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C2 Ep. 129 The Boss is Late Chapter One
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There are people missing from the Unity Dinner, and the group is going to get to the bottom of it.
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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d20 radio your gamers roll
Meet the Hosts
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode.
Unity Dinner Events Unfold
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Gentlemen, what happened last time? Dinner party. A unity dinner. We went to a unity dinner. Yes. It was not great. And Jeff rolled a despair.
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I missed so much of that recording trying to find things to record on that I really don't know what happened. Was it Jeff's despair? I think it was. I think he was the only one that rolled. I rolled a despair when I was, was just when I was trying to suss out Cat's State of Mind. What's up with Cat? What a bummer of a time to roll a despair. We learned that Drawther also
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is now involved with Solomon Callaway. And that was the effect of the despair with Solomon Callaway showing up. Look at me recapping. I know stuff. Because we did it yesterday. It's starting to feel like Solomon Callaway is specifically targeting our group for some reason. Paris has had more to drink than she should.
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Yeah, and then we left things off kind of a cutscene. I saw him in Callaway going to a Millhatch Industries building, seeing a group of researchers dead and a mysterious masked and cloaked figure jumping out the window. Callaway did also make it very clear to Raynard. Right. Yeah. Next time I ask you for information, you better have some or else.
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But yeah and Dorla and Hobb have a meeting scheduled. Yes we're going to meet I guess tomorrow night it's obvious. Yeah okay so picking back up at the uni dinner I just want to give you all a quick lay of the land as it stands with you all remember that little cutscene thing was like 45 minutes in the future so we're kind of rewinding the clock a little bit
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um to where you're at at the uni dinner uh so everyone can give me a perception check with a two purple difficulty two advantage two success and one advantage two success and one and two threat yeah yeah
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Yep. Okay, so threats at the table. Go ahead and take a point of strain. Reynard and Hob. Eris, you had one success and what else? Two success, one advantage. Two advantage. Okay. Eris, do you still have strain that you need to heal? I do. Milo, do you have strain that you need to heal?
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What does a short rest do for you? A short rest isn't a thing in Genesis. I'm just trying to negotiate some way to get something back because I'm in bad shape. Yeah, rather than short rests, some of the abilities are per encounter, which is the equivalent of per short rest in D&D.
Mystery of the Missing Hosts
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Okay, Eris, Raynard, you all note as you're standing around Eris, as you're wobbling around,
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The following people are no longer at the unity dinner. You kind of note that some people like there's still a bunch of like people that you don't know or maybe you know in passing but of like notable NPCs that are no longer at the party. You notice that Dora, Ace, Cath, Drawther, and Malen are all
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Gone? Yeah, they're no longer... Wait, who's Malen? Sorry. Saun is dad. That's like two of the hosts of this party have just disappeared from their own home. Two dads, Dorla and Ace. And Cath. Ace was there? Didn't say hello. Good grief. What a friend I am.
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um notably arthur still at the party um not a villain so uh additionally um
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Eris Reynard seeing this, you also notice that Catherine, your observation is accurate. Catherine is walking around the room confused with a concerned look on her face wondering what the heck is going on. And Sana is
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coming out of the kitchen, or the back room area, and also seems a hat. Sana's had his drop look on her face all night, so Sana is still Sana-ing, so. But that's what you note, the layout of the party currently. So we just looked up after a amount of time and noticed these people were gone. Yeah, well, they did. Right, they did.
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I'm still staring at the ceiling. Milo's busy jabber-jawing with people, so... Makes sense, he would not. Where's, um... Where'd Drawther and May then go? What? Um... Frankly, I haven't talked to him all night. Oh, but this is their house, and it's their party, and they're not here.
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No, right. Sure. I mean, aren't they just upstairs? There's an upstairs. Oh yeah. This is a big house. Maybe they're upstairs or up up upstairs to big house downstairs or the down downstairs. Look at Cass. And at this point, Hob looks around. Can he have noticed that Kath and Dorla are gone now since you've been said to him? Ork you were talking to you. Oh right. Dorla. Um, an ace.
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Ace was here. He's working. He shouldn't be upstairs. So how many people are at this party? When these six, five go, is it a significant place? It seems it was emptier than it was. No. OK. And it's one of those filter in and out. Some people come for a little bit and leave. But obviously, these people either live here, are a family of people here, or are working.
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And Dorla. Well, Dorla's also family. No, she's not. She was not related. She's replacing someone who is related in a work sense. So, Raynard, what are you doing right now? That is a really good question. I know that's why I asked you.
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Oh, because I saw these people. Yes. No, I didn't see them leave, but I saw that they were not here. Milo did not. So I'm probably relaying that information to Milo. OK. So Rainard approaches Milo, who's wrapping up a conversation with some Korvart. Where are they at? Where are they at? Oh, that. I don't sing that, but that's the gist of the conversation that happens. It is a bit odd. I mean, after all, it's
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It's their party, I don't recall ever seeing Jotha and Malen ever leaving one of their parties. That's very strange. I might go have a chat with Catherine, maybe she knows.
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You all are about, if you were to leave the party right now, you'd probably get to Boromar HQ around the time that you knew that Satan would be back, just so you have a sense of the timeline. So you're going up to Catherine? Yeah. Okay. Catherine seems distracted, but you're able to catch her on the site.
