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C2 Ep. 69 (Nice) Eberron Reduced On the Past
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We pause to take a look to see where our party members came from, and how they came to be who they are today.
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Opening and Introductions
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Hello and welcome to Eberron or Newton, actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And this week we have another Eberron reduced episode for you all where we're going to be, uh, doing something we did a while back, uh, where we dove into the backstories of Eris and Reynard, but today we are switching it up to Milo and hob where we are.
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Taking an opportunity to explore some significant moments from our wonderful player characters pasts So we are going to kick things off with Milo this time around So Randy do you want to give us kind of the description of of what we're gonna be doing and kind of looking looking at in this scene?
Milo's Power Discovery
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Sure
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This is taking place on a job that the group is on at an early point in Milo's discovery of his powers. His powers are still newly found and he's still even
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of where we are at today. He's still discovering his abilities and what he can do. It's a discovery process and this is one of the first discoveries that occur while he's on a job.
Ambush and Battle with Dask Goons
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Okay, so you all are on a job for the clan. They contacted you and Grom sent you out on a job to steal some samples from a house fatalist facility. Sure. And on your way back, you got jumped by some desk goons. And so we're going to hop into the combat encounter
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with Dask having ambushed you all and trying to get what you've got and also rough you up because you're having to pass through Dask territory to do this job. I knew before I hit record. So let me go ahead and get this going and give me vigilance roles for initiative. No difficulty. Okay, Hob. Okay, Hob. Good job, Hob. Seriously.
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Hob win! Hob's for everyone. Okay, so we got two groups of three and then kind of their leader. Or let's do three groups. No, two groups of three. What's the makeup of our enemies being Dask?
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So you have one group are half orcs, half orc tufts, and the other group of three are gnolls, and their leader is a polar bear shifter. Well, don't hurt him. I love him. He's cute. That's pretty awesome.
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Uh, so it looks like we have two NPC slots, three PC slots and NPC slot and a PC slot. Um, so to kick things off, uh, the polar bear shifter is going to lunge up at hob, seeing the biggest and the toughest and wanting to, uh, goof them up a bit. So, uh, going to make a brawl or a melee check. He has a war hammer on him. Um,
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So brings this big hammer up and tries to crack Hob over the noggin with it as he runs forward. Two success, three advantage. So, I never liked it when you hit me then get the book. Today we learned how Hob died a long time ago. Long, long time ago. That's Randy's surprise magic. He's resurrected. That would be a heck of a thing now that I said it out loud.
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Although I feel like if that were the case, that Hob, or that Milo fully resurrected Hob. We truly know by now. Milo, Hob probably would have gone with Milo on more split decisions. Okay, so it's seven damage. Hob is the initial damage that he deals to you by thwacking you on the head. And then he is going to activate
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a property on it. Oh, he can activate both. So he's going to knock you down. So whack you in the chest and just, and, um,
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And he's also going to activate concussive. So just the wind is knocked out of you and you're staggered for one round. So I can't do an action the rest of the round? Correct. OK, and that is his turn as he bellows a loud laugh at the puny Goliath. You're bigger than him, Hob.
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OK, now, even if it wasn't true, I know that that's true. The Knowles are going to try to. Who is who would be who would just for fun, who would be carrying the vial? Not Milo. Probably Eris, because OK, she was the most likely to have something you can safely carry a lab sample in.
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So, Eris, you have the group of gnolls that kind of scamper over to you and try to take you off your feet. They have two yellow, two purple as their pool. Would you like to spend a story point to upgrade the difficulty? Sure. I also have a melee defense of one. I'm sorry. Yes, of one. Oh, Hob has that too.
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I'm sorry, how about what? A melee defense because of your robes? Yes. Which is why I only took three wounds out of the seven you administered. No, defense adds... Zero success, one threat, and a triumph. Oh, sweet. They snatch the vial from you. Of course, of course. So, yeah, they come over and like...
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Aris, you managed to block all their blows, but while you're doing that, one grabs the little containment unit that you have on you. PC slack.
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Milo. If you want to go, Raynard, you can. Yeah, go ahead, Raynard. I was going to say, Raynard sees that happen. And well, English sees that happen and locks an arrow on the man, on the one who tried to take the vial or did take the vial. Okay. Go ahead and make a ranged combat check with one purple difficulty since you're within short range. Would you like to use the maneuver to aim?
