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C2 Ep. 173 Cursed Legacies Episode Three
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What's Reynard been up to?
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Introduction to the Eberron Review Podcast
00:00:10
Speaker
D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:00:45
Speaker
Hello, welcome to Eberron Review, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Trevor, because Caleb's not here. You're Trevor anyway. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Recap of Previous Episode: Cursed Boat and Speeder Bike
00:01:00
Speaker
Okay, so immediately last time we just, is when they just dropped, right? Yes. Okay. I listened to it. I wasn't here, so I really, I know less than normal.
00:01:08
Speaker
No, we started the boat moving. We got it up and then suddenly we were in the lure. That's what's important. But there was much talk and consternation beforehand because of what we discovered about the proprietor of said boat. Turns out he's cursed.
00:01:23
Speaker
Also, Ace might be cursed because he has a new speeder bike. That'll do it. Those speeder bikes will get you. Look, is it accurate? Yeah, but what's most important is that none of that's important today. Yes.
Raynard's Absence and Armor Plans
00:01:37
Speaker
What's most important is Raynard was not there for any of that until the very end. He popped his head out the boat. I will play you a little bit. But we're going to roll the clock back to shortly after Randy tried to derail the whole session by saying, I'm going to go hang out with Raynard. I do.
00:01:53
Speaker
Reynard, it is morning after all the events that you, Trevor, remember vividly. No, that was the whole ordeal. Yeah. I want you to say out loud what you did, Trevor. Admit it to the people how you treated me.
00:02:10
Speaker
Have I called you glob? Do you want me to take this? Have I treated you? No, I'm joking. Okay. The way you made me sit there and watch you not do the job for three sessions. That's why I tried to talk to Eldrin. Tried to. Yep. Said things. They weren't the right things. Did not handle it the best. And that place is a messed up now.
00:02:38
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yep and then we went to no then we went to the other bar and aris was mad about something what are we doing between that it's important we're trying to figure out what you're gonna do about your dad
00:02:52
Speaker
The whole captain sauna thing was in between the two bars. Oh, okay. Yeah. I was like, there's something that was not about me that happened. See, I was blocked out for half of it. Yeah. So I still don't know what I'm going to do about my dad. Yeah. But I guess I'm going to find out today. Most importantly, maybe your armor is ready.
00:03:11
Speaker
Arthur showed up as you woke up. Arthur was sitting on your nightstand with a little note indicating that with a from the blacksmith saying that your armor was ready. Arthur definitely sits on his chest. We woke up.
Reflecting on Past Mistakes and Family Struggles
00:03:22
Speaker
Fair enough. Yeah. What's a big idea? Milo was coming to visit you to go see about your armor with you and you just shoot him off with no big deal. What's the deal, man? I thought I'm going with my cat. Oh, OK. That's a two person job.
00:03:39
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in the cat's person. Maybe. I like trying to go visit characters who aren't here just to see what Eric does. Yeah, what Eric does is say, nope. But yeah, head to the blacksmith. Do you remember the name of the blacksmith? Surely do not. That's a strange name. Surely do not. I'm not even going to guess because I'm sure it's something that doesn't make sense. Daelin. Never really gotten there. Simple name. Daelin's one of the good ones. That's a great name.
00:04:09
Speaker
Okay. You, you had Dale in shop and he's there and he sees your approach. Oh, you got my note. Good. And he Pat's a parcel. That's on the counter for you. I hope you like it. Wonderful. Thank you. Um, no, you didn't.
00:04:27
Speaker
What were you gonna say? Nothing. I just made a noise. Do I near you seem tense? No. I'm not. Your words say something other than what your mannerisms and face and everything. You know, just a new day excited for it. See what happens.
00:04:47
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I'm gonna wear that today. What are you gonna do today? Don't wear that.
Raynard's Armor and Arthur's Visit
00:04:54
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And? To what end? Yeah. Just gonna look good all day. Thank you. Okay. This is our charisma guy. This is our face guy on the team.
00:05:11
Speaker
I don't know what I'm going to do. That is true. We don't know. And you see Daelin begin to laugh, but in the very not, you met Daelin a few times, you knew him before, not Daelin way. And then the Vener drops elder and leaning on the counter as you get flustered very easily.
00:05:30
Speaker
Oh. And then Dalen kind of walks out of the back of the shop. What the hell? Eldrin, get behind. What are you doing back here? Sorry. And he walks out of the shop. Eldrin left? What? Eldrin left? Around until you get on the same side of the counter as you. Oh, okay. Just like. Draenor, you get your armor. Dalen says. I was told it was in this.
00:05:52
Speaker
Yeah, okay. Package. An Eldrin kind of walks up to you and says, how are you? You seem flustered. I am wonderful. How are you? I have a job that I need doing related to our last conversation if you want to find somewhere private to discuss it. No other plans today, so why not?
00:06:16
Speaker
Do you, do you have other plans today? Cause you're talking very, like you have other plans that you're being sarcastic. They're probably things I should be doing, but I don't really remember what they are. Let's do it.
Meeting at Twilight Grove: Job Discussion
00:06:27
Speaker
Okay. Do we need you like breathing exercise or something? You seem very like on edge. I'm fine. You don't seem like you're fine. I'm fine. I'm just very excited. In through the nose. Out through the mouth.
