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C1 Ep. 24 The Journey Back Chapter 3
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Therudak, Beric, and Dex find themselves back where it all began: The Faded Forest. Jacob finally gets to return home, but will the triumphant return of our heroes be everything they hoped it would be? Why does Jacob need to talk to Gram? How does Jeff’s joke end? Find out this week on Eberron Renewed!
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Introductions and Previous Episode Recap
00:00:09
Speaker
D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:00:30
Speaker
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams, the long dark tea time of the soul.
00:00:52
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I am your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Randy. And welcome to another episode of Eberron Renewed. So gentlemen, what happened last time?
Battle with the Angel Tribunal
00:01:10
Speaker
We beat the hell out of an angel. Much like Levi. We wrestled with an angel. It was Levi, right? Yeah. Jacob. Ah, that's right. Well, anyway, we wrestled with an angel. And by wrestled with, I mean, we beat the tar out of. No one liked my beat the hell out of an angel. Yeah. No one thought that was good. You're right. I'm sorry. I was trying to think of who wrestled an angel in the Bible.
00:01:35
Speaker
Yeah, so we got in front of the Angel Tribunal and they just kept talking about how Barrick was evil and threatened to keep us in their plane forever unless we fought and won. So we fought and we, thanks to Randy rolling a crit pretty early, just compounded and compounded.
00:01:54
Speaker
Yeah, so we tore him up, wore him out, uh, apparently dishonorably in some of the angels eyes, cause we didn't let him get back up before we knocked him down again. But hey, when you're throwing dice, it's hard to stop. Okay. Yeah. So everybody in the angel plane hates us now.
Reflections in the Faded Forest
00:02:20
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Especially Dex.
00:02:21
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Yeah, well, Gabe particularly hates Dex. They all dislike all of us. Apparently, Barak's father was there at some point. Yeah. He's a drow. That's what we learned. Also, Barak's now pretty sure that whatever gives him his warlock powers is evil. And the last thing that happened was they took us to the gate that would put us back in the Faded Forest. So we are in the Faded Forest now. Yep. And not in, I mean, I'm not in great shape. I don't know about you guys, but I'm fine.
00:02:48
Speaker
I mean, I was doing okay until I mouthed off to an angel. Okay. So yeah, you all find yourself in a very familiar place.
Decision at DeConnie Ruins
00:02:57
Speaker
In fact, Jacob seems shaken. Sure. Uh, because you are back exactly at the same spot where you saw Jacob get dragged through the portal in this kind of enclosed area with the archway. So yeah. So we're in the back of the DeConnie ruins. Yeah. Um,
00:03:15
Speaker
There's a part of me that wants to see how meet the goblins, see if they've seen more shadow come through, just real quick. I know we need to get to Graham. I also want to know how long we were in. I mean, we were in there longer than we planned on being in there. Yeah. How many are we finding out? I mean, just going to Trent or getting into town and asking how long it's been since. Trent's in Zandar. Oh, yeah. That's right. That's right. We really didn't think about that.
00:03:44
Speaker
Oh, man. Oh, darn. Oh, man. Oh, beans. Oh, dang. Oh, man. Okay. All right.
Journey to Graham
00:03:53
Speaker
Well, we'll do something about that when we can. Yeah, sure. I mean, at the moment, there's not anything we can do about that. Hop back through. So, off to Graham and we'll maybe run into some of the goblins on our way.
00:04:09
Speaker
Yeah, let's do that. Anybody want to sing the song? Over the river and through the woods? Oh, yeah. Nope. None of them want to. It would be fine. She's not my grandmother. She's just Graham. And I don't remember there being a river here. Seriously. So really just through the woods to go and see Graham. All right. No, barracks just stalking silently.
00:04:36
Speaker
Oh, and this is the first time we've been back to Ms. Marsh since we lost Draconos. Like first time I've ever been here. Oh yeah. Welcome to Ms. Marsh. Thank you. That's nice. We run this joint. Technically.
00:04:48
Speaker
Yeah, who's been keeping the peace while we're going? Albin? Well, he's worthless, but Farlin was with us and he's the only one that gets in fights, so... Fair enough. Alright, yeah, I mean, we go... There's no reason to stop at the inn, there's no reason to stop and see Albin, there's no reason to stop at Trant, because he's not here. I guess we just say, hey Jacob, your dad is out looking for you and he's not here, and we're gonna try to get- Where is he? Last we saw him, he was in Zandarar.
00:05:15
Speaker
Where is Zandraar?
Theradek's Orders and Connections
00:05:18
Speaker
That's near where we started. We have reason to believe he'd be headed back here. We were under the impression he was heading home, we thought. And he may be, it's just going to take him longer than it took us because we did the spirit walk.
00:05:28
Speaker
Oh, yeah, we had seen it. It was a few days before we found you that we saw him. What sort of methods are there in Eberron to quickly send messages? There are methods. We'd need to talk to House Orion. House Sivitz? House Sivitz, yes. Whoever it is, I say, Jacob, we're going to get over there and we're going to send
00:05:48
Speaker
What do they call it? It's a spell called sending. We're going to send a message to the blacksmith in Zandral who we know was the last person who we can trust if Trant is still there to get the message to him and get him home quickly. I have to assume as they're talking Theradek, you hear a voice in your ear just finally kick on Theradek. Agent Theradek, where are you?
00:06:16
Speaker
I'm currently in Miss Marsh. Where have you been? Well, you went on radio silence and you know that that is not acceptable. I apologize for that. I'm in Miss Marsh. We found the boy Jacob and we are returning him to his home. All right. Um,
Jacob's Emotional Return
00:06:40
Speaker
Well, I need you to report to Sharn as quickly as possible. We have things to discuss about your last mission. Very well. Okay. Yes, Philip. You look like you want to say something. Oh, Philip's quite confident that the Red Owl has escaped. Okay. Yeah, that. Yeah. Okay. Um,
00:07:01
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Here's what I was going to say. I think it's highly possible if we can get a message. If he's still in Zendraar, talk to the blacksmith. They do have teleportation circles there, we have learned. They can send them around. Hopefully we can cut some time off of this trip somehow, get him here more quickly. Even if it's just send him to Sharn and put him on a train. Sure. But anyway.
00:07:21
Speaker
We didn't hear what you heard, so I'm gonna say, Phyllis, let's go see Grant. What time of day is it? I mean, I'm not opposed to waking her up. It's, uh, it's morning. Like, what were those other two kids' names? Farin and, sorry, Julian and Farin? Farah? Julian and Farah. Farah. Okay. I was like, I knew there was a Farah or something. Well, Theradek would inform you that he has been requested and ordered to go back to Sharn as soon as possible.
00:07:48
Speaker
Okay. And I will say to that, um, well buddy, you understand, uh, that most of this whole thing has to do with the shadows and clearly Graham's going to be able to help us. I think as possible means after we get this information and we'll travel with you because I'm not splitting the party. Um, are you, that sounds reasonable. Okay.
00:08:12
Speaker
Randy and I can just record on weekends that we're not recording. Meanwhile. Okay, so you all are headed to Graham's.
