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C1 Ep. 125 Thrashing of Eras Chapter Two
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The time has come for the party to say their farewells and sort their affairs. They decide what they must take with them for the journey ahead, and what they must leave behind.
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Introduction and Cast Roll Call
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00:00:31
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D20 radio, your game is roll. Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I am your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. What happened last time?
Recap of Previous Episode
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We dropped off Prince Adol.
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And that's it. Yep. Barry, talk to the mayor of us. And then Dex talked to Barrick. So now we all know that what happened or what's up, which is a lot of stuff sucks.
00:01:20
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It's true. And a lot of stuff sucked for a while, but we thought we could fix it. And now we're not so sure. Beric was willing to try to fix it. It's been a while since Beric thought we could fix it. But you were willing to give it a shot. Sure. What else are we going to do? We also found out the Raven is after the last pact and we have to go find a dragon.
00:01:43
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Yeah, and that's where we're at.
Mission Briefing: Seeking the Dragon
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Yep. And we are currently headed to Fairhaven to meet up with Gerald to procure Charlie and Cassian. Correct? We have to buy them? Yes. Gerald, you jerk! I'm not entirely sure we should. Get Charlie and Cassian. Right. I think we
00:02:11
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Well, then it comes down to this. We have to tell them they're not welcome on our boat or we have to let them decide if they want to get back on. We present the information. Charlie, not Cassie. I don't think we have to let Cassie and decide if he wants to get back on the ship. No, you're right. Not Cassie. And Cassie is Charlie's responsibility. As much as anyone else's.
00:02:34
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No, you're right. We didn't want to take them to hunt a red dragon. Why do we want to take them to hunt an older dragon? Where shall we send them back
Planning the Journey to Fairhaven
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to? You can drop them off in Breland. I was going to see plenty of people who would be willing to take them in in Breland.
00:02:56
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I was going to see, I think we should, we should let Gerald take him back to Rowette and send word to Borneo or, or, or, or Rookin or whoever. What? All right. Or Paula. Sure. Is that where she is? She was at Rowette last time we saw her.
00:03:19
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She was in ROAT, helping to plan the attack on Skorp Reach.
00:03:36
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or Charlie could act as your proxy in Ms. Marsh and receive orders on how best to rule. I do have a house in Ms. Marsh. I don't think that's quite Charlie's speed. I never bothered with mine, but I suppose I have one in Ms. Marsh too. Let's uh... Who y'all has a home in Zendrick? I mean, I don't mind if we let them decide where they want to go. Let's ask them where they'd like to go. But I don't think we should take them with us to Arnold.
00:04:05
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You want Booyadoo message? And I don't know where we're going from Arenal, but I suspect it will be more dangerous, not less. Yeah. How about this? Let's, uh, we know we have a place for them in Char. We know we have a place for them in Ms. Marsh. Let's, let's shoot a message to someone in ROAT and ask if there's lodging available for them. If we were to send them there and then we can give them their three options. Sure.
00:04:36
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But who do we reach out to in ROAD? The King. Straight to King Borenel. I like it. I mean, the answer is going to be yes. I know. But. All right. Booyah. Would you mind terribly sending a message to our friend King Borenel, letting him know that
00:04:56
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We finally came to our senses that this is no place for a small boy. And we would like to send, if they choose to, we would like to send them to row at, is there some place he could put them up for a while?
Debating Charlie and Cassian's Involvement
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You figure out how to make it 25 words. Yeah. It doesn't use many verbs. Sorry, not you figure, you'll figure out how to make it. Booyah. Baranel.
00:05:21
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need born they'll take care Charlie and boy what what that boy name oh no oh no oh no it's it it's Cassian you're on a word count Cassian five left okay you take care of I mean
00:05:55
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Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. And then you can receive how many words back, 25? I think you can respond in kind. Yes. Of course, Booyah. If Charlie and Cassian need a place to stay, I will find accommodations for them.
00:06:24
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Simon, where's despair? Exo. Exo. If you need backup, I will find accommodations for them. Hey, uh, anyone know how long these messages... King say he'd think he'd help. Excellent. Well, back to Fairhaven and Will. Let them decide.
00:06:53
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Okay. Anything else we want to do on the trip to Fairhaven? Any conversations? Any? Okay.
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So after another hour and a half or so, you all find yourselves pulling into dock next to the roving badger.
Meeting Gerald: Mission Success Discussion
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And nobody's really on deck. It's pretty quiet. It's dark by this point.
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Um, the, the party has ended. Um, and it's, it's pretty quiet. So what are y'all going to do? There's some like go to document walking and keep like security, go to the roving Badger. Okay. That's where we left them. Um, there's one, uh, soldier on the deck, clearly keeping watch who stands up and approaches you. Good. Can I help you?
00:07:54
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Oh, we need to see Gerald. Oh, uh, Captain Hightower. He's, uh, he's asleep. He'll want to be woken up. Who are you? Barrick Rowan. Okay. This is showing my protector of the realm. This is Lord Lyle of Miss Marsh.
