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C3 Episode 64 Pilgrimages & Infestation Chapter Ten
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The party parts ways with Dimitri.
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Introduction and Recap
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with the k
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twenty radio your gamers role da
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Hello and welcome to Ebron or Newton actual play podcast at the Ebron campaign setting. I'm your game master Eric. I'm Mia. I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Folks, what happened it last time?
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Not a big fight. Yeah, no. Really, really efficient fight. Sometimes we just really knock one out of the park. Sure. Give us a secret entrance and a moment to think about it and we can really do it.
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And then we all stared at each other trying to figure out what to do. We had a moral quandary and decided to not solve it. Yeah. I stared into the abyss.
Exploring the Bunker and Mysteries
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Yeah, it's true. And it stared back into Val.
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oh I wanted to go in there so bad. Can I pet that plane? Can pet that plane? Pet got me. All right. Yeah. And you all just found a bunker. Just gave Grub the green light to go put the crystal in the slot.
00:01:13
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With Dimitri. You know, that'll fit some shit. Oh, there's another one. Once again, the the visual components are like static figures. Like, it's clear that there's some corruption that prevents you from seeing what these individuals look like. But you do see some individuals pop up.
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That's no emissary. That's a silver dragon. I can smell the blood. She's hiding it well, but not from me. You sure? She's composed, yes, but she's given us nothing but help since she arrived.
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Just because the wolf offers a helping hand doesn't mean the hair should turn its back on it. She walks like a glacier, slow but with a weight to crush mountains. Those eyes? Those aren't mortal eyes. They're ancient.
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Cold. Perhaps she is a dragon. But if she stands against the overlords, we need her. We need them. That's what matters now. So we trust the very powers that sat on their mountain thrones while our cities burned. I hate they're only here now.
00:02:11
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I hate that we begged for aid and got silence, but I've seen what her fire did to an overlord Titan in battle. If she's real, if she's serious, we have to take the risk. You call that fire?
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That was a message. She wanted us to see it, just as much as she wanted us to think it it was a favour.
Debating Trust and Dragon Alliances
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That message saved five thousand lives. We are losing, Vrael.
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If we turn away every outstretched hand because of what might be hidden in the sleeve, we are already dead. I don't fear death. I fear chains, and I see the glint of steel in her smile.
00:02:44
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What a luxury to not fear death. They got Tyrael the knight three months ago, left no body. Just a shadow and a broken lute. I still dream I hear her playing.
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I don't like it either. But if she speaks for the chamber, if she can tip the scales, we can't afford pride right now. It's not pride. It's survival. Would you let a wyvern watch over your children just because it smiled? Maybe if the fire outside the house was worse than the teeth within, the overlords won't stop until there's nothing left to burn.
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And perhaps we're already cinders, fighting over ash. yeah You don't have to go back. Not yet. Stay. Help us. We need you.
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You are brave, Orion. Perhaps even wise. But your urgency, it does not move the mountains. The mountains don't bleed. My people do.
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Dragons measure in centuries. We weigh balance over impulse. The chamber will not move because one mortal shouts into the storm. Then don't go back to them. Stay here with me. An abandoned five millennia of purpose? You know that I can't, even if I want to.
00:03:58
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You once said the world was a tapestry and we were threads crossing. i I thought we were woven tighter than this. We are. And that is why I won't let you beg. You're worth more than a dragon's pity.
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You could change everything, Miriam. The others, if they see one dragon truly stand with us, the rest might follow. You think dragons move as mortals do? A decision is not made in a heartbeat. It is forged over centuries. The world doesn't have centuries. It barely has days. If you leave now, they'll say it was all manipulation, that your aid was a feint.
00:04:37
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I don't think that, but they will. And what do you think? I think, I hope, you came because you believed in something. In us. I believe in balance, in long memory, and in the unlikely spark of meaning that mortals sometimes ignite.
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Then stay. Stay for that spark. Stay for me. You are remarkable. But I carry a thousand voices in my mind,
Strategizing Against the Overlords
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Orion. My loyalty is not only mine to give.
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Then just give some of it. Just enough. I already have. The others may not see it, but I stepped down from the sky and walked beside you. This is what I can do.
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And what about us? That I cannot answer yet. ah out of The giants mourn like mountains. The songs carve grief into stone. We saved the caravan. We held the pass. Mourn the losses, but don't forget the math. 32 lives lost, but 172 saved. The retreat held. The roads remain open. That's what matters.
00:05:45
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It all matters. Loss and survival, both. They're not numbers on a ledger. Then don't tally them. I will. Someone must. You reduce them to numbers.
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To logistics. Eladra, mark down that our commander will add tally marks to the graves. Do you remember their names? I remember every name. But names don't change the outcome.
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Roads do. Supply lines do. Their names echo in every path we pave forward, in every march that still has boots in it.
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There's value in remembering. I've written every name, every unit, every act of valor. If we don't remember them, who will? And we must build something worthy of their memory. Not just war.
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Something after. And what of now? I've seen their entropy. Raw. Writhing. Unshaped. What if there's another way? What if we use the entropy itself against the Overlords? If we create a siphon, something that grounds their magic before it lands? No, absolutely not.
00:06:51
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You've seen what happens when we try to bottle that poison. But I've learned. The forge listens. I can shape it. Onatar, you're brilliant. But brilliance can still burn the world down.
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You may not like what you forge. If we could contain it. Perhaps there's a path forward. Hopefully we could- Hope is what children hold. We're past that now.
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super a sorrowfullo love out horses our are whatever Reckless, unauthorized, irredeemable, you violated half the accords we swore to uphold! And yet we came back with answers.
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Maybe you should be thanking us. Breach of command, dereliction of duty, unauthorized infiltration of enemy territory. Shall I go on? Only if you're trying to tempt me into another rogue mission. We saw them, Cole.
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Not corpses. Echoes. Souls that don't move on. Trapped. Tormented. Repurposed. Into overlord fuel.
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a stronghold in the black ash fen. They're not just corrupting flesh anymore. They're twisting souls. Three cities wiped out, gone in a breath.
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And those souls, they don't pass on. They clean coal, like smoke that doesn't dissipate. You've seen the black spires. Thought they were monuments? They're for harvesting.
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The dead feed their war machine. And while you were off, gallivanting through an infernal war camp, ghost hunting, the Northern Front collapsed. Ten battalions lost their leaders. Our allies were routed, hundreds dead, entire lines erased because you weren't there. And what good would we have done? Dying nobly for a cause we didn't understand?