00:08:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And it's in the morning, we're probably going to see Julian and Farah, and that's going to be weird for everybody. Oh, yeah. Not for me. Well, fair enough. Well, it's going to be weird for us. It's going to be weird for Jacob and his two young friends that he left that day, who are 15 years younger. As you all approach the town, even in the short amount of time that you've been gone, mist marches started growing. There's some new buildings being erected. A few more roads have been extended out because the lightning rail coming through seems to have helped the town quite a bit.
00:08:49
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Everyone give me in those old towns along Route 66 are struggling. Yeah, yeah. Insight check. I can't even read. 12. 19. 12. 19. I don't think good. I don't think good either. Hey, Theradak, out of the corner of your eye as you all approach this town that you've never been to before, you see tears beginning to well up in Jacob's eyes.
00:09:17
Speaker
As he doesn't say anything,
Meeting with Graham and Her Past
00:09:20
Speaker
nobody else seems to notice. He's just walking and about to start crying. Okay. There that goes and puts his arm around him. Are you okay, Jacob? What's wrong? I just, I, I never thought I'd see home again. Well, he keeps walking. You're here. It will be okay.
00:09:48
Speaker
I miss my dad. You will be reunited soon. Is there a place that we can go and get that message sent? I mean, I really do actually want to do that. I mean, we do have communication with Commander Bala. Yeah, I'll hit my button. Okay. Commander Bala, who is this?
00:10:12
Speaker
Oh gosh. My name is Dex. We work together. Oh, I'm so sorry. Yes, yes, sorry. Just a lot of things happening. What can I do for you? Well, first, how long has it been since we talked? It's been a day, a day and a half. Oh, okay. So we weren't... It's not bad at all. Not a lot happened in the angel plane, okay.
00:10:31
Speaker
Um, I'll explain why I said, uh, eventually it's been 20 years, which she didn't know who I was initially that concerned me. Um, uh, commander ball, if you recall when we were in Zandra, our, one of our goal was to find the boy Jacob.
00:10:47
Speaker
Yes. We found him. We were hastened back to Ms. Marsh and did not get a chance to inform his dad who's in Zandral. We know that his dad was with your agent as Andrew. Could you please? I'm sorry, you were in Zandral a day ago and now you're telling me you're in Ms. Marsh? Conference call.
00:11:08
Speaker
No, uh, yes ma'am, uh, we are following intel that we believe is going to help us best these shadows. No, I'm asking how? I'm going to tell you. Okay. Uh, ma'am, uh, when we were in Zandral, we made contact with the Druids. The Druids allowed us to use their ability, uh, or the, the infrastructure they had to allow them to do inter, inter-planar, inter-planar, God, inter-planar travel. We, we traveled through the Angel plane to quickly get to Ms. Marsh.
00:11:37
Speaker
And it allowed you almost instantaneous travel from one point to another. Well, I'll say this. It was not an easy journey. It was not instantaneous, nor was it instantaneous. We were in the Angel plane for several hours and had basically, we're not welcome back there.
00:11:54
Speaker
Okay. Well, great. Good. I can send a message to Zandra to try and catch the boy's father. Hopefully our agent there can get a message to him. I'm sorry, but I really have to go. Is there anything else I can do for you? Is there anything we can do for you? Sounds like there's something we might be able to help you with. I'm sorry, what's happening right now can only be discussed with privileged personnel.
00:12:25
Speaker
All right. Dex out. Okay, Jacob. I talked to my boss, my quasi boss. I talked to his boss and they're going to get a message to your dad. Get him here. All right. Okay. All right. Let's go see green.
00:12:38
Speaker
So as you all walk through the town, people give the two of you warm smiles, if not a little confused, like you've been gone for a while. So you're always the good, the good cops in town. So they're happy to see you, but you have a couple new companions. Um, so they, they look at Theradac and Jacob in a confused or like, none of them have any inclination about Jacob.
00:13:06
Speaker
They're failing perception checks. They would have no reason to think that there's a 25-year-old Jacob in the town. No, that makes sense. So yeah, Jacob's kind of reeling from seeing all these familiar faces, looking at him confused. As you are walking through the town, you hear a voice in the distance say, where have you been? Albin. You were supposed to come right back.
00:13:34
Speaker
but I don't think, I don't think that's true, sir. That's what my father told me about the arrangement is you were to escort him to Sharn, hop on the train and come back. I've been having to run this town on my own. Well, it's a pretty sleepy town, but sir, let me tell you, we were conscripted by some powers considerably stronger than you are to do some work while we were up there. You know who my dad is? Considerably stronger than me? Barrick, would you like to tell him who we've been working for? Yes, we know who you're
00:14:04
Speaker
We're like third cousins, Albin. Of course I know who your father is. Okay. Cousin. Where have you been? We've been doing some contract work for the Dark Lanterns. You've been working with the Dark Lanterns? I've been small things. We're not like agents.
00:14:24
Speaker
Albin kind of backs away and shuts the door to the sheriff's office. It's probably not what I should have done. But you know what? Is he just going to pout and call his dad? Probably so. All right, fine. Who's his dad? And his dad doesn't like the monarchy. It's Rukhaneer Klarn. So he doesn't like the lanterns, of course. But I'm tired of obfuscating, so no more subtlety. I'm just going to tell everyone what I'm thinking.
00:14:53
Speaker
Oh yeah, I guess we need to address this. Um, curse bringer appears in your hand. Where did you go? I did not summon you. I don't care. I let go of the sword. The sword falls on the ground. I say, Oh, here, let me get that 40 break. Yeah. I picked the sword up. Does it work? Can you pick the sword up? Give me a charisma check. Oh man.
00:15:26
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19 The sword shoots back back up into your hand And he says we will be doing things differently from now on Will speaks you're going to explain that in plain he disappears language. Yeah, I did say English plain common problems, Barry Barry that was weird to see what your sword did You know I might be inclined to say yes problems the other hand
00:15:56
Speaker
Some clarity. Let's proceed. Okay. I just go. All right. So you all approach Graham's house. There's at one point when you all almost get tripped up on Julian and Farrah running around in the streets playing Jacob handles as well as you would expect him to. So he almost goes to say hi, but stops himself remembering, um,
00:16:25
Speaker
Sure. Do you knock on Graham's door or bust on in, kick the door open? The audience gets to hear my awesome old lady voice again. Yes. Before she comes to the door, I take the locket off of, or have Jacob give me the locket. I don't want her to see it on somebody she doesn't recognize when she opens the door. So I've taken it and I've put it just in my pocket. Hold on.
00:16:57
Speaker
They're not going to be able to hear the steps of radio.
00:17:03
Speaker
She's a horse? That's the secret. Graham is a synth on. So you hear the door unlock and it kind of, she pokes her head out and immediately looks at Theradak and just, who are you? I'm Theradak, ma'am. Oh, what do you, oh. Yeah, hey, hi. Yeah. Eric, Dex, Jacob, you look different. No, Lyle.
00:17:30
Speaker
Niall! It's been a while. You recognize him? I'd recognize those eyes anywhere. Oh, that's interesting. Also, we found your locket. What? Yeah, let's go inside. Come, come in. I'll make some tea. Alright.
