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C2 Ep. 125 Plumb the Pockets Chapter Three
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Calvert makes Reynard a deal, while the group reveals their deeds to a trusted ally.
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Introduction and Acknowledgments
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The following episode is brought to you by Mark Stanley, Philip Newman, Shelby Johnson, Jerry Thunes, Andy Dossett, Eric Whitman, Edvard Arnoff, Natasha Rallerson, Deavius Poptart, Rebecca Gowman, Elizabeth Clark, David Scrams, Charles Compton, Darryl Delaney, Ryan Royce, Darren Katska, Irene Villarito, and Laura Pickron, as well as all of our generous patrons.
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
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Hello! Welcome to Never Under Need, an actual play podcast set here on Campaign Setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to
Recap of Previous Episode
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another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? We fought some tufts with some other tufts at our side and Eric's got a golem and the high walls lives to have clean water another day.
00:01:39
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Accurate. Trevor, did you listen? No. Okay. So I'll need to try. But I do know I was in my dad. You're going to be real surprised. Yeah, yeah. When do we get the debrief on The Rain or Dead? Is that what's happening now? So picking this episode up, we're going to do a bit of a rewind to
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Earlier that day where the last episode took place,
Raynard's Morning Routine
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Raynard, at your house. You live in an apartment, right? Your apartment. You're getting ready for the day. What does Raynard's morning routine look like? Alarm stone goes off. What does Raynard do? Alarm stone. I've just learned a new things about this place.
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Well, there's time with Arthur. Of course. How do you like.
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Do you have the relationship with Arthur, like you unload your day with him? It's very much like conversations with a cat. Okay. Like, you know how to... That's too much to go into. People that know know, people that don't know. It's fine. Just a lot of out loud talking to a cat that, I mean, doesn't understand.
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Yeah, you get some affirmative meows here and there, but...
News of the Vigilante
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Okay. Coffee, for sure. Wait, no, there's not coffee. It's called calf, but it is coffee. Okay. This world equivalent of coffee. Yeah. And, well, no reading. Man.
00:03:23
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What would Raynard do? Why no reading? Not a big reader. Okay. I was like, it was a joke that Raynard was illiterate. You had a very high-end education. Just a visual person. So is reading. Reading is mostly visual, I would argue.
00:03:45
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That's fair. Do you read the paper? It's not pictures. Traditional reading on a page. Yeah. Probably. Is this like Harry Potter where they move? Sure. Okay. Son. Yeah, he definitely has that newspaper.
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Where the pictures were. That would definitely be the sharn inquisitive, the rag, because it's not about the content, it's about the spectacle.
Summons to Family Home
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But definitely that, that's the paper that Raynard reads. So you, this is something that came up last session, but Raynard also would see a story in the sharn inquisitive as you're having your morning coffee reading the paper, describing that a masked vigilante
00:04:22
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is on a murder spree targeting employees of Millhatch Industries. So. Is that us? You all are masked and you haven't been hunting down people, so no, that's not you. And we're also not Millhatch Industries employees in case you thought something wild had happened in the last couple of episodes. Well, I said murdering Millhatch Industries. He thought you all were the murderers. No, I don't. Did the papers mention anybody by name that was missing? No. That was a good question.
00:04:51
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So that's the biggest notable story because you have had some run-ins with Mel Hatch Industries. In fact, the former CEO and founder is in prison because of you. So yeah. And my good choices. Yeah. Okay. So as you're reading the morning paper,
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Arthur hops up on The arm of the chair that you're sitting in and has a note tied to his collar The paper is addressed to drain year. Okay So as you open it it is I read it because I can yeah it is It
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It is in the handwriting that you would recognize as your father's assistant, and it is clearly sent with his authority requesting your presence at the family home as soon as possible. Although it says at your earliest convenience, but you know that means right now, because if he's calling, it's convenient.
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Then, uh, right now it gets dressed. Okay. And, um, I, I, I would like to bring Arthur with me. Okay.
Theft and Chase
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So just to shore up the timeline, as you're getting dressed, you write a note that says your dad came calling, pray for me, tie that to Arthur's collar. So he can deliver that to for sale so that everybody knows where you're at. And Arthur is back in time for you to leave. Um, your trip to, so are you, do you have a leash for Arthur or are you carrying Arthur?
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It just follows me. Okay, so just yeah, okay. So Arthur is trotting behind you as you walk through the the morning streets of Sharn and at one point, you know, it's it's a busy street. Go ahead and give me a perception check. Whatever your perception is and the difficulty is three red. I can't remember if I upgraded that one. So hold on one second.
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Three red. Three red. Jiminy. It's a really busy street. That is, okay, so two yellow, one green. Story points are currently four and one. I forgot to get them out, but yeah, if you'd like to spend one. Four and one. Our favor? Yeah, start of the session. Would you like to flip a story point before you roll these? I mean, what's the point? Well, it'll be three yellow versus three red, which is more equitable than two yellow and a green versus three red. That's true.
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And we have the points to flip. I did that. Look how nice that looks. It's like McDonald's in your hand. Oh, ketchup and mustard.
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Wow these are threat right yes, so these are gonna go away and then
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So I have three success and one threat.
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Um, so the, I got eyes. Um, so yeah, you, you immediately notice somebody barrels into you while you're walking down the street. Um, and you, uh, you feel a tug and a rip and you realize that this person has just stolen your dagger. And like we established that you had a wallet chain and they just yanked it and ripped that belt loop off.
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and they're taking off running. The threat is that the crowd kind of closes in behind you. So if you want to give chase, it's going to be a bit more difficult. Which dagger is this? Your, Reynard's iconic dagger. Well, I have an invisibility dagger too now. No, not that one. The iconic Reynard dagger. He didn't see that one to take it. Can't see that one. Fair.
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So are you gonna give chase or just be like yeah again? Okay, so Wait, so my wallet chain did not keep it onto my belt. Mm-hmm. I ripped off What an aggressive person
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Arthur's a tracking cat too, right? I'm not going to go send Arthur against a villain. Bob is a tracking cat. It's fine. I have a thing on my harness. We can do this. Okay. So, uh, you give chase, um, after this foe. So it's going to be an opposed check of your coordination against their coordination, um, to navigate this crowd. So what's their coordination? The difficulty is going to be to read one purple. Why?
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I don't. Because they are good at coordination. Well, I'm not. It's like I'm losing a dagger. Okay. Oh no, I'm not.
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I'm absolutely not. I'm gonna have three success and one threat again. Three success, one threat? Okay. So yeah, you make, you spot this person. They're wearing a dark cloak, hood pulled up, very cliche. And they take off down an alley, kind of out of the crowd, which you're able to gain a bit of
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Ground on them and you see them begin to clamber up some like boxes and stuff up to a roof You kind of get the sense that this is a planned Path like they knew where these boxes were and they're they're running up to the to a balcony
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So go ahead and give me another coordination check to see if you can close the final gap with them. So same pool, two red, one purple. I'm going to spend a story point to make it three red. Oh my gosh. Flip it back. Okay.
00:11:27
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No, no, no. What a weird pool. No, they don't cancel out. I love doing this to fill up when he's not here. He's rolled two despair, a triumph, and two advantage. So he fails to spare with two advantage.
