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C1 Ep. 83 The Five Runes Chapter Two
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The party continues to come to grips with their pasts and try to figure out what comes next. But what will they do when they return to where it all began? And how will one of the adventurers deal with his life being changed forever?
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Show Introduction and Sponsorship Acknowledgments
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This show is brought to you by the generous donations of our show sponsors, Matt Lewis, Laura Pickron, Irene Villarito, Darryl Delaney, Nico Batson, Darren Katska, Ryan Royce, John Kerry, Jessica Smith, The Cam Family, Charles Compton, and David Scrams, as well as all of our generous patrons.
Kickstarter Announcement for Gamer Nation Con 6
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What is up everybody it is your dungeon master Eric here and I just wanted to drop in before the episode kicks off to let you all know that the Kickstarter for gamer nation con 6 is officially live and We would love to see you there The con is going to have myself Philip Jeff Trevor from the geek Pantheon and Randy all there in attendance
00:00:48
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And there is a level on the Kickstarter called RVG for Eberron Renewed slash the Geek Pantheon, where if you contribute to the Kickstarter at that level, you are guaranteed a spot in a game run by one of the hosts of our shows. And as of right now, it is going to be myself running the game and it will be a X-Men in Eberron, a one shot adventure because the theme for this year's Gamer Nation Con is superheroes.
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So that's what we're going to be doing. You can go donate at that level or a lower tier if you want just a pass to the con or access to D20 radios, virtual library of adventures and things like that. So go check it out over on Kickstarter, Gamer Nation Con 6. There are links on our Facebook group if you want to go check it out through there. Anyway, thank you all so much for listening to the episode and I hope you enjoy it.
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D20 radio, your game is rolling.
Recap of Last Session's Events
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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. And I'm Philip. Randy. I'm Jeff. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Everything went fine. We had a good talk with three. That's true. We did a long talk with three. We learned some things. A good long talk. We learned that Commander Bala is in prison.
00:02:32
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for undermining the king, who's not the king. It was specifically refusing to follow some order, right? Something like that, yeah. And we were contacted via Raven. Luke and Osteroth is out there somewhere wanting us to go. We are pretty sure to go to Miss Marsh. To speak terms. Yeah, to discuss terms. I assume you giving up the rest of your packets is what he expects it to be, the terms.
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Uh, and then we went and talked to Garnaut the Colterne. Booyah went full Shark Tank. Uh, it didn't go great and Philip is genuinely mad at us. Philip the human being, real person, is mad at Jeff and Randy the human being. Had plans for money. We almost never have the opportunity to just make some cash. Had plans for it. Thought this is a great opportunity. We've got some valuable things and use that cash. There's some things we need.
00:03:30
Speaker
Booyah said a thing and I had to roll with it. I disagree with that statement. I disagree with the second half of that statement. You can disagree with it all you want. Don't tell me my fun's wrong. I'll play my character, you play yours. I didn't say your fun was wrong. So, anyway, we got hosed hard on a deal by Garnoth Ickletard and then he insulted us. He said nothing insulting.
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Well, I mean,
Discussion on Current Quest Lines
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it was coming out of you though. So it felt insulting. It's an Eric Strymple in PC. Yeah. The people out there cannot see the expressions on Eric's face that make us look like you guys really, it's telling me this. I don't believe they heard. Okay. But what we saw was okay.
00:04:17
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I was like, yeah, all right. Bless your heart. And we sold some shards and he offered us a measly 150 gold pieces for him. Booyah being in a stoop mine. And Booyah is just like, uh, no, no, that's not near enough. Make it 200. To which he agreed to. Yes. Glad that you drive a hard bargain. Okay. So. Because who wouldn't take a 95% discount? Um,
00:04:47
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Anyway, so we'll pick up where we left off. You two are headed back to the boat. You know what? Berg be very proud of us. We, we make good money for sharks. He only tried to pay one 50. I'm not smarter than that. I love how Randy's just digging his heels in this thing. Like I know you guys have known each other a long time, but boy, I'm going to be in the other room.
00:05:16
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I'm going to be trying on my new armor. I'll see you guys in four hours. What is your, we need to find out what your armor does. That'll be fun. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't put it on yet. Okay. I'm going to, it's in the sky cab. You're changing in the sky. I know. See a pair of legs as he's trying. It's a little tight. It's a little tight. Couldn't find the phone booth. No, we get back to the boat and I'm going to be like, Hey, I got this. I'm going to go try it on. See how it fits. Hey boo. I want you to tell them what happened.
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Okay, so we sell shards. We make good money. He only offer us 150. You believe this? Well, I hope you didn't take that. No, no. Booyah tried it. No, that was not at all. I'm not very excited at all. It's just Lord Shroppenshire just showed up on the boat. Humble, rumble, rumbleton. He only offer us 150. Booyah, I'm not saying no way. Look at Dex and he looked back at Ikyltarn and he say, no, you have to make 200.
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And he say, okay. And Dex give thumbs up too. It's all good. You took, you took 200. That's right. We know. Let him cheat us one 50, but I think that should be worth more than 150. Well, you're right. So we do good. Wait a minute. No, like look on Barrick face. We know do good. Well, it's.
00:06:44
Speaker
Well, it's just that a, um, a super strategy is extremely rare and valuable and worth about a couple of thousand gold pieces each.
Dex's Wish with the Genie
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Oh, we not do good. The deck say it was good. Yes. Yes. No, I, uh,
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As you say that, Dex, you reemerge from where you were changing. Dex, you make a bad idea. Before you say anything, Booyah, you both turn to see Dex enter wearing a new set of armor. Is he resplendent? I might just... I'm fly.
00:07:19
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dope as it looks. I mean, it is essentially a leather outfit from neck to toe of what appears to be if you ruin this for me. Silver.
00:07:36
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like silver dragon skin. Like it's very, very flashy looking. It looks great, but it is bright silver crocodile skin armor. Yeah. I wasn't expecting, I was expecting it just like regular leathers, but we're making it like a cat suit. I guess I can roll with that as well. Um, so you get, what's your AC currently? 18. 18.
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Okay. So go ahead and give yourself a plus one to your AC. You also have advantage on saving throws against frightful presence and, uh, breath weapons. Nice. If I can't be frightened anyway, though. Um, if I'm holding the knife, I can't be frightened anyway.
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I mean, if that just negates, then it negates, but if you're making it up and want to give me something. No, this is actually, um, that's if you're holding the knife, right? If I have it on my person. Okay. Um, cause I have attuned to it. So it just needs to be my presence.
00:08:55
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I mean, that's fine. Dragon scale armor has that. Gotcha. That's what I'm saying. If it was a thing that you made up, then maybe I'd ask if it's what it does and that's what it does. You also have resistance to cold damage. Nice. And as an action, once per day,
00:09:17
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You can focus your senses as an action to magically discern the distance and direction to the closest dragon within 30 miles of you that is silver. Wow.
