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C2 Ep. 71 The Quick and the Quarrelsome Chapter One
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The crew finds themselves tapped for a job from an unsettling source.
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Episode Introduction and Patron Appreciation
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The following episode is brought to you by the generous donations
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Rebecca Gowman, and Shelby Johnson, as well as all of our generous patrons.
Host Introductions and Game Recap
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I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Flashbacks or flashbacks? I was about to say we solved a murder, but that was two times ago. Yeah. Yes, got some further insight into Milo and Hob.
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So obviously, you all with the Genesis have been earning XP every session, but I think some of you may have spent some experience between last session and this one. So does anybody have anything they want to share? Go ahead, Philip.
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That was Randy. Oh, I'm sorry, Randy. I have. So here's I'll share mine real quick. I woke up with a serious headache and I didn't open my eyes till about 10 minutes before we started recording. So I did not spend any extra. I'm looking at it right now.
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Well, I didn't have as much to spend for reasons, obviously, but I did bump up my nature lore and cool and vigilance. I went ahead and bumped those up. All right. I spent on a fourth tier talent called Not Today.
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Uh, where once per session I can spend a story point to save our vehicle from from destruction.
Character Developments and Mysterious Events
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Nice.
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OK, that sounds like it could come in very handy every now and again. I mean, there haven't been a lot of occasions where Tasha has been in danger of being destroyed, but it seems like a nice trick to have in my back pocket. Yes, it's like Tasha's do. And a lot of a lot of Genesis talents, especially the higher tier ones, are that way of like, I don't need it now, but it's going to be really cool when when I need it. OK, well, OK, so it has been about
00:03:21
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a week and a half since we last were with the party. So anything notable that you all have been up to? Obviously, Aeris and Olive went to check out Highwall. Milo, Hob, have you all been up to anything other than day-to-day work? Milo has
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been noticing that the scar on his head that it now almost continually black deep dark black shadowy wisp like continuously come out of it. Gross. That's alarming. Yeah I think it'd be safe to say that everybody's noticed that.
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Right. Like, honestly. Yeah. Well, I mean, he's but he's been mostly at home. So he hadn't been out a lot because. He's just a little concerned about it as well. I mean, it would occasionally it would, you know, be like that. But now it's almost a constant darkness just coming out. And that doesn't imply that it's necessarily evil. Eric. Does not necessarily imply that, no.
00:04:49
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No. You could forgive people for assuming, but it does not necessarily imply that Milo's got a demon living in his brain. It's trying to escape. OK, so. And the only reason it's that way is because that's kind of what the talent says in source. Yeah. Your your physical appearance changes over time due to your magic. Yeah.
00:05:19
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Um, okay. Uh, I did want to make a crafting check if I can. Yeah. Um, I would like to try and do some crafting to enchant Eris's goggles. Okay. Uh, and the, I'd like to invent an effect. This is not one that's in the book, but basically I'd like to make them capable of
00:05:47
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syncing up with Tasha's bird eyes, with the little crafted eyes and Tasha's bird chassis, so that she can use Tasha as a spy drone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we can do that. Difficulty for that effect. What would be the difficulty for that check?
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It would be one effect. So it should be. It should just be the standard hard difficult. OK. So then go for it. This. And one success, one triumph. Yes. A lot of dice like there was a lot of canceling going on. There really was the purple dice really did their work there. To cancel out a lot of that.
00:06:39
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Uh, okay, cool. So it worked, um, for the triumph. Always forget my options on the grasping this sort of thing. Well, I tell you what, can I add, this is not on the list, but can I use the triumph to say that I also rigged them up so that they, uh, function as night division goggles.
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Sure, yeah. You won't be imposed any setback dice for darkness. Yeah. On perception checks, sure. Cool. Okay. So in the interim with Eris and Olive attempting to find a space in Highwall, there was some initial, you know,
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push back to you all coming in. But you did eventually find a decently sized space that is going to require a lot of extreme home makeover work. So essentially it is a
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a stone box with a quarter of one of the walls missing just from being crashed in. But you know, there's some windows that are boarded over. It is a workable space that just you can get for very cheap. Olive has said that she will take care of the initial cost and then overhead once things get going, you all can have a discussion. So, but yeah, so that's what you found in Highwall.
Luca's Performance and Personal Struggles
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Okay, so, yes, Jeff. I have dumped some XP if you want to. Yeah, go for it. Okay, so, Hob did do something in the interim. I'll figure out what, some sort of finishing school. But basically there's a third tier talent where I can change two skills to career skills. Okay. And so I did that, so I got discounts on ranks in perception and charm.
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So I did that and I have just enough left over for my first tier four that I'm kind of looking for and I'll let you know if I. So additional things that have happened over the course of this week and a half. Eris, you went to go see Lucas show with Olive.
00:09:09
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It was wonderful, you know, great. And you got to go backstage and meet with Luca afterwards. Have a nice little chat. She did seem not out of sorts, just, there was clearly something weighing heavily on her mind when you spoke with her. If you would like to make a check real quick to see if you could have like,
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through conversation, gotten her to talk about it, you can, or not. Sure, what is that skill? When would you do that? Probably charm, maybe. Yeah, yeah, I would probably say charm. Two purple differences.
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I'm interested as a human. I get to grab one of our story points for free here. So I'm going to steal your story point and spend it on this. One success. You find out that in the wake of everything. Last week, the. Her.
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the contract that she had signed with Casa Faire was for her and Billy's services. And basically Casa came to her and said, no, Billy, no deal. So she is in jail. No. Okay.
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Um, so essentially her, uh, her big call up to the university district has been, uh, at least postponed. Uh, but yeah, so she is going to be operating at the diamond theater for some time more. Um, so, Hmm. He really hates that guy. It's Billy the dead guy or no.
00:11:16
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The dope we arrested. Doctor doped. OK. So. You all have.
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you are also contacted in the interim by Luca and informed that she is very happy that you decided to leave your contact information and that she gives you the time and date for the audition, which is in our interim. So we can do a downtime or a cold open to cover it in more detail if you want, or we can,
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just have you use a charm check or a performance check to see how well Hobb does in the audition.
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I don't know. Man, okay, I... Yeah. I mean, he's gonna blow it, which is probably best, because I don't know how I would actually really want to do this ultimately. But yeah, I'll do a charm. I'll do a charm roll. What's my difficulty? Well, you know, it's initial general audition, so it's just gonna be one purple difficulty, because, you know, you're up against everybody. And given the fact that...
