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C2 Ep. 101 Eyes of Stone Chapter Four
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It's time to go do the job, but what obstacles will pop up in front of the crew?
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Episode Introduction and Sponsor Acknowledgement
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
Introduction to Hosts and Campaign Setting
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renew, actual play podcast at the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Meeting New Allies and Quest for the Statue Sleeve
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We met some new friends and they are scary. They are. And they want us to go pick up their statue sleeve.
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Yeah, it's gross. Is that about right? Some of the nuance is lost, but sure. I mean, I'll admit it's pithy. But I think it's right. What did you do last time?
Reynard's Lunch Plans and Eris' Scouting Mission
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I think, you know, Raynard was stood up for lunch. By Solomon. Just waited there for days. Just a little puffy wing. Just have another glass of water. I'm sure he's coming.
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So we left things off with Eris having gone and done some scouting about the manor that the gala is going to be taking place on in Highhold. And we're meeting back up at the for sales to exchange information, get settled and then go try to steal the thing. Yep.
Gala Heist Planning and Security Insights
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So but
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Reynard just serendipitously. You are also arriving at the Forest Sails as well to meet up with everyone. Just looking sad though. Just looking real sad. Okay, so we're just going to pick up from there of people coming into the Forest Sails after Eris has finished her scouting mission. So go. Kath and Sana are there already. Okay.
00:02:54
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I mean, Iris would give a rundown. Um, she was not able to hack the security system, but she did something good with the security system anyway, with a whole bunch of advantage or a triumph or something like that.
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But the details of that. In my note, it's the fact that there is a breaker that errors. Yeah, I can shut it all down. Yeah. Yeah, I can. I can shut everything down. But that will alert. It will be noticeable and also it will shut down any beneficial things like lights. Right. Lights. Shmites. Only one person has dark vision.
00:03:46
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Sounds like a solo mission to me Remember I have spells The lone healer in the group what time is it?
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Late I mean like if we're gonna do it tonight. We're leaving here to go. Yeah, I mean it's it's time to kind of get everything sorted and then head out probably witching our type of like post 2 a.m. When the city's truly as dead as it's gonna be it's like everyone's tea time, right?
Understanding Security and Insider Information
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Yes
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So what we know is that was knowing the location of the statue part of the rundown. No, Eris went and just scouted out the area, not actually getting into the manor. And there was trying to shut down the the magical security. We established a skylight. Yes. Right. Oh, you guys talked about grappling hooks. Yeah. Me getting winched down. Yeah. Yeah. Which I'm for.
00:04:54
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Oh, right. So are we, are we just going then? I mean, are you going to flip the breaker and we smash and get and go or? I mean, that's the best plan I got so far. Right. And
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Is Harbin here? No, Harbin's not for sales. I know he's not a part of this, but he also is a part of this, and he might have been to the house before, have Kath and Sana been to this guy's place before. We flip a story point and say Kath and Sana have been to this guy's place before. Yeah, you could absolutely flip a story point to say that. And might have some insight onto a general, just like if we were to look at an overhead shot of the place where the statue might be. Okay, so you're flipping a story point.
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Yes, Kath and Sana have attended a party here before. Kath says, oh, yeah, it was a it was a while ago, but so there's it's a multiple story manner like the main house. And yeah, there is a.
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gathering hall on the first floor that he displays a lot of different art pieces and things like that. And it's where like the cocktails and hors d'oeuvres and the early stages of the evening take place there.
Security Measures and Statue Retrieval Strategies
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So if I had to guess, that's where it's going to be displayed. Is that where it is right now? Right.
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I don't know. Now, clarification on the skylight. There is a skylight or this is the kind of place that has skylights because I'd like to know in relation to the skylight where this grand hall. I thought what we established
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was that there was essentially there were there were skylight windows over the main hall. Yeah, great. There is easy access to get into the area that the statue will be displayed for the gala.
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So, uh, yeah, I mean, it's, it's a pretty big place though, uh, which can be, you know, good. There's lots of area to cover with, uh, wards and if there is any security detail, but, um, yeah, it's, it's a big place. Um, there's multiple buildings on the, on the grounds. So that's what Kath knows. Right.
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and the security system covers the entire grounds, not just the one main building yet. I mean, I can shut down everything. Lights, security system, but that'll be more noticeable. Someone will know something's up. Right, sure. So we'll have to move fast at that point. Milo, Raynard, thoughts?
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I don't... if only I could talk to Kylie. She's always been somewhat helpful in some of these situations. I will not be mean right now. I don't see the prudence of it.
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All right, I guess what, are we getting a boat and going then? I was like, does it all fall on my shoulders to make the plan? Or have input. Yeah, have a thought about the plan. Raynar's just down to quickly snatch and go. Just so sad. Where did we fill you in on this? Exactly. Also doesn't know what's happening.
00:08:36
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Oh, right. And you want my input on what we're doing? I think we're assuming that they filled you in. Yeah. Okay. Do we need to fill Trevor in now real quick? I'll be okay. We're stealing something. You got to recap the review. We're stealing a statue, but it's also a person.
