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C3 Episode 45 Little Boxes on the Hillside Chapter Seven
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The party finds out what lies beneath the town.
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Transcript
Introduction of Eberron Campaign and Participants
00:00:04
Speaker
the Eberron Campaign Setting. I am the Game
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Speaker
Master, Eric. hello and welcome to eron renewedton actual play podcast set in the everron campaign setting i and the game master area I'm Leah.
00:00:30
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I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another
Eric as Game Master and Key Events
00:00:35
Speaker
episode. Folks, what happened last time? I'd like to begin by addressing the fact that Eric just decided to no longer be our Game Master. He's rather simply the Game Master. ah So... For actual play 13th age Eberron shows, i am the Game Master.
00:00:53
Speaker
So... feel like that's a Vim diagram I can claim ownership over. So far, but once this one takes off, we're going get so many copycats. Hot diggity dogs, right? Yeah. Last time.
00:01:04
Speaker
Valk got jumped. Yeah. And choked out. We killed Jim Johnson. He's deactivated. Broke.
00:01:16
Speaker
We spent several episodes barking up the wrong tree. Boy, did ever. And we should have known better from a meta standpoint, but it was difficult to not follow Jim Johnson.
00:01:30
Speaker
Right. Yep. Jim Johnson was...
00:01:34
Speaker
It's true. Yeah, it's true. Going to Jim Johnson did get us there. which is We We should have gone towards Jim Johnson
Discovery Under City Hall
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sooner. In the immediate past, we are now under City Hall with some constructs from Don V and some three denizens of the town, including Barnaby Finch in crystals. Well, clones or... Yeah, clones or pods or... something I mean, maybe clones. Maybe this is the original Barnaby Finch.
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Speaker
Maybe we met the clone. Maybe he's like on the loose. And he went rogue. She escaped. Grew a conscience. Barnaby Finch. Matilda Greenway, who was the former elder of the town.
00:02:16
Speaker
And Marcus Tolliver, who was a smuggler who has helped with the community center quite a bit. And young Timothy Kess. the Future Warlord. The education center. The one that lives at the education center. Yes.
00:02:32
Speaker
Yes.
Combat with Constructs Begins
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So, ah we need to roll initiative. And I need to get my dice. Oh, it's like an asseys yeah that. Get dice also.
00:02:46
Speaker
Deeply unprepared, sorry. I guess I'm going see what first minute's going to be. I was mostly ready. and Oh, good. Good inquiry. Great.
00:03:05
Speaker
so stickies but What did you get on initiative? Who? What? Oh, two. What? Kaz? Oh, I rolled a natural one.
00:03:18
Speaker
So that puts me at four, I guess. ah didn Oh, wait. that's a lie That's a lie. um i also rolled a defense die, so I'm actually hoping one guys gets hit and I have something to do.
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Speaker
but That's an eight. I didn't add the stuff. Oh, Selayna. 14. Nyx. 10. Okay.
00:03:43
Speaker
Then we have two constructs going. Then Selayna, then then Valk, then the other construct, then Kaz.
00:03:59
Speaker
Is our order. So these constructs have large tools. They were clearly like working on maintaining the the engine, arcane engine that is doing whatever is happening to these people in their crystalline pods. and so one of them is going to rush up Nyx and give her a thwack.
00:04:23
Speaker
So we walk in and they attack us, right? That's what just happened? see you and they immediately launch into attack mode. All right. Who do they think they are, us? that's for and 13 to hit.
00:04:35
Speaker
Uh, no. Second one is going to rush up to Valk.
00:04:40
Speaker
That's a 15 to hit. to Yes. Six damage. 14. And then, Selina, it is your turn.
00:04:52
Speaker
I will do Ray of Frost on the one that hit Valk. Okay. Okay. Oh, no. That was a natural one. Okay. oh Well, that's an eight. Yeah.
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Speaker
Okay. Nyx. It does get damage equal to my level, so. Right. To dare. Okay. Nyx will we reach out and, or I guess she's already got her sword because we already so did some fighting. So, yeah, Nyx puts back, takes her sword in both hands, and will just try to dismantle this...
00:05:26
Speaker
s Thing like I guess I don't know if this is a person but so we we had established what they look like like they look like crash chest dummies essentially They are human rights they lack face and are clearly constructs and mechanical Okay, some real Westworld vibes there.
00:05:42
Speaker
Yeah, okay. ah Well, that's a 19 on the die So a lot That will hit that's 19 on the dice for the damage to plus Ford so 23. Okay
00:05:55
Speaker
Describe the attack, Nix. You didn't kill it outright, but you did... mean...
Valk and Kaz's Strategic Moves
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Speaker
i mean Nyx is going for just like carving through it since she doesn't know what the internal structure of this is, what the right way. i don't know if you decapitate it, but she's attacking at the torso portion. So I don't know. Maybe she lops off an arm or something. But yeah, it's just it's just brute force. There's no precision here.
00:06:20
Speaker
Nyx takes a a half step back from this nightmarish thing and just ah swings her sword as hard as she can at it. You hear, it obviously doesn't have a mouth by which to speak, but you hear a voice emanating from this thing that says initiating repair subroutines and the like large gas that you made in it, like doesn't fully heal, but like it is clearly attempting to repair itself.
00:06:52
Speaker
That's dumb. Basically they have a property when they first become staggered they gain hit points. And you staggered it in one hit. So well done. 12.
00:07:04
Speaker
Good. Vath, your turn. You go. Yeah, I have to take a recovery. Okay. Hey. he I can't do that. Never mind. Sorry. and was speakingy I have very limited things I can do with defense spells and one of them is give a recovery.
00:07:22
Speaker
Okay. But I think I need another one also. Yeah, yeah. yeah so next round, I get 13 hit points.
00:07:33
Speaker
Right, because your healing is delayed. you Yeah. You exist outside of reality. But I can't do anything else at this moment.
00:07:45
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think I want to step back right now. So I'll be good. Okay, fine. The next construct is going to rush up and attack Selena, who shot ice out of her penis.
00:07:57
Speaker
Oh, God. Okay, this die is normally very good to me, and then it's getting put in the back corner. I don't think you're allowed to take that dice out. That's an 11 to hit, Selena. Does not hit.
00:08:10
Speaker
Not surprising. Kaz. Okay. I am going to... Valkyrie, you still looking rough though. I mean, like you look, cause you got jumped and I know that, right? Yes. We talked about it.
