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C2 Ep. 132 Zooming to Meetings Part 1
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The party has some explaining to do.
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Sponsorship and Podcast Introduction
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
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Hello, welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast at the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Trevor. And I'm Jeff. That's the order now. And that's it. Trevor, get your heating pad off of your microphone. You goober. It's not on it. It certainly was. It fully was. Is that better?
00:01:32
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You've got to shove it under your shirt like mine is, and then you don't run the risk of that. Yes, Trev and I both are currently wearing heating pads because we're injured because we suck. And welcome to
Operating at Reduced Capacity
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another episode. As you all can tell, we are
00:01:50
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operating at 50% capacity in terms of players. Because we are doing kind of a mini reduced style episode because we left the last episode with everybody kind of going off to do their own meetings. And we're gonna pretend like this is a conscious choice to have just the two of you here and not a scheduling nightmare. So Trevor, Reynard was going to meet with his family, Jeff, Hob was going to meet with DeOrla, correct?
Character Plans and Family Meet-Up
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Yes.
00:02:19
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That is, that is, he was going to. Circumstances have changed a lot. He still will, but I can't imagine we're going to the forezails. Yeah, yeah. Well, you were, uh, you were going to meet at Savius. Oh, that's right. That was the plan. Equally dubious, but let's see. Let's see what happens. Okay. Well, let's kick things off with Raynard.
00:02:42
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Trevor. Okay. Sorry. I just mentally caught up as to what happened last time. Should we recap that? Do you want to recap that? I guess we could recap. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Well, we got Vigo.
00:02:59
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Look, we got Viggo to admit to what he had, or his part in what had happened, and decided that the best thing we could do would be to drop him off with Verla, but she is not pleased with me for sure, and I believe also, well, never pleased with Raynard. Milo passed though, huh? She doesn't trust Milo, but she doesn't know he's lying, like she knows I'm lying.
00:03:22
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Correct. But you all are pretty closely associated in this whole circumstance. We don't need to get it yet. But so because of that, Verla and Eris are meeting alone. And so we're going off to do our own things. Yes.
00:03:39
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Verla agreed to not bring anybody that is trying to arrest Eris. That was the exact... Yes, that is true. That is not technically a promise of being one-on-one. And you're Eric. And everything's in the gray areas, so... What can I say? Okay, so... Raynard.
00:04:03
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The way it was spoken about last time was that Eris was immediately taking off to go meet up with Verla and intentionally not interested in where you all were going in case things go sideways for her. So the question being, are you all immediately, Hob, you had your meeting set for like the next morning with Dorla, so that's kind of fixed. Yes.
00:04:28
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Raynard, are you going tonight to meet with your family or are you waiting for the morning to go meet with them? I would imagine it would be the best choice to go tonight. I mean, yeah, I mean, elves don't need to fully sleep. They just need to enter a trance and only for four hours. So, elven sleep schedule structure is a lot different than people. So, yeah, you could reasonably go tonight.
00:04:58
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Okay. Okay. I do that. Don't. So, Rainard, you get a cab since you were left in Highwall. You probably have to walk to another district of the city first before you can find a sky cab to take you up to your family's estate in the upper parts of the city. You're able to easily pay the fee
00:05:27
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You see the lights are on. But you're not home. And it seems that there's not a whole lot of like, skiffs docked or anything. It doesn't seem like there's a party going on, but there seems to be activity in your family's home, if that makes sense. Okay. Um, uh,
00:05:58
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Are you just going to walk in the front door? I'm worried now. Activity. Like a party? Arts and crafts? No, like I said, it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of people over. Like there's not a bunch of like skiffs docked outside. There's not cars parked up and down the block. I guess, yeah, I guess I just go in the front door. Man, that seems bad. Okay.
00:06:27
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That thing seems right with you, Eric. You're just paranoid because you're in a one-on-one scene and you hate it every time this happens. This is going to be the most awkward night of my life. I can't imagine that's true. That's not. I've heard so many stories. Ask about it in the review, guys.
00:06:53
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and then subscribe to our Patreon and I'll send it to you for a dollar. I had to buy him drinks first. You guys are getting cheap. Yeah, so what did you get a book? I'm getting my notebook with my notes in it. I was like, what kind of monster am I walking into?
00:07:18
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Okay, you see Sebastian walking through the foyer with a tray of drinks on it and he kind of looks at you and like arches an eyebrow and just, hmm, and keeps walking. That's Sebastian Butler, right? Yes, that is Sebastian the butler. Oh.
00:07:45
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Big with Sebastian T. Butler is the name, but... And you can hear voices coming from the direction that Sebastian is headed towards. I don't like this. But I'm gonna go find out what's happening. Hey, you don't have to. What do you want to do, Trevor? What else am I gonna do? Just go to my room? You could stay here and listen more intently to see if you can recognize the voices. Okay, let's do that. Okay,
Revealing Viggo's Involvement in Murder
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your perception is two yellow, one green.
00:08:15
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They're not really making any effort to talk quietly. They're not trying to speak. So it's only one purple difficulty. How many story points do you have? I'm kidding. No, I'm kidding. I have one. OK, I'm going to go ahead and roll. Two success, one advantage, and a triumph.
