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C2 Ep. 99 Eyes of Stone Chapter Three
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The crew sits down for dinner with unfamiliar allies. But will their request be too much?
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Sponsorship & Introductions
00:00:05
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00:00:40
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:01:14
Speaker
Hello and welcome to A Broad Nightingale. Actually play podcasts at the A Broad Campaign setting. I'm your Game Master Herrick. I'm Phillip. I'm Randy. Jeff. Welcome to another episode.
Lunch with Satan & Campaign Acceleration
00:01:26
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Gentlemen, what happened last time? Oh boy. Lunch. We had lunch. Yeah, I thought it was full of lunch. We were served 16 steaks for lunch. You're welcome. And Hob can't wait for dinner.
00:01:44
Speaker
Eris had a potato. That's really it. We just, you know, just talked about our food. Eris had a potato. Milo had emotional diarrhea. Somehow we apologized to Satan.
00:02:04
Speaker
Look, we had lunch with Satan and Milo just dropped all of the bombs. I think Milo significantly advanced the timeline of the campaign.
Job Proposal from Satan
00:02:17
Speaker
Yeah, Milo shaved three or four arcs off the total run of this campaign. Surely not. Blame Randy. I'm going to say this will be the first time that anyone has anything bad to say about one of Randy's characters.
00:02:36
Speaker
OK, so yeah, you all also, Satan, asked you all for a favor. We did a bunch of other things and we were just being jerked. Yeah, we're being. Yeah, we yes, we we basically. Milo spilled everything to Reinhard in terms of the whole video and Jason and murder attempts and Jason being not a Jason and all of that.
00:03:06
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Uh, and Satan had the gall to act hurt by our lack of trust in him. Yep. And then he asked us for a favor.
Meeting at Horse and Hearth
00:03:20
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And that favor is to do a job for Dask because Vigo screwed up.
00:03:26
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killed one of theirs. He's going to talk to Vigo about it. By the way, he's going to talk to Vigo about the murder attempts. I did get to call Vigo an idiot to Satan, which was kind of fun. He did also explicitly say, and maybe new leadership is needed for the black lamps. Like he did. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll just we'll just promote him into a better, into a job where he won't do as much harm. I mean,
00:03:55
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Okay, so you all entered the back room of the horse and hearth to be face-to-face with a werewolf, a Medusa, and an Oni, so your days are going great. Yep. Yep. We're gonna have dinner here. Oni one kononi. That's his name. Sorry. So...
00:04:20
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Kavala, the oni, looks you up. Please take a seat. What is the seating situation in here? There seem to be like... It's a large round table. Oh, go ahead. Okay. There seems to be an absurd variety of sized creatures in here. So what is the seating situation? At least they have a round table, so we are all equal.
00:04:38
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There is a large round table with enough chairs for each of you plus two additional chairs. There is a chair big enough to accommodate Hobb and there's a chair small enough to accommodate Milo.
Statue Retrieval Task
00:04:53
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It's clear that they were expecting your configuration. Like Satan told them who to expect.
00:05:09
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Milo takes his seat. Yeah Yeah, let's sit down What can I get you all to eat We had a big lunch, um, thank you. Oh I insist you order something. Oh I'll take a cabbage Excellent
00:05:38
Speaker
I regret that I'm not familiar with the menu. Oh, we can accommodate, we can accommodate tastes of any variety I can assure you. Do you make any type of a meatloaf? Just have some bread.
00:05:55
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Yes. A meatloaf type. I'll try a meatloaf. What a bad decision you just made. Exactly. I'm going to order something where I will not be able to identify what they put in it. Exactly.
00:06:13
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Sauna orders the veggie platter and Kath unabashedly goes, do you all have steak? It's like, yes, we do. I'll take that. He just kind of shrugs at you all. See, Milo likes to eat and he likes to try new things, so.
00:06:35
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So welcome. I'm glad that we could come to an understanding and work together. Yes, we understand
Planning & Hospitality
00:06:43
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you have a job for us. Snatch and grab type as I understand. Yes.
00:06:52
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One of our pieces of collateral was mistakenly sold to a high-ranking nobleman in the city, and we need it back. They thought it was a statue, but... Cool.
00:07:16
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and Harash pipes in. You see occasionally people that are indentured to us can't make good on their payments. And so we give them a timetable and they serve their time as decoration. All consensual, of course. This sucks.
