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C2 Ep. 145 New Dawn's Return Chapter Two
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Erys faces the consequences of her actions...
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Introduction and Team Setup
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The following episode is brought to you by Darren Katska, Devious Pop-Tart, Elizabeth Clark, Irene Villarito, Laura Pickron, Nathan Stuller, Charles Compton, Natasha Rallerson, David Scrams, Edvard Arnoff, Jerry Thunes, Mark Stanley, Rebecca Gellman, and Shelby Johnson, as well as all of our generous patrons.
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Hello, and welcome to Ever On Noon, an 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 episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? We're all angry. Yeah. Oh, no, y'all are good. Yeah, you're supposed to have the guitar and the pedal first. I'm fixing the leg of my arm here real quick. I'm not going to do it because it just sounds like my character. What did I miss?
Character Spotlight: Pebblefist
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Pebblefist, the doctor. We discover that Pebblefist's weird, mumbly accent is all the way affected to try and drive people away even though he feels terribly lonely and resents that people stay away. No. That's how I remember it. He betrays himself as lonely so that people won't want to spend time with him because he likes being alone. Anyway. That's all the important stuff. Yeah, that's what happened. Perfect. Yeah. We got patched up, and I mean, we learned a little bit more from Pebblefist about, like,
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how the Boromar Collective feels about us. Which ain't good. It's bad. It's not bad. It's not good, it is bad. Not new information.
New Mission Briefing
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And then as we were leaving Narn, the Venatar that I used to work with, or I guess still work with, on behalf of House Deneth. After all of this, I do in fact still work for them and have another job to do. And it's to take out a Nargul Warlord. But we haven't really talked about that yet.
00:02:26
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Oh, that radar doesn't just dinner. It's a social engagement that the general doesn't want to endure. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Tavern Exploration: Soaring Spirits
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OK, so you all head to high walls, which was where you all were headed to go grab a drink. And, yeah, Eris, you would have as much as Eris has the pulse on what's going on in high walls in that probably what all of his breath.
00:02:46
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around Eris. There is a tavern that's opened up. It's the first tavern that's not just a room that people gather in to drink, called the Soaring Spirits. And it's, yeah, it's located in the high walls. It's opened recently, so you all know that's a place you can go to get drinks. The name's a little bit Soaring, but they do have drinks.
00:03:08
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There's a real lack of taverns over here. Yes, there most definitely is. Just saying. It doesn't really seem like that spot that the Boromar's own is gonna be available. Yes, it's probably not going to proceed. Why? What happened? We used it for murder. And then the Boromar hit us. So, a couple things. What different things happened? Your new friend Coldor was going to see to it.
00:03:36
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I don't know if he can take the property, but he's gonna- I bet he can, he's a cop in a city. I don't know. I feel like he's not exactly a cop. I don't know what to do. I think he's something bigger than a cop. Like two cops? Yeah, in a trench coat. Like an- So yeah, so we're going- Like an Ettin cop. Oh right, okay. Yeah, sure. You gotta be there.
00:03:58
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They're both a good cop and a bad cop. You suck. All right, we're going to this tavern thing. If you were to hire- Free MPC listeners, free MPC. If you were to hire an empty for a job, would you pay them twice?
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i don't know it's two minds one body like they have different yeah we're not doing this we're not doing this stuff i was thinking they could be their own partner on the force so you wouldn't have to pay for two cops you just pay for one cop okay yeah you all walk into the soaring spirits you see there is a very basic sign that's wood with like hand painted sign hanging over the door that is a couple of like
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Glass bottles, clearly meant to be like liquor bottles with wings, like taking off in flight. As you all walk in, this is a very modest, it's a two-story building, the exterior is very patchwork, like it's...
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This has been reclaimed materials that whoever has built this place and opened it has done their best to put together into the facade of a building. I do this aesthetic though. It's got like a modern industrial thing to go into it. And you can even expose ductwork and that kind of thing. Right. It's very popular.
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The windows on the exterior are also a mixture of, some of them are like simple wooden shutters that are open air, but yet they've also found like stained glass windows around and like
Dining Experience at Soaring Spirits
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managed to extract those to put them in there just for a little bit of ambiance. You walk in and the interior of the bar is also wood, very warm kind of feeling. Aeris, you get the sense that there was an attempt like the... It...
00:05:31
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What I'm about to say don't think like T.J. Friday's Applebee's, but there's a very eclectic style that is very ciring in nature. Like it's that kind of cosmopolitan eclectic style that they're clearly trying to replicate home through the the decor in this space. You see the ground floor has like an L-shaped wooden bar and then there's an open air up to the second story where it's like a half floor where there's other tables and like private rooms up top.
00:05:56
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that they built. And behind the bar, you see a half elf, and she is working on a drink pretty intensely, not standing there cleaning a glass. She's working. What? Obviously not the actual bar. You also see a window that leads back into the kitchen clearly, and you see a dwarf kind of step up on a seat and put a bowl up and step back down and call it an order. And you see a human that goes and grabs that bowl and begins carrying it to one of the tables. And you see a lot of the seat in here, right?
00:06:26
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us smattering there's about eight people in the ground floor so you hear a light thrum of noise as there's packs of people chatting but it's not raucous or anything you do hear faint playing of a lute as somebody's sitting at a table just they're not up on a stage they're just yeah fingering out a song this is very much eris especially you recognize like
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in High Walls. This is a place of happiness twinged with melancholy is the vibe that you feel like these people are trying to get life back on track and High Walls has been improved enough to where people feel like they can start living normal lives again, but they're still not a happy, joyous tavern that you're walking into is the vibe.
