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C2 Ep. 163 Slaughterman's Legacy Chapter Six
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Has anyone seen Eldorin?
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Introduction and Host Welcome
00:00:09
Speaker
D20 Radio, your game is roll.
00:00:47
Speaker
Hello! Welcome to Ever-Underneath an actual play podcast at the Everon campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode.
Recap Focus: Aeris and Milo
00:00:55
Speaker
Hey guys, what happened last time? I think we should focus more on the Aeris, Milo side. Aeris changed her hair. So obviously there's a lot going on. Milo brewed some tea. Yeah, it's good. Chill.
00:01:11
Speaker
Raynard never learned how to state his needs and hopped in an endless void. No, everything went according to plan. Raynard's playing 5D chess. Yeah, he's terrible at chess. He's awful at all the chesses. They are eating out of my hand. They're stealing your food. They're eating your hands. They're eating yours too. Got them right where I want them.
Party Preparations and Deception
00:01:33
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Harrison Myler are gonna go to a nice, fun party. He's gonna be chill. Harrison Myler are gonna go to a party.
00:01:40
Speaker
Sana's looking forward to it. Yeah, Hob went sleeping around where he wasn't supposed to be, got sucked into a void, and Bill's calling Raynard's dad. So yeah, let's, let's pick up with, yeah, Raynard. After Liriel says that she's gonna contact Calvair, she steps away just as Thalia walks up, looking- No, I need to talk to her. Concerned. You couldn't flag her down and try to stop her. Liriel? Liriel? Yes. I'm so sorry.
00:02:09
Speaker
I haven't been completely honest with you. Go ahead? I came here to try and speak to Eldrin. Eldrin? I got it right! You did. You did. You're not here! There's a little bit of sending stones. Just throw it away. Oh, is he expecting you? No. I just... and... my...
00:02:35
Speaker
My, I'm not really my friend's employer. He's just my friend. And honestly, more so tonight meant to be my wingman. Elder and it's just so attractive.
00:02:55
Speaker
And I just, I sent him looking for him because I wasn't confident enough to talk to him. And I couldn't find him and that's why you found me sneaking around. And I came here to look for him and to speak to him. Give me a deception check. You have an upgrade. You do have an upgrade. Or do you? Oh wait, no. What do you want? Wait, what's deception? No, the upgrade is fine. Oh good, I have two yellow and one green. That's okay.
00:03:25
Speaker
This is gonna be too red. Of course it is. With a black. You're more than welcome to flip a story point if you want. I think I need to.
00:03:36
Speaker
It feels like a believable story. And it's not untrue. He's very hot and I came here to speak to him. But the implication was that you want to hook up with him. And I sent him to find him, which could be true. He's hot. I did that in my own volition though. Are you lying or are you charming? Because this red is lying to me. Like you're trying to... I'm not really lying. You came to talk to him about... I didn't say what I was going to talk to him about. You told me what you were going to talk to him about in terms of Brainard's intention.
00:04:06
Speaker
Maybe I had other intentions. So do we have a Lingering upgrade as well out there? He's got it on there, yeah. No, that's a boost. Oh, upgrade. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Yeah. Work. Okay. Did you
Eldrin's Future and Flaming Ember Incident
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get the... Yeah, you got the one from Full of Disorder. Hey, just gotta try. One of these dice is rolled cursed. There you go.
00:04:29
Speaker
Oh, no despair. Hey. Okay. So those cancel out. But they're also no, yeah. Knees cancel out. Yeah. So one failure and two advantage. That was so good. One failure, two advantage. Yeah. Came clean and it cost you for the little bit old deception going on. Really? There really wasn't a big lie in that story.
00:04:56
Speaker
She looks used. I have good news. Eldrin will be involved in figuring out what's going on. So you'll get a chance to meet him. Oh, I've met him before, but just... I don't even know if he would know who I was, honestly. I'm so sorry. It's okay. You hired the wrong person. Or had the wrong friend. It happens. One of us did. I did not pay him.
00:05:23
Speaker
Thalia's just standing there with a pizza, and Lirial walks away. Walk all the rooms on fire. Lirial walks away, and Thalia's. Here's your food, and this drink is called the Flaming Ember. It... Just downs it. Doesn't even finish it. Just takes it and downs it. Yeah, it's cinnamon infused and has a lot of spiciness to it. It's a sipping drink.
Invisible Bathroom Escapades
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Yes!
00:05:53
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In fact, there was a sprig of cinnamon on fire in that thing. Uh-huh! How are you doing? Not great! Yeah. Yeah. Do you know where my friend is? Detained. Detained.
00:06:11
Speaker
I know I pitched something as a triumph, but you could flip a story point to just say Raynard knows this thing, knows about the security in this place. That's another way that you can use story points. I probably wouldn't know anyway as a spy house family. I'm saying that you could flip a story point to say that is something specifically that Raynard has familiarity with.
