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C1 Ep 110 Rising Tides Chapter Three
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What will happen this week as the party makes contact with an old friend who has risen to a new level of power? Will they be happy to encounter the party, or will their past encounter leave scars?
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Episode Introduction and Sponsor Acknowledgment
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00:00:31
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D20 radio, your game is rolling.
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If the Cell Soldier family ever put you under arrest, take the plea bargain. Take whatever they offer. Otherwise, you're going to find yourself in a colosseum with a minotaur running at you with a great axe.
Podcast Overview and Arrest Story
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Hello and welcome to Ever Under New to D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Dex and Eric got arrested. Yeah, we had a meeting with curious Selshadra.
00:01:29
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And she basically wants us to off somebody that she thinks isn't inspired, but probably is also a local, actually definitely is also a local mob boss. And she wants to shoulder in on his turf. So she had some of her thugs follow us. Barak explained gently to one of them very gently compared to the various ways the Barak might have expressed this.
00:01:56
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But following them is not a good decision. We got arrested. And again, because we're nice people, we allowed that to happen. Right. Because we're ultimately a good set of characters.
00:02:11
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And Booyah did not get arrested. He hung out outside in case the fellas needed some help. Although he came closer than any of us to getting into a violent encounter with the police.
Police Encounter and Thorin's Intervention
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Well, Booyah's had, what, a bone thrown at him or a stick thrown at him? And then the police just kicked you. And then this guy just up and kicked me.
00:02:31
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Chose it from freaked him out probably broke his toe likely quite frankly maybe but anyway He's lucky to get a laser. Yeah, I was ready to throw down. We dropped some names But Booyah was a little upset too because his friends had been you know in Booyah's mind
00:02:48
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not properly treated and he was ready to put a stop. Yeah. Cause the thing is like, and we just, the last time you just kind of said it, we are not beholden to the will of the police officers. It's the fact that we're good people that keeps us from just being like, Oh, are we under arrest? Okay, cool. Check this out. Then fireball them in the face. And then just, and this is awfully foreign. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing. We wouldn't just kill innocent cops who were doing their job. Don't get too condescending.
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Booyah had a nice conversation with a couple, called the couple. They didn't get very far. We had a conversation. And we blessed the audience by bringing Thorin back into the story. Yes, yes. Okay. So we're in Thorin's office. Yes, you're in Thorin's office. So Thorin, this group of people have just been escorted into your office. Hey, hey, fellas. So
00:03:46
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What'd you do? One of Keirah's celshadras, you don't want to have a conversation with yourself. I mean, I'm sure I'll chime in. Are we good to head back to our station, sir? Yeah, go ahead, head back. Don't expect for them to come back. Also, don't kick people. Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick? Who'd they kick?
00:04:12
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Well, I say thank you. You kicked Booyah? A small metal creature jumped in front of me and I panicked. Your response was to kick him? Do you often kick small things when they startle you? How's your dog, bro? 50-50. And they walk out of the room. Hey, hey, wait.
00:04:35
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No, he doesn't know. Yes. But Dex yells behind them. Hey, we weren't joking
Thorin's Office and Barak's Vision Loss
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about that. That other guy you picked up. He is in league with a terrible person. You really ought to want to talk to him a little bit. That's it. I just want to make sure that something might happen there. Um, well, glad I could help sort that out. Appreciate it.
00:04:59
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What else? You said you needed to talk. Have a seat. Have a seat. I actually might have three seats in my office. Yeah. Have a seat. Paula did. So yeah. Thorne's kind of scattered right now. He's kind of clearing his desk and he was looking around and stuff. Not yet noticed the barrack of it all. Eric waits for Dex and Booyah to sit down.
00:05:24
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Booyah's not sitting. Booyah's standing. No, please do the sit down stand up again. And then... He's waiting on to see what Barak's gonna do. And then he's gonna have a guess at which side of decks there is a chair. And so he just moves sort of towards one side of decks and just puts out a hand to find the back of a chair to see if there is one there.
00:05:47
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Is there one there? Have I gone to the right side for the correct side of Dex? Okay.
Discussion on Storm Lords and the Obelisk
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Go either way. And, and Barrick sort of moves along, finds the leg of it with his stick and works his way around to sit down. I pat the seat. I mean, I could get into a seat with my eyes closed. That's the, well, I just see you have a better idea where it is. You can hear it. Uh, so, and this is what he looks at me and he goes, so Barrick, you said, Barrick, what happened? Oh, um,
00:06:19
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You know how my half-brother seems off-putting and frightening sometimes? I mean... Yes!
00:06:29
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Well, we encountered the thing that he's afraid of and I lost my vision. So, uh, that's a very, very shortened version of the story of course, but it's, it's the, the reality of the situation now. Uh, I'm, I'm terribly sorry to hear that. It's all right. Anyway, yes, I apologize for getting arrested. Um, we were invited to speak to curious El Shadrach, who's a former storm Lord, if that's never popped up on your radar.
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Anyway, she's living up in that district in the middle, upper plateau? Upper central plateau. Upper central plateau. The upper central plateau. I work here now. I've made myself familiar. I apologize. I'm going to stop you. What's a storm lord?
