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Speaker: Hello the Eberron campaign setting.
Speaker: I'm Jeff.
Speaker: everyone welcome to everon renewed and actual play podcast set the eon campaign setting i'm jeff I'm Mia. I'm Phillip. Woo! I'm Eric. Sorry. I'm so, I'm a little, go for it. And that's all of us. So obviously for those of you who have listened for a while, you know that if if I am introducing the episode, that it is time for an Eberron Reviewed, where we go over the last arc or piece of an arc and talk about the things that we did.
Speaker: um
Speaker: I am so tired. that I tried to relisten to all of these episodes to be a better host for this, this reviewed session. And I crashed out holding my baby on the couch.
Speaker: So that's not what that phrase means. Well, I fell asleep. I crashed. I crashed. You crashed. And I was out. I crashed. I crashed out. Please not with your baby. I will not be beholden to your generation's changing of the things that they mean. being young, Mia. That is older than I am. That's A-A-V-E. It's older than me.
Speaker: it's always the me Yeah, Jeff. You're right. I am also not well-versed. By the time AAVE trickles to me, it's... It has been adopted. and i don't I don't know what to tell you. There's just several communities it has to go through before it ends up in my vernacular.
Speaker: And then I find out it is AAVE. I'm like, oh, I shouldn't have been saying that. We've been trying to tell the internet. That's not for me.
Speaker: Anyway... We were going through Lamania in these episodes. Six episodes, I believe, since the last review. Lots of battle. Lots of fun battles. We fought wolves and elks and bears and bears.
Speaker: Owls. I will, I will, I, I, I will toot my own horn on the owlbear fight. I was proud of my resolution to that one. I don't normally do the smart thing. And I, I delighted by your introduction of an Eberron equivalent of Ranger Rick.
Speaker: Um, like there's gotta be something. happy for that to be in the Canon. Yeah. Yes. I don't say this often because I try to just seem like all the things I do are ridiculous or silly, just flights of fancy, but there have to be reasons things happen this in that world the same way there are here. and like if Some kid grew up wanting to be a wild animal expert or a ranger Eberron because they had access to information about the animals of the, you know, the, oh no, what is it called? The forest where Misfarch is.
Speaker: Oh, the Faded Forest. The Faded Forest, right? Fading Forest. Therefore, there has to be some sort of Gids publication. And I'm just going to say it for everyone who thought it with me.
Speaker: Obviously, it's called Ranger Drist. Oh, sure. Yep. That's a little deeper in the established lore than I ever got. wrong It's the wrong universe, too. yeah Oh, is it okay? Okay.
Speaker: i Madison read some Eberron novels to get prepared for this. i was like, that's wild. There's some good ones. Yeah. She it largely enjoyed them. She read like one, I think... Actually, Philip, you recommended the series too, or I do not recall. Soren, probably.
Speaker: I think it was the Mark of Death one. because Yes. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. who Riveting stuff.
Speaker: Yeah, the owlbear fight, and then we got... The entity of you would like to speak more in depth about those things. Obviously you may have a better recollection of these episodes than I do.
Speaker: The thing that sticks out in my mind about these episodes, and I have to assume in Phillips as well, is the vid diagram of ever-unrenewed campaigns and Dalkir has once again eclipsed itself into becoming just a solid circle.
Speaker: We assumed it, yeah we expected it, and it has now happened. Yeah. So I guess the question, Eric, is what gives, man? They're my favorite. I've never concealed the fact that they are literally my favorite group of villains in the setting.
Speaker: I love the Delkir. They're rad. I don't think there's a strong equivalent in any other setting to them. And you don't take our feelings into consideration. Not even a little bit. it's Like all good GMs, decide the campaign you want to run and just brute force it. You know, I do, actually. so
Speaker: For listeners that may not be super familiar with, not all of our listeners are big Everod heads. So what what felt like a huge reveal to us...
Speaker: or a big moment to us may have gone a bit over some people's heads. So can we get a explainer of why the extra eyeballs made Philip and I go, oh you know, so that's specifically one of the Delkir, Bella Shira, whose domain is eyeballs, the Lord of eyes.