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Hmm. I don't feel like I'll need it. Cool. Oh, okay. Then. Well, it's three yellow and one green against one purple. Okay. I, with that attitude, I really hope you miss, but I did not. Two advantage. Um, so that is the longboat has seven damage. That's 11 damage. Okay. Um, so they take a good chunk of wounds.
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Um, two advantage. Uh, do you want to make him drop the vial? Yes, that's what I was planning. Cool. Dripity drop. So get him in the shoulder in his, his hand, like PC slot. Uh, I'll go. So Eris seeing them getting away, uh, will.
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Flip and seen hob go down or how get knocked off his office feet as well Will swing up the Fletcher and shoot at the nulls Okay, what is my range one? Okay. Yeah And I will take a maneuver to aim because why wouldn't I take a maneuver to aim? You know, it cost me nothing Just leaving dice on the table And here we go
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Two success, one advantage. Two success, one advantage. Um, okay. So yeah, that, oh, that's going to end up being, Oh, I didn't roll it was a weapon attack. So it didn't give me all the normal things. Sorry. Uh, so that's going to be 10, uh, yes. 10, uh, 11 damage. Okay. Um, and,
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I know just for ease of things, I actually because my Fletcher has my Fletcher always has the superior quality, so it always generates an extra advantage. So it's actually two advantage, and I'll just crit and kill. That's my Mike kill some one of them since their minion group. So yeah, Eris just puts a puts a bolt in in the back of the head of one of the gnolls that's running away from them.
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That's all I take. You spray and take out all three with that much damage. Next PC slot.
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Am I all that's left? Milo hasn't gone yet. Okay. I can't do anything. So if you want to do Milo. Milo seeing Hob basically get whacked and taken down and with, it's still fresh on his mind of Hob rescuing him from the fire.
Milo's Unexpected Attack
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He whips out his wand, does a little flourish and fires out of a beam of black light heading toward the leader. This shows three difficulty. Are you doing fire or what? No, it's not. It's going to have a sunder and pierce.
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So that's destructive. Okay. Um, yeah. So yes. Um, that would be a hard difficulty. So three purple, purple. Um, can I flip a story point for a boost? Yeah. Well, to upgrade your. Yeah. Yeah. So that would give me one blue. No, no flipping a story point changes one green to a yellow.
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Oh, well, I don't have any greens. So it would add a green. Okay. All right. Here we go. Three success, one advantage. Boy. Okay. So this little beam of black, thick light shoots out and then it splits into multiple horizontal beams, almost like razor wire.
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and flies in to this shifter as Milo's eyes get really big as he was totally not expecting that.
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narratively, what happens is those beams shoot out and, uh, hob looking up from the ground to your horror. Um, you see the beams just slice through the shifter as he lets out a howl and like the cuts just appear on him and he crumples to the ground and starts bleeding out at your feet, like completely dead.
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What? What was that? I don't know. I was, I was just trying to like put him to sleep, you know, like knock him out. We're out of initiative. The half works takeoff running and screaming at the side of us. And you said, you said that the, the beams flew over me to hit the shifter, right? Like I was between the two of them. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.
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I think Bob pops up and he's like, Milo, that seemed dangerously indiscriminate. I did not do it on purpose. As I said, I was just trying to knock him out, you know, put him to sleep. I still don't know how to control these spells. I don't know where they come from.
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Eris goes over and retrieves the vial, just... Well, I loved it. Spectacular. Hob was right there, and if I would've... What if I would've missed? What if... Yes, but you didn't. But you didn't, but you didn't. Hob's getting mad at Raynard. Hob was trying to decide if he should be mad at Milo, but right now he's getting mad at Raynard. Some cavalier trash.
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I just, maybe I just need to go back and just do the collecting and not worry about this. I believe that we're clearly past not having to worry about this. If anything, you need to dedicate more of your time to honing and controlling because
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that could have been me. If I had gotten it together a half second earlier to stand up because I know I was next. So no, I think head in the sand is not the way to handle this, Michael. That's absolutely right, Hob. I'm really sorry.
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I just, I saw you fall and I just reacted and I, like I say, I don't understand how that, I don't know how to do that and there it was. Perhaps for a while and an all clear might be in order before you attempt another spell.
