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C2 Ep. 106 Eyes of Stone Chapter Nine
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Time to have a chat with an old acquaintance.
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00:00:35
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:01:12
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Recap of the Pirate Encounter
00:01:24
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Yeah, pirate sight. Yeah, pirate sight. Not where you'd expect it, though. Yeah. We went to, we've been at the gala, and some pirates came to steal the statue. Not, you know, I realize now, not recognizing that that wasn't their buddy, when it clearly doesn't look like their buddy. At least that's our working theory.
00:01:49
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Eris is down. Yep. Hob is nearly down. Just healed himself a bit. Healed Haldorak a little bit. Reynard's under a table. Yep. Are you still under the table? Yeah. And the last thing that happened was as... Tasha got the kill. Yes. Yes. As the captain of the ship was trying to leave Tasha. Mindlessly, with no malice or blame. Absolutely grandeur.
00:02:20
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Yep. And that is where we will pick up is kind of the aftermath of this whole thing.
Aftermath of the Gala Attack
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So it all goes very quiet. And then voices begin to raise as people are like figuring out what the crap just happened. People are moving about. Some people are rushing out the front door to get out of here. Other people are on the floor near you, Rainard, picking up valuables. So these are the kind of people that would only take their own things most likely.
00:02:49
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maybe yeah i mean rich people like to make stealing from other rich people a game they don't just do it outright but i mean when you're grabbing a handful of your gold off the floor that's fair who bothers counting you're right um hob runs back in and
00:03:10
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I like- You see Harbin wide-eyed in like the driver's seat of Tasha just looking around like- I think when I see Tasha- There's not a seat. Stand up to fly Tasha. So Harbin is like six feet further down the deck. No, canonically you mentioned seats. Not for the driver. Okay, fair enough.
00:03:26
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Was he driving or was he just in there? He was just in, yeah. I think Hob looks up, then, if he sees Tasha's come in and the body of the captain remaining. Because there is still a pirate ship with at least three adversaries above us right now. You see it beginning to pull away. Okay, cool, fine, great. Well, in that case, Hob notices Eris on the ground. And he looks at Raynard under the table.
00:03:55
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And he looks at his own hands, who just barely did anything for himself on Haldorak. And he just yells, who could help her?
Healing and Recovery Period
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Is there a doctor? Essentially, someone here is going to be better at healing than Hob and Reynard, probably, frankly. I don't think I can do anything with this train. I think I only have two left. You only have two left? Oh, okay. So literally knock Reynard out. She did her part to protect all of these people. Yeah.
00:04:25
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I have four, I have four strain left, so I could- Yes, to protect all of these people. I didn't say that was your intent. I know, I was just kidding. Impact over intent every time, and what happened was you protected these people. Oh, and one more thing, because I didn't do Jack Graff last episode, it felt like beneficial, I know I had opportunities. Yeah.
00:04:47
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I think I'm going to lean down and go, you should probably go check on Mr. Haldorak to Satan because they were right there, right? Like, yeah. Oh, where where is he? Oh, just the next room. He's OK. He's stable. He's fine, but.
00:05:02
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Good looking out. Good will at all. Yeah. And Satan walks off. Okay. So yeah, Eris, I'm not going to roll the check. Somebody's able to get you up to a wound, like through medicine, just they get put.
00:05:20
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Patch up the wound and pull out the smelling salts So she is still essentially like one good attack away from going down again though, okay Actually, no, you know what Satan's wife is a member of house Drasko. She would have been here with him So we'll have here. Well, I mean to wound three strain So I actually have no strain hub
00:05:45
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Hov also realizes that Haldorak is probably the kind of guy who's got a healing potion or two laying around, so he's no arcing sword with Haldorak. Haldorak's gonna be fine. Satan's in there to do whatever he needs to do to get some good will. Okay. Assuming the fighting is mostly stopped, he's not super concerned about his own will. Eris, you wake up to a halfling woman kneeling over, you're like, you're okay, you're okay, you're okay. I really, no, I disagree with that. You're not dead.
00:06:16
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You're sure? Yes. And threats are gone and neutralized. So you're, you're going to be fine. Okay. There was a young man that flew a boat in here and took out the person that harmed you. Good. Okay. Ow. And you hear footsteps and you hear an Eris and Harbin like comes up and kneels next to you. Are you okay? No, no. How can I help? Stabbed. She's going to be fine. Dear.
00:06:45
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That is opinion. My medical opinion. Yes. Um, everything, everything hurts a lot and I was stabbed. That's how I am. Well, just take it easy. Don't just get some rest. Okay. Get, you should probably go home at this point too. Uh-huh. Uh, I'll, I'll, I'll take care of it. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Hartman says,
00:07:14
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And she's like, very well. And she gets up and walks away. Where's everyone else? Um, in a very nonchalant, uh, hub is there. Okay. Hub is over you as well. Okay. Hey, you, um, all right. I was stabbed. Um, but they say I'm, she's the lady says I'm not dead.
00:07:45
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And I was like, I, I was also stabbed and I'm not dead. It sucks. I'm just going to have a seat here next to you. He sits down on the floor holding his side. And Reynard stumbles up and says, hello, Habers and Ernest. And Verla is standing next to Reynard looking just so annoyed. Am I, am I passing out? Is that what's happening? I mean, you might, you might be. I think he sounds weird. Oh, he's just feeling great.
00:08:15
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He drank a vase full of champagne. You drink again? I had one drink. One. Why? Why? Because... His dad's here and that bothers him for some reason. Shh, that's so loud. You're so loud, Verna. Okay, I'm not going to make a value. Verna. I called her the wrong name by accident. Would you call this one character? I called her the wrong name by accident. I said Verna.
00:08:42
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Unbelievable. I'm committed. You should be. Good. Sana and Kath and Milo come sauntering in from the dance floor. Kath is like twirling a hook hand on one hand. How'd things go in here?
00:09:05
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I was stabbed, and so was Chip. Oh. Yes, I was stabbed, and so was she. That's so good. How are you, Raynard? I am wonderful. He's drunk. He's drunk. I don't know why. I shot someone with green eyes. That's the one who stabbed me. And me! I threw a knife, too!
00:09:26
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I've never done that before. I saved the master of the house and so did Aeris. Oh, that's
Plans and Next Steps Discussion
00:09:32
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good. He seemed like he was nice. You know when he looked at you? Yeah. It was very kind eyes. Yeah. Yeah, well, Satan's back there with him now. Do you think he's hiring? You know what? I don't need that. We could get the first job. We could get his statue back. What?
