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C1 Ep. 132 Eberron Reviewed 21
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This week the gang gets together to discuss the Thrashing of Eras story arc and answers questions from the Patrons!
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Introductions and Acknowledgments
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This episode is brought to you by the generous donations of John Kerry, Laura Pickron, Nico Batson, Elizabeth Clark, Darryl Delaney, Ryan Royce, Irene Villarito, The Cam Family, Charles Compton, Emily Estella Scott, Michael Clark, and David Scrams, as well as all of our generous patrons.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play, fifth edition D&D podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. My name's Jeff. I'm Philip. And I'm Eric.
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And as
Recap: Battle with the Dragon and Character Decisions
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you can tell by me introducing the episode, this is an Eberron reviewed episode where we go back and try to remember what we talked about two months ago. This is an eight episode arc and a ton happened. So do it. This arc began right after the fight with a dragon and rescue of Prince Adol and
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the first episode of the arc, we kind of dolls all about, not all about hardly, but we figured out Dex, it's important to Dex that he not jump in and immediately retaliate. But more importantly to that, we lose two shipmates in a good way. Shipmates before. But Charlie and Catherine are no longer workers, which is definitely best. Yeah.
00:01:57
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Although it will pan out that had they stayed on the ship during our wild fight with the, well, ostensibly at the time with the green dragons. So we thought, right, it would have been fine, but. Yeah. Come on.
Why Children Shouldn't Be on the Ship
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Our ship is no place for children. Well, and the deeper thing of that is yes, they would not have died in that fight, but we don't plan on going to safe places from here on out. So would have just gotten worse and worse and worse.
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but,
Barrick's Reflections on Adventuring Life
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uh, with Gerald and Krast and. But you two talk about the, the Barrick and Oriana conversation, just like I do every time we do this. Um, where Barrick ditch final effort to, to, to convince Oriana to live the life of a normal, uh, non-adventuring person. Not yet. Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean. Barak very much views his adventuring career as having ruined his life. And he. Kind of, I mean, I don't know if Dex would agree with this, but as far as Barak can see, it's also ruined Dex's life. Oh, I mean, absolutely, yeah.
00:03:19
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Really, the only person whose life might be argued to have been improved by an adventuring career is Booyah. Yeah, that's fair. So yeah, I mean, Berwick has a safe place available for Orianna. And if he had any hope of keeping her there, he would try to do it.
00:03:48
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Uh, he doesn't really expect her to follow any instructions he gives and doesn't really see much hope in attempting to coerce her in any way. So, um, is this also next episode? Cause I feel like the impetus for movement is the invasion of Daedric Bane, our stream. I think that might be the beginning of the second episode. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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I listened to all eight episodes today and they've all absolutely run together. So yeah, absolutely. And I do. I did also do my job. Good job. I do believe essentially the whole episode is goodbyes with Cassian. I did appreciate that Eric gave me. Scene with Cassian to say goodbye. Yeah. You know, it's funny. Dex doesn't.
00:04:47
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I don't really know kids. I just like this one. Yeah, but it was it was it was fun to get to do a little thing. That and I do wish that Randy was on this call with us so that he could say because he had a couple of times where he was like Booyah heard that and Booyah heard that. Yeah, follow up like he wanted to about what he was going to say to Dex about either Cassian or leaving Cassian.
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or, or what say that might be a good thing because I'm not sure that Jeff could listen to Randy, uh, play a character who had lost a son talking about leaving a little boy behind, uh, without really not handling it. Yeah. Yeah. That would be hard for the record. I don't want
Prophecy and Arrival in New Land
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to anybody to get the wrong idea. Uh, that's just simply because I am a father, not because anything tragic that I know of has happened to Randy.
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Right, right. I want to be clear on that. I didn't just feel some secret about Randy's past. In Randy's past, he wouldn't have put in his character. Anyway, we're done down that road. But so we begin the next episode. We know that we are having to head towards this green dragon, but we don't know much of anything else. Yeah. No, we know why we're going there. We know that it has the pact and
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this an Arabist conversation in the first episode or was that not? Yes, it's in the first episode because that definitely sets us on the mission in the first place. Makes it inevitable. We have to go get this last one. So yeah, let's let's start. The thing is Arab is really changed the script twice, maybe three times during this arc. And so we really need to talk about all of them. So this first one is the one where if I'm mistaken, is where you find out that there's a chance that we may not need the weapons after all, right?
00:06:39
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Right, and it's also made clear that the Raven is going to try to get this packed, whether Beric does or not. And so, Beric's motivation for going is to prevent the Raven from getting it on her own, because he fears that that will make... He doesn't really know what the effect of that will be, but he feels that the power, whatever power there is, is safer in his hands than hers.
00:07:09
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Sure. And in honesty, what Beric's goal was, and we didn't really get to play this out because of the way that things fell out in the battle, what Beric's intention was, was to go and try and use this dragon as a source of information and to, if possible, ally with it to try and do this. Beric really, really didn't want to be the holder of all the packs.
00:07:37
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Right. And you've made it clear, or you had made it clear multiple times that this was not a murder mission. Right. Even if the goal was to have the pact surrendered to Beric, if Beric did want the first line was always to try to reason with the dragon. Yeah. Yeah. Beric was definitely going in with a diplomatic goal.
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So that, but then, uh, we do start the second episode, knowing we're heading towards this dragon, but not really knowing much about the, certainly not knowing a lot about the area. And Philip has taken a wild spell, really cool spell. Uh, and so you invade Daedric Benar's dreams.
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Yeah, it's on the Warlock spell list. And it honestly, it's one of the few long distance communication spells that is available to a Warlock. But mostly, I took it just because we've got this whole thing about dream thieves. And so it made sense to me that one of the things that Barak had sort of been trying to dig into in all of the random magical books that Barak reads would be dream magic.
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And this is a spell that exists in D&D, so it just made sense to go ahead and take it, whether I ever got a chance to use it. But I did in this case, so that was nice.
00:09:09
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Right. Now let me ask Eric, is this the same thing that happened to all of us from Bella Shira? Or did you just do that because he's an all powerful and can do whatever he wants? Or did you think about this? A Bella Shira exists outside the rules. So I just, I just did it. Yeah. What about strength in this latest episode? Uh, strength was using, yeah. I mean, their whole deal is dream manipulation. So, uh, it may not be the exact same incantation that Eric used,
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but it's certainly the same, in the same spirit. The reason I thought of that is because, again, listening to
Meeting the Governor and Preparing for Battle
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all eight episodes today and having the eighth one fresh in my mind from just hearing it, Friday or Saturday, whenever I listened to it, and then catching that, I was like, oh, that's the same thing that Trent did, Dex. But so the gist of that conversation is,
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that Daedric does know somebody in colostalaire, or knows her, but also knows that she's probably the only person that's gonna listen to a bunch of foreigners. So if we have any shot at all of anything, the governor, which is certainly better than somebody who doesn't have some sort of station. Yeah, quick conversation on the way, just kind of decks clarifying barracks intentions. Jeff is dumb and figured out a way to do that in character to understand what was going on.
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Uh, but we get to plus where we see, okay. Describe, because I know this is, this is very much can, and this is very much Eberron stuff. It sounds like it's just some weird, like Casper town where, where the, the not dead was sleep dead. All hang out. I'm an idiot. Spell it out for me.