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We saw the source of their strength. And now you do too. They've learned to cage the afterlife. when What happens when no one can die cleanly? When every funeral becomes a recruitment?
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This is no longer war. It's an infection. You broke the chain of command. You endangered the entire campaign. We broke nothing! The dead are screaming, Cole.
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And they don't stop. This was reckless. Criminal. Maybe. But it's the only lead we've got.
Discoveries in the Bunker and Library
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I'm not asking for a medal, but don't you dare talk to me like we're fools. We saved your damn soul.
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You just haven't noticed it's missing yet. And then the figures go away and start searching the place. I get the distinct impression that this is not the first of these two of C.
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Why does he get to have that impression? He made me decide. He made me decide. Well, we didn't get to count it. Kaz goes, whoa, what was all that? Weird. How'd you know how to do that? Some raccoon you got there.
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Anyway, what's that? but He tries to get to be distracted. jimmy tree but Nix is looking around. Yeah. In the bunker, in the corner of the room, Nix, you see a pair of goggles sitting on the floor behind one of the workbenches that are very clearly magical. As you, do you pick them up and examine them further?
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pick them up, put them in my bag. I do not pause to examine them while we're with Demetri. Go Nix is... This is moving through this space, stripping out of things that might be useful, but not pausing to examine any of them closely.
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ah You, like in the other bunker, find like a workstation with writing and drawing implements, but all of the parchment is either gone or like ravaged by time. And then there's the the central console.
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And that's really all you can see, like at first blush, like looking around the bunker. Have we been taking the shards with us? Yes. Okay. I grabbed the shard, put it in the bag. So what was that? to but who knows? Everyone ready to go? How neat is that? Can I do a once-over just in case? Yeah, I want to as well. We all can. It's a bunker. yeah That is what Nyx will say when she has completed a search.
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No. That's all you give fine can really find? 17. Yeah, you don't get a sense there's any hidden apartments or anything like you you found everywhere. Can I add privileged mischief to mine for so such searches? Sure. Okay. yeah Well, I rolled a three, so that's going to give me like 12. My wisdom's nothing special. don't know if you guys have noticed. Yeah.
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Okay. So, you all leave the bunker? Yeah. and so I think so. Where do you head to next? There was the other door. So do we continue searching? i think we continue to try to make it not as big of a deal that we found that, you know? Not make it as obvious that that's what we were looking for. Yeah, we can check another door for sure. That makes sense.
00:11:44
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Let's go. Okay. It's tactically reasonable, Nyx.
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So you all walk across the forge and open the other door and you find things the longer we're in this guy's presence, the more he's about to learn. You find yourself entering a library but that was right next to the forge. The library appears to have been ransacked recently. Brazor set up in the center of the room filled with ash and like fragments of pages that you can see like pretty recent.
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There are some partial pages still in it. um But the the shelves are still about half full of several volumes. If people wanted to kind of look through them to see if there's anything notable, I would take a wisdom check to like examine the bookshelves to see if anything jumps out at you all.
00:12:28
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Yeah, Selina will do that. That's 10. Okay. That is, and specifically looking for more Zori at planer stuff. That is, I'm sure, so I don't knock that around. With the wisdom?
00:12:41
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Yep. 22. Okay. I was specifically looking for two things. Anything about Thalons generally. but And then also. Candy. Yeah. No, another book, Blood of Old book to take home to our ghost friend. Oh, good idea. And I rolled a natural 20, so. Okay.
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Anything? we understand that can still be no. Yeah. um So, for... And you got a 22. And also, yes, candy, if there's any. That's what the natural 20 is. You find one of those is bug encased, or the the the like caramel, but there's like a centipede in there. love That's what do you get.
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Make it honey so I know we can't rot. and say yeah need you could you get that It could be honey. You find a small book, Kaz, and like one of the bottom shells kind of tucked out of the way that... Everything gets to be shared.
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it definitely has like... the vibe of Blood of Vole. It doesn't say like a compendium guide to Blood of Vole. But it it has kind of a dark, like brown leathery cover that you pull off the shelf as you're just kind of going through and quickly flipping through. um And you see that it is a book kind of outlining the excavates of an elf rogue this is an ancient ancient book like about the same age as the library itself if not a little bit older and um that is a like a war account of a elf rogues acts in a war and the elf is referred to as azur a z u r um not
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And then you also find a with a natural 20 a book titled The Forgotten Songs of Thelanus. And it seems to be like a well put together book. It's natural 20 that you rolled. You flip it open and it's it's almost like a hymnal.
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Like it's like literal songs. Once again, this book seems to be at the same age as... the book that you found on Azur. um But as you flip to the back, the back cover has a a drawing of a woman.
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And you probably dropped the book because it is the lady of stories. There's list time manipulation stuff. There's going to be a song called like Kaz That Turd. ah Yeah. um Val, looking for Zoriat related stuff. You find a book on like a shelf that would be i hiked for a dwarf that you can tell. hit real low.
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was placed on the shelf. Yeah. And it's got... You open the book, and it's filled with scratchings that don't resemble any language. Once again, looks like dozen of the insects had their legs dropped in ink and walked all over the page. But...
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As soon as you open the book, you immediately understand the intention in the book. You hear the voice of someone pleading for help. And in their pleads, they say they failed to save those they love due to their own blindness.
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Okay. It's a male voice. ah If only he had listened to them. if only they could have shared their knowledge and minds. Then they would be whole.
00:16:17
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In fact, give me a wisdom check real quick. Zoriatt touched related. That's a natural 20. Yeah. Yeah. Do the math for real quick just to see what what the actual role was.
00:16:28
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Am I also adding my racial bonus? I think it's racial or class bonus. It's plus two. That's 29 without it. 31 with it. Okay.
00:16:41
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Well, this was a 25 DC. It was very hot. Yeah. um ah You recognize the voice. ah It is a voice from the recording that you just heard. The voice that was kind of gruff and speaking with it was the just the man and the woman speaking together. The kind of gruff man. It is his voice pleading to you in your mind. Me directly?
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It's just like, like he's not saying, go you yes, no, like he's just pleading. I got a check. um The voice quiets down, though, once you hear the, if only they could have shared their knowledge and minds, they would then they would be whole.
00:17:15
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This is a magical item, magical book called The Tome of the Hive.
Characters' Personal Histories and Reflection
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but I will send all this text to you, but for the sake of this podcast, I'm going to read it out.
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Once per arc, the owner of this book can activate its ability to let their allies share their mental defense. So whoever has the highest mental defense of the group, everyone has that mental defense.
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The allies are unaware that their minds are being impacted in this way. Once the owner of this book successfully convinces a reluctant ally to follow their plan, a new ability unlocks.