Speaker: And is credited with the creation of the beholders, resides within a place called the Citadel of Lidless Eyes, and body is just generally covered in in eyeballs, including a few eyeballs that you might recognize from previous campaigns. And so...
Speaker: No, I, Bella Shear is it's one of those deals where like, I love the Delk here broadly. Bella Shear was the first Delk here I really played with even back in the campaign that Philip and I co-ran many, many, many years ago.
Speaker: And so there's some affinity for that character, but that's why everyone had Philip and Jeff had the strong reaction is Bella Shear has shown up in previous campaigns in various capacities.
Speaker: And it's never been good. The first time was pretty chill. I disagree. It has been good content. It has never been good for our characters.
Speaker: Bellashir has helped out a lot. So, no, but yeah, the Delkir, they are... you know, associated with the Zori at the plane of madness.
Speaker: They're known colloquially like in Canon as the Lords of Zori at, and they were part of the big invasion that brought low the goblin empire.
Speaker: And a lot of them got trapped in Kyber because of gatekeepers trapping them there, but their influence can still be projected out. They can still influence things. At least in my Eberron, it's different than the Overlords and how they can influence things. Overlords can like influence things through like rising emotions or pushing people to certain actions, whereas the Delkir can just literally like project their being places and talk to people or like be much more directly influential and like whisper in people's ears, go do this thing.
Speaker: um or berate heroes and adventurers and laugh at them um also importantly for those that just jumping into this if sometimes specifically belashira maybe some other delkir if they talk weird my version of belashira can also break the fourth wall so um yeah and And the start with with the understanding that, you know, this is your Everon to do with what you want to make us sad.
Speaker: of If someone were to look into the dub here, like go to some Everon wikis, look at some stuff. Is there a canon, like the ones that are mentioned, is that them? Is it like, is it kind of like the Sorokel, there's three of them and that's it? Or are there...
Speaker: Is there a whole species of Dalkir that we may meet different ones and stuff like that? I think that there is an unspecified number. It's one of the Baker leaves up to. Yeah.
Speaker: There's a number that have been that but that Baker has introduced. Right. There's like the four or five, you know, Pemi-itters that are in, you know, Baker. don't think he is. I don't think he has ever implied these are the only ones that exist.
Speaker: Okay. Yeah. But yeah, and so that's that's part of the reason why Bella Shira laughs and takes such delight in showing up is because Bella Shira isn't reacting to the reactions of the characters. He knows that my players hate him. And so that's why he relishes showing up.
Speaker: So. Yeah, that is the thing the listeners need to know is, Bill Ashira, Eric's Bill Ashira doesn't like me and Philip. Or Mia, or Randy, or Trevor.
Speaker: Or Matt. He never met. Yeah, it's not me, not me. Don't like Eric. Right? Eric's Bill Ashira might say mean things about Philip and Jeff, not the characters.
Speaker: The dudes that Eric acts like are two of his closest friends. Yeah. But without spoiling anything for people that may not have picked up on it, Belashir is not the first Delkir to show up in the campaign thus far.
Speaker: Other, and other Delkir have shown up. ain And I believe that has been speculated on in the Discord. Yes. But yeah, it was a lot of fun and Philip and I got to talk about it. Just rewinding the clock on the adventure a little bit, like trying to thread the needle of revealing that something was wrong with Lamania and then ultimately that the thing that was wrong was zoat That was a lot of fun to try and like, what can be weird about these animals that will start to tip the scales a little bit in the, the understanding that the players have of what's going on without it just out of the gate. The first wolf you encounter going, oh, it's Zoriath. This wolf has 10,000 eyes.
Speaker: Um, so that was a fun design challenge. Speaking of fourth wall, um shit I don't know if this is the first arc or the last one. I think it might actually be the last one. But you may have noticed that Madison is no longer on the show. And Selena has not been traveling with us.
Speaker: um Madison and I had a baby at the end of August. Yay. Yeah, and it's Owen is his name, and he's wonderful, and he adores him and holds him sometimes.
Speaker: That's true. When my wife lets me, because she's on a baby hog. That is true. Yeah, when my wife lets me hold the baby, when you guys are over his side. But... All that to say, with the way that we record in batches for five-hour afternoons sometimes, it's just not conducive to both of us being involved. Madison will be back sporadically. Selena will be back and have a more proper...