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Um, I mean, it's, it's, it's a port town. So obviously, uh, Aaron all is going to have resources and, and things like that, that the dragon marked houses are going to want access to. Uh, and that's where all the sore wood is. Yeah. Yeah. It's where sore wood comes from, um, for airship construction.
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And so the Undying Court are not stupid and realize that either they trade with the other nations and drug market houses on their terms or they get invaded to some extent. So I think it's just, yeah, it's the one city that non-Iranian are welcomed under normal circumstances, obviously.
00:11:50
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for trade and exchange of information, essentially. OK, and we meet the governor and she's very excited to see us. Not just because she loves the tales of of a good foreigner, but because we've been prophesied. You're so special. The sticking point in the prophecy being a metal goblin, which.
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Because, yeah, I mean, it's the other two of us are just so nondescript. Right. The metal goblin is the part that really feels like this must be that I've just I've seen so many humans with four foot long hair and eyeless half elves, half drow. But man, they just don't have that secret recipe that the Ringo said in the metal goblin.
00:12:49
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How dare you besmirch Booyab by saying he's the Ringo. I will not cut into any talk that Ringo is not a very good drummer. He's at least the Paul. Well, I would argue. In fact, that we're the only two that have been in the party the whole time that. No, we're not doing.
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One, my deep Beatles knowledge dive and two, I almost just compared Philip and I to two of the greatest songwriters of all time. I was following a thread. It's a whole thing. Yeah. So she tells us.
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a lot about the dragon, uh, it's land and stuff. We learn about all of the necrotic magic and energy and protections. And I'm guessing, uh, because originally you wanted to try to do the dream spell on this dragon. And we had the whole talk about how do dragons dream or not. And then Eric was like, Oh, wait, but it does not dream. Nevermind. And that, and that's because it is, it isn't it. I mean, I know Draco, which is an actual thing. Is that what this is? Or is this just some sort of weirdly enchanted undead?
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Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, I use the stat block for a Dracolich. So yeah, we can call the Dracolich, although it's, it's a special Dracolich, I guess. I mean, it's, it's a, it's a mechanical Dracolich with some, with, with a cool, you know, vinyl body wrap for our story. The tech center that does vinyl body wrap. I walk past it every day. So that makes sense to me. Um, but.
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is there is a group, essentially the High Council area of this, of Arenal, is that? Yeah, I mean, just, you know, ball parking it, sure. I mean, they are the undying court, capital T, capital U, capital C.
00:14:54
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Um, but basically we're told by the governor, we have to go to a shame or die where we've been told definitely, definitely don't go there. Uh, but luckily we essentially are invited there now. Uh, and they'll give us some aid, uh, specifically a way to cancel the necrotic magic so that we can actually get somewhere near this island. And the reason they're doing this is because the dragon has been a scourge on their, their land. Yeah.
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Oh, you need to kill a dragon? Please let us help you.
Facing the Sorrowsworn and Necrotic Magic
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They have a vested interest in us succeeding. Jace pilots us to shame or die. Let us in only the three of us are allowed to go. Booyah, Barak and Dex. And we encounter the twin guards who basically tell us, geek of anything you see, we will find you. We will know. Don't finish the threat, which genuinely is scarier because
00:15:54
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Uh, when powerful people don't tell you what's going to happen when you're found, you really can let the mind wander as to whatever. Yeah. But can you explain, uh, this was a part, uh, uh, I was not present for part of this scene. Uh, unfortunately I would, we did, I was recording remotely and my son was home and, uh, something nosebleed, I don't recall. Uh, and I had to step away for a minute. So.
00:16:22
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Genuinely just from listening to it the two times I've listened to it. I don't think I could speak adequately to what happened in the the undying courts chambers So if you guys want to take over for a minute, that would be awesome Sure essentially we were presented as having sort of the Description that matches these prophecies
00:16:49
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And they kind of interrogated us about our intentions, and it became pretty clear that they definitely wanted and expected us to kill the dragon without specifying more than it's a dragon. I mean, that's not necessarily a bad reason to want someone to kill a dragon that lives on an island off your coast.
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And they provide us with the horn with which to break the enchantment that causes it to just automatically kill everything. Yep. Well, and fans of the just Eberron lore, especially getting into the the sweet, juicy, deep cuts of the history, like ancient history,
00:17:46
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um dragons and elves have kind of always hated each other because like obviously the giants were the slave masters of the dragons and the giants got their magic and the ability to enslave the elves from the dragons and then the dragons destroyed the giants and many of the elves and so on and so forth and so bad bad blood a lot of bad blood between elves and dragons but but but what they what they give us
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to defeat, or not defeat this dragon, but to allow us to where we can even get on the island is to give us a horn. And is it the horn of this dragon? Dragon. Yeah, I believe that was the implications that the horn was made from a broken off horn of this dragon. Yeah, and we did observe that he was missing a horn when we arrived. That's right. And so we...
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The horn makes several sounds, none of which have been repeating now. But we take it and we leave. We're not told any other instructions really. Because Jeff really did need the clarification of, no wait, can other people see the horn? How secret are we now? Like code name clearance or is this just like, you know, don't say more than you have to kind of thing.
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I'm just saying, if we pulled that horn out on the deck, and Eric was like, and all of a sudden you're besieged by members of the Undyne Corps, well, we had enough going on in that fight to not need more. No. But so we take the horn, we get back on the deck, or on the boat, and for the island, and Eric, he jumps off the boat.
00:19:45
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Well, once we see the dragon, it's in flight or in my impression was that it was flying up towards us. That proved to be inaccurate, but it wasn't. When I was listening again today, it was hardly just. That you took off when we saw the drag, Eric says. Being pursued and attacked by a bunch of sorrows for. Yeah, and that's when you say.
00:20:16
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And that's what Eric says. End of episode, right? The section for that session. So we waited a bit before we resolved. Yeah, we really did before we resolved what happened.
00:20:32
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We jump back in next episode. Uh, Eric has jumped off the boat. Booyah runs to get feather fall packs. And the only thing that I'm thinking about is we need to cancel this necrotic magic before Barric lands. He will die.
00:20:54
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I'd spend probably the first, what, 10 minutes of this episode just like, okay, but, okay, but did it work? Okay, cool. But did it work? Thank you for the federal packet. Oh, worry on has gone. Okay. But did it work? No, really. No. Yeah. But obviously at this point, we weren't, you know, just consumed with necrotic magic. So, you know, well, obviously by the time I landed, I was fairly sure that it worked. But, but, um,
00:21:23
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Yeah, once, I mean, especially once Orianna went off, I was like, well, regardless, it's time to jump. So, um, Rickard, Booyah, Bex, all follow Barrick off the boat. So that is the party on the ground. Whether or not Eric remember remembered for the first good portion of the fight that Rickard was there or not. He was easy. He's our new, he's our new Aco.
00:21:55
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That's not true, actually. I think it might not even be a full round. I think you just roll initiative. We remember him way more often than we remember Daco. And we have a goblin, so we don't need Daco. He tried to kill me. I gotta look for that guy. Did. That's true. In a sea cave. That's true.
00:22:23
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Which makes it worse. It does make it worse. Right before Booyah killed my brother. Simpler times. Oh, man. Right. Remember that time when we had to sneak past goblins? We had to sneak past goblins. Yes. Barrick could enjoy murals. Barrick could enjoy murals. One might say Barrick overly enjoyed murals. Nice point.
