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C1 Ep. 82 The Five Runes Chapter One
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The party gathers to decide where to go next, but they quickly discover that other forces have been on the move.
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Introduction and Sponsor Thanks
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This show is brought to you by the generous donations of our show sponsors, Matt Lewis, Laura Pickron, Irene Villarito, Daryl Delaney, Nico Batson, Darren Katska, Ryan Royce, John Kerry, Jessica Smith, The Cam Family, Charles Compton, and David Scrams, as well as all of our generous patrons.
Kickstarter Announcement for Gamer Nation Con Six
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What is up everybody is your dungeon master Eric here and I just wanted to drop in before the episode kicks off to let you all know that the Kickstarter for gamer nation con six is officially live. Um, and we would love to see you there. Uh, the con is going to have myself, Philip, Jeff, Trevor from the geek Pantheon and Randy all there in attendance. Um,
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And there is a level on the Kickstarter called RVG for Eberron Renewed slash the Geek Pantheon, where if you contribute to the Kickstarter at that level, you are guaranteed a spot in a game run by one of the hosts of our shows. And as of right now, it is going to be myself running the game and it will be a X-Men in Eberron, a one shot adventure because the theme for this year's Gamer Nation Con is superheroes.
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So that's what we're going to be doing. You can go donate at that level or a lower tier if you want just a pass to the con or access to d20 radios, virtual library of adventures and things like that. So go check it out over on Kickstarter, gamer nation con six. There are links on our Facebook group if you want to go check it out through there. Anyway, thank you all so much for listening to the episode and I hope you enjoy it.
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D20 radio, your game is rolling.
Introduction to Eberron Renewed Podcast
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renew, the D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Ship Interrogation and Parachute Experiment
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We took Strand back to our ship and interrogated him. Had some hard talks.
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Yes. And, uh, the end of it was Barrick throwing strength from the ship with parachute. And, uh, it was an experiment. Yeah. Yeah. How else are you going to find things out without tinkering? Exactly. Um, Booyah, since Randy wasn't here, spent most of it, I guess in his room, I assume that's where he's bonding a little more with Gerald and, uh, and the ranger who seems to just be hanging around the boat. Rickard. Rickard.
00:02:58
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Yeah. Who is not Drake here in disguise, officially confirmed by them both being on the boat at the same time. We haven't seen them together. That is true. We haven't seen them together. And Rickard does wear glasses all the time. It's a slightly different hairstyle.
Booyah's Bonding and Barrick's Anticipation
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OK, well, let's go and pick up where we left off with the next morning after everything has happened, presumably Barrick.
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Getting back up to the ship. Yeah, Barrick makes his way back to the ship via Skycoach or something like that and Probably Greets the dawn sitting up on the deck Thinking and anticipating today Okay, what's everyone else doing in the morning?
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I think Dex would get up and the first thing you do is walk down to where they had Strint see what he's still there or if the bonds have been broken if there's a pool of blood he doesn't know I have this really funny image of if trick here was more of a prankster of your here being having disguised self as As Strint and still be sitting there, but no that's not oh that wacky drink. No that wacky drink here
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Um, seeing that he's not there, um, would find Barrick and ask, uh, so what would you do? I thought you weren't interested in knowing. You're fair enough. I turn around and walk off and I sit and greet the day with Booyah.
Dragon Orb Attunement and Supply Arrival
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Booyah's walking around various parts of the ship, checking on the gold he has stashed all over the place to see if it's all still there. What? No, he's said that. He's got gold stashed, all that gold that we gave up that he never did. He's got it squirreled away and knots in the wood. I don't know. Yep. That makes me so happy. And what's Drakir doing?
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Is Dracarys still there? Dracarys still here.
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I think probably once everyone left him alone, he's probably spent the evening lurking in the hold because there's just much too much light up on deck. And so he's probably spent the night lurking in the hold, sitting and trying to maybe attune to the dragon orb that they
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absconded with and that was his point in coming here. And since he hopes now he can do that without summoning a dragon. You all, as you greet the dawn on the deck and the sun comes up, you do hear you see Charlie arriving with like a small arms like a crate you could reasonably carry in your arms filled with
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foodstuffs, goods, general things that half a dozen people on a ship would need to survive while you all are running. This is why we have Charlie around. Yeah. Charlie thinks of these things. The non-heroic adventures, consider.
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We're just like, where's the next blood fight? Not all heroes. Not all heroes use swords, as Charlie pulls out a loaf of bread from the crate. And I pull out my sword and I take it from him. That's what guys with swords can do. But you do see...
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Charlie doesn't really regard you all, you just see him on deck. And Borenel, after a moment, approaches Charlie and takes a paper from him and begins. A turkey leg. A paper and a turkey leg. His breakfast turkey leg. No, he's Henry VIII all of a sudden. He's just always at a Renaissance fair. He has a copy of the non-tabloid sharn newspaper, The Sharn Times.
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The shorn be the shorn street journal. Um, so yeah. Um, and he's flipping through that as Charlie's unloading the rest of the food by himself because the king doesn't have the instincts to help somebody do that.
Discussion with the King and Meeting Planning
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Um, I think Barrick would go over and approach the king because we probably haven't talked to the king about what happened yesterday. Booyah goes to help. Yeah. Charlie unload.