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Yes, Milo, how can I help you? I was just wondering, I don't... I no longer see Drawther or Malon and it just seems to be unusual that they're not here at this time, you know. Yes, I... Yes, that's a fair observation. I had a conversation with Drawther that seemed to upset him and so he
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Uh, left, but I'm not sure about Malin. I'm not sure where he went off to maybe he's he's with drawther. Uh, who knows they they They're close. So maybe they're having a conversation somewhere that they don't want anyone to hear. I I don't know but um, and she seems
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She is now the only host of this party. So she seems like her eyes are going around the room trying to see what needs to be done and et cetera. Because also, Kath, who typically helps her, is also no longer here. So it's just her and Sana for this whole party. So she is willing to talk to you, but she seems to not be enjoying the comp. She's being a good host, but she really wishes you wouldn't stop her right now. So it's the sense that you're getting.
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Alright, I hope everything's okay, Catherine. You're probably quite busy. I'll leave you to it. Thank you, Milo. She kind of touches you on the shoulder and speeds off to...
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Um, go tell the core of our bartender to quit overpouring for everyone stop serving heiress make his way over to I guess, uh hob and eris are together Uh, yeah, we'll make his way over to them. Um, imagine reynard goes to and I and I have to assume that at this point when you guys come up the conversation you're hearing is hob
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Havanair is talking about whether or not they should go snooping around the house for these visiting people, and you can guess who's on which side. Yeah, that's her. Well, I see you two have noticed that two of our hosts are missing also. Well, I didn't see anything, but thankfully Aeris let me know, yeah.
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It's very odd. I've never seen them not be here for one of their parties. And Catherine said she had a conversation with Rotha that seemed to upset him, but she's not sure where he went, and she thinks maybe he's with Malin, and they're... Because they're, you know, they're very close, and... But I'm not... It's just very strange. You know, it occurs to me
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that the one I'm most concerned about being at large in the house at this point is actually Ace. Perhaps it would be good for us to go trying to find him before he he still knew see and was is was is a thieving criminal. So I'll go take a quick look outside the house. All right.
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Okay, so Milo, are you heading out the front door? Are you going through the service door that you helped Ulfin and Ace load in? I believe I'll go out the back and see if perhaps they're out there. Okay.
Investigation Begins
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So anybody else going with Milo? Great. If nobody else volunteers, then I will go with Milo. Yes, I was thinking I would stick inside the house, but... Raynard, would you like to come with me?
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Ah, yes. Okay, so Raynard and Milo, you head towards the back door and you get barreled into as the door swings open by Sana, who's coming through holding a plate that just topples out of her hands and she's like. Milo tries to grab it. Hobbs screams. No! It was round two of the jalapeno bumpers.
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You try to catch it, Milo? Sure, give me a coordination check. Two purple difficulty. Zero success or one threat? Not only do you not catch it, you go to catch it and flip it even more and then step in some of the food that's fallen onto the rug, so it's gonna be real tough to get that out. Oh, my apologies, son, I'm so sorry. It's okay, it's okay. I'm gonna go get something to clean it up.
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sorry should have let you know I was coming through the door and she turns around and goes back into the utility area. So you all follow her because that's the direction and she pivots off right into somewhere else and the doors to the left that you all are seeking to go through.
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So as you go outside, you find yourself in kind of an alley. It's the space between nice houses. Saying it's an alley gives a certain air that is not accurate. It's a back road. It's a breeze. You see a cart back there that often brought with the food and things like that loaded up in.
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but you see no signs of ace immediately as you step out into the alleyway. Oh, I'm with you, sorry. Shall we? I was like, what are you gonna do? No, I'm there too. Shall we make our way around the house, do a quick loop? Yes. Okay, you all can give me a perception check.
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um to spot anything notable uh difficulty is going to be one red two purple good lord two purple eric how many story points do we have is it dark yes it is it is dark go ahead and add a setback thanks trevor
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You're an elf, you have darkvision, you can get to ignore up to two black on perception checks. Perfect. I flip a story for a boost. For both of us. Upgrade, yes. No, just get engaged and you reward him by punishing him. You know what, I don't want to play anymore either. Hey, I punished him, but then reminded him that he has a thing for his character. That's a good pool. I got the three success, two threat. I'm all about the threat today.
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I don't feel good about it. What was that? So I have a despair. You can't see him. And I have no success and I have two advantage. Okay. So I fail with the despair and I have two advantage. Okay.
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Good roll. Randy rolled two threats, so would you all like the threat and advantage to operate separately or cancel each other out? Yeah, let's do it. Cancel each other out. I said, yeah, let's do it. Two options. I jumped again. What are you talking about? I do wish you could watch Trevor talk sometimes. Canceling out, I think, is probably not a bad idea.
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Okay, Milo, as you're looking around with your three successes, you do spot as you're going around the house, you see what looks like fresh, like scratches on stone for the house next door. Like somebody climbed up the house using some kind of like, it's almost like claws. Like they clawed into the stone up the side of the house.
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We just heard about somebody with claws. Well, we didn't. We did, but we didn't. Who's Jener? Two different wheez. And so you have a clear direction of where they went, and you see that somebody filled with space. Are you going to the rogue scout? This one's Catwoman. Right after the train fight, Eris made Cath a pair of gloves with claws on the fingers.
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So that's what you see. Wow. I don't remember that. That doesn't surprise anyone. I know. Lead to spare. I ruined all the food.