00:22:52
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we are essentially starting a battle. Yeah. It does not end up the battle we thought it was going into it. No, very much not. Not even remotely. Like literally five minutes prior, we thought we were going to be either either talking to or fighting an ancient green dragon, which sounds like a bummer. It sounds difficult, right? We get there and
00:23:22
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dragon, but we definitely know we're going to have to fight the sorrows war. Uh, someone else shows up. What's her name again, Phillip? Um, this is the, uh, the, the elf girl that we're talking about. Oh, no, no, not even her. No, because doesn't, doesn't the Raven show up before? Oh, yes. Oh, I'm sorry. You're asking me her property. Yes. Uh, Melissa, Melissa Myron.
00:23:48
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Yeah, supposedly a descendant of Tierra Myron, the voice in the flame. Right. So Melissa Myron, the Raven, the big, if not the big bad of our campaign, I think if you were to ask Berwick, he would say she's certainly the big bad of his own personal journey. That's true. And there she is, floating up in the sky.
00:24:13
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And yeah, that was, I mean, that was pretty intense when that was, that was unexpected. Uh, I think for all of us, uh, because while I think I could sort of tell, um, that this was kind of the culmination of the whole packed hunt arc, uh, did not actually anticipate that we were going to be fighting the Raven. Yeah. I assumed this was going to be.
00:24:42
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A difficult fight initially with a dragon, you succeeded leading to you getting the final pact and then the raven aggressively pursuing you. But it wasn't for that. It was. I mean, it was the raven aggressively pursuing me. Regressively pursuing the last pact. Yeah. And then a bonus, our dumb butts showed up too. It did not prove to be a bonus.
00:25:11
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Uh, yeah, I was surprised when she showed up, but I also had Felix something else because you like, it was kind of clear. We're going to be fighting this dragon. And if it was the, the five of us and a dragon sorrow swarm, we're already on the island before the rifts started opening up. That's not a battle. Well, there's, I mean, there's also weren't as we're scary when we bought them before we knew much about them.
00:25:41
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think that like each of us did something that took out a grip of them at a time this time. Yeah. But so she opens up these rifts and they just start pouring out. And at one point I ask, is it like tens of thousands? And Eric's like, it's a lot. I don't know. It was effectively infinite, I think, from a mechanical standpoint. This is a horde sort of thing. Yeah, they were an environmental hazard rather than an enemy. Yeah, right.
00:26:12
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So, um, things get scarier. Um, I'd already, I'm trying to remember why my first attack was at the sorrow sword and not at the Raven. It could just be because they were on the ground and I thought they were in imminent danger. Um, like swarming us already. The Raven just starts doing us all dirty.
00:26:38
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this. What spell did she put on me? Was it just charm? It was it couldn't have just been charm person was it? It was it was one of her actions. So it wasn't it wasn't a spell. It was a specific thing for her her monster build. Okay, so like even my my iune stone if I had remembered I had wouldn't have
00:26:57
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stopped this. It wasn't a spell. No. That's what I'm saying. Because it's a thing she can do. It's not officially a spell. Yeah. Because I realized as I was listening and I was like, hey, because I'm scared, I put up my iune stone. I'm like, is it charm person? If it was charm person, like a second level spell, I could have remembered that and been like, no, I don't do that. But you're saying that wouldn't have mattered anyway. Yeah. Which, you know, fine.
Eberron Lore and Battle Developments
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I'm pretty sure that I got that I own stone well after anybody was throwing low-level spells at us to actually But it looks cool it really adds to the aesthetic of decks because you don't have enough I Wanted to give him a hook, you know just something that people would remember when they looked at him Real suspenders and a belt kind of guy So Dex gets charmed
00:27:51
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Luckily, and I don't know, I don't know if this is the way it's written. I don't know if this is your interpretation, but I appreciated the fact that being charmed by the enemy doesn't turn me into like the mindset of the enemy. Like you were like, no, of course you wouldn't suddenly attack Beric or Booyah who suddenly hate them. It's just, it's your suddenly empathetic towards the person you've been fighting. And those are, those are distinct things. Yeah.
00:28:20
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some dungeon masters out there. They're like, no, man, you're charmed. You're on her side. You got to attack Booyah. And that's that would, that would suck. Well, that's a distinct spell in D&D. That's a dominate spell as opposed to a charm spell. And so we have different, different terminology for that in the rule built into the rules. So God, you got to go. Yeah.
00:28:42
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I don't know that stuff and I can't read and I won't learn to. So I'm never going to learn things that people expect, uh, for us to know sometimes. I, I will say this because it's going to come up again later. I just, I, I don't, but I don't know more and I haven't sat down and done the homework, uh, outside playing barrack has been the experience that caused me to finally really learn D and D's magic system.
00:29:14
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OK, that makes sense. Yeah, it's it's the hardest part of of any I would say any role playing game system is whatever version of magic they have is is the most difficult thing to wrap your head around. I say that not just for the magic, although definitely the magic, but also.
00:29:36
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And we'll get to it later in the Discord. There were questions about Adar and Riedra and Sarlona and Dex's origin. And the fact of the matter is, I just didn't know. Cause I read, I read just enough to know that, you know, changelings and Sarlona and this backstory with the dream thieves or the quarry, uh, cause Jeff knew the name from the first thing.
00:30:00
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And at some point I set a door and I guess that's a sticking point in some ways, but I'm sure we can. Fiction our way to make it. We might know exactly how to explain it. How do you do? Cause again, can't read, won't learn. But so the Raven shows up, I get charmed. We get some good hits in on her.
00:30:25
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And we get obviously some good hits in on the Shadow Sworn. Some goofy things happen. Dex tries to run to save her and gets blown off course. I love that moment. That was so funny. It was really pretty good.
00:30:38
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I think Barak, don't you have to kind of blow an action to try to save me from being charmed and it works, but you basically had to, you had to force it. Well, and at this point, I think we're past the point where your first wave of allies arrived. Yes, I was going to circle back to that. But in the meantime, yes, the Emerald Claw, it's just one ship, right? Yes.
00:31:02
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Yeah. So a ship shows up the banner of the blood of vole. The white Raven is on it. And which isn't surprising to any of us because he was with this crew the last time we saw him, right? Right. Yeah. He was with the emerald claw before. Right. Um, but with them is a half dragon.
00:31:25
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I will say one of the things that I did do today, because you talked about, we do dragon sleep. Well, you know Wyvern's sleep and duh, duh, duh. I looked up draconic species just to kind of learn more about that. There's some wild ones. Yeah. There's a dragon tar, guys. Can't remember the name of, it's not much different than dragon, surprisingly. But it's like a ligand dragon? Weird. Yes.
00:31:53
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Yeah, Lion Dragon is cool looking, but I've never, I've never encountered one in an actual game, but it's cool looking. Well, the Dragon Tar is, as it sounds, it's like a Dragon Centaur.
00:32:05
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but it's not like half dragon half human. It's half dragon half 1970s B movie lizard man. It looks wild. At least the illustrations that I saw. But a half dragon woman who I understand is an actual real and important part of Eberron Lord. Well, yes. And when she first gets off the ship, she's appearing as a young elf girl.
00:32:34
Speaker
Uh, right. I'd forgotten that part. Thank you. So, but yeah, she is, she is a pretty big deal in Eberron lore. Um, so, and I, a lot of the stuff happening in this fight is a big deal in the wider Eberron lore, uh, which is why those of you that found the, the name of this arc ominous, it's because I knew all of the players that were going to be coming to head in this battle and.
