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C2 Ep. 186 Racing Towards Dread Chapter Three
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The crew gets a lay of the land with Viggo on the prowl, and continue try solving the clan's leadership issues.
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Transcript
00:00:09
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D20
Introduction and Setup
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radio, your game is roll.
00:00:48
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Hello and welcome to ever underneath an actual play podcast at neighbor on campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode gentlemen. What happened last time?
Recap and Plotting
00:01:02
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Scheming. Scheming. Lots of scheming. Active listening. And we talked with Koldor on the subject of
00:01:13
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busting Aaron out of the Dreadhold, since Randy seems to have decided to make us all sad by not initiating a gang coup using his ancestry. But not me, Milo. That is not a job Milo wants. But who knows if this all goes south. He may not be the mafia boss we want, but he might be the mafia boss we deserve.
00:01:38
Speaker
Yeah. Colder just left you all in the soaring spirits and we'll pick up there. Well, since you bring up the idea of him like lurking around, we should probably go somewhere else. Right. I've actually got some place I need to swing by obvious for a minute. That's I suppose you guys are welcome to come with me. I just want to chat with someone.
00:01:57
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Okay, sure. Yeah. Might as well. Yeah, surprise, Eric. This is what I wanted to do last time, but we ended up going straight to the meeting. It would, it, it only makes sense to hob that the kind of people that hang out at Savio's are the kind of people that Vigo spends time with also. And there's gotta be some there that he can trust to put an ear to the ground about what Vigo's planning or doing now that he's out.
00:02:19
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And so he'd like to go to his place of work and talk
Character Creation: Harlan LaBeouf
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to someone sympathetic, be it a bartender or a patron that likes him. We've established that he has those people there. We just don't spend a lot of time with them. So totally. So make somebody up. Give me a person. Who's that person, Jeff? No, you. No, you said that.
00:02:37
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Okay, this guy's name is Harlan Beef and... B-E-O-E-F. Yeah. No, no. Le Buff. Yeah, Le Buff. Harlan Le Buff. No, we've done the bartender before. We've established in the past that the bartender listens. And so I think that it would just be that person again, honestly. Because I'm not asking if they know anything. I'm asking for them to be listening for anything. Or I mean, if they happen to know something great.
00:03:06
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It would be a patron if it was like, hey, have you heard anything? But I'm, yeah. So I just wanna swing by and we definitely haven't named this person. So if anybody has a good one, I'm bad at it. I'm good at it, but not like you guys like it to be. Harlan. Harlan's great. He pops in. He goes, last name? LaBeouf. Harlan LaBeouf. There it is. Okay. All right. So he just goes in. What do they look like, Jeff? Paint me a word picture. Okay. Harlan is a half elf.
00:03:33
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Harlan is short for a half elf. Harlan is about 5
Plans and Discussions at the Bar
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'3". They built a walkway of apple boxes behind the bar for him to be able to effectively tend a bar, in fact. Okay.
00:03:48
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flamboyantly dressed, shaved head, double the eyebrow ring, that's Harlan the buff. Okay. How old is he? Is he young? Middle-aged? Oh, he's, no, he's old as it gets. Is that where for you, Eric? Yeah. All right. So, Harlan sees you all walk in and looks up and is like, hey, Hob, what's going on? Hey, so, look, Harlan, I'm sorry, but I've got a favor to ask. Sure. Viggo Boromar.
00:04:17
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has been released from prison. If you remember, Viggo hasn't liked me since the first time I had to kick him out of here. And now he has further reason to dislike all of us. You know, and I know that his boys still come around here occasionally. And I was just wondering if you hear any of them talking about something they're planning on any of the four of us, you let me know. Sure. Yeah, I'll keep an eye out and keep my eye to the ground.
00:04:44
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Great. And since I live here, I'll see you around. Yeah, that's all. I just I wanted to put that bug in your ear. I think Hob will drop a gold on the bar to say thank you. Appreciate it. Right, sure. Sure I can't get you all a drink? Looks down the bar. You guys want a drink?