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decided which booth is mine yet, so we can just sit anywhere. Like Hobb sits at the booth that will accommodate the four of them most comfortably. Okay. And assumes the other three follow. Yep. As you all sit down, you get a better look at this human that's walking around and you actually notice that as he's carrying a tray and sitting it down on a table, he's actually missing his left hand and he walks up to your table and wipes his right hands. Hi, welcome in to the Soring Spirits. I'm Yorlan. What can I get for you today? He's a human man, seems very
00:07:38
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Warm. Warm hearted. I'll have an ale.
00:07:42
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Oh, okay. Yeah, that's great. Any particular brew avail, do you prefer? Your house. Oh, excellent. All right. Yeah, we can do that. We have some specials, if you all are interested in that. Absolutely. Tell us the specials. We have the comfort stew, which is a Kyron comfort food meal, typical ingredients from there. And then we have the elemental fire chili, which is a Grumley, our cooks specialty, and the Skyway skewers, which is just grilled chicken, skewered, marinated, pretty good stuff. And then for drinks, we have
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the high wall's heart warmer, which is actually a spice ale that's served warm if you're interested in that for your ale. If you prefer something cold, that's fine too, but a little bit of honey and cinnamon in that one. So we got that. And then we also have, for drinks,
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the dragon mark delixir which is a cocktail that our bartender came up with and then for those of you that have a twinge of dark humor to you we have the mornings embrace which is a very potent strong cocktail that'll make you forget your problems so that's those are our specials that we got i'll have hot tea thanks hot tea great
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How do you say coffee again in this world? Calf. Calf. I don't like calf. Alright. Thanks for taking the time to read your special book. What time is it? I don't know, he just felt real itchy, didn't he? He'd rub him the whole time. He'd rub a hole in his pants, yeah. You do get a sense of nervous energy from him. No, we got that. I'm uncomfortable. I was going to ask if you were okay. Sorry, time of day. We said it's like late afternoon, I think. Okay. Like you all did the warehouse job.
00:09:26
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The warehouse shop, there was nobody there. Which one, when it was night? It was night. And you all haven't stopped since that job, so yeah, it's nighttime. It's pretty late. Okay. Okay. Eris orders a liquor, but I haven't warmed up yet, so I'm not really making it. I don't have a name for it. Okay, so yeah. What's the bartender's name? He gave us everyone else's name. What's the bartender's name? Silra is the bartender's name.
00:09:48
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And yeah, you are the one to drop that silver or bartender. If you've got any specialty drinks in mind that I didn't mention that you take the one, I'm sure she, she knows what she's doing back there. And then he takes a moment and notices Aeris's coat and say, Oh, did you, did you serve? No. Oh, I did. So I was just curious. Yeah. This is my
Military Service Discussion
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dad's. Oh, what's your dad's name?
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Yeah, I served, maybe I knew him. Where did you serve? I served southern border against hobgoblin patrols and invasions, things like that. That's not where he was. Fair enough. All right. If you all want any food, let me know. Menu's on the table and I'll go get those drinks in for you. And you're a little walks away. All right. All right. Look, nothing is going right. Yeah. Been a while since it was.
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To add to that, apparently, I am still under the onus of helping the general boomerush Dachwatz's name.
00:10:55
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Is he a dinnit? Okay. I couldn't remember if he was actually named the General Dennis Boomerush. Can you believe he actually goes by that nickname? Oh, it's silly. It's a bit silly. I'm glad he likes it. It makes him happy or whatever. Who am I? I wish I hated it. Okay, fair enough. You can. And you too are free to feel that way. So there's a dinnit job. If you guys want to take out some aggression or frustration on, all I know right now is a dark ghoul warlord, which doesn't sound like an unworthy.
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reason or unworthy person take out your aggression on there's that or we do you know who no not yet i'll need to go and learn more information obviously that will have a large bearing on if we do it or not the other thing we can do is wait around here until something happens to us i don't like that option that's where we're at hates us i don't know did that hit me around here
00:11:54
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Not here. You're right. I apologize. Jorlin walks back up with the tray and sits on the table and begins. Calf, tea, cold ale.
Etiquette and Free Drinks
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That is a specialty. It's a brewery that was destroyed back in Kire, but the people that ran it actually are trying to replicate the recipe. So let me know what you think of that. And a to be determined cocktail liquor concoction. Any food?
00:12:18
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It's definitely something like brightly colored and ridiculously fruity. Yeah. For some reason. It's. Chiron sunrise. Sure. No, no food for me. I'm not very hungry at the moment. A chicken sounded good. The Skyway skewers. Sure. Yeah. It's like a big salad.
00:12:37
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Yeah, we can do a big salad. Grumbly's, yeah, we can go off menu. Just to make sure I've written, is it grumbly or grumbly? Grumbly. Okay. G-U-R, or wait, G-R-U-M-L-I, grumbly. And check the fish. Fish, all right. Now we have, we could just do- Just a fish. Do you want- Then for options. Broiled, fried, baked, or we got like a floating tower flatbread that you can get fish on it if you like that. That sounds terrible.
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I mean don't get the baked. Grumley's a good cook. You'd be surprised with what he could pull off. A flatbread? Like a pizza with fish? It's not, yes, but the flavor is complimentary to fish. Like it's... Fish taco. Just fish and chips, jeez Louise. Fish and chips, please. Fish and chips, I'll be the jerk about it.
00:13:28
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Fish and chips, Skyway skewers. I don't know what you want. A new man. It's all going in my Yelp review. Nothing for my halfling friend. All right. If you all need anything once again, my name's Jorlin, so feel free to holler. And yeah, if you have any feedback about anything, let me know. This is my place. So I'd love to learn more about what people think. So thank you. So wait, that was a different guy than the waiter. Okay. That same guy. Same guy. I thought it was like Silra or something. Silra's the bartender. Who cares?