00:09:56
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What? Oh, the one that was just taken. Oh, they stole the statue. They stole the statue. The city watch is on its way. I've called this way. Oh, good. The city watch is coming. We have another thing to do. They're gonna look around and write something down. Take off forever. If they impound Tasha again, I will be very angry.
00:10:25
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Last time we saved the day, they impounded Tasha. Yeah. Well, don't let them impound Tasha this time. Well, that's how about we get Tasha out of here. Do we need to stay? Our boss is theoretically here. He doesn't care if we're here or not. I didn't know at this point. We have other plans too. Shut up.
00:10:51
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I am going to go coordinate out front for when city watch get here. So this has been, do you need a ride? Yeah, I took this and hands back the crossbow. You didn't, you didn't need a ride. No, I can, I can get home on my own. Thank you. Okay. I'm sorry.
00:11:13
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It's okay. Not entirely sure all the things that I'm sorry for, but I think I'm sorry. I appreciate the sentiment and she regards all of you save for Reynard and then walks away. Who can blame her? So, um, yeah, are we going? We don't need to say, do you need to tell him we're going?
00:11:39
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Tell who? Not you. I'm talking to Chib. Do I need to tell Satan? Oh, no, I really don't think. I think we've done more than he could have possibly expected us to do this evening. Does the dwarf need to thank us? If he wants to, he'll find a way. He knows that we work for Satan, and he's in there with Satan right now. Well, that was exactly just... I don't want just Satan to get the credit for being awesome, since he wasn't at all
00:12:10
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He, okay, hang on, all right. Is it just Mr. Lord Halderack? I don't know. The Right Honorable Halderack? Councillor Halderack? Councillor Halderack? Okay. Yeah, Councilman Halderack. His Excellency? Costimer Halderick. Yeah, Councillor Halderick. I did it, I did it, I did it.
00:12:41
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Take a couple breaths, Jeff. We can get there. Councilman Halderack saw everything that happened. He knows that you turned off the hose. He knows that I got him out of here. We don't have to worry about Satan taking all the glory. Okay. Even if he does try to take the credit by way of saying, well, it's a smart move for him to invite his employees or whatever.
00:13:12
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Regardless, we should go. Okay. What's that pirate lady? Oh, very dead. Oh. Actually, you know what? He just points and he goes, Tasha did it. Oh, you're not supposed to bend like that. No, no, no, you're not. Okay, yeah. We're going, everyone. Hob turns to his old dwarves. He scores again at this point.
00:13:40
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He goes, uh, hey, you guys, you guys want to see something pretty cool? Yeah. Any points? He goes, look out that window in about three minutes. Okay. Eris is like calling herself onto her feet.
00:13:55
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He turns to Kath. Harbin is trying his best to just like stand under an arm and help. Eris accepts this because you can't walk otherwise. Understate. I think Hob turns to Kath and he's like oh they've got space in Tasha now if you'd rather but you're welcome. I'll write a few. Alright cool. We will take Harbin home.
00:14:17
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first i mean if you if you guys are going to like after party or something i mean i'm i'm down no no you can't be there no why not because it is he's drunk don't listen to anything he says he's drunk and when he's drunk he's stupid and a liar actually he's a liar about half the time when he's sober but when he's drunk it's real bad
00:14:40
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So what are you going to do then, Eris? I've been stabbed. I'm going to go back to the cauldron. Oh, OK. And I'm going to lay down. OK, fair enough. That's what I'm going to do. But first, I'll drop you back off so you have to pay the exorbitant sky cab rates. Give me a deception check. I'm still there. Let me double check on Loom. Yes, deception. OK. I'll just...
00:15:09
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Well, because I was going to have to say stuff, too. Yeah. Yeah. Because I was going to talk about how I've got to go get patched up and it's not a place you want to be. What's the difficulty of Harbin's inside is one red, one purple. Man, we just I just definitely told Harbin that we work for Satan, though.
00:15:28
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Well, a lot of threat. Uh, you get to add three advantage as long as it was a success. It is a success. Um, Oh, actually not a lot of threat. Oh, three advantage. Cool. One success, three advantage. Okay. Um, so yeah, Harbin believes you. He doesn't, he doesn't believe that you're just trying to ditch him because you don't think he's fun. Right. That's good. That's not what's happening. I don't want Harbin to think that. Uh, three advantage.
00:15:58
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I actually have no strain. I suffered no strain, so. You gave it to one of us. I don't think I can. That's not how that works. That's not an option. No story point. I, boy. Okay. Little Timmy.
00:16:23
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is has been overwhelmed by the crashing of the of the skit like everything has overwhelmed little Timmy and he is not his story is now too confused too many things have happened and all of its running together in when he tries to tell people okay so he will not be able to accurately describe
00:16:41
Speaker
Hobb's presence in the house last night without it seeming like he's talking about just now or something like that. Because Hobb definitely made a spectacle of himself in the last couple of minutes. Fair enough. Okay. Quick administrative ask real quick because you all currently have no story points. Would you like to use your human once per session ability to... I have used it already. Oh, you did? I used it last session. Yeah. At last session? I'm sorry, last episode. Oh, okay. I used it last episode.
00:17:09
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which is part of this session. Yeah. I'm sure we will need to spend some. I'm currently in a place where I need to spend some in order to get some back to you. Oh, I see. Yeah. You currently have none. Right. I keep forgetting which side we are. Yeah. Yes. Okay.
00:17:29
Speaker
Um, so yes, I'd love to, but I can't. Okay. Um, okay. So you all are piling into Tasha except for hob and Kath are headed to the speeder. So as, as hog, are you good to, are you good to drive? Almost a lot of blood, but yeah, no, that's.
00:17:45
Speaker
My body has trained itself to operate on about half capacity. Okay. I live like this. I don't know what to tell you. I spent the last several years building up an immunity to massive blood loss. I'm pretty much anywhere from four to eight points. I'm good. I'm just gonna roll real quick and see if something happens. I'm not gonna say it all out.
00:18:08
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Yeah. Okay. It does not happen. Bummer. So, uh, Hob gets on the speeder and he levitates up until he's in line with the window. He told those little doors to look out and he looks in. Are they looking? Yeah. He tried to do a utility spell to make the whole thing like shimmer and it was going to shoot fire out of the exhaust. That's what he just rolled and fail. Well, they didn't fail. He got two advantage. Um, success.