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Once per arc, the owner of this book can activate its ability to connect the minds of all their allies. They all have telepathy for 1d4 hours. The owner of this book can sacrifice the recoveries of their allies to increase the size of the dice rolled to determine the length.
00:18:08
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The allies are unaware that their recoveries have been lost. Can't decide if this the best or worst person to have this item. ah yeah Once the owner of this book forces a group of non-mook enemies whose number is greater than or equal to the owner's current level to surrender to them, a new ability unlocks. Once per arc, the owner of this book can force a non-hostile, non-player character to agree to their point of view or perspective wholeheartedly.
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The NPC will forever regard the owner of the book as a friend and confidant expressing their virtue to others. This change is permanent and any conflicting personality traits or beliefs that this person had before are erased completely.
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In the bag. so additionally, there are some other things on the shelf. We'll say Valk finds one and Cass finds the other. Valk, you also find a book titled Annals of the Forge.
00:18:59
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This details the work being done at the height of the forge's production. It details the need for secrecy in arming an underground movement. It is clear... that the dwarves haven't gone above ground in some time on account of, quoting the book, dragons and the other traitorous races. Kaz, you find a book titled Accounts for the Journey.
00:19:21
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This details the dwar... This is a book clearly much ah more recent. Not like... it was It's still at a time when people occupied this temple, but it's not as old as the books that you found. um Details the dwarves plans to head north from their current location to meet up with other tribes that had gone into hiding.
00:19:40
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This book references altercations on the surface with the hobgoblin forces of the D'Khani Empire. The collective decision is that the temple must be abandoned for now, but they will return once relations have been established with the other dwarves. The expedition is going to be led by Hargnath Mjornon, the leader of the temple.
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And you all would know that Mjornon is one of the most influential clans in the Mjornholds. In fact, the Mjornholds are named after the Mjorncan clan. What was his first name again? Do not spell it. Simply tell me. Hargnath.
00:20:13
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Got it. And then... Lastly, you both kind of find schemas and notes scattered throughout for based on the daggers various weapons and armor pieces that this horde crafted, but it is written in coded Dwarvish shorthand.
00:20:32
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So it will take some time if you all want to take these back to decode them. So those are things you find on the bookshelves. Also in the bag. so its Secret books immediately going into the bag. I have i got i got bags of books and bones.
00:20:47
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I don't have the bones. You have the bones. You also see Dimitri walking along the bookshelves and he grabs a few books as he's walking along and toss them into his bag. He's welcomed. There is one door leading out of this room to as you all are entering to the left.
00:21:00
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I'm vibe without pushing our luck at this point. i could I could make a show of finding a book about Thelanus bit if we need to and very clearly seem satisfied with my looking around and being done.
00:21:13
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I think Falco mentioned the animals of the forge. um That means nothing to him. But he's going to turn to Dimitri and just be like, what exactly are you continuing to to look for? Because I feel like if if we came under the guise of assisting you in your journey, we should...
00:21:32
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I mean, i obviously the concerns with the lizard folk and the weapon productions with the dwarves, I think it is pretty, a pretty clear picture has been painted that these dwarves' minds had been infected by some force from Zoriat and it convinced them to come down here and begin doing this business.
00:21:53
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I do not know why is this location, that is the only part of the mystery, unless that bunker that we encountered had something to do with why the doors had been let down here, but it did not seem like they used it. It didn't seem they even went in there.
00:22:11
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So... It might be that whoever this voice was knew the location of the forge and this was a good spot. i The why of it all is the only aspect that is unclear. If you all have any theories, I would be would love to hear that.
00:22:27
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i the I only have that there's the bug lady, who I'm not going to refer to as as the bug lady. going to actually use her name because I know her name. What nick name did you hear?
00:22:38
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to scroll back up aristic They referred to her as Lady Fernia. Was it? Was that the same? that That's the name that you heard. ah Your Lady Fernia is pleased in there. Like when you overheard the conversation happened. Oh, okay. I can't remember if heard another name. Check your notes. I do. Bonnie.
00:22:59
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Vincent. Obviously, I'm also very confused about many of the things that are written in this temple with, you know, Fernia Onatar being a god, Fernia being a plane. That is confusing. And also some of the proper nouns in that recording we all heard. There's also theyre shouldn a lot of questions being raised.
00:23:15
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Yes, I think the pilgrims were convinced by voice in their head telling them that they were whoever's the person that was worshipped in this temple was...
00:23:27
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And they thought they were doing the good work and actually were being corrupted by Zoriad in some way. Sounds about right. Yeah, that's what it seemed like. Yes, your lady Odatar. Oh, Odatar. Yeah. yeah So.
00:23:41
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So, also, I mean, it's... i We are all from, like, the communal culture of Corve. Odatar is referred to as a man in the Pantheon, so it is very odd and confusing.
00:23:54
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yeah I like what it pronounces pantheo yeah the Pantheon. Pantheon. enough Yeah, I can have my Pantheon. So, like I said, this whole thing has raised a lot more questions, but I feel like the immediate threat has been dealt with. So, I think...
00:24:09
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I am concerned if we go out <unk> the way the lizard man did, we will encounter some very hostile lizard folks. So probably going back to the ways that we came, albeit through Khyber, is probably, ironically, the safest path take.
00:24:23
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And also my boat is there. Quite. Yeah, true. And if I can avoid trekking through the jungle, then I typically do. The boat was a really nice way to get here. It was.
00:24:37
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okay i think let's go that way. Sorry, is Dimitri saying he's done exploring? Because they're still... I mean, there's a door here. it's It seems like this is a circle. We took a shortcut, so I imagine this door will lead us back towards the front. so Just the layout of everything. I could be wrong.
00:24:56
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That is what I was asking if were in the looping or not. Okay. so If you all want to stay, if you all want to separate here now, that is fine. I'm still willing to give you transport back to Adiports on my boat.
00:25:10
Speaker
I would appreciate that. I would also like the chance to bathe, because some of us a little stinky. I do have a pussy looking at. I do have a prestitation chamber on the boats that you can use. to and insane If there was a canetrap that could make you immediately clean, why would you shower? like Because they're calming for us. You can warm your warm water, man.
00:25:33
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That's what bathing Then you bathe. Like you sit in nice warm bath. Well, not sure. Yeah, both. Thank you. I'll take them all. In the Japanese style. Yes.
00:25:44
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Thank you. I mean, i also, if you all want, I have means of transport back, obviously, to Arcanics if you all want me to take you further rather than getting transport out of Atchport. We're fine out Atchport, right? okay Yeah. it Thank you, though.