00:13:54
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We did. We asked. You apparently. Let's do it. I really think it seems like we have a lot of options on other things to do. And apparently it gets Dinnith off my back, which, while I didn't remember they were on my back, will be a good thing. So they don't show up again with Narn out of the blue saying, hey, here's your new job. Yeah, that sounds perfectly okay with me. Off we go. No. It's middle of the night. Our food's not here yet. Very fair.
00:14:23
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What are we waiting for as far as the, what are we waiting for as far as the going to the rescue, the dungeon, the big prison? Tarble was getting more. We're waiting on Tarble. Yeah. We're waiting. We have a upcoming, and I mean, theoretically sit down with the dark lantern. So we're just waiting on them to contact us. Yes. We're, we have, we have, we have feelers out and we're waiting to hear back. Okay.
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not remember. Eris drinks her drink very fast. All right. As y'all are waiting on your food, you all do see a figure walk over to your table getting up from one of the other tables where she was talking to a female gnome. This is a human woman that you all would probably recognize. It hasn't been too terribly long. You recognize Clem Timer, who was the
00:15:12
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Mother of Marilyn Myles Timer, who is the young actress, was associated with- Whoa, whoa, has been a minute. Billy Langhill Taylor before his demise that was in the show. Oh yeah, she gets it. Written by Luka Ciara and Clem walks over and, hi, good to see you all again. You get a sense of the haughty middling accusatory demeanor that she had the last time you all encountered her is absent, notably.
00:15:41
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What's she doing here? She lives in Highwall. They live here. Oh, that's right. This is the couple I followed down and had the crisis of... That's right. Oh, God, people have it worse than me. The acting hasn't gotten her out of Highwall yet. Her ticket out got murdered. It's true. I'm personally upset with Luca Ciara. We're not making things right for this girl. I'm gonna have to have a talk with her. I'm gonna say, go have a talk with her. Tell her you're not in another play until this... Luca!
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Hob got an audition. Couldn't cut it. You want Hob? Yeah, Clem says, hi. Good to see you all again. Hi. Yeah. How are you? Good. We're doing a lot better.
Acting Career Challenges: Marilyn
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I, in fact, wanted to come over and thank you. And she's looking at Aeris. I've heard that you've been doing a lot of good around here and I don't think places like this that we're in would be possible without what you've been doing. So I just want to come say thank you and hope that you all are doing well. Good from who?
00:16:43
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Heard from who? Oh, there's Garen over there and it's the dwarf that had the sigil that Garen's mentioned that the place that you're at now down here, you've been doing some good things in the neighborhood and the water and lighting and just the infrastructure that the people that run this city didn't have any interest in providing for us. Hope.
00:17:10
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What? You hope what? That things might get better. We didn't have that. Oh, you hope things won't... Yeah, it would be good. That would be good if things got better. That would be... I hope so too.
00:17:28
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keep doing what you're doing and Marilyn says hi also um she's not here we're actually talking with yeah it's like free in the morning talking with belira over there and she gestures at the gnome she's a playwright from kire that's trying to get a feeder started up here that's her name belira b-e-l-i-r-a silver quill if you want to just wait that's her given last name
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But yeah, that's what I'm doing here and hopefully that can do some good. I'm trying to get Marilyn on the stage again after all the bad business that happened. But thank you all also for your role in that. But I won't keep you. I just wanted to come say hi and thank you. Bye. Sorry about kicking you before. Bye.
00:18:19
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Right? Yeah. No problem. I'd forgotten. Water under the bridge. And she returns to her table with the gnome. I forgot she kicked you. Yeah, me too. Throwing. That's kind of nice, yeah? What? Getting recognition for all of the good work you're doing down here. Oh. Right, that's what that was. Oh. Oh, that was probably pretty weird. You both made it pretty weird to be honest.
00:18:49
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Yeah, okay. This is broken stuff, so I just fix broken things. Right. You know how they were still broken because no one else had fixed them, and then you did that. I see. Oh. Jorlin comes with a tray and sets it on the table, fish and chips.
00:19:07
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Skyway skewers and there's just a punch bowl, probably looked and saw. Perfect. I wouldn't hate if you threw one on the skewer salad. Also, just so you all know, taken care of by table over there and you see the dwarf and he's sitting there with a half-elf woman and they just raise their drinks to your table. So enjoy and let me know if you all need anything else. Yes, I would like a woman.
00:19:31
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Yeah, the dwarf is your neighbor and they're sitting at a table with a half elf the half elf that's picking it'll do and it's They said open tab. So if you all have any other drinks or anything you want just not sure how you plan on saying but Very awkwardly just waves her cyborg hand at the dwarf and
00:19:57
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Garen smiles at you. He's wearing a blacksmith apron. It seems like he's just hanging out in between work But did you say our server is missing a limb left hand? Yeah, don't give him your man. I have one of those right forget your troubled drinks, please
00:20:13
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Oh yes, the Mornings Embrace, sure. Yeah, we can do that. Now it does, just so you know, drink it slowly when I bring it out to you, because Silra uses an elemental ice. It basically creates a cool like fog effect in the drink, but don't slam it back because it can burn a little bit if the ice hits your lips. So just, it's a sipping drink. Very well. All right, I'll be right back with the Mornings Embrace, and you're alone walks away. You're only misspelled J-O-R-L-A-N.
00:20:40
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Correct. Soft J's are a thing, thank you. That's a weird drink name though. Yeah. Mornings and Braves? Yeah. What are those called?