00:18:32
Speaker
No, is it? The X does cancel out the success. Oh, you're right. He does succeed on his... And to advantage. So yeah, so he howls at the moon, guns it, fire comes out the exhaust, the whole thing leaves a trail of shimmers and takes off with Kat. Just a nice last little thing for his old dwarves.
00:18:51
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Eris sort of staggers to the controls. Tasha lifts off from the foyer, backs out through the tower. Sorry, sorry. Beep, beep, beep. Three-point turn. Instead of a stream of shine, it's just Raynard vomiting out of the back of Tasha.
Team Meeting at Four Sales
00:19:11
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And to all the good night, she just goes.
00:19:16
Speaker
Okay, so yeah, you all can go drop Harbin off at his place and he kind of awkwardly like, goodnight Eris. Think about what I said. I will think about that. Yeah, okay. Well, I had a good time, aside from the whole attack by pirates thing, but yeah, do it again sometime and Harbin like,
00:19:46
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Expends his hand for a handshake. And Harbin gets out of Tasha. Bye, everyone else. Harbin turns and leaves.
00:20:07
Speaker
Okay. So, oh, when they get in the thing, just to check because they were in a separate fight, evidently twirling a cat, a pirate's hook and all, uh, Hob just wants to just be like, yeah. Um, you're three of you guys. You okay? You need any healing you need to.
00:20:22
Speaker
Oh, no, we're we're good. There was just a few pirates in there that were trying to shake people down. So we took care of them. Nice. Milo cast the magic. It was it was wicked cool. So yeah, we're going to work. Yeah, you're not here. You're in the speeder. Oh, sorry, wrong place. Yeah.
00:20:41
Speaker
All right, good. Yeah, it was good. Thank you, though. How'd things go on your end? Oh, well, I'm actively bleeding. That's fair. Yeah, looks a little rough. Has Hobb's new garment been torn? I need to figure out how Hobb feels about this. I mean, he got stabbed, so yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it has to have. I guess Hobb's not happy about that. Surely Eris can cast Mindy. Sure. But yeah. I don't think Hobb would ever put this back on on his own, but I think Hobb has enjoyed this Luke he's got going.
00:21:11
Speaker
Thank you. Okay, so is the plan to meet back up at the cauldron? Probably. Is there like some magical Russian bath we can all heal in or something? We should meet back at the foresales. Like in wanted? Yeah, it should be at the foresales. I just mean, I got a lot of strain to get rid of. Yeah. Well, you can, you can make a resilience check. Oh yeah. It's something or discipline. If you are, if you're low on strain,
00:21:41
Speaker
But that just recovers strain, right? Or maybe it's just discipline? Is it ranged weapons or? Simple discipline or cool checks. So no difficulty, discipline or cool. And you just recover strain for number of successes? Yeah. Oh my god, better? Cool. So no difficulty, right? No difficulty.
00:22:00
Speaker
Just one. One and three advantage. I need two and a triumph. Or three. Three, one of which is a triumph. But the triumphs don't really count on me. You can use a triumph. I have on my character sheet that I have a healing potion, so I'm going to drink it. Yeah. Yeah, can my triumph be I have a healing potion? Sure. OK, great. I got no wounds, but just a lot of strength. Because the healing potion doesn't count much. Five is the first. Six. Six. Oh my gosh, I'm down to just really curt. Wait, I can't use those advantage for something else too.
00:22:30
Speaker
Oh yeah. If you want to establish something, you just can't heal strain with it. Well, that's what I want to do. I'm sorry. Should have rolled more success than three advantage that I have a healing potion that heals straight. Um, I think we established that thing exists. Um, it's called the call map. Eris probably worries that, that all of has a police scanner or something. And so, uh, she will activate the, uh, the communicator and switch it over to the, the olive channel. Um,
00:23:01
Speaker
Hey. Hey, Eris. Pirus attacked the gala. Oh, no. Are you okay? I was stabbed, but I seem to be all right. Oh. Someone, there was a half-lane lady there that healed me. Okay. Probably Gerasco. Maybe. I feel really bad.
00:23:21
Speaker
We'll be home a little later, but I just- Well, you can come home now if you- Thought you might have, you know, heard or some scene, I don't know. I just, yeah, I just- We're okay. You don't sound okay, Aris. No, it hurts a lot. You can come back here and get healed up. Yeah, I will. I know you have work, but- No, it's- Work can wait. This is a meeting I have to go to. It won't be a fight. Okay.
00:23:52
Speaker
Well, take care of yourself. I'll try. I'll be here. Okay. I'm just saying, that would have gone better if I'd had weapons. More weapons. I know, I couldn't have anticipated that pirates were going to attack the gala. This is just a ridiculous premise. Like, if you're gonna have a pirate fight, you should be on a boat, not at a party.
00:24:23
Speaker
Sometimes pirates steal things on land. There was a ship, I mean, you know, that did have a ship. With those advantage, you can have a stamina elixir which heals five string so you can work. Well, yeah, you're right. If you would have had your weapons, then that would have gone differently. Happy. It still hurts a lot. Well, sorry. Also, she stabbed a hole in my jacket.
00:24:55
Speaker
Look, there's a big hole and blood all over my jacket. Oh no. Marcus can fix that. What? Marcus. Don't f- Marcus? I do. Marcus is great at what- he altered this jacket to where you can wear your glove. That's Marcus that did that for you. I mean, I paid him, but Marcus did it. He had an attitude about it.
00:25:26
Speaker
Um, so meeting at the for sales. Yeah. Um, okay. So, um, for sales, uh, it's near closing time. Um, but often is there, uh, cleaning up, uh, ACE is putting chairs on the table, um, getting ready to clean the floor and you all walk in. It's like, Hey guys, how's it going? You look,
00:25:58
Speaker
Nice. Eris narrows her eyes as she attempts to scrutinize whether that was sarcasm at her state.
00:26:11
Speaker
No, I'm you're dressed nicely, but you also are bleeding. So it's kind of a bleeding. I was bleeding. There's blood. Yeah. Well, the blood is present. Yes, I was stabbed. Did you guys want I can put chairs back down if you all need. I think we're going in a minute. We just needed a place to meet. Okay. Oh, you going on a job hub? No, please. No. Oh, okay.
00:26:39
Speaker
Hub walks up, reaches over behind the bar where he has stashed a spare set of clothing.
00:26:45
Speaker
Okay. Takes it into the bathroom, comes back out, changed and with a bandage across it, like just staunch it. Like he's not trying to heal anything right now with a bandage across his midsection where he'd been slashed. Is, uh, is press digitization a utility to remove the blood from my clothing? Just simple or no, single. He does keep the sandals on his, his new clobbering samples. Oh yes. Very much. Lots of success. Yeah.
