wait, is that the age now? Did they raise the age? You have to be 21 to buy tobacco products now. That's how unaware I am of tobacco policy. Well, I was unaware of that, honestly. Well, you're also all well past 21. It wouldn't have affected you. That's fair. I think it was just two or three years ago. OK. Yes, Eris can find the pack of smokes. While Wahhab is talking, Eris sticks around in the drawer and finds whatever the
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whatever the Eberron equivalent of tobacco is that Divis has. And again, because this is what investigators do in the books that Eris reads, she pulls out a little sparker that she uses in her art of this thing.
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and essentially uses a little torch, a little settling torch to light this here. Got a pack of Auroch lights in the door. Takes a drag and immediately... Are you okay? Okay, you know what I think Hobb says? I think Hobb says, you have a chance now to come clean.
00:21:21
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about whatever it is you're keeping from us and not be seen as potentially obstructing. I had words a minute ago and they're gone. I would hate for it to be seen as though you were a party to us and a party to making it more difficult for us to solve this murder. And like I said,
00:21:53
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There's something divine telling me that you're not telling the full truth. It's the hardest thing in the world to justify talking after an insight check.
00:22:03
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My little birdie told me, you're a liar. You can read people, like you can tell from her body language and just- But I think it really is just the logical thing of it is like, you're not concerned about your next job. I believe that you're concerned. You're not concerned about your next job. So I think what Hobb is trying to do is he's trying to move it into the realm of coercion by saying it would be bad for you to be considered as in our way of trying to solve this by lying. Is that fair? Yeah.
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Okay. Or I'm going to punch ya. Is this still average? Yeah. Because the fact that Hob gets to use brawl for coercion checks is like, that's always the implicit threat is, or I'm going to punch ya. Yeah, they know it's fair. Okay. It's an average check and here we roll. For success, one advantage. Okay.
00:22:58
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Um, anything in particular you'd like to spend the advantage on? Um, I think that I would like to hold the advantage. Oh no, I can't target it cause it's just one. So let's just boost the next person. Okay. So she kind of starts for a second and just people, people like to make assumptions and people
00:23:28
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I don't feel like we truly understand the nature of billion eyes. Relationships, the wrong word. We're exceptionally open minded. Oh, well, that's exactly that. No, there was nothing needing to be open minded. It like. My mother has always had a hand on the wheel of my career and.
00:23:54
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uh, has always felt that she knew best. And ever since I started listening to Billy, things have started going better. And my mom had some issues with that and didn't like Billy. And the fact that Billy and I were close and would spend time together talking about the direction of my career and what I needed to do, people began to think that there was something else going on and there wasn't. Um,
00:24:24
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He was very much more like a father figure to me than anything, but in this industry, yeah. So that's why I try to have a more detached description of our relationship, is so people won't talk. Billy going to a bigger theater, a more active scene,
00:24:52
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he wasn't gonna have time for me anymore unless he took me with him, unless I was still the star of his shows and still involved, but I'm not stupid. I know that there are plenty of actresses that are at least as talented, if not better than me, especially given the fact that they've been doing the bunker. So, I don't know, Billy's smart, he's kind,
00:25:23
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He believes in positive reinforcement and those are things that I enjoy having in my life and I'm going to miss them. I'm gonna flip a story
Clem's Confrontation and Marilyn's Removal
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point. At this point, the door comes flying open and you see a upper middle-aged woman, probably in her late 30s,
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come in and look around at all of you and then see Marilyn, and what are you doing? And she comes over and grabs Marilyn by the wrist, like they were just talking about, I don't care, I don't know. Asking questions, that's all. I don't know who you all are, and I don't care. Good day. Oh. And she walks out and slams the door behind her. Okay, Mama Rose. So, how's enough time to get between her and the door?
00:26:21
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Give me an athletics check against a middle-aged woman. Athletics against her coordination, which would be too purple. We're pretty good about this. Yeah. Yeah, I think. Five success, one threat.