00:05:04
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We can chat here. Like if it's a relatively quiet time, we can talk here. He says it in his character voice. Sure. Like I don't have room in my room for all of us comfortably, but we can grab a table. We never pay out here because I don't like for us to, but we're here. So.
00:05:23
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Well, it works for me. If we're staying in that case, I'll have an ale, please. All right. Your best, your best on tap. Sounds good, bud. This is like a kind of a rough place, right? No, it's a very high end. Never mind. Established. Yeah, we're underdressed. Yeah. But it's, but it's slow. I'll just have a glass of wine. Thank you. OK. Yeah. Get some wine. A red and white. Thank you. Great. Looks at Eris. No, I'm OK. OK. And he taps the bar in front of Hob. Water?
00:05:53
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Yeah, man. Okay. Appreciate it. And then, yeah, I suppose we can continue our conversation. I mean, here's the thing. Harlan, like, listens to everybody, but he also keeps his mouth shut. Hey, Harlan, did anybody give you a gold to keep tabs on us? What are you talking about? There you go. He's good. Okay.
Creative Solutions for Prison Break
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Well, I was just thinking, if we move Erin, then we can't communicate with her. But also,
00:06:19
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I was curious about how she and Tarvel managed to make a hole in the security system. Because, I mean, surely the place is built so that you can't just teleport in and out. Because otherwise, you know, it would happen. I mean, I know not everyone can do that, but still, it seems the sort of thing that House Kondorak would design a prison not to be allowed. So there's a hole.
00:06:45
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I mean, I mean, even if it's a very small hole, would there be anything that prevented us from transporting some living thing that was very small through the hole in the security system in one of those little canisters? I mean, I don't know a lot about like interdimensional travel, but I've heard stories about the babies that crawl into the bags of holding and I don't want to do that to somebody. You know, the wife's anecdotal.
00:07:16
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That's why, you know, obviously we need to find out how they did it. Cause I mean, well, but I mean, track teleportation is not inherently dangerous. I've teleported all of us. We've teleported things. So I mean, and I built those little teleport teleporters off the same off the rack of canister of extra canisters that we stole. Oh, we could go talk to that cool Tiefling again. He was rad.
00:07:40
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That's who we took the canisters from, right? You never talked to her. You used resources stole from that night. Yeah. Right. But she was the one who she was the one who made those things. Right. Yeah. And I remember that correctly. OK. Yeah. I always find it interesting when Aeris is excited to talk to a stranger.
00:07:56
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And Jeff Hobb probably would be familiar with the legend of the bag man, which is an actual during D&D urban legend like an in fiction urban legend. The bag man is an adventurer who tried to escape doom by abandoning his party and climbing into a bag of holding and got lost in the extra dimensional space. And the magical energy turned him into like this broken mad monster.
00:08:25
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And every night, the bag man slips out of a random bag of holding and drags somebody back in with him and leaves behind a trinket of theirs. That is stellar. Yeah. Didn't you know why I didn't carry a bag of holding? No, I've never heard it. It would be super useful and elementary for me to carry to made one a while ago. But, you know, I don't carry one because she's and you all tell children this story. Yeah. It's useful to know.
00:08:52
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To know. These are the facts we must know, Caesareus. The bag manning. Does he exist or is it just a legend? No, he wronged Tasha. Huh? Yes, what? He wronged Tasha and that's how he ended up that way. Not our Tasha. No. I'm just saying. Obviously. Out loud. Anyway. Right. To what end do we send a tiny living greeter to Eren?
00:09:19
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Well, it's possible to turn someone into a tiny living creature. So if we could figure out that we could, say, put a mouse in one of those canisters and send it safely through to Eren, then could we surely, if the Dark Lanterns have a pool of changelings who were just up for going to prison, it seems like something that they would have a resource of someone who can turn people into, say, a mouse.
00:09:49
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And so that person turns into a mouse. We send them through. They turn Aaron into a mouse. Right. And we have to leave. We've got to much like the bag man. We all know the urban legend of Indiana Jones. We've got to leave something there. We can't just send a say pill that turns her into a mouse. I'm not entirely certain that we do.
00:10:13
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It's probably like the most convenient thing for the Dark Lanterns and House Kintorek, but I'm not.