Reynard's Family and Norcen Millhatch Capture
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Yeah. Typical sneaky, sneaky, snatchy, snatchy. Turned into a statue by a Medusa. Can we? Oh. Yeah. Little less typical now, huh? Yeah. That's being held as its own collateral by a criminal organization.
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Well, you made it up. Um, so shall we go and what, but fly. Uh, yeah. Yeah. That's coming from both. It's a person size statue. Well, it's a person. It is just, they've just been petrified by a Medusa and they're being held prisoner in their own body by desk.
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Do any of us know vis-a-vis weight and density, how this is gonna be like a statue or I'm gonna be like picking up a person? I don't know. Because I can pick up a statue. We're just gonna like wrap a chain around it and Tasha will haul it up. Right, okay. With that tow hook we installed. Right.
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Now the question is what happens to the person if the stone is damaged while they are in statue form? That's not the question for Hobbies. I mean, whatever.
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I don't know this guy. Then stop acting like you're upset by what desk is done. No, the idea is still a problem. But you don't care. So are we trying to unstone them? Or just move the... No, we're just helping. You're returning them. Unstoning him is outside of my personal skill set.
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But we could quickly stow it in. So for the full context that sure, Kath would bring you up to speed on, at least according to Dask, this person couldn't make good on their debts to Dask. So they basically signed up to have this done to them to make good and not have to pay back the monetary debts they have to Dask for a certain amount of time as decoration. So it's all fine. I mean, depending on the timeline, get my debts wiped out.
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It's that gross kind of consensual thing, though, where they did agree to do it. But someone's stolen him? Yes. Well, it was accidentally sold. That one wonders what the option, what the alternative was. Right. That's what I'm saying. Anyway.
00:11:26
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Well, I guess let's go get this completely consensual stone stolen man. Now you got it. That's what I said on the back of the book. OK, so any preparations that you want to make before heading out for the job, any checks you want to make, any
00:11:54
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OK, I'd like to take a rank in masonry just in case something does happen. Do I? Done. Hob knows people who do private security. We've established that. Yep. I think I would reach out to somebody just I would have maybe while she was scouting.
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reach out to someone and just be like, hey, do they keep people on retainer? Do they have more on retainer because of events coming? Not even asking who's working there. Just so we know, do they hire...
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Tough guys, army guys, dirty guys. What kind of private security might he have on hand? Okay. Reach out to your friend Shaw. Could be. So are you flipping a story point to say you can make a contact or do you want to make a check to see if you can get contact with this person quickly? Yeah, I'd like to.
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I'd like to say I wish I had said that before we stopped recording last time, so that it would be a part of the thing. You know what I'm saying? Like, yes, it can be a check to do... Can I find somebody? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. I'd rather not flip a story point for it, but if we can... For sure. Because my knowledge under a world is reasonable. Yeah, you can make a...
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Actually, it would be street wise. Like you're trying to get out there and make contact with them. Oh, okay. Track them down. That's not as good. But okay. Is it not? I don't think so. Where is my street wise? Oh, no, it is. Okay. I apologize. So this will be too purple. I mean, it's, and yeah, it's late throwing a black as well. They might be working. Totally makes sense.
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This is not a person that is like, oh, but it's all I'll make sure to be here. All those people are here.
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So that is a success. With no advantage. Two threat. Yeah, two threat. Okay, so yeah, you're able to track them down and they are on the job, they are working and you just know the spot. They are working private security for just a shipping warehouse in one of the dock districts. And what did you say their name was? This one's
Moral Dilemma: Handling Norcen Millhatch
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name? Yeah. Oh, this guy is...
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Snazz we already got a snazz gun. I'm in this world. Chazz gun. All right, Trevor, you got to do the voice. Well, this is like, well, no, it was bad. It was bad. Who was my who was my sad sandwich guy? That's why I want to meet with you. Oh, sad sandwich man. Didn't it rhyme?
00:14:42
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Jared? I was like, I was hobbit. He was gov. I think that's right. God. Yeah, that sounds right. It can be now. You changed his name. He got married. Yes, that's what happened.
00:14:57
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In this world, you take the other person's first name. And it's both ways. You just swap names. Exchange rings. And licenses. Okay, so you're going to talk to Gob. Sad sandwich, man.
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oh hey hob what's up hey gob how you doing oh i'm good pal how are you oh you know just uh working nothing nothing happening which i guess is a good thing but also a bad thing and hob reaches into his his bag and pulls out a sandwich oh thanks hob
00:15:34
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I remembered. This is kind of like right? Yes. Got it from the same place. Anyway, I got a quick question for you. Oh no, he's eating the sandwich. It's not peanut butter, that's important. He says... Look,
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I got a guy who was offered a job. Okay. And I just want to make sure that the, the place is on the up and up and you do more of this sort of work than I do these days. Yep. And I just explain, I, you know, I say where and I say, it's just like, you know, gala security, basically. Yeah. What kind of guys, uh, you know, anything, what kind of guys are you going to be working with? Is there already like a established thing? Is he going to have to, well, they're not going to hire a folk like me for, for one, they're going to want people that are going to, uh,
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fit in, I guess. So people that aren't going to scare the people on the street walking by the place, things like that. And then if the security during the gala, definitely going to have people that are, you know, going to match the aesthetic of the spot.