00:06:28
Speaker
I think I'm gonna have to now that I've failed everything. Sure. Okay, so when she says detained, you know what that means. You know that Hobb went through the wrong door, got dropped into a pocket dimension that is used to hold people that are caught spying around in house fearland places. And you also have a certain level of understanding of how to
00:06:55
Speaker
They obviously have to get prisoners out somehow, so you would know some steps to take, but you have to be alone for that to happen, obviously. Is there anything else that I can get for you, Dranyir? I... And then the green-haired hostess like pops to the curtain. Dranyir, I just heard, I'm so sorry. Thank you. What can we do?
00:07:18
Speaker
Anyone interested in a coup? Just a joke. Just a little drunk. Just kidding. Here's some gold. The restroom. I went on a tour, but I've had fire in my mouth. The restroom. Oh, yeah. And value says, I can show you. Thank you. And she crosses the main area and goes down the hallway, three doors. One on the left-hand side says employees only. One for you, straight on ahead.
00:07:46
Speaker
Just, I'll be here. You don't have to wait. That's all right. Oh. Could be. I might vomit. Okay. I don't know. I probably will. I'll be around if you need anything. Thank you. And so you walk in. It's empty. There's a couple of stalls and then a trench up against the wall. Okay. You tell me if this is gonna be a terrible idea. I would like to be... I bet it's a great idea. I would like to be invisible.
00:08:16
Speaker
Okay. You have to dagger. You can complete it. Yeah. So I would like to do that. Okay.
00:08:23
Speaker
You need to put your dagger. If I don't succeed, this is gonna look so bad. But I wanna try and save Hob. Okay. Glob. I need for everyone at this table to know that the longer it takes until Hob is able to do something, the more drastic the thing he's going to do is getting. Okay, I'm coming for you, Glob. Okay, are you gonna try to sneak back out of the door? Or are you gonna try to get out of the bathroom some other way?
00:08:49
Speaker
I guess I would... I think that's why I told her not to stand there. So we could go out the door? Mm-hmm. Or maybe... I don't know. Did it seem like it was getting busier? People were starting to trickle in, but it wasn't. I just wait till someone comes in and slides out. It's now six o'clock on a Tuesday, so the nightclub is still not hopping. Just picture like a swinging door, and when someone pushes it open, I just... You can wait until somebody else comes in there.
00:09:14
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. That seems like the best idea. Philip, roll me a d10. Oh no. This is gonna determine how long it takes. A zero! That's cocked! Yeah, it definitely is. It settled into the clasp of his watch. One. Much better. Okay. We think... I don't know what...
00:09:40
Speaker
But yeah, after just a minute, the bouncer who was out front walk in and walk up to the trench and stand there. Before the door swings close, I'm gonna just... So you're gonna try to go out as he's coming in? I'm gonna push the door open and walk through and I'm just gonna...
00:09:58
Speaker
I'm just saying, it would probably be smoother if you waited until he exited so you could just be on his tail. Oh, that's true. That's true. I guess I'll watch him pee. Because that's why people need to be invisible. And Eric's over here, you go, what the girl? One more crime on my list of things, I'm doing this round. I'm gonna have a stroke before this is over. Don't use your invisibility to watch me pee, okay? Don't do it. PSA from Trevor. My blood pressure.
00:10:28
Speaker
As the bouncer goes to leave, you follow him out. Thalia standing down near the end of the hallway and she smiles and nods at the bouncer as he walks past and she's still watching the door. So she's a little untrustworthy little person. Reliable employee. I can't trust her. She's coming out of your tip. Thalia. She did leave. She went to the end of the hallway. She jumped in the hall. So drastic.
Security Room Mission
00:10:57
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Where are you heading?
00:10:59
Speaker
To where I suppose Hob is? So as you exit the bathroom, now on your right there's a door that says employees only. Yeah, but that's gonna trap me.
00:11:08
Speaker
Reynard does not know that. I feel like he does, since he knows what happened. A story point. But then obviously Lariel took you back towards the more administrative sections of the building, so probably back there, like where her office is, or something along those lines would be. Sure, I will look that way. Okay, give me a stealth check. I don't want to.
00:11:31
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And since you're invisible, you can have two boosts. Two boosts? Two boosts. So two blue. It is a one red, one purple difficulty. I don't like these reds. Yeah, make it two red. It'll just get you all some story points back. You can flip a story point back if you want to upgrade a green to yellow. I have to. I have to.
00:11:53
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This is not good. You better it still. I have 4,000 experience that I haven't spent. Yeah, man, you do. The defense rests.
00:12:08
Speaker
I'm a triumph! But I don't think you succeeded. No, but I got a crap ton of advantage. Yup, you sure did. I got five advantage, one triumph and three failure. Two failure, because one of them is cancelled by the triumph. Oh, two failure. Yeah. It's a triumph and five advantage, but not a success.
00:12:34
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So yeah, you're invisible, but not silent. So presumably you either bump into something or something happens to alert people that you are a little. It's the administrative section. You definitely knock over like an entire shelf of wine glasses or something. You're crossing the main area trying to get to.
