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C3 Episode 27 Bright Moons Rising Chapter Six
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The troubles in the town escalate as the party struggles to find cooperative allies.
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Introduction of Players and Recap
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D20 um threaten with the coach um orange twenty Radio, at your
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radio
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Hello, and welcome to Everon, your new natural play podcast set in the Everon campaign setting. I am your game master, Eric. I'm Mia. I'm Philip. I'm Madison. I am Jeff. And welcome to another episode. What happened last time?
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We fought wolves. True. No, that was the time before. That was the time before. I killed the bear. angeli Angelina. Angelina. Yes. In the woods.
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she sent us to, we found out the name of the mysterious elf. Yes. Trina. Trina. There we go. I got two trinkets. You did. It's true. You have two forms of identification. You're calling me so much. You can give your passport to Trina now.
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Um... Yeah, let me go to notes and see if there's anything. That's when I was. I think that's it. um There was that guy who might be dead.
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Marcus. yeah we decided he's not problem. Oh, the animal said that they're listening to someone called Deep Root?
Planning Next Moves
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Yep. it
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Yep. And those are the bullet points. That's what I have written down. What's next? And you all asked Angelina a lot about Ervo and Bramble as well. The wolf cloak that's taking us.
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So yeah, you all had, based on my recollection and also editing the podcast, I decided you were going to go talk with Trina. And then possibly head back to town. Maybe if there's time, try to swing by and see Marcus. But that was going to be pretty far out of your way to do that.
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So has that changed at all? Nope. no dont And you fought the wolves on your way to Trina. Yes.
Meeting Trina and Understanding the Woods
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Yeah. Yeah. yeah So you all.
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Following the markings on the map that Angelina gave you. head to the area that Angelina has met up with Trina in the past. It is a relatively calm section of the woods. Even the ambient noise of birds calling and the chittering of small mammals running around i grow quiet, not in a it is somewhat unnerving. If you were to walk through the woods and it was completely silent, but you don't really have a strong sense of like, uh,
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Malice, just peacefulness, I guess, is the primary kind of vibe that you get in this part of the woods. um Anybody that would like to can give me a wisdom-based check.
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but I'm just getting cozy over here. Don't worry about me. Hi, listeners. I have an unbelievable sore throat, and I'm pouring some tea for myself, and everyone finds it hilarious. Where it's the first time we're sitting at table with each other and suddenly I'm the problem.
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he What were you saying? All right. Wisdom check. Wisdom check. You can use backgrounds as applicable. You're trying to notice something either with sight or sound or smell. Since we're still in the woods, I can add my thalamus, yes?
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That was to navigate the woods. Okay. Yeah, I wouldn't say for this that would be... It's really cool.
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You could use tray. And a 21. fourteen 14. 22. brain is loading. 21. 21. what he want Okay. Kaz, and Valk, you all, you spot as you're walking through the woods, you see a figure standing still and observing you all.
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And as the sight becomes clear out of your periphery and into the primary focus your vision, you see a rather tall elf woman, um Just watching you all, not skulking about, just standing still and watching.
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Like, not trying to be, what are you getting at all? No.
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There's a lot of trees, so, you know, you might or you might have missed her, like Nyx did. How far off? ah Probably 60, 70 feet away. Oh, yeah, that's pretty far.
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there's hardly that ca cas would think to like hey lady you might want to get out of the whoop it that is it trainer yeah I would assume if she's just standing in the woods, she's not entirely concerned about the animals.
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Well, it seems like either she's trainer or she's not in the way we should go. Yeah, I think that sounds like a plan. So we start walking towards her and I say hello as we get closer. Okay, sounds good. I want my trinkets out.
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Yes. Walk it up at this. Hello, we have trinkets. They might be for you. They're not. They're like, do, do, do, do. Friendly. Valk will be keeping them. Those are fine.
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So you all approach. The woman makes no effort to hide or put distance between herself and you. She also does not approach. And as you begin to speak, ah she smiles and says, pleasure to meet you.
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yeah My name is Trayna. And based on if the cas relaxes the items that your friend has here, seems that you know both Alondra and Angelina.
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Yes. Hi, I'm Vogue. Hi, Rauk. Nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you. You're not getting these. these are I don't want them. Okay.
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But based on your possession of them, it seems like you all want to speak to me, i would guess.
Deeproot's Motives and Wood's Balance
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We're trying to understand the new aggression of the creatures in the wood. Yeah.
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Yeah. The town of Ashton Hollow has upset the acceptable natural balance and now the will of Lamania must be reckoned with.
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The only solution, honestly, is to return to the way things were.
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ah come on look um Acceptable to whom? The woods.
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Lamania specifically. this The woods sit on a Lamonian manifest zone that gives the woods a bit more life. Lamania has
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a will.
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Yes, um in a way. lamani Lamania's will is that of many of the creatures that reside in both the plane itself and places on this plane that resemble it.
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If it is left alone or tended with a certain level of care, then it will mind its business and live its life. But if it's cornered, put into danger, then it will respond.
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Then is there a creature that is
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manifesting the will of Lamani in this woods that could be spoken to for a long time? It would have been me that you would have come to. um I've done my best to keep the aggression of the woods, non-lethal, but my influences waning There is a figure called Deeproot that I've only spoken to Deeproot through animals.
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They've sent envoys and messengers. um Deeproot does not want to hurt anyone, but demands that the town stop hurting the woods.
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Deeproot does not It seems to me that Deeproot understands that there are resources in the woods and there are animals that, you know, support the town just as those efforts of hunting and cutting down trees has supported the woods.
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It's been a symbiotic relationship for hundreds of years, but now the town has grown greedy. Mm.
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When you say return to the way things were, you mean freak? yes I don't want to be... insensitive ask this question are you aware of of the war i don't know how much you've cut yourself off from other affairs yes i i i i've not lived in these woods my whole life i and kaz doesn't know how still doesn't really know how big of a scope the war is so i i became a steward of these woods at the outset of the war i'm part of an order that seeks to protect natural places specifically places tied to lamania from
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the impact and influence of the war. So I have been here for about 80 years now. And this, the, the deep root, just deeper, just deeper. Okay. And deeper wants no article wants for the amount of resources taken from the woods to be returned to the pre-war level.
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Just pre six months ago. Okay. Okay. That's when things began to shift. But that is when the contracts and stuff. start that That's when the Woodwrights Guild specifically started ramping up production.
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Right. Deep Groot has expressed that the time, the window for negotiations is closing rapidly.
Negotiation Strategies with Deeproot
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Negotiations. It sounds as though Deep Groot has
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a demand and and that doesn't seem the way it's always really it's been expressed to us up to now does not suggest space for negotiations it simply suggests either things return to the way they were before the government required the town to begin producing more or animals would kill everyone in the town To be fair, we also haven't been told that anyone was sent to negotiate, except for potentially the time that you'd train a way to...
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but it I just took something from her. Alondra. No one else has mentioned being approached for any sort of negotiation from persons of the wood. Didn't Angelina say that there is a point in the woods that she can no longer pass?