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The party is ruined. The poppers are fighting back, baby. What's your idea, Trevor? No, because you'll use it. It's really bad. I'm telling you. In a good way. I might not. Or it's really good in a bad way. Say it. I said, well, we're outside, and I'm technically on the lam. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah, that's true.
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I can make more trouble for myself than anything else. Yeah, so does Reinhardt. Yeah, you hear a voice from down the alleyway that shouts, Reinhardt, turn veil.
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It's that same cop. Milo, you see a human man just sat shy of six foot, dark slicked back hair, wearing a trench coat flanked by a few Sharn City Watchmen. Do I recognize, do I know who it is? You've never encountered this. Never encountered that one. Well, Reynard, what now?
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Cut to, what are Hob and Eris doing? We're wondering if the established leadership of this city is really all that strong, if the main mob and one of the Dragon Mark houses can't pull one cop off of their son. Other than that. I think, I think Hob looks to Eris and says no. Eris, I want you to imagine, go into your mind and imagine for a moment that you were some sort of thief or criminal. And if you were one.
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Where in this house would you go first to find the good stuff? I think we need to go looking for Ace. I'm gonna make a streetwise check to answer that question. Okay? Since I don't know this house.
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Okay, so Eris takes a brief moment to case the joint. Drunkenly. Drunkenly. So go ahead and take a setback. Difficulty, you know, Catherine, Mayland, and Drawther aren't super concerned. They have their stuff out. So let's just make it a two purple average. It's not horribly easy, but... Okay, so...
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My man knows where to look. You mean my lady. Sorry, Phillip is currently handling the best. I got confused. I end up with...
Uncovering Suspicious Activities
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a whole lot of success and a triumph. Okay. So, yeah, you figure you not only like with the number of success, this is a plain new trap, but you succeeded so hard. You know that for Eris, you would assume that probably there would be
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for the truly valuable stuff, a safe of some kind in a den or a bedroom more than more than likely, probably stashed way behind a painting or a curtain, you know, typical stuff. But you're also able to suss out. But Ace probably isn't as good of a criminal as Eris, so he's going to go to like the trophy room or like where where valuables are like a sitting room where they're going to have the valuable stuff displayed.
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Well, that painting over there of Drawfer's grandfather has a vault behind it that I found at the second unity dinner.
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but Ace is a crap thief and so he hasn't noticed it yet and so probably he's gone into the study and is like pulling books off the shelf looking for the secret room
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Eris, I was joking around. Let's go find this kid. You have a triumph. Yeah, we do get a triumph out of the joke around, so I like it. Yeah, we do it. Oh, boy. A boulder falls. Harbin Mill Hatch walks in. On top of the city. I mean, that sounds hilarious, but not helpful. What?
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I mean, I just love to find a clue as to what's going on. That's very much true. I would really love, yeah, I would really love something that points us in some direction. Okay. Cause I feel like right now we're just sort of wandering around blindly with this slightly odd coincidence. Yeah. Um, so the, the triumph then as a ransom note,
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Um, you walk in to the study, um, and you see Drawther and Malin sitting there having drinks. Oh, Drawther seems, you haven't disappeared at all. And Malin looks up like, disappeared. I'm sorry.
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we thought you'd disappeared because you and you and kath and ace and to orla all weren't there anymore and so we thought you disappeared i can't speak for uh the rest of those people but draught and i are just having a bit of a cool down having some drinks so what were you hot about
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Um, Drawther kind of kicks his drink back. Nothing. It's just, Catherine just doesn't understand the way, uh, some things work in the city. Is it because you're working with Callaway? Drawther kind of stops and makes eyes at Eris. And he's a real taunt. Okay, okay, okay. Hang on. And he kind of looks at us like, yes, bud.
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I don't think Hobb has been taking improv classes since that audition. Yeah. Hobb was like, oh, she doesn't understand. Please explain your great understanding of how things work in this city. What he says is nothing. He just stopped Aeris from going on, I think. He just says yes, but Aeris is just blinking, waiting for him to continue. No, I just need to think of what he says now.
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You know, I wasn't gonna get into it, obviously, but... Eris does bring up a good point. I... I don't know your business, but I wouldn't trust that man. In fact, let me... I do not trust that man. I actively have reasons. Do not.
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Your friend Milo made that perfectly clear. He talked to me, he expressed his peace. I assumed his peace is the same as yours. He did smash Viggo's face into the table that one time though. He did smash Viggo's face into the table that one time. He's prone to violence is what Eris is trying to do. And he was involved in the thing with Millhatch that made Millhatch go insane. Okay, okay, Eris.
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We, you and I can talk later about all the things he was involved in, but he's dangerous. Working with him puts you and, which one am I talking to? Drawther, Catherine, in danger. I mean, they're both with Catherine. That's true. That's right, yes, they are both with Catherine, of course. It was all of you in danger. I've seen evidence of,
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horrible things he does to those that work with him specifically. I mean, he turned one of them into a lizard, not a lizard monster. A lot of people end up, a lot of people got killed in that lab, including, including what was for his relationship to them. Uh, son drop, there was a stat.
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If Eris wants to throw that one out there in her current inebriated state, I think that would make sense. But Hobb... Faroo... died... because of that. You said that out loud? Yeah. I think Hobb kind of looks and he goes... Well, yes, that is true. Droffer...
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Repeat to me exactly what you said, Iris. Sorry. He was involved in, yeah, the lizard monster that he turned that guy into that killed Faroo.