00:12:53
Speaker
the hallway that Liriel took you down. He's, for some reason, carrying a file folder does that thing where it all flies up in the air. You have five advantage and a triumph. Basically, yeah, you bump into one of the obsidian tables that, as you're, and it just, like, rocks, makes a noise, a couple of glasses that are on it tip over. Very clear that something bumped into it. Caelan the bartender, Thalia and Luthien all look in your direction. They obviously can't see you, but they know that something's there.
00:13:22
Speaker
you have five advantage and a triumph. So basically, the place is on alert is what the result of your failure is, just so you could be using your advantage and triumph forward. But also, you have a triumph and five advantage, which means there really isn't a thing that's too absurd. Yes, you can pitch craziness.
00:13:41
Speaker
Like the void gets a tummy ache and vomits me back into the ramp. I was like, the ramp shows up. We still have that trying. Just me and the ramp for eternity. I found you. Two beings enter. They both stay forever. Neither of them exits. Figure out which one's Sisyphus and which one's the boulder. Man, I failed so I can't really fix it. I hit it. Okay, so we were joking but
00:14:07
Speaker
The ram kicking down this door looking for you while you're invisible is a heck of a distraction. I was not joking, but I made a lot of bad things happen. I didn't want to make anything worse happen. The ram thing is fun. I'm not there, so do what you want.
00:14:25
Speaker
instant yeah so if there's this moment of rain on you're invisible you're walking around i feel like this is the most fast and loose i've been playing and that is saying a lot and you're kind of looking around and luthier walking past you so you go to make sure you don't touch her and you just back into a table and it rocks some of the glassware falls on the table and shatters and there's just this moment of silence as you see kaelin luthien and thalia all look directly at where you're standing
00:14:50
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and your breath stops for a second and then a sky skiff just comes flying in through the front of the building and you see this massive war forge come lumbering in as like tables are knocked over that elf that's on the stage gets hit by the sky skiff as just like the ram you recognize the ram just walks in where's the elf so you have a distraction
00:15:15
Speaker
I just go, you're invisible. I was really sure there was something up with that elf on the stage, and he definitely just died. You're invisible because he lives. You are also alone. There is no me to help. There is no them to help. You see the elf bouncer that was out front of the building immediately jump into action. He leaps at the ram and extends his arm out, and you see a, like,
00:15:45
Speaker
Longsword made of shadow like emerged from his hand as he like brings it down in the ram blocks it Luthien the green haired hostess runs at him into like shimmery purple like blades Emerge in her hands as she goes to attack so like the elves are rushing to attack the war so they've got that so they are thoroughly distracted okay, I Would love to use the five advantage
00:16:08
Speaker
to i can't just say know where hob is you know where hob is the problem is getting him out yeah
00:16:18
Speaker
I don't know where Hob is. Is he just in the floor? He's like in a pocket dimension. He's in another dimension. Hob's not here. So you got to find whatever it is that turns that off and spits him back out. I want to use something along the lines figuring that out. OK. Yeah. No, you with the five advantage, we can say that despite Raynard's terrible perception check while Liriel was like walking with him,
00:16:42
Speaker
You saw a security room like the exact room you need to rush you there's no hunting around in the building You know what door you need to get to right away, okay? So you visually I feel like this goes something like
00:16:58
Speaker
just silently but okay they've got this handle that so i'm gonna go do this okay so yeah you rush back you find the security door and yeah with the five advantage additionally it's unlocked like you don't have to make a big check to get in there as you get in various images being projected out of dragon shards where like obviously they have the scrying spots like security footage that kind of thing you also see one of just avoid and hob just
00:17:26
Speaker
Punch and stuff, or whatever Hob's doing. Meditating. Angrily screaming your name to the head. Both of them. Just to be safe. So, yeah. In order to get him out, there's going to be a check required of some kind. I think Skuldiggery would be great. Yeah, I'll take Skuldiggery.
00:17:52
Speaker
i would take skullduggery okay verse to dispel what verse to dispel verse yeah verse does have to spell you could yeah you can try that let's do that it's a hard check so i don't know if the check is i don't know what's the check what's the check on skullduggery
00:18:08
Speaker
Skullduggery is going to be one red, two purple, so. It's the same? No. It's actually easier starting off for verse. Oh, for verse? Cool. Wait, what's... The spell is a hard check, so you start off with three purple. And I'm gonna flip one of those to become a red. But still, your pool's better. And I don't have anything else.
00:18:32
Speaker
I don't know. Take a boost because of all those advantage. You didn't quite use all of them. There you go. Okay. I don't feel confident. I do. I think you're gonna do great. I think I did. I think so. I think I really did it.
00:18:48
Speaker
I think I, yep. Yeah. Yeah. I got two success and five advantage. Okay.
