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C2 Ep. 26 Eberron Reduced “Retribution”
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The crew receives an ominous invitation for a meeting with Saidan Boromar. Has Viggo poisoned Saidan against the party? Will Hob and Erys have to answer for their actions?
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
Welcome to Eberron Renewed
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another downtime episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Mission Debrief and Workplace Woes
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We nice. Escaped.
00:01:38
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Yeah, we made it out. Finally, that was rough. What we needed to do. We got the fantasy truck started. Yes.
00:01:50
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Uh, we completed all of the objectives that Vigo gave us and we gave Vigo all of it and he paid us and it was fun. Nothing else happened. Nope. It was just fine. Nothing I'm talking about today. We're all satisfied in our workplace environment.
00:02:09
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No, because it actually doesn't need to be said that we're all perfectly happy with what Eric did with Vigo and the way he played Vigo. It's good role play. That's why I got upset. Vigo created a hostile work environment. That's what happened. We'll talk about it. We're going to complain to HR.
00:02:32
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Hob and Vigo had a dispute over Vigo's management style. That is a good way to put it. Vigo accepted criticism as exactly as a born on third base middle manager might.
00:02:51
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So yeah, Viggo let Hob have words before he stormed out. And yeah, so that's that's kind of where we left things off was kind of a glum tone in the for sales after a successful job with very little collateral damage.
Character Activities and Critiques
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Um, so yeah, we will go ahead and pick up a few days after that incident. Uh, once again, sitcom set up. None of you are at work. You're all hanging out in the spot that you hang out in. Sure, sure. Where we work. So, yeah, you all are at the for sales. Uh, let me guess, um, hob, you're at a table eating. Raynard and Milo are at the bar and Eris is in her booth tinkering with something. Yeah.
00:03:38
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Yep, that makes sense. Close. Hobb is still misinterpreting what happened the last downtime episode, and so he walks out of the kitchen with food towards his table to eat. Well, who else is here? Is anyone else here? Is it just us?
00:03:57
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Kath, Sana, and Sigil are also here. Kath is up the bar with Reynard and Milo. Sigil is at their back table with lots of papers spread out and reading a couple of different tones. They have not spoken to you all much about what they are looking into.
00:04:17
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a whole lot that they seem you all have noticed that Sigil has become rather consumed with their work as of late. And then Sana is also in in the kitchen. She she will occasionally help Ulfin clean, especially with the health inspectors that came by. She is very concerned that Ulfin is going to screw up and get this place shut down. And she likes it. And she wants to help Ulfin. She sees back their cleaning and trying to like make the place pristine.
00:04:46
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I think I was going to make a joke about how most of the cleaning is cleaning up after hob, but I actually think hob takes very great care not to leave a mess. She has to clean up when put that in here. Eris is attempting to build a little rolling disk that will float around and constantly cast Presta Digitation. So Eris is going to invent the Roomba. Excellent.
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to help with keeping the health inspectors away. Gotcha. I hope you have a doc because I think he's going to need to dump out like every 30 seconds in this. No, it doesn't because press digitization just makes the dirt go away. Oh, that's right. That's right. There's magic here.
Party Invitation and Preparations
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I mean, we just, we don't know where the dirt goes. It's like, the way we perceive it, it just goes away. There's some plane out there. There's a genie on the, on their plane that's very upset. So now there's some, there's some little critters in another plane that are living high off of Hobbs, like Leavings. So, Raynard, Milo, what are you all, are you all chatting about anything? Are you just sitting there in, in shared silence? Kat is there as well?
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It would not appear so. Raynaut, what is that there you're drinking this evening? I'm just having some wine this evening. It's late afternoon, by the way. This late afternoon. Well, obviously, it's wine, Raynaut. I know that it's wine.
00:06:30
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I was just kind of curious which which wine it was, but I know with you all wine is wine. OK, so you all are doing your various things in
00:06:45
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in the four sales when a halfling enters, not Vigo, don't worry. So a halfling with wearing kind of fine clothing, not like upper crust wealth, but you know, just what we would equate to a decent suit.
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Walks in with hair slicked back, a very short cropped beard and black hair, and they walk in and look around at all of you. And are you all are you all the crew that works with Vigo? I guess that all depends. Who's who's trying to introduce the name of our group? Yeah, right. I don't even remember the one that I said anymore.
00:07:39
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Oh, of course we have a loaded dice. I don't know what that means. Do you all work with Vigo? We've taken some jobs from Vigo, yes. My understanding is he's our- Okay, I was told that Vigo's crew was hanging out at this spot and I needed to go talk to them. Yeah, as far as I can tell, he's our new go-between. So yes, that would be us. What do you need? Okay.
00:08:01
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So, I am here to formally extend an invitation from Satan Boermaar to his estate for this evening. He is having a get-together with some members of the clan, and he has personally requested that you all attend to enjoy the food, drink, and he would also like to have a word personally with you all at some point during the evening when he's able to peel himself away.
00:08:27
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So I've extended that invitation and he has an actual written invitation with address and requisite information that he kind of holds out and gestures like, who would like to take this from me? That right here is fine. There you go. And so he walks over to Milo, hands it off to him and says, we look forward to seeing you tonight. And he goes and turns to leave.
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And if nobody stops him, he walks out the door and out of your lives forever. Who knows? Where was your name? I'll never know if I fall in love with him. OK, Milo. Do I need to go get my shirt? I believe I would. I would probably recommend it. Yes. Fine.
00:09:27
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So at some point between now and the party, Hobb does have to get to Paloma, not Paloma. I'm always going to get it wrong. Sabias. Has Milo been to I mean, is this a new thing for Milo? Yes, you have never been to Satan's house. All right. You've heard about you've heard about get togethers that Satan has, but it's usually with like
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heads of the various sub organizations within the clan because obviously like the clan isn't like one entity that consumes everything they do you all are a member of the the crime division essentially but there's like the
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more like military-esque part for like dealing with dask terrorists trying to come after the the clan there there's a lot of different groups and so you've heard milo of these get-togethers that satan has with the heads of these groups to a just treat them well give them a good dinner treat them to a good time but also he will talk to each of them get a pulse for how things are going because he
00:10:36
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He doesn't micromanage every facet of the clan. And so this is his chance to kind of get the pulse of what's going on within the organization. So you've never been invited to this. It's always been well above your pay grade. It's always the person that you've like reported to their boss got to go to this party kind of thing. So so yeah, that's what you know about this event.
Arriving at the Party
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Well, I would.
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Reynard, I've never been to one of these. This is going to be a new experience for all of us. Essentially, you will get to meet the heads of a lot of different organizations within the Klan at this party, in addition to meeting with Satan. So this is an opportunity to maybe meet some people within the family that aren't Viggo that would be looking for people to work for them. And that might kill Viggo.
00:11:35
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Well, probably not, but Eris sort of looks around. Hobbs putting on a shirt. Do I have to change? I was just telling Raina that I've never been to one of these events. They're usually reserved for people that are much higher pay grade than ours.
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Well, Raynard, last time I saw he was last time I saw Satan, he was, you know, butchering a cow. So, yes, but this is seems like a pretty casual gentleman. This is an event at his house, though. So that's a bit different. Raynard, sorry, Raynard, give me a knowledge society check, because you're sitting right there where Milo is holding the invitation.
