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Ursa Red: Cloud Walking - The Capital
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In this mini campaign we explore the political center of Ursa Red, The Cloud.
Featuring Kent Rawlings, Dean Balter, Zach Stubbs, and Alexander Crutchfield
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Content Warning
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This podcast contains explicit language, alcohol references, and fantasy violence descriptions. Viewer discretion is advised.
Cityscape and Spaceport
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Towers stick up pushing through the clouds. As you get closer you start to see that they're all attached to this platform. And hanging down from the bottom you see almost like an upside down New York City with sky rises and things like that. But when you look at the top you see a beautiful almost marble covered platform on one side you see a spaceport where ships are coming in and landing unloading their cargo ships are taking off carrying passengers to go on diplomatic missions with other uh planets and things like that when you go to the far side of this platform you're going to see that there's uh living areas very
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much people who probably don't have the greatest jobs but they're living in mansions this is a rich land but in the center there's the capital and in the capital there are three very tall towers and if you were to imagine them ah as a clock they would ah appear at 12 4 and 8 but each of them has a different
The Capital's Towers
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purpose. The chancellor and all of his staff work in the tower at the 12 o'clock. Down near the four, instead of being a tower in the classical sense, this is more of like a pantheon that's been built up. And here you have ah the only judicial court in the land. And
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Over at the 8 o'clock, you have the Senate Tower, and inside you have lots of places for senators to sit and drink and talk and eat food. There's some housing where ah diplomats from other planets can stay, and at the top is the chamber where they debate. Surrounding them are four other towers, and each of these represent the different areas of Ursa Red.
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You have one for the cloud, which is where we are currently looking. We have one for the rise, which is that New York City place that I described. There's one for the surface, which is covered in water and one for the under, which is a prison colony deep inside the crust of this planet.
Chancellor's Death Revealed
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Something something interesting has just happened there. But before we get into that,
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I'm Alexander Crutchfield, and I am the game master for Ursa Redd Cloudwalking. Joining me today is... Oh, boy. Joining me today is Dean... I keep wanting to say Dean dean Martin. Joining me... Dean Martin?
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ah
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Everyone, I'm sorry to just point you, I'm not Dean Martin, but... He's Dean Balter. And, uh, today I'm going to be playing a character called Torbenese. Uh, and I'm excited to, uh, to see where this goes. right Can you give us a quick overview of Torbenese? Yeah, Torbenese is a six to blonde high elf. Uh, he's usually walking around in very like regal clothing.
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Uh, usually something made out of silk or a, uh, or like a, kind of like a suit kind of, uh, attire. Um, he always has a ah look on his face, kind of like he's in deep thought and he, how far do you want me to go into? Uh, you know, I think that's okay.
Character Introductions
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All right, cool. Um, I'm joined by Kent Rawlings.
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Hey, everyone. I'm Kent Rawlings. Today, I am going to be playing a character called Roland Blacksteel. He is a fighter. He's about six foot tall with brown hair, male human. um Just has kind of like a little bit of a a little bit of a charm to him.
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um He is is wearing the nice plate armor that is gray and outlined in black with ah the two hammer signal sigil um on the the front chest plate. And he also is wielding a large greatsword down his back that you can see. um And yeah, that's rolling.
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I'm joined by Zach Stubbs. That's me. And I'm going to be playing Enzio. Enzio has have buzzcut deep black hair and really bright blue eyes. Clean shaven, 5'11", human male. um He's wearing ah very nondescript gray robes, kind of like a ah ah deep dark gray.
00:05:29
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They're very just the opposite of ornate. There is no extra threads, no extra emblems, nothing remarkable about them at all. He is kind of the person, if you were to look at him and take that face value, he is trying to blend in. We will be starting between the pathway of the executive building and the rise. We see a young man, his name is Aaron, E-R-O-N, not super important, but he works as an assistant to the secretary for the executive of the rise, or the senator of the rise, and we see him running along a pathway as he
00:06:25
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is moving his feet through the clouds that currently are covering the ground as the city moves through a cluster of clouds. He is going to enter into the building. He's going to run into the elevator and start just jamming the button for the 19th floor. When he gets to the 19th floor, he's going to run in and look at the secretary and then say, I need to talk to the senator right now.
00:06:53
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They're just going to gesture him up a set of stairs where he runs up. There's a very short hallway. It has three doors. Two on the left go to the senator's cabinet, which right now is vacant, except for maybe like a few of his friends. And instead he turns right and he enters into the senator's office and he looks at him and he says, Senator. The
Quest to Investigate
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chancellor is dead.