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Luca recruited you. You can add a boost die since she wants you there. You're not just somebody walking off the street. OK, and you said average to purple, right? No, one purple, one purple. This is so dumb. I'm about to get cast in a play. Oh. One failure, one advantage and a triumph.
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OK, so the audition doesn't go well, but something does. Yeah, it's not terrible. What if what if one of the other what if the one of the other people auditioning is useful to you in some way, like for one of your other
00:13:29
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projects yeah that was my first thought too is he meets somebody at the audition it's just I don't know who but I don't have a lot of projects right now outside of working with yarn I was gonna say you're still working on the dentist thing
00:13:45
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Wasn't the audition for Goliath? So aren't there probably a lot of the unusual folk of Sharn there? That is true. OK, so there's that. The other possibility is that I end up hitting it off with the practical effects guy and we are able to really put a show on down in the cogs to invite people to come and.
00:14:09
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Coming to fly. Yeah, you can go hang out with those doofuses in the top half. You can come over here where we got Pyro, we got lasers, projection mapping. Oh, well, the final countdown plays. Well, I'm good with either of those. Which would you like to run with, Jeff?
00:14:32
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Now, I think that I think I like the Goliath angle. I think that are the the large large people angle. I think that what he does is he hangs out and everyone who didn't get the call back gets a little flyer about career opportunities with House of Dead. And being he would have done that anyway, being a triumph. Some of those fish bite. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll go ahead and say you can knock five off of your obligation. All right.
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with one good, you know what? I just spit that XP to upgrade my charm checks too,
Mysterious Meeting and Missing Reynard
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otherwise that would not have happened. I've XP well spent. Okay. One last thing, Milo, while you're out and about doing your collections, because the client still expects you to do your day job, I mean, if you're trying to avoid people because of your scar, maybe you have a nice hat. Just wear a hat? Yeah.
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Um, give me a perception check while you're out and about. I like the, the hat slowly inflate throughout the day. You have to burp the smoke out every now and then. Hang on, gotta bleed the hat. Um, easy difficulty, uh, Milo. One success, two advantage. So while you're
00:15:56
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Like, it's a week and a half, so you go out a couple days at least to, you know, go do your collections and things like that. Every time that you go out on different routes, hitting up different places, you realize you see Jason just, you know, maybe not like intensely staring at you, but like,
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He's like, you're going through the market. He's there buying something from a stall. You go to a blacksmith. He's testing out a weapon. Like he's not in every shop you go to, but just every route you spot Jason. He's about, he's out and about. Okay. Two advantage. What would you like to do with that?
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I'm trying to think of something involving Jason, but I can't really come up with anything. He has a heart attack and dies. Hey, that would work. I think that's like a three triumph. Yeah. I have something. OK, it's it. I think it will elicit more questions than provide answers, but it does provide something. One of the times when you're
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your scar kind of flares up and some smoke is produced out. You can feel it acting up. You get a brief flash where for mechanical terms, you have a brief flash of like detect magic where you can kind of see things emanating magical energy. And all of Jason is emanating magic. Like his whole form appears to be magical.
00:17:41
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I don't like that advantage. Let's let me think of something else. OK. Interesting. OK, so after the week and a half, you all received word from everybody's favorite halfling, Vigo Boromar, that he needs to have a chat with you all at the for sales. And so it says we'll meet at this time on this day.
00:18:11
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Philip, what's the Eberron equivalent of a Thursday? It's Weir. Weir? Weir. W-I-R. Okay, so I want you to meet on Weir just a little bit after two o'clock in the afternoon. What's two o'clock in Eberron, Philip?
00:18:35
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Oh, no, I'm wrong. They're starting the week on Sunday, so I was miscounting. It's Zor. Zor. OK. So you all, presumably, nobody's going to ghost Vigo, I'm assuming. And it's the 24th of Nim.
Confrontation with Solomon Callaway
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24th of Nim. There you go. Jeff didn't want to know based on that look.
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So one notable thing, as you all filter in, the agreed upon arrival time comes and goes and Reynard is nowhere to be found. He does not show up. Anybody that wants to can give me a perception check with a two purple difficulty. I have two successes. So Milo has failed, one failure, three advantage. Aeris two successes, Hob one success.
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So what you all notice, except for Milo, there is no one in the for sales except for you all, which, you know, might be weird, might not be. Sometimes there are those lulls in business. What strikes Harrison Hobb as odd is you kind of are looking around and waiting for Vigo to get there. And you look out the front windows of the for sales past the patio seating.
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There's nobody walking on the street now. Like people have stopped, like there's nobody passing in front of the windows. Is there any evident like blockage out the road? Nothing, like no evidence of anything that would be impeding people's ability to walk. Cool. Milo, three advantage. So you don't notice this, but you notice something else? You remember something else?
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Um, how about a crud, the owner for sales, often, um, could I possibly notice if often seems concerned about anything or if he just thinks everything's just normal. Is there any concern showing on his face? If there is, that's good advantage. Maybe.
00:20:59
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Um, yeah, I'll say, yeah, often seems confused and concerned. He's like looking out the window and like kind of turning his head back and forth, trying to figure out what's going on. Uh, so this often does not seem okay with what's going on. Um, after 20 seconds after this perception check, um, a couple of figures you walk in to before sales, uh, to.
00:21:29
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humans wearing very nice sharn equivalent of three-piece suits. And they hold the door for a large imposing figure who enters the four sails. And you all have seen him at various times, I believe? Yes, you all saw him when you went to
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disrupt Norcen's grand experiment. You see a very large bald headed man. Solomon Callaway is the name that you had heard from Verla as being this new player in sharn life. About as wide as the double doorframe leading into the for sales. And he just
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regards all of you and, let's have a chat. And he turns to Ulfin, I'll have something, whatever you have ready that's quick. And Ulfin kind of nods and runs back into the kitchen. And Solomon goes and takes a seat at one of the larger tables that can accommodate all of you.
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just milo goes and takes a seat yeah hob goes over there and you know just because he doesn't typically sit anyway i think what hob wants to do is stand and see the reaction and if the if if if sauman is looking at him like i said sit down he's going to sit but otherwise so if you'd like me to roll to see
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or not. Eris. Eris, you know, does a quick running of her hands over her stuff, saying that everything's in place and then comes over and sits down. Okay.
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Uh, very quickly out of the kitchen, often produces, um, a plate of food, um, large swordfish steak with some veggies and places in front of salmon. And he begins cutting into it and he, he doesn't, you don't get any vibes off of him. Hob about you standing near the table. You came over. So that seems to have satisfied whatever impulse. Um, so.
