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C1 Ep. 35 Ancient Memories Chapter One
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This week on Eberron Renewed the heroes reconvene as they try to figure out which way is forward. There are many paths ahead of them, and the try to figure out which one is right.
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Introduction and Thanksgiving Gratitude
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Hey everyone, your Dungeon Master Eric here. I just wanted to drop a little message before this episode. Since the four of us live in America, we are celebrating Thanksgiving the day that this episode released. And I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for listening to our show. We honestly probably wouldn't still be doing this if it wasn't for you all. So I just wanted to take a moment and thank all of you from the bottom of my heart.
00:00:27
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for participating in this story. Hearing what you all have to say and hearing the things that you like and the things that leave you bewildered, it really does make all of this so worth it. And so instead of a quote that could possibly tie into the episode, I wanted to share with you a quote from Tecumseh.
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A Native American chief and the quote is, when you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Thank you all so much and enjoy the episode.
Episode Introduction: Eberron Renewed
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D20 radio, your gamers roll.
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Speaker
Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D fifth edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I am your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode of Eberron Renewed. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Mission Brief: Kyber Dragon Shard
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Lots. We met a weird being called Belashira. Did I get that right? Yep. Belashira.
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that didn't fight us. Thank goodness, I think. Yeah, I think probably so. And then made it back out of Kyber with the Kyber Dragon Shard that we've been sent for. And Elodrin gave his life to save his son.
A Hero's Sacrifice: Theradak's Fate
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And a certain fighter named Theradak basically released a whole ton of energy and was pushed into a portal with a big bad guy. Yeah, we lost Theradak. We got Beric back. There was a pretty rad shadow fight.
00:02:53
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I'll take my answer off the air for this question. You never, we never resolved if the ribbon weave is now the only magical artifact we still have from- The amulet is still
Magical Items Discussion
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around. Okay. Yes, we still have the amulet. But the breastplate is gone. Right. Bummer. I mean, Booyah Gurgle smack. What is it? Booyah Gurgle? Booyah Gurgle.
00:03:16
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Couldn't have worn it anyway, I think so. All right. OK, so, yeah, that's that's it. Barracks back there. Dex gone and Dex remained steadfast. So, yeah.
Aftermath and Emotional Reactions
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OK, so picking up right where we left off the bright light from the explosion that they're that caused begins to settle.
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all of the drow are on the ground writhing in pain and i mean all of you are little blinded seeing spots barrick is strapped up on the sibera shard what do y'all do i mean dex runs over
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I mean, Dak has gone. He didn't just disappear, right? We saw him end up going through the portal, is that correct? I don't believe we did. I believe that there was an explosion and then he and the Lich, the shadows, were all gone. Yeah, just gone.
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I don't know that like, Texas isn't going to run over to the spot where they're next to it and just figure out what happened. He's probably going to, I mean, go back over to Barrick. He doesn't care about these, like he's seen people rolling on the ground in pain before and he doesn't know these guys. Like Barrick is the only thing that he can immediately see that he gives a crap about. So he's going to go over.
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and Booyah would be going around. I'm assuming he knows a few of these drow down here since he's been here and he will be checking on them and making sure they're okay. You have a pretty tenuous relationship with every drow that wasn't named Elladrin. Yeah. So you may have grown to appreciate and like them, but it was never really reciprocated. Right. But I think Booyah being Booyah, he would still. Okay. He would go.
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Speaker
I mean, they're clearly an immense amount of pain and trying to recover from the blindness. So, yeah. Drakir casts darkness and feels better. Okay, so you all see a cloud of darkness emerge from where Drakir was. So, yeah, I mean. I don't know that I would say anything initially because all I know is his eyes open, right? Yes. Like Dex saw that though. He knows.
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So I guess I'd be like, can you hear me? Yes. He hasn't talked in like three days. Yeah, no, I get it. I get it. Is there any water around? No. I mean, because I figured he'd try to get my drink. I'd say I'm gonna get you on untied. Do you think you can stand?
00:05:54
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I'm not sure. Well, let's try anyway. Maybe really tell it from this position. Yeah, so I untie him and I guess I'm going to try to help help you up. Okay. I think he's probably unsteady on his feet, but it hasn't been long enough for there to like that actual atrophy. Right. Sure. Sure. Okay.
00:06:23
Speaker
I don't know how to react to this. Well, Booyah being shooed away by a couple of drow. Yes. They don't even want you to touch them. They just dismiss you. He makes his way back to where the others who are at. And Booyah help. Booyah here, help.
00:06:51
Speaker
What what need? Beric, this is this is Booyah. I also have just met him, but his name is in fact Booyah.
Catch Up: Dex and Barak
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Let's uh, yeah, I can you get us some water or something? We all have water. It takes off his glass and hands it to Beric and he goes,
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Beric, Elodrin give life, save you. You, Beric, make worthy. He give life, you make worthy. We get shard, Elodrin you shard, and he bring you back.