00:33:00
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thrashing of eras seemed like an appropriate, since we have a lot of big figures from a lot of different eras of Eberron's history coming to clash. Do you want to speak to who she is and the thing about the gift she'd given to the dragon at one point taking it back or would you rather not right now? Oh yeah, I mean it's, I would be dumbfounded and astonished if it played a role in the remainder of this campaign. Well, Parrott, no, I'm kidding.
00:33:29
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Um, no, I heard that, um, people that are familiar with Eberron lore, uh, this is all going to be, uh, familiar, presumably, but her name is Arandis Voll. Um, also known as Lady Voll. Um, and the big green dragon, uh, is known as Emerald Claw, her father.
00:33:49
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Um, and, um, yeah, so she is, she is the lich of Eberron. If you want your campaign to have a lich as a big, bad evil person, Lady Vol is, is your lady. Um, and, and so the, the gift that she had given, uh, Emerald Claw was basically, I mean, uh, some, I envisioned this some form of, uh,
00:34:18
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symbiotic lynch hood. Just in my own head fiction canon, I thought it was interesting to the idea that Ermold Klaw had either died or hit a point of old age to where he was going to die and Arandis Vold not wanting to see her father dead.
00:34:42
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created some kind of symbiotic undead relationship with him, that she was keeping him alive at a cost of a certain amount of her own power. And so, yeah, that's kind of the situation. A lot of that does not exist in Eberron lore.
00:35:02
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And so now she doesn't have one hand tied behind her back and everyone is screwed. So. So it's for the next campaign. Three first level idiots. So so yeah, that's that's kind of the the mixing of Eberron lore and my own spin on on that situation. OK.
00:35:30
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And obviously
Climactic Battle and Aftermath
00:35:31
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we'll talk about her taking her gift back and all that stuff, but so much happens between now and then. So Emerald Claw shows up. They're getting it handed to them. Barrick at one point body slams the Raven with Bigby's hand. What's your spell called? So as a can say, which is a third party class that Eric has approved.
00:36:00
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Um, one of the things you can do in the can say. Subclass that I'm using is a bunch of telekinetic stuff. And so you can cast what's what they call.
00:36:13
Speaker
I honestly just forgotten what it's called suddenly, but it is essentially Bigby's Hand. It's an ability that allows me to cast Bigby's Hand, but it's treated more like, less like I actually create a big arcane purple hand and more like it's the Force a little more.
00:36:34
Speaker
But yeah, so with baby's hand, you can shift what it's doing, it can smash things, it can like punch people as a fist, it can grab people, it can hold people still, that sort of thing. So yeah, and you get to use the hands strength, which is 26. Good lord. Yeah, so that was,
00:37:01
Speaker
That was kind of fun to get to finally put that to use in a combat situation. Plus, and it honestly hadn't occurred to me how useful this was until this combat. Every action you take with Bigby's Hand is a bonus action. Or not every, yeah, the things you do with Bigby's Hand are bonus actions. And so you can kind of, you know, mix it up with your sword too.
00:37:29
Speaker
Awesome. Super awesome. I have a stick that has a knife in it. Twice sometimes. I love my character. I make a lot of jokes. I love my
Booyah's Condition and Group Dynamics
00:37:44
Speaker
character. Although, okay. And this is later too, but where did I build Dex wrong? He still only speaks two languages and the rest of the world speaks nine. I took a, I took a feat to get a bunch of languages.
00:37:57
Speaker
Okay, and that makes sense. Barak is an academic or at least was at one point in his life. What's Booyah's whole deal, guys? Listen, I don't know. Booyah's whole deal is that Randy's me and Randy. Every time Rangers get a favorite enemy, they can take a language associated with that enemy. Okay, that makes good sense.
00:38:23
Speaker
barely speak common without sounding like an idiot. So he doesn't need to start an international incident. I learned another language. I guess that's true. Um, so, uh, everybody's on the battlefield. Now we've got the dragon. We've got the sorrow swarm. We've got the Raven. We got the good guys. We got lady vole. Everybody's there. No one else could possibly show up. There's no reason to. And yet from the back,
00:38:51
Speaker
Is it Shaddar Kai go forth? Something like that? I think just Shaddar Kai forward. Anyway, Barak's mom's here. And that's a real kick in the butt, too. And was that, I believe that was after the poison cloud? Yes. Oh, right, the poison cloud. That jerk.
00:39:19
Speaker
That jerk who was coerced into do something. Yeah. Co-wursed. Co-wursed. Barak could not coerce that dragon if he had all of his spell slots available. Well, what happened was Barak turned to a super powerful being and was like, aren't you going to do something? And he would end up being was like, oh, he'll do something. I'll show you what I'm going to do. I'm going to poison your friends. Yeah, that nearly
Seeking a Cure and Episode Wrap-up
00:39:46
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killed Orianna.
00:39:51
Speaker
She had she had seven hit points left. You went from four to seven hit points. Yeah, that's wild. But then also, OK, and this may be untrue. In first, the Shadar Kai or the feeble mind? Oh, feeble mind came well before the Shadar Kai.
00:40:11
Speaker
Okay, then let's talk about that. You ruined, you stole our Booyah. I did ruin Booyah. Man, that spell really goofs people up. I can't imagine a better opportunity. I mean, I came with feeble mind than for it to be, than for it to be Randy playing an already nearly feral creature.
00:40:37
Speaker
Yeah, I think when, when, when we say you ruined Booyah, it's more you gave Randy an excuse. He, I mean, Randy just randy'd all over that thing. And exception, everybody who listens to this podcast and also listens to, listened to our star Wars arc over on, uh, uh, order 66 has heard every time I've ever played with Randy. When he first started playing with us, you guys were like, Oh no.
00:41:06
Speaker
Randy is just, he's such a good role player and kind of a wild card and really fun to play with. And I was like, Oh, okay. But man, he is such a good role player and really a wild card. Yeah, this was, I will get into it more, I'm sure, but everything that you said Booyah does, it's because Randy was shooting you text messages being like,
00:41:30
Speaker
Booyah's gonna go and sleep in the horn and he's running away and he's off to find food and whatever. When you were like, okay, well, your intelligence is one and you can't talk and you can't understand people, we're like, oh, he is in fact our healer. We are healer, but I think he does the most damage when he hits at full power and he can banish people.
00:42:00
Speaker
And now, nothing. He's a pet.
00:42:12
Speaker
He did still shoot her because he does still have, he is able to shoot. Yes. That's the extent of it. Yeah. He, he is. And he knows who to shoot more or less. Yeah. Yeah. He can identify, uh, friends, follow them and even protect them is the exact wording of the spell. So basically, uh, told Randy, you can use your crossbow, but you cannot use any of the properties or the sharpshooter feet. Right. And it also lost the hunter's market he has. Yeah.
00:42:41
Speaker
It also, the hundredth mark on the Raven fell because it was his spell. I went up to interpretation of the DM or is that pretty hard and fast rule? If that happens.
00:42:52
Speaker
Um, uh, I mean, I, I could see a DM ruling that, um, any existing spells would continue since it specifically says you cannot cast spells. Um, and since Hunter Mark doesn't require concentration, you could, if Randy would have given me enough pushback and said, well, it doesn't require concentration. And so I'm not actively doing anything to keep Hunter's Mark up. I probably would have said, oh, okay, that's fine. But fair enough.