00:09:31
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So if you want to go dragon hunting. For silver dragons. For silver dragons. You can. So they can see that I skinned one of their brethren. For my dope suit. And then Drakir can use his sweet orb. So. Yeah, was that a silver dragon? Oh, she's going to ping off of that orb. I think it was, I think it was red using fire. I think he used fire against us. So cool. Awesome. That's your dragon scale armor.
00:10:01
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Whoa, armor look good, Dex. Thanks. I didn't have to pay for it. Probably good reason. Part of the deal. Probably good reason, you know, have to pay for it. What? Look at Barrick. Look, I knew it was too low. I tried to make it when he said 200. I mean, it would set out loud. And so I tried to kind of shift it to where it's 200 for how contract law works in, in redra.
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Yeah. Cause we're like super big on following all the laws around here on this boat. Um, I just didn't know if it was a cultural thing where once something's been spoken out loud, it, it must be. So they were worth about 2000 each at the time I was operating under the assumption that Garnaut, the Kalarn was a positive force in the world.
00:10:53
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Turns out he's just he's just a grade eight deal. And I didn't know it at the time. You've forgotten what we had to do to get to his front door. No, no, that's a problem. We came in through the back door. Anyway. It's done. Do you still has plenty of money? So yeah, I feel bad. I think make good deal. Don't make good deal. We should call Berica ask.
00:11:23
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Yeah, but we didn't. Also, my understanding is, and he's probably not being forthcoming when he said it in retrospect, but when he begins to make things out of these shards, if there's something to be beneficial to us, I think we get dips. I don't know if he's going to sell it to us and he takes my blade, but he's willing to hand it to us. That can be helpful.
00:11:49
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Also, we took a bit of a flyer and thought, you know, he's an architect. He knows magic. He knows a lot. Try to tell him about the big obelisk building, right?
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Right. He didn't buy it. Sure. Sure. Um, you know, no harm, no foul there. I guess I impressed him. I impressed upon him. It would not be a good idea to go run around telling people about the crazy theory that these guys had about drag about the opposite building. Right. Um, I think he understood. Well, I hope so.
00:12:30
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Barrick, Booyah, sorry. Tried better next time. Let down. Mm-hmm. It's, uh, I will just, uh, I'll just do it differently next time. Good, good idea. I'm not apologizing for anything to Barrick. Dex doesn't live his life concerned about what Barrick thinks of him. Of his actions.
00:13:05
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No, I feel bad about making Philip mad, but. No, why would why would Dex leave loose sleep over how the person he asks to where are you all talking on the ship? Are you up on the deck? Are you wherever
Strategy Planning to Confront Lucan Austroth
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Booyah approached me? I'm very probably up on the deck. It's where it's where you would have been. Yeah. Well. I suppose we have to decide what to do next.
00:13:36
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Um, you all hear a voice, uh, from across the deck. You see Gerald stepping out of the little driving cubby that he has. Like, Booyah. Hey, I need the, uh, 10 gold pieces. They're coming for the docking fee for the day. Okay. Booyah runs it over and hands him 10 gold pieces. Thank you. Um, are we leaving anytime soon? We could pay for the week and it'd be cheaper.
00:14:08
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Do you have anything else to accomplish here? And nothing I can think of. Hey, do you want to go ahead and suggest the thing that you said we would use that money on? What do you think about using that money on? Because Booyah has money and Booyah feels real bad right now. I don't actually think Barak is entirely aware of the amount of money that Booyah has. Booyah seems to produce money from somewhere, but I don't think Barak is entirely clear on what money Booyah has. Dex knows exactly how much money Booyah has. Yeah.
00:14:36
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Well, we need to decide what we're, what we're doing because we, I mean, is it Jason X packed, go see Lucan probably the same thing. Uh, ball is really the other thing and.
00:14:57
Speaker
What was the other thing? Bala. Commander Bala. We do need to do something about that. And we have some amount of time. We have a week. Miss Marsh is probably a matter of a couple days. To get there? By airship. Because it was... What was it by train? Hours. No, it was...
00:15:23
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It was a couple of days, but we're faster than that. Yeah. Oh, do we just fast forward through the amount of influence? Yeah. Okay. Um, you want to start doing all travel in real time? We can. No, I should, I didn't, no, I go ahead. I do not. I just didn't recall it. Um, Oh, well, okay. But if we're leaving by the end of the day, uh, we got to wait for crass over in an orion and get back. But then what, what, wait, what? They went to go check out the Thorani thing. What?
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What? We're pretty sure we already know that they're on anything. They took... They took a 14-year-old girl to investigate the murder of a Dragonlark Lord. Hey, I'm not... I'm not their keeper. No, I...
00:16:17
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Okay. So, all right. They might be back soon. Hey, let's just think they left a couple hours ago. They do have a speaking stone. They were sending stone. Paula. Yes. Where are you? Oh, we're outside the Linger Hall. Right. Um,
00:16:39
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Why? Urgent? Well it very well might be, my understanding is you're about to walk into a crime scene. Oh no, we're just scouting out, putting out feelers. Yeah we're pretty sure we know who killed him. Great. All right, well we'll see you back on the ship then. Perfect.
00:17:11
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Okay. Bye. Did we hear all that over our sending stones as well? No, you just saw barracks. I think hope they're heading back. They're outside of Galanda Hall. All right. I understand your trepidation, but
00:17:36
Speaker
Um, she is with Paula Krast. Yes. And we know that Krast has excellent judgment and say judgment, but protective. I think it'll be our, especially since now they know that we are pretty sure we know what happened. I don't think they'll want.
00:17:56
Speaker
Anyway, the Bala thing, um, it feels like something we need to take action on, but like basically taking action requires us breaking into a jail. Right. Well, we could try to, I mean, they'll transport her. I don't know where the execution would take place, but I would assume some were public. Maybe, I don't know. I don't know how, I don't know how the reedrons would do it. Um, how would the Breelish do it?
00:18:25
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Any perception checks, remember? Publicly public public execution. Yeah. Probably publicly. Fifteen. Eighteen. Uh, for Barrick. Twenty four. Okay. Um, Barrick and Booyah, mid sentence while you're talking, um, you see a small hand reach around and try to reach into Dex's coin purse on his belt. Oh, I say absolutely nothing.
Humorous Intercom Test Aboard the Ship
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Booyah just watching. You see a single gold piece come out and then the hand disappears behind his leg and then you just see a small child tiptoeing. Tiptoeing up to five feet away and then full sprint because they're clearly out of range. Booyah looks up at Barry and sees a knowing look also and
00:19:24
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So I need you to mark one gold. I would. I would. I get plus 11 to perception. I would roll total crap on the time when it was just that stupid. Take money out of my bag. That's fine. Unless he's going up against actual perception checks. How is he supposed to get any better? No, fine. Fine.
00:19:50
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You know my passive is 21. I know.