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I'm saying in general, yeah there hasn't been any mention of someone coming to negotiate on behalf of. Deep Root. Yes. to No, and I did not come at the behest of Deep Root. I came the behest of the woods.
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I know that if Deep Root continues down the path that they have began trotting, then the town will lash back and a lot of people and animals will die.
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do you know what...
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Can you just ask this? Do you know what Deeproot is? I've never seen or communicated directly with Deeproot, unfortunately, so no. Okay. I just don't... I mean, if Deeproot is a a god or an...
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whatever the lot whenever Lamania's version of an archfey is, right right then we have to really be considering this. If Deep Root is the biggest pig in the woods, we may able to...
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it cook And now he is in my mind. Yes. I'm going to just here dris scratch out some notes real quick and just... He's the biggest boar in the woods. call it Deeproot because he gets those deep druthers.
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She says, I i think in Deeproot's mind, ah but
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negotiation is a return to the status quo, whereas if Deeproot had their druthers, then no one would step foot in the woods.
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um Deep Root is starting from the half measure. but That's my understanding anyway.
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I...
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I've never been able to venture forth into the heart of the woods where Deeproot has set up command, it seems, but that's because he knows that I am not a representative of the town. I'm not capable of brokering peace.
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If someone, you all, could bring someone or get the ability to speak on behalf of the town with deep root, um I can lead you to the heart of the woods where the border is set up. And it is my understanding that those individuals will be allowed through.
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do you think it could work in the opposite direction could we represent deep root to the town if they wanted to give us some instruction or opening i understand the opening has been broached but you i mean yes i mean i honestly don't know if i i came and tried to
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I tried to enact change within the town internally and not invoke my rank or mention Deep Root just to see if the internal agents of the town who did not want to be supporting the war and did not want to continue down this road could affect change.
00:14:56
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It is clear now that that is not the case, that that that will not be an effective path forward. So if you were to mention Deep Root and mention the fact that
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the animals will begin killing. That might spur some change in the town. Who have you spoken I've spoken to handful of squirrels, some birds.
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That's one squirrel. it's what but but She might big hands. She tall In the town? Oh, in the town. Just a laundry room. Also some squirrels. sent a bear to ask about this. You're right there. Alondra and her friend Corwin were the only two that I spoke to in the town.
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And they assured me they would do their best to do something.
00:15:49
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I think the likely change that is affected is that for the town to become more, more likely for wherever these increased quotas are coming from to become more aggressive.
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I don't know. I don't. yeah
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I'm also going to say, i don't think a wandering......quinspotany... be take Now they did say that they tried to talk to Davin.
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i I have hopped back and forth between Davin and Devin and I acknowledge that. ah Listening back to the editing, yeah, was not consistent on that. It is Davin. D-A-V-E-N. So just so everyone knows. That's what I had written down, but he was like, oh, maybe I was wrong. going go with Davin.
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Davin. I also wonder how much the
Aftermath and Recovery
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Chiron... National government gives a crap if these people might lose some townsfolk to animals as long as they keep their production up. I know eventually the production will wane with the lack of people to do the producing, but you know i send more my fear is that there is no negotiating with Kair on the quota. right It needs to be with no negotiating on the town if they want to anger their government.
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in order to not get eaten by the bears. Right, I think the likely scenario where the town tells the government, we can't do this, there too many wild animals attacking, there's a problem in the wood, I think that's... Then we get hired to come back out here with a different set of instructions.
00:17:24
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Yeah, then we have... That big pig. so What? I'm sorry, I was thinking earlier about what deep room might be, and I've settled on large four. Four is terrible.
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30-digit kill. I'm starting to fight a very large port. I wish I had your one. That sounds Lindsay, I'm terrified. Great massive tusks.
00:17:52
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I mean, we've seen a wolf the size of a grizzly bear, so yes, kind of concerned about how large a boar might get out here. Speaking of fighting wolf the size of the of a grizzly bear, we did not do, I said we were going to do quick rest stuff at the top of this session and we did not do that because the combat had just finished. So anybody that would like to spend any number of recoveries after that fight and anybody needs to roll to see if any of their spells or abilities recharged.
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Oh, yeah. I didn't even look at my stuff. I am pretty low on HP, so I'm going to... Cast no spells. Spend it cover a cover here, too. That'll be two, because that was a one.
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And I'm full.
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And I lose temp HP that came as a result result for the battle. Yes, temporary HP just lasts until the end of the battle. We roll dice equal to our level for recoveries. Yes. Oh, okay. Two dice per recovery now.
00:18:47
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Yes. Oh, then I only did one recovery time.
00:18:52
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I didn't realize that. perfect. Yeah.
00:18:56
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Yeah, the numbers get big quick in 13th age. Yeah. So I found this really kind of wonderful character sheet, Excel based character sheet, but it does some math for me. So I don't notice something's changing. Like there's definitely says to recovery. That's right here. Jeff didn't see it because that requires like, ah it's a really great spreadsheet. yeah It's made it so much easier. I'm trying to make a word for a chaos.
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and
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That's why I think some tools like D&D Beyond just are not great for new players because like half of the table of our home game that never played D&D before still don't know how to play D&D. They just know where to click on D&D Beyond to make things happen. just don't even know math.
00:19:37
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It did make me feel the game progressed. Yeah. um Okay. Sorry. Just wanted to make sure that we got that. Yeah. so that Thank you. because Me too.
00:19:51
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um branding Well, it sounds like our options are to attempt to speak to Deep Root, or to try and convince the town to acquiesce to Deep Root's demands.
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It seems as though either way we would need to go back to the town to get... I think if we're going to talk to Deep Root, we need to, yes. yeah we can't We need to know what we can offer. yeah you sorry if we need If we're going to try to send word to Deeper, we need to know exactly what we're willing to capitulate towards. And Trina did say if you all have a message from the town, she can get you to Deeper.
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it Sounds like we have to go back to the town. I think so. It's also starting to get about afternoonish and I would recommend not being in the woods when the sun starts to set, which is December. So it descents earlier, whatever the Emberon equivalent of December is, is called.
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wrote Volt. Volt. Volt.
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Do we have time to check on the, what is his name? Marcus? Marcus. It would be dependent on the rolls. Like if you all are efficient in your navigation and make it through the woods, yes.
00:21:07
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If any of the rolls get bungled, then there's a chance you get caught after dark. But if this is woods navigation, I'm going to add eight to my roll. but So that feels a good thing.
00:21:19
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I thought we talked about this last time. I think we decided that Marcus is going to be fine or not, but Marcus put himself out here. We have to, yeah, go As far as we can tell, Marcus doesn't have any information we desperately need.
00:21:33
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i will say I've only gotten to listen to all- Nix didn't say about half of that out loud during the conversation of Marcus put himself in this situation he's done problem. heavily implied that that was his own problem at this point. Okay.
00:21:45
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I forgot that. but Yeah, I know we had talked about, like, he'll be fine for one more next one. I mean, he's been out here. I tried. Okay. Okay.