00:10:20
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They've been making my life inconvenient for years. I'm saying we are also probably capable of finding someone who can transform someone else into a mouse. Right. Because we know a lot of people, even if they're all kind of not super powerful, we still know a lot of people. We know a lot of people willing to work with us right now. Fewer than we've had. Well, sure. I mean, I've got friends in the tyrants that haven't come up since like the third session, but they're there.
00:10:49
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We can get Dorgath in on this, everybody helps him. Sure, yeah, Dorgath is super helpful.
00:10:54
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Everybody loves helping that guy. The big beneficial thing that Koldor laid out in terms of leaving someone behind is it it provides a bow. There's not going to be any additional investigation or trying to get here and back the dread hold if there's an explanation as to what happened. So, OK, I mean, here's if we're just dreaming, right? If we're just dreaming, if we had access to a person who could transform someone into a mouse and themselves, then we get a canister. We kidnap Vigo.
00:11:24
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Again, we turn Viggo into a mouse and put him and our friend who's a mouse into the canister and send two mice through. Then our friend who's a mouse transforms Eren into a mouse and brings her back and leaves Viggo there. And then we arrange to get Viggo transferred to the stone ward. So at that point, Viggo is actually in prison for the crime that sent Eren to that prison. Correct.
00:11:50
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That feels unbelievably victimless. Yeah. You know, it's just, I mean, it's not necessarily a crime that was committed. Those guys are still dead, but nothing I can do about them, man. That's a different crime. That's a different crime. This is nothing I can do about those guys. I'm learning to accept the things I can change and not change the stuff I accepted. I don't remember it all. That adds a significant complication of kidnapping Vigo, which is not small.
00:12:16
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Right, but we got Harlan on the case on that one, don't we, Harlan? Don't know what you're talking about. Fair enough. See? I told you I wasn't listening. Unless this is all clever ruse, Harlan. Sorry, what? If it was possible to design an item that would turn Eren into an- or just shrink her really small. Oh, that sounds fun. Because that would be re- because in anyone- Anyone what?
00:12:37
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If anyone could go through, we wouldn't have to find a specialist. If we could design an item, who could just shrink someone really small. Well, that's what I was saying about the mouse thing, too. Right. Potion of polymorph. Yeah, no, that would be, yeah, that would be good, too. Gotta make sure it's the right one. If we give her some sort of bear polymorph, that's not getting through the hole.
00:12:56
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Yeah, there's a problem. Yeah. Well, and like, there's some problems potentially sometimes, sometimes some forms of transformation also make your brain transform. And so if we just turn her into a mouse, she's not going to know to get in the canister. And if she's alone, when we turn her into a mouse, nothing can turn, put the canister back through the hole.
00:13:21
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What if non-canister based travel is safe and we just need her to run through the hole? Sure, that would be great. Because we could bait it with some peanut butter and once she's a mouse, she just goes.
00:13:31
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Yeah, we need to know the nature of the whole breach in the security. That's right. We need to know exactly what that is so that we know what we're working with and whether we can transport someone in and out without us having to actually go there. Which means we need to speak with Tarvel about it. And whether we can tie it all up in a bow.
Teleportation and Transformation Debate
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And I think we like to share sometimes as a group
00:13:57
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Perhaps we don't tell Tarvel we've got the Black Lanterns. Dark Lanterns working on this with us. Is that fair? Yeah, that seems like something he might not like to know. Let's all keep that one under our chest. Under our chest. Under the vest. Into the distance. Right, sure. Yeah. Alright. Yeah, I'm okay with this. I don't know if I'm okay with this, but I'm...
00:14:16
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Willan. Should we also mention to him the possibility of Shapeshifter? Doesn't have to... We don't have to mention the Dark Lantern aspect of it, of course, but... Well, yeah, that wasn't a Dark Lantern idea. That one's mine. I'm not giving credit to them. And I suppose we don't tell Tarahul we're thinking about putting Viggo in there. No, no, I mean, I mean... He might not mind that. He might not, but he might tell Eren and Eren, you know, how she's been doing all day. Yeah, we could just not bring that up for the moment. I mean, Koldor's idea.