00:20:56
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I mean, yeah, Reynard, the morning was like what killed the entire nation of Kire. Oh, I was thinking like, you're going to get so hung over. Embracing that toilet till the morning. After a couple of minutes, Joerlyn does come with a single Skyway skewer for you. And the mornings embrace. I mind discuring for the listener. So I did this wrong.
00:21:21
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Like at a dinner once, what's the right way to offer to make someone a hand? Because at another dinner party with Boromarz, I said something about it and I did it wrong. Yes, I don't... I think the right way is after establishing a relationship. Maybe ask, do you miss it? Would you like one?
00:21:46
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after having established a relationship. I think the wrong way. Don't start with that. I think the wrong way is kicking that out in the first hour. Yeah. So after we tip him, don't offer to tip him that either. Okay. So I have to like, I have to be friends with him. Well, okay. First at any point that his missing hand or the fact that he is missing a hand comes up organically.
00:22:14
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And he doesn't seem proud of the fact that he's missing a hand. Then maybe, yeah, you could bring it up and otherwise I'd say, no, not today. Okay. And maybe let Milo get halfway through that drink and do it for you. There's also... There's always that possibility. It's not a bad impulse. It's nice that you want to help people. But if the first conversation is, I've noticed the thing I find lacking in you and I would like to fix it. Right. On you. On you, in you.
00:22:44
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Yeah, I see. Okay. Solid impulse, though. I don't want to take that away from you. Right. I hope that didn't sound patronizing. Paris asked. It's not patronizing, Paris asked. I can't think like... Alright, listen, your Fletcher's gone. What are we gonna do? What are you gonna do? Do we need to get it back?
00:23:08
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Can we get it back? Okay, so the first part of that is probably yes, and the second part of that is probably no. So it's probably just one of those things. Do we really need to- I think we don't need to get it back. We just need to get to it with one of your teleporter doikis.
00:23:22
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Oh yeah, mostly I just would like someone else to not have it. It was really more the thing. Could they even? I reminded that Hobb puts an unbelievable amount of stock in Aeris ability. Could they even reverse engineer it if they found it? Milhach made that really unimpressive one. It definitely didn't have any cool improvements or anything like that. And I took that apart and I may have gotten halfway through making a better version of it.
00:23:48
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Um, there's just like, honestly, there's the possibility that someone messes with it and explodes.
00:23:58
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And depending on the person, that might be a tragedy. But I don't really know what to do. It's not like I'm going to walk into a watch station and say, I left a weapon with a bunch of explosives. In pursuit of a crime. Yeah. And I just don't want you to get hurt when you start messing with it because it's also an explosive. No, you can't do that. Yeah, that seems. They shouldn't mess with it. Right. Yeah.
00:24:21
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should mess with things they don't understand. They're going to mess with it. Would you like to borrow the crossbow until we get it back? He already took that. She already took that from you. I thought it was gone. And it's not alone. I'm taking it back. What about the possibility of letting maybe Verla know that if it shows up?
00:24:39
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I mean, we are cold all, perhaps. What is the legality status of that weapon? We seem to have, you know, a very good in there. I think it's illegal. I just don't know. I don't know what you've done to it. It's got some blast discs. Right. Probably can't just buy in a shop. And there's a little bound airboat in it that powers it. That doesn't feel out of the norm. No.
00:25:05
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So I don't think it's illegal. It's just dangerous. I could, you know, I could get in touch with Verlek. I was just thinking, so I don't usually have people who just do favors for me. And Verlek does that. And I was staring at Eric, like, you don't have people that do favors for you. You're friends. That's not the same thing. And I'm starting to try and feel out
00:25:36
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When have I asked too many favours in rapid succession? But what are the odds that the weapon is unique? What are the odds that she's going to know it when she sees it? Oh, if she sees it, she'll definitely know it. Yes, so... I'm not worried about that. If she sees it, that's fine. She probably knows it and won't, like, poke at it.
00:26:03
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Like, so she's not likely to blow up a police precinct with it or something. Yes. But if it goes, we were in a different part of the city. So what are the odds that she actually comes in contact with it? Yes, this is true. Uralin approaches the table and says, sorry to interrupt anybody at the tape. My two gentlemen that didn't order alcohol, any of you strictly not drinking alcohol on the personal standpoint?
00:26:29
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unless you have a vase. I'm not sure what that means. I wouldn't call it a personal stand standpoint. I just don't really drink much. OK. There's a table that's wanting to buy a round of drinks for you all, and so I don't want to bring anything that's going to be. Hob, historically, has taken the shot. An inappropriate temptation for somebody at the table, so I just wanted to check with the two that didn't order alcohol. I was really kind of you. I'm set. Go ahead, and I'll take one. Sure. Fine. OK. Yes, and our lives are... is the term going to pot?
00:26:59
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I don't want to say s***. But you did. But he didn't want to. Going to crap. Yeah, I've gone... Less gone to pot? Yeah, that worked. Yeah, I've heard that. That's fine. Our lives aren't going well. I'll have a drink. Okay. But the best time to start again, I'll be right back then.
00:27:15
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Aerith looks around trying to figure out who else is buying a string. What have you done over here? I haven't done anything. So it's all I am drinking free on your largest. Really? There was just there wasn't any public lighting or running water or and then Lirinot came around and tried to like charge people for water purification. I fixed that. And then you guys helped me fix that for real. Oh, crap. Where's that go? Oh, it's just it's it's it's a cold rig, a greek, a greek. Right. Sorry. So the cold children. He's not here. I can't hurt his feelings.