00:08:40
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This game's dumb. You recognize that the voices speaking are Basil, Alistair, and Calvert are talking. A, B, C, E, Z, one, two, three. And I'm the D. David Trevor. A, B, C, D. Yeah, that's true. Train year. Yep.
00:09:04
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Okay, sure, whatever. You don't hear Solomon Callaway talking, which I think is what you were alluding to before, is over at the house. So, importantly, you don't hear the S in that equation. You have an advantage and a triumph. God, I just want this to go well. Could that be the triumph? This goes well?
00:09:32
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You can pass a boost to your... Your advantage can be that you pass a boost to your next check to make it more likely that it will go well. Okay, well, we're gonna do that. And then the triumph is... No one's unhappy to see me? Um...
00:09:58
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Yeah. They can be indifferent. I'm fine. I'm happy. I'm not okay. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, you will not be met with...
00:10:10
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maliciousness and anger. I think the listeners are really going to get a clue into my anxiety when I do these solo things. You have a try, Trevor. You can alter the game in any way possible. I just want people to like me. That's all I want. Okay, so do you enter the room now that you're confident that Psalm and Callaway is not there?
00:10:38
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I mean, I feel like I should make the butler present me, but... No, yeah. He is already gone and handing drinks out. I'm just yelling, butler! No, yeah, no, I go in.
00:10:53
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Okay, you see all three are sitting in kind of your father's sitting area next to the fireplace in a much more relaxed demeanor than you're used to seeing the house being in.
00:11:10
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Um, and Basil is kind of the first to look up and acknowledge you as he's taking a sip out of his drink and he kind of does that like half sip, stop, uh, puts his glass down. Raynaud. Sorry. Drannier. Was it you? Uh, what the...
00:11:33
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There could be a lot of things. Was what me? Also, hello. Alastair far less jovially looks up from his drink. Did you kill Satan Boromar? Oh, no, but I know who did.
00:12:03
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Oh, come, come now, Basil says. Your dagger was found buried deep in his chest. You don't have to be so modest, garish, but modesty doesn't suit you. Yes, but my dagger had been stolen, and Father knows that, I told him. Calvary kind of nods in acknowledgement. Yes, you did, but I wasn't sure if you'd gotten it back based on our
00:12:33
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Last conversation, I wasn't certain whether or not you got overly enthusiastic. He's a terrible father. He thought Draydard would take initiative. He doesn't know his son at all.
00:12:54
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Well, there's a lot of enthusiasm to unpack, let me tell you, but I have something you all will want to listen to. Hmm, very well. Bring it over here. And then, such as I do. Okay, do you just hit play on the recording? Yeah.
00:13:19
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So yeah, the interrogation of Viggo and his confession, insofar as it, are you gonna play them the whole, because it started off with him admitting his part in the Boromar murder, and then he continued on to talk about Kylie and Keg bottoms and all that kind of stuff. Are you gonna play the whole thing or just the part that is? Probably just the part that's important to them, and then I'll be like, there's more crimes you committed, you can listen to it if you want to, but it's a lot.
00:13:50
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I'm picturing Reinhardt. He's got one hand on his hip and the other one is holding the stone straight full out directly from his shoulder. Just a big smile on his face. Ha-cha-cha! Viggo Pormach killed his own... or arranged for the death of his own uncle.
00:14:12
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Fascinating. Basil seems utterly intrigued. Aleister seems a bit conflicted. And Calvair has taken on a very grim demeanor at the recording. Also, tried to frame me. Aye, they did.
00:14:40
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Did you hear me on the recording? I was tough. Well done, Dranyer. What is more concerning is Thorani has now successfully completed a contract in the city of Shahn against one of its most powerful and influential people.
00:15:10
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This is, some may call it an act of war. Which is why I brought this directly to you. I went nowhere else and that made it sound suspicious. Basil just kind of smirks, Drenia, if you stopped talking about four words before you normally do, you would get so much further life.
00:15:40
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Well, hindsight's 20-20. Yes, but there's always the future. Calvary gets up and goes to his desk and pulls a sending stone out and pulls it up to his mouth and speaks into it.
00:15:59
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Sebastian sent a meeting for Elvinor tomorrow, early as her schedule will allow. Yes, me and my sons and Basil will be meeting with her. And he puts it back down.
00:16:18
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Well, Jania, you're going to need to take this information to the head of our house here in Shahn. I know you've met her in passing, but it's time for an official meeting now that you're back in the good graces of the house. Wonderful.
Family Discussions and Evidence Presentation
00:16:42
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Yes.
00:16:45
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Now, I assume, given that you were tempted to be framed by the person that killed your leader in the clan, that you are back with us full-time? Well, that all depends on, um, were you just wanting information on the Borbar clan or my colleagues? Yeah, Thorani just
00:17:15
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Hirani just entered our city, killed a very affluent person that we were hoping to glean information from. They have directly interfered with our dealings and our business. So we are going to need all hands available in this coming conflict with Hirani. Yes, I wish you would have seen what I did to our cousin. Alistair kind of look, what did you do? Uh,
00:17:46
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What did I do? I did a lot. You wrapped his face in piano wire and squeezed via arrow. Yeah, that's right. No, that wasn't the cousin. That was the pilot, right? Also a cousin. They're all your cousin. Well, I didn't know that. You were told that. You may not have remembered, but you were certainly told. Yeah, you could have known that. That's fair. Well, I relay that information.