00:14:45
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Oh bollocks. Yeah. Should we bring up that idea, but not, let's not mention Koldor. Let's start with getting the information we need. Yeah. That's a great point though. Yeah. Yeah. I think the less we can volunteer to Tarvel right now, but still in assure him we're making headway is probably the best. Yeah. We've got an idea. We need this information. Here's the gist of our idea workers. I mean, we don't need to be Frank. We don't need Tarvel for Koldor's idea.
00:15:15
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Because Koldor will get Eren transferred. Right. That's very true. That's just a matter of, we just need the Dark Liners to give us transport to the Dreadhold. Right. If we're using Koldor's idea, all we need to do is tell Tarvold not to freak out when he loses contact. Yes. And hope that he's able to not do that. Sure. And I mean, even if he freaks out, he can't do anything about it. Solid.
00:15:38
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So we hope he doesn't freak out because, you know, we all kind of like him, but if he does freak out, it won't hinder our plan. Well, just, we should just tell him that if, if our plan works, he will lose contact with her. And that means things are in the process of happening. Sure. Put an optimistic spin on it. Yes. All right. Let's go. Thanks. Harlan. I dropped, you know what? I dropped another gold on the table as a tip.
00:16:03
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Thanks, bud. Harley probably makes so much in tips at this high-end thing, and I'm like, here's a gold. You know what I do. Bye-bye. So you calling Tarvel?
00:16:10
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Milo. You know what? Yes. But before I do, he shows the coin to Eris and says, look, I can use this to contact Tarvel. You were there when he explained it. Do you think this is something you could possibly come up with as well? Eris just reaches up to where the little sending stone is pinned on her jacket, like this thing I talk to you on every day. Yes, but a one use coin that uses the thoughts.
00:16:39
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You mean could I make one that's worse? Yeah, I could do that. Ha! I see the benefits of both versions. But why? You still got to talk. It just goes into his head instead of... Yeah, okay, sure. That might be useful or handy. Anyway, Milo takes the coin, touches it. Tarble. Milo here. Meeting at the same place.
00:17:01
Speaker
In an hour. An hour. I'm never going to get to eat. And as the final word there is in your mind, the coin in your hand turns into seawater as it just. See, it even makes a mess when it's done. Come on. Well, nevermind about that idea I had. I forgot about that part of it. I'll just make him a syndics. I just make him one of my stones when we're all done. That would work better because it won't disappear. Right.
00:17:30
Speaker
I'll say it. Okay. So we eat at the warehouse. To the meeting! Yeah, another meeting. We've got an hour, Hob, if you want to stop and pick up something to eat. Stop by a food truck. Get something on the way for sure. Yeah. He grabs a chicken. Gets you a wrap. There you go. It's obvious just where it's obvious. Can you just grab something?
00:17:48
Speaker
What was it? They don't have to go food. The Galanda Hall. Galanda to go. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Golden Dragon or something like that. Yeah. Go through the through the drive through. OK, so you are back at the warehouse, walk through Tarvel standing there. Yeah. What do you what do you got? Well, I'll let them.
00:18:08
Speaker
Eris, let her relay her thoughts and our thoughts to you. OK, basically this. I need to know how it works, how you made a hole in the Dreadhold's security.
00:18:20
Speaker
And could you send some thing that was alive, very small, through by the same way? Side note, I may have stolen a bunch of extra canisters when we went and stole those for you and made small personal teleportation devices out of them. So I know how to teleport a living thing.
00:18:44
Speaker
but what's the nature of the gap in the security system? That's a lot. So I didn't design things, so I don't have a strong base of knowledge for how Erin did what she did, but I know that basically she was able to create a pocket dimension in the wall of her cell that resides outside of
00:19:11
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the dread hold, and that's how you do it. You're not supposed to put people in pocket dimensions, I think. Typically, no. Typically, though. Okay, sorry. But the teleportation circle resides in that pocket dimension, and then she reaches in and pulls out whatever I send or sets in there anything that she wants to send.
