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C1 Ep. 79 The Brelish Job Chapter Twelve
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In the exciting conclusion to the longest arc in Eberron Renewed history, the party comes face to face with an enemy….and finally get some answers.
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Sponsorship and Patreon Drive
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
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Hello everyone, it is your head to master Eric here and I just wanted to drop you all a quick message before we got into this week's episode. I just want to let you know about an exciting drive that we're doing for our Patreon this month. So patreon.com slash the geek pantheon. We are trying to for the month of October break the $500 a month barrier.
One-Shot Announcement
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And what we're going to do if we manage to hit that goal is we're going to be doing a very special one shot for all of our patrons, probably live streamed, but definitely recorded with both audio and video options. And two of the players referred to it as front row seats to the Hot Mess Express. We can't reveal what the special twist about the one shot is, but we are going to be doing that and we're really excited to be doing it.
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As it stands right now, I will be dungeon mastering while Jeff will be one of the players, as will Trevor. For those of you that listened to the Geek Pantheon plays D&D way back in the day, he played tinsel in that one shot that we did. And then also my wife will be playing, which is very exciting. So they are both hosts of the Geek Pantheon show with me.
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So we're really excited to be doing this and we're going to be doing some other special things for patrons at various tiers. Like Jeff has announced that anybody that is a show sponsor level and up gets to help him pick the race and class of the character he's going to be playing for the one shot. So there's a lot of really cool things. So all of this is predicated though on us hitting that $500 a month mark.
Benefits of Patreon Support
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Introduction to Eberron Campaign
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renew, the D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. And I'm Jeff. And welcome to another
Battle with the Lich Recap
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episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? We did it! Yeah, not a lot. Not a whole lot.
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Fought a lich who took his ball and went home when he, we were really doing some damage. I don't know how strong he was. He may not even- We put a lot of damage on him. He may not even have been bloodied, but he was definitely, you could tell he'd been in a fight. And then Drakir, Booyah, and Dex ushered strength into our flying cab.
Aftermath and Rune Discovery
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Well, Barabas. Yeah, Barak, overwhelmed by Erebus, pursued Hadith Iruinarn, but managed to coerce her into turning over her pact rather than having to kill her.
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Um, and then, and she did. And then he joined the others in the sky cab. Uh, but Barak has also got an appointment with three Kings bodyguard the next morning, um, to meet him and prove his case. Um, and also would you like to know what the new rune has unlocked? Something has unlocked. Yeah. Every time you get a new rune, remember?
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Oh, yes. I want a room. OK, so, yeah, as as you're riding through the sky cab, Erebus, you're examining the new room and you you notice that shadows begin to wisp a bit thicker about you. So, yeah, cool, cool, cool. It is now.
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The next morning you all are able to get back to borrow time unmolested. Um, uh, you have successfully restrained strength. Did anybody try to talk to him last night? I want to know if he, after he came out of the paralyzed, said anything to indicate that he knows who I am. That would affect whether or not I tried to talk to him last night.
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Uh, he has been extremely quiet, but, uh, give me an insight check. Yeah. 21. Um, by the way, he looks at you, he knows who you are. Not just that I'm also a changing. He knows I am his brother.
Dex and Strength's Past
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I have a mechanical question.
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I know Booyah attempted to on Lord Emanatu, but I think he missed. Have we mechanically attempted banishing the thing that is possessing and inspired yet? The only time that has come up is while Amantu was possessed and Booyah's attack did miss.
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That also that does require crossbow bolt to the forehead though, right? It doesn't if Barrett can cast banishment. Oh, sure. Can Barrett cast banishment? Barrett can cast banishment. Okay. So did you say anything to him? He knows and he knows that you know that he knows. Okay. Then in that case, I'd say, um,
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where are y'all restraining him just in the cargo hold in that closet that Rickard really wanted to make a bedroom out of yeah I mean where did we have Rickard that's that's our new in a literal broom closet like that's where we had him restrained oh you had him just restrained up on the deck initially because it was kind of a panicked thing oh yeah fair enough we didn't
00:07:31
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You didn't keep a prisoner. I think the cargo hold is fine. Yeah. The cargo hold is good. Okay. So I would go down there and I say, um, has an hour passed by now. Yeah. I just want to know what I have access to. Yup. Great.