00:12:28
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Okay, one failure, two threat. We should all wear clown outfits. Yeah. It's a costume party. Oh no, do we have to bring a dish? Do we have time to go shopping again?
00:12:42
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So, yeah, Raynard, you you take a look at the invitation and you can tell instantly because you're accustomed to being delivered such invitations for various parties and occasions like this. And you can tell pretty definitively that this is not like.
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upper crust, like super fancy. It's like the nature of this invitation tells you that it's kind of not a come as you are party, but casual, like business casual, not black
Mingling with Influential Guests
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tie. So as long as everybody's clothes are relatively clean, you should be fine with fitting in. So sure or not, you have any reason to question him.
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I was thinking we're going to go the opposite direction where this is black tie. It's like barbecue. Well, Eris heard the word relatively so.
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I'm still gonna get his shirt just because he doesn't know and it's not gonna, he knows this, wearing a shirt will not offend anyone. Yes, that's true. Rarely, rarely will wearing a shirt offend somebody. There's that one shop in town that's no shirt, no shirt or no service.
00:14:04
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Like, Raynard, you could pretty easily communicate. You know that what you're wearing right now is perfectly fine to wear tonight and probably what Milo is wearing. You could tell Milo, oh, you're you're fine in terms of what you're wearing. OK, then I will communicate that. OK, Eris takes that as permission not to change. OK, now that we've covered the very important, what are we wearing aspect?
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12 minutes. It's the most important. Now when you buy an outfit and do a shopping montage for which Eric will find appropriate 90s music. God, we're the worst D&D players. We're not playing D&D, so it's OK.
00:14:50
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Yes, we're terrible D&D players, but we're great Genesis players. So yeah, if you all don't have anything else that you want to do, we can cut to the party. Rainard, you can just tell without the need of a check. This is not a potluck affair. This is not a unity dinner. You know that nobody needs to bring anything to eat. So yeah.
00:15:14
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It would have been funny to have you roll so you could be like Michael Scott. David Walsh's house that brings potato salad is our entire crew joining us for this event. All seven cats on and sigil will be joining you. Heck yeah. It's it.
00:15:30
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You got it was made clear through the tone that your crew is invite. Your entire crew is invited and expected to be there. So. OK. They will be attending despite sigil. Not once. That was the one I was mainly wondering about is whether. Yeah. Whether we were going to get sigil to come. Yeah. Where is sigil living right now? Hmm.
00:15:56
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There there was like makeshift temporary housing set up near the the warforged housing that for those whose rooms were damaged in the explosion. So he sorry. So they've been just staying in there while the repairs are ongoing. So basically a nice tent with a cot. So that's that's a living situation currently.
00:16:26
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OK, so and repairs are being done to the apartment. Yes, but.
00:16:35
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It's not it's not high priority, so it's being worked on. But then if something else comes up that the city's resources need to be diverted to, they're diverted to that until that's accomplished and then they will come back and continue repairing the warforged housing. So, OK, like the walls have been erected. So there's not it's not exposed to the elements yet, but they haven't repaired the interior floors and walls and things like that. It's kind of the stage that they're in at this point. So.
00:17:02
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How illegal would it be for Aeris to have been spending her afternoons hanging drywall? I mean, nobody's going to like it might be illegal. It might be against code. Nobody's going to care. So. I so declare. OK. All right. So anything else before we head off to the the not at all fancy dinner party? Aeris will go get Tasha.
00:17:34
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OK, so it is a couple hours from now before you all need to arrive. So Aeris can go get Tasha once. Fair enough. Aeris will wait in the car. You know who arrives early to a party? Close friends. So you arrive to a party early. Become a close friend.
00:17:54
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Okay, so so yeah you all hop into Tasha Head up to not the upper upper part of the city. This isn't like sauna and cats parents upper level It's it's where like
00:18:09
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Sharn city councilors and the the well to do, but not opulently wealthy people live that that level is of the city. So I know we have said that one of the Boromar clan is on the city council. Is it Satan who is Satan's daughter? Satan's daughter. OK. Yeah. So. Yeah. Elira. So, yeah. So you all head up to the.
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the Boromar estate and it's a nice house. It is a couple stories tall built into the side of one of the towers. You can tell it's original sharn tower stonework. So that is kind of a big deal. It's very structurally sound. And there's a kind of edifice of a much more
00:19:02
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traditional kind of house kind of stuck onto the stone. So it looks like this house goes into the stone almost. But Eris, with your background in building stuff, you can tell that it is just an edifice where the windows are built in such a way to where they just have a facing on the stone windows that are built into the tower. OK, cool. So.
00:19:22
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So yeah, you see as as you pull up, Eris, are you driving or is it driving? Eris is driving. And I will say this being it in Eris is one.
00:19:35
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Adaptation to formality is Eris's goggles are put away. They're in one of her pockets or something, as are her gloves. And she has changed them for a pair of black opera gloves that she has altered to remove the finger to the ends of the fingers on. So they're now half fingered opera gloves. I mean, nice. Everything Eris wears, you can buy at Hot Topic.
00:20:03
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So, yeah, you all, Eris, you're driving up and you see that there is a line of of sky coaches waiting to pull up to the valet at the front of the the estate. And that's probably the first moment that you all rain art, especially begins to realize, oh, no, a terrible mistake. I may have made a mistake in my estimation of the level of fanciness for this party.
00:20:31
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Should we? Is there is there a way to walk up to this building? You could go find another air dock to park at. You probably have to pay for parking and then walk over if you want. So it's just a question of whether or not the amount that you're going to tip the valet is greater than what you would pay for parking and the convenience. You know, it's a whole thing. So.
00:20:56
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So that's like a no, or should we? Yeah. Should we should we park park somewhere and walk, walk over or what you think? I'm fine with the parking. OK, you you all find a parking spot easily enough and well.
00:21:21
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easily enough in the description. We're not going to role play finding the parking spot. So, yeah, you all are able to pay the fee. It's a real surprise. Yes. Let's get a roll. I believe Aeris can cover that. Let me double check, but I'm very pretty sure.
00:21:38
Speaker
Yeah, so five copper pieces and you all are able to walk to the party. Yes, I will cover that. You all you see people heading in. Not a not a huge amount of people. It's not like a gala or something, but you can see that there are.
00:21:59
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There are reporters from various newspapers standing around trying to talk to people entering the party. You see some people have stopped and are chit chatting. It seems like there are some members of Sharn City Council here and you. Yeah, there there are some important people here at this party.
00:22:19
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And how are the outfits on the red carpet, Eric? They look very nice and very fancy. Oh, good. In fact, I put my shirt on. The majority of them are not just dressed fancily. And Raynard, this is the moment where the blood kind of runs from your face because they're not just dressed fancy. Most of them are wearing glamour weave, so they have like
00:22:43
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magical illusions coming out of their outfits. This is like... This is the Hunger Games capital. When you really want to show off kind of thing, you all are woefully underdressed for the event. You realize as you're walking up. Reynard, I thought you said we were dressed appropriately.
00:23:09
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Yes, we are dressed appropriately. The invitation, however, was not. Maybe everyone else is just overdressed. It was not dressed for the occasion. Oh, what was that voice? I don't know. It was not dressed for the occasion. I don't know. It's been five weeks. We're all finding them again.