00:27:14
Speaker
Eris looks out at the blood and holds her gauntlet over it and there's sort of this shimmering light that scans back and forth over it and the blood stains disappear. Nice. Yari, you need anything before I close down the kitchen? I would drink. Okay. Eris, is that with the blood loss? Is that just a little?
00:27:44
Speaker
Alright, he pulls his shot glass out. It pours hail into it. Here you go, Eris. Eris doesn't know the difference. Anybody else? I'm set, thank you. Alright. He looks at Raynarden like he sniffs.
00:28:07
Speaker
He had one drink. He had and drank a flower vase full of wine. Still one? Why? It's a long story often. He was afraid to meet his parents. Okay. Father and brother.
00:28:31
Speaker
Who are going to meet anyway? Maybe. Then why were you worried about it? Because I wasn't ready. But now you are? Is my cat here? Yeah, well actually he's out on delivery. Should be back soon. Amazing.
00:28:53
Speaker
Just at that moment you hear the door open and Arthur comes sauntering in. Has a little gold bag in his mouth and he hops from the counter and drops it and opens him. Thank you. He scritches Arthur's ear.
00:29:07
Speaker
KGang, are you heading out? Sorry, I was just reading some weapon stats. Yeah, I think we re-wepted up. They're tearing off in Beanstalk. There's stats for a Blackjack. Nice. So with your permission, I'll send some gold, buy one, we'll do it for next session. So that way it's all above board.
00:29:29
Speaker
Um, okay. So yeah, Raynard can obviously lead you all back to his, um, parental home. Are you, are you taking off your necklace for this trip? Yeah. Okay. So you all see Raynard assume a different form, um, and piling into Tasha. Are you taking the speeder bike? No speeder bikes staying at, um, opens. Okay. All right. So you all take off. Is it just going to be S three?
00:29:56
Speaker
Yeah. Do you want Caffin's on along? It is up to them. They are their own people. It's up to Raynard. It's up to you if we invite them and then up to them. Where's Sigil? Sigil's off doing their own thing. I like Sigil. I do too. Worried about them. I would say just us three, I guess.
00:30:17
Speaker
Okay. What about them or what they're up to? Milo got worried about both of those. Milo got way too turned. So Milo, Sana took Milo home and is like passing him off to his mom. Okay. So the three of you, uh, hop into Tasha to take off, uh, towards the, uh, fearland, uh, family estate in shard.
Interrogation of Norse and Millhatch
00:30:40
Speaker
Um, it is a,
00:30:45
Speaker
It's a home that exudes the notion of subdued wealth. It's a very, very nice house. But in the sense that it's sturdily made with the highest quality material, but no flourishes. Like, if that makes sense. Yeah. It's like the opposite of a brain arch. The opposite of a brain arch, yes. The table looks great. Looks great to him.
00:31:15
Speaker
You're a golden owl, currently. You did not state you changed. So yeah, what's the, are you just gonna walk up at the front door and knock? Like, mom I'm home, or? I don't know that there's any other choice, really. I'm not breaking in. Okay.
00:31:32
Speaker
Um, it's the only way to enter. The door is fake. You have to, you have to climb in through a lost window. Do I know who sent the note though? Or do I just wait out here? Okay. Um, I mean, you could give me a perception check to guess based on the handwriting. Yeah, let's do it. Why not? Okay. Mine was three green. Yup. Uh, one purple difficulty and you can have a boost because you're family family. That is
00:32:02
Speaker
Two success and three advantage. Basil. Work. Three advantage. What would you like to sober up? Why, to throw it all up. Because that's how that works. Sometimes. Not any time I'm familiar with. Three advantage, three advantage, three advantage.
00:32:29
Speaker
I would, um, you dictate that a certain family member is there or isn't there. Um, establish something else about the meeting.
00:32:41
Speaker
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out who I want to open the door to make this easier, I guess. It's easier, probably Basil. Yeah, I was going to say, let's not do three degrees of separation. Yeah, let's make it be someone who knows exactly why you're here. Yeah. That would be you. OK, so you want Basil to open the door. Yeah. OK. So yeah, you walk up, and after a moment, you all see the familiar form of Basil. Door swings open. It's like, about time.
00:33:12
Speaker
Well, I was not expecting to be attacked by pirates tonight. Oh, you were at the gala? Hmm. Alistair was just telling me the story of the crazy attack that happened. Well, did he? Giant Goliath. Oh, oh. Did you say anything about the heroic elf that threw a dagger at the dagger of a woman? Oh, cost. Shockingly, no. Oh. I'm sure you were wonderful, though. Dren year. I saved the day. Really?
00:33:42
Speaker
Tasha saved the day. Who's Tasha? My ship. Oh. I don't want to quibble with your ship, Eris, but I like to think that we all had a bit to do with it. He says that he straightens up and winces. I acknowledge that most of us had something to do with it.
00:34:04
Speaker
We can go downstairs into the basement and Ginn's leading you all around to the backside of the staircase that's in the entryway and there's a door that leads down. After you. Oh, I don't like that.
00:34:22
Speaker
Just trying to be pleasant, but fine, I'll go first. Thank you. I don't like that. I'll go in the middle then. It's all going backwards. Whoever goes down last, shut the door behind you. And there's Ever-Brite Lanterns lining a stone staircase that leads down further into the tower that this house is clearly built into the side of. All of the
00:34:46
Speaker
All of the appearance of wealth washes away into strict utility, like stone walls, stone steps, like modest, ever bright lanterns, until you reach a flat hallway with four doors, seem to be reinforced iron, two on each side of the hall. It's like, right down here. And he goes to the last door on the left and pulls out a key and unlocks it and it's like, after you.
00:35:14
Speaker
No, I don't like that. Really, this time, I need to lock the door. Fine. This is me doing you a favor, remember? Like, I'm not trying to trick you. I am not testing with you. As you all go in, Basil locks the door behind him. As you all enter, you see sitting on a cot built into the wall, this is clearly like a prisoner's style cell. Yeah. Yeah. I do want to say, we had talked about
00:35:46
Speaker
How do I say this without sounding like I'm retconning? We had talked about trying to remain
00:35:51
Speaker
not recognizable. So unless he's like blindfolded, I don't think we would have walked right in there. Okay. There's a bag over his head. There it is. Yeah. So there's somebody sitting on the cot bag over his head in very soiled, dirty, like what seemed to be his clothes. Like he has not been given a change of clothes. And he has manacles around his wrists and he's just kind of
00:36:18
Speaker
sitting there and he hears people walk in, he just sighs and brings his head up. Clearly he can't see anything. But, well, Norse and Millhatch. Thank you. Yes. Do you want me to leave you alone with him? It just depends. Do we want him to leave us alone with him?