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I would say just, uh, buried my baby brother, but didn't have a body. So I had a ceremony. Well, that's good. Sorry. You couldn't make it. I actually didn't know you were having one. So not, I honestly, I don't know that I wouldn't.
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been able to make it. You're right. But I was unaware it, it happened. Um, glad you could laugh about it. I don't, I don't see myself laughing. You just chuckled while you talked. I cleared my throat. That's neither here nor there. Um, my, my Dex accent swerves towards your Texas accent. When we talked, when I talked to my brothers, uh, which I guess might be kind of true to life. Um,
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Listen, we got a whole host of things that we need to talk about, but, um, a lot of it's going to have to wait till tomorrow. We're going to keep you. We're going to, you know, we're covering our own, but you're going to stay down here. You're going to stay tied up. You hungry, you thirsty. You need anything like that? Listen.
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Clearly you don't have any, uh, Hey notes about spilling your own blood. So I'm not going to talk.
Interrogation of Strength
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Why don't you just kill me? And we get this over with. I, I never touched.
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him once I'd realized who he was. So let's just keep the self-righteous BS out of this. He attacked me. All right. And I said, yeah, multiple times he attacked me and I defended myself. And then, and then I found out that it wasn't a lich. It was my brother and I walked. All right. I didn't touch him. So let's just calm ourselves with this self-righteous jackassery.
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And then I say, so yeah, if you're hungry or you're thirsty or whatever, you let someone else know and I'll walk off. Okay. How would he possibly know that I had anything to do with the death or brother? I mean, they knew where, um, I mean, they were in constant communication with one another about what they were up to, what they were doing. I mean,
00:10:26
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It wouldn't have been hard for them to... Okay, so if I can infer that they were in constant communication about what was going on, then I can infer that they all wanted to be dead.
00:10:34
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I mean, you can infer that if you want for reasons that, well, then I'm, I'm just, that's what Dex would think. Okay. If you knew where he was going and you knew what he was doing, you knew I was going to be there and you knew he was going to attack me. Then F you too, bud. Are you back to talking to him? No, no, this is my head that they are now the aggressors and I will do what it takes to defend. They are no longer my brothers. They are my enemies.
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What category of creature is a quarry? Is it an aberration? Is it a fiend?
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That's a that's a great. Isn't it an interesting question? It is an interesting question because they no longer just have outsider. Yeah, it's not just an outsider anymore. It's an insider. I had to go get specific. Let me see. Oh, hey, I go. Monstrosity. Monstrosity. OK. Is what I would classify them as. That's what like those astral dreadnoughts from warden canons are. And that seems. Beric.
00:11:43
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Barak didn't leave. And so Barak lets Erebus come out and just looks at him. And one of the ideas we talked about was that while in Erebus form, I have expanded knowledge of things relating to the pact. And as I understand it right now, the whole idea of the pact was to counter the quarry.
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Although I don't think I have, do I have that term yet? Do we have the dream? They're the dream, the dream thieves. Yeah. Let's encounter the dream thieves. So I assume that the Arabist knows more than Beric about that now that he is much more whole. Um, so what I want to know, what I want to try to do is figure out.
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is one of these creatures living inside him, as was the case with... Connor? Connor, is who we killed? Chance. No, we killed Chance. Chance. As was the case with Chance. Don't know how to figure that out, if it's possible to figure that out, but I would like to try.
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Well, you do recall that every time you've seen an active possession of this nature with the scary thing made of purplish light attacking you all, the eyes have been glowing purple. And that's not the case with Strint right now. That's been the only real lead, the physical manifestation of the possession that you've noted. Right. But that wasn't always happening. Like Amanatu's eyes weren't perpetually glowing. It was just wind the
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came out of him. I sit there regarding him and examining him. Do you look like Erebus? He turns into Erebus.
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I mean, the Erebus form doesn't have a mouth to smirk with, so it's covered by that mask armor. So Erebus does not react to that.
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Basically what I would like to try banishment, but I would like to try to banish the creature I believe to be possessing him, not the person who's here. I'm trying to work out how
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how to work that targeting element into the mechanics. I also have protection from good and evil, which gives creatures advantage on saving throws against possession, but I assume he's not trying to be unpossessed at this point. So that's probably not a relevant element here.
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OK, so essentially. So that's the tough thing is with management, it's a creature you can see. Yeah.