Magic and Politics Discussion
00:17:44
Speaker
So, while she makes tea, the three of us... Chamomile or the strongest stuff? The strongest stuff. The strongest you've got, ma'am. Ooh. Faradak? Maybe mix a little healing potion in it, too, if you wouldn't mind.
00:17:58
Speaker
Just regular tea is fine. That that's a non statement. There's no such thing as a regular tea Whichever you wish to serve There that could use that sleepy time to Jacob come help me in the kitchen Jacob
00:18:15
Speaker
Talk to her. Don't tell her too much. Everyone give me insight checks real quick. Graham's evil. Graham knows everything. And is evil. That's how this goes. How's your sword, Beric? Sixteen. Eighteen. Insight. Twenty. Twenty. All of you get the sense like seeing Jacob's demeanor since you've entered Graham's house
00:18:39
Speaker
It's just awesome to him that somebody's treating him like they always have. Like you get the sense that he helped Graham make tea hundreds of times. So he's just super stoked to go talk to Graham. Barrick withdraws the book he borrowed from his pack and puts it back on the shelf. And while they're in there making tea, I just say, do we just want to
00:19:01
Speaker
Ask her to explain. She knows something already. Yeah, I mean she clearly. There's no point in trying to hide anything from her. I'm assuming she even knows that Jacob had to lock it wherever he's been. Probably so, I don't know. Alright, well. She's more than she appears. Certainly. She turns into a truck.
00:19:23
Speaker
No, she would definitely turn into a motorcycle. Optimus Graham. So Graham returns with a tray with all the teacups. Jacob has a little milk and sugar cube and sets those down on the table and sits down and starts making his tea.
00:19:41
Speaker
So, what brings you to my house? It's been some time since I've seen you. Technically, what brought us to your house was a interplaner gate. Interplan- I can't say- You did say it right. You said interplaner. Yeah, interplaner gate.
00:19:57
Speaker
Graham, you would like for us to tell you where we found Jacob or do you think you know already? I mean, obviously he's quite a bit older than last I saw him, but I have no idea where you found him. We retrieved him through an interplanar gate from Mordor. My bar.
00:20:20
Speaker
from my bar. He's been trapped in my bar. And for him, apparently it was 15 years. Oh, explaining of course his age. Do you know? Do you know why he was able to survive in my bar for 15 years? I can't imagine. And that's when I pull the locket from my pocket. The smile from Graham's face fades as she sees the locket. I say
00:20:42
Speaker
Jacob did take your locket. And while I can understand you would might be upset that he had done so, it's the only reason he's alive to return to us. He said that this thing saved his life multiple times over those 15 years. When Barrick tried to inspect the locket, it blinded him metaphorically. Uh, not, not literally this time. Um, Graham.
00:21:08
Speaker
If this is a thing that can help clearly, you know, more than you've led onto us, you gave us the prophecy. You know what's happening. And if this thing can aid us in stopping the tragedy, that's about to befall our world. We need to hear about it. Shall I roll persuasion? 13.
00:21:30
Speaker
May I have to lock it back, please? Oh, absolutely. It's yours. I was never intending on, on, on, on keeping it. She takes it and slips it on her neck and it seems comforting to her. She sits up a little bit straighter and a little bit of light comes on in her eyes. Um, I
00:22:00
Speaker
You're right. I know much more than I've led on to the people of this town and to you. And I'm not who I claim to be.
00:22:17
Speaker
I had hoped to escape my former life with some small trinkets to remind me of what I used to be, but it seems that fate will not allow that. You said that this locket helped Jacob in my bar?
00:22:37
Speaker
It, I mean, it helped Jacob in the sense that it weakened the things that wanted to hurt him. It was an aid to Jacob. It did not help him in the sense that it did things for him. I feel like it's an important distinction to make in this world. Um, this locket and she holds it as she talks, um, contains a very powerful, um, piece of magic.
00:23:08
Speaker
I say peace very intentionally. It is not, it is not the whole of the source, but Beric, how's your, your history? Did you read that book that you took? Yes, I did. I did. I spent that whole train ride. I spent an entire day on a train reading it. Well, then, um, what does the name Levira Tegor mean to you? Are you going to tell me, or do you want me to roll? I need you to, because you read it a while back, like,
00:23:40
Speaker
17. Well, LaVira Tagore was... LaVira Tagore was the predecessor to Jayla Duran. Oh. Was the previous speaker of the flame. And she just locks eyes with you. And Beric shifts out of his seat onto one knee.
00:24:01
Speaker
So, and Dex, though he does not give two wits about the Silver Flame, both wants to respect Beric and show that he understands that this person is someone important and keeping in the back of his mind someone who can be helpful follows suit. You don't have to, don't feel like... Like I don't know what any of those things they said were... Jacob's still in his seat, just watching Grant.
00:24:31
Speaker
Actually, when I get down on one knee, I kind of cast an eye over to Beric, like with a... Is there something we need to do? This is important, huh? Beric looks shaken. Philip, would you like to explain to the fellow players in the audience what the speaker of the flame is? Okay, so the silver flame is not a god, it's a force.
00:24:57
Speaker
millennia ago a race called the coattles sacrificed themselves to bind a bunch of demons and they created the silver flame by doing so then a few hundred years ago a demon lord broke loose and a paladin named tiramiron sacrificed herself by essentially binding herself with the flame to imprison this demon lord again
00:25:22
Speaker
and that created a physical presence of the silver flame in Thrink. So there's like actually a place you can go where you see this permanent silver flame burning. Kira is now the voice in the flame and there's a cleric that she seemingly chooses who becomes the speaker for the flame.
00:25:46
Speaker
The current speaker is Jayla Duran, who's like a 12 year old girl. But apparently, Graham is the former speaker for the flame. So she was able to commune directly with this force to speak on its behalf. And they are ever since the monarchy was instilled the
00:26:12
Speaker
kind of did, I mean, sort of, because the Council of Cardinals really does the actual governing. Yeah, they're the figurehead, I guess, of the government. What are the odds that Graham knows about my
00:26:33
Speaker
I don't know my bearism and how would she take it? I don't know. I mean, it depends on how much she knows about lycanthropy and what the difference is with a werebear because I look like Lyle. Yeah, there is nothing there. You would have recognized the name of the current speaker, at least. So you would you would get who she is. Yeah, I would. I would have put it together. Yeah.
00:26:58
Speaker
And I don't. I mean, you spent some time in three. I did live in three. When did I live in three? I lived in three up to four years ago. I honestly don't remember when jail became. She became it in 993. So she would have been speaker when depending on how long you lived there.
00:27:15
Speaker
I mean, I lived there for, uh, what did I say? It's written down. I think I lived there for five years and left three years ago. That's what it was. So you would have lived there while Graham was when I, and I would recognize that name. So probably, I mean, I was probably, I wasn't religious, but I was in three. Yeah. So you would, so I know why I'm on one knee then. Yeah. I wouldn't have done it. Except for the fact that Berg did it as well. Like, cause I don't worship it, but I know why, why we're down there.