00:24:22
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You all have been dabbling in my business for some time, it would appear. And I suppose curiosity has got the better of me in wondering why. He takes a bite of the swordfish steak. That's what he had quick laying around. Office prepared.
00:24:53
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Remind me, I know you just said it, I apologize. Do we know much about what this guy's business is? No, you've just seen him at, like, Milhatch's lab, the big gala event that was showing off, uh, Herbahn's tech. I think Hobb says, Well, with respect, sir, I'm unfamiliar with your business. I can't tell you
00:25:21
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why we've been around it if I don't know what to do, sir. That's fair. Um, that knowledge may be above your pay grade a little bit. So, um, are we supposed to answer that question? If knowing what your business is, is above your pay grade, are we supposed to answer the question? Jeez. I wasn't sure how informed you were.
00:25:53
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So I was attempting to gauge it through a question and now I have that answer. Milhatch Industries is partially my business and your dealings with that has been disruptive.
Kyber Shard Heist Proposition
00:26:13
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So. Hob thinks good. We're trying to disrupt them. So I have come to collect on the bill.
00:26:22
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It could always stop murdering and killing. It could always stop kidnapping and murdering people, and then we'd probably stop interfering. Right. I do believe the only thing that we stopped from happening was the kidnapping of several shifters. And while I- They were most certainly being murdered. Right, sorry, as a nozzle. Hey, who are you mad at here? Hang on. Everyone, all the time. Right. So,
00:26:54
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I can't rightly apologize for that, but I'm not sure how we have any recompense to you for saving some lives. As you finish that thought, Hob, you hear the little ding ding ding front door of the Moore sales open and Vigo comes storming in. And he looks at you all and then looks at Callaway. He says, okay, I don't know what is going on in here. Oh, that's interesting. And I don't know who you are.
00:27:23
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I'm hard. I'm not talking to you, I know. These folks operate for the clan and this is clan territory, not your territory. And Viggo is like walking over to the table while saying this. Eris is suffering from an enormous cognitive dissonance here because she had already slouched into, oh, Viggo called us this stupid meeting and then this tot shows up. And so obviously Viggo's, yeah.
00:27:54
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Paris doesn't know what to do with this. Hop trying to clock if he can just start backing up and let these two take care of each other. So, I don't know what business you might have with them, but your business goes through me first. And at the finish of that sentence, he has arrived at the table and Salman Callaway, no, it's like, and you are, I am Viggo Boromar, lieutenant of the Boromar clan.
00:28:23
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And as Vigo is saying this, Callaway reaches out and grabs Vigo by the back of the neck and picks him up and slams him face first down on the table. We can do that? We can do this the whole time? And you just see blood kind of splatter on the table as Vigo falls backwards, knocked out, not dead, but his nose is just busted open. Milo stands up, wand in hand.
00:28:52
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And Callaway just calmly looks over at Ulf and Kamli. Wherever you dispose of your trash, you can take him. And Ulf and kind of very confused.
00:29:13
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Uh, gestures like audio medium. She's like shaking her head at an orphan and just sort of gesturing towards the back. Uh, often comes over and picks up Vigo's body and takes him through the back door, just into the back, uh, area of the storage area. There is puts her hand in her pocket and wraps her fist around one of her bombs. Apologies for the interruption.
00:29:45
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So that, um, was quite rude. I agree. We were having a conversation that we were actually here to meet with. What are you meeting with me now? Um, I think, I think Hob, no, no, he nevermind. I was going to wait. As I was saying, I've come to collect on the bill for
00:30:12
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financial disruptions that have occurred due to your interference. So I have something that I need you all to go acquire for me and then I will consider the bills settled. Listen, I understand that you came in here showing some strengths or
00:30:35
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Frankly, I'm not sure if picking up a boar bar and slamming on the ground is a little creature show of strength or lack of judgment. But I'm having a hard time figuring out why we owe you anything. He nods to one of the two individuals that came in with him. I was concerned that it wouldn't be this simple, so, and...
00:31:03
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guy reaches into his pocket and places something in Calloy's hand and he plays the land table and lifts his hand up and you see Raynard's signature dagger that he carries with him. Oh, you got the wrong read of this group, my man. While that's taking place, Milo would like to cast a spell in an attempt to pick up one of his
00:31:33
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guys and slam him face first into the ground. Okay. Well, okay. Here we go. So, well, I mean, as much as Milo doesn't care for Vigo, he's still. Um, okay. So, um, go ahead and cast the spell. Um, you are short range away.
00:32:00
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What would be the difficulty that's based on the spell? Well, I just made that spell up. OK, so there's probably something here. Hold on. I thought you had a spell prepped already. Can can Milo do this completely undetectably? So we hold the gods. How about how about there is one that's called knockdown and disorient? Would that work?
00:32:31
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Yeah. Yeah. That's the attack spell with the impact, uh, condition added to it. Um, so at short difficulty, that is going to be, uh, average difficulty on the check. Um, so to purple. Yes.
00:32:54
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OK, so Milo flicks his wand and this giant black fist just comes shooting out. Zero success, one advantage. Dang it, bollocks. I'm fine with that. Oh, well, the black. I mean, the the attack fails. The spell does not. It's not a giant black fist comes flying out. Never mind.
00:33:20
Speaker
Could I say with the advantage that the fist just goes up and does not do any damage or anything? Well, you failed to sell, so it wouldn't do. Yeah. And it and it just stops short. Oh, OK. And an intimidation tactic of sort. Yeah. With the advantage. OK, so giant black shadowy fist comes flying out of my list. Yeah. Unprepared for that. Eris throws herself back from the table and grabs the Fletcher and brings it up. OK.
00:33:49
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because apparently we're fighting. That's what it looks like in here. That's what it looks like, yes. So the guy that was left standing back there, not the one bringing the dagger up, kind of like reacts and then the fist stops and Callaway looks at Milo confused, like,
00:34:21
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To what end? Well, I mean, we do work for the Boromaz and I feel like, you know, I have to show you that we could defend ourselves and hurting one of ours is, you know, might not be a good idea. I don't know who you are. Obviously, you believe you're someone of power and strength and that's fine, but
Mission Details and Team's Plan
00:34:48
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you know, we won't be, at least I won't be simply walked over and I don't believe my friends will be either. It's a noble stance to take. Loyalty to your employer. Seeing something like that happen to them, but professional advice. The winds are changing in this city, so maybe the Boromar aren't the
00:35:18
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sturdiest ship to tie yourself to. I use a maneuver to aim. OK, I'm just declaring it at time. I don't know what's about to happen. The the fist evaporates. I would would it.