00:07:48
Speaker
So we're to retrieve a statue? To your eyes, yes, a statue. Simple job. Milo said that with air quotes. Yes. How big is the statue? Human size. Okay.
00:08:20
Speaker
There is a, go ahead. And the nobleman.
00:08:28
Speaker
Oh, Borean Haldorek. Name, name not. Yes, Borean Haldorek. He is a member of the Sean City Council. I remember representing Upadura, dwarf man, very opulent. He is celebrating the acquisition of the statue. In fact, that's the whole point of the Gala. All right, so you've got to go get your indentured statue.
00:08:57
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from this guy. Right? Am I missing anything? No. This sucks. We do have a means of assistance for you if you require it. But if not, we will leave you to do what you do best.
Covert Replacement Options
00:09:15
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I am capable of transforming my form. So I could appear as the person that the statue is of. And Harashir could turn me into a replica. But after a certain amount of time, I would become whole again. So they wouldn't realize it until all the guests have gone.
00:09:47
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It does not sound like a bad plan to me. You're volunteering to be the decoy, not decoy, the replacement. Yes. Volunteering to leave a people eating time bomb in this guy's house. Yeah, no, we're not doing it. Okay. What? Why not?
00:10:18
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Mainly our biggest. Maybe Milo will be comfortable staying with the border. That's just what it is. Milo is just more comfortable with murder than Eris is. Our biggest hurdle is access to the gala as, you know, Harash and Zeyron here wouldn't be welcome at the door. Nor would any of the people that you saw in the room behind you. Right. No, yeah, sure.
00:10:48
Speaker
We'll take care of it. Good. Will there be opportunity to procure the statue before the gala? Perhaps the gala is tomorrow. So you have time to do some planning, if that's what you require. An attempt to acquire the statue before the gala begins.
00:11:19
Speaker
Well, we'll definitely need the location. Yes, it's at his estate in Apodura. That's where we believe the statue was taken as soon as it was procured.
00:11:44
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Well, anything else, guys? Anaris? Like, he has no information as like what the stat, if the statue is in a populous place right now, or if they're, I mean, he just knows they have the statue. He did say, he said the gala was to celebrate the acquisition of the statue. Right. Right? So I would assume if you're celebrating the acquisition of the statue, you're showing it off. Which is going to make this just real easy. I have an idea.
00:12:13
Speaker
Oh. Okay. That always goes well for my campaigns when Philip has an idea.
Gala Invitation & Heist Plans
00:12:21
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But Eris is just nibbling at Brett. She's very uncomfortable in this place. I would hate for you to be uncomfortable around me. I could make some suggestions, but...
00:12:47
Speaker
So are you enjoying your food? Am I? That's a good question. It's delicious. It's a loaf of meat. It is a loaf of meat. It's got a nice glaze of some kind of sweet red sauce on top. A loaf of some kind of meat. Yep.
00:13:09
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As advertised on the tin, Kath is just demolishing another ribeye. And the werewolf is just mauling the side of lamb.
00:13:33
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Apologies, I did not introduce properly. This is Zaren and she looks up with a mouthful of lame. Is she just? Can we go? And this is Harash. I mean, I can't think of anything else. I think we've said yes. Yeah, we've said yes and they don't have a lot of information to impart. So I guess.
00:13:59
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I mean, to be fair, you all haven't asked. They told you where it was. Did they tell us when? Yeah, it's tonight. Tomorrow night. Oh, it's tomorrow night. It's tomorrow night, sorry. But like, he doesn't know... He knows where it is right now, or he knows where he thinks it's going to be unveiled. That's what I'm saying. I mean, it is at Borean's estate. Like, that is... He does not know where on the estate or anything like that.
00:14:31
Speaker
Okay. Then let's head to the... Thank you for your cooperation. Right, sure. You look forward to a fruitful working relationship. All right, I guess we'll be off. The meatloaf was fantastic. You're leaving.
00:15:00
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as you leave the house because thanks for coming by. Yep. Bye friend, Tom. The body got a gorm. We flee flee. Yes. Lead is very lovely dinner priced. Why do I have to roll to plan the perfect heist? Skull decorate.