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So if a big scared crab monster came out to try and attack you, you could try to banish that form. Can I attempt to use protection from Good and Evil to cause the thing pain and see if I can provoke it? Okay. Can I compel him with the power of the Raven Queen? I love this. The power of the Raven Queen compels you.
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Is that, is that something I can try? Yeah, you can try it. Okay. So I will use that. I will cast, I will reach out and put my hand, um, on strength and cast protection, uh, from evil and good. Okay. Which does, um,
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Oh, so here's the weird thing. I'm... Oh, okay. Now I see it. Yeah, it is what I thought it was. So yeah, that's what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to irritate this thing sufficiently to provoke it. So I start with protection against a good needle. Does that achieve anything?
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Shadowy light emits from your hand and kind of envelops strength and he looks at you and then regards you confused. Okay. Are you verbalizing anything to strength or are you just silently
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No, I'm not verbalizing into strength because I'm not really interested in the creature. Being able to know what I'm trying to do to it.
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Okay. Uh, I leave for a moment and ask trick here to come down. Uh, and I check here. I catch drink here on the way down and I say, Oh, Hey, um, double check all of his restraints and remember that he can change shape at will. Uh, yes, I will remember.
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Drake here is going to use his his monster Slayer ability hunters sense and place that on him and see if among the information I gain I gain anything that That goes beyond him being a changeling which obviously I know he is so what information do you get from monster sense and
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Well, it tells me any damaged immunity resistance is vulnerabilities. Um, if it is hidden from divination magic, I sense that. Oh, if I sense that if I, if it's hidden from divination magic, I sense that no damage immune. Um, sorry, repeat what you just said. I lost you for a second. Any, any, anything about it that would affect the kinds of damage that it takes vulnerabilities, resistances, immunities, that kind of thing.
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You don't get a sense of any of that. All you can sense is that this is a humanoid creature. Okay.
Debate Over Strength's Fate
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Then Drakir is going to try something else. Drakir is going to cast Zone of Truth. Okay. Is there a saving throw associated or no? If he lies.
00:19:40
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So... Oh, is that how it works? Yep. So the creature can no longer outright lie in the area unless it succeeds on a Charisma saving throw. And I am aware of who passes and who fails. So Drakir casts that, and then Erebus looks and says, Are you possessed by a creature?
00:20:12
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I am being from another plane.
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Here's the 15 foot sphere area you designate can know I Right. I'm sorry. I don't understand what what you're trying to so Before he does anything he needs to make the charisma saving throw. It's not just if he lies No, I'm reading the description right here It says a creature that starts its turn or enters the 15 foot sphere area You designate can no longer outright lie while while in the area as it succeeds on a charisma saving Okay, here is
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What is, hold on a second, sorry.
00:21:29
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Okay. So yeah, he makes the saving throw. Yeah. That's, that's all I was saying is it's not, he makes the saving throw. If he attempts to lie, he makes it. Right. But I know whether he's. Yeah. Okay. So, um, I, he, he responds. No. Did he pass his saving throw? Um, what's the DC? Uh, 16. No.
00:21:59
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Did not. Interesting. Well, that unfortunately takes some things off the table. What do you want with me? You are not always as you are. You are not always an agent of the enemy.
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Were you always as you are right now? No. I don't think anybody is. You have become, you have gone from being in opposition to the enemy, to being on their side.
00:22:57
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Your brother wishes you were free. But in the meantime, why are you stealing children? Nope, just the first time. First time on a turn or starts its turn there. Yeah, it only rolls once.
00:23:27
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the first time if it's already there or starts its turn there. Or start like every turn is the start of its turn. I mean, he got a five so he did not pass.
00:23:53
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Why do you take children? Strength has reverted back into looking like he did when you took him. Education. What will you do with them once you have educated them? What you do with anybody that's received an education and put them into the workforce. We return them back to here.
00:24:24
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Uh-huh. That's exactly what barracks said they were doing in our murder board meeting. And somebody said that sounded implausible. I don't remember who, but one of the NPCs said I was crazy. Ha. Sorry. Uh, it looks like Eric is trying to throw us off the scent. I didn't see him.
00:24:54
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That's rather simple. How did the creatures you serve, the dream thieves plan to reenter Eberron? Pass or fail? You got an 18. Okay.
00:25:26
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They intend to be brought in willingly. This is not possible as their home plane has been taken out of, has been cut off from Eberron by the Giants ages ago. Yep. How do they intend to get around or undo that?