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Oh, uh, the, the rulers of storm reach or a group of storm Lords. Okay. I don't, I looked at Eric and he said I wouldn't know that current, but I would, we have rules of storm reach. I would, at this point I would know powerful bad news. She's a, she's a power. She was, she's an information broker. Pirates would be the term. She's an information broker and she put us onto someone that she thinks is one of the inspired, um,
00:07:41
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So did no one explain to you that the whole how there was a fake Boranell thing? That is something I need clarification. I mean, I guess unless it happened at this table, there's nobody else that really would have explained it to you. OK, he doesn't have as as a as a station chief of the Citadel. He doesn't have a report on what happened in Roet.
00:08:04
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As being a person that was in Rowet and watched the King turn into a changeling, I wouldn't have had... I know about the changeling incursion. Yes. I don't have any idea that it's been... Aspired, like... Okay. The Adrins, all that stuff would be... All right, sure. And that's fine, that's what I know. Okay.
Thorin's Strategy and Gurnath's Introduction
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Dex explain 15 minutes later. Right? Wow, that's a lot. Yes. And there are these obelisks five minutes later. So she believes there's an obelisk under this man's home. He's an intelligence chief for the Boromark clan.
00:08:44
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I know that one. Yes. And I'm not really considered what you do with him, but the obelisk, if you can find it, if it's, she thought it was like a level below his home and I hand him the address. If you can find and remove that, it's very important that none of your people touch it. It can be safely damaged. Yes. But Yabuya was able to mar it with regular tools.
00:09:10
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Well, Booyah was able to mar it with tools because Booyah knew what he was doing. Do we know what happens if you just like blast it with something? I really couldn't remember all the things we tried. The only time you've ever seen an obelisk destroyed was a giant explosion with lots of fire. Okay. So, um, it'll need an extremely skilled artificer.
00:09:31
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So you're saying Booyah is aware of how to do it? Yes. Well, Booyah said very tricky. Well, and I understand that. Would it surprise you to know that I now have in my command some pretty skilled archonists and artificers and mages and all that stuff, really? That would not surprise me at all.
00:09:53
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Why don't I- You are a man of importance now. It's weird. Do you hate it? And surprisingly any gestures to his desk or to paper? Boring?
00:10:04
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So thank you for coming to me with this bit of at least interesting trivia or interesting goings on, if not necessarily action. Booyah, what if I set up a meeting between you and one of my men, one of my people, and you can show them, can you recreate the runes that need to be
00:10:31
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I mean, you could try to explain how to do it to them, but there's going to be checks involved.
00:10:39
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Okay, we can all agree that Booyah taking a moment in trying to explain to a more talented magician? Artificer. To my more talented artificer. He's just a magician in the corner of his office, just making guns in here and pulling rabbits out of his... A magician is a practitioner of magic. I know. I could say mage and be nerdy about it, but... We are playing D&D, in fact, so maybe be nerdy about it. Nah.
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Uh, no, I say, uh, is preferable to everyone in this room to Booyah trying to do it himself again, based on the way things were touch and go last time as the, and the inherent danger of Booyah of doing it. Right. Um, and if it's breaks, there's something of an explosion. So be careful. Something of an explosion. Yes.
00:11:36
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Yeah, it's no dangerous. It's very dangerous. I assume by now you've read the report that because we get told the King about the giant building next door where the ambassadors have that that was an enormous one of these obelisks. You know, I believe I received the report
Booyah's Concerns and Dex's Meeting with Solana
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and something was done about that before they continued repairs. I very much hope.
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Jeff had this look of confusion and despair on his face that was just the best. Because otherwise I suspect it might take over the minds of everyone in the city. No, to the best of my understanding, the construction was interfered with to the point that the underlying purpose of the building can no longer be fulfilled.
00:12:28
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All right. I would recommend that it's a very large statement that I just decided to make without consulting here. It would be very important that you confirm that if it happened before you took office, um, just not to besmirch your predecessor, but they were.
00:12:47
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part of a shadow government of changeling. So you have a point. Yes, we would take care of it under normal circumstances, but
00:13:03
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I am only about 48 hours into my current predicament. Uh, I'm still adjusting. Oh, of course. I understand that. Also the whole world threatening thing that Dex explains to you a moment ago. That's a trip. Yes. We have, um, an errand regarding that shortly.
00:13:25
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okay well um i will certainly look into this celshadra business um storm lord you say that's what the rulers of storm age were called i'm i'm very surprised that people in sharn don't know that i was told i don't so i'm afraid
00:13:47
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Well, that's fine. It wouldn't have come across your duties much in road. Right. I mean, there's a very good chance that Bala is aware from when she was in my position, but where I have been up to this point, sort of stuff doesn't come down. Yes. Um, uh, lady Amaran, who I believe is in the confidence of the King could explain more about that. If you need it, I will reach out. Uh, I will certainly look into this gentleman.
00:14:18
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whose name I did not hear. It was Boromir guy. Caster. Caster. Caster. For several reasons, I guess he's worth looking at. Booyah, we'll get you set up with the Artificer. I believe that's what we wanted to inform you of.