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You just want the best. You just want to get your hands on the, on the food first. I was trying to learn how to, you know, how to be a good kind of a person. You know, I say, boo, you can wash your hands first. We are watching that week. Uh, it'd be a bear approaches. So, um, we had an interesting encounter last night. Uh,
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Yes, I can tell. And he holds up the front page of the paper. Well, that's when Dex walks over. Sure. But we had an interesting encounter last night that you'll find more interesting than that. We spoke to three. Oh. And we have an appointment. Oh. Where?
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Which church? The Silver Flame Cathedral. I don't think we named the specific, but yeah. I couldn't remember because I couldn't remember if it was there or if it was at his church. St. John the Baptist Silver Flame Church. I thought it was Episcopalian. I couldn't remember if we were meeting at my church or his church.
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Actually, no, it's his church. It's so the sovereign host then. Yeah Delora. Yep, whatever. They've all got potlucks Silver flame probably doesn't have potlucks. It's it's it's not their trunk retreat. They're not they're not they're not fantasy Baptists Anyway
Visions and Murder Investigation
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So at the Church of the Sovereign Host, where he goes to pray in the morning, I think I've convinced him, but he wants to see you. Are you certain that this is the real three? I'm as certain as I am able to be, unless three fled with you.
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He did not flee with me, no. But I don't know, you convince yourself that you know people and people know you well enough to where they'd be able to recognize an imposter. But perhaps not. Well, nothing risked, nothing gained. Quick question before we go take care of our appointment.
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Was this you? And, uh, he flips the paper around. Um, and on the, the gala was a big enough deal to bump this story to the second page where normally it would be front page worthy. Uh, but the headline reads, uh, Baron, a large dithirani murdered after gala incident in city of sharn. That person, that name didn't come up last time, right? That's not someone that we were involved with.
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No, that was like, you don't really know that person may wear well, but we are wrecking our brains. Did we kill a guy? Mostly this is Philip. It was not a name that came up at the party, but I mean, you, you would know it. Did we see him there? I mean, they're probably recognized as most of the sharned celebrities. Yeah. Yeah. Well, um,
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Normally, Thirani, like the head of the Thirani house, lives in Regalport. So they were in Sharn just for the Gala event of high ranking people. So you probably wouldn't recognize this person just on site, given the background. But they might have been at the party. You really have no way of knowing. Noah, are you asking me if I assassinated the head of a dragon marked house?
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I don't know what happened last night. Like we went and we went and stole some things from marriage to Kenneth. Okay. And then a lich attacked or well, a changeling disguised as lich attacked, attacked the gala and we drove it off and we brought the
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Redran ambassador back here and interrogated him and put him off the ship and Yeah, that's what happened yesterday. Yeah I know it's hard to believe but we actually managed to not kill anybody
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Booyah, you recognize the image in the paper as he flips it around.
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Back in the giant ruins, when you read the ancient draconic and it flooded your mind with images that are now your memories that you can just recall, one of the images was two elves, one forcibly taking a dagger from another one. The image you see in the paper is of the elf that was forcibly taking from the other elf. So Booyan, though, this person, see, you see in giant ruins,
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on your own on wall he he taking knife from somebody what I'm that would take a long time to explain the division with the the packs the pack bears the the conflagration yes that what buoy buoy I see boy I see this this guy
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So he was a pack bearer, and he was killed last night. That's... Yes. Well, you don't think this is no good? Probably not, no. No, this wasn't us. That's good.
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Yeah, it looks like shortly after looking at the timelines and reports and everything, it would have been while you all were... It looks like it happened while the gala was going on. I see. So we're actually off the hook for this one. That's good. Hey, Barrett. Yes. I'm sure we've gone over this.
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What does it mean if a packed bearer died and the pact was not passed on to or taken by his killer?
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but mine mine was delivered to me by the pact itself as as heir to it so so if assuming so i mean if it wasn't if it wasn't related then presumably it would go on to his pass on to the heir okay okay okay all right uh where do i feel the next pact
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Um, it's in shard. Um, there is another one here and you can't feel more than one at a time. Right. That's why you didn't know. I feel the nearest. All right. And at no point last night, there was a lot going on. That's true. That's true. Um, all right. Well, we got a couple of errands need running, right? Yeah. I really just won at the moment. Well, I got some armor to pick up.
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Oh, that's fair, and I suppose we ought to drop off the Warfar's components that we took. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. With Garenas. Is there some place I could go nearby that would have a large enough space that I could flip this bag of holding inside out and see what's in it besides some Warfar's parts I stole in a bunch of green?
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I mean, down in the hole, there would be a lot of space for that. I was going to go down and do that real quick. It's fine to confirm that it was in fact just warforged and green. I just want to do it because it'll bug me. Yeah. Maybe poor grain and sack. It's a whole lot of grain. It's a whole lot of grain. Fine. A lot of sack. Here's the thing, we can pick that grain up. That grain is still good. That's good grain. Yup. And now I got a bag of holding that only has some warforged junk in it. Fair enough. All right.
00:16:43
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OK, so where we just leave the mountain of grain for Charlie, just giving you all the information that you could see from that article that Rornelle showed you. The the body was found in Galanda Hall, the hotel and sanctuary located in Charne and ran by House Galanda.