00:06:44
Speaker
again you're better so good okay let's there was an incident at the ebony veil so that's my normal spot but i have another place that we can oh yes i was a part of that yes you were there yes it's awful i remember that yeah i shouldn't go back there not not so soon what why not i i told you
00:07:15
Speaker
That's why you couldn't go in there. And that's why my friend and I took you somewhere else. And it was a weird night. Okay. There's another place called the Twilight Grove that we can go. Perfect. Yes. So you and Elgaran
Plot Against Eldrin's Mother
00:07:31
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walk, what do you chat about with Elgaran on the walk over? Probably something awkward. So you find a, it's, looks like a typical
00:07:44
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tavern facade would sign above it with a tree that's got shimmering lights around it like twinkling stars and that kind of thing and you walk in and it seems it seems like dark and shadowy but in the opposite way of the ebony veil whereas that was like an assassin like kind of sketchy place this seems much more
00:08:06
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the woods at night peaceful but there's an air of danger about it vibe as you walk in but much more natural accents less black gothic kind of look and much more yeah just natural aesthetics less purposefully dark and more naturally dark the dark side of cottagecore
00:08:25
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So you all walk in and Elderly leads you to a booth where you see two other figures sitting. One is a Elfman in kind of mage robes, dark, and you can see on their forearm as they're sitting there the Mark of Shadow. So you know that they are a member of either your house or Thirani. Probably your house.
00:08:50
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And then the other one is a largely built, very muscular man with dark brown skin, shaved head, and in a very kind of leather armor, clearly used a lot in the field. He sticks out like a sore thumb in this place. This looks like a person that is used to being in the field, doing jobs, getting stuff done. And that's the vibe that you get from the two of them as you approach.
00:09:14
Speaker
And as you approach the booth, Eldering gestures the two of them, and to the elf, this is Leorc. He's my... entanglement. And this is Theden Mordane, which you instantly ping the last name. This is Dranyan. He's a cousin. Cousin.
00:09:35
Speaker
We're all part of the same family, 12 cousins or something. Yes. Wow, these are two people that make this very awkward for me. Why is that, Drenn? I'm talking to you. Wait till Leoric drops his hand high up on over his thumb. I think Leoric says, entanglement. Oh, stop. He looks at Drenn. He says, I suppose it's better than he used to call it a situation chip.
Heist Planning and Personal Dynamics
00:10:03
Speaker
Good for you. So happy. Sit. Come. Okay. They didn't just nods at you. I have a question. Yeah. You said drain year. Yeah. Would I'm thinking they didn't that they didn't doesn't know the name during year. I'm trying to think of what you told Verla.
00:10:26
Speaker
I think we talked about that. I think the ambulance come to play around Verla before. Oh, I did. I did. I was in the police station. Yeah. Yeah. And she's arrested you as a junior before you fell from grace. Yeah, that's fair. She probably would have. She's a good detective. She probably would have put the pieces together at the slightly different looking dude that's doing all the same crimes.
00:10:45
Speaker
Yeah, that's looking at the file. The name is just spelled backwards. God, he's a idiot. Why does it make more sense backwards is what I want to know. So they just looks at you with the raised eyebrow and just nods like a quizzical look. And you can tell that there is a strong family resemblance to Verla, like strong enough to where this is not a cousin. So, yeah. What day of the week is this? This is a
00:11:14
Speaker
Tuesday. All right. He already says. Elderen. Twilight Grove is for Fridays. Why did you call us here? Because a large warforged destroyed the Ebony Vale. And what? No, there is a situation that I am working on with Grenier here that requires
00:11:36
Speaker
A deft, yet discreet hand. And so I've gathered all of you here, because there is somebody who is going to be making an attempt on my mother's life, it seems.
00:11:52
Speaker
Thank you, Leoric. And the person that is seeking to perpetuate this is gathering resources for his inevitable rise in the wake of mother's death. Who would be that stupid? It's all friends here, right? And they signed a contract that says that he can't discuss anything that's part of this job, and Leoric won't. Jren, why don't you fill in the rest of the gang on what's going on?
00:12:21
Speaker
Long story, short. It's my father. I'm sorry, Eldarin's mother is your father. No. Because your long story, short enough to not be completed in this one. Should we call him a villain? How should we address the situation? How do we want to address this man? It's up to you. A villain, yes. Why are you so awkward? That is me. Some people find it rather charming.
00:12:51
Speaker
Yes. Oh, it's cute. He's like a baby. Keep going. As you're talking to Draneer, give me a perception check real quick as Eldrin leans over to Leoric. You can use real dice if you want, Randy. We got a bucket full.
00:13:09
Speaker
I can use them, but I gotta find
Security Measures and Strategy
00:13:11
Speaker
out. Also, I'm far more uncomfortable right now because I feel like four greenies near feels like elders playing a prank on him with the two people at the table. That is actually a good for the first time during your socially aware of what's happening. And it's probably the truth to failure for advantage.
00:13:31
Speaker
Eldren leans over after he says some people find it charming, and they knew you can't hear what is being said. Leoric, Eldren leans over and was searching here. Thadon's sister included, I hear. And... Okay. Unfortunately, he heard that from me. For Advantage. For Advantage, okay.
00:13:58
Speaker
That's a good debate there. That's a good debate. That's a good debate. Pass an upgrade and a boost. Yeah, it's too soon. It's not really anything I can think of. Let's just do that.
00:14:13
Speaker
um all right shorter story longer i found start with who there is oh that my father yes i've already whispered that and i found some incriminating evidence that would suggest that he wants to kill eldren's mother wait this is your father yes i don't like him but
00:14:39
Speaker
And if we kill him, you're fine with this. If it comes to that. It's one of those, you know, situations you'll never be really okay with, but why not? So, I can't help but notice that Leoric's last name is also Fiarlin. I have to know who Castile is. Or Calvary. Calvary is, right? I also know Castile. You guys don't know him. He's great. Yeah, Calvary runs the full-arm business in Sharn. Okay. Oh, so like a coup. For who?