00:08:22
Speaker
Okay. Then yeah, if you, yeah, you can just use another recovery. Like that's my spell. Is that also delayed? and Let me check. The language is just the target can heal using a recovery. That's all it says. It's just the cleric's healing spell.
00:08:38
Speaker
Delayed magically here. like But that's only if I use it, so I don't know if that's technically Kaz healing me or just me healing myself.
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Speaker
I like the first one. Action. Oh, okay. Mia, you rallied, so it doesn't apply when you rally. So you get those hit points straight away. However, the healing that Kaz just gave you, you don't get until the start of Kaz's next turn.
00:09:05
Speaker
Flip plot. plot. Well, that's what she... So the end of the next round, since I rolled a one, you ah get little you get you get whatever you just rolled on your next recovery.
00:09:16
Speaker
That is... I'll be good. That's like another 11. Okay, great. And then I'll draw my next thing. Icon die. I'll let you know what it is when we get around. Cool. All right.
00:09:28
Speaker
Escalation die is now at a one. my My squishy die got smushed. One of the corners is rather... Oh no. Anyway, one. but The construct that is up on Valk, because Valk didn't step back, is going to attack Valk. That is a 23 to hit.
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Speaker
Yeah. Six damage. Okay. And the one on Nyx, 12 to hit. no Still no. Salina, your turn.
00:09:59
Speaker
I will do magic missile on the one that tried to get me. That's it. Okay. Yes. And I only get to do it once. Five damage.
00:10:10
Speaker
Yes. Okay. Nyx. Okay. Well, this thing that started repairing itself, I'm going to try and disrepair it again. Yeah. So as it starts to seal in, Nyx will swing the sword around and bring it at it from the other side.
00:10:27
Speaker
eight. A to hit. That does hit. Damaged dice are not as friendly this time. Ten. It is barely holding on, but it is. Oh, did we all hear the healing protocol thing? That wasn't? Yes. Okay, just making sure.
00:10:42
Speaker
Valk. I am going to... I'm going to get my focus. Okay. And I... oh Okay, no.
00:10:53
Speaker
Not yet. which I'm just going to get or gain my focus and... I'm going to stay there. I'll be fine. the Okay. The construct that ran up on Selena is going to attack Selena. That is 14 to hit.
00:11:08
Speaker
Yeah. Six damage. Okay. It is Kaz's turn. Valk, you can take your healing. Yay. Yay. Okay, Kaz is going to look at the one that Nyx has been messing with and realize that it's going to try to heal itself and needs to finish it off. So he's going to just raise his hands and see what happens.
00:11:30
Speaker
That is a 14 versus physical defense. That misses. And in this particular spell on a miss, nothing happens.
00:11:42
Speaker
ah they okay as a I think what Kaz is doing is he's trying to... Use the little knowledge you have as a future to try to control this magic too much and it's fizzling out because he's trying to manifest things he can't yet.
00:11:54
Speaker
So you see him like raise up and like something happens and it just fizzles on him. And let's see if he takes off flying. Nope, defensive spell. That's the turn. All righty.
00:12:06
Speaker
Escalation die is now to two. The one on... The one on Nyx is going to... 19 to hit. nineteen to hit Ace. That does it.
00:12:17
Speaker
Six damage. Okay. I'm going to cast as a reaction, burn it off. I'm going to take half damage. Oh, wait, no. that i'm Sorry. That's on the second casting, which I don't.
00:12:31
Speaker
It will take. So fire erupts from Nyx and it takes eight fire damage.
00:12:42
Speaker
Okay. It is dead. It burns Excellent. Great. but The one on Valk, that is a 22 to hit. Yep. Six hits. It swings a large wrench at your head.
Post-Combat Exploration
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Speaker
Really rude. I've seen worse. It's fine. You've seen worse. Okay, Slaina. and Okay, I'm going to do color spray. How many do we have left? Two.
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Speaker
and I can only target one. Dang it. Okay, I'll do the one that got me. And that 23 versus mental defense.
00:13:20
Speaker
Yeah. that ah Nine damage. Thanks. You hear a voice emanate from it saying, repair subroutines initiating.
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Speaker
Some of the damage heals. It is now Nyx's turn. How many are left? Two. One in front of Selina, one in front of Valk.
00:13:42
Speaker
The one in front of Selina looks worse off. But the one out of Valk is on a hot streak in terms of hitting Valk. absolutely absolutely Valk looks pretty bad. so No, I'm solid. I'm solid. Okay.
00:13:53
Speaker
That's good. I mean, of all the other states of matter... You should be mostly liquid. yeah like but That part's leaking a bit.
00:14:04
Speaker
It's okay. We're mostly solid. ah Okay, then, yeah, next we'll try to finish off the one that's attacking Slayer. A 16? see Oh, wait, unless last question die?
00:14:18
Speaker
No, it's... Three. Yeah, it's a two. Oh, it's a two? Yeah.
00:14:23
Speaker
18. 18 hits. That will be... I've got a six. This is another great down. That's five. That will be 18 damage.
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Speaker
Describe how you take apart this... Yeah, I mean, it's, it's a attack, it's been pretty badly damaged by Selena's spells. And so Nyx, finishing off the one she's attacking, she's going to just lunge over and just drive her sword through its torso and then rip it out sideways so that it just falls apart.
00:14:57
Speaker
And its gears fall out? I don't, what's inside these things that we're hacking apart? the little burst Sonic. You actually see... You see what look like... um Like... Spell shards, almost, that are glowing yellowish light, but they are perfectly symmetrical. They're not, like... They're not shards.
00:15:19
Speaker
It's like full of crystals. Yeah. Weird. Okay. It's like a geode. but Yeah. So, Nix... Tears it open, and it falls over.
00:15:29
Speaker
Falk! Yes. Falk! yes I need to use karmic rebuke on the one that has been hitting me with a wrench. Do that. Okay. Yeah. 25. Yeah.
00:15:46
Speaker
Yeah. yeah I get some metal. That one. Yeah. And redo. Okay.
00:15:56
Speaker
That's 10 damage against it. Okay. And it can't hit me. All right. And I take my focus. Anything else? Now I would like to take a step back.
00:16:09
Speaker
Smart. check All right. The
Matilda's Revelation and Replacement Theory
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Speaker
one that was in front of us is now dead. So it is now Kaz's turn. Nyx, how do you look? Nyx has taken a little bit of harm, but not a lot.
00:16:21
Speaker
Does Nyx look bad enough that Kaz thinks she'd be okay with potentially growing a tail to be helped? or but already has one? A second sale. Nyx is... it Nyx is at 75%.
