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C2 Ep. 180 Never-ending Day Chapter One
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Off to the House of Healing
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Introduction to 'Ever On Your Noon' Podcast
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D20 Radio, your game is roll.
00:00:44
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Ever On Your Noon, the actual play podcast set in the Ever On Campaign setting. I'm your Game Master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another
Recounting the Boat Fight in Duller
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episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Randy and I had a decent conversation and... Yeah. It was real bad. It was real bad. Yeah. Everybody's in real bad shape. We had the fight in Duller on the boat and it was really rough. And as soon as we docked, we got out of Duller and so now we need to...
00:01:14
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We need to fix Eris for sure. Five sure. We are in bad shape. Milo's messed up. He's about half of his wound threshold, but his strain is just almost maxed out. And he's missing a Milo's messed up. Milo's messed up. Eris sees a month in the hospital. Milo needs an optometry appointment. I know Eris can't do anything about that until she's had a month in the hospital.
00:01:42
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Okay, so yeah, in addition to the state of the player characters, Sana is fine. Honestly, Sana took a couple licks, but certainly is not in a bad position. Ofin, on the other hand, is writhing on the ground.
00:01:56
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clutching the stump of his, where his sword hand used to be. Right. He left his hand. So many things went wrong. It's all coming back to me now. So yeah, I mean, what, what are, what is everybody doing in the immediate, in the immediate, I guess. Lying on her back in a pool of her own blood. Ofan is doing about the same.
00:02:18
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Yeah, Milo's like pulled out a bandage and is trying to wrap something around his eye. OK. Now, I would like to some clarification. When he lost the eye, was it just a matter of magic that got magicked out? Yeah, it's like it's like you close that eye. Like there wasn't any pain, just the capacity to see out of it disappear. Oh, I was thinking. Oh, yeah, I was thinking. What does it look like?
00:02:45
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It looks like where the eye socket should be a patch of flesh. Okay. Okay. So yeah, there's no hole or there's no hole. It's not painful or he's not bleeding or anything. Okay. Confusing, but yes.
00:02:59
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It's worse. All right. Everyone needs to be on the same page with me that it's way worse that there's just a patch of flesh where your eye should be. Yes. Like that's way more horrifying and disgusting. Yeah. So now I, now I see Milo just like feeling around, wondering what the heck just happened to his eye. How come there's no blood everywhere? I guess Raynard is at least dead.
00:03:24
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the least dead i got pretty good i'm not great but i guess i don't know what can i do you have the first skill you could try to heal i'm just not very good at it you are great at it you have a phenomenal first skill yeah you should you should look at your character who should i who should i heal hob points to eris if reynard said that out loud okay
00:03:45
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Because Hub saw the fight. Hub was around. He saw what was going on. He saw Eris get the crap kicked out of her. He's certainly able to look around now and survey. Yeah, by my count, Eris has a severe concussion in scattered senses. She's compromised. Don't say anything because it'll make the role harder. No. Which I assume means she has broken ribs or something. Yeah.
00:04:06
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She has an agonizing wound, which any of the others seem like they would be already. So I don't know what that is. And then she has a horrific wound that has permanently or well, for the duration of the wound, reduced her brawn by one, which is a specter really messed up one of her arms. I think is where we landed on that one. So.
00:04:28
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Raynard, what is your intention with the heal?
Healing Strategies for Eris and Milo
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Are you just trying to get wounds back? Are you trying to cure a critical? What are you? What's gonna be the best thing to do? Probably a critical injury, right? Do you want Raynard to try and take care of a critical? That's certainly what she's worst off with. Eris isn't incapacitated though, right? Like Eris is conscious. Actually she might be, let me...
00:04:57
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Let me look at where my wound threshold is. Does that have a pretty big impact on? Eris has three wounds left to give. So she is just barely conscious. I mean, I only have three, too. So. OK, Eris or Phillip, which critical wound would you like Raynard to target with this heal?
00:05:19
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I mean, scattered senses seems like, in terms of just the one that is going to, well, actually either compromised or scattered senses seems like the one that is going to prevent Eris from doing much for a while, because she gets no boosts on any roles currently, and she is plus one difficulty on all checks. So either of those would be the most in terms of reactivating many of Eris's abilities.