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Um, in a private room that daughter refers to it found in his room at Galanda Hall. So it looks like he had rented a room for his stay from house Galanda. You know what? I want to, I want to ask, uh, uh, sorry, uh, your majesty. Um, yes. Can I see that paper real quick?
00:17:33
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Sure. I'm going to look at the big front page story.
Preparing for Meeting at the Church
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I want to see, was Merrick's decanis reached for comment? And if so, what did he have to say about what happened at his house?
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Merrick's De Caneth declined to comment as of time of publishing. But you know how with printing schedules and everything, they probably had to get this thing to the printer before Merrick was even fully awake. It was bystanders who wanted to win their account in the papers, all that's talked to you. I think it would be interesting to see how responsible Merrick's De Caneth holds those people who the Lich came after for ruining his party.
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and if he's put two and two together that they might have also been the ones who rifled through his stuff in his vault yeah this thing have word puzzle in it i hand booyah the junior jumble yes let's fix it in his pouch for later well um
00:18:31
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when is our appointment with? Three. I tell him. Soon. Soon. Very well. Well, just... We should go. Well then, let me get my cloak. Excellent. How does this hit up very slowly? Is it soon to the point that we need to do that first, or is... Garnath's not on the way, I would assume, because he's pretty high up, right? And this would not quite as high up, so...
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No, no, Ikyltarn is lower. Oh, yeah. Than the church. Yeah. Okay. You know, this is, this is what I know. Thinking the church would be accessible to the majority of the people where I think we're going to go to church. Are we all going? I mean, I know all three of us in the King. Is that it? I assume, uh,
00:19:23
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It might be, it might do well to have Booyah and Drakir along in, in case of trouble. Okay. Drakir is kind of who I was mostly asking about. Okay. You'll need Booyah muscle. Exactly. Yes. Absolutely. Um, start walking towards the church, I guess. All right. Yeah. You want to take a sky cab?
00:19:49
Speaker
Sure, why not? It's like we're not walking, because your boy can't lead the way. One of y'all has to start walking. I don't know where it is. Yeah, we hail a sky cup. Where are you going? This guy. Is this like Nurse Joy? Are they all the same kind of people? We're going to the church of the sovereign hosts in the upper wards. Ah, OK. OK. Fancy church. Got it. Right. All right. Five gold pieces each. Oh, yeah, I got it. It just throws it at him.
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All right. Hold on tight. Just takes off, um, dodging other sky cabs, flying carpets of the like bridges. Um, you only go up a few levels in sharn. Um, the docs are fairly high up. The sky docs are fairly high up. Um, and he drops you off on an eventfully.
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All right, then we make our way to room three.
00:20:55
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Except first. Yes. All of us who are capable of it are gonna not look like our normal appearances. Wanted selves. Yeah. Can one of us make, I mean, I can't. Can one of you disguise more, you know? I cannot disguise self, just, just. Well, I knew disguise self, but you, yours was different, but it's just self as well. Oh, it's just me. Okay. All right. Well, I am a,
00:21:21
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a let's say half-orc now. Sure. I left the knife because I knew we would have to disguise ourselves so the knife is at home so I'm a bald half-orc. It feels good to get the weight off. Stick your head out the window before you drop the knife. Huh? Stick your head out over the edge of the boat before you drop the knife or is there a giant pile of hair somewhere? There's a big pile of hair? I have some birdies for a nest. give me a wisdom saving throw real quick.
00:21:52
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Oh, OK. 11. OK. Continue. We were supposed to go to the room marked three, right?
00:22:20
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Yes, yes, that's right. You said to change so I guess Booyah Is a halfling Eric is a nondescript human? Eric once again looks like the I don't remember whatever I was before I was like the the local blacksmith or something when I was a kid or something turns into some some adult he remembers from his childhood and We walk as
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I mean, we're pretty good at just sort of walking down the street unobtrusively at this point. So yeah, we head towards the board and I was like, what do I do with my hands normally? You took them in your belt or something. Okay. Well you arrive at the church, the doors are open. People are filtering in and out, um, for their morning prayers and whatnot on their way to jobs and things of that nature. So, um, you're able to slip in pretty,
00:23:17
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inconspicuously, you see private areas, like doors along the sides of the main sanctuary that are numbered. Okay. Drakir stays outside the church to watch for trouble coming and just hides somewhere near the, somewhere not far from the entrance where you can keep an eye on things. Okay.
00:23:45
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And Beric and Wicking walk towards the door. And I follow. Yes, there to the door is closed. I'm not going to try to pick it. You see after a moment, you hear footfalls and you see the door open ever so slightly and you see sliver of a warforged face and it's like, OK, who are you?
Meeting Three and Uncovering Allegiances
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We have an appointment. Very well. And opens the door. Step inside. Does he allow all of us in? Yeah. Um, three closes the door behind you all. So you came to talk. I,
00:24:46
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I kind of gesture to the to the king and for an L dramatically. And you hear a loud thud as threes knee hits the ground and bows and fealty to the king. Get get up, get up three. So it's true.
00:25:16
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There's an imposter sitting on the throne. That is true. You'll forgive me if I, and he pulls out a small scroll and see things as they truly are. I mean, Barak will just drop Disguise Self.