00:15:29
Speaker
So I was thinking, this might be a good opportunity to use the, you know, those, did I tell you that I stole a whole bunch of those teleportation cylinders? I think I'll do, yeah. Okay, so, because it seems like the big problem is,
00:15:51
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picking up a big statue and carrying it out of a party where there's lots of people. That seems like the difficulty. So if we could teleport it just right on to Tasha, then the difficulty would just be getting to it. Which preferably before the gala if possible. That would be great. I don't know if that's
00:16:23
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Do we want to go tonight? Just, you know, break in, teleport the statue out, run away. Let's, uh, how about this? Let's go tonight with some teleportation, uh, doikis is the, the right word. Yeah. That's the right word. Yeah.
00:16:42
Speaker
Goblin from Marvelous Invention. Right. Right. I love learning goblin from you. Um, but I say we go there and if the opportunity avails itself, then we, we do that. Yeah. That sounds great to me. Okay. So we need to go back to the cauldron a little bit and, um, throw one together. Right. Sounds like a plan.
00:17:12
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Okay. As the garage style door.
00:17:24
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opens that Tasha can fly into. You see two figures standing in the cauldron, Olive and Harbin. Oh, frack. And Eris turns and grabs you both and pulls really, pulls really close. Right. So, Olive's given lessons to Arbin and Arbin doesn't know that he follows a fracking maniac. So maybe just
00:17:52
Speaker
Aris are telling you that discretion is the better part of valor. You got it, Aris. I'll make sure to keep a lid on the things I want to say. For Olive's sake. Yes. I was just meant more for like Harbin because I know he doesn't, it's not, it seems like an okay kid. Oh no, Olive knows. Olive knows. But I don't think Arbin knows.
00:18:18
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Well, I'm certainly more likely to tiptoe for Harbin, was it? He's just a kid. You know, it's like he doesn't know anything. I don't know if it's safe for him to know yet, because I don't know him very well. So yeah, as you all land, Harbin, like eyes wide, turns like, whoa.
Heist Logistics & Teleportation
00:18:43
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Nice ride, Eris.
00:18:45
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Harbin's not actually younger than Eris, right? No, absolutely. Eris is referring to him as a kid. Yeah, no, no. Yeah, Harbin is like college senior age. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it is. It's pretty good. Hello. Hi, Eris. Hi, Hob, Milo, Kath, Sana. Hello, Olive.
00:19:15
Speaker
Uh, I don't know who's met who, this is Harbin, uh, Millhatch. Harbin, this is all the people whose names I just said. And Harbin just awkward looks around and is like, hi. I'm working with all of, teaching me stuff. I gotta make something. Uh, so, you know, don't, don't let me bother you. Okay.
00:19:47
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and they turn back to their work. So what I want to make is I want to use what I have, because we've established that I've learned the workings of the teleportation cylinders
00:20:06
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And so basically what I just want to do is use them to create a point to point teleportation. Um, so instead of inside the cylinder, just, I want to be able to, I'm thinking something that just gets attached to the statue and then
00:20:29
Speaker
activated to teleport it to its matched pair to its, to its partner. Okay. Which would be on Tasha. Yeah. Okay. Um, so do you want it to be on Tasha or do you want to be in the cauldron? Uh, I was assuming there would be a set, like, cause they are, they're in pairs, right? The, so I was assuming that one would get attached and wherever the other one is would be the,
00:20:55
Speaker
Okay. Uh, no, Eris does not want stolen desk property in the cauldron at any point in this, in this job. Harris wants the thing to be on Tasha and then in the possession of desk and never again.
00:21:09
Speaker
I guess your motorcycle isn't getting worked on in the cauldron. Yeah, well. That will be unrecognizable by the time that Aeris is done. Hang on. Okay, so go ahead. This is either going to be mechanics or artifice. It's going to be artifice.
00:21:33
Speaker
So we are trying to, so I'm going to say base difficulty of doing this is going to be daunting. So for purple, but you, you've done a lot of research working towards it. So go and take two boosts die, um, to represent your research.
00:21:57
Speaker
Um, I am going to flip a story point because you're working with a very unstable magic that you're not super. I mean, you're, you're as familiar as you could possibly be with it, but go ahead and upgrade it once. So, um, what is your artifice pool? Is it, you flipped one of our story points for the record. Oh, my bad. Um, so my artifice pool. Well, so right now, this, this is, you wish, you wish, I'm just, there's so many dice.