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So, y'all are headed back to town? Back to town. Back to town. Okay. Do I need a trinket from her? From Trina? She looks like she travels now. you want a trinket from her? i feel like... it's like Hey, the town might need and the town might need to know that we really met her.
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my Does the town know she exists? I mean, a lot of people can prove that we met her, so they don't know. We can take out anything and say, I'm trying to drink it. I I'm just trying to provide more with an excuse to acquire trinkets. I appreciate it, we
Return to Town and New Developments
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can leave.
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Okay, bye. She was just standing in the woods. I think she would also just pick up a pie and just... Uh, so you all begin heading back the direction that you came through the woods, following game trails and whatnot.
00:22:42
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You all are able to do so without too much issue. Philip, roll a d12 for me. the golden
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Five. Okay. First leg of your journey goes with that issue. It's good sound. Mia, roll a d12 for me. yeah Then Okay.
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You all make it back to the town without incident.
00:23:09
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So as you all arrive back in town, you note that, you know, it's right around sunset. So late afternoon-ish getting into evening.
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You see a lot of people heading for Silver Sap. You do see that the flaps are open of the command tent and you see
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four figures in the tent, one of um whom just the the the shadows on the tent from the lights inside. You see Saira silhouette, halfling Harlan and Davin.
00:23:49
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But you also see the silhouette of a dwarf and you all not encountered a dwarf yet up to this point. Yeah.
00:23:57
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David's the woodworkers. Cyrus, the little Tanner Tanner. Yes. And then Paul's the false. Well, the quote unquote self-proclaimed leader.
00:24:08
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He was, he was appointed as a party. Okay. Um, so we're all heading.
00:24:19
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I mean, I think we should go to the tent because need to talk to them. That's where people who we need to speak to are. Yes. Okay. You all, as you enter the tent, see
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um a What? 14 people. No. ah Yeah, you see Harlan, Syrah, and Davin. I don't know why his name is now slipping me after I clarified it at the beginning of episode. You also see a dwarf with bright red bristly hair.
00:24:49
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can cut into the mohawk, a very long, thick, wiry, bristly beard, and multiple scars all over his face from like blades, bites. Like this guy has been through some stuff.
00:25:08
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He's also wearing Chiron military garb. Um... you all can pretty easily clock that he is an officer of some kind. Like he is, he has rank within the Chiron military.
00:25:23
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I will take an intelligence check, uh, with any backgrounds relevant to warfare or Chiron or et cetera, to know who this person is.
00:25:35
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Can I make an alternative intelligence check just to see if I can gather how the other three are treating him? Sure. It's like deference or... Yeah, I would also take intelligence or wisdom for that video. I mean, I don't have any military, so that wasn't going to help. At least this way.
00:25:49
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ah Really badly. I'm not going to get this one. I have daughter of diplomat. that Yeah, that would help. Yeah, that would work.
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Okay.
00:26:01
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Intelligence? 27. 27? I got a 10. twenty seven and gi had ten Okay, you roll? I'm just a guy. Okay. I would know who that is. Selena, you immediately recognize this Ladislav Hytor, who is known as the Boar of Khyr.
00:26:18
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There's a boar. Whoa. He's the biggest pig in the woods. Found the biggest pig in the town now. So can we pause and double back on that name?
00:26:29
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but Yes. Or of Vladislav? Vladislav. L-A-D-I-S-L-A-V. Hightor. H-I-G-H-T-O-R.
00:26:41
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What? My parents not going to work with that. I'll get it later. Slayna, you know, Lottislav Hytor, the boar of Kyrr, is notable. He is actually Thranish.
00:26:55
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He is an expat of Thran who came to Kyrr and fell love with the culture um and immediately signed up to serve at the start of the war.
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so he's a So he's
Ladislav's Mission and Tensions
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old. Yeah, he's an older dwarf. Does not look as old as his age might make you believe. He looks a very fit, very capable.
00:27:19
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But he was the commander of a small unit, and that unit got wiped out during the war. And now he has become kind of a folk hero ah in Kyre.
00:27:31
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In that he he has brought up been brought up multiple times for murder charges during his military service. And then over the course of the proceedings, it is always revealed that the person that was killed was a spy or informant for another nation.
00:27:46
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And so he still became... It's always turned out that way. so bunch of recent double agents. But this been going on over the course of decades to the point where now lot of Slavs word is kind of bond if he thinks that somebody is a spire informant he's an intelligence agent that the conclusion we've drawn he's become an intelligence agent for the kyra government um and is also kind of a fixer for various situations should we be worried i think so yeah um This guy might suck. Don't disagree with this guy.
00:28:21
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I will keep my mouth shut. ah Jeff, what did you get on your roll to see how they're treating him? They don't give two craps about this guy, and you don't think you should either. fella. Hey, little guy.
00:28:34
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um hey little guy So you all enter and all the heads turn face you and Wadislav regards the form. He's like, who is this?
00:28:50
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And Harlan says, these are the people that we told you about that are assisting and investigating. so I see. What have you found out? yeah but I mean, I'm trying to think if I don't recognize this guy and he asked his question, I may ask, I may introduce myself.
00:29:09
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Like, it's, well, I'm Kazimir. if We were in the woods and we have,
00:29:19
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I'm sorry. I don't, know i don't, I don't, I don't know you. I know that it it looks pretty clear that we're, you know, we walked in on a meeting and I'm i'm just, I'm sorry. He looks at the other three of you. He was like, why do you let the child speak for you?
00:29:30
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I was just thinking about the optics of that. I'm only one that does. i only what it does' just so
00:29:41
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I think the rest of us were trying to, because Nyx did not recognize this person. I think the rest of us were trying to work out what exactly you have to do with this.
00:29:53
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We've been dealing with but the town's elders.
00:30:00
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Yes, and I have been sent here to help resolve the issue. I believe that... That's what we were here for. Good. Then we can work together.
00:30:12
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I believe that there is potentially someone who is sabotaging the efforts here in Ashton Hollow, which is why I've been sent in. Okay. Well, shoot. Now, nip that's exactly what next is happening.
00:30:27
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So I'm here to root out whatever may be going on. I've also been sent to ensure that production returns to its expected output by any means necessary. so See, that's part of the problem.
00:30:41
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that We were just having this conversation about this is what was going to happen. oh sorry. Alondra was also called to this meeting, so Alondra is in the tent as well. Apologies. Yeah, it's because there are no bears eating people, so she can yeah she can be there. This I have time for. it' just
00:31:02
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um he actually turns to Harlan, Davin, Saira, and Alondra and says, if you all will excuse us. And like, Davin hired us. right The Kyrie government. Okay.
00:31:17
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This is what I'm doing. Yeah. Harlan seems a little miffed at his dismissal. yeah harlan seems a little miffed at his dismissal I just got done telling them I was the boss. um If everyone wants to give me a wisdom-based check, Sans Jeff, because you already made this check, just to get a vibe check on the other three. Nope, that's the wrong shit.
