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C1 Ep. 119 Eberron Reviewed 19
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This week Eric, Jeff, and Philip sit down to discuss the Tales of the Ancients arc. We also address all of the questions from out Patrons!
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Introduction and Patron Shoutout
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
Eberron Renewed and Reviewed
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Eberron Renewed, an actual play fifth edition D&D podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. We have just ended an arc, so it is time for Eberron Reviewed, a self-indulgent quest for understanding of our own podcast. I'm Jeff. I'm Eric. I'm Philip.
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uh so four episodes this arc um but uh i mean a lot happened major turning point in the story so uh let's jump straight in uh you know end of the last arc we got on the boat to head to uh back to zindrik this arc we got there first thing we do we meet up with some old
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For now, we'll call them friends. When we met up with them, they were old friends, Barasha and Orgev, wandering through the desert. Just sunburnt and heat blind. Yep.
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Or
Recap: Friends or Foes?
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so they seemed so they seemed perpetrating But yeah, I mean and we did the hospitable thing and made Jace go up and down like a yo-yo so we could get them on the boat You know, what's really funny we were not in the least bit suspicious When they showed up in the middle of the desert no, it's almost like they're just you know, they're They have been a less
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Uh, well no, a more serious, just like Laurel and Hardy, they just kind of get into misadventures and, and cross paths with us. Yeah. That is what they have. That is what I see saw them as up until, uh, the end of this arc. Um, but yeah. And so we talk about.
Journey and Conflicts
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Barashah tells us there's a place and we're looking around for a place and we decide to go. Barashah, of course, being Barashah wants to go, well, at the time, Barashah being Barashah. Yeah. He's always been Barashah. No. Okay. Barashah, as he had presented himself to us, it made sense that he would want to go with us potentially some action. Barashah was like dragonborn Borin-El. Yeah. Yeah, basically. Always wanted to go have fun.
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Now we know it was a scheme. Yeah, schmuck. So so yeah, so we say brass can go with us and we have a whole. Nail biting about.
Exploration and Foreshadowing
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Oriana and will she's going to be mad when she finds out and like.
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Not untrue, but Dex's, but Dex's thought of it is, I mean, I think I even said as much like, yeah, life has disappointments in it. And so she gets to deal with this one. She's dealt with plenty. I get that, but so have we all. Um, but so we go, um, to the opening that we find through some, uh, some checks and stuff and.
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begin walking down a tunnel that we find, ornate carvings. And these carvings were the dragons attacking the giants. Is that right? Yes. In the tunnel it was the dragon attack. And we wander and this was the first episode where we had that weird like existential conversation about dangers before us and behind us and all that stuff.
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Again, little did we know the whole time, the danger behind us right in front of us.
Battle with the Undead
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But yeah, I mean, what else? I didn't write things down this time. I apologize. I was listening while I was getting things done as opposed to just focusing as much. So what else in this first episode needs? I believe it was really just the trek down the tunnel and the episode ended with our realization that we were about to be attacked by undead guardians.
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Yep. Right. Yeah. So let's jump right into it. Episode two. Eric tried to kill Dex just unabashedly. No pretense of gameplay. I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for that goblin in a can. I, you know, I should have tallied it up. I definitely lost over 150 hit points throughout that encounter.
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It was
Strategy and Unique Encounters
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a crazy, you took a crazy amount of damage. Yeah. Yeah. It was a good fight. We were really, for the first time in a while, we were really, I think in, in serious danger. We were really sweating.
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you know it's wild we were in serious danger but we've been in fights where at least one of us has gone down and it didn't feel it did but it didn't feel as heavy as this fight maybe it's the unknown of like when you're fighting bugs it's like all right they they can probably poison you they can bite you they can sting you they can whatever when you're fighting other Matt like undead
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magic users, you literally have no idea what they might throw at you next. Well, and what I did for this fight, which is something that I hadn't done for a long time just for the sake of simplicity, is all of those were unique monsters with unique initiative slots. And so they were spread out throughout the order, and they all did different things, as opposed to finding a stat block I like, doing times four, times five, and then throwing them at you.
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I really tried to create a dynamic party, for lack of a better term, for you all to go up against, and I think that added a lot of dynamics to the fight. Yeah. Yeah, it made it super fun. I think you cut out your personal deliberations. Okay, so the guy that honed in on me and I honed in on... Oh, yes, I did cut out the... Okay, so that part, you remember Dear Listener, where he turned into five guys that all wanted to hand my butt to me.
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When Eric did that, he was also under the impression that each of those five guys could also turn into five guys. I misread the stab block. That wanted to kill Dex. So if he had not gone back and double checked, I guess his better angel said, this isn't okay. So he went back and checked the stab block or the spell. I believe it was Philip who said, well then this fight can never end. And then Randy corrected him and said, oh, it can end just with all of our deaths. It ended the campaign.
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so and then he went back so there was a there was a short period i mean it wasn't long a minute to 90 seconds where i was like i really thought dex was done because if each of these guys could spawn five more it's donezo uh
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But yeah, there were, uh, some really cool characters we, uh, using a natural 20. Uh, um, Eric made a suggestion and I went with it and yes, that is my fault. I will admit that's on me that I, that I listened, that I let Eric set up the impetus of our own problems, uh, by allowing Oriana to join the fight.
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She did great. She did do well.
Mind Control Concerns
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And, uh, and Dex, Dex came around somewhat on her being, he didn't want her there. He, he doesn't, he, because he doesn't want something bad to happen to her, both for her sake and for barracks. But as long as she's productive, if she's there, all right, she's here. I mean, what was going through barracks mind when she showed up? Uh,
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I think in the moment, I was really trying to think about that. I think in the moment it was. OK, there's no time to have this argument. She's here and I really can't do anything about it because it's no safer to just send her on her way. Nor could I be sure she would do it. So in the moment it was OK, we have to deal with this right now. But it very quickly became I have to deal with her because she got.
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She got mind controlled moments into the into her arrival. So it became kind of a. I can deal with this later, but at the same time, barracks whole focus, at least for a portion of the fight, was this girl can't die.
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Sure. And yeah, especially, I mean, particularly with, and I don't know what one retains with the crown of thorns spell. Like if you remember what you did while mind controlled, but having gone through that and Beric was probably even more like that. More so than watching her probably just get like hit really badly or, you know, sickening poison ray or something hit at her. That particular spell probably resonated. I don't know. Maybe not.