00:27:43
Speaker
OK, good. And there it is. Just sipping his tea, just observing the goings on here with some interest. You're a company man. You work for the British government. You're about to a foreign leader. OK, so you you two are on bended knee. She I'm not taking the lead on this one. I was interrogating about a locket that found out that. Well, and based on what she said, I mean, you
00:28:10
Speaker
I'll let you deduce what you wanted to deduce about the locket, so. Why are you here? My time was up. The flame picked a new speaker and I had a choice to either live out my days in Thrain as a crone who lost her gift
00:28:39
Speaker
Or go somewhere else, start a new life, maybe help people, um, like the children of this town, provide guidance when it was needed. And I honestly get a kick out of being the kooky old lady around town. It's fun. Um, people will tell you all kinds of things when they think you're a little bit off. The prophecies, the things you speak, you're still hearing the voice occasionally.
00:29:09
Speaker
What is the locket then? The locket is a special type of magical item that, uh, every speaker, if they are removed from their position rather than passing away while still being the speaker is given a piece of the flame to carry with them. They're there are items.
00:29:38
Speaker
out there in existence that can channel the silver flame in a very direct way. So direct that if you take the item into the presence of the silver flame, the item will actually take some of the flame with it.
00:29:56
Speaker
And that's what this locket is. It contains the actual silver flame within it, a piece of it. And I believe that's why where Jacob went, Mahbar, he was able to survive. Because the silver flame can penetrate any darkness, no matter how powerful.
00:30:15
Speaker
So at this point, Barrett begins to explain everything they've been concerned about and becomes fully 100% candid about the danger of an invasion from a bar and the various gates that we've been running into.
00:30:31
Speaker
question okay she was a high-level person individual does that mean she is a powerful cleric does that mean that she is a I mean because the speaker of the
Political Unrest and Danger
00:30:44
Speaker
flame to me is reminiscent of the the the boy dolly llama like the way it doesn't it's a good analogy that doesn't necessarily mean that she is a level 26 cleric or something the way it works is
00:30:59
Speaker
it in day-to-day life she is at least a priest maybe a low-level cleric in the presence of the silver flame she's superman like crazy powerful okay um so yeah okay but the fact that she carries a piece of the silver flame with her means she could probably hold her own
00:31:19
Speaker
Maybe not quite as powerful. By the way, I wanna make it clear I was not trying to equate a fictional religion to a real world that people care about. I just tried to make an analogy of... Yeah, it's a touchstone for people to... It's a perfectly good analogy, I think. I've said that Thrain is sometimes like Catholicism. I hope nobody was offended by that, but it's just my touchpoint. In organization it is. Okay, so today as Graham in Miss Marsh, she is someone with the same skills as any other cleric might have, but we took her to Thrain.
00:31:47
Speaker
If we took her into the presence of the flame in Flame Keep, then yeah, it would be crazy time. She's the big boss. She could help me fight Gabe. Assuming she takes your part in that. She seems hip. You gave an angel the finger? Badass.
00:32:08
Speaker
Trust me, Graham, he deserved it. Um, so you're just unloading everything. Do you mention curse bringer? Yes. Okay. Um, she kind of takes the my bar stuff to heart and says, well, um,
00:32:25
Speaker
It seems as though they are, and Jacob also conveyed- And this is also the first time Dex has heard some of this stuff, I'm sure. Probably some of the things that Cursebringer has said to me, probably. Right. And Jacob takes your lead and tells her about his time in the bar and seeing the various openings and things pouring out.
00:32:45
Speaker
I'm assuming you all tell her about Draconos as well. Yes. Yeah, that's probably the story. And yeah, I would assume that's probably pretty early because you would wonder where he is. Right. And Dex fills in spots as he can, but his is all things that happened and not questions the answering where Dex has a better or Eric has a better handle on that stuff. So while I might say, yeah, and then blank, by and large, it's the two of them talking to me absorbate.
00:33:12
Speaker
Farlin broke away from you all while you're walking through town to go send word to the druids and sure do his stuff He he assumes he's garnered enough goodwill with you all to where you'll fill him in if there's anything pertinent because you know the druids are Kind of trying to do the same thing you all are So yeah, yeah, I mean if not, that's fine. That's just his mindset certainly as we need their help. I mean well Yes that but also I think that
00:33:42
Speaker
There's a bond between him and us that we would respect enough that if he came asking, we may not go to his place and fill him in, but if he's like, what did you learn from Graham? We're going to tell it. Yeah. Okay. Well, um, I'm sad to hear about Traconos. Um, what I know about the nature of the plane of Mubarak. Um, I will pray for him.
00:34:08
Speaker
that the light guides him out of there. But, um, the magic in my locket is actually based on an ancient form of magic created by the giants and perfected by the Dakani goblins.
Planning Escape and Seeking Allies
00:34:33
Speaker
to hold radiant energy, almost like a battery, to be used either sparingly or in great force.
00:34:46
Speaker
So, um, I do not know the nature of the magic that goes into this locket. In fact, I don't think anybody in Thrain does. There is literally a chest full of them that was made hundreds of years ago. Sorry, real quick. Just to be clear on Jacob's part of the story, basically the shadow creatures felt pain in his presence, but he wasn't able to attack them with it. So just, okay.
00:35:16
Speaker
I am going to, I don't want to interrupt her, but while she's talking, I, I mean, I've got my ribbon weave in my hand.
00:35:27
Speaker
And we know that it is something with radiant something that was perfected by DeConnie goblins. Yeah. So while she's talking, I just hand it to her. She looks at it and takes it. And I say, no, I'm not mistaken. She had the locket before she took it in the presence of the flame and took some flame with her. So she saw the, whatever the magical energy was in the locket beforehand. I say, ma'am. No, I don't. She's Graham. I say Graham. We, uh,
00:35:57
Speaker
We each got something from a DeConi ruin. That weapon that you have uses radiant energy. We found it in a DeConi tomb. Does it remind you, does that, that, uh, that, what is it? It's like a stone, right? The gem. Yeah. Yeah. That gem there in the hilt and the handle is that.
00:36:21
Speaker
putting off anything similar to what your locket did before you took it to the flame. She takes it and places her hand wholly over the gym and closes her eyes. And after a few moments, her eyes open. It's
00:36:45
Speaker
What you have here in the form of the weapon is right. It feels like my locket except for the gem. It serves a different function. It doesn't
00:37:05
Speaker
retain light like the magic in my locket. The gem that was in my locket prior to the silver flame inhabiting it was a brilliant red gem with silver light flowing within it. And in the presence of the silver flame, the silver light grew so bright that the gem erupted and there was just an orb of light that exists now.
00:37:35
Speaker
So the tech, the technology, the magic is right. Just one of the parts serves a different function. Yeah. And if I'm not saying ours are purple with Amber light. So, okay. So, so where's the Amber flame? Okay. I imagine somewhere in dark noon, that's where the economy, um, that with a skilled enough hand, a skilled enough blacksmith could change out the gyms.
00:38:07
Speaker
But you would have to find the correct gem. Interesting. I mean, I'm filing that one away for later. Yeah. That sounds like it's relevant information. That sounds like a quest. All right. And I tell her, thank you. And I say please continue.