00:36:47
Speaker
This is your party. None of us asked for this. The bag has silence cast on it, so he can't hear anything right now with us. No, you can stay. Okay.
00:37:02
Speaker
Does he know who took him? No. Oh, thank God. What's something? Who do you take me for? I don't know you that well, Basil. I don't know if you hired this out. I don't know any of this. This seemed to be a... a Drannier thing, so I wanted to make sure it was done correctly. Yes, in fact, let me go ahead and reiterate. This was entirely a Drannier thing.
00:37:29
Speaker
I think we all will enjoy it, right? I know what! I don't know what we're doing. I don't really either. If you want to talk to him, I could dispel the silence. I could take the bag off his head if you want to. Okay. No, bag stays. Silence can go. All in agreement. Not until we know what we're doing. In a moment. Oh, all right. Silence stays.
00:37:56
Speaker
Basil goes and sits next to Northson on the... That's funny. None of us. Well... Except for him. You and I, Eris, didn't ask for this. Right. But it has been presented to us. Right. To not take advantage of it... seems... I want to know... where the lizard monster came from. I want to know about his connection to Callaway.
00:38:28
Speaker
I want to know what Callaway has been pushing him to do. He's been pushing him to work harder and faster and to take risks that he wouldn't have otherwise done. And I want to know why.
00:38:55
Speaker
I agree. If possible, I would like to know what Callaway's game is. Because if Callaway's game is just to replace the Boromar on the council, then I frankly don't give a frack.
00:39:06
Speaker
Well, here's my issue with that. Yes, I don't care if Callaway replaces Bormore on the council necessarily, unless he's doing it as a means to a considering worse end turning everyone into monsters. If there's an endgame that that's a part of that will be bad, then sure. We're on the same page there. But so far, he's beaten up someone we hate. Right.
00:39:33
Speaker
And he's been not really any less polite to us than the average rich person we've met. Right. But the man in front of us... Oh, this guy I hate. Right. He's killed a lot of people in cars. A lot of innocent people. Oh, he has? Yeah. Oh, you know what? Who gets a crap? Yeah, Basil, he has. You're remarkably uninformed for a member of a spy family.
00:40:01
Speaker
What do you do around here? Well, the wealth kind of keeps us away from the information about the cops. I've been undercover as a detective, as you all know, for quite some time. I've only recently finished that assignment and am back in the family folds. Wait, weren't you a detective where the murders were? The murder- the shifter murders? Yeah. Oh, now you know. What? I didn't say shifter, did you say shifter-eras?
00:40:25
Speaker
I'm very confused. I was the one investigating the shifter murders. What are you talking about? Did we not help? That wasn't the cogs. Was it not? No, it was higher up. It was in North edge, next to the weather big. Okay, but the shifter murders were the lizard. Hey, no, that led to the lizard. That's the part of the city that Calloway is trying to get control over. It's the same place where the murders were.
00:40:56
Speaker
I just, I just seem significant. I just... Well, no, right. And that's why I think that we ask, you know, Callaway's in-game here. It's what he knows. Like it's clear this guy's not some, uh, unwitting stooge. So that feels like that's a start. Right. Um... Question. Yes. Yeah.
00:41:17
Speaker
Does my looming have an effect here? Uh, it's negotiation and charm and deception checks. I was not lying, but asking for questions to be answered truthfully. There's nothing I, my looms not going to help. I mean, this whole situation is coercive. I mean, I feel like any, like,
00:41:35
Speaker
The implicit threat is just constant. So there's not a whole lot of charming or, I mean, maybe negotiation, if you offer to let him go like that is right. Negotiative in nature. But that's really the only because if this whole thing is coordinated, I should be asking all the questions. Yeah. Three ranks. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:53
Speaker
What about torture? Yeah, you should be leading the way. That would be coercion. But if I am asking all the questions, I'm going to... And also a very poor way to get truthful information out of a person. So you could try torturing him, but... I mean... Probably just going to tell you whatever he thinks you want to hear in order for the torture to stop.
00:42:14
Speaker
Would it have to be a utility spell to disguise my voice beyond recognition? Because augment is not that kind of... Yeah, yeah, utility would be that, yeah. To modulate your voice. I may give that a shot before I go. Or one of you guys can give that a shot. Is there a charm-like spell that can be attempted to make him more... I don't know what... Agreeable?
00:42:36
Speaker
Mean I have another voice curse. Yeah, but you also what's your what's your coercion? I'm talking about snaz We can dig it well the snaz is last name gunk thumb conversions
00:42:56
Speaker
Oh, I only have one green, so not going to be me. So it's got, it's going to be hot. It's got to be hot. Yeah, it should be hot. How does the, how does the intimidating? Yeah. I mean, I, so I would allow you to cast curse with one additional difficulty. So instead of average beat, or sorry,
00:43:27
Speaker
Yeah, to essentially rather than reduce the ability of his active skill to pick a skill where basically your capacity to charm him or coerce him or something like that is the difficulty is reduced by one. Eris. Make him more susceptible.
00:43:47
Speaker
Eris is going to walk over to Hob and. I think what this would look like in this situation, because she's usually always done it with the intention of like combat. Hob doesn't wear any jewelry or anything.
00:44:12
Speaker
has his straps and he has his um, amulets in his, probably probably wouldn't mess with that. Uh, she just takes out a little, um, a little, uh, bronze disc and inscribes some, I'm going to try, I'm going to augment Hobbs so that this will go better, you know. Okay.
00:44:32
Speaker
Yes, yes, and so just one success. So okay, you are augmented so you add one Yeah, you increase your to my coordination checks. Yeah to all of them. Yeah Well, I'm going to try to all then she just pins. She pins that on to your your outfit. Whatever we decided this garment was cool Yeah
00:44:55
Speaker
So what Hob wants to do before he starts is alter his voice to where it cannot be recognized. Obviously, he's going to mask his voice if this fails. And divine is to do, and it's just utility, which is easy. Can I aim it? No, not my divine. Oh, I did just augment. Sorry. Please shake the mouse.