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Yes, yes, that would be wise. And I will try to find someplace to practice, I guess, if there's someplace safe. I mean, it's probably somewhere safe, but
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I always just try things out about when we're on the job. Yes, and that didn't that almost did not go very well. Yeah, I see that. I mean, I did not intend to kill him. I mean, I've never killed anyone in my life. This is I maybe I need a drink. Reynard, we need drinks.
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Oh, Reynard already has one flask out and hands Milo a second one. He has two. He has two flasks prepared. Thank you, Reynard. Milo just starts guzzling the booze because of the opposite effect of control. Yeah, I think Hob maneuvers to be behind Milo.
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Yes, I don't. This is... Right, so we're in Dask territory and we're standing around four dead members of that gang. Do you think maybe we have this conversation while we walk?
Post-Battle Reflections
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Yes, I'm believing. I just don't understand. I just... I've never... Now he's dead.
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Let's be gone. He was trying to kill Hobb. He was doing a good job. I guess so. I think after a minute, Hobb turns to Michael and he's like, I'm sorry. I reacted so negatively. I know you were only trying to help me.
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Thank you. Yes, but I still like I could have possibly killed you as well. Oh yeah, big time. Yeah, we're not going to forget that part. I'm sorry. Dinner is definitely on me tonight.
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All right, and we will call that scene there. Okay, so pivoting over to Hobb.
Flashback: Hob's Monastery Days
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Jeff, do you want to give us kind of the breakdown of what we're doing with Hobb? Sure. So, I mean, as I've explained in the past, Hobb spent time at a monastery. That's where he learned his
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What whatever amount of self-control you you you as the listener have decided he has As well as just a lot of his other guiding principles but obviously being that he is a criminal in shorn he left the monastery at some point and I think what we're doing here is the
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beginning the inciting point of his eventual departure. So this is young, I don't know how young Hob, I've always said Hob's probably in his mid 30s, just a little bit younger than I am in real life. This is probably late teens, early 20s Hob. I think he's been gone that long for the monastery. So. Okay. And what name does he go by? Oh, he is,
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Hmm, I haven't put a lot of thought into it. Give me one second. I think he would go by Vaginoth. Like that would be the name, his official name, even here. Because it wasn't until after he left the monastery that he decided that his actual Goliath heritage was more of an academic than an emotional pursuit. But I don't know if he would have gone by a different nickname from the Voll crew. So I don't think, I think just Vaginoth would be fine.
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OK, so the scene is during the lesson. I'm still going to. Vaganov, I want to see Venga. Yeah, if you decide that whoever you're playing would have a shorter name for him, just call him that and yeah, because because Hob wouldn't say no to his superior at this point. Yeah. So at a lesson there is
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I'm just going to in outside the narrative, say hob because that's the name I'm used to using. Sure. Uh, Hobbs teacher. Um, do you have a name for the teacher, Jeff? Yes. His name is. Arik storm pool. Okay. Uh, ancestry. I got nothing. Help me out. I don't know what would be appropriate.
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Really anything. Blood of old doesn't really have strong ties to, I just want to make sure you guys understand. I just named your character Arc Stormpool. Yeah. Okay. Just making sure. Well done. I like it.
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Probably just, probably, I mean, elf, human, I don't care. Eric, I just named him after you. What do you want him to be? Uh, we'll go half elf. Since you said elf, human, I don't know. Here you go. Elf, human, some combination, whatever. Um, okay. We also have in the scene, uh, the star pupil, uh, Hob's classmate. Um, would you like to give him a name?
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Or would you like the player that will be taking them over to provide the name? Hey, I had the name Green Egg Event. They can name their own characters. And then the head of the monastery. So that's three additional characters. Okay, so the scene is midday lessons in the
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outdoor courtyard at the monastery. There are wooden dummies set up at set intervals all around. Hob, how many students would be in this class with you?
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Not many, I don't think, because I don't know that, uh, I never considered it to be much of an academic institution as much as it is. So they got a good teacher to student ratio. Yeah. Yeah. Like I would be, it almost feels like it's all, um, none of it's compulsory. So it's just kind of who decided they wanted to hear something that day shows up. So maybe, maybe half a dozen.
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Yeah, we can go with six. Okay, so there are- Nice and half a dozen. That's the one. Baker's does them. Just some half person. There's a halfling? Yeah, there's a halfling there.