00:23:36
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But, Raynard, you can take some small comfort in knowing that more than likely, even if you knew the state of dress at this party, none of you could have afforded to buy a new Glamour weave outfit. Like, your boss does not pay you enough to buy that kind of clothing, so.
00:23:56
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OK, so you all can approach the party. There there's a line of people showing their invitations to the guards at the door. And yeah, so nobody, none of the reporters or anybody is really clamoring to talk to any of you because they don't know who you are. So you all are able to walk up without any any kind of incident and are able to enter the party just fine.
00:24:24
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So yeah, as you all enter, you see that the actual amount of people in the main hall of Satan's home is not nearly as crowded as you perhaps thought walking in even. There are
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just a like a dozen people total here. It's a very small party and a very small get together. And you see you can spot Satan at one section of the party talking with a couple of individuals.
00:24:59
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And you also see Vigo in another corner. Looks to have had a couple of drinks already before the party and is standing around laughing with a couple of other halflings. And there's a relatively tall human with shortcut blonde hair standing near Vigo with a very serious look on his face.
00:25:21
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But there's other figures kind of standing around mingling and you you all do spot the you never got her name, but the receptionist at no, no, no, no. The Jeff's eyes got huge. I didn't actually think it was going to be her, but I was kind of hoping it might be her.
00:25:48
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The receptionist. Yeah, the receptionist that was at Boromar HQ. OK. When you first met Satan, who is just kind of of standing around, not really talking to anybody, she's kind of standing on her own halfling woman, light red hair. So, yeah.
00:26:09
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And Norse and Millhatch is nowhere to be seen, right? You do not see Norse and Millhatch. You do not see Salomon Calloway. You do not see Posey. Yeah. How many of those people are how many of it's how many people here are Boromar's?
00:26:26
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The the you would say at least 50 percent of the people present are our halflings as far as you know. OK. Well, not as far as you know. You know, they're half. I'm not sure if they are or more. Right. I'm trying to clock just how ridiculous Hobb looks being underdressed and towering over over half of the. Yeah, there's already nobody nearly as tall as you. Fun. So she she sees you all walk in.
00:26:55
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And she kind of like perks up with a drink in her hand and kind of waves you all over to where she's standing. Yeah, Hob's going to go. If he only knows this, if he's only ever met this woman in Vigo and it's a choice to talk to one of the two of them, Hob's going to take that invitation, did not have to go to Vigo right now. Yeah. So Hob's like, oh, oh, it's lovely to see you again.
00:27:18
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Oh, hi. Yes. Great to see you all. I was I was told to keep an eye out for you all by by Mr. Boromar to to welcome you to the party. He's obviously mingling around and isn't isn't able to to greet you at the door with a warm welcome like you would want.
Etiquette and Introductions
00:27:35
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But did you all have have difficulties finding the place and she's looking at all of you? No, it was clearly indicated on the invitation.
00:27:48
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Good, good. Well, I don't believe any of you have been to one of these events before, but it's a good place to meet people, to mingle. Mr. Boromar will be available here in a little bit. People are still arriving, so you understand that he needs to do circles to have FaceTime with certain individuals as they arrive. And she realizes what she just said, and so that's not to indicate that you aren't
00:28:16
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and important enough for him to talk to just you that there are people that would be upset. And I feel like you all are understanding of the situation and it's hard to put a hand out. We totally understand. Yes, Vigo's made it very clear where we stand. OK. That was hard. No, we we we completely understand. Thank you for telling us a little, making us feel a little more welcome.
00:28:45
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Hob looks around the seating situation. There's Hob's supportive seating here.
00:28:54
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These are important questions. Yeah, actually, you can tell that there's not like there's some people standing around with like plates in their hand and drinks. So there are buffet tables set up along the walls of the room. And so this isn't like a formal sit down dinner. This is very much kind of like a cocktail party. Right. Get your plate, walk around, mingle kind of thing. So. There's not a whole lot of seating anyway. OK.
00:29:25
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This is something I've actually thought in Hobbs experience him sitting down makes him much more approachable since he spent so much time with halflings. It's just like they don't want to crane their necks to talk to me for 10 minutes. So I was gonna go grab a plate and a seat but it's fine. I'll figure it out. I'll just you know what? It's not my problem. I was born like this. Yeah.
00:29:45
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So do you have any questions for her or anything like that? But she just kind of tells you, well, feel free to mingle and get to know people. Obviously, Viggo's here if you have some reason to want to talk to him. But yeah, there's lots of interesting people here to get to know.
00:30:02
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Uh, can I roll? I want to catch if she's going on where it said or if she also does not like Vigo. This is a thing. Can I? Is there a. Yeah, we can do a perception check. OK, I'll give you a boost die because she is not attempting to hide how she feels. So go ahead. Good, because I'm not one purple difficulty. All right, this should be fine, but it's not. It should be. It should have been fine.
00:30:29
Speaker
It's a failure. Yeah, one failure. So, yeah, you're you're not sure. I picked up on that, but I don't I didn't get anything more. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. You don't know quite how to interpret it. Yeah. Do you all do you have any questions for her? Milo is looking around and just kind of looks closest place for a drink. I'm sure Reynard would like to join me for one.
00:30:58
Speaker
Oh, yes, through that door right there. And there's a little side door leading off of the main hall. There's just around that corner, a bar set up with somebody there that can can serve you drinks. And yeah, there's there's some other people hanging around the bar as well. Thank you. You're very kind. Raynard, shall we? Yes. He puts his hand on Raynard's shoulder. And says he doesn't do this to Milo because Milo and Satan are boys, right? Because Raynard. Hmm.
00:31:28
Speaker
Later this evening, we will be talking with Satan Boromar, and you need to be able to do that. Do you understand? Yes. Let's take what you were thinking of consuming tonight, divided by half. Enjoy your evening. Save me a dance. He kicks him in the bottom of my head.
00:31:58
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Sarno, would you like to join us? Oh, uh, sure. Yeah, I'll go get a drink. What were you gonna say, Raynard? I was gonna say, as Raynard always does, mumbles under his breath after Habus left. As far as Raynard's gonna, Habus is just like a real buzzkill, huh?
00:32:23
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Well, it's more of a when you're in my face, I was intimidated and I wasn't going to say anything. But when you walk away, I'm like, you're free. Your brain's got a show on it. OK, so so, yeah, Raynard, Milo and Son are headed to the bar. Eris Hobb, do you all have any any more questions for this woman or?
00:32:51
Speaker
What's your... I'm trying to think. Eris doesn't know what to do with this particular social setting, so... I think Hob's gonna try radical honesty. Okay. He's gonna say, um... You know, I'm sorry, but we never... I don't think we ever got your name. Oh, that's... that's fine. My name is Mira. Mira, I need to be honest with you. I am not a... mingler.
00:33:23
Speaker
Could I ask, would you mind being a bridge for me and perhaps introducing me to someone here? Sure. I've got no preference. Just to talk to someone.
00:33:37
Speaker
Well, yeah, I can I can tell you like other members of the clan that are here. I don't really know like the city councilors or anything, but I know people in in the clan. So over there and she points to a group of people standing around and you see a human woman with gray hair, but seems relatively young to have totally gray hair.