00:25:44
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And it's a scroll of true sight. Do you mind if I use this for my own? No, I mean, go ahead. Go see some weird stuff on this. Yeah, I kind of like it. It's going to look strange. You see. You see three read the incantation and his eyes kind of glow for a moment and he looks at all of you and. Hmm.
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And he looks at Bornell and then drops the spell. Forgive me. It's hard to know what to believe. What does Beric look like to Truesight? Does he look like the current Beric? You'll never know. I mean, I could find out. I could get a scroll. I know where they keep him. There you go. What would you have me do?
00:26:44
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Well, it isn't my place to give you orders, but I have some questions. About. Who else do you think we can be confident is still true? The King's brother core. I mean, if you would have asked me this time yesterday, I would have told you that born ill was.
00:27:10
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Acting odd, but I asked you quite later than this time yesterday and you acknowledged that you had seen some strangeness in him. Is Korr acting any differently? I've not seen Korr for some time. I do not know whoever is pretending to be born ill has not shared with me whether Korr was sent away or Korr has merely
00:27:35
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buried himself in Citadel work, but I have not seen Core for weeks at this point. What about Commander Bala? She was our initial Citadel contact when we were doing contract work. Do you know anything of what's happened to her? She was arrested. How long did that scroll last?
00:28:01
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Well, um, it has the ability to last for an hour, but I've dismissed the spell. Oh, that's a shame. Cause it would have been useful around the castle. Walk around with that on for a minute. See how many changelings are there. Where's Bala held? In Roat, the prison. Sure.
00:28:27
Speaker
Where are the princes? Halak's still in Karnath. Yes. And as far as I know, I mean, obviously Hadith was at the party last night. Gaius, her brother is in Roat still. Right.
00:28:49
Speaker
Well a couple things you need to know and I don't know what's gonna happen here, but a couple things you should know The building that was bombed a few months ago was being rebuilt Yes, it's a giant mind control device we We're pretty sure
00:29:07
Speaker
I mean, I would say let's take the better safe approach to that. We've seen obelisk shaped mind control devices used by these beings to seize control of people's minds. This is a large scale is a scaled up version of that. So yes, then I can say it's true. I know the, the popular theory was the swords of Liberty blew it up, but they did. Are they
00:29:31
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Yeah, that I don't know I'm inclined to think yes, I believe hate a theory when our nose what's happening right and she is as you may now realize the leader of the swords of Liberty I Believe yes, I believe she knows what's going on and I believe that's why the building was blown up in the first place. I
00:29:56
Speaker
I don't know what can be done if anything can be done to stop construction on it or delay construction or anything like that. But that's important. Other than that, I don't know what the best plan is as far as what you should do.
00:30:21
Speaker
I don't know whether you should go with us now. Obviously your help would be significant in what we're doing, but at the same time, having you here, knowing what you do, maybe the more valuable.
00:30:46
Speaker
I, if I go with you, then obviously they will know that something is a foot and three stops mid sentence and puts a finger up to where his and ear would be. Um, and you see like a circle of engravings that you would rec, you would recognize, especially since you've made speaking stones before, um, that's kind of built in. He says, uh,
00:31:15
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Already the beginning to question where I am. So, obviously my duty is to protect my king. My king is here and not going back to Roat with me. So, if you ask me to stay, I am... By my advice, you should remain with the imposter.
00:31:46
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Your your better place to know what's going on to keep tabs on things possibly to help us when the time comes If you take my advice that's what will happen, but I'm not your lord I Think that
00:32:11
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barracks council is wise and it would be best to have somebody on the inside. If you can get word to core somehow, if it is the real core would be be a nice ally also.
00:32:34
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It's difficult to know because the Citadel itself seems to be operating with fervor underneath the false Boranelles orders and intentions, though whether or not that is because Core is under some outside influence or they just have agents within the Citadel
00:33:01
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I know that Bala was adamantly against what was happening and that's why she was arrested on treason. Where others? Where others? She was the most high ranking official. Right. So, I... It was only about a week ago that she was
00:33:31
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Apprehended for undermining the throne Her trial will be next week and then Presumably if she is found guilty then she will be killed Right I Don't know specifically which order she was
00:33:56
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refusing to carry out or what exactly I was not the one assigned to the case obviously but you hear enough when you're by the king constantly of course there's no chance of those getting an audience with her huh break into the prison or disguise yourself as guards or right I mean we could do it the way we would do it but I wonder if there was an easier way than the way we would do it but there's not and we decided important enough we'll just do it our way I guess
00:34:27
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where you go i assume you've heard you know anything about lr dithranis dithranis being killed um i i only heard once i returned with the false borenel an agent came to inform the king that it had happened um he seemed
00:34:50
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apathetic, so I don't think it had anything to do with that. But I have heard, I just have no real information for you in that regard. All right. But if you hear anything, get word to us if you can. Do my best. Listen, I don't mean to insult you, I'm sure you already know this, but these are.
00:35:18
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Wildly intelligent people you're farce false Boran el they're smarter than me. I can't talk Your false Boran el is gonna be able to catch on if you start acting differently You got to treat him. I know you know this bear saying out loud You got to treat him the same way you treat this one to stand around in front of you. I Know it's gonna be hard. There's gonna be a probably a lot of hate building up in you every time you see him But we got to carry it on
00:35:48
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And I apologize for having to put you in that position, but you know, here we are. I'll do my best, but I'm a paladin and I hold it. Deception scores are typically low. Hold it, save it up, treasure it up to the day when you can see justice done.