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So, yeah, there are you and five other students present for this lesson, standing in line in front of the dummies, not actively engaged, waiting for the teacher to begin that day's lesson.
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And also in your class is Ramon Lafleur, the noted elf star pupil of your class, who's always just been attached at the hip of Arik, just the biggest butt kisser in the monastery. So,
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Yeah, Arik Stormpool, the half elf who is not large, not tall, very average height, but just every muscle fiber is toned to perfection. Just they are tight, lean, packed muscle. Sure. Out of his pupils, how do they refer to him as what?
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Um, it's a monastery. Let's, uh, um, let's just go with, sir. Let's just keep it. Uh, yeah. Um, so, um, uh, storm pool walks out from the building and regards
Philosophical Teachings of Seeker Stormpool
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you all. You've been staying there for probably about five minutes waiting for class to start. And, um,
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Hello, class. I hope you all have been keeping up with your lessons. We will be going over hand-to-hand drills shortly. But before we do, I have been studying and contemplating on the divine spark within us, and you all have
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kindled your spark well and has grown some of you more than others into the beginnings of a fire. Ramon is just nodding profusely.
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Yeah, hob, what is your react like? Have you never liked storm pool or is it has it been kind of a No, I don't think that's the case at all Okay I think if anything one of the one of the one of the reasons that he's compelled to leave is because he feels so betrayed by storm. I think that I
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If I may, assert this about Hob, I think the only difference between Ramon and Hob, as far as star pupil-ness, is one of them wants to be the star pupil. And the other one's name is Vaginoff.
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He is not as good at any of the academic pursuits, but as far as embracing the monastic lifestyle and the combat, that's where they balance each other, I think. And so you can take some pride, Hob, in knowing that he's also, I mean, you would say that your fire is growing as much as anybody's given lessons. And
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We will continue our lessons to ensure that this fire continues to grow and burn brightly, brighter than many others are even capable of. Yes, I feel my fire continue to grow. Yes, Ramon, thank you. So before we begin today's lessons, I want to encourage you all to
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begin to stoke your fire. Think about how you can grow more powerful, how your power can assist you in your endeavors. Because that is how the blood of vole will grow, will begin to begin to show the world that their gods and their kings are meaningless.
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It is the spark within us. Us who are chosen to carry the light into the world. That is where the power lies. And also correction on what you all would call him. I'm a dummy.
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Bloodeville has a name. Seeker is what his title would be, Seeker. So you would call him Seeker Stormpool or just Seeker for short. So that would be- Okay, shoot. You had just said something that was enough for me to ping Hob off of, but now I've forgotten what it was. How did you end that little run? It was him talking about they don't need gods or kings. It's the chosen. There it is, the chosen. Yeah. That's the word.
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Um, yeah, I think I really think being kind of don't want to talk out of character, but I really want to explain motivations. Um, I think that hob, the one thing that kept him glued to this
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path that he got put on was the acceptance, was the fact that there was not a prerequisite for entrance to something like this. And so I think that at that point, Hob really does say, excuse me, seeker, storm pool. I'm confused. Who do you mean when you say chosen? Well, everything I've learned is that the spark is in us all.
00:30:19
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Isn't that the point of all this? Yes, Viganoth. However, while the potential for the spark exists within all beings, there are only... There is a distinction between those who have the fortitude to carry the spark, to grow it into a flame,
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to exercise that divine power on the world. So while yes, the teachings do tell us that every creature has the divine spark within them, to put it simply, not all sparks may be created equally. And certainly the vessels that carry those sparks are not equal.
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This makes a very good sense to me. Thank you, Ramon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm clear. Just upon whose wisdom do we lay the decision of who deserves further investment? Why do we... Who among us decides whose spark is good enough?
00:31:46
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Because I know that when I came here, by all rights, I would have been rejected by everyone. And now, well, I suppose now, we'll all see just how far I've come when we start this one-to-one, hand-to-hand combat you've said we'll be doing this afternoon. Right, Ramon? I'm still hot. Yeah. Yes, it would be a chance to grow our flames even more.