00:31:41
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and 18. Is that a no? life that twenty That's a no. 25. Okay. Nyx and Selene, you pick up, yeah, Harlan is miffed, Syrah is pissed, Alondra is scared, and Davin is smug.
00:32:00
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So Davin called this guy. Shady. Bye-bye. At the very least, demon is very pleased. It's happening. Stay entattled. um So that that is the vibe that you get off of the various town elders that you've spoken to.
00:32:16
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um Yeah, and like, Sari and Alondra both seem a little shaken. And that probably close crystallizes for you all, as Lottis Hall begins to speak.
00:32:29
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um There's concern about the anti-war sentiment in this town.
Debate on Deeproot and Town's Threats
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There have been some people that have When the town was initially going to be upping their production, there were some very vocal members of the town that spoke out against it. So there's ah obviously top of the list for who may be sabotaging the efforts.
00:32:51
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but I initially thought that was what was happening, but it seems much more clear cut now. What have you found out? There's an entity out in the woods of...
00:33:03
Speaker
Lungian influence called Deep Root that is trying to force the town to decrease its snap incursions into the wood.
00:33:17
Speaker
Good. We don't know exactly what it is yet, but it's what's driving the animals. If it gives commands, then it can be killed.
00:33:28
Speaker
Yeah, well, probably. mean, I don't know. I don't know. Gods give commands. That is true. We don't know exactly what we are dealing with here. Lemania being strange.
00:33:41
Speaker
And to be before we, being very careful, just before we go on a witch hunt, I don't think we're talking about hunting the witches. b it this the which ah It was expressed that it was more that this person being potentially giant Thor.
00:34:03
Speaker
That is our work. yeah Representative of the magical will of heiress. so it's not just one guy.
00:34:14
Speaker
don't think...
00:34:17
Speaker
and i don't think
00:34:21
Speaker
I don't know that killing the forest is good for the trees that we're harvesting. but I say kill the forest? No, no. we used to... Okay, good. why No, I was getting out in front of... Making sure you didn't think we were on that on that path.
00:34:37
Speaker
I don't like this guy. We gotta be... I'll just talk me stop. I have no reason to think to you that you are on this path. Kaz is fluctuated by this guy. I think we have more information together before we can figure out what needs to be done.
00:34:51
Speaker
Okay. What information do you need? What we are dealing with. It would be good to know what it is. Okay. How can you find out that information?
00:35:04
Speaker
We need to have a bargaining chip of some sort in order to even approach having a conversation. Deeproot will speak to us as representatives of the town, but we need to have...
00:35:20
Speaker
We need to at least come with an idea of a concession. In order for it to... What does Deep Ruth want? next Ultimately, for things to go back to how they were before you required the town to ramp up their production.
00:35:37
Speaker
Well, firstly, the town offered to up production. They showed their capability and then we took advantage. So, the current government is not culpable in this.
00:35:49
Speaker
This is Jeff talking. This guy, to make sure production stayed up, it feels like the character has little cool building. The town offered was not conscripted. that is was The town offered and is now being forced to keep up what they offered, despite the fact that they cannot.
00:36:06
Speaker
Well, then whoever your envoy is that you did speak to, tell them that you are willing to have this negotiation and then get face to face with Deep Root. And if it's something you can kill, then kill him.
00:36:20
Speaker
Again, this is always exactly the land that formed in Nyx's house.
00:36:28
Speaker
I do not know what this will of Lemania business is, but sounds like a fairy tale.
00:36:36
Speaker
I hate people like this. I ain't stack nothing less. We're all wild magic and gods and you're saying you're just missing things out of hand. i In his defense, in Eberron, gods are distant. Faith is a real thing. Gods don't come down and just like, hey, I'm real. Okay, yeah, but I can shoot stuff out of my fingertips.
00:36:56
Speaker
yeah Why don't we dismiss anything out of hand? I understand it because we have to have people who do that. It doesn't that have to like them as the protagonist of the story.
00:37:07
Speaker
Among the protagonists the story. Thank you.
00:37:15
Speaker
So, this is the one. but
00:37:20
Speaker
I don't mix looks around at all of you because the fubbies. Nix is a hammer and things look like nails in Nix. However, knows this about herself.
00:37:32
Speaker
And so kind of looks around at the rest of you to check whether the thing that Nix assumes is going to fly.
00:37:45
Speaker
I can assure you that I'm not going to try to kill this thing the first time I meet it, having no idea what it is or how powerful it is. That's a promise I can make. Think about it. Is Kaz saying that? No, I think Kaz is saying that.
00:38:01
Speaker
Okay. Sorry, everyone else was talking also. Feel free. I can't. I would like to discuss as a closed group. No.
00:38:15
Speaker
Can you leave? I think probably we've been in the woods all day and haven't eaten properly.
00:38:28
Speaker
hu
00:38:31
Speaker
As you can see by Kaz trying to unwrap a bag of chips. um
00:38:39
Speaker
It's a cough drop. I know. um He says, very well, you may go eat and discuss your next plan.
00:38:51
Speaker
And our understanding is that there is a space deep in the woods where the animals become...
00:39:00
Speaker
madly aggressive and that that is the barrier that we're trying to find a way across. So, which we can do so without necessarily a form of violence. I think fighting our way across it is very implausible.
00:39:14
Speaker
I think
00:39:16
Speaker
I don't know what the number of animals is in a woods this size, but I'm not prepared to try to kill all of them. Here's the other reality of the situation, is that whoever this deep rip is has made it clear that they are unwilling to leave the forest.
00:39:30
Speaker
They send commands from there, but they themselves do not venture outside of it. but just Depending on what they are, if they are in fact an entity out of Lemania, it might be possible to send them back.
00:39:43
Speaker
That would be acceptable. But... you are going to be, in whatever form, contending with it on its terms and in its home. So, you need to have another advantage to offset that, otherwise you will probably die.
00:39:59
Speaker
Well, for starters, we're going to try to find out what it is. That's I said the thing I said. but Our starting point is finding out what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:40:10
Speaker
Glad Nyx knows that was rude.
00:40:16
Speaker
So, Dana.
00:40:19
Speaker
Please. say Yes. Please. We go. And Lodislav goes and sits in what was formerly Harlan's seat and begins looking through documents. He's not going to like that.
00:40:32
Speaker
You all walk out and Harlan is just standing like 10 feet away from the inch of the tent, just kind of impetitably waiting to be called back in. oh He's in your chair. It's amazing. Nix walks past him. Harlan doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, sorry, buddy. It's not my chair anymore.
00:40:50
Speaker
Harlan says. To Vout. On the way to get dinner, Selina fills everybody in on who we are dealing with. so good.
00:41:02
Speaker
Yeah, sounds like he sucks. I feel like I was gonna... If I spoke, was gonna put up as a traitor and killed on the spot, so... That's why I was so quiet until we could a plan. Yes, four of us. We could probably take him if we had to.
00:41:20
Speaker
all But let's go find out. but I think that's a starting point for a plan.