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I knew he was bringing me back. I didn't know what it cost. I don't think he's the only one that knew what was going to happen to him. I just want to catch you up, Barrick.
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we for some reason uh the sword wouldn't let you go or you wouldn't let go of the sword uh and yes it followed me oh you all right well i can't wait to hear that story i'll take my answer off the air um but uh we met your brother your half brother eildren's other son and he
00:08:33
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Let us hear. He was after the sword and we were after making sure that nothing happened to you. Long story short, the three of us went down, got a dragon shard, brought you back, brought it back. You're back to life, Theredak's gone and I want to get the hell out of this cave. I don't know what happened to Theredak, he disappeared. He, you know, the thing with the with the dragon mark and the energies and he's gone. And I've been, I'm all for taking a quick scope around the cave to find him, but
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Litch was here. I saw the Litch. Yeah. Yeah. The Litch, the Litch was here, brought a whole, whole gang of shadows with him again. And, uh, I mean, this crew fought, fought bravely and, and, and, but, but in the end, what happened to get rid of it all was their deck turned into a ball of light. And that's why everybody's on the ground out here. And, uh, and now he's gone too.
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Is there anything keeping us from just moving to an exit? Like, I mean, that's what I want to do. The drow have begun, um, collecting themselves on our beginning to pay a great deal more attention to you now. Okay. Um, trickier moves over to the table and starts cutting Elodrin loose and arranging him. Okay.
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reverently
Drakir's Story and Struggles
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or in a more dignified pose. Okay. Sure. Actually, Dex probably goes over to Drakir. I'll give you a moment to bring Drakir to somebody. And he probably says, listen,
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Your father kept up his end of the bargain, and I do intend to keep up mine. I will work with you on this fight that you have, but I need to know what it is. Because we do have our own fight that is, I promise, even though you don't believe me, of equal importance. I think I am narrow-minded, but I am not simple-minded. I saw the creature that just came here. I saw what it did. I understand.
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why people are under attack why people have lived underground for centuries at first things were fine but for a long time now we have been under attack by something that
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We don't know where it came from. We don't know if we woke it up. We don't know if it was unleashed specifically to kill us. It is a master of the mind players, the beholders, the terrible nightmare creatures that we met. It is a master of them.
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Did like, like it's their, it's their commander. Like it sent it. I feel like I'm more Southern today. It sent, uh, it sent those ones that we fought or, or what I do not know if it sent them. There are, I think there are more than one of this kind of being, perhaps the creature we spoke to was of kin with it. It is the, it is not the commander. It is not the.
00:12:11
Speaker
It is creator, we believe. Oh, right. Oh. And my people have been losing. We only come to the surface in search of weapons or my father's case in search of, well, my father became distracted with personal letters. He wanted to bring his Outland love back.
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All right. Listen, I, I'm sorry for your loss. I feel like maybe you aren't quite as close to your dad as some families are. So I don't know how you're feeling right now, but here's, here's what I need to know.
Barak's Weapon Significance
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How can you use us and how can we help you while still, I mean, like you said, you saw what we're up against and what it can do and what it intends to do. And we need to not lose sight of that mission either.
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Well, if my father was right, then your companion, his son, should no longer be bound to that sword. Um, so you're saying you still, you still think the sword's going to help in your fight, even though your, your dad was saying, uh, it's going to just distract you from it. You want to try to, you want to see a bear can let go of the sword and give it to you. This is what you're asking for.
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any weapon will do. My people bound themselves to a power long ago. It has a terrible cost. We understand the use of power that
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that corrupts, that takes over, that I do not know what the soul would do to me, but it is my people are fighting for existence.
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I mean, I understand that. I believe, and I think you will agree now, that me and my friends, I want to say my people, that's not right, but Barrick, and at one point, there, and Draconos, and Krast, and Akko, God.
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we're also fighting for your people's existence along with everyone else's listen i'll go talk to barrick what the hell is happening here um which hell nine which of the nine hells um you all turn you recognize this voice um drake here uh you see a very large drow warrior walking amongst the the drow that are still
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Speaker
recovering from the energy that Theradac shot out. What you note about this Drow warrior though, he has white tattoos covering his torso, but half of his face is just maimed and scarred. I don't like the accent that I started off with, so I'm going to shift to something more in my wheelhouse because I feel like that one's going to waver quite a bit in the first sentence. So vibe with me.
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Drakeer, what is happening here? My father made use of one of his experiments. I do not know what the connection is to the attack that we just suffered. It is possible that my father's attempt opened the portal that that thing came through. It is possible it was a coincidence. These say they have faced it before. Why? Who are these Outlanders? Why are they here?