00:34:02
Speaker
standing there, she's about five foot four and she has a large scar running down the left side of her neck. And she's standing around kind of laughing as a warforged soldier who's sitting at a small table is arm wrestling people. And it seemed they just seem to be having a good time. She says so that is Nessa Faber.
00:34:29
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who is the head of the goals, part of the clan, and her second command, Hutch, is the warforged sitting there. Over there, we have Lissa Boromar, that's Satan's cousin. She now runs the Ravens, which runs the illegal gambling circles and helps fund members of the clan and her second Dell.
00:34:56
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And then over there we have Tarvel Boromar, and you see a like a really rough looking halfling man who has auburn hair that comes down past his ears and like a thick long beard. And if you just saw him in the street, you might think he was just a short dwarf like he looks like a dwarf, but is halfling sized.
00:35:24
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and his son Corin, they are members of the Peerlads who run docking smuggling operations at the various docks in Sharn. So those are kind of the groups that you might have something to, and there's also Vigo, those are the groups that you might have something in common to talk about.
00:35:44
Speaker
Talk, talk with something about so I mean, it just depends on what type of group you would like to go talk to own and there's at the the bar where your friends are heading. There's Lady Briar who is overseer of the Delvers who are scavengers that that pick through things down in the cogs and lower in the city to try and find things to sell.
00:36:06
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Um, just really quickly, the only one you didn't expand upon was the goals, because I think it was after you said them, you realized I wouldn't have any idea what you were talking about. So if you tell me what the goals do to see if that's because I'd like the idea of hob going to the, that those two people, but so the goals are
00:36:23
Speaker
I'm reluctant to use this word, but I think it's the most fitting. They're the military division of the clan. So they're the ones that go deal with Dask when they try to harm clan members or try to take over turf of the city. And actually, fun fact, most of them are our last war veterans that
Clan Leadership and Military Division
00:36:45
Speaker
Basically, most of the Sharn City Watch is made up of last war veterans, but they call themselves the goals because it's a play on how city watchmen wear copper badges, and so a lot of people call them cops. They shortened a goal from gold because they would rather have gold in their pocket than copper on their chest.
00:37:07
Speaker
So they they are they they work for the clan is our military police there. There are our muscle, I guess, for lack of a better way to put it. So it's not it's not goals. Like G.O.L.S. Goals and Eris, you notice when you glance over at Hutch, the warforged arm wrestling, Hutch is wearing a tunic of Kyron colors.
00:37:36
Speaker
He like if you were to just if you would have seen him five years ago, you would have thought, oh, there goes a pirate soldier. So what's the entertainment situation like? There's some some light piano music being sent through some kind of system set up to project sound in this space. But you don't see anybody playing an instrument. Somebody just got their got their iPod running. Right. Yeah.
00:38:06
Speaker
Um, got the Bluetooth speakers. We made a playlist and, um, so is, is there anybody in particular you'd like me to introduce you to? I was really into that warforged talk until, uh,
00:38:20
Speaker
I don't like the militaristic thing. Probably the smugglers. Sure. That gentleman over there. Sounds like we might have to be able to trade some stories. Yeah, sure. I'll go introduce you. Eris, Kath, are you coming as well? For the moment. Eris will follow because I'm not sure.
00:38:45
Speaker
Hello everyone, Eric with a quick production note here. I just wanted to let you all know that I know early in the episode, I said that Kath, Sana, and Sigil were all attending this event with the PCs. However, for some reason, my notes, I only wrote down that Kath and Sana were coming. So if you all find it odd that I'm not mentioning where Sigil is at at the party, it's because my notes betrayed what I said earlier in the episode. So apologies about that. Sigil's just
00:39:13
Speaker
mingling about and nervously standing against the wall, not talking to anybody. So that's what Sigils doing. Once again, they would have done more, but I I messed up my notes. So just wanted to let you all know. So there wasn't any confusion. And thank you. And I hope you enjoy the rest of the episode.
00:39:31
Speaker
Kath says, I'll catch up with you all later. I have to go see a warforged about some money. And she kind of flexes her arm and starts to walk over to the goals. We'll get to your introduction. But first, Raynard, Milo and Sana rounded the corner to the bar area and you see a halfling bartender working
00:39:54
Speaker
sees you all walk up. There's a couple of people standing at the bar and yeah. So Rainard, Milo and Sona, I assume that you all walk up to the bar and Sona order. Sona actually orders just a club soda. She's trying to keep things above board tonight. So Milo, what are you ordering? I'll have an ale, please. Ale. OK, got that.
00:40:22
Speaker
And he makes your ale real quick and gives it to you and looks to Reynard. What can I get for you? Whatever's strongest. And you hear a voice to your left because you were on like the end, Reynard, walking up. You hear a voice go, hmm.
00:40:42
Speaker
a fellow elf after my own heart. And she looks at the bartender and says, my tab. And he's like, OK. And so he grabs a shot glass and pours some vile liquid that kind of smokes a little bit into it, but is as black as night. And it's like strongest stuff we got. There you go. And now Ray, please go easy. Hmm.
00:41:14
Speaker
Oh, your friends sound like they're no fun. And you look- They aren't. They aren't at all.
00:41:23
Speaker
You see a black haired elf woman who has kind of light streaks of gray, like almost silver running through her hair. And she looks very refined. She's she's not wearing glamour weave, but she is dressed very elegantly. Raynard and she she looks like she
00:41:48
Speaker
She has that air of mystery about her that tends to draw people in. And she holds out her hand and says, Lady Briar. Well, Reynard Turnbull. Nice to meet you, Reynard.
00:42:08
Speaker
And she says, so what brings you here tonight? And Milo, you and Sana are just kind of completely cut out, like Raynard has fully turned away from you at this point to talk to this woman. Well, I do believe we're somewhat of a special guest this evening. Oh, a special guest, you say? Yes. Well, who invited you?
00:42:36
Speaker
Well, um, Satan himself. My. You must be special individuals then. And she looks at, um, Milo and Sana and says, could have fooled me. Milo raises his mug to her. Hello. And she just kind of regards you, Milo.
00:43:07
Speaker
Good evening. Can I help you? Just a nice little greeting. I hope you have a wonderful evening. You too. And she starts walking away. Rainard chugs whatever's in that glass. Oh, she's not walking away. She she turns back. OK, well then never mind.
00:43:36
Speaker
She turns back to you, Rainard, and says, so what do you do for the clan? Well, I surely don't associate with people who are being so rude to my friends. Oh.
00:43:57
Speaker
apologies. I'm at no offense. It's just you seem to be a very capable and upstanding individual. And you were impressive. Apologies if I've offended you. Well, that apology doesn't belong to me. I believe it belongs to my friend here behind me. And she looks around Reynard at Milo and
00:44:25
Speaker
Um, she nods at Milo and says, apologies. I meant no offense. Um, I just was taken aback, uh, by, um, my, my friend hanging out with a, uh, or my, my new friend spending time with a member of the family.
00:44:45
Speaker
Oh, well, I assure you I'm not a member of the family, and no need to apologize. No offense was taken, but I will assure you that it is not simply the attire that makes a person, and
00:45:03
Speaker
All of us are a well-rounded team. Oh, well, uh, you're not a member of the family. Well then, uh, and she looks at the bartender and says, uh, drinks for them on my tab as well. And she smiles. Interesting. So how strong is that stuff that rain our drink?