00:41:29
Speaker
So we go back to the silver sap. Yeah, yeah. Do we have a menu? Ah, you want the specials. Okay. I was hoping there was like like a printed menu. No, there's just the menu board behind the, yeah, we, sorry. but Next next time the Next time. Yeah, this is going to hand out on a coloring page.
00:41:46
Speaker
but Yes. With people eat free species. The specials. So mad. Yes, it says Volk specials. You see the three drinks that you frosted for mead, mulled wine of Yule, and winter glow cider.
00:41:59
Speaker
There is a seasonal appetizer of a snow-capped cheese platter. o um There's a crisp roasted goose, a winter woodland casserole, and then dark wood log, which is like a chocolate sponge cake. Like a, like yeah.
00:42:16
Speaker
Like a jelly roll? like ah Like a, like a yule log. Yeah. like like And then a frost berry tart. Hmm. And if you buy any of the seasonal main dishes, you get either a honeyed sap ale or a winter glow cider with your meal for just three copper pieces.
00:42:32
Speaker
That's a steal. Well, Selena's doing the casserole and the cider because she only got like two drinks of the cider last time. there a goose? Yeah, there's goose. There's goose.
00:42:45
Speaker
I will also have the goose thing. Guys, you just eat... Corrin says, you need one goose. It's a whole... Oh, it's a whole goose? Yeah, it's a whole goose. I would recommend splitting it. i had't Why would I have assumed it a whole goose?
00:43:00
Speaker
That's fair. I also assumed it was a goose dish. yeah yeah A goose. That's why Corrin clarified. That's why it's so much more expensive than it is. I was saying it like I should have known. I wasn't thinking it's... Everything else is like six to eight copper pieces and that one's 15. Sounds like a word better. Yeah, we'll split the goose. Yeah.
00:43:16
Speaker
Perfect. That was totally my point. yeah I think a frosted mead sounds really good, but for some reason I've decided that Nick's doesn't drink, so Nick's orders a stew and water.
00:43:27
Speaker
i I'll order it and then tell you how. Do you get the cider or the wine? Cider. Cider, okay. Okay. Yeah. Corwin takes your orders and says, yeah, I'll get it right up. It is pretty busy in here. It's pretty like the thrum of noise is little bit louder than what you've encountered before. Cause it's right at dinner. So we can talk. Yep.
00:43:45
Speaker
So Corwin gets started on your orders. and So this, the government has zero interest or like will not be letting this production slide back down. No, no, there's no way.
00:43:59
Speaker
ah ken He was like, well, they volunteered, and now you're forcing them. It's like, you're forcing Well, there's a war on. It is going to have to come down to finding out what the government is willing to do to force production, and if they're willing to kill more people than the forest is,
Production Challenges and Government Pressure
00:44:18
Speaker
suppose... don't think that's... This town is just due for attrition, I think. I don't think that's the likely scenario. I think what we're looking at is this... This Ladislav is...
00:44:31
Speaker
here to kill whatever the problem is. um And we've turned his attention away from it hunting traitors in the town, which infamous was my initial thought.
00:44:43
Speaker
He seems like the kind of guy that would have found one no matter what. Sure. Yes. Yes. That is what it sounds like. It's really strange to me that the pattern of behavior has led to everyone just taking his word for things and not everyone immediately assuming that he just kills people and then frames them. Right.
00:44:58
Speaker
ah I assume because they would also get killed in the... Friend. Surely someone outranks him. I don't know. Should we just start over that he's a spy?
00:45:12
Speaker
but He's been a triple agent the whole time. For Thrain, he's just here. Yeah, from Thrake. He's just here to cause chaos in the ranks of Khyr. It's a brilliant strategy. No, it's the dumbest strategy because Kynakir had to be the dumbest to fall for it. And it turns out... oh Anyway, I don't like him or trust him and he's going to try to kill Deeproof and we don't even know what it is or if it can be killed.
00:45:38
Speaker
I mean... the Killing it or sending it back to Lamania seems like the most plausible way to end this. oh I don't think our compass can...
00:45:51
Speaker
I don't think the compass is part of this conversation anymore just for a scale of what's happening. is It will nullify a zone. But the whole forest is the zone. Would that data deep root back to Amanya? Or i don't know just or kill? Or drop them here. but Also guys, i I don't really think it's a bee.
00:46:11
Speaker
It has a range though. Oh no. No, it's probably a tree. Which my thought was tree. Root. Yeah. Which is why I thought was- Which why won't come meet with us. I know. He won't come out of the woods. He's a tree!
00:46:27
Speaker
He's obviously a tree! Just backspacing the second time. I'm giving you two options you can run with now. Or your third better one. I'm not touching anything. Don't claim that you've influenced this. Hey.
00:46:45
Speaker
do that Eric said I have no influence on the story. except Like the good GM I am. Well, I don't know how to fight and kill a tree, even if that became the plan, to be quite honest.
00:46:57
Speaker
copper nails, I hear it doesn't get just... Fire. Fire was mine. Might I not burn down the forest? i don't want to kill it anyway. I don't either. Well, I don't know if I want to kill it because I haven't encountered it yet. fair enough. i know' You were already perfect. I don't want to. Of course I was. Right now. i will if I have to.
00:47:15
Speaker
It sounds like it was fine with a town being here. It was fine with some animals and wood being taken. Maybe. it sounds as though Trina was fine with that and maintaining some level of restraint and then this thing showed up and... Then displaced her.
00:47:35
Speaker
That's true. Okay. So... I misunderstood that bit. She was... But but it's the man... Deep Root's demand is just to go back to how was six months ago.
00:47:46
Speaker
you That's what Deep Root thinks is the compromise. Right. Okay, but is if that's what they think is the compromise, then they are willing to, that is a the demand. like yeah not They're willing to compromise, at least. my
00:48:03
Speaker
Which seems fair. I agree. But... David wants money. No. Kyren government is not going to accept that position.
00:48:18
Speaker
Even if the town accepted that position, the Kyren government is not going to accept that position. And if the town says, well, there's something in the woods that won't let us... maintain our quotas, then the solution of the Kyran government is not going to be to say, oh, well, I guess we'll find a different forest.
00:48:34
Speaker
They're going to, as they apparently have, because I'm 90% certain Davin called someone, called someone, sent to someone. Called out to someone. Sending Stoinger, I think. Davin sent to someone.
00:48:48
Speaker
The Kyran government has sent someone here to kill the problem.
00:48:55
Speaker
And yes, I was willing to consider killing whatever deeper it is. I don't... Why did the Kairan government give us like 25 hours before they sent in somebody to... I don't think that's what happened. I think Davin... I think Davin sent a message.
00:49:12
Speaker
this Davin wasn't happy with progress. We were talking. We weren't just taking his position. And so I think Davin sent a message and that's how Vladislavians appear. I agree.
00:49:24
Speaker
And that makes sense. So I feel like at this point, if the hiring government government already sent somebody else, should we be worrying if we're even going to get credit or paid for this mission?