00:32:14
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Oh my God. Thank you. Yes, Vaginoth, what you say is accurate. You came to us in a world that would have largely rejected you and we took you in because
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We all have the spark. We all have the potential to grow our fire. But you proved through your actions that you have what it takes to grow your fire. You showed us that you have that within you. And that if you had not shown that, well, your path may have been very different, but
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It is through how we exert our power that that wisdom is discovered. I am not proposing that we put up a post at the door and say, yay, nay, before people have the opportunity to prove themselves to us. But you know as well as I do, Vaganov, that there are plenty of people that would have gone through the rigorous training that you have undergone and would have given up, would have said, enough's enough.
00:33:31
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And I am saying that those people, perhaps while the divine spark exists within them, perhaps they are not worthy of that. Perhaps they do not show that they are worth being among the chosen. Worthy for what? It sounds like you're saying we'll be conferred a divine right, which I know and you know is not our goal.
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And at this point, Tannen Elmore, you've been lurking in the shadows. You're easy to go unnoticed. And so you've heard now at this point, a student interject a lesson multiple times. And so at this point, you would probably be compelled to encourage Seeker Stormpool
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continue lesson with the students while you discuss things with the student in question. Well that I think from the shadows you just hear a clap. Seeker Stormpool, I would like to have a discussion with the student. Yes Seeker, big enough.
00:34:56
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Seeker Elmore wishes to speak with you. Yes, thank you. Students, we will begin drills now and kind of fades into the background. Excellent, about time. Walk over. Thank you, Ramon.
00:35:15
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Hob does his best to position himself with his back to the class because he knows he's going to see Ramon just wailing on whoever he's paired up with knowing he can take him. But he has to sit here and talk to the principal. Same title, Speaker Elmore? Let's say Head Seeker. Head Seeker sounds good.
00:35:39
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Headhunter. Yes, Headseeker. I'm sorry, was I out of line? Weganoth? Yep. Okay. Don't wear it out. Yes, Weganoth, it seemed you had quite the amount of questions against your instructor. I...
00:36:10
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I do not question the instructor. I trust Speaker Stormpool. I believe in him. I fear that perhaps there's been a misinterpretation of something. I'm concerned over the trajectory of his lessons of late.
00:36:42
Speaker
Well, as a student here, your goal is not to question what is being told to you, but rather absorb and learn.
Consequences of Questioning Teachings
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Certainly, certainly. And please forgive my ignorance when I ask, what do I do?
00:37:12
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when the things I have absorbed conflict so profoundly. The lessons I have heard today are in an irreconcilable conflict with everything that I've grown to embrace about the blood of Volk up to this point.
00:37:48
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Are we not champions of the individual and therefore all individuals? Well, I think, um, I think I'm going to go the, the real stereotypical religious route and just say,
00:38:17
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If I hear you question your instructor again, you will not be allowed to stay. Go back to class. Okay, okay, okay, what does Hov do here? Does Hov, do we have an origin moment here for Hov? I think we do. Only you can tell us. I know. Well, Headseeker, I shall make sure that you know not here.
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my questions again. As for my eventual departure, I agree it is possible that it has been accelerated. Thank you for your time. And as he goes back to class, he yells, I got bad news Ramon, I'm a little fired up.
00:39:10
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You're about to hit the floor. Okay. I do not think your spark is large enough to take my spark. Oh, we're comparing sparks now. Okay. No, I do think that if that's the way that conversation ends,
00:39:31
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Like, I would love for Hob to just get some real big britches on and go confront Stormpool for his lesson on hand-to-hand combat, but I also am pretty sure that Hob would get handed to him because he's still a teenager. Yeah, I think he goes back. I do think he's going to go back to rejoin the lesson and he is still, like, he knows his place, so he's not actually going to walk over and make that joke. That was for Randy. I think he's going to say,
00:40:02
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Is Headseeker watching as he goes back to class? Yeah, okay. Then I think that he's going to walk up to Seeker Stormpool and quietly, with his head down looking very contrite, as though he is apologizing, say, who would you like for me to pair up with? Just putting on the airs of making an apology when really he's just trying to move on with his day. Now, if Seeker Stormpool wants him to say to apologize, in that case, we'll deal with it.
00:40:33
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Um, no, Stormpool's not petty. So, um, he has two grand of a purpose for pettiness. What a burden. Um, LeFlore, you're worth vegging off. Wait a minute, Sika. Um, just give me a single, a single brawl check hob to just see.