00:05:44
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Well, it's the same difficulty for the heal spell either way. So there's no, which is, is either of them greater difficult? Honestly, scatter scattered. Oh, I don't, I don't know what the difficulties are. Cause I just had them written down in my notebook. Cause we were, we were at the table with it. So I don't remember. What are you going to say about scattered senses though? Is that the one that you, a lot of my, a lot of my, uh, Eris's talents add boosts to things. So that one. Okay.
00:06:06
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probably the most active mechanically detrimental. And reasonably making Aeris not have a concussion so that she can have a reasonable conversation with you. Well, have a conversation with you. Let's not promise anything reasonable happens today. Okay. Reynard, go ahead and, Trevor, give me a verse check with a three purple difficulty.
00:06:26
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This will at least prevent Reynard from having to explain what he has to explain more than one time. Oh, that's so many dice. Yeah. And then most of them are blank. Yeah. In fact, four of them are blank. Five of them are blank. There's one success, one advantage. Okay. So that critical is healed and you heal one wound and one strain.
Claudio's Offer of Refuge in Erean
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Yay. Strange. He's somehow really good on right now. You separate two strain. Of course.
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because you cast Dispel. Hub, what are you doing? Well, I watched that. Pretty unimpressed. I mean, I was bad off. I took a healing potion, I think. I don't know. I did something to keep me from dying, or someone did. So I'm actually feeling okay, I guess. I'd probably go to Ulfid and try to do some sort of first aid, like any non-magical thing I can help with.
00:07:19
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Give me a perception check as you get over to Ulfin, just two purple difficulty. Well, I won't be helping anybody. Thanks. This will not prevent you from doing anything, just it's additional information. Oh my god. That is a success with a threat and two triumphs. I see everything. What's happening and the cogs from where I'm at. Okay. Incredible. The dumbest time to get two triumphs. Last time I got two triumphs we killed Raynard's dad. This time I'm gonna see what's going on.
00:07:49
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Okay. What you notice immediately as you run over to Ulfin, take a point of strain for the, you got it. So you see that Ulfin's wound is bleeding, but it seems worse than that. There seems to be, as you get over to examine the wound, where, where what should not be exposed is exposed from where his hand was, was cut off. You see the blood coming out, but you also see kind of the grayish wispy
00:08:16
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magical remnants of dolar in the wound and kind of like it's like some of the veins are Blackened grayish like the magic has tainted the the wound as it were and so there's like a magical Death infection a death infection if you will bending called it. We're never getting out of this game We got a death infection to worry about okay for the two triumphs. I I have
00:08:41
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a big-ish thing that could be beneficial. If you all have something, you're more than welcome to ignore me. Can we just all be healed? Yeah, I mean. Can the angle heal us? Can that just have not happened? Like, can we just have not happened at all? Claudio, there's remnants. There's also wisps of Claudio. I mean, do you guys want Eric's big thing? I'll pitch the thing to you all. So what I was thinking the two triumphs could be is,
00:09:08
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basically Claudio returns and offers you refuge in Erean to heal up and basically allow there to be a time dilation thing to where it's not like you all are gone for a long time like you all get a meaningful opportunity to rest but the
00:09:28
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canonical timeline of Eberron doesn't jump way ahead. Yes, let's just do that. I mean, that'll save us 30 minutes of rolling dice. I don't think it will save us any time. I don't think it will save us any time. Oh, gosh, I can't hear Philip now. Hello. Yep. Talking. I don't think it will save us any time. No. Yeah. I mean, what do you guys think? I don't I don't have a clue. Player wise, that sounds fine. Aeris will hate
00:09:55
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being dragged into another plane again but is it possible she'll like it when she gets there i mean it's a really like take her and share cheerful positive place so but she'll feel better she might heal she might be murdered by the people of arian yeah i'm fine with that plan yeah let's do it okay so yeah as you finish healing up eris eris your senses begin to
00:10:18
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to restore a bit. You all see a brief flash of brilliant white light as the familiar figure of Claudio reappears on the deck of the four sails. And he rushes over to Ulfin next to Uhab and begins examining the wound. Anybody that would look in the general direction of where Claudio appeared, there's for a brief moment, it heals itself, but in the wood,
00:10:47
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there seems to be briefly burned, like a marking that is, Milo, you'd be able to pretty easily recognize it, Eris, if you glance in that direction. It's a marking of Erian and like arcane runes, but, well, no, that would be more of a check. And I don't think anybody's really in a mindset to make a meaningful arcana check on something like this. I'll give it a try. But Claudio rushes over to Ulfin and... Ugh.