00:16:33
Speaker
and That's what Nyx is outside. A little floating bar above Nyx is about three quarters full. Okay. It's not turned yellow yet. la So here's what here's what we're going to do. going to roll this and I'm going to grow a tail and you get to take a recovery.
00:16:49
Speaker
Cool. Or whatever Eric it gives me, I guess. Probably thematically something clockwork. Now, now, Jeff, is it guaranteed to be a tail or is it just an appendage? No, it's an appendage. I said whatever it gives.
00:17:01
Speaker
Let me roll a d10 for me. You got it. Wait, let me find it. There she is. Two. Two? Yeah, you underneath, or no, that would be weird. Out of the top of your shoulder, a like, mechanical arm, like, pops out.
00:17:21
Speaker
Okay. and Robot arm. Okay. Cool. It's not like a full, like, Warforged arm. It is literally, like, metal rod, joint, metal rod, and then, like, mechanical hand at the end.
00:17:33
Speaker
Like a desk lamp. Very. With a hand on the end of the lamp. Yes. And it hates Kaz. Just starts punching. No, um... No, I was going to have it come out underneath his arm, but then like, how do you get your real arm down? That's why I said that would be weird. That's why I had the fake arm grow out of his shoulder and instead of his arm. You're welcome.
00:17:52
Speaker
Great. And then... get the sense he did not listen to anything I just said. I heard everything that you said, but I was also rolling all my dumb attack stuff to be ready for the next turn.
00:18:03
Speaker
And you built this character. That's... I didn't write it. Nothing immediately happens with all of my weirdness rolls and stuff. No, it's at zero points. Okay.
00:18:14
Speaker
Cool. Then Escalation dies now. That's a three. Yuck. One in front of Valk is going... Oh, cannot attack Valk. So, gonna attack Nyx.
00:18:27
Speaker
That is a 20 to hit your AC. That does hit my AC. Six damage with a big ol' wrench. Ow. Selina. I'll do Ray of Frost at the one that just hit Nyx.
00:18:40
Speaker
That is a 26.
00:18:43
Speaker
Yes. Cool. Very much so. 12 damage. Come on. You hear it say, repair subroutines initiating, right? And now it is Nyx's turn.
00:18:56
Speaker
and will cast sword against it. Yeah. It hits Nyx crossface with a wrench and she does the sort of slow lift her face and snarls at it and then just brings the sword up and down six.
00:19:10
Speaker
Oh wait, 19 escalation die. Hit. Double sevens plus four, 18 more Describe how you kill this.
00:19:22
Speaker
Yeah. Nick raises her sword up overhead and just brings it down and smashes, cleaves through the not really a head, the head-shaped part of it. All right.
00:19:32
Speaker
So... Cass says, way to go, guys. We got them. The sounds of combat died down, and you hear the low thrum of the arcane engine in front of you. There is a control panel sitting in front of the four crystalline pods that you see with the bodies suspended in them.
00:19:50
Speaker
But you all can do whatever you like in this room. Are these the real people?
00:19:57
Speaker
are they going to replace the people? i feel like if... The... It had to be the real Barnaby that came to talk to us, right? Because he was concerned?
00:20:08
Speaker
That was my thought. Would they send someone to bring us here? I don't know what they are. ah ever Ever since I hit Jim Johnson and dented him, i have had no idea what's happening.
00:20:22
Speaker
Other than there's some sort of strange planer thing going on. Seems to have to do with Don V. But I don't know what that means or what these things are. I would assume they're replacements from reading the files.
00:20:37
Speaker
Okay. If they're replacements, we need to destroy them. How do we make sure? Maybe this is crazy, but what
Revival of Townspeople and Moral Dilemmas
00:20:45
Speaker
if we invite Marcus Tolliver down to look at his replacement and gauge his reaction?
00:20:49
Speaker
or Or one of the others. That's not... I don't know if that's crazy. It might cause him to become crazy. Or it might snap him out of it. Did...
00:21:01
Speaker
Have we talked in character about how the orphans might all be fake? Because that's the thing we did out of character. Yeah. Because was like, because Tim, we pick we could say, is there a Timmy to replace? or Is there a real Timmy? Is this just a spare? Okay. Okay. Do the, does anything about the controls give us an, I i want to try and figure out, are these real people or are they replicants?
00:21:26
Speaker
ah Yes. Don't know what's in here to help me figure that out. I'll take an intelligence or a wisdom check with whatever backgrounds you would like to throw at me. Oh, I'm bad at all these things and have no backgrounds, but I'll roll. Well, with an intelligence, that's 18.
00:21:40
Speaker
Nope. Plus my level. That's 21. Actually, I rolled a 17. So.
00:21:46
Speaker
So, Nyx, as you are looking around the the engine and like looking at these bodies suspended in the pods, You see a couple of displays on the control panel in front of each pod showing what you would vital signs. but you You see that these four entities, at least according to these readings, are alive.
00:22:10
Speaker
but Like beating heart, breathing. They are labeled as Barnaby Finch, Matilda Greenway, Marcus Tolliver, Timothy Kess. And with an 18... 21. 21, thank anyone twenty one thank you Just 20. I'm still sorry. I was adding the escalation die and not my level 20 because we're level two, not three. Yeah. As you're looking around, you see a very small segment of text.
00:22:37
Speaker
What languages do Nick speak? I don't think that's like a hard line thing in 13th age. It's just more of like what would make sense. I would assume Nick speaks common. I don't know if as a tiefling.
00:22:50
Speaker
Nyx innately understands like Infernal or something like that I don't know what they speak in Danvi but there's no conceivable reason that Nyx would speak it binary yeah right you ah was you see a small label on the console that says storage and containment center operation delta this operation has something to do with the mouth of a river Previous previous session, which was some time ago in Barnaby's file that you were investigating in one of the initial rooms in his file, it said need to initiate Operation Delta.
00:23:30
Speaker
because he was on T-Lation Delta. I had chance to say that. Oh, sorry. I was waiting on. Oh, shut up. it's I read the paper. Eric, we actually have someone who takes really good notes now. Yeah, okay.
00:23:43
Speaker
but You don't have to keep... I get it. i get why you're doing that, but... This is like the fifth time. sorry. I'm not used to that I... I love all my players. It's fair to say. Anyway, I think Valk has something to say.
00:24:00
Speaker
I don't have anything to say. That's weird. Who said that?
