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C1 Ep. 113 Rising Tides Chapter Five
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This week the party finds themselves face to face with some new unknown terrors from Dolurrh! What do these creatures want? Will they succeed in dragging Beric back to the land of the dead, or will the party stave them off once again?
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Introduction and Sponsors
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Podcast Overview: Eberron Renewed
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
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You know, the easiest way I've found to eliminate a foe from the battlefield is to simply eliminate the battlefield. If I'm somewhere else and you're not, then you can't kill me.
Recap of Previous Events
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th Edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Housekeeping.
00:01:18
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Yeah, we kind of just took care of things that were on our list. Thanks for sticking with us, folks. Yeah. This one's going to be sauce here. OK. Eric made a mask out of his mother's old helmet. Yep. It does not look like a bird. Dex found out that he is going to be a flashy gentleman for as long as he wants to have good armor.
00:01:43
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And we found out that Beric no longer needs to use Erebus as a, as a cane. Yeah. If you were to be fair, that was a couple of weeks back when they found out. Well, there you go.
Creature Encounter and Combat
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I haven't listened to it yet either, but. Um, let's be fair. Beric made a Sith mask. That's really what happened here is Beric made a Sith mask. The Star Wars motif from that released episode. Um, okay. So, um,
00:02:13
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We have combat because the last thing that happened was a portal opened up and two gray skinned creepy looking things with spike legs and harpoon arms walk through and are making a beeline to Beric. So initiative.
00:03:01
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That would be nice on a three. We need to audit that character sheet real quick. Okay, so Dex, you are up first. Okay. People are running around screaming, tripping over tables. Right. Which is why I'm not pulling my knife out. So I guess I'm going to step up to one of the... Are they aligned or are they closer to me? Side by side. The one on my right.
00:03:05
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Eric. 18. Dex. 28. Who you have? 21. Nice.
00:03:31
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I step up to... What the heck? Because I haven't used it yet. Let's say the ribbon weave was behind me leaning against the wall, but it brought the rape here. I'm gonna hit it with the rape here. Yeah, that's... Yeah.
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Not great. Thirteen. That is a miss. Okay. Then I'm going to use my bonus action to disengage. And do I have some movement just to kind of get back in level with my crew? Yeah. Okay. I would say they're 20 feet away. So. Yeah, perfect. And I go up, try one, disengage, come back to defensive stance with these two. Okay. That would be Booyah.
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I'm going to mark the one on the right. Okay. Audience. Listener, right? Yes. I'll do a stereo effect so it'll be in your writing. No, you're going to make the big sounds. Don't. Based on their picture, their sounds are all... They're very blue whale sound looker.
00:04:48
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Blue whale is where you mix blueberry wine and ale. Now I'm mad. And a killer whale is where you mix some of that poison into a mixture of wine and ale. What a horrible cut. I was gonna say pure grain alcohol. That's a killer whale. All right, I guess I'm gonna go ahead and shoot at one. Okay. I guess. The one on the right.
00:05:16
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I have advantage on an active enemy on the first turn. So that's going to be. Are these aberrations? No. I was trying. So it's going to be 31 to hit. Yeah, I don't know why you needed an extra buff on that. No, I'm not. No, that's just on the damage.
00:05:44
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Yes, a 31 hits. Yeah, I figured it did. You're gonna want to pull out the old PHB, make sure for the monster manual. Make sure. That is a 12 damage. What are those considered? What are they considered under? Monstrosity. Monstrosity. Second attack. What more monstrosity is there to finish?
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Do I still have advantage on them? Says I have advantage on the first turn on an active enemy. First turn. Yeah. I mean, rules is written first turn. So that's going to be 19. That was a five until I pushed it back.
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Well, it would have been a five on the floor and you would have true. Thirteen damage. OK. Eric. And your your arrows make a sickening kind of sound like it's just like like they're almost. I don't want to say hollow on the inside, but there's just yeah, not a lot going on in there, so.
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rises from his seat and turns, facing the two creatures. And I need them to both make a charisma saving throw for Favore. I don't know a lot about these guys, but looking at them, they're strong too. They're real charm, charm and fills. They're not people monsters. They both got 12.
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Beric looks at them and is just is just filled with he just feels indignant that she's doing this and he just looks at them and says not today
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And he reaches out a hand and just makes a gesture, pushing them away. And they are both banished back to their original plane. That was okay. Yeah, just goes. Let's talk about stuff for another hour. But yeah, I think that don't take long. Beric turns around, sits down and resumes drinking his wine.
00:08:39
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Okay. I say, okay, everybody sit down. Everything bad thing gone. This is a, did the portal go away? Yeah. Okay. Good. Uh, those from Raven. I think they were, I guess I should ask. Is there something I would need to roll to make the connection between those things and the thing that grabbed me?
00:09:09
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and tried to carry me back
Arrival in Sharn and Docking
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into Dolar. I mean, you can make some you could basically infer based on similar physiology and the fact that I mean, you recognize Dolar on the other side of the portal. So basic logic could tell you that, yeah, probably similar style creature, not entirely the same, but similar.
00:09:31
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I don't know that they're in her service. They didn't seem so when I was there, but it's the same kind of creature that grabbed me that time. Right. And then they were definitely this time. So yeah. A one to one. It's the same kind of creature with presumably the same goal, but I don't know. I'm not entirely sure it's a connection to her understood.