00:11:13
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it is it is it is a tainted wound he needs my my lady can can help this this and give you all a chance to to heal if you if you come to her house of healing she has given me permission to bring you he says to hob um i mean yeah she sounds good to me hob doesn't think about asking because
00:11:35
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It was like, Hey, this angel that helped us wants to help us. Let's get helped. Okay. So he extends a hand up and once again, you all like brilliant white light fills your vision as, and then after a moment, it begins to dissipate and you find yourselves in a different place. You find yourselves in what appears to be kind of a sitting room.
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as it were, like you all, if you were laying or sitting on wood on the deck of the four sails, you all of a sudden feel cushions beneath you and you see looking out, it's, you're trying to think of the right way to convey it.
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you're indoors, but it's more like a large gazebo, like it's open air. And you all can see as you look out in the distance, like lush forest, but then a little bit closer, you see rows of like tilled earth and crops that are
00:12:36
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just extending out to the woods and the smell of like early morning walking through the forest kind of that natural damp smell kind of fills fills your nostrils and in front of you you see laid out on tables
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food that is sitting there ready for eating. And Claudio is there next to you and kind of exhales. Do not, every half an hour that you spend here is one second in your world. So do not rush, rest and- Where the frack is here?
00:13:16
Speaker
You are in Erean. This is the House of Healing floor. Why are we in Erean? So that you could heal. But we have waste. Why? You will waste nothing here. Well, what? I'm sorry. I actually did not understand. You will waste nothing here. Waste? What does that mean? I thought I heard you say waste. Sorry. In your jumbled words. So you're saying that time passes differently here than where we're from. Yes. What the frack are we always messing with time?
00:13:47
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You are not messing with time. You are in no control of time here. I guess you're not in control of time where you come from either. As we could, it sounds like. Spend the entire time it takes for all of us to get fully healed up and not miss an afternoon. I don't have my workshop here. I can't fix these things. What do you need?
00:14:07
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my workshop. I think Hobbs says, Eris, we are here until we stop bleeding and then we'll go back and it will have been a few minutes. We waste more time ordering food.
00:14:22
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This is not, who's this guy? I don't know who this guy is. This is not Hobb. No, he's like, I am Hobb. He just fought together. And also, I don't know if I know who you are. As you all are going back and forth, you hear Footfalls is another presence, walks up some steps from outside into the area that you all are.
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and you see a halfling woman in druidic style robes very earth tone they're not robes is the wrong term just kind of druidic garb with a staff on her back that seems to be made of driftwood it's very pale and the top is kind of those gnarled stripped roots and she she has very
00:15:02
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deep olive skin and auburn hair cut very short as she enters. Like, I'm, I'm sorry, is there a problem? Yeah, no one asked if they wanted to, if we wanted to come to a different plane. Claudio, I asked him. He said yes. Claudio asked me. He asked if we wanted to go to our house. He didn't say let's leave our world. I specifically said my lady has invited you to her house of healing and that is very odd. Yeah.
00:15:29
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Most people, when they say that, mean it's down in Lower Dura. I... I mean, I brought you to my home. I invited you to... That is the problem. You took me out of my world. Well, technically, you took him out of his world first.
00:15:47
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Yeah, I didn't mean to and I apologized. And I don't do that very often. I gave him permission to bring us here. You can be mad at me if you want, but, cause I didn't ask you, but we are here because we are in bad shape and they offered to get us in good shape. And we do that after fights. This one's just free and fast.
00:16:11
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Do it with people we know and places we know. Yeah, trust this guy. I have no good reason to. Well, you know, Claudio did assist us in our fighting, which did not have to do. So for one, I do appreciate that, Claudio. And I am perfectly accepting of this opportunity to heal. Thank you. I apologize. And if you wish to be sent back, I can facilitate that if that is your desire.
Debate: To Stay in Erean or Not?