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and Booyah. He goes down below deck and a couple minutes pass by and you see Gerald in simple clothing walk up on deck. Oh, hey, I'm assuming everything went well.
00:08:38
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I mean, yes, I suppose we, we, we achieved, we accomplished, we killed the dragon. Good. Um, so what are next steps? We have to go find another dragon. Cool. Yeah. It's not like that's our thing now. It's just happens to be.
00:08:59
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What's next? So are you all coming to collect? We need to talk to them about their next step because this isn't really the kind of thing to take a boy on. I sent the soldier that woke me up to go get them. So it should be up here. I mean, are you going, I assume you're heading back to, you came from ROAD, right? Not Sean. Cause you've got a government. Yeah. Yeah. We're, we're in ROAD. So in the morning we'll, we'll head out. Gerald, if we,
00:09:28
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left Charlie and Cassie and on the boat, you could, I mean, like you got the space, you got time, you got, you don't mind taking them back
Contemplating Cassian's Future
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to row out with you. If that's where they choose to go. No, absolutely not. All right. And they could get from row rat row at easily to any of those other, I mean, miss Marsh has a rail station now and Sean would be easy to get to. So we have to give the ballista and all the junk back off the boat. Oh, we do start doing that. But what I'm asking is we don't have to ask Gerald to go above and beyond for any reason. Okay, good.
00:10:03
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Anyway, uh, all right, cool. Cause that they're, they're going to be heading back to raw with you. Um, okay. You got any fellas can help, uh, get your weapons back. Yeah. I'll get some people up here to dismount and carry them over here. You'll notice we did not have to fire any of them. So, uh, they're all should be in good work in order.
00:10:31
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the ground's coffers will be thankful. A couple that might look as though a dragon landed on top of them. And they are definitely bloody. That's because that's what happened. After a moment, the soldier walks back up. There was no reason to wake up Cassian.
00:10:56
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That's true. No, yes, there is. OK. Well, because Gerald would have assumed that they were going with you when they sent the guards. No, I was just thinking in retrospect. Yeah. And if you think that Dex is not saying goodbye. I didn't know if we were going straight on from right here in the middle. Fair enough. So after a moment, the soldier comes up with Charlie and Cassian and Gerald tells him, go wake some men up to transfer the weaponry back.
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And Gerald kind of looks at you three and sees Charlie and Cassie walking over like, um, I'll leave you to it and I'll go start orchestrating everything. And so Gerald steps away as Charlie and Cassie and approach, um, the late hour is less than desirable, but it is a good to see you all back whole and healthy.
00:11:52
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Appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah, we made it. So Cassian runs up and hugs your leg. Yep. All right. The next hostel is here. And he reaches into your bag. Break his wrists. The next step is not safer than the last step. Didn't think it would be. And we've come to be of the opinion.
00:12:21
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people below a certain age are probably not best suited to what we're intending to do. It's not going to get safer from here. Charlie, we can't have. We can't have Cassie on the boat. I can hide. I know buddy. I know you can. And you're great at it.
00:12:47
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Think though it's time for you to get to be a kid again. Uh, we're gonna got a couple of places you guys can talk about where you want to be. All right. Uh, you can board King Borneo has assured us that you will have lodging in row at, and I have to assume it'll be pretty nice. Uh, barracks families, a state, uh, just outside of Sean. Is that right? Yeah, it's, it's at first tower, which is right outside of Sean. Yeah.
00:13:16
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Just outside of Shorn, you know, another big city you guys can do. If you want to drive something a little quieter. It's a horse ranch. There you go. It's horse ranch. Oh, horses, Charlie. You probably are familiar with them. It's not who I was. Charlie, would you like to ride horses, Charlie?
00:13:39
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Oh, I think Dex has always thought Charlie might be an idiot. That's why he likes him so much. He's a lot of himself. Sorry, Cassie is. Third option is...
00:13:52
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We got a place in Mistmarsh and the people there are nice and y'all met Graham. She's there. There's two houses you could pick from. Probably they shouldn't live in your house because it was actually lived in for a while. We did. I did actually decree it needed to be burned to the ground. They may have done that.
Emotional Farewells to Cassian and Charlie
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So, so there's really just the one and everything's not everything.
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We will, we will secure lodging for you and missed one way or the other. Uh, those are your options.
00:14:28
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and Charlie, Cassian, those are your only three options. Do you understand that? I mean, unless, Charlie, you don't have some place stowed away, right? I mean, you were in storm reach and like- I, literally, if we were on our own, we would, at least in the beginning, subsist off of the considerable wealth that Cassian has amassed over his time on your ship.