Speaker: opportunity to go off and do something in fiction so that Madison can't. And do do not worry. It was not my decision that Madison be the one that steps away from the show. It was Madison's decision.
Speaker: That Madison be the one that steps away from the show. But she will be back. And we have not done a lot of talking about social media and the baby, but I'm sure that we can probably get a picture in the Discord repo because he is.
Speaker: A super huge gift. That's all. I think most people probably knew that. I know that a handful of you guys are friends with us, one or both of us on Facebook, so we've probably already seen you. But I realized we never directly addressed that Madison disappeared, and she's fine.
Speaker: Typically. And Selena was there the whole time helping us do all of the fighting. Yeah. Just, you know, not particularly helpful. I forgot about the dryad fight. There was also a dryad fight.
Speaker: Yeah. That was very unpleasant. None of them were fun. None of them were pleasant. Yeah. It's spooky season. I had to do a body horror adventure. I mean, ah feel like those things do not necessarily follow.
Speaker: There's so many varieties of horror. If you're going to do body horror, I guess, yeah, keep it to October. That works for me. You know he's not going to do that.
Speaker: I know, I know, I know. he's already He has introduced the mini-eyed one. He'll be back. Yeah.
Speaker: Before the Beholder, though, the other... I mean, we haveocco have to talk about another bunker and another very long bunker cut. Someone has asked for a a kind of compendium of the bunker tapes. I think that's a good idea if we can figure out where and how to... Yeah, we can probably get those posted in the Discord somewhere. yeah I would also love to have you have a chance to listen back to those... I will admit when one of them referred to the other one as Boldray, was oh, hang on a second. Which one was which one was playing Boldray? Because I do know all of the people in the bunker tapes. I think i might be the only cast member that has met all of them.
Speaker: ah But I did not recognize the voice right offhand. There's a lot of lore inside of the bunker. I should have made a point listen to that, read this to that. But what are some things, some new things that we learned, Eric, in this bunker tape?
Speaker: They're called an incorruptible. We didn't know what that was. that's yeah i have that as a new as a new term. yeah should have my notes And the overlords are doing something. They're taking something and twisting it, but it's spirit lingers. That's kind the theme that the overlords are corrupting something. I'm good. So the b bunker tapes thus far have been, and I think for the sake of simplicity, honestly, my original intention was to be really cute about it and release them non-chronologically. And then I realized that's just going to be like word soup to try and like understand what's going on. So they have been chronological in terms of the the events going on.
Speaker: But... you So in the last one, you got introduced to the idea that there was a dragon aligning herself with the heroes from the first log.
Speaker: And this time you heard the dragon actually like assisting in identifying some necromantic magic that could help i keep the spirits that...
Speaker: So the overlords are basically using the souls and spirits of the soldiers of the free people to fuel their engines of war and trapping them. And so twofold of like, A, that's horrifying and B, it's fueling their war effort. So what can we do to prevent that from happening with the assistance of their new dragon friend?
Speaker: So, um, That was like the big, the big one. And then a lot of it was them discussing just the losses of war and how to contend with that with their various worldviews.
Speaker: Writing it was interesting because I was just trying to have like so many different voices that would contend with each other in different combinations. And so it thematically, this one was just about the, the loss of a lot.
Speaker: So. And you did all of the bunker recordings that we are going to find this campaign in one session, right? It was a very long day, and I'm so thankful for all my friends that did not realize they were signing up for like an eight-hour recording session.
Speaker: But we did it, gang. I like that that is how it was done, so that they are not informed by things like they would be in, like... They are they are already recorded.
Speaker: This is the way it happened. This is what it was like. It's not no chance to go back and amend which is nice. And if you would like to know the credit list for people on the recording, it is a previous reviewed episode.
Speaker: Let's say somewhere in May or possibly two years ago. It all has smushed together.
Speaker: But yeah, i mean, some people started putting together who these individuals on the recording are. And so a lot of their personalities are just very informed by trying to be evocative of who they're known to be, I guess, um, without putting too fine a pin on it for people that are still wanting to figure it out without having the beans spilled too much. So sure. sure But It was a longer one. I don't know. i have not edited all of them yet. So I don't know if they keep getting longer or if there's a good average length.