Escape from the City Watch
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Horrifyingly, he fails catastrophically.
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And something great happens. We'll find the silver lining in this rain cloud. Man. Okay, so you failed. So you kind of stumble up the boxes. And, but you have two advantage, a triumph, two despair. So the, I mean, what do you want the advantage to do? Let's go in that order.
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Gotta probably be a boost for my next role. No, I know what the two triumph are. Or the two despair are, rather. You're not gonna have another role, so. I'm dead. You're not dead. Dead. You're never rolling again. So. Okay. Too advantage, man.
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Can I still be able to see him? No, he's on a roof and I'm not. So that's probably not. I'll give you something with the two advantage in that vein. So as you clamber up, you stumble. And so you get there just in time to see the figure hopping into a skiff.
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and taking off and the hood comes down and you see the half-metallic face with the red eye of your cousin that you encountered before, the Thirani assassin that you encountered in the reigning warehouse that was kind of the head, Okan Dithrani, and he kind of looks at you and smirks and gives a wink as
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With the robotic eye or the real eye? The real eye. That's the winking. So what do you want to know that's cool? Like little rotating clothes? Yeah. We'll say he did both. Okay. It's called winking. That's my triumph. He did both.
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He blinked at you for your triumph. Okay. So, the two to spare. Yeah. You hear a voice behind you shouting, stop, Sean City Watch. Hate Sean.
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Tell Sean this is not his city. And you see a figure in a long tan canvas trench coat kind of like stomping up the boxes onto the roof that you're on and got black, slicked back hair, very angular features, pointed ears. It's a half elf, not an ant.
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This is one of Virla's fellow detectives in the Charned Diddy city watch for this district. I mean, they're all. And he likes us. Ray not to unveil you are wanted for questioning in a murder. I need you to come with me.
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Well. Not currently wanting to be questioned, so thank you. And. That's the end of that, right? He rolls his eyes as a couple more city watchmen come up the boxes and he pulls out a pair of handcuffs and says, I'm afraid I wasn't asking. What do you want your triumph to be?
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to not do this. Okay, come up with a way, like. Man. It was all a big misunderstanding. He was talking to the Rainard Turnfills just behind you. Arthur shows up and they're all allergic to cats. I mean, are you wanting to use your triumph like to open an escape hatch here?
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That's that's your only because the two despair are that you are wanted by the Sharn City watch in connection with the questioning for a murder. Hold on triumph is that I had time to have that invisibility dagger. So what I'm just I'm just making sure you understand if you use that trying to get out of this, you are then on the run. You can't undo the fact that the Sharn City watch want you.
00:16:25
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Yeah, but I'm going to my family, so I'll be okay for at least this episode. Okay. I think he's trying to say you might make it worse. I know by the way. You certainly know her, befriended is... Rainard is always willing to make it worse. None of us will shelter you from the cops. That is an important thing for you to know.
00:16:49
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I think they're going to question. I don't know. You on the run from the cops might make Harris like you more. I mean, I don't, I don't think in Reynard's mind, he has the time to do this because he's got to go talk to his dad. So okay. And that he's more scared of his dad than the cops. So I think that is a fully valid reasoning. Yeah. I have to go talk to daddy. I do not have time for you. Okay. So I think I use this to try him to say my invisibility dagger is working.
Family Tensions and Expectations
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Hey, by the way, don't choke on the yellow diet that is still in your coffee. Just tell him you'll schedule an appointment. Okay. So, um, so yeah, you, um, you'll use your triumph, even though we haven't narratively had a chance for Eris to recharge your dagger since she used it. I'll let you use the triumph. I'll spend a story point too, if it needs to. Um, no, I I'll, I'll let you use the triumph on it. Um, so you activate your dagger and turn invisible.
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Um, Arthur has been following you. Um, so you'll need to deal with that situation, but, but Arthur's a cat, so they might not even notice that he's there. Um, okay. So you were invisible. They immediately start spreading out like fighting. Uh, he has to be on this roof. And so they start moving about combing the place for you. What do you do?
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avoid them with my body how well i would assume uh if they're like any other people they're probably going to walk away from the point they were at currently to spread out walk towards where you just were
00:18:31
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It's well, maybe no, that's what they're doing. I'm telling you that's what I mean. They seem out of breath. You could put the story point to say that there is a skiff going by this route that you can grab Arthur and hop into and work. Let's do it. Steel. No, I don't need any more crimes. I'm invisible. Someone else is driving it. They're not headed to your dad's house. I hop in and hop down.
00:18:54
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Hey, OK, so does this work on people who don't know you well? I feel like time has made us immune, but does this work on new people? You spend a story point. There's a skiff going by. You hop into it. Give me a stealth check to try and avoid letting this person know that somebody has just left into their flying boat. The difficulty is one red, one purple. You say it in that tone, Eric, it sounds so unreasonable.
00:19:23
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That is okay. So that's four failure, but I also have four success. I have one advantage. Okay. So, um, one advantage. So the boat jostles, you grab Arthur, hop in the boat jostles and you see, um, this shifter woman just like at the helm, like look around like, what, what just happened? Is somebody here?
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I just wanted to see a floating cat. Yeah. She sees Arthur is like, what is that cat? Get out of here. And she like hops over and tries to start knocking Arthur out of her ship. Perfect. Wow. Of course. I mean, Reynard is talking to a flying cat. Like it'll be fine. It can fly. I encounter it.
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So how far away am I to the ground? Not very far. Thousands upon thousands of feet. What?! You'll get shard as a city of skyscrapers. I just hopped up onto the roof from boxes. It's like Skaggard. You just jumped into a roadway that goes down and down and down. Oh my gosh.
00:20:35
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The next available roof. If you want to give me a coordination check to hop out onto a roof before this woman gets to you, it's just going to be an average difficulty, so two purple.
00:20:55
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I didn't do it. No one success. No, sorry. Two, uh, two advantage, three advantage. Okay. So you had one advantage to go ahead and roll one failure, three advantage with your one advantage from the previous adding a boost. So there's
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One failure. No, sorry. One threat. No, no. One failure. Five advantage. Love it. Okay. So what witty one-liner do you give to this woman before you leap out? Because you're very confident that you're, that you're about to just leap out of her boat.
00:21:33
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Oh gosh. Be witty on command Trevor. It's on your card. Rainard is witty. That's what you told me. So be witty.
00:22:03
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Um, yeah, but you're jumping out like to your safety. Okay. Um, yeah, farewell.
00:22:16
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That's my exit. I have to go meow. It's time for this cat to uphold. Guys, we have got to stop. We're getting more unlistable by the second. OK, so you talk about it a little confidently to land on another rooftop. Then a second goes by. And another second. And then you start to realize that you may have made a very large mistake and you're just free falling through the city of towers. Five advantage.
00:22:47
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Um, I mean, what do you want to use the five advantage for? Oh, hopefully to grab onto something. Are you really going to speed grab something catching? You would be much more beneficial. Oh, then about a feather fall token only that matches velocity.
00:23:03
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Well, there's not any awnings in the roadways. Dumpster, like a trash pickup truck. It's got to be trash collected in. One of those construction shoots that gently slopes till you lay it safely. Yeah. So where you happen to get the one. In a pile of rusty nails.