00:15:08
Speaker
No, not... Okay. He wants more power, so he's going to take it by force from Eldrin's mother. Yes, I was specifying if I was doing the coup or he was doing the coup. Oh, I see. Oh wait, are you the one? No, no. But I... what? I was asked to kill them. There it is. Yes. And that's why I'm not going to do it. That's the situation. I'm not sure about this job. He makes me uncomfortable.
00:15:37
Speaker
That is a two-way street. And the pay is good very well. Yes. I have found out after giving the heads up from Drenia here that Kalveir has acquired a special artifact from a cellar, and it should be arriving in town today. And this artifact will make Kalveir invulnerable.
00:15:59
Speaker
Impervious, it's like some ancient stone thing. So anyway, you all need to intercept it and keep Kalveir from getting this incredibly powerful artifact that will make him impervious to any damage that comes into him. Thus stymieing any attempts that Drennier here may have to stop Kalveir from killing my mom.
00:16:20
Speaker
You said you all. You are coming, yes, Elder? Oh, no, because I can't be associated with this business. All right. I think that Leoric rolls his eyes and throws himself back in his booth and goes, What? Oh, yes, we'll do more of your work. I'm an important person. I'm sorry. Very important. Very pretty. I'm sorry, what? Can't get hurt. Can't ruin that.
00:16:46
Speaker
Hold on. I'm not gonna become catty. I'm just gonna stay dandy. I could agree. I like to think that perhaps I shouldn't get myself uglyed up either, but whatever. We're into what we're into. Has Dayton worked with Lee Orrick before? Sure. We know each other. We know each other. Yeah, Eldrin's hired you before. You all worked together.
00:17:11
Speaker
What do you know? The shipment probably arrived this morning via lightning rail and is being prepped for transport to Calver's home. I would suggest probably it's in a storage facility because they don't need these things sitting on the cars. If you wanted to head down to Passage, that's where it would be stored more than likely.
00:17:34
Speaker
or you could wait until it's in transport and try to heist it off the transportation vehicle, or you could wait until it... Is it in some
Detailed Heist Planning and Securing the Artifact
00:17:41
Speaker
sort of Orion facility in Passage? Passage is an area, not a building, right? Correct, yeah. It would be more than likely owned by the house. That's fine, I'm part of that. I am too. Yes, so are you. Ideally, don't kill any house members, ideally, if it can be avoided.
00:17:59
Speaker
But you did say, if can be avoided. If not, then... It's not my strong suit either. But... You're not making me feel very comfortable about this job. I just said I like to kill people too! Yes, but the way you're acting...
00:18:20
Speaker
It's a little off-putting. You are just like your sister. Will you be up to the tax? I did not hear what you said as I was talking. I said, you're just like your sister. So he just gives you a nice long stare. Ah, so confirmation. You're the one that has been incredibly rude to my sister.
00:18:49
Speaker
My brother would say that about someone who has a love interest. She very much has affection for me. I'm going to go get drinks. I'll be by. So I see where you would be worried. You're a strange individual. She has, she follows me. Like it's a job or something. I think you have a deep misunderstanding or confusion in your mind about her.
00:19:20
Speaker
This, I may need a little extra pay for this job. A little during went to the bar. Just out loud. The Orick says, unfortunately, Thadon, he's a house member, an elder, and just said you can't hurt him. We're going to have to learn to live with it. That's how I like to hurt people who especially disrespect my sister.
00:19:41
Speaker
I'm thinking I don't know that it's ever come up but I believe you. I've seen how you like to hurt people. Elder walks back with the like four drinks and as you're saying that and it's like yes and your sister's repeatedly told you to knock it off as Elder sets drinks down in front of all that. She tells me that too. I'm going to do this job for you because I have been paid and these are friends but
00:20:09
Speaker
tread lightly around my sister. Well, I'm an elf, so I always tread lightly. Oh, yes. To new friendships. You all need the visuals.
00:20:39
Speaker
me trying to stare down forever. Yes. I'm not used to being the one who makes things move, but let's go ahead. And we need to get what it, what's it, what was it? You said stone. Yes. It's like a orangy, amberish, like roughly cut gem. That's meant to set into something that probably imbues the person with invulnerability.
00:21:06
Speaker
This might be the wrong time to bring it up. I would like to keep it. Is that a problem? That could be a discussion that we have when you bring it back here. And every time this happens like this, we always flip for it. All right. I like that. Fine. That's lore.
Mission Preparation and Role Assignment
00:21:26
Speaker
I don't need it because somehow I have come out unscathed in a lot of situations. Except for the last one.
00:21:33
Speaker
Great that you have abdicated your claim to it. And that is over when there's an odd amount of gold we flip on who gets the majority, not on who gets the potentially world shattering artifact. So we can have a discussion as to who gets it when- I promise I won't use it to shatter the world. Can I have it now, Theden? I make no promises. That's a good promise. Yes. Anyhoovel. I imagine it's sitting in a warehouse somewhere right now.
00:22:02
Speaker
And if we don't get it, you're never gonna be able to kill your dad. And he gets up to go to the door. If I can't kill you, I guess your dad's the next best option. Alright. Intense. This is going to go well. I believe in you. I'll be here. I'm usually not the sane one in the group. Out
Scouting Terminus: Gathering Intel
00:22:24
Speaker
of earshot of Satan. As quick as soon as he can out of earshot of Satan.
00:22:29
Speaker
I wish I could tell you he comes around eventually, but he really doesn't. Once he's made up his mind, there's not a lot of changing. And just like his sister. And you would know this about Thadon also, probably. He tries to come off tougher than he really is. There is that softer spot in there. I'm going to put my new armor on.