00:35:40
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Philip, you can you can you can tell me, I mean, Harrison Hobb have this relationship where Hobb could put his hand on top of the crossbow and lower it. I'm sorry, Fletcher. Fletcher. Your gun, Philip. No guns. Your magic gun. Milo sits back down. Yeah, yes, I agree that Hobb and Iris have the kind of relationship where we're not getting mad. And I think Hobb attempts that. Yeah.
00:36:08
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then you lose your boost diaries. And then says, and then says, so this is you telling us you've what, kidnapped Reynard's turn veil? I'm just telling you that I have leverage in this situation, and currently,
00:36:38
Speaker
You all have made yourselves, knowingly or not, enemies of me and my estate. I am giving you the opportunity to write that. If you wish to continue the current relationship that we have, that's fine. What will happen to Reynard if we don't? Well, I'm certainly not going to kill him. So I suppose I will give up that much at least. I won't kill him. Everything but, but I won't kill him.
00:37:15
Speaker
So what is your task? Thank you. House of the Rashk has a large shipment of Kyber shards that they have in a warehouse that they're going to be shipping out of the city. I want the Kyber shards. Simple. Of course.
00:37:36
Speaker
Hob is... Frankly, it seems like it'd be easier to take down this person's organization than get a bunch of cyber charge maps thrashed. It might just be easier to deal with this right now. Eris is now looking for Hob to call the... Call the play. Yeah, um...
00:38:07
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shipment is due to occur tomorrow afternoon, so the Kyber Shards won't be mobile until tomorrow morning. So between now and then they'll be sitting in a warehouse and then they have a multi-hour journey across the city where anything could happen. So I would leave it up to your professional judgment as the best way to obtain them, but I have a warehouse that I want them dropped off at.
00:38:36
Speaker
Well, as much as I don't like it, I certainly don't want anything to happen to Raynard. I question Mr. Callaway. When you decided to send us on a stealthy thieving mission,
00:39:00
Speaker
You seem to know quite a bit about us, but you did manage to take off the game board, the... our- our- our- our- our specialist thief. Um... I'll be Frank. We need Raynard for this. And I'll be Frank. He is unavailable.
00:39:26
Speaker
I'm sure you can find someone else if you really need another person to assist. And that is the one thing our NPC roster does not have is a backup thief. That's interesting. Well, Mr. Callaway, you seem to have a number of people in your employ. We don't have a thief any longer.
00:39:52
Speaker
Are you willing to send one of your men? I just, I feel this is an academic question. I've. This is Eris is staring at you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to say this. Hobb doesn't want to do this. Hobb wants to find out where Raynard is and get him.
00:40:23
Speaker
No, I don't like that line. Take back everything I said. Jeez. We could go get Ace. It's true. Ace, Ace. One of the... Oh, Ace. Lower Dura. You know where to find him. The lone wolf himself. Cat burglar extraordinaire.
00:40:46
Speaker
He did say that he's more into locks than Burgles, so. He just unlocks things and leaves them. I did it. He's just a prankster and just goes around. You think you locked your door and then you come back and it's unlocked. Nothing's missing. Frankly, that would mess with me more than anything. Oh, yeah. No, that'd be outstanding psychological. It's been 15 minutes just walking through your house, checking stuff. The door's unlocked and one thing is moved and nothing is missing.
00:41:20
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Your clock is an hour off I Mean he can provide somebody he can provide a specialist. Yeah, I don't really want him to do that I don't want to work with somebody. I just trying to gauge how he's got someone watching us and
00:41:45
Speaker
I'm doing an internal audit of how much of my feeling right now is Hobb not wanting to do this for Callaway and how much it's Jeff not wanting Eric to get his way with another NPC like this. We haven't had to deal with someone like this in a while. No, we haven't. It just seems like... We could give Ace a shot.
00:42:12
Speaker
We can have that conversation when the villain is, when the kingpin is not in the room. I know. I mean, my biggest thing is
00:42:28
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Vigo's a shifty little turd anyway, and he just got his butt handed to him by this guy, and then we're gonna do a job for him, and Vigo's gonna be like, no, I understand. Yeah, sure, of course, yeah. I think we probably need to have a conversation with our employer. But again, we need to get this guy out of the bar.
00:42:50
Speaker
I know. So this guy is saying that he that the the shards are docked for the night and leave in the morning and several hours journey. Yeah. Did he say where they are, Doc? They are docked over on. You know, I think I think I think I think he says this seems like a.
00:43:17
Speaker
Mighty difficult endeavor, mighty large debt you seem to think that we have to you, and I'll be frank, I don't know that we've done much to your organization besides, as previously stated, saving innocent lives. So I'm confused as to why you think we owe you such a difficult task. Well, the surveillance stones in Milhatch's first lab that
00:43:46
Speaker
Uh, several of you were caught on camera. All, all of you were caught on camera, uh, being involved in disrupting Norse and mill hatches, uh, experiment shortly after I left the building, um, causing not only financial loss in the equipment that was destroyed, but also structural damage when your boat crashed through one of the walls of the building.
00:44:11
Speaker
Um, there was also the financial loss of the failure of the event to show off, uh, Herban's new energy source, which, uh, Yutu and he gestures at, uh, Eris and Milo were seen, uh, on surveillance in the tech rooms working or working on something, um, and in the docking area. So, uh, yeah, there have been two very,
00:44:41
Speaker
high profile instances of significant financial loss. There's no insurance in shard? It seems. You know how that even if he got the insurance he would still want. Oh I see you're sitting on a suicide mission because your premiums went up. Cool Callaway.
00:45:08
Speaker
And we were always being surveilled that have done something about it. All right, well, who do you have stationed at the docks? Yeah, talking to Callaway. Yeah. Oh, I have a couple street level tufts on my payroll just to keep an eye on things there. Report back to me, but they're
00:45:33
Speaker
Not good for much other than their eyes being perfectly honest. You don't have someone inside at the dock of the large score that you want taken? No.