00:23:22
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It's the skiff with the guy who stole my dagger. That's five advantage. I mean, it's five advantage. How about that? And I'm invisible. Is that really what you want? They're going to. There's no there's no stealth to prevent somebody from knowing that you fell like it's very easy. You're going to make it. I think I'll have an advantage because they don't see me. I just feel it.
00:23:52
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Do you want to land in the skiff of your husband and somebody else? I don't know if I do. How many people were in there? Two? Two. Somebody driving and hip. Well, I could probably take him. I got my phone. You're also trying to get to your dad's house. True. You have lost the plot of this. You land in your dad's, you land through the sunroof of your dad's limo. Yeah, he was down here on a humanitarian. Yeah, I got a quick pussyfootin' around. Cat keeper. There you go. That's so.
00:24:21
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You did it. You did it. You did it. Don't worry, if I landed on a garbage truck, I had to talk about litter too, so. You could make yourself landed a garbage truck. You are the author of what happens to you. Okay, cut that. I landed on garbage truck. You are the captain of your fate. Okay, you landed a garbage truck. Garbage truck catches you with your five advantage, so you don't die. Congratulations. And because it's a garbage truck, there's enough cushioning to where you don't take a massive amount of fall damage either.
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but you are gonna you do have to you're gonna smell like trash going to you and you and arthur are neck deep in garbage arthur finds a nice piece of leftover fish he's loving it yeah define the finding cats finding all the things like hanging out of his mouth um so it's part of that advantage
00:25:08
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And I am an invisible dumpster boy. Just a floating banana peel. Okay, so you're able to, safely, once the garbage truck slows down, hop out and begin making your way back to your dad's house. Now, stinking of garbage without your dagger, but you still have Arthur and the Sharn City Watcher on the hunt for you. But I'm still invisible.
00:25:34
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You're still invisible. Everything's coming up right now. Just a floating cat going through. I'm assuming you put Arthur down and he's just walking. If I put him inside my coat, is he invisible? What are the logistics of this invisible dagger? The stuff that you're carrying is invisible when you turn invisible. OK, so there's like bits of garbage materializing as it sluffs off of you as you walk down the street. I like that. OK, so you get to your dad's house.
00:26:04
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Fearland Family Estate. Do you knock on the front door or do you just try to walk in? Well, I think I'll de-invisible myself. That's it. That's the word. You always add extra prefixes. Yeah. I'll turn my little necklace too to look like Trandior instead of Brainard. Okay. Are you knocking or just walking in? And I think I just walk in.
00:26:32
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Okay, so the door opens and around the corner you see your father's butler around the corner and kind of stops short and his nose wrinkles up. What's his name? Your dad's butler. Butler? No. I think Raynard thinks it's Butler. Hello Mr. Butler.
00:26:58
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I mean, that's probably what Raynard would've called him. That's probably what Raynard would've called him. Oh. It's what Dranyard would've called him. What would Raynard call him? Has there been any growth or no? Raynard would say... Butler, is it? He would finally check. Excuse me, Underlink.
00:27:26
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Sebastian, sir. Ah, Sebastian Butler. He's not a lot better. He's not any smarter. No. Yes, your father is expecting you in his study. Thank you. Can I get you a change of clothes or a prestidigitation? That would be wonderful. And for my cat.
00:27:51
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Yes, very good, Seth. And he walks up and does some hand gestures and the garbage and the stink wash away from you and Arthur. Very good, Seth. You may go. Wonderful. Thank you, Sebastian. Yes, sir.
00:28:13
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Okay, so you went through your father's study and he's sitting behind a very large wooden desk. Large bookshelves line the walls and he looks up, or he doesn't look up as you walk in. He's writing something and as you walk in, he's like, took you long enough. Well, uh, wait, what's my one-eyed cousin's name? Okon. Okon. Did he know about all that?
00:28:45
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You would have no way of knowing. That's fair. That is perfectly fair. But does he know who he is? Well, yeah, he's family. That doesn't mean anything. And also bitter rivals, which makes it more likely. Well, my dear cousin Okon seems to have stolen my dagger on the street. Made quite a mess.
00:29:15
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And did you kill this Thorani agent as well? No, he got away. The city watch stopped me. And not the boxes I tripped on. Sounds about your normal level of competency. This is my cat.
00:29:38
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There you go. Win them back. Drennier, I do not care about your cat. Sit down. He's very good at finding things. Sit down. Yes. He closes the ledger that he's writing in. So, Sean City Watch want you. Why? What have you done now? They said questioning in a murder. Okay. And did you run? Well, I turned invisible.
00:30:09
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So, yes. I more like fell than ran. So technically, yes. I wish the listeners could see the look on Eric's face and Trevor's face and the sternness of Eric.
00:30:38
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But importantly, none of you are invited to come. We like you all. Don't come here. You realize that we have people that when our people are taken in, we have barristers that can be sent to facilitate the questioning and protect you. Well, you know, I didn't know where I stood.
00:31:04
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With the benefits of... Did Basil not make it clear? Well, Basil doesn't make anything clear. I don't know what indicated in my note that I was bringing you here for jokes. I don't know. That's not a joke. Did Basil not make it clear? I don't know. Why you're there?
00:31:31
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Why I'm here or that we have people to that the family was going to help take care of any complications with murdering Ignacio. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he sure did. Sorry. Yes, he did. But I don't know what murder they were specifically referring to.
00:31:54
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So have you been committing a lot of murders in your time away? Well, it could have been 80 murder. There's lots of murder in this town. And why would you be concerned if it was a murder you did not commit? Well, I don't want to be questioned for something I didn't do. I'm rich. I need to understand his dad more. You could have handled it better, but we will take care of it. What did O'Con want?
00:32:24
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Apparently, my dagger. Didn't say anything to you as he stole it. No, he winked at me. Excellent. I'm not regretting my decisions at all. So, this was meant to be a happy reunion, welcome back into the fold, but seems like you have brought more complications to my doorstep.
00:32:53
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Anything else you'd like to share, Drenia? Butler's first name is Sebastian. Did not know. Did you?
00:33:19
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What else am I supposed to share? I mean, that's not even that bad. It just really caught me off guard. You know what else I'm supposed to share? Is that it? The first name of a man who's been in my employ for the past 40 years. That's what you want to share. Well, I already told you about the cat. Excellent. All right. Well,
00:33:48
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You wanted back into the fold. What does that entail for you? Are you still running around with those halflings? Yes, I think only ones are halfling, right? The whole family are halflings, the whole Boromar. It is Boromars.
00:34:06
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I thought you meant just our group. No. The Bormark thing. I doubt he knows, like, remembers who you actually spend time with, like, closely. Yes, they are my employer. Well. Hello. Well.
00:34:25
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What do you mean by that, Dad? Well, we will need to facilitate a remedy to that situation, as we have now allied ourselves with Salman Callaway and his dealings in the city.
00:34:43
Speaker
Is that the guy I got once with? Yes. Okay. You're Brunch Bestie. Oh, I know him! I know that you know him. He's mentioned you. Yes, we get along. Great. When he shows up for Brunch, the man has a tendency to forget.
00:34:57
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Well, he's a very busy man. Much like me, we do not appreciate having our time wasted. So, I am telling you that as of right now, if you want to stay in the good graces of the family, again, then any dealings that Boromar does in relation to their position within the city, I need to know about. Any holdings, anything like that. So.