Drow Politics and Negotiations
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I found them in the jungle. They were in possession of the body of Elidrin's other son. As well as the sword that he was once... that Elidrin was once bound to. Where's the sword? That I do not yet know. There was some... this... the ritual Elidrin used did something to the sword, but I do not know what. Did we suffer any losses?
00:16:50
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I look around. I probably would have made this assessment already. A couple of Drow look like they were injured by the shadows, but nobody is dead. Some injuries. One of the Outlanders, I believe, died in performing some form of magic. Let's not waste words on them. He drove back the enemy. He destroyed the shadows, drove back the larger creature.
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The end. That is why they are gone. Well, they brought them here then it's only right that... I do not know that they did. I think it is more than half likely that Eladirim did. And the shaman is dead? Yes. Well, at least we won't have to divert resources to his machinations anymore. So, what use do you recommend of making of the Outlanders now?
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Speaker
I do not know. We have not discussed this. I do not know if they... I do not know if they are to be on their way or if they are interested in traveling into Kyber with us, let alone if you wish to bring them into Kyber. Well, they can be made of use. That has... that has seemed true. Thanks.
00:18:15
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That's out of character. That just was funny. That has seemed true. Well, we've saved your life a couple times. At which point it seemed true. Dex heard all of that, right? He walked up to the table that you all were sitting around.
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Dex, again, used the rare amount of discretion to not interfere in that conversation.
00:18:49
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I think, but I do think he would introduce himself at this point. Yeah, hey, I'm Dex, and I was just telling Drake here that we promised that we would help you guys if we could get Barak's body back, and we have gotten more than we bargained for.
00:19:17
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No, no, no, I promised to help if we got Barrick back. It was like, we'll help you if this works. So we want to fulfill that. It is not a small thing. Yeah, no, I understand that. Also not a small thing is what we've already been dealing with. And he kind of looks around the room and then looks back at the big guy and says, I think that's evident.
00:19:49
Speaker
But if we need... Since we have been fighting this fight, shadows have been nothing but our allies. So if the shadows suddenly turn on us after your arrival,
00:20:12
Speaker
I'm going to do the quite simple math and assume that you had your presence had something to do with that. Well, then I'm going to do the quite simple math to say that you've been taken in by the shadows. They're no one's ally. They might be using you guys right now, but their goal is to overtake this plane. Many creatures can summon shadows. The shadows are mindless. The shadows are
00:20:38
Speaker
The shadows are pawns. Your enemy is the creature that controls them. Right, right, sure. So there's Lich that controlled the shadows this time. Well then if the shadows are pawns, then this guy's statement holds no water anyway. The Lich, we have had no dealings with a Lich. Maybe somehow all is connected. Why is this creature still here? It just happened. Booyah, useful? You were useful to a madman in his experiments. No, Booyah, no things.
00:21:12
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Are you done? Booyah done. Booyah go help where help needed. He go, he go Dex. Um, all right. Sure. Why not? Yeah. Okay. Booyah no stay here. Let's drink on. Yeah. Come with us. Fine. We got to see you at the table. Well, considering that Booyah Griggle was our prisoner,
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that Elodrin released to help him with experiments. You don't have much say of whether you come or go. Now, do you? But you say Elodrin release. Boyan no prisoner no more.
Barak's Sword Dilemma
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Speaker
I say Uya prisoner. What is the purpose of keeping this one prisoner? Well, if they are capable, as you seem to imply, or at least have use,
00:22:09
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We still have the fight on the front for the lost city.
00:22:19
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They could be made of use there. We've lost too many of our own people trying to take that back. Um, well, and, and deck says now hang on. Uh, I'm not your prisoner. You don't get to just, you don't get to, to, uh, order me to the front lines. Okay. How did this one do in the ring of storms on the way in? You would need guidance to get out.
00:22:51
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Uh, did that index his head? He's like, yeah, well, I can get booty on help me out. Um, no, I'm sorry. Dex isn't going to know. Uh,
00:23:04
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I'll take my chances then that's fine, but I'm not going to, I didn't sign up for your army. I'm not beholden to follow orders from you. I want to help you. I have more important things to do as well though. I mean, you're not my commander. You need a hand. I'm here for a hand, but you don't get to order me or Barrick to the front line.
00:23:29
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I mean, honestly, I don't even know if Barret is ready for it, if he can handle it. He's been dead for three days. I don't know what's going on in his head right now. Hmm. Well, Drakia? This is not what Elodrin would want. Well, I mean... I didn't really much care for what Elodrin wanted, so... Nonetheless, we were here in service to what Elodrin wanted.
00:24:08
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Very well. Apologies for the way that I spoke to you. Yeah, sure. I mean, my name is Commander Jorlin Duskrin. Check on that one. He didn't check his underwear. My name is... I'm the commander at this outpost. We have been losing this war.