00:26:03
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right. it's We already paid round trip out of Ataford. If we skip that flight, they're going to block us from that. I did the points. So Dimitri heads through the door, leaning out of the library.
00:26:18
Speaker
ah there It's an immediate hallway that he has to turn left into and then turns right. And you all recognize that this is the hallway that you all look down and immediately turn to the left. moon um And so he goes and then turns to the right to open the last or the the next unopened door in this hallway.
00:26:38
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um Are you all following him? Yeah, and yeah I think so. It opens into a dining room. ah There are stone tables and chairs. There's a large head table with benches.
00:26:51
Speaker
It seems like this was used by the pilgrims who were here. but You see the tables are covered in like cracked open bug carcasses. i mean It's real gross and smells bad.
00:27:02
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And there's a door in the back of the dining room that Dimitri kind of quickly goes and like pokes his head in. And he does not walk in. He says,
00:27:11
Speaker
It is a kitchen used by a cult that ate bugs. If you all want to go examine for that, it's fine, but my stomach does not want to step in there. No, thank you. We're good. Yeah, as he opens the door, there's a putrid smell that emanates from the kitchen.
00:27:25
Speaker
Okay, so Dimitri heads back to the welcoming
Return to Civilization and Concerns
00:27:29
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chamber, and you all make your way back out, unless anybody's doing anything. Like, okay. Um, so it is a few hours of walking, um, presumably in belabored silence, unless people want to chat with Dimitri about anything. Um, and, um, you all find yourself back in the mines. Don't confuse the fact that I didn't let him die with the fact that i he's been inside my head.
00:28:00
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And yeah, you all find yourself back in the mines and Dimitri just kind of like calmly walks through at the head of your group and Katigri begins to approach you all. Um, but Dimitri does not stop, just keeps walking.
00:28:17
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Um, Does she get a little bit of of a copped eyebrow at the fact that we're covered in viscera? Yeah, I mean, it is clear that you all have been through some stuff and like... Not looking to chat? Yeah.
00:28:29
Speaker
So it is clocked as weird, but... Yeah, she does not attempt to stop you all. And you all get on the boat and take off. Dimitri goes to his quarters and shows you all where the Prestidichation Chamber is for you all to get cleaned up.
00:28:44
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And obviously Prestidichation also cleans clothes, so ah you all can take care of that. Dimitri stays in his chamber as the interns begin to get the boat ready to go.
00:28:57
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And ah yeah, you all have about a day and a half of sailing ahead of you on the boat. So Kaz is in the hot seat. dear So everybody gets to ask Jeff. Once again, like the hot seat mechanic is like to reflect like conversations that would happen during travel time and things like that. And this is not necessarily during this travel to this in general. um But so everyone gets to ask Jeff a question about Kaz that Jeff reveals the information about.
00:29:22
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So, who would like to go first? You have any pets growing up? Yeah, yeah, no, definitely. And one of the things that sets Kaz's upbringing apart from a lot of people is he had just pets. They weren't working animals or sheared for clothes or milked for food. They were luxuries.
00:29:42
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Because he's a little rich kid. What were you doing before you disappeared? I don't remember immediately. Before I disappeared, like the day I disappeared, I was going to school.
00:29:55
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I was in a, like a kind of a preparatory academy for Morgrave. Even if I decided to follow my dad's footsteps, they were we're going to make sure I got an education in case I changed my mind.
00:30:06
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Um, and so I was doing that, having friends, sneaking around, you know, that being kid, trying to meet girls, you know, that stuff.
00:30:21
Speaker
did Didn't need that part. Well, that's the part that got me. and Ultimately, Kaz doesn't remember this part that got me. What did you want to do after school? I kind of resigned myself to the fact that I was going to probably end up taking over my dad's business. It's not a bad job.
00:30:37
Speaker
It was, you know... Right. Remind me, the war had started or was brewing and for sure. I mean, I assumed I was going for a while. Yeah. I assumed that if I could maybe get into some way of actively helping the effort without fighting, a shirt you know, that is book keeping, you know, making part of part of the host, the word for group of tailors, um,
00:31:05
Speaker
The murder of Taylor's, I think. Yeah. You know, had switched from just making fineries to making armor, making satchels, making anything, you know, the the to to support the effort. And if I could have gotten in there, it might have kept me from having to serve as long or having to start serving as early. And so I'd kind of resigned myself to doing that.
00:31:27
Speaker
Yeah. And again, I mean, it was not a bad job. I grew up well because of it. So the connections were already there to keep it high end. Okay. Okay. Well, you all sleep on the boat.
00:31:38
Speaker
It, it may become relevant, so I'm not going to assume anything. You all get the benefits of a full heal up as you all are on the boat ride. And then, as the sun rises the next morning breakfast is set out for you all um oh there was also dinner like you all you all have been offered food for the entirety of the trip um but it's great was gonna ask you if nix wakes up and checks her bag for the shard but to our eyes nix probably didn't sleep therefore does not need to wake up and check her back for the shard nix sleeps with her bag Right. Well, yeah, sure. Yeah, I mean, Dimitri stays in his quarters for the duration of the trip. Like, he's not out rubbing elbows during the the journey back to Outerport.
00:32:21
Speaker
That seems more concerning than the other. Yeah, no, absolutely. He got what he needed. Making reports. Yeah, that's exactly right. While we're stuck on his boat. Or he just picked up the vibe that nobody wanted him around. Yeah, no. Totally seemed really good at that. Nix has infected Kaz and Philip has infected Jeff with the distrust.
00:32:43
Speaker
And if he would have come out, would have been complaints about that too. so So, you all see the dock for out of port. The interns make, make ready for docking. Dimitri steps out of his quarters and looks at us and says, well, thank you all for your assistance. I'm glad that I could make your journey a little bit easier than traipsing through jungle. And perhaps our paths will cross again someday.
00:33:03
Speaker
So,
00:33:06
Speaker
It is always a pleasure to work with you. Next walks down the game lane. Likewise. Thank you. Appreciate it. And Dimitri just like, i yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I think I kind of looked for a second. like, we're good.
00:33:20
Speaker
Yes. And just keep in mind what I said. But yes, we are good. All right. I'll hold you to that. Thanks. Yeah, I know where he lives if you want it.
00:33:31
Speaker
have his address. I mean, he's also been very open about where he works. He's not getting information from you all. So everyone leaves the boat. And then the interns then begin immediately like embarking from the dock.