00:38:29
Speaker
You also, have you mentioned who you work for? Was that exchanged? Have you all mentioned that you worked for the Dark Lanterns in Apprehending the Red Owl? Was that part of your story where you just focused on the Mubarak stuff? I was probably focused on the Mubarak stuff, but it could. And it's relevant because Jacob's there and Trant was there. I think that would come up. Yeah, probably. Now, boys,
00:38:59
Speaker
You, you mentioned running into Trent and him asking for help from somebody who, who was that? The red owl. She runs a terrorist organization in charge. The swords of Liberty. Yeah. And then Graham's face changes this red. No, not really. Um, I made a promise for you. She said, boys,
00:39:28
Speaker
How much contact have you had since you met with the Druids with the goings on in Breland? You're the one who had the conversation just now. Wait, wait. You just had a talk with Bala. She said something was up. Yeah, I mean, all we know is something's happening. We really have very little. She told me that things were going on that I don't have the clearance for. Graham. And that gets up.
00:39:57
Speaker
Oh, okay. Um, Graham gets up and starts shuffling towards her little desk with some papers on it. Um, as commander Balla reappears in your ear. Um, have, have you left to get back to Sean yet? Not at this point. Well, I, I need you to get there. Where are you?
00:40:22
Speaker
I'm in Miss March acquiring some beneficial information. Okay. Agent Theradak. Yes. There's a lightning rail that goes to Miss Marsh and takes you to Shawn. I order you to get on that train and get back here now. Um, as she finishes that statement, Graham returns with a copy of the sharn inquisitive as she places it on the table and the headline reads, uh, rogue, realist agents, kidnap, and a cost hateth.
00:40:55
Speaker
at this point. And there's a picture of, of Hadith hugging the King of Breeland on the front cover. Yes, there that gets up and says, forgive me, I must leave now. I cannot wait. Hadith Irenarn is, yeah, help me out. She is the daughter or sister of the King of Karnath, who lives in the court of King Borenel as
00:41:26
Speaker
Go ahead. Guest hostage, but you know, I mean, there's his his son lives in Karnath. There was like a thought, you know, medieval foster hostage thing. Right. For Game of Thrones fans, think Theon Greyjoy in season one of Game of Thrones. Sure. It seems to be a little more polite. Well, yes. But Beric immediately. The Red Owl says she was trying to start a war.
00:41:52
Speaker
I want to learn so much more about this from you, but we need to lean. You don't want to take a train ride, would you? It's a long ride and we could have a long talk on the way. Where do you mean to go? Shine. I'll put you back on the train and bring you right back here.
Confrontation with Albin
00:42:09
Speaker
I mean... Wait, hold on.
00:42:16
Speaker
Just to be clear, just to make sure that we're all on the same page, the photo on the front cover of the shard inquisitive is the red owl hugging, hugging King Bora now. Hey, this here with Narn is the red owl.
00:42:35
Speaker
The headline reads, Rogue Breelish Agents Us Kidnap Hadithirwanarn. I'm sorry, I didn't pick up that the picture was of the red owl. And the picture is who you would recognize as the red owl hugging the king of your country. And I didn't recognize her as... I specifically asked you
00:42:58
Speaker
Who have you met in the court? Okay. And you did not say, hey, Dothiranar. Okay. So just so I'm clear, the Red Owl is the sister of the King of Karnath.
00:43:10
Speaker
but has been living in the home of the Brielish king as a part of a peace treaty. Yes. And so basically she is she is rallying anti-monarchy people under the auspices of liberation when really she's probably just trying to start a war with Karnad to get home or to take over Brieland or God only knows why. But that's what's happening.
00:43:40
Speaker
But now, at least, doesn't everybody know that this person who's been trying to overthrow the monarchy, the people who, well, they never see her. She always wear a mask. Well, but we, we saw her, the blacksmith saw her. No, I'm talking about her followers. Right. But no member of this spy organization went, Oh my God, that's the sister of the king of car. Yeah.
00:44:07
Speaker
Who would know? I mean... I mean, they're spies. The blacksmith is a member of the CIA. Shouldn't he recognize the sister of another head of state? That's been living in our country. Yeah, he would know that. But he didn't, I guess. Or he didn't. Or we're being played again. Yeah, yeah. It's starting to feel that way, isn't it? Okay, so, um, Theredek, are you gonna tell us that you need to leave? Theredek, go head for the door. He's going. Where are you going?
00:44:34
Speaker
Catch the next lightning rail. Pterodact, they're saying we kidnapped Hadeth Erebinarne. Yes, and I have been summoned back on orders. Alright, I grabbed the paper and I skimmed through to see our names or likenesses described. Do I see those things? Yes, they interviewed Hadeth to describe her attackers. And I definitely gave her our real names. Wait, she's free? Okay. So, we turned her over to the Dark Lanterns.
00:45:05
Speaker
who freed her. Right. Or... Or she made a phone call and said... Or what? I mean... I mean, they are the king's dark lanterns working at the will of the king. So it may not have been them internally that freed her. Right, but... But the king...
00:45:30
Speaker
This is a group that actively agitates against the monarchy and blows up towers in S.H.A.R.N. Alright, all I know is, Thierdak has the protection of being a member of the Dark Lanterns to get him back to his boss.
00:45:49
Speaker
I can shapeshift into look like something else and not freely associate with him on the train to get to shark. Barak, what are we going to do with you to get you there? They may be summoning there back back just to arrest him. Well, that is certainly true. Yeah. Let's have that talk there. You understand you well, no, because none of this makes any sense.
00:46:16
Speaker
Yeah, we need to go. We need to go. So Hadith is the red apple. Yes. Hadith is a terrorist. We were sent to find information and about the terrorist group she runs. We captured her. We brought her back to an agent who said he was sending her back to Sharn. Since then she's been freed
00:46:40
Speaker
But the Dark Lanterns have to know what she look have to know figure out who she was at some point either with the blacksmith or with Bala when she showed with but Assuming the blacksmith was ignorant. I mean, you know, they're a deck Would he potentially have recognized her being who she is at this point? That's the thing their deck was an agent he didn't recognize
00:47:04
Speaker
So let's assume the blacksmith was also ignorant of who she was and did the thing and sent her to Commander Bala. Well, Commander Bala is going to recognize her and she's not going to do anything but contact her superior or the king and say, what do I do? And I think at that point they said, you better let her go because the king has either has affinity for her or wants, uh, probably that. Who knows? And, and, and is not thinking clearly because of his, he's, he's all he's love blind. And he's like,
00:47:37
Speaker
It's like 30 years older than her and married and lots of children. And what do we do? What do we do? What do we do? I don't think that their deck is in danger of getting arrested because he did his job and it's been rectified. You'd think they'd keep it quiet. The only thing I think is haters leaked the story.
00:48:03
Speaker
Also, rogue British agent or British agents. I wasn't getting paid. That's my thing. Nothing about this story is damaging to anyone except the monarchy. Why? Why would the King talk? We need to figure out we need we need an action to take somewhere. I have no
Media Fallout and Safety Concerns
00:48:22
Speaker
idea there. That's probably going to go follow his orders and report back.