00:22:27
Speaker
Right now, the pool is my Artificing skill, which is three yellow proficiency dice, or three yellow dice and one green.
00:22:45
Speaker
My glove gives me one blue My inventor ranks give me two blue and you have just given me two blue. So there are five boost dice Okay, I feel like it's worth the green Against three purple dot three purple threat, uh, I don't even know what these are called anymore threat dice and one red
00:23:13
Speaker
I think Red is doing dice. Challenge dice. Difficulty dice and challenge dice. Yeah. Difficulty and challenge. There we go.
00:23:20
Speaker
And I'm going to spend a story point because we've got them all. Uh, and I can't really figure anything else that I could do to make this any, any better. So I think that's the pool we're rolling. What is that? One, two, three, four, nine, 10, 12 dice. It's 12 dice. Get a handful of just chunky boys. Just so, uh, all right.
00:23:52
Speaker
Wow, I mean, I only just succeeded. Like one success. Eight advantage and a triumph is the is the pool. OK, so. Well, good Lord.
00:24:19
Speaker
So I've done it, I mean, start there. Start there, I have done it. Success has been had. Yeah, so Eris, Eris works on this for, I don't know, a couple of hours probably, you're probably sitting around cooling your heels for a minute. And comes back with what, it's clear that the core of this is still two of the cylinders, but one of them,
00:24:48
Speaker
has basically now got the little door where where he was sticking things is has been removed. And in place, there's almost like a set of of grasping claws around it so that when you press it against something, it'll grab. And then the other. The other is the same
00:25:16
Speaker
Uh, so there's that for a, for a start. Um, good sweet Lord. That's so much nonsense, especially on a like limited use item instead of a, like, it's not like I built something for one of us. This is, but you can also, you know, use them in the narrative as well.
00:25:42
Speaker
Yeah. Boy, I mean, we just got a lot to spin boys. How can, how can we do this to ease our passage? Yeah. Um, I mean, eight advantage start throwing out crazy ridiculous stuff. Yeah. We got like,
00:26:03
Speaker
Two and a half triumphs worth of stuff. Right. This place we're going, this place that... Was it Borean? Borean Haldryk. Haldryk.
00:26:16
Speaker
Haldorak. Haldorak. Haldorak. There we go. Sorry. Borean Haldorak. Not Borneo Hadouken. Got it. Borneo Haberdash. What do we know about his place? Are there multiple buildings on his estate? Could we use a triumph to say we found a flyer saying the exact location of where this statue was going to be when it's unveiled? Or is that like... Yeah, I mean, yes. Oh, Harbin got invited. Harbin got invited.
00:26:47
Speaker
Oooh. Harbin's super rich. Harbin has an invite to this. Yes, this is good. Okay, so somehow I'm trying to work out how in the narrative the conversation flows. Oh, it's just Harbin starts talking about it. Harbin's on a break and he starts talking about the gallop.
00:27:03
Speaker
And he really doesn't want to go. So, so yeah, he wants to go while you are working. You hear all of talking about, and then tomorrow night, uh, we will, we will start working on, uh, fighter points of implementation when it comes to like evocation style magic and Harvey goes, Oh, I can't tomorrow night. Uh, I got a thing that I have to go to. My dad was supposed to go, but it's some city councilman, uh, got a new art piece that he's showing off and, uh,
00:27:32
Speaker
I mean, Maxwell says I have to go to represent the family, so I have to go to Borean's estate, and, ugh. So, yeah, that is, you all- The entire criminal gang suddenly go, sit up and just turn. Mm-hmm. What? Harbin says as you all. Have you been there before? Yeah.
00:27:59
Speaker
Yeah. Do you know anything about the statue? We've been hearing things about it. I've heard that it's something he's very proud to have gotten. Apparently, it's a really well-made statue. Nobody knows who made it on the art scene, but the level of detail is remarkable.
00:28:30
Speaker
Um, do you know, do you know where he displays it? I mean, I'm assuming in, uh, for a gala event like this, he'll have it like on display and like the central area. I mean, it'll be in, in the main hall where people can admire it and stuff like that. So yeah. I have a, he has a very nice estate. Um.