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oh shit so So Torbenese turns over and looks at Eron and he kind of has like a confused look on his face and he just looks over he's like, what do you mean? Chancellor is not even 600 years old yet. how How could he be dead already? I I just know I was I was lurking around in the executive building like I was told to and trying to pick up gossip. And then the secretary for the chancellor came out and passed out. The guards ran into the elevator. We waited roughly 10 to 15 minutes for them to come back where they sent for a coroner to come in some kind of investigation to take place in the office. i That's what I know.
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And then when the secretary woke up, confirmed that the chancellor was dead. And Torbenese is the kind of looking over at the side of his desk, contemplating this. He looks over at Aron and he says, quickly, get me Enzio and Roland. I need to talk to them. I believe Enzio and Roland are currently in the cabinet room.
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ah what are What are you two doing in the cabinet room? There's like a large desk that's normally used for meetings and there's several small offices. ah Some of them are vacant and no one occupies those offices. There's two of them where someone is in that job, but You guys don't really have much to do other than go to Senate meetings and talk to the lobbyists from the corporations of the rise. And so these guys are probably at a bar drinking with ah the company that makes goop or a company that makes robotics for manufacturing ah ships, things like that. And so that's probably off where they're, where they're at.
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ah What are
Senate Building Dynamics
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you guys doing? Because you're the only two in here. I would likely be sitting at the desk, just mulling over whatever paperwork. Kind of the kind of person that would just be involved for the sake of being involved, knowing full well that I have no reason to. I could just completely sit back, kick my heels up, and not have anything to do. And yet, Enzio still just toiling away for the sake of toiling away.
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Yeah, opposite of Enzio. Roland has his feet kicked up on the desk, hands behind his head with absolutely no cares in the world. He's just kind of hanging around. I imagine Roland's been sitting there just throwing wads of paper at an empty trash can, just missing repeatedly. Enzio, you need this?
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as i but as a wads up a piece of paper yeah if you could send that okay yeah yeah it's it's gonna be all right oh yeah i mean i can go get that if you need uh i don't need it it's for the space port there's a whole okay he's good because i was younna so the door swings open as erin appears and he goes uh the senator wants you Oh, swear we must go. No, yeah let's go we must go at once. Let's do it. Roland gets his feet under him and heads towards the door. I'll wait a couple seconds while I keep wrapping up exactly what I'm doing as I'm kind of walking away, like hips moving before my hand and pen do, and then I'll step out of the room. ah You guys enter the senator's office right now.
00:11:33
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Sitting behind the desk is Senator Torbenice and this is again like a very masoned room so it's marble floors, there's some bookshelves along the walls, a lot of them are in alien languages but got to fill those bookshelves and there's a small little table where he takes guests and on either side there's like little uh like stuffed chairs like club chairs and
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In front of his desk, there's two wooden chairs. Wood hasn't been super common on Ursa Rhett in a while since the surface flooded. So these wooden chairs are imported. Just signs of wealth, things like that. And behind him, there is a window that opens up. Well, it doesn't open up. It shows the view of the spaceport behind you guys. So as Roland and Enzio walk into the room,
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Torbenese stands up from his desk and he kind of walks over to the window and he starts looking out. um And then he asked you guys, did everyone tell you why I needed you? No. We just told you you needed us. he yeah He kind of glances over back at you guys and looks back out the window. The chancellors did.
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Wait, what? What does that mean for us? I interesting i don't know what what happened to the Chancellor yet, but I will say this is our chance. I don't mean to see seem callous, but we all know that the Senator of the Cloud has always had the favor of the Chancellor, and the Chancellor is always given most of the profit and most of the common things that they need to the cloud of their senator. This is our chance. We can, we can run for chancellor and make the rise more powerful and help our people.
00:13:58
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Has word reached the other senators? I'm not sure yet, but, uh, uh, you, as that question is asked, you're going to, so you each have like a computer that's mounted to your wrist and you're going to get a notification, uh,
00:14:17
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Torvin is that there is an emergency meeting in the Senate. ah Main Hall which is where like you guys gather to come up with laws and things like that So he's gonna look down. He's gonna see that it's it's beeping and he's gonna look it over you guys and say Look, I I have somewhere I need to be this is uh, this may be a while I'm not quite sure but I need you guys to figure out what happened to the Chancellor I'll uh, I'll converse with you guys when I get back.
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And before you go, i'm just gonna it's something that's likely happened hundreds and hundreds of times in our experience of working together. I'm just going to touch the side of your head and I'm going to use my feature as a warlock. I just need to find the name of it.