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Drawther, his jaw clinches and you hear the sound of glass shattering as he- His glass jaw shatters? As he squeezes the glass in his hand and it cracks and he starts bleeding. Right, go, we're gonna go.
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Meanwhile. Yeah, we're gonna leave because Eric shouldn't have said that out loud. No, you're fine. Meanwhile, out in the alley. What are you gonna do, Raynard? You've had some time to think now. Yeah, I'm gonna spend a story point. Okay. To say that the city watch are downhill from the cart. And I'm gonna say, Milo, help me push.
00:27:47
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They just want to speak with you about... They're coming your way.
00:27:52
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I don't, you're just going to make it worse. I've already made it worse. I'm going to make it even worse than that. Raynard, I'm going to say the slope, you spent a story point, the slope is enough to where you could like kick the brake out from behind the wheel of the car and it will just start rolling on its own. I don't need any trouble from the watch and you don't need any more trouble from the watch.
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I knock it and then I just run the other way. Okay, so Raynard kicks the break out. The cart starts rolling Milo at a decent enough clip. Look out! Raynard starts running. Do I see anything that there could like climb up or? I mean, there's buildings, there's ledges, there's walls. Hold on. What's up?
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It's not at all important. I was trying to decide how to spell Faroo. Oh. F-A-R-U. Oh. Oh. Or what's in front of you? I was complicating it. What am I running toward? Certain dust. I mean, the street. The edge. Yeah, you're running. You're running towards the street that this would spill out into that's more well lit. You're in between the house that was hosting the union dinner and their neighbor that you see the claw, or Myla saw the claw mark. She didn't.
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And I mean, the alleyway continues going straight like through the street between a couple more houses and stuff like that. All these houses have back doors that you could go into. You could turn down the street. I mean, you tell me what you want to do. So what I want to do is run straight to the street. Hook a right. OK. Turn my necklace.
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and then just turn around and walk the other way. So all they see is another person crossing across the street. Okay, Milo, you're on your own. I did shout out lookout. Yep. So are you running or are you staying? No, I'm staying. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, so yeah, Raynard, you do that. Because they're not looking for Drennier.
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somebody else might be, but, um, okay. So yeah, you, uh, you transform. They're focused on avoiding the cart chaos is going on. So sure. You know what? No, I'll, I'll walk back down the alley because it does not feel right to leave Milo. But you changed into drain year. Yeah. So they're not looking for drain year. Okay. I'll just happen upon the scene.
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And I've seen Draneer, yes? Yes, yeah, he is. He goes around the corner, puts on a mustache, back in the free sample line, wearing the same clothes and... It's a popular transform. I know, I know. Okay, so Milo, you turn and you hear footsteps behind you and you see Draneer approaching. Yes. I'm going to go check on the...
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Watchmen so the watchmen were kind of just able to jump it slowed them down it distracted them, but none of them got okay by this And and turn you just follow suit. Oh my goodness what happened? Well What are you thinking? Famous famous excellent wire Milo Is everyone all right the city watchmen run up and
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Like the detective in the trench coat says, he turned right down the street, go, go, go, go, go, go. And he stops in front of you all while the rest of the city watchmen continue on. He pulls out a notepad. Milo keg bottom? Yes, that is correct. What are you doing here, Milo? Well, we're at a party here.
00:31:51
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Okay, and Raynard Turnvale was also at this party. Yes, he was. Okay, he was invited? Yes. Okay, so these people are known associates. Okay, who are you? I always write my last name. The Fairland? The Farland? The Fiarland. The Fiarland? There's too many, what is that vowel sound?
00:32:18
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It's P-H-I-A. Fjärlin. Fjärlin. I can't even say my own name. Isn't that D at the end though? Fjärlin. Fjärlin. Or Fjärlin or... Fjärlin. However you... Whatever the easiest way for you to say it is. Smith. Smith. Um... Yes, oh, well I'm, uh, Drenier. Fjärlin. Fjärlin. Dammit. Sorry.
00:32:50
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Just Drennier, I'm just gonna say Drennier. Drennier, okay. Yes. And are you also attending this party? Oh, no, I was just walking down the street and saw the scene. Okay, so you two don't know each other? No. Deception check. I'm sure it's not charm. If you weren't lying,
00:33:17
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Deception. You're good at deception. I think you could say Milo doesn't really know Dranyir. That's true. Dranyir knows Milo, though. That's not knowing each other. Wait, where's deception? Under D? Oh, I see it. No, I'm pretty good. Too red. No, I'm not that good. Would you like to spin the story point?
00:33:47
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Three yellow, two red. Okay. I have definitely succeeded with one threat. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So three success, one threat. Go ahead and take a point of strain, Reynard. It's stressful lying. Okay. Well, appreciate the, oh, I almost said good Samaritan, but that wouldn't make sense in Eberron.
00:34:16
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Good Carnathy. I don't know. It's weird. It's a very specific video. For being a good neighbor. Yeah. Good citizen. Yeah. I appreciate you being a good neighbor, good citizen. You can go on your way. Thank you. I think I should have just stands there for a little bit. Like, where was I going? Yes. And so it just keeps walking, I guess.
00:34:45
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Back to where they came. OK. Milo, do you know where Mr. Turnbale would have gone in the Shaun City Watch? There's absolutely no telling. OK. Well, I need to get in contact with him. So if you can, when he reaches into a pocket and pulls out a business card,
00:35:15
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It's very imperative that I talk to him as soon as possible. It's my understanding that my colleague, Detective Mordane, has already been in contact with you and, uh, Viganoth. Uh, yes. And I need to talk to Raynod before she talks to him.