00:26:05
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He got a 14. Okay. A bridge. Which plane is to be the bridge?
00:26:30
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I mean, I feel like you know the answer to that one. The bar. I'm just trying to think of there were any other things that we hadn't settled in regard to this.
00:27:07
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Where are the children kept? Um, let me ask you a question real quick, Phillip. Um, are, what's your posturing? Are you standing over strength? Are you, I think he's crouched down to whatever strengths posture is he's crouched to be on eye level with him. Okay. Um,
00:27:46
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What you said, where, where do we keep the children? Oh, I mean, we, we have a safe place where they're kept only for, I mean, they're returned back to this plane within weeks, sometimes days.
00:28:35
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What do you intend to do with me?
00:28:59
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Personally, we would kill you very slowly. You are an enemy of the light. But your brother would be displeased. So we do not know yet.
00:29:48
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I mean...
00:29:52
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killing me is fine. What hold me here? It's whatever. I just got done with my brother hopping up on his soapbox calling me self righteous. And so you spouting all this enemy of the light rigmarole. I don't need it. I don't want it. You don't know me. I don't know you. I'm not speaking platitudes to you. So I'm not interested. Neither am I. I am not speaking platitudes.
00:30:22
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You consume minds. You take people's free will from them in the name of your education. That is evil. Perhaps when we have won
00:30:52
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And a creature that has seeded itself into your brain has been cut off from this plane. Perhaps you will understand. See, that's, that's my problem with like, once you've won, it's all games.
00:31:18
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I don't think there's winners or losers. I think there is only death and destruction, which the people of your continent have shown they are perfectly content with. Starvation, blowing up an entire country just to see who gets to sit on the shiny chair. That's what I'm talking about. I don't care. You want to say that you've won and that's some grand victory and you've saved the day. Yippee.
00:31:47
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And there is the nonsense in your platitudes. You tell yourself that death is the enemy and yet you truck with the creatures of Mahbar. The flame consumes life. Consumes it. Destroys it. It is the opposition of life.
00:32:15
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And you would use it against the people of this plane. You cannot see the creature inside you has placed blinders on your eyes. That is fine. I'm not the one with a creature inside of me. You're the one over there saying we
00:32:45
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Yes. That is a fair point. Perhaps who you were is entirely gone. And I stand up and walk away, saying to Drakir, watch him. And Drakir does. Drakir just sits down and stares at him.
00:33:17
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because Drakir don't sleep. True. Erebus goes back up on deck. Yay, Beric. Beric shakes it off and goes to find Dex. Dex is wide awake in his room.
00:33:48
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like physically keeping himself from going back down and yelling at strength, like having to stop from standing up fairly regularly. Whatever changed him, it isn't possession.
Dex's Monologue to Strength
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I was at the bummer to hear at least I don't think so yeah I mean didn't we we kind of already knew that there was like there was possession and then there was also just kind of brainwashing right like I don't know I don't know he might just be a true believer here's here's the thing I
00:34:32
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I was surprised to see Chance, obviously, and I didn't understand it, but I thought he was possessed and that's what's happening now. But now it's just all my brothers have conspired to see me dead. And I don't know, cause I didn't even, I was not an active force in this until they brought me into it, until Chance shows up in his lich face and kills Akko, you know?
00:35:02
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I was not a part of this fight. They brought me into it. I don't know why I could have just been a not entity to them, you know, but they decided that I needed to die. And unfortunately, you know, for them, it didn't work out that way yet. Um, I'm not saying that we're winning, but we were surprisingly more effective than they probably expected in some of this stuff. Um,
00:35:33
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Yes. Anyway, what'd you come over? I know what they're doing with the children. Oh yeah? What's up? He claims they're re-educating them. Oh, gross. He said that word. He said educating, but I'm...
00:35:53
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colony it does it is right he's he's their brainwashing kids just like he also told didn't you say something like that in the murder yes yes yes I did I did yeah brother please oh good he also said it was very quick which tells me
00:36:12
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Uh, they must be taking them to one of those obelisks, I think. Oh yeah. Yeah, that sounds right. And I guess. Transforming them and then returning them. I mean, Jacob wasn't gone quick, but I guess that's cause he ran away. He escaped. Yeah. Right. And he had to get back on his own. You know, if they do it quick, even if they're gone for like a day though, that's still. I'm sure it's noticed, but yeah. Kid missing for a while. People are happy to have them back. Right. Sure. It's like those stories you hear about. Um, I'm just going to go ahead and.