00:49:40
Speaker
If they've already had to send somebody else in to intervene? I honestly had not thought about that. Don't have to worry about appeasing. We could just let this be one of the many atrocities that we're actually carrying on. That is not where I was going. I'm with Bounk. I can't do that.
00:50:00
Speaker
You were not getting, you're getting the smallest part of the goose. Tell it what. It's all the bishop's nose and it's my favorite. Well, you're not getting that. the smallest part Well, you're not getting it. Make up your minds out! Save me the neck.
00:50:16
Speaker
I'm the still viewing us as contractors. So I think... um save me the deck i'm the weird guy
00:50:26
Speaker
um
00:50:32
Speaker
he is clearly still viewing us as contractors so i think yeah but For now. Oh god, do we work we do we work for him?
00:50:43
Speaker
I think so. That sucks. We were hired by the government. We didn't actually answer to any of the people in this town. But now someone from the government.
00:50:54
Speaker
From some government. We don't know what to do. I'm entirely convincing thought, but the government at least believes they've sent someone out here.
00:51:07
Speaker
And so I think we do answer to him. That has got a lot more dangerous for us. He could be in marketing. which So do just need to... You're in the bathroom.
00:51:22
Speaker
said it.
Plan to Negotiate with Deeproot
00:51:25
Speaker
Just shouting, screaming. I do scream, I said I went to the bathroom. So do we need to tell Trayna that we have word for Deeproot and then go see what it is?
00:51:45
Speaker
We don't have. We kind of do. And they we needed if we need him to move his demand. I don't like it, but that's that that's the talk from the town.
00:52:00
Speaker
We don't have to say, or they're going to try to kill you. In fact, I suggest we don't. There's no reason we can't find out whether Deeproot is movable.
00:52:11
Speaker
It's relevant information no matter how this goes.
00:52:16
Speaker
But I think ultimately it's just going to lead to... That's not what Deep Root wants to hear. yeah. 10% percent. So there's going to be like more bearers. I think the odds of us having to fight Deep Root are high.
00:52:29
Speaker
The first time we go out there? but think they're not low. but they're not sayings possible It's possible we can get ah conversation before. But, I mean... Well, I still think there was the option of bringing a representative to...
00:52:46
Speaker
Who do we bring, though?
00:52:49
Speaker
I thought we were going to be the representative if we had to go back out there. It was an or. yeah Or we could bring someone. Ladislav. I mean, if we're going to do that, I think we do it without consulting Ladislav.
00:53:06
Speaker
Yeah, yes take a Llandra and go. Will Alondra go? Well, Angelina is not really a member of the town anymore to speak for. it And doesn't Alondra already, it isn't Alondra already agreeing with Deep Root? So in what way Alondra couldn't help with a bear attack when it happened. I don't know that she's the best person to find.
00:53:26
Speaker
She said her order forbade her from, know. I can't keep defending sorcerers.
00:53:34
Speaker
Alondra, I'm just saying I don't think she's gonna negotiate, try negotiate with her down. exactly No, no, no, I don't think that either. That's gonna be our job. Could we bring Davin and then he just... What we brought Davin? If he can see firsthand what we're doing? Davin disappears.
00:53:51
Speaker
Would he even be willing to go? I don't know. Of course. The ego would not... Why, Davin? Scare him straight? Well, he's the... We think, well, let's kill him.
00:54:09
Speaker
He's the other maximalist demand. i He wants yeah everything. Deeproot wants nothing. So let's bring them together and let them argue.
00:54:25
Speaker
I think our odds of a fight increase a lot that way, so we just need to be prepared for that. I think that's fair. I think also the only way we're getting him out there without Ladislav knowing is if we put a bag over his head and drag him into the lead. This is an actual question. Nick was like, yeah. Can Davin fight? Davin? Davin? Davin?
00:54:43
Speaker
Davin don't you start this devynvi um What about... He did not strike you as a fighter. His wife enlists in the military. He's trying to make wood. He can sway an axe. What about Saira? He's not a logger.
00:55:00
Speaker
He's a woodworker. Saira was anti-war. He can work out alive. It's long and has to at least get them down to work. We might be going against a tree. Is Saira anti-mass production?
00:55:12
Speaker
I got the impression that what she hated was the idea that we have to produce more and that's going to cause our standards to slip. That was the impression I got as well. could talk to her. So, is she... i just assume whenever they talked about a traitor that they were immediately going to pick her up as the traitor. Oh, I think that's extremely likely, which is why i immediately told him about the woods.
00:55:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:55:37
Speaker
Is she neutral? is that Is she as close to neutral as it goes? But I feel like in the town she's probably not considered... and No, probably not. That's fair. Yeah. And this is the other thing.
00:55:49
Speaker
If, as I suspect, Davin is the reason that this got escalated, and then he's going to have the most... Yeah, I mean it's too late. It's clearly too late to call it off. Right.
00:56:02
Speaker
but Even if Davin says, I made a mistake, Wadislamin should not have called for you. That, you know, that horse is out of the barred, as they say. He could be pinned as the traitor.
00:56:16
Speaker
I'm willing to... That's creeping me out. Just gnawing on a juice. Let's go wish both of them. There's no need I'm trying to make a wish. Nick's goes, is he?
00:56:31
Speaker
nice Is he? Is he? Is he creeping you in? I think you just got too comfortable. forgot. just because we're sharing a meal doesn't mean that there's anything here.
00:56:45
Speaker
I'm just I think there's something to taking Davin. it
00:56:56
Speaker
And I'm willing to encourage him to come with us without consulting Modest Love. Let's do it. think that's great. I think that sounds hilarious. We're kidnapping Davlin. Nobody?
00:57:09
Speaker
im I was thinking talking to him. Oh. But I'm willing to talk to him. I think the right way to say it is one way or another Dublin's coming with us
00:57:31
Speaker
So get over first light. Go. it's Grab and go. good Are you gonna ask or are we just gonna take him? I'm thinking of talking to him. think let's try to talk to him. I don't know that all four of us should go talk to him. I should not either. think we should all go because we need to not have an extra meeting point.
00:57:56
Speaker
yeah that yeah joker Go there, get him, go.
Davin's Reluctance and Agreement
00:58:00
Speaker
Valkyrie'll stand in the back. what what you have specific specific person I am rage defighter. I would like remind us all that the only evaluation of Davin's character that we've received has been that he's not a bad person. right And that he is in fact trying to do his bit.
00:58:23
Speaker
Maybe he'll listen to Reason. think it sounds great. i I don't want to kill him. I want to make that clear. I'm not good. I'm on team David Lives.
00:58:34
Speaker
Okay. So you all go upstairs to go to bed for the night? Or just rest? like Yeah. Nick's posted up on the stairs like a weirdo. um There's at least one person in town who randomly accuses people of treason and gets them killed. Or murders people and then presents them as traitors afterwards.
00:58:59
Speaker
Yeah. After a handful of hours, the noise downstairs starts to die down. People leave. ah next you are woken by footsteps and a shadow on the wall, approaching the stairs.