00:24:40
Speaker
We lost our city some time ago, and we've been fighting to take it back. It's not just soldiers at this outpost, but our children as well. Well, shit, fuck, damn. So, we've been launching offenses to try and clear out the aberrations that have taken hold of our city. If you ate us in this fight,
00:25:09
Speaker
I will provide you guides to ensure your safe travel out of the ring of storms. If you wish, there's the door. No, now Dex is in it. I mean, that was, it's all about tone. Um, I say, uh, listen, uh, I mean, I get it. Uh, I don't like to see the suffering of innocent people. Uh, let me
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confer with Berwick and see if he even feels up to doing anything right now. If he can't, if he can't, I mean, he can't make it through the, what's it called? Ring of storms. I mean, if he can't fight, he can't make it through the ring of storms anyway. So we're here. So I'm, I'm in, let me talk with him.
00:26:02
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I guess. Hey buddy, you, uh, you walk, you're going back over to the district here. Still have a word to get in. Oh yeah. Sorry. No, I haven't left yet unless. Nope.
00:26:17
Speaker
Uh, so Eric lays out the situation that was just put forth to him by, uh, what's the name of commander? What? Uh, Dustin. Okay. I really think that Dex wouldn't call him commander just based on the conversation they just had. So he's going to stick with that screen. Um, that's his last. Okay. Well, whatever we'll figure it out. Uh, we'll fix it in post. So, uh, he lays all of that out and he says, so, uh, so I guess a couple of things. Um, one.
00:26:49
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Do you feel okay too? Um, I don't know like how you're feeling vis-a-vis ghost swords, but I know it comes and goes as it, as it pleases or as it pleases you. Um, but I'd never seen it go the way it went last time I saw it go. So what's going on with, uh, with, with that? Can you fill me in a little bit? I'm not entirely sure. Uh,
00:27:22
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I mean, can you do the fist thing? Have you tried? Do you want to try? I haven't heard the reduced episode yet. I think I will be able to summon it. I don't know. I believe I have been told that the place we are is the place I was looking for where it could be forged.
00:27:50
Speaker
Well yeah, I guess it sounds like sticking around. I don't know what the time requirement for that process would be. You laid out Dracure's interest in this word?
00:28:07
Speaker
No, I don't know that I have. You said you laid out the situation, so I wasn't sure if that was part of both. No, I think it was just the, hey, we can't get through the storm thing by ourselves. They need our help. They're going to do just that conversation between me and the commander. So here's the thing. Kind of the reason you're here. I didn't say this earlier. Hold on real quick. Right after you say you're not sure how long it takes, you hear a voice in your head say, not long. Apparently not long.
00:28:38
Speaker
Okay. Where's, where's my father? Um, well, we already told you that he had died. So, uh, he's, I just point out, he's, uh, he's over there. Uh, Drakir is near him.
00:28:57
Speaker
Um, but I think I just want to say, uh, here, here's something you need to know. The whole reason we're here, um, is because Drake here was following us in the jungle. He wanted your sword when your body wouldn't let go of it. The only way that that's why we came here was as he, we could separate it from about, he wants that sword. Uh, I don't know why he, he seems to think it will help in this fight. Your, your father seemed to think opposite, but, uh,
00:29:28
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Regardless if you can't give it up, there's nothing you can do about it. Anyway, I imagine it would give him
00:29:35
Speaker
bloody hell about how whatever he wants to fight isn't the real enemy, and how he ought to be allying with it, and a bunch of other nonsense. Yeah, there's more than a small part of me that would love to see Drake here just be constantly pissed off by a voice in his head. He's kind of a turd. But anyway, so that's the situation that we're in. That's the offer that we've been made. Do you think you're up to a fight?
00:30:04
Speaker
Sticking around seems like a good idea if this is the place that the sword is forged. Well, I think that the forged place simply means that I can now decide the form of the sword. Moreover, the sword is not
00:30:32
Speaker
The sword's not the only one I have now, or it's been merged with something else that I met on the other side. That would take longer to explain than I think we have at this very moment, but I'd like to go see my father, actually.
Strategy and Leadership Roles
00:30:54
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Yeah, of course.
00:30:56
Speaker
So Dex steps aside and, uh, wait, uh, do you need, you need help or you ride? No, I think I can, I can manage it. Okay. So Dex steps aside, probably goes over to Booyah. Uh, so Dracure goes over, or Barret goes over to where Dracure is standing next to Elodrin's body and looks it over and says,
00:31:24
Speaker
I actually didn't know if he was alive. The sword thought so, but I don't really know how to feel right now. Spent a lot of time hoping I'd meet him, and here I am, coming back from the other side, and here he is, now trapped over there with the rest of his line.
00:31:56
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and I understand you want the weapon and I'd give it to you because it sounds like your need is great and from what I understand there are other people out there with packs like mine
00:32:21
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So I think the weapon was perhaps mistaken to say that I was the only one. And he attempts to draw a fourth curse bringer. First of all, does it work? You see shadow begin to wisp out of your palm. That'll do.