00:14:57
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There is that hey, you know Cassian How much money do you have I Don't know I count to 200 and then I get lost How many times do you think you could count to 200 without recounting a single piece of gold I mean More than more than twice
00:15:31
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Probably more than three times. I am operating under the assumption that they're not getting, well, they've got stuff. They've got to get their stuff. So they're getting back on the boat. I have 50,000 gold pieces in my bag. Yeah, that's fine. I'm going to, no, I'm not going to do that because that's stupid. Hey, where are you guys? Talk about it. Let's head back. Let's get your stuff. You guys can discuss where you'd like to go. Soldiers have began filing past you to start getting all the weaponry and everything.
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All right.
00:15:59
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Uh, and as they kind of filed up, you see, uh, Gerald and craft are kind of standing over by the helm talking. Good. Crashed. Bear goes back to the ship to find Orianna. Orianna's got on the cargo hold. Yep. I gotta say hi to craft. I gotta let him know. Sure. Absolutely. You should. I know. I get it. I just have to try this again.
00:16:27
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Yeah, absolutely. Well, there's still, well, there's still a vote for her to go. This is really the last, this is the last one. I absolutely get it. Finish everything else you want to do in the RPG Orianna because this is the last step. Um, so you go over to talk to Gerald and Crast. I go over to talk to Crast. Um, Booyah follows. Yeah, Booyah goes to talk to Gerald and Crast. I'm kidding. I'm not kidding. Uh, I don't, I mean, I just, I think I'm just going to be like, Hey, uh,
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First. Hello. Christ. Hi, Dex. Uh, sorry about the circumstances that brought you here. I'm sure they couldn't have been the most comfortable. Oh, I mean, honestly, given everything that's, uh, that's happened and been going on, um, this is where I need to be. All right. Um,
00:17:27
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A quick fill in. I mean, Krast is aware of a lot. From the backstory of this. He was in the murder board meeting. Yeah, so I'm gonna kick out some of this stuff as much as makes sense to me of what Barak said.
00:17:45
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I guess I'll tell, I mean, cause we didn't tell Gerald, we told him we were going to fight a dragon. We didn't say, yeah, that's been masquerading as the prince. Yeah. So I, you know, I just kind of tell him a couple of things. I was like, so that's what's going on. Uh, Charlie and Cassian. And if Barrett gets
Emotional Roles and Decisions Dialogue
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his way, which it won't, uh, Orianna are going to be heading back with you guys and probably staying in row at, if I were to guess, uh, but, uh,
00:18:17
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war between the nation's front going on that we might have missed in the last couple, however the crap long we've been going. I mean, things are largely the same. Things kind of reset after all the Boranell dust settled. I mean, the people learning that Prince of Dull has been masquerading, or has not been Prince of Dull this whole time,
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anything on the whole
00:18:46
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will probably ruffle some feathers. It was really more of a born out ooze than dust. But you know, on Darren Thrain, want to kill each other. Carnath and Thrain want to kill each other.
00:19:05
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People are brilliant, want brilliant to win. It's the same. I'm happy to stay out of it and play babysitter chaperone in my free time freelancing. But no, I mean, this is, this is home. So this is where I'm going to be. I understand. You know, you're always welcome.
00:19:36
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get an itch to go do something entirely reckless and dangerous. Don't tell Boreno that, please. By always, he means right now or never. Yeah, fair enough. Well, I mean, he, he could get to the, that's fair. There are, there are ways. Gerald, you are too, for that matter, but. Uh, no offense decks, but there were multiple times when I was, um, with you all where, um, I,
00:20:08
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lost people that I love. And then the last time somebody that loves me always lost me and content to stay home. And I think that
00:20:31
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You all are more capable of handling this. And if truly this is something greater than you can tackle, and this is the end of all of us, I would rather have it end being at home with somebody holding the hand of somebody I love rather than holding my sword.
00:20:54
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All right. Well, can I just say I'm so glad that Barrick was not here. It's a good sense that, that, that Gerald speaking here, you say that and in my head I'm saying, and I also think that I'm not surprised at all at your decision. Uh, that was crass talking. Sorry. I thought it was Gerald. I lost a voice a little bit. Um,
00:21:18
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Yeah. If it was Gerald, it would have been Matthew McConaughey talking to you. Yeah. It would not have been a much different sentiment. No. Sure. That's true. Um, well, I get it. I wish I could say, uh, I agree. I agree for you. Of course. I would never presume to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. But unfortunately, I think I'm too deep in this.
00:21:48
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to not go through with it. Well, yeah, I have nothing else to do. And also, and also we're just so bored all the time. Uh, well, all right. Um, so I'm about to walk back to our ship with Charlie and Cassie and they're going to come back with all their belongings. Uh, I assume
00:22:19
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Man, that doesn't matter to me. They'll figure that out. Like how soon there's a place to put him? I don't care. Would he like to be Sergeant of Ms. Sheriff in Ms. Marsh? Who's that? Would he? Would Krasst? Krasst. What was his name? Rook and Son. I don't remember. It was something really mundane. Oh my gosh. Why do I feel like it was... It was reminiscent of Rook and... I have a character list somewhere here.