00:35:24
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And if, um, Salmond Callaway calls, you answer. I'm so stressed out. Is that clear? Give me a minute. I don't know if it's clear or not. Draneer's not stressed out. Trapper is stressed out.
00:35:52
Speaker
Do you want to get out of the game for a second? I'm gonna explain to you. Who do I like to? Everybody, man. I think it's time for Rainard to sack up. You literally are buddies with the person that he was just like, well, you can't be working for the board of Mars because we love solving Callaway now. And he's your personal friend.
00:36:13
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But also, yeah, he's basically saying that you have to narc on the three of us. Yeah, either you guys are going to hate me again or he's going to hate me still. What's he doing for you? Fair. I ain't telling you what to do. I'm just telling you to do this. You need to.
00:36:33
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Do you think I should tell him the F off? I'm not there. I'm at the for sales, eat a chicken. No, you're in Highwall. I'm in Highwall, admiring a call. It's going to say where's Stan. Oh my gosh. Eric. Trevor. This is not fair. This is the game, baby. He's forcing you to engage. I wasn't ready for this. Um,
00:37:01
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Somebody should have been here for the Highwall mission then. If this was actually punishment for missing a recording, that would be hilarious. No, it's not. That's so mean. The next episode's all about you. And you're gonna hate it. Yeah, I'm kind of enjoying not playing right now. This is kind of fun. I don't know what to do. I mean, no thoughts, just action, baby. You're Raynard. Don't think, dude. Well, there's...
00:37:32
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Oh my gosh. Who do I lie to? Yourself.
00:37:43
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That's what Cassian said anyway. Okay, you may need to ask a clarifying, are you being asked to do this, or are you being told by your dad to do this? Because it's not who do you lie to, it's do you cut ties with your dad right now by saying you're not going to do that? He did specify if you want to remain in the good graces of the family, which you just got back in, but... And this is how well he's treating you, that you just got back into. I'm not there.
00:38:15
Speaker
I really don't know what to do. Oh, make a call, man. Uh, it's not binding. Like, I'm not going to say, well, you said this to your dad. Like you could lie right now to him. All right. Um,
00:38:44
Speaker
Trying to figure out a word this. Take your time. I have nothing but time. Oh, that is not true. You just said I was wasting your time. And yet you have not remedied that fact. Yes, but that's all he has. You're bouncing around a lot, dad. I don't like it. Uh,
00:39:24
Speaker
I forgot how to word what I want to say. So it can be smart. You could verbalize, you could verbalize out of character what you want to say and we can help you get there if you want. Well, I want to double agent the double agency. Yeah. If you want to agree to his terms. So I want to be like.
00:39:45
Speaker
Yes, I will do that for you when really I'm about to go back and tell all my friends. Then you could just say, yes, I'll do that for you. That's all you have to say right now. Yes, I will do that for you. Good. In order to help facilitate any expenses or anything, and he grabs a coin purse and slides it across the desk to you. Thank you. Arthur has expenses too.
00:40:18
Speaker
Then I'm sure your time with the Boromars can help offset some of that cost. He's very helpful. Wonderful. I wouldn't have gotten your note without him. You may go now. Yes. And as you get like to the door, um, you hear him say, Jrenya. Yes. Welcome back. Close the door.
Reconnecting with Allies
00:40:50
Speaker
Goodbye.
00:40:50
Speaker
Your dad sucks, dude. I know. Welcome back. Okay. So, um, Raynard, you leave. Um, that's very stressful, Eric, and I don't appreciate it. You're welcome. Um, uh, timelines match up at this point with, um, the goings on in high wall. So, um, you all have wrapped up that. So cutting to you all, what do you all do post fight?
00:41:21
Speaker
give Trevor a chance to breathe. Back to the cauldron, probably. Yeah, I assume we go back to the cauldron and run some water and feel real good about ourselves. Okay. Eris finally gets her coffee that she was trying to make when this whole thing started. What's our new boy's name? Ygritte? Ygritte? Ygritte. Ygritte. Does he come to the, I mean, I guess he lives at the cauldron now, right? Okay. Yeah. Do we have to widen doorways?
00:41:52
Speaker
You open up the garage door for him. No, she's got a garage door. Yeah. Oh yeah, of course. Okay, so you all are back at the cauldron. Who else is at the cauldron? No one right now. Okay, cool. I think when Olive is not at the cauldron, Hob treats it like a hangout for them. When Olive is there, he's respectful of that it's her space, but when it's just Eris,
00:42:19
Speaker
a hobby is less of, you know, he's going to sit where he wants. He's asked to grab something out of the out of the cabinet, whatever it is. And Milo is really interested in what Eris is doing. I mean, because he has a, you know, he has a bit of a background.
00:42:38
Speaker
Um, so he's real curious about what, you know, what Eris is working on, not to the point of being annoying, looking over her shoulder, that kind of stuff, but you know, conversationally, like, Hey, that's really cool type stuff.
00:42:52
Speaker
Yeah. How's there to unscrew stuck caps and reach things on high shelves if he's needed. Otherwise he's just chilling. So it sounds like they're loitering while you work, Eris. Um, yeah, Eris needs to fix the goggles cause she depleted them. Um, so I'm spending the money to offset a dragon shard to fix that. Okay. And other than that, what Eris is doing is examining egric in, in detail. Like she's,
00:43:20
Speaker
clambering up on its shoulders, looking at the runes on it, looking at the way that its arms are attached and work, and she's just...
00:43:30
Speaker
going through a minute examination of how egric is constructed and how egric works. Okay. Yeah. I like, I think I like this dynamic. I, this has to have happened before when we've come across Hobbs waiting for Eris to come up with the, you know, blank for dummies for him.
Golem Inspection and Relationship Strains
00:43:49
Speaker
Milo is interested in it in the same way that Eris is and Hobbs just like, you tell me what it does and how, after you figured it out and how I can,
00:43:57
Speaker
Destroy it if we if it goes wrong. Can I punch it or how can it help me punch right? So, okay Philip give me a Hard artifice check Our mechanics check either Okie dokie, can I help can I aid?
00:44:18
Speaker
of four green mechanics. Well, no, because it would be base versus ranks. And so, yeah, if it was a combined thing.
00:44:28
Speaker
I have one success, one advantage, and one triumph. You sure does. One success, one advantage, one triumph. So the big thing that you notice as you're making a minute inspection of egric is you notice that on the kind of lower, like what
00:44:49
Speaker
What for a person would be the love handle area on the right hand side? There's some handles. You see a a canith mark on there that you recognize is both a mark of making and a mark of tracking to where they can track things like this. But you also notice that the
00:45:13
Speaker
the tracking element has already been disabled, like it's been scratched through. So at one point, this was made by Kaneth and Tra- Somebody stole you before.
00:45:26
Speaker
Mm hmm. And outside of of that, you don't really notice much else other than the way I've already given you with the rune golem monster card. You you have a understanding of all of that functionality and how to utilize it. OK, you have an advantage in a triumph. Yes.
00:45:55
Speaker
I just think how Eric. Yes. Uh, so last time I used magic to temporarily hijack the golem. And then I made a check to not have him turn on us at the end of that with my mechanics check to what degree is the coding of this golem been fully overridden.