00:26:45
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She doesn't like you. She is Bette Midler in Gypsy. A stage mom? Come on, Gypsy. I know what it is. I'm not familiar enough to...
00:27:01
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Sorry, I didn't hear what you said. I was trying to think about the threat, Trevor. So she is Bette Midler in Gypsy. Oh. One of my less favorite mama roses. You could all be wrong. Hey, I think Patti's was solid.
00:27:20
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and a much better interpretation of the show. Anyway, um... Pardon me while I check my watch in a very exaggerated fashion. The threat, as soon as you are in her way and she sees that you're in her way, she starts talking very loudly, saying, Divas, one of your goons is in my way. Um, actually, I'm a cell phone goon. Thank you very much. Like I said, I do not care. Please get out of my way. No, he's gonna say,
00:27:50
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We are trying to get to the bottom of a murder. And so now you have involved yourself in this. Can I ask your name, please? I cannot reiterate how little I care about what you're doing here. Hob shuts the door.
00:28:08
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I mean, she starts yelling for somebody to come help her. Fine. So obviously it's going to take Divas a minute to get here. So what would you like to do? I mean, you must be Clem. How do you know my name?
00:28:27
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And she then looks at Mira. We're investigators. She says, taking another drag. Yeah. And Hob just goes. We might know a lot. Well, I don't know. Accident that way. I was like, I'll be very clear that Eris is holding the cigarette entirely wrong. Yeah. Just a full fist around. Not quite that wrong. Like a child with a straw.
00:28:56
Speaker
That's how they do it there, man. He's a big teeth league. Yeah, I mean, she's just trying to get out of the room. You may think you know a lot. Once again, I do not care. When was the last time you saw Billy? Alive, I mean. Are you members of the Sharn City Watch?
00:29:23
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what investigators. So I have no legal obligation to talk to you. We are consulting detectives. Thank you. Oh, that's a good one. I like that. That's what we are.
00:29:35
Speaker
We're working in conjunction with the City Watch. If you would like, we can get our contact detective to come down here and make you comply. You are more than welcome to talk to your detective and get a warrant to bring me in to speak. Until you do that, you are to stay away from me and my daughter. And she's going to try to physically push past you, Hob. Let her try to push me then.
00:30:04
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So are you going to push against her? No, I'm just going to not move. OK. She is going to make a melee attack. Watch her just push me down. No, too purple. That's too green. I'm going to flip a story point. What are you having her roll against? It's a melee attack, so it's too purple.
00:30:33
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Okay. I mean, this could very well end up- Use the maneuver to aim. Getting shoved. One success, one advantage. Hob, she punches you in the testicles. Wow. You said she was going to try to push me out of the way. No, I said no. I said she was going to try to push past you. She did that. Hob refused to move, so she made a melee attack against Hob.
00:31:00
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I mean, Hobbs not going to punch her back. How much damage does that do out of curiosity? Does Hobbs actually hurt? No, my soak took it. Yeah. Three wounds, but narratively you got punched in the balls. Right. Yeah. But it hurt exactly as bad as mechanically. So he goes, all right, come on. That's just unnecessary. Okay. And he says,
00:31:26
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I don't know why you're so dead set on us not finding out who killed Billy, but it does seem weird. And he opens the door and he says, we'll come back with that warrant if we feel it's necessary. Suspicious, even. Well, it's because she knows. And as the door is closing, you hear Av go, she clearly did it, right? I mean, come on. Why do people, why do people do this? It's disgusting.
00:31:56
Speaker
You're right. And Eris, Eris was the whole pack up and throws it in the trash. No, I don't think that's funny. He's, he can, he's reaching him out of the pack. No, I don't think we sit here and have our conversation about what just happened in Divas's office. So I think it might be time for us to head back to the four sales. What do you guys say? We could go, we could go uptown and talk to, uh, Luca Sierra.
00:32:27
Speaker
What time is it now? I mean, it's probably around 10, 10.30. Should we relay what we've learned to Verla? You know what? That might actually be the best use of our time tonight and get started with Luca and Mandyron and the apartment tomorrow.