00:48:41
Speaker
And boy oh boy, Commander Balla sure didn't say anything to me when I spoke to her earlier about Trent. Didn't mention Lalo, didn't say nothing. Just said, oh, you traveled through time. So I don't know. That really throws me for a loop. Jacob, your dad's on his way. You don't need to wrestle feathers by staying at your house. So I give him access to my place and I say, just tell him you're a friend staying here for a couple of days. And then when your dad gets home,
00:48:54
Speaker
if anything has the chance to tell his story.
00:49:09
Speaker
If you want, Farlin will be here to help make the introduction, uh, and, and explain what happened. And, uh, don't go anywhere with us for now. You stay here. You recuperate. Barrick, what are we doing? Are we going? We need to go. What if we just contact the commander and say, okay. I mean, yeah, let's, yeah. Why don't, why don't you use your speaking stone? Barrick gets on the, gets on the species commander of all. Are you there?
00:49:35
Speaker
Oh, hello, Barrick. I'm looking at a very disturbing shine inquisitive article. Yes, that's very unfortunate. Why is the red owl free? Well, I now know who she is also. But why is the red owl free because she is also that
00:49:57
Speaker
The strength of our organization only exists in that the the people with the ability to shut us down, give us that power. We have information. We can use that information. But in terms of apprehending a person and keeping them locked up, our strength only reaches so far. Mr. Rowan. Why? Sound like Agent Smith. Why would the king do that? Why would why would the king?
00:50:26
Speaker
I, Beric, I don't know. And why are we sold out in this paper? Once again, we had nothing to do with that.
00:50:35
Speaker
Then why in the world would you bring, why in the world would you bring Dyrdak back to Sharn in this situation? Because in our headquarters he can be safe. We have enough information on those that would seek to harm you to keep them quiet and keep them inactive. Are we wanted? I mean, the King's not really happy based on the story that Hadith is telling everybody.
00:51:03
Speaker
And you're not telling the King the truth? I'm trying to. I'm a bureaucrat, Beric. I don't have the King's ear the way... Alban... Albanir Klarn... Albanir Klarn knows we're here. Um... Oh, f***. Albanir Klarn knows we're here, and...
00:51:23
Speaker
knows. And when he demanded to know why we were constables here in Miss March, I don't know if you knew that. He demanded to know and we explained by saying that we'd been contracted by the by the lanterns. So and that was foolish. Now I see that but it's it's said and done. Okay. We have to assume that he's already contacted his father. Yeah. Who
00:51:52
Speaker
more than likely pass that information on to the king, um, to gain his favor because Rupin's a snake. Um, yes, confidence call. No, no, no. I'm going to say, I mean, I know you're talking Dex doesn't give and says, uh, Barrick, tell her we're on the next train to Sean. And if she could have someone there to give us a little bit of escort, that'd be really appreciated. Is it safe for us to come to shine? Um,
00:52:19
Speaker
I mean, we, we could provide some protection, but if you didn't come to Sharn, we could work on sorting this mess out from a distance. We've already snuck Crass out of the city. Um, because naturally he was the first figure that Hadith pointed to. Saradac has been a good ally to us and we're concerned about letting him wander back into this city on his own.
00:52:49
Speaker
Is it truly wise for him to come back? Probably not. Commander, is my family safe? Right now, all they had was a description. She knew me. She knew who I was. I will go get your family.
00:53:18
Speaker
I will make sure that your uncle, your grandfather, everyone else is protected, except for the ear clarts. I kind of hate them. Um, I know you share blood, but, um, um, I mean, it's just something bad happened to album on our way.
00:53:36
Speaker
No, no, no, no. I can go make something bad happen to Alvin. That was the wrong thing to say. It's fine. It's a stressful situation. All of a sudden, you two are conference called in by Commander Bala. I'm headed to the train. No, no, Theradak, stay with them. Stay with them. Here's what we're going to do. I need you all to head out of Miss Marsh, obviously.
00:54:03
Speaker
The safest places to go would be Zilago, Dargun, Zendrik, any, any of the non five nations.
Escape Plan with Commander Bala
00:54:16
Speaker
Relations are too good right now. There's extradition. They'll, they could find you and send you back. Now, granted the dark lanterns are not on their side. So we will be feeding them misinformation the whole way.
00:54:31
Speaker
in regards if they ask us to track you down. Commander, are you working against the King? I see no other option right now. Only in this, only I make myself clear in regards to your apprehension and the dealings with the Swords of Liberty. Then to what degree can we be assured that the rest of the lanterns are following your example? Well, I am the head of the Dark Lanterns. I decide assignments and who is gathering what information. If a Dark Lantern sees you on the street,
00:55:01
Speaker
The chain of command dictates that they tell me first, but I can't promise you that they won't tell someone else. But through the proper channels, your whereabouts will not be reported to the king until we can figure out what's going on. I trust the king. I do. But something, something is wrong. Something is off. And I assume passage to these places is on us.
00:55:26
Speaker
I can't wire you resources unless you go to Zilargo. Unfortunately, if you go there, then how civis can assist us, but most of the other major towns you could go to art within the five nations and that's dangerous for you. Um, but, um, yes, I'm, I'm very sorry that I got you all mixed up in this. If I had any idea.
00:55:57
Speaker
how deep this went. I don't know what I would have done, but we can only do what we can do with what we have. So you can't get us a ride somewhere. Yes. Yes, I can. I need you all to travel
00:56:26
Speaker
to. Real quick while you're checking something, does Philip explain to Jeff about Zilargo and Dargoon and the other place that he said? Because I don't. Okay. Dex would know these things. He's traveling. Yeah. So, um, during the course of the war, a bunch of regions broke away from the original five nations. Uh, Zilargo is a gnome country. Okay. Uh, that's closely allied with Breland, but it's also pretty technologically advanced. There's some, a lot of, uh, the gnomes build a lot of the airships and stuff like that.
00:56:56
Speaker
Um, it's, it's super creepy. There's like a spy organization that almost everyone is a part of, and they all like inform on their neighbors and stuff. Okay. Dargoon is a goblinoid nation ruled by hobgoblins. Um, Zendrick is a gigantic continent to the south. That's like, uh, pirate land. Like there's only one major city, which is your human city and no hardly any government.
00:57:24
Speaker
and we're crossing water to get to any of these three places. No, Zilargo and Dargun, we're quite close to Dargun. Okay. Dargun's across a mountain range, Zilargo's to the south and a little to the east of where we are, Stormreach, the main city where we'd have to go to get into Zindrik would be across the sea. Dargun and Zilargo are both a part of the treaty that ended the war.
00:57:50
Speaker
And so have relations to maintain with the other five nations and so might conceivably sell us out. I don't know. On the other hand, they're not human nation. So they might not storm reaches is.
00:58:04
Speaker
free. It's basically outlaw town. I would say there's a greater chance that if you went to Zilargo, there would be some information sent as opposed to Dargoon. Dargoon is a loose structured government. Yes. Well, and I'll say, I said, where can I find a Red Ruby?
00:58:22
Speaker
And so where could I find the no it was no never mind it was backwards I was making a dumb joke right yeah the amber flame right in terms of what Graham told you about the nature of the magic that holds the silver flame. Giants like the originators of this magic were based on a syndric or to Connie who perfected it goblins dark zalago if you want to go chill with some gnomes barracks mother went to went to syndric that's where
Final Preparations and Trust Issues
00:58:49
Speaker
his father originated so he has something of anything there
00:58:52
Speaker
Um, it's also the most outlaw ish, which seems potentially useful to us at this point. But yeah, I feel that the Dargun is also pretty unorganized. So just tribes of goblins fighting for power.