00:22:52
Speaker
Right now, just. Yeah, at the bar. It's hard to do it in the booth, but New York stands up. So, yeah, so what is the so you all have a rough idea of where in the city, the warehouse is how big is passage? Is it like the cause? It's good size.
00:23:11
Speaker
Or the Cog is like the whole bottom of Sharn. Sorry, Terminus is the name of the district, not Passage. I was thinking, are we going to Pass? What I was thinking, are we going to like Passage, like leaving Sharn to Passage? Terminus is the district. So it's, you know how you all are from Lower Mint, this plateau is like an area of the city, but then there's like torch fire and all the like. Yeah, sure. Terminus is like one of the smaller districts within a larger district. So it's not huge. Two or three city blocks worth of space.
00:23:41
Speaker
And is it, I mean, if it's the kind of place that receives this sort of stuff, is it Upper Plateau? It sounds like it could be a place that gets nice things, it has security, and would we know this? You would know a lot about Terminus being like, stuff gets smuggled into the station, into the city, things like that. I've never planned a heist without Philip. Figure this out. I gotta ask the questions, he would.
00:24:07
Speaker
It's a low, it's in the lower district of the city. Okay. But it would have some security for sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Probably not official security. Probably not cops because it's lower. Yeah, it would probably be like mercenaries, house people hired like Dennis. He's still there. He had left. Elvin is staying at Twilight Grove. Okay. He has an alibi wall. This is happening.
00:24:29
Speaker
Elderan, dear, it would be easier. Do you suppose we could recall any of our house members that are working security tonight? It would make less danger for them and an easier passage for us. I can put out a call, but if they are loyal to Calvair and Calvair has told them to stay, then they won't listen to me, but let's certainly make an attempt.
00:24:56
Speaker
I have a friend named Hob who can get one person to just leave. Can I invite him? The one time I could use that talent. It has to be someone non-hostile and they're all hostile to Hob. Well, I understand. But if you could make an attempt, make a call. Sure. Let me give you the... Yeah, roll for it. I have to assume you have what you need at this point.
00:25:25
Speaker
And if Leoric could do something to assist since it was his idea and give you a boost, that would be pretty neat. Sure. Hey, and I had the advantage. Yep. Automatic upgrade. And another boost. Difficulty is going to be... normally it would be too purple, to average, because Eldrin has some clout in the house, but...
00:25:52
Speaker
So because of the circumstances of Calvair being involved, it's gonna be one red, one purple. And I'm gonna go ahead and flip another story point to make it too red. So if you'll toss me another red. And you gotta flip it the other way. You just don't want to hear them. I guess this is because this is making it more difficult. You're
Heist Challenges: Disguises and Timing
00:26:12
Speaker
making your role more difficult?
00:26:14
Speaker
Yeah, he makes, he's still the DM. He's playing devil's advocate over here. DM. Okay, so those go away. Those go away. So that is three success and one, two, three, four advantage. Okay. Yes. Eldrin comes back after talking on a sending stone briefly and says, okay, not all of them, but a substantial number of the ones patrolling our area of storage won't be there tonight. You have four advantage to spare.
00:26:44
Speaker
Like I said, anyone loyal to Cali? We have those four advantages. They use those. You can find out something about the facility that would be beneficial. Yeah, we could do that. Four advantage gives us a situational boost, right? Like we can say the first time someone tries to
00:27:03
Speaker
Do this action, they can have a boost. Doesn't the forward advantage do that for us? We can target it to a situation. That's just, that's two boost. Two boost? Okay. Yeah. So we could say right now, Leoric is just a Fiarlan guy who's showing up at this place.
00:27:21
Speaker
We have to assume someone knows Kalveir's plans for Dranyir. We can't discount that. He may have let other people know about it. Or at least Kalveir's plans in general. Yeah. So it may be the first time Dranyir gets into a scrape and needs to talk his way out of it. He gets a couple of boosts because I can't imagine that hurts anything. But we also don't know what has happened since the kerfuffle at the bar where
00:27:52
Speaker
You made a fool out of yourself and then the ram came? And Calvary was on his way there. I did spend a triumph for him to not know it was me or something or some
00:28:05
Speaker
something. Or that he, or we were gone before he got there. Yeah, we were gone before he got there, but they absolutely know that it was you and me. There's no way. Yeah, so. They didn't say. It was your son and his idiot friend. So we don't know how, what he might have told someone about. That's a good point. Me now. So, do we want to use those four advantage to get you a different look? I have the different armor. New armor, if we can use four advantage.
00:28:34
Speaker
Yeah, so it might be a disguise maybe, some kind of illusion. I would be okay with using forward advantage to do some sort of illusory magic on you. Yeah, so you got magic right? I do, I don't know if I have anything. I have a list of spells here that you can do. You can pull up the Genesis magic calculator because you have arcana, those are just like, specifically the arcane spear is your signature spell that's easier
Executing the Heist: Obtaining the Manifest
00:28:56
Speaker
for you to cast. So you can cast like a disguise on him and make it, it gets harder the more betty you want to make it.
00:29:03
Speaker
Or I'm fine using the forward bench to say that Leort can just cast something on the amulet to make you look different for the next 48 hours. Yeah, I just refocused the amulet to something. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah. So I'm in Arcana. It would be a utility or mask.
00:29:22
Speaker
I'm saying you don't need to roll forward, like just use the forward advantage to say Leoric can do this thing. Okay. The forward advantage says that Leoric will take your amulet. Actually, no. Leoric just takes your amulet like this. He reaches between your chest and the amulet and holds it very close to you still, but still around your neck. And says some incantation. And I think the... You can describe the amulet. Yeah, it's not very big. There's like a...