00:22:50
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Albin. Albin. That was not as mundane as I thought. Nor reminiscent of Rookin. Nope. I guess just back then, when these were all brand new names, Albin Ereclarn and Rookin Ereclarn were the same name to me. Instead of Alby, just send somebody to relieve Albin of his duty. I can do it. I'm the Lord. It's true. Blessed by the King. So I could absolutely install a new sheriff.
00:23:17
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Albin was kind of ride or die for you though. He seemed enthusiastic for us, but he never, I mean, it may just be we caricatured some of this from the first couple of sessions. We never got an impression of immense competence. You can be a good person and a bad cop. You can also be a good cop and a terrible person. That's not the point.
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So anyway, sorry, that was that was a derailment of my own making. I apologize. It's at that point in the conversation that Dex gets to where he's just kind of like. All right, well, and then just turns around.
Oriana and Beric: Choices and Concerns
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And Gerald was casting up on his shoulders. Gerald looks at Booyan's like, I hope that take care of yourself up there, Booyan. Just. Booyan do best. Be chill, man.
00:24:20
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If you're gonna go make some more Lincoln commercials If you ever need anything just Come look us up in Breland just outside of Rowette. We don't do that. We are thing Gerald always good Gerald always good
00:24:40
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Well, we're going to go die now. Sorry, I was thinking of the time where we learned that Booyah thought Gerald was the job. Yeah, his job was a G. He was a Gerald. You say the time Booyah thought that. I thought we explained it to him. Oh, we did. It doesn't matter. Anyway. Actually, does Booyah have a stinky? Eric descends into the cargo hold. Yeah. Real quick, give me a perception check real quick, Booyah, as you're walking away.
00:25:12
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19. 19? Okay, um. Wait, so I noticed this with my casting? You got casting on your shoulders, you walked away first, so yeah. I mean, you can stay in here to hear about it. Okay, Eric, I gotta go pee this one. Please sleep with me. Don't remember that, Eric. I gotta go pee. Tell your secrets. Wow.
00:25:38
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So what happened? I don't even know. I lost the thread. It was a perception check of 19. Yes. That's what happened. There's a shooting paint at your step note. I knew it! I didn't know it.
00:26:01
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No, you just you notice that as Cassian is picked up on Dex's shoulders and he kind of looks down at Dex in that moment, like you see that he's. He's on the verge of like crying and breaking down and like you kind of see him trying to put on a brave face because of the situation, but you can clearly tell Cassian is.
00:26:31
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on the verge of losing it. So that's what you see. Berg just sends him the cargo hold. All right. And she's got the spear and sure. Working on her forms. Oh, and it's the desert wind spear. So yeah, the wooden dummy that she practices on is on fire.
00:27:02
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That's probably, I mean, right. Maybe we don't, I don't, not on the ship with the fire. So here's where it is. The creature that gives the, the AA being that shares the power that I have is going to make a play to have it all, all the power.
00:27:31
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I have to head her off after stopper. I assume that in heading her off, I will then have to fight her and whatever army of minions she brings to the table. It's possible that in process of that, I also have to fight an ancient dragon. And I admit that it is limited, but my understanding of dragons is that older is more powerful.
00:28:03
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Do not much like our odds. And if we do those things, then we still have to traverse somehow into the realm of dreams and do something. And I don't actually genuinely don't know what. I have very low hopes for any of us returning.
00:28:36
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And there is ever so much of your life left to lose. I have learned that I cannot make you do anything. And I don't suppose I have much of a right to. Well, let's be fair. I could, I could put you off the ship, but I wouldn't be right.
00:29:12
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I don't want to see you die chasing this thing that I don't actually know if it's possible to achieve. I don't want you to see, I don't want to see you die because some spiteful immortal being lashes out at you
00:29:47
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Just in spite, Cassian's going. Charlie's going with him. The whole time that you've been talking, she's been still going with her forms and everything on that news. She stops because we can't take Cassian. You know, we can't take Cassian.
00:30:12
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things we're going up against, the ship will be in danger. We're talking about an ancient dragon. I don't know how or where we'll find it. And if we find it in the air, then it will attack the ship. And I don't know what that will mean. We can't, we can't have Cassian on the ship. It's not safe.
00:30:34
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Sure that you understand that. You're talking, she walks over to a small crate that's kind of behind some of the other bags and crates and pops the lid off and reaches in and turns back to you and she's holding a stack of papers. What are those? Here's the deal. The papers are the deal? Either.
00:31:00
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I stay with you, see this through and fight the fight on the big level to avenge. And perhaps I'm holding onto the hope of saving my brothers. Or I join her because she sets off for storm reach in a week.