00:43:21
Speaker
But Randy doesn't push back on that stuff. He just pushes back on the silly stuff. Like, no, I'm pretty sure he can ride next, ride the horse. The important things I think is what you meant to say. No, that is definitely, I mean, to me, yeah, probably. But then Yurik shows up with the Shatterkai. Hunter's Mark is actually concentration. Oh, it is? Okay. Okay. Noted.
00:43:49
Speaker
So you're on firm legal ground. Okay. While unsettling, I have to, I mean, it did for Dex, at least just the idea of somebody else coming and knowing, thinking based on what Barak has said about the Shadrach guy and his interactions with them in Dallur. They are likely going to help us fight the Raven. Oh, good. I'm sure Barak had a different feeling.
00:44:20
Speaker
Eric basically doesn't trust anything. Anymore. Sure. Because the the rug has been pulled out from him so many times. And so the last I mean, the last time Eric encountered the shed archive, they were very much working for Raven. The when Eric met his mother the first time in Dolor.
00:44:47
Speaker
she saved him from a Sorrowsworn and claimed that she was in the service of the Raven. So Beric's initial interaction with Dolar was the Raven and her agents were enemies of the Sorrowsworn, which were just sort of ambient monsters roaming Dolar.
00:45:15
Speaker
theory continued when he was possessed by Erebus because a sorrowsworn came after him, and he was very much working for the Raven point. So the paradigm shift in the politics of Dolor that we obviously haven't been present for was not something that was known to Beric,
00:45:42
Speaker
And he didn't have any particular reason to think that the set shut archive were all entirely willing. And so Eric just assumed honestly that they were still agents of the Raven. I guess that's fair. I guess maybe I misunderstood a conversation again. This is Jeff, not Dex that would have heard this.
00:46:03
Speaker
One of the conversations you had with your mother after all that stuff where you guys were talking about the Raven getting stronger and this and that, it had become pretty clear that Yurik, at least a contingent of the Shaddar-Kai had switched allegiances. No, you're absolutely right. She did say that. Barak just didn't believe it and didn't believe because he did not believe that he was speaking to his mother because first the Raven told him to do something and he told her to shove it and then
00:46:32
Speaker
Paolo shows up and conveniently tells him she needs to do exactly what the raven told him. And then the ghost of his mother shows up and conveniently tells him she needs to do exactly what the raven told him to do. So. Yeah. I mean, it makes sense that Beric is reticent. So Beric was at a loss here because he was told that both as he gained the packs, the raven was getting stronger and as he gained the packs,
00:47:01
Speaker
He was freeing the Shaddar Kai from her control. So in the, I mean, the underworld is a crazy place and it's not got, it's not going to follow the rules of the regular world. But for Beric, the contradictions were enough to just sort of paralyze him into deciding not to trust anything to do with Dolar. Okay. Sure. But she does show up and, uh,
00:47:31
Speaker
with the shadow guy, the battle continues until the, um, any volt, the half dragon kind of realizes what must be done. And she retakes the life, whatever life force it was that she had given her father to believe. Right. And so he dies and turns to
00:47:58
Speaker
It just sort of dissolves. Yeah. And then, okay. So you had Barrick roll. Was this a roll off to see who got the pact after it had been freed from the dragon? Is that what that was? Yes, but it turned out to be futile. 20 or because of something else.
00:48:21
Speaker
Well, I think you had used a nat 20 earlier from earlier, right? Phillip to allow Oriana to act or was it that nat 20 that you used? I rolled, yeah, that was that nat 20. I rolled a nat 20 on the, on the roll off. When you declared the roll off, I rolled a natural 20.
00:48:37
Speaker
Okay. And then once that was more or less resolved, I asked if we could narrate Orianna's action. Gotcha. Because it seemed cool to me. Okay. So Eric, my question for you is the roll-off. It was just between Beric and... Beric and the Raven?
00:48:58
Speaker
Yes. Yes. Those are the only parties that I had actively rolling in that situation. I've seen the discussion going on in the discord amongst the patrons. Firstly, I do want to address an aha moment. For me, the moment when Lady Vol realized what must be done,
00:49:26
Speaker
was shortly after Eric realizing he has spent the whole encounter trying to use the mind control become a friend of mine ability of the ravens on the party members and not on the green dragon that she needs to get the pact from and that if you just did that he would give the pact over
00:49:48
Speaker
So that was kind of how the chips fell in that moment of like realizing, oh, this is how she would win the encounter. Oh, this is, so everything just kind of fell a certain way. But yeah, so it's a, to borrow a term from other RPG games, just because I like the term,
00:50:13
Speaker
It's basically exerting your willpower over this force and trying to get it to come to you, essentially. And in that moment, we've already gone into the relationship. Lady Vol just killed her dad.
00:50:34
Speaker
Right. She's like her dad that she went to a good deal of effort if not paying in trouble to keep alive. Yeah. I mean, that's the that's the whole reason her and the Emerald Claw came here. It wasn't to help out Beric or Dex. It was to protect the Emerald Claw. Of course. But then it hit a turning point where Voll realized that
00:50:59
Speaker
if he was kept alive, it would be potentially more dangerous than the alternative. So she killed him and thus was not involved in the roll off because she emotionally had other stuff going on. Right.
00:51:17
Speaker
Um, because here's, oh, um, it's something that, uh, Philip and I kind of touched on in our big campaign where lady bowl was the big bad evil that I really like. And it, it gets into some very rudimentary psych one-on-one. So forgive me for, uh, generalizations, but, um, there's this common thing in our reality of like.
00:51:43
Speaker
whatever age a person becomes like rich and powerful. That's when their emotional development ceases. And I like that in terms of fantasy characters like pulling that for like like Voll became who she is in essence when she was very young.
00:52:04
Speaker
I forget the exact age, Philip, you might be able to help me if there is an exact age, but... I don't think it gives us an exact age, but... Early teens. It's when she manifests the mark of death, so it'd be adolescence. Yeah. That's when she became who she is. So I like the idea of this potentially infinitely powerful entity having the emotional capacity of a 14-year-old.
00:52:29
Speaker
And so a 14 year old having to kill their own father, it's going to take them out of whatever scenario they're in. Okay. So that's a long winded answer to say, yes, it was just Barrick and the Raven rolling. So, so a DM question for you, uh, everything that I've ever read says that a natural 20 means you succeed on the thing you're doing.
00:52:57
Speaker
Yes. In a situation of a roll-off, Barrick rolled a natural 20. Let's say the Raven rolled a 19 and her modifier is higher.
00:53:07
Speaker
Well, okay, so the rules as written, it's combat roles. Like, creating is only a thing in encountered base combat and not in skill checks or saving throws or anything like that. Now, I'm glad that scenario did not come up because I genuinely don't know what I would have done in that moment.
00:53:33
Speaker
And it's entirely possible that given the way that Philip used barracks natural twenty. He could have overcome the Raven having a higher modifier if that's the way things would have fallen. But. Yeah.
00:53:51
Speaker
I think the likely scenario is if Barrick would have done something else with his 20 and the Raven was still alive, the Raven probably would have won that roll off. I think the much more interesting scenario is what happens if they tied, but if they both rolled natural 20s.