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Well, I'm gonna get some nachos. So a few hours go by. And you hear a ping in your ear. And hey, hey guys, we are pulling into dock in the upper wards, the upper district at the docks up here. So whenever you all want to
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want to come up here, Booyah Cassian showed me where your hidey hole was for some of your money, so we're gonna use that to pay for the docking fees, okay? Booyah said that good. Cool. Well, I just got fries for the table, so, yes. So we stay and have loaded cheese fries, then we go to the ship. No, yeah, we're going to the ship. I've missed my boat.
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So yeah, it doesn't take any time really for you all to get up to the upper district. The docks are easy to find
Cassian's Humor and Moral Talk
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up there. Lots of shipments coming in and out. A lot of very large airships with various heraldry of the 12 and also
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important families, that kind of stuff. But you do see the borrowed time docked and awaiting your sweet embrace. I hug it. I do not. I do not embrace the ship.
00:11:27
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Uh, no, we get on. I think the first thing I want to do is they, uh, as soon as you get on, you hear footsteps as a small figure runs up and wraps his arms around your thighs. Hi, Charlie. I've missed you so much. Hey Cassian, how you doing bud? Good. I've been, I've been doing stuff that you taught me. I've been stealing stuff and hiding it. And I think I found all of Booyah's gold.
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All of? I mean, there's a lot. Alright, well, I counted it one day. There's like 50. Wow. Yeah, that's all of it. No need to look for any more. You know we can't keep that, right, Cassian? But we stole it. Right, but we don't steal from our friends except for practice, and we give it back.
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And only when they know, Hey, it's this time it's fine. It was just gold. And it wasn't really like it was in Booyah's quarters. He didn't break into his room or anything. And not like Booyah stand right here, hear a conversation. Also, why does, Oh wait, he would have seen Booyah on the game. He would have seen Booyah. Um, you find Booyah money.
00:12:35
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Yeah. Dick says, yeah, he found all 50 gold pieces and winks twice. Cause you definitely have more than 50, right? Yeah. Cassian, that's pretty good. You keep money. Well earned. What? Sweet. You spend wisely.
00:12:53
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So much money for a little kid. You need help spin Boyot take shop one day. That's like someone with no concept of money, like giving a late aid stand a $50 or $100 bill. Cassie's gonna buy so much candy his foot's gonna fall off.
Ship Exploration and Training
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No, it's not even $100, like what's a week's... It's a lot. No, I know, you're right. Two gold pieces is like a week's wage.
00:13:25
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It's an annual salary of a skilled worker. That's what Cassian now has. To be fair, he clearly has a skill. It's true. He's a skilled laborer.
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when we ruined that child well how was uh i mean let's be fair his dad was not that's fair his dad was a pirate he was yeah like he was headed this direction that's true charlie is also in in tow close behind cassian
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Hey fellas, I'm sorry we put you out over the water for a while for no good reason. Oh, it's fine. We needed to get supplies anyway, so I was planning on seeing what prices I could manage to drum up in Smuggler's Roost, but surely the economy will be better here in Shawn. Not much better. We are still going back to Smuggler's Roost.
00:14:15
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oh but we still need the supplies i'm with you i'm with you i'm just saying we're another week down on them so um any anything in particular you all would like me to pick up while i'm in town wine ale excuse me it's a new thing wine and some ale in shard we'll show you something okay
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Um, Jay walks out of the little cabinets like, all right guys. So, uh, welcome back on board. Uh, sorry that it took a minute to get back. I'm going to go find a room somewhere and sleep up, uh, and get ready to go. So do y'all need anything for me? Yeah. Before you go. I mean, no trouble. No, nothing clear skies, clear water. Oh, great. Uh,
00:15:08
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No, but I blasted a hole through one. Yeah. The sales have been taken down, but the mast is still there because Jace didn't know how to cut, like remove a mast mid flight. So that's fair. We'll see you back here in 4800. Give or take. Yeah. Making up military jargon. It's not in 4800. There is no 4800. 48 hours.
00:15:35
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Everyone has a very slow rotation. It's a 48 hour day. Sometimes this show feels like it. Of course an hour is like 15 minutes. So yeah, of course an hour is like 15 minutes. So right. All right. Well, I'm going to go sleep. You're kind of cool. All right. Those are all the people that were there to greet you on deck. Eric.
00:16:04
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We'll go down and knock on Orianna's cabin door because he doesn't know if she's here. You do not get a response knocking on her door. Give me a perception check.
00:16:29
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Fifteen. Fifteen. You do hear the faint like you hear some noise coming from the cargo hold. I poke my head around and look into the cargo hold. You see Orianna down there and she has kind of created assembled a makeshift Pell training dummy.
00:16:54
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that you gave her the spear, right? Yeah, that's what I thought. So she's training with that spear and doing some cool spinny stuff and yeah, training with it. So she does not seem, if she is aware of your presence, she is not indicated that she is. Barak will simply sit down quietly and observe her.
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style form. Okay. Fighting. You you quietly sit down.
Orianna's Frustration and Plans
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And after probably about 10 to 15 seconds, she quickly spins around and throws the spear and it buries into the crate next to you as she stands there for a second. So we had to come pick you up.
00:17:55
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I think Barak probably actually starts a lot when the spear hits the crate. Yeah. Because the spear is not at all magical. And so don't think Barak sees the spear. Yeah. So just hear an explosion next to you. Barak sort of puts a hand on the crate and runs it over to the spear. What's in this box?
00:18:23
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No idea. That probably wasn't a very good decision then was it? Oh, it's probably just some food stuffs. Nothing to worry about. Now there's holes in all the sacks. What would Chuck say? I'm sure that Charlie wouldn't mind.