00:15:08
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Gaze of two minds um And I'm assuming you're a willing creature Yes, and I'm gonna be able to perceive through your senses and I can maintain that Indefinitely as long as I utilize a bonus action each turn to maintain it So I'll be able to perceive through your senses and see what you're getting so that me and Roland will be constantly in the loop with you. Hell. Yeah Wait tour Denise you do you don't want me to go with you. I am your personal bodyguard and I mean, you can, you can come with me to the building, but I'm not sure if they're going to allow you in on our meeting. So if they do, you can come in, but I highly doubt, especially with this high security going on right now, but follow me and we'll, we'll make our way over to the, to the building.
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I made a pact that I would defend you from any and every- We'll get him to the door. How about that, Roland? Yeah, i'll stay I'll stay outside and i will I will very nicely stand along the wall until he's done. That's a good man. Ever the dutiful soldier. oh Okay, Enzio. We'll be back.
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what What kind of pace are you guys? like going to be walking at like, is this a fast walk or is this so kind a little bit more leisurely and I'd say portraying calm I would say Torbity is is probably going to be like protect portraying calm. He's gonna be doing like a like a brisk walk. He's not gonna be like running or jogging or anything. He's just going to be walking a little bit faster than normal but trying to maintain a calm like face and and demeanor and And kind of looking around at all the people while he's walking by them and just seeing if they're already freaking out, if they know anything about like the chance, like if they're already, have they already heard about the chancellor and stuff? Hey,
Senate Political Maneuvering
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uh, you guys are going to walk out into the hall. Uh, Aaron Aaron is out there. Um, and you guys are going to pass him on your way to the elevator. get into the elevator, go down to the lobby. Um, as you get out to the lobby, you're going to see a bunch of people sitting in like the waiting area. It's a bunch of couches around tables. Uh, and they are whispering to each other and you can tell that at the very least there are rumors, uh,
00:17:42
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starting to float around and really kinda, um,
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Yeah, really starting to settle in. Yeah, rolling at the same time, you know, being the secret service for Torbenese is actively scanning the environment around to make sure that there are no active, ah not not per se, threats, but just anything out of the ordinary or, you know, i like just pulling security on on Torbenese, but also he's thinking in his head that this is his chance to not be a bodyguard forever. So he's thinking to himself that he he he really wants this to work out for the rise and for Torbenese so that way that maybe maybe he can move up in the world. Yeah.
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and your one like You're not really going to see anything that is too out of the ordinary, but what you are going to see is like there's lots of people that are talking a bit quieter than normal. um Yeah, what i that's what I figured. Yeah, just Roland's just doing his job, just making sure that
00:19:18
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that everything's going on as normal as they can. Yeah. So you guys are going to enter the Senate building and everybody has been cleared out. You see that there's multiple bodyguards that are down in the lobby and these current these belong to ah the Senator of the Cloud. He has like 20 of them so they're just kind of stationed throughout the building and you guys are gonna be able to get onto the elevator and ride all the way up to the floor where you can enter into the chamber of the Senate. Is it expected that only Torbenese will be allowed down to enter the chamber?
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ah
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No. ah You're the bodyguard. The entourage can come with. Roland can, but Enzio cannot. Yeah, so I figured that would probably be the case. So I would most likely, as soon as I got them to the to the door, I would start immediately going to where the locals and where the important people, whatever, ah lounge, wherever the they what local watering hole is for
00:20:41
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the people that I want to rub elbows with and the people that I want to start figuring out what they know. hi am ah Right now, because the entire ah Senate is shut down, your best bet is probably going to be going to the political power, which is a restaurant and lounge between the Capitol and the spaceport.
00:21:04
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Uh, this is kind of where a little bit more of the shady business of the political world is done. But right now, uh, this is where most people would go if they don't go back to their office. and So I'll basically, I would know that beforehand.
Chancellor Election Announcement
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So I would just give them the heads up that that's where I was heading and to meet me there later. Okay. Sounds good. As you are, uh, on the way there.
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you're gonna see Aaron and he's gonna try to gesture towards you. um
00:21:47
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But like your gut instinct is telling you that it's a little bit too soon to talk to Aaron right now. And so I'll just yeah using the awakened mind, I can if he's within 30 feet of me, I can just say in his head, not now.
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ah And he's going to kind of nod and and then just start running off. Big runner runs everywhere. Lots of cardio. and ye You get to the political power. ah You step inside. There's a hallway. If you go to the left, you're going to get to like a reception desk for the lodging upstairs. But when you turn right, you're going to enter a room that was probably once like four five rooms, but now it's all been combined and there's ah seating all through this area. Everything is wood, except the building is still made out of like a marble or some other kind of rock that looks nice and carved. And you just go and kind of take a seat. I would assume and like generally near the center or near a group of people talking. Yes, so I would
00:23:05
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My, my, basically my go-to would be the people that know me and that know that I'm capable of, uh, psychic communication would understand that I would just be going and sitting at the bar close to the middle of the room. And I would reach out to people without actually going to talk to them so that nobody could see me talking to someone, but they would understand that it's me talking to them. And so I would start reaching out to my contacts and try to see what information they have. Hmm.