00:28:53
Speaker
and then Olive asks for a
Strategizing Relationship Dynamics
00:28:55
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description of the main hall. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. While you're saying this, Eris, Eris may not notice this, but Hob and Milo absolutely do. Harbin's cheeks get really flush as Eris keeps asking seemingly really circuitous questions about this event that Harbin mentioned that he's going to. And so Harbin eventually goes,
00:29:22
Speaker
Do you want to come? Oh god. Good. That is exactly what I was hoping. Eris had no idea that she was putting out signals. But she wasn't putting out signals. Let me try that again. I would also like to know how all of us are reacting to this because I kind of figure that Harbin is... I don't know. Harbin's not dumb. I don't mean to imply that Harbin is dumb. I kind of figure that Harbin does not know what's going on. But Eris is also not like...
00:29:52
Speaker
good at subtle. And so I kind of figure that Olive probably has a better idea of what's happening right now. Olive is having a hard time not smiling because she sees both sides of this conversation and completely understands where it's gone awry and thinks that it's hilarious. Cool. Jeff, were you going to say something? No. OK. OK. What? Well, I mean,
00:30:21
Speaker
If you want to come like check out the statue and like check out the estate and stuff, like I, I have a plus one. If you want to come and all of just kind of crosses her arms and leans against the workbench and looks like, like expectantly, like with a, with a, just the biggest grin on her face.
00:30:49
Speaker
Like to the gala part, like the gala. Yeah. There'll be really good food, drinks. It'll be fun. It'd make it so much more bearable to have somebody there that I actually like being around. Um,
00:31:11
Speaker
Go for it. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. I know If it's not like no, it's it's fine I'm
00:31:34
Speaker
Hang on a second because work and let me talk to work real quick. And she like, wherever the criminals are hanging out, she runs over to there. Okay, so developed development. Sauna immediately goes, did he ask you on a date? Wait, what?
00:32:05
Speaker
He asked you to go to the gala with him, right? Oh. He's cute. What? What? Milo, you hear a cat under her breath just go, best day ever. Hob tries to save it a little bit. It could be tactically advantageous.
00:32:36
Speaker
that's wait is that yeah that was I was thinking something and then it's not are we
Plan Adjustments & Complications
00:32:48
Speaker
Is the girl going to happen if we steal the statue tonight? Because that's like, are we going tomorrow or are we going tonight? And he's just got like a plus one, so I'll get one of us in. And it's like... But Eris, if you accept and for some reason we are not able to procure the statue beforehand,
00:33:18
Speaker
we would have the opportunity oh at the gala sauna says he rich people like boring would not cancel the event he'll go get some other statue that's not as nice but he'll like pass it off is like yes this is the glorious statue like the gal will happen i still only gets one of us in oh y'all keep our parents are like crazy low we can get an invite like if
00:33:44
Speaker
All right. I do forget that. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you know, do you hang out down here and do crime and it's just like, I just forget that you don't have to. So Sana turns to Milo. Milo, want to be my date? And then Eris looks as it looks, looks as if several thoughts have just occurred to her for the first time.
00:34:09
Speaker
Of course. Now I would go with you. Wait, what's happening now? Wait, we're all going to the gallon now? Right, this got away from me. I gotta tell ya.
00:34:23
Speaker
It went from, let's try to get it beforehand too, let's all go to a party and steal the statue from the party that the statue, the party is for the statue. I still think we should steal it from before, I still think we should steal it before. Right, yes. I agree, but if we are not able to. Even if we steal it before we can still go to Gala, it's honestly. Why? Oh, we don't have to go if we do get it. Milo, you're not my date anymore, hub.
00:34:55
Speaker
I just think, Sana, that if we were to procure it beforehand, that at least me being part of the underworld might not be a good idea to show up at the gala at that point. I mean, if we do it right, it's not gonna catch us.
00:35:21
Speaker
I mean, the heiress realizes that she's switched sides in this, heiress is lost. So I'm saying yes, that's what we're doing. I'm saying yes, and in case we can't get it tonight, is that why we have another invitation? That's what we're doing. Okay. And heiress comes out of the ridiculous huddle on the other side of the workshop. Yes, I am available tomorrow night.
00:35:51
Speaker
Harbin just kind of lights up like, great, great. Um, yeah, I, I guess, uh, do you want to like meet me at my place? You want me to pick you up here or like, I mean, I know like, I don't, my place is probably fine. Okay.