00:35:36
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Very well, I will definitely relay that. I tried to get him to stay here to speak with you, but I just... Sorry. Alright, if it helps appease his mind, tell him that Alistair sent me. Alright, very well. I certainly will. The good brother. Thank you.
00:36:01
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OK. And he goes on following the way that the guards went. You too. Yeah. Well, we've solved the mystery of two of the five missing people, so. Call that a day. Feeling pretty good about that track right here now. Did it go well? No. No, Eric, it didn't. You all would know now at this point that Satan would be at his, at Boromar HQ. Right.
00:36:29
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or Eris doesn't know what time it is anymore. Yeah, sure. Well, um... And you all would also know that the time has passed for Satan to be back at more large. Here's the thing, I don't, I mean... How does he not know that? I assume he did, which might be why he got so angry when you pointed out, reminded him of it. I have a feeling that
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he entered into a relationship with Callaway in spite of, rather than not knowing about. Who would do that? A lot of people with the sort of money that Drothor has would do that. Speaking of the lot of money that Drothor has, before we go grab the other two,
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Head up to see why people are still chasing us for a murder week. Big air quotes didn't do.
Revelations and Discoveries
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Let's do a real quick flash check of each of these rooms just to make sure there's no ace in there stealing things.
00:37:40
Speaker
Yeah, OK. Because now that Hobb thinks it is just a mundane reason, everybody stepped away, he's like, yeah, Ace is definitely trying to get things. And then she identifies what each of the rooms is because she's definitely wandered around this house at a union. Absolutely. So, yeah, you all are able to go room. Are you just trying to see if Ace is in the house? Like, is that what you're?
00:38:00
Speaker
Yeah, kind of, like, legitimately my thought is, it's not that I don't trust him, but it's not because I don't know him, but like, I know who he is, and he was a grifty little turd, and he's in a really nice house. Somebody pretends to be a blind clergy, clergy, one time. Yes, it literally only takes one time, correct. Yes, that is exactly the number of times that you get to do that.
00:38:23
Speaker
Uh, yeah, you, you all going room to room, uh, you find a couple doors locked. Uh, but there are doors that air break them out. Locked. Um, fair enough. Lock's our suggestion. What a lock. Um, you, you all are pretty convinced that ACE is not in the house. Uh, at least on this level, like, which is where the value, the good stuff would be. Why would he leave if he's working?
00:38:55
Speaker
I don't know. I'm not super concerned about why he's gone. I was worried about that. He's that he might be here. But I mean, he could have just gone back to the for sales for supplies. I'm not. This maybe. Yeah. I'm worried about Kath. I am worried about Kath. She was upset. And I guess I see why.
00:39:21
Speaker
I mean, she and Dorla might have just gone to debrief elsewhere. Or murder someone Dorla thinks is a demon. They also could have gone to do that. That is certainly something they could have done. She's like everyone. Yeah, she's pretty indiscriminate with the whole demon blaming.
00:39:43
Speaker
Actually, I don't know if she is. This is all fiction. Faroo absolutely was. Faroo thought everything was a demon. What do you mean he thought everything was a demon? He was on a job to hunt a demon. In our experience with him, he thought everything was a demon. Faroo looked in the mirror and was like, demon? No. No, that's me. Are you okay? I just laughed so hard I spit out tea.
00:40:12
Speaker
It's not like I thought you threw up. It's not like you said you spit out teeth. I'm not going to get him to get paper towels. I thought you threw up, man. I thought, oh my god, he just got sick. No. That was so funny to me. I just looked over and saw him. I also thought he said teeth. Yeah. I was like, what happened? I threw up my teeth. You're laughing wrong, Trevor. You're laughing wrong. You should cancel the show tonight. You're going to die on stage.
00:40:48
Speaker
What we stained things with. The color of their carpet. That's good. There's five little dots on our carpet. There's two sections in a row that we almost had a spew into a microphone. God, that was funny. I maintain, Farooza. You were casting a person about Doorlight. Farooza conclusions were all over the place everywhere. Is a fundamental part of Aerys's personality, and she's drunk, so it's. That was not directed. That was totally tracked from Aerys. I was given shade at Hobb.
00:41:03
Speaker
I got a few drops on your carpet.
00:41:17
Speaker
Just go along with what Eris says. That's so dangerous right now. They didn't go. They're not going to track down a demon, Eris. See? As Eris is picking a lock. Sure, why not? Eris is drunk. You open the bathroom door while someone's in there. Breck. Who?
00:41:40
Speaker
We're up on another floor of the house who's using this bathroom. It's Sana. It's Sana's worst night ever. No, don't do it, Sana. She's down doing stuff. I'm sorry. Do that to poor Sana. I thought this was a different room. She's some random person who works in the house. Have you seen Kath? Shit, no! No! You did immediately shut the door before you did that, right? Yes. Okay, let's explicitly say things right now.
00:42:06
Speaker
Yes, Aeris jumps back, closes the door, and then, before walking away, checks. All right.
00:42:16
Speaker
Raynard, were you just gonna kind of circle the house and circle back to Milo, or what were you gonna do? Yeah. Okay. So after a minute, Milo, you see, or I guess you could have seen that the detective left as soon as you got to the end of the alley, so you can just turn around and come back. Milo hands Raynard the card, says, you really should speak with this guy. He was sent by Alistair.