00:19:32
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So we've never tried, I mean, from a spatial standpoint, she couldn't crawl into it and go, it's not big enough. It's pretty, we've never tried sending a living animal or other creature through it. So, so if we got a mouse that you didn't like, then yeah, we could try. Then she might just have a dead mouse. Sure. Yeah.
00:19:55
Speaker
I'm sure they have systems to handle that at the Dreadhold. I mean, we've sent organic material through, and it's been fine. We've sent food and things like that, so it's not like something might get jumbled. It's just a question whether or not it would survive the trip. Okay.
00:20:12
Speaker
Well, unless there's a, I mean, unless there's a check I can make to know with confidence. Knowledge adventuring. I take that. Okay. Okay. I'll have a little bit of that. What's the difficulty? It would normally, something like this would be three purple. I'm going to flip a story point and make it one red, two purple. Okay.
00:20:32
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I'm going to take some strain. And you can have a boost die because of Eris's experience with the teleportation stuff. Okay, just venturing with the boost and I'm upgrading with a strain. Just checking whether I've got any other. Okay.
00:20:55
Speaker
I think that's, you know what? I'm going to spend a story point and then I will take it back immediately as a human to get myself an upgrade. Okay. And here we go. What?
00:21:10
Speaker
Unbelievable. OK, well, I got two failure and six advantage, six advantage. That's what I said. So the question was, can you send a living creature through and survive? Right. That piece of information you do not can't know. However, six advantage to know a lot of other stuff.
00:21:30
Speaker
A lot of other stuff, none of which will be useful. I'm open to suggestions here. I got nothing because that's literally the only thing I needed to find out from this check. And it's the only thing I can't know. You want to use them on a boost for Raynard to heal one of your criticals? I don't know, man. Shoot. Use them on the boost for the mouse's constitution check when we run one into the pocket dimension and see what happens. I mean, that is my only other idea on how to figure this out, is to try and send something living through. I think it's what we're going to do.
00:21:59
Speaker
Yep. I think that's where we are. And Arthur better come clean if he's an animagus because he's... I'm kidding, Reynard. We wouldn't do that to Arthur. Yeah, I don't know what to use a 66 advantage for. We can't pocket them. Arthur catches a live mouse and brings him to us.
00:22:16
Speaker
You want to spend six advantage on that? No, we can buy a mouse. This is not a hard thing to acquire. OK, let's see. Jeez. OK, we need to think outside of this. We need to think of next steps, how we can benefit ourselves. I know you guys already knew that, but I'm dumb enough to say it all out. What else? OK, so for some of the advantage, you can't find that thing, it's my desk leg. For some of the advantage, what's the problem?
00:22:44
Speaker
with a living creature going into a pocket dimension, usually. Is it just a problem of air? Hmm. Yes. And so it's a problem of air and also without a lifeline to know where to... It's easy to get lost as well. Like if you just dive in without any kind of lifeline. So you send a mouse through, it appears in the teleportation circle. Aaron doesn't open the latch quickly. How do we get back? It'll take off running in a direction.
00:23:14
Speaker
kind of thing. Doesn't the mouse go through in a little container? Like don't we have little like bank canisters? No, the containers are the batteries. She would just said they would just set stuff all over the location circle. No, it's not like a big thing. But it could be. You could put a mouse in a box. Why could like we could.
00:23:31
Speaker
put the mouse in a container so that Erin could reach in and grab it without any chance of it running away. You were just asking me the potential issues with everything. Right. Right. OK. All right. Because I brought a hamster home in a box once, and it couldn't get out on its own. All right. So if those are the two issues, then we know one of those issues we can solve, the running away thing we can definitely solve and make not a problem for our test at the very least. And if we can keep Erin in control of all of her mental faculties,
00:24:00
Speaker
When she transforms, then that's not a problem either, because there's a teleportation circle on the ground. So if she goes into the pocket dimension, then she just has to go to the teleportation circle. With the rest of my advantage, is that logic sound? The logic is sound, yes. The logic is logic. So the problem we have to overcome is air. Build a little oxygen tank with a mask. Throw it, throw Tasha in there.