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Well, I don't know why everyone's looking at me. Of course I do. I made that very clear, but... Okay, I can send you to the rest if you want to go back. I've got a few things I'm trying to avoid, so I would love to stay here as long as I could. Eris, can you spare up to one minute of... sharn time? We should stay long enough for us to heal up properly. It would not be... What was the time frame, Claudio? A half hour here is one second in Eberron.
00:17:08
Speaker
Half hour is one second. Why is no one else bothered by that? Why is everyone okay with that? After what we've just been through?
00:17:21
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I wasn't okay with what we've just been through either. I was not okay with that either, but this is something good that will benefit our health. And how long is that? Three days here? So, we are here, we should take advantage of what is available to us while we are here and accept the generosity.
00:17:43
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like I said I can send you back well apparently everyone's staying so you don't have to I can't force you to accept help Eris but I think it would be wise of you to do so the people who usually magically heal me are apparently staying so I wish I could at this point as you all have been talking going back and forth a couple other
00:18:06
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angels, archons, similar to Claudio have arrived and are looking over often while you all are talking and examining his wound. I, the halfling woman says, with your permission, I'm going to take your friend here. He's going to need, uh, significantly more, um, magic to heal and get rid of the, the taint of Dolar out of his system. He's not unconscious, is he?
00:18:33
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He, he hit his wound threshold. So he is incapacitated, but he's not, he's not asleep. He's just kind of like, like in a state of shock. You want the people to fix your hand? There's your, there's your, there's your permission. But it is just that, that building over there and she points and you see a small domed stone structure in the distance. If you all are more than welcome to, you're not confined to here. So, um, feel free to go check on him or.
Exploring Erean's Healing Environment
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There's food here for your liking and we have magical healers that can help, but also you can rest and whatever you need. We won't hesitate to do that. You all do notice as she's gesturing.
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there's a couple moments where so when I say druid garb it's kind of a sleeveless tunic with brown earthen pants and as she gestures you see like where the shoulder and that goes to the back you see markings kind of stretching up that you on her skin or on her clothes on her skin
00:19:39
Speaker
that you could pretty reasonably ping as some kind of dragon mark that's like on her back as she's talking to you all but yes if you if you need anything let me know but i'm going to go tend to your friend and i'll come back to check on you all here in a bit but i'm utterly exhausted milo settles into the cushions and
00:19:58
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Claudio, as Milo talks, like leans into the halfling woman and kind of gestures at Milo and she like, I'll come back and see about your, your eye. Once I've looked at your friend. Thank you very, very much. And I'm assuming Milo's going to hit back in the cushions. It's not going to take long for him to probably be out in a sleep. I don't think you're supposed to fall asleep when you have in your condition. It's like strain is like two left.
00:20:25
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You said Aerith's got the concussion heal. That's what you chose, right Philip? Or the equivalent of a concussion. Yes. Okay. Jeff. Then Hob's not going to snap next to her ear and say, yeah, see, it hurts. Hang out for a minute. Jeff, as Hob is looking around at everyone, talking to everyone, what is, I'm asking you for a bit of Hob's backstory. Yeah.
00:20:44
Speaker
What is a food item that would have been from Hobbs' childhood that like he adored as a child and then has completely forgotten about in adulthood? It's got to be something foraged. Yeah. Like some sort of like dandelion salad kind of thing. Like it's going to have to be something foraged and definitely not.
00:21:03
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really rare mushroom or something. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's good. Something region locked. So he, that's why he hasn't thought about it a long time because it's in Tolint, the plains or wherever though. Um, so what, what is it though? I think it's, I think it's some sort of like herbaceous, like, yeah, like some sort of dandelion type thing. Like I think that it is peppery. Okay. And that's why he liked it. Cause it had something besides just green. Okay. Well it is on the table. Like as you're looking around, you see a bowl of it.
00:21:32
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just sitting there. Well I was gonna joke that Hobbs been eating this whole time they've been talking. Well as Hobbs going through the food he like uncovered like pulls a loaf of bread up and it's sitting there. I think he I think it's one of those things where he struck by it before he recognizes it. Mm-hmm. It just there's something intrinsic about it. I guess if he's been eating he probably picks one up and like takes a nibble and then like looks Milo's asleep go, Eris, Eris you got to come here.