Backdoor Escape Plan
00:18:58
Speaker
Suck it. Whoo. Sorry, you can take that out if you need to. See how you walk up to the console and you figure out the controls. You think about how Eris, how proud Eris might be of you, like doing all this weird techy stuff and you hit a button and behind you, you hear a thud as Hob comes falling out of the ceiling and lands on the floor right behind you.
00:19:19
Speaker
You have five minutes. You're invisible. You have five, but you are not silent. Yes. You have five advantage though. Oh yeah. We're going to need that. I, I, do I see anything else on the screens? You see a fight happening with the Ram. Yeah, but it's like Eldering somewhere. You have five advantage. What do you want to see on the screens? I want to see Eldering. How about you see Eldering coming up the street to the club and we can leave and grab you. You don't want to go in there right now. That's fair. Yeah. But we have to get out the front door.
00:19:49
Speaker
You have five advantage for story points, so there could be a back door. We can't let the Rams see me, because my day's been bad enough. Yeah. Actually, do what you want. And I still have seven wounds.
00:20:02
Speaker
And I'm fine with you with the five advantage, basically through a combination of story points and the advantage. There's two things that you could do in combination with. Eldrin is not in the club. He is on his way. He is approaching to enter the club so you can interact with him outside. Additionally, there is a backdoor.
00:20:21
Speaker
that you all can get out of, but also is the door that Elderin normally uses to get in, because he can't be bothered to enter with the normal people. Yeah. So you all would exit out the back door and then be able to run into Elderin as you're leaving. Let's do that. Okay, so that's five of me and Jaina's story point. And right before we exit the door. Yeah, Hob, what do you say? Hob's been silent. I dropped from the ceiling. Yeah. Lay it on the floor. Did you say something? Glob. Hob. Hob.
00:20:52
Speaker
I say how's this fist taste? He is invisible. I saved you! If you want to try to actually hit him, it's just too black to hit him. It's fun. He's done it many times. Not right now because I might kill him. It's a lot more dangerous. I'm invisible. I saved you. We have to go with the ramis here.
00:21:19
Speaker
Yeah, looking for me. No, I didn't hear that. He just said, where's the elf? I'm disoriented, so I just have to... Where's out? Okay, there's a back entrance exit that Eldron uses. He's actually coming. Do I know that? Yeah, sorry. He's actually coming, so we need to go there. And we're just gonna take him with us. Can you make me invisible? You can try.
00:21:44
Speaker
Really? Can't you know Wylo can? You can't shoot. Yeah, I know. No. Magic, I did that. I did the ram. You what? I did not do the ram. You made a fist of the ram in a triumph. Trevor caused the ram to arrive. Raynard did not. Raynard did not. The magic did. No. Yes. The magic made the ram come back to life. Oh, you're healing. Yes. I'm sorry. We were all confused. Yes.
00:22:15
Speaker
Remember magic? Yes. They're all distracted. We can just bolt for the door, right? Okay. We can sure try. Let's do that. A very large and apparently the number one criminal in the Ebony Vale. It's fine.
00:22:31
Speaker
Because I turned the wrong direction one time. Yeah, somebody just threw a car through the front door, so I think their priority is a shift. So we just go to the door. Okay, we're gonna try to run to the back door. Yeah, it's in the hallway that the security door is off of, so you're all able to reach the back door. Yeah, I'm gonna turn the knife off right as we're exiting.
Morgrane University Gala Tensions
00:22:50
Speaker
Okay. And I'm gonna say...
00:22:52
Speaker
Eldran! As you all exit, cut to. Oh no. I was almost going to get to do something. You all arrive at Morgrane University. It seems like a nice, nice event. Are you driving Tasha there? Yes. Is Igor coming? No. You pull up. Do you pull up for the valley parking or do you park a couple miles away and walk? No, park and walk.
00:23:17
Speaker
So, Sana, like, the whole walk is- I'm just telling you that they are professionals, they will take care of Tasha if it's not- I don't want to explain to them why the ship can fly itself. But you could tell Tasha to just cool it, right? Or couldn't you not bring Tasha in the skiff? She didn't actually leave Tasha at home. Okay. She likes to get out and fly. Okay. Couldn't she just fly around Highwall? Do her own thing?
00:23:44
Speaker
I think people would just see a skiff just flying around. No, in their like bird chassis thing. Yeah, but then I just... Why are we having this conversation after we've already parked? Because I, in the future when we go to Galas again, I would love to not have to walk. Listen, we've gone to three Galas now. You weren't in the upper part. Too willingly, and we robbed one of, we robbed both of them. And tonight, we're not robbing it, so progress.
00:24:14
Speaker
In six months, who knows what's going to happen? And Milo seems to be having a great time. Milo seems to be having a great time. You get to read that Olive is tolerating a bit more than Eris, but I'm glad to be here with all of you. So I would like to have a good time. I want you to have a good time.
00:24:34
Speaker
I want you to have a good time. I can't promise that. We're all going to have a most wonderful time. Please don't make your good time rely on my good time. I'm not saying that it is, but I'm your friend and I want you to enjoy yourself when you go to these things. Thank you. We can both work and have fun. Yes, but the work that I have fun doing is different. I know, but you all get to the front door.