00:29:46
Speaker
I can't remember how to describe it. I know it turns, but that's always like a gym. Yeah, there's like a stone that turns. I think some veining in the stone maybe either comes into vision or it changes if it was already there and that's how we know that it worked. And you have no idea what you're gonna look like. Cool. That's probably for the best. Okay. What now, gang? Eldren's made the call. You all know it's gonna be a little bit lighter so you can attempt to figure out like
00:30:14
Speaker
other security measures in that region if you want doing some research or you can jump to that night and you will just roll up and what are the dice. What about egress? How do we leave? Let's assume that we have
00:30:30
Speaker
Our hot little hands on this stone. What's next? I, unfortunately, only have a driver, not a vehicle, and I do not want to get more people involved in this. And I don't run. Is it just us three? It's just us three. I would absolutely do a little preliminary scouting of the facility.
00:30:59
Speaker
first, and perhaps that would give us some information on how to get out once we're in. We might locate a way in, could possibly be the way out. Alright, let's head to Terminus and do some looking around. Okay, alright. So you all head down to Terminus via Skycab?
00:31:29
Speaker
How, like, where are you all getting dropped off in Terminus and you're just gonna walk around unassuming? Or are you gonna be on the outskirts? What's the plan for scouting out the place? I don't think there's anything suspicious about anybody walking around there, right? We may as well just... Yeah.
00:31:43
Speaker
if there's a like a kind of the hub where you land and then yeah we'll just go there and we'll get out and we'll walk around Terminus. I don't see anything wrong with us walking right into the facilities to the facility. Terminus itself is the one of the lightning rail stops for Sharn so it's where a lot of people enter the city via Terminus station which is a massive house-oriented enclave so yeah you all are easy it's easy for you to
00:32:12
Speaker
blend into the crowd and there's just lots of people walking around. There's also other Dragon Mark.
00:32:19
Speaker
enclaves here as well, but it's pretty easy for you to blend into the crowd. You do see a bunch of House Deneth guards and Charne City watch just smattered around, but off of the Terminus station area you do see much more warehousey storage looking area where there's large shipping containers and things like that are being taken off of the train via crates or the lightning rail and stacked over in another part of the Terminus district that would be
00:32:47
Speaker
probably where you all are going to be needing to get into. You do see that there's a lot of traffic at Terminus Station, obviously less so amongst the shipping stuff because that's, you know, people working there need to be over there, but you don't have people just meandering about. If you all would like to give me a perception check to get a lay of the land, if you like, or I'm open to other options as well.
00:33:12
Speaker
Just so I have an idea, there's a lot of movement, a lot of hustle and bustle, but it's all purposeful. There's not a lot of, it's not like the mall busy. It's like people working busy. Well, in Terminus Station, there are like people hanging about, waiting on their trains, stuff like that. There's like shopping stalls over and like as you move away from it. Okay, cool. It's much more purposeful. Is it perception? Yeah. So Grand Central Station. And this thing is going to end up inside a building or
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah, like probably they'll move the shipping container over, unload it into a locked storage facility until it's ready for transportation. And we know what shipping container we're looking for. I'm hoping that we don't know. Oh my gosh. Yeah, we got a lot of work to do. What's the difficulty? Difficulty is going to be... Those are some greenies.
00:34:01
Speaker
to purple, and I'm going to ask everybody, whoever wants to roll first can roll first, but I want the option to use the threat or whatever that gets rolled to affect the subsequent rolls. So who would like to roll first? I've got two yellow and a green, so do you. Same. I got four green. You're actually more likely to succeed than we are, then. And it's two purple, you say? Yeah. You go first. Do you remember how I rolled last time we played this game? Yeah, but I have so much faith in you. And my first roll is a day. Would you like to have a story point? You have all four story points. Give yourself a yellow. Yeah, let's do that.
00:34:29
Speaker
Yeah. Oh yeah, what is that? Success into advantage. Okay. So are you specifically looking for a way to get into the shipping area unnoticed? What does Thadon scope it out? Yeah, based on what it seems my character is. He wants to look for the, he's looking for the easiest way in, easiest way out. Okay. To be less noticeable. I gotcha. So Terminus itself,
00:34:58
Speaker
borders a cut so the that the easiest way in the easiest way out is obviously the crowd of terminus there are going to be people filtering in all hours of the day the lightning rail rails don't stop so you see the schedule also and okay there's going to be a crowd here consistently additionally that
00:35:20
Speaker
There is, so you're in Terminus, the warehouses actually are in the adjacent district of Cogsgate where that's where all of a sudden we moved on to off of the trains into the shipping container area and everything's being transported from Terminus to Cogsgate where the warehouses are.
00:35:38
Speaker
On the other side of Cogs Gate, very distinctively living in Charn as long as you have, you would instantly recognize the very tall bordering walls of the refugee district of Highwall on the other side of Cogs Gate. Charn City Watch aren't really gonna care about that place. It would be difficult-ish to get into, but once you're in, you could easily lay low in Highwalls until if people were giving chase or anything like that. And then the other option,
00:36:08
Speaker
to get out is obviously to time your heist to where you get the thing, run back to Terminus, and you hop on a train just as it's heading out of town. I love that one. That one sounds super fun. Reach back on the closing train doors and grab your hat. So that's the lay of the land that you get in terms of options for getting out. And obviously, all those inversely, getting in.
00:36:33
Speaker
There's not like security outposts posted getting into Cog's Gate. So you can get into Cog's Gate. It's just a matter of finding the warehouse. And then each warehouse is going to have its own security measures based on what's being stored there, who owns the warehouse, that kind of thing. And knowing House Carolyn, there's going to be some security measures that you, in their mind, won't see coming until it's already stabbed you. So we probably want to get it before it gets there. Did you have advantage to spend?