00:21:57
Speaker
Come try this. Look, I know, I know. Please come try this. Eris shuffles as best she can over. When I was small, somewhere between you and Milo's size, with my clan, this was something we'd find just every handful of days. It grew near marshes and things. It required a lot more water, a lot more precipitation than we got most of the time. Just try it. Try one. Try one. Eris tries it. It's good.
00:22:26
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And he just kind of goes, yeah, it's good. He's happy with that. That's enough. He shared a thing he loves and remembers with his friend. Well, now that you've had some, and you're fine, would you like to eat with me? Oh, right. Aeris says you look with a skeptic's eye across the spread. Aeris is about to ruin it. No, you spot something. Yeah, you spot something similar that is like a fond
00:22:51
Speaker
food item from Eris's past. Amongst other things, it's not like a tantalizing front and center. Eris stares at it, pushes it as far away from herself as she can, and eats some bread and fruit or something. Does any of this stuff, like, how do I say this?
00:23:06
Speaker
I don't want to ask you if it's magical food, because I don't assume that it is. But is there anything like that Hobb recognizes or Eris recognizes as, I mean, homeopathy, like for lack of a better, like? No, I mean, not. Yeah. You don't get the sense that there's been like it is like the best version of the food that you're putting here. Because food is nourishing. Yes. But it's also. Yes. Yes. It's nourishing on the basis that the food is nourishing. But it is also from a quality standpoint, the best version of it you've ever had.
00:23:35
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So, yeah, I mean, you would know like it, it would be common enough knowledge for even somebody like hob who does not engage with like the arcane aspects of the world that like Aryan is the plane that is the eternal day. It's the plane of hope. Like it's, it's very on brand that there would be like a house of healing that would have your favorite foods. Sure. Kind of thing. Sure. So Milo's asleep and Milo who loves food dearly is asleep. What's Raynard doing? I'm just getting chicken drunk.
00:24:03
Speaker
Well, all the denizens of Erie have, have left like that. You all are alone now in this, in this space. Oh, then I'm not even being graceful about it anymore. I'm just eating. Yeah. Raynard walks up to the table. Okay. You what's, what's a childhood favorite food of Raynards that has maybe not been had in a while. Some kind of like, it's gotta be rich. No, here, actually you're, you're prompt. I'm going to, it's a little bit different. What was something?
00:24:30
Speaker
Like as a boy, when Reynard was young, after he would get into a really bad fight with Calvair, what was the thing that Ruth, Reynard's mom would sneak him as like a, like a secret treat after Calvair was particularly awful? Yeah, all I can think of is like some kind of like chocolate filled pastry.
00:24:50
Speaker
Yeah. Like, chocolate mousse inside of a Texas Roadhouse roll or something like that. That sounds just disgustingly unhealthy, but delicious. Yeah. So you see that, like the secret treat that your mom would sneak you after you would get in fights with your dad sitting on the table.
00:25:06
Speaker
Okay. Well, I take six of those. Okay. Anything anyone wants to share? Not my food. I mean, if you all just want to take a quote unquote long rest, right? You can heal one wound from that heal all of your strain and you can make a.
00:25:22
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Is it resilience check to get rid of a critical wound? I think that's right. One wound. I can't heal criticals, right? No, I cannot heal criticals. I can only do... Yeah, you can. I can? It's to see if your body, like, heals one.
00:25:38
Speaker
No, no, no. Sorry. I mean, I mean, if I could try to also heal one of heiress's, I can do a lot of stuff. You can make a medicine check. Because I don't have any right now. I sprint to a doctor as soon as we are done with every fight and get my critical taken care of. Because when they're like, you can't take strain to do anything, I'm bowed. A resilience check. Yeah. To recover from one critical injury.
00:25:58
Speaker
So, Eris has one, Milo has one, does Raynard? I don't believe so. Eris has four. Okay, sorry, I know Eris has more than one. I don't recall getting one. I thought you did, I thought we rolled for you. I don't think so. Okay. No, I think his eye just got torn out. That did happen, for sure. Nope. So, zero success, one threat on your recovering from a critical injury. Yep. Well, I, you were going to get benefits from being an Aryan.