00:54:10
Speaker
Um, so, um, but yeah, uh, that, that's kind of, uh, every DM makes that call on their own. Um, we've given enough weight to natural twenties in this campaign to where I, I don't know. It would have, it probably would have been a situation where I needed to step away for a few minutes and kind of collect my thoughts and figure out what, what happens next kind of thing. Yeah. I mean, cause it we're, we, we've been talking a lot. I've been talking a lot, which nobody wants.
00:54:38
Speaker
uh so barrick uses his 20 to let oriana act and she just rules man and good at stabbing yeah i mean i wanted i don't know the the moment just seemed she was she was half dead on the ground
00:55:03
Speaker
There's this infinitely powerful being, and we've played Orianna. I mean, I don't know if Eric decided this a long time ago, but the archetypal fantasy character in pop culture right now for Orianna is obviously Arya Stark from Game of Thrones. It's someone who's driven by
00:55:28
Speaker
anger and a desire for revenge on all manner of parts of the world for being so unfair to her. And so it just seemed like it would be a really fun narrative moment for the Raven to be finished, not by Beric, but by Orianna.
00:55:58
Speaker
And I mean, there's, there's just, I was just banking on, I was banking on the kill. I didn't actually have any idea how many hit points the had left over. Um, I was just banking on being able to pull it off with, with sneak attack and a crit.
00:56:11
Speaker
Right. Which luckily you got the crit. And yeah, I mean, there's definitely, there's like levels of poetry to Diana, the, the minty, the protege. And I mean, it's darn near the child of being to kill his primary active antagonist. Also considering the fact that, I mean, he really did save her life.
00:56:37
Speaker
of us were there in the battle where she lost her brothers, but we killed the fake lich. But Barrick was the one that was like, she's, she's, she's our responsibility now. And of course no one pushed back on it, but he, but Barrick's the one that said it. Yeah. And Barrick's the one that took her under her wing. And man, I can't wait till Cassie and kill somebody from there. Oh, it's coming. It's coming. I hope it's Charlie.
00:57:06
Speaker
Also, there were a whole lot of people who were really ticked off that Arya killed the Night King in Game of Thrones and not Jon Snow, and I really liked it, so it was also kind of my way of just being a jerk in a certain degree. Which I mean, you know, I'm for. If I ever get a chance to somehow make this game about defending the Last Jedi, I will. I don't know what that means.
00:57:36
Speaker
Well, back in 1970, there was this little bit. I say no, I make care. I don't I don't care what that means. Just need to get Eric to let me let Barrett project his project his image into Dalek or and fight the quarry. Oh, yeah. Via via the force. Yeah. Parsecs, right, guys? So. You know, so.
00:58:05
Speaker
Explain to me, I mean, I mean, we covered enough in the episode, but Raven is dead. This, this incarnation, this thing, but Lissa Myron's body is entombed somewhere on Eberron. And as long as it exists, that Raven is never truly gone. Is that a good way to say it's kind of like the idea that you got to kill a vampire in its home kind of thing.
00:58:34
Speaker
Yeah, um, powerful. Yeah, I mean, she she is for all intents and purposes on this plane of existence dead because she is petrified and can no longer breathe or have a heartbeat. So that's why she has a version of herself in doubt core or doubt dollar. Sorry. Yeah. But she could always be unpetrified, which would then obviously restore her to life.
00:59:05
Speaker
Um, and so her, uh, her ethereal projection can't die because her, for lack of a better word, her soul still exists. I guess is the best way to put it. I mean, there's, there's dragons. We can say that magic, put it how you want. So her soul still exists. Um, okay.
00:59:28
Speaker
necessarily want to go really quickly for the rest of this, but we kind of have to go really quickly. Especially if we're going to get to questions. So let's, uh, so the fight is over. Uh, uh, we find out that the white Raven is Daedric Baynar, which is also ever on Canon, right? Yes. Yep.
00:59:47
Speaker
And I assume, Philip, you've known Daedric Baynar was the White Raven since Daedric Baynar showed up in our campaign. So I pitched Baynar as Barric's sword coach in Stormreach, not actually because I knew this was going to happen, but which I certainly did. But because Eric and I used Baynar as a sub-antagonist in our big campaign, and I remembered just randomly at one point
01:00:17
Speaker
that his class was that of a Kinsay, and I was going to start taking these levels in that class, and so I pitched that that would be where Barak could learn this thing. And the whole Jedi Sith thing that Barak has done with it kind of grew out of that, which was a really fun thing for
01:00:42
Speaker
You know, a lot of people I realized not so much for you, but well, or a lot of people. And so yes, I knew that Ben are in the white Raven were the same person. I didn't realize the ultimate consequence of that in, in terms of barracks barracks narrative, but yeah, there's just another layer of barracks, you know, world.
01:01:09
Speaker
being reshaping in this gigantic, all of Beric's psychological issues at once, day. Sure. Okay, so, I don't want to give it short shrift, but touch quickly on- There wasn't very much of consequence in that conversation. I mean, we can just blow past it. Okay, well, Beric and Yorick talk. Moving on. Listen, the remainder of this arc is
01:01:39
Speaker
A Bugs Bunny cartoon, so it'd be pretty easy for us to go fast through the Booyah's wild adventure. Yurik gives Barak a hug before she leaves. Here's what we'll say about Booyah and most of the rest of Booyah. Randy leaned hard into it joyfully. It was very funny. There was a dragon turtle.
01:02:11
Speaker
That's true. I will say I've got a bad habit of trying to set something up with my turn. I've had this game to remember that I don't need to do that because Barrick's here. Take care of it. Although I will say I said I and remember I'm very fast.
01:02:35
Speaker
action to try to run and tackle Booyah out of the way. And it was like, nah, man, he's already burnt, he's already roiling that breath up. But then two turns later, it was okay for Barak to cast a spell to send a spectral thing that's slower than me to try to grab Booyah and move him out of the way. I'm not saying, I'm just saying. I mean, it's not slower than you in that I cast it and it appears all the way over there already. I didn't have to cast it at me and it moved over there.
01:03:03
Speaker
Yeah, I cast it and it's there and then I moved it back towards us. Gotcha. Uh, dragon turtles were cool. I actually fought one in another, in another campaign, the only other campaign I've ever done. And man, it almost killed our whole boat. Well, this was a small dragon turtle. Yeah, I think we were way too level to have been fighting a dragon turtle because it was our second session. Um, yeah. So, uh,
01:03:33
Speaker
but we get off it on the ship. Beric and Dex try to decompress and of course they can't because Dex's dream gets invaded by Strint and the remains-ish of his two dead brothers. And I really enjoy every conversation as Dex with one of his brothers because they go nowhere except for
01:04:05
Speaker
that I get to talking to Erebus, except for Erebus and maybe it's the closest I get to talking to early Curspringer. Really go anywhere for most of the conversation. It's just two guys saying their propaganda. So what you're saying is it's really like a conversation with Beric. You know what it is? It's the conversation between Beric and the
01:04:35
Speaker
Oh, yeah. The blue saturn. Oh, yeah. Blake's Liberty. Swords of Liberty. You monsters of Liberty. Uh. They're talking to those guys. See, I was thinking it was more like the first conversation between Berwick and Luke and that went on for about 45 minutes. That was my radio. Man, I think I left.
01:05:03
Speaker
But anyway, we had the conversation. It was fun to play. The end result being neither one of them are gonna change who they are or what they're fighting for. So that Strint has the maul of Glacial Heights. Yes. The other big thing that was revealed in that conversation was the fact that the listeners are far more concerned about Connor being dead than Dex was.