00:32:51
Speaker
So Verla did, uh, for point for purposes of contacting her after hours relating to this case, did give you her personal address. Do we all five show up at her house? I think we do. Unfortunately, Catherine son are the only two that have the sense not to. Yeah. She uses a, she uses a communicator, right?
00:33:11
Speaker
Oh, no. Didn't she have a watch communicator last time we met her? Yeah, because you hacked it. Yeah, when she's when she's on duty and stuff, so you could try to ping her radio. Probably not at home. Yeah, she might have turned off. So.
00:33:29
Speaker
Her house is in Forge Light Towers in lower Memphis. She has an apartment in Ural's level of town. So it's very close by. So yeah, you are correct. Kath and Sana take their leave and head back to the upper part of the city to their parents' house.
00:33:55
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And yeah, the Forge Light Towers is a apartment building, not nice, pretty dingy. It's in your neighborhood, so what's to be expected? You all go up to her door. She lives on one of the middle floors and presumably not. And she answers and, oh, hi.
00:34:23
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Go and come inside. Come on in. I didn't know you'd be coming by. A lovely place. The sarcasm is not welcome or necessary, Reynard. And now is where Trevor tells us everything we know is in yours. I'm pleasantly surprised.
00:34:44
Speaker
It's pretty messy. She lives alone. She's not at home a lot. And so the house isn't
00:34:56
Speaker
picked up or trench coat and fedora hanging by the door. Decoration is not something she seems to care about or want to spend time on. She quickly closed a curtain over a murder board for that one case she can never solve.
Team's Strategy with Verla
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Not yet. That's only if you all fail this adventure. So what's up? We went to the theater.
00:35:24
Speaker
Which one? The diamond. Okay. So find anything out? Yes. We talked to two very, uh, interesting individuals. Well, three, I guess. Well, but we also talked to divvies. Was he interesting? No. Or three interesting individuals and at least two that were less interesting. Yes.
00:35:53
Speaker
Look. And what did you find out? Who did you talk to that was interesting? We're here, so I assume you have something. Well, I. Tom wants to ask her to do the warrant or at the very least for her as a cop go and talk to you, but I would like to risk charges for being physically assaulted. Oh, why? No, he wouldn't.
00:36:23
Speaker
Aren't you? Never mind. Oh, you should have seen the one you hit him. I almost encouraged you to do crime. I've been spending way too much time around you all. You know, we don't need to... I'm going to do... She punched me in the balls and I was fine, so move on. Marilyn Timer's mother, Clem. Clem. Really, really, really did not like Billy.
00:36:52
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really, really, really did not like the fact that people were still trying to figure out who killed them. Also that. Which is not the truth, but it's how I'm choosing to read it now. And the daughter seemed very close to him. There was some indication in the files that Marilyn and Billy had a relationship of some kind of nature.
00:37:19
Speaker
And it actually the Go over how she described it and I do I tend to believe her It was a fully platonic almost parental relationship, which to me could read as jealousy on the part of the mother That's he was doing some of the job of manager and the mom didn't like him taking on that role Hmm Interesting so I mean but
00:37:51
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Does it seem like that would be motivation to kill him? Oh, I looked right in her eyes. She's a murderer for sure. Well, Hob standing in front of a door was enough for her to punch him. So her threshold for violence is at least, you know, moderate.
00:38:14
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and feudal violence, too. She had to have known that was going to do nothing. I believe that it would be in the interest of full diligence to speak with her, and she does not seem to be interested in talking with us, at least not without a directive from you. Do we know anything about that family? Are they well-connected, important,
00:38:39
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no, um, based on research that we were able to do regarding, uh, the timer family, um, father was killed in the last war. Um, and, uh, was a Chiron soldier. So there's no, uh, I mean, with, with the follow tire, there's no kind of.