00:32:48
Speaker
And he holds it out to Dracure. And Dracure is quiet for a minute and reaches out and puts his hand on the
00:33:07
Speaker
sort of vague shadow form in barracks. And when Drakir draws his hand back, it's in Drakir's hand, and then much like when Barak handed the sword to Dex.
00:33:21
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quite some time ago. I did that once, right? We tried that. We tested that. We definitely talked about it at the table. I don't know that anyone ever said it. Okay. I'm quite certain we would have tested that at some point. Oh, definitely. It just dissipates. I don't know. Can I feel what's gone wrong or? Can who feel what's gone wrong? Yeah, Barrick. Can Barrick feel why this didn't? You'd feel it come back into your form. Okay. Perhaps we need to step aside for a moment.
00:33:48
Speaker
And so he walks off and Drakir follows. And then Beric says into his own head, or thinks, all right, I was led to believe that I could pass you off freely. I'm certain you won't be happy with the new owner, but I was led to believe that I had a little more control over this relationship. So what gives my merging with the Ravens?
00:34:15
Speaker
packed. She did not give her pack to you, merely merged it with yours. So you both would need to give it over. And she's not here.
00:34:35
Speaker
So much not here? Do you see her out here? Beric, you know that... Everyone on the other side, including the Raven... They... They bet on you. Look, I know what's at stake here. Alright, I know what's at stake here. I know you do. And... Just... Just give me a minute.
00:35:09
Speaker
The, the gesture that Eric just made was really funny. Um, I'm trying to imagine the psychological equivalent of that. And so Eric and you're here talk for a bit and we won't do this thing where I have a long conversation with myself.
Booyah's Magical Bag and Backstory
00:35:27
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Uh, and then return to the party and Eric says, well,
00:35:38
Speaker
Though I had the impression that I could pass the pact to a willing recipient, it seems that something in my death and resurrection has tied it to me more firmly than I had hoped. I understand that my father's intention was to separate me, but it doesn't seem like that's what happened.
00:36:09
Speaker
No, I can't. Can't give it over to him. So that's where we are. And the trickier kind of walks back over to Elladrin's body, looks down at him and says, now we have no you, no sword, no weapon. What now?
00:36:40
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Just stands there, looking morose. During that, Dex goes over to Booyan, he says, so prisoner, huh? Yes, Booyah, prisoner. Was Booyah released by Eldredrin? Sure, sure, sure. Like war prisoner or like felon prisoner? Booyah, not really sure.
00:37:10
Speaker
Booyah, your people lived in the jungle near here in a goblin village and aberrations came and raided your village. Your people made the long trek through the Ring of Storms without really a place to go and stumbled upon here as refugees and they took you in as prisoners.
00:37:41
Speaker
Okay. We are village attacked by aberrations and we wander through storm and come here and they capture and we made prisoner. Got it. You were, yeah, you were trespassing and they're stronger than you. So you get to be the prisoners. Yes. Two other goblins survived the trip. You have not seen them since Eladrin released you. Well, listen, uh,
00:38:07
Speaker
I don't want to be here too long. You don't want to be here too long. Uh, I'll talk to Beric, but if we get out of this thing and you want to come with us, um, more of the merrier, what are you, what are you, what's your, what's your whole deal anyway? What's your, what's your switch? What's your switch?
The Escape Plan
00:38:25
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Booyah. Good ranger. All right. Booyah no gates. Dan gates, my cousin from Milwaukee. No, no.
00:38:34
Speaker
from plane. Oh, you know what? That is useful. Booyah, you just joined the club, buddy. Congratulations. Here's a badge. And doozer, doozer, manageable. You'll get a pamphlet, it's fine. I don't know Beric, you know Beric. I don't know if he likes Booyah. He doesn't like my chilcom around. He doesn't like me either, but we're still going together.
00:39:03
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Drakir comes back over to where Booyah and Dex are standing and says, my people do not generally work well with outsiders. Booyah know this. Hey, maybe now's not the time. I think there was a butt coming, Booyah. You may not.
00:39:29
Speaker
You may not imagine it so, but I am one of those who is better at it than others. Next hug to this caller! This is sweet! This is why I am sent on missions outside the ring. I do not know what my people will do if you come with us. You made a promise, but...
00:40:00
Speaker
not one of which you, I think, knew the consequence. If you do not wish to do this, I will take you through the ring.
00:40:13
Speaker
Dex is genuinely appreciative of being, you know, kind of released from whatever onus, uh, he got himself into. Um, but he, uh, I think all he, all he says is, um, everyone real quick, give me perception checks. All he says real quick is 21, an extra 23. Do you want both Beric and trick here to give you a perception check? Just trick here. It's fine.