Intel on Gala Security and Threat Assessment
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So not, not your, not your biggest, not your scariest. In my opinion, probably not your toughest. All right.
00:16:48
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Um, but yeah, any, any security that they're going to have is going to be people that are, uh, probably expect human, elf, dwarf, um, you know, the fancy races, but I mean, like, is he the, okay. Okay. Okay.
00:17:06
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I just think you need to be a little nicer to me and you. I think they asked this like, I'm asking like, you know, like, this guy's got the money. Do you know anybody who's worked for before? Like, is he showing out for like, I mean, he could get houses involved, in which case, like, no, no, no, boy, no. Sorry, that means good where I'm from. So.
00:17:29
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Um, I think it means not good. Well, I, I assumed you understood the no in the sentence. Don't you dare tell him what his language means. If I didn't understand one of the words, please assume I don't understand any of them. So the message is clear.
00:17:46
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This is how bad things happen. Yeah. I mean, if they have the money to get the houses involved, whether it's depending on the nature of what they're
00:18:01
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Needing out of them, you know, Dennith, Adani, Tharani, Thalarn. You didn't see anything up on the call boards for that place, yeah. No, there was no general call put out, but like I said, they're probably not seeking the circles that I run in. Right, sure, yeah. You know, they've got to...
00:18:23
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Well, I'll see ya. I just could not think of the word I'm looking for. A roster, a retainer. There it is. I suppose it was a retainer or something that would make sense. Yeah, yeah. And rich folk like that, they're probably going to have people on staff that they can just, you know, have readily available. They're not going to concern themselves with like,
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having to outsource and hire and all that kind of thing for each individual party, because they have a lot of parties. So, yeah. Right, right. You know Gob? Yeah. If you're ever looking for a slight change in career, hmm, I know a guy you can go and talk to. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah, his name's... No, he shouldn't go talk to Boom Rush. Narn? Narn, there it is. Got a fellow, fellow dog named Narn, he's a minotaur.
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If you're happy with what you're doing, great, but if you're looking for something different. Oh, not too different from what you do. You might get in a fight or two. Start a fight or two. Look, the money's better, but the work's worse. I'm just saying. Oh, okay.
00:19:40
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So is Narn like the boss legacy? No, he's the recruiter. And he would explain it better than I could. I just wanted to let you know that. Oh, okay. I got a line for you. He's been helping me out. Big operation then. Big operation. Oh.
00:19:56
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I say, could I do, I want to throw him a bone because I want to use him again for information. So that's my thing. I was like, hey, listen. I'm taking a page out of Satan's book. Sorry, out of Satan's cookbook. I'm reciprocating favors. Maybe it'll advance a little bit.
00:20:21
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Um, okay. Yeah. I'll, uh, Narn, where, where should I reach out? Um, well, uh, I guess he's typically down in the cogs. He's a recruiter, so he's, he's visible. He's out by the, uh, docs, the teleportation docs, uh,
00:20:42
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Okay, well, yeah, I'll keep that in mind. Great. Sure thing, buddy. Well, enjoy that sandwich. No, yeah, very good. Peanut butter and tuna fish, my favorite. That's disgusting. No, Hobb would not have done that. Hobb wouldn't have brought it to eat if he liked it. Hobb wouldn't have carried it in his bag. He says, like, Hobb just leaves before he asks him to stay longer again. Yeah.
00:21:08
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Okay, okay, so I do I really that as well. We're talking I say listen as far as security goes you know manned security goes I Didn't get a lot of Intel all I know is this guy's got the money to go big if he wants to um what I did learn though is
00:21:27
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I'm likely to stick out at this party. So, the odds of us seeing anybody from, uh, you know, Thrashek or, um, any other really monstrous race group, right? Besides Dask, which obviously. Yeah. Uh, pretty slim. I think we're gonna be seeing some... Well, some of your buddies, potentially. Who knows, Raynard? They tried to kill us on that one job. I don't know. Yeah. Yes.
00:21:57
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Okay. Anything else? He didn't try to kill us. Just kind of general D-bags to us for a minute. Specifically did not. Right. Anything else that anybody wants to do while Hob and Aeris were out? Do you all know about the helmet? Have you told them about the helmet? Yeah, that's up to you.
00:22:24
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It hasn't happened on the show. Yeah, I guess I should probably tell you about it. Okay, go for it. Sure. We're sitting here sketching out the heist. Well, I want to say that Hobb came back, right? You said Hobb came back. We're all here. All but Sigil are here. And so I'm just going to have Raynard pull it out from under the table and put it on the table. What the frack is that? What are you doing with that? Well, we recognize it, right? Yeah, absolutely.
00:22:54
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I don't really know, but I did ask for it, yes. What? Do we know about that? I don't think so. I don't think I'd ever mention that either. Wait. What?
00:23:12
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Just start explaining, please. How did you acquire that? Well, in order to have a... Crap, Basil. I was like, what's my cousin's name? Hob slash you. So in order to...