00:38:58
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Support system for widows of soldiers that were killed. There's no government to provide that for for widows. So Her and Marilyn their only child moved to sharn trying to start a new life Marilyn showed a at least a capacity for the theater and based on
00:39:23
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what we can tell kind of trying to put things together. It seems like Clem has really pushed her into the world and has been very much her driving force. But I mean, I guess you could classify them as Chiron refugees at the end of the day who came to the city because they had nowhere else to go and are trying to make a life for themselves here. Do we know where they live?
00:39:49
Speaker
Yes, we do have an address on file and she kind of walks over to a table and starts kind of, it's just papers, like no organizational system, just shuffling through the papers on the table. No organizational system visible to the outsider. Yes, yes, exactly. Yeah, she kind of pulls up the paper and lets out a,
00:40:17
Speaker
A regrettable sigh. They live in high walls, which Eris, you would know. That's the refugee, like, the colloquial term for it is the refugee slum that tired refugees. High walls. Yeah. That basically that's the only, only part of the city that Sharon was willing to let organized, uh,
00:40:44
Speaker
community form. So it's a very insular community, like self-sufficient, most of the trade and services are internal. So even somebody like Eris may be viewed as an outsider coming into that community because she has a life outside of
00:41:09
Speaker
the district and also City Council. The war is over, but you know we're in a Cold War state in Eberron in general. People are just waiting for it to break out. So an entire district with former citizens of another nation populated together. There are guards posted.
00:41:33
Speaker
around the clock in the district as well. So it's not a good place, basically. Right. So yeah, we do have exact residential address for them. I can give that to you all so you can go down there. Just don't expect friendly faces.
00:42:02
Speaker
Um, a lot of people that have lost a lot there. Well, I've got what he needed. So. But if you, if you all do want, and you want me to, um, I, obviously the nature of what we're doing here, I can't bring her in or get an official warrant, uh, because that would raise a lot of flags. But when you all go to, if you all decide to go to talk to her, um, I can come with, um, to provide
00:42:31
Speaker
the legitimacy, if you need. Thanks. Yeah, it's clear that that's what is needed. So to us, you weren't there. I understand. Yes. Well, she asked for it. She did. She did. She has no one to blame but herself. So is there anything else that you all need?
00:43:05
Speaker
I have wine. I don't know what to offer people. People don't come over. Wait, didn't we learn something from the other guy too? Who did he say he was going to kill? We don't know. He was talking to Luca, but we didn't get, we don't know. So we would need to probably ask Luca about that. Oh, you want to take it to her? Sorry.
00:43:35
Speaker
Nope. Oh, I thought you were going to start feeling and saying that. Um, we did learn that he's definitely been in pretty serious conflict recently with someone, but we can't quite pinpoint who we're hoping to figure that out with a little bit more, um, talking with folks. What do you mean? He was overheard in a conversation with somebody else saying, I'm going to kill him. Now, of course, who hasn't said that hyperbolically, but a dispute, a dispute. Yeah.
00:44:05
Speaker
That makes sense. That's good. That's a good lead thread to pull on. Okay. And who told you that? Oh, what was his name? I didn't. That's the one name I didn't write down. Marvert. Marvert. Marvert was the sound technician. Mm hmm. Yeah. The, uh,
00:44:28
Speaker
the sound tech for the theater, um, who had been interacting with everyone during the, uh, proceeding the run of the show show show show. Okay. Well, that's, that's a good, a good catch.
00:44:52
Speaker
You know, honestly, though, it's all technicalities because clearly Glenn did it. I know. I feel like we have doesn't say that. I feel like we didn't sufficiently investigate Davis. Hmm. I feel like losing is his director and writer is a bit of a motive. Yeah. And I guess Lucas star was on the rise since teaming up with Taylor. So this could potentially set her back.
00:45:24
Speaker
He was quick to put us on to other people. And I got no problem admitting I certainly fell for it. We can always go back if we need to. Oh shoot, we didn't tell anyone not to leave town. You always gotta end it with don't leave town. Oh no. We blew each other's soul, this one.