00:27:45
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And a lot of the houses were just conditioned. There's a lot of broken roofs and windows. They didn't have glass in them. So, you know, little things. So, Aeris, as you can look around and if the rest of you are like, who is you notice that it's very much that like you see eyes like flickering over to you, but nobody's like openly staring as you're looking and you're like comes with a tray of drinks that are like
00:28:11
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little green green shots and says here you go enjoy these are from the table right over there and you see a table with a female human and a male half half elf the woman has like some tinkerer tools in front of her and she's tinkering with it looks like jewelry and the half elf man has a stack of books and they just give a nod to the table as yorlin walks away i don't even know who that is yeah you don't recognize either of them also
00:28:40
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Just as a side note, it sounded like you tried to combine the word half and elf into a new racial name, just half. Half. I'm like, I'm sold. I'm good. Cheers.
00:28:53
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to Eris. Sure. The superhero of where? Nighthower. High walls. High walls. It started strong. I'm sure you haven't did quit drinking. You're adhering yourself to Eris. I think I needed it. Yeah. Clean drink. Yay. Ooh, that was green. It's got a healthy burn to it, but it's got a melony flavor to it. Oh, so. Like Midori. Yeah. Midori shots. Midori on the rocks.
00:29:21
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Except for Dory doesn't burn. Yeah, I put up your nose. Sure, Trevor. Y'all don't even know those people. I mean, I certainly don't. Can I be really honest? I think so. I think so. Yeah. I want to leave before these people keep spitting their money on us. Yeah, I'll have a lot of stuff, it seems like, and I'm just... It's extremely kind of all of them. Or do you just want to stand up and be like, thank you, but please stop? Because you can do that. It'll put a lot of eyeballs on you.
00:29:50
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Well, that make people feel bad. I don't think that it will. I think I make them feel good.
00:29:57
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But... That I don't want them to buy me drinks? I feel you should accept their generous office. Are you drunk yet, Milo? I just think it's enough for tonight, maybe. How much of your mornings embrace have you drank? Like, he said it was a sipping drink. Has Milo been pretty consistently sipping on it? Oh, yeah. Milo's kind of... He's hearing what's going on, conversations. He's participating a little bit, but he's pretty much just concentrating on drinking. You feel a warm sense of...
00:30:26
Speaker
relaxation washing over you. You don't really feel like super like you don't feel like if you tried to get up and walk across the room, you're going to stumble over, but you definitely feel like things aren't really that terrible, like.
Unusual Calmness: Morning's Embrace
00:30:41
Speaker
That's what Milo needs right now. Yeah, so it seems that whatever is in this cocktail is having a very targeted effect on your mental state without really hitting your physical state too hard. Yeah, you need to enjoy that without saying it out loud. Because we'll ruin it. That's a very good point. Hey, some jerk over here is having a good day. Screw you. Which makes sense that Milo said, no, don't tell him to stop.
00:31:09
Speaker
Yeah, like legit, at this point, Hobson, we either need to leave or you need to tell them to stop by, you think? Right. Or we talk to, what's our waiter's name? Yourland. Yourland and say, the next time someone offers, tell them, thank you, but someone's already taken care of that for the night.
00:31:28
Speaker
Which is true. Which is true. I've got all I need. More than, in fact. He can signal over. He's just walking around, chatting at the tables. We did look at dessert, so. But see, here's the thing. I feel like we have enough money that we could just buy this place. That's very true. But we certainly have that, yeah. But we could die. A lot of people hate us. I think it's okay for people to show their appreciation. Enjoy the celebrity. Why'd I go? How many people are in the bar?
00:31:59
Speaker
There is Jorland, Silra, and Grumley as the staff, and then there are nine patrons currently in the bar. Reynard, it seems like you do... Milo, you used to own a tavern. How do you buy drinks for other people? How do you... What do you do? What's the etiquette? I mean, just...
00:32:22
Speaker
It's been years since I've been in a bar. It has not been years since you've been in a bar. We hang out in a bar constantly. I work at Savvy. Yeah. You just tell your server that you wish to buy a round of drinks. Okay. Because that would probably be also a way of saying. Thank you. Stop buying drinks. Right. Thank you for and thank you for your round. Yes. Yeah. All right. And so one last round on us.
00:32:51
Speaker
Right. Earthwaves. You're all in again. Yeah, we're gonna get pre-op. We're going to buy the next round of drinks for everybody else. That's extremely generous. And the staff, are they allowed to drink? Don't look at me. If it's okay.
00:33:09
Speaker
Yeah, sure. We're getting close to closing time. We can absolutely... Oh, when do you close? Honestly, when people start heading out, we don't want to kick people out, so... You can save yours for when everybody leaves while you're cleaning. Okay, sometimes you might have to kick me out because I used to literally live in a bar, and so I don't know when I'm supposed to leave.
00:33:32
Speaker
Good to know. If you're ever in here when I'm ready to head out, Eris, I will let you know. So just, do you want to buy a round of anything specific or do you just want to buy everybody a round of what they're already drinking? Yes, that one. Okay. Including yourselves? I'm good, thank you. I'm fine. I'll also mind though. I don't know if you need more. I will get you another ale. We have a One Drink Max on the morning's embrace, but I'll bring you an ale.
00:33:57
Speaker
That sounds good. I believe that's probably quite understandable, yes. Exactly. Is he acting differently? I'm just chill. He's super mellow. It's like he's high. Has the smoke on his head changed? No, it's not mood smoke. His drink has gone black.
00:34:16
Speaker
The other way around. And another Chiron Sunrise for you, Eris? No, I have to go work on a weapon that might explode, or I shouldn't drink anymore. That's a good call. I will put that order in. Whatever that costs. A round of drinks for everybody here.