00:31:31
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I'm sorry, what is the stack of papers? Mine is very, very, they're letters. Okay. It's the, it's the chief of letters. Okay. Yeah. Um, it's just a stack of correspondence that from power. Um, she encouraged me to stay because she's worried about you and she's worried about you getting too lost in all of this.
00:32:02
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But if you tell me I can't go, I'm on the front lines with her. I'm now... I said I won't tell you you can't. I won't tell you what you have to do. Let me ask you. You've been training
00:32:29
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been working with me since practically the day I got on this ship. So was she until she left. I'm not asking your concern for my safety. I'm not asking if you think I'll come back alive. I'm asking you, do you think based on what you've taught me, I am an asset in your fight?
00:33:02
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Am I going to be a help or a hindrance from this point forward? You are an extremely competent warrior. I have no concerns that relate to your abilities, which is why I cannot force you to get off the ship, which is why I won't.
00:33:29
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Because I feel just in not giving Cassian a choice. I can't deny you a choice. I don't have a right to. That's why I came down here to say this. It's all well and good that you're worried about.
00:33:57
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I'm worried about you. I'm worried about her. She's worried about me. She's worried about you. Everybody's worried about everybody. But at some point I need to know that you trust me to have your back. If you stay on the ship tonight, you're in this.
00:34:25
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There isn't, there isn't, I don't think we're coming back. I think if you stay on the ship, there's not an option. Once we've, once we're clear of clarver, I don't think we'll be back.
00:34:57
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I'm not asking whether or not you're going to kick me off the ship. That's not what I'm asking. And I know that you would never force me to leave the ship. I know that you're not going to tell me what to do, but as a member of this team, as somebody that has fought beside you now more than once, do you want me here?
00:35:33
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Because you asked me if you are an asset. The answer is obviously yes. You're extremely capable. You have skills that I don't. And for all his stealthiness, you're significantly better at being unnoticed than Dex. Of course you are an asset.
00:35:59
Speaker
You're trying to get me to say that I want you to be here. That's not fair. Of course you're an asset. But you're asking me to say that I want you to go into what I think is likely certain death. I don't want to go. I don't want Dex to go. I don't want Booyah to go. Of course I don't want you to die. So I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to say I want you to go with us because I don't want you to die.
00:36:29
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You say you want to be in this at a high level. No one else on this ship asks me to tell them they want me to be what I want them to go. If you're going to go, it's not my choice. It's not me telling you I want you to go. If you're going to go, you justify it for yourself. Fine. I'm staying.
00:36:53
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But before you dismiss Charlie and Cassian, give me time to write one last letter. He's been the one delivering and sending correspondence. Fine.
Cassian's Goodbye with Dex
00:37:08
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And Berwick starts to walk out of the room and then stops. When you write, tell her
00:37:24
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Tell her to stay alive. And he walks out of the room. Okay. Booyah sees Barak walk up on the deck and goes up to him and says, Barak, you want Booyah go do this?
00:37:43
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Barrett kicks Booyah. I'm having second thoughts. I need to know that you want me here. You really want us. Telekinesis, I can throw you off the ship. None of you are strong. It's a straight saving throw. You used to be. He took that away from you. That's right. Now I can throw you off the ship with my telekinesis. OK, well, anything else that you all want to do before
00:38:12
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You wanna say goodbye to Cassian or? Yeah, I think. You mean insight check, cuz you're carrying Cassian on your shoulder and. It is a, it doesn't matter cuz it's a natural one, a four. Okay, you're just living your life. It sucks. You're mostly focused on how all of this is affecting you right now.
00:38:44
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No, no, no. You just don't have a good read on where Cassian's at. Yeah, I mean, it's not like I spend a lot of time with kids, just because I liked this one. I mean, I spend a lot of time with kids. Or other people besides Beric and Booyah, really. Too very well-adjusted emotional.
00:38:59
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And you're really good at telling when Barak's upset. I mean, that's been proved. It's not like you wait until he's shouting at a sword before you're like, hey, are you all right? Hey, you know, just because I don't ask Tilden doesn't mean I don't realize it, Tilden. Fair enough. I've seen a lot of things I don't want to address in this world.
00:39:27
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All right. Guys, listeners, I cannot explain. The feeling I get when I really get Phillip might be the reason I still play Dungeons and Dragons. Because it's rare. It's like a drug.
00:39:50
Speaker
Randy and Eric actually think that I'm funny, so they laugh way more often. It's not a thing to get. Anyway, I think I'll tell Cassian as we're walking because I am whatever he's going through. For some reason, I am oblivious to that is clear. Booyah is watching all of this. OK. And I'm going to say. Hey, buddy. And Dex, Dex realizes it's presumptuous to even say this part.