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Yeah, absolutely.
Dungeon Crawl and Curses
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No, yeah. No, I think Barak. I think Barak is extremely concerned because he doesn't know. He has no idea what he will do if she died. Sure.
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No, yeah. Except that it will be bad. Great, totally. Other things, those guys had weird things for touching faces that I didn't like. Yeah, specifically your face. Huh? Specifically your face. Well, they tried to touch barracks, but he's got a barrier.
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But yeah, the, now you can say this now was, was the, so the second face touching was to impart that memory was the first. No, the first was an attack. Yeah. Okay. Sure. I just did the face touch for the imparting knowledge just because it had become a bit. So fair enough. Lean into it. Um, we did lose one of them. He bamfed out because of a one he's, and he's making moves somewhere. You said, yeah, that natural one. Um,
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Yeah, cool. But then when the one starts talking to me or talking to Dex and says. Oh, no, it's not when he talked to Dex, it's when he was talking to his compatriots and said, don't let them go any further down the hall. Yeah.
00:11:21
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My thought then was immediately because we were all surrounding him. He was in melee with what, four of us? Me, Barak, Orianna, and Barasha. And Jeff's thought was, if I can make him chase me, they'll get opportunity attacks and we can probably just kill him.
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i didn't want to say it because i didn't want to blow that you know and so that's why i would that's why it seems stupid at the time to disengage and run down the hallway but that was what i was hoping would happen and when it did i did my own little private happy dance and decided not to elucidate it until the reviewed so i could really prop myself up
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They added it and ended it up with Orianna killing him in the chest with a spear. Which was cool.
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It's true. But again, not before he was able to impart upon me a memory, the memory being him sealing up the temple that we were in and a gray mist rolling in. And I was unaware until Philip mentioned it. The dead gray mist is the thing that that dinked up a tire. Real good.
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Indeed. That's a fair way of putting it. It got dinked up real good. Yeah, dinked up. That's a technical term, I think. Well, it's a family friendly podcast. So yeah. And that's where that episode ends, is with my new implanted memory. And then things got weird.
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I fell in love with a sword. So yes, the next one starts. I explained that. We talk about the mist. We talk about the memory. There's not a lot really to it in this episode, but it circles back around in the next one. And we'll talk about that then. But this episode
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was a mild-mannered dungeon crawl for lack of a better way of putting it. We were just walking through some tunnels. All straight hallways though. No mazes or anything. No, it wasn't a maze by any means. But doors to the left and right and
00:13:45
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There was some offerings and maybe a vase with maybe a magic sword that maybe a guy picked up. You can take the changeling out of the thieves guild, but you can't really take the thieves guild out of the changeling.
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and I decided that I was and we had already I believe earlier in that episode or maybe it was the previous one but still on the same day of recording talked about how we never loot and had already come up I was like I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna do this and plunder and it wasn't
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Talk about the quandary of player knowledge versus character knowledge when I knew when I rolled that one that what Eric was going to do was curse the sword.
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I knew it and he knew that that would, I
Secrets Unveiled
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hope he knew that that would be impactful because I would play as though I didn't know, didn't think the sword was cursed. Sucked, didn't want to do it. But I had to play that, that was one of those ones where I had to play the character and not the player. And as far as curses go, it wasn't the worst.
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But, uh, I mean, I felt compelled to use that sword and not another certainty that you're cured. I used, yeah. Eric, let me use the 20 that I rolled later. Are we.
00:15:21
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Oh, yes. Okay. That's right. That's right. I forgot. Yeah. Yeah. Because at the time I'd forgotten that the 20th is for the player, not the character. And I was like, I can't think of a narrative way that Dex would know he's cursed to remove it. But if the 20 is for the player, then I get to do that metagaming. So yeah. And I will take it.
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Well, and the reason I allowed that was A, because we have that established thing with the 20s. But also, I mean, the curse, that sword was going to serve a very interesting narrative function in the pursuit of the fourth weapon. And once the weapon got left behind, the curse no longer served. It was just going to be a complication without any payoff. Like it wasn't going to do anything. So there's no reason to keep it around. Sure.
00:16:13
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Because Barret gets what he wants. Barret wins an argument. By serious force. And then there's the other room, Booyah, Barash go into, there's an axe, the axe gets left behind.
00:16:34
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Nothing special, we continue. Okay, so the six rooms, the barracks, the lodging that we found with the cots and the skeletons, and the one skeleton that was different. Playing it, it didn't occur to me that Orianna and Barasha were talking considerably more about the Amuleth than the rest of us, and I don't know if that was DM hinting that we should take it. Booyah ended up taking it, because of course he did.
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But then there was the, that person's journal, that was a traitor. That was a spy. And that's why they had the amulet because they were a spy. And it came out in the journal and I assume that was what we were supposed to discover about them. We don't have anybody who can reanimate the dead, especially not something that long to talk to them. So it wasn't like we didn't get any more information out of it. And now Booyah has the amulet. So we ended up with it anyway.
The Dragon Reveal
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Um,
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But, and Booyah, does Booyah have that journal? I would assume so. Okay. If anybody does, it would be good. Fair enough. Cause Dex is going to read his that he kept cause he's genuinely interested in what happened with all this now, especially now. Uh, and so Booyah kept his, he might ask for that one too, and maybe we'll find, or Booyah might read it, even though he said it's pretty dry and we might find out some more, but, um,
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We continue. We climb a ladder. We get into the room with the spear. Philip throws a curve ball. Go ahead, Philip. I thought the escaped undead guardian.
00:18:17
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might be hiding up there invisible because we hadn't found him again. I couldn't think what's he going to do outside the pyramid. So I kind of figured he must be in the room and I didn't want to be ambushed. So my Kensei path has a ability to have a very short duration true site.
00:18:46
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Uh, so I spent a bunch of key and had true sight and got very surprised. Yeah. You used it to not be surprised. And yet calling it a curve ball, I think is unfair. It's like the first knuckle ball ever thrown in professional, which like that shouldn't be possible or legal. I believe you, I believe you hit me squarely between the eyes with the ball. I think that's what it was. Yeah. Um, I mean, Eric.