00:23:33
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Wow. Wait, how was the exchange? Basil owed you a favor like because you all did something for him. Okay. And you, in a little fit of Trevorness said, bring me the head of Norse and Jill. Just bring me Norse and Jill. Not the head. Yes. So, uh, this is a kind of a payment from Basil.
00:23:55
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What? But... Where's the rest of him? Yeah. See, I don't know, because that's where I'm confused. I said, bring me Norse and Milhaj, and this is what I got. With a note. That's true, with a note. That said. That said that I needed to go home. Where's... Tomorrow night. Oh, I'm late. What?
00:24:22
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Wait, you got it this morning. Oh work, okay. It's been a big day. It's just been two months since I recorded. Tomorrow nights the gala will
Strategic Heist Planning and Equipment Needs
00:24:44
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I suppose, then if we want Raynard to be a part of stealing the statue, we better get out with it tonight because you're not missing your meeting. Arrgh, baby. Arrgh, baby. What is that? Arrgh, you not meet the meeting. Let's chibi-dee Harley. Give me a one purple knowledge society, Roy. I haven't with Keelhaul, the new one, on Tasha. My knowledge society. We're not awful. Yeah, there's no water. It's just- Where's that stem off of?
00:25:15
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Let's see if I know anything. Nothing. Wash. I know nothing, which is not new. OK. So it's just four or five seconds of complete silence, and then we move on. OK.
00:25:35
Speaker
Yeah, we got it. You still have to answer all of their questions. Yes, we still must address the helmet. But don't address the helmet, address us about the helmet. Well, I'm assuming this means that someone has Norse and Millhatch. Your family have kidnapped
00:25:55
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Oh, we don't like him. If there is anyone I know will mistreat someone, it is my family. Why? I didn't want him out and about. Something caused a lot more trouble that way.
00:26:21
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I wouldn't want to get in trouble. But what happens next? I don't know. The note was very vague. No, but I mean, you asked for this, right? You asked? Yes. Okay. And then what? Now that you have this, what are you going to do with what you have?
00:26:42
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Well, I didn't ask for this. I asked for Norcen Millhouse. What are you going to do with Norcen Millhouse? What are you going to do with him? Well, I figured we could do whatever we wanted to him. What do we want to do with him? I don't know what, yeah. I got no desires for Norcen Millhouse. What do we want to do with him? Why do I sound like- We 100% want him dead. No, I... Okay, but I didn't think we just sort of did that. Right, we... Like... And he did kill a lot of people. Right, yeah, but we're just gonna, what?
00:27:13
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Because I mean, you couldn't you just ask your family to kill him then? And what was the... I figured you'd want to talk to him. About what? What can he tell us? I don't know. You're into science. Maybe he knows something more about that weird lizard monster.
00:27:33
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Yes, we have many things to talk to him about. Right, but... Look, this is not... You did not tell us you were gonna do this, and so this is just very disorientating. Mm-hmm. So, um... Surprise! Yes! Yeah. Yes. Quite a surprise, yes. It is a surprise, and it's not... Okay. Okay. The timing's not ideal, I know.
00:28:00
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That's true. The timing is the main thing I have. But if you notice we have not had to deal with him for a while. His son seemed very worried about him tonight when we talked to him.
00:28:25
Speaker
You think you'd know a man had a son if you'd kissed him, but, um, I didn't ask. What? I can actually speak with some authority on this. That's not necessarily true. I don't think it changed as much when I had a son. I know. Pretty much still real good at it. I'm very confused. You, uh, Sana was there, so Sana knows that you kissed Larson. So, yeah, she would not have questioned. Fair. Um, okay.
00:28:56
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So we could ask him some things. There's the lizard and maybe he knows something. He was being funded by Callaway. So he probably knows things about Callaway.
Breaking into the Manor for the Statue
00:29:08
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Then what I don't know we can't it was not my idea and release a man with that much power once he hosted I don't know I don't I hang on wait at this moment I'm still not involved in the capture of Norse and mill hatch and I'd like to Try to keep it that way until I absolutely have to bail you out of this He says looking at rain art, obviously You try and do one good thing for your friend
00:29:38
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I don't know. I don't know what we do then. Oftentimes they say it is the thought that counts, Reynard. If you should have thought of it. Yeah. Because we can't like, we can't turn him over to the authorities because they won't do anything. No. But maybe a house wants him.
00:29:55
Speaker
When our house has got him. My family's house doesn't want him, they just have him. Well, but what's the house wanting for? Because he was working for Kenneth. Right. We were sent information about him and from him. But maybe a house wants him is not a lot different from bring me the carrion so that I can kill him. And we didn't want to do that either. We don't have to get we don't have to know what they're going to do to him. We'll just take the money and leave him. What money? Someone might want to buy him.
00:30:24
Speaker
How, how would you go about advertising? Okay, I feel like we're far afield now of you selling a person. How would you, how would you go about advertising that? Anyway, what are you going to do? I mean, I'm sorry, how was assaulting me? How would you, how would you find out if someone wanted him?
00:30:47
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Ask around. Hey, we've got Norse in your latch in a cage. What do you say? What would you do if you had him? Let's say hypothetically, how much would you pay for him? Asking for a friend.