00:24:23
Speaker
And yeah, get an error on the elemental traffic. If only you had a box with a bunch of runes on it with some elementals. I hate you. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. OK. Tell me that Eris wouldn't let you jump to that conclusion. It gets it out. It gets it out of all those apartments. I'm not saying teleport the box. Just eat it. All right. I got it. I can solve that problem. OK. I can solve that problem. What book? What tone are you consulting?
00:24:48
Speaker
the one that all my artifice comes from. There's an effect called immunity. As a maneuver, your character can deplete this effect to protect themselves and their allies with a medium range from a single environmental hazard of your choice. So if we send Erin something that she can activate in order to for a short duration,
00:25:12
Speaker
immunize herself against an environmental danger, she could theoretically, assuming we overcome all the other things, run to the teleportation circle without having to worry about the void state of the essentially we're building a magical like EVA suit for her for a mass version of her.
00:25:36
Speaker
or a small version of her, which is my preference. OK, so the two things. All right. So all right. So he's all right. All right. All right. All right. All right. I can work this out. There's two problems we have to solve. And one of them is not much of a problem. OK. There's no direction inside a pocket dimension.
00:25:53
Speaker
But if somehow there's a teleportation circle on the ground, as it were, then that's not a problem because Eren can walk to it. She'll see it and she can get to it. Because if she can reach her hand in there and reach it, then it can't be very foreign. So the two things I have to accomplish is we have to make Eren of a size that she can go into the pocket dimension and I have to design something that will keep her from dying while she runs to the teleportation circle. Where does she where do the things come out?
00:26:23
Speaker
in your office we've seen that it's like a safe right yeah there's a safe okay so if she's small she'll come out in a safe place and then you just get her out of there before all right so that's why i still need to confirm that the teleportation itself doesn't harm a living creature which is still also the uh why would it that was what your check was about like right the the magic they did yeah okay i mean
00:26:50
Speaker
Alright, so I think we just need to put a mouse in a little box and try and send it through. Yeah, I think so. Air thing. I'm going to solve the air thing first. Okay. Okay. So I need to build this thing first and activate it on a mouse. Okay. Before trying to do this, why don't we figure out whether I can even shrink someone? Because if I can't make her small enough to get through, then... The rest of this is moot. Doesn't matter. And we need to go with some other plan.
00:27:16
Speaker
Yes. And then what about her disappearance? If it does work... Yeah, it's still a thing. Are we trying to replace her with someone or not? We need to figure out...
Consequences of Erin's Escape
00:27:25
Speaker
Can we ask... Oh my gosh. Hey, Reynard. Yes. Reynard. Hey, Reynard. The brother you like is now in charge of your really good at Skulduggery house. Yes. What would they charge to kidnap, Viggo?
00:27:47
Speaker
Well, they're a little busy at the moment. Well, they probably need to take a job to make it so that business as usual is still going on, even though there's been a shaker. And I did say I would see him later today as well, so I could ask. OK, so find out if your brother was... Explain not too much, but the ways in which Vigo is a problem and that it's connected to the whole theronymus.
00:28:16
Speaker
Because Ignacio... And how they... And how Viggo tried to frame us. So somehow, maybe, yes, and so maybe Viggo is somehow tied up in all this mess by which Ous the Ronnie somehow killed your father. Or maybe Viggo did. On the same... No, we don't want that, because then they'll just kill Viggo and we don't... That's too much. Nope. That's too much. That's over-revenge. But on the same day that Viggo gets out, your father just happens to turn up dead.
00:28:47
Speaker
Coincidence? But in reality, yes. I think not. No, not we very much were. Coincidence we think not, but we know it is. So? Right, but it's important that your brother not think it is. Unless you're planning to tell your brother the truth. Is that an option? Are you thinking about that? Would you do that? I was thinking about doing it. Let's see if this works out. Well, whether or not you're willing to, well, okay, either way.
00:29:08
Speaker
Viggo is connected to House Ferrani in some way, and your brother does not like House Ferrani, even prior to your father being killed. So would they be willing to take a job by which they kidnap Viggo for us, as then we could shrink a little tied up Viggo and send him through?