00:14:47
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Wonderful. Okay, well, I guess I'm going to put a pin in this and not towards the desk. Yes, I'm sure that's very just well, I didn't see any of that happen. Oh, gosh, I'm sorry. I'll, I'll put all my other my other work on hold. This seems pretty important. I was able to gather from context. Okay. I need a name.
00:15:18
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a good name for my artificer.
00:15:22
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You've brought Gurnath Ickletarne. No, it is. Yes. Yes. It is absolutely Gurnath Ickletarne. Yes. No, it is law abiding cousin. The DM declares it. It's not his law abiding cousin. Gurnath Ickletarne is the artificer to the Citadel. So you all see this in that case. No, walk in. Thorin says to his halfling, he says,
00:15:52
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He just says go get Garroth. And Dex's face. A mixture of joy and rage that's hard to describe as anything other than Dex's face. I think. Doesn't that man owe us money? That man owes us money? He owes us equipment? I'd like to take a pound of flesh, Thor, if you don't have a problem with that. He owe us money?
00:16:15
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You don't remember the dragon shards that you yeah that you sold to him. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we had Randy remember And we had a long talk about the value of the dragon shards. Oh, yeah, he take vantage boy. I'm not nice. Yes, he does I mean he owes you money you got Or here's something you might want to know we have a pass with garden. I think we'll turn and we don't like him
00:16:45
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I'm for it. Eric, tell them more about it. You want to jam in and you tell them something? And Eric explains.
00:16:56
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Oh well, in that case I'll see what I can do about getting you all money from him and amazing items. I'm sure Garnet has something probably on his person that he'll willingly hand to you after I tell him to. Probably
Dex's Changeling Identity and Booyah's Stealth Plan
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not. Garnet's an independent contractor. After a little bit, this no man walks in and stops and sees
00:17:25
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Hey, bud. And I shut the door. Booyah say, you know, be fair. Oh, that's you, Booyah. Hello. That's fat. Is that war for? Oh, yeah. You'd love that, wouldn't you? Are those war? And he's like up on you. Don't push. No, push Booyah button. Oh, OK. Well, I just want to. Yeah, button push.
00:17:51
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Try not to push your buttons, Booyah. I'm just trying to get a sense of this armor. What did you need me here for? You really probably don't want to... Like, we're keeping our distance from Booyah until he figures this stuff out. You could get a hole blasted in you. Oh, if I let that stop me, I wouldn't have gotten anything done. Wow. Okay. And as Thorin says, okay, um...
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Garnath. Garnath. Garnath. Ickletard. I know, I thought it was Gurnath. I thought it was, yeah, and I thought it was Garnath. Why don't we ask him? Gurnath. Yes, Gurnath. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Senior Ickletard. Nope.
00:18:32
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Oh, you're going to look for how you spelled it? I spelled it G-U-R-N-A-T-H. Gurnet. Gurnetical time. And, uh, Thorne explains without, I mean, basically Thorne says, there's a magical item that's affecting the way people think. Uh, and we, we have, we know the location of one. Booyah, who you know. Yes.
00:18:55
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Booyah and I are good friends. Okay. No, that's not what I heard. Well, you know what? Put a pin in it. We'll get back to it. Booyah knows how to deactivate them. I'm worried having to be the diplomatic center of all this is just the best. Thorin is... Thorin dude. Like, Thorin is normalcy. I know, I know. And now he's our manager, so it's just perfect. Thorin is the gym of our office. I guess, yeah. Yeah, okay.
00:19:26
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Corinne reacts appropriately to the madness around him. That's the source of the conversation. So you know how to take care of this stuff, Booyah? Yeah, Booyah know how. Oh, I guess I'll just walk away. I believe Booyah's services come with a substantial fee. Well, I certainly don't need to do this then. Sorry, you called me here. Yeah, Barret, can you just... I'm just... Corinne, listen.
00:19:54
Speaker
You do need to do this. If you want to stay in our employ, this is a commanding officer telling you you're going to do this. Booyah is going to show you how to deactivate them. Great. You're going to go with protection to deactivate it. My understanding is,
00:20:22
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it's a risky endeavor so please pay attention how wait wait so that you don't blow up if you had to put a percentage
00:20:44
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on the likelihood of me blowing up. If I follow your instructions to a T Booyah, what would that percentage be? Um, if, if he follows the instructions precisely, there's only about a 5% chance that he would, that something really bad would happen. Not bad chance, real good chance. You'd be okay. We all say this, but hard to explain. Hope you listen well.
00:21:14
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Oh, yeah, I will listen well and learn how to deactivate this item. Um, and, and we can get down to business like this. He pulls out whatever tool he uses. Can I be of assistance in explaining the magic element of it? Because I think I.