00:45:27
Speaker
failed oh my gosh with one advantage okay oh dude i just realized that that spell cost me four strain oh and that does cost me straight too uh that's okay i tried i failed i will just simply try to do hob's the best to make his voice sound different so he goes
00:45:50
Speaker
It's just an open impression You know, it's funny as I've never met someone with a gruff avoid like a very gruff voice I've asked if they can not do that if they try. Yeah, like no. Yeah, so I don't know if that's even a thing This is fantasy so I can say that. Yeah, that's just an interesting thing Okay So
00:46:12
Speaker
Guess hob just real quick does a conference with and make sure that we know what we want to ask just say all right. We want to know well What he was doing?
Magical Experiments and Consequences
00:46:24
Speaker
with the lizard guy What he's doing with Solomon Callaway what he knows of Solomon Callaway's plans? Right, right anything more That's a good start I don't think we're gonna get to him I
00:46:42
Speaker
a promise to stop doing these sorts of terrible things. So no point in that. Let's just try to get some more information. What else can we learn? Who else is involved? Sure. I could ask. Yeah. Um, Hob would probably know if there is an organization he could say they are.
00:47:07
Speaker
something with some cachet that would do something like this. Dark Lanterns. Dark Lanterns. Yeah. Dark Lanterns, we've just met Dask. Dask. Yeah. We know about House Tarkanin. Yeah. I guess maybe something that he thinks would hold weight with somebody who's already rich and powerful. Well, somebody who might just kill you. Kill you, don't want it like Dask. Yeah. Someone who might not, someone who's not going to feel the need to go through any kind of system. Yeah. Right. That your wealth and prestige might protect you in.
00:47:35
Speaker
So I think a criminal organization. Okay, if it comes to that. I'm not going to start with that because that would be wild. I just want to have one in my pocket. Okay. Hub signals to Basil.
00:47:51
Speaker
to undo the silence spell and he reaches up and as he like his hand gets close some various runes and sigils appear on the the top of the bag and he touches one just right here above his left eye and you see the sigil disappears like he gives you a thumbs up. Clears his throat. Can you hear me?
00:48:17
Speaker
Yes. What do you want? We'll get to that. I'm sorry that it's come to this. But frankly, we believe you've gotten too dangerous to approach any other way. We know about your transformative experiments. We know the havoc and the carnage that they caused.
00:48:45
Speaker
What we don't know is to what end? Why ruin these lives? Is it just for your own power? Your own strength?
00:49:02
Speaker
You tell me what I need to roll. Just coercion every time. Against what? Sorry, that's true. You're going to get two blue because of the current state of the situation for him. But it is going to be one red, two purple. Okay. One success, three advantage. That's what it looks like. Okay. It wasn't.
00:49:30
Speaker
It wasn't power, it was in the name of progress. Hope to grow something and it went awry. Unintended and unexpected consequences.
00:49:59
Speaker
But you continued. After your first brutal slaughter of one of your, I have to assume, unwilling subjects, you didn't stop. You kept going. You ruined many lives. At some point it was no longer unintended or unintentional, with those the same words, unintended or unforeseen. It became a
00:50:27
Speaker
A matter of calculus, of if it wasn't seen through, then those lives would be lost for nothing.
00:50:48
Speaker
That one sucks. What's the nature of your partnership with Solomon Callaway?
00:51:07
Speaker
That makes that go that. It's no success with four advantage. Well, you didn't use those three advantage. Would you like to pass yourself three boost out? Yeah, let's do it. I forgot all this. There you go. One success with five advantage. Okay. So he,
00:51:37
Speaker
Primarily financial. Um, he pays for everything, uh, outside of additional funds that I get from houses. Um, but additionally, um, can I ask, I'm so sorry. Houses not meaning places of ownership, meaning the houses, you would assume capital H houses.
00:52:03
Speaker
but also motivation. He oversees a lot of the projects and sets deadlines and timelines and
00:52:21
Speaker
He's the driving force behind what work gets done and when. Right. Here's a question. Can I use two of those advantage to flurry of blows and ask another question with an already successful result? Sure. You can ask a follow-up question related to this topic. How about that? Yeah, still going to be calling it. Obviously.
00:52:49
Speaker
Can I ask a question and then have, what is our insight analog perception? None of us have particularly great perception. I'm very cunning. So I have a very good role, even though I don't have a lot of. Because that was kind of my thought was on this one, I'd like to ask the question. He has to answer it because I've already succeeded. But I'd love it if Aeris can get a bead on how forthcoming he's getting, because this is a big one. Yeah.
00:53:21
Speaker
Yes. He certainly is a man of resources. He sort of blew into town. I'm Thorin. Nobody's gonna complain. With the people. I'm on loan from ROA. He blew into town and
00:53:44
Speaker
He surprised all of us with the influence that he was able to garner as quickly as he did. And I guess the question I have for you is someone who probably has worked as close with him as anyone else. What is his plan in my town?
00:54:03
Speaker
Like I said, it's a matter of progress, expansion, evolution of
00:54:17
Speaker
the magical arts, whether it be artifice or arcana or, I mean, anything, anything connected to the planes, it's, it's about growth, it's about pushing ourselves beyond our current understanding of how things work. And oftentimes, he speaks of being chained by
00:54:47
Speaker
the way we currently view and understand the world and expanding beyond that.
00:54:57
Speaker
He's not afraid of things breaking. And so he pushes people to work beyond the scope of what we currently are comfortable with. And sometimes the results are great. And other times they are terrible. This was annoyingly vague. Go ahead there. What's the difficulty on his own perception with him?
00:55:20
Speaker
One red, one purple. And you know what? Make it two red. I'll get you a story point back. I think, yeah. Hobb turns to Aeris over at the polygraph waiting for the thumbs up. Can I give a boost? Don't need it. For success, to advantage. Is that an action? Oh, yeah. OK. Oh, no. What are we doing here? Oh, my critical injury is that I take two strain when I take an action. That's right. But I got two advantage so I can get them back. OK.
00:55:50
Speaker
Um, you can tell he is being 100% truthful and, uh, he's not being 100% forthcoming. Like he's not, cause he didn't say anything concrete. He's, he's trying to avoid getting into specifics to implicate people. Like he he's, he's speaking to the mission, but not to the specifics. We established the Hobbes speaks goblin, right? He believes it.