00:26:24
Speaker
All right. What am I getting? You, you get a free upgrade and a boost. My first, my, my upgrade role is identical to my first die and my boost is blank. So zero success, one threat. Okay. No, it's zero zero now. Right. I see one threat, one advantage total. Oh, you're right. It is an advantage, not a success. So yes, just, just a wash. Okay. And everyone can, uh, you don't have one. I don't have one. Nobody else has one. Okay. But we can go back to zero one string.
00:26:54
Speaker
Yes. You can go to zero on strain and heal one wound. Um, additionally, additionally, Jesus, y'all are negative dances. I haven't complained at all. Eris has complained extensively. I have not. I've been nothing but a force for good so far this evening.
00:27:11
Speaker
I you all that ate the food and Milo prison when you wake up, you would eat the food. It counts as a healing potion so you can heal six wounds from your boys back to have full health. I don't have fire wounds. So as you all are resting and it's one of those things where even I presume that Eris would be the least keen to fall asleep in this place as you are. Absolutely around. And it's one of those things where
00:27:40
Speaker
some strange magical woman brought us to a house fed us her food and invites us to stay the night this doesn't end well worked out for the hobbits facts not for Odysseus either time it's it's one of those things Aries where it's not like magical sleep it's just like when you're trying to like finish the chapter of a book in bed and your eyes just
00:28:01
Speaker
Betray you with each passing second kind of thing where your your your mind is still in a state of fight or flight, but your body is Relaxing kind of thing is the state that you're finding yourself in We've obviously been drugged after a handful of like after about an hour of you all laying and catching your breath and
00:28:25
Speaker
The halfling woman comes back up the stairs and walks over to Milo and kind of nudges your shoulder to wake you up, Milo. She sits on the the chaise that Milo passed out on. And give me give me your perception check, Milo. You all can give me perception checks if you want.
00:28:43
Speaker
to see the emotional slash intent of this woman. This is going to be one red. See, she's a nemesis. She's got an adversary rating. She's clearly an adversary. Two success. Two success. No success.
00:28:58
Speaker
No, you have four success and two threat, Jeff. Oh, that's right. That's right. My bad. You're right. I was like, don't you really want one advantage to yeah. One advantage. No success. Never correct me again. Trevor helps us win. Are you going to roll or are you good?
00:29:13
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I'm just trying to think if Reynard is not distracted. I forgot that I have a plus one difficulty to all checks. I'm gonna not. Okay. I'm gonna not. Take a point of strain, Eris, because- That tracks. Please let them heal that one, Eris. Because hypervigilance.
00:29:33
Speaker
So Eris, Hob, you see as she's walking over to Milo and nudges him awake. Milo, you don't notice this because you're being woken up. You sense a good deal of worry and heightened stress as she approaches Milo. Like there's an air of
00:29:50
Speaker
grave concern. That just makes sense to Hob when I feel the same way. Lately, lately I get the same feelings about Milo. It's just a lot of real stress and uncertainty. So she nudges you Milo and as you wake up, you see her looking obviously where your eye used to be.
Milo's Encounter with Zoriath Creatures
00:30:09
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And she says, I heard a version of events from Claudio, but I would love to hear from you what happened. Well, she is not alone. What?
00:30:22
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she is not alone in wanting to know what the frack happened. This being essentially came through a portal that was created by the smoke that comes out of my forehead and
00:30:44
Speaker
So this being came through and started to attack me there were eyes and just reached up and like touched where my eye was and my eye was then it was just gone and then they left okay it's it's crazy sounding
00:31:11
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Oh, something that you all would have immediately clocked as soon as Milo got here. His scar stopped smoking.
00:31:17
Speaker
Does that put Aeros at a bit of ease? Well, I mean, that is a positive thing. I will tell you that the ability for this creature to do what they did, you're protected here. They can't intrude upon this place. They can't interact here. So that is why you may have noticed that your scar is not smoking while you're here because you are the source of that magic has no place here.