00:59:09
Speaker
ah You see Corrin around the corner and this time he does not start or anything. He just sees He's like, everything good up here?
00:59:19
Speaker
Relatively speaking. Are we going to have this conversation again? Well, it is part of my nightly duties to come upstairs and make sure that there's nothing going on. So as long as you sleep on the stairs, then yeah.
00:59:35
Speaker
Nothing appears to be going on up here. Great. Oh, this it fires you on. I agree. Go to bed.
00:59:42
Speaker
i agree and go to but but then I guess I will lead you to it. You want a blanket or a pillow or anything? No. Okay.
00:59:54
Speaker
And Corrin turns and walks back down the stairs.
01:00:00
Speaker
Is there something in your character build that requires less sleep or exist? No. Okay. Nix sleeps on a cot at home. Yeah, Nix is not keeping watch. Nix is just physically hurting themselves. Somebody comes up the stairs, Nix will wake up.
01:00:14
Speaker
Yep. Okay. Morning comes. you all trickle downstairs for breakfast. I walk. I don't know what the rest of you do to get thats to slide on the stairs. I walk. Yes.
01:00:28
Speaker
Obviously, I just use my toes and think of all the rest of the way. You see, the menu board has changed to the breakfast. I'm excited.
01:00:39
Speaker
yeah I'm just glad that Aaron has so many. They made you a fine way. I don't think they got the appreciation. um like you accept um so the specifically. here for Uh, the witch's hearth platter, which is roasted boar sausage, two eggs cooked to order side of honey glazed parsnips and a thick slice of toasted brown bread with spiced butter and served with a mug of hot cider.
01:01:05
Speaker
Snowdrift pancakes, which are fluffy pancakes made with ground hazelnuts, dusted with powdered sugar and served with whipped cream and a drizzle of dark wood syrup and frostberry oat porridge, which is a steaming bowl thick oats cooked with milk, winter spices, and frostberries topped with a handful of candied pecans.
01:01:22
Speaker
It's a lot of sweetness. guy Then there are seasonal breads and sweets, also for a breakfast offering. That is a Yule Spice Roll and a Candied Chestnut Tart.
01:01:34
Speaker
And then there is ah specifically a Mold Morning Wine, a Warm Winter Nog, and a Frosted Fur Tea for breakfast. Fur tea?
01:01:45
Speaker
that's what I know you eat like pine needles. What do you say?
01:01:56
Speaker
so pulling Selena's gonna get the pancakes and the tea. Okay. All right. Yeah, I'll get started on that. Corin takes the rest of your orders as you come down. If you're like the normal menu, I can also provide that. If nothing on the... Steak eggs and calf.
01:02:11
Speaker
Right. Can I do what you just... How high do you think you can responsibly stack pancakes together? Today?
01:02:24
Speaker
i get at least half dozen. Let's do it. Alright. If you feel like getting risky, I'll take one. It depends on the diameter of the pancake. Yeah, it really depends on the tower style. Valk? Oh, one.
01:02:42
Speaker
the nor the first one The Winter's Hearth Platter with boar sausage. Yeah, without all the the sugary bits. The honey glazed parsnips. Yeah, I don't want to have that much sugar in it. I'll take those, get them, and I'll take them. Parsnips from the table.
01:03:02
Speaker
That was very give me your pickles. it just ah Honey glazed being the sweet stuff is the craziest. The most natural safe sugar. This is an out of the way.
01:03:14
Speaker
but I'm off natural sugars right now. but lab Lab only, thank you. Thank you. I only eat ultra processed beef by choice.
01:03:26
Speaker
I'm only given what the sorceress just makes. It's artificial. Like a month or two ago, I watched a YouTuber who only ate YouTuber food for a week. I'm so sorry. lunch leaves and like, yeah. He felt he felt awful. He felt terrible.
01:03:39
Speaker
he He almost exclusively drank Prime. yeah It is morning. So you all are having a hearty breakfast, drinking your drinks. What now? Let's go talk to Davin.
01:03:51
Speaker
I didn't look up. Did she put her talk in quotation marks? No. No. Um, as Cass has his own thermos of tea. He does.
01:04:03
Speaker
I bought this thermos to get through It's a Wonderful Life. No. Because I could not talk when I got to the theater and would just pound this thing whole time. You should drink out it. Oh, it's really hot. I can't.
01:04:14
Speaker
It has to cool off. Okay. Uh, so you all head to the Woodwrights Guild Hall. Um, you all...
01:04:27
Speaker
Give me a intelligence or wisdom check as you all approach. You see, like, people filtering in and out of the woodwrights. Dad has been killed. It turned out he was a traitor.
01:04:38
Speaker
Oh, no. I have the vibes. Does Mabar touch your daughter, Diplomat apply? No. Is this like a kind of see if you can catch a vibe kind of thing? so if can get your vibe or, like, a system.
01:04:51
Speaker
Like, if if you're really familiar with, like... I just want this man to do it. I was trying to make privileged mischief work, but i don't think it quite well. if I have an 18. Also, a lot of people apparently say catch a vibe, and every time they do, I hear the Borderlands thing. Catch a vibe! Yep, yep. Oh, nice. and Yeah. got an 18. I got a 9. 18.
01:05:14
Speaker
Okay. Kaz and Nix, you all like, as you're approaching, realize it is shift change is what you're getting here for. Okay. And that very much unlike the, the setup over with the Tanner's collective, um, the David has basically third shift now for this, where there, there are people that are just now getting off work and headed home to sleep.
01:05:39
Speaker
um so Who did he convince to go out of those woods at night right now? Once again, these are not the loggers. These are the woodworkers that are in town. yeah They need to get the wood. The two separate professions.
01:05:51
Speaker
they They don't get the wood. The loggers get the wood. Someone needs to get the wood. The loggers don't have a third shift is why I'm telling you. There also doesn't seem to be a loggers guild. He's there. assume.
01:06:05
Speaker
yeah The vloggers are... You have had an opportunity to talk to one of the vloggers this whole time. tip I tried to get us to yesterday. I was saying.
01:06:17
Speaker
Don't give it to you. He said no. Last session. I was the only one fighting to go see him. Well, Madison would continue to talk to you. Would have taken too have taken too much time.
01:06:31
Speaker
Both things can be true. So as you all enter, you see Davin behind a desk kind near the back. There's a lot of stations set up now that like you all are walking through, you get a better look.
01:06:42
Speaker
Yeah, there are very small workstations set up and you see, you know, a shift change. So people are just getting started getting their tools out. But you see every, every workstation at this point is set up for either bows or weapon halves are what they're working on.
01:06:58
Speaker
You do see on the walls, very similar to the Tanner's Collective, you see a lot of like pieces of woodworking that are very intricate and well-made and non-utility. Like you see some like really nice just wood relief carvings that it's obvious we're done to tins
01:07:19
Speaker
um that are on display, but nobody working on anything like that at this point. Right. So, Damon sees you all entering and looks up from his desk and like closes the ledger that he was writing in and like, Good morning!
01:07:31
Speaker
What can I do for you? We would like to propose something to you that we think would help resolve this problem.