00:46:23
Speaker
Um, basically, unless somebody comes in and tries to muck with what you've done, it's stable. Okay. Then I want to use my triumph, uh, to having now examined how he works and how the magic in egric functions. I want to now, uh,
00:46:50
Speaker
harden that I want to secure that so that it would be harder to do what I did and just hijack. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. A situationally appropriate triumph. What is going on here? Okay. And what about the advantage?
00:47:18
Speaker
Uh, I have quite a lot of strain. I'm going to heal one. Okay. Um, so as Eris also looks like she was electrocuted quite severely, but is currently ignoring that.
00:47:35
Speaker
Fair enough. Okay, so as you're working on that and making notes, Olive arrives at the cauldron. She's dressed in such a manner that it's clear that she has been up at the school. She's dressed in kind of her professional business casual
00:47:58
Speaker
A tire. It's clear that she's coming from a university. She looks pretty tired, like mentally drained. And she walks in and sees you all here. He's like, oh, hey, Hob. Hey, Milo. Oh, Eris, why? Where? How?
00:48:20
Speaker
Eris sort of rotates around. She's up on the shoulders of the, of the golem. She has like doc from back to the future hair from being electrocuted and looks, looks severely injured. Cause I just remembered that I have a critical injury that is still going. And, but excited and pulls the, pulls the goggles up.
00:48:48
Speaker
Oh, hey. Yeah. So this this talk was turning off the water system that I set up for the neighborhood and that this guy here actually has muscle. And we and an angry mob drove him off and left this behind. So I figured, you know, I just keep it.
00:49:19
Speaker
That's the stuff. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's egric. It's lift stuff. I'm not trying to help punch things. I thought that was Hobbs job. You just, are you outsourcing hub? Hobbs not always here. And now there's like, I've also to have around.
00:49:41
Speaker
Tough people come around and mess with things. And so now if someone came around, tried to mess with the water system in the cauldron, Igric would smash them. Okay. Well, good job. How was your day? Um, long. Paris says and feels extremely proud of herself.
00:50:10
Speaker
Some people from the Charne City Watch came by to talk to me about the Norsen Mill Hatch case. They had some questions since I'm a former colleague of his about his behavior and things like that leading up to
00:50:27
Speaker
the incident. Um, so yeah, I'm, I might be called to testify, which will be a fun for me, but no, that was just a long, long line of questioning, having to remember things from months ago, uh, conversations, behaviors.
Murder Discussion and New Alliances
00:50:44
Speaker
So that reminds me, you're not in trouble. No, no, no. I'm just, they, they know that I knew him. And so they're curious about his character, I guess.
00:50:54
Speaker
That reminds me, has anybody read the paper about people from mill hatch industries going missing? The supposed vigilante going around? There's like, I guess four dead apparently at the moment. I have not. Yeah, no, Hob looks at you blank-faced. He has not read the paper. I just thought it was very curious.
00:51:22
Speaker
Wait, okay. What are they saying? We'll say, sorry, we'll say just so we can converge everything. Presumably, and if this is stating too much, uh, feel free to let me know. Presumably, Raynard would have gone to four sales, seeing that nobody's there. And then we've established that Raynard knows where the cauldron is. So is it reasonable that Raynard would come by after checking at the four sales?
00:51:43
Speaker
He'd also call her on my stone. Yeah. I'm just trying to get everyone in the same spot. Um, so yeah, as this conversation is starting up, Rainard walks through the door. So they basically, it just said that there were four individuals missing and there's a masked vigilante apparently going around and killing these folks at the, uh, the lower
00:52:13
Speaker
the lower mill hatch industry section. Yes, I've read that in the paper too. Oh, Reynard. Hi. What? Oh, hello. Hello. Oh my goodness. Who is this? Big. Oh, wait. So like you Cramerd into the cauldron.
00:52:37
Speaker
I saw a big guy! I had not read that, Milo. That's upsetting. I think Hobb's mind immediately goes, whether it makes sense or not, goes, all right, does that mean, okay.
00:53:02
Speaker
The latest masked, wearing, fella that could do that, I'm thinking of as Cassian, but he's gone, right? Like we, we trust the things that he said. No, hang on. We don't trust the things that he said. Anybody see him leave? I think the first thing Hop would think is, although why he would target Milhatch, doesn't make sense, but he's a powerful masked weirdo.
00:53:28
Speaker
who messes around in other people's timelines. I don't think he was a vigilante. The only other one I can think of is that, uh, that fellow that had the bird mask that we encountered in on top of that roof. Yes. The pigeon. Your brother. Okay. Why are you looking at me? Paris asks all of
00:53:56
Speaker
Oh, um, yeah, I, I, I spoke to him yesterday. So unless something's happened overnight, then Jerome's fine. He hasn't been down in lower division lately. Anyway, he's been working up top with, uh, with Harbin presuming, wait, there's still a lower division.
00:54:24
Speaker
Why is there still a lower division? Wasn't that why they were doing all the evil things? Apparently there is. I suppose they could say they've stopped doing the evil. I mean, they're probably going to say that anyway, regardless of if they keep the lower division open or not, so... Well, Harbin's in charge now, right? I mean, in name, but he doesn't know enough to... I doubt they've trusted him with the books, as it were.
00:54:53
Speaker
I think Hobb looks at Aerys and it's like just, you know, just putting everything on the table so we can clear it off. Harbin's like not physically capable of doing this, right? He can't be like, Harbin's not vigilantian around, right? I certainly have not gotten that impression of his ability to do so. I think.
00:55:21
Speaker
I don't think that's what he'd do. I mean, ability, I don't know, but there was all sorts of stuff in those labs. There's nothing saying he didn't accidentally walk into a brain melter at some point and become the kind of guy who can do this. I don't even know why. Oh no, I meant like there's stuff that would enhance his abilities. I don't mean like he might've gone insane. Fair enough. I think it's more of a question of motive at that point. Why would he want to target his own employees working in lower division?
00:55:49
Speaker
Well, right. If he blames the existence of lower division for the disappearance of his father, then there's ways it could go. Wouldn't those people... I'm just eliminating suspects. Be... Yeah. Wouldn't those people be witnesses? Could be.
00:56:12
Speaker
Norsen's behind bars so it can't be him right what about that old actress that we met a couple arcs ago it's possible I'm just trying to eliminate suspects I wasn't wouldn't I've been working for
00:56:35
Speaker
Callaway, not Harbin, uh, Norsen working for Callaway. Certainly working together. I don't, I never really quite figured out what direction. He was doing what Callaway wanted to do. Based on the limited information I've gotten to my exposure to mill hatch industries lately, it seems like Callaway was, Callaway had taken over the lion's share of funding.