00:40:44
Speaker
Do I need to do better? Is this a smell check? Can I get advantage? There's 21 gonna cover it. It's not a smell check, actually. Oh, fine. There's no sulfur down here? 18. 18. What was your 21? Yeah. 23. Okay, you two, not Drake here.
00:40:59
Speaker
See, um, commander desk room. Yeah. Um, who is talking with some other drow. It appears that he overheard your say that and you see him tighten one of his fists. He's still doing what he's doing, but he kind of looked over and reacted when Drake here said that he would guide you out himself. Okay. I know. And I noticed this YouTube. Right. Um, I'm going to, what I'm going to say is, uh, uh,
00:41:31
Speaker
I made, I made a promise to your father. I made a deal with your commander. And I think that there are things that we still have to learn down here as well.
Ring of Storms Challenge
00:41:43
Speaker
So, um, he, he doesn't, he just, uh, so we're going to, uh, he joined an insight.
00:41:56
Speaker
16 inside. Against my persuasion? Deception, I think. Deception. Oh, okay. It's probably pretty good for you. Yes, it's the same. 19. There's gonna be a payoff, just a second. So, appreciate it. We're here to fight. We're here to help. We're gonna do it. And then I lean in, and I say,
00:42:25
Speaker
Not for nothing. Pretty sure your commander just heard you make that offer. And I'll leave you back out. Yeah, he here. And I, do I need to roll, do I need to roll stealth for the Whisper? No, no, no. Okay. Cause I also have pretty solid stealth. Oh shoot. I didn't up those. Doesn't need to be, wait, right? Yeah. Shoot. That was actually, that was actually a 20 on deception. Any consequence of my actions is my concern.
00:42:57
Speaker
Well, yeah, no, I agree with that. I just wanted you to know, let's, you know, do your thing. We're here. I feel compelled to just give a friendly reminder that Dex is still suffering from a form of me that causes him to lie and exaggerate. I hate that so much. I just, I forget.
00:43:23
Speaker
Okay. That's why I keep reminding you. I know. And then when you remind me, I get mad because I also just hate it so much. Um, yeah. So Dex will pick that up next. Next time we talk, he talks. It was a slide. He's back into it. Barrett comes back over at this point. I don't really know what you guys have gotten yourselves into while I've been, um, dead, but seems to be an awful lot of tension in the air.
00:43:49
Speaker
Yeah, well,
Elemental Encounter Cliffhanger
00:43:50
Speaker
you know, Barrett, given our track record, I don't think we should be too surprised of the situation we've gotten ourselves into had you been alive either. Yeah, yeah, things are weird. They're definitely a weird vibe. I get that. I'm with you. But here's the thing. We're beholden to help them now, because we're in here. Unless you think you can get us through the storm rings.
00:44:15
Speaker
You get us through the storm. I can help. I mean, I've taken the journey before, but, uh, Booyah could help too a bit. I mean, you, you don't really have a working knowledge of how to navigate the ring of storms. You got lucky. Um, I, I certainly could assist you in walking through it, but not as good as a guide. They won't let us go.
00:44:41
Speaker
No, they'll let us go. They won't assist us unless we help them first. We can, we can leave. We're not, I mean, that's what all, uh, Grimlock. What? Jordan Desperin. Thanks, Phillip. I'm glad you remember. I mean, Jordan over there, he said we can, we can help them and they can get us safe through the rings or we can take our chances through the rings. We're not, well,
00:45:08
Speaker
Tiny over here is actually not allowed to leave, but...
00:45:15
Speaker
And oh, PS, um, turns out Booyah here is a, he's a ranger with an intimate knowledge of interplanar gates. Feels like somebody we might want to bring with us. Uh, I suppose, but we would have to sneak him out. I think maybe either way, there's no real guarantee, but you know, journaling seems like a reasonable guy. If he helps through the fight too, maybe he can get himself free as long as we take him with us.
00:45:43
Speaker
Booyah like idea. Booyah like idea.
00:45:54
Speaker
Seems like this isn't a short fight. Yeah, that's kind of my fear. I think maybe we get a little more clarification on exactly how much they're expecting our help and how long, for how long. Cause I mean, we're not, we're not elves. We're not going to live as long as they are. 40 years to me is pretty much the end of things where to them it's, you know, Tuesday afternoon. Yeah. Yeah. They take a different, uh, different view of the world.
00:46:26
Speaker
Well, so you speak goblin? That's been a problem in the past. Let me check my sheet. Pretty good. I didn't think of that. I'm not sure where to go from here. Somebody say something.
00:46:52
Speaker
Booyah is just going to do, you know, I mean, he's kind of been here. The only guy that really even somewhat cared about him a little bit is dead. So, you know, he's going to do whatever he can to get out of this place.
00:47:12
Speaker
I mean, it seems like the Drow are currently in such disarray after the attack that's happened that if you all made a break for it, you could get away now. You will have probably not left on the best of terms with the Drow, but you could conceivably get away.