00:56:17
Speaker
Hobb speaks back of him, but he gets it. He's been learning for you, is what it was. I think, you know what Hobb says? Hobb says of him. Of course, I know you don't know this, but it's more than just you and I in here, and I have a
00:56:36
Speaker
a friend who's much better at doling out physical encouragement. And I don't want to get him involved. I need you. And while he's doing these looking errors and he's pointing at himself, it's still me. They're talking about me.
00:56:52
Speaker
He says, I don't want to have to get him involved. You need to give me something more concrete than it's about magic and potential. What is he doing in my town? If I need to roll. No, because you're still in the same line of questioning.
00:57:15
Speaker
He, he has his fingers in a lot of different, uh, areas, whether like artifice with my line of work or, um, stuff with the fatalists or, um, additionally with like independent, uh, Artificers and magic users. Um, and so like, it's not, there's not some master plan. He's not, it's not, he wants to, um,
00:57:46
Speaker
bring down the towers or anything like like he he wants power he wants to you know he sees the city as a broken corrupted place that is wasting its potential and he wants to push people that are capable of doing more to do more and the best way that he can think to do that is to be in a position of power right i have a gamble
00:58:16
Speaker
Raynard, are you doing anything? Are you just watching? I have a little plan. Okay. But I was gonna wait until it was either... I doubt there's ever gonna be a failed roll, or... I mean, I'm rolling lucky. That's a lot of bad. Yeah. Of course, I now have, I think, three advantage I can throw in the next one. Yeah. Is it... I have a gamble. I have a thought of a gamble. Okay. You guys can tell me you think it's a bad idea.
00:58:44
Speaker
What if I ask about Callaway, we've heard that Callaway has intentions of trying to replace, oh, let's say Soric Senso on the city council, or Mazza Ir Thadian, I looked up the city council. I figure Hob would know a couple more names. Not saying more, but see why he wants to go on the council. And that way we, okay. Yeah, I think that's good. I like that.
00:59:11
Speaker
Hobb would probably know where is near enough that Callaway could. Obviously, it would most likely be, um, Savia or, um, Illyra's, Illyra, whatever, Boromar's seat, obviously. So what would be another nearby place that would make sense that he would be trying for that one?
00:59:32
Speaker
Because that's Lower Dura and Lower Memphis, so like Lower North edge. Best in Yirton is considered a member of the Boromar block. So that's a name you could throw out there that you know would be on Callaway's. Best in Yirton from Upper Tavics Landing? Yeah. Okay. Okay.
00:59:55
Speaker
Okay, hang on, there's a commercial. Best in your tarnish, let me make sure I say it right. Best in your tarnish. Taun. Taun, from Upper Tavix Landing. Okay.
01:00:06
Speaker
We've heard that Callaway's next step is the Sharn City Council. We've heard he's trying to replace Besteneer Taun is what our information has. Is that just more power, more influence? That's all that is.
01:00:27
Speaker
As far as I know, I don't know how long I've been down here, but last I spoke to him about it. Callaway has no desire to sit on the council himself. He doesn't want... It's too many eyes on him. He wants his work to speak for itself and not have to do it, do the speaking.
01:00:46
Speaker
So, he has some council members that he would like to see lose their position of power, but he does that by backing candidates running against them or convincing those
Norse's Armor and Its Dangers
01:00:55
Speaker
people to abdicate their seats, things like that.
01:01:03
Speaker
Like I said, he considers some councilmen or council people corrupt, incapable of working in the city's best interest, yada, yada, yada. So he speaks about cutting out the corruption in Charn. Yeah, unbelievable. Hoblix at Eris.
01:01:29
Speaker
eyes eyebrows up. Anything more? Eris did mention the lizard like wanting to learn more about that right beforehand. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Who we should find out who it was. Yeah, that's I couldn't remember if we knew we didn't learn who it was. Right. Okay. Who's
01:01:47
Speaker
Ask him who turned into the lizard. And I get close, so you're whispering, and there's no way you could hear it. Well, and she's speaking to you in Goblin. Oh, right, Goblin. Which I do not know. I start speaking to Basil and Elvish, just to... In fairness, Eris is only gambling on Millhatch not, but... Ask him who the Goblin was. Regardless, her voice would be unrecognizable in Goblin, because she... Okay, so when one of the Goblins went to the lizard was?
01:02:16
Speaker
I'm sorry, I meant to lizard. Yeah. Wait, he's the goblin. We know that part. The lizard, the creature you helped create. Who was that? This is a new line of questions. Okay. Remind me again. I know this is my side. One red, two purple. Holy cow. And these two go from here, right?
01:02:45
Speaker
Yes. That'll do it? Yes. Okay. Five success and four advantage. Um, you tells me so much truth. That thing was, um, TARDIS Vittithers, uh, brilliant, um, man that worked with, uh, House Vadilis, uh, for some time until he got roped into, um,
01:03:14
Speaker
our work. He still occasionally can regain control and be himself again, but
01:03:23
Speaker
He goes mad from time to time and transforms into that thing. Where? And you haven't contained him? I've tried. The issue is that when he's transformed, he's far too strong. And then when he's not, he's far too smart. And so he continues to escape and evade.
01:03:50
Speaker
Callaway has him undergoing treatment. He thinks that he can repair TARDIS's mind to get him to a place where he can control the power, but... What was the point? Yeah, two problems. What is the point? Why this experiment at all? More power, more strength?
01:04:16
Speaker
Well, I'm tired of hearing that answer, frankly. Not from you, Eric.
01:04:24
Speaker
Once again, you see magic users from the Eldian reaches and other places that have the capacity to use magic to transform into animals at will. But it's a very difficult skill to acquire. It requires many years of training, whereas if somebody could figure out how to provide that power to somebody,
01:04:52
Speaker
He's trying to make magic steroids. Shortcut. It's that arc in the 4400 where someone makes a shot to turn you into one. There's a new thing on the boys this coming season where you can do a 24-hour soup pill. It's just so good and terrible.
01:05:16
Speaker
Also, are these experiments continuing? Are you still experimenting with what happened to TARDIS Vitizers? Are you trying to create more TARDIS Vitizers issues out there? Clearly, the methodology that we attempted with TARDIS did not work. And so no, that...
01:05:35
Speaker
Hobb and Jeff both just have to stop and sort of like, yeah, no. Um, so no, that line of experimentation has, has ceased. Um, the, the end goal is still there, but different methodology, different intention. Um, trying to fix our mistakes. Where's the titers? Yeah, that's yeah. Um, where is TARDIS the titers? I don't know.