Raven's Message and Pact Bearer Sensing
00:36:14
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very well yeah well yeah what he said that was a good one that's a good trick here give me a perception check 20 you see a
00:36:29
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Like it's just, it's odd. It catches your eye. There aren't any others around on a not currently lit ever bright lantern post across the walkway from you standing out in front of this church. You see a raven come in land and just, it seems to be staring at the door of the church. Interesting. Also, quick question. The pinging the nearest
00:36:56
Speaker
I'm so sorry, in my head. Okay, good question. How do you want to die? I don't know why that popped in my head. Knowing where the nearest packed holder is, is that a constant thing or do you have to consciously ping it? It just says I know. You know? You feel that the nearest packed holder
00:37:22
Speaker
is now outside of Sharn. They're on the move away. West, or east. Interesting. Um... Sharn is fairly eastern, isn't it? I mean, I'm sure there's stuff east of it, but it's on the eastern... No, it's south central. Oh, okay. I thought it was like, I don't know, Nashville? No, no, no. Have I been 30 feet of the raven?
00:37:50
Speaker
Here yeah, I would say yeah, you're gonna kill the Raven I want to cast animal friendship on it. He's gonna change his he's gonna change his name to Stratos You make my life an Avril Lavigne song
00:38:16
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Skater boy. I'm with you. Yeah, that's it. I've exhausted my knowledge of her catalog. That is kind of what it turns into when when Drake here tries to use disguise self, it is just sort of goth kid. It's kind of what it's the closest thing he can think out to what a human's wear. Fair enough. I kind of figured that even if this doesn't work, I will learn that someone else is doing the same thing.
00:38:46
Speaker
Drakir knows this trick. Should we try to put that building out of commission? Maybe re-blow it up? I don't think Barrick would do it. Okay, how does the animal have to make a... Usually the animal makes a saving throw. Oh, well. What's his intelligence?
00:39:09
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I mean, it's just a standard Raven. It's a normal Raven. Yeah, it makes a wisdom saving throw. Or it is charmed by me. And really, how could it not be? That's fair. Drakir is real charming. That's what people say after they meet Drakir. That's what they say about Drakir. They say, you know, the one thing I take away from that is just the charm. Seven. Okay. It's now my friend. Okay. It kind of cocks its head at you and
00:39:38
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flaps its wings. Makes a friendly gesture. Okay. I want to try and just without
00:40:01
Speaker
Without drawing any undo attention, I want to just make my way around beneath the lantern, the lamp post that it's sitting on. I'm not going to mess with it. I'm not going to make it stop watching the door or anything like that. And I want to just reach up and just touch it. And I'm going to cast and cast Beast Sense so that I get to see through its eyes.
00:40:27
Speaker
So you're, you're watching the door through its eyes now. That's what I would like to do. Yeah. Okay. So, um, and then I just sit in and wait to see what happens. Um, also, uh, exact direction. It's actually Northeast that the pack told us travel.
00:40:44
Speaker
north and east from Sharn. It's not towards Rohit, I think. That Rohit's kind of due north. Yeah, it's more more towards more in the direction of Dargun. East by northeast than north by northeast. Okay, so kind of Vathirond way. Okay, cool.
00:41:11
Speaker
Uh, so it's just sitting there watching, huh? Yep. Okay. But fixedly, like looking through its eyes, it's watching fixedly, like not in the, not in the regular way that birds look at things. Yes. Okay. It appears to be waiting. Okay. Cut back to. Well, there's nothing else than I suppose I best be going.
00:41:43
Speaker
If you don't endanger yourself, but if without drawing under your attention, you can find out any details about Commander Bala's placement and imprisonment and can transmit that information to us, it would be very helpful. I will do my best. Thank you.
00:42:12
Speaker
Now I've been too anxious about meeting to say my morning prayers. So if you will, excuse me. Fine. And we leave. Would Dr. Keir... Dr. Keir doesn't have any way of talking to you. He doesn't have a stone? We've never... Dr. Keir doesn't have a speaking stone. Seems silly. Fair enough. I mean, he's only been reunited with you all for a day and a half? Two days?
00:42:41
Speaker
No, we had time between. Yeah, we had. OK, that's right. But but still, I mean, yeah. No, I assumed we would have given him one before the party, but we didn't say we didn't. We didn't. We didn't have spare ones, I don't think. Yeah, I would have to make it. Yeah. Oh, that's right. We made we had two groups and then one. Yeah, we had one made for we had one made for Paula. That's right. But not but not for secure. Right. And we just walk out that door that's being scoped out by somebody.
00:43:11
Speaker
Okay. Oh, uh, did you re disguise yourself? Yeah, I'm going to re disguise myself before we go out. Um, I'm trying to think what best way to get the King back is. And then what we should do, take the King back first or go to equal time and then take the King back.