00:21:35
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Booyah, I'm proficient in Arcana. Well, with all this stuff, he gets his proficiency because of the success he's had. So it's a plus six. I don't know if I can help him and give advantage or something. You can give it advantage, yeah. I'm not going to kick any of you out of the room. So if you want to step in and help. Sorry, I was speaking to the third person narrator in my head. Sure, sure. You know, Booyah, I know, has a
00:22:00
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Colorful way of talking so if maybe there are things that need clarification. I Mean, yeah, I'm not gonna human have hard time understand. We are okay with help. Yeah And then you know when all that said and done whatever talk of remuneration you guys want to have you can have I not interested in being People in this room with your human
Training Challenges and Daedric Benar Negotiations
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That is true. That is true, isn't it? That is true. Other race have hard time understand Booyah. Let's, let's not unpack that right now. Um, okay. So let's get to work. So with advantage, go ahead and roll as if you were disabling them. I'm so glad that you have advantage. Wow. That was a natural one. 15, 15.
00:22:54
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um i feel like the stakes are real low right now for you all because if you mess it up then gurnath just oh man gurnath was vaporized while he's traveling to disable this thing we're absolutely going back to his place and looting right okay big stone have rune on you have scratched certain way chain rune make look different and you're you're able to like get some parchment and sketch out like a large stone
00:23:19
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as covered in arcane sigils. You have to adjust one of the sigils in an extremely precise manner. When you're explaining things, your voice changes dramatically. This is my translator voice. Extremely. This is my information video. This is my workplace training video voice. Your non-regional specific dialect. Yep.
00:23:43
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Okay, well, I feel like I have a pretty good handle on how to do this. Seems like a simple runic trap disarming. So yeah, I think I'm capable of handling this. So thank you, Booyah. You said checks, man. I was worried. No.
00:24:05
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He'll basically, he'll get to add his proficiency bonus and he gets to roll with advantage because you pass yours. So. Okay. When we eventually play the one shot where Jeff once again plays Thorin and I play, and I play Ikyltarn and you play the Citadel agent that's been, that's been brought into and we drag Trevor in here and make him play.
00:24:28
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Well, uh, good. Uh, Gurnath, I'm glad that you feel like you can handle this. I'm not making a mistake. This is Dex talking. Uh, now it's a matter of the last time we talked.
00:24:41
Speaker
Yeah. And we sold you something that you knew the value of and we didn't. And you absolutely screwed us. I made you a fair offer. No, you did not make us a fair offer. You made us an offer. It was an offer good enough for you to take. You took advantage of us. Don't act like, don't, not Gurness. We're all grownups here. Don't act like you gave us a fair deal. Booyah made just save life. I really don't know if nothing terrible happens to you.
00:25:06
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He, yes, he teaches. He turns to Thor. You heard them threatening me. Not threat. But yes, I feel like Thorin having spent time with Drakir now has a, a, an extreme callous, extreme, extremely high tolerance for what a threat. What constitutes a threat? I think the one would say, uh, well, I mean, I don't think they're actually going to hurt you. Uh, but I'll say this guys.
00:25:39
Speaker
What you're doing essentially is threatening the life of one of my employees right in front of me. And I can't stress this enough. Stop. Booyah, no threaten. Booyah say he think he saved life. Teach about room. Don't blow up. Okay, okay. Okay, Booyah.
00:26:03
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But you understand that implicit in that is that you might have chosen not to tell him the truth. We are no lie. That's probably true. Not well at least. Not well at least. Anyway, uh, uh, Gurney, I don't, they're not, I, I think you're going to be okay. And then Dex says, however,
00:26:33
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The last time we talked, one of the things that I asked you and that you agreed to, in addition to the unbelievably small amount of money that we allowed you to pay for the, the shards was that I would have an opportunity to take a look at some of the things that you created and decide if they were things that could help us.
00:26:59
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Have you been creating things? Oh, I've been tinkering and working on things. No, no. Have you created something with them? Are you done with something? Are you ready to, there's some things you could come by after I'm done doing this job for Thorin that I could show you. We might not have that sort of time. Uh, how about we all go take, how about you?
00:27:23
Speaker
Hey, Thorin, can he get some PTO? Oh yes, I'm a big believer, if you remember, in allowing employees their personal time off, so he needs to take a bit of time. Especially, I mean, that was a pretty intense thing he just went through learning about. It's going to be a very intense thing to go through.
00:27:49
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at least stated you're all exhausted. Good. Well, I think I'd like to return to the monastery at this point. Okay. That, okay. And then the deck says, why don't you grab a couple of things that you're proud of and we'll catch up with you at maybe the end, uh, at the gold dondo Galanda.
00:28:16
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The golden doodle in that we're staying You know that there's a golden doodle in somewhere in shard that he's going to go to with all this stuff What is it? What is it? Look at the Galanda Hall. We're staying at Galanda Hall Why don't you come see us at Galanda Hall? All right, I'll buy you a drink. Okay. All right The learning it was great to see you again. I hope we never
00:28:47
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Uh, we're going to go. Right. And, uh, Dex takes the lead because Eric needs to follow him. And, uh, Lauren says, by the way, Dex, you look great. And everybody's gone. Um, so you want me to take you to the monster? Is that where you want me to hit? Yeah, that's, that's where I was planning to stay until the ship comes.