00:18:19
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Ugh, gruesome. Yeah, so we're going to meet with Elvinor tomorrow, and you can play this recording for her and answer any relevant questions she might have about Thirani's involvement in Satan's murder. But this is good news. The clan is sufficiently weakened at this point,
00:18:44
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murmurings are especially since the official story that is coming out of the plan right now is that you all killed Satan and then kidnapped the next in line, Vigo, to his probable death is where we currently stand until things get out in terms of, what did you do with Vigo?
00:19:11
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Dragon Year. We didn't kill him, right? He's alive. No. No. You're handing him over to the Sharn City Watch. Do I know that? Yes, you were in on the conversation. Because remember, you wanted to hand him over to Sam. Yeah, I couldn't remember if we kept that secret as well. I mean, you could choose whether or not to tell him. Well, I mean, like, how we kept where we were going secret, what was...
00:19:36
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happening yeah no you were aware of what Eris was going to do okay oh she didn't know where we were so she could tell verla that truthfully but we know what you got you oh well that's not good they're gonna want them what do I lie about whatever you want buddy
00:20:00
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I can't say we killed him. That's a lie. No, they are going to find out very quickly that he's not dead, but... Yes. Any of you familiar with Detective Bourdain? Basil rolls... Oh, God, yes. She's so outstanding. Very annoying. She refused a bribe. I tried to give her last week. And it's the hair and the nails, isn't it? Oh, my God.
00:20:31
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Alistair's like, what? No, what? What? Why would you say that? No one else? Okay. Uh, well. Yeah, maybe it's a you thing, weirdo. Um, so she's been on my, uh, tail, if you will. And, um, uh, we sort of sent Vigo to her to get her off of my tail.
00:21:02
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In a way. Alister pipes up and is like, yes, I know that she has been on your tail, which is why I tried to bribe a member of the Sean City Watch to bring you in before she had a chance to. And you've done everything you can to make Detective Morrill's job just awful. I've never met the man. You've met him repeatedly as he's tried to bring you in. Well, I don't know his name.
00:21:32
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Correct, he did not introduce himself to you. So? He needs to give me information. Calvary raised his hand. Anyway, stop, stop, stop. You were giving Vigo to the Sean City Watch. You gave him to Mordane, which is probably good. Half the detectives would be on the clan's payroll and go with Vigo's version of events.
00:21:59
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We obviously would have preferred to have him here, but that's fine. Which I did suggest. But I was outvoted, if you will. I did not ask, but okay. Big guys, scary guys, can't compete. Basiline's over. Forward's less, would have meant silence, which would have been a better choice here. Yes.
00:22:33
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Viggo obviously won't be able to take over the seat from Satan, which is somewhat regrettable. He is dumb enough that he would have ensured the clan's downfall quickly and spectacularly. So the next options would be Satan's daughter taking over the clan, which could still work. She is
00:22:58
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more cunning than Vigo, but also not as wise as Satan. She's not capable of running the clan. So that could be fine, or there will just be infighting amongst the different arms of the organization. Alistair, go.
00:23:17
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send aid to Lady Briar down in the cogs. Encourage her to make a stink. I know that she hates the Boa Maza themselves. If she causes enough ruckus as part of the Delvas, then maybe that will also cause some discord. If the client can fall, then that's good for our interests with Mr. Callaway. So Reynard
00:23:40
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depending on, sorry, Drenia, depending on where we need you in the coming days with the conflict with Thrawny that is surely to break out, we may send you back into the fire and try to sow discord with the clan. If your story can gain traction within them, then they believe that you were not responsible for the death of Satan, depending on how Maula and Lyra feel about you that will
00:24:08
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tip the scales in one direction or the other. Thank you. You're welcome. It sounded good.
00:24:33
Speaker
It's a job. Your job may pivot from finding out information on the clan to actively sabotaging them. That's where we're at. Wonderful. Question. Since I will be needed in the morning, shall I reside here this evening? Yes, your mother kept your room, so it's ready for you. Thank you.
00:25:02
Speaker
Well, we should get cleaned up. Elvinor does not suffer much, but we should look our best and be presentable for our meeting with her. Any questions from the three of you? You'll be in the meeting tomorrow? Yes.
00:25:32
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all of us will be. Yes, remind me to stop four words prior. That will be Basil's job, not mine. Alistair, go ahead and head down to the cogs now, make contact with Lady Briar, see if she'll be receptive to working with us. If not, provide her aid in whatever way you can, and we will reconvene in the morning before our meeting.
00:26:03
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Okay. The next morning. Hey, what's up? It's me, Elwood Fjarlen. Did I miss the alphabet meeting? Elwood. Um, Hob, you're at, you're at Savia's.