00:19:12
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just short of like went paper white when Philip said that and there was there was a solid what seven eight minutes yeah there's a lot of time cut out of that episode of silence of just silence while Eric you can you can hear because you know we did some intermittent cutting of things in of us riffing and at some point I think I say something like Eric what you struggling with over there
00:19:38
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Well, and it just, it caught me so off guard because I had, and I hadn't done this in a while, so that's on me, but I, back in the Draconos days, had begun auditing Ural's paths to see if slash when TruSight
00:19:58
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would slash could come into play and like had and I just I had stopped doing my due diligence that regard and did not realize that Barrick had true sight and so it just it caught me
00:20:10
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Like, Dex could have revealed to me, oh, Baker did an area where Changelings can change into, like, Griffins now, and I would have been caught less off guard than Barrick having True Sight. Oh, by the way, Changeling can change into Griffins now. And, okay, so since it's, since that's, you mentioned that you've been trying to keep up with True Sight from the beginning, to answer the question that several people had, among them, I know Laura and Kevin both asked it, I believe,
00:20:39
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Barasha and Orgev have both been dragons from Jump Street for the first time we saw them on the trains platform. However that is not that was not that's not Josh. Josh Boyd who created Barasha thanks to a contest that he won.
00:20:56
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that was not part of his pitch. That was something that I took and adapted for the campaign. So everything, basically the background that Josh sent me was Barash's cover story. So thank you Josh for saving me that headache.
00:21:11
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Yeah, so yes, they have both been dragons from the very beginning. Eric has given them paths and dialogue and everything as though they are both dragons masquerading as, like anytime you brought them in, it's not like it slipped your mind to keep in mind they're actually dragons. No, yeah. No, everything has been calculated, I guess.
00:21:34
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Um, on, on their part, which is wild that they let them, like that Borussia let himself get. Lukend. Yeah. I mean, it was one of those things where it, he was never in any genuine danger, I guess was the, like their thinking anyway. So, um, cause I have not found any evidence to state that a vampire can turn a dragon into a Draco pyre. Well,
00:22:04
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Arasha already is a vampire. He drank dragon blood and got stronger. That's one hint that I meant to drop in during a Zendric arc is I wanted you all to come upon a dragon fight and see one of the dragons land a big throat clamp and consume the other dragon's blood.
00:22:25
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like go into like a barbarians esque rage thing i wanted to drop that hint in there and it just the opportunity never came up but um but yeah so that that's just uh another thing that i kind of wanted to pepper in but that that's the one thread that i never got to plug into the campaign
00:22:44
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I can promise you that if we had come upon a dragon fight in Zindrick, Dex would not have stuck around long enough to see their signature moves. Yeah. So that's the one thing where you go back and listen to the show and go, oh, okay, that makes sense. So yeah.
00:23:07
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and that that is seen the dragon blood drinking scene was also brought up I believe by Laura yeah in the context of this question um so yeah they've been dragons the whole time um real quick because it's on my mind and it was brought up and we didn't specifically ask Orgev what shade of dragon he is but you said we did see them flying away yeah I saw that question I told Philip after we were we're recording after you and Randy left because I realized I had it had slipped my mind he's blue
00:23:36
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So he's definitely the dragon that stole the book that he was already concerned about. I mean, maybe he's definitely the dragon that stole the book that we were already concerned about during the battle that we all died. OK, one of us died, died. All three of us went unconscious. And he was there. And just what a schmuck. I hate that guy.
00:24:06
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Orgav the dragon. I don't know. I've been Orgav a long time. Better call me Orgav. Dog, you're thousands of years old. You've been Orgav for half a decade. Okay. Anyway, let's get back to it. Um, so yes, Rasha is a dragon. Barak calls him out on it. End of episode.
00:24:31
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If this had been one of those end of episode, end of play session, we'll pick up the arc in a month, I would have been so mad. Because that does happen. That has happened. Not a major, major reveal, I don't think, but there's definitely been like
00:24:50
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amp up to a battle, but it's like, you know, 10 p.m. And so in the arts, I think the Lucan fight like the the second Lucan fight, I think we ramped up to it and then had to break for a month. So I think that's the only like big payoff moment that you all have had to wait on. Yeah. Yeah. Um.
00:25:12
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He's confronted in the fourth episode of the arc about being a dragon and shows up. He says, nah, he says, yes, I'm a dragon and turns into one, which had to have been startling. And also probably, probably gross. We've never really talked about what changing really looks like for anybody.
00:25:34
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You know, we've said it's not painful. We've discussed that. And I assume especially for a dragon. Like if it's not painful for Dex, it's certainly probably no skin off a dragon's nose.
00:25:45
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Well, and I mean, I imagine Barash's transformation would be less jarring because he is a dragonborn. So like his, his head just gets bigger in his body chain. Like it's not like seeing Orgev transform. That would be a lot more jarring. And he was a silver dragonborn, right? Yes. Silver and silver. Okay. Um, and then it turns out that
00:26:07
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Honestly, you know what, turns out my Laurel and Hardy interpretation, not that wrong, because these bumbling doofuses have been searching for these weapons for millennia. Oh, I want to talk about, I'm so mad with the Orgev reveal. We'll get into intentioned reveal later when we start answering questions. But just behind the curtain a bit, we had the reveal and then we went to go, or no, we recorded one episode and then we broke to go eat lunch or dinner or whatever time of day we were recording.
00:26:36
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but it was after Orianna had showed up. And I was so mad at myself that basically what I wish I would have done is Orianna showing up, she would have been Orgev shapeshifted in disguise. Like I was so mad at myself for not planting that seed that it wasn't Orianna, that it was Orgev, but I just had him teleported.
00:27:01
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So that's the one thing that like driving to go get dinner in my head, I was like, dang it, that would have been great. But man, if you thought Barak was mad at Orgev in the situation we found ourselves in, if he had also found out
Motives and Compromise
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that Orgev had made him think Orianna was in more danger than necessary. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
00:27:26
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But so we have this conversation in which I think it would be safe to say that a Josh Boyd creation turned into a fully formed Eric Stremple NPC with a bunch of angry, condescending, non answers to our questions. Sorry about that. Whoa, they were not obtuse about their answers to your questions. They put all of their cards on the table. No, they were very upfront about their purpose.