00:25:00
Speaker
All of presents the invitations security looks them over and waves you all in. It's been going for about an hour and a half. Now you all got there at nine 30. So, you know,
00:25:12
Speaker
music, decent amount of noise. A lot of people that you recognize from other galas that you've been at here. Nobody of... Solomon Calloway is not standing right there. Hi! But, but you know, this is the who's who of Sharn kind of thing. So... The academic who's who? Yeah. Aeros looks for Harbin. Give me a perception check. Too purple.
00:25:33
Speaker
And make it red purple. I'm trying to give him back. I have so many. I will spin this. Come back. I have succeeded. A lot. I have three success and five advantage.
00:25:59
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Aeris, as you scan the crown, your crowd, you're able to easily see Harbin standing in a crowd, you see a very
00:26:10
Speaker
severe-looking man sitting right next to Harbin. I think, like, the Disney animated Bob Crane, like, the, like, intent, like, big nose, just very sallow face. The food critic from Ratatouille. Yes. Standing just right off of Harbin's shoulder, not really engaged in the conversation with, like, eyes about. Harbin has a drink in his hand and is just, you can tell,
00:26:31
Speaker
He's here, but he's not having a great time. Five advantage. For one, Harbin sees Eris. Okay. Don't have to approach Harbin to acquire his notice. Okay. See, that's two.
00:26:45
Speaker
And there's a reporter here. Okay. Who is making a beeline for Harbin. Seems like exactly the sort of thing that Mr. Unpleasant would try to interfere with. Sure. Yeah, totally. Yeah. A reporter for the shard inquisitive. Is that the rag? Yeah. A reporter for the shard inquisitive making their way through the crowd towards Harbin and you see the
00:27:13
Speaker
attention of the severe man next to Harbin like turn and look at them Harbin sees you and like his brow furrows and he like is a sticks a hand up slightly and then jerks her head and Harbin like eyes go wide as he sees this man intercepting the reporter and he tries to slip away so
00:27:36
Speaker
I can make a roll to see if he gets away, or you can flip a story point to just say that he makes it. Sure. I'll spin the story point and then you have to give it back. Okay. Because I'm a human, so give it back. Oh. Yeah. Harbin slips away from the group.
00:27:51
Speaker
and heads in the direction that Eris nodded. Milo, are you going with Eris? Are you and Sana and Olive? Milo is goal this evening because he doesn't think this is, I mean it's important, but he thinks Eris probably has this in the bag. He wants to make sure Sana is gonna have a good time this evening. Okay, so Sana, Olive, and Milo head to the buffet and the bar. Yeah, Harbin finds a small standing table out of the way of everyone and
00:28:19
Speaker
gets there around the same time as Eris. Hey, all told me that you wanted to talk to me about something. How's it going? I don't know how to answer that without you knowing things you probably don't want to know. Okay. Not great, really. Not great. Same.
00:28:49
Speaker
Yeah, so I have this thing I want to try to do and it's important for the safety of some people I care about. There's this bar in Lower Mendis and it used to be a ship and now it's fixed onto the side of a tower but I'm pretty sure that
00:29:17
Speaker
or my clan is going to try and burn it down and I want to move it before they do because the owner, the owner is my friend and I don't want his restaurant to get burned down and I think I can do it but I worked out earlier this afternoon that to do it I need some more Calcum
00:29:44
Speaker
And it's not something I can get a hold of. And then I thought you might like doing this too. It might be more fun than whatever they make you do when you actually have to run a company. And I know it's kind of a big favor. I just don't really have anyone else I can ask for this sort of thing. Give me a check. Harbin.
00:30:11
Speaker
is a fellow mage rite, which means my talk shop talent lets me use my ranks in mechanics as ranks in charm. Okay. So what do you need? What's the difficulty? Difficulty is going to be three purple, make one a red, and add a black. Oh, I don't like that.
00:30:37
Speaker
Shouldn't have done things that you've done in the past then. Spent a story point. Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh, wow. That's a lot of blank dice right there. I think just enough though to- I have just barely succeeded with one threat. I have one success and one threat. Okay. Carbon nods and... Yeah.
00:31:07
Speaker
I can... I'm really sorry, I wanted to like talk to you at the lab and I had diagrams and stuff that would be better but I guess I can't talk to you at the lab because of that talk over there that stands around scowling professionally. How long after you became my friend were you fighting my dad? Was I what now? I'm sorry, what did he actually say? Was I...
00:31:33
Speaker
How long after you became my friend, were you fighting my dad? I didn't know it was your dad. I don't... had we actually met Harbin before the... before he attacked, before I tried to run him over with the skin. Oh yeah, yeah, I think he met Harbin before he even turned.