00:40:19
Speaker
I know you had fun on the boat, but I mean, I had fun with you being on the boat. We had a good time together, but you understand why we can't bring you any farther, right? I mean, I, I thought I was getting good at sneaking around and
00:40:46
Speaker
stealing stuff and I thought eventually you were gonna start teaching me like how to protect myself and protect Charlie and thought I was gonna, you know, and he's kind of fiddling with like his little coin purse in his hand. It's like I thought that you might like teach me to be like you. Oh buddy. You can do so much better than that. You don't want to be like me. I say,
00:41:16
Speaker
Hey, you know, and I'm not, that's always been a bit of the plan for me. And there's no reason that it won't, well, there's as much reason to believe that we can pick the training back up as there is to believe that we can. I think this is the only way that I can properly say that. I can't say it properly. Uh, but.
00:41:46
Speaker
I'm going to ask you a couple of questions and you need to answer me honestly. All right. Are you as strong as I am? You're a lot bigger than me. I know. I know. I know. I'm just asking. No. Are you as smart as Barrett?
00:42:07
Speaker
I mean, I feel like emotional intelligence is underrated. Come on, come on. Trying to have a, trying to have a, trying to have a very coriander moment here, you dill weed. That's not true, I'm not. I couldn't if I wanted to. No, no. Use craft, use Booyah. I did steal most of his money. I meant literal manufacturing of things.
00:42:34
Speaker
or not, you're really, really, really getting good at being sneaky and hiding on the boat. But the hard truth of this is the boat's not safe anymore, whether you're hidden or not. It's not that there's something on the boat trying to find you, it's there's forces off the boat trying to destroy it now, potentially. We really feel like we're coming into that.
00:43:05
Speaker
The boat's not safe for you. It's not safe for us either, but we gotta do this and I can't make you and I can't let you. Why do you have to do it? Cassian has been hiding enough that he has overheard enough that I can just say, you told me, I think, I feel like Dex feels like. I mean, he would have heard the information, whether or not he- Oh no, I'm going to, I just wanna, I don't wanna have to explain things. I just wanna be able to say, now buddy, you know that this is like,
00:43:34
Speaker
The world can end if we don't. And I don't know why it's us. Believe me, if I knew the process by which it became us, I would have done something to divert it. But here we are. And it's us, it's me, and it's Beric, and it's Booyah. And, you know, it turns out there is literally nothing we can do about that. The only thing we can do
00:44:03
Speaker
Put on our bravest faces, do the last couple of things that might help us win this thing. Make sure that no one else we love gets hurt in the process. As long as we do our best. Big part of that is making sure that you and Charlie are safe.
Ensuring Future Safety for Cassian and Charlie
00:44:30
Speaker
Somewhere in Breenwood.
00:44:36
Speaker
That makes me a dry buddy. Um. He is looking at his feet and. Are you going to come back? Drama best.
00:45:02
Speaker
Here's what I can promise you and I'm going to use as soon as you say, I'm going to try my, my best. Um, you see his face turn around and start to scrunch up and you just, it's what my dad would always say. And he's just crying. I'm gonna be real honest with you. Cause you and me,
00:45:33
Speaker
Got a bond. Booyah's got it with us. Barrick's got it with us. Charlie's got it with us. And that's the bond to somebody who's watched somebody they love die. And that's why I can be real honest about death with you because you understand it better than a lot of people do. There's definitely a chance that one or all of us don't make it back.
00:46:03
Speaker
I'm not going to lie to you and tell you otherwise. I'm not going to promise you that I'm going to see you again. What I'm going to promise you is that if I survive this and I'm going to try my very best to, I will absolutely come to wherever you are. I mean, heck, if you're in Ms. Marsh, you might be in my house and I plan on going back there.
00:46:33
Speaker
And if you still want to learn stuff, buddy, I'll teach you. And if you're just happy being a regular kid again, then I'll just be your uncle Dex. And, uh, we can just play hide and seek instead. But I know that if you were on this boat.
00:47:01
Speaker
There's no way I could stay clear headed enough to survive. So what you're doing by agreeing and being tough and being, not being tough, being, being strong emotionally about not getting to go with me is you're helping me have a better chance of coming back. So in a way you're protecting me by being safe.
00:47:31
Speaker
and Booyah and Barret, we all care about you. Can you do that? Can that be your part of the fight? You stay safe so we have one less thing to have to worry about while we're doing our fight? And he nods as he uses his sleeve to wipe his face off and then he just, as opposed to the diving tackle hug that you received when you first got back, he just kind of goes in and
00:48:01
Speaker
very softly puts his arms around you and like just puts his head on your shoulder. When we get back to the boat and go down to my room,
00:48:15
Speaker
take that last bit of... I assume that you were on the boat. Oh, back where that went? Okay. Yeah. Then I'm going to go to my room. With Cassian, or are you gonna? I'm telling to wait. Okay. If there had been an opportunity, I would have already done this, but I didn't think about it. Get that. Can I interject while you go to your room? Because I, boo, y'all followed you. Okay. He was listening. Okay. So when you leave to go to your room,
00:48:45
Speaker
Booyah has a little conversation with Cassian. Okay. I want to say I'm only going to be up like 30 seconds. I'm going to get something and bring it back. Okay. So if you got, if you want to do it, do it. If you want to wait. Yeah, that should be enough time. Okay. Booyah has like tears in his eyes and goes up to Cassian. As soon as Dex disappears from view and just spins down and hugs him and Booyah do best. Keep Dex safe. Bring Dex back.