Speaker: Because boy, did they sure feel like they were getting longer with each passing recording that day. But... did you Were they all one takes? Or did you have to... we we never did a full retake it was like oh i flubbed up that line let me take it back to before that and so i would just re-edit so um but yeah and eventually there will be a blooper reel right i Honestly, there weren't that many bloopers. like there weren' There weren't that many flub ups. A bunch of pros. I got i brought in some pros to do it, unlike my normal day-to-day.
Speaker: ah A bunch of pros I've had amateur theater. Listen. David, that's also where I met them. Yeah. it's So yeah.
Speaker: But the trying to create a beholder in 13th age was a lot of fun trying to like, how do you build that monster in a way that is compelling, um, and powerful enough.
Speaker: Yeah. So, yeah. Feel free to cut this bit if you want to, but I'm trying to remember are Marty and Tatum at the mucker tapes? Cause that would be very funny now. but they are not no we we don't we don't we don't have any stars of stage and screen in in the bunker tape sadly that would have been real cool if we could have gotten star of yeah feel like tated hollywood arts i thought tated was home the weekend and we recorded them i thought too possibly yeah because that was that was the pretense for you needing my mics was because you were going to do something with tated while she was yep that's funny so
Speaker: Yeah, do the stars of Hollywood Arts, and I don't know if we're allowed to talk. Yeah, we are. It's super out Yeah, it's been announced. And The Last of Us. Yep. Life is strange, you goober. Yes, Life is Strange, not The Last of Us. That's a different show with a different girl that is also based on a video game. Look, man, give me a break.
Speaker: We're going to jump ahead to questions. Unless any of you have anything else you would like to talk about. All right. If you would like to ask questions, do we ask during the reviewed episodes? You can do so on our Discord.
Speaker: The link to our discord is a company's every episode on the, in the description in your podcast player of choice. Our first one comes from Darren. Darren asks in what ways, if any, would one's behavioral health specialist certification affect how they run, play it and play D and D style games.
Speaker: and Yeah. For those of you not in the discord, I revealed that I'm in school right now getting a behavioral health specialist certification to have help with my job. i I could see how this could be grossly weaponized because it is like a psychology degree light kind of could be.
Speaker: i no No, no, no. I think you get a lot of insight into like various schools of psychology and like one of one that I'm doing is like personality psychology and like what are the building blocks of a personality and what what makes someone the way that they are. And so I think from like building a character building NPCs you can get some interesting like insights into how to inform i want to build a character who's this way How can I like work my way backwards to building the backstory?
Speaker: from an end point of, I want this type of person, which is just some interesting insights that I've never had before. Maybe running a therapist NPC. We'll see if anybody goes to visit her. Maybe she'll be a bit more realistic now. We've all been there.
Speaker: Not all of you, but, um, Yeah. So, no, I think that would be the biggest one is just having a greater insight into the makeup of a. um The makeup of a person, both internally and externally, and allowing that to inform how you make character from a like narrative standpoint.
Speaker: um There are other elements to it that like I use in my actual job as a gaming sp technology specialist at a children's hospital that I would say has a larger impact on how I run D&D games in that specific setting, because allowing for therapeutic benefits through play and through gaming and allowing like lighter versions of real life circumstances to play out in a controlled environment for and adolescent is powerful.
Speaker: That's but that's like running a D and D game with that intention, obviously not doing it here on the podcast kind of thing. So yeah, I've been, let's get over our trauma.
Speaker: yeah I've been weaponizing my players weaknesses since episode one when I had a young child be kidnapped. And that was the exciting incident of the first episode. So, you know, now, now yeah you have specialized training in it and a villainous goatee.
Speaker: That's true. Both a result of my job. Yeah. I mean, I have a second degree that hadn't made me any better at this. So I just like to put a theory out here. that this is a grand meta thing.
Speaker: Eric's or this person who claims to be Eric has a different facial hair and is in a different room. That is true. So how do we know we're not talking to an alternate universe Eric who's way tidier? if i If I didn't recognize the room, I would also be concerned about who's really into sewing and books and has a large feminist poster on his wall.