00:18:53
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You know, a very different man than I do. Because I talk to him every once in a while and I don't call him Chuck. Surely he thinks that's cute repartee that we have. Surely. What are we doing? We're going to Zendrik. We're going to obtain.
00:19:20
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Something called the Spear of Desert Winds. Thought you had another way down there. Thought we were following you at a distance. Thought I couldn't come. I'm very glad you didn't. It was not a good idea. On the whole. Well.
00:19:43
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Paolo offered for me to join her, disembark, and take the fight to storm reach. But I thought, no, seems like Beric is on a quicker path. Seems like he knows where to go and what to do. And then, after flying through the air, I find out we have to turn around and come back the way we came.
00:20:14
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And it seems like we're taking an awfully long time to get to where we need to go. If that's where you need to go, then we can arrange for that. But that's not where I need to go.
00:20:36
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I need to go wherever the people who took my brothers went. Well, that's where we're going. Then can we get on with it? As soon as the pilot is ready again. Listen, I'm not particularly thrilled that we had to make you turn around. We would are hoping to be there quicker.
00:21:08
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But the way we took did not end up being the shortcut that we needed to take. I'm very glad that you did not come down there because we met things. We came in contact with things beyond ourselves and beyond our abilities. It was probably a bad idea to go home.
00:21:35
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But we did find one of the things we needed, so I suppose on the whole it was perhaps worth it, but I don't regret not taking you.
Booyah's Background and Beliefs
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Well, what are we going to do while we wait for the pilot to get ready? I plan to wait. What do you want to do?
00:22:06
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I don't know something. I've been waiting for over a week now on this ship. Surely there's something we can do. You don't look like you've lacked for training opportunities.
00:22:35
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Just been working on my forms. You look good. Thank you. Getting better with that. I'm trying. Probably better than I am with it. Well, given the circumstances, I don't imagine that would be too difficult.
00:23:06
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Well, I have not had a great deal of luck telling you what you ought to do. Maybe I thought I should just stop trying to do that. What do you want to do? I want to fight. I've been training and training and training and training.
00:23:36
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To what end? The people you want to fight aren't here. At least not in a form I can identify yet. If there are any of their agents here, they're well enough hidden that I don't know them. Didn't they invade this country? Surely there's some straggling about. I have no doubt they are, but I don't have a way of finding them. All right. And Sharn's an enormous city. It's not going to do much good for you and I to go wandering around looking for the right people to kill.
00:24:07
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All right. What are you all doing on the ship? Well, Charlie and Cassian, did they leave as we went in further in? Charlie did, but Cassian's still running, running the ship. Probably just screwing around with Cassian, playing games, playing catch with the piece of gold, I don't know. That's so meaningless this has become. We're playing hide and seek and he wins, then we play tag and I burn him.
00:24:41
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Okay, Booyah, what are you doing? Booyah's gonna go check in on Rickard. Okay. See you back on our ship. And we leave him in flame keep alone. Yeah. Well, no, we established that Gerald picked him up. That's right. Okay. Um, I apologize. We probably, we probably have that conversation every third episode. Anytime Rickard comes up, we're like, wait, we have to do this math again.
00:25:08
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You find him in the last room that was assigned to him. That I think was a storage closet, I believe that's correct. I think that's right. He was about, Charlie was about to put him in a room and then Barrett gave that room to Paolo and Orianna. So you find him in just a small nook with a book that he's kind of laying back reading. There's vacant rooms now. He's just still staying there. Yeah.
00:25:38
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Oh. Hello, Booyah. Rickard, how'll go? Go well. Why stay down here? You're in no empty room now. I... I enjoy simplicity. Honestly, I... There's something comforting about a small quarter with nothing to distract you. Booyah wonder something. Wonder why...
00:26:08
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Why record stay? Record could go off in anywhere, start new life record. Why stay? Well, um, I'm, I'm a refugee. I, I'm from storm region Zendrick specifically. I wandered the jungle and, uh, I learned in flame key because I considered staying.
Morning Routine and News
00:26:36
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Thankfully Gerald came back and picked me up, but I learned that my faith is not well accepted here. Some may even call it heretical. So while there may be parts of this nation that may be more accepting than Flame Keep,
00:27:02
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I honestly don't know where I would go or who I could trust to have my best interest in mind. And I don't know anybody
00:27:17
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I don't know anybody. Everybody that I knew was back in Stormreach. And they might have made it up here, but I certainly don't know where they are, how to begin looking for them. And I was one of the few last members of my order. So I certainly know that there's nobody up here that belongs to my order. Well, one thing Booyah know, we go to Zendrick now.
00:27:42
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I know, and there is a distinct possibility that I may disembark there and just wander off into the jungle and continue my pilgrimage.
00:27:55
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What what pilgrimage? What do you mean pilgrimage? The the greatest honor for people of my order is to be torches in the darkness for others to not be tortured for nobody. I don't like torches. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Now you understand my my meaning to be. Common, common, confused we are sometime.
00:28:22
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To be a beacon of light in the darkness to guide others. Some of us go from village to village of goblins or orcs or other races that live in the Zendric jungle and help facilitate trade or just provide aid. We come upon lost travelers very frequently and we try to guide them back to civilization, things like that. Just trying to help people. Boy, I like good thing Rickard do. Boy, I try to be good too.