00:36:15
Speaker
Um, Oh, uh, the color of my, uh, suit is, uh, green. So, uh, whatever you decide to wear, try to typically people try to match each other when they go together to one of these things. So, and so, yeah. There's just stairs as, as, as if he had launched into a description of high level calculus. Yeah.
00:36:46
Speaker
As I, Philip would, if he had launched into a description of high level calculus, Eris probably could follow math pretty well. Uh, Olive just like, Chuck was like, Harbin, let's, let's get back to work. Uh, and I was like, Oh yeah, great. Okay. I'll, uh, I'll get you the address, Eris. Cool. Cool. So what did that cost us?
00:37:19
Speaker
Um, that was, I would say that's about, uh, four advantage. Okay. Uh, I want to spend some more on saying that in his description of the main hall, there are skylights.
Hacking Security Systems
00:37:34
Speaker
There's roof access.
00:37:36
Speaker
Okay. We got a ship. Let's do the roof thing again. Sure. Okay. So that'll be the, the last advantage we'll say is establishing the skylights exist. And then there's still a triumph. Yep. Anyone got any suggestions? Cause it feels like we have substantially paved our way. Yeah, man. I don't know. Uh, we all just look really good when we get to the party.
00:38:02
Speaker
Well, I mean, Harbin's going to be there and obviously with Aeris. I'm really hoping we can pull this off tonight. If we can't pull this off tonight, then it's going to be more complicated. That'll be delightful.
00:38:21
Speaker
The more complicated will be delightful. My thought was that, yeah, but we don't know what's going to happen. Anyway, mine was like trying to keep Sauna and Eris are the same size and Sauna has a green dress. I mean, that will be a delightful scene in its own right as Sauna attempts to convince Eris to wear a dress.
00:38:50
Speaker
Um, yeah, I'm really, we are, we have an embarrassment of riches here. Um, you spent a fair amount of them, but yeah, you got the triumph still. Um, so something that, so you have the skylights in the main hall. Um, you could say that, um,
00:39:10
Speaker
Borean has an over-reliance on magical automated security as opposed to like guards. Yes, please. So stuff that Aeris can deal with easier. Yeah. Very in favor of that. Let's do that.
00:39:27
Speaker
Okay, so all of the riches have been spent. Okay, so yeah, Olive and Harbin go back to their tinkering. See, okay, this is what's awesome about Genesis. This is the thing, everyone. Yeah. This is the thing. I know plenty of people think, why don't you play the position? This is the thing. We just wrote the next episode. Yeah. Regardless of what happens now,
00:39:56
Speaker
We just wrote the next episode because there's no way that Eric is going to skip our ridiculous characters at a party. Yes. I think you're right. Yeah. Okay. What is the plan for? So you've made the things you're still in the cauldron time to plan out, like the actual acquisition of the statue.
00:40:21
Speaker
Well, it would be really good if we had like a professional thief with us. Um, it would be great. But since we don't apparently, uh, maybe he can get here by the time we start the job. We just kind of like land on the roof and go down through the windows and teleport the statue up onto Tasha and fly away. Love it.
00:40:52
Speaker
Right. I mean, do you all, uh, Kath gestures to her and sonnet? Do you want us along on this one? Oh yeah. If it goes terribly wrong, we might have to fight our way through a lot of things. Yes, please be there. Cool. If it goes really, really right, then it's going to be good. Oh, also Tasha's got a tow cable now, so we could just like lower you down through the skylights once we get them open. Nice.
00:41:22
Speaker
Bob shudders a little bit. All right. Okay. Um, so here's, um, here's how, uh, we can do this. So you all are going tonight. Um, so for the, the legwork phase of the, the job as it were.
00:41:47
Speaker
Um, you all can either, um, because this is a pretty short job, it's not going to be a long drawn out thing. You can either make a check now, like declare something that you want to do, uh, in preparation for the job, um, to potentially assist or hinder you based on your role, or you can forgo doing that.
00:42:08
Speaker
and have a flashback available to you to flip a story point at any time and then retroactively say, I made a check to deal with this thing. So does that make sense? So there's, there's a bit more of a cost and you know, you don't know if a situation is going to come up where a role would be beneficial or you can do the role for free beforehand, but you've established exactly what you're doing.
00:42:35
Speaker
Have we really assigned roles for this heist to know what we should be practicing? Like Aeris is driving Tasha.