00:31:52
Speaker
Met Harbin in Olive's office. Yeah. He was a student of Olive's while you were. Okay. Swatting there. Cause you met him in Norsin, like Norsin was there. Right. Yes. All right. Yeah. Cause he hadn't gone crazy yet. I guess it was a little while after I met you there, your dad. Is this the place to talk about this? Is it okay to talk about this here? I don't want people to hear
00:32:19
Speaker
I don't know, I don't want to say things in public that will make anything harder for you. So, do you want to try and talk about this in a place that's more private? I can, it's a big giant university, there's rooms and stuff. I'll work with Olive to get the Calcum, and if I can find an opportunity to sneak away, I might be able to come.
00:32:45
Speaker
I don't mind. I tell you, I just don't want. I don't want all these rich tots here to know and stuff and we can get away. I am one of these rich tots. It's not true because you're not a tot. You're just rich. That's not the same thing. Doesn't have to be. Well, I'm really bad at this. So can you tell me which thing
00:33:14
Speaker
You're mad at me about, just so I can know where to start. You're right. This isn't the timer place. More than happy to help you help your friends. And I'll see if Olive can get me out of the lab for long enough to where we can talk, but I already see people looking for me.
00:33:39
Speaker
And I don't want to get you in trouble. Yeah. Where... just your normal spot is where you want the Orykalkum. Olive can get in touch with me. Okay. Okay, I need to go. Eris. Sorry. Harbin walks away from the table. Eris watches him go, and then... As you watch, he gets close to...
00:34:06
Speaker
the older man and he goes to put a hand on Harbin's shoulder and Harbin smacks it away and keeps walking. I think Eris... storms back out the door. Perception check, Milo. Unless Eris is trying to be sneaky, it's gonna be too purple. Eris is not going to attempt a stealth check. No, it was gonna be opposed to Eris's stealth if she was trying to be sneaky. That would actually be the opposition.
00:34:33
Speaker
No. Yeah. Yes. And to advantage. To advantage. You're having drinks, chatting with Olive and Sana, and you spot a shock of blue hair? Yep. Yeah. Blue hair through the crowd, like, storming out the front door. A lot of other worlds are bleeding through. And then you're scarred. Well, Sana, Olive, I just, Eris just went out the door. Oh no.
00:35:02
Speaker
Yes. Yes. I doubt there's no way we could feasibly coax her into getting back. Don't sign and not understand the dynamic.
00:35:15
Speaker
She probably understands the dynamic, but really wants the dynamic to be something else. And also not a other. So my thought is going after her will probably do us no good. She probably wishes to be left alone. Olive puts a hand on Myla's shoulder. You two have fun. And Olive makes for the front door. All right. Sana, shall we continue?
00:35:46
Speaker
A dance, perhaps? Sure, Milo. That sounds great. Milo sees no possible way of... Milo making the situation better? Yeah, with Eris, so... Yeah, probably a good moment of self-awareness. So yeah, Milo and Sonic go out to the dance floor, dancing, having a good time. Give me another perception check, Milo. That was one yellow and two green, I believe. Ram kicks down the door. One red, one purple.
00:36:15
Speaker
And I'm going to flip a sword to make it too red. What? Come on. What do you want from me? Did I do that? I don't have anything to do here. Y'all spend so many story points. I got to get one back. I might as well get one back. Now I just got to spend another one later. Can you guys at least wait till I have a crude substrate?
00:36:33
Speaker
Yes. That's all you've been doing. That is one success and one advantage. Yeah. Oh, you had two advantage also to spend before. Do you just want to roll? You passed it. Pass a boost to the next check, whatever it is. We'll pass two boosts to the next check. So you and Son are out on the dance floor having a great time dancing and you see this person approaching. You have a communicator.
00:37:03
Speaker
Just letting you know. You see a person approaching, and you pass the perception check. So, outward facing, very friendly, walking across the dance floor like they've spotted somebody they want to talk to in a friendly manner. It's not coming towards us. Yes, coming towards you. In the eyes, thanks to your perception check, you see the opposite. They saw somebody they want to talk to, not in a friendly manner. Lara Boromar crossing the dance floor to approach you. Oh, gosh. Oh, no. What is happening? No. Cut to.
00:37:33
Speaker
Reynard. Hub. You're walking out the back door. I'd say we're running. I think we're running. I didn't roll a despair, did I? Nope, we just caught Eric on a bad day. So yeah, you all walk out. You're walking down the alleyway and Ella didn't.
00:37:46
Speaker
Eldoran around the corner. And yeah, just see you all. And you said that you've met him before, right? Yeah. Hi. Eldoran! Who's your friend? Okay, before anything else happens, we probably should not go in there. You don't want to go in there. There is a ram.
00:38:03
Speaker
A ram is in the bar? Yeah, a possessed robot. We have to go. Some giant warforged just burst in there and start beating the tar on everybody. It's probably best if you avoid it right now. Oh. That's why we're leaving. Don't blame you. The only reason.