00:28:50
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Yes, I know, Booyah, and you seem to be doing well with it. Booyah, Booyah, try. Yes. Okay, will you read the book? Yes, this is just the doctrine of my order, and I just read it sometimes for comfort to remind myself, especially being separated from my mission in life, what I pledge myself to do. It's nice to remind myself, especially being around
00:29:18
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slight variations of my own faith in the form of what's called the silver flame up here. It's good to remind myself of what I carry with me and why I do what I do. Yeah, Booyah, I have a question too about silver flame, what you know, and it's, yes, Booyah understand. Like what, Booyah? You know, Booyah hear one way about silver flame, then hear
00:29:47
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another way about silver flame and seem conflict. Now I don't know if we've made this clear in the past. I want to say we did, but I may be just conflating that in my head. Um, the, the sigil that he wears on his, his chest is the same as the ranger. Okay. Yeah. Um, so Booyah Booyah learned kind of same like, like you. Oh, but then Booyah go church and learn a little different. Well, it,
00:30:18
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It's one of those situations where as your situation changes, as your surroundings change, my faith, my doctrine is very helpful in the situations I find myself in, lost in the wilderness, trying to guide others, trying to be selfless before I worry about my own needs, things like that. My doctrines
00:30:41
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reinforce those things, but people that live up here may have different needs, uh, from, from their faith. And so the flame may speak to them in a different way than it does me. Yeah. Boy, I think that that makes sense. Oh, okay. Well, boy, I'll leave you to book. Well, if you, uh, need anything else, I'll probably be here. Okay. Because the red headed girl scares me.
00:31:12
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She okay? Booyah, I think you'd be safe. Well, think is the operative word there, not no. And he chuckles to himself and settles back in. Booyah heads up to his room. Okay. So anything else you all? Is there anybody on the ship we're not thinking of? I think we've covered everybody. I think you've touched base with all the NPCs. Yeah.
00:31:40
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We unlocked any of their personal quests yet? Um, no. So, um, okay. Well, um, it's, it was about midday when you all got to the ship. So if you all just spend the rest of the day with your dark thoughts, then, um, nighttime comes, uh, you all go back to your familiar beds.
Curious News Events: Robbery and Suicide
00:32:05
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Where were you sleeping?
00:32:07
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I assume that at some point they patched the hole in the side of the ship. Presumably. I mean, surely, surely Breland shelled out for some repairs to our ship at some point. Um, the Bournell said it was gifted as is no returns, no warranty. Um, okay. So, uh, you all, uh, go to sleep. Um,
00:32:32
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and you wake up. Suddenly, I'm awake. So yeah, it is another day. You all have probably one more day of waiting before Jace is ready to go. So anything you all would like to do in particular in the interim or just go ahead and move on? We've had six episodes of what do you wanna do in the interim. I can't think of anything else. I go rob a bank.
00:33:03
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strong as hell and I want some cash. Orianna goes with you. And Cassian probably. Take the kids and rob a bank. Yeah. So that's a movie right there. As you all are getting up and about, who would go up on deck first? And for like, after you wake up? Who's the early riser in the group?
00:33:31
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One, two, three, four. Booyah is. Okay. So, Booyah, you're up there stretching in your armor. Sun just peeking up over the horizon. Did you say stretchinging? What? Did you say stretchinging? No, I said stretching. Stretching in your armor. Stretching in your armor. It sounded like stretchinging. Stretchinging.
00:33:52
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He's be stretching it. And in spite of the fact that you feel like you're up like first thing ready to go. You see Charlie coming up the steps with two big burlap sacks over his shoulders full of windles. And a couple papers tucked underneath one of his arms. And he like drops ones like Oh, hello, I forgot that you were the early riser in the group. Anything I can do for you while you're up here?
00:34:21
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No, Booyah, just enjoying morning break. Good, good. Going to eat. All right. Would you like anything to read? A break from your book? And he holds up a couple of newspapers. Sure, Booyah, take paper. There you go. I'm going to go down to the cargo hold and hope that Orianna hasn't destroyed anything else.
00:34:43
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Charlie enjoys his last few minutes before he becomes disappointed. Before his day becomes ruined already. So you look at the two front pages of the paper and you see two stories. One is a headline about something like it's clear that this has been a heavily redacted story.
00:35:13
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information about something about something. I have no further news. All of you. You did it. Yeah. Yeah. That's where you. That was not our fault. That was an own goal, buddy. Heavily redacted something.
00:35:34
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It's a story regarding the first bank of Kundarak in Sharn was robbed last night. And while they are reporting that no money or anything was taken, they are investigating an item that did go missing from the vault. But they don't give any clear indication
00:35:59
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of what was left behind, though the journalists did include the fact that at the scene of the crime a white raven's feather was found and all the bank employees that were tending to the vault that night are dead. So the other headline is regarding the apparent suicide
00:36:24
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of a ambassador from Riedra last night who was found many stories below where his home would have been crumpled on a bridge apparently having jumped. So those are the two stories. Okay. Does the one about the ambassador
00:36:54
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click with Booyah, make him think of anything. I mean, he's re-enduring, which you would know. You probably don't feel too bad. Right, other than that. But the investigation clearly has just begun, so there's no details about potential motive or anything like that.
Debate on News Significance
00:37:12
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Just reporting the event as it occurred kind of thing. Dex has awakened at this point. Goes up on the deck to stretch, check the rigging.
00:37:22
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There isn't any. Nothing's rigged. It's so disappointing. There's something. There gotta be something rigged. The lifeboat. All the netting that's always on the side of ships. Anyway, he says, hey, Booyah, what you reading? I mean, a bunch of cargo netting off the side of this ship would not be a terrible idea. Yeah, that's true. Especially given your history on this ship. Booyah, read the paper.