00:36:42
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say, point of order. Jacob was gone two weeks. Yes. And aged, what did we say? 15 years? Right. It's a year a day. How did that play out? A year a day. They aged. Yeah, it was something like that. He aged really fast. So unless
00:37:10
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unless this is just happening all over Eberron and no one's noticed yet, it seems like the children must be coming back as they were, or at least at the age that they were. Right. Which would lead me to believe that they're literally grabbing a kid, shoving them against the obelisk and sending them back out. And it's like a 30 minute probably just take them on the way home from school. Right.
00:37:45
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I mean we could investigate what reports there have been of missing children. It's possible.
00:37:59
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If they aren't coming straight back, if they aren't coming back to their families, then the other option would be that there's an obelisk somewhere in my bar and they're returning them as adults. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I guess we just need to, you know, I mean, we're in the biggest city in Reeland. We can definitely probably find some records of
00:38:27
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Although... We need to find out how to charge the stones. Yeah, we need to do that too. What's our plan for tomorrow morning?
00:38:38
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But I'm going to take the King to church. All right. Well, I'm going to go with you. Yeah. Um, and then it might be, we need to go back to missed Marsh and consult with Graham. Eric, we were never told how to get the stones charged. Am I correct by Graham?
00:38:56
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That's correct. We were told it required going to the flame, but that's all. Well, I wonder how literal that means. Um, it seems literal. Well, and it's complicated because the flame isn't exactly in one place. Like there's one particular manifestation of the flame in frame, but yeah.
00:39:23
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I don't know. But that's a fairly easy question to consult with grandma. Right. With everything else going on, getting back to Ms. Martian asking grandma question doesn't seem that... that overwhelming. Yeah, I think we can handle it. What do you want to do with him? I don't know. I don't know yet. He's connected the last few dots. But we can't... We can't keep him on the ship.
00:39:52
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Here's the thing, I'm gonna go down. I'm gonna have a talk with him. And if he gives me the feeling that they won't stop till I'm dead, if my life is personally in danger as long as he is still alive, then I'll let Erebus do what Erebus wants.
00:40:17
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or Beric, or Drakir, or Booyah, or whatever. I see. Oh, how much time do we have before we need to get a good long rest in before the morning?
00:40:41
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Drakir can cast Stone of Truth for you again if you need to feel confident in the answers. I like that idea, yeah. Yeah, so I'll go down and I'll change my mind and I'll do it tonight. So I go down, it's been a minute, is he still awake?
00:41:04
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uh yeah he's just him and Drakir are staring at each other okay i walk in between their line of sight and i smack him in the side of the head and say hey dillweed why'd you guys decide you i needed to die that's not Dix's voice hey dillweed why'd you all decide i need to die are you having before you walk in before you walk in can Drakir do one thing Drakir is curious and he attempts to dispel magic
00:41:27
Speaker
I can do it once a day for free as a drow. So I tend to dispel magic on strength. Now this has come up before and we determined that it didn't affect Dex's changeliness. Because the beholder had a cone that if it looked... But it did it to chance. It did to chance. And I feel like you said the very first episode you were going to do it to me. That was going to be the reveal.
00:41:51
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I'm totally fine if we just decide that it doesn't because I think that's how changelings work in the original writing. But that is what happened to Chance. But say that was something different. That's perfectly okay with me. I have no objection to it not working. Just curious if he can find out what he really looks like. I'm going to say no. Okay. That's fine.
00:42:18
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So I do the thing I just said. Do you have Drakir, cast Stone of Truth, or are you just coming in hot? I'm coming in hot right for a second. Dex, we never tried to kill you. I stopped and I said, Drakir, do the thing. Drakir does the thing. Drakir's just getting bossed around this episode.
00:42:41
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I think Dracure probably is taking a perverted delight and watching this family fall apart. Dracure's interested in what's happening. Now, why did you decide that I need to die? He got a 15 on his Christmas Eve. Okay, that fails. A 16 is a success. Dex, we never, we wanted you back.
00:43:07
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And your thought, having known me my entire life, you were like, I know what we need to do. We need to scare the piss out of him with a mask, with a skeleton man. And that'll make him want to join us. That's where you went. We wanted you to come home. Yeah. We thought maybe if you saw how awful life was here, how life truly is here, you'd come home.