Ram's Attack and Urgent Departure
00:38:19
Speaker
We're doping. Yeah, I guess I'll return home to mother. We have a ride. We're actually gonna go check out another place called The Consistent Bird. We've been before, we like it a lot. If you're looking to- And none of that ever. If you're looking to have a couple of drinks,
00:38:34
Speaker
Sure. I can go for a few drinks. Sorry, what's your name? Oh, this is Glob. I'm Hob. Name is Hob. Hob. Sorry, I had a few drinks. And it's great to meet you.
00:38:47
Speaker
Great to meet you too. I was like, you're so hot. Fun dynamic. I'm interested to see play out. You think that's fun? Wait till you're sharing a sidecar with him because I've only got the one. Sorry, pal. You're going to lose your mind sharing the sidecar with Eltharin, aren't you? Just drool. Give me a charm check, Reynard. That's you, pal. You have two boosts from my low. Difficulty is one red, one purple.
00:39:20
Speaker
Well, the red was BLAKE. Ow.
00:39:24
Speaker
She was full of muscle being arrogant. You don't have the rage to get down there. I got a heck of advantage. Three success. Six advantage. Wait, how much? Six. Eight. Eight. That's a charm check and I'm right there. You have eight advantage.
00:39:53
Speaker
So you have eight advantage does he have a crush on me too if that's what you want to fit eight advantage on It's gonna take all eight cuz we've met you can spend the advantage in the whole Laura just showed up The person who wants us dead the most over there Oh
00:40:13
Speaker
Sorry, I was thinking of the people who bring that in the bar. No, no. No, you guys, like, because of the little rotten D or whatever. A lot of names I don't remember. That's what I said.
00:40:21
Speaker
Yeah, Elira Boromar, Zayden's daughter, we need to- Yeah, we absolutely should. How many can I get, though? I can fix that, and then... I think- How many do I get to do? Propose how you're gonna fix it, and then I'll tell you the cost. God, I don't know, she trips involved. No, I think it's gotta be, we've gotta- Give you that for two. Sold! It needs to be there's some element of this gala that precludes her from going ballistic at it.
00:40:47
Speaker
I don't know. If she got violent, we could really solve this problem fast. Could you solve a problem? It's a bit of a meme at this point in this campaign. It's on par with the Ram showing up unexpectedly. There is another player in Sharn that would neutralize Illyra in terms of making a play at Milo. Don't use your triumph to disprove his triumph. I didn't get a triumph. But I was talking about Bingo. You guys were about to solve him?
00:41:13
Speaker
That wasn't what you spent the triumph on though, was it? Ultimately? No, I'd like to have an upgrade. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right.
00:41:43
Speaker
Oh, I was going to say he gets in between. He talks to a Lyra. Oh, OK. And so Milo gets his turn. I'm going to walk away. But also, I kept teaching Jeff to have hub fall into the portal. Don't listen to me when he sounds that you admit it. You're trying to kill me.
00:41:59
Speaker
So you think it'd be worse if Solomon Calloway was talking to you earlier? I think Solomon Calloway being anywhere that we are is always worse. I think whatever situation we're in plus Solomon Calloway is... Pirates drop down from the ceiling. No that's not... that's triumph. He could have another powerful figure like walk up to Milo or Sana for some reason.
00:42:19
Speaker
Is the mother still involved? The one that likes? That's Mara. Oh, Mara. I'm sorry. Yeah, Mara likes, Mara likes Milo. Let's say Mara walks up to Milo. I don't know if that would stop Alira. It's because her mom's there. She could at least be like, hush now, child. I'm her now.
00:42:41
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. Or you could have something like the Pirates bust it like similar to the Ram busting in this or you could have something else bust in the Galadore. That's too repetitive. Could she just die? No, that's not on the table. Eris would love some violence right now. That's true. Eris stormed out. She's right outside there. Can you have a communicator on you?
00:43:07
Speaker
Somebody's gotta either get Milo or get her. How about the mother talks to her instead? Okay, the mother stabs her.
00:43:31
Speaker
No, it could make Aerith happy. It's a brainstorming session. There's no bad ideas. I was going to say, what if as Aerith was leaving, Viggo was walking in and Aerith just gets to punch her and make a scene. Viggo's in jail. What? We turned him over to the cops. Oh, that's right. Never mind. I don't pay attention. This is going to have to. This is a you tell me situation because
00:43:55
Speaker
Her mother intercepts her so we can make a hasty exit. Whatever, it's your deal. I have an idea for a distraction. Okay.
00:44:08
Speaker
and I'll offer you a disc, it's not something that'll negatively affect. Did you say you're gonna offer him a discount? Discount, to me to not tell you. It's a one-time offer. It's a Black Friday deal. It's not something that will attack Milo, Sana, Eris, or Olive. Or Illira. Hurt us. But it will be a distraction. Okay. That gives Milo a chance to pee. You're not gonna tell me what it is? You gotta let me.
Eris and Harbin Relationship Strain
00:44:30
Speaker
This is like... Dealer, no deal. But it'll only be a free advantage. Oh, and it won't affect my friends?