00:29:11
Speaker
Oh, you are. Okay. Okay. Do you want to come to the end for a while? Have, have a meal and a drink and see what Garnet has to bring to us. No, I'll leave. I'll leave any acquisition up to you. If you decide you want to do business with him again. Yeah. I mean, it went super well last time. So I think, I think that's a good idea. You let Booyah do talking. Nope. No.
00:29:38
Speaker
Uh, all right. Well, let's go. What time is it? Uh, I would say it's about midday at this point. Okay. Maybe a little bit after like one 30. Well, let's go get a sky cab. I guess. All right. See here. Yeah.
00:30:00
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How you doing? Where you want to go? We want to go back away from here and go catch the next guy.
Dex's Training and Changeling Acceptance
00:30:09
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Okay. Next. Hey, how you doing? Good.
00:30:15
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It's a union of change links. They all take the same form. No, all of these cabbies saw the one guy with the black hand print on the side. I was like, that looks so cool. And they've all started painting black hand prints in the center. It's the name of the cat company now, instead of yellow. Black hand cab.
00:30:35
Speaker
Nevermind. There was several real world terrorist organizations called the black man. Yeah. It's a great cab name. Anyway, we get in the cab and say, uh, we're at the Galanda hall. Um, cause I know what that one's called. And then we'll just walk from there to the monastery cause I don't have a name for it. Um, okay. So yeah, you make it to the monastery easily enough and
00:31:01
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Practice swordplay until either something important happens or the ship gets here. Yeah. I assume Dex probably says I am not going to stay here. That's perfectly fine. Stay at the end. Not even sure I'd be welcome to. So, uh, go back to the end. We got our stones. If you need something you haul or otherwise I'll leave you to it until either I need to discuss something with you or the ship gets here. Fair enough. Booyah does not stay at the end. Oh.
00:31:31
Speaker
No. Where does Booyah stay Booyah sneaks into the monastery. Oh, give me a stealth role. Can he sneak in? I mean, is it something like he thinks he might could sneak into? I mean, I'll tell you what, no, he's not noticeable. He's not going to sneak into the monastery. He's going to walk into the monastery.
00:31:55
Speaker
Okay. Clink, clink, clink, clink. Oh, hello. Uh, how can we help you? Uh, Booyah have friend here. He no eyes, no see. Oh yes. Yeah. No, tell him. No, tell him Booyah here. Booyah won't stay monastery. But why?
00:32:26
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Booyah, I just feel better. Um, if you are concerned about your friend, then, um, yes, you can, you can stay here and we'll, uh, I mean, we won't report or anything, but you can, you're more than welcome to stay here while your friend is here. That's all Booyah. I want to just stay. Very well. We'll lead you to the sleeping quarters and they take you back.
00:32:56
Speaker
Okay. So Dex, where are you going to the, um, in, uh, does Booyah told Dex that he was not going to stay at the end. He's going to stay elsewhere, but doesn't tell him where I think what Dex might do. I mean, it's mid day.
00:33:19
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He's gonna run back to the inn, go to his room, grab those training gloves that he has and has never used, because he just doesn't get it. He's gonna go back to the Black Dog and see if Solana's there. Okay. Yeah, I mean, Solana is there. She's sitting at the bar having a drink, and she turns as you walk in, and it's like, that didn't take you long. Well, we haven't left yet, and I didn't know what I was expecting coming here yesterday.
00:33:50
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was that yesterday? I didn't know what to expect coming here this morning. And I just really appreciated how
00:34:12
Speaker
One, the wealth of knowledge that you have and two, how quickly you were able to impart it to me. Can we go back and have another chat? Sure. Okay. She kind of taps the bar and bartender grabs her drink and dumps it out behind the bar. She gets up and walks.
00:34:30
Speaker
So we get in the back room and I say, all right, the first time that I met with Seagor for training, he gave me these things and I pull them out. We don't really describe them. They're just, they're gloves that are clawed. They're leather gloves with claws on them. Yeah. Those are training gloves. Right. He called them unbukula. Uh, here's the thing. I mean, I guess I get it.
00:34:58
Speaker
But when I was a bear, and I'm sorry, I hope you don't mind my asking, but it's kind of relevant. What do you turn into? Well, I'm kind of unique in that way. And she, like her tail kind of cracks and she begins to transform in front of you as you see gray fur begin to erupt from underneath her.
00:35:25
Speaker
uh red skin and her horns rather than disappearing grow longer and begin to twist and you see a humanoid-esque looking goat in front of you um with hooves and uh normal like still got thumbs but yeah okay that's I mean I'm guessing this is tied into your
00:35:51
Speaker
tieflingness of it all. Oh, that's uh maybe but um I've always been a goat and always been a tiefling so. Fair. I mean I just I was unaware that goat was on the menu so
Magical Gear Negotiations and Expedition Plans
00:36:05
Speaker
uh you know it's not good cuz goats can be on menus. I was unaware that that goat was an uh on the list of possibilities as all. Oh yeah there's uh I'm the the prevalence lycanthropes are the ones that
00:36:19
Speaker
Largely the ones that turned against us. Uh, in the, uh, in that time, wolves, rats, that kind of thing, boars, bears, uh, boars, tigers, bears, not so much tigers are still pretty rare. Um, like there were only a few that, that turned of those, but rats, wolves, boars were the primary ones that turned. Okay. Okay. Well, the reason I, the whole, the whole reason I asked is because I needed to know if you were.