00:19:55
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I mean, if they're trying to mimic, mimic the Brailish way of doing it, then they'll, they'll execute her publicly. But I don't know how far from the jail that would be. So whether there'd be any chance to, to intercept and transport and transport. So yes, it'd be a matter of breaking into the jail. It's not, it's not the most secure jail that I know of. It's not that one. It's not the, yeah, it's not the dread hold. Uh, but my, my poor dead friend was in.
00:20:24
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I recall. Yeah, my friend. Yeah. I don't remember his name, but he was my friend. Yeah, so it's not the Dreadhold, but it is probably quite secure. I mean, we have a lot of. We did just, you know, successfully break into and back out of next kind of vault, so it's not. I mean, we had a bit of help there. Well, I understand that.
00:20:53
Speaker
Here's the thing, we can't let her die. No, I agree. So we've got to do it, right? I think so. Booyah, are you here? But here's the thing. Ostaroth's going to miss Marsh.
00:21:11
Speaker
Yeah, he's not just going to. You want to let him sit and miss Marsh for a while? He's not just going to sit patiently and quietly. We got away. He might. But I have no idea. That's what scares me. He might. He might just sit quietly in the woods and wait. Right. Or he might, you know, one by one start enthralling the town. Terrorize a town that we care about. I understand the predicament. We have a week till the execution. Week till the execution. Week until the trial.
00:21:38
Speaker
week till the trial, which I assume is going to be some sort of kangaroo court situation. There will not be much time between start of trial and end of life. If I were guessing maybe a couple of days, how long to mishmarsh and back, um, doing less than week.
00:21:57
Speaker
Yeah, you could you could probably make it to Miss Marsh, like going full speed in an airship in a day, a day and a half or so. And then to row at it's a little bit shorter than a journey to Sharn, so probably a day. So it seems like Miss Marsh first. Yeah, that's good. And we need to talk to Graham anyway.
00:22:21
Speaker
Yeah, let's go home. Do you remember how a while back we were talking about things we could do and how we said that going back and talking to Graham would probably be a pretty minor, minor problem to deal with?
Exploration of Takani Ruins
00:22:30
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I mean, it's like some omnipotent power heard us. To be fair, the talking to Graham part will still be a minor issue. Well, maybe. Oh boy. Oh boy. Now,
00:22:42
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you guys know more than me I think about this the thrall thing the value of dragon shards yes you know what the the whole thrall thing it's a like
00:22:57
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We take out the source. The rest of them go back to normal. It depends on what he does. So the little goblin that we fought when we fought him. That was, I learned from the big horrifying book that that dragon is now in possession of somewhere. That's something we're not. That's on you.
00:23:23
Speaker
That's kind of on the back burner, I guess. We're the snipiest bunch of, this is the only campaign I've ever played. Is it always like some later adventuring party will have to deal with that? Probably the sassiest group of adventurers I've ever encountered in terms of underhanded comments to each other.
00:23:49
Speaker
The goblin was dead. He'd, he'd killed the goblin and made it vampire spawn. Sure. Okay. Zombified. Right. So there was no, there's no one doing that that I know of. All right. So, so the goal is get there. Get there before he does anything to anyone. Right. I mean, and also go straight to him and see what this terms discussion is. Here's it. Sure. Um, they're not tough enough.
00:24:19
Speaker
I have no idea. Well, we almost did last. I was going to say we we we handled them pretty well last time. We missed it away again. Same thing will happen this time. Right. Unless we find some way to stop it. By the way, your closest packed wielder flips and it's to the south now flying or traveling quickly off the coast of Corvair over the Thunder Sea. I don't say anything. I've got this to worry about right now, which the coast is closer than Miss March.
00:24:50
Speaker
We need, we, I mean, do we need to call Paola and tell her there's a vampire heading home? I guess I can do it. Hey, uh, Hey, uh, late lady Omeran. Yes. Look, I know that you're in the middle of this investigating, but here's the thing.
00:25:07
Speaker
I hate to put it this way, but we already did that. And, uh, the, the killer is on his way to miss March to start killing people that we care about. And we'd like to beat him there. Could you guys please come back to the boat? I'm trying. Crass is on the inside. I can't just walk in there and talk to him. So as soon as he comes back out, he's fine right now, but.
00:25:34
Speaker
He's, he's trying to get out. I've told him that it's time to head back. They're holding him in there. No, but he's snuck in there. He can't just walk out the front door. So he snuck in there. Okay. All right. Well, good bye. Smell you later. That's a strange thing to say. Three.
00:26:07
Speaker
Yeah, it is. Smell you later, smell you now. Well, fine. I guess we just wait. I mean, it's probably an hour later that they return to the boat and walk up on deck. Gerald, let's hit it. Anchor up. All right, cool.
00:26:29
Speaker
Please. Thanks. Where? Oh, right. Uh, we gotta go to Ms. Mark, bud. Okay. Um, we need to either buy feather fall packs then cause we're out or go to the last two feather fall packs go. Uh, I don't know. I just assumed that you all use them when you need them. We didn't have that many to start with, but we either need to go to Vathomron where I can dock or you all need to jump.
00:27:01
Speaker
Let me, can I ask something Gerald? Many sky ships that I have seen, many airships that I've seen are equipped with, uh, small, you know, skiffs that can go down to the ground, things like that. Um, where would one obtain something like that? Shipwright so that we don't have to keep jumping out of the, out of the, the hold of this ship. Uh, yeah, I mean, there would probably be a ship right near here. We've had at least one in the past. Do we not have the only one we had on fire?
00:27:33
Speaker
Yeah. It was a beautiful ceremony though. I appreciate you being able to sacrifice the only one we had for my brothers. It turned out to be just a real genuine butthole. Would it be likely that we could just purchase one? Like that we wouldn't have to commission it? Oh yeah, the shipwright would probably have some that would fit in our hold. All right, to the shipwright then.
00:27:55
Speaker
We should have done this in the... Can we say we did this in the intervening hour? Sure. Yeah, it's 25 gold pieces for just your standard. Heck, we can buy eight just off the process from the Dragon Shard. We all know money come good use.
00:28:22
Speaker
Hey, so, did you buy one skiff? Can we fit six of us in one skiff? Yeah. Okay, then yeah, we buy one skiff. We buy two skiff. One spare, just case. For next funeral. For next fire. That's fair. We buy two. We have a pair of skips. Okay. Hey, Booyah, how much money you got? I know a bunch of pieces. Yeah, $9,450 now, I believe.
00:28:48
Speaker
something probably like that. No, trust me.
00:28:55
Speaker
We're getting ready to leave. I got, I've very, very high perception and you know, I went around finding all of your money. I didn't take any of it. I just know where it is. All of it. I'm talking to Randy, but yeah, every, every, every coin. Uh, is there a, anything else we need before we head out of here? I mean, we're about to go fight a vampire at home. Something that we could obtain in under an hour. Yeah. I mean, obviously you have to be some prefab. I doubt it. Okay.