00:24:04
Speaker
I'm sure you would have mentioned this, but they are full sized in these crystals, right? Like they are fully grown and whole and whatever. Okay. Yes. Eric, I feel like that was meant to make me feel clear about something. Is that to say this is the replacement that was being prepared for Barnaby Finch?
00:24:23
Speaker
The based on the wording of the file and this, it seems much more likely from a timeline standpoint that the original Barnaby wasn't taking to the town well. And so he needed to be replaced.
00:24:35
Speaker
Okay. All right. I understand. Barnaby, Nix says to Valk, who obviously had that information and um and told Nix when it.
00:24:46
Speaker
I understand the need the feeling of the need to replace Barnaby. He is, after all, missing. There's a hole in the illusion here. Why the others? They seem entirely on board. Timmy seems, from your description, Kaz, more on board than anyone we've ever met. Oh, locked in.
00:25:06
Speaker
Fully locked in. i will I will further clarify the information. The dates on the file where it was talked about Barnaby Operation Delta is from months ago, before he would have gone missing.
00:25:17
Speaker
It takes that long to grow them, perhaps. But... Are they... Are they replacing everyone slowly, regardless? Is it easier to have a replacement than when they have to constantly be brainwashing or controlling or Hey, Eric.
00:25:39
Speaker
Yes. Jim Johnson was presumably one of these things, right? One of the same kind of thing that we're looking at here. He was a humanoid construct. No. Jim Johnson was not what you're looking at here.
00:25:50
Speaker
Is Jim Johnson a more refined version of what we just destroyed? He's one of those things with a skin suit on. Yeah. Did the crystals come out of him? We would have noticed that. There you go. Yeah. What what happened? what was What did we create out of hacking Jim Johnson apart?
00:26:04
Speaker
Jim Johnson, it was much more but like mechanical bits. Like he had been built on the material plate. Okay. you got a 21 Nick. So I'm going stop like doing the in fiction stuff. You are confident. These four people are the actual people.
00:26:18
Speaker
Oh, that's okay. Yeah, because if it's old enough, if it's old from before, then they replaced. And yeah. Okay, so.
00:26:29
Speaker
All right. Trying to think how, why Nix is confident of that in fiction. Is it possible to open one of these things up? Yeah, there's controls. Nix opens the Barnaby Finch one.
00:26:46
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Yeah, Nix, you hit the appropriate controls. I don't want to activate anything. I just want to open the door if I can. But Nix doesn't have know how to do these controls, so she probably just goes smash yeah on the control panel with her hand in.
00:26:59
Speaker
So yeah, the, the crystal pod, the front of it slides up to reveal Barnaby inside. And when you do out of the ceiling of this room, a mechanical arm drops down, goes and grabs Barnaby's body, pulls him out and then lays him on a table nearby, like a metal slab. yeah All right.
00:27:22
Speaker
ah be We need to know if this is a person a construct. I mean, if if the guy we met is anything like the real one, he wouldn't mind waking up with maybe a little, you know, like a small cut or something to see if he bleeds.
00:27:40
Speaker
was to say, that's the problem. Yeah, I punched Barnaby. Did he bleed? No, his
Confrontation with the Harmonizer
00:27:45
Speaker
face grew black. He got two black eyes. But he didn't bleed. I punched him hard enough to...
00:27:53
Speaker
blacken the whole center of his face, but he didn't bleed. Yeah, broken noses bleed like crazy. Nick says, everyone just pretend I did this too quickly for you. And she pops out her knife and just nicks the top of Barnaby's foot.
00:28:10
Speaker
Everyone always like the palm of the hand in movies. Stupid, terrible place to cut yourself. he's there You gotta blade the forehead. Feels like crazy. ah You see a red viscous fluid begin to come out of the bottom of this foot.
00:28:22
Speaker
He stabs her finger on it and smells it. Smells like blood. You don't know what he has. That's why I didn't taste it. Still not safe. You see the figure on the table begin to stir.
00:28:39
Speaker
Well, either this is Barnaby Finch or a very impressive thing, and I don't know how to know for sure. Everything is worse than it was when we walked in this room. And if this is Barnaby, then what did we leave behind?
00:28:53
Speaker
Yeah! the The one I wanted to bring along. Would we? there
00:29:03
Speaker
It's alright, the Warforged will take care it. And Kor is also there. Oh, right. And literally everybody. I think they'll be fine. You live with some pretty powerful people. Is there a deeper in?
00:29:15
Speaker
or is this where we're like There is a door to continue going on. Kaz is concerned there's a closet full of crystals with people in them. and this is like Hey, I know that there's only four here, but do are we supposed to believe there's only four um total?
00:29:30
Speaker
And everyone else okay bought in? I did this wrong. Barnaby's not the one we should wake up. We should wake up Timmy. Because, or Matilda, someone who is who who is, whose replicant is acting appropriately, but whose real person isn't going to.
00:29:52
Speaker
Which would have been the wrong order Matilda, whose efficiency rating is growing. And she, someone we were told strongly opposed this. john Jim Johnson told us that someone expressed a bunch of, a lot of concerns the town hall meeting.
00:30:09
Speaker
Was it Matilda? was Matilda and Marcus, I think. Okay, so. All right, let's wake up Matilda. Matilda. and talk to her because if she's a replicant, she's going to like this.
00:30:23
Speaker
And if she's been imprisoned, she's going to be righteously pissed off. I don't think we need to stab her. think we got that locked down. Okay. Just saying. it i didt i did I did begin by saying I did this wrong.
00:30:35
Speaker
Okay. Can I move Barnaby off the table? Because I'm afraid they're just going to stack the two. ah Are there any more tables? Or is it just this one? Amazing.
00:30:47
Speaker
I appreciate you, Mia, because I was at that exact moment formulating, okay, if they don't move Barnaby, what happens? All right. Once Barnaby is clear, Nyx will open the pod of Matilda Greenway.
00:31:02
Speaker
Mechanical arm drops out of the ceiling, grabs Matilda's body, pulls it over, lays it gently on. really don't like that thing.
00:31:11
Speaker
You keep activating it. Does it look like the one that popped out of my shoulder earlier? Similar, yes. Which is gone now, by the way. It's on the floor over there. Yeah, it just fell off. Oh, God, the idea that I molt my extra limb at the end of a battle is awful.
00:31:27
Speaker
But now, canon. God, don't give me an eye then, please. It just squeaks. Ew. No, I don't like it. It's in there. It's in the the thing. Eyes are in the play. Eyes in a pindage? Are you even considering an eye? No, appendage is one of the options.