00:23:35
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All right, we will come back to you, but first we're going to jump to the s Senate. So inside of the Senate, there's it's generally um kind of formed like an amphitheater. And at the front, there is normally where the the chancellor sits while you guys kind of sit in your perspective desks around him. But at this moment, there is no chancellor.
00:24:06
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So instead there's the cabinet of the chancellor who, none of these people know what their job is and haven't really done anything since they've been put in this position. And so now they're in front of the Senate saying,
00:24:26
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Chancellor Yen Roy is dead. Um, we,
00:24:36
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We don't really know what to do. um
00:24:48
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like they They seem very dis distressed, right? Just kind of stumbling over words a little bit, trying to form sentences. ah And just above the table, how long has Senator Yennroy been in power?
00:25:02
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uh this is his second term of 50 years okay so he was like and it's like this is towards the end of that term or is that uh so this is a little over halfway of the second term so so close like seventy seventy yeah close to 80 um and as these people are kind of stumbling over what They're trying to say a ah very old dwarf in the corner goes, well, ah i I know what to do. You see in the Constitution, they and he just starts reading this giant paragraph, right?
00:25:53
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um in there like he starts a sentence and then in the middle of the sentence he adds a correction or an interpretation that's been added so it's like If a chancellor should not be able to fulfill and by fulfill, I mean he abdicates, quits, but like yeah going like through this whole thing, right? Where you're like, Oh my gosh, we should have just rewritten this or added this at the end because there's way too much happening right here. Uh, and he gets to the end of this just absolutely jumble of legalese.
00:26:36
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And then he looks up and goes, as you see it clearly says, we must have an election. What's up? great What's his name? I'm just going to call him the keeper of the book. The keeper. Yeah. No one really talks to him because that's how this guy is reading the constitution is also just how he talks.
00:27:03
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Where he will say I and then be like, I, but which is me, I was I'm the great grandchild of this person. He like starts to clarify what he's meaning, but we all know what I means. Right. Perfect, perfect person to to keep the book. And yeah, so no one really talks to him. They just call him the keeper of the book and his entire life is just reading.
00:27:35
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contracts, legal contracts. The Constitution. ah Yeah. So yeah, he, you know, that an election is like wild because nobody actually votes for the chancellor. The chancellor just kind of goes, Hey, this person's now chancellor. And this is a position that has a high perceived amount of power. Hmm.
00:28:05
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and your only real job is to be a diplomat.
00:28:11
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I would like to just reinforce that I said perceived power. yes Everybody looks at him and goes, that guy's powerful. In actuality, he just talks to people and goes, oh yeah, no. We've got a lot of great resources on Ursa Red, and you should trade with us. like you know he's He's a diplomat. He doesn't really do anything Too crazy, because if there's a law that comes onto his desk, he just goes, Yeah, cool. I don't care. I'm above it, you know, um and that that's that whole job. So there being an election for this means that the chain of just passing down the chancellorship from person to person is destroyed and you now have the best possible chance of getting that position. Hmm.
00:29:05
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Torbenes is going to stand up and he's going to look over and say, thank you, Keeper, for your very good explanation of what we're supposed to be doing. And he's going to look over at the rest of the the Senate and and say, look, we all know that an election has not happened in a long time, but The last senator came from the cloud district. I think it's only fair that the next senator comes or the next chancellor comes from my district.
00:29:43
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Uh, there's immediately going to be just an outbreak of arguing at the, the end of that sentence is people are like yelling at each other. And that's exactly what I wanted. The, uh, senator for the cloud is.
00:30:01
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just yelling about how it's basically his birthright. Uh, the senator for the under is like basically just arguing. He's not really saying anything. He hasn't, he knows that his chances of getting the position are like almost zero. Uh, what's, uh, because the cloud, the center for the cloud, what's his name? Um,
00:30:28
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You're doing that thing to me again. I'm not trying to be mean, I promise. But if I have to address- You just need to- If I have to address him, I'm not going to be like, hey, cloud senator. ah I'm going to make it stupid, complicated. We're going to call him Leonis. Leonis or Leonis? Leonis. Leonis. And what's the under senator name? I'm going to have to talk to him. I'm going to try to hurt your feelings.
00:30:57
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His name is Chuck. Chuck, perfect. That's a good name for him. Yeah, it fits. So Torbeny is going to look over and and say, Leonis, Leonis, look, look, give me a second. calm Calm down. Look, we understand that you think this is a birthright, but this this is a democracy. This is a Senate.