00:47:34
Speaker
And then the player in me is like, are we supposed to stay? Or are we supposed to go? I think the DM is waiting for us to decide. Which way we're supposed to go. As are the listeners. Even with little legs trying to get out with us? That wasn't a nickname. That's just a fact. Your goblin has little legs. You can carry me. That's true. I'm very strong for now.
00:47:58
Speaker
Um, okay. Uh, I mean, will we make an enemy of the Drow? I mean, they're not going to be huge fans of ya. Right. Drow aren't huge fans of anyone. That's also true. I mean, you're the one who made the promise. So it's gotta kind of, it's kind of on you. All right. So let me, let me pull the room. Uh, who, who, who's here? There's the three of us. Is Drake here still near us? He's nearby. All right.
00:48:25
Speaker
I look trickier said we could leave. I know where he's at. Um, so Barrick, you want to get out of here. That's your, that's your whole Steve's right now. I don't know where to go next. Frankly. I look, I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't be here, but bears of this pact are stuck.
00:48:55
Speaker
My mother, presumably my father, everyone back to whoever made whatever stupid deal they made. Stuck and duller. Can't go on. Can't move on to where they're meant to go until whatever the deal is is done. I don't even know what I have to do, but I have to finish that. All right. Um,
00:49:25
Speaker
And I mean, you've said enough to Dex that he could say, and clearly the deal is taken care of the darkness. That is a component of the deal. It has something to do with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, God, I just don't think that that's going to happen down here. Although this, I've got to tell you this. Right. I mean, if we just hang out, will it chase us down again? Well, there's that. There's that. But also this, uh, you know, this, this aberration puppet master that Riqueur was telling me about.
00:49:55
Speaker
If he's still Roman, when things get real, it's not going to make things easier, but no. Uh, okay. Both outside the game and as Dex. So let me figure out how I want to say this. If we leave here, we don't know what to do next. We just go back to hiding. And I guess we kind of maybe try to find one of those rocks that I need.
00:50:20
Speaker
Yeah, we're, we're guide-less. Yeah. So, um, I mean, we're going to, we're not going to make it to those unless trickier knows where those giant ruin ruins are, but that's probably something to ask when we're not standing in the middle of the camp. Right. Um, so we could try to carry on to the giant ruins that we were after. Yeah. Or we could go back to storm reach and start again. Yeah. Or maybe adventure would find us along the way. I don't know.
00:50:50
Speaker
Probably not. Maybe the GM will roll on a random table and something entirely different will require a side quest. Okay, remind me. Kyber is way, way, way underground. Yeah, down. That's the thing. It's not like we can cut and run in the middle of... I mean, we could. There's lots of Kyber.
00:51:13
Speaker
Right, but you know what I mean? Yeah, we'd be down there. Yeah. So yeah, it's not like we could help until we realized we were gonna be there for 60 years and then try to skedad. We could try to, but I bet it would be harder. All right. Hey Booyah. You got your running shoes on. Booyah ready. All right. Let's do it that way. Hell yeah.
00:51:41
Speaker
I'm really tempted to ask you if you want to use your bag right now to assist in your escape. I've been waiting to decide what we're going to do. I just don't know.
00:51:57
Speaker
Eric knows what he has to do and he has absolutely no idea if that can be accomplished under the earth or not. And doesn't have time to have a long conversation with Chris Bringer to see if Chris Bringer knows anymore now that he's more whole. The question is, is it possible, highly possible that what's going on here is connected somehow, some way with what we're supposed to be about?
00:52:23
Speaker
I mean, aberrations don't come from a bar. They come from a different plane. Right. I presume that Booyah knows that. Yeah. My bar and Ziora are different planes. Okay. All right. Dex probably wouldn't know that, but that also wouldn't be occurring to him. Dex is on a very elementary level when it comes to this stuff. He's just like, this was bad and that was bad. And we're supposed to stop bad things before they had it.
00:52:54
Speaker
All right, I mean, cause Drakir is willing to let us leave, but he's not going to assist us. And he said he would lead you out. Yes. Oh, he did. Didn't he? That's right. He said he'd take you through the storm. Okay. Um, I'm going to go over to Drakir. Okay. Booyah is following you. When you come up, he says you have decided to leave. Nothing gets past you. I have good ears.
00:53:20
Speaker
Wait, does everybody have goodies? Generally speaking, yes. Crap. So we decide we leave? Yes. They're going to know when you start walking towards the cave exit. Wait one second. Hold on. Booyah may have something, don't know. Alright. And he reaches down, he opens up this bag that is then going down the side. Does he pull out a bunch of rocks? He reaches in and he rummages around a little bit.
00:53:50
Speaker
pulls out. Oh no, did you agree to have a bag that had some random item in it?