01:06:06
Speaker
Callaway knows, presumably. I mean, if he's forcing him into treatments, you would assume he knows where he is. Or is that all just things Callaway says to people? I would assume that Callaway would know where he is, but I don't have any way of confirming that. Where did he get his armor? Yeah, I do. I need to ask him questions about the goblin thing. Oh, how about this? How about this?
01:06:38
Speaker
I would like to assume, after this meeting, that your time flying around as some... Frankly, I don't know. Based on who we have record of you fighting, I'm not sure if you're the vigilante or the villain, but after the collateral damage it's caused, I like to think that you're done having fun on your little sled. Yeah.
01:07:10
Speaker
That... Honestly, that wasn't me. Like in a, I can't believe I acted that way, wasn't me or it wasn't you. I have been told that I did that, but I have no recollection. Yeah, yeah, the old fugue state. Um... Uh-huh.
01:07:38
Speaker
He looks at Reynard. He looks at Aeris. I kind of want to know where the armor came from. Where the what? Where the armor came from. Oh, OK, sorry. I forgot it is Aeris I'm talking to. This is my last question for you. The tech that you've been using in your little air show and the protective gear
01:08:08
Speaker
From what we've heard of those that have seen it, it seems very advanced. Is this of your own making? Or did you commission these pieces from someone? We'd love to talk to someone who can make such great armor and technology weaponry. Arcana?
01:08:26
Speaker
The source lead was of my own making and design. That was before the incident. But the armor, I only have flashes of recovering it. I didn't make it. I somehow knew where to find it down below the cogs.
01:08:55
Speaker
went down and found it. Okay. Where is it? Yeah. Well, where is it now? I, I believe at my home. All right. Where in his home? Ha ha pauses for him. Something did that to him. I don't want it. Eris wouldn't have the accident going. Something did that to him. I don't want it to happen too. Right.
01:09:32
Speaker
Mr. Milaj, we are going to do you a favor.
01:09:37
Speaker
And we are going to extricate from your home that which has caused you this trouble. Where is the armor so that we can make sure that no one is subject to its mind altering capabilities again? The armor is not mind altering. Where is the armor in your home? I mean, I have a secure facility, but the armor is not mind manipulating. Your concern is not with the armor.
01:10:13
Speaker
helmet that we have? We do have the helmet. He doesn't have to know this happens. But one day he's going to stumble into that room.
01:10:42
Speaker
But we need to get, I'm with you. That's not the, I mean, here's the thing. I realize that's not the, that's not necessarily the priority here, but it's the thing that Eris was fixed on. No, and I think that's fair. I think that we could. Now, when you say he doesn't need to know this happened.
01:11:01
Speaker
doesn't necessarily need to know that his father turned into a madman. You're saying Harbin doesn't need to know what the suit can do, but one day he may wander into the room. I thought you were telling me that there was a way that we can make the Norton doesn't remember this happened. Oh, no, I'm not. I was like, Oh, well, then I take his hat off and I change my voice back. I'm like, listen, I'm gonna be jumped for a little bit because I want to. I think
01:11:30
Speaker
I'm gonna end it with this. I'll make this as clear as I can. We have demonstrated that we can get to you. And let me just make it very clear that we will get to you the next time that we want to. And it is possible, depending on the reason,
01:12:01
Speaker
You may be brought blindfolded into a cell like this. You may be brought to be commended for your actions, or you may be brought to a sky ship circling above Sharn simply to be dropped out of it. It's really up to you. I think we've made it pretty clear what we do and don't condone from your actions that you've been exhibiting.
01:12:31
Speaker
I don't want to see any more shifters dead from your actions. I don't want to see any more men permanently ruined from great minds, great arcanists, scientists. I didn't kill any shifters.
01:12:50
Speaker
Am I insane? Well, it was part of his industry. It was Millhatch Industries. Yeah, it was the lower division. It was lizard guy. I'm sorry, I guess no one let you know. Part of TARDIS is
01:13:09
Speaker
Oh, I don't even know. Fun times while he was in his lizard form was the cold-blooded murder of multiple shifters in the cogs. That's on your hands.
01:13:31
Speaker
It frankly makes me ill to look at you and tell you that with no retribution. But I feel like it might be the most likely way to get your future compliance. Your actions are causing innocent deaths. And your actions are motivated only by the greed and ambition of another man.
01:14:03
Speaker
You have the chance to make some of this right. And I strongly encourage you to do so. Any signals to Basil to turn the sound back off? Basil reaches over and touches it. Okay, mute is on.
01:14:24
Speaker
We're going to go get that suit. And you're going to hold on to him for another day or so until we can. That seemed fair. I mean, he's not taking up valuable real estate here. You're not booked up, are you? No, I would love for my family to not realize he's down here. So sooner the better. Oh, yeah. 100%. 100% my dude. Right. I mean, that's where we're all going with this. Yeah. I don't want. Right. I don't want Harbin stumbling onto it. Oh, yeah. Me neither. I don't know what else is in there.
01:14:53
Speaker
Harbin seems like a good guy, and I'll be frank, I'm not sure how bad of a guy Milhatch was before he started getting corrupted by this thing. Well, I think before he started getting corrupted by this thing, he still stole all of all those research. He was a bad man! Climbed into that stupid out-stupid- There's bad guys, and then there's happy murderers. I think he's the first one. Fair enough.
01:15:21
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What do you say Basil? Can you have a show? How's it go for 48 more hours? I will do my best.
01:15:30
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It felt like you kept trying to do something. Oh, I was gonna wait until you'd see left of the room. Oh, okay. Well, tell us. Yes, I need a moment. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, it's not that big. It's not gonna be anything crazy. No, just tell us to leave, man. Well, I was just gonna do it as we were leaving. Okay. Well, then we go. Basil gets up and unlocks the door and opens it.
01:15:53
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Oh, by the way, Hobb feels dirty and gross. This sucked. Alright, let's continue. Yeah, there are a lot of things I want to do that I'm like, nah, I can't do that anymore. But, as everyone's walking out, Raynard just turns to Basil and says, could you? On silence again? Just for a moment. Sure. Walks over and hits the thing. And Raynard walks over and just through the bag, kisses him on the cheek.
Episode Conclusion and Social Media Info
01:16:26
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Norsin's head slowly rises up. End of episode. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversation surrounding this episode, head on over to our Discord, the link to which you can find on all of our socials, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, at the Geek Pantheon. Also, a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash the Geek Pantheon, where you can watch videos that I make surrounding all sorts of tabletop discussions and GMing tips, as well as another actual play, Kyber Shard, Set in the City of Stormreach.
01:16:53
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