00:44:36
Speaker
Yeah, let's do it. Okay. So that's set. What do you want to do with the other five advantage? The five advantage? Part of me wants to be like, we just get to this place safely where nothing happens. You hate playing DSD. I don't hate it. We've had a very stressful episode and a half. I've been playing it.
00:44:57
Speaker
I'm the one role playing. You've been in a white room. He's getting in the vehicle. That's dope. We won. Yeah. You won that. I would say enough happens that or he had some preconceived notion that I was at least a friend like a good relationship like he's very friendly. Yeah. Like he has a positive. Sure. I'll do that for another three view of me. Okay. Can the last two be that everybody in Ebony Vale is busy enough and they've forgotten about us at least for the evening. Sure.
00:45:27
Speaker
hey perfect okay no pursuit exactly give me a night off so that's why i tried to spend the five on and you said no okay i guess there's nothing getting where we're going next and they're too busy with the ram to chase us i didn't know that's what you were going for that's what you were going for remove the complications please oh no so yeah elder in hops in the side car with reynard to
00:45:51
Speaker
You have a back seat there can one of us not sit on don't ask oh, no absolutely sure Elder and good Elder puts the hands on the shoulder. Thank you. I like your friend, isn't it? It was choosing between him and you okay, I'm not interested in him
00:46:13
Speaker
Um, he's hot. I get it. As you get about a half. We stay in front of him. In front of the gala. Of course, you hear Olive from behind you like, wait up. As she comes jogging up behind you.
Gala Chaos and Cliffhanger Ending
00:46:25
Speaker
What's up? As she falls in step with you, she doesn't make you stop, but she's walking alongside you. He... I don't know. He's a nice guy and I have just very obviously fracked up his life.
00:46:45
Speaker
Okay. He knows it. His father messed up his life. Not you. Doesn't seem to be the way he sees it. Harbin is confused and angry right now. I think for very understandable reasons, given what's going on in his life, his dad, I mean, we both know what Norsen turned into. Yeah. Those are not the actions
00:47:14
Speaker
of a father who's taking their son into great consideration for the choice that they are making. Harbin and Norsen were never close, but Harbin idolized his dad. And that shattered in a moment. And I think he just, he can't direct that pain at his father yet.
00:47:38
Speaker
And I think, unfortunately, he may have unjustly directed it at you. He doesn't hate you. I can tell you that for certain. I don't blame him. I didn't think at all of him while I was trying to solve it. I just didn't want him to find out, and that wasn't... It's admirable. I'm sorry. It didn't... Whatever it was, it didn't do any good. Is he gonna get you what you need?
00:48:09
Speaker
Yeah. Good. I guess. It will give you two a chance to have further contact, which is the only way this moves forward. And you both can get some level of closure and resolution in all this. I'm sorry. I didn't think it would go as poorly as it seems to have gone. I'm not good at this. You're better than you think.
00:48:41
Speaker
It's not a very high bar. Yeah, but the more you try, the better you get. And I'll be with you, all on the way. Milo, you're in the gala, Delira Boromar, crossing the dance floor, projecting friendly positivity, except in her eyes, which are aflame. Literally. Yeah.
00:49:08
Speaker
As you've been in here, you've looked around, like you said, Randy, it's an academic gala. There's a lot of, there's the upper crust, like the Solomon Calloway's aren't here, but there's a lot of people from like various houses, House Medani, House Kaneth, and in that also the kind of their partners, the various guilds and organizations that work with the houses, including obviously Harbin being here, Mill Hatch Industries, a lot of representatives from that house are here. And across the,
00:49:35
Speaker
dance floor kind of a smattering of people that you recognize through like your interactions briefly of infiltrating mill hatch industry places and stuff like that you see some of them standing around and then you hear glass shatter as one of the windows of this gala hall smashes open and you see a figure come swinging in and laying amongst this group of mill hatch industry individuals
00:49:58
Speaker
person wearing all dark colors, feline-esque masks, clothes, purple cloak, and this figure grabs two of the Milhatch industry people and like a harness with a line to it that is still attached pulls them out of the window, extracting these two as the place just goes bananas.
00:50:22
Speaker
as screams, Alira obviously turns away, and you look and see all of the color drained out of Sana's face. End of episode. Got so much worse. How is that advantage? Just playing all the hits, man. Because Milo gets away now! You're not trying! Milo's happy! We're trying to help Sana!
00:50:40
Speaker
We got the rain. That wasn't what Trevor told me. We got a vengeance cast. We almost got fallen call away. I was just going to try to sneak around the corner, put an illusion, and still enjoy the party. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversation surrounding this episode, you can head over to our Discord, the link to which is on our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, at thegeekpantheon. We also have a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash thegeekpantheon, if you want to see some tabletop role-playing game videos done by myself. And now Philip is going to, in a very measured and calm tone, plug the other YouTube content
00:51:10
Speaker
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00:51:40
Speaker
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00:52:26
Speaker
That was a cool thing, man.