00:42:43
Speaker
And you need to speak to him before you speak to... Wasn't Mortar something? Verla. Verla's last name. Detective Mordane. Mordane, yes, Verla. Oh, I didn't know her last name either. Verla. He says that name a lot. I know, but... I knew it was Verla. Historically, just call her Verla. I historically call you Trevor. I know your last name.
00:43:10
Speaker
That was a joke, S. Raynard. They're really good friends. He doesn't know our last name. I'm not really good friends. Such good friends. Only first name, basically. Only in Raynard's mind. They aren't friends. Raynard's a very bad friend. Well, why would I want to talk to Verla? Well, it's not that you want to talk to Verla. It's that she wants to talk to you. And you need to talk to this one before Verla talks to you.
00:43:41
Speaker
I'm very confused. Verla and I go way back. You all into the alleyway. What's up morons? I resent that remark. Yeah, but he doesn't say what's up morons. He says Laurel? Hardy? How's it going? Do you find anyone?
00:44:05
Speaker
Well, we found, well, the city watch found a Reynard, and of course he ran and came back as Draneer. And anyway, this particular one wishes to speak with him. And the L when I talked to him. Well, this one was sent by Alastair.
00:44:24
Speaker
And said specifically... That's your fake cop brother, right? That's my older brother. That's his fake cop. And said specifically to speak with this one before Verla gets to him. Why? Verla's the one who's trustworthy and responsible. I don't know. And Verla's talking to all of you all, isn't she? I haven't talked to anyone. Trustworthy, responsible. Right. Verla talked to me, yes.
00:44:53
Speaker
in the context of blaming me for killing a guy. Like, it wasn't a friendly conversation. We did kill a guy. Yeah, but I don't want her to know that. We've killed a lot of people. Remember the last time we talked about this? Oh, I remember the last time we talked about it. Oh, folks are ahead. We're fine. So anyway, that happened. Listen, we gotta find some time to go to therapy together.
00:45:18
Speaker
And in addition to that happening, there is that on the wall. Milo points to the claw marks. I'm beginning to think that we shouldn't have killed him in cake bombs. No, we should have never done that. And probably definitely shouldn't have left his body there. You know, look. You have a poetic justice.
00:45:42
Speaker
Just editorialize. The middle of the street at like seven in the evening I think was the biggest mistake. And there were a lot of people around. Well hindsight's 20-20. Yes. I didn't know the state keg bottoms was in when I agreed that keg bottoms was a good idea. And then you were like, well it's basically an empty lot in the middle of the busiest street in Sharon. I was like, oh well, he's not changing it, so here we go.
00:46:06
Speaker
I want to examine the claw marks, and I want to know whether I think they came from the gloves that I made, Kath. Okay. Don't know why Kath would climb her own wall, but here we are. No, it's the neighbor's wall. I still don't know why, but, you know. Does it look, okay, does it look like they're climbing up, or does it look like they're, like, scratching down, climbing up, climbing up the wall? What roll would you like for me to make?
00:46:30
Speaker
Mechanics, since it's like your own work trying to identify it, I guess. I'm in favor of that. Why not? Four red. What? Ridiculous. Why? It's an opposed check against a skill of the craftsman. That's not my, well see, you just told me information then.
00:46:55
Speaker
No, I mean it might be, but that's not my skill. But you should have some sort of advantage for knowing your own work. Your mechanics? My mechanics score is not four. Oh, I know what you're talking about. It's because you're counting my gloves.
00:47:17
Speaker
I assumed I wasn't making anything. No, you're not. That's fair. Do I have any boost dice because I'm just trying to recognize something I made or not? Sure, go and take your goggle. Okay. Okay.
00:47:29
Speaker
Well, the potential for catastrophe has become suddenly very high. While I look at these holes in the wall, something could go terribly, terribly wrong. I have regrets. I haven't even rolled the dice. OK. No despair. But I've failed enormously. Wait. No, you haven't. I haven't. You've succeeded with a lot of threat.
00:47:57
Speaker
So that's one success, two triumphs, and five threat, and four blank dice. That's unbelievable. I know those reds had the decency to come up blank. Out of the 10 dice that I just rolled. That's fourth rate, isn't it?
00:48:19
Speaker
No. Oh, yes. One of these rolled. One of those. Yeah, that's what it was. One of them rolled when I moved them. Yeah, five threat. Sorry. Five threat. Two triumphs, but I win. Okay. Yeah, you are confident beyond a shadow of a doubt that these are from the gloves that you made, Kath. This was Kath. I made these.
00:48:44
Speaker
Not the holes, the gloves. They go up to the roof, they go up to the second floor window, what do they go up to? Sorry. Yeah, up over the top of the house. Eris goes up the wall. Okay. Hob runs around the house to see... Yeah, we're just gonna continue your success. So you pull the goggles down as you get up, and you can see the goggles can track. They see disruptions of the tiling on top of the house, and you see footprints running along the top. Eris touches her communicator. Hey, does this mean...
00:49:15
Speaker
Does this mean Kath's the one who's been murdering lower division employees? It certainly could be. What do you see up there? She went this way. Because I just found a pile of dead lower division. She's made a nest of her bones. She went this way. The footprints look like Kath's sized person footprints of running standard.