00:45:21
Speaker
You asked for literally the strongest stuff they had, and this is a world full of magic. So, yeah, when when the the wis a smoke hit your nose, it was like it was like somebody cast fireball in your brain. It was just like, whoa. So you don't even have to drink it. You're getting drunk just off the vapor wafting off of it. You're not drunk, but you are definitely like you feel it burning in your stomach a little bit. OK.
00:45:50
Speaker
Well, now and the bartender says, now, don't order another one of those. Those are meant. That's like a minotaur specialty from Joam. Like they only drink it. I heard it's poisonous to other people. So helpful now. Frankly, you should be dead. You asked for the strongest thing I had, and that's that's what I had. I don't know why I have it. We never have minotares. Anyway. Well, thank you. I can feel myself feeling it.
00:46:20
Speaker
This bartender was like, I don't know, he said strongest, we have turpentine. I, uh... It's not a drink, but it... I feel, I feel... I'm bound by the customer. Feeling it, yes. You feel myself feeling it. He's getting drunk. Oh, stand it. That's a standing drunk talk. Oh, I know what I know. Exactly.
00:46:45
Speaker
OK, let's cut to real quick. So Mira takes Hob and Eris over to who she said was Tarvel Boromar. And walks up and says, oh, Tarvel.
00:47:04
Speaker
and he looks at her and you all once you get close notice that Tarvel his left sleeve is bunched up and kind of tailored where he is missing his left hand but it's clearly been that way for a while his clothes are tailored to fit it and he looks at Mira's like
00:47:24
Speaker
Yeah. Like I have some guests who were interested in being introduced to you. They are Satan's guests for the evening, but you know how long it takes Satan to get around to people. So I wanted to introduce them to you. I feel like you all would have plenty to chit chat about. This is Faginoth Hob, and this is Eris. Eris just smiles.
00:47:55
Speaker
Eris has no established her name. OK, and this is Eris. I was surprised to hear Vaginoth. I'll be honest. I didn't make sense you would know it, of course. Yeah, they work under the black lamps with Vigo and Tarvo was like, ah. Well, then I imagine we do have a lot in common being in similar lines of work and you see standing next to Tarvo.
00:48:25
Speaker
a very essentially if if somebody gave Tarble a haircut and took 30 years off of his life, that's the person standing next to him. Corin is Tarble's son. A horrible curse. 30 years off his life. Round the clock, 30 years. So so yeah. And Mira says, well, I will leave you all to it and I will come fetch you whenever Satan is ready for you.
00:48:56
Speaker
Oh, thank you. In Tarvel, so how's work been? We get a new job once every two months or so. Every five sessions or so we get a new job, something to do. Yeah, we've been busy, but had some
00:49:25
Speaker
We're on a run of successful jobs. Not always smooth, but successful. Well, that's the name of the game, isn't it? I like to think it's because they save the hard ones for us. Well, that's kind of the racket that you all are in. You're specialists, right? When none of us can get the job done, they call in people like you to take care of it.
00:49:54
Speaker
Is that is that true? Well, I mean, you know, we're the the peer lads are bound to the docks, so our job is refined to there and the goals over there, everything, everything looks like a sparring dummy to them. So they'll answer questions with a sword.
00:50:15
Speaker
And Lady Briar and her lot are down in the the dregs of the city. So they're they're not any good up here. So, yeah, you all are the ones that take care of things that need taking care of that none of us can do. Well, what are the black lamps? And he just kind of looks at you like this, like the.
00:50:42
Speaker
That's the, that's the, I guess, street name for the. The crime division of the clan, the ones that go out and like steal things, break into places, you're like the black clams don't there. They're not the assassination branch or anything. We don't have one anyway, but.
00:51:06
Speaker
Yeah, you the black lamps are the ones that that do the work that you do. Yeah. You need not speak about it so gingerly. We know we do crimes. What we didn't know is we had a name. This is like in your your crew isn't the black lives. It's the division of the Vigo oversees all the black. The branch that we're right now. Yeah, we're. In in in all this crime,
00:51:37
Speaker
Well, according to the city council, the work that the ghouls do is purely in self-defense. They'll figure out where Dask is causing trouble, goad them into starting a fight so that they can defend themselves.
00:51:55
Speaker
Lady Briar's crew are scavengers, so it really depends on what they're taking. But most people aren't going to be too upset with what they find and take. The only crime that they really commit is most of the goblin artifacts they find have to be sold on the black market. And then, yeah, we're smugglers. We're criminals, too. We're probably the the the sister branch to you all, as it were, two sides of the same coin.
00:52:23
Speaker
but we just, we're in a much more controlled environment. And when we find out that other people are trying to smuggle things in that aren't associated with the clan, we also mess up those jobs also. So it's, you know, crime, sabotage. We're a diverse group.
00:52:39
Speaker
And he kind of chuckles to himself. So I'm I'm I'm recently I'm kind of acting head of the peer lads. My wife is the smart one. She she was the one that that knew how to operate this this group. But she's she's in the dread hold for the time being. So I'm sorry to hear that.
00:53:03
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, she killed two dark lanterns. And what are you going to do? At least that's the story that they told. I'll get you there. That's for sure. You know, I'm interested or not interested. I am interested. I'm also to give me there's another word there. No, I have those right here. I need I need a software reboot on my being a person. That's just not doing. I feel that.
00:53:32
Speaker
I'm a bit taken aback by saying we get the jobs that no one else can do. I've always assumed it was no one else will. We had to fight on a train. We had to insert from a ceiling once. Had to go to a party we had no business being at. Not this one, although also this one, but not this one. I'll be honest, Tarvel, it's been great talking with you for just getting to meet someone else, but you've made me feel considerably more
00:54:01
Speaker
Comfortable with my station here in the operation, I suppose.
00:54:08
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, there are a few crews that run around in the Black Lamps, and I honestly haven't heard much about any of you, honestly, but I just, I kind of, being the head of a branch, there's, you know, executive leadership team meetings with Satan every now and then to get an idea of what's going on in the larger clan. And so, I mean, we hear good things coming out of the Black Lamps, and I'm sure that that has no small part to do with your crew.
00:54:56
Speaker
I've slowly morphed into a different voice from Tarvel's Gruff. Vigo says, yeah, they stole some stuff. Money, please. Yeah, I wouldn't say that Vigo showers you all with praise. He just comes in and says, yep, the job got done. Here are the things that were requested. No, we're familiar with Vigo. Yeah, we're we're all familiar with Vigo. We really miss the old head of the black lamp. So I'll just put it that way. Who is the old head of the black lamps?
00:54:58
Speaker
Who says good things about us?
00:55:25
Speaker
the old head of the back lamps. That was actually Vigo's dad who was killed. So. Yeah, yeah, it is a shame. So how have pure lad things been?