00:43:42
Speaker
Oh, I want to put the king back on the ship at the earliest possible convenience. Okay. Well, we should return the king to
00:43:55
Speaker
uh to the ship um as you all walk out the front door the ravens beak just opens up as barrick comes into sight um and the raven like you hear a voice come out of the raven's mouth it says um if you would like to speak terms come to a
Lucan's Message and Ruins Speculation
00:44:25
Speaker
This all begun. Whose voice is speaking? Do we recognize it? He's talking like we should recognize it. I know, that was a choice. Should we roll to see if we recognize it? That's the thing is, it's a voice you've heard once, so I don't like...
00:44:47
Speaker
I know people that I've met one time. I don't have great recall on their voice. Okay. Uh, so I mean, how loud is this happening? Right. The bird fly over to us. Yeah. It approached and landed on my shoulders. That's not very helpful. And then the Raven just flutters and appears to just be a Raven again. Its head is moving around and that's so incredibly unhelpful.
00:45:17
Speaker
Right, we gotta go to where these all began, but what diseases that they are talking about? Because, depending on the person, that would mean entirely different things. Right, like for me, this all began in Sarlona. Right, and you know, it could be... But this could just be you and me working together. Things could be getting storm reached, things could be getting missed, Marsh. Yeah, things could begin down in the cave where we're going to be off. I was born just outside of town. Right.
00:45:44
Speaker
Maybe she was talking about the idea of organized religion. You know, we were walking out of a church where that all began. Who knows, really? One thing I know for sure is we got to get this guy back to the boat where it's safe. Yes, that is accurate. And then we can discuss his Z-terms or whatever. Right. So we're going to take Borneo back. Trying to think of what skill you could roll to see if you can place the voice.
00:46:11
Speaker
Is it a voice that Booyah's heard too or no? Booyah has heard it. Everybody except for Boronel. That narrows it down some, but... A bit. Is that Dango? Insight? Yeah, I was thinking Insight or history. No, history is not our personal histories. Let's do insight. Or investigation. Oh, okay. 25.
00:46:39
Speaker
17 insight, secure and Barak do not know. 25 investigation. Um, yeah, I'll say you both recognize, um, you, you remember the face of the person. Like you start to describe where you were and Dex, you recall the name completely. It's Luke and Osteroth. Ah, we all see face, no name. It wants us.
00:47:09
Speaker
Does it want your packs? He wants us to go back to the giant ruins? Right. I assume that's where he considers this all began, is where we met him.
00:47:22
Speaker
But also he's like immortal. So this all, this is very difficult. I don't want to go back to the jungle. I don't know that we could get back. That's a good point. Don't know that I could find our way back. That's a good point. I mean, we, we know we could, we know we could get to eventually. We head in that jungle word direction and then you start pinging off your pact. But have a feeling. All right. Hold on. Hold on. We found our prime suspect in last night's murder. Sure. All right. He,
00:47:52
Speaker
he sent the raven now he's very old and very powerful so maybe he has other ways of doing that generally a spell like that spell like animal messengers that kind of thing ranged has a limited range you can't do that from Zindrik and if he's responsible for the death last night then he should be the closest pact right it's heading north and east
00:48:22
Speaker
That traced to Miss Marsh? Miss Marsh. Where it all began. Right, which is inaccurate for him. I mean, it's where you and I began. Right, but we didn't tell him that. Episode one. But we didn't tell him that, so... Yeah, who knows what he knows now. Right.
00:48:40
Speaker
I gotta say, man, that's like step seven of us getting out of here, though. Sure, right now we gotta drop the king off. We gotta take the king back to the ship. We gotta drop off some things with Gernath. You know what? I can get the king back to the ship. Go drop some things off with Gernath. Pick up your armor. We'll meet back on the ship. Booyah's gonna come with me because he's got the cash.
00:49:00
Speaker
You two go take care of our obligations. Me and Drakir will take the king back to the ship. We'll head back. Then we'll meet up there. That sounds good.
00:49:13
Speaker
OK, so you two are headed down to see Ikletarn. Split the party. You're able to trace your steps back to the easy entrance. Good. Darn it. You can only find the one to the dungeon. Well, too bad. It took care of a lot of that stuff. But who knows what else is down there. Could you remember the way we took? I think it was just like walk and wish. Yeah. Actually, wait till we've shamed Eric enough to let us find him.
00:49:45
Speaker
Yeah, you're able to drop off the parts to Gurnath. Thank you. This is really all you could find.
00:49:58
Speaker
over the sending stone. Hey, while you're there, see if he wants to buy those dragon shards we took, the ones that locked the door. He'll turn them into something else, and then no one will ever be able to get them back, and they'll never unlock that door again. Hey, yeah. See if he'll give us some cash for him. Don't just give him over. I don't trust him that much. But see if he wants to buy them. He might do something interesting with him. And also, we got a good amount of warforged stuff. I don't. Like, you just have expectations when you're breaking into, like,
00:50:28
Speaker
a house Kenneth vault. I mean, believe me, buddy, I had my expectations fall short as well. But here's what we were able to get for you. I do have this also. I want you to take a look at these. I can't just give these over to you.
00:50:43
Speaker
But if you're interested in them, you let me know what you think they're worth. And I pull out the five dragon shards and show them. Interesting. I say, here's what I can tell you about them. Each of them was a component of a spell to unlock a door. A door that we would like to remain locked. Now it will, cause you know, we got them now. But if there's something you think you could do with them that doesn't involve going and unlocking that door. Yeah. I,
00:51:13
Speaker
I think there's quite a number of things I can do with some siberish shards pretty easily. I'd be willing to part with, say, 150 gold pieces for the set.