00:38:13
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I mean he had hit terminal velocity before he hit the ground so
00:38:18
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I just say they can't tell if he- Not super, yeah. Can't tell if he looked the way he did when he was alive. What color is changing blood? Iridescent? It might be. Looked like a person in the feather robbed bank. Well, kill people. I'll say this. Got something to do today. Now, which is great.
00:38:46
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find out about this bank and this re-entry ambassador. I'm supposed to just say it and I don't need to do anything in the interim. See what I'm saying here fellas is, plot points have been introduced. Well, when Barrett gets up, I will definitely let the three of us get together and decide if we want to pursue any of these things. Sound good?
00:39:12
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That sounds good, Booyah. Sounds good to me. Would you like anything? I'm headed back to market. Charlie, Cassie been teaching you how to be sneaky. I had no idea you were here this whole time. Very, very sneaky. Oh, gosh. I mean, barracks awake. Charlie, no, I don't need anything special. Booyah? Booyah.
00:39:40
Speaker
Then we are good. No getting no more cheese. Is Char known for anything? Groceries? Towers. Food wise though. Is there a certain way they prepare? No, like chocolate towers. It's like Charnian bacon or Charnian preserves. Is there a particular way they make a cod or a whitefish? Is there anything? I can find that out for you. We just take food. That's all. Oh, hello Eric.
00:40:06
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But please, Booyah say no more cheese. Too much cheese already. Booyah, I hate cheese. Smell everywhere. Yeah, Booyah, I don't know what you're talking about. Keep that cheese. Oh, we established a long time ago that Booyah does not like cheese. Also, Booyah, I'm going to pick up some metal polish for your armor. It's looking a bit dull. Oh. Like we could really shine that up a bit. Like you pop.
00:40:29
Speaker
make Booyah pop? Metaphorically speaking. Visually pop. Not like visually pop, but... I hate everything that's happening. Do you see Dex? Dex pops. Yeah, he popped too much. It popped a word. It popped a word. Hey, Eric. If you think it stopped rust or something, Booyah takes. All right, good. Yes, you need come read paper.
00:41:00
Speaker
I'm going to read it. Eric, please come read the paper. I'm going to read it to him, Booyah. Oh, sorry, Booyah. Well, you don't need Booyah. I said, you know, Nikkei no more Booyah thing. Maybe you. I don't know. We're not there yet. We get there, Berwick. Come here. Unless the writing is magical. I cannot read it. Basically what it says is
00:41:27
Speaker
Last night, a bank was broken into.
Interrogating Orianna's Involvement
00:41:31
Speaker
You may not be surprised to learn that it was Kundarak. And the white raven. And the white raven did it. He killed all the people too. This time he killed all the guards. In addition to that, a re-edgering ambassador. Now hang on. This is Jeff breaking through some hot hay. To the other side.
00:41:54
Speaker
How do they know he's a re-edrant ambassador, but they can't tell what species he is? Identification papers? A likely story! Alright. Turns out the re-edrant amb- A re-edrant ambassador- are there multiple here in Charn? Probably. It's a big city. A re-edrant ambassador was found
00:42:20
Speaker
down below where he's supposed to be. But he got there real fast. He smushed down. He was thrown or fell. Fell off of a tower and fell to his death. That's what you're trying to tell me. The story says suicide. I'm trying to decide how to react to that.
00:42:51
Speaker
Are we unhappy about that? Oh, uh, no, I don't feel particularly unhappy, but I would like to find out who it was. And if in their dead body state, they looked a little more nondescript than normal, what we do, if, if that true, I don't know. What we do is we absorb that information and have it in our pockets, I guess.
00:43:23
Speaker
I mean, we have a day if you want to find out, that's fine. I don't know that it helps. I don't see that helps us with anything, but if you want to assuage your curiosity about it, that's a problem. More curiosity. I'll tell you, man, I'm really, I'm all about this bank robbery of escalating artifacts.
00:43:40
Speaker
I don't know if it's just that it peaks my curiosity in the back of my head. I got that little tickle we talked about with, you know, ancient artifacts and power. And I mean, we're trying to find ancient artifacts to a larger purpose. And these guys seem to be now the white Raven to my knowledge, rarely has noble goals, but at some point neither did I. Oh boy. I think Dex needs scratch tickle.
00:44:07
Speaker
You know, the way you fix a vehicle, it seemed like the times you have dealt with this would have been yesterday. Well, yesterday we didn't know they were still kind of around. I thought the reason we didn't go after it yesterday is because the thing that we're dealing with right now is existence. And that is important.
00:44:28
Speaker
uh hey guys you're up really early hey you're always up early well yeah i mean i woke up i slept just gonna come check on the ship check on stuff all right i thought you were just gonna you know kind of go your own way for a couple days but
00:44:45
Speaker
I mean, I got up on the Sharn Nightlife a bit last night, but you know, it's... It is what it is. I've never been a part of the Sharn Nightlife. The closest I have to Sharn Nightlife is killing a shifter who's trying to rob me. Okay, you know what? That's not a friendly anecdote, is it? I could keep that one in mind. Okay, so this has been weird. I'm gonna go check on some things, but... Give me a minute before you go anywhere. Barak leaves and goes down below. Is he talking to me?
00:45:14
Speaker
Yeah, I have to assume. Cause he knows that we're not just going to wander off. So, uh, yeah, there goes final round. Okay. Ship look good. Jace Booyah say good job on chip. Yeah, thanks. The, uh, sales were pretty easy once they were in tatters. Um, still figuring out how to get the mast down. Cause it seems pretty well attached to the deck. Don't want to make a big hole in the deck.