00:55:40
Speaker
good busy you know the docs are always teaming with with people coming and going getting some good stuff in into the city on behalf of the clan kind of trying to disrupt we we've had the the tyrants
00:55:56
Speaker
and the and Dask trying to get some some street level narcotics into the city and we don't want that so so we've been god I've gotten the wrong voice again uh so we've you know we've we've been doing our best to stop that kind of activity uh but yeah it's it's good good business uh where works we're trying to expand but like I said ever since Aaron uh went away then uh I just haven't been able to
00:56:22
Speaker
I don't have a good grasp on it, you know, but doing my best as that beat in the conversation kind of happens, you see Kath Seidel up next to you, Hobb, and just seems very dejected and just kind of falls in line. And Harris looks back. What? What happened? He got you, didn't he? I don't want to talk. Oh, I do, though. You want me to do something and then you can you can have another go.
00:56:52
Speaker
No, it's not. It wouldn't be actually beating him if you augmented me to where then I could go beat him. That would be cheating and I don't want to cheat. Why wouldn't that be beat? He is entirely augmented. Like his whole body was built around this. By someone kind of, you know, you know, was smarter than me, but you know.
00:57:21
Speaker
Hobb says, you know, it can be argued that Kath was built to do this as well. He goes up for high five. Well, right. It's just Kath built herself to do it. You know, she's just sitting there with her arms crossed and very deductively raises one hand and gives you a half hearted high five. Hobb knows what he's doing. Yes. OK, real quick cut to the bar, Sonam, Milo and Raynard. So.
00:57:50
Speaker
Lady Briar, having warmed up to all three of you now, says, so what what is it that you all do for the clan? Exactly. Well, you've said a lot of things, my dear. I said you had a drunk, Reynard. I specifically said you're not drunk. Getting there.
00:58:20
Speaker
I want to talk like this. I was like, man, Milo was not going to say anything because I just needed to hear that. Well, we do a lot of things. Don't we, Milo? And he reaches back and slaps him on the chest. Yes, we do quite a bit, yes. But tell her. Tell her what we do.
00:58:51
Speaker
I suppose I should at this point. You just. And she she regards you, Reynard, and pretty much everybody within a 60 foot vicinity can see disappointment. And and and stink fumes coming from your mouth. And she looks back to Milo. Yes, we I guess you could say do.
00:59:17
Speaker
More specialized services for the clan? Hmm. Mainly taking things. Ah. So you're part of Viggo's little crew, the Black Lamps. That would be correct. Viggo. Bleh. Grace. I agree with you, darling. She says very hard.
00:59:45
Speaker
Well, I oversee the ravens. We're scavengers who go down into the lower parts of the city where there are ancient ruins and collect artifacts and such things to sell for the clan to make money.
01:00:00
Speaker
And a large part of my force is individuals who either ran afoul of the clan in some way or betrayed the clan in some fashion and were offered either being turned in for their crimes, outright killed, or being assigned to my team to go wallow away down in the lower parts of the city.
01:00:29
Speaker
So, keep Viggo happy, or else I might be seeing more of you two, three, sorry. She waves at Sana. Well, I reckon as long as we continue to do our job well, we should be just fine. And we do it so well. She doesn't really regard Reynard, but looks at Milo and says, well,
01:00:58
Speaker
I assume that you've been working for the clan long enough to know that that's not true. Plenty of people do their job just fine and somebody in the family wants them taken care of. Yes, that is quite right. You are correct there.
01:01:18
Speaker
Oh, and it appears that we have somebody skulking about that presumably wants your attention because I don't want to talk to her. And you all glance and you see Mira kind of standing outside of the circle waiting for a moment in the conversation to like poke her head in. Are you going to say, Philip, I want to go talk to the warforged, but I think you're about to call us into the big meeting. I thought you were going to.
01:01:45
Speaker
I was trying to decide what Eris was going to do and we don't know what Eris is going to do. She follows Hobb so that we don't have to sit here in silence. We'll fill up things through things. Well, OK, we can we can real quick cut to Eris approaching Hutch the war. I choose arm wrestling. I assume Hobb was going over here to war to arm wrestle. Hutch was the next thing that was about to happen. I mean, I would if there's if there's time for that.
01:02:14
Speaker
Sure, we can do that real quick. So, yeah, Mira pokes her head into your conversation, Rainard, Mylon, we just need to go fetch the rest of of your crew. Satan is ready for you now. We're going to cut to. Oh, go. I'm just going to say very, very well, Mira. Excuses, madam. Very important. Oh, my gosh.
01:02:41
Speaker
Please pay pay. No, it is my Raynard. If we let him keep getting drunk or he'll die this episode, it's OK. She looks at you, Milo, and she also looks at Sauna regarding you two and says very pointedly at you two, it was a pleasure meeting both of you. And you as well. And she turns back to her drink. That's OK. They have a bird name. We weren't going to join them.
01:03:13
Speaker
OK, so, yeah, Raynor, not Raynor, Hob, Eris and Kath. Your your conversation with Tarvel ended fine. You know, you just ran out of stuff to talk about. It's like, well, I guess we'll go mingle somewhere else. I guess. So as we walk away, Eris looks up at Hob and says, and I didn't offer to replace his hand once, so I just want that to be
01:03:39
Speaker
on record. Yes, many will write songs of your amazing restraint. OK, so yeah, you all approach Nessa and Hutch. Nessa is kind of sitting around talking to other people. Hutch is focused on his work on the small table in front of him. And Hutch sees you all walking over and says, oh,
01:04:05
Speaker
back for more, and he smiles at Kath. If Kath would say something, Hob would not cut her off to let her get a little word in, but if she's just- Kath is still fuming. Yeah, she's not. Yeah. Actually, you know, I was hoping I could give it a try. My name is Hob. I'm a black lamp, apparently.
01:04:31
Speaker
Ah, one of Viggo's crew. Well, I'm I work for the black lamps, yeah. Well, he goes the head of the black lamp, so. I don't want to talk to this person anymore. Anyway, I'm sure that I'm sure that his reputation shouldn't speak ill of you all. So I'll give you all a chance to soil your reputation with me rather than assuming it. And he laughs. I'll bless.
01:05:01
Speaker
So, big fella, and he backs the table in front of him. Are you here for this reason, or just for a social call?
01:05:17
Speaker
Oh, yeah. You know, my friend, Kath here, she's kind of my sparring partner, but we don't do a lot of arm wrestling. And so I kind of thought this might be a good way to test my metal. See how metal got it. Oh, you know, they're spelled differently. I didn't even. OK. Well, a lot of puns are so it's kind of the nature of them.
01:05:42
Speaker
I think it's it. Hob doesn't get it. That's the point. It was a good one. Thank you. Look, I'm here to see if I can beat you and kind of gloat about it when she's feeling better. I don't want to gloat about it now because it could hurt me. Fair enough. Some people's kicks are stronger than their punches and there's no shame in that. So.
01:06:11
Speaker
I don't even think that's a metaphor. I think, I think, I think he's just speaking. He's not. I meant it literally. So people's legs are stronger than their arms. Yeah, he's just he just speaks. It's a, it's a Cairo metaphor. Um, you wouldn't understand. Okay. Oh. Oh. Well, no, he, uh, he looks at Eris and said, are you, uh, are you from, from home?
01:06:42
Speaker
Eris looks down at her coat. I was. I mean, it's not. It's not really home anymore. Well. Just because the home is gone doesn't mean you're not from there, and it'll always be my home. Well, I'm not from that part. He kind of cocks his head a little bit. Oh.