00:57:01
Speaker
mill hatch industries that previously Caneth was facilitating. And Callaway, based on everything that I've seen and heard from Jerome, would give suggestions and help with the discovery and brainstorming process, but certainly was not dictating what Norsin could and could not do. Right, so but wouldn't he want
00:57:30
Speaker
people not to talk about what he and Norsen were doing. Yeah. What about that dude in the flying outfit? Yes, that's the word I was trying to remember. That's what Milo was talking about earlier, the carrion. Did we leave him with his mask? Yeah. Yes, I believe so. Okay. Yeah. We decided not to do it. I knew we didn't murder him. I couldn't remember if we took his toys. Um,
00:57:58
Speaker
no we didn't fight him at all just gave him basically warnings to you know straighten up maybe because okay if I remember right he was stealing from Boromar for Callaway yes
00:58:16
Speaker
And Boromar only had it because they didn't, they were just going to store it. No, no. This is Eric Diem stepping in. You would remember that he was hired by Boromar to facilitate the transfer of a shipment, but double-crossed Boromar and sold it to Dask because Dask offered more money. And when you all had interacted with him,
00:58:39
Speaker
Callaway had made him an offer to essentially replace Millhatch within his hierarchy of goons as like a threatening presence. So he hadn't taken the Callaway job yet when you all talked to him. Supposing he took the Callaway job, I can't imagine why part of that would be kill a bunch of Millhatch employees that barely matter.
00:59:06
Speaker
Because the watch is on him. The watch is on Milhatch. And there's got Milhatch can't be the only person. Well, yes. Callaway was there. We saw Callaway at the lower division the first time we were there. So there'd be all sorts of people who saw Callaway with Milhatch.
00:59:24
Speaker
This is Jeff, the player stepping in to say, I'm dumb and didn't put it together like that. That's good stuff. Yeah. Um, right. You could very well be right. Cleaning up witnesses. Yes. It's possible. Well, we could just call Verla and find out something about the cases, right? Wait, what did you do? Maybe not today.
00:59:50
Speaker
What did you do? Maybe a few hours. Why not today? Maybe give it time. Raynard, what is going on? Why? Or maybe I won't be here. Raynard, please. No, no, nothing. It will be handled shortly. Raynard, I need for you to tell me what's happening, please. I am, as they say, on the lamb. For what? For trying to get my dagger back.
01:00:25
Speaker
Why would you be on the lam for trying to get your, what happened to your dagger? Apparently on the lam for it. They were, well, that's what happened to get me caught, to get me asked if I would ask answer questions about a murder. Was it a murder we did? Sorry. Every time I say murder, I'm just like, there's been a murder. Was it a murder we did? I don't know what murder it was. I mean, it could have been a murder. We did like, here's the thing.
01:00:56
Speaker
You're under no fault to us. If it's a murder, we did. Yeah, we did that. And sometimes we get questioned about it. We can't be upset about that. They didn't specify what murder. Okay. All of kind of half raises. Can I get a ballpark on
01:01:14
Speaker
total murders? No, but there could have been any murder. I mean, the question is like how the temperature of the blood of the murder is important because like we've done a lot of killing. Oh, a lot of murder. A lot is the ballpark. I have. I've done a lot of things before. Yes, but I wouldn't necessarily say that was murder.
01:01:35
Speaker
I feel like we're getting into a lot of semantics. Yeah, we are, buddy. It's a romantic conversation. If we got paid for it, is it murder? Let's have a semantic conversation about how beneficial you're working for Milhatch. Self preservation. Olive. Olive doesn't work for Milhatch? Sorry, not Milhatch. I might just consider it nine to five.
01:01:57
Speaker
I like Philip's face. I was joking when this started, but I think it became actually happening, and so now we're stuck with it. Because other people jumped in to my stupid joke, which I should expect to happen sometime. It's my fault. Harris has gone white. Also, if we need information from Solomon Caddaway, I might be able to get it. Over brunch? Yes.
01:02:27
Speaker
Okay, I want to resolve that. I'm not saying that. This is a salty episode. Sorry. I'm not saying none of that. I'm not saying none of that happened. That could all have happened. But Hobb does say, oh, yes, we recently killed a man that killed Milo's wife. It was revenge and I have no remorse for it. And if that is what
01:02:48
Speaker
What's your name again, guy? If that's what Raynard might have been questioned over, I don't fault him for it. And yeah, I've killed some people because it was them or me, or them or Eris or Milo. Okay. This is Judgment Free Zone. I just, I had a question. Right. And I'm sorry that I took it flippantly. Because I did. Because I assumed you knew that, yeah, we've all killed people. I was unaware.
01:03:18
Speaker
Yeah, that... Or Aeris. I'm very sorry that happened to you, Raynard. Feel free to lay low here as long as you need. Thank you. Olive's on her heels right now, Phillip. Like, she's... I know. That was Aeris.
01:03:45
Speaker
will never be invited back again. Okay, I may be dumb. No, okay, back up. I am dumb. I may, I may also be terribly unobservant. Has Olive, does Olive not aware that Eris is violent? The through line of Eris and Olive's relationship that I've gotten is that Eris has done her level best to keep Olive as shielded from Eris's life of crime as possible. So I would assume that Eris has shared nothing about any job ever. I always assumed it was shielded from
01:04:14
Speaker
confrontation or conflict with. Not, Olive doesn't know Eris has a gun. Like, no, like that, like that time that we, that time that we did a job for Olive, Eris worked really hard to like make it like, I know some guys you could hire for a job.
01:04:34
Speaker
Uh, and then accidentally dropped it that, Oh, it's me. I did. I did. I do this stuff. No, I mean, all of those areas is like criminal and all of knows that Eris works for the Boromar, but no, Eris has absolutely played it down as, you know, sometimes we steal things or find stuff out. Like it's, she has absolutely tried everything she can to
01:05:02
Speaker
prevent olive from knowing anything like the extent of what they do. Like the fact that olive knows about mill hatch was a big thing. Um,
01:05:15
Speaker
I recall that, but I don't know. Maybe I just, maybe it's my own. Hey, this could be totally an in care, like an in character thing where Hob would also have assumed that level of like, I mean, they live together. That is true right now. I'm talking to Philip, making sure Philip's not upset with me for having dropped in the character. Eris also definitely hasn't told you guys, by the way, I'm really ashamed of what we do. Please don't talk about it around Olive.
01:05:42
Speaker
And Hobb just assumes that people look at him and know he works for Vormore and understand exactly what he does for a living. Same with Milo. I have to assume we would be taking away a lot of agency and intelligence from Olive if she was surprised that Hobb had killed a man.
01:06:02
Speaker
I just said the rest of it, but I'm just saying that's why Hob is so flippant about it. No, but there's a distinction, like you said, between, you know, I've been in situations where somebody's going to kill me and I defended myself to, well, I'm one of you in questioning with the murder. Oh, which one? Well, you know, who knows which one? It's like, oh yeah, we've done quite a few, like, the murder word is- We've killed a lot of people.
01:06:24
Speaker
No, you're right. It does. But and cop doesn't know the murder and and defensive kill. He could be questioned for anything he's killed ever. I know. But this is all the science. I fully understand anyone's murder that I might have just been around for. And there's this moment where it felt in Eris's mind, where it felt like Hobb was saving the day by like, like I and I. And then he ends with we've all.
01:06:50
Speaker
And I want to be clear, I do want to be clear, that was a, we've all done it statement, not a pointing to the four people he runs with and saying each of us has killed and pointing in their faces. Except probably, except Eris definitely thinks Olive hasn't, I don't know, but Eris assumes Olive hasn't.