00:29:28
Speaker
and then Eren shrinks, goes to the television and just leaves Viggo in a box. Yes. But would Eren do that as Viggo is? I keep forgetting. All right. We've got to keep in mind that she likes him. Hey, I don't think I don't. Hey, Tarve. Hey, Tarve. Yeah. Yeah. I said not to tell him.
00:29:52
Speaker
Which is too late, because we're apparently very forgetful about where we are. Some of us! Well, to be fair, we've really just been having small conversations with other people in the room. This can get confusing. Yes. So, Tarvel, would Vigo going to the Dreadhold be a deal breaker for Eren?
00:30:12
Speaker
Or you? Not for me. Being as he is such a time. Come on, man, quit while you're ahead. We've been, I mean, I've been talking to Aaron about him. It's not a problem for me. I'll talk to her and see if I can. Look, I don't see how this ends. If she's surprised by it, she certainly wouldn't go for it. Like, I can tell you that much. If she opens that and Avigo pops out, she's going to be very upset.
00:30:38
Speaker
Hey, if we put a bag over his head and told her not to take the bag off the head of the person that we're sending him through, would she go for that? We'll tell her you had no idea. No. Okay. Let me talk. Well, just, I mean, I gotta say this because I don't see how this concludes. If he stays out, I don't see how this concludes with both us and him alive. That's fair. So him going to the Dreadhold,
00:31:06
Speaker
And maybe being very, you know, apparently there's a sort of comfortable part of the Dreadhold, you know, whatever, but he can go there or we can kill him before he kills us because that's what he's going to try to do. Yeah. Save that for like the last bit of negotiation. No, I think pitching it as for his safety is probably the best approach to take. So.
00:31:28
Speaker
And look, once she's back and headed the Boromar Clan, she can maybe grease some wheels and get him transferred to the nice, cozy part of the Great Hold. Maybe. I don't know. But will we still not have the problem if she is out that she will be missed and questions will be
00:31:49
Speaker
No, that Koldor said that as long as somebody's in and somebody's out, no one will ask any questions because it will be embarrassing to ask those questions. Right. Because then they'll have to ask, they'll have to answer questions about how a... Yes, how it happened.
00:32:06
Speaker
Right, yeah. I mean, the next thing to think about is once Erin is out, what then? Because you still have Alira to deal with. I assume Erin will tell us how she plans to take over the Boromar Clan. Yes, but Alira won't go down without a fight. Well, once she's no longer in charge of the Boromar Clan, maybe she'll have a little less fight in her.
00:32:28
Speaker
What I'm saying right now is, Allira is in charge of the Boromar Clan, and she's been installing people this whole time who are loyal to Allira Boromar, not Boromar. So there's going to be a fight for the clan. It's not like Arryn's gonna be able to show up and be like, it's me.
00:32:48
Speaker
And a layer is going to step down is the concern of what I'm expressing. Yep. And I agree. That's going to be a problem. That's going to be a thing. I don't think it's when we, I don't think it's when we can pre-solve. Yeah. Might just see how things shake out with who's on what side. Also, we'll have supporters.
00:33:04
Speaker
I don't know how to plan a gang war, so I'm going to leave that to other people. I'm going to do the magic stuff. I'll make things. Do you want me to come see your brother with you and help with that negotiating? Do you feel OK about this? You can. I don't know what else you might, what other conversations you might be a part of. Do you want me to or do you want to go by yourself or all of us? I don't know. Do you want to go deal with that by yourself or do you want backup?
00:33:30
Speaker
Let's just look back at my track record, shall we? I have done one thing successfully on my own and that thing has now caused me a large problem. So you would like us to come with you in case it's a trap? Yes, please. Okay.
00:33:43
Speaker
Yeah. Great. We'll be there. Wonderful. When is that? Thank you. Now? Okay. Okay. So, Tarvel, you're going to talk to Allira and see if you can square away this thing with Vigo. I'm going to talk to her. Definitely not Allira. Don't talk to Allira. Yeah. Can't square away this thing with Vigo with her. That's not possible. You're going to talk to
Strategizing Against Alira Boromar
00:34:04
Speaker
Aaron. Yeah. We're going to talk to...