00:45:55
Speaker
I think I was just trying to impress upon him that like, you can't just come and ask more people to do something like this without any pre planning like, um, a man of your evident influence. Um,
00:46:13
Speaker
I assumed you would have known that it's standard to have at least one person on the inside for something like this. And I'm confused as to how you expect anyone to complete this job without such arrangements. I know what's standard and I know what is expected. House of the Rashki is a tough nut to crack, so to speak. There's a certain level of loyalty there. However, if I had people on the inside, I wouldn't need you
00:46:47
Speaker
I have information for you. Like I said, people have been observing, people have been noting. It's a large shipment of Carver shards. You will either need to commandeer one of the vehicles in the warehouse or use something of your own making to tow the shipment, for lack of a better word, to the warehouse. It's not a single crate that you just need to snatch up.
00:47:20
Speaker
to create flashes the entire time it's in transit. It makes large whooping noises to alert local city guard. Nothing such as that, fortunately. I mean, I'm with Philip. We need to get him out of the bar so we can talk to our, who's not our superior at this point, but now Ace is the only person below us. My connections will be beneficial in this, in that,
00:47:52
Speaker
in the district surrounding, which it's in the precarious district in Lower Dura. In that district, you will not have to concern yourself with any members of the City Watch looking about. And also along the route that we've discovered that Tharashk intends to transport the shipment.
00:48:20
Speaker
City Watch will not be present. Obviously, House agents may or may not be there, but Sharon City Watch will not be of your concern. It's safe to say that Callaway is under no illusion we're not taking this job, right? Like he thinks- Yeah, I mean, without a check, you can get the level of arrogance that resides in this person is that if you were to refuse him, it's only because you're too stupid to know better.
00:48:47
Speaker
is kind of the vibe that you're getting off of him. Right, but also refusing him is not an option. I mean, like... I mean, you could, like, obviously you could refuse him. He is just going to take it poorly. But yes, the vibe you're getting off of him is he is not viewing this as an actual negotiation. It is him telling you what needs to happen. I think Hob just says,
00:49:17
Speaker
Well, it sounds as though there's a lot of discussing to be done among the four of us, three of us, whoever else is here. And we need no way to get in contact with your street tops who've been watching the boat. Very well.
00:49:45
Speaker
He gestures to the one that Milo almost magically punched and comes over and hands a small slip of paper. Here's their information. And he puts it on the table.
Consultation with Satan and Strategy Formulation
00:49:56
Speaker
And there are a couple names and addresses on it. How many? I don't know. Is it by number or by volume, by mass? How does one measure a Kiber shard hole?
00:50:16
Speaker
I assume the size of the crate would be the relevant factor here. Mostly since we're gonna have to tow it. Yeah. Large, very large.
00:50:27
Speaker
but that's all he knows is a large crate. Oh, I mean, he, yeah, I mean, it's the equivalent of the back part of a smallish U-Haul. Look, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, Eric, because I feel like we're the sort of friends that can be this way. I want to know if some, if we do this, if someone would notice if maybe some Kyber shorts fell off the truck.
00:50:54
Speaker
Gotcha.
00:51:06
Speaker
Wanna make sure we get it all to you, boss. I would assume measurement is gonna be in bulk here, not in the number of Kyber shards in the crate. That's essentially what I'm asking. Yeah, by weight, essentially. So, no, I mean, in a shipment the size that he is kind of elucidated, it would definitely, even on Tharashksoin, be measured by volume.
00:51:32
Speaker
as opposed to an individual count of each shard. So, yeah. What are we talking here? Are we at a kilograms kind of joint? Is this a pounds place? Are we at a stone? Stones and hands. That's how we measure everything. I think I've said meters and feet and miles and. Oh, so we're England. Yeah, yes. All right.
00:52:05
Speaker
Um, Mr. Callaway, with all due respect, um... I would like for this to be... Hmm, how does he say this?
00:52:25
Speaker
Really interested in not bothering you further. If you'd like to go ahead and give us the drop-off point when you expect it. Who is our contact at the drop-off point? Hobbs is trying to get as much information about what this guy, where this guy might be, what this guy's doing, where Raynard might be by through that. What he was going to say initially was, I don't want to have to talk to you again until this is done, but that seems a little combative for Hobbs.
00:52:54
Speaker
So yeah, he's giving you the contact information of the eyes on the docks in Lower Dura in the warehouse district. He then further tells you that, he gives you the address of the warehouse where he wants everything dropped off, which is in Hogs Gate. So everything's happening below us, below where we already know.
00:53:23
Speaker
The Cogs Gate is in lower Tavics Landing, so it's on the same level. It's not in the Cogs. As though it is the gate to the Cogs? Yes. I'm with you. As it were. So there will be somebody there waiting for you. I don't know when you all intend to do this job, if it will be it in the middle of the night tonight or tomorrow during the day.
00:53:53
Speaker
It will be dependent on that who is there. Um, so, but there will be people expecting you at the warehouse. Uh, Raynard. Raynard is under my protection. He'll be fine. And once I receive word that the shipment has been delivered, uh, he will probably be back here before you all. No worse for wear.
00:54:25
Speaker
Right now, I imagine he's having quite a wonderful time. No, I would give him a nice meal. I mean, he's not a puppy. He understands that he's been kidnapped. He is comfortable for the time being. Puppies are cute.
00:54:54
Speaker
if there's nothing else. And he stands up from the table. Very well. And he turns to go leave. How many guys were with him just? Two individuals entered the restaurant with him. Two human males in very nice suits.
00:55:26
Speaker
All right, once he's clear of the door, and we hear the ding-a-ling-a-ling, Hub says, look, I hope you don't think that my asking questions was indicative of my desire to do this for this man. I think we need to wake up Sleeping Beauty and let Vigo know what's going on. What if?
00:55:56
Speaker
I just, you know, what if? Since Vigo's incapacitated, you know, we went and talked to someone we didn't actively want to choke on his own blood and die. Milo, can you get us an audience with Satan?
00:56:17
Speaker
I think it would be best if we deal with Viggo first. Why? In what circumstances has it been better for us to deal with Viggo? Because he is the person that we like it or not have to answer to.
00:56:38
Speaker
Right. It happens to be unconscious right now. I feel like that's a perfect excuse for why we had to go up the wrong. If I may, I believe that Satan will understand why we chose not to speak to Vigo moments after he'd been embarrassed about the man that embarrassed him. And he's unconscious. What could we do? We couldn't sit around and wait. None of us are doctors. My fear is that we're Satan. How about this?
00:57:09
Speaker
We don't leave Viggo here. Oh, no, we should not leave Viggo here. No, no, yeah, sure. Let's carry him to Seiden. Counterpoint. Let's see if we can revive him and then just take him to Seiden. No, I mean, which of us is good at that? No, we should...