00:31:07
Speaker
Okay, I don't think we can do anything about this right now. No, that's exactly the point. I have to. We can't undo this. Well, you're gonna go tomorrow night. Right now, right now, we need to go try to steal this thing because that will determine a lot about what happens tomorrow. You know, we could give him to desk and have them turn him into a statue.
00:31:31
Speaker
Oh my God. He wouldn't be hurt. He wouldn't be dead. I'm just trying to come up with solutions. No, no, there's no solution in this situation. That's not not hurt. I've never been petrified. Andy wouldn't be able to hurt anyone else.
00:31:56
Speaker
I don't like the idea. I'm just trying to throw out solutions other than killing him. How is that better? He's not dead. He's better. I don't want to talk about it.
00:32:17
Speaker
I just, I hear a lot of people presenting problems and very few people presenting solutions. I like it. No, one person presented a problem. We're all just realizing how big a problem it is. Okay. Can we go steal a statue? Right. Yeah, let's go to it. Oh my God. Can we go steal a person? Oh, frack. A statue person. No, it's a person that's just. Who is temporarily petrified.
00:32:48
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but I feel like we need to prep the job for stealing a person and stealing a statue are two very different jobs. I'd just like to point out that we're going to steal a person and you're mad at me for having a person stolen. You're going to reclaim. I'm, no, no, I'm mad about what we're doing too. The way this is going with our luck, this will probably be Milhatch that we're acquiring. What a twist.
00:33:17
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And the faxes were doing this to undo something Vigo did. And then Hobbs' head explodes. He's like, I can't handle any more. I'll hate everything. I don't hate everything. Shut up. Shut up. You've done quite a lot in this conversation. Just trying to help.
00:33:48
Speaker
Um, I'm gonna go get Tasha. Yeah, let's go get this statue. Okay. Uh, so you all load up into Tasha and take off, uh, through the night air towards, uh, upper Dura towards the district of Highhold, um, for the, uh, home of the city district person that you were stealing this from whose name I have told you. Is it really boring?
00:34:14
Speaker
It's Halderack, but I can't tell if I wrote Dorian or if, if I wrote Borean or if the D I wrote. No, it's Borean. Oh. Boreal, like a forest. That would be. All right. Borean Halderack then is the person. Uh, so you head to the, of Borean Halderack and I'm going to get this turned on.
Manor Layout and Entry Point Insights
00:34:44
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Can I step away for one second? I just got a text. No, I'm asking to call her. Oh, well, yeah, OK. Appreciate it. Oh, you better wait. And oh, I can actually ha ha ha. I can share that screen with Randy also. So Randy can see. There you go, Randy. Oh, cool.
00:35:15
Speaker
But I have a cool projector set up pointed straight down at the table. Yeah, I saw that. Kind of. You can't. I don't see any skylights. Isn't this a skylight?
00:35:45
Speaker
No, that's a bell tower. Oh, because he fancy a monastery. Hmm. Like a monastery. Um, Oh, what about before we headed out? Milo tried to discover what all these various buildings were.
00:36:12
Speaker
Will that be beneficial to us, guys? Sure. Now that I see them all. So Eris would have like reported a bunch of different buildings. Yeah. Give me a knowledge. What skill would you like to use, Randy? Pitch me on a skill.
00:36:36
Speaker
Um, hmm. Got nature, Lord geography, culture, culture, maybe that society adventuring. I mean, that's society society. Yeah. Um, to purple difficulty, just get an idea of the lay of the land.
00:37:12
Speaker
Three successes. Three successes. Okay. So Milo, you know, this main building, the central one is the manor proper, where Haldirak would live and host these types of parties and things like that.
00:37:30
Speaker
Just outside the wall to the far left-hand side, you know that that is a family mausoleum. So there are stairs that lead down underground that host some interred bodies of Haldorak's family, but then also up top, that's also a mausoleum that you could go into.
00:37:53
Speaker
and pay respects to the dead, that kind of thing. All along the top up here are servants quarters,
00:38:04
Speaker
where the servants would live and food storage, things like that. The building in the top right hand side is also storage. Then the small building underneath that is going to be just another ancillary entertainment.
00:38:25
Speaker
area. It's got like a sitting room, piano. It's just a small little separate sitting area. And then stables is down further. These two are stables.
00:38:40
Speaker
Yeah. What does he stable? He keeps some. He's he's a fancy man, so they're not like he likes having horses and taking care of them and ponies. And how could you possibly take care of horses in Charne? Well, he's not a good pet owner. He's just he has the two on the southern right. Yes. Yes. And then the far, far, far
00:39:10
Speaker
is guest housing when he has people that are staying with him. This weirdo in our city of towers has a stable with horses. Yeah. A lot of rotating stock. I mean, okay, explain it all again now that I'm here.
00:39:27
Speaker
Main house, mausoleum, storage and servants quarters all on the top up here. Main storage over there. Like guest entertainment area. I don't know if that falls asleep.