00:27:56
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then they were very evasive when questions about their motives, like did not answer our direct. I mean, they are fearful. I mean, we don't need to get into it. I was not intending to be obtuse in any way. I was trying to just have them be straight shooting like, no, this is what we think is going to happen. And this is why we are worried about it.
00:28:20
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Well, I guess that's not, yeah, no, they, like I said, they weren't obtuse about their intention or their history. Even it was when we said things like, you know, yeah, but you're assuming, and we have seen what these things can do in other places and everything, not everything, the realm, the plane still survive, still thrived, yada, yada, yada. And it's like, well, yeah, but maybe it won't. Well.
00:28:47
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and just really sticking hardline to that maybe it won't thing. It was very annoying. But the crux of the argument is the dragons remember the last time these four weapons were used in concert with one another and it wasn't great. And they don't want it to happen again.
00:29:18
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And it turns out that Beric and Dex and Booyah don't particularly care what the dragons want when it means the destruction of their people. Yeah. That's pretty much it. I mean, for the crux of it, there's obviously a lot of minutia that goes into it. Um,
00:29:44
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Yeah, the Giants screwed up a bunch of things because they had these four weapons. And man, I learned some stuff like I had no idea that the that a full elf or drow, which I mean, I know it's just a different kind of elf.
00:29:59
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could straight up touch one of those obelisks and be fine. I did not expect that. Not getting infected in the realm of dreams because they don't dream, that makes sense to me. But the other, the more physical component of it that surprised me is that
00:30:16
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I mean, I don't know how much of the quarry is your interpretation of it and how much of it is written down. But is that a thing or is that a thing we're doing? Well, I mean, they they cannot. So reedrons are humans that are grown because they can dream and they have that connection to Dal Kor.
00:30:37
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I would be reluctant to outright say that there is no possible way that a quarry couldn't infect the mind. It's a question of whether or not Drow and elves are able to voluntarily sleep, I guess is the question. If they could do it or if they're just physiologically unable.
00:31:00
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Because if they're able to voluntarily become unconscious and connect themselves, then it would be entirely possible for them to go down the same path as Strint and Chance and Connor. But they certainly are less vulnerable because they do not have to sleep. Creatures that have to sleep have an innate connection to Dao Kor. So yeah, and I'm sure if an elf were able or were
00:31:28
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willfully you know taken over if they had heard the good news and wanted to be a part of the fight or whatever um but yeah i didn't i didn't know that that was news to me um and also that the that anybody goes to the plane of dreams when they're dreaming like it makes sense yeah but i just hadn't ever considered it um
00:31:58
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Finally, the first time we've ever tried to bargain with anybody in this game, and I think both sides came out relatively pleased.
00:32:18
Speaker
I should explain, I hope it doesn't feel like I'm really flying through these episodes, but it is important for you to know that it is 94 degrees in Oklahoma, and we had about a five minute serious downpour, so the humidity spiked. And unfortunately, Eric's air conditioner decided to putz out on us right before we started recording, so I want to die.
00:32:41
Speaker
I haven't even started sweating yet, but I also did come straight here from the gym. So I was already an elevated body temperature, I guess. And so I do want to die. And, uh, I hope this, this will not feel like short changing, but a lot of the episode was very straightforward. Well, and we have a lot of questions to not very straightforward by any means. A lot of things were addressed in episode. That would be a lot of rehashing just to talk about again. There's not a lot of.
00:33:10
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Well, let's start with the compromise. We didn't get to that. Jeff, as a player, very excited to take this compromise. It may end in our doom, but I'm really excited to follow it and hope that it doesn't. Because it's a doozy. But okay, here's the thing.
00:33:33
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lay it out the compromise is the compromise is we will turn over the three weapons no no no no eventually oh we will not we did we will turn over the three weapons and reveal the location of the fourth
00:33:49
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provided the dragon or the dragons or given brasha they've got fake names um brash is his real name brash is his real name you said that uh provided they go to their what was the term the chamber the chamber thank you and essentially get permission to give us more information and hopefully some tools or resources to get to dalkor to um
00:34:18
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to to to shut down without a proper way of saying it to. Yeah, stop the working of a. The word machine was thrown around, which in a fantasy setting can really mean. A number of things. But that should stop. Uh. Now core from.
00:34:45
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keeping its current iteration open. It should stop them from stopping what's supposed to happen. Right, right, right. The reboot. Yeah, essentially, which always stop stopping the stoppage. We're gonna know we're gonna jumpstart the stoppage by stopping the stopping of the stoppage.
00:35:04
Speaker
Yes, why do people listen to this? I've tuned it out but No, and that is all that is all new information that we learned during this is we were like hey There's no other way and like oh, but there is another way and it's like well that would have been cool to know when you found out what you were trying to do forever ago or a portion of what we were trying to do you knew what the problem was and you could have revealed this to us sooner and
00:35:27
Speaker
but you just had to wait till Barrett gave up his eyeballs. Um, Eric. Uh, but in the meantime, this is the part I'm excited about as a player.
Anticipation of Battle
00:35:40
Speaker
Uh, we have to kill a dragon that's masquerading as a prince of a major nation. Easy peasy. Lemon squeezy.
00:35:51
Speaker
Yep. It won't be easy. I'm not dumb. Uh, hopefully we, uh, are able to convince one or two people to be running buddies with us on this one. Cause I, despite the fact that we are, I think it's fair to say. Demigod level strength and ability. Three of us, it still concerns me going after, cause all we know is they're not as old as Barasha.
00:36:20
Speaker
Yeah. So they could still be an adult dragon. Presumably is if they're a member of this chamber. Yep. And they're red so they can breathe fire. It all sounds fine really. Sounds fun.
00:36:40
Speaker
I am excited. I will say, this is still my first campaign. You guys have never, okay, with the exception of a short time where I had maybe four or five sessions of, oh, what's the one, Tomb of Annihilation. Aside from that, this is the only D&D I've ever played. It's time Jeff fought a dragon.
00:37:10
Speaker
It's true. You've done the dungeons, but you haven't done the dragons. Level 14. Potentially 15 by the time we get to the dragon. We're going to shoot for it.
00:37:25
Speaker
That would be a lot of piddling around. Let's go grind it out before. I'm going to go into the woods. I'm going to kill a bunch of kobolds indiscriminately and grind up to where I can get level 50. There's a lot of goblins in the faded forest. You can go there and just grind it out. I wonder if I just stood in one spot with my ribbon weave out and spun around in a circle.