00:31:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. We don't need to get into the wording right now. We can just operate on appendages only like a chump. go to Okay. casting down the road Nix is just going to try and shake Matilda awake.
00:31:54
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, I mean, it's it's easy to to shake her awake when she's not in the the containment. She, like, begins to stir and open. It's like, who are Where am I?
00:32:05
Speaker
What? Those things. They took me. Who are you? It's a real one. How do you feel about Jim Johnson? He's an idiot. but Actually, he's not. He's not a person. It was a construct in a skin suit.
00:32:21
Speaker
And we killed it. I destroyed it. just woke up. Hello. Yes. And everything's a nightmare. are in the room help you. Please don't be frightened. Who are you? Why are you in my town?
00:32:33
Speaker
and You were hired our... She says, let me fix for a second. Nyx is a smuggler, presumably. Yeah, Nyx is a smuggler. I don't know what he's talking about. We were hired by A clone to come here.
00:32:46
Speaker
i what? we We thought it was the real person, but as it turns out, it was not.
00:32:53
Speaker
There's another one of you walking around up top. There's an extremely lame one of you up there. That is true. if you If I might interject, ah hello, over here.
00:33:03
Speaker
Yes, hi. We
Nyx's Plan to Deactivate the Machine
00:33:05
Speaker
were tasked to figure out what was wrong with this town, assuming you have lost a good chunk of time saying that you were taken by these things that we have killed.
00:33:17
Speaker
We are a group. I am Valk. That is Nyx. We have Kaz and Selena. um We are here to help you. um We have found that there are many people who, quote assuming...
00:33:29
Speaker
many people, at least three, have been taken and swapped. One of them being you. You have been replaced up top. And Jim Johnson, along with these constructs, have taken over the town, turned it into something arguably fairly positive um and productive. But ah we're not going to go into that right now.
00:33:54
Speaker
But... um We need to make sure the other two are waking up. Am okay?
00:34:04
Speaker
Which is to say we need the table. if you if If you want to take another like minute or two, that's fine. I can help you off the table. But we do need to open one more. Has Barnaby been coming too?
00:34:16
Speaker
He's still stirring. like Nobody's shaking him awake. So he's just slowly. But she gets off the table. He's just dumped on the floor. She sees Barnaby on the floor. And she goes. ah And Matilda rolls her eyes like.
00:34:30
Speaker
Typical layabout. And she kicks Barnaby in the ribs.
00:34:34
Speaker
And then Bardi be like, ARGH! What the hell? Nix activates the next one for... Timmy. Where am I? What's going on? Who are you? See, this is confusing because this one's acting exactly like the one we met. Though I wonder because it was already not... He was already not doing well with the program that when they cloned him, they just effectively cloned him in the current state that he was, which was already faulty. So he wasn't... why are you talking about me like i'm not here in the room?
00:35:01
Speaker
Which... You sort of aren't. Tim. Well, you're not you're not only here in the room. Tim, Timmy, Tim, Tim, Timmy, Tim. Timothy's body drops him on the table. Barnaby and Matilda immediately start getting into a shouting match with each other.
00:35:14
Speaker
so Okay.
00:35:18
Speaker
We're just going to let that happen. Yeah, I think Kaz goes over and like tries to jostle Timmy o awake because okay kids. Do we need to take clothes for these people?
00:35:29
Speaker
No, they're dressed. they all weird and wet, like in the Matrix? No. Yeah, no hair, no eyebrows. Yeah, just coming to you. No, they're wearing, the they're wearing like pretty, everyone up top is dressed much nicer than these four individuals are. Sure.
00:35:45
Speaker
um Timmy starts it's like, who are you? but and he like shoves Kaz like away. Give me your lunch money. Hey. Hey. Hey, man. We just put eight points over to Marcus. It's like, we just got you out of that. You shoved me Come on, dude.
00:36:04
Speaker
Like Nick's activates sticking for Marcus. Maybe you put me in there. I didn't. My name's Kaz. There's a fake one of you up top that's a real dork. That's not surprising to him. He took that really well.
00:36:17
Speaker
and There's a fake you that's at school right now. He learned how to read. I'd be making fish clouds right now. My man! Kaz says grow up. Yeah, Marcus gets pulled out of pod, thrown on the table.
00:36:30
Speaker
Shake, shake, shake. My head hurts so much. Hello. Who are you? We go through it again? i'm not doing this. Okay. are we Your town's been taken over by people who are replacing people with constructs of some sort. All of you have already been replaced.
00:36:47
Speaker
We were hired by the replacement construct of Barnaby Finch, who acts exactly like this Barnaby
Chaos and Conclusion
00:36:52
Speaker
Finch. For some reason, all of the other constructs are extremely law-abiding. Nobody acts like me Except your construct.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah, we knew you were going to say that! Your construct! Oh my god. there's Which raises a very important question. Who owes us money? Not me. I didn't know I had it. Technically, it would be Barnaby because Barnaby was was copied at the the same fault state. I don't owe you a single cent. Barnaby, please quiet.
00:37:19
Speaker
I don't owe you a three cent, I tell you. be quiet. Apparently he's rich. You can't tell me to be quiet. and Nick's punching. Obviously, it's not going to work. walk don't Don't you punch, I'll punch you. Nyx turns and makes a head fake towards Barnaby and just... Yeah.
00:37:36
Speaker
He flinched. Barnaby flinch, am I right? How dare you! Easily! That's been established. i do all of this very easily. You guys are awful.
00:37:49
Speaker
Nyx rolls her eyes and then sidles over and offers Kaz a fist bump. Yeah. Oh, Kaz absolutely takes that. Are you kidding me? We should check the other door. I was going to check the door while everything was happening. Nyx goes over to back Falk up in case something horrifying is behind the other door.
00:38:04
Speaker
I've already been jumped and choked and hit with wrenches. appreciate it. Yeah, as the four people continue arguing with each other about what's happened, you open the door and see a large chamber filled with workbenches, magical forges, and assembly areas.
00:38:20
Speaker
And you see half-finished constructs in various stages of completion lining the walls. One section of the workshop is dedicated to smaller scale instruction with workbenches sized for creating child size constructs.
00:38:35
Speaker
And oh you see some half built templates that match exactly the, some of the orphans that you saw. They're orphans. Yep. The orphans aren't people.