00:34:37
Speaker
two gold after a minute or so as you see your land with a tray begin walking around and placing drinks there's grateful slash astonished slash taken aback looks not none offended but just a what looks that begins shooting over to the table and you see
00:34:54
Speaker
much to probably your dismay, Eris. Garin stand up on a chair and raise the drink that was just purchased. No sovereigns. To the fixer. Well, everybody in the bar says to the fixer. Absolutely. Sure. Well, happy about it all.
00:35:15
Speaker
and then potentially much to your even greater terror heiress the half elf bard i'm not going to get into the specifics of it but begins singing a song clearly written about the hero of high walls
00:35:28
Speaker
This is the hero called Jane. The hero of the man they called Jane. She does not walk over and sing at your table. Oh good. She is singing it for the tavern so clearly you can hear it but what's happening? Hobb is like starting to tear up. We gotta go. Oh we've got to go we've gotta go. Yaris is like trying to melt under the table.
00:35:49
Speaker
Hob thinks it's awesome, but it's really enjoying how Darius hates it. Like, Hob thinks it's great. So people have noticed, is what you're saying? Oh, people have noticed. People are appreciative. People have huggified you. Right, yeah. We should go. I think we should go. Right. Like, really fast. I've still got the nether ale coming. Alright, yep, alright, yep. Yeah, Gorilla walks up with Ural's drinks and puts the ale in front of Milo.
00:36:15
Speaker
I can drink it rather quickly, though, for you. And thank you very kindly. Do we have room for dessert?
Spotlight on Eris: The Fixer
00:36:21
Speaker
Anyone? No. Okay. No, I don't. I don't think so. I don't think so. Nope. Nope. We don't know. Are you sure you sound... She sounded pretty sure to me. She said no like 13 times. We have an ever-bright delight that is to die for.
00:36:40
Speaker
I don't want my drinks to do that to me. It's not, it's a dessert. I don't want my desserts to do that to me either. Thank you. Alright, yeah. Please, please come back and yeah, if you all have any thoughts on the food or drinks or anything, let me know. We have feedback cards there on the table, so feel free to fill them out, fill them out so we can make Soaring Spirits a better place, so. Eris's metallic fingers are drumming really fast on the table.
00:37:07
Speaker
Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Yep. And we get up and we go. Yes. We do. I, we leave a tip. Maybe you should sign the wall. The card and complimentary and loves the drink and errors. We've got to get a headshot here for you. Yes. The wall. And I'm proud of you. You've done offer to lend him a hand. Okay. That's pretty funny. I held my, I held back.
00:37:36
Speaker
Hob knocks their heads together in his signature move. Over the course of seeing Gorlin work and him coming up and bringing stuff to you all, it's very clear that it is normal routine for him. Eris didn't think he was struggling. Yeah. So you all get up and leave. Milo's still sitting there. While Milo very slowly nurses his ale. I have been out for this dinner on both sides of this. Eris is just sitting here with her fingers on the table.
00:38:04
Speaker
as Milo's wrapping up his ale, Eorlyn does walk over with one last box and slides it on the table and says, Gremly, we wanted you to have it to go. It's Arcane Truffles. Thank you, thank you. Arcane Truffles. Does that mean magic or old? Old magic. Oh, okay. Both. It's the old magic, Truffles. The old magic, the deep magic. Chocolate Truffles not rooted out by pig truffles. Okay.
00:38:32
Speaker
It's my trick. It's Grumbly's favorite snack. It's just some raw truffles. It's just some old fire and dessert. The earthiness comes from the dirt. So now we get another round? No. No.
00:38:48
Speaker
No, we're going. The song has stopped and people have gone back to other conversations and stuff. Oh, thank God. Okay, are we good? Finished? Yes, Milo, you're done? Yes? I've finished this. You're saying you're ready to go? Yep. Ready to go. Pass ready, Milo. You didn't. Very ready to go. I'm not sure you noticed what's been going on. I'm very comfortable. Eris is very uncomfortable. Ah.
00:39:10
Speaker
what oh yes and i have a feeling you'll be no less comfortable anywhere we go yeah your comfort does seem mobile yeah and so milo as you stand up having
00:39:22
Speaker
Milo, presumably, having drank to the point of intoxication before. Milo can hold his outcome. Yes, but what I'm saying is, as you go to stand up, anticipating a bit of what you're... It's a very almost unsettling feeling of the fact that you feel totally in control of your motor functions, yet your mind is foggy. Milo's high. Milo is high.
00:39:42
Speaker
Yeah, I was gonna say, I really feel like drunk is not the right term. Yeah, no. It's just... Father was just zooted and it's awesome. This is very strange. I'm quite relaxed, but I feel as if I can walk just fine. Awesome. Let's do that out of the door.
00:39:58
Speaker
Once we're in the boat, I want you to take your hand. I want you to weave it slowly in front of your face for a while. You're going to love it. Aerith's just like fishes in her pockets and leaves a tip of five gold pieces on the top. Oh, wow. He's a dip. And yeah, as you all are walking out, Raynard, you noticed that there's an elf sitting at one of the tables that is looking at you as you walk across the bar towards the door. Is it because you're with a local celebrity? I think so. Do you look at her? Yes. Yes, I know her. No, she winks at you as you walk towards the door.
00:40:26
Speaker
Yeah, I said, yes, I know her. I'm with her. Might be really unhappy later that you did that. Do I know her? No, you don't know her. She's swing to you. Trevor just got suddenly demure. I bet it's threatening. I bet it's threatening. Do I say anything? I'm talking to you as players, not as a player. You want to, I want to. There's always the possibility that she's trying to kill you. Yes, I'll flirt with you before she kills you.