Speaker: maybe the other Eric is the evil Eric I know that's what I'm saying maybe your prime Eric is the evil one maybe I'm good one if there's one thing I know about our Eric is he would never claim to be a favorite listen it's like like the implications it's crossing shows Eric Eric's heel turn is crossing shows tune in to blazing banners and queen's blade if you want to see me portray a misogynist jerk none of that here um
Speaker: Anyway, Nathan was really interested in what rude gesture Philip made, but I can't recall. i i flipped Eric off as soon as there was a beholder in the room. Not even knew what was happening the American style one, just a single finger. it' Yeah, i I am American.
Speaker: I know. Okay. Emily has a series of questions and they are also our last questions. So we will end with all of these. If your character had to pick a favorite plane, which one would they choose? If the material is not an option. That one's off the table, I would assume.
Speaker: Yeah. I think after his experiences, that would definitely be Kaz's chosen plane now I think Kaz would probably choose Stellanus because he doesn't know that he had a bad experience. Feels like Kaz would go back, yeah and yeah. And what he has experienced from the other planes so far is not appealing to him.
Speaker: We really haven't gotten the good side of any of the planes so far. I'm assuming whatever plane the Celestials are from has some sort of good side, even though we didn't experience it in Campaign 1 when we went up there.
Speaker: that was I guess Irian is the life plane. Yeah. You all went there in Campaign 2. That's true. Oh, yeah. I guess there, I think, I don't know.
Speaker: Obviously, Nyx doesn't want to go anywhere that her darker impulses are going to be encouraged and... I don't think Nyx would get on well in a fey court. just doesn't seem like she would she would lean into that energy well.
Speaker: So I guess, Erian, it seems like the place that Nyx would feel safe and least feel least likely that she might you know get into something she doesn't want to be involved She'd probably get bored at the perpetual day spa.
Speaker: I'm not sure. like my My instinct would probably say... order whichever one is order Don Donvi but I think that's where John Johnson was from yeah also think that that goes into like ah an interesting like, thought of how people often didn't kind of pit Order and Chaos on and two separate sides when they're really not.
Speaker: yeah I don't think that's really Valk escaping one for the other. it's just a different version of the same thing. um But I also think Valk likes Zoriath a lot more than they realize. who They feel it. So who knows? but i think i wonder if we could if we could get Vought to Don Vee briefly, would it allow them to make sense of the sort of shattered pieces of their mind for a few moments? It might be interesting if Mia has anything to say about it. I have nothing to do. Everything that has happened it' been purely coincidental.
Speaker: it might It might be interesting for Valk to go to Kithri as like a middle ground step of like, oh, it's still wild here, but it's not like as crazy. It's just chaotic. It's not madness. madness yes It's true. Isn't that where like the eternal dominion of Ba'ab is or something like that? isn't that one of the layers of Kithri?
Speaker: It is. and She could probably go there. She could become an enforcer for Ba'ab. I don't know as much about the planes as I probably should at this point, but there's definitely like a hierarchy of most livable for your average Everodian to absolutely unlivable for your average Everodian. And like, Kalanis and Kithri have kind of got to be towards the top of that list, right? Yeah.
Speaker: Well, I think there are different layers of all the planes. Like, there are cities in the Plane of Fire where, like, Jyn live. And, like, there's a whole trading marketplace where, like, people from other planes come and, like, trade goods.
Speaker: So... Sure. Whereas in Lamania, there's the Endless Ocean, where it's not a forest. It's just you're going to drown very quickly because that's where you've ended up in Lamania. So... Whoops. Tholanus is an interesting one because I think...
Speaker: The danger of Thelanis isn't so much, oh no, I'm in a pit of fire, going burn. It's in like, I'm in an episode of the Twilight Zone that never ends. Like you get caught in a story you can't escape from. Right. And if I'm not careful, I will be here forever. and Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: which might be worse than the other options. um So that'd be a fun campaign. Just take old episodes of Twilight Zone and write adventures in Thelanus where you're just going through those. Rod Sterling is like the narrator that intros every campaign every adventure. It's a good Demi Flanum of Thelanus. I remember when I had rough rod Rod Sterling as the Archfey of...