00:49:15
Speaker
Be okay. You really get most Booyah money. And he like giggles through the tears. He's like, I don't know what he means, but Charlie says that my foot's going to fall off if I keep eating as much candy as I bought. Booyah proud of you. And then he leaves and goes to his quarters. Okay.
00:49:42
Speaker
Okay, so Dex is walking back and in his hand he has that little swatch of dragonhide that he was experimenting on earlier. I don't know if I said I cut it in half or how long it is, but just give me this. He takes it and he's gonna tie it around Cassian's wrist. And he's just gonna say,
00:50:07
Speaker
I'm going to come back and get this is, is, is my dragon hide. You understand that, right? This is on loan, but you need to keep it safe, keep it clean, keep it on. Y'all right. Okay. All right, buddy. And Charlie's been kind of standing at a respectful distance and, um, you actually look and, uh, see Charlie and Oriana talking and Oriana handing Charlie something and them hugging. Um,
00:50:36
Speaker
What? I have to. Barak has returned to the deck and seeing that everyone's preparing to go, he walks over. What? Nothing. Give me the benefit of the doubt and see what you're going to do. I don't know what you think I'm going to do. I want to hear what you think I'm going to do.
00:50:57
Speaker
And Beric sort of kneels down. And Beric just has the hood pulled down low because the mask is kind of creepy and neither, so is his face. To Cassian, he says, it's been a pleasure having you on the ship, Cassian. I have enjoyed watching you steal from Booyah. That has been extremely pleasurable to me.
00:51:26
Speaker
I'm not sure where you and Charlie have decided to go. Two things. First, I think Charlie would think it was extremely funny if you started calling him Uncle Chuck.
00:51:42
Speaker
He's always thought it was really funny when I did it and I think he might miss it when he's not on the ship anymore. And the second is Orianna recently came into possession with something very nice and she doesn't need this anymore. And he takes from behind his back the half length silver spear that Orianna had.
00:52:08
Speaker
And, um, I heard them saying you were needed to, you needed to, you were looking to take care of Charlie and protect him from danger. And, uh, it seems to me that you can hardly do that, uh, without something to, you know, stab danger with. So, um, so here you go. And Cassie and kind of eyes go wide and he just reaches out and takes it and like,
00:52:35
Speaker
I whispered a fair, did you blunt the tip of that at all? No. My man. All right. Charlie's not going to let him stab anyone. Dax would know. He's not going to stab Charlie. I mean, Dax would know, I don't. There's like, because we never discussed it, because we never have money.
00:53:06
Speaker
Rich people don't just keep all their cash in a vault under their house, right? Like there are banks and... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, however it works to get 10,000 of these gold. Yeah, 10,000 of these gold. That's about a decent year's wage. That's a very good lifetime. Sorry, that's... You're looking to set up a college fund, essentially. I want for them to live in the way that they are accustomed to a storm reach. We can do that.
00:53:32
Speaker
With $10,000, that lasted a while. We can easily do that in Fairhaven. We can stop up at a Kandarik bank and set up an account. That's easy. I tell Charlie that's coming. I don't want to give him the cash because one, liability of carrying that much. Two, Cassian sticky fingered little crap head. That's now armed. No spear. I know. It's a stabby thing. I thought you gave him a knife a long time ago. Likely.
00:54:02
Speaker
Okay, anything else before? He did try to take Liliana once. I do remember that. She imagined him just dragging on the ground with four-foot-long hair. Yeah, I would have known if he had it. That's for sure. Because all of your hair would fall out and he would suddenly have... Something's wrong! Can we please canonize that that happened once? Oh man, that's good.
00:54:32
Speaker
Okay um so yeah that's that's definitely in the Dex and Cassie and montage yeah is just Cassie with suddenly cousin it just starts running away yeah that's what it is it's just a you know like a across the screen in back of me chasing Cassie with long flowing
00:54:57
Speaker
You know, no one else likes this that I have fun. No, that was wonderful. Fan art. Okay, so Charlie steps away from Orianna and approaches Cassian. It's about time that we go to bed.
00:55:22
Speaker
And he kind of looks at you expectantly, like the, do I have to? They're not staying on our ships, right? Okay. I turned Barrick and Booyah and I asked, I just say, you guys, you guys don't, there's nothing pressing, right? I can walk them back, right? Of course. Come on, buddy. Yeah.
Episode Conclusion: Future Speculations
00:55:48
Speaker
Go see your new bed. Let me swing the spear around it. Not really. I take it. I'm like, I'll carry this. And you see the soldiers have finished their work. And Gerald and Craster are standing on the deck kind of waiting to greet them. And Craster smiles at you.