00:29:24
Speaker
I mean, I can think of plenty of things we could use, but we'd have to go find some artificers. Well, I mean, just find artificers who have them, like the things that we need for what we're doing are not the sort of thing that the average person purchases from a shop. That is certainly fair. All right. So you all here underneath the deck begin to rumble as the elementals or elemental begins to awaken.
00:29:51
Speaker
Charlie is on deck with a large pole pushing away from the dock as the ring forms around the boat. I love that Charlie is just turning into some sort of super everyman laborer. Whereas Rickard does nothing on this ship. Yeah, Rickard just kind of mopes around, I guess. We need to take Rickard with us. I don't know anything about that guy. How long has he been on board? Since you all left Stormreach. And he has yet to make himself useful.
00:30:22
Speaker
Make him go with us. So yeah, you all take off for Miss Marsh. Dragon.
00:30:37
Speaker
You get a tingling sensation from your armor that's right behind you. That was a blue one, right? Silver. No, no, no. Sorry. The one that attacked us. Or attacked the boat. Left us alone. Yeah. I didn't care about you much. I wanted to read.
00:30:54
Speaker
need a new compelling book. Okay, so the skies are, for the most part empty. You don't really see many other airships flying about as you take off towards Miss Marsh. Anything you all would like to do in the intervening day and a half? What's the kid's name?
00:31:18
Speaker
Cassian Cassian Cassian Booyah would say which one Booyah would see if he's interested in hearing some stories from the book. Oh, um, sure. Okay. And Booyah would tell him stories on the way. Okay. Um,
00:31:41
Speaker
Cassie and the whole time you're, every time you look down at your page, you notice that Cassie and has moved a little bit. Like he's trying to like get in a position where he might be able to palm some stuff in your room as you're reading and things like that. Um, so, um, anything else you two would like to do or three, did you care? Go. You had your kids with you. Okay. Actually, uh, yeah. If we told you here, it was looking Austro.
00:32:11
Speaker
because he was there for that, wasn't he? It might entice him to be a part of it. No, he's waiting on something else. Fair enough. Wait till he has an opportunity to kill Dex in his sleep. No, he wouldn't wait on that. If he was going to do that, he would have taken care of that a while ago. Back when you were a much lower level now. First night in fact. Yeah, that opportunity has already presented itself.
00:32:42
Speaker
There's one thing you can feel fairly confident that Drakir does not want to do. It's kill you in your sleep. Okay. I don't think it's time for the thing that I want to do. But Drakir does at some point find Dax. Are you going to do it? I just... I just said. I don't know if it's right time for me to... Yeah. Do you know what he did with the person in the hole?
00:33:13
Speaker
Nope. He took him and he jumped off of the ship with him. That's something for sure. Um, did you see what happened? No, we're hundreds of feet in the air. That's fair. Thousands. That's certainly fair. Grow. I mean, I told him to kill him. I told someone else to do your own killing. My brother.
00:33:44
Speaker
You told someone else to do your own killing? Like I said what I said, don't judge me. You hate this person, you want vengeance on this person, you have someone else do it? Not the next time. Well, if Beric threw him off of the ship, then... Next brother, not the next brother. Alright. To answer your question. And he did it?
00:34:12
Speaker
He said he jumped off the boat with him. Shoot, no he didn't. We are missing more feather fall packs than I thought we had. That makes perfect sense. He just threw him off the boat and let him float down. Don't need to roll to see if I would come to that conclusion because that seems like a jump. Give me an investigation roll. But I did specifically say earlier what happened to the last two feather fall packs. An investigation roll? Yeah.
00:34:38
Speaker
I rolled a three, so it's a 15. I mean, 15 is nothing to sneeze at. I feel like that's not pop or fizz just yet. I mean, I would venture.
00:34:53
Speaker
It's a... I'm just saying. It's a leap, I know that. Well, based on the way you played Dex up to this point, him keeping a constant inventory of the Featherfall packs in and of itself seems a little... I took that as a goof when you said it before. It was a goof then, I just...
00:35:12
Speaker
It seems too good not to jump into. It was a goof. Okay. It was a good goof. I appreciated the goof. I appreciate that. Also, you don't know Dax, you don't know who he's into. Accounting, inventorying maybe. He knows how many gold... That seems like a vested interest. Now Charlie, Charlie's got an inventory of everything on the show. Yeah, Charlie's wondering where the last two feather roll packs went, but... Anyway... At some point... Charlie's angry because no one's used to the sign out sheet that he hung next to them.
00:35:43
Speaker
No one left a note that we're out. Booyan notices maybe that Drakir doesn't have a sending stone and decides to make one for him. Actually something that came up, I will let you do either or, something that came up during the last adventure where it would make logical sense for you to think to do this. You all had no way while you were out in the field to communicate back with Gerald and the ship.
00:36:07
Speaker
So that, I feel like, would be a much more logical use of Booyah's time, if you want to do that. OK, let's do that. OK, components. Let's mark off another 10 gold pieces. OK, I guess I better start keeping track since we're going to make $9.35. Sorry, $9,485. OK.
00:36:37
Speaker
And that seems like normal behavior. No, it doesn't. Look, I don't know what you're doing trying to convince me that I need to do it. I know that I need to do it. I'm just trying to mitigate the monkey's paw effect of it all. I got to figure out how, yeah, I know you wouldn't understand that reference. I speak strangely sometimes. I'm from a far off land. Um, what are the properties that a monkey's paw has? Okay. There's an old story in reedra about a monkey. Wait, that's not right.
00:37:07
Speaker
You know, this is that thing, you make a wish and the wish comes true, but there's a consequence. Sure. Don't you think it behooves us all to make sure that I do as much as I can to mitigate that consequence so we don't lose Bayrick again? And what are you currently doing to mitigate this consequence? Trying to figure out a wording, trying to figure out a way to say it, a time to say it.
00:37:32
Speaker
You'll take this long thinking about what you say. It's only been a minute. I know we did it a month ago. I know what I'm going to say. I was going to do it, but then you had to insert yourself into my narrative. No, look, jumping off both things bad. Yeah, I'm making the wish, right? I'm making the wish. You want to come with me? Want to come to my room and watch me make a wish? I guess we don't know what will happen. So. I mean,
00:38:02
Speaker
You do not exactly understand your tone with me right now. Just dig it at me. Drake here? No, I genuinely was going to make the wish. And then Drake here came up and was like, are you going to do it? Like, if you give me a second.
00:38:26
Speaker
It just seems to me, when I met you all, you were extremely concerned that this thing was happening to you that caused you to lose control of who you were. And it was important to fix that. And now the same thing is true of Beric. It feels like some revisionist history. Dex was totally down with the thing that caused him to lose control. No, not by the time you met Drakir. You lost control. That's right. It was after. Yeah. And Drakir met you. That's right. Okay. And Drakir probably doesn't know that you've been
00:38:56
Speaker
Sneaking around receiving lycanthropy training. One time. One time. Thank you, Wyclef. We've stayed very busy. Yeah, I know. What are you... There's nothing to talk me into. I'm going to my room to rub on this lamp. All right. Yeah, I mean, yeah. So... Is Drakir going? No, Drakir's not interested in sitting in Dex's room. So, Dex goes down to his room.