Eris Apologizes and Learns Refugee Background
00:45:50
Speaker
You're all gone.
00:45:52
Speaker
Divas, Clem, Marvert, and Marilyn are all in the first train car. The first train to Zendric. Okay. Anything else for Verla? Were we going to set a time to go talk to Clem or do we need to do that later? Nah fam.
00:46:22
Speaker
I'm going to roll some dice to find out when it's most inconvenient for her. And then that's when I'm going to go talk to her. For Verla? No. Right now. Right now. Verla was offering to come with us or just to actually get an actual document from the Sharon Cagal. He said she couldn't get a warrant because obviously you're trying to do this investigation off the books. This is extra judicial, right? Yeah.
00:46:49
Speaker
So yeah, you would need to establish when you all want to go talk to Clem and then let Verla know. Do we need to do that before we talk to Luca? Or should we talk to... I kind of think that we should talk to Luca first and maybe even see the apartment. Yeah. That works. Okay. So are you all
00:47:20
Speaker
calling it a day there? I think so. I think it's, I think it's time to call it an evening and reconvene in the morning to go. Okay. So, um, yeah, I mean, where, where do you all, do you all just head home? Harris can drop everyone off at their various places. And yeah, Harris goes over to high walls.
00:47:51
Speaker
Oh, okay. So, um, she's going rogue. Okay. So, um, Harris, you're able to, uh, drive, um, or ride in flying in Tasha as, uh, as, as Tasha flies you. Um, it's, uh, in lower tactics landing, um, is where,
00:48:21
Speaker
High Walls is. Cool, cool. That place has been good to us. Yep. So a bit of city history that Aerys presumably would be somewhat aware of given the current nature of High Walls. After the destruction of the Glass Tower in Sharn, where an entire tower is brought down due to Andarian sabotage during at the height of the war,
00:48:49
Speaker
Shaun City Council became paranoid about a repeat incident, and so High Walls became a, it was a residential district. It was converted into a district to house suspicious residents or travelers. Essentially, a prison camp for foreign nationals is what it became. And now that the war is over, it has shifted into refugee housing.
00:49:20
Speaker
all of the other, like, like you have to fly Tasha in because all of the bridges connecting this to other parts of the city are sealed by massive spellbound gates and guard stations. Cool. So they're able to open the gates when they want to, which during the day they often will, but they do close the gates at night. So. Yep. Cool.
00:49:49
Speaker
So, you're able to fly, is Eris going to get out of Tasha and walk around High Walls, or are you just gonna do a flyby? Well, she'll have to, well, no, I have an address. Eris will fly as close to the address as possible. Okay. And then lock up. So, yeah, the gates are shut at this point, but flying by, you see,
00:50:18
Speaker
The district is fairly quiet at this point. You know, shops or stalls are shut down. People have gone home to be with their families. And it's a rundown part of the city. It's a lot of the buildings are in states of disrepair or
00:50:35
Speaker
You can tell I've been actively vandalized, like a lot of window holes boarded over, things like that. And yeah, you can see a small building that presumably has a lot of small apartments in it, and that is the outside of the room number, the address that you were given. It doesn't look to be crumbling, like it is a building
00:51:01
Speaker
with a roof, uh, being held together. Um, but clearly like, yeah, it's, uh, you live a much more well-appointed and well-off life than whoever lives in this building. Yep. So. Yeah, that kind of sinks in. And then, um, Eris, Eris will go in and knock on the door. Oh, okay. Um, so, um,
00:51:32
Speaker
Yeah, you walk up to the door and it's, there's quiet for a moment. And then you hear some footsteps and the door kind of cracks open a little bit and you see Marilyn, her like half of her face. And as soon as she sees you, she kind of starts and like doesn't shut the door, but definitely she was going to open the door and then like stops and closes it to where
00:52:00
Speaker
Eris cannot be seen in the apartment. Kind of got her hands in her pockets in the coat pockets and heads a little bit down. Can I, can I help you? Yeah, I am. Uh, I should say, um, um, I'm sorry about how that went. Uh, and I didn't.