00:45:43
Speaker
So working on that. But I'll keep you updated might just have a stump and then I could cut it just have a stump there.
00:45:53
Speaker
make a chair, make a table. We can make a table. I was going to suggest a table. Yeah. Boy, I think good idea. Great idea. Nailed it. Okay. A table table because it's attached to the deck and we can have picnics on the deck. We can attach the chairs to the table to where the chairs won't move either. Now we're onto something.
00:46:14
Speaker
I'm going to teach goblin. No, I'm with the chairs. Yeah, we got a Waba new lock. Why would the chairs move around goblin game a ship, but we're not on waves. Turn in and stuff. Hey, you're back. That was Philip stepped in to ask in this nonsensical conversation
00:46:39
Speaker
Oh, this is great radio guys. This actually is a good radio. Um, do you go to knock on your left? Yes. Yes. I go and I knock on Oriana's door. Um, you, uh, knock and there's no immediate response. Although after, uh, a few seconds, you do hear some footfalls and then eventually the door cracks open and it's clear that you woke her up. What's up? Where were you last night?
00:47:10
Speaker
asleep. How about before that? What timeframe were we talking
Contemplating Investigation
00:47:17
Speaker
here? Cause uh, say in 15 minutes before that, I was still asleep. Well, how about where were you a few minutes before the reedron ambassador fell to his death?
00:47:37
Speaker
probably asleep, since I don't know when, or where, or who that is. Give me an insight check. Yeah, my insight's not great, so. I don't have Mr. Zone of Truth hanging around anymore. 17. 17.
00:48:02
Speaker
I will say it was pretty good. It's an opposed role. She's pretty convincing. You get a sense that she's irritated by your line of questioning, but it doesn't seem like she's lying outright. You said you wanted to fight someone yesterday. I said I didn't know where to find any.
00:48:27
Speaker
Not now that Rayedran dies. I'll be honest with you. I don't have a particular reason to be sorrowful about the death of someone, of a government official from Rayedra. As I tend to assume anyone who's reached that level is probably in on what's on what we're dealing with here. So I'm not here to chastise you or anything. I'm just curious.
00:49:01
Speaker
Well, like you said, I wanted to fight. You didn't know where one could be found. So I went to bed frustrated that night. And now here we are talking in the morning light.
00:49:31
Speaker
All right. And there turns to go. You hear the door shut behind you. Okay, so yeah, if we get some wood and attach like the arm of the chair to the underside, then you could slide in to one side. And it almost be like it like you could like rest your arm and then put your hand underneath your chin. Or we could just get some benches and nail them to the deck. Yeah.
00:49:59
Speaker
Anyway, so returns. All right. Hey, I've been waiting. What's up? Nothing. Oh, yeah, he was talking to us, I guess. That's on me. And Jace kind of turns and genuinely wasn't sure. I had a feeling he was talking to us, but I was going to lean into it. Jace walks off. I don't think there's anything to investigate with the reedron.
00:50:30
Speaker
Why? I look around, are there any NPCs who are suddenly going to speak up? No. That you can see. And here comes a record. It's casting around. You're looking at me. You know what? Dex just goes,
00:50:56
Speaker
If Cassie is with an earshot, he'll come running because that's the, Hey, let's, let's mess around. Let's play. Um, no, Cassie doesn't come running. So I'm saying out here in the open air, where things might be overheard.
00:51:20
Speaker
that I went, I did some inquiring about the death of the reedrant ambassador.
Inquiry with Thorin Stone Knuckle
00:51:30
Speaker
I don't think there's anything for us to investigate. One question. Did you use a sending stone?
00:51:45
Speaker
No, I did not. It was not required. Gotcha. Gotcha. We're going to have a more, less open air talk about that. Probably that's a good idea. Down the road. Because what the heck? Of course, that probably might go away once we leave Sharn. Which I mean, I'm ready to do. I guess I'm really the bank robbery thing just seems like a fun thing to do, but you're right. It's not necessary. I will attend with you if you just really want to do it.
00:52:16
Speaker
I mean, we've got a day. How about let's just, you know, bank robbery murder investigations are notoriously simple. Wait, you make inquiry. No, you don't know. I'll tell you what. Oh, there we go. Oh, oh, boy. I see. I gotta tell you, Beric, that, uh,
00:52:44
Speaker
That in equal measures does and does not surprise me. I understand that. Probably more, I mean more does for sure. It's not equal by any means.
00:53:00
Speaker
Um, you all hear footsteps, uh, coming back and it is Jace who says, uh, you know, um, I could probably, if you all are, uh, itching to, uh, to head out, uh, we could probably start the journey around dinnertime tonight. Uh, just give me a day to get the rest of the day to get my affairs in order and get good couple of good meals in me. And then we should be good to go. I mean, great.
00:53:29
Speaker
Okay. Well, um, I will see you later on tonight. I'm going to run into town and, uh, take care of some business. Yes. Have a good day. YouTube Booyah.
00:53:43
Speaker
Just wonder what was stolen. Cause if it's in a kundirac vault, right? Yes. It means it's probably, it's either super important or just the person who owns it has too much money. Whoever, whoever stored it had money. And if you're going to break into a kundirac vault, you don't break in for something that's not valuable. One talk to, I'm not going to do it.
00:54:12
Speaker
Yeah, well, that's a silly idea. Do you want to play poker or something? OK, if you all don't have anything else that you want to do, we can flash forward to this evening.
00:54:22
Speaker
This is Phillip. If you guys want to go chase the white Raven, Barrick will go with you. Barrick is job focused at this point in our life for lots and lots of reasons for a day here. Barrick is, I mean, we are working on not letting the world die. Bank robbery is from Barrick's perspective.