00:37:03
Speaker
too. Yes. Oh gosh, I had something. Pass two boosts to the next person to roll if you want or if you want to do something narratively that's fine as well. How about, let's see what you all think. We've actually, Leoric and Dayton have actually
00:37:25
Speaker
done a job in this district before that, so we know some specific spots, we may have a good idea of like where we, which direction we should go to find a specific warehouse. Okay. So two advantage. So target a boost for, you get a boost on the check to find the right warehouse where, yeah, sure. I actually may, can I tell you what I would like to be perceiving with this perception check a little bit?
00:37:55
Speaker
If we've been here before then I probably know where the whatever the train equivalent of a harbor masters hut is I want to see if there is a pattern of Vacating that hut so I might snag a manifest I would like to see if I can figure out which shipment might have had Based on where it came from what time it came in might have had this stone so we can get a shipping container number or certain things
00:38:18
Speaker
Yeah, so that's going to help us locate the container. But you're just trying to get a beat on... The perception check is just, yeah, I want to see if I can figure out when it's going to be empty enough that one of us can slide our way in there and snag it. So that'll be a perception check. That's going to be a hard check. So three purple. And there's... Yeah, we'll leave it three purple. I'm going to look at my talents just because I haven't yet. I know there's probably not something to help with perception checks.
00:38:47
Speaker
Oh yeah, those are somewhere on here too, aren't they? Okay. Just because I want to ask for my schemes. Well, never mind. I only have knowledge, Lord. This is definitely not that. That's probably even if it was something knowledge, because I have that talent.
00:39:06
Speaker
There's a triumph. It is a failure with two threats, but there's a triumph. Failure with two threat and a triumph. Great, I get those two threats. So yeah, you can't really get a decent beat on the shift change in that office when it's going to be empty. The two threat, you get a sense that you all purposely looking at stuff
00:39:34
Speaker
y'all have started to look a bit like you're casing the joint and it has not gone unnoticed by some of the house denif people standing
Staying Undetected and Tactical Decisions
00:39:41
Speaker
around at the edge of cogs gate you all have been made a little bit not so much that high alert but people are just keeping an eye on you
00:39:48
Speaker
Okay, here's the thing. Before you said that I had a thought for the triumph that may get canceled because of that. Well, we'll see. I was thinking I would love it if we see someone that I know disembark from a train. And then I can be like, Jim. Yeah. As though that's why we were there. But if that's too much to negate the threat you just put out, I understand. And I could think of something else.
00:40:10
Speaker
Yeah, if it's in the gate, like why you're there, then I, you know what I'm saying? So I get why that wouldn't work now. I should have talked faster. Then we have a triumph on the table, guys. Yeah. And my idea of a perception check is probably going to get canceled out too. What's that? I was going to see if I could just recognize any of Ernie and my father's people there.
00:40:29
Speaker
I mean that's totally doing that. Sorry, you're in charge, but that was reasonable. So the triumph, you could pass an upgrade to that check if you just wanted to keep it mechanical, you could do something narratively with it. Well, I'm thinking even though I don't have a good idea of when that hut might be empty, I think I still want that manifest. So I think I might
00:40:50
Speaker
Because if we don't know which container it is, this is going to be a much more difficult thing, right? Yeah. So I'm thinking I might use that triumph on a later check to just do a sleight of hand and snag it at some point. Can I hold it or no? I mean, for an upgrade on that, yeah.
00:41:04
Speaker
I was gonna say for an upgrade on it as you're watching and looking like the people entering and exiting the triumph could be that they have a uniform that they wear and wouldn't you know it like over there like somebody's gone on break and left the jumpsuit hanging on a hook okay you can get and that'll manifest as an upgrade right I love it but yeah so you have a uniform
00:41:25
Speaker
Leoric is prepared to change clothes for the job. I did. All right. So you are trying to spot any of Calvair's lackeys that you might know. Yeah. Amongst the guards. OK. So go ahead and it's going to be too purple, but add a setback to that because you all are noted. And I'm going to flip a story point to make one of those purples a red. Of course.
00:41:54
Speaker
Okay, have fun. Alright, so that is two failure and two advantage. Okay, so you don't recognize anybody that you see.
00:42:09
Speaker
Oh, in fact, they are. The reason that you can't is that you start looking at the the feeling the feeling guards and they're all wearing masks. There would be. Yeah, you realize, oh, don't know their eyes quite well enough to didn't pay attention to advantage. Oh, man, to advantage. Let's just pass the boost to whatever we roll next.
00:42:33
Speaker
Two boosts you mean? Two boosts. Sure. Yep. Cool. Or is two advantage an upgrade? No, three. That's three. Okay. Yeah. So then, yeah, two boosts. Okay. Okay. You have good ideas of entrances and exits. You have a uniform to where you can try to get the manifest. You don't recognize any of the guards. What next? Gang.
00:42:57
Speaker
Probably Go with yours. Yeah. Yeah, I need to get it Because there's no point in casing an area of this if we don't know the right area. Yeah, Faden is a pretty sneaky character
00:43:10
Speaker
Yes, I don't have to be the one that puts on the uniform. What if the uniform might help, since if you're not sneaky, that at least you look like you worked there. But stealth in my brain anyway manifests, it's not just not being seen, it can also be blending in with the crowd, like to be unassuming. So I'm wondering if maybe you should be the one that puts on the uniform and tries to go get the manifest out of the... Are we going with Hut? Sure, yeah. The Station Master's Hut.