00:38:49
Speaker
Do we see anything? Like, is there a half built is Melinda? Is that right? Barnaby's wife? No, the oh Melinda fit. That we could walk and be like, see this, you fake, this is what was happening. And so we can put some context to this for them.
00:39:03
Speaker
Most of the contracts being built in here, unfortunately, are are the kids like maintenance ones. Oh, there's the section for the kids. Gotcha. Specifically, but it looks like the kids are the like, In terms of people up top, but whatever replacements they made for these four people ah were bespoke jobs, but the assembly line for replacements up top are the orphans.
00:39:27
Speaker
Okay. So those aren't kids? They weren't importing the children. They were just building them. Okay, I got something different from that. I got that they they brought kids in to replace them.
00:39:42
Speaker
and maybe send them back. Like the orphans are real. They're building constructs of the real orphans to replace. Oh, like for a swap. They're swapping. Yes, they're swapping. They're their're kidnapping and swapping with replacements.
00:39:54
Speaker
They're building a generation of ordered people for the future. Is how I... Kaz said all that. It sounded like Jeff. You all can investigate the room to see if there's any kind of documentation. like I will investigate the room.
00:40:09
Speaker
I saw a bunch of orphans. do these Do any of these... Are any of these... i can't talk now. My brain fell out of my ears.
00:40:21
Speaker
You said the the assembly line thing. That's not where half-finished constructs. There's no half-finished orphans here. It's just that it's small, so it looks like that's what they're building. No, there's some half-finished orphans on the wall. Do they look like the ones that I have met up top? They wouldn't build identical.
00:40:36
Speaker
Not identical. Okay. Okay. So then my my theory doesn't necessarily get locked down. Okay. Is there a door that came through? There's another door that continues on.
00:40:48
Speaker
ah This place... I say we just leave them alone. Let them fight for a while if and we i fix this. I suspect they're not going to go anywhere because they'll never agree on who gets to go through the door first.
00:41:03
Speaker
Good point. Jock, you were investigating? Yeah, I will investigate the the workshop place. Thank you.
00:41:13
Speaker
and Paranormal investigator? That would be applicable here. You found an assembly line constructing children. Okay. You know, sometimes just got to make sure. 26. 26. 26.
00:41:25
Speaker
qui
00:41:30
Speaker
twenty six Yeah, you investigating around find a kind of tucked out of the way, a small workbench covered in a very like meticulously well stacked and organized stack of paper that that said he's got away from me.
00:41:47
Speaker
But as you look through them, you see that the... There's an iteration process going on with the children where some of the children will be pulled out of the orphanage and brought back down here to be tweaked, be giving updates because they're trying to hone in on the exact.
00:42:08
Speaker
ah You see there are profiles for also all of the people and families in Pella's watch. And they're trying to find the perfect personality to, uh, trigger the nurturing parental affection of the various families here in town. Um, and so they'll send a batch up, nobody will adopt him and they'll pull some back down and continue to tweak and ideate.
00:42:31
Speaker
They haven't quite got it right yet, but they're trying to create the, the most adoptable children imaginable. Oh, I was wrong. There's all yeah this is there's also, there's also some notations about since the first batch went up, despite the lack of adoptions, the orphanage has given the town a greater sense of purpose, great greater civil responsibility and engagement, et cetera.
00:42:55
Speaker
So that is considered a success, even though nobody's adopted the kids yet. None of those children are... Children. Real. And they are... As I was walking over, we're just like just papers.
00:43:08
Speaker
And they are trying to make the perfect child. I am also assuming connecting that back to what we learned, that they are not going to import the children, but export the children.
00:43:25
Speaker
The perfect children. To seed the town with... orderly children? yes and And beyond, one assumes?
00:43:36
Speaker
Probably. That's likely, yes. like Like, I heard one time about... Well, I didn't really... hey you We're not going to go into the specifics of that.
00:43:48
Speaker
there There was like like sleeper agents and you you like you turn them on and then they start like fighting everything. so We might have small combat children.
00:43:59
Speaker
Had not thought of that. in And they've been put in in how homes of people who really, really like them. So it's the perfect cover for the the strength of the things that like lifted me up, but in small compact form.
00:44:15
Speaker
Do they grow? ah I don't want to know. i but i didnt Looking at the assembly, i feel like they would have to come back for like replacement parts. I'd like to break everything in here.
00:44:28
Speaker
Did anybody thought about how the rest of the town went along with it? It's that... I can't imagine they all had a huge change of heart. I think we need to go back and look at that control panel before we break everything in here and make sure we don't shut down people.
00:44:43
Speaker
not Not in this... Break everything in this room. Go nuts. But not everything down here and until we figure out that control panel is keeping folks moving up there, you know? i don't I don't know. um This is all very... I've never seen anything like this. I don't mean to surprise you guys.
00:44:57
Speaker
But I'm concerned about the real people that are up there that... have to have been brainwashed, right? There's no way they just had a major change of heart.
00:45:07
Speaker
Something is influencing them, and I don't think we've found it yeah Yeah. There is... and There's more. There's another door. Can we hear arguing from two doors back?
00:45:19
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I'm concerned about them going into the town a little bit. And breaking brains. At least two of them can fight. So...
00:45:31
Speaker
That's part of what concerns me. And there's also
00:45:37
Speaker
Giselle. Giselle is also out there. Oh, So if something happens, they'll... Oh, yeah. What's the clock looking like? Is it is it dark yet? Is Giselle on the prowl?
00:45:49
Speaker
Has it been an hour? Not yet. Okay. kess Kaz rubs his shoulder and then stops and goes, you Timmy can't fight. That's for sure. I'm fine. Shut up. isn Okay.
00:46:01
Speaker
I... Can I go to the next door? Yeah. Can I yeah open the door? You can. You open the door. The massive chamber opens before you that you would only really equate like a mechanical cathedral.
00:46:19
Speaker
It's just a massive space. Oh, no. The walls and ceiling are covered in ornate runes that clearly thrum with some kind of arcane energy.
00:46:30
Speaker
And you see a raised platform dominating the center of the room, uh, surrounded by crystalline conduits carrying energy throughout the room and presumably the rest of this facility.
00:46:41
Speaker
You see emanating out of these crystals, these conduits displays showing status of every citizen and building in Pella's watch and standing in the center of the platform is a tall slender figure with clockwork mechanisms visible beneath translucent crystal skin.
00:47:04
Speaker
ah its face features a pleasant, permanently smiling ceramic mask with ears turning behind the eye sockets. Uh, I hate that so much. Can I close the door? I want to close the door. Before Kaz screams, can I put a timer on the compass and throw it? Right?