Debate on Chancellor's Origin
00:31:21
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This is why the next the next representative needs to be someone from the working class, the backbone, because you think that you just can can have this as a birthright to sit there and do nothing. But we all know that the backbone of of this world is the rise, and we are going to make this a better place for all of us. Well, I think that your job is basically
00:31:56
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not important we all meet the lobbyists from the rise and it's not even really a democracy i mean who votes for the senator of the under they're all prisoners they're not allowed to vote uh like it this democracy hasn't existed for hundreds of years almost thousands of years since the last election for a chancellor and who knows maybe we'd still have a surface no offense as he gestures over to um xander uh of the surface and he's ah no offense and he's like
00:32:42
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Xander's like well, we would have a surface if we could just get that stupid generator fixed But the rise never wants to send people down and just like just starts going off on his own, you know very Naturey kind of individual that just feels like no one listens to him But half the time he doesn't speak loud enough for anyone to hear him. Just like a quiet environmentalist. Oh Yeah, I mean when he is loud everyone just doesn't listen to him and when he's not loud he's super quiet so no one can hear him, you know it little bit of both extremes. ah And. ah Oh, Leonis is going to go back and be like. Things have been working. do Do we do we agree that? While things are not great in some of the lesser parts of the world, things have been working. Torbenese looks at him and
00:33:43
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Torvys looked at me and said, you're correct. It hasn't been great. And I'm here to make Ursa Red great again.
00:33:54
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Yeah, you're gonna be that guy. but Crap, I cut that up. Oh, Roland's in the back, like behind Torbenese, standing against the wall, and he says that, and he just he just shows a slight little smirk on his face, like, yeah.
00:34:16
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We already have a campaign slogan. I love it. The keeper of the book is going to kind of get a word in, and he's going to be like,
00:34:26
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ah as as nice as it is to skip the process uh like he just lied through his teeth he doesn't he doesn't think that's true uh the the constitution must hold or else it's a anarchy anarchy look keeper don't worry we we can still hold the vote but i know that we the rise We will win this. Mark my words.
00:35:03
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ah That one of the the ah cabinet members for the previous chancellor is just like fallen into complete disarray while you guys are talking. He hasn't heard any of it. He's just getting more and more emotional and he's like.
00:35:23
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going going home and he just runs out. So one of the other cabinet members is like, well. ah
00:35:33
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Can I find a job? And then he just puts like a gavel like that was just hanging out on the chancellors little podium, he's like. Hi, guys, just walks out right like these guys have no sense of formality, they were just like childhood friends of the previous chancellor, so they're They're just walking out now. ah The door is now open, so you're you're welcome to get up and leave if you want, or you can keep arguing. ah Not much is going to change. like No matter what, the Constitution has to be upheld.
00:36:10
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um
00:36:13
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And and there's not much that's gonna change just by yelling at each other in here But you're welcome to if you want to play the part of a senator to start screaming um yeah I'm just do one thing before before I end up leaving and Torbenese is gonna walk over to Chuck um And try to calm him down for a second and and look over and say Look Chuck we We both know ah you have a very slim chance of of winning this. But I think we should we should talk later. I think you supporting me could be a great benefit for you. And then he's just going to turn and walk away.
00:36:56
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ah
00:36:59
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Chuck is going to try to send you a message telepathically. ah If you have to be willing to accept it though. Yeah, I'll accept it ah He's going to say If I interpreted that correctly yeah If I vote if I get votes for you you'll set me up as the new representative of the rise He's gonna look back at Chuck and and give him a wink and then walk away ah Chuck you're gonna see Chuck kind of gets like a little
00:37:37
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uh malicious smirk on his face as he starts to gather up things that he brought mainly because he's just here to like fill a role so he just brings things to look like he does stuff but he he runs a prison that's ran by a corporation so uh he you know he doesn't actually do anything uh cool you're gonna head out where where are you heading to uh I'm gonna, I'm gonna head over to, uh, to the political power to try to go meet up with, uh, with Nzio and see what he's learned while we were in our meeting. And then I'm gonna look over at Roland and be like, Hey, you coming? Oh, yes. I was, uh, I was looking at the, uh, the bookkeeper. He, uh, he's kind of an interesting fella.
00:38:32
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Yep. Very interesting. Are you going to hear in your head? He was napping. I saw him. As soon as he got done with that four but page book, he instantly fell asleep. I don't know if anyone saw that, but I did. I had pretty good perception around the room and yeah, that guy that guy was definitely sleeping.
00:38:53
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ah Cool.