00:34:07
Speaker
Well, we're going to back up right now while he talks to Alistair, and then I'm going to see if I can invent a way to shrink somebody while also fixing my arm and building Ulfen a new hand. Also, Tarvel, is it a delicate situation, of course, but I was just trying to think if there was a way to... I mean, surely there are people in the clan opposed to Allira,
00:34:34
Speaker
Yeah. And yes, I just, I'm just trying to figure out if it's possible some way to garner more support if they thought there was. Who's that lady? Who's that lady? Who's that lady? The one who's not. Oh yeah. Yeah. Say what? Lady Briar. Yes. Lady Briar. The one that didn't like Milo at first. Lady Briar. Grum's boss. Yeah. Grum's old boss. No, Grum's new boss. Yes. Yeah. And that cool war forged.
00:35:01
Speaker
Right. Well, so Hutch, you're thinking of the second kind of goals. The goals have gotten pretty well entrenched with a lira. You might be able to get Hutch as an individual onside, but the Delvers, Lady Briars team still very much not a lira loyalist. So there needs to be a secret meeting of all the anti-alira Boromar people.
00:35:27
Speaker
The resistance! Obviously the peer lads are not on Alira's side. You all worked with Lissa, head of the ravens, when her shifter folk were getting murdered. So you probably have some affinity for you. That was probably Vigo's fault too. Sure.
00:35:49
Speaker
I would say as it stands, the peer lads were locked in with you all. The Delvers, Grum, obviously has a strong connection. That would be an easier, the Ravens kind of a coin toss, but I would say the Gulls and the Black Lamps are firmly a Lira's territory at this point. Okay. You might be able to get Hutch as an individual out, but other than that... Can you...
00:36:11
Speaker
sound out those people and find out whether they'd be willing to come to a meeting and not ambush us. I will send out some feelers when so far as I can without arousing suspicion. That would be good. Yes. And if we could find some way to, you know, if all goes according to plan and Aaron is out.
00:36:31
Speaker
If we could certainly try to find some way to thwart a Lyra without a total clan war would be most beneficial. Not sure how that can happen, but. Yeah. I mean, just preemptive surgical strike on a Lyra herself. Erin steps up, stabilizes things. You'd have those that are diehard loyal to a Lyra rise up, but that's going to be far fewer than it being a Boromar civil war, as it were.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yes. Do we get the sense Alira has been planning for her ascension? No, this was no when it initially happened with V go out of picture. It seemed like Alira. Alira is fueled by rage for the death of her father. She had no desire to take over the clan. She feels like she needs to now so that she can exact vengeance upon those that wronged her family. OK.
00:37:20
Speaker
Yeah, I'll send out feelers if you all have any allies outside of the clan that might be helpful in. Well, there's the king of Shawn. The who? I made really good friends with this wiring of cobolds. You've heard of him, the king of shard? I'm not. That's why I said who. He's an insane cobalt, lives in a box. He thinks he's the king of Shawn.
00:37:42
Speaker
Does that help? Can that help? I'm not sure how helpful this person can be, but if you have faith in them, then... Alright, yeah. You go
Conclusion and Community Engagement
00:37:50
Speaker
do your... Fight your loyalists. Yeah. We're among them. And he fumbles in his pocket and he pulls out another coin and flips it to him. Okay.
00:37:58
Speaker
I'm gonna make you something. I can make one at a time. I guess if it doesn't take any energy. Yeah, watch. And he snaps his finger and the coin that Milo just caught turns into seawater and then he reaches his pocket and pulls out. And his sleeve's wet again. Milo, how do you feel about that? Half of the course. It's kind of a funny prank to sleeve washing around. Yeah, can you make them gold? Could that be hilarious? I need to find some more joyful uses of these powers, but yeah.
00:38:27
Speaker
Okay. Right. So, fear then, right? That's Sonic's stop somehow. It would appear that way. All right. Okay. See y'all later. And Darvel turns and walks away. And we'll call the episode there. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want a part of the conversation surrounding this episode, you can head over to our Discord link to which you can find on all of our socials, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok,
00:38:48
Speaker
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00:39:17
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