00:40:55
Speaker
that's true have you never hang on have you never been flirted with before i mean with verla but that's you all know that wait no i sure you none of us do listen oh no i don't have a lot of experience with that but that's not flirting what happens with him and verla oh yeah no no he's no he is fully incorrect okay
00:41:20
Speaker
Me not much of a guy for it either, but I know that's okay fine here I go Hey to face the world hello hi there, how are you good? How are you? No you
00:41:41
Speaker
Eris just stopped halfway to the door now because she realizes we're not actually leaving. No, we're not leaving. Can I go get another ale, please? She extends her hand out to you, nerd. Nessa moonshadow.
00:41:54
Speaker
Lovely to meet you. I am Reynard Turnveil. These are my friends. And they're nice to meet you. The hero. Nope. Oh yeah, I've grown this for me. I know who the Fixer is. The Fixer? Oh, sorry. More interested in you. What brings you here? Other than accompanying your friends. I was checking her for a knife, like visually checking her for a knife. You see there's some little glass vials on the table near her with an open book that has some like
00:42:19
Speaker
Herbalism like botanical type notes and things like that. Oh, he's trying to get into essential oils. We're all ruined. She poisoned all our drinks. So do you live in high walls? No. Oh, we don't, right? You don't. Oh, I don't. You might be homeless. There's actually a chance you don't live anywhere right now.
00:42:44
Speaker
Good point. You have an apartment in Lower Memphis plateau that you live in with Arthur your cat. Where is he? Working.
00:42:53
Speaker
With the watch. Yeah, she's doing his dark deeds. It's probably with the watch. So what brings you down to High Watch? Oh man, Arthur finds lost things. That is a great question. I wasn't here for that conversation. No, we came to see Doctor? No. Oh, no. We just are here sometimes. They're afraid of lives here. We're just here sometimes. There you go. We came for the food. That'll work, yeah. I heard it was good. Do you want a place you can get a big salad?
00:43:23
Speaker
So it seems like you all are headed towards the door. Are you leaving? Yes, we are leaving. The fixer wants to leave.
00:43:32
Speaker
Oh, Raynard totally rides the coattails of people. You're looking at her dead in the eyes when you say the fixer every time, aren't you? The fixer? That's you. Whomps you may know. Whomps. So here's how to get a handle on this again. I also want to specify this is how I act when I'm flirted with. In life in general. So, name drop. I could be part way through another ale by now. You sure could.
00:44:02
Speaker
Hey, you drink the heavy drink, shut up. I feel like that's always true. There's nothing in time where you couldn't be partway through an ale. That's very true. It's fair. If you're back in high walls again sometime soon, you should come by my shop. Say hi. Oh, what do you sell? It's an apothecary. Potions, things like that. Lunar Essence is the name. So feel free to come by. Wait, her name or the shop's name? Her name is Nessa Moonshadow. Oh, that's what you just said. And her shop's name is Lunar Essence.
00:44:29
Speaker
Yeah, she sounds like a real witchy woman. Yeah. Thank you. We will. Yes. You seem like an interesting person. I'd like to get you to know you better. Oh, yeah. No idea. I'm sure I don't. You don't. Good night. Good night, Raynard. Turn around.
00:44:46
Speaker
Milo bows and waves at everybody. Oh, she is gonna steal your organs and then be so disappointed at their state. That's good, right? Yeah, sure. Sure. What do you think of the odds that she's from your house and she's here to spy and kill you? Fairly good. Okay. Here's the thing. I have no problem saying that someone would be attracted to radar's physical attributes. It's once they get to know him that they might change their mind. Yes, I think she regretted winking at me. This feels normal to me. Okay.
00:45:15
Speaker
There's something out there for everyone. Sure. Yeah. All right. Tone seems very pointed. Yeah, it is. So where are we headed, gang, as we leave the scoring spirits? Back to the cauldron. OK. Yeah, let's go hang out there now. Eventually, this has to get to me talking to Boom Rush, right? Or Gnar and Rush. Yeah, presumably the tail. And this is eventually going to have to hit a point of slumber more pointedly. Yeah, because I need to get that hit point back. Aeris goes in, puts the coffee machine on, and walks over to her workbench.
00:45:45
Speaker
shifts one pile to another spot and another pile into the center where there's basically just pieces of the mill hatch Fletcher and her own. You would also know all those probably up in the loft area asleep at this time of night. Or just wires didn't turn the music on. You also see that the harness
00:46:07
Speaker
Has it's clear that olives hasn't don't come back here every time I come back here. It's worse olives hasn't obviously she's held up her promise of not like trying to activate it without Eris round, but she's definitely continued construction of the harness And it says kill silence the demons on the wall. All the arms have red glowing spots point and they quickly like go quiet and like milos pulled out his little music box and he's listening to reynards tune olives is sleeping we think we might be sleeping
00:46:36
Speaker
Oh, well, I think it has to play before it stops. Yeah, you can't just stop it. All right, sure. I'm sorry about that. It's part of the design. 100%, like, rooming with Aeris and the sleep schedule that Philip has established that Aeris keeps, all of it absolutely would have created a silencing stone. Like, it has silence on her room when she's ready to go to bed. It's just a bubble around her head. It's noise cancelling headphones. Yeah.
00:47:04
Speaker
It's okay. She has a silencing thing up. It's fine. Oh, do you know that? I sense the magic. Eris listens to this banter for a minute and then puts her earbuds in. Oh, okay. We'll see you then. I guess I'm going to go home. I guess I will too. You guys need to ride. I've got the side con. You can ride behind me. Sounds very good. Thank you.