00:51:28
Speaker
And Dex has no idea if that's fair. So he says, uh, Whoa, hold on one 50. You have no concept of what a gold piece is worth. I know. And they have come free and easy to you. Yeah. I say, wait, no. You make 200. That'd be fair.
00:51:53
Speaker
Oh, okay. Dex is going to ask for much, much more than that. I have a hard bargain, but that's fair. Toss is a bag. You have made your terms. I accepted those terms and I slide one over. I say 200 each sounded fair to me. You're right. I specified the set and you came back with 200 did not specify for each. Well, I mean, here's one.
00:52:19
Speaker
It's been done and I think she's made a great deal
00:52:27
Speaker
Randy on the other hand. But Booyah thinks he's made a great deal. By the way, somebody came. 40 gold pieces each for a Sibberish shard. I mean, I have no idea. What do you think? Thousands. I thought I assumed. Thousands. I was going to say 500 and feel like it was still pretty low. Because I had no idea. It's Barak's fault.
00:52:51
Speaker
How is it? Because he did not explain to Booyah that they're worth lots more. Like, Hey guys, you might need to get spending money. You've been spending money. You have an idea of what a gold piece is worth. Now. I know what a gold piece is worth, but I don't know how many gold pieces of Sybarish shard is worth. That's my thing. Like, I know. I know. The guys ask who? Ask Berwick.
00:53:18
Speaker
You have a magic walkie-talkie in your ear. I know, and I was going to do something, but Randy jumped in and did a very booyah thing, and it's over, man. He did.
00:53:28
Speaker
Chaos rained in this transaction. Yeah, I'm looking up the market value. I love it. The average for a large or the normal Sivirish shard, the average is 2,000 gold pieces per. So it was 10 grand that you just handed over for 200 gold pieces. We. No. We. No, you.
Booyah's Mistake and Mind Control Warning
00:53:53
Speaker
And this is definitely still on you because if I'm trying to sell a car and my daughter offers to take $5 for it, I do not feel bound by that. This is not your nine-year-old. This is a grown man.
00:54:13
Speaker
with equal bargaining power. A grown man who has demonstrated a certain incapacity. Yeah, I know. Also, while you all were gone this morning, they delivered this and he tosses you a small parcel with your armor. Oh, great. Well, hey, I got free armor, I guess. I don't know. I paid for it upon delivery. You know what? Out of the kindness of my heart,
00:54:39
Speaker
Take it. Hey, uh, not for nothing. I know. And you know that you just got a real good deal on that stuff. Uh, if something you end up making seems like something might be of use to me or one of my buddies, I'll keep you in mind when I take them to market. Yeah. Market. What I meant was we get one back tinkered with and we'll call it fair. But yeah, I want to talk that sec.
00:55:05
Speaker
Excuse excuse us miss miss equal equal. Okay. Okay. We need to yeah we need but so we gossip and You think maybe we tell him about bad building. Maybe he knows some way to help get rid of I mean We don't really know him I
00:55:28
Speaker
He helped us though. He did. Well, yeah, he did. He helped us do a thing. Um, but not as a, not for the cause. But he know buildings and how to make and maybe how to break. Building bad. I mean, you're not wrong. I guess it can't hurt. Uh, yeah. So, uh, we go, I, I, uh, Mr. Ickletorn, uh, can I call you Garnath?
00:55:59
Speaker
Have we had that talk? Yeah, I'll allow it. Thanks. But watch yourself. Now that we've done a business transaction together. You got a heck of a deal. Yeah, yeah. I generally let people use my first name after I screw them.
00:56:21
Speaker
I'm sorry. For the listeners, Philip is just shaking his head in pure anger. And now he's crossed his arms and is pouting in the corner. You've only been this angry once. Don't put it on me, man. You're the adult! Billy has an adult! But Dex is the adult.
00:56:48
Speaker
Booyah is an adult in a goblin village. Booyah is unfrozen caveman lawyer. Oh, I see. Now you put it in terms I can understand. Are modern ways frightened to confuse him? Booyah is Drax. You were saying. And Philip was getting his hopes up when Booyah was like, no, no, that's not good enough.
00:57:19
Speaker
I know what you're trying to do. 50 more gold pieces, please. The line I was going to use was that you and I both know what these are worth and see what he came back at me with. Yeah. You were using my first name for some reason. Rad Garnoth. So I don't know how much you know of the inspired
00:57:45
Speaker
Are you familiar at all? I mean, that's the colloquial term for representatives from Riedra that come over. Right. They seem to be doing well. You can be doing well while also not doing good. See, I'm just gonna lay it all out for you.
00:58:09
Speaker
They're basically mind controllers. They're taking over the minds or actually really more, more taking over the bodies of regular people. One of the ways they do that is through an actual structure. It's like an obelisk. It's a small one, right? Um, I've seen it happen. They're building a building.
00:58:34
Speaker
Downtown I don't know where it is It's between a bar and the Citadel I know that
00:58:43
Speaker
Big building, got blown up, not too far back, remember? By the Swords of Liberty, yes. Right, right then. That building, we're pretty confident, is just one big obelisk. And we're not sure what ramifications that has. If you're near one of the small ones, you start to feel bad. And if you touch the small one, you become inspired.