00:39:26
Speaker
and up his room is reached and um on the way a dragon attacks you um yeah i win uh and so i uh i take out the lamp and i rub it does it does he appear yeah okay oh god was no consideration there for a while it's been in consideration since you've gotten the lamp he appears and i say um
00:39:55
Speaker
All right. What does the genie say? The genie just looks at you expectantly. Like he knows that I know. The last time with Dracarys. It's not like a... It's a living. He's not whimsical in any way. No. That's disappointing. I say, all right. I figured out what it is I need from you. My friend Barak is currently possessed.
00:40:23
Speaker
Constantly and sometimes at the forefront, uh, by an entity, I would like for Barrick to be restored to real life.
00:40:38
Speaker
His possession to no longer happen, but the packs that he's received and worked so hard for, uh, uh, and the ability surrounding them so that we can continue finding them remain. It's tall order. There it is living barrack possession lists, but you don't have to do anything. You don't have to touch the packs. You don't have to mess with them. Just don't take them away. He needs them. We need them.
00:41:05
Speaker
Just get rid of the possession and bring them back to real, true life. Eric is currently writing down, seriously, Jeff? That's a lot. You don't get any of it. Suck a butt. Love Eric. What's Eric doing right now?
00:41:32
Speaker
Let's see. Uh, I know from evidence who the pack holder that we're on our way to is, so I don't need to talk to the queen and find out. So that's not necessary. Um, let's say that because.
00:41:53
Speaker
Barak is extremely nervous about where we're going and he is a little annoyed still about several things. He's kind of getting over the Booyah thing because Barak kind of works on the Booyah, just doesn't know any better thing. Philip knows Randy knows better, which is why Philip is angrier than Barak.
00:42:21
Speaker
So let's say he's practicing sword forms with Orianna. Okay. Um, I have a couple other questions for you because of your current state. Just they might come into play. They might not. This is why Dracure hasn't left because I don't know how this is going to go. When was the last time barracks slept?
00:42:51
Speaker
Barrick. And are you getting enough to eat, darling? Barrick probably slept last night. Because he doesn't need to sleep, right? Is it undead? No, that's not there anymore. Oh, right. It's one of the things where we kind of thought it should be, but it's not. Food drinking breath. Yeah. So when's the last time Barrick ate?
00:43:11
Speaker
I think Berwick still eats. I don't think Berwick has stopped eating. Eats and drinks. Yeah, I think Berwick still eats and drinks when we have... Actually, he has not been drinking in that sense for a while now. But Berwick still joins people at meal. I think if nothing else, then I think it would feel very strange to be going through life without eating at all. Yeah. Okay.
00:43:41
Speaker
So, Barak, you're practicing your sword forms with Orianna. You all are facing each other and she's mirroring your movements as you walk her through another form. Cut back to Dex. The
00:43:57
Speaker
fiery figure looks at you and nods its head and um rather than going back into the lamp you see the flames just kind of dissipate and float off and out like underneath your door and take off okay um genie you're free yes uh i chase adrigs he's gonna kill barrick
00:44:23
Speaker
Here you've set another possibly not kind entity free into the world You wanted this Philip Beric give me a perception check 16 16 You you notice you kind of are focused on doing the form correctly and you look up to check Oriana's
00:44:49
Speaker
mechanics and form. Um, and you see that she has stopped and is just staring at you. Something to matter. You, uh, you just changed. You look healthy.
00:45:17
Speaker
Wait, have I looked unhealthy this entire time? No one told me. I mean, you looked pretty gaunt. Is this what everyone keeps talking about? The bald doesn't work for you. I'm sorry. The hair framing your face worked better. I totally forgot he was bald. He doesn't. He cut all his hair off weeks and weeks ago. He's got hair. The clothes crop. You just let it keep growing. No. Yeah. I mean, it's probably really terrible because he cut it all off with a knife and now it's just sort of.
00:45:47
Speaker
Your skin was sallow and just not... Well no, I mean, it's always been this colour. Well, it looked worse. You died twice. Yeah, I thought you were like grey now. Yeah, no, it is. But you don't... you look like... you look better than when I first met you.
00:46:20
Speaker
Okay. Um, and looking at your hands, they seem like, yeah, pull the gloves off. Yeah. Your, your flesh is like springy again. It's fuller. You haven't felt this good in a, in a long, long time. And you realize that after a moment you can feel the air filling your lungs and you feel like a twang of hunger in like the pit of your stomach.
00:46:50
Speaker
just sensations that had gone away. I really did chase the genie out, so am I running around trying to find Barrick now? You do emerge on deck and see it just go off on the wind. Then I'm trying to find Barrick. All right.
00:47:17
Speaker
I'm going to try something and it may well be alarming. So just stand by and I let Erebus out. Nothing happens. All right.
00:47:45
Speaker
All right, so. What were you doing the forms with? Just to practice? Just to practice. I need to talk to someone, but I don't exactly know who to.
00:48:15
Speaker
talk to about this. Trying to give Dex time to run up on.
00:48:28
Speaker
Yeah, after... Where were you doing the forms? Up on deck. Up on deck. So yeah, you emerge and see it fly off and you see Barak standing there looking... Dude, my hands. Whose hands are even these? They can touch anything but themselves. Film the communications. Oh, right, right, right. Okay. Okay. So I run and I see Barak and I run to him. I think the first thing I do is I say, Barak, where's the nearest pact?
00:49:00
Speaker
I mean Miss Marsha of course... I don't know. And Erebus does not seem to be here anymore. And also I look different. Yeah, you look good. Let me tell you, something happened. What's Dex wearing?
00:49:29
Speaker
dragon all the time just silver dragon no I have I have a I have a boat outfit it's just bear creatures over and grabs Dex's shirt and just holds it for a minute and then let's go he's ruined your shirt okay you jerk
00:49:56
Speaker
Let me tell you what I did. Wait, what? Let me tell you what I did. Wait, what you did? Yeah, I did that. You did something. Remember that time that you cured me of lycanthropy? You mean after a lengthy discussion with you? Yeah, well, not really. I was not that lengthy. I seem to recall being surprisingly quick. What you did say. And you did do it to him while he was peeing.
00:50:16
Speaker
That's not accurate at all. He was in the bathroom when we talked about remove curse. I didn't do it. I'm joking. Oh, how do you remember where we where we were in the way the players were in your house when things happen? Because Jeff has always made a big to do about the fact that once we figured out remove curse did it, he was not here. He was peeing. Also, we've got a camera in there. That's absolutely not true. I told Jeff well ahead of time via text.