01:07:12
Speaker
on from the part they gave up before that. And Hutch's head kind of hangs for a second. You see the the playful nature that he had before kind of sink away a little bit and say. Ah, I'm. I'm sorry. It was a duvely awkward thing for Aeris to say. It's not right. That's not a right response to that.
01:07:40
Speaker
So and he looks back at hub arm wrestling. Yeah, I don't know if I'm feeling it anymore. No, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Let's do it. OK, is is is Nessa at this table? Nessa's standing nearby. OK.
01:08:06
Speaker
I was going to try and she's not get her into a bet, but if she's not at the table, that's OK. No, she's she's chatting up some other people. OK, so this is going to be a two purple, one red difficulty against his athletics. OK, wait, so it's an athletics check. It's an athletics check. Say test of strength. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:08:33
Speaker
In that case, can I can I upgrade? I mean, I don't know how we. Yeah, I'll let you upgrade. OK, cool. Upgrade it for me. OK. Because if he's got a red, I need to have a yellow. I mean. Go ahead and roll. All right. Oh, and he does say before you roll, Jeff. Sorry. He does say five gold. He pulls out five gold.
01:08:56
Speaker
Eris is apparently willing to bet on just about anything. Yeah. And what I have noticed about her. And I think here's the thing. How does it know if he's good at arm wrestling? This is not a thing he's done. So he's like, I'm sure if I've got. Why not? Excellent. Well, OK, so I'll put up 10 for the side bet. We're all well paid. And then how it takes a moment to aim and I'm just kidding.
01:09:24
Speaker
All right, I'm rolling. Aeris would have offered to augment Hobb on the way over here. I don't know if Hobb is sportsmanship enough to decline it, but Hobb declines it, but not on behalf of sportsmanship, on behalf of if he wins, he needs for Kath to not be able to. Fair enough. Yes. No, that makes sense entirely. Right. So here we are. And rolling. Just to try.
01:09:50
Speaker
So that's a failure with a triumph. Can we make it a real neither success or failure? And we actually have an arm wrestling stalemate for like three minutes before Nessa finally goes, okay.
01:10:08
Speaker
Yeah, so so yeah, we can say that you are if Hobbes needs to lose, Hobbes can lose. I just think that would be funny that since it didn't get a failure, even though I don't want to say the failure is that Hobbes does not win. Yeah, yeah. But not necessarily that that Hobbes loses.
01:10:24
Speaker
So you all are locked and just both of your arms are shaking and just locked in the middle. Or probably at some point here is looking really closely at Hutch's arm to see whether he's got some sort of modification that has just actually locked his arm. He just has it. You don't see anything. No, he's really doing it. He's really doing it all. I can tell we're both really doing it.
01:10:51
Speaker
And you're not so much.
01:10:55
Speaker
Oh, man. And finally, after an awkwardly long amount of time, Eris and Kath both realize that Raynard, Milo and Sana and Mira are still have been standing behind you all for some time. And finally, Mira is like, I'm sorry, but Mr. Boromar is is waiting if if we could just call this a draw and move on with our lives, please.
01:11:29
Speaker
I think, is it too nebulous? That was funny. This might be too nebulous. I just can't think of a good thing for a triumph right now. Like a triumph while we're talking with Satan, I have ideas. Could it just be like, we've left a really good impression? We've impressed Hutch. Yeah, thoroughly impressed Hutch, and Hutch will communicate it to Nessa. Yeah, so I think Hob says,
01:11:59
Speaker
Well, I think you and I both know better than to leave the boss waiting. So shall we call it a draw and have a rematch sometime? But who's gonna let go first? Yeah, it was Hutch says, all right, then on three we stop. How about on three we let up and let you slay my hand down? How about on three we lift our elbows? We both stand and it'll be over. One. Two.
01:12:27
Speaker
3. And Hob stands. Hob's not gonna fool around. Yeah. Yeah. Hob stands up as well. And I think it just morphs like it, you know, it goes from... No, you know what it is. You know, the predator high five meme. That's what it looks like. And we just kind of shake it back and forth and like, that's great to meet you buddy. Good to meet you too. Alright. I'll remember this. Well, now that that's over with, uh, right through this door.
01:12:56
Speaker
And Mira leads you all. I liked him. I did too, he says, as he rubs his arm. So she leads you through two large double doors and you you all see Satan sitting behind a pretty large cow. They just brought one in.
01:13:25
Speaker
is sitting behind a pretty large desk and is in a chair and sees you all walk in and stands and says, Hello. Hello. Please have a seat. Hob. That one is for you. And there is a rather large chair at the end.
01:13:46
Speaker
So yeah, you all are gestured to take a seat. I'm so terribly sorry to keep you all waiting. I hope you've enjoyed the party, but it's come to my understanding that we have business to discuss. So please take a seat. And after you all have sat down, Mira leaves and closes the door behind her.
01:14:16
Speaker
After you all have taken a seat, then Satan sits down. So, I think you all know, I think you all could venture a guess why I'm having this conversation with you. After your last job,
01:14:36
Speaker
Viggo came here, honestly, not even back to HQ, came storming in my front door and blustered-faced and told me about what happened. And I was compelled to invite you all here tonight and call you back here away from everybody to apologize on behalf of my nephew.
01:15:05
Speaker
He is incredibly green at this. He does not understand the value of the people that work beneath him and how much you all bring to this organization and how little he brings. So I wanted to say that I'm sorry.
01:15:28
Speaker
And I have here and you see a side table and there's there's a cup. Like there are seven satchels of of meat. It's like this is for you. These are some unexpected.
01:15:55
Speaker
Philip was like, oh, snap, magical items. And he's like, dude, brisket. Hobbs, Hobbs, ecstatic. No, I mean, that's fantastic. This is this is meat that was imported from the Eldean reaches. It's actually druid rays, so very sustainable, very ethical. And you can really tell in the taste of the meat.
01:16:25
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This is...
01:16:28
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This is presumably some kind of bovine animal that was raised by druids. Free range, free range cows. It's a dire cow. So I I wanted to hear from you all about the incident. And obviously I heard plenty of Vigo's side of the story, but I've known Vigo long enough to know that there are typically one side to every story and not Vigo's. So I wanted to get it from from you all.
01:16:57
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as to what happened and how we can potentially rectify this in the future. Eris, would you like to tell your bit or shall one of us just kind of go through the whole thing? I don't want to speak for you. But I will tell the truth. Eris came in here mad and she doesn't know what to do.
01:17:33
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This is that thing where you'd work, she'd worked out the speech, the anger speech. And now it's been taken out from under her. But he threatened to cough my hand for one. I mean, yeah.
01:17:56
Speaker
I've already drawn up plans for what I'll do if someone ever does, but it's still... I was about to cut you off because I did not know what plans you had drawn up. I mean, Matt, I've already drawn up plans on how I'm going to decapitate him. Those are in a special notebook. Yeah, yeah. That's her dream journal.
01:18:21
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Yeah, and I think Hob steps in after that and says, after we completed the job and gave Eagle everything he asked for, and I genuinely did mean to be helpful. I want to get that out. I tried to explain to him that historically our team doesn't revolve around threats. We can't perform at high efficiency when we have other things like that on our mind.
01:18:50
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So I explained to him that perhaps it might be more prudent as we get to know each other to steer clear of things like that. And he took some time to explain to me all of the great things that you do for us, and I don't dispute any of them. At the end of it, I said, you're right. You do a lot for us. And we do like working for you.