00:56:19
Speaker
When are you all taken off? I genuinely don't know. Soon. Yeah. Like I'm going to go back and we're probably going to be like, Hey, before you hop on, why don't you go and untie us? You know, that's kind of where we're at. All right. Well, um, we'll take care of them for you. You know, I realized, do we know where they're going? I don't know where they're going. I say,
00:56:46
Speaker
Some of the choices would need for us to send word ahead. I don't even ask Charlie, because I know Charlie will be okay in any of these places, so I say, hey Cassian, you want to live on the horse ranch by the city? In the city with the king? You remember the king? Or do you want to live in kind of a small town? There's some other kids there. And Graham's there, and she likes to tell stories.
00:57:15
Speaker
And a big black house. And there's a potentially burned-down house. A very grumpy dwarf. And your Uncle Dex is the boss. That's the most bedtime story location. That sounds very, very sweet and appealing, isn't it?
00:57:42
Speaker
And what the hell, there's a horse there too. There's certainly a horse there. At least one. They've got a mill, they've probably got at least one horse.
00:57:55
Speaker
Cassian kind of excitedly turns to you and says, I want to stay with the king. Because he's fun. And also, Krasst will be there, and Gerald will be there, and it'll be a good time.
00:58:17
Speaker
and there'll be lots of people and I can learn how to protect people while you're gone so that maybe when you get back, I'll already have a head start on my lessons. I tell Charlie, I mean, you're fine with ROAT, right? I assume that'd probably be the one you were most looking forward to, but... Oh, yes, that's...
00:58:39
Speaker
The king sent word ahead to Gerald, I guess, and communicated with him that if we were to stay in Roak, that accommodations have been made. All right, great. Hey, do me a favor. Take some of that. Actually, you know what? No. You tell Cassian.
00:58:59
Speaker
that if he would like to start taking some combat lessons, some private training, some tutoring, and something like that, you know he has money. And that if he would like to learn it, it is his responsibility. And Booyah would be very proud to know that his money was going towards such a noble pursuit as learning how to defend oneself and others.
00:59:20
Speaker
How close are you? Because I said Gerald and Crass were waiting for you. Are you relatively close? I wouldn't have walked away from them. I would be surprised if I even got more than a couple of feet onto the deck of this boat. Well, as Cassian kind of moves on ahead and you hang back to talk to Charlie and are talking about the lessons and everything.
00:59:51
Speaker
Crass is kind of crouched down and is wrestling Cassian's hair and says, well, Borneau called ahead and asked if while he made accommodations, we wouldn't mind putting him up. So I'll be sure to take care of him and get him a strong swing and arm. You hear that, buddy? You could do a lot worse, learn how to fight from Crass. And it's working really hard not to say all of this time.
01:00:13
Speaker
You don't swing a spear, you don't swing a spear. It's not a swinging weapon. The more he swings it, the less he's gonna stab people. You're very wrong.
01:00:30
Speaker
We can get started in the morning, but you know what you have to do. But the morning gets here quicker. The quicker you go to sleep. And Cassian takes off down the road deck. Christ says, you know what you gotta do? There's an equipment down payment. You gotta sign this waiver absolving me of all liability. And
01:00:57
Speaker
Crast walks up to you and Charlie and extends a hand and says, good to see you. You too, stay safe. You too. Uh, and I shake Charlie's hand and I come, I've been down and I give Cassian a hug. Might be the first time I've ever hugged him that wasn't like playful, goofy, skamp. Yeah. Uh,
01:01:26
Speaker
I offer my hand to Gerald doing, I am like, I am not gonna cry in front of Gerald. And then I fall over. But you didn't cry. Gerald looks at you for a moment and then extends his hand and shakes yours. And then
01:01:53
Speaker
Charlie takes Cassie and below deck. And Gerald and Krast follow. And I turn around, click my deals, get away from that sad scene literally as fast as I can. How far away from these two boats? 150 feet. No, you're on opposite sides of the dock way.
01:02:30
Speaker
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01:02:53
Speaker
So please head on over there and consider joining our community and Yeah Once again, I'm your dungeon master Eric. Hey Dex. What's your strength score? Yeah As you race full speed up the gangplank you slam into an invisible wall of force from barracks telekinesis There's no
01:03:18
Speaker
If your strength score is not higher than the hands, then the Big B's hand score, you can't move through the space. My question is, there is no indication that it exists because my passive perception is ridiculous. As you approach, Barrett just goes, boom. And as I'm falling to my death off the game plank, just fall down. I can't still fly. It's levity.
01:03:48
Speaker
I'm Randy. That just got me right in the giggle. What? Right in the what? Have you ever heard of right in the giggle? No. It's my favorite. You're going to say it now. You might not. I'm not. You should. It's funny, right?
01:04:18
Speaker
We'll see you next time. Come on, just end it.