00:50:39
Speaker
Yeah, and I told you, Philip, we literally just had a lengthy discussion about it. That's why I didn't want to do it. Anyway, sorry, proceed. Well, Erebus is concerning. That's Philip Nuppert. Yeah, I know. Erebus was concerning. I saw it. Drakir saw it. I think you knew it.
00:51:10
Speaker
So I consulted with a genie and I asked him to make it so that you could no longer be possessed by Erebus. I asked it to bring you back to true living form. I also asked it to not to, to, to preserve as much of your power and abilities that you've received as possible. Keep those two conditions alive.
00:51:40
Speaker
Also, just for the sake of the narrative and what's happening around Booyah, I'm saying you're doing this work in Gerald's cockpit where he's got like the speaker system so he can listen to it just in there or it can be broadcast all over the ship, whatever it needs to happen. All that to say, you can see they're up on deck talking within view of you.
00:52:01
Speaker
Does he notice like, can he tell that it's a bit far away to notice that and you're not paying attention. Like you can see them, but you're, I'm motioning as if you have a screwdriver in your hand. Um, you barrack or continue talking. It's not a highly animated conversation that would draw my attention. So no.
00:52:25
Speaker
I mean, I said it. That's what happened. Right. No. And and that's apparently at least some of that has happened. What do you mean? Well, I can bet this is certainly no longer possessing me. And I do seem to be more alive. You you feel a tingling in your palm. Yeah. Right.
00:52:52
Speaker
All right. Well, let's, well, let's find out. And I just.
00:53:02
Speaker
I step back a little bit because I don't, I think remember exactly how long it is. Uh, and I, I reach out for the sword and the modified Katana looking silver edge. That's what it looked like, right? John. Yes. That appears with runes along the blade. How many rooms do we say five earlier? There'll be five ruins, but only four. Five rooms. What?
00:53:33
Speaker
Oh, are we back to that voice? Sorry. Uh, well, um, so dumb. Uh, I've been planning that joke since the name got in your text, text used to wish.
00:54:00
Speaker
Dex used a wish to do something and now we seem to be back to this relationship. Why?
00:54:22
Speaker
Look, we know each other quite well now, and I think it's fair to point out that what was happening, the manner in which I was alive, was rather disconcerting to the average person. Does that seem fair to say? I mean, perhaps you don't know what's disconcerting to the average person. Trust me when I say that it was. That's fine, but.
00:55:00
Speaker
We... We made a deal with someone. Well, I'm not sure you did, but... Yes, understood. For the time being, what affects you affects me. Fair, I think. And...
00:55:25
Speaker
It may be nothing. Maybe it's fine. I doubt it, but maybe it's fine. Look, in fairness, this wasn't my doing. But also in fairness, I'm not really sure what I could do to reverse it if I want to, if I could be convinced that I should. Well, I mean, I'm not going to toss myself off the ship. Again, something so unreasonable. Right.
00:55:56
Speaker
Have you tried talking to her? I have not, no. I think that's quite necessary. Well, I bet she has noticed. Well, I still have the pacts that I had before, so it shouldn't have diminished her. Perhaps not.
00:56:26
Speaker
No, you're probably right. You're probably right. Um, yep. Uh, a moment. Um, I'm fine, I think, but I need a moment and I step away and I sit down over on the deck and close my eyes and just sort of reach out, which I did once before I was possessed. So I tried to do that again.
00:56:56
Speaker
Nothing happens. Ah, excellent. All right. So feel as though any connection you had to the plane of Dolor has been severed. Right. Because I hadn't done it before I was dead. Okay. So she's not talking to me right now. Maybe she's just not home. Right. I'm sure that's what it is. Well,
00:57:27
Speaker
I literally can't do anything about this right now. I guess if there's nothing to be done, then let's just continue on our path to deal with Lucan. Stray squirrel on board.
00:57:55
Speaker
We could kill it. I don't think that's necessary. Okay. All right. Well, yeah. Let's do that then. Very well.
00:58:17
Speaker
It's awkward. We used to be in the same mind and just share information. It's far less efficient. You've changed. I don't know how you feel about it, but I have to admit that having one's mind shared is less comfortable than you might think. Literally the only way I can verbalize is by sharing my mind with another creature.
00:58:43
Speaker
Right, then you probably don't understand that's very uncomfortable for mortals. And the things where you occasionally seized control of my body, in addition to my mind, wasn't really a big fan of that either. We were very effective, though. Yes. And I got the pact for you. Yes, you did. And you didn't kill her, which is interesting. It seemed unnecessary. She was willing to give it
00:59:10
Speaker
All right. Well, I have a feeling the next person we're going to talk to won't be so deal with that when we get there. Cut to you. So you got 200.
00:59:29
Speaker
That's that that doesn't seem like a tear I mean it's 200 more than what you had This true this very true and you got a free set of armor out of it Yeah, yeah some armor for Dex. He love armor. He do see him in armor He looks great like rad even So you think not bad deal left? No, no, no, no
00:59:52
Speaker
like like i said it's more than what you had like that's all anybody can ever ask for is more than what they got currently there you go and what were you what were you going to do with the shards no do nothing with right like they weren't even the right shape like the stuff that we've messed with are like round and these were this angular this is very true
01:00:14
Speaker
Yeah. So I think you're fine. Totally. Gerald, good friend, Gerald. You good friend, Booyah. So what are we, why, they didn't tell me why we're going to miss March. What's, what's going on?
01:00:30
Speaker
How much does Gerald know about, I mean, how much would you all have told him? Like that's, that's the question. I don't want to presume that you all share all the information you get with Gerald, but you might like, well, if anyone's sharing all the information we have with Gerald, I think it's definitely Booyah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we all would certainly have shared the most with Gerald, I think. So yeah, this is true.
01:00:58
Speaker
And you did spend those two weeks with Gerald working on the boat. And that was after the altercation with Lucan. So yeah. So yeah, I would probably tell him the vampire. Yeah. We go after, he wants to make some kind of deal or something weird. Huh. Okay. Well, deals with vampires.
01:01:23
Speaker
I was about to say, don't work out well, but I've, I've, I've never, I've never done it. So it might be fine. Yeah. We go find out. We want to talk terms. We go talk terms. Okay. Cool. Any last things anybody would like to do?
01:01:44
Speaker
I don't think so. OK, Booyah, go ahead and walk out on deck. I'm going to turn on the receiver here. You use your sending stone. Talk in. We'll test it. OK, Booyah going. It goes on a deck. Where are you? Are you all this is like this seems pretty simultaneous. Well, there's there's been a bit of a like a couple hours of Booyah finishing up everything. So sure.
01:02:14
Speaker
No, I, okay. I have a last thing. Uh, Eric goes and finds Paolo. Okay. And knocks on whatever quarters she has. I don't remember. We took them away from Rickard or something like that. Wherever Rickard is sleeping, we just keep moving Paolo there. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, finds Paolo.