01:07:43
Speaker
We're going, we have a way to get to peak the
01:07:50
Speaker
root of this trouble. Right? But it isn't it is an entity. Awesome, bye! It is an entity and it
01:08:03
Speaker
We aren't sure of its nature. We know it's intelligent, we know it's capable of speech, and it has demands. We have been trying, it's willing to meet with a representative of the town, and we spent some time trying to think of...
01:08:21
Speaker
who we might bring as a representative of the town as we ourselves are not we think necessarily the best representatives of the town being only contractors and we landed on you so we'd like to take you with us today when we go into the heart of the wood to meet with this thing you'll be perfectly safe here with us um
01:08:51
Speaker
I don't typically go into the woods, though. No. And what, like... Well, that's not what I've been thinking this whole time over and over again. So... You're not.
01:09:05
Speaker
You want Vayden ahead of the Loggers Guild. He's... um
01:09:11
Speaker
First I'm hearing him. I know. We don't let the Loggers Union. i No one would be willing to do the job.
01:09:18
Speaker
Uh... Has... a What does Lada Slav's take on all this? That we're going to go and find... We need to find out more about this being. Regardless of how this is going to end, we need to find out about this being.
01:09:33
Speaker
Your position on this matter is the furthest away from that of the being, as we understand it. Many others in the town have other positions on this matter.
01:09:49
Speaker
And so we felt that you were the best positioned to find a middle ground if one exists and even if it doesn't exist by going with us you will give us way to go to this thing and find out what it is and what its nature is and that will give us information that will allow us to plan what's next right give me a charisma-based jackknit of some kind with relevant records
01:10:22
Speaker
I don't know that the name of my cries are relevant. The closest I've got for negotiating with someone is black marketeer. um And like I am negotiating in bad face.
01:10:34
Speaker
ah So, I don't know. But you're not saying yes. I mean, if you... I'd say this feels more... If you were to add something at this point to like sweeten the deal, even if it's a lie...
01:10:48
Speaker
Like, cause this doesn't feel like negotiation right now. It feels like trying to convince him. Like if that makes sense. So if you turn this into a negotiation, then i would let you apply it.
01:11:06
Speaker
and don't know what I have to offer him. other their son And in exchange, I won't lure you outside on a pretext and abduct you.
01:11:20
Speaker
um Is the easy way the hard way a negotiation? It is, but Nix doesn't want to... Nix doesn't want to say that part out loud because she wants to leave the option to lure him outside under free text and kidnap him. Available.
01:11:35
Speaker
It's fine. i'll I'll go for it. I get a... I have a plus six anyway. Puts bit out.
01:11:44
Speaker
A 20. Okay. Yay. um
01:11:50
Speaker
And like you can see that he is like really racking his brain for... Any kind of like excuse that he feels like Nyx would take. Nyx is working out what she's going use to get him outside. ah i mean, how long... How long?
01:12:07
Speaker
We got a lot We got a new order that just came in today that I need to make sure stays on track. A matter of fact. Be on our supervisor something? you have a deputy who can keep things running. Three shifts? Are you working 24 hours a day?
01:12:20
Speaker
Well, third shift supervisor just left. I handled first and second shift, so...
01:12:27
Speaker
I want to say something. Hey, are these the same guys that this stuff on the walls? Oh, no, this is from a while back. like Pretty sure they can handle a hilt if they were doing that without you here, David. No, a lot of these people have never woodworked before in their lives.
01:12:43
Speaker
I would argue they're not doing a lot of woodworking, though, no. Oh, did you make a bow? Did you can make a stick into a different stick? Way to go, buddy. Thank You got anything to say about that, Philip? That was specifically the Razzan, Philip. Mix rounds on his hand.
01:12:58
Speaker
ah mix rounds on the thought of work that goes into a bubble not these bows as i'm holding up some basic garbage yeah when when are we leaving when no oh i put his coat on him it's our dead it's cold outside it's bulk it's true love you know this is the southern
Encounter with the Burrowing Lion
01:13:22
Speaker
no all right yeah i guess so and he stands up and looks around and just Okay, should we let Lattice fly over? We talked about the plan last night.
01:13:34
Speaker
Okay. Okay, let's go then. Yes, and David starts following you all. when i think it's out of your shot i say vac don't kill him what um best way is this way yeah and nix leads in a depth with the long away from the tent and and a roundabout way to leave the town in a way that is not in in view of yeah the headquarters for sure we do this yeah everyone give me a wisdom based you're for sure well that's probably how you should notice something
01:14:10
Speaker
actually my feet make little tickle tickle noise when i sneak around 11. that's right wisdom yeah to notice something 20. it hopped into the dutch 13.
01:14:23
Speaker
16 okay oh no i apologize 15. okay
01:14:29
Speaker
nothing great Just hit my... Oh, fine. I thought Philip just had a drastic realization about the adventure. Philip, spill the um jeff roll d twelve for week
01:14:47
Speaker
Seven. Okay. I'm assuming you all headed back to Trina, or are you going to swing by and check on Marco? He was our path, too. Yeah. Okay. Just making sure.
01:14:59
Speaker
Do we get Dr. Marcus? We get Marcus all the way back, baby. We'll see. Madison, roll a d12. Okay. Eight. Eight. Okay.
01:15:13
Speaker
Eight.
01:15:16
Speaker
Everyone give me a no wisdom-based check. To notice something? It's 19. 23. Hold on. 22. 11. Okay. Everybody but Valk and Davin.
01:15:30
Speaker
done twenty two eleven okay everybody but vouch and dain I don' like this guy's vibe. It's really messing me Begin to feel i'll rumble under their feet that is... Deer?
01:15:50
Speaker
Unnatural? It's that boar. It's that boar. Brute. It's like a thing to me. like a short ta boom
01:16:01
Speaker
Deep Root is subterranean. Yeah. just so like That was really ideal for him. Oh my gosh. If it's like a purple worm skin as a deep root, then we have to fight.
01:16:12
Speaker
Oh. And we're not ready for purple. I have to say, apparently, this game's done with this campaign. down over Last time was all purple worm, he wouldn't let you kill it, or remember? least ah No.
01:16:23
Speaker
I followed the rules. You did. Yeah. You interpreted the rules possibly correctly. Your made them. I follow the rules. If it doesn't have a neck, it can't be decapitated. It's all neck.
01:16:37
Speaker
Which means it's no neck. The listeners will never get tired of this relegating. Okay, you all, except for Valk, you all see or feel rumbling.
01:16:52
Speaker
And then in front of you, you see the underbrush and soil and grass fly up. As a lion comes burrowing out of the ground. Wait, what? and lands in front of you all and snarls. Burrowing?
01:17:10
Speaker
Yes. A lion? A lion. Okay. Several questions. Well, I have a question that we'll ask next episode.
01:17:18
Speaker
that will ask next episode but god
01:17:28
Speaker
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01:17:40
Speaker
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01:17:57
Speaker
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01:18:10
Speaker
We'll see you next time.