00:43:30
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My life's okay here. You know what the worst part of my life up to now has been? When a skeleton stole a kid in my hometown that set me off on this path where I've seen friends die and I've had to kill and I am worried genuinely about the entire fate of my whole world. And that kicked off because was that chance or was that one of y'all?
00:43:58
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I mean... 17. Yeah, it was Chance. So he can lie. I don't know. Okay. Do you care if he's just standing there being your polygraph? Yeah. That could be false. A really vague polygraph. That's the best he can do. Maybe. Yeah, it's not a true or false. Is it true or maybe not as true?
00:44:26
Speaker
I miss when Zona Truth caused pain when you lied. Sure would really prefer that version of Zona Truth. Yeah. Okay. Has it been chance every time? I mean, up until the point where you let somebody kill him. See, here's the thing. How could you possibly know what happened that day? Roll.
00:44:58
Speaker
Um, he got a 13, um, truth. I love it. I mean, we're connected. We could sense each other, talk to each other. You know, we were old because of your inspired friends.
00:45:21
Speaker
Right. It's because you're in the inspired club, you could all sense each other and talk to each other. No, like all the ins not everybody can talk to everybody, but we chose to join together.
00:45:37
Speaker
so we can help each other. So you like so you were aware of when he would, you know, kill Akko. You were aware of
Beric's Decisive Action
00:45:45
Speaker
when he attacked me. Sorry there friend, but you killed Akko. All right. Then when he did whatever he did to Akko to make it seem as though he was very dead. Yep. Actually, I don't think I killed Akko. Did I kill Akko? I mean, it goes definitely dead. I don't remember which was killed Akko. Well, he attacked me too. Like,
00:46:07
Speaker
You sent things to hurt me and my friends and you thought that that would make me want to come home to you.
00:46:16
Speaker
Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds? Like now that you're hearing it out loud from another person, like you get why that was a flawed plan, right? And up until the point that you knew that it was Chance and then he was killed right after you found out that it was your baby brother. That's true. You didn't know it was us.
00:46:41
Speaker
You had no idea, no inclination. Right. Of course not. So why would it make you fearful to come home? Well, I wasn't going to come home anyway. I had, it gave me purpose here. If anything, you, it gave me a reason to stay. Terrible things were happening. And for some reason I have the ability along with my friends, my family to fix it.
00:47:14
Speaker
You're not trying to fix anything. You're trying to keep things the way they are. Well, I'm trying to stop you from ruining things further, I guess. And the way things are are broken. People are dying. The world's dying. Everything around's dying. Yeah, that's what happens. Not in Riedra.
00:47:37
Speaker
Yeah, but in reiterate, I mean, you're not you anymore and they're not themselves. You're half you, maybe, and you're half this ghost that lives in you. And sometimes you have a purple crab. I don't want that. I'd rather just... You don't know who I am. You haven't been there. You ran away like a bratty child. So don't talk to me about who I am. All right, cool, cool, cool.
00:48:04
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I'm a, I'm a bratty child and you are a possessed man. I already told your friend that I'm not possessed. Yeah. Well, okay. If possessed is the wrong words and I'm just take a moment to experience my extreme lack of interest in finding the correct word for it. I think that's enough. Here's the thing.
00:48:30
Speaker
If you say, I don't know who you are fine. What I realized now is I don't care who you are. What I know is you are a part of a thing that has killed my friends, that has tried to kill me, that kidnaps children and forces them to change, fundamentally changes them against their will.
00:48:51
Speaker
It's disgusting. I want no part of it. I'm ashamed that I'm related to people who championed it. And honestly, shooting real straight with you, as far as I'm concerned, we aren't family. Not anymore. You want me dead? Fine. I once again reiterate that I do not want you dead. That's the difference. Who was the lich tonight? Yeah, rule that bad boy.
00:49:20
Speaker
He got a six. It's Connor. Yeah. Well, I believe he said you killed him. I'll kill you. Sounds like y'all want me dead. Connor is hurt and angry right now. Oh, is Connor angry that that you killed chance? Yes. Would he have been angry if chance had killed me chance didn't try to kill you. Chance sure did beat the hell out of me a few times. He didn't try to kill you. I couldn't have known that.