00:47:32
Speaker
Maybe we can stop at another tavern. No. Well, you have now followed.
00:47:40
Speaker
It is a good point. You're right. I do keep that there. Milo hides it from me sometimes, but I'll hide it. You find yourself, Milo, as this state continues, and this can be something that Randy can think about. And you've found yourself. Any anchors of hope that Milo has in his life, anything he's looking forward to or anything he holds on to as being a beacon of hope, begin to come to the forefront of his mind and start occupying his thoughts.
00:48:09
Speaker
mind is forcing you to focus on the good things that might be down the road or in your life, things like that. Is this going to be a forever thing? It's going to wear off, right? I want to know what Milo's thinking about. Is Milo's good things in his life like his honey across Zoriat? His stash of beer at home. His stash of beer at home. Right now, yes, it's his ale at home. And his wife across and potential somewhat child is kind of his child. It's very against tricky.
00:48:35
Speaker
It is very tricky unless we're making any further stops on the way home We can say that you all arrive home without incident or issue and go to sleep Eris Are you assembling the mill hatch version of the Fletcher? No, it's the Eris. It's the Fletcher mark 3. Okay just Based upon Listen if somebody steals your work
00:49:01
Speaker
Your what you do cannot be based upon their work. Tell that to thomas edison. Will I see him punch him in the face. No, iris is stripped out all of the nice clean Apple style look yeah that milhatch wasted his time with And has she's been carving a stock with wood and various so she has Reassembled a
00:49:30
Speaker
another version of the Fletcher. This one, the activated quality on it, instead of having a
00:49:37
Speaker
Blast Disc Launcher, she's taken the one thing that, the one good idea that Millhatch had, one, which was a burst fire function. And so it's activated quality is auto fire now. And I just want to pull back the curtain just for listeners who might be confused with which the rapidness of this, the heroic talents in Genesis, Signature Weapon specifically states that if it is lost, you get another one, like you're not mechanically without it.
00:50:05
Speaker
And so Philip and I had a conversation about how to handle the Fletcher stuff. And yeah, that's why it's not a episodes spanning quest to get another Fletcher and Eris is able to get a Fletcher quickly. And I will say much like the listener, I had forgotten that's what the thing was. So I was also surprised right now, like already. I mean, cool.
00:50:23
Speaker
And not to say that the previous Fletcher will not be used against us at some point. 100 people. Why? Why would you? He's already thought of that. Okay, listen. I know. I told you. I'm excited to destroy the Fletcher. I bet I can. Ooh, I bet. I bet. Hominairus have had a bet as to whether or not he can destroy her Fletcher and now he gets to try.
00:50:44
Speaker
The Ram shows up at the Fletcher. She's been working on this for a while, since we established that the Mill Hatch one had some interesting tricks to it. So she is...
00:50:55
Speaker
re-assembling the Fletcher with its own, her own little quirks. Most of the knight is finishing the elements of the stock and in laying it with some of the alchemical jade that she works and the little dragon shard that will power it. And it's decorated a little differently than the old one in some places. She's carved the little broomstick symbol for the cauldron into the bronze on the back of the stock plate.
00:51:24
Speaker
on the butt plate of the stock and put some of the additional things like that on it. Riddle me this, Phillip, and this is a very oddly specific question, so feel free to just make something up. What time did Eris wake up last, like the previous morning, around what time did Eris wake up? Did we do a lot of preliminary stuff during the day before we went on the heist?
00:51:50
Speaker
Because it would have probably been whenever she needed to be awake for whatever our first appointment of the day was. I know we went and talked to Jerome, but did we do... Well, you talked to Sigil before that. You talked to Koldor and Verla. They took Viggo. Then I think Eris went to sleep.
00:52:08
Speaker
woke up, met up at Lucas with everyone, then got the word from Sigil, I need your help, went and met with Sigil, went and met with Jerome, then went to the warehouse that night. So probably late the previous morning. So at about air starting work around 4 a.m., after four hours go by, or we'll say three hours, around, yeah, around 7 a.m.
00:52:35
Speaker
You hear an alarm start going up, going off, up near your room. And then you see the light in Olive's room. Come on. Okay. So like alarm as in wake up, not alarm as in something's gone wrong. It's not an alarm you've ever heard before, but yeah, it's not like a klaxon, like the whole cauldron going on lockdown and Olive walk out of her room as you react to the alarm and Olive is clearly still very sleepy in her robe. Go to bed. Yeah, right.
00:53:06
Speaker
Put an alarm on your bed. When you go 20 hours without sleeping, it goes off. Does that count? Go to bed. I mean, he's all stung. And he'll be here in the morning. All right. There's puts the work down and goes up and just face plants into her bed. Good night. Paris is out. And Olive goes back to sleep.
00:53:32
Speaker
And we'll call the episode there. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversations surrounding this episode, you can join our Discord, the link to which is on all of our socials, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, as well as the description of all the YouTube videos, youtube.com slash the geek pantheon, where I do all kinds of videos covering various tabletop role-playing games, player and GM tips, et cetera.
00:53:53
Speaker
And yeah, go check it out. We also have a another actual play that resides on YouTube, Kyber Shards, GMed by Philip, played in by myself over on the Laughing Tree YouTube channel. And we have a Patreon, patreon.com slash the Geek Pantheon. If you want to financially support the shows in any way that you are able, you can do so over there or you can buy merch at thegeekpantheon.com. Thank you all so much for listening. I've been your Game Master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. We'll see you next time.
00:54:23
Speaker
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