01:07:09
Speaker
It's not an everyday occurrence for the average citizen of Sharon to have killed someone. He's playing it down. But when he said we've all I want to be clear and he made a gesture. Yeah, like everybody does it kind of thing. Not that he pointed it air to that. Let me tell you about the murders that she has done. Talk to your roommate about the murder. You know, Tasha has done a couple murders as well.
01:07:37
Speaker
It shows what this Gullum's done. The cat knows about it. Tossa may have only killed one person. I think she's run over. She ran over Posey once, but didn't cause her any permanent injury. Aww, miss her. Where's she? I think she only killed the pirate captain. What do you mean miss her? She's going to show up again. She might be the mass vigilante. True. Didn't she have a good mass two?
01:08:05
Speaker
There was another lady in a birth mask. Maybe you didn't have a mask at all, did she? She was at the masquerade that Raynard went to, but I forget what she was wearing. Who was the cop that became the masculine lady in Spider-Man, Yuri something? That's who this is. Is it Verla? That's what I'm saying. I'm sorry. We're playing a game? Okay. End of episode. Thank you.
01:08:30
Speaker
So Raynard is one of the inverter, I think is where the conversation was. Like Raynard was sharing. This is going to be an editing night. No, you're good.
01:08:41
Speaker
Right, look, no one here is mad at you for being under suspicion by the cops. Ink looks at out the assembled room, including Olive, like, what are we gonna do? Be upset with you for that? But we can be upset you ran straight to us if we feel the need to be. Well, you got my notes.
01:09:03
Speaker
You were with your dad. Yes, so I went to my father first. Right. Did you tell him? Yes. Is he handling it? Yes. Cool. Also, I might work for Solomon Calloway now. I do want to re-listen to the Basil conversation. Not because I think... Fuck, I'll pull it up. No, no, no, no, no. Later. Not because I think...
01:09:30
Speaker
I think it was open to interpretation that Raynard could still be wrong, but was right to hear, I think. So I don't think either one of you were playing that. I loved it. So Raynard, what is this about working for Callaway?
01:09:46
Speaker
Yes. So, uh, apparently, um, my father and Callaway are now working together. Another half-hearted hand goes up. Who's your father? Uh, Oh, right. I kind of love it that olives here. So Philip does not just turn
01:10:13
Speaker
What? Philip does. Philip does. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I turned my little necklace. Recognize me? I don't. I'm so sorry. There's no way possible, dude. Are you famous? Recognize me now? I don't, I don't like... Is he barked?
01:10:35
Speaker
No. I didn't think so. Well, it's like every movie. The girl takes off her glasses and is instantly beautiful. Just tell her your dad's name. Yes. Uh, wait, what's my last name again? Dafirlyn. Dafirlyn. There's too many names. There's too many names. But this one's yours. I have too many names. Uh, I am sorry.
01:11:05
Speaker
That was so great. I know. I know. I didn't mean it. I'm sorry. Oh, this episode. I'm sweating. Oh, episode schmepisode. This is all going on the floor. It's just this session fun. Yes, my father is Calver de Fierlen. And all his eyes go kind of wide. The head of...
01:11:35
Speaker
How's Fearland? In Chard? Yes. That's the one. And now apparently real good friends with Solomon Callaway. Wait, is he closer to Solomon than you are? Well, he did not mention going to brunch. Yeah. Seems like more of a friend thing than business.
01:11:59
Speaker
Maybe I assume they were friends and just business partners. It's a close enough relationship that they're working together now. I mean, it's the difference between brunch and lunch. One is business, one is pleasure, so... Well, I'm... What do you plan to do now? Well, he wants me to tell him the inner workings of what we do for... The... You got it! You got it! The Boromart.
01:12:30
Speaker
The only name was Baratheon. That's not where we're at. You guys fall back to Satan. And I don't want to do that. Well, I agree. What did you tell your father? So what I told him I would. But I'm going to double agent the double agent. Meaning you're not going to tell him what we do.
01:12:59
Speaker
No, but I'm going to tell you all what they do. Well, you'll have to tell your father something at some point. Well, we just may not have to do much. That problem is for future, Raynard. You certainly can't tell him, well, we've all quit the borehole. That problem is for Dranier, not Raynard. We are two very different people. Are you? Yes. Who's Dranier? Oh, that's me.
01:13:32
Speaker
It's just flipping between the two on the necklace. Ray not genuine, Ray not genuine. Camera one, camera two. Camera one, camera two. Okay. Okay, right. So now we have to... We have to come up... Who has to come up with plausible things? I suppose...
01:14:00
Speaker
Well, I'll probably tell him a little bit of truth. I suppose you can always, there's got to be a less, um, a less, um, go ahead. I was gonna ask, did you tell the other two that you got questioned by the Sharon city watch yet? I, I don't think you have no. I thought I did. Did you tell us you, you told us you got held up. Yeah, I think I told you.
01:14:28
Speaker
I just listened to it yesterday. I should know that. I swore I told you guys I had been questioned. Well, you haven't told Raynard either way, so. No, definitely not. But top of saying, what was it? You were just saying, oh, right. I suppose we could come up with or just tell him. There are other
01:14:51
Speaker
Now I can't think of terms. What are we? We're not... Agents? No, what is our job title? Black Lambs. There are other Black Lambs who don't do quite the...
01:15:09
Speaker
High level sensitive work we do. We can feed a line of black lamps. In fact, we're about to know all of the black lamps jobs. We can just feed your dad the ones we don't do that aren't quite as potentially going to ruin us. Or alternatively, no, because that just means Solomon Callaway fills the power vacuum and that's bad too.
01:15:38
Speaker
Well, I don't lie to you. I will have to give him some kind of truth. That's what I'm saying. You can tell him what the Black Lamps are doing, just not necessarily what we're doing or the Black Lamps. I might just change names from Eris to Jim. Sure, Jim. Well, we all know. No, please. No one's gonna believe Jim didn't do a job, right? That's fair. Well, Raynard, I was...
01:15:59
Speaker
I was questioned by the watch. And just so you're on the same page, I told them that we went to Kaiba and that, and that Cash, I did not mention the other name, but that Cash went to Passage. That's why you did tell us, because I said something like, Hobb didn't even know what Passage, Jeff didn't know what Passage was, so Zoe Hobb was saying it. Yes.
01:16:27
Speaker
All right, well, if I'm cornered again, I guess I'll give the same story. And something else that we should think about is if your father has asked you to deliver information and you say you're not going to, that's fine, but maybe to protect ourselves or not. I don't know. I haven't thought this through, but should we potentially tell Satan?
01:17:00
Speaker
That feels like war starting. Yes. I feel war may be starting regardless. I mean, Satan's already aware of Callaway. I guess let's try and find out their intentions first. But I would just hate for something to happen and he finds out that, quote,
01:17:24
Speaker
Reynard is feeding information false or otherwise and that we haven't told him. I do not want to have that conversation. No, I'm sorry. I don't think that that's something we need to concern ourselves with right now. I don't think we need to run to Satan with everything we know. No, I mean, not, it's not imminent, I don't think, but I would rather us be the one to bring it up at some point rather than him.
01:17:56
Speaker
We're taking notes. The hounds are in agreement. It's like, stop being you. And perhaps we should maybe have these discussions elsewhere because of Olive or the Gollum.
01:18:24
Speaker
Gollum? Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum. Gollum.