00:59:12
Speaker
Who knows what sort of power a big one would have to make people do or feel however they want. I'm telling you this because you are an architect. I'm telling you this because you deal with magic and artifice. I'm telling you this because it will affect you and your city. We want to know you have some way to get rid of.
00:59:39
Speaker
Let me get rid of you. Well, somebody did get rid of it. So you're saying that the inspired are mind controllers that have built a building in sharn that was then blown up and now is being rebuilt. That is a giant mind control device.
01:00:09
Speaker
Don't know, don't know if first building was that blew up. Well, and I assume it was, that was the plan and they hadn't completed it yet. But yeah, that's what we're saying. That's the guy we're saying for dot, dot, dot. You want me to fill in that blank. That what you're asking me for them. They want to, they are conquerors. Yeah. So they're trying to control all of our minds.
01:00:39
Speaker
that feel, well, either control or embody. Yeah, that's where we're taking it. Yeah. Okay. And this part, this next part's going to sound fishy. Just this next part. Okay. Yeah. If you can get all high and mighty all you want, I've seen this stuff.
01:01:03
Speaker
If we can't go through official channels to, you know, obviously if it's like, hey, there was a bad thing happening, you'd be like tell the cops or tell the Citadel. But they're infiltrated. Ah, by the inspired. Yeah. By who?
01:01:28
Speaker
He calls one of you paranoid. If he says the word paranoid. I mean, no, we don't, we don't know for sure how many. There are some we know for sure. Um, but it'd be safe to say it goes real high all the way to the top. It goes real high for opposite reasons. I can't really tell you too much more than that. Of course. Um, but, uh, it goes real high. Well, I,
01:01:54
Speaker
Appreciate you coming to me with this information So you want to know if there's any way to stop the mind control
01:02:05
Speaker
just to stop the building. Or, you know, if we were able, like how complete of a structure need to be for that sort of thing. Like if we were just to send one of the guys we know that can fly up to the top and just lop off the top three inches, maybe nobody noticed and it wouldn't be able to put out a signal. I mean, do you know, can you tell us anything about that? Or were you, this is not pejorative, but, or were you just a,
01:02:27
Speaker
maze builder, architect of structures, not really much for the... Because your traps are typically mechanical, and this is obviously a magical... Well, yes, I also have arcane capabilities. Sure. I mean, when it comes to something of the scale that you're describing, it would be
01:02:52
Speaker
difficult to know how affecting the actual structure would affect it. Perhaps doing something to shield yourselves from whatever signal is causing the mind control would be a good way to prevent your own minds from being taken over while you investigate the building. Maybe you're about to suggest a tin foil hat. I'm going to punch you.
01:03:22
Speaker
I'm gonna punch you. Punch your heart. But you can cut that because I know you want to say it. It'll be pretty. No, I don't think that's better. But no, I, I, I don't know a way that you could prevent the government of a nation on another continent who has infiltrated the British government and is attempting to build a building to control its citizenry.
01:03:52
Speaker
I have no idea how you would prevent that. Well, building up. Well, that sounded like the best option to somebody. From this moment on, all Dex wants is his Harry Potter Voldemort's back moment when everybody finally believes him. Do you not believe us?
01:04:16
Speaker
Spoiler alert for Harry Potter. Serious. Whoops. Harry's vindicated. We say truth. No, no need. I did not say that I didn't believe you. Just intimated it. Making sure that I understand what you're saying. Okay, well, you be careful. How did you go by that building? You know something up.
01:04:46
Speaker
Oh, I will go check out the building. Now I recognize now from the entirety of this encounter with you that perhaps our trust and faith and you may have been misplaced. So let me just say that you clearly don't believe us. You clearly don't think this thread is real.
01:05:12
Speaker
But if I could impress upon you the idea of better safe than sorry, and you don't make a big deal out of telling other folks this crazy theory that you heard, because it is in fact real. And when it gets back to the people who are perpetrating it, that the theories out there, all that's going to do is escalate the timeline. And we need the time to stop it.
01:05:39
Speaker
Basically what I'm saying is that there's a thing that happens to snitches. He didn't say that part out loud. No, he doesn't say that part. We have this saying in rear drive. So I hope the rest of your days are long and merry and full of, I don't know, tinkering and
01:06:10
Speaker
cheese plates uh so we're gonna i mean i don't know specifically but most people like a good cheese plate so we're gonna go i'm lactose intolerant actually she's nasty oh that's right he doesn't like okay so maybe it's just me i'll take y'all's cheese plates nonetheless still hope your days are full of cheese plates yeah at this point i kind of want your days to be full of cheese plates and you just have to trots for the rest of your life ten thousand dollars worth of them in fact
01:06:36
Speaker
$9,800. Keep in mind what you said about when you're tinkering
Dex's Parting Words and Final Warnings
01:06:43
Speaker
with those shards. If something comes up you think we might be able to use in our endeavors, we'll take it off your hands. One way or the other. Oh, threatening now. Great. I meant, you know, check her money order. So we're gonna go. Farewell.
01:07:07
Speaker
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01:08:24
Speaker
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