00:43:33
Speaker
Just make somebody invisible maybe and they can just go get it. Oh, I do have that I Don't know you transfer it over from your old armor doesn't know that yeah I forgot about that. I was talking about you making him I would be I didn't think about this the dagger. I don't know your plans. You're gonna tell me I'm going to
00:43:56
Speaker
I believe that we need to get a hold of the shipping manifest. Yeah? So we know where the heck this thing... Now I'm not saying that it's gonna say Big Orange Rock went here. You never know. But it might. This is why I work with the Auric. Always thinking. Yes. Now I'm just hungry.
00:44:21
Speaker
Unfortunately, I was not able to get a good read on when the station master's area will be empty. Hot. I believe it looks like a hut. I liked that. I was thinking shack and I didn't want to be rude. The station master lean to anyway, I did however, secure a uniform.
00:44:46
Speaker
Satan, if you would like to put it on and go get it, or if you have any ideas, Dren here. I, I do have a dagger. We're not hurting people. It makes me invisible. Who needs? Yes.
00:45:02
Speaker
Would you like to try to use it to get the manifest? Oh, yes. Okay. He points to the hut because he got that much. He knows where it is. I do think maybe it would help too, if someone were in the uniform, maybe standing guard while I was invisible, because floating things aren't as normal as you would think.
00:45:20
Speaker
Would we know how common it is? Like, I know we wouldn't know who knows who, but are there enough people in this uniform that either one of us could theoretically get away with it? Well, yeah. Okay. I understand. There's going to be a role that I'm asking. You know what I'm saying? They don't all know each other. It's not going to be a three red role. Okay. Yes, yes, yes. Zaden, do you want to play make believe or shall I? I don't mind. I can do it. If I have any trouble, I can just wait. No killing.
00:45:49
Speaker
Please. Light killing. That's what I gathered from the information we received. Certainly no killing any more. The one that looks like us. Me. You look different now. Good different or bad different? I haven't looked enough. Oh, you look like exactly Leoric's type now. Because he thought it would just be fun to spend the day with it. Just look like Elgerin. No, not Elbert. Elbert is not Leoric's type. Elberin's fun. All right.
00:46:16
Speaker
Thadon finds a spot to don this outfit. I guess in the same spot I'll get invisible. Okay. I'm gonna need a... Let me do... Can I go grab a churro because I don't want to be associated with them right now. Let me do Thadon's stealth check first. So you get the upgrade from the triumph. And it's gonna be based off of the perception check of people around. Which means it's gonna be one red, two purple.
00:46:46
Speaker
Oof. They say one green's gonna turn to yellow because of the triumph? Yep. And you say one red, two purple? Yep. What do you think? That looks pretty good. There are two boosts dying, but I feel like I might need to use them. The two boosts is for the next check, so they would be yours. So yeah, then you have to use them. Okay. That's pretty good. Alright. Are you kidding me?
00:47:14
Speaker
One, two, three. One, two, three. So no success, it looks like, right? Yeah, no success. Those cancel. A lot of advantage. And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven advantage. Jeez. Yeah, that's pretty good. OK. With the advantage, you could pass two upgrades and a boost. Like, you are just a distraction. Everybody looks at you to be like, hey, what are you doing here? And so Raynard just can, like, stroll past invisible with his stealth check with two upgrades and an advantage.
00:47:44
Speaker
you like that idea that sounds great sure okay so same difficulty one red two purple okay but you get two upgrades so what's yourself normally that's i need to look i was about to ask what am i picking this off hurled four stinking yellows and two boosts and still so one yellow two green is my stealth normally that doesn't seem
00:48:05
Speaker
Correct. So that'd be three yellow. Three yellow. And a boost. And a blur. And one red, two purple. Okay. And are we the circles on the story points? Yes. Let's get a story point. Get you another one. So we have all the story points. Yeah. Come on. Oh, a triumph. Hey. Did you succeed though? No. No. Actually. Seven advantage or nothing. Oh, no, no, wait.
00:48:34
Speaker
No, I didn't. Okay. So one failure and a triumph. No advantage. What was that on? That was an advantage. So yeah, that cancels out. Okay. Yeah. So one triumph and that was a failure. Where's the clap?
00:48:59
Speaker
Sorry, it was one triumph and one failure. Okay. Before I started recounting. No threat or advantage. No threat or advantage. Okay. So yeah. Thoroughly distracted, Reynard. You're walking invisible and you get to the door and you go to turn the knob and it's locked. Cool. And there's people like standing around. Like if you tried to like fiddle with locked eggs, it would be very obvious. And Thadon's over there murdering. I hate it when I'm late to work. I can't stand being late to work. And here I go, stayed out too late again last night. Is there anyone in the hut?
00:49:29
Speaker
There's somebody in there. Yeah, they just they lock it. Okay. We need to walk through, have a key. So I'm going to get right up behind Dayton and say, go to the door, try to open it. You're in the uniform. There's someone in there when there are people like talking to thing right now. They've stopped him. That was his failure. People walked over. Who are you? Where's your life? Where's your ID? Like, where's your paperwork? Oh, great.
Episode Recap and Audience Engagement
00:49:52
Speaker
Did this outfit come with paperwork? Did it? Yes, it did. Yeah, do it.
00:49:57
Speaker
Flip a story point. Okay. New York is just elsewhere, can't wait to ask you. So how'd the plan go? Not great. Because you're saying Jeff went to the bathroom and also doesn't know. Not well at all. Yeah, you like start patting yourself, Thadon. You feel something in your pocket and you pull out some paperwork. Give me a deception check. All the while muttering about being late to work. In my brain, Thadon is like a bounty hunter. So this is like right in his wheelhouse of having to like get into places he's not supposed to.