01:02:38
Speaker
She's, uh, she's inspecting your gear, just tinkering with stuff. Who's geared her own. I thought you said you're like, I don't have any gear. Everything I have is worn. Uh, uh, so like last time that something like this happened and I didn't immediately come and explain it to you. Uh, it went very poorly, uh, for me. Um, and, and I think.
01:03:06
Speaker
perhaps also from your perspective. And so I don't know what has just happened to me, but something has just happened as a result of some very powerful magic that Dex let loose by conversation with a genie. I have a strange life, but I don't appear to be undead anymore. And I'm also not
01:03:35
Speaker
possessed by that thing anymore. As far as I can tell. I just didn't want to. I just didn't want to leave it. Because I feel like things have been weird. Er.
01:04:01
Speaker
part of the reason that things may feel weird is you sometimes have a tendency to walk into rooms and just begin speaking, declaring things. Hello, Berwick. I'm fine. The mission went well. I appreciate what you're trying to do. You
01:04:33
Speaker
you think a lot yes that is you value your mind yes and you tend to live up there not always alone that's fine though alone again I think which is an improvement I'm sorry about taking Orianna with me we were both
01:05:03
Speaker
frankly feeling a bit useless. She's progressed quite a bit under your training and my training. And I feel like my value lies more greatly than simply attending parties and standing around drinking and chatting up people with crass on my arm.
01:05:32
Speaker
King Borneo presented a concern that he had, a story he had to tell. And so we went and investigated it. Everything was fine. Nothing bad happened. So we went and we came back and Orianna did phenomenally well.
01:05:58
Speaker
So once again, I'm sorry if you felt agitated by that. Everything you're saying is true and right and fair. But you understand, you understand what it would do to me if it hadn't.
01:06:28
Speaker
Gone fine. It hadn't gone well. Beric, you are. And you see Paolo steady herself for a moment, emotionally. You are not the only person that has lost
01:06:57
Speaker
and you're not the only person that would lose something should anything happen to her. I didn't mean just her. It's crass. I know. I know, but you don't tend to concern yourself with what would happen to me.
01:07:30
Speaker
That isn't actually true. If it seems so, it's because you're rather formidable in your own right. And so I'm less concerned that
01:07:52
Speaker
I'm not extremely concerned. I'm not extremely concerned that you would need rescuing. I think it's substantially more likely that, uh, to find you having to come and get us out of a jam. Um, Booyah, what do you say for your test? Breaker one nine, good buddy. No Booyah goes out and.
01:08:21
Speaker
to the deck. Oh, what are you doing, Dex? Sorry. I don't know.
01:08:26
Speaker
I mean, if you just want to say you're chilling out in your room after an emotionally fraught encounter, that's funny. I think I'm really just crushing some sit ups, push ups. Couldn't you just shape yourself to be stronger? Well, that's just show muscles. Yeah, no, I'm trying to. I'm getting stronger. I'm looking better. I look great.
01:08:54
Speaker
Okay, Gerald, Booyah on deck, you hear? You all having this very touching, intimate moment, all of a sudden hear Booyah's voice echoing in Paolo's room. Oh yeah, yeah, I hear ya. This worked good. Yep.
01:09:07
Speaker
All right, that's excellent. Awesome. But yeah, do good work. We do good work. Now let me try testing it where everybody on the ship can hear. Just make some kind of announcement. I pop my syndics on and go, too late, bud. And then all of a sudden it goes quiet. What? What? Yeah, we all heard all of that.
01:09:27
Speaker
Oh. Oh. Okay. We got to redo the labels on this. We got it backwards. Oh, that's okay. Does it work at that main thing? Yep. Okay. Well, bye everybody. This has been a successful test of our new intercom system. Um, yeah. And then after just a pause, you just hear it click off.
01:10:06
Speaker
Okay. Sure. That was something. Right. Yes. So why are we going to miss Marsh? Well, uh, as I said, we've, we're pretty certain we know who murdered Baron LR and it's probably Luke and Osteroth. Who's the vampire we encountered in Zendric. And he sent a message to me.
01:10:35
Speaker
that we should come there if we wanted to discuss terms. I don't 100% know what that means, but we're gonna go and we're gonna discuss and then maybe try to kill him. But first we're gonna discuss. Well, I suppose if you need me, I'll be here.
01:11:09
Speaker
Thank you. OK, so you all. The sending stones around the ship come on and you all hear in your ear. OK, we are approaching Miss Marsh. It's time to get down to the hold and load up into the skiff. With. With two.
01:11:36
Speaker
Well, are you taking both? I thought one was a funeral skiff. That's what Booyah told me. No, we did not buy a skiff specifically for... Why would we... Any skiff can be a funeral skiff. Just, you know, when the time comes. Anyway, I'm in the skiff. Thanks for the update, Dex, for letting me know where you are. Why are you already in the skiff?
01:12:02
Speaker
You said it was time to load up the skiff. Yeah. I just said it and you responded. I'm already in the skiff. I'm fast. I got, I gave him 120 feet in six seconds. Look at my sheep. All right. So here's what we're doing. We're taking the four of us.
01:12:31
Speaker
but we also have a paladin and some kind of, I don't know what Rickard, what do we call Rickard? I mean, he's some kind of holy hunting archer, divine hunting thing, but I don't know what had it. Anyway, we got two people who are gonna be real mean to an undead thing. So they're coming along.
01:12:59
Speaker
You know, is this, can we finally deploy our storm God? He's gotta run this boat. Look, I know we're mean about it sometimes, but he's afraid to get off the ship and we should just lean into the fact. It'd be great if you guys wouldn't talk like I can't hear you.
01:13:15
Speaker
Wait, you can hear everything happening on the ship now? I'm connected. Well, no, he's in the skiff. Are you in the skiff now? I assumed you, I genuinely assumed you were talking over the sending stones to each other. No, I'm in the hold. Okay, nevermind. Because if he can hear everything that's going on on the ship, then we need to have a discussion because this was not agreed to by the rest of the people inhabiting this vessel. This was not in the updated terms of service.
01:13:51
Speaker
Uh, right. And so I think we should, we should bring, we should bring some backup. Look, last time we had a, had an encounter with this guy, he got away easy. I don't know that Krasst and Rickard can stop that from happening. Uh, I don't know what, but look, we got a lot of capable people up here on this ship and he invited us. We're going to a place that he invited us to. Uh, so the odds of it being bear trap seem high. Right.
01:14:05
Speaker
Don't worry Dex, I'm your new big brother.
01:14:20
Speaker
You know, I do want to remind you that I do have the ability to cast daylight Well, that's excellent. So yes, I don't know if it will turn him into dust, but I hope it does. Well, I'm It is daytime by the way when you all are arriving in Miss Marsh, right? I assume he's out in the woods personally. I Figured using that decontin that thing. Yeah, I think that's probably right. I
01:14:48
Speaker
Because of the wind. And the whippet. Right, yes, yes. It's terrifying. Oh, simpler times.