00:47:26
Speaker
The figure turns and looks at Falk. You were expected. Dean. Compass time, compass time. Go, go, go. And it, with a gesture, the displays drop away and it turns to face you.
00:47:41
Speaker
Do we need to talk to this thing? I have no intention of that, no. I'm just speaking for myself. It already knew we... I'm just i'm goingnna i'm gonna, like, do, like, a one-minute kind of thing, and I'm gonna ring that. i Mostly close the door. It wants to to us! It's like holding the phone. it's for you! we but and it There's though?
00:48:11
Speaker
i think you i think you all saw it yeah did un unfortunate it was's already watching never unsee it we kind of it already knew we sure think because it was it was already watching us so i be we might as well i tweet as well to
00:48:29
Speaker
I'm a paranormal investigator. This is within my age here to go in there. You want to talk to it. You want me to let you talk to it and to not attack it. Yet.
00:48:41
Speaker
For like two minutes. All right. But you probably might want to prepare the compass. Just... Right.
00:48:52
Speaker
Nyx takes the compass out while we have the door half closed. Okay. adjusts it to Donvi. Is it evident to Nix how to do that or or else she yeah. um But we adjust the compass to Donvi and then slides it back into the she slides it back into the satchel but she keeps her like her left hand resting on it so that worst case scenario she just activated inside the satchel.
00:49:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:20
Speaker
I'm gonna, I will enter the room first. Yes. No argument here. Yeah, I'm going in. Yeah. I'm going in Let's go. So as you all get like two or three steps into the room, something that none of you probably consciously are aware of, but like us from a third person perspective, we see that you all, your breathing becomes in time.
00:49:45
Speaker
Just mean and as you, as you want. And you're, while you don't like walk in perfect step, there is a rhythm to your footsteps as you all walk towards the figure.
00:49:57
Speaker
And it says, welcome. I assume that you have questions. What are you and what is your purpose in this town?
00:50:10
Speaker
yeah i have several. First of all, how dare you? Yeah, what the heck, man? Is that a question we can ask? i Open forum. Open forum. I think Vax might be better. can all shout.
00:50:27
Speaker
I'm sure he can keep it in order, you know, so. How tall are you? How tall is it? and ah It's about nine feet tall. I am inevitable.
00:50:37
Speaker
I come from and shut down my home in Donvi. My name, or... Designation rather is a harmonizer. See Nyx was like unhappy with how comfortable she was with all the like order and and everything in the town. But this this is too much. This this this thing is is too.
00:51:02
Speaker
i don't know. But why are you inevitable? And why, why, why here specifically? Inevitable beings of Donvi who are designed to enforce the fundamental laws of the universe.
00:51:19
Speaker
I am here. That's the same. To prove something, this town, if that designation is appropriate, was far and away the most chaotic what you section of the material plane we have witnessed.
00:51:38
Speaker
And wanted to see if they could be made better. But it already had its own harmony, so you came in and disrupted it.
00:51:50
Speaker
It was discordant. but but But harmonious in itself. The elevation of choice as inherently valuable is a fallacy.
00:52:00
Speaker
The romanticization of struggle, the worship of suffering is proof of life. These are all... falsehoods. That you must tell yourself to justify the cruelty of the world you deserve.
00:52:15
Speaker
But there are better ways to live. By replacing people who you don't like? They would have been into art. But somewhere else they were better suited to be.
00:52:26
Speaker
No harm was going to come to them. No harm had come to them. They just did not. What does that mean? What? in this current iteration of the town. Where would you have put them? That was still being assessed.
00:52:42
Speaker
Somewhere that the environment could have hopefully remedied some of their maladies. Why did your Barnaby construct come to us? What happened there?
00:52:53
Speaker
That was unfortunate. I wished to maintain a certain level of authenticity of the individuals that had to unfortunately be placed. but in doing so, I kept the fundamental flaws in Barnaby Finch's mind, in his replacement, and eventually, like a virus, it took over the rest of his mind.
00:53:15
Speaker
Caldy. Reverted him back to what his ill-suited form If you could return him, I would be appreciated. He is a construct. It is like a... I I know. I know this doesn't really exist mechanically in this game, but Nyx's right hand has has made the necessary motions to throw a bunch of infernal swords through this thing at the first...
00:53:46
Speaker
Opportunity when she can't take it anymore, I guess. yeah And did your plan only involve this town specifically? Could this time This thing required the greatest care in its rehabilitation.
00:54:06
Speaker
What did you do to all the people you didn't replace? How come they all changed? What did you... You didn't just convince him to change, did you? Like, like any town that resides near a material plane of Donvi, there are certain magical resonances that encourage the mind towards that of order And this, and he gestures to all of the rooms and everything around you.
00:54:36
Speaker
And based on proximity, you get a sense that you all are basically right underneath the center of the town at this point, going through the tunnels the way that you've gone. If this town is so close to Donvi and Donvi inclines people towards lawful behavior, why was no one here behaving lawfully?
00:54:52
Speaker
This had to be constructed. You created a manifesto. Yes. I see. One of this size was necessary for such a chaotic and pain-ridden town.
00:55:08
Speaker
But other towns would not require such severe intervention. Eric, help me just on a remembering something, or Mia, help me on remembering something. In our first mission... We tried to use the compass and it didn't work because the ritual was still in place, but that ritual was just making use of a preexisting manifest zone. It wasn't creating one or was the ritual creating the manifest zone? I have that answer if you don't want to. Yeah, go on.
00:55:33
Speaker
That was a manufactured manifest zone. That was also a ritual. Okay. It was not actually occurring. Right. So this is a similar situation. Got it. Okay. However, I think there were some updates made to the compass after that to make it more powerful in that situation, if I remember correctly. Okay.
00:55:53
Speaker
or You do, it's still worth trying. Can I draw this thing or is it going to like be cursed and like not actually appear in my notebook?
00:56:04
Speaker
You can draw it. Okay, I just to draw it. Is that something that's happened to you before? Your notebook got cursed? Like genuinely. I've tried to recall things from places and it just kind of, and you know, like the, like, like the children when they just like scribble.
00:56:22
Speaker
Gotcha. it It, I could see it in my head and it was kind of giving me a a severe migraine. and then I looked at the paper and it was just like, not intelligible. Gotcha. Nick's,
00:56:34
Speaker
as as As it gestures towards the machine, to towards the Eldritch machine here so very grandly, Nyx takes several steps towards the machine but as if for a closer inspection to the thing that it is showing off.