01:18:48
Speaker
It would be very well. I do not think that it would be difficult for us to explain to Satan who we've had many conversations with. No, no, no, Reynard was lying to his dad. He can submit to his own a truth or whatever, even if he needs to. But accelerating the timeline on this conflict feels like not the most ideal move. Yes.
01:19:15
Speaker
I can see that. I'm just saying it's at some point we may want to or we may just wait and see what happens. I'm gonna get back to work. Feel free to make yourselves at home and Olive goes over to her workbench and starts tinkering with her apparatus. Milo goes over to Hob and
01:19:43
Speaker
kind of emotions for him to lean down. Yeah. I mean, Hob takes a knee. Sure. I feel that, um, if you, you probably noticed that Eris has been awfully quiet, we may have aired in speaking about things. I'll
01:20:10
Speaker
I'll go check on her, sure. I don't feel that I've aired tonight. I understand what you're saying. Yes. But these are important things that need to be talked about. And we were all in one place. Yes, this is true. And we can't all fit in my one room, my single bedroom.
01:20:38
Speaker
I think I mean, I will walk over at the end of that and be like, I'm going to go check on her. You can come or not, whatever. I think he walks over to Harris and he's like. How many secrets are you keeping from her? There's no. Details of stuff.
01:21:05
Speaker
I mean, no, I understand what you're saying. Let me start over. I am sorry if I inadvertently made you admit some things. No, if I admitted some things on your behalf to Olive, I am sorry. But we do crime. We are violent. Sometimes people die. Don't feel like details.
01:21:36
Speaker
The M word was strong, but we did kill Jason. Adverb revenge news about that one. Okay. I'm sorry that I was flippant about the fact that I've killed a lot of people. It clearly upset you. I don't, how, how did all of seem upset or surprised?
01:22:07
Speaker
Taking it back. Reeling, confused. I genuinely didn't think that she would be surprised to hear that I've killed some people. I will take your advice on speaking to her. If I just need to shut up and let you handle it, I will happily do that, in fact. But,
01:22:40
Speaker
While I'm not always proud of our actions, I'm not ashamed of my job. And so I spoke freely, and I'm sorry I should have thought more considerably about what you had shared with your roommate.
01:23:10
Speaker
Just don't. I don't want her to know any things you could get in trouble for. I think that's noble. I want her to be in danger because of the stupid things we do. I... sure. I feel the same way. I feel the same way about you guys when I have to do things extra-poromorally. I, um...
01:23:40
Speaker
So I understand that. And I am, you know her better than I do. But while ignorance can be bliss, it can also be the most dangerous thing for someone.
01:24:04
Speaker
I'm not here, I didn't come over here to tell you, you need to be a moral front of all of, so I'm gonna stop that line of talking right now. I come over here to tell you that I'm sorry, as I blew up your spot with your roommate, and that you're gonna have to fix it probably. And I'm here to help if you want me to, in whatever capacity I need to.
01:24:30
Speaker
I think there's a difference between letting her know that you're trying to keep her safe, and also not letting her know anything that could make things more dangerous for her. No, I started doing the thing I said I wasn't gonna do, so I'm gonna go. Arthur is gone, by the way.
Pondering the Next Move
01:24:54
Speaker
I feel an absence, Bob says. I'm saying to Raynard, who opened the first to notice, yeah.
01:25:00
Speaker
has been for a bit. Looking for stuff. What is he visiting for a bit or a bit? Yeah. Cause Arthur was with him leaving double agent or often. Uh, okay. So, um, what's next game?
01:25:35
Speaker
Milo has things he wants to tell Hob, but this is not the time. Well, Hob was about to leave. I mean, if we're at this point where it's like everything's a little awkward, Olive went to work, Eris doesn't seem to feel like talking, understandably. Raynard and Milo are still Raynard and Milo, so I think Hob's like... Well, I think I've done all the damage I can.
01:26:03
Speaker
Peace out, big dogs. This neighborhood seems to have a lot of dogs. Well, ever since Aeris added dog bowls to the running water reservoir aqueduct thing. I don't know what I'm saying. I'm leaving. Goodbye. Yes, should take our leave. Reynard, you coming?
01:26:25
Speaker
Yes. Okay. Smart. So, Raynard Hobb and Milo head out. Yeah. Um, if you want to say it to something to Hobb, he'll offer to give you a ride somewhere or something, but he's actually, you know what? Let's say the speeder is here. Okay. I'm just like, right. Either one of you want to ride? I would take a ride.
01:26:53
Speaker
All right. Well, he called it. I only have the one seat, so Raynard's on his own. And Milo and I hop into the speeder. Okay.
Timeline Revelations and Concerns
01:27:04
Speaker
And on the way, the hop, do you surely remember after the Kyber job when Cassian wanted to speak with me alone? Sure.
01:27:24
Speaker
Well, he told me some very interesting things. You know, that the timelines and all that sort of thing, I'm not entirely sure how you feel about the timelines, but what I'm about to tell you will possibly contribute to your belief that they are real.
01:27:56
Speaker
Yes. He told me that in his timeline that there was a fire at keg bottoms as well and that in his timeline Milo was the one that ended up dying and Kylie survived and
01:28:22
Speaker
The voice of Kylie that I hear that speaks to me was not my Kylie. It's Kylie from his timeline.
01:28:37
Speaker
Apparently she's very highly intelligent, obviously, to have done what she has done. But she came up with some piece of equipment or something, I guess, and she was able to communicate across the timeline to me directly. So I was not hearing things. I was not going crazy. I also found out that they have a child named Maggie.
01:29:08
Speaker
and that apparently in losing Milo, she was as distraught as I was in losing Kylie and she just felt, I guess, a strong emotional connection, so she made the connection. Apparently, she was cautioned against it because everyone else, I guess, felt that it wasn't ready to be tested yet, but she went ahead.
01:29:40
Speaker
and my magic. As you know, it can be quite unpredictable at times. The connection came through Zoriat. And
01:30:08
Speaker
I, Cassian, tried to assure me that they had everything under control and that I need not worry about that, but the plane of madness should make everyone worried.
Understanding Kylie's Role
01:30:22
Speaker
so okay hop has fully pulled the speeder over to the side of the road yes so somewhere around the other me has a daughter stops like okay this is going to require more than partial concentration and just just to provide clarification just because milo uh would
01:30:41
Speaker
It's not the Kylie from Cassian's timeline. It's the Kylie that works at the Lighthouse Consortium. Oh, OK. Yeah. OK. Yeah. So it's that Kylie. Right. So it's another.
01:30:55
Speaker
Yeah, we have to consider the lighthouse consortium being outside of yes Yes, and they are all from different timelines converging in it Yeah, there are there are some from the prime timeline, but they're yeah, you haven't met any of them. Okay, so I would
01:31:21
Speaker
This is going to be difficult for you, at least I think it will be, but if it does make me mad, if I do go insane, you must stop me.
01:31:50
Speaker
If I attempt to hurt any of my friends, please do not allow it, whatever it takes.
01:32:04
Speaker
End of
Episode Conclusion and Promotions
01:32:25
Speaker
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01:32:34
Speaker
episode.
01:32:55
Speaker
Yep. Thank you all so much for listening. I've been your game master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. Trevor. Whoops. I'm disappointed. We'll see you next time.