01:05:33
Speaker
Yeah, fair enough. Um, I think, okay. So for those, for those that were still wondering or weren't sure, cause we didn't say it out loud, uh, the reason decks and didn't kill Connor directly the same way. He didn't kill, uh, Chance directly, but he didn't kill Connor directly because Drake here and boring, uh, and, uh, and, uh, and boring. Wait, what's this and stuff?
01:05:59
Speaker
They were the party. Yes. Drakir did it fine. Drakir did it all. It was all Drakir. We love Drakir so much. He's the best part of the podcast. Bring back Drakir. You got a kid trying to sleep in your house, man? Not tonight. So there. I do think I I do think I aggravated my dog.
01:06:28
Speaker
Nothing new. Yes. Connor. Fake Boreno. Yeah. And unfortunately Dex didn't react to that.
01:06:38
Speaker
in a big enough fashion because Jeff knew it. And I just, I couldn't remember if we elucidated it in the, in the podcast. And so I acted like it was common knowledge. And I realized now that it wasn't Dex probably didn't know that. And I, so I, I messed that one up. I played that on me. No, no, no, it's fine. I've done stuff wrong before. I'm pretty used to it. Um, I, I, I bounced back pretty quick. Um,
01:07:05
Speaker
But yes, so Connor was the fake Bordeaux that was essentially melted. Yeah, melted. So that's that. But then, and Erebus have another conversation where we learn another thing that changes everything. Eric has the rug pulled out from under him.
01:07:33
Speaker
What was really funny here is after the battle with the Raven, I came to the next episode and I was thinking, you know what? There's a real free-ness in sitting down to play right now because we just wrapped up the personal arc element of Beric's life. And so I can just play Beric now. But no.
01:08:01
Speaker
Yeah, basically Erebus claims that, in this part we kind of already knew that the conflagration, the source of the pact, and the silver flame are one and the same. But he elaborates, it elaborates I guess, that the silver flame is one of two anchor points on Eberron that hold the silver flame here.
01:08:31
Speaker
The one in Flamekeep having been created by Tiram Mayran, as in the story, and the other one being now fully completely in Beric. And then reveals that what Erebus wants Beric to do is to release the Pact on Dal Kor, which will essentially give Beric god powers
01:09:00
Speaker
to redesign Dal Kor into a permanently benign realm. If Barak does that, will people never again have nightmares? I mean, in my brain, anyway, nightmares are like an evil manifestation of Dal Kor, so yeah, happy dreams are here to stay. Anyway.
01:09:27
Speaker
But the kicker, because Eric plays way too many Bioware games, the kicker, is that this will effectively cut the silver flame in Flame Keep, and there will no longer be a manifestation of the flame on everything. It would still exist as a force, but also Erebus
01:09:57
Speaker
alters that and claims more to be a personified being as opposed to a sort of impersonal force, which is how Barak has understood the flame. It would free him to do his own thing.
01:10:20
Speaker
pulling the rug out not only from Beric, but also out from under every worshipper of the Silver Flame, more or less. So basically, if Beric wants to go that route and unleash the Pact, it will be at the cost of the destruction of Beric's faith, essentially, Beric's religion.
01:10:47
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's an interesting distinction because you said faith at first. And is that not? I guess that's my thing is like is the relationship between the faith and religion aspects of barracks mental state. Well, I mean, barracks faith is built on.
01:11:09
Speaker
everything he's learned about the Silver Flame and Erebus telling him essentially everything Barak has learned about the Silver Flame is in fact a lie. So I'm not sure how much distinction there is in this case.
01:11:26
Speaker
Well, I guess the conversation could be had as to how much Beric believes Erebus in this moment, but the Oh, very little. Actually, Beric is if Eric were to describe what just happened in the arc, it at the moment, it would go like this. Erebus lured him here. To bring about the death of the dragon and the complete and the and the unification of the pacts.
01:11:59
Speaker
and now is attempting to convince him to do this thing that will have horrible consequences on Eberron in the name of doing something greater. The thing is Beric has always believed that there's an evil demon being held by the Flame in Flamekeep whose whole shtick
01:12:26
Speaker
is trying to convince you to do horrible things in the name of the greater good, which is why Barak has always been infuriated by that argument from everyone he meets practically. So that's kind of where Barak is at this point, is he's pretty committed to, yeah, Barak no longer views Erebus as an allied force at the moment.
01:12:57
Speaker
Okay. Okay. So, uh, to planar to learn and talus planar. No, plain top. We get back to where the governor is and she directs us to a dragon marked house that can cure Booyah and everyone there's kind of racist, but we get it. Okay.
01:13:28
Speaker
It ends with. We tell Booyah to tell Barashah that we need some meat and that is the end of the episode. Yes, we I apologize. We are going to have to go through these questions fairly quickly. Lightning round. Yeah, so here we go. I'm backed up to the first one. OK, so we'll go back now. OK, so.
01:13:53
Speaker
from a person who goes by leopard2ace in the discord. I unfortunately don't know their real name, and they may be choosing to keep it this way. That's fine. So leopard2ace asks, is Barak worried about Paolo staging an attack on Stormreach? She could lose and be captured, turned, showing up in the finale as a mind-controlled enemy.
01:14:18
Speaker
Um, I mean, short answer is, is, uh, is, I will echo Laura's answer. Uh, there's almost nothing barracks not worried about right now. Uh, but yes, Eric is extremely worried. He just knows for a fact that there's nothing he can do about it. Okay. Uh, uh, leopard, they also ask, uh, speaking of which, why hasn't the group run into more inspired agents giving that, uh, Hang on. Given they.
01:14:45
Speaker
they can send out and seed through the world from storm reach. Good. We know we haven't. Yeah, I mean that that's the that's the honest short answer is the the the inspired are. When I think about the inspired, I think about the classic stereotypical problematic notion of the red scare during the Cold War of like.
01:15:15
Speaker
the communists could be anywhere and they could be anyone and you never really know who you can trust. So that's kind of my thought process on the inspired is you all have encountered so many inspired agents over the course of your time in this campaign. It's just that none of like the inspired don't operate by pulling out swords and trying to stab you in the street. Yeah. Just give you contradicting information to slowly drive you mad. Yes, exactly.
01:15:46
Speaker
The next question, there's some back and forth. Okay, so Philip, at one point you say that you'll address more on the reviewed why you didn't want to be the gray hawk. And you say you'll address it more because it's relevant to stuff that we recorded. God only knows which recording session that was. It was the end of September. So do you have? It's kind of surrounding the fact that like the white raven was the white raven and not a packed bear.
01:16:15
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Right. I mean, it comes back to a certain degree to the whole bit with Erebus. Eric, so the whole, as far as we've understood, other than the white raven, everybody we've run into who did the whole bird thing was a pack bearer.
01:16:40
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Um, and so we got this impression that it was sort of a stick with the packed bears. Um, Eric. Doesn't primarily want to be that, um, Eric is also. Just sort of not really into. Um.
01:17:13
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I'm trying to think of what I was exactly I was thinking of when I responded to that, but because it was not quite a month ago. Essentially, Barrick does not. Barrick has not wanted. To be the bearer of all the packs. And so Barrick has kind of.
01:17:37
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fought against this identity as the pact bearer. And he kind of saw that as part of it.