00:37:55
Speaker
If I could just random, it's like that thing in The Simpsons, I'm gonna be doing this. And if you get hit, it's your own fault. I am, I'm not even wildly swinging my arms because I would hit things. I'm pretending to wildly swing my arms for the listener. I make a lot of Simpsons, I make a lot of Simpsons references that only hit with about 15% of at least our Discord. So whatever. Again, it's not a good podcast. You guys keep coming back. I don't know. I appreciate it.
00:38:25
Speaker
But I am, I'm pumped, I'm pumped for the thing. I don't know how Philip feels, I know how Barrick feels. Barrick's pretty sure we're gonna die. Oh, Barrick, I mean, well, I don't wanna get too much into Barrick's state of mind, so I'm gonna save that for actually playing, I guess. Sure. But no, Barrick's not well. Yeah. Barrick's pretty sure we're gonna die, and Orianna's solution was we should write it all down then.
00:38:53
Speaker
I have a backup plan. Highly, highly practical. Is it is it, though? Is it practical to write down what needs to be doing in case we die? Yes. Is it is it realistic to assume any of the people she said we give the writings to could finish what we started? Almost certainly not. I mean, at least as far as barracks had it explained to him since the beginning. Step one is, all right, you need to become genetically me so you can inherit the pack.
00:39:24
Speaker
Well, yes, there is certainly that. But you know what? I got no rebuttal for that. Actually, Orianna's wrong. But even if that weren't a guiding part of it,
00:39:42
Speaker
I mean, and yes, Drakir leveled up along with us. I know Randy leveled Krast up to be the same and you might've been doing it already. Thorin is like level 13. They're very strong and powerful, but I can't imagine if those three somehow, one, they would not band together.
00:40:01
Speaker
Two, if they did, I don't know that they would have as good a chance to finish this thing off as the three of us, or possibly the three of us with a couple of them to help out would be cool. Dracure got along well with Krast. Krast was sufficiently ruthless to be liked by Dracure. That's true. And Dracure and Thorin certainly have some sort of relationship. They do. They have met. They have. They have met. Time has been spent. Opinions have been made. Yes.
00:40:30
Speaker
nightmares have been had. Well, not Drake here. He doesn't dream. As established. Okay, so that's the thing. That's what happened. I, of course, don't know, but I assume at some point in the next arc, we end up on there.
00:40:55
Speaker
Yes. Learning about their Prince. Potentially meeting their Prince. Probably not killing their Prince. I mean, his full title, to be fair, to give him his due, is Royal Minister of Magic and First Warlord of Ondare, Prince Adal Irenar. Oh, he's the Minister of Magic. Every one of those is uncompetent. We're fine. And First Warlord. And First Warlord. But his real name is Thorallor?
00:41:20
Speaker
the dragon. I wrote it down, but I don't have my notebook at hand right
Future Campaigns and Character Roles
00:41:24
Speaker
here. I want to say, if it's not Thorallar, it's close enough to Thorallar that somebody's upset and annoyed that I'm getting it wrong. It was Thorlar or something like that. Okay.
00:41:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's in my notes that I do not have in front of me right now. We're just banging on all cylinders. Yep. Doing great. Okay. Let us get into the questions. Um, I don't know that these will be in chronological order of, um, episode, but it will be in chronological order of when they were typed into the discord by our members.
00:42:03
Speaker
Okay. Um, do, do, I think Wren had the first question. Four lars is the name of the dragon. Nailed it. Okay. Uh, Okay. I think we already asked. We did that one. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Irene was actually the first person to ask is Barash's appearance as a dragon part of Josh's original design or added later, added later. She also asks if Josh is in the discord. I don't know that he is Josh. If you are, and you would like to announce yourself to Irene, feel free to do so or the rest of us. Um,
00:42:34
Speaker
Okay, so how did you intend to reveal the dragons? Because you had actually said to me, and I don't know if it made it in the recording, it may have been while we were eating. Yeah, I don't know. But you said they were going to be revealed by the end of this arc. Yes, yes, they were gonna be revealed probably by the end of that episode. It just, it was the true side of it all that caught me so off guard.
00:42:53
Speaker
So it didn't move up the timeline at all because Barash's obvious intent was he was headed towards the spear to grab it and then Orgev was going to enter the room and the reveal was gonna happen. So it was gonna be more Orgev-centric than Barash-centric because Orgev is the, I guess the Barash's CO. He's the senior agent in Barash's, they're helping.
00:43:23
Speaker
Uh, but they're obviously a team. It's just, and you could catch that dynamic. I mean, even if you assume Barash's, um, deference to Orgev when they were in disguise was part of the ruse, you do see that dynamic in the conversation. You said Brasha started to say something in Orgev cut them off a couple of times, at least once that I certainly remember. Um, but yeah, of course, to that point.
00:43:49
Speaker
Barasha was not going to get to that spear unless he attacked me or Orianna. One of us would have gotten there first. We're faster. I mean, if you all, I mean, you were, you said you were moving and checking for traps, which in my mind means you're moving slowly.
Campaign Reflections
00:44:03
Speaker
Like he was not checking for traps.
00:44:06
Speaker
So, I mean, if you are checking for traps, you are moving slower than somebody. That's fair. And Barak told Orianna after the reveal. Yes. So, I mean, based on all things being equal in that scenario before the reveal happened, Barasha was going to get there first just because he was headed there with no distractions. No, that's right. I didn't think about it. He didn't send Orianna or I misremember, but yeah, he didn't send Orianna until after. Yeah. I like to think there's a chance that if Dex saw Barasha,
00:44:35
Speaker
getting real close to that spear, he might click his heels and get there and grab it first. Just be like, well, these are kind of ours. And just in case it attunes itself to the person that grabs it, it really needs to be me. One of us actually doesn't need to be me. I can't wield a spear. I mean, based on based on display, it needs to be Orianna. Yeah. Yeah. She's a spear champion.
00:45:01
Speaker
So that was the so the intent was it was going to happen that episode just in a different way in a way where the ball was in their court as opposed to them actually getting brash actually getting a little caught off guard and or give probably having to
00:45:14
Speaker
Orgev didn't expect to be summoned by a distress signal. You expect to be summoned by a, okay, we've got it. You can show up. Yeah, I have the spear. Not oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, please come, please come. I've been outed by who? The blind one.