00:52:31
Speaker
quite mean to turn into that. And I was probably being kind of a jerk. It's okay. I I'm sorry about my mom. But
00:52:57
Speaker
if she knew that you were here, it would be bad for both of us. So thank you. Well, I thought I should probably apologize to her. Oh, OK. And I mean, you didn't invite me to start, you know,
00:53:26
Speaker
But yeah. You want to tell me to go away really loudly for her benefit? Is that, would that help? No, I mean, I'll, I'll, I'll go get her. Um, just wait here. All right. And she pulls the door shut and you then after 30, 45 seconds, uh, the door swings open and you see Clem standing there. Can I help you? Uh, I'm sorry about earlier. I didn't, um,
00:53:59
Speaker
which is it's a job, you know, just trying to just trying to make, you know, make a living and Mrs. Job we were offered that might
00:54:23
Speaker
possibly put us in a bit of a better position so we were just we're trying to get to the bottom of it and I know that we didn't exactly go about it in the best way um and uh does anything really get a chance to ask
00:54:48
Speaker
you know, since you've been managing your daughter's career, you know, you know, a lot of people in the theater, and I didn't know if you knew anything that would be helpful, anyone that might have had a had a conflict with with with Mr. Taylor, any go ahead and give me a
00:55:21
Speaker
a charm check, two purple. I'm on the wrong page, sorry. With one boost and one setback. The boost for heiress's clear sincerity, the setback for the circumstances of earlier today.
00:55:48
Speaker
Um, boy, I wish we had more story points. Uh, I could spend one if you want or I don't know. I don't want you to do that. That would be bad. You can spend one and I'll, I'll spend one soon. Yep. I'm going to spend one. There we go. Hey, it didn't. And the yellow that I bought came out blank. Yep. One success and two threat.
00:56:18
Speaker
She takes a sharp inhale through her nose, like trying to maintain composure. I don't know if it's at all beneficial or maybe detrimental, depending on her opinion. Eris's jacket is clearly Chiron military. Eris has the right accent. That is not Eris's goal. Eris would feel super dirty trying to use that. Yeah, yeah.
00:56:45
Speaker
Phillip does not. Um, yeah, she, I appreciate your apology and I appreciate what you're trying to do. Everybody in the city is trying to make a better life than the one that they have had.
00:57:16
Speaker
I, in regards to Mr. Taylor, his dealings, his goings on, and what ultimately led to his untimely death, I know nothing. I did not like him. I did not associate with him and I did not keep tabs on him. That's what I have for you. I know it's not satisfying, but
00:57:48
Speaker
That's all I can offer. Now I would ask, and this is the two thread. I would ask that you leave me to attend to my daughter. Good night. Sorry, Aeris is not being quiet this long. This is Philip trying to work out if there's any way I can turn this situation at all. Probably there's not.
00:58:19
Speaker
trivia but uh Eris kind of stars turns uh what where were y'all where was it where were you from uh you're gonna make me figure out tiring geography on this she takes like takes a beat to consider shutting the door in your face but her eyes linger on your jacket for a second
00:58:51
Speaker
We lived in Seaside. I was in, um, I was in Leerington. Uh, um, dad served out of Kalazar. Hmm. All right. Well, sorry again and thanks, I guess.
00:59:22
Speaker
Your apology is accepted. Eris shuffles off. Once it is clear that Eris is not going to continue snooping around outside the door, she shuts the door. Okay. Anything else? Yeah, there's nothing useful I can do here. Eris, go somewhere. There would be no good in surveilling this hallway. We're not. Okay.
00:59:53
Speaker
So, um, yeah, you, uh, Eris headstone. Yep. Okay. So next morning, convene at the forest sales, presumably. Um, so, and.
01:00:13
Speaker
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01:00:31
Speaker
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01:01:00
Speaker
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