00:54:46
Speaker
pretty minimally important and there are other people who are not vastly overqualified to deal with it. All right. And Booyah just kind of follows along with whatever you guys decide. Both over and underqualified is what we are. Overqualified, undercredentialed. Arguably underqualified to actually investigate a bank robbery, vastly overqualified to deal with people who robbed a bank, deeply underqualified to actually do an investigation.
00:55:12
Speaker
Oh, my investigation is really high. Now putting those pieces together, that's where we fall apart. My insight is low. Okay, so what are we doing? Listen, we'll beat Jace back to the boat. Let's just go. I hate that I have to be the one to say, let's go see Thorin, but he's our contact. Let's just go see Thorin real quick, ask him what got stolen so we know if things are heading in a certain direction.
00:55:38
Speaker
You know, cause he'll have information about it, not just that it is a blank, that it was a blank that might have certain identifying factors like large gemstones in them or things like that. All right. We're not going to chase them down. I'm not interested in apprehending the wide rate.
00:55:58
Speaker
I don't, and maybe it's just me being paranoid. It could be, but our great quest is to find ancient difficult to get artifacts. It's not our great quest. That's a means to an end. Okay. Our great quest involves finding these artifacts. This could be a counter thing. This could be, I don't know what, but it could just be a guy stealing rare stuff. And if so, that's fine.
00:56:26
Speaker
Okay, we go. I'm walking. We're walking. We go check. Okay. One of you gets to talk to Thorik.
00:56:34
Speaker
Well, we know it's probably you don't want it to be Booyah. You all know the city well enough by this point to quickly and easily navigate it to get up to Thorne's office. You walk in and you see a halfling man behind a desk still half asleep because it is very early, having a cup of coffee. And he sees you all walk in. Hello. I hope you
00:57:03
Speaker
He has a commander. No, you got a hold of me. Let it out. Commander Stone Knuckle available. I think so. Let me let me go check real quick. And he hops up and walks through the door into Thorne's office. And he posed his head back. I was like, yeah, he can he can see you right now. Okay.
00:57:31
Speaker
Um, okay. You walk in and you see Thorin behind his desk, also having a cup of, uh, a cup of tea. Uh, just trying to get the day started. He's having a cup of coffee. Hey, he's an NPC. Thorin? Yeah. Thorin's an NPC.
00:57:49
Speaker
I mean, most of the time, off camera, he's got a life. He's doing stuff. So you're saying when you two are having a conversation, Dex is off eating in PC somewhere? Yep, no. Okay, fine. Thorin is drinking a cup of coffee. Thorin has a white whale for breakfast every morning. And he just, he goes, I don't know why I keep doing this. I go, whoa. Cool.
00:58:18
Speaker
Pretty morning, I wake up and I think maybe today, maybe they figured it out. Guys, never. It's always, it's always bad. Maybe drink have some kind of addictive power. I don't think that's it.
00:58:43
Speaker
Anyway, Commander Stone Knuckle and the halfling walks out. Anyway, you guys, it's good to see you. What are you here for? Dex has some questions for you.
Reflection and Departure from Sharn
00:58:56
Speaker
All right. Hey, uh, listen, we'll make this quick. Uh, I don't want to take up too much of your time. Uh, the robberies been happening lately, white Raven feather, all that stuff.
00:59:10
Speaker
to please somebody else, ask him the questions. Because now I'm gonna go, oh yes, of course, yes. The thing is, you don't know the answer. I know, he needs to give me the answer. We're trying to ask your character a question that you don't know the answer to. I don't know if Thorin does know the answer. That Eric's about to tell me. That's how this works. I know. Eric is going to give me the information that I need as my character.
00:59:38
Speaker
Oh, aren't you Eric? I'm loving what's happening so far, honestly. So, um, Thorin, what you know is, uh, the, the robbery last night, uh, was clearly a heavily planned, uh, like well executed job. Um, they got into the vault and only one thing was missing. The whole thing was ransacked where it took time to figure out what was missing.
01:00:08
Speaker
Um, but what was missing was a amulet, um, that was a rainy in nature. Um, and was like, uh, tens or just, um, hold on. Let me see how old the thing was. What is a rainy from, from Arenal. Oh.
01:00:33
Speaker
I thought he said rainy at first. A rainy, a rainy p- amulet. Damn, it's gross. There's an annoying magical property of the little rain cloud following it around like you're sad in a Charlie Brown episode. Frankly, I don't understand why anyone wants it. Thousands of years old. Thousands of years old. Magical.
01:00:57
Speaker
Um, yeah, but your investigation got, uh, stonewalled pretty quickly by the 12, specifically house Kunderak and house Medani wanted to conduct the investigation internally. And so have been blocking the, uh, the citadel's capacity pretty, pretty well. So. Dorn's not territorial, so he's kind of like.
01:01:21
Speaker
know when you need us I guess it's yours it's your stuff and your reputation and he moves on to uh the uh dead reedrin not in this conversation all right so thorin says uh yeah as a uh an amulet and uh all right aran all from aran all um and uh
01:01:44
Speaker
gone. I mean they took it. So here's what happened guys. The Kunder Axe and the Madonna's they told me they weren't gonna cooperate and I was like fine your stuff. So that's all the information I have. Would you like a drink? I just bought a picture of this stuff.
01:02:11
Speaker
Booyah thinks you need to stay away from white whale. Why is whale too big for you? I just feel like one day I'll get it. That white whale. You know what? No one else likes it, but I've been having fun.