00:45:34
Speaker
Okay, so Laura harkens back to the first adventure we had with Barash and Orgev back in the second arc on the train when Barash had complained about people hiding their true face and saying he hates when your friends deceive you. He was just being a liar, huh? Not a liar. He was being a jerk because he knew that I was a changeling. Yes, he did know that you were a changeling and he was just having a bit of fun.
00:45:57
Speaker
He was messing with you, not being like... I mean, I feel like we conflate these NPCs as having ill intent all the time when it was just, I mean, just having a bit of fun. Okay. It was Barashia having a bit of fun. At Dex's expense. By Eric having a bit of fun. By having a apparently very strong dragon born NPC throw some shade at a level two
00:46:26
Speaker
first time D&D player about being deceptive. And this is the other reason why I had the long moment with The True Sight is Philip has played with me long enough and so is Randy to know I as a DM
00:46:43
Speaker
I am incapable of the long con. I get too excited. I get too like, my hints are too obvious. Like it's, it never works out. And I really felt like this time I was going to do it. Like I was going to have the reveal that had all the hints and you could look back and be like, Oh, and like look back at that moment and be like, he was being like, he like just, and I got, I got within five feet of the finish line and it just got taken from me. No, no.
00:47:11
Speaker
You still played the long game. It was still a very surprising reveal. I don't remember if you cut out the strangled sound I made when you told me what I saw, but I feel like you got us. It was in there, yeah. Lucky for you, I'm neither smart nor observant, so I didn't pick up on anything throughout the time that we saw them.
00:47:39
Speaker
Uh, I need to go back and listen now to the Barasha and Orgev episodes because all I, I mean, I remember the Dragonblood drinking thing. Um, obviously the fact that he just decimated a bunch of warforged on the train. Yeah. But we all just assumed he was, I mean, he's been a, he's a bodyguard for the Prince. We all just assumed that he was a beefy guy. Ren asks, here's a question for the next reviewed.
NPC Interactions and Dynamics
00:48:02
Speaker
Can you give us any hints or facts or wishes for campaign two?
00:48:06
Speaker
Or does it depend on how this campaign wraps up? Meaning what will Eric reveal and what do Philip slash Jeff slash Randy want to play next time?
00:48:18
Speaker
Um, I mean, I, I will say that there are a lot of ideas in my head for the next campaign, but I, I'm still very much firmly planted in this campaign and I have not, I have, I've basically narrowed my ideas down, but I've not started planning. Um, I, I know I would personally, like we talk about wishes and this is as far as I'll get into it.
00:48:42
Speaker
Something a bit more small scale and intimate, I think, rather as opposed to apocalyptic world saving scale would be fun. I would agree. And that's gonna clash with the fact that I plan on playing a dragon. Or a Dracolich. You can be a dragon that's been cursed to be in human form for all of eternity and
00:49:09
Speaker
can't operate at a direct draconic level ever again that would be a hilarious character backstory it actually would be really funny to be the victim of a permanent polymorph spell and to know what you once were to know what you once were yeah but nobody believes you like yeah i was a dragon yeah oh man that would be that's so funny
00:49:30
Speaker
Well, that's Jeff's character. No. Yeah, that's a Randy character. Ever I heard a Randy character, that's a Randy character. I have thrown around some character ideas. I have not done anything even close to creating or planning a character. I've done some spitballing with Eric about what might and might not work with different backstory ideas or honestly, I want to be
00:49:59
Speaker
as true to the setting as I can as well. So like, if I come in here without having really talked to Eric and I'm like, I'm a dragon marked halfling in house, you know, Kundarak. Wait, they are happening. That would be wrong. That can dark as the dwarves.
00:50:18
Speaker
Okay. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, yeah, I picked one that I know there's only like one that is actually happening. So my odds were pretty good. The really hard part was remembering. Oh, who cares how many there are. Many of our list. I know many of our listeners care. I know. I'm, I, you're just demonstrating the point.
00:50:36
Speaker
I can't imagine the listeners like me. Now that I've grown to really enjoy this setting and enjoy what I have learned about it and needing to learn more, I recognize.
00:50:53
Speaker
Um, I'm not going forward with anything until we kind of get maybe even an idea. Now Eric says Eric has mentioned in the past to us, he wants to go smaller scale. So yeah, I've totally scrapped a couple of ideas because the backstory doesn't work. The backstory is too grandiose to be a more small scale. Um, I mean, you've thrown around the word noir couple of times, uh, to do that, but I am throwing around stuff.
00:51:22
Speaker
Uh, I, I have, because I'm always kind of thinking about characters just at random times, I have a few different ideas. I'm currently, I would say if I'm just going to give a leaning, I'm kind of leaning towards something like an artificer just because it's such a classic Eberron thing that hasn't been a part of our campaign. So.
00:51:48
Speaker
I will say one thing I'm struggling with as far as what I want to do next campaign is there's a big party that wants to play a caster and jump into that world. The two things keeping me scared of it are one, it's just a lot to keep track of. And I'm not, I'm not, I'm not great with what I've got as a, as a, as a non-magical rogue fighter combo. Uh, the other thing that's keep me from that a bit is
00:52:18
Speaker
Now, I'm not saying I would play Thorin because I would not. Thorin is firmly a campaign one character. But the idea of playing another character that is like the straight man among the whatever craziness is happening is really fun. And you could take it different directions than being kind of comically semi oblivious Thorin, you know? Yeah.
00:52:38
Speaker
Well, and that's, Philip and I have had a conversation about like the idea of doing a small scale campaign with like a party, like Ghostbusters, like a party that's that way of just everyday people that are just what is going on around us, please help. Like a party of Thorns. So, but there's a lot of ideas being kicked around, Rin, and none of them are gonna take shape until this campaign is over. But to address part of your question and a question I get,
00:53:07
Speaker
During hangouts and things like that on the with the patrons I am very much leaning towards the next campaign not being a canonical sequel to this one now our everyone might end up in the exact same place where we started in and it would make no difference whether or not it was a canonical sequel and like characters are running around we could have cameos and have a good time but
00:53:34
Speaker
It's seeming increasingly more like this Eberron is going to be fundamentally changed in a pretty significant way. And that's going to be a lot of admin on my part to try and do a canonical sequel. So I'm leaning towards no, but maybe so. I mean, I mean, yeah, this Eberron is going to be fundamentally different because it's going to be gone because we're going to die fighting a dragon and then.