00:49:45
Speaker
or not, spacing, I mean. Yeah, and you find kind of a small, well, actually, give me a perception check with two purple difficulty. And I'm gonna flip the story point to make one of those red, give you one of those back. Because I'm kind. I have succeeded, just succeeded, two success.
00:50:12
Speaker
Yeah, unlike five houses down next to one of the chimneys, you find a little cubby hole that's been built that's kind of stashed away, and you find the clothes that Cath was wearing at the party stashed in them. Found Cath's clothes. Okay, I think that pretty much seals it then, right? She's a nudist. No, well, okay, sure.
00:50:41
Speaker
No, she has the gloves on. But I was talking. But I was talking about, yes, she is probably this mass... She may not be the mass vigilante. I feel like that's a big jump right now, even though obviously that's what's going on. But I think we could definitely say that she's out doing something probably not great for someone, potentially her. Satan's been in his office for about 15 minutes now. She didn't even ask me to make any of the gadgets she's using.
00:51:12
Speaker
Well, she has. When you have money, you don't need favors. It's not favors. I just like making things. All right. You know what? We're you're focused on the wrong thing here. Splash is water. Here's on a roof. Yeah. Very strong. No, I think Eris is Eris being fascinated is focused in her mind. She's not, she's not acting as drunkenly. It's just, uh, but I have two triumphs. Yes. Oh yeah. We win.
00:51:41
Speaker
Two triumphs as we win, right? Yeah. We know everything. I am open to suggestions, gentlemen. I'm trying to think. Can we take one of the mysteries out of the equation with two triumphs? Can we just feel like, oh, we found Ace. He fell down the basement stairs. He's stuck in the furnace. It's warm, so we can't. Ace climbs out of the chimney of the house with a big bag of stuff.
00:52:12
Speaker
I'm Santa. Okay, so we've solved one mystery more or less. We are confident that Cath is the vigilante. I don't feel like we can do anything else with that right now. I mean, I guess we could just declare, hey, Cath's over there, but that would be probably impossible because we already know where Cath is as players.
00:52:36
Speaker
So I feel like that's as far as we can take that. I think Dorla and Ace are the two loose ends here. I'm meeting Dorla tomorrow night. If she shows up, fine. And if she doesn't, hey, there's a problem with Dorla. We should look into that.
00:52:54
Speaker
Because, I mean, honestly, in Hop's head right now, Dorla is somewhere with Kath screwing up somebody's life by ending it. Well, they deserve it. Because they're probably a demon. He's not going to stop it tonight. They'll talk to her tomorrow if she shows up. So if we want to spend triumphs to work towards finding and resolving the ace thing,
00:53:16
Speaker
Yeah, I'm just worried that we're going to find Ace's body somewhere if we don't do something about it. Right. I don't want that either. And then we rush over to Satan. I mean, he's been in this place for 15 minutes. He could be there for six more hours. I don't know how long it takes to get a strip cow. I would like something to.
00:53:31
Speaker
I would like something to point us in the direction of Ace, if that's within the realm of possibility. I don't know what you're doing, obviously, behind the screen. Yeah. So this is just one of the triumphs. You all can still have one to spend. Yeah. As you all are walking down on the street level, hearing Aeris talk, out of one of the little alleyways in between houses, Ace comes running around and barrels into Raynard. And you all go tumbling onto the ground. And he like, hey.
00:54:01
Speaker
and looks up and sees Hobb and Milo. I would like to pick him up by his ankles and shake him, shake loose items free. A couple of coins fall, like pocket change falls out, like normal stuff he would have in his pockets, like it's not like gold flows from. That's what I turned into a joke and I'm like, hey, we found him buddy. Why are you doing this? It's just a thing I do when I pick up Milo and I shake him for a second just to make it seem. It's quite enjoyable.
00:54:32
Speaker
It all happened. Where you been bud? We noticed you were gone.
00:54:40
Speaker
I mean, remember the last conversation we had about, like, you know, sticking stuff out? Like, we're in a nice neighborhood. So I thought I would, you know, Ulfin doesn't need me right now. The party's going. So I'm going to go take a look around, see what there is about. So I'm going to say I'm not going to steal from, like, mail and draw through and gather in there. But, you know, they're neighbors. Make a deception check. Go ahead.
00:55:09
Speaker
You make a perception check against his deception or right charm whatever he's actually using so Like one red one purple These reds you just love it I
00:55:31
Speaker
A triumph. So three success, a triumph, and two, three. Yeah, you're right. Two threats. I'm going to take two more points of strain. You can tell that Ace is being honest. This is what Ace was up to.
00:55:53
Speaker
Um, now we have two triumphs on the table, I know. And I'll say, look, just... What? This is like... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I just don't care. I just want to make a reception check and look around. I might get a triumph. Look, I don't care. Whatever. Just...
00:56:11
Speaker
You need to understand that if you get caught, it's going to come back on... Just listen. If you get caught, it's going to come back on Catherine's on and they live here. That's why we don't mess around up here except for to come to dinner. Just them schmuck walking around, like I'm not... Not if you get caught walking around when you decide to act on the casing. Come on Ace, you're right. I was going to bring it to you.
00:56:31
Speaker
Oh, we don't want that, we're not doing this neighborhood, dude. We literally talked about this. Did you think we were cat burglars? Like, I told you that there was some good spots. I already have a cat. And you said go check them out and get back to me. I did? Yeah, so. When did they, was that during the... Yeah, we did do that. Wait, a we, not necessarily I? I mean, you were the one talking. No, I remember that. Oh, it's not me. I hated that recording so much. And I did not listen to it again.