00:33:47
Speaker
Dimitri is not hanging around at a port. Yeah. So where do you all head to? The Skyship. bill the You're not going to go with Path Driver's Guild? Yeah, the guild. Oh, the guild. Fair enough.
00:33:59
Speaker
I mean, if you don't want to, like, I mean, they will obviously find out, but... I guess we probably should. you're going to have Javier send word to them once you get back home. so I mean, there there are legitimate options to let them know, but if you want to just go deal with it.
00:34:12
Speaker
Let them... See, there were not done none too pleased with them after all, but we did do... Okay, so you all head. Night has fallen over Addercourt, and you are able to easily find Driver's Guild Hall.
00:34:27
Speaker
You enter, and there is some sparring going on still in the main area. Sorry, just trying to find my
Mission Conclusion and Guild Update
00:34:32
Speaker
notes for... I switched from using Word for all of my notes to what Notion, and so I was like, where are my notes? Oh, right, i have to go back.
00:34:40
Speaker
yeah knew to You see Lashana sitting in her office. As you all enter, and she like looks up and lays you all in. How did things go? The weapons won't be a problem anymore.
00:34:52
Speaker
Excellent. Good to hear. Any other notable items that I should know for my people? Perhaps if you come across a group that is resistant to having their land taken...
00:35:09
Speaker
You don't keep pushing. i mean, we discussed this before you all left. like Sometimes it's best if you just back off and let people have their land.
00:35:21
Speaker
I don't think this would have grown into the issue that it did if there wasn't a tinge of greed in your current endeavors.
00:35:34
Speaker
All right. Anything else? Were we supposed to get payment it from, not like, not like over the, just asking her to give me your money. We have yet to receive payment directly from the client okay so far. Okay. but the picture of one of the science was robot we had to ship yeah they would dec declared with forlymp yes No, I mean, she says, well, it sounds like our business is concluded. And she like pulled key off her belt and unlocks a part of her desk, slides it open and pulls out a coin sack and sets it on the desk.
00:36:05
Speaker
for services, Ringer. Thank you all. And I'll let Valara know that you all are ready to head back. She should be ready in the morning, so you all can ah use the bunks here if you like. All right.
00:36:18
Speaker
Yeah. Alrighty. grab up the money dude nexts I put it in the bag. Alright. Well, like said, there's a room for you all. So go and head on up there and feel free.
00:36:31
Speaker
You have run to the place as you like and head the morning. And she goes back to the ledgers that she was working on. you Are you all headed to the briny lantern or are you just going up and going to rest? yeah I forgot about him already. Oh yeah.
00:36:49
Speaker
Harpoon. How can you harpoon? We could good tip Harpoon pretty well. We could stress him out. We could stress him out.
00:37:02
Speaker
We said the same thing. i but I think so. I think having a nice little dinner and dinner chat would be... Alright. Yeah, let's do it.
00:37:14
Speaker
it Okay. So sun sun is fully fallen at this point, and it is very chilly in Atterport. And you all head in into the briny lantern, and you see Avrana behind the bar, and she kind of, like, looks, know, all is like...
00:37:31
Speaker
Ah, welcome back. Feel free to take a table as you like, and Harpoon will be over to take care of you in just second. Nyx finds one in the corner, and it's got one of the circular booths, and Cass scoots it right next to me. Just a little long the way. Nyx sits in whatever position she can most easily make people feel uncomfortable with the idea of sitting at a table next to ours. Harpoon walks up, and he sees Joanne's like...
00:37:54
Speaker
Ah, intrepid sailors, welcome back to the Briny Lantern. ah We are excited to see that your voyage has brought us back to these friendly shores. What can I get for you to drink this evening? Water.
00:38:11
Speaker
Whiskey. Equivalent. Whiskey. whis whiskey I'll take a water. Water sounds great. Is Avrana the owner? Right, yeah of the proprietor at the very least. Is Harpoon's boss? Yes.
00:38:25
Speaker
kindli like Hey, Harpoon, if we told Avrana we don't like this stuff, do you think she that you get away with just serving us? Like, this is about customer experience, and our experience is that you seem to be miserable, and we don't want our waiter to be miserable.
00:38:40
Speaker
Whispers it so that I've run a canine here. yeah I will roll if you need me to. He tries to, I mean, I'm assuming Nick's picked like back corner, like not near the bar. Harpoon stands like still straightening up his back to the bar, but he like says in a way to where he's not moving that much and gesturing.
Kaz's Background and Thelanus Connection
00:38:55
Speaker
ah He kind of says, I feared that she would take that as that I'm doing a bad job at doing it as she because she can is convinced that this is the highest form of service to be provided. So if we could all just power through this. Whatever you need us to do. Understood.
00:39:15
Speaker
Leave the kids menu out of it matey and we'll all have safe travels. are I'll be back with your beverages and I will take your fair orders when I return. Because I thought I'm still getting that mac and cheese.
00:39:28
Speaker
over That's on the kids menu. We know it exists. I simply need not be offered the kids menu. okay I don't need to see the kids menu to order a Rudy Tootie French and Fruity. Harpoon steps away. So...
00:39:40
Speaker
so Are you all sharing any information that you found down there now that Dimitri's not around? or You made such a dance like Montana. I'm sorry, how pretty much here for I and having to look over at you Well, I got nothing, so...
00:39:56
Speaker
Kaz, how are you feeling after that? good I've been thinking about a lot of things. um like said i didn't I didn't get any clarity on much. I'm right. I made the lady of stories upset.
00:40:15
Speaker
But I also think maybe she loved me. i think I have a kid in Thelanus. Is that too much to drop at once? A little bit. Well... it's a lot Sorry to make you uncomfortable about it. Not uncomfortable. I'm just saying that was a lot at once. I mean, that's the the the impression that I got. i guess I... You were really upset. Yeah, it was really upsetting.
00:40:41
Speaker
I need more time to think about it before I can tell you what I think it happened or what i think it means. And that book, this book, I have it with me, I'm assuming.
00:40:52
Speaker
I need to look through it and see if I can put anything more together about her. But I guess I got, I overstepped my boundaries as her so i'm to put a strike second in command, I think.
00:41:08
Speaker
And maybe, and that was Not okay. And so she sent me back. I don't know why she didn't send me back where I came from. And she made me, I mean, I guess because she's mad, was mad, wanted to punish me. So here I am 25 years later.
00:41:26
Speaker
She may not have had that option. She may not have had that option. The Archfay control a lot of things, but not time. I understand that. I'm just making sure that Jeff remembers everything. And if if you're just withholding this, that's totally fine.