Enzio's Psychic Investigation
00:38:55
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We're going to jump back to Enzio. Enzio, what information are you looking for? so
00:39:02
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I would be, if you were to try and like enter into Enzio's brain, it would be just pure chaos because I would be like looking in mirrors and trying to notice people that I recognize and enter into their head and ask them a question and then flip back to viewing through Torbenese's census to be able to get a gauge of what's going on in the Senate meeting and then flitting back and then, oh, I see another person's just entered and then trying to get their information, just pure absolute chaos. The the biggest thing I would be looking for people that I know to be ah underlings or workers um for the other chancellors, so Leonis, Chuck, and Xander,
00:39:51
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and try to get a gauge from them of what they know happened to, uh, the chancellor, uh, yen Roy. Uh, so you, that information hasn't really been spread. I guess I'm looking for the rumors. Okay. Then I know that, I know that everybody's going to be talking and everybody's going to have all their different theories and all of their different stories of what's happening.
00:40:21
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So I would be reaching out there and as soon as the meeting concluded I'd probably go try and like actually sit down and do a face-to-face with like whatever whatever like just group conglomerate of people I'm sure just all just Uselessly yapping I would try to just go just become a person in the circle, but not actually really participate in Hi, ah so you're going to hear a lot of different rumors, like you hear that he was stabbed. You hear that he ah killed himself. You hear he was poisoned. You right. There's a lot of it and kind of the most interesting thing is ah your passive insight gives you ah interpretations into not just like what these people are thinking, but how they're thinking about it. um Picking up on like the wording that they're using in their head.
00:41:13
Speaker
and just kind of interpreting that a lot of people seem numb to the fact that someone just died uh there is a small group of people um mainly like the people who work what a lot of people will consider like the Like less political jobs in the executive tower that seem to have a actual emotional response towards the Chancellor dying you're gonna
00:41:49
Speaker
notice that these are like people who like would bring the Chancellor food and would uh deal with correspondence from other planets and different regions things like that the one that kind of seems off to you is there's a lobbyist for a company down in the rise you're not sure which company he represents but you know that like he seems to be having a little bit more of an emotional attachment to the previous chancellor than most people who work in the more political realm.
00:42:34
Speaker
um So how often, if I went to recall back, how often would I have seen him and Chancellor Yennroy in the same space?
00:42:49
Speaker
ah Suspiciously never. Okay. That's interesting. But I can tell I can tell I mean, I can roll for it. But how genuine? Is he upset? Or is he he's the kind of person that's upset in order to get people to notice that he's upset? um So you're you're not So I wasn't describing what you were seeing. I was describing what you were, what I read from, what I read from it. So he, yes. Okay. So I do feel, I feel that he actually has more action than what makes the eye. So like in his, in his brain, you could hear him being like, like before he would speak the words, he'd be like, yeah, I'm just, I'm kind of
00:43:38
Speaker
I think it's great that we are going to be getting a new chancellor after ah Chancellor Yenroy passed away, right? Like where the word choice is really keying you into the fact that this guy is like more, um has had more involvement with the chancellor than just seeing them around would lead you to believe. um he Is he a alone or is he in a group?
00:44:07
Speaker
uh he's in a group he he's kind of uh i mean he is a lobbyist so he's been just kind of jumping from group to group but yeah that that guy kind of stands out um you trying to decide i i don't think you would know his name either but i would i would know that he isn't in direct employment of the chancellor. He just works for a company that provides services potentially for the chancellor. Yeah or at least not ah openly in direct employment.
00:44:55
Speaker
I want to wait for Torbenese and Roland to get there but I'm gonna try to clock as much as I can where he ends up. Okay. Uh, he's going to kind of just end up in a group of lobbyists right before, uh, Torbenese and Roland show up. Are they drinking a decent amount? Uh, a fair amount, not any more than what would be considered normal. Works.
00:45:30
Speaker
So like a bottle of, bottle of whiskey each, right? That's normal. Yeah. 750. So Torbenice and Roland, you're going to enter into the political power. So I'm going to walk in and I'm just going to go directly to, to Enzio to see if, if he's like what rumors he's heard. Cause I still at this point have no idea how the chancellor died. We don't even, I don't even have a clue. So.
00:46:01
Speaker
The good news is you're not the only one. Everyone does not have a clue what happened to the chancellor.
Regrouping and Planning
00:46:08
Speaker
So we're on even footing there, but I intend to get us that step ahead.
00:46:14
Speaker
Interesting. Roland's gonna, Roland's gonna go over to the bar and order a whiskey and coke, a gin and tonic, and a beer and bring it back to the, where Torbenese and Enzo are. And he's gonna, he's gonna say, I don't, I don't really know what you guys like to drink, but ah here you go.