01:19:17
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He told me he could have me killed in an hour and we stopped conversing. And then after I told all that it probably would have been more helpful if you just punch that taut in the face. And I still disagree. Well, all of that sounds similar to what Vigo conveyed to me.
01:19:45
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And I will ask two things of you all, because I do feel remorse over the actions of my nephew. And he has been dealt with and the way that he handled that situation as inappropriate as it was, it has been drilled into him that it should not happen again and that it is not his place to
01:20:13
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to make such threats, to threaten crew members and people that work under him. The two asks that I will have is, firstly,
01:20:31
Speaker
As you all continue to prove your mettle and your worth in this organization you will continue to interact with other members of the clan in a more frequent capacity and there are a
01:20:48
Speaker
There's a diverse collection of personalities. I will put it that way. And not all of them get along well. Not all of them see eye to eye on anything. But we do find a way to operate together in such a way as to prevent any, as you said, Hob, any friction that causes inefficiency in the maintenance of this organization. And so,
01:21:17
Speaker
What I'm asking is that for the time being, as I continue to work with him and groom him and teach him, honestly, if you all could handle Vigo with kid gloves, if he asks you to come sit at a table, sit at the table, and I understand if he does threaten you again, that's my second ask. Come to me.
01:21:46
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or come to Mira if I'm not available and report that to us as opposed to taking on Viggo Head-On. Because I am not so stupid as to not know that Viggo has
01:22:00
Speaker
As head of the Black Lamps, he has other crews and other assets in the field. And I am thankful that he came here and blusted at me, as opposed to, as he alluded to with U-Hob, going and making a drastic call in the heat of anger that would have resulted in presumably the death of another member of the clan, because one person up against all of you, I don't like those odds for them.
01:22:30
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So, all that to say, I do not condone what Vigo did and we are going to work on improving Vigo's demeanor and the way that he talks to you all, but I'm asking in the form of an olive branch to work with me in that regard to prevent Vigo from flying off the handle again while I work on containing him. Does that sound fair?
01:22:58
Speaker
I appreciate you bringing us back here for this. It was certainly not something you had to do. I do have one question. If you permit me. When you gave us the train job, after you left, Vigo took it upon himself to alter, add to the task list, change it from a get the thing to have kill some people if you want to.
01:23:29
Speaker
I took it in stride then because I did not know that he was going to become my regular handler. So I suppose my question is... Is he...
01:23:41
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Uh, Minister Plenipotentiary here, or if something seems amiss, should we check? Uh, being honest with you, Hob, I have far too many, uh, ions in the fire to, uh, to handle every job. I want to get some FaceTime with you and say hello to Myla once again. It had been far too long.
01:24:03
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And, um, but I communicate the jobs to, to Vigo and he does have the authority to alter the exact parameters of the job because presumably he has more knowledge on the exact situation than I do. Um, I essentially say, go get this thing. And it's up to him to do his due diligence, to figure out how to communicate that job to you and what objectives need to be done.
01:24:28
Speaker
So, having said all that, generally speaking, so this isn't a blanket statement, if we want people dead, we have people for that. And you all are not those people.
01:24:43
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No offense to any of you all, but, uh, in the little time that I've gotten to know you, um, you- you all seem, uh, too moralistic to be hired for a hit job. No offense, you seem too good- too- too good for this. No offense, you're a bunch of nice guys. So, no, if, um,
01:25:08
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So if Vigo flies off the handle again, if Vigo threatens to cut off a hand or have somebody killed, please come to me with that. Other than that, it is Vigo's job to communicate things to you well. So we're going to, for the time being, let him do his job. Absolutely. And see where it goes from there. Well, we certainly don't want to become another headache for you. So I appreciate that. What happened to Grom? Um.
01:25:37
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And Satan takes a beat and says, it was discovered that Grum had been taking a bigger cut of the take for the
01:25:54
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for your alls doing and other jobs that he was overseeing with other crews and basically stealing money from the clan. So once that evidence was presented to me, I gave Grum the choice of dealing with the normal punishment that we have for people who steal from the clan.
01:26:15
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being turned over to the Citadel with evidence of the crimes that he had committed, or joining the Ravens down in the lower part of the city. And he elected to join the Ravens, so he was reassigned to a different branch of the clan, still works for us, but down in the lower part of the city. I don't know if you all met Lady Briar, but she's, she's his boss now. Yes, we met her, we met her at the bar.
01:26:45
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lovely woman. So lovely. Oh yeah, he's still here. And Satan kind of raises his eyebrows as the first time Raynard talks. So,
01:27:02
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You must please excuse Raynard. He tried to drink he had never tried before and I think it might have got to him just a little bit more than he thought. I've had one drink. One. Just one. Totally fine. Don't worry about it. It's like fire. Have you had it?
01:27:25
Speaker
Wait, did you have the Dada's Brew? That's only for minotaurs. That's the one. I did it. I have it all. Okay. We've run into this problem before. I need to talk to that bartender. People come in and say, give me the strongest thing you got and it literally poisons them. I'm going to have a conversation. Yes. Thank you. You are a hero.
01:27:53
Speaker
Okay, well, as you all can probably understand, I have lots of people here eager for my time and I'm eager to talk to them. So unless there's anything else, you can grab your meat and rejoin the party. Someone blew up Sigil's house and the city's not really
01:28:18
Speaker
I'm going to drag in their feet about it. OK. I don't know if there's something that can be. Hurried along. I'll I'll have my daughter make some calls, talk to Savia. She's your your counselor down there and see, see what we can do. But I'll I'll my daughter make some calls. All right.
01:28:44
Speaker
I forgot Savia is on the council. I did too. Hobbs Hobbs probably. That would have been the person to. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you all for coming in. Milo. We will talk soon about reconstruction efforts. I mean, to get you back on your feet. But yeah, thank you all and enjoy the potty. Enjoy the meat. Oh, yes, sir. And.
01:29:13
Speaker
Yeah. Have a good night. And now we hang around the rest of the party with parcels of meat under her. Seven satchels work. Isn't Sigil a vegetarian? Didn't we? Does? Have we seen Sigil eat? Or no, Sigil doesn't eat. Have we seen Sigil eat? Just sauna a vegetarian, I mean. And Sigil does not. sauna is a vegetarian though, right? Am I remembering that right?
01:29:40
Speaker
Did we establish that? Or maybe her dad is somebody at the at the party. Yes, someone at the someone at the dinner was. But I'm I'll go back and listen and figure that out. Regardless, I take their meat. They don't want it. No, you're absolutely right. I'll get him something nice.
01:30:06
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We're going to call it there for the episode, end of episode. Thank you all so much for listening.
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I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And we'll see you next time. Yes, Rainard, give me a knowledge society check, because you're sitting right there where Milo's holding the invitation. Oh, OK, hold on.
01:31:23
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Knowledge society. Hold on. I'm holding. I was I did not have mine open. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
01:31:51
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I like Antonio Carlos Jobin. What is happening? And Astrid Gilberto. What's happening is we're waiting on you, Trevor. That was the holding music. I was waiting for him to stop. No, just throw the dice. Okay, I'm rolling. Okay, one failure, two threat.