00:49:51
Speaker
I didn't try to kill him. I tried to save him. I wanted to banish it. I wanted to, to, to save him somehow, but there was nothing we could do. And just so you know, I missed the one you did, but I did have a few. I've re I treated his body, his remains with respect because the only thing about him that was recognizable was the physical form. Ironically, there was nothing you could, what do you mean? There was nothing you could do. He was dying and we couldn't heal him.
00:50:22
Speaker
You said banish what. Yeah, there's a thing we can banish. This isn't news to you. We, we think there's a chance that we can banish the inspired from out of somebody who's, I'm gonna just go ahead and say, possessed by it. And we were going to give it a try, but it wouldn't work.
00:50:46
Speaker
If it had, if it had been my brother Chance again, then he would not be dead. You want us to... You left when Chance was, I mean, a completely different person because it was years ago.
00:51:07
Speaker
If you want us all to revert who we were when we were kids, that's not going to happen. That's not what I meant. You know, that's not what I meant. I just mean not. I wish you would revert. I wish you would go back to the way you were. Yeah, I didn't happen either. Well, I guess then we're at an impasse. I'm stronger, smarter, better, and I'm on the right side of this. So I guess we, we might talk more tomorrow. Don't piss off Drake here.
00:51:32
Speaker
Will he kill me if I do? I mean, all signs point to yes, that anybody on this boat would be happy to kill you. I'm the only reason you're not dead. And I can't promise that, one, I can continue to keep you alive, or two, I won't change my mind about it. I need everybody to give me perception checks real quick. Everybody in the room. I look around. 21 for trick here.
00:51:58
Speaker
Hmm, 16, 16, five. Um. Drew here, you just you're the only one that hears anything in the room, you just hear a foot shuffle behind some crates over in a corner. Charlie. No, he's gone. Who's there? Come out now.
00:52:25
Speaker
But Charlie's not the one that you convinced to sneak around. No, I know, I know. Yeah, you see a very young boy with terrified eyes come from around the crate. Go upstairs. We'll talk tomorrow. He just silently turns and walks away.
00:52:51
Speaker
up the stairs. Yes. Okay. Off the boat. That way dummy. Wrong way. Okay. Anyway, that's that's my that's I've spoken my piece to him. And I think that he probably knows that he I mean, I wasn't trying to convince him anything. You can't do that with zealots. Especially ones that are probably possessed.
00:53:24
Speaker
So I say, I will probably kill you in the morning. Why wait? No, I didn't say it. I quoted the Princess Bride for my friends. For my friends, Philip and Eric. In that order. And I'm gone. Back up. You can back up, Eric. Anything?
00:53:50
Speaker
Oh, hey, you know, most, yeah, I did the true thing and most of the stuff that he said was truth in the sense that you can obviously escape, you know? Right. Here's the thing.
00:54:03
Speaker
As long as he's here, he's someone who can be scried on to find us. Right. And he also just basically straight up told me, Hey, we can sense each other and know where each other are and blah, blah, blah. Right. So like, if you want to drop them off the boat, making sense of because black do what you will. I mean, I don't, I don't want to do that.
00:54:30
Speaker
I don't want to do any of it. I mean, no, I don't want, I don't know. Absolutely not. Of course. I'm just pissed at him right now. Well, we're either putting him somewhere off to the boat, uh, free or otherwise, or we have to kill him. But we need to make that decision because every minute he's here. He's a threat to us. Right. I don't care if he dies. He wants me. He wants my brother.
00:55:01
Speaker
I can't decide. He is my brother, which is why I'm not going to kill him. But I'm asking what you want me to do with him. Do you want him dead? Do you want him left tied up in a street somewhere? Do you want me to just let him walk? What's the safest option? The safest option? Obviously, the safest option is killing him. Well, I want you to do what you think is safest.
00:55:35
Speaker
I just told you what you, what I, what he wants. I just can't say it. So you don't have to do it. You can, you can tell Drake here to do it. You can tell Borenel to come and do it for all I get. Lady Omer in my needs and practice, but I'm going to go to my room and I'm going to know that when I wake up in the morning,
00:56:05
Speaker
It'll have been done. Kill him. Bye. Erebus shows mercy and I have to say, kill my brother, please. What's this an Erebus you're talking to?
00:56:34
Speaker
Why does Baric have any qualms about killing him? He's tied up in the hold of our ship. Well, if you want to make it sporty, you can untie him. I don't care. Drakir, Drakir won't care. Of course, Drakir won't care. But.