00:57:29
Speaker
areas it might be an opportunity for you to throw cold water on his face and startle him awake. That's not what I want, throw on his face. No I just- I think it would be best to let him sleep. Throw cold acid on his face. Wait no baby steps, baby steps. Therefore we do not have to deal with him. Very hot water.
00:57:51
Speaker
Well, I mean, Hobb knows what this means. Milo's not offering to carry vegos. Toss him in Torsha. Yeah, that's what Torsha would fly up to the meat packery. Like Hobb just hopes.
00:58:08
Speaker
Hob goes in there and Viggo's still unconscious, is that legit? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Hob's gonna huck him up on his shoulder and hope that he doesn't wake up while he's being carried like a sack of potatoes because Hob's afraid that he might have to knock him out again and hope he forgets he woke up.
00:58:27
Speaker
No, you pick him up. And it is pure debt. I mean, not only is there a broken nose, it's like all of the concussions like he is just out, out cold. So he is limp on your shoulder. As we're walking out, Eric says, I just want to ask. Only thing anybody saw was that a limp Vigo was carried out of the room. So what if we arrived
00:58:56
Speaker
was terrible, terrible news about what had happened to his nephew. I, I'm afraid that, um, Satan may rely on, on, on, on class loyalty over affection and choose to believe the word of someone like Solomon Callaway as to what he actually did to Vigo.
00:59:26
Speaker
He's a big guy. He could misjudge his own strength. Hob's offended. First off, rude. Just a big dumb idiot. I think, I think, I think, um,
00:59:56
Speaker
Hobbs has something akin to, though I can't say for certain if my past corroborates this, and I can't promise I won't renege on it in the future, but I don't like the idea of killing an incapacitated man. We're not great, but we're better than that. He says, crossing his fingers. Okay, are we heading up?
01:00:26
Speaker
I guess. Yeah. Um, you all arrive. Hop asks Harris if Tasha can fly in a circle around Viggo's head because he thinks it'd be hilarious. Yeah, little twitty birds. You all arrive at Boromar HQ without incident. Are you all just going to carry Viggo's body in through the front door and
01:00:54
Speaker
We need to see Satan or what's the play? I think we should leave him in Tasha. No, he's going to bleed on Tasha.
01:01:04
Speaker
No, he's gonna wake up and take Tasha. No, I think Hobb... You know what it's like to get blood out of wood? Hobb gives him a couple... Hobb gives him a couple of pants. Tries to wake him up. If he doesn't get up, Hobb will pick him up and carry him into the... Yeah, I mean... Okay. I cannot imagine a better Gideon quick access card than an unconscious lieutenant draped over my shoulder. Okay, you walk in. There's a halfling behind the front desk, Gregory, who...
01:01:34
Speaker
kind of absent my looks up and then eyes go wise like, what happened? We need to see Satan, please. Yeah, I'll go let him know. And Gregory gets up and rushes to the door and Satan himself comes through the door with Gregory and kind of
01:02:01
Speaker
Let's go back to my office. Come on. Bring him. Well, yeah. I'll props him up behind reception. A pair of sunglasses. Greg needs a lunch break. As you all enter, Satan goes and sits down behind his desk.
01:02:32
Speaker
Hello. Yes, one word, Callaway. I feel like there should be more words. Yeah, two more words. Did it. What if we just have a conversation instead of declaring how many words we're going to use before we speak? God, that was a lot of words. I understand what you're saying. Listen, sir.
01:03:02
Speaker
Salmon Calloway came to the foresales today under the auspices of forcing our crew to do a job saying that we owe him for damages because of the things we've done for you and then they absolutely rocked Vigo just
01:03:23
Speaker
just slammed him into the table. I don't know what he's really trying not to laugh. Cause he thinks Satan gets it enough. I mean, he just really wrong his bill. I mean, look at him and he's over there. Just look. Aris has a very different context for this sort of interaction because Aris is thinking of, um, tribal conflicts that she observed among various factions in Dargun. Uh, and so Aris,
01:03:53
Speaker
doesn't think Satan will find this funny at all. And so, Eris is staring in horror at Hob's levity. Bro, I'm fully aware Hob is probably wrong. But once he started saying it, the giggle fit started to happen. Like, it was just... Because he saw it again when it happened in his head. He bounced a little. It was... Oh, God. Oh, he's okay. Is he okay?
01:04:25
Speaker
And after you've all been in there for a couple of seconds, then Satan's wife actually comes in. Milo, you would recognize her. All of you would recognize her. You were at the party. And she is an heir of House Drasko, so she begins looking over Vigo while your conversation is going on.
01:04:58
Speaker
Well, that's quite, quite the happening, I suppose. Point of memory here, Eric. I know that our first negative encounter with, well, the first thing that Callaway's mad at us about was us moonlighting, but the
01:05:24
Speaker
The second thing with the gala, that really was a Boromar job, right? Yes. Yeah. OK. We were moonlighting in that first. Yeah, that was all of. Oops. I'm just I'm saying that before we mention it. Yeah. And the third, he didn't bring it up, but the shifter thing was also clean business. So. Callaway is
01:05:55
Speaker
a new and somewhat unknown entity. So as awful as it is that this has happened to my nephew, it is another piece of the puzzle that me and the other established organizations in Charn can use to begin painting a full picture of who Solomon Callaway is and what he does.
01:06:21
Speaker
Well, he seems to think that he will be totally taking over at some point. He acts like he is very large and he is very large and in charge. Astutely put, Milo. And there's shards on the barge. This...
01:06:48
Speaker
And did you all explain what the job is that he wants you to do? I mean, I'd like to play that instead of just- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he says, what he's asked us to do is infiltrate a
01:07:10
Speaker
thrash shipment of kyber shards, apparently a significant amount of them, and then Faerith said significant amount through the streets of Sharn to a warehouse for him. Oh, and as extra incentive, he has a Raynard. Our, what's the word, stealing guy.