Secretive Meeting with DeOrla
00:26:20
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I'm assuming you went back there to crash or what, what did Hob do after the meeting? I don't think he would have cause it's, I mean, people know he, he works and lives there. I think Hob laid low somewhere for the night. Um, but I just slept rough. Um,
00:26:33
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And then whatever time Dorla was coming to Savia's, Hob is on his speeder across the street in an alley, ready to swoop in, tell her to get in, and hit the sky. Just to go probably back to...
00:26:48
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somewhere, I don't know where, maybe the King of Shorts. Yeah, you see Dora the walking down the street in her leather armor, carrying her spear, ready for anything, and yeah, you're able to get her attention easily, and she comes and hops into your, do you still have the sidecar on there? Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah, of course. I mean, if I hadn't, it would have been reattached.
00:27:15
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Yeah. She hops into the sidecar and you all take off. Where are we going? Oh, I know a place that's... Listen, I'll explain why. I have to keep a low profile when we get there, but I need to go someplace people aren't going to expect me. And where I sleep is not that place. Very well. Who is after you? You will explain when we get there. Fair enough. I promise. And I'll tell you everything.
00:27:45
Speaker
All right. So she sits in silence as she waits arriving at the new spot. I mean, legit, let's go to that warehouse. Why not? Okay. I mean, it was abandoned, right? That's why the cobalt... I mean, it was assumed to be abandoned until the cobalt ship. But yes, yes. Right. But for the cobalt. It's not on the books for anyone, I guess. Got it. It's just the first place he thinks of that's likely empty. Yeah.
00:28:15
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Okay. So yeah, you all are able to duck in. Um, no cobalt's inside right now. So look, all I gotta do is insinuate you're a demon and she's going to paint the walls with you. So you might want to just go. All right, Dora. Um, what is this? I owe you this. Um, to tell you the truth about this. So last night when we left the party, we went back to, um, our employer's office and found him dead.
00:28:46
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And I'm sure you can figure out on your own without me spelling it out. Amazingly, suddenly the family walked in right as we discovered the body and we were suspected. Very good. And so we might have kidnapped the heir to the throne, I guess, and effed off, I believe is the phrase.
00:29:16
Speaker
He's the one that did it and we got a confession out of him recorded to take to the watch. Gotcha. Very good. Okay. But until the watch does the things, I've got to stay incognito. Yes. And I imagine if the person responsible had allies that they would also seek retribution. Right. I mean, this is what I'm saying. In fact, we were changed by them for a bit, but we took care of them as well. Very good. I appreciate that.
00:29:47
Speaker
Well, we had this meeting because we wanted to share our current dealings, and I wanted to share with you the work that Gal Renak was doing in Sharn that I have continued, and
Demonic Overlords and Draconic Prophecy
00:30:06
Speaker
Um, the, the news of your, you, you worked for the Boromar clan, correct? Um, yes. And I believe past tense is probably a safe way to speak of it now. Yes. That is concerning. Um, so
00:30:29
Speaker
What do you know about the, let's start easy, what do you know about the demonic overlords? Now, common knowledge in Eberron, because the overlords are the beings that rule during the age of demons and all the mythology and stuff surrounding it. And so normally, it would be like mythology, except that in Calvair's lifetime,
00:30:59
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like Raynard's dad would have witnessed an overlord breaking out of their prison and like wrecking shop in Thrain. That's when the shadow within the flame, like, so there's a bit more recent history, like still not within Hobbes lifetime, but much more, it's like 700 years ago, but in a world where elves live for a thousand years, it's, you could find somebody that witnessed it. So yeah, so.
00:31:26
Speaker
Yeah. How's that something along the lines of, well, of course, I've heard the stories and I understand there's there's credibility, creditability to. To many of them, I've not spent the time to suss the folklore from the history. Fair enough, if you do, and that's understandable. When. When people like myself are Gower and I can online a work speak of demons,
00:31:55
Speaker
we are either speaking of one or two entities, one being an overlord, which we generally speak of those in the abstract. We don't fight overlords because if there was an overlord here to fight, we would all be dead anyway. What we are normally speaking of when we speak of demons that we hunt, part of an organization called the Lords of Dust, they seek to free the overlords from their bindings.
00:32:25
Speaker
using, once again, if you've heard of this great, if not, the draconic prophecy. Once again, general knowledge, it's kind of like Nostradamus, like it's it's prophetic stuff that like to the average person is like, okay, sure, maybe you can tell the weather kind of thing, but it's not. Can
00:32:49
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I pretend that Hob actually does know some of the Draconic Prophecy and look a little bit up at some point and say that Hob knows a bit, maybe because, I mean, blood of vole. Yeah, I mean, you could say that Hob's encountered some of it. Yeah, totally. How much does Jeff know about the Draconic Prophecy in terms of the lore? I have read a little bit of it. I can say this. I know this. I know that it is from the Dragons of Arganessa. Yes.
00:33:15
Speaker
I remember that when I was reading about it. But it's, rather than being what you would normally consider like a Nostradamus style prophecy, it's like a billion if then statements.
00:33:27
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It's like, if this happens, then this will happen. Then if this happens, then this will happen. And most, a lot of them end in, and then this overlord will be unleashed upon the world. So what the, what the Lords of Dust are trying to do is they read the Jirkan of Prophets like, okay, these are all the things that we have to do.