00:41:04
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Okay, I think you and I both know he cannot fail this or it will ruin everything for the future. So let's just Before you before you do it though, I mean So Vega North I doubt your spark could get any larger than what it already is and my spark is growing immensely and
00:41:29
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So let's see what you have. Ramon, I just, before we start, this is important to me. You understand it's a metaphor, right? Like, are you in pain somewhere? Is that your spark? Do we need, does it hurt? It's a metaphor. No, yes, I totally understand that, but. Okay, and hop back. We all have this.
00:41:58
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Go ahead. Add a boost die for the setup. Okay. Two purple, since it's a melee check. You can flip a story point if you want to upgrade your check. Well, I need to ask, am I rolling with Hobb's current stats? I can't imagine. Yes. Yeah, we're not. 20 years ago, we had. We're not dealing with them all. And LaFleur is bouncing and dodging and weaving and, you know, just...
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acting all cocky like come on bring it on and you really should listen to the teacher when he's talking and understand what he's trying to relate to you and Hobbs oh my god no we're not going to say that Hobbs misses the punch Jeff that's not what that's not what failure means in this okay it's i i think that um
00:42:48
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You can manifest it however you want, but hob lost is cool a little bit with everything. Like it wasn't as it wasn't a controlled contrite. It's not that you beat him into a pulp, but you just you maybe didn't pull your punch.
00:43:01
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at all or something. Yeah. It's just one of those things like this is they're not teaching us how to brawl. They're teaching us your sparring. Yeah. And, and, and, and hob loses his cool and just goes full on haymaker and like really rings his bell. Like he hears them say you need to listen. So he pops them in the ear, like just really an uncool fight or an uncool punch for this sort of setting. Yeah. I mean, Ramones had jerks and
Hob's Emotional Conflict
00:43:28
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the floor just crumples onto the ground and the rest of the students are, and Seeker Stormpool, Viganoth. How do you like that, Sparky? Viganoth, go to your quarters, now. Right. And it just turns around. Does he have to walk, tell me this, does he have to walk away from or past Speaker Stormpool? Past, past. Okay. I think that
00:43:57
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He's really reading Stormpool. I'd like to make a perception check. I wanna see how, well, let me make the perception check first and then you can just say, well, you don't notice anything. What's difficulty? Let's just have it be one red. All right, then I'm gonna upgrade, because we're starting with a fresh pool next session anyway. Okay.
00:44:27
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Nevermind, he doesn't notice anything. Hobbs own anger is blinding his empathy right now to see if it was anger or disappointment or disgust even.
00:44:42
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on Stormpool's face. Because Hobb is not excited that he's disappointed in Stormpool or that Stormpool has disappointed in him. This is not a... This is not a righteous moment, yeah. Right, like finally we're gonna come to... this tension's gonna come to a head. It's like, oh man, my teacher doesn't like me but he's also disappointing me and it makes me feel three different kinds of sad. Like that's where Hobb's really at. Yeah.
00:45:05
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Okay. So yeah, I think that's what he, I think he goes back to his quarters that he shares with another student. No, not Ramone. The only relevant part of the other student at the, at the monastery is the one personal item that he chose to bring with him was his musical instrument. And that is where Hob
00:45:33
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He walks back in, feeling all these emotions, and his buddy, his roommate's noodling on this instrument, and he feels better, and he realizes, okay, I can regulate with this for now. Yeah. Okay. And that's where we'll leave it. For role-playing purposes, Philip played your roommate. Thanks, Philip. Oh, man. Oh, Gregor, I'm so glad you're here. Let's talk for two minutes, you and me.
00:46:02
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I'm sad. If I knew simple playing lyrics off the top of my head, I would just start singing that in Hob's voice. Welcome to my life. Hob starts singing dashboard confessional.
00:46:23
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00:46:44
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00:47:02
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I'm Ramon Lafleur. Grow your spice. You play Milo also. Oh man. Jeff, take us home. Thank you. And just like I've been trying to do lately, this is the last episode that we'll release before we start a reviewed episode. It could be anywhere like 48 hours from the mill when it drops to like six days. But we will let you know with more accuracy on the Discord when the reviewed will be. And that is also where you drop your questions. Yep. Thanks.
00:47:34
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And I'm Jeff.