00:54:01
Speaker
Uh, there's another Rin question. Uh, fun one. If pizza or served aboard the airship, what would everyone eat? There's also a question of what would Booyah eat instead of cheese on his pizza, because apparently we recall Booyah does not like cheese. He does not. But obviously Randy's not here to tell us that.
00:54:23
Speaker
I mean, I want to say Dex would do Hawaiian pizza because that's Jeff's favorite kind of pizza, but I think Dex probably eats... It goes one of two ways. Plain cheese, because we've already established he's not a fancy food guy, but on the other hand, Dex might eat supreme pizza because there's one thing that Dex has proven and there's no such thing as too much in any regard for him. I really don't know how to...
00:54:52
Speaker
answer this question in terms of Barrick. I really don't know as far as Barrick, I have no idea. So. OK.
00:55:02
Speaker
All right. And then Rin did also ask, this is the one that I thought that we might have addressed, but I don't know. We know what Barabooya and Dex do to keep in shape in fighting form. What do the shipmates do to stay in shape and stay sane? I think the reason I feel like we've answered this one is because what Cassian does is he's a young boy. Yeah, Cassian is a child. Cassian runs around a lot. Charlie carries heavy bags and boxes.
00:55:29
Speaker
uh rickard reads um and i don't know what he does to keep his body strong he just maybe crunches in the closet to be fair there is no reason to believe that any of the npc's that haven't been explicitly shown
00:55:45
Speaker
are concerned about their physical fitness. Jace might not give a crap. Yeah. You know, yeah. Jace Jace is a pilot and he has not shown any real combat competencies. So yeah, it's not a big deal to him. I mean, Rickard obviously is. He does have guns. And that's that's been stated aloud. Yes. But but yeah, I mean, old old shipmates were a lot more combat focused. So that would have been a much more interesting answer for the likes of Paolo and Gerald and
00:56:15
Speaker
all of those but they are no longer on the show therefore they are all dead. So moving on.
00:56:22
Speaker
Geez, wow. Okay, unfortunately we need to speed around a bit. So, cool, ask what color of dragon is Orgev. Great question. He is blue. He is that dragon. Maybe. Screw that guy. Just real quick, because I know a lot of people know the geography of Eberron well and wonder why south and not east.
00:56:49
Speaker
Like, they do not reveal where their base of operation is, and while people familiar with Eberron Cannon know where the chamber is, Beric, Dex, and Booyah certainly don't, and also the potential people that are following agents of the chamber, and so they don't go directly home. They're going to try to lose any tales they might have.
00:57:10
Speaker
Anyway. Okay, speaking of cool, he has a question. He asks, how are Barasha and Orgev so old nobody questions it? Gold dragons have a maximum lifespan of 5,800-ish years and they're the longest-lived dragons. Is the best answer to that? Not our dragons.
00:57:28
Speaker
Well, I mean, it's it's a question of I mean, the Chamber is such a secretive organization that I mean, the the I've always viewed the information presented in the the books and the source material is information that people know, like with the exception of like monster cards and stuff like that. So best recollection and revealed by the dragons, the oldest dragon to live is 5,800 years. In my head,
00:57:54
Speaker
the chamber by its nature, just dragons by their nature, would not reveal their lifespan. Like they would not tell anybody, oh, this is the oldest we could live or anything like that. So I've always just in all of my games played pretty fast and loose with that hard cap of like 5,800 years is the oldest a dragon could be. Just because I think it's more interesting if they can live older and you have these beings that might have been around for the creation of the world potentially.
00:58:22
Speaker
So sure. I mean, the expected lifespan of my childhood dog was 11 to 12 years and he lives 23. There you go.
00:58:31
Speaker
Yes, he was baffling the old dog. That's nuts. I looked it up. It's not the record, but it's close. Or the recorded record. That's what guess what a record means. It's recorded. Hey, here's one. So this one is a one from Joe. Joe also had a how long have they been dragons question. But his second question is regarding the processed voices that you do at the beginning of the episodes.
00:58:57
Speaker
Is that something that's going to be strictly pre-show? Is that something you can do during live shows? Is that something you're willing to try during live recordings? Well, I could not without adding a whole lot more complications to our recording process.
Authenticity in Recordings
00:59:09
Speaker
I don't even know if it's possible the way that we record for me to do it live. Like we would certainly not hear it. Yeah, for you all to hear it. It's possible to go back, but that would mean like the conversation between Barasha and Barak and Orgev.
00:59:26
Speaker
If I wanted to alter Brash and Orgo's voices, just highlighting all of their voices but not Barak's voice and running the processing, it would add a lot of man hours to the episode. And the background music, the occasional sound effect, that's about as much post-processing as I want to add to our actual table play. I do want it to still be somewhat authentic to the way it is when we play. I don't want to go full radio drama with it.
00:59:54
Speaker
It was just a fun thing that I decided to tinker with for the pre-show quotes. So that's probably where it's going to remain.
01:00:04
Speaker
Okay. Um, let's get back to questions. Um, our friend Laura does that thing she does where she tries to get us to tell what we're going to do in the future. Like that's ever worked and asks, are you going to get the only person you've seen kill a dragon come with you to kill the dragon Prince? He also killed fake royalty. It's trickier, trickier is the person you should find. Probably not. Maybe who knows? Listen and find out. Um, and then.
01:00:31
Speaker
this thing happened on the discord where suddenly all these questions that I mean I'll answer them don't make oh no we can answer them sure uh so uh does voor have pto that he can use to visit barrack voor loves working doesn't love no rukens and rukens a terrible uh employer and when voor has time off he does not come visit barrack
Humorous Character Contrasts
01:00:51
Speaker
There's no unions. How would they bargain for paid time off? I mean, Thorin did it, but he's a bad egg. Jess asks, what's Vore's favorite meal? Sawdust. Toast. Toast and sawdust. Unseasoned, boiled chicken. Did Vore have any childhood pets?