00:33:46
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to make this happen, while the dragons read it and go, here's all the things we have to do to prevent this from happening. So that's the back end here from a metatextual standpoint. So somebody like De Orla, while as far as you know, does not directly work for the dragons, she works against the agents of the overlords in trying to fulfill the draconic prophecy. Okay, okay.
00:34:13
Speaker
So she left off on bringing up the draconic prophecy. So if you want to interject Hobbes knowledge on it. Right. I mean, sure. I understand that it's a, um, something of a prognosticated roadmap, um, warning of, Oh, let's say, uh, some, something along the lines of, Oh, I don't know if
00:34:38
Speaker
if the king of Thrain is assassinated by these people, then surely this will follow kind of stuff. Yes. Unfortunately, it's rarely that it would be in your example, if the heir of Karn and so it's like, could it be an actual descendant or is it the king of Karnath or is it something else? Like it's, it's, it's opaque, unfortunately. Right. So it's easier to make it correct down the road. Sure.
00:35:08
Speaker
a segment of... He doesn't say that part to a true believer. That'd be ridiculous. Well, there is a fragment of the draconic prophecy that we have been keeping our eyes on because we have put together a couple of pieces. And unfortunately, I believe that your news may inform some of the additional pieces that I've been looking at. So, and she kind of pulls out a scrap of parchment
00:35:38
Speaker
And it's been translated, it's written in common, but she reads it. When the head of the silver dragon has their heart torn asunder by the severed head of the hydra's bite. Sorry, I'm typing because I don't have an open. I'm giving you a shot to... Has its heart torn asunder by the severed head? Of the hydra's bite. If the next generation ascends, then the blue sky will grow absent.
00:36:06
Speaker
as the hand of destruction rises again. You know, when you translate stuff, you don't have to stay as florid. I missed one word in there. The blue sky will blank as the hand of destruction rises again. Grow absent. Grow absent? Oh, they're going to steal the sky! I breathed that!
00:36:30
Speaker
And she just let me read it back to you when the head of the silver dragon has its heart torn asunder by the severed head of the Hydra's bite if the next generation of sins Then the blue sky will grow absent as the hand of destruction rises again. Yes, and Hydra's is possessive Yes, yes, I did that um so
00:36:53
Speaker
You were saying that the head of the silver dragon, of course being Satan, Boromar, that one I get, hard torn asunder, saw that, definitely happened. The severed head, the severed of the Hydra's bite. So that we intimate is a member of House Thorani.
00:37:19
Speaker
because the sigil of House Fierlin is the Hydra, and they splintered off from that house some time ago, so a severed head of the Hydra, as it were. Either that or an individual who has severed ties with House Fierlin. Mmm.
00:37:46
Speaker
If the next generation ascends, the blue sky will grow absent as the hand of destruction rises again. So clearly what you're telling me is that neither Viggo nor Satan's daughter's name is... Illira. Illira. Malora was all I could think of. Neither Viggo nor Illira can rise to fill the vacancy.
00:38:10
Speaker
I must say, Hub, if you are ever looking for employment post, well, now, I guess, since it's post-Bormar, you are picking up on this extremely quickly, and you would be an asset to our endeavors with the prophecy. But yes, we are on the same page.
00:38:32
Speaker
Well, I'll say the position feels like it requires a certain amount of buy-in that I'm not quite at yet, Dorla, but I do agree there are coincidences here. Now, the Hand of Destruction is what brought Galrenek and myself here to begin with, because the Hand of Destruction is the moniker of an overlord named Sor Atashk.
00:38:59
Speaker
Pause, please. I am capitalizing the H and the D in hand of destruction and done. And Sor Attashk is S-O-R space A-H-T-A-S-H-K. Fine. If you want. I didn't ask. For Laura. And our records indicate that their prison is below the city of Sean.
00:39:31
Speaker
Not a great place for it to be, for me personally. Correct. Listen Dorla, I'll be straight with you. Our goal is certainly to keep those things from happening. Extracurricularly from your prophecy, which I... Please understand, I...
00:39:53
Speaker
I have not spent the time to take the stock that you do, but I hope you understand, I don't think you're wrong. I certainly think this, she doesn't know that Hob met a time traveler last week. I'm a flippin' person and I've had a long day, so I apologize if I've come off as too glib.
00:40:17
Speaker
This will be relayed to my team, for certain. They will not buy into it, but we have the same end goal. The other thing that you need to be aware of, Hob, is that I'm not here to look at these words and, I mean, obviously preventing what happens is ideal. If, if, if Sadin Boromar would have never died,
00:40:45
Speaker
by being stabbed in the heart, then this prophecy, it would be impossible for it to come true. But when prophecies are being fulfilled in this manner, there are agents making sure that that happens. There is somebody in Sharn who is facilitating these things.
00:41:09
Speaker
Right. The same way that you would be trying to stop them. There's someone on the opposite team of you who is perhaps in the right ears saying, why not Ilara? I'm with you. They are extremely powerful shapeshifters. So it could be anyone at any time. Yikes. Indeed.