Speaker: I'll go ahead before i it on before the listeners do and say it's Serling. But, oh, Serling? Yeah. Not Serbad. I was following Eric. I know. I know. And I just I couldn't have told you the host of The Twilight Zone. Once it happened twice, i was like, going to get ahead of this. ah but Jeff has a good Rod Serling impression in his back pocket, Jeff. Sure.
Speaker: I did once in my life have that. it's it's I'm in the right octave. It's just tricky. I don't think I can do it anymore. Shame. Yeah.
Speaker: I also can't remember the the lie, like the consider that. Screw it, who cares? ah I do. What's the be beyond belief with Riker? I'm more for that guy, than that guy now.
Speaker: There's a super cut. there's a super cut Because that show always started with him showing sort of optical illusion or something. And be like, looks like a good day at the beach, right?
Speaker: Wrong. And there's just super cut of him telling you that you're wrong over and over again. That is your right. Yeah. You would think that, wouldn't you? is one Okay. continues. italy continues I know this episode will come out the week after Halloween, so it'll seem late, but I'm asking these questions on Halloween.
Speaker: So for the next few questions, please pretend Halloween as we know it exists in Everton. Number one, what costume would your character have worn as a kid? And would they still dress up as a teenager or adult? Try to have fun with this one.
Speaker: but Play in the space, everyone. Obviously, Nyx would not dress up for Halloween as a kid. but Well, no, no. Probably as a kid. Nyx was not this way always.
Speaker: I so ah really would have liked to have thought about this more, and I just didn't have time today to sit and think about it, and it just wasn't in my mind. um But I'm going to just lean into some other things that I have suggested are present in the back recesses of Nyx's mind and say that Nyx was probably a princess for Halloween a whole bunch of times.
Speaker: Right. I think that... I don't know if Eberron has a has an equivalent of Disney princesses, but perhaps a variety of fictional princesses. I was thinking about a little bit. I think if there is fairy tale culture around paladins, I could see that being something Kaz would be very into.
Speaker: The shiny...
Speaker: I couldn't, because of my own limitations with the lore, think of another kind of knight besides a paladin. valid I think that he probably would have seen a lot of paladins and their regalia and thought that was pretty cool and dressed up like that. for You know, like, have a dog, but a pet dog he had when he was kid. It's like his noble steed, have a paladin costume. Nice. so I feel like I have two answers.
Speaker: i think Valk would definitely be like, I'm i'm drawing my thing and then I want to just like make that and beat that. But it turns out to be some sort of like strange entity that like appears in the corner of his room.
Speaker: And then after that, it becomes parent-approved, costumes only. We got one year of sleep paralysis, demon. Now mom's freaked out, redoing wards, and dad is now sewing some sort of owlbear costume. It's about because a little owlbear would be adorable.
Speaker: And then would they still dress up as an adult slash teenager? i I want to answer before you guys do because my answer, here's why. I could see Kaz, whatever day Halloween is in Everon, running downstairs from his is like pigeon tower or whatever in costume to see no one else in Athlehampton Manor is celebrating. And have to...
Speaker: We went like that picture of the Babadook at the fancy dress party and just be like, I have to wear this all day now to act like I'm okay with this. ah But obviously that that presumes all of your answers, but I just like the ah the thought of Kaz being like, nope, this is this is just what I chose to wear today. So I'll be wearing this.
Speaker: I also am not into Halloween. It's for kids. Anyway, please don't pay attention to my steampunk goggles and top hat or whatever. I think Valk is the person that gets put into costumes.
Speaker: i don't I don't think he really chooses to dress up anymore. think that also just kind of ties into a lot of his original friend groups b being theater kids themselves and being like, a we need a changeling because you can be anything.
Speaker: See, you're coming with us. no longer finding the the joy in dressing up anymore. Yeah. I'd like to pitch Wild Night as Eber on Halloween. It's the day of celebration to the fury, and it's like loss of inhibition, chaotic, not inherently spooky, but seems like the sort of thing.