00:39:49
Speaker
with like a sitting area piano, just a separate spot for people to get away. Those two buildings are stables and then over there is like a guest house. But this is the main building, the center one. And that one. More storage, the generator based on. Cast description of the house over here is where the area that she had described the
00:40:21
Speaker
That great hall. Yeah, the great hall on the first floor. And that glass. Yeah, so so there are so the third story is a bit inset and then the second two stories are pretty flush with each other. But on this side of the building, this is your skylight right there. That's like sorry, my foot is in something. So there there is a way that you could go straight down into that area, bypassing any doors or other windows.
00:40:52
Speaker
OK, so Milo relays this information, pointing out the storage area. You know, there is a storage area that if it's in there this evening before, you know, if they have not moved it yet, might be worth checking.
Evaluating and Overcoming Magical Security
00:41:08
Speaker
Also the mausoleum to the west. You know, those typically have underground passages, possibly a way in that way as well. With thousands of feet in the air.
00:41:22
Speaker
Nothing about this is underground. It might be lower in the tower, though. Yes, lower in the mausoleum, like under the mausoleum, a passage. There's a passage potentially from the mausoleum to the main house that is underneath this manicured lawn. Potentially. Yes. Yes. Right. And the storage facility, obviously.
00:41:55
Speaker
Cause here's the thing, the statue is likely easily movable. At the very most, it's a person sized piece of stone. So we can't assume they've already installed it where it's gonna stay. Cause otherwise I'd say, let's just smash through those windows. Right. That's kind of what I thought we were doing. And now I'm not against it. It's very different.
00:42:38
Speaker
If we were to get low enough that I could hop out onto the roof and just look in the sunroof to see if I can see a statue, I mean, right? Totally do that if you want. Give it a shot. Yeah. Or one of us that has the best perception, although the initial drop is going to be stealth to land on the roof in a way that doesn't, uh,
00:42:59
Speaker
That sounds like a small person type of job. I mean, or or a criminal job. I wasn't saying not me. I don't know. I don't know. I was saying not. Harris Harris will walk out using her boots and just walk around to the bottom of Tasha and look nice. Perception check. This is going to be one purple.
00:43:31
Speaker
That is astonishing. Wow. That's a fail, right? A fail with one success or one advantage? Yes. Yeah. That is wild.
00:43:47
Speaker
Okay, I'm gonna admit, it took me a second there to wonder how come it didn't show up on my screen, but I get it now. Okay, so Eris, the angle, from the position on Tasha, you can't get a decent angle to see down in through the skylight. Crappy skylight. Well, you know, I am fairly sneaky.
00:44:14
Speaker
If you know if you would like me to perhaps try to get a closer look. I mean, I don't think it's a matter of closer. We're hovering a few feet above the thing. But if you'd like to take a look. Yeah, have a look. Absolutely. Maybe something. OK. Maybe random chance will be kinder to you. Perhaps. Can't be much worse. Too purple difficulty, Randy.
00:44:41
Speaker
Why is it harder for Randy? Because it's harsh, not perception. Oh, right to you down there, my bad. You suck. You jack. You free to jack. Like, come on, dude. My little, with your dumb old eyes. For success to threat.
00:45:03
Speaker
Okay, so, Milo, you're able to land deftly on the roof without making any loud noises and crawl over to the skylight and look down. The two threats, so you are unnoticed,
00:45:25
Speaker
Oh yeah. What would you like to do with your? I was just going to pass a boost because there's not a new thing. Roll a boost die as well, Randy. Another success. Okay.
00:45:45
Speaker
You get right up on and are able to look at a proper angle and adjust to where you can see a good amount of the Great Hall from where you are right up against the window. So you see the statue in there. Well, you see a statue rather. You all have never seen the statue.
00:46:07
Speaker
But with the threat. Surely the statue was described to us. Yeah. I mean, they didn't leave it to chance that we grabbed the right one. You see what you would assume to be the correct statue. OK, but the threat. You see servants dressing the the hall for the the gala, like putting up decorations, things like that, getting things ready.
00:46:37
Speaker
Okay. Like you have a number of them? Um, let's say three. They are three, three humans, one man, woman, and a child. Okay.
00:46:55
Speaker
But clearly, is the child working? Yeah. Ew. He can't just be hanging out with his mom and dad while they're working. Maybe they are. Maybe they want to help. Maybe they would like. The baby's like, can I help? And he's like, OK, sure, come on. But based on their attire, their clothing, you can tell that none of these are boring in Halderack, unless he is a very modest and humble man and everything else about this job indicates that's not the case. And not a dwarf, because you told us he was a dwarf. Yes, also a dwarf.
00:47:25
Speaker
All right. All right. Make my way back and the statue, I believe is what looks like what we are after. And it's in the main hall. There are also three servants currently decorating man, woman and a child helping.
00:47:53
Speaker
I can't imagine that they're going to try to stop us if we're quick enough. I mean, that's fair. And I'm also fairly certain they cannot stop us. Right, no, I'm not very worried about him. No, Hob, that child would be no match for you in open combat. I'm not gonna hurt the child.
00:48:19
Speaker
I'm gonna hurt the parents of the child. In front of the child. If I have to. Gonna create a Batman. To do this thing for the bad people. I'm willing to hurt the parents of the child. Part of my criminal endeavors, I'm willing to harm this child's parents. I'm not a monster. How else is he gonna become Batman? Wrong universe, my bad. Yeah, we can cross over. Okay.