01:17:46
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Um, a few questions that we have already answered throughout the course of this. Uh, but I want to give people credit for asking questions because I want to encourage question asking, uh, Irene asked, where did the dragon's daughter come from, which we touched on mainly. And then also where did she go? If you want to address that, uh, Eric, she just went. Um, I mean, she, she traveled there on the ship with the Emmerclaw agents.
01:18:13
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Um, and she bumped back to her house, which is somewhere that very few people know about. Okay. And then the second part of her question, is there any scenario where the dragon would have survived the encounter? Yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't know. Like there's no, I didn't have prescribed scenarios, but I'm sure there's a situation where the dragon would have survived.
01:18:38
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Always had the ace up your sleeve where you could make him die pretty quickly. But by doing what you did, like it was the only way to get out of the thing. Sure. Okay. Um. Okay. Leopard asks another, will the group go after the petrified body of the Raven and Dreadhold to finish off the Raven? I don't know. Stay tuned. I didn't think we were going to do a lot of things we've done. I mean, if Barrett, if Barrett goes after the petrified body of the Raven and the Dreadhold, it will not be to finish off the Raven.
01:19:07
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Eric is pretty much done assassinating people. Okay, he keeps saying and yet and then some mystical all powerful force put paints him into a corner where he has to. Okay, cool asked what are they going to do with the fancy horn now we need to get back.
01:19:23
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Laura asks, is Rickard stateted out like a PC? I'm assuming you have a character chief for Rickard. Yes, he is stateted out in D&D Beyond. What level is he? Is he comparable? Yeah, I think he's the same level as Orianna. Two levels below you all. That is what Orianna is. Yeah.
01:19:42
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Okay. Uh, here we go. So this is the questions that really rolled in after we announced we were recording tonight. So Darren asks, since little is written about the interior of Aaron, all what sources of inspiration did you use? Eric. Um, he didn't say Eric as accusingly.
01:20:00
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and he used my Discord tag ProPizzaPlatform2020. I almost said your Discord platform, I was like, no, I'm saying, Aaron. I don't even remember what joke that was for the ProPizza platform. Okay, the inspiration for Aaron all, you know,
01:20:19
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Like, I've always envisioned the Undying Court being very, if Tolkien and Tim Burton
01:20:32
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collaborated on an elf city. Um, that's what it would be like. Um, so it's, it's the very ethereal, knowledgeable ancient elves, but they're all dead. Um, so, and Helena bottom Carter is that, yeah, it's all of the elves. Um, except for Johnny Depp. He's the main one. Yeah. No, he's not in it. Uh, she played a wicked lady vole, huh? Yeah. Yes.
01:20:58
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So also, Irene, I still can't tell you what Drakir is up to. Yeah, sorry. He's an NPC, so technically he's just thinking about Thorin and crying, isn't his buddy? Yeah, I mean, that that was my inspiration. It was pretty simple, but effective. I like to think. OK, I want to give leopard credit for asking questions about the
01:21:26
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the roll-off for the pack. They had a question about that that we answered. They asked about how Connor died that we've covered, but they definitely got questions in. Okay, so Becca asked, Lorna says that I have to ask a Vore question. So if he had to choose a superpower, what would it be? And I wanna take a shot at this one too, but go ahead, Philip. Okay, my answer is if Vore had a superpower, it would be the ability to see halfway through solid objects.
01:21:59
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OK, that's good, but to be fair, he did get to choose it. Yes, that is what he would choose. I think that he would choose super speed reading. OK, is Dex going to... Laura asks, is Dex going to build a new picnic table? I don't know that he's going to build one. He might try. He probably fail. It'll be made of rope. I'm going to weave a new picnic table.
01:22:27
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going to be some new, what's that called, macrame? It's a macrame. You know, as long as you make the hole smaller than the plates, it'll be fine. Uh, okay. So cool. I alluded to this earlier. Was it a brain fart when it was mentioned that Dex grew up in a Dar and then through conversations in this channel on the discord, it has been said multiple times in the past, I guess, or at least more than once that.
01:22:54
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Dex is from Adar, not Reedra, which are neighboring Sarlonan regions or countries. And it's even in the Wiki, it says very clearly that Dex is from Adar. Here's the thing. I don't know any of this crap, but here's what I think it is. It was even more, yes, Dex is from Adar. Dex saw his brothers starting to sympathize with the Reedrans who, if I'm correct, have been trying to take over Adar for a while.
01:23:25
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go ever on lore. So I think that lends all the more credence to Dex as they got more and more radicalized by this thing, even before he knew about Dream Thieves or Quarry or whatever. A dodge because he knows he, you know, because of what he'd grown up hearing about Riedra and the people there and trying to take over our country and all this stuff. So I think it still works.
01:23:48
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I agree. You put a Dhar in your backstory when you sent it to me. When I had no idea what any of it meant for sure. And also just for the sake of transparency and honesty, because that's what these episodes are about.
01:24:08
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I mean, Sarlona has always been my, or at least before this campaign, was always kind of my weak spot when it came to Everon Lore, just because we never really did anything in our campaigns that dealt with it. So Dex's backstory caused me to look into it a lot more.
01:24:25
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And yeah, I just figured it was kind of a natural evolution of that continent that the Rehedrins would want to overtake Andar, and it's a warring nation. So yeah, I think it all still works.
01:24:42
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Like if, if, if people are wanting to get together to play a D and D game and they choose to use Eberron, but they still want to play a pretty typical fantasy game. Uh, like, and by typical fantasy, I mean, typical Tolkien fantasy. You're not going to do Sarlona. You're not going to mess with Kalashtar and Quarry and all of that stuff. So it makes sense that people, there are people who could be.
01:25:07
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diehards and have never really delved too far into Sarlona because they play the game to play the high fantasy tropes. So that makes total sense. Or you could just be me and see a word that looks neat and be like, this is me now. I'm Adar from, my name's Dex. I'm from Adar. Worked out. So last couple of questions. First off, Laura asks, did Yurik mean the Raven created all the sorrow sworn? She just wanted some clarification.
01:25:35
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does it mean that she's considerably older or would have started a long time ago? Yeah, that was just an unclear language on my part. She had created that army of Sorrowsworn. Sorrowsworn were a natural, occurring entity in Dolor from like warped souls, lost souls that got lost on the plane, yada, yada, yada, without any real anchor back to Eberron.
01:26:02
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So she'd started creating more sorrow sworn by manipulating souls, not ones that were naturally lost. So, yeah. And then the last question we touched on, again, Laura asking, if you controlled Booyah when he was feeble-minded, or if all of that was still raining, making the decision. Don't put any of that evil on me. That was 100% raining. That was the most Randy of Randy.
01:26:27
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Uh, episodes. Yes. I would say order of likeliness of somebody making a joke about their character, pooping themselves. Um, I think it definitely goes Randy Jeff, Eric Phillip. So you can, yeah. Okay. All right. That is the last of the questions. This has been a very long episode. Thank you for bearing with us. I say that after we cut out the garbage, it may be considerably shorter. Um, but.
01:26:56
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Don't worry. We'll still leave plenty of garbage in. Woo. Please come visit us on our Facebook group. Uh, it's just a Facebook slash the geek Pantheon. Uh, if you are so inclined and are able, um, we would love for you to join us in the Patreon and in the discord, you can read, find us there at patreon.com slash the geek Pantheon. Um, and I just want to, I just want to rewrite because it's a, it's a, it's a thing for me.
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01:28:24
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