00:46:43
Speaker
Uh, which drink is everyone going for? Roland instantly picks up the whiskey. Just look at Torbenese and look it down at the other two and then look back at him and then look down at the other two and then just like very steadily grab the gin and tonic. Yeah. Uh.
00:47:07
Speaker
I guess Torbenese is gonna look down at the beer and kind of have just like a like a sad look on his face. And then he's gonna slowly like just take pick up the beer and take a small sip. um And then- Torbenese, you have to keep your mind clear. There's much to much to learn about this whole situation. So I think beer is the right choice.
00:47:36
Speaker
So I guess this is not, not, uh, how it works, but you know, nevermind. No, nevermind. Nevermind. That's dumb. It's a waste of a spell slot. Okay. Uh, yeah. Um, and so he's gonna, I guess, look around and see if he sees anyone that he would be familiar with from the Senate or like, uh, any other representatives that.
00:48:06
Speaker
may have just, uh, came out of, came out of the meeting. Uh, so there's no other representatives here. Um, there are people that work for those senators. There are people that work for you here. Um, like this is a pretty big bar and right now it's probably the crowd estate kids. Um, there are a few of like,
00:48:34
Speaker
the people who are normally here just kind of tucked in. And yeah, there's like ah just a lot of people who are kind of not allowed to be working at the Senate, not allowed to be working in the Chancellor's Tower.
00:48:56
Speaker
um Pretty much the only group that's still kind of working right now is the judiciary group. And I would say they're probably working quite a bit. So they're, they're all busy. Um, yeah, like everyone from the secretaries to the lobbyists to the postal workers are here. So like there's, there's quite a few people that you know.
00:49:23
Speaker
Roland, Roland would like to make a perception check around the room and just see. So Roland is under the impression that the Chancellor possibly was murdered from just the rumors that are floating around and He just wants to see that thinking that this is like the biggest place and where a lot of people would go after something, you know, crazy or anything like that would happen. He just wants to make a perception check around the room to see if anyone is acting out of the ordinary or weird or suspicious.
00:50:03
Speaker
ah Nobody's acting suspicious. um As you look around But you did ask to make a perception check. So let's go ahead and roll that. All right, let's do it 14 14 yeah, nobody's like really doing anything that would like is That's perceivable that you'd be like, huh? That's weird. I people that are, you know, drinking a little bit earlier in the day than normal. That's fair. Um, Torby is going to look over at Enzio and Roland and just be like, look as, uh, just so you guys know, if you get any chance, if we end up seeing, uh, anyone who's linked with the under, we need to make a good impression. Uh,
00:51:05
Speaker
I know that the under, I know that as you were listening in on our conversation upstairs in the meeting. And as you can tell, we have a good chance of winning this, but we need to make sure that the under is on our side.
00:51:21
Speaker
Well, of course, whatever you say, Torbenese. Good. I have a question for you. What do you think happened to the Chancellor?
00:51:34
Speaker
I think it's a little too early to tell, but over his 88 reign. Yeah, but what do you think? I mean, he had another 20 years left and he seemed pretty spry the last time I saw him. I don't think this was this was a natural.
00:51:54
Speaker
Yeah, when when was the last time a chancellor was removed from power?
00:52:03
Speaker
I don't... 2,600 years ago. ah It's been a long time since they've been removing power. I mean, this has been... I'll explain politics to you. All right, so what usually happens, Roland, is after the chancellor does his hundred years, he chooses the next person. And at least for the past few chancellors, they've all been cloud cloud representatives.
00:52:32
Speaker
So this is our one chance to, to pick up the rise and, and make our make a name for ourselves. I see. So if you become chancellor, will you be able to pick your cabinet? Absolutely. And he smiles.
00:52:58
Speaker
Interesting. And Roland goes back to scanning the room. Roland, you're going to see the bookkeeper come in. And he's going to kind of start walking towards the bar that you guys are near. um Once he gets closer, everyone's going to see him. And he's going to turn, and he's going to see Enzio.
00:53:25
Speaker
and He's just going to kind of like give him like a strange look. And then he sits down and he's going to order a vodka and.
00:53:40
Speaker
ah
00:53:42
Speaker
Soda. um As he looks like he's deep in thought. Is he sitting at the bar? Yes.
00:53:55
Speaker
Did Enzio see the look that he gave him? Yeah. ah so That was kind of weird, Enzio. What do you think that was about? The bookkeeper is a very odd man. I think we can all agree on that. He knows he knows the constitution pretty well, I'll give him that.
00:54:21
Speaker
I need like three more of these drinks so then I can go have a conversation with him and not explode. Roland goes up to the bar and grabs three more gin and olives. And comes back and says, exactly what you ordered. Nothing ever gets past you, Roland. That's what I'm here for.