Speaker: Yeah. Wood Nix. I think Nix could be persuaded to, but I think... any costume adult Nix wears would be the the minimum necessary to to pass. You know, Ron Swanson's pirate costume from Parks and Rec.
Speaker: I have dressed up. I have fulfilled the convention of this social event. it ah It is obvious enough that you don't need to ask me what I dressed as.
Speaker: So Nyx goes to the pirate every year. Like you're just like, yeah. Nyx has one witch's hat and keeps up with it and throws it on every wild night. Moves off. This is my Halloween costume.
Speaker: Yes. Nyx is just Ron Swanson from that episode. Wonderful. I would say Hendrix probably definitely gets into Halloween. i'd I don't know if he would be like, we have to dress up, but he would definitely be the one that's like, well, we should do something. We should have we should elite we should certainly have candy for the children that come by Athelhampton Manor.
Speaker: ah And then be disappointed when no children come by Athelhampton Manor. Well, yeah, because they see that creepy guy. makes you Children absolutely come to Athelhampton Manor. It's just, it's on a dare. Yeah.
Speaker: yeah what's And then they leave with full-size candy bars. So the second year that we're here, Athelhampton Manor is going to be a real stop on. we've got I cannot think of our guy's name now.
Speaker: Our creepy butler. Algett. Algett has to have the night off. We cannot have him answering doors. hello I feel like that's the only night of the year we can have him answering doors because everyone will assume he's doing a bit. Well, I was thinking that would be a great night.
Speaker: yeah We have the most convincing Warforged costume you've ever seen. see What it is is Alga... Alget, once upon a time, refused to celebrate Halloween and then was visited by three spirits and vowed to keep Halloween in his heart all year long.
Speaker: What IRL candy that's typically given to trick-or-treaters would your character like the most? Kaz strikes me as a big circus peanuts guy. Ugh, come on. I really can't think of an in-world way to answer this, so I am just going to say that Nyx would really enjoy Reese's Cups because that's the Halloween candy that I enjoy.
Speaker: Probably Sour Patch Kids because he's a teenager. love it. Probably, and this is, I don't know if this is, this is probably only the American name of it, but turtles?
Speaker: Yeah. Like the pecan and chocolate. Yeah. If you're in the nice neighborhood. See, I i like i i enjoyed, in my head, Kanin Valk's answer was going to be the mystery flavor airhead because it's different every time. I love that needs some predictability in their life.
Speaker: ah He looks into like a sack instead of Charlie Brown getting a rock. These are all mystery flavors. Yeah. Malk has a cursed trick-or-treat bag that turns all the candy into mystery flavored air. That's funny.
Speaker: ah We went to my mother's house this Halloween. It's kind of our home base because her neighborhood's much more trick-or-treatable than where we live. And she had purchased huge bags of Tootsie Pops. And I had forgotten how absolutely... Tootsie Pops? Cool.
Speaker: I had forgotten. It had been a long time. I might have had too many of them. They were fantastic. What a night.
Speaker: would your character Chewy is what I want all of my chocolate to be. I don't know to tell you, man. i like if Would your character enjoy horror movies? I don't think Kaz would.
Speaker: I'm not huge fan them. Nyx would be insufferable at a horror movie. She would have all sorts of opinions about that knife wouldn't leave that kind of injury. oh yeah That's not the sound somebody makes when you stab them. oh I think the impracticalities of running upstairs, get away from the, yeah, Nick's would never be okay with that.
Speaker: Yeah. Valk is the person that would watch the film and like, but they keep like leaving the room and coming back and like standing behind the couch to watch it and then would figure out the plot, say it out loud, ruin the movie, and then leave again. That's very funny. So maybe.
Speaker: Kaz is going to keep trying to have nice parties with us and uh... I... the i i Kaz's likes and dislikes are the most like mine of any character I've ever made.
Speaker: Just because I think about what did i like as a teenager. That's what Kaz likes, right? Yeah. And my personal, like the way I feel about horror movies is if it is a something else movie that happens to be a horror movie, I like a horror comedy.
Speaker: I like a horror period. The, like the Halloweens, the the nightmares on Elm Street, you're, it is nightmares on Elm Street, right? Like Surgeon General.