00:56:52
Speaker
I hope is that...
00:56:55
Speaker
we can eliminate suffering. You want to turn this plane into another Donvi? No. so to yeah point Something akin to it. But not exactly.
00:57:09
Speaker
We just see We see the people of this plane go through so much that they need not go through. So we are compelled to help.
00:57:21
Speaker
So it's not that anyone did anything to you or to Don V. It's simply that you can't stomach the existence of something like this. In the. On the planes.
00:57:34
Speaker
No, I mean. Would you say medic could not stomach the sight of a bleeding stomach from a sword? As soon as he turns to speak to Kaz, I take another couple of steps towards the machine.
00:57:51
Speaker
Okay. There's an understanding that someone with a sucking chest wound wants assistance. Sorry, just, Philip, so you know where you're headed. the the The crystalline conduits are in the center of the room where it's standing, and everything emanates out from there. so i just like up on it It's like up on a platform, yeah and I'm not, right? like I'm sorry.
00:58:09
Speaker
The creature that's speaking to us is like up on a platform. Yes. yeah I'm basically trying to get as close to machine as I can. I want to slip the compass under it when I'm close enough to do so. Gotcha.
00:58:21
Speaker
Harmonizer turns to Kaz and says, Very well. I'm going to it. Could you not say that somebody that then was consistently undergoing self-destructive behavior that was going to lead to the inevitable death did not require intervention?
00:58:38
Speaker
Not coercively, not without their knowledge, not without their consent. I wouldn't black bag somebody for drinking too much and put them in a but if fit a dry cell for a while.
00:58:50
Speaker
Everyone up there Still who they ah were. I gotta say they're not. I met that Timmy and he's nothing like the guy down here. He did replace four of them.
00:59:01
Speaker
Like I said, Timmy was an unfortunate. Or Timothy. Timothy was an unfortunate case. But like I said, we were going to find a new home for Timothy.
00:59:12
Speaker
Do you mean like a new town to be in? Or were you going to put him somewhere that like, what does a new home mean to you? Because a new home to me is like moving to a new city. We would have found a new city for him to reside in, where he could have been happier and near better influences.
00:59:29
Speaker
Am
00:59:33
Speaker
I close enough? Yes, give me a dexterity check to try and immediately move. Black marketeer? Sure, yeah, that that would be trying to slip something into a spot. I want to say Kaz clocked that, and that's why he was kind of like, and also this, and hey!
00:59:51
Speaker
ah That is going to be 18. 18. hasty You succeed. So when he's arguing with Kaz, Nyx sort of backs towards the thing, slips the compass out of the satchel, and slides it under the machine.
01:00:14
Speaker
And there's a button to activate it? Yeah, the center piece gets pushed in. And then Nyx sort of turns back towards the others and she's got her the ball of one foot resting on that center piece and is just watching the others to see when go time is.
01:00:36
Speaker
and Anybody else have any questions for the Harmonizer or declarations about how what he's done is so wrong? Nyx is biting her tongue because she does not want the thing to turn to her, but she has so many things to say. Nyx looks at essentially. two minutes. Well...
01:00:51
Speaker
then next well and but if
01:01:00
Speaker
I had a question and then it was gone. Probably because this thing is nine feet tall. What happens if everything reverts? Like, are you only being polite and kind because things are currently going your way?
01:01:18
Speaker
a creature of order and law. I am not one in But I am an inevitable. So if the it laws of the universe are broken, I am compelled to punish those who violate.
01:01:39
Speaker
I just have an issue but with there being existing laws and things were working, even though you didn't like how it was working because it was too chaotic for your preferences. And then you come in and then you make new laws, which which if if someone opposes that is iss just breaking those laws, the laws that you made. But in our own world, they were the right laws.
01:02:04
Speaker
we're trying to repair things to our original order. just changed it. speak fundamental laws of the universe, not municipal decrees. Barnaby Finch came to you for help, but Barnaby Finch drank himself into violence. His wife loathed him.
01:02:21
Speaker
His daughter bit him. His son disrespected him. You call that a life? I call that a malfunctioning pattern.
01:02:33
Speaker
Left untouched, it devours itself. It only leads to death and demise and unhappiness. so Does Barnaby Finch strike you as a happy person?
01:02:44
Speaker
In his own strange way, yes. When things were normal for him, when there was a status quo that was of his own. Yes, he was happy with how things were functioning in this town. The only reason your construct left was because things were too different. He became unhappy.
01:03:04
Speaker
Because he could not accept his new reality. We don't get to decide whether what makes other people happy is okay or not, as long as...
01:03:16
Speaker
they're and the people they're doing it with are are fine with it because uh go ask everyone up there if they're happy okay we'll turn off all these things and we'll go find out what if we ask them now they're gonna be like yeah because you and he points to the runes abounding in the room because you made this turn this off ask him six months ago and they might have said yeah then too i'm sorry i talked over the guy you're good Kaz would never have done that.
01:03:46
Speaker
A very soft-spoken nine-foot-tall creature. It's okay. I think it's an act. I think he's playing gentle. Authenticity is a fallacy when it comes to personhood.
01:04:00
Speaker
It's not a singular truth. It's a cascade of responses to stimuli around it. Improve the stimuli. Improve the person. I like there's no winning with you. What did you say, Mia? Sorry. There's no winning with you.
01:04:15
Speaker
I disagree.
01:04:19
Speaker
yeah Amazing. Well, I guess we'll find out. And Nyx taps the disc in the middle with her foot. Okay. the crystalline conduits surrounding the harmonizer ye immediately dim, causing the rest of the room runes around the room to shut down and dim.
01:04:44
Speaker
And the harmonizer just lowers their head and shakes and says, chaos wins. Rending. End of episode. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to part of the conversation around the podcast, you can head over to our Discord link, which is in the description of this podcast episode and also over on YouTube, youtube.com slash The Geek Pantheon. Go check out the videos there. Philip, do it.
01:05:08
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ah Right. Also on YouTube and Spotify, you can find Tales from the Laughing Tree where we have another actual play called Blades and Banners. It's Pirates and Eberron. Indeed. but We also have Patreon, patreon.com slash gpanteano. If you want to financially support the show, you can do so there. Thank you all so much for listening.
01:05:23
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I have been the Game Master Eric. I'm Mia. I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm the Jeff. We'll see you next time.