Executing the Heist Amidst Alarms and Defenses
00:48:50
Speaker
You all have not checked for any kind of magical warding or anything yet. Um, that's not my bag, baby. I mean, I thought I did. I thought that's what I did. You tried to shut down the security, but we're unable to. I tried to find out how I assumed that would inform me of where the security was, but I will check. I will check this for magical warding. Okay. What do you want me to use to do that?
00:49:12
Speaker
You could do, um, artifice or mechanics or, um, knowledge adventuring would also be traps, but I will do artifice knowledge adventuring. Um, this is going to be, uh, since you're just looking for them to purple and since you, uh, since you already have come to scope the place out, you can have a boost die. Then just the two success. Okay.
00:49:39
Speaker
So, um, yeah, Iris, you're able to see around these skylights, there is, um, magical warding. It's a pretty simple alarm system. He doesn't have like fireball set up on his windows or anything. So it would just be, uh, an alarm. All right. Um, can I try to disable these wards?
00:50:09
Speaker
Artifice again, is that skullduggery? Okay, and what is the difficulty of these particular words? These words, it's going to be one purple, one red.
00:50:38
Speaker
Two advantage. Two advantage. Three advantage. Three advantage. Yeah. Okay, so the magic awards, they're... Appreciate you were describing them as really simple before my master artificer failed to act them. Makes Eris feel real good about herself. I'm just giving you a hard time. Yeah, that's your fault.
00:51:06
Speaker
Sometimes you just forget how to tie your shoes, it happens. Do you, Eric? It's fine, don't worry about it. Doctor says, okay. Three advantage, I have substantial advantage. Because at this point I've failed to pick the lock, so I don't know what the next step is, so I don't know what to do. So there's lots of additional windows around the house, so basically the skylight directly in remains
00:51:36
Speaker
an obstacle that if it's a smash and grab, you know, it depends on how quickly they would respond to an alarm. But so you can do advantage in that regard that, you know, make it easier to just get the statue out after smashing the window.
00:51:55
Speaker
Hey, Milo, you were the one that took the look in there. How much running am I gonna have to do once I'm on the floor if we do decide to smash and grab? Like, how much chain do we need?
00:52:11
Speaker
That's a very good question. Based on the angle, if you were to just smash straight down with Tasha hovering right above the window, probably need about 40 feet to have enough slack to like wrap it around and get it tied up. I can get there in about six seconds. Okay, okay. And then the time to tie it up and
00:52:38
Speaker
I actually get that done in the six seconds as well. I think in fact in six seconds I can get there and tie it up and then give a good yank to let you know to start pulling. I think I can get that all done in six seconds, but then I'm stuck there. Just ride up with the statue. Yeah, just hold on.
00:52:54
Speaker
Hov is actually thinking he's going to need to be alongside the statue until it starts getting off the ground because he doesn't want it to fall over and break apart because he doesn't know what happens. Exactly. At that point, he will. Or we tie a tether around your waist when you go in. Hold the statue and then you just come up with it. I'm fine with it.
00:53:19
Speaker
Hobb is strong. Hobb is not super, he is actually super humanly strong. Hobb's not super duper humanly strong. I don't know that Hobb can lift the statue because I don't know what it is. I have something for the advantage that would reduce the difficulty of the check. Not downgrade, but reduce like King of the Purple. They haven't taken it off the platform they used to move it in here. It's on wheels.
00:53:44
Speaker
So once somebody gets in there, you can just roll it right underneath the window and it can just basically reducing the difficulty because I'm pretty sure that I can get to from the window to the statue.
00:53:58
Speaker
back to the window to hook it up faster than these three can get to anybody who can do anything about it. I mean, that's good. Yeah. Sorry. I said that like hob. Yeah. I mean, if we're just going to smash in then, then I don't think there's anything else we need to do. Cause we're not, well, they don't have to get to someone because the alarm's still active. That's a good point. But how quick, how long will it take somebody responding to the alarm to get in here? Right. Is the question.
00:54:26
Speaker
And if you let's find out, guess that's what we're doing. And if you keep Tasha over here until I'm through the window, I can swing in and get a little closer to that statue. I'm being silly. Okay. Good. And awesome. All right. Then I guess that's what we're doing.
00:54:47
Speaker
Okay. So, however, you just drop it in through the window, like smashing it with your feet or. How far down is it? However far down Tasha, I mean, it's, it's a 10 foot tall room. Okay. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. Right. Like, sure. Okay. Yeah. Why not? I want to, I'm going to jump out of a boat and smash some glass. Smash on the chain and hands you the end. Okay. So. Wait, before you go.
00:55:13
Speaker
I have to lie to you about casting a spell on you. Yes. I shall cast a barrier upon you. Can I cast? Hang on. You can enhance yourself because you have that tattoo. Oh, that tattoo is always doing that. I can't augment for haste though, can I? I can cast augment, only targeting myself. Yeah, but you can still add. You can still add difficulty. Okay. It's just harder. What do you got, Randy?