00:41:39
Speaker
Part of the conversation was that she wanted you to become an archfey like her and you refused. Yeah, i i i I'm just making sure that you recall that. No, I do remember that. i hadn't thought to mention it. Let me tell that.
00:41:57
Speaker
There was something Dimitri wanted me to share with you. If you are in the right state of body and mind, do you accept additional?
00:42:09
Speaker
I will have no idea if I'm in the right state of mind until I am told what it is, Valc. I don't know what you saw. There was another figure there, a male, perhaps?
00:42:23
Speaker
I think. It's the very stark. and Yeah, I think i he was wearing a mask. It was wearing a mask. and They were wearing a mask. but I think they were. Did I hear them talk? Oh, i did hear a talk. Yeah, he had a deep voice. So, yeah, I mean, he sounded like a man.
00:42:36
Speaker
the the That person is the Forgotten Prince. so I'm making note of that. Okay. I'll look into him too. I wonder if that's, you know the forgotten songs. And so he's on the front and she's on the back and I'm in the middle. He briefly mentioned, he did not know who the other, the woman was.
00:43:01
Speaker
So if anything, that information is vaguely. she's jeff with you She definitely seems more important to my story than the forgotten prince does. I don't think Dimitri learned much because I sure didn't.
00:43:15
Speaker
I have more to go on. And yeah, I think I like I'm holding the book. I'm like, but this this is her. I think. Does she look hot? She is an Eladrin. So just like objectively, Eladrins are typically the hottest version of elves. So, yes, she is connected to the bunkers, assuming that the vision has been described to us all at this point.
00:43:39
Speaker
Has it? In as much detail as I can kind of remember right now, yeah. nope You called her Baldre. Baldre is one of the Sovereign Host. i In the bunkers we have heard of Onitar, Orion, Aladra, and someone called Kol, which would finish to Koran.
00:43:59
Speaker
All of these are members of the Sovereign Host. do bad I can't prove a connection between Baldre and the rest of them, but Baldre is also worshipped as a Sovereign. here in Eberron as are all of the others and that tracks I mean that an archvay from Thalautis could be worshipped as I'm yeah I think maybe whoever these people were that are fighting that are fighting the the overlords whatever those are or do I know what an overlord thought they said they were tightness
00:44:31
Speaker
love There was an overlord titan, but they've also just referring to overlords. So I took overlord titan as to be a sub sub or something. Just term overlord mean something mean mean to me what it means to Philip as a reader of the books.
00:44:48
Speaker
Yeah, I did ping up my ear just because of his campaign. Right. it's An overlord broke through like 300 years ago. That's hard term for it. um Like, do we know that overlord means like yeah i would i said high demon? Yeah. yeah she Cool.
00:45:07
Speaker
These beings that we have been watching recordings of, listening to recordings of our sovereigns, or at least that's what they are now, or at least that's what they're worshipped as now. mayor What that means, I don't know.
00:45:20
Speaker
Sheep. I think part of our falling out was she wanted to make me
00:45:31
Speaker
One of the Archfey. I guess that she has or they have the power to do that. I was dying there. I was at least 100 years older than I am now. I mean, you guys saw me old, right? You all told me that on the train.
00:45:46
Speaker
I was you thoughts to me old when she kicked me out. And I was dying, and I think she didn't want to see that. And I think maybe she wasn't as mad as she was not.
00:46:00
Speaker
not
00:46:02
Speaker
I don't want to say it was a kindness to send me back the way that I was. and like this, gestures to himself physically and then thinks, maybe I should have just said magic. But ahoy, adventurers. Here are your libations for your dining experience.
00:46:21
Speaker
May I tent your taste buds with some of our tavern fare. I love the roast mutton and the macaroni and cheese. and Excellent.
00:46:32
Speaker
I actually don't remember the menu. I just ordered what I ordered last time. We have the chowder, the fisherman's hand eye the lantern loaf and pickle board, the harbor fry, the the salt roasted mutton,
00:46:47
Speaker
the Galanda-style roast chicken, and the Sailor's Stew Pot special. And then for our sweet treats and small plates, we have a sea salt toffee square, dockside plum pudding, Sharn-style citrus tart, and honey spice biscuits. For our Windsor specials, we have a Frost Wake chowder, dockside hot pot, a deep sea crab and Carnathy sausage bake, and also for a drink, our Frost Wine toddy.
00:47:17
Speaker
I will say you probably could offer the wine when we were ordering drinks. I would have gotten the wine. think That feedback will be... Let the man just do his job. This is his job. Stop trying to improve the restaurant. I just think restaurants can just call stuff what it is.
00:47:36
Speaker
I come from a place with nice restaurants. I'm sorry. It's not that the sailor's delight and the farmer's discouragement. It's just... It seems like you need some more time to decide. No, no, no. Harbour fry mac and cheese. She wants the wine. will take the wine. The wine.
00:47:54
Speaker
And the chicken and the mac and cheese. Mixing drinks. Those would you like. I just want the chicken. The chicken. I guess the wine. It was already ordered for me. And whiskey and wine. Yeah, you already have whiskey. All right.
00:48:06
Speaker
I will return. We're going to sleep well tonight. And he walks away. Where were we? I was trauma dumping. A trauma I do not recall. So I don't know. i don't know if I'm going to learn more.
00:48:20
Speaker
i don't know. I'm going to read up on this. I've got things to learn. I don't. The timeline confuses me. I may find myself in a story about Thelanus. And that freaks me out. Understandably. Nix is playing with whatever knife is on the table.
00:48:36
Speaker
And that freaks me out. I didn't even think about... i think, I mean... Kaz has a a a classical education's understanding of the Sovereign Host, not a devout religious person's understanding of the Sovereign Host. So, probably didn't even put the Bouldree thing together. Yeah, that was a big part. I forgot to mention that in the recap just now, but that was really something that pinged off my ear when I heard it the first time. least that's all i That's all I got about it right now. But yeah, and she sent me here that she said she would send me back like I was.
00:49:06
Speaker
But apparently.
00:49:10
Speaker
It's just the worst possible. he but It couldn't have been when it was and it couldn't have been a hundred years later but 16 again when I don't have to worry about running across people that I know who have like kids and jobs now if they survived their service.
00:49:25
Speaker
The win may not have been her choice. I know. I understand that. It doesn't mean I get to
Magical Artifacts and Training
00:49:30
Speaker
be pleased about it. see you see If you made her upset and you're saying you might have had a child with her, would it not be possible that you might have been
00:49:42
Speaker
complaining about missing something and that's why you were back and she said i will send you back that's not a word that's not the feeling i mean god from this conversation with her yeah and she said i know are pretty vindictive so i'm just not they kind of do well I don't know. complained about it. Here you go. Kind of. No. And she said, all she said was, he misses you, by the way. And it felt, it harbi kind of broke my heart to relive that. And so I think that I might have a son.