00:41:39
Speaker
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00:42:06
Speaker
Is there anyone that you would have initial suspicions of? Raynard's got this cat. No, no, no, no. I'll be honest. Suspicious of for this?
00:42:33
Speaker
I can't say so because I've not thought about it framed this way. Are there people of whom I am suspicious in the Boromar clan? Yes, many, many, many who I think don't have. How does Hobbs say this? Cleverly, obviously, but what is it going to be?
00:43:02
Speaker
I think he says something along the lines of, I trust implicitly two to three other people who work for the Bora Mars. I have varying degrees of trust in several more, but there are many, many others that I would not take what they tell me at face value, yes.
00:43:30
Speaker
I can consult with my team and see if they have thoughts. Please do. I'm really trying to think. I really am. I'm not just coughing out. No, you're fine. That was just a genuine question from Dorla. Sure, of course, of course.
00:43:50
Speaker
because you have better eyes on the situation than she does. Because I'll tell you who's going to know the Discord is going to have some ideas. I'm going to hear them. And that's fine, but I want to have one myself too. Well, since you yourself said that we are at this current juncture aligned in purpose,
00:44:16
Speaker
I will say that my job is to continue to try and suss out the conspirator. I was going to say demon, but you all seem to get a real kick out of making fun of us for that. I want to apologize. I was doing that before I was told I would know about the overlords.
00:44:47
Speaker
that that is my if you have any information in that endeavor that is wonderful and i will accept that the reason i'm saying this is that they are once i find out who it is i will be sending for all of the backup from my tribe to come here and deal with the situation if you try to corner one uh the destruction will be immense and immeasurable
00:45:17
Speaker
So if, if I, or if I tried to one, one, one, one, a one of these agents, I would be boned and they would destroy bad thing. Bad things would happen. Their method of fighting. If you tried to corner one in a tower of Sean, they would just bring the tower down in having faith that you would die in the destruction as opposed to fight you one on one.
00:45:47
Speaker
I mean, that makes Hobb think, maybe this is where I go when I'm done.
Influence of Sor Atashk in Sharn
00:45:52
Speaker
I don't like the idea that that kind of dude is a route. Understood. Listen, I have done. I am foolhardy, but I am not. I don't have a death wish. I know. And that's why I sought to inform you about their methodology. What I could really, if our purposes are aligned,
00:46:15
Speaker
have some assistance with is the fourth line of this prophecy, of ensuring that the next generation does not ascend to lead the clan. I don't know how, since you yourself claim to be on the oust with the clan, you said that you had proof and confession that
00:46:42
Speaker
The person that you took was responsible though. So surely they would welcome you back if that's the case. I mean, we've got it. Yes. For sure. That anyone, uh, takes its veracity at face value or, um,
00:47:01
Speaker
or decides that they want to be around the people who got to the truth about their family member who killed their other family member. Perhaps they want to cut ties with all of us and move on with their lives. I don't know, but I will be... I'm gonna give it a shot. I appreciate that. I don't know what the current inner workings of the clan look like, but it would seem to make sense that if left
00:47:30
Speaker
If left without intervention, then surely Satan's daughter would be the one to take over the clan. It would appear that way, yes. If I may, I thought of something. Someone had to convince Vigo to hire Thorani to kill Satan.
00:47:54
Speaker
Alternatively, someone had to convince the Ronnie, the members or the house or the delegator of jobs, to take and delegate this job to someone. Unfortunately, if I had known this 12 hours ago, I feel like I could have gotten that answer from Vigo. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to see him again for a while.
00:48:25
Speaker
But that feels like a very worthwhile avenue. Indeed. Perhaps I'll do my best to do something about it, but boy oh, hey oh. If Phillip was here, I would get on my speaking stone to Eris. But he's not, so I won't.
00:48:48
Speaker
Yeah, just added that together, that conversation, Eric. Yeah. Hey, come on, Eric. Well, I tried. Good stuff. No. That's a dumb podcast from dumb dudes.
00:49:13
Speaker
Well, no, I will also look into this line of thinking. Perhaps, do you know anybody that, do you know any spies by any chance that might have information on Therani? If I knew, if I knew any spies, boy oh boy, they'd be pretty bad spies. Look, I know some Fjarvans.
00:49:39
Speaker
and I might be able to... I don't, am I forgetting? I don't know, any spies embedded in Therani, do I? I'm very serious, I don't... Okay, okay. Rhaenard has access to his family, which might have, since they're at war. Right, that's what I'm saying. I know some Fjarlans, and I can speak to them about potentially making an inroad there, for sure.