00:55:41
Speaker
I mean, I could add defense to it. That increases the difficulty, though. Yep. Honestly, looking at what haste and swift mean, neither one of those are going to come into play here. Okay. Swift is just ignoring difficult terrain. I'm on a tile floor. So you're casting base barrier or adding defense to it, Randy?
00:56:05
Speaker
Well, Hob, I'm going to put a barrier on you. Would you like a little defense to go with it? It's going to be a little bit more difficult, though. Barrier is soak, defense is. Defense. That's black. Yeah. Yeah. Dice. You know what? I'd rather go for stronger probability of winning here. So just original recipe defense, barrier is fine.
00:56:31
Speaker
Very well. Phishes around in her satchel and comes out with a little glowing cylinder. All right, stay this in your pocket.
00:56:47
Speaker
This is one of the teleportation bombs I made. I was about to ask. If you get left behind, I've got the other one and she just sticks it on the deck of Tasha. If you're left behind, you just, you just, you know, and she shows you where the activation switch is and it ought to bring you back here.
00:57:09
Speaker
Hub stares at it. Look, it took me all the way across the city. For a while. It worked. I mean, he trusts Eris, but he's been teleported. But not by me. No, by Milo. Right. True. And not on purpose.
00:57:28
Speaker
Oh, listen, you're all telling me things I recall. Okay, thanks. Okay. Just a pause. In an emergency, if you get stuck and you need to get out. I mean, okay, great. Now let me ask you a question. This only works for me, right? Well, it would work for the statue. This is how we were gonna steal the statue from the gala. No, not, I mean, okay.
00:57:56
Speaker
Hob was about to ask Cath because they all came, right? Yeah. If she wanted to go down with him, but he can't hold her hand. This only works from, yeah, this is the one, one target. Then he's not going to, he's either not going to take it or not going to ask Cath. And I got to figure out which one of those two things I want to do right now. Uh, I think he pockets it. Okay. He's like, um, ready? Good, good, good. All right. Here we go then.
00:58:23
Speaker
serious milo tells you he cast barrier so good he casts it so good you are so protected uh one failure two advantage
00:58:34
Speaker
Yeah, and that's four yellows and one purple. This is the pool. This is the pool. That's utterly absurd. How? He rolled. Two blank faces. Well, he has two advantage, so it was like one symbol. Yeah, one success. A bunch of this. Yeah. But then the double fail on the purple.
00:58:59
Speaker
Um, uh, to advantage, uh, Randy, do you just want to give a couple of boost diets, a Hobbs actual check, or is there something else? Could we, could we delay a certain amount of time before a response?
00:59:15
Speaker
Yeah, you can say that, you know, whatever security is in the house, their patrol basically puts them an extra range band away. However far they are. I think that sounds good. OK, cool. All right. You know what? I changed
Confrontation with Servants as Alarms Trigger
00:59:31
Speaker
my mind. I want Kat to go. I asked Kat. OK. Hey, we'll play it. I mean, it'll be after that thing. Iris is getting the winch ready. I'll say, look, I could use a hand if you want to go down now.
00:59:45
Speaker
Yeah, I promise I won't use this. I take it and I give it back to Aeris. I'm like, I'm not gonna leave you stranded. Oh, I didn't think you would. I know, I'm just saying things out loud. Okay. Don't make this weird, Aeris. I'm retconning something so I can spend more time with Cat. All right, then we're in. Aeris, hope you understand. Now, should I take this down in case I need to throw it on the statue?
01:00:12
Speaker
Or would that be quite a jog of a surprise for that to suddenly show up on Tasha? No, I mean, I work, yeah. Well, you could take it in case one of us gets left behind for some reason. You're not wrong. It won't hurt anything in your pocket.
01:00:30
Speaker
unless it accidentally goes off. I'll take it with me. And I'm not using it if Kath's still there, but I'll take it with me. Okay. So Kath and Hob are going to make athletics checks to, this is just determining, obviously you're not going to fail smashing through glass, but how much is it going to hurt is more the question.
01:00:53
Speaker
So it is going to be too purple, but I'm going to flip a story point. Make one a red. Flip it back. This feels good. This feels fine.
01:01:15
Speaker
That felt worse. Then the GM rolled. I was looking at my dice pool feeling good, and all of a sudden Eric starts rolling quietly. We had to roll for Kath. I had to roll for Kath. I thought you were rolling for security. No, Kath is also jumping. Don't worry, he's been rolling this whole time. I have. Trevor's been the only one. Okay, that's good. That's real good. Yeah, that's a... I got a bunch of each. One, two, three success and two advantage.
01:01:46
Speaker
Three success, two advantage. Okay. Kath got two threats. So she's going to take strain. Yeah. Cause that just cancels that out. Right. Okay. So you both just glass shatter, um, superhero pose landing on it's kind of a dais at the end.
01:02:05
Speaker
Probably the statue is going to be put up there once they're done with all the decorations and everything But you just you hear a very high-pitched kind of a wailing start from the window up above you see the three European police car three people decorating just drop what they're doing and Just start hop says run end of episode
01:02:28
Speaker
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Speaker
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01:03:23
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