00:56:55
Speaker
Barrick's moral sense doesn't see a distinction between him walking downstairs and asking Barrick to stab the dude in the throat between him doing that and doing it himself. So I'm trying to decide what Barrick will actually do.
00:57:27
Speaker
I don't know what he himself has done. Okay. He has literally blew up a skyscraper. He's had people blow up a skyscraper. This guy has people infiltrate the whole world to take it over. To be fair, who is he killed that you know of? I have to imagine. I mean, you can imagine all I can imagine a lot of things. People have died. You're gross.
00:57:55
Speaker
Is it fair to assume that we took efforts to, well, you, you closed his eyes. We prevented him from like identifying his location until we were in the hold. I think so. I think we had the bag over the head treatment. Is that reasonable, DM? I would say so. I'm just trying to have the information the barracks got. I mean, if it leads to you letting me keep one of my toys, then yes, absolutely. Barracks going to try something.
00:58:26
Speaker
Uh, walk downstairs, put a sack over his head. Stab him in the face. Nope. Then I get out two of the feather fall packs. I stick one on his back. I stick one on my back. Uh, and I walk to my quarters. Okay. I throw him out the hole and I jump after him and I want to watch.
00:58:57
Speaker
for a while as I stay right close to him. I want to see if in panic a purple crab monster comes out and tries to save him. He's still tied and I've just checked him out of a ship. I pulled the bag off right before I did it so he's very aware of what's happening. I just jump out after him and fall right alongside him.
00:59:29
Speaker
This might be the most morally questionable thing I've ever done in D&D. Yeah, just kill him. He continues to fall. Okay. I mean, I've done this enough times that I have a good understanding of when the safe zone is passing, and I assume we have quite a long ways to go in Sharn.
00:59:52
Speaker
Yeah. So I'm going to take it down to the wire and see if you panic sufficiently that a giant crab monster comes out. You're nearing the safe zone. Nothing has happened.
01:00:20
Speaker
I'm gonna wait right at the line is when I will do it So you tell me if anything happens right up to that point and then I'll do it You're at the line of the safe zone nothing has happened Damn well, all right perception check. Yes put a marker. I just cursed When T2
01:00:47
Speaker
You have noticed as you have fallen and are eagerly awaiting this, he has also not made a sound. No, no exclamations, nothing. That's fine. Well, then at the moment of Safe Zone,
01:01:14
Speaker
I hit both of our packs and I angle myself to land on the nearest bridge and I let him drift pleasantly down all the way to the bottom of Sharn. And then he can just find his own way back up once he gets himself untied. Okay. Or be eaten by whatever Kraken lives at the bottom of Sharn. Who knows. Then I catch a sky cab back to the ship.
01:01:43
Speaker
Boy, I liked nothing about that plan. I mean, I could walk, but I felt like the Sky Cab was better. You suck. Hey, where do you need to go? That's the real villain of this campaign, that cab. What was that? That overpriced cabbie? Five under goal pieces. Good lord. I turn into Erebus and take us to the ship. End of episode.
01:02:13
Speaker
Oh, OK, fine.
Podcast Timeline and Future Content Discussion
01:02:15
Speaker
Over an hour. Thank you all so much for listening. I think this is the end of the British job arc. I think we're going to call it here. New new things are happening. So thank you for joining us on this extended arc. We'll have an Eberron reviewed for you soon. But we're not going to summarize this entire arc on Eberron review.
01:02:36
Speaker
Hopefully next week we will have one which I have no idea what week that's going to be because we're recording this the first week of September and I'm pretty sure it's going to be like November by the time you all are hearing this.
01:02:49
Speaker
No, because next week we'll run out of episodes. So we're four weeks away. It will be it will be the middle of October. Happy Halloween, everybody. Anyway, if you want to be part of the conversation, a couple of weeks. Yeah. Happy Halloween. Happy Columbus. Happy Columbus Day. Not for anybody. It's not. I mean, we might be happy on Columbus Day. I suppose. I don't like Columbus Day either. I don't have to go to school. Obviously.
01:03:16
Speaker
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01:03:43
Speaker
Yeah, I just lost my train of thought. So I'm just going to say thank you so much for listening. Once again, I'm your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Jeff. We'll see you next time. Smell you later forever.