00:50:04
Speaker
Very well. Um, the only last piece, um, the hand of destruction. Soar, ah, ah, ah, ah, toshk. I need, you would have thought I would have named this person something that would be easy for me to pronounce, but here we are. Oh no, I wouldn't have thought that at all. I know you, baby. Um, uh,
00:50:29
Speaker
The reason for their Monica, the hand of destruction, is they are the overlord of self-destructive ardor, as it were. I have noticed in my time in Sean, and I'm sure Gauternak noticed as well, that in recent times, it seems as though innovation is on the rise, unbridled innovation, creation without measured
Overlord's Growing Power Through Innovation
00:50:59
Speaker
restriction, as it were, which is the domain of this overboard. And they grow stronger the more that their domain is
00:51:13
Speaker
Utilized. So the Overlord of War, as the last war was going on, was growing stronger in their prison, as it were. Shadow of the Flame, Bel Shalor, probably the most well-known Overlord, grows stronger the more that evil corrupts good, et cetera. So also, if you note any big projects that people are working on that might lead to assured destruction of themselves or others, discourage that.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yes, Trevor, you're raising your hand like a good boy. I know. I mean, surely you've also noticed the pattern hob there's been.
00:51:52
Speaker
people flying through the city and blowing up sections like it's been. Have I noticed the wild advancement in armaments? Yes, I think I've been a party to it, unfortunately. So that's the other element that a conspirator looking to release saw Atashk would do their best to enable this kind of behavior so that their overload course grow stronger, as it were.
00:52:22
Speaker
Well, at least I'm glad to know that the reason Solomon Callaway is so big is because he's a shape shifter and not because he's actually bigger than me or as big as me. Is he my cat? Trevor, I don't know who's who. Frankly, I'm not sure who's been feeding Sora Tosh more with their destructive innovations, Aerith or Callaway Corporation or Mill Hatch Industries. Yeah.
00:52:50
Speaker
But apparently, I've just been told by a demon hunter, I gotta have a talk with Olive before her robot destroy herself. Oh, that'll go fine. I'm the one that's supposed to kill a lot of people, Olive, not you. Well, it's a recursive thing. The stronger the overlord grows, the stronger their influence grows, so the more likely people are to be reckless in their endeavors. Right, so the vicious cycle of innovation. Yes.
00:53:20
Speaker
So that's all I've got for you, Hob. I know it's a lot, but thank you for indulging me. Dola, it is a lot. Would you believe me if I told you this is like the fourth wildest thing that happened to me in the last month? Just simply because there's historical precedent.
00:53:49
Speaker
So what is your next step? Continue to seek out the conspirator. I mean, yeah, Dorla.
00:53:59
Speaker
I told you I'm going to talk with Yarlan. What are you going to do so we can aid each other if we want? Yes, I am also going to I have some contacts in some other spy organizations and criminal elements like the tyrants who are the changeling organization that might have some inroads to shapeshift their way into information, things like that. As well, I will send word back to my tribe that the prophecy has
00:54:25
Speaker
jumped forward in a major way with the death of Saint Boromar, and they will probably be sending some additional agents to assist me now that we are in the imminent stages of a prophecy coming true. And that is, will be my next steps. May I speak with you about something that I'm sure you consider less pressing, but is very important to me? Absolutely.
00:54:55
Speaker
I wouldn't have brought this up if you weren't with her the other night. I'm very concerned for Cath. I don't believe, I don't believe she is coping with her brother's death as well as we thought she was. She seems to, when we, she gets quiet when her brother's brought up, but I don't see any, I have not noticed anything.
00:55:27
Speaker
How does it want to say too much? Um... I don't know, I think that in your line of work and in my line of work I can say this without you thinking ill of Cath. I fear she's seeking closure through vengeance. And that is not the Cath that I have known. And
00:55:55
Speaker
If that's the cath that she has decided that she is, it is unfortunate, but I don't think that she would want to do that. Does that make sense? I have seen, part of my work is maintaining subscriptions to all of the
00:56:21
Speaker
papers that come through to see if there's any big revelations. And I have read stories about deaths within Millhatch Industries. It was within a Millhatch Industry facility that Galernik died. Are you saying that Cath is responsible for these deaths? Or you believe she to be? Before I answer that, I'd like to do a perception check.
00:56:51
Speaker
Okay. I, or, or, or, or, or in, uh, not insight. Here's the thing. Hob thinks because of her line of work, Dorla would be not. How do I say this?
00:57:11
Speaker
I'm not going to tell Dorla that we know that Kath has been doing this, or that we have really strong evidence that Kath has been doing this. We think we do. But I do want to get a sense of where Dorla is feeling about this. Does she seem concerned, angry, or? Sure, make a perception check. Excited and interested. It's going to be one red, one purple. OK, that's not great. You can flip a story point if you like. I have a boost that didn't do anything.
00:57:41
Speaker
That's true. You do have a boost. Take a boost. Okay. I'm going to take a boost and I'm going to flip a story point. Did you see me remember that? I have been on top of... Good job, Trevor. You're on top of it. I'm a player. And it's one red, one purple difficulty. Yep. And I certainly have no perception based talents. There's no way in. I don't even need to look at the list. Roll the dice.
00:58:09
Speaker
Okay. One success, one threat. Okay. So with your success, you can certainly tell
00:58:25
Speaker
she's not angry and it's not an indication of like, is she doing this? It seems to be more, she's trying to put a puzzle together in her head. It seems more detached than, it's not an emotional curiosity. The threat is, you take a point of strain and just hold on to that for the next session, so.
00:58:49
Speaker
I won't do it, hold on to it long. Oh, right. I think that what Hobb says then is... Now, Adorla, I want to be clear that none of this is certain. But... I've fought with Cath.