00:50:26
Speaker
It's like a dark mirroring of Verla, like Verla went like the noble rather than the detective. Whereas Satan's like, I'll make money doing the thing. Okay, deception and it's... This is gonna be just too right. Jeez Louise. It's an opposed check. Yeah, it's a big deal, man. Would you like to fill up a story point? No, you are. Have you checked your talent list lately? Do you have anything that might help? Not in this, it doesn't look like. Nope. Does my charm give him a boost?
00:50:54
Speaker
You want to flip the sword pointer? No. I might need it, but man. What do you think, guys? We got two and two. Let's save them. He's going to use them. No, Randy, flip it, upgrade, then use your once per session to get it right back. There we go. Because you're a human. OK. So do you want to do that? Yeah, let's do that. OK, so flip the upgrade.
00:51:15
Speaker
There we go. Yeah, it felt okay while I go too. I haven't done anything. It felt great earlier actually. Wonderful. Oh my gosh. You didn't roll. No, you failed. No, you actually, you failed with one advantage. I have not succeeded in a single stinking roll. There's only one failure, but there's only one success. Two advantage. Sorry. Two advantage. Take it all back. It's great. One, two, three, one.
00:51:43
Speaker
To advantage, right? Yeah. Yeah. To advantage. So the, the to advantage, if you're okay with this, I'm going to say basically the paperwork that you produce is the wrong, it's like you're stubbed to collect payment at the end of the day. Like when you go to the stall to collect payment, it's not your access paperwork. And so it's not, it's not a, you just seem like an idiot, not like you're lying. And so they're like, no, this is not the right, okay, go back to the office.
00:52:11
Speaker
Show them this, they'll get you set up with the right paperwork. You just gotta show them your papers, like your ID papers, and then they'll get you squared away. But yeah, you gotta have the access paperwork to get here. Thank you very much. I'll go take care of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hurry up.
00:52:27
Speaker
And you still got to use that accent. I did. I did. OK, I want to make a perception check around me to see if there's anything around me that I could knock over or throw to get the person in the booth to say, what's happening? I'm going to step out. OK. This is going to be a too purple to see, but I'm going to flip a story point and make it a red because they're they're kind of on alert. Like stuff's been they said to deal with some some moron walking around, acting a fool.
00:52:58
Speaker
A triumph! Can you turn one of those into a red? Yeah. Okay. There is... Yeah, so I just have three threat and two success and a triumph. Hey! Hey, we've got a success! Finally! Yeah, that there is a... You're looking around as Thadon is like talking to the other workers and the guy in the hut is just sitting there like looking at a clipboard and that there is a...
00:53:27
Speaker
There's a buzzer over on a gate thing to basically say, hey, we need to be let through. And normally one of these guys that's having to deal with Faden would go over there and open it up. The guy in the hub wouldn't have to go do that. But because they're currently tied up, if you go hit that, you know that he'll have to get up and go investigate who's buzzing to be let in. And that would cause him to come out and you could
00:53:54
Speaker
So that was Thadon's plan the whole time to cause a distraction. So the threat, do you have something for the triumph? I'm just going to say I can grab the manifest and at least get out of the booth successfully. I know there's probably going to be struggles getting to where we need to go, but I at least grab it and get out of the hut. So it's easily located.
00:54:18
Speaker
Like, oh, he's just sticking out like a sore thumb. That must be it. Can the triumph be that Leorik has actually been watching and also notices the button and I'm the one that pushes it so he's in position just to pop in and grab it? Is that a story point more than triumph?
00:54:30
Speaker
I'll take the triumph for that. It's just like you could do a story point and say that you're just doing that and save the triumph for something else, but let's do that. So Leoric didn't actually go get a churro. He's been watching you Keystone Cops F this up. His plan that was not bad. OK, he's wrong. So Leoric also sees the button that you've made during your. And so the triumph, are you wanting to say that there's no
00:54:56
Speaker
Alarms or tracking or anything like there's no unseen Complications with getting the manifest out of the hut is what basically you're saying. Yeah, I'll do you a little bit better Because it's bureaucratic like drag-mark houses they do it in duplicate so there are two so you can snag one and it won't be immediately obvious that the manifest is missing and
00:55:21
Speaker
Yeah, somebody probably trots around with it every once in a while, make sure things were supposed to be. The, how many threat were there? Three? Three. Three? For each of us. Shouldn't really read the magic's check calculator at some point. I got this thing called scribe. It says I can just locate something within long range. Now we're not in long range yet, probably. It's, yeah. Hey, you can't find it if it's right there. Three threat.
00:55:45
Speaker
I don't like when Eric stares off at this face. If we can find out generally where it is and get within what's considered long range band from it, that's my check to just find out exactly where it was. Oh, it worked. I think that's the plan. If I misread. Yeah. OK, the three threat is, as you are getting the manifest and leaving Rainard, you see a note basically discussing the fact that high value item
00:56:12
Speaker
incoming on today's date, extra, I'm trying to think of the right word, because it's not like security detail, like it's not more guards, it's like extra warning, like magical, like locks, whatever, like the security of the warehouse itself and the shipping container is heightened because of the value of the item. So yeah, that's the thread is that, yeah, things are going to be a little bit harder in actually getting the item.
00:56:38
Speaker
Okay, but you grab it, you sneak out the door and you can head back to Leoric. And Thadon, are you just walking away from the group?
00:56:47
Speaker
Yeah, I'm acting like I'm going to do what I was told to do. OK, gotcha. OK, and we're going to call the episode there. So the scouting portion has at least somewhat been done and we'll see how it goes. Moving forward. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversations right in this episode, you can head over to our Discord, the link to which you can find on all of our socials, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok. We also have a YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash the Geek Pantheon, where I do tabletop role playing game videos frequently.
00:57:14
Speaker
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00:57:43
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