00:57:02
Speaker
No, this was like months ago. Oh, well, that plays a lot for him. It was the McAllister joke that you didn't get. He checked out the McAllister spot. I see. Not specifically tonight, just casing and telling us in general. Okay, that's different. Yes, I do remember that. Okay. I thought you meant like, come to the unity leader, case the stuff out. I was like, no, Hop did not. Okay, now on the board. I would love
00:57:22
Speaker
to spin this triumph, to do something about my ongoing electrocution. I don't know what it is that I can do about my condition here. I would suggest mitigating or stopping it. Staying winded is going to become a problem very soon.
00:57:45
Speaker
What's the, it's a two purple? It's a two purple. I'll let you use the triumph just to wipe it out. Dope. Has Milo tried to do anything? Milo hasn't. No, just hopped it. Oh, just hopped it. That's right. You got close. Okay. One more shot. How could it have gotten there? Eris feels better. Okay, we have one more triumph. I mean, you could say that Ace found a really easy,
00:58:11
Speaker
Mark, like, I mean, you could learn what Doral is up to. I mean, you could. I mean, knowing what Doral is up to would be desirable. Yeah. OK, let's do it. OK.
00:58:34
Speaker
I'm going to have to talk to the police anyway. There are slides down the wall. Come back to that. There might be some way to you to hold on, not hold on to that triumph. Say it to me. I was going to say something about Satan. If you trust the Alistair cop, then go for it. But I thought maybe there might be some way to vet the cop saying he's been sent from Alistair a little bit with that triumph. I don't know how, but we could think of it. Yeah, now he's gone. I don't know. Well, but you could, in the narrative, state something, make it true.
00:59:03
Speaker
So he would have known who Dranyir was if he knew Alistar was the brother. You might not know what Dranyir looks like. I mean, people have the same name in these worlds. So like you being named like, like if a cop is looking for someone named Eric and I say my name's Eric, they're not going to immediately go, it's you.
00:59:31
Speaker
We were in the same neighborhood. They could still be looking for you and just I keep getting myself into that mess. So I'll get myself out of it later. Let's learn about your left or left. OK. So it just kind of makes sense that that ace would be the one to have this in this context, just, you know. So you're talking to ace. Ace is like, yeah, I mean, like.
00:59:56
Speaker
Kath said that she was getting tired, was gonna go to bed, and Dorla was leaving, and so I snuck out with her, and she was headed home for the night. Because she's there with Kath, and Kath, she doesn't know any money but Kath. So we had an awkward tense walk, where she's a very intense person. She's a very intense person. I'd have dinner with her tomorrow. Oh, good luck. Wait, what? I mean, like, dinner? Dude, come on.
01:00:25
Speaker
No, we're going to eat food and talk about something that concerns her. Okay. I don't know why it's a dude-come-on thing, like... Are you insinuating that we were going on a date? That's what Ace is assuming. Right, that's what I'm saying. Hobb would respond to that with dude-come-on. Okay, yeah. Ace doesn't think it's weird to insinuate these people going out to dinner together with no one else as a date. I'm letting him know. Depending what it is.
01:00:53
Speaker
So, Calf dipped out before Dorla left, and Dorla went home.
01:01:06
Speaker
So I, I should probably, I was headed back cause it's about time to wrap up the party. So I was going to go back to help often pack up unless you guys need me. Are you all out on like, no, go back. Sana's pulling her hair out. She's all sucked. I mean, like go help. We're, we're calling tonight. Do your job. She's been drinking a lot. Sana. Eris.
01:01:35
Speaker
We're calling it a night not to go do anything cool. You're not missing out on anything, all right? OK. Bye. Go give it a hand. Thank you. Bye. Ace takes off in a sprint. All right. I mean, that was true. We're not going to do anything cool. We're going to talk to our boss off hours. You guys are going to really keep hours. About a half hour since Satan got back at this point.
Shocking Discovery at Boromar HQ
01:02:03
Speaker
I suppose we might head out and go see exactly why all these cops are still after us. Yeah. OK. So y'all just heading back to Tasha? We say a quick goodbye to Catherine, I guess. Yeah. Actually, you know what? We don't say goodbye to Sonic, because if Hob saw Sonic, he'd be like, well, I can't just leave. I've got to go.
01:02:32
Speaker
Catherine's very gracious. Melon and Drawther are back in the party when you all return. Drawther seems quiet. So yeah, but you all head back to Tasha at the dock. Okay. I suppose so, yeah. It is an uneventful drive to Boromar HQ. You all park and head in through the front door and you see,
01:03:04
Speaker
Malcolm, who was the receptionist that you spoke to before still sitting at the front desk, he perked. I was like, oh, Satan's back there. So y'all can just head back.
01:03:19
Speaker
Okay. So you all, um, you see the door, a jar into Satan's office. Um, you open it and when you enter, you see all the bay windows in the back of the room when Satan is like smoking meat are open. Uh, it's like kind of the night air flowing in. Uh, and in the middle of the room you see Satan's Boromar's body in a pool of blood with Raynard's dagger sticking out of the chest. End of episode.
Episode Wrap-up and Social Media
01:03:53
Speaker
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Speaker
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01:04:40
Speaker
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01:05:08
Speaker
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