00:50:18
Speaker
I can't be sad about it. I don't remember him. And that's weird. You can be sad about that. Okay, but I'm not. Is that bad? No. No. Okay. and too but I don't know what I'd do if I... I don't know.
00:50:32
Speaker
I would have a son older than me in Thaladis, which is... gonna make my head hurt. Yeah. have a younger cousin, but he's like... We all have younger cousins. He's like my age.
00:50:48
Speaker
i don't really know how that works, but I didn't ask questions. that's so We got a big I think we'd give an uncle that's younger. Yeah. We'll go with uncle that one. One of my friends had a kid.
00:51:01
Speaker
They graduating together. Just trying to relate. Sorry. No, I appreciate I appreciate it. i just... it is As it all is very new to me, I did not understand that that was something that was not relatable to me, you know? I just, I don't know. i Land ho! Oh my god.
00:51:23
Speaker
Harpoon begins placing the plates on table. Thank you, Harpoon. You are most welcome. If there's anything else that you need, will be by in a bit to check on you.
00:51:35
Speaker
so Nix begins to eat. I'm going eat now. i'm just get My plan now is to figure out if there's ways I can learn more without making you bleed out of your eyes.
00:51:47
Speaker
that that was That was like a misinput. That wasn't really. isn't really this I don't know. you know hu Everybody back at the manor knows what happened. Maybe one of them going have an idea of how I can extract some more stuff. and Maybe it'll help us with these bunkers too.
00:52:05
Speaker
if I was in a relationship with one of the sovereign and they're appealing to the sovereign and that adds a whole new wrinkle to all of this makes the bunkers feel a lot more important to me personally, I guess now more than a curiosity.
00:52:22
Speaker
Then he takes a big bite of mac and cheese and he hopes to move on. It's real good. Get out here! Nyx, do you at any point, like, examine the goggles that you picked up? Not here. I mean, Nyx will eventually, perhaps on the trip home or when we get back to the manor.
00:52:40
Speaker
I'm going to go ahead and give you the mechanics of it. So too long I'll send you the text once again, but for the sake of the listeners, there's a pair of goggles that you wear. When you make a skill check, you may activate the goggles to roll an additional D20 and add its result to your check. Not advantage.
00:52:57
Speaker
Add the D20. However, fate does not take kindly to such overstepping. This result of your second D20 roll can be used by the GM to replace any role for the remainder of the arc. Okay.
00:53:09
Speaker
That's sick. Once the wearer has discovered a piece of forgotten magic or technology, a new ability unlocks. Cool. Once per battle, the wearer may... Oh, we get the ability. this is You're telling us the ability that unlocks? Yes. Oh, okay.
00:53:23
Speaker
Once per battle, the wearer may replicate a spell or ability an enemy has performed in that same battle. If the ability misses its target, then a random ally or the wearer becomes the successful target.
00:53:36
Speaker
That makes sense. I think so. Okay. But it won't be relevant till I've accomplished something with it anyway. So I'll probably have to have you explain it to me then. yeah And then once the wearer has replicated a weapon or item from forgotten documentation, a new ability unlocks.
00:53:52
Speaker
Once per battle, the wearer may either imbue a weapon or item they are engaged with. Oh, sorry. Imbue a weapon or item they are engaged to with an attribute or ability an enemy has used this battle.
00:54:06
Speaker
So, like, um resist, like, putting armor like resist fire or giving it, like, a special attack ability, something like that. Or...
00:54:16
Speaker
remove an ability from a weapon or item they are engaged with. The ability must have been used this battle once. Cool. So, or at least once. So those are the, so the base thing is the, the additional D20 to a check.
00:54:30
Speaker
So, and these are a magic item as it relates to the limit that you have on magic items. Sure. So. Yeah. This focuses on her food.
Arcane Congress Threats and Nyx's Past
00:54:42
Speaker
Thank you, Ben. At some point says, think I'm going to see if either of any of those gentlemen want to fight. And she will stand up from the table and walk back to the guild.
00:54:54
Speaker
Okay. And go see if she pick a fight. Are you all staying there or following Nyx to the guild? I'm assuming Nyx can focus on her food eight rather quickly. So you all probably are nice. I'm going to finish my food. it eighth and left Nyx doesn't need me to watch her work out her stuff. Nyx, there is a couple of dragonborn sparring. Great. And so they they let you step in and fight the winner. You end up fighting a gold dragonborn.
00:55:16
Speaker
Are they fist fighting? ah Yes, unarmed combat. It's fine. Sure.
00:55:22
Speaker
Nick successfully blows off steam. I mean, well, Nick's punches someone and gets punched, which was enough, I guess. All right. Anything else that anybody else wants to do the rest of the night? Can he shop you while it would go to an Adderport? No, I don't think so.
00:55:38
Speaker
Okay. I might need more clothes. Okay. if there's I mean, we got a little change rattling our pockets from the last thing still. i'm not We don't have to play this out. of just I think I'm going to buy some clothes. Okay. Nothing special or different than what I already have, just more of them, so I'm not necessarily always having to travel. and still just I just wore yesterday.
00:56:00
Speaker
Sure. Because i got I got dumped out of another realm and picked up and sent to jail. Pretty pretty rapid succession.
00:56:09
Speaker
Okay. now Pick up some new fall colors. Oh, wait, no, it's winter are now, yeah according to our mood. It is December of... her No, it's December. February?
00:56:21
Speaker
I can't remember. It's my notebook. It's all cold. Yeah. I assume everyone follows our seasonal. Yes. At least the northern hemisphere. Oh, shut up. here Sorry to all of our Australian listeners. Whenever we are all alone again. Yes. Perhaps everyone has already worked this out, but I feel I should say it. That person that we just traveled around with works for a repository of arcane knowledge that keeps a list of humanoid anomalies. I don't know. i know.
00:56:57
Speaker
enough about what everyone's deal is to wonder. Obviously you're not eager to meet your boss, but there seems to be some sort of arrangement.
00:57:12
Speaker
I can't. She just really sucks. I don't know. She says, looking at Selena, I understand a little bit about your hold on life.
00:57:28
Speaker
Don't know whether there's anyone who disapproves of it, but there are certainly significant people who disapprove of me. And if I was looking for someone who could be classified as an arcane anomaly, I'd go ask the arcane Congress. If I had pull, it is not just that I found him annoying.