00:36:48
Speaker
clawed as well so I could when I say things like These gloves have sharp pieces of metal on them But they're not The same I've punched with them. I've swiped with them when I had claws I had Bear strength. I had bear reflexes. I had bare senses and I had claws that were a part of me. Mm-hmm
00:37:16
Speaker
This feels impostory. It doesn't even feel like training. It feels like dress up. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a mindset I need to be in?
00:37:27
Speaker
Yes and no. When you were a turned werebear that changed who you were fundamentally as an individual. I imagine you during that time probably followed the
00:37:47
Speaker
the straight and narrow of it all a little bit more, maybe a little bit more protective of those around you, territorial of your own space. Those are common traits for a turned werebear to take off. Sure, I can definitely, the territorial one, absolutely. As far as, you know, all right, go ahead. The process that we go through, or those of us that are born with it,
00:38:16
Speaker
It's not forced upon you. You're not taking on the attributes of another person like when you are transformed through a bite. And so the reason Seger gave you those is because
00:38:31
Speaker
you'll need to, even if you turn into a bear, you'll need to learn how to use your claws with your swiftness, with your cunning. Your strength isn't going to be that of what it was before. Your physiology will change in appearance but not as much in function.
00:38:54
Speaker
You'll have the claws, you'll have the teeth, all of that. But I'm never going to be that strong again. You'll need to learn how to use them with the tools that you have, which is why he gave them to you. That makes a lot of sense. That wasn't explained to me. I guess you just didn't get the chance to. Maybe that was the next time we met. All right. I appreciate that. I mean,
00:39:17
Speaker
So once again, just like with the ribbon weave, you can learn to strike quickly with those quicker than you think you're capable of.
00:39:30
Speaker
and also moving the way you move in battle. And she, at this point, is reverted back into T for sure. As a hybrid when you are both bare and, I'm sorry, I've never seen somebody with purple skin before. Oh, you know what? Actually, interesting story. I am a,
00:39:58
Speaker
When you're half bear, half changeling, you need to be able to move around the battlefield quickly because once again, you're not going to have the hardiness of a bear or the strength of a bear. So you have to use what you've got. And so learn
00:40:17
Speaker
Practice with those claws until they feel like they're a part of you. Until those things, much like when you're in the heat of battle, I'm sure there are moments where your ribbon weave feels like an extension of you. Oh, often, yeah. Sure. Get to there with the claws. I knew that. I mean, you understand the trip that it felt silly. Yeah. Given my past experience. Once you've had the real thing, it's hard to go to this, but it's a process. Well, especially now that I understand it.
00:40:48
Speaker
And again, Jeff knew this, this was explained, but Dex didn't know. I don't know that I'm never going to be that strong again. I don't need to put off until I'm that strong again to start working with my other tools. So yeah.
00:41:04
Speaker
I'll start thrashing around, I guess. All right. If you ever want to spar, come see me. Yeah, I was going to say you want to spar, but we'll save it. I think the last thing Dex is going to do while he's in there, he's going to say, oh, by the way, I mentioned that I'm a changeling.
00:41:24
Speaker
I'm kind of done with the purple thing, so just don't let it alarm you next time I come in. In fact, I'll look more like this and he just shapeshifts in front of her.
00:41:39
Speaker
I think back to Lyle. But with the hair. But with the hair. There's nothing you can do about that. Dex classic, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So I'm back to Lyle that, you know, dressed like an a-hole and with long hair. And he says, and if you see me around people that you don't know, could you call me Lyle unless I tell you otherwise? Lyle? Sure. Awesome. Salona, thanks.
00:42:10
Speaker
I think you and I are going to have real solid friendship, at least relationship. Go finish that drink. I made you put down.
00:42:20
Speaker
Catch you on the flip flop. See you later. Flippity flop. Can I interject that? Uh, Booyah realizes there could be a very strong possibility that he will light up like a Christmas tree to Barrick. And so he's, and he doesn't know if there's a range, Christmas shrub. Yeah. So he's going to try to stay as far away. And it's not that he thinks Barrick can't take care of himself because he knows he can, but he's not sure.
00:42:51
Speaker
If Barrick is as powerful as he once was or not because of his eyes and he's already seen this guy die a few times and you know, it feels like this is a friend. So he's, he's going to try to keep an eye on it, but he doesn't want Barrick to know it. I mean, you could ditch the armor if you're in the walls of the monastery. I thought about that, but it would still light up if it was on me or not, unless I left it at the end.