00:42:43
Speaker
Iris is going to drive Tasha and probably hack the security system. Am I dropping down to secure the statue? Somebody, somebody who's going to have good. Yeah. I mean, I feel like that's going to be athletics and coordination. Yeah. Honestly, I feel like it should be me and me. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's probably right of us and dexterity with the other. Fair enough. Um, I mean,
00:43:11
Speaker
If this goes really well, it will just be a couple of rolls. But it's me we're talking about, just doing the rolling. I don't see many eight advantage rolls. Well, I don't either. I could attempt to make somebody invisible as they go down.
00:43:34
Speaker
Yeah. You know, I do have my thing that I've never used, uh, appropriately where I can convince somebody just to leave. Yeah. The bystander. Um, I don't know if there's any pre-work that can be done on the security system. If there is, I'm happy to do it. Otherwise, um, probably just save a flashback.
00:43:57
Speaker
Okay. Um, I mean, if you, if you want to say that you can go do some pre-work on the security system, you can absolutely make that role. Um, just getting within range of the estate or what happened. That's the thing is I'm not, not real sure how I would go about.
00:44:17
Speaker
What would I need to use? I mean, can I use something like streetwise or skullduggery to get, to get up onto the roof to tinker with the security system ahead of time? I mean, you could flip a story point to say that Eris has got like a uniform of like a service worker and can just, you know, basically, you know, be up there doing repairs on the tower of that section of the city. Dig it. Yep. Okay. Done. Don't flip a story point.
00:44:49
Speaker
So now we got the upbeat jazz as Eris puts on a baseball cap and like zips up this uniform. Upbeat jazz, it's Dargul heavy metal. No, I'm just talking about the overture of the Oceans 11. Yeah, no, I know. Yeah, like frames in frames. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's Eris standing on her wall walking boots and gloves and
00:45:17
Speaker
clambering up there to mess with the... Basically, I want to disable the security on the skylight and surveillance to the degree that I can.
00:45:26
Speaker
Okay. Mechanics, probably, or Scalduggery. I think mechanics is your better role though. Mechanics is definitely better than the two of those. Okay. So it is going to be a one red, two purple check to hack into his security system.
00:45:52
Speaker
Okay. Uh, go ahead and take a blue because you don't have to stress about whether or not you're going to be spotted since you're, you're hiding in plain sight. Cool. Uh, and I haven't yet this session, so I'm going to steal back one of the, um, story points as a human and then immediately spend it too. Okay. And here. Oh, okay.
00:46:19
Speaker
Zero success, three advantage. So you do not disable the security. It's too well protected, but what do you do? I now.
00:46:51
Speaker
OK, so she's not going to be able to do this in the quiet. No one will ever notice we were here sort of the way that she would have liked to. But she now knows exactly how the security system is wired is the wrong word, but enchanted so that. She could theoretically when we come back, because obviously it would be a bad idea to do it hours beforehand, she could theoretically when we come back
00:47:20
Speaker
use her Artificing skill to use essentially the Dispel.
00:47:28
Speaker
spell to just short out the whole security system for a while. Okay. Okay. So she's, she knows, she knows where the breakers are basically, even though she's not able to do the, the camera loop thing.
Final Heist Preparations
00:47:43
Speaker
Yeah. But you potentially that you won't be able to just like fine tune, target the security system. Like you can blow the breakers, but you might, yeah, something, something else might happen. It'll be the whole, it'll be the whole security system.
00:47:57
Speaker
So it'll have to be, we'll have to be quicker. Yeah. Basically. Okay. Um, any pre-job checks that Jeff or Randy wants to make? I'm, I'm waiting until I'm in this situation. Uh, too much can go weird once I'm inside the party trying to strap a statue down. Yeah. Okay. Milo. I can't.
00:48:23
Speaker
Think of anything. If anybody's got a suggestion, I am open. So you could. So you all are trying to do a night job, so you could go try to, you know, make sure that Sharn City Watch isn't anywhere near the boring estate while you're doing this job through either.
00:48:44
Speaker
uh, contacting other members of the underground and getting them to like pull a sloppy job, like four blocks over, um, or going to try to bribe a member of the city watch. Uh, you could, um, try to set up the sloppy, I like the sloppy job idea.
00:49:04
Speaker
Okay. Um, so do you want to go, um, make contact with, uh, with will, uh, fellow, fellow Boromar clan member and see if his contacts, uh, can, can facilitate something.