01:14:59
Speaker
Back when things were metaphorical. Remember our first bear? That we killed? I do remember that. And then burned the corpse while Draconis was petting it? He stopped bedding it. So yes, I think we should bring the capable people on our ship with us. So I think we should bring Crust and Rickard
01:15:22
Speaker
because capable, right? You've been hanging out with record a lot, Booyah. He's capable person. Based on what you know of your mentor, if they are cut from the same cloth, then yes, they would be quite capable. Yeah. Yeah, he I think he good to go. Right. And I think we should bring Paulo.
01:15:46
Speaker
If we start bringing all of this crew though, Boredell's gonna wanna come. Just say my name. Somebody had to stay protect ship, help Gerald. And the kids. Boredell. King Boredell. Think of the children. These young futures of Breland. I mean, the red-headed girl terrifies me, so I'm not worried about her.
01:16:17
Speaker
Anyway, you're staying here. We gotta go to the boat. So it's Dex, Drakir, Booyah, Beric, Krast, and Rickard. And Paolo. And Paolo. So we have to take both boats. Yes. Taking the skiffs. There we go. Okay. Oh no, I don't know how to fly this thing! So the skiffs take off out of the hold. Usually they just kind of float down to the ground like that's their purpose.
01:16:47
Speaker
You have some sense of control over them. It's not like a feather, just because I guess we got to get them back up. Yeah. Yeah. They are magically infused, just even if, like, Dispel Magic were cast on everything, they would still float down just the type of wood they're made. That's OK. Gotcha. So yeah, you all land on the outskirts of Miss Marsh, I'm assuming. Or you can land on Main Street if you want. I mean, or in the woods. Well, it'd be hard to land in the woods, on the edge of the woods.
01:17:18
Speaker
The fated forest. I want to land in the backyard of the sheriff's office. Remember, he turned out he was a good dude. He was. He liked us. I mean, he lied to save us. It's true. Now, where do we land? I mean, I feel like the edge of the forest. Sure. As good as any. I mean, it's not like what we're doing is going to be subtle to people in town. It's daytime and there's an airship floating above this little sleepy town. And they'll recognize you now. It's true.
01:17:48
Speaker
Right. Oh, should I? Should I be Lyle? Do you want to be Lyle? I mean, does Osteroth seem to burn? Uh, who did Osteroth see? Lyle, I think. Yeah. You were burned after you returned to Stormreach. Yeah. So yeah. Let's be Lyle. All right. Let me, let me try to remember Lyle's voice. It was, uh, it was, uh, all right. I think I got it right here. Right. Yep. This is it. Yep.
01:18:18
Speaker
Okay, I'm wild with long hair. So you all land on the edge of the faded forest. That was you and we secure the boats. Yep. And having no way to contact him, we're going to hope that he's not hanging out in the village and we're going to head for the Takani ruins.
01:18:40
Speaker
So that's step one is take out the guy. Okay, cool. What else would step one be? Investigate the village first. Make sure you hadn't been there. You got to investigate one place or the other first. So it's up to you boy. I'll never be here. He followed lead.
01:18:55
Speaker
I mean I'm fine with going straight to the Khani ruins. I say let's go to the ruins first. He's probably the smartest. Right. He's not going to be hanging around in the village in daylight. Right. So I say let's go to the ruins. And we walk into the faded forest. A scale of 1 to 10. How excited is Barak right now?
01:19:17
Speaker
Parrott's extremely nervous right now. How mundane does the fated forest seem now compared to that, right? It used to be so spooky. It's like just some trees. I feel like you brought friends. I brought friends. Okay, Barrott, give me a wisdom saving throw. Oh, good. Aha, 24. 24. The saving throw though? He's trying to scry on me. Oh, God.
01:19:47
Speaker
Does that to me, I'm going to get scried on. If it's wisdom based. But he's looking for me. I mean, if anything he has is a DC 24, we're just boned and we need to leave. There's just there's a there's a I'm I'm waiting for scrying the Patriots going to pull up because there's like a crap ton of modifiers to your role based upon. OK, yeah, sorry. Trying to wrap the episode up.
01:20:20
Speaker
I don't know. I feel like I have to make Booyah do a saving throw at some point just so Randy hasn't brought his dice twice in a row for nothing. I hope we're about to mix it up.
01:21:01
Speaker
Good and dense, though. OK, so. Yeah, we walk into continue walking into the forest intrepidly. Give me a survival check to follow the goblin win markings. Yeah, those goblins aren't hanging out on the edge of the forest. You get a bonus for that. We can't meet the same goblins.
01:21:26
Speaker
Go for it, you ranger. Oh, dang, 20, 20. Okay. So yeah, you, but yeah, you instantly start recognizing goblinoid markings without them even explaining to you that you need to keep an eye out for this stuff. You just instantly recognize the goblinoid trails going through the faded forest. Um, and begin just trekking along ahead of everybody. Um, and, uh, what would you like to do with your 20?
01:21:56
Speaker
Hmm. That, um, now about the following these markings that are going to get us where we are going, that we do so very sneakily, very, very stealth like, like we're really really careful. Um, yeah. Um, also,
01:22:23
Speaker
just so you're aware when you look up the, cause I use scale male plus the dragon scale male modifier. Okay. Another bonus property of the fact that it's Draconic scales. Normally scale male imposes disadvantage on all stealth checks and this does not. So that's another boon of it. Yeah. Great. Um, Oh, and I am wearing that, but I definitely have a dark cloak over it. I mean,
01:22:48
Speaker
I don't know how to test it without possibly ruining it. So I was like, could I turn it black for him? Like, could I, could I give you a super stealthy dragon suit? That'd be amazing. Well, would you let him, would you want him to try? You're a, you're a sneaky guy. Find out I need to know what effects the blackening has had on other magical items. We've never tried to blacken anything else. But your amulet still works. Yeah. My amulet blackened.
01:23:17
Speaker
No. Um, so yeah, you all, we'll do it at a time in the future. You are able to stealth through your entire journey without needing to make a check or anything. You're just able to tiptoe through. Is everybody coming?
01:23:32
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. So this intrepid band of seven? Yep. Seven Adventures approach party and you find the familiar broken down doorway with writing above it that Booyah and Beric can both understand. Right.
01:23:54
Speaker
because Beric learned goblin. That's right he did. And this is where I start to have very dark memories of that SOB ACO. Dark memories? He did try to kill me. That's true. That's true. He was very helpful here though. This is a good memory. Well he was helpful when we remembered he existed. Would anyone at the table remember he existed? Kept sneaking up on us.
Entering the Tomb of the Knights of Joshua
01:24:15
Speaker
He was very stealthy. Okay so are you all entering?
01:24:20
Speaker
Yeah. With just the nature of the faded forest, it has gotten fairly dark, almost a twilight level of light, certainly dim lighting throughout. But once you begin to step into the tomb of the Knights of Joshua,
01:24:39
Speaker
You see that it is dark inside, lights and minutes extinguished as you step forward into the darkness. End of episode.
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