01:01:13
Speaker
He had a goldfish. It died after two days. They tried to get some pets and they just kept biting them. I just think they did not like Vore. Vore lore. That's right. Did Barrick or Dex or Booyah probably not. Barrick grew up on a ranch. Yes. His grandfather's farm has lots of horses. They're all retired war horses. See Barrick's life is interesting. Vores is not.
01:01:34
Speaker
or lore. Dex had no pets because he didn't. Booyah lived in the jungle so pets were hard to keep but easy to find.
01:01:52
Speaker
I think that might be... Glenn had an actual question. Yes, here it is at the end. I had to do some vore scrolling. So Glenn's question is this, the type of detailed interactions with NPCs that you guys have sounds stressful to me. If my groups had those regularly, there'd be a lot of group tension between players. How do you guys do it well and keep friendships intact? What's the trick to separating the frustration?
01:02:17
Speaker
We're not friends anymore. I don't like Eric at all. This is basically like Fleetwood Mac just recording, recording for the sake of recording and then not speaking otherwise. No, I mean, more seriously, I think it's I am not Barak. I have great affection for Barak. I like playing Barak. And when I'm at the table, I'm probably a little bit method because I
01:02:43
Speaker
I act like I'm Barrick while we're at the table, but I'm not Barrick. So bad things happening to Barrick are not bad things happening to me. Yeah.
01:02:53
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, I mean, same basically. Um, I mean, it helps that again, I've never held Eric in high regard. So, um, no, I mean, the reason, the reason that we don't, and I don't know if this is particular to us, first off, Eric and I were friends for years before we started playing D D D and D together. Uh, same. Yeah. And so it's pretty easy to real.
01:03:17
Speaker
I know Eric well enough to know that he would never push as hard and as condescendingly to Jeff as his NPCs do to Dex and Barak so I never conflate the two.
01:03:34
Speaker
I, at least in my self-view, am absolutely nothing like the NPCs that I portray. I feel like I'm a very... Well, some of them sound like you. Agreeable, easygoing individual that is not condescending to people most of the time. And I'll say this, and I'm sure Philip can echo this sentiment. I have had actual disagreements with Eric that have led to stern conversations
01:04:02
Speaker
And they were very different tone. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing is we as friends and Phillip and I have differing viewpoints on a lot of things and have had similar conversations. And it's like they're just a different tone. We try to understand each other as opposed to win. Yeah, when when Barrick and Dex are talking to an NPC, the goal, 99 percent of the time is to is to win or persuade them to our side. Whereas when Phillip and Eric and Jeff are talking, we're trying to understand each other and come to
01:04:32
Speaker
not a consensus because that won't happen with a lot of things that we don't agree on but just a understanding i now see what you are saying i still think you're wrong i still disagree with you uh no i still think you're wrong but but i'm not trying to change your mind anymore uh through force uh and and or just sheer sub stubbornness
01:05:02
Speaker
Anyhoo. And that's something the world's missing today, you know? We're really examples for everyone. Gross. The secret, the way Randy's able to handle it is that he doesn't show up to the reviews so he doesn't see this. He doesn't have to put up with us as often as the rest of us do and that's how he attains his peace. By abstaining from spending time with us.
01:05:31
Speaker
Okay. There is one last question real quick. Uh, she says, if I'm not too late, literally just under the wire by like 20 minutes. Uh, can we know the plan with the dragon orb that Phillip teased last reviewed? Not yet.
01:05:46
Speaker
There you go. Asked, answered. I honestly don't know if there's something Eric will end up doing with that. I'm sure we'll do a really big Eberron review at the end of the campaign. And if it has not been relevant, then I'll happily share trickier's evil plan to save the world with a dragon orb.
01:06:04
Speaker
Yeah, it feels like that's too much of a Chekhov's gun to give away anything until we're finished, in case it does show back up. We don't know what's going to happen between now and the end of the campaign that it might change, like, so. Yeah. Anyway.
01:06:20
Speaker
Okay. Um, you guys, that's our time. Thank you for, uh, for listening. I'm going to pass out. Uh, so, uh, follow us on social media. Everything is at the geek Pantheon. You find us on patreon.com slash the geek Pantheon. Uh, join this discord that we keep mentioning people from. If you would like to, um, I believe the $1 a month tier gets you in the discord, right? Yeah. Yeah. So just show up and give us.
01:06:47
Speaker
uh it gets you into the discord and it also gets you access just the one dollar gets most of your videos you post on patreon yeah all all the video content that goes up on the patreon okay and that's just for it also moves the patreon one step closer to crazy milestone rewards based on the number of patrons not on the amount of money
01:07:04
Speaker
Yes, if we hit 50 patrons, regardless of what tier you're in, we will live stream the finale of Eberron Renewed. Like the final session will be live streamed. So yeah, so hopefully we can hit that. And that'll be wild and probably
01:07:23
Speaker
Now, to be fair, it will be live streamed. It will also be released on the podcast. Oh, yes. We want to make sure that's clear. Can't promise to be family friendly in the moment. And to be clear, the live stream will not be the patrons will unlock the live stream. It will not be patron exclusive. Like the patrons won't get to know how it ends before non patrons just to make it clear that we're not putting that behind a paywall. That is that's important. Thank you for clarifying that.
01:07:49
Speaker
Regardless, patreon.com slash the pantheon. If you'd like to contribute towards that goal or be a part of the discord, uh, go check out the tiers. If you're a DM or a regular player, you may love checking out Eric and Phillips contributions to their DM spell book, which is available at a slightly higher tier, $3, uh, I believe. Um, and it goes up and up from there, um, with further incentives.
01:08:10
Speaker
Anyway, check that out. Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts particularly. I understand very few, especially I'm learning more and more in the nerd space that tends to populate D&D. Apple, or at least for mobile, iOS is not the preferred user and that's fine. It still unfortunately is the industry standard for algorithms that show what's popular and what's trending and whatnot.
01:08:37
Speaker
So rating and reviewing in the apple podcasts app or or or website. Is is the best way you can help us get notice further so we'd really appreciate that.
01:08:52
Speaker
Maybe by the next time we release an episode, we will have come up with an incentive. This is the way we have in the past. Some sort of incentivizing to get you to get some more reviews in. Anywho, thanks for everything. Everybody that listens. We really appreciate you guys. Um, and I am dying. So, uh, my name's, my name's Jeff. I'm Eric. I'm Phillip. Let's turn this fan on. Goodbye.