Speaker: Like those movies, just at or like or even worse, like Hostel. I think it's nightmare on Elm's street. Thank you. Hostiles and saws like those appeal to me not outwit but like Happy Death Day like that kind of horror movie that is oh you hook that to my veins that's good stuff or like Midsommar that's like a kind of art housey horror I can get by that i can get by that i've I've been told I like weapons I still haven't seen it okay and the last Halloween related question is how would your character decorate Athelhampton Manor for Halloween if at all
Speaker: it's This is one of those things where what could you add to Athelhampton Manor to make it better decorated for Halloween? i My first thought when I read this question earlier was the trend, because it says Halloween as we know it exists Eberron. That's fair.
Speaker: And the trend in Halloween as we know it with decorations is to startle. And even Kaz knows better than to place things around that planet matter to startle his compatriots, because you'll get to do that exactly once. Yeah.
Speaker: the the thing you paid 90 bucks for at the home depot is ruined because nick's cut it off i mean we just we just let grub loose on the outs on the front lawn there you just appears out of shadows in a little cape makes his little shadow puppets on the wall of ghosts and goblins rounds but yeah yeah we have a ghost goblin actually what more do we need decoration wise You the house is literally haunted. There's a fiendish dragon creature and a shadow raccoon that is eerily good at hand puppets.
Speaker: So really we just need a light source projecting on the wall and grub hanging out in the front lawn, just terrifying the children. And there's a cemetery on the grounds too, right? There's a cemetery in the grounds? Yeah. There's a tree that will probably grow up to eat someone.
Speaker: Y'all could probably run a pretty good racket around Halloween time of just like setting up a haunted tour. Something's wrong with the chapel. Yeah, except for someone would inevitably get seriously injured on the tour. That's what wavers are for. And then actually, you know, we're the horror. That's what wavers are for.
Speaker: And of course, there's Alget as your tour guide. the what Good evening, masters. Yeah. And then everybody gets to do the walk this way joke where they all start to walk like him. ah Delightful.
Speaker: Okay. Last question from Emily. If your character could gain a true mark of their choice, regardless of the usual species locks, and they didn't have to worry about getting trapped on another plane because of it, which would they? I'm going to go easy. Like this was very that straightforward for me and therefore is probably the least interesting answer. So I'll give it first. Next go with mark of Sentinel. Just the ability to ah to shield, to do a little bit abjuration magic in in a fight is very practical for her mind. I don't go here, so I don't have an answer.
Speaker: That's fair. I think Kaz would be torn between Mark of Making and like the, oh gosh, which one is? I'm curious know.
Speaker: Orion is teleporting, right? Mark of Passage? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I think Mark of Passage or Mark of Making. He would.
Speaker: He might also, i don't know, maybe a Lyrander? Lyrander? Yeah, Lyrander. Mark of Storm. Oh, is that? I apologize. No, thinking of somebody else then. Who's the, the, uh, spy entertainer?
Speaker: Mark of Shadden. Mark of Shadden. Or either Charlotte and Durrani. I think that one might, might actually, yeah, another thing about it, think that might be his most... I feel like Valk would enjoy having the Mark of Detection, partly because we now know that there's some kind of connection between that and Zoriat, but also because Valk wants to find the things. Like, Valk wants to find all the all the things in the room. but Valk is searching for all the interactables in the in the RPG zone.
Speaker: Mark of Detection gives you the Arkham HUD. Like, yeah here's the things I need to investigate. so Okay, that works. We'll take it. two seven I looked it up and there's not like a cute little like, here's a list. It's like, here's 12 links.
Speaker: I'm like, I'm stupid. Yeah. I will say I feel confident in answering for Madison that Selena would do the Margaret Warding. and Don't touch my stuff.
Speaker: ah Don't touch my friends. Yeah. Maybe more so, but yeah. Okay. please yeahp So it's the secret. Let's see. when when your power set includes exploding runes that you can put on like around possessions, then you got some issues with privacy. Cool.
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Speaker: And, Yeah, man, that's it. We have another episode to record tonight of the next part of the arc. So we're going to get on to that. And we'll see you next week with that one. I've been Jeff. I'm Mia.
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