00:49:20
Speaker
Yeah, that sounds good. Okay. Um, so yeah, you, uh, you go meet up with Will at a spot near, um, near his place. Uh, it's like, Hey Milo, what's up buddy? How's it going? How are you? I'm good. Going fairly well.
00:49:42
Speaker
Keg bottoms is going to be rebuilt. No way. That's great. Yes. I love that. Love that. Yes. You have to come by for free drinks. Yes, absolutely. Man, you know, some days there's bad days, but you know, there's other days where it's really great to be a part of the clan, you know, like just good day. Yes, there is that troll.
00:50:11
Speaker
So yeah, that's great. I'm sure that Kylie would be really happy to hear that also. Yes, I totally know she would be, yes. But I'm here to see if you could use your connections to possibly acquire a crew to
00:50:39
Speaker
do a job, a rather sloppy job to kind of, you know, throw this scent off of what I'll be doing. A diversion. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can do that. What, what, what part of the city? Up in, up in the upper Dura.
00:51:02
Speaker
upper Dura. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Um, so boring places in the high hold district, which is the dwarf neighborhood, um, of, of upper Dura. So you'd want somewhere else, a different, uh, area to pull, um, people away. Um, he's in the what district? The high hold district. High hold district. Oh God. That has
00:51:33
Speaker
i'll be in the uh high hold district so you know okay an adjacent district possibly yeah yeah okay okay yeah um let's see uh dagger watch is kind of where the garrison is that's where city watch so they're right next to you so
00:51:51
Speaker
Yeah, we'll get something going in, um, overlook. That's like the apartment, townhouse, uh, other residential spots. So yeah, I'll get somebody to do a, do a, do a sloppy smash and grab. And, um, man, sloppy is the descriptor where it is just, uh, unpleasant to say this much. Um, and yeah, we'll get CityWatch pulling that way. Um,
00:52:17
Speaker
So, uh, Randy, give me a, um, trying to think of what the right skill would be for this. Cause basically I want to see how effective their job, it like how, how effective they are, uh, the people that you conscripted. Um, so you could make a.
00:52:51
Speaker
I mean, skullduggery makes sense. I would, I would allow stealth is just kind of a, you know, catch all for, for how they operate. Um, cool stuff. Stealth sounds good to me. Okay. Um, so let's have that be a, uh, same difficulty that Aeris rolled two purple, one red.
00:53:14
Speaker
Um, but have a, have a blue as well, um, for your, your good role play with, uh, with old will to failure one advantage. So, um, the job's not going to go well, Milo, it's not going to cause enough of a ruckus to be a proper distraction. You have one advantage though, to relate to the job in some capacity. So what would you like to.
00:53:40
Speaker
if the if they happen to city watch or whoever from the garrison if they do happen to show up maybe they're a little delayed maybe we have a little extra time sure i'll say that um
00:53:58
Speaker
OK, yeah, because the the garrison, it's the city watch for like the upper crust, one of the upper crust part of the city, and it's a city councilman throwing the party. A lot of the high ranking members of the city watch, of course, they were invited to, you know, to support the the law enforcement in the city. And so
00:54:19
Speaker
Yeah, they're a little short-staffed, and so any response time is going to be a little delayed just due to the fact that they've been invited. But they're off duty. That advantage is not going to turn into, if you all need to steal the statue from the party, oh no, it's filled with cops.
00:54:46
Speaker
I don't want you to think it turns into a very, very bad thing. So, okay. Um, so will, will feels real great. He's like, yeah, this is a great idea, Milo. That's a, that's a good call. Way to go, bud. Um, thank you. And yeah, let me know when, let me know when keg bottoms back up and running. Uh, we'll, we'll, we'll tear it up like we used to. Sounds excellent. Thank you. Will. Yeah.
Closing & Contact Information
00:55:14
Speaker
Okay. Sounds like we've done some legwork. We've prepped for the job. And so the only thing left to do is to do the job next time. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversation surrounding this episode, you can head on over to our Discord, the link to which you can find on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Geek Pantheon, YouTube, the Geek Pantheon.
00:55:35
Speaker
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00:56:02
Speaker
And Jeff is muted. It was, the thing I said was great. It wasn't just, and I'm Jeff, I promise. Sorry it's lost to the sands of time. Bye.