00:57:50
Speaker
There is now a file on me or will be soon at that place. I don't know whether it bothers any of you that there is one on you, but he is a problem.
00:58:03
Speaker
Not one that we can solve at this point. He is not just benignly annoying. I understand your concern. First, I've had profile for a while now.
00:58:14
Speaker
But there's there's levels of importance.
00:58:22
Speaker
you If... In creating a new file, if You don't already have one. You obviously weren't marked or noted of him as someone of importance. If it concerns you, I can do what I can to reach back out and see if I can get that remedied. I don't know what at what cost.
00:58:46
Speaker
I would probably have to go back to my box. But I you don't believe this information would be 100% new or anything that...
00:58:58
Speaker
He specifically. To my knowledge, I had never had any run-ins with anyone from the Arcane Congress. And so as far as the Arcane Congress might have been concerned up until now, I was a smuggler and not one of any interest.
00:59:13
Speaker
He was not stupid. And we were extremely loose-lipped. And I'm not important to the Arcane Congress. Not interested in that act. I'm important to Arcane Congress. The Arcane Congress probably will have very little interest in me.
00:59:26
Speaker
But if the Arcane Con- But if the Church of the Silver Flame decides to go ask the Arcane Congress about me, now the Arcane Congress has something to say. And if the Arcane Congress wants a favor from someone in the Church of the Silver Flame, they might work out that I'm of interest to them.
00:59:41
Speaker
I unfortunately have faith that Dimitri prioritized information, and that would be Kaz. I have no doubt that he prioritized Kaz, but he seemed very clear that he was not interested in leaving things out of his report.
00:59:57
Speaker
That's fine.
Resolution and Closing Remarks
00:59:59
Speaker
i mean, I'm not going to change your mind. Your mind is set. My mind is set based on what he said to us. We asked him to leave something out of the report, and he said, I couldn't possibly do that.
01:00:11
Speaker
in his ridiculous accent. I don't think you're allowed to say that. I just did. Well, I'm sorry that this is an upsetting experience for you.
01:00:23
Speaker
And I know that sounds pretty bad, but I went through the exact same experience and they have largely left me alone. And I feel like perhaps not ranking anything.
01:00:39
Speaker
Zoriath might be a little bit more unstable. My plane is not the problem. Can we remove like one brick from your wall? Just one? At the top?
01:00:49
Speaker
We met a paladin of the Silver Flame in Whatever the name of that place was that I totally remember. Not Pella's Watch. Before Pella's Watch. Zombies. Oh, yeah. That one.
01:01:02
Speaker
I don't know why. I just wanted to call it Michigan. Sure. When we were in Michigan, we went hit to Paladin. Seems to fit close enough. Sure. I have no... Fantasy Detroit. I really not? Is that like the one? It's really okay. You guys know what I'm talking about. It was like Andersonville. It was a pretty mundane name.
01:01:24
Speaker
On our first... Ashton? That was the next one. Ashton Hollow. That was the... That was the first one. That's where Ladislav was in Deep Root.
01:01:35
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See, I know who you said. Yeah, I had that one. I remember Core. Like, I know the names of the the people. That was... Arc... What? It'd be like... It'd be like... It'd be like... That was Arc 1? Yeah, that was our first.
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trying to Sorry, I didn't go that far enough. That's on me. Kernville. Kernville. Thank you. Ugh. Yeah, like I said. going to start to sit in some way so that you can cut all that nonsense.
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You leaving every word. Don't go to Michigan. Leave it. Leave it in Michigan, at least. We met a pilot named Carnival. honest I honestly remember if Nick's even attempted to cover... He just... He he recognized. we It was very obvious that we knew each other. That was not... attempt There was no attempt cover that. He and i grew up together in little town that is set aside in Thrain for children like me, where the...
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Promotional material would say we are taught to harness and control our gifts, trained in the beliefs in the silver flame and prepared for lives as paladins of the flame.
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to fight evil extraplanar things to protect the innocent to do good in the world the asterisk to that is it when they have someone whose powers are not easy to control or who imperil the innocent or who Invite extra planar things into the world that dangerous They take care of that too after I had been there for several years and and mentored and trained and trusted
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i learned that the somewhat difficult to control nature of my abilities had been deemed unresolvable.
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So i don't know what I'm not concerned that the arcane Congress might want to study me. Yvonne Yvonne and were close and i think he will not mention that he saw me if he had done his duty.
01:03:53
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He would have needed to kill me. Not every person who worships the Silver Flame is looking for me. No, it's not. It's not... as dramatic as that. But there are paladins from Relicor whose job it is to find runaways.
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So the Arcane Congress having a file on me is concerning to me and not because i am a private person or because I found Dimitri annoying.
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It's because I do not want paladins of the Silver Flame to knock on an our door. understand that we could deal with it. don't want to tell is a reasonable chance.
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Even if he creates a, even if he presupp prevents them with presents them with a description of me and all of these things that it will never come up. But there is now a breadcrumb out there that points towards us and me. Is that sufficient? Yeah. That was like two bricks. So thank you.
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I'm sorry.
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And thank you for telling us all this now. we i I don't want to seem flippant in saying I can't be expected to know what I am and am not supposed to bring up.
01:05:17
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I'm sorry if I overshared something. I'm sorry if I made you vulnerable to something. I also became very vulnerable to the Arcane Congress this week.
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I try to not out you guys. If I made a mistake, I'm sorry. But it would be beneficial if I was told in the moment... I could not explain it in the moment Dimitri was there.
01:05:46
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There, I feel, and sorry if I'm for cutting you off, this is not literally in the moment, Dimitri. This is for everyone. At some point, if we are, as we continue to work together, we have to understand what is happening.
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At some point, walls have to come down. Questions need to be asked. It means nothing now, but if I had known, I would have done better to keep Dimitri's information more contained.
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I grew used to being around him and having been observed in the past, so it's not much of priority. When understood the danger, by the time I understood the danger, could not tell you.
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ay I get tried to make clear, understand that I am a prickly person at best, but I could not be clearer in the moment. There was no way to be clearer without simply telling him what I am.
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I did my best to deal with problems without using my magic, but what we've learned is that we have to become closer friends.
01:07:09
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And share information. Thanks. so Oh, Valk. it And with that moral lesson of this. Oh, man. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversation surrounding this episode, you can head over to our Discord. The link to t which is in the show notes for this podcast episode. We also have a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Geekpantheon. If you want to check out some TTRPG videos, you can do so over there. Phillip.
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