00:59:09
Speaker
We could disappear in either place. Just be a little bit more comfortable. Let's see. Let's see what the way our lady. Yeah. She was telling us to head somewhere. Hey, yeah. Commander Ball was in the middle. So let's see if you all head to Vathunrond. That's where I've sent crashed. There is a tower tall enough to have a airship family there now.
00:59:36
Speaker
Well, that's where Krast and Draconos met. Also, that's where Draconos spent 10 years training to be a paladin. There's a tower tall enough there for an airship to pick you up and take you wherever you would like to go. The person that will be piloting it is on our side.
00:59:57
Speaker
So, as well as the crew. You won't need to worry about any of that. What was the name of the place? Vathirond? It's a city north of us, somewhat. In Breland, of course. I can't remember which of my relatives. One of my relatives lives on a ranch outside of it. Alright, so you have reason to want to get to Zendric. Maybe, I don't know. I'm thing with the sword. I'm not against Zendric. But it's a place we could easily disappear.
01:00:27
Speaker
Yeah, I think I will stand out less than in Dargun. Yes. Let's go. I agree. I mean, I won't. Hobgoblin.
01:00:36
Speaker
Well, yeah, I mean, you can, I disappeared in this living room. I look like that angel we fought. Um, he transformed into a chair. Um, I, I truly wish you safe travels and please do not hesitate to contact me. If you need assistance or resources, I will do everything in my power to help you. Um, where, where are you all headed?
01:01:07
Speaker
Well, for the moment, Vathrond, we don't know what will happen between here and there. Can we, is it safe for us to contact you again? Yes, yes, absolutely. Anytime. Is it? Well, nevermind. We'd like to make an insight check. Just, I mean, I know I'm only being able to read her voice, but. Yeah, I, I, well, nevermind. I also want to make one. Yes.
01:01:34
Speaker
No. We are not there. Who knows? Not us. I head to Vathranrond. I will tell the airship that's picking you up to be ready with supplies for a journey to Sarlona. So you can go anywhere that you want. I mean, there's no point in keeping a secret from her because the agent that flies us there is going to tell her where he took us.
01:02:03
Speaker
That's fair. Right now we're thinking Zendric. Okay. We have agents down there, but like I said, chain of command, and there are a handful that I would trust with my life readily, such as Ajit Krast, who you'll be meeting in Vathiran, and Theradak, you have been one of the best agents we could have ever hoped to have had in the Dark Lanterns.
01:02:32
Speaker
and once again I apologize that under my command this has happened to you but I know that you are wholly capable of taking on all of this and please don't hesitate to contact me
01:02:51
Speaker
And you know the signs of one of your fellow dark lanterns you can blend in we have plenty of Half orcs in our employ, so you will not be easily recognizable so Maybe just don't show people your your stone pouch because that's that's pretty distinct, but yes Yes, just be safe
01:03:14
Speaker
Thank you. Graham stands up from the table and says, well, if you're going somewhere, you're going to need food. She goes into the kitchen and starts packing up bags for you all to take. She didn't say anything about my sword. No, Graham didn't really have anything to say about your sword, honestly. So while she's packing up your bag lunches, anything you all would like to say to each other?
01:03:45
Speaker
I've never left Spreeland. That's not so bad. I've been a lot of places. Never this one. Never made it this far south. I mean, I got nothing to say, but just watch each other's asses. I don't know if I trust anybody, but the two people in this room right now, and I just met you.
01:04:13
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, as far as I'm concerned, we're an army of three at this point. I want to trust Commander Balla. I know there that you definitely want to trust Commander Balla, but I'm not trusting anybody that's not in this room right now. There's a knock on the door. Especially this guy. Is there a window we can look out? Yes. I glance out the window. It's Albin and he looks frantic. All right. Looking around a lot. I'm going to. Are you gonna become ground?
01:04:44
Speaker
God, that's a good idea. Oh, I'm so sorry. I thought that's where you're going. No, no, no, no, no. I was going to be sneaky for a minute. I was going to be a bear. No, what I want to do is, um, I want to climb out a window and, and, and I'm going to change into who gives a shit. The guy from, uh, the guy that I pretended to be during the interrogation was going to change shape, walk around.
01:05:11
Speaker
And then, uh, you know, stealthily, I'll roll for it. Um, like I can do that now. So, so far I have climbed out the window and changed into an unrecognizable person to albany or clorn. So even if he sees me, I may not be able to do what I want to do, but I'm not going to raise an alarm yet. Uh, so stealth.
01:05:32
Speaker
All right. That's a 23. My, my goal was to come up behind. Albin and here, I'm not, go. This is dire. I don't know. No, no. Do you dagger to the back, walk him into the room? No, no, I went there too. No, no, no. I'm not going to stab him. No, God, no. No, no. I tell him to remain quiet. Oh God. You're, you're already here.
01:06:02
Speaker
And I say, Beric, open the door. What? I open the door. And we walk in, and I seat him in a chair. Who's poking me in the back with a knife? What? Uh, I don't know who this person is. You don't know. What? Are you with them? Uh, yeah. Yes.
01:06:32
Speaker
What? What? What? What? Beric, I'm so sorry. I tried. I tried what I could. What? Just do it. Do what? And he is kind of hanging his head in front of you. And I say no, you dumbass. I'm with them. He's with us. What?
01:06:56
Speaker
Wait, what do you think is happening? I think that there's a dark lantern about to stab me in the back. No, there's a dark lantern over here. Well, but he's with you. Yeah. Well, so is that one. He's not. And why is he trying to stab me in the back? Well, because your last name's Air Clarn. We thought you were with them. What is happening right now? Well, right now the newspaper owned by your dad says that we're traitors.
01:07:17
Speaker
OK, it's run by my uncle. Oh, I really thought it was his dad. I'm sorry. Well, it's. Wait, why is that? How is that? Oh, oh, no. OK, I'm sorry. It's his dad. Oh, he's right. Rookin is his dad. Rookin's brother runs the runs the sharniquest. OK, my my dad never done that before. Never done what before? Corrected Philip on Eberron political war. What what what?
01:07:46
Speaker
Why did you have somebody come in? I'm trying to help. Well, they didn't have me do anything. That was really my own volition. But that wasn't that wasn't our first thought when you came to the door. Right. Listen, all I need is somebody to punch me in the face, punches him in the face without a second thought.
01:08:07
Speaker
Now, you probably didn't deserve that, but it felt wildly good. No, that's fine. We all put you in the place.
01:08:25
Speaker
So two black eyes and a bloody nose later So I I'm assuming that you all are not headed towards Sean I
01:08:45
Speaker
why don't you tell us what you need to tell enough cryptic BS don't go to sharn obviously because that's the direction i told them you were headed when you beat the crap out of me when you got back to the town all right okay are you all right just leave they're on their way you get it i had to i had to call
01:09:04
Speaker
Well, I would argue otherwise, but that's neither here nor there. Do you really think I run this town? Do you really think my dad put me here without contingencies? You could feign incompetence. All right. And that Beric withholds the sarcastic comment. Though it wouldn't be connected. Connected to that because this guy seems to actually be trying to be something nice. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, hey, we appreciate your help. We are going to get out of here. Hope you can keep one more secret. I changed back in the text.