00:53:57
Speaker
Okay. Okay. So, Randy, have you learned nothing from these random tables? Basically, what Booyah is in possession of for the listeners and for everyone at the table. Booyah carries with him a bag of holding that is ancient, that has had thousands of owners over the thousands of years that it's been in existence. So it is full. Booyah cannot put anything in there.
00:54:23
Speaker
but Booyah can reach in and there is always something that can be used for the situation that he is in when he reaches in and pulls something out. It may not seem readily apparent, but it is useful. This sounds like really rad and also torturous. So fortunately, it's a pretty straightforward one here. You pull out a crystal ball that is pulsing inside of it with light.
00:54:55
Speaker
Do not do that. They said we could leave. Does this be help us go? It will also cripple me. If it does anything like what it appears. Yeah, like that looks like that's a light grenade. Does Booyah know what this is? I mean, you could probably venture a pretty good guess.
00:55:24
Speaker
Well, two of the three of us are pretty sure it's a light grenade. I don't like that. But Booyah knows about his bag. He has used his bag many times and he knows, even though he may not understand how, why, or what, he knows somehow this is going to be beneficial.
00:55:54
Speaker
I think it's obvious how it would be beneficial to question whether or not you want to do it. Yes. What if we walk to the mouth of the cave and then you throw it back behind you into the cave? Is there a particular reason we must assault my tribe for you to leave? No, no. Is there some reason we cannot use the feet? That whatever being created each of us has given us? Booyah no hurt drow. Well, if you throw a thing that's going to create a gigantic flash of light, you will hurt drow. No, Booyah no drow. Booyah no dummy.
00:56:25
Speaker
Very well, then what is the conversation that we are having? Booyah have brain. Booyah just try to figure out maybe this do something else. You never know. Booyah bag amazing. But maybe this not the good time. He opens the bag and kind of puzzling, looks at it puzzlingly and puts it back in the bag and closes the bag. And Dex and Rick here exhale.
00:56:54
Speaker
Huh, um, here's the thing, uh, Drakir, is Boo-y'all allowed to leave with us? Why don't we try to leave and deal with that bridge when it comes? We're gonna work on your Outlander expression. Yeah, sure, let's go. Bear, bear, come on. That is not the expression? But deal with that bridge when it comes, it's close. The bridge comes, you deal with it. Yeah, you know.
00:57:25
Speaker
I cross it, you go around it, you swim the river, just burn it down. I gotta deal with the bridge. I gotta deal with this bridge. Hang on guys, give me a second. There's a bridge here we gotta deal with. And my speed's 30, so. Oh, okay. Oh, okay, cool.
00:57:44
Speaker
Like the beholder. There's Bridge. The beholder he deals with. He sure did. He dealt with that bridge. Okay. So you all are just going to beat Feek. Yeah. Okay. So you all walk out of the cave mouth that Drakir brought you in and you don't hear any shouting or footfalls.
00:58:14
Speaker
I had Dracarys show was the way. I want to. OK. So if you'll remember, the Ring of Storms is fairly close to the entrance that you all came through. So survival checks. Dracarys, you get advantage. And Booyah gets advantage. I'll go with the 25. OK. Yes.
00:58:45
Speaker
15. 21 for Drakir. 16 for Dberic. Okay. You all are fine thus far. The wind is ripping. The rain stings on your faces. Give me another survival check. Seven. 17. 18 Drakir. 14, Dberic.
00:59:14
Speaker
18 Drew here, 14 Barrick. And what was Dex's? Seven. Okay. 17. Barrick and Dex give me dexterity saving throws.
00:59:34
Speaker
13 saving throw is the modifier plus proficiency if I'm provisioned in it. Is that right? Yes. Okay, then that's a 22. Okay, you both managed to dive out of the way of the lightning bolt that comes crashing down. One more. Yep. Natural 2026.
01:00:00
Speaker
14 again on Barak, a whole lot on Drakir. 10. 10. 10. Dexterity saving throws. 10 for Dex. 15. 27. Okay, nothing good. I punched that lightning in the face.
01:00:15
Speaker
Lightning probably has faces. It's a fantasy world. Sure. We meet lightning with a face. That's a very different problem. As you all see the edge of the storm coming upon you, the lightning crashes just next to Dex and Beric. And outside of the raging wind of the storm and the rain and the thunder, you hear the sound of roaring wind. And everyone give me dexterity saving those real quick.
01:00:49
Speaker
Thirteen. Sixteen. Eighteen Barak. Fourteen Drakir. Okay. Booyah, you all of a sudden find the world is upside down as you are flipped up and laying prone on the ground. And Drakir, you feel yourself carried up by a rush of water and drop down onto the ground as you are prone. And you all see two elementals swirling around you in the storm. Ah, Booyah no fly.
01:01:20
Speaker
End of episode. All right.
Closing and Credits
01:01:23
Speaker
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01:01:46
Speaker
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