00:31:47
Speaker
So what that that is a it's it's a creature of chaos and they come from another plane called Zoriath. They're incredibly dangerous and you are it sounds callous to say that you're fortunate but the interaction that you had people have come away far worse than than how you are. Having said that I
00:32:09
Speaker
spoke with some of the the healers here and i i can try but i don't know if there's a way for me to bring your eye back um i'm very sorry i was hopeful but it would be trying to use my magic to negate an equal force of magic that's been imposed upon you so it
00:32:31
Speaker
It is possible, but there could be unforeseen consequences of trying to do it. So that would incline me to not do it just for your safety. I see. However, if you wish, I can try. But what about for your safety? The corners of her mouth curl up slightly and she nods as, I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not concerned for that.
00:32:54
Speaker
So it sounds like you're saying it's extremely difficult to do something that will be extremely difficult and the odds of success are not great and could potentially make things worse than they already are.
00:33:13
Speaker
Yes, and the best case scenario would be returning you to a level of status quo that you had before. I know something of this being that did this to you, so I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have that I have access to those answers, but I certainly don't know everything.
00:33:31
Speaker
Yes. Well, from what I understand, my magic comes from this place and it's not something that was asked for. It just has occurred that way. Many people that are impacted by the magic of that place have a similar story to yours. Very few people willingly wield its magic.
00:33:55
Speaker
Yes. Well, I would say that I certainly don't want to make things worse for myself and especially for my friends. So I would say we best let it be. Okay. Once again, I'm immensely sorry that I'm not able to do anything safely for you outside of allowing you to recover from the trials that you all have gone through.
00:34:21
Speaker
But you say as long as I'm here? Yes, this plane has warnings against those particular beings in Zoriath. Interesting. Dolar has no such warnings. Dolar invites others to enter its domain. Very well. This being, do you know the name?
00:34:43
Speaker
Yes, they go by Belasheera. They are a type of being known as a Dalkeer. They are the most powerful beings in Zoriath outside of that whose realm is Zoriath. Belasheera has spoken to me in my mind on a few occasions and chastises me for using that which is not mine.
00:35:09
Speaker
There are multiple doubt here, so it might be that you're hearing more than one. They would all be very cross at what you're doing. And so if I were to just stop doing it, would they perhaps let me be? You still have the capacity for it, so they would not stop until your ability to use what they claim as their own ceases. Which implies ceasing me.
00:35:34
Speaker
I mean, there are ways to cut someone off from magic, but yes, I imagine that their technique would be simplest to just end you. But they have immense difficulty, and it's very dangerous for them to come to your world, to come to Eberron itself, because A, it causes a great strain on them to cross over to the material plane. And additionally, there are people dedicated to fighting them.
00:36:04
Speaker
And there are certain wards to where it is possible that when they cross over to the material alarms essentially are set off that would cause people to come after them. So I think the fact that you weren't on the material plane plays a bigger role in the direct nature of the attack.
00:36:22
Speaker
than any kind of timeline or them getting desperate to come after you. It was more an attack of opportunity, as it were. So stay in Iran or visit here. There are some other planes that also have warnings against them, but yes, this is a safe bet. But just so you're aware, the effect of what they have done to you, they can't see through your eye constantly now. It's not that they have a way of essentially scrying upon all that you see
00:36:52
Speaker
rather they have access to all you have seen.
00:36:56
Speaker
So anything that you've seen up to the point that they took your eye, they would now know. We all hear that, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she's not making any attempt to. Hob doesn't care necessarily, but he knows the heiress does. Yes. Well, that was going to be my next question that you just answered. So like I said, they, their capacity to take direct action is very limited on the material plane.
00:37:23
Speaker
They have agents. Dern has mind flayers. Belashira has beholders. But these creatures tend to be, they stand out. If one starts walking the streets of Sharn, people are going to take note and people are not going to respond positively. So it's obviously disconcerting that they have this information, but
00:37:43
Speaker
in terms of how actionable they can be to attack Sharn and where you live is, it's difficult for them. Unless there's some other reason why they would want to know what you know from a planar standpoint, then they would be able to have a greater impact. All right, well, I can't really think of anything else. I do know at times that I'm, I try to be judicious in my use of this magic, but even then, at times it seems to go awry.
00:38:13
Speaker
Well, your particular magic is very chaotic, so that is... tends to be the case. All magic has a certain level of chaos to it, but yours more than others.
00:38:23
Speaker
very well. Well, thank you for your, of course, information and your candidness.
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00:38:29
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