00:59:19
Speaker
and I know what she can do. And based on, I'm lying, based on the injuries and some of the weaponry and augmentations that she's been afforded from Eris and working with the Boromars, the puzzle pieces fit better than I'd like.
00:59:42
Speaker
more cleanly and it makes me comfortable. Okay, so you're just withholding some bits of information. I'm not saying we saw the claw marks on the wall and this and that and this and that. Go ahead and make a deception check. Okay. And don't look at me like that when I tell you the difficulty. It's going to be three red, one purple, because you're lying to someone whose job it is to suss out demons.
01:00:07
Speaker
Am I, am I, okay, I am omitting, I am certainly omitting. Am I lying? It's like, she's not gonna think that you're not telling her the truth, but she might pick up that you're not telling her everything. Okay, okay, that just doesn't feel like, yes, I know that is deception, but I feel like when we roll deception in the game, it's always like, I've lied to them. So I just wanted to see where we were heading with this. If there was anything else I could do. We're going down the spare lane right now is where we're going.
01:00:33
Speaker
unless you finish this up with bulimia or I'm gonna punch ya, then we can do coercion, but... That's my story, wanna fight about it? Alright, hit me again, it's how many red? Three red, one purple. I mean, I'm going to fail, I have two green. That's fine, we might get a couple despair out of it. Oh good, what a cool day. I am gonna check my talent real quick, this might take a second, I do not care. It'll affect Randy and Eris in the next session when we record their scenes, not you all, so.
01:01:03
Speaker
I was just hoping I could do something to make Phillip's life harder. My favorite thing to do is upset Phillip. It's fine. I know she's not an opponent. She is not. It's an opposing role. I know she's a bystander before you go there. It's an opposing role. That's true.
01:01:31
Speaker
I really thought I had taken something. Maybe just because I have something called plausible deniability and I keep trying to use it even though it never works. Because it shouldn't. Okay. Rolling dice. Okay. One success. That is a success. And five threats. Hoo boy. Wow. Which is tantamount to a despair if he doesn't want to break a model. Yeah.
01:01:56
Speaker
So, she has no indication. She thinks you're being totally forthright with the information. With the five threat. Okay, what the five threat are going to manifest as
01:02:15
Speaker
is we've already established in the previous session, due to a despair or a bunch of threat, that while Mala responded to Milo's plea, that surely we wouldn't have done something like this, Alira hates you all. Like we would establish that, that's in my notes. Like Alira holds a grudge and is blinded by rage.
01:02:42
Speaker
Just from this, this isn't something we could have done in the past. Correct, from the same dying thing. Good reason, not saying it's not a great reason for her to feel that way. What I'm gonna do with the Five Threat is I'm going to ramp it up a little bit to where her current state of mind now being, she doesn't want to just catch you all. She wants to destroy
01:03:10
Speaker
like wipe your existence from the map kind of thing. Like scorched earth, she like, she's in a rage. She like can't contain herself kind of thing. So that's where Alire is at now due to all those threats. Okay. I let Dorla know that. So yeah, Alire has gone from being unreasonable in the face of solid evidence to wanting to go scorched earth.
01:03:39
Speaker
So. Okay. Thank the Lord. I'm in the good graces of my family. Well, if you don't have anything else, I think we both have good next steps to begin working on. So I thank you for your time, and hopefully we can continue to work with a shared purpose. Right. Now Dorla, just so you understand, I am laying low until
01:04:03
Speaker
We see where this lands. So, Indy, I'll contact you because I can't tell you where I'm going to be. I don't know where I'll be at any given point. And the reason for my concern about Cath is I had read those stories and thought that maybe some entity was
01:04:18
Speaker
Killing mill hatch industry peoples to spur them towards greater effort and work in there I thought it was something related to my work. So that's actually that makes sense. Yeah both a relief and Not it's taking one thing for my plate, but adding something else so it all comes out in the wash I suppose anyway
01:04:38
Speaker
Yes. And sometimes personal stuff's messier than work stuff, so I don't know if I helped you out any. And she takes the scrap of paper that has the draconic prophecy written on it and flips it around and pulls out like a piece of chalk, or not chalk, coal, like a stick of coal and starts scribbling down and writes an address. And it's like, here's where you can find me
01:05:02
Speaker
if and when you make contact. Pretty nice place. No, it's a hotel. Sorry, it's Lower Memphis with us? It's on that same, it's in the lower part of the city, yeah. Gotcha, perfect. Where the cool kids are. Yeah. Well, thank you, and we will talk soon, hopefully. Good luck in your endeavors. Would you like a ride? I mean, let's not be ridiculous.
01:05:29
Speaker
a ride would be nice, thank you. Hop takes where she's going and says his goodbye's there. Okay, and we are gonna call the episode there. Thank you all so much for listening. If you wanna be part of the conversations surrounding this episode, you can head on over to our Discord, the link to which you can find on all of our socials, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and we have a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash the geek pantheon. The link to the Discord is in all those video descriptions, but there's also videos there if you wanna watch some about tabletop role-playing, and we have
01:05:58
Speaker
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