01:07:37
Speaker
Yeah, would've made sense to, if he was gonna use one of you as collateral to take somebody else and leave the thief to
Heist Preparations and Team Coordination
01:07:46
Speaker
do the thieving, but, not that I would want any of you taken by Callaway, that was just me thinking out, you understand. I, as your,
01:08:10
Speaker
as the person that runs the organization that you are affiliated with. Well, I do not love the idea of you performing such a high risk job for someone else to profit. This is actually a good opportunity. Because Callaway wants you to deliver this to his warehouse where presumably he has
01:08:39
Speaker
Lots of other things. And you think I should put a bomb in the shipment? No, I misread that. I'm sorry. No, I want I want the location of that warehouse. I won't be sending you all on a return mission because that would be too
01:09:06
Speaker
incriminating for yourselves and dangerous. So we'll use that information with some of our other teams. But no, I can use my existing influence within the city to try and make the job go smoother for you. I'm glad you brought that up, because it was going to be my next question. Now that it seems as though there are benefits to us doing this, to the clan,
01:09:36
Speaker
What resources of the clan might we be able to expect? And we've got to have like cops on the take, right? Or not we, Satan. Oh, yeah. I mean, I think every criminal organization has some right on the take. But did you tell him what Solomon said about the city watch? And I'll be frank, I forgot what I didn't write it down. I'm sorry. The watch would not be.
01:10:02
Speaker
the watch would essentially not be there. Yeah. Either along the route that the shipment is supposed to take or around the warehouse. That's exactly right. That's probably why the idea was in my head to ask him how we could get the watch off the route because I knew that it had already been said. So did we did we tell Satan that? Yeah, I think I think so. Yes. I'm wondering if we could get his blessing to pull like a
01:10:32
Speaker
Oh, not the peer lads. They're not thievy. They're scavengers, right? The scavengers are the ravens. That's right. Your lads are. I think we're the thieves, though. Yeah, I think the black lamps are the thieving. Yeah, I know. And I know there's other black lamps. We just haven't met any of them. The perhaps the the peer lads facilitate smuggling, though. So just.
01:11:00
Speaker
As a mechanical reality, Eris is actually not a bad thief. I think I actually match Reynard in Skullduggery ranks, and I think my cunning is higher than his. So Eris is not actually a bad thief. Eris is not stealthy. I think Reynard and Eris have the same problem of getting in their own way when they're trying to be stealthy, so. Yeah.
01:11:29
Speaker
so I mean Milo might be the stealthiest but I mean one of us being stealthy is not really very useful on this kind of job no no it's kind of we're okay we are not stealthy so we're going to have to steal this and run not yeah let's not pad the rosters in let's go let's let's play small ball what's the uh
01:11:49
Speaker
no weapons no defenses just speed 71 so do we have so we have a notion of the size of this object of this thing we're stealing yes right yeah this great so i presume that this being sharn it's constructed in such a way that it
01:12:11
Speaker
it hovers, it provides its own lift and is simply towed. So weight is not a substantial part of the problem here. So we could tow this with Tasha.
01:12:21
Speaker
Yes, it it will. It will hover like Tasha would. OK. However, it does still have. Yeah, it has mass. I know. Yeah. If you're whipping around all over the place, you might. Yeah. Listen, look, we've all watched the film. I've seen I've seen that movie. We've all been to Brazil with with Dom and the gang.
01:12:45
Speaker
You need two boats attached to one shipment. You need two boats, six trucks, zero regard for human life. And a car that goes to space. Okay. I really gotta watch these movies. You do. They're fantastic. They're so good and stupid. I think I've seen maybe a couple of them.
01:13:07
Speaker
They get, there's no time for this. Don't judge the later ones. It's just elsewhere. Don't judge the later ones by the early ones. The early ones were somewhat grounded in reality and they're not nearly as fun. First one was point break with street racing and then it just escalated.
01:13:27
Speaker
Uh, I figure Eris probably needs part of the day. This is tomorrow afternoon is when tomorrow afternoon is when the transport is happening or it will be stationary during the night. So we have, we have a 24 hour period. Eris is going to need to somehow attach a towing rig to Tasha at some point in the interim. So I think that's probably what, so yeah, we're talking about resources.
01:13:53
Speaker
So do we want to attempt it at night, or do we want to attempt it during the day, during its movement? I mean, we definitely need to discuss that, but Philip, did you have something you need to ask Satan about that? Do you have a...
01:14:09
Speaker
You have a facility where I could do some work on our vessel. If we're gonna steal this I need to attach a towing rig to it and it's... I don't have a garage at this point. Of course. We actually have a...
01:14:30
Speaker
garage directly below this building. So if you take your boat one level down, you'll see a large door. I'll let them know to expect you. In terms of additional resources, depending on the timing will be dependent on when you all intend to go into action. But what I can do is let leak
01:14:59
Speaker
We have some contacts that can get information to Dask that maybe there is some lucrative opportunity to hit the thrash warehouses. And so
01:15:17
Speaker
there could be a distraction for any house agents that may be coming after you having to deal with our enemies in the Dask organization and get a few Dask members killed in the interim. Win, win, win. You know, we could always just steal the truck. And not- Torsha will fly better than the truck.
01:15:50
Speaker
Sure. If we're getting chased, we're going to have a better chance of dealing with that in Tasha than when we're in a different truck. Given Hobb's history, would Hobb suggest you could just steal a truck? Hobb knows this truck would likely be running already.
01:16:13
Speaker
It was not the, the main wick, sticky wicket of the theft was getting it running. I'm fully, I'm fully confident that Aeris could get it moving again if it's already going. And that I can, I can extract one driver and one passenger from said truck pretty easily.
01:16:32
Speaker
Yes. And if the crate is already connected, we will have to take the time to unhook it. If we. But still, Tasha would be much better than the truck. Did, did, did, did, uh, did someone know the
01:16:51
Speaker
Oh no, because he didn't do any prelim work. The route it would be taking. Yeah, he told me that. Yeah, he did, because he's cleared the cops off of it. Right. Well, I figured he'd cleared the cops off of a route to his warehouse. No, he's cleared the route they were going to take on the shipping, is what he said. And we have the address of the warehouse, so we know the closest point the route gets to the warehouse, right? What is that distance, Eric?
01:17:20
Speaker
Cogsgate is because I mean if we're if we're uh if there's at some point where we're within a quarter mile of the warehouse it seems silly not to hit it there. Well except at that point it will be attached to a big old truck and in motion and Cogsgate is adjacent to Terminus which is where the lightning rail station is where presumably if it were being loaded onto a lightning rail for long distance transportation that
01:17:47
Speaker
That that is where the route that he told you it would be ending up. So. So Eris thinks we should hit it tonight. I think we should. Yeah, I think we should try to steal the shipment. I'm totally down to try and. Take it in route, I think that would be a killer scene. I don't know what it's going to look like, because I don't know what kind of protection it's got while it's in route.