00:43:16
Speaker
Yeah, that would be what you'd have to Yeah, you couldn't be carrying it around. Yeah. I thought you had a room at the moment. Yeah. So yeah, that's my intent to keep it locked up there. Okay. Keep an eye at a distance. Okay. I mean,
Episode Conclusion and Team Preparations
00:43:31
Speaker
does anything happen between now and when the ship arrives? Um, I mean, at this point, based on everything that you all have done,
00:43:41
Speaker
No. Okay. Unless there's something you all want to do. Oh, what cool thing do I get from Grant? I almost forgot. He shows up and, um, he has two things that he's finished. So he has nearly as long as that's what I have. He has a pair of boots.
00:44:08
Speaker
and a little circlet with a jewel in the front. Okay, circlet is a headband, right? These boots, are they white? If they're white, I will not be even entertaining the notion of taking them. You won't? No, I can't. They're silver, in fact.
00:44:34
Speaker
It's the matching set. Ooh! I ask Gurnad. Gurnad. I say, hey, speaking of between the boots and the ark, you clearly have been fiddling around with some of that dragon hide. Yeah. Did you ever try?
00:44:52
Speaker
altering the color dyeing it or oh that's that's been something that uh many a fashionable individual has attempted with dragon hide and it just it rejects the the dye completely well but you're not talking about dyeing it oh that's true okay well what about this what do you think just give me your tinkerers professional tinkerers opinion of artificer's opinion uh
00:45:18
Speaker
You've met Beric. You've noticed that maybe you haven't noticed, but anything he touches for long enough turns black. Okay. Doesn't seem to lose efficacy. Every magical thing he's got that turns black is still magical. Do you suppose that if I let him
00:45:41
Speaker
Give me a big long hug. Maybe, um, you think my, my armor would D magic for five. I mean, I don't see why that would happen. I don't know for certain that it would turn black. Like I said, it's tempting to alter the color. You could certainly try. I don't think it would mess with the armor at all. All right.
00:46:05
Speaker
further even um do you have any scraps of that obviously you've been tailoring with it and stuff yeah i mean i i have some uh cut up for other projects that i'm working on you don't have any even a small piece laying around that we could test that theory on um i mean i i have this small strip here and he pulls out a small strip that he had in a pouch i said this
00:46:27
Speaker
This is great. Thank you. My pleasure. Tell me about this. Circle it. Um, so, uh, you don't want to know about the boots? I don't want to hear about, I guess I'm going to hear about the boots. Um, especially the things turn out the way I need them to with this. Um,
00:46:45
Speaker
So the the circlet, I like to call it a circlet of blasting. When you're wearing it, you can concentrate on it and cast the spell scorching ray out of it. And when you make spell attacks, you do so with an attack bonus of plus five. Any spell attack or just the one that uses the circlet? That's what I'm
00:47:17
Speaker
seeing here. Well, I guess my other my other spells don't does it say when you make a spell attack when you make the spell attack the spells attack. So that's the bonus for that attack. Yes, your spell attack. So I don't know what I mean when I say. Well, and that's the other thing is my other two spells I can cast are not attacks. You can only do it once in a in a day. Once in a day scorching Ray. Yeah.
00:47:45
Speaker
I feel like Thorin had scorching ray. I vaguely remember it. I mean you fire out a number of rays. Three rays. Three rays that cause fire damage. Like you have laser attacks essentially. Okay what about the boots? These are called. I don't know if you're going to be interested in them.
00:48:03
Speaker
They're called, I call them just, I'm, I was in a rush. I didn't, both is the circlet of blasting and these things I really embarrassed about the naming conventions. But these are just called boots of speed. Basically when you're wearing them, the distance you can walk is doubled.
00:48:22
Speaker
And if anybody tries to hit you while you're walking past them, it's extra hard for them to do it. It only works when you click your heels together. You gotta click your heels, you move fast, you click them again, it stops.
00:48:34
Speaker
Are you guys prepared? Is it just, is it just fast movement? Double your walking speed and any creature that is nice to make an opportunity attack against you has disadvantage on the attack. This is not, this is not haste. No. Okay. Um, okay. So once it's been used for a total of 10 minutes, uh, the magic ceases to function until you complete a long rest. So 10 minutes a day.
00:48:57
Speaker
Are you guys prepared for decks around 270 feet in the wrong direction? So ready for it. No wait, that's a bad math. 240. So ready. Can't wait. Let's talk boots. Gurnit. Can we both come at this like adults and say that you received
00:49:26
Speaker
a literal treasure from us because we didn't know what it was worth. Sure. You have more dragon hide. Yeah. You have that, well, no, no, I go in there. I'll say, I was gonna say, you have that dragon because we killed it. Yeah, they were friends.
00:50:10
Speaker
Baring those two things in mind. Can I have these boots?
00:50:24
Speaker
I will also answer the age old question of, can we change dragon skin color and it maintain its efficacy? And I will report back to you and let you tell people that you figured out on your own.
00:50:36
Speaker
on the Artificer message boards, that's gonna make you a rockstar. I know there's one right there and you see a message board with a bunch of other rockstars. No, you're dressed like a rockstar. And these boots will complete the ensemble. Sure, I'll let you have the boots. The circlet.