00:54:46
Speaker
Torbenice is gonna try to do some politicking a little bit and he's gonna kind of walk around in the room a little ah Just go into people that are like, that he knows that are not super high up, but like relatively high up, all people that work under the work in the under. um And he's gonna just like imply and try to like hint at some creating some of his own rumors about how the about how the cloud just wants to mistreat ah the rest of the rest of the under and kind of just like
00:55:26
Speaker
so some hostility towards them mmm okay uh we're gonna we're gonna make this a deception check which i know you're really good at but uh the dc for doing this over and over again with a crowd we're gonna say it's a 25 25 okay all right deception 13 plus 18 so Yep. ye ah You're going to succeed as in convincing everybody, not only that ah the right or that the cloud is trying to just step on the under, but also that they take care about what happens to the under. like
00:56:19
Speaker
You, you kind of, uh, reach out and get to like their emotional being. That's like, there are people down there and all the cloud wants to do is just make them another cog in the machine that buys them fancy wooden chairs from who knows where like you, you represent these people, your, your heroes here. And, you know, like going into this whole long.
00:56:48
Speaker
thing where you're like, not only lying to these people about what the cloud wants, but also lying to them about what they
Potion Discovery and Disappearance
00:56:57
Speaker
want. And they, they believe you. I definitely like dig deeper on the chair thing and he's just like really deep about how like the under doesn't have any chairs and up here we have chairs, but you know, I keep it modest. I only have three in my office. When I go into the cloud Senator's office, he's got like 10, 15 chairs. It's like, he's just showing off.
00:57:19
Speaker
Yeah, it's wild. As we're in a room full of chairs and stools. Yeah. Yeah. Really high deception role.
00:57:32
Speaker
um Enzio, you're gonna kind of hear, like is your, is your like mind channel kind of still open? No, once he, once we co-located again, I would be dropping it.
00:57:47
Speaker
It's it definitely something that requires a lot of effort, so my own thoughts get kind of put on the back burner whenever I'm doing something like that. OK. He is. Oh, not he. ah Aaron is going to walk into the bar. And. He's going to order.
00:58:11
Speaker
ah Like two or three shots. And you're going to see like he's not looking great. He's like sweating profusely. And he he's then going like after the shots, he's going to like stumble towards the door to go outside. I'm going to first drink the first drink that Roland got me. And now I'm going to pick up the second drink to take with me. And then I'm going to hand him the third drink.
00:58:43
Speaker
All right, it's your time to shine. And I'm going to point him over to the employee that I noticed earlier that was actually having a ah kind of real reaction to chance they're dying. You got to put on your youre mournful face. you're You're just, you're just, you're a sad little puppy and they need you right now.
00:59:09
Speaker
Oh, I can do this, uh, back when I was a soldier in the war. ah Yeah. bre yeah good yeah good Good stuff. Yeah. So deck that table over there. Yeah. And I'm going to hand him the drink for him to take with him. Do you, do you want me to drink this or should I give it to him? He'll figure it out. All right. And I go and walk towards that table. Uh, so I'm going to go over to.
00:59:40
Speaker
I'm going to go over and like I'm going to the restroom and I'm going to go catch. um Aaron. And I'm going to try to look him in the eyes and see what I see. OK, you catch up to Aaron as he turns around and he's like.
01:00:03
Speaker
Nxio, I messed up Nxio, but I again ah gave him half a bottle like you said and he's going to hand you a bottle of like it's a potion of death and it's half the bottle of and it's still like it's it's good but he's gonna be like i think i got some on me don't worry there's no mistakes we can't fix here's what's gonna happen you're gonna shut the fuck up and you're gonna leave and you're gonna go away from here you're gonna go away from humans you're gonna go away from all people
01:00:52
Speaker
And I will find you. And I'm going to touch him and do the gaze of two minds so that I can see where he goes. OK. He's going to head towards the spaceport. um And trying and catch the train down to the surface.
01:01:15
Speaker
And. Without missing a beat, I'm just going to go and sit down with the bookkeeper next to him at the bar with my fresh gin and tonic.
Bookkeeper's Warning
01:01:27
Speaker
So how was your meeting? Ah, it was good. Everybody listened to you exactly as they should.
01:01:40
Speaker
They did, yeah. I gathered.
01:01:47
Speaker
Hey, I just think it's interesting that no one really cares or ever shows interest in the Constitution.
01:01:59
Speaker
Well, we make these laws. It's moderately understandable that we should abide by them. What do you think should happen?
01:02:16
Speaker
I I think I think the election. I think the election should go on. And I. I think that they should they should investigate what what happened to him. And in your heart of hearts, what do you believe is going to happen?
01:02:41
Speaker
Anarchy.