01:09:32
Speaker
What? Uh, or Lyle. Pardon me, not Dex. How's that picnic basket coming around? Oh, just a couple more minutes. Well, our understanding is that time is short. Jacob, come help me.
01:09:47
Speaker
All right. Listen, do you know anything else? I just know that I, I called my dad, told him that you all were back in town. You had immediately jumped me in the street, beaten me, and then taken off on the lightning rail towards Shawn.
01:10:07
Speaker
Does the lightning no keep manifest is that sort of thing as I was Dex this was Jeff does the lighting no keep manifest? That's the sort of thing that they're gonna I guess we could have stowed away. I mean, it's not like That's a definitive debunking All right, I Genuinely appreciate your help. Sorry that I startled you a little toothpick here
01:10:30
Speaker
I can't believe you guys thought I was just going to stab him. I'm sorry, I never gave you two and Draconos enough credit for what you did here.
01:10:48
Speaker
things were a lot harder than I thought they would be. And I don't know what I'm going to do now that you all are leaving again, but, um, uh, thank you. I just met you using cool, but you two man in there helping Graham with the food. Um, I didn't catch your name. We want to just leave that for Jacob to explain. Yeah. You know what I'll say though? I'll say, uh, if you're looking for a constable, you could do worse in that fella in there. Okay.
01:11:17
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I'll take your
01:11:33
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you guys so sure thing listen we're gonna get out of here with all due respect we're not gonna tell you where we're heading that way you can't tell them why that sounds great yeah yeah you got deniability and also I'm still not a thousand percent sure that I can trust you down the road okay so when they start turning screws on you so
01:11:53
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Graham. Ma. Meatloaf. Now. Come on, me ma. Okay, here you go. Just whatever you got in there is fine. It's fish and pickle sandwiches. I hope you like it. I'll turn into an orc and eat anything. Is that racist? I feel like that's racist. They got high constitution. Okay.
01:12:17
Speaker
It's a, it's a racial issue that they, their race has a higher constitution. That's systemic racism, racial traits built within the system. Except it's species. Yeah, species. They're called a race though. Right. But it is actually a species. It is a species. Anyway. It's going to be hard for us to fight the shadow. Dark stuff coming now. Well, let's see. Okay. So y'all heading out of town?
01:12:44
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Yeah, we're heading to Zardrotha. Zendric. Zendric.
Departure to Stormreach
01:12:47
Speaker
Well, yeah, but where are we going first? Stormreach. Oh, oh, oh. Vatheron. Vatheron, thank you. OK. So you all head out of town. Does Alden have some horses we could steal?
01:13:01
Speaker
Uh, yeah, sure. Cool. Yeah. Just, just punch Gary on the way out of town. He's a stable master. Um, but we've got their deck bunch again. Oh, Hey guys, who are you?
01:13:17
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um and so that's a no ticket and nobody gets the joke um you all take off uh towards vathiran it's a couple hours away dramatic music swelling is the large helicopter shot of you all going across the field not that music um
01:13:43
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You all reach the outskirts of town. And from a distance you can see what tower Commander Bala was referencing. It's the tallest thing probably within 50 miles of this town.
01:14:01
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And you see an airship beginning to dock with the tower. Is it the one we saw? Is it the one we flew in before? Yes, the guy that smells like lavender. What was his name? The roving badger, Captain Gerald Hightower. Gerald, I was going to say Garrett, but I knew that wasn't right. Captain, former member of the Kingsguard.
01:14:19
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Well, Dex gets super pumped to be on the airship again, remembers the roving Badger and just starts doing, I mean, getting up the staircase or elevator or whatever it is. Uh, Krast is at the base of the tower waiting for you in a cloak with the hood pulled and, um, just sees you all coming and starts nudging you all this way. Um, it says, okay. Um, commander ball told me to meet you here. Where are we heading? Storm rich.
01:14:50
Speaker
Okay, we're going to Stormreach. If you wanna come with us, it'd be a good idea for you. Oh, I can't imagine anyone better to travel with, so let's do this. And I don't recognize the sarcasm in that statement. So yeah, you all run up the stairs, decks like a kid on Christmas morning, and hey guys, welcome back. So here we're going to Stormreach.
01:15:20
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Yes. Awesome. Never flown over the water before. Should be fun. Let's do it. I grabbed one of those feather fall belts. Go ahead and slap it on. The airship pulls away from the tower and begins to speed up as it takes off to the south as the sun begins to set over another Eberron day and end of episode.
01:15:48
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and really kind of act one, I'm gonna say. Okay. Yeah.
Episode Wrap-Up and Acknowledgments
01:15:52
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01:16:13
Speaker
Philip has a tinder. What? He's absolutely married and that's not true. He's married and monogamous and that's not true. Anyway. I feel like you said that's not true too many times and it's becoming ambiguous knowing what you attached it to. Fair enough. He doesn't have a tinder. Accurate. Because of his monogamous marriage. He doesn't have a tinder. That's not true.
01:16:39
Speaker
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01:17:07
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Uh, there are, uh, Casper Mattresses has a Tinder. Are you serious? Has a Tinder account. Yeah. In, in like most major cities, they have a Tinder account talking about how comfortable and cozy they are. Uh, and I've seen a few screenshots. They're pretty funny anyway. Yeah. Find us online and talk to us about, uh, what you think of our show. Um, and that's it. Goodbye. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Hi.
01:17:46
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All right. Okay, Mike. Yep. Works. Okay. Hello. Yep. So the first brother says, I want to be a billionaire. Genie says done. Second brother says, I want to be the richest man in the world. Genius says done. Third brother says, I want for my arm to rotate clockwise constantly. That's their first wish.
01:18:10
Speaker
Jeannie says, now your second wish. First brother says, now you want to know, don't you? First brother says, um, I want to be married to the most beautiful woman in the world. Second brother says, I want to have the secret to know what women want. Third brother says, I want my left arm to rotate counterclockwise constantly. Jeannie says, okay, third wish.
01:18:31
Speaker
First brother says, I want to be the next president. Jeannie says, well, I can't make it an election year, but you will be the next president. Second, uh, second brother says, I want to be the most powerful man in the world. Jeannie says done. Third brother says, I want my head to not up and down constantly.
01:18:49
Speaker
Couple of years pass. Brothers come back together. First letter says my life is great. I reinvested over half of my billion. I'm richer than I ever thought. My wife and I are madly in love. And I am going it's so certain that I'm gonna be the next president. My opponent is rumored of dropping out. Second brother says my life is great. I invested your entire I just donated your entire net worth to charity and I'm still the richest man in the world. Every girl I've ever asked out has said yes. And the reason your opponent's about to drop out because I got him in my pocket.
01:19:19
Speaker
Third Brother says, guys I think I f***ed up. Alright. I love that stupid joke so much. Just your reactions. You laughed and then got angry at me. And that's fair.