01:02:40
Speaker
He's going to go down his deep worst episode. I don't think so, actually. So, fellas, thanks for stopping by. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Whoever's idea this was to chase this trail, rethink your things. Whichever one of you three, I'm guessing it was probably not you. You need to assess the decks. Well? Thank you very much.
01:03:10
Speaker
I like your mask. Barak's not wearing the mask at the moment. He's just wearing the hood right now. I heard about it. I'm friends with a local blacksmith. He told me about a mask. I hate this. So anyway, Jace is back and we're already on the boat.
01:03:42
Speaker
Wow. Yes. We returned to the ship. Okay. Um, know what to make of an Iranian. I mean, I mean, it's very old. I would imagine that's one go check out bank.
01:04:00
Speaker
I mean, the houses seem like they've locked down. They're still on Thorin's stone knuckle. They're not going to let us free Chuckleman. They're probably not going to let us just walk onto the ground. Who do you think that what you call facetious, will you be facetious when, say, Dex 1 goes back? Facetious. That word. Oh, you were being sarcastic with Dex. That word. We are sorry, Dex. Dex is unimpressed.
01:04:31
Speaker
your Jabs and Japes. I do like the idea of us walking up to be like, excuse me, I'm a private citizen. I have a few questions about Jamaican robbery. Not all of us even citizens of this particular country. That's true. I mean, you are the Lord of Miss Marsh. I mean, that's true. But Booyah is definitely not a citizen. I don't know if I'm a citizen or not. Booyah's immigration status is really quite questionable. We just brought him with us.
01:05:01
Speaker
Okay. So that's why we're moving on. Um, okay. So, uh, yeah, I guess the day just gets away from you all and Jace comes back and like, Hey guys, so y'all ready to, uh, take off? God. Yes. Yes. Listen, you were for me. He could be just referring to one of them. Um,
01:05:28
Speaker
Yeah, my God. Yes. A God, yes. What a weird... Any God. Yes. It's an expression of great frustration. Yeah, what if you're on the outfit? Any guy, yes. So you don't want to... You can't evoke all of them right now. Okay, so... Yeah.
01:05:51
Speaker
You all take off on south? For the remainder of the day, Beric does try to remain in an area where he at least knows where Orianna is. Okay. It's probably not possible for him to do this without her realizing it. Yeah. But he just really would like her to not sneak off. You mean before we disembark? Before we take off, yeah.
01:06:16
Speaker
So yeah, there are definitely a few moments during the day where she like rounds a corner and like sees you, not like surreptitiously, but like, and she just kind of makes eye contact and then keeps walking.
01:06:34
Speaker
Yep, that's fair. She's your fault. You took my physical eyes. She does her best to make eye contact with. She looks at the fleshy bits where your eyes used to be. She looks at your hood brim. Anyway. She asked about that? I had eyes last time we met. That's fair.
01:06:59
Speaker
probably would have brought that up itself. Eric would have explained it to her. It's not necessary to do this. I wasn't gonna bring it up in the moment, but I was like, she hasn't seen it like this. Just another day of being an acquaintance of Barrick Rowan. Apparently. So, okay. Well, unless there's anything else you all want to get done in Sharn, you all take off across the Thunder Sea. I have a thing I would like to do on the voyage,
Conclusion and Community Engagement
01:07:26
Speaker
but not in Sharn. What would you like to do on the voyage?
01:07:29
Speaker
on the voyage I would like to start to keep to begin trying to focus the extreme rage that Orianna apparently wields inside that Barak has not really had any reasonable outlet for her to use or that he could suggest to her because he's not been suggesting go murder people
01:07:52
Speaker
But apparently that's where we are and I don't think Beric realized that's where we are. So Beric is going to start trying to teach Orianna the force. Essentially, we're just going to, he's going to start actually giving her Kensei training and not just sword training.
01:08:08
Speaker
um and trying to teach her to feel the the weave the the the interlocking magics that create this world that is the carcass of a dead primordial dragon okay um no for real no i know it is i just sometimes i think
01:08:33
Speaker
I know what you are saying is canonically correct, but it doesn't mean I'm gonna go. All right, that's us. Goblins? I'll just ask one question in reference to it, so we don't have to. That's fine. Are you trying to be more monastic about it, or are you peppering in a little bit of what Daedric taught you recently at your trading session?
01:09:05
Speaker
I think he is peppering some of that in because he sees that there is this, this energy in Orianna that is apparently now spilling over into murder. Uh, and even if this time it was probably the murder of someone, we don't mind being dead, Barrett kind of figures that that will not always be the case when you have a 14, 14 year old running around killing people. Yeah. So.
01:09:34
Speaker
Yes, let's use that anger to do other things than murder people. Gotcha. Or from a certain point of view, enhance the way you murder people. Beric is going to focus on the doing things other than murdering people.
01:09:50
Speaker
Okay, well you all begin your two week journey south on borrowed time across the Thunder Sea. Actually much longer than that since the place that you all are heading is pretty far inland on Zendrik. So I guess we'll
01:10:09
Speaker
pick up on that next time. You sound real happy about it, Eric. Sound exuberant about the prospect of moving on. No, we got nearly two weeks on the boat, guys. 17 episode arc. Yep.
01:10:26
Speaker
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01:11:05
Speaker
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01:11:32
Speaker
Once again, I am your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip, and I'd like to say that we really like playing D&D with each other. I don't know what's going on right now, but there's some weird juju in the room. I'm still Randy. Thanks, Jeff. We'll see you next time.