01:18:17
Speaker
That's a good point. We don't know how many guards are going to be around it. Just because there's no cops doesn't mean whatever they've hired. Yeah, they really could just have overwhelming force. I just don't know. And we don't have that option. So yeah, you're probably right. We probably ought to take it before it leaves the dock.
01:18:47
Speaker
Do you think possibly it would be wise to take it to the warehouse another route? I mean, I understand the route is clear, nobody watching, but would it be wise for us to follow that route as that's the route they want to take it on?
01:19:15
Speaker
Yeah, no, I think I don't think once it's in our possession, I think the interest of knowing the route was to so that we could plan if we wanted to steal it on route. I don't think we were ever planning on using the same route to get to the the Callaway warehouse. Satan, do you know what? Do you know anything? Do we have a source on Sarash security protocols?
01:19:42
Speaker
I mean, obviously as a house that is largely there, MO is security. So I would assume that you would be looking at individuals providing security force as opposed to magical implementation to prevent you from accessing the shards or anything like that. Especially since Thrash
01:20:11
Speaker
largely speaking, it would be less likely that they would enlist the help of Kundarak or somebody else to provide additional security, just given the interworkings of the 12. So, no, I think you could reasonably expect that you would be breaking through security with fists as opposed to lockpicks. And what about en route?
01:20:34
Speaker
Do you know what they use to guard? Has Housebormar ever hit a shipment before? Do you know what they're-? It's a balancing act. We face the same thing when we're transporting goods, where you don't want enough security to draw attention, but you want enough to protect it from anybody who may know what's going on. So I wouldn't anticipate there being
01:21:01
Speaker
six boats full of Kunderak or Tharashk is ready to jump you as soon as you get within a city block of it. But at the same time, I wouldn't expect that to just be a driver and somebody in the passenger seat. So having, having read the reports of URLs antics in the past, probably not anything you couldn't handle, but certainly not a walk in the park. Well,
01:21:31
Speaker
Now in the warehouse, once again, if it's in the middle of the night, overnight security forces, once again, kind of the same thing, nothing that you all wouldn't be able to handle. But certainly I think it would be, the security around the shipment would be greater in the warehouse than in transit. But obviously attaining it in transit is logistically more difficult.
01:21:59
Speaker
Once again, these are decisions that I have to make all the time, and there's never a click of right one. I mean, Aeris looks hard. I haven't worked in a well-stocked workshop in a long time. I could probably make something. Hob loves hearing that. Hob loves Aeris' gadgets. He doesn't understand them. They scare him a little bit, but that's part of the appeal.
01:22:31
Speaker
as Philip goes to grab his book. One must tinker. So if you all want to brainstorm or figure out what your plan of attack is,
01:22:47
Speaker
feel free to use our facilities here to do so. Just inform me of when I need to arrange some distractions for you all. But I do have some other business that I need to attend to. So if you don't mind, just let Gregory know when you're ready to let me know and I'll clear some space for you. At any point during all of this, has Vigo started like mumbling things?
01:23:17
Speaker
Well, they eventually, um, Satan's wife had some other people come in and cart him out to go somewhere else to be taken care of. Oh, right. Well, uh, thank you, sir. Um, Hob, no, Hob doesn't call him Satan. Not yet. He's waiting. Uh, thank you, sir. Um, and
01:23:46
Speaker
We'll do our, no. I have one last question. The facility downstairs, is there any store of Dragon Shard material here? A lot of the things that I build rely on that. That would be a question for our quarter master who is down there. I don't know. Sorry, below your pay grade, understands.
01:24:18
Speaker
Have you got any meat lying around? Of course! You don't need a quartermaster for that one, do you? A brisket is produced. Satan's got that inventory down to the meatball.
01:24:38
Speaker
pull a large drawer out of his desk. And so like, you know, no, you see the file drawer, the cold vapor comes up. He has a freezer.
Episode Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:24:48
Speaker
He has one of those pocket door, one of those pocket door spice racks. But when he pulls that, it's just sausage hanging. Oh, God, we're so dumb. I think. I know I ask this a lot and it's
01:25:07
Speaker
I'm just I'm still working on my geography.
01:25:12
Speaker
Hobb knows this area quite well, just from doing jobs, right? Like, I mean, this is all his running ground. Yeah, so I feel comfortable with Hobb making a couple of different options of routes from theft to drop off, because I would like to either return to Satan or Solomon
01:25:37
Speaker
Uh, news of how we plan on taking it so that we can try to get cops off that route as well. But I wanted to make sure that hob had the knowledge to it. Yeah. Yeah. You couldn't, you could certainly do that. So.
01:25:51
Speaker
You tell me if this sounds fun to you, if I were to make a role and based on successes and advantages, if I'm able to pick the best route, a okay route, if I really leave it. Yeah, you could do a check, either Streetwise or Knowledge Underworld. Okay, I think I'm gonna go Streetwise. Yeah. Let's have it be a two purple difficulty
01:26:19
Speaker
But because there are a lot of forces at work, a lot of plates spinning, I'm going to split the story point and upgrade one of those to a red. Okay. Um, could I, could, uh, Milo's knowledge at a boost die of the city? Sure. Okay. Okay. So that is a one purple, one red difficulty against my street wise with a boost. Yep. Okay. Here we go.
01:26:46
Speaker
I fail every roll, so let's see how bad this route is. Oh my gosh. I don't know what happened. I have us just flying straight away from shard in a straight line. A straight vertical line right into a mountain. OK, OK, so I go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. The route that you pick is not ideal.
01:27:14
Speaker
but it is a route that will lead you from one point to the other. It's just not the easiest to navigate. Can I use the two advantage to act on the whole reason I did this and say, Satan is able to offer a reasonable, I mean, obviously two advantages enough to be like, yep, you're clear, but yeah.
01:27:38
Speaker
Maybe if you were gonna have us do encounter checks, maybe we lose a couple of those along the way, or however you were planning on running around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because yeah, I understand. I failed, so I can't be like, yeah, but the other thing, it takes us three and a half hours, but we don't see a single cop. It doesn't seem fair. Um.
01:28:06
Speaker
I think that's all Hub wanted to do right now. And then obviously he will be present for Eris if. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Satan at that point kind of makes it, he's not going to be rude about it, but he really has other meetings that he needs to take. Oh, sorry. I was, I was only impressed that we had already left that this was me reaching back out to Satan saying, Hey, here's the route we've chosen. Yeah. Okay. Um, so are you all headed down to the garage? Yes. Okay.
01:28:34
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