00:50:58
Speaker
I put a lot of material into it. You provided most of the material for the boots. So there you go. No, I totally understand, uh, regarding the circlet. And if I may, I don't know these things. I have to assume it took a lot more work to projecting a spell versus enchanting and an item. I don't, I don't know these things. I'm guessing the boots were a bit more work, but it's fine. Well, thank you. Um, regarding the circlet, uh,
00:51:26
Speaker
You need Booyah there to barter. Give me a number. I'm checking the artificial message boards real quick. Okay.
00:51:40
Speaker
I would take 150 gold pieces for it. That's a pretty steep discount. Normally to somebody I would charge about 500. I appreciate that. That's a great discount. Unfortunately, I had to buy some goggles of night if you're familiar with those. Those sent me back most of what I made in ROAD. So I don't quite have that much. All right. I'm not going to try to haggle you if you if
00:52:07
Speaker
I'm taking it on face. You're telling me the truth this time. It goes 101 gold pieces, but yeah, I don't know. I really don't think I have that. So that's literally cost. That would be at cost cost. Yeah, I really don't think I have that. So, um, well, uh, you know what? I'll be honest. The boots. Fantastic. Thank you. I appreciate you meeting me at all. Gurney seriously, the obelisk thing.
00:52:36
Speaker
I know you're a skilled artificer. I know Booyah has done it before and passed that knowledge on to you. And so I have faith that you can do it. I want to impress upon you how important it is that you do it correctly and take it seriously outside of the potential explosion thing. Do you remember the last time we talked?
00:53:07
Speaker
And I talked to you about the giant obelisk altering people's brains. And you thought that I was a crazy person. Yes. The obelisk that you're about to work on is the actual thing that actually exists for sure. That leads us to believe that building might be a giant obelisk.
00:53:31
Speaker
You put too much stock in magic and its capabilities to not believe that a mind control obelisk on a small scale is possible. Of course. That's what this thing is. It's corrupting the people around it. Do not touch it except for with those tools. Do not let them in. I realize we never told him this. So do not let them in your with touch it period. If you touch it,
00:54:01
Speaker
you no longer hold claim to your own actions. You will be, for lack of a better word, overtaken by a group called the Quarry. Okay, that's all. I needed to make sure you were aware of that. God's the speed, best of luck. I appreciate it. Thanks for the fly boots, peace out! And you can click your heels in it.
00:54:34
Speaker
At some point, Booyah becomes bored. Naturally. And sees Barak practicing and walks over to him without his armor on, but with his rapier. Okay. Booyah, Booyah hear Barak. Booyah spar. You practice Booyah. Maybe you hear Booyah move. You know where strike.
00:55:04
Speaker
That is possible. Booyah, I don't really know that I could spar safely with you. I don't think that I could avoid striking. You hit Booyah too much, we stop. Booyah, heal. Actually, I was going to ask you,
00:55:36
Speaker
Are you able to cast sending? No. You don't have third level cleric spells yet? I have third level, but I don't have sending. But you can't prepare it? Because don't you prepare your spells off the whole cleric list when you're a cleric? I guess I could prepare it. Since we've got a couple of days. Yeah.
00:56:02
Speaker
Uh, cause there are a couple of other messages I'd like to spend, send out without spending, you know, two months wages. Well, y'all make spell ready. Okay. Well, y'all ready to tap you on the thigh with his rapier. Okay.
00:56:25
Speaker
Well, his intention is to, for him to hear, you know, yeah, movement. And so are you going to try to strike back or are you just allowing, I'm allowing him to swing at Booyah and Booyah is going to try to defend his defending Perry. Okay. Go ahead and give me an attack roll with disadvantage.
00:56:51
Speaker
Until it doesn't roll well, he's just gonna get disheartened Barak. 25. That's a hit. Okay. Gonna get some combat in this episode. 17 slashing damage. Okay. See, you good already. Booyah, say stop! Just stab Booyah in the gut. Gonna say, see you good. Try again.
00:57:27
Speaker
19 I mean you're not wearing any armor. So this is yeah, this is kind of a weird simulation Is this
00:57:37
Speaker
in our gameplay going to potentially help him be better editors, he's always going to be at disadvantage. Maybe not down the road, it's not going to fix it right now, but this narratively is wonderful and you should just do it anyway, even if mechanically. Well, that's what I thought, but my hope was mechanically, it would help somewhat, somehow, someway.
00:57:59
Speaker
maybe down the line but not like short-term right now next combat yeah it's just a beautiful story beat yes and what is your ac with no armor on my ac is 17 with armor so so with no armor on it's just 10 plus your dexterity can i have a chance to dodge or something like that like parry and dodge
00:58:18
Speaker
Somehow, can we- Sure, I'll let you make a dexterity saving throw against what was your actual attack that time? That time it was 19. So, dexterity saving throw 19 is the DC. 25. So, yeah. Dodge out of the way. Right. But it was gonna hit like anywhere you were. Right. So we continue until Booyah's had enough. Right. Okay. I mean, eventually Barak stops because
00:58:46
Speaker
Frankly, it's one thing to stand in a yard alone, swinging a sword at a post and missing, and it's a very different thing to stand in front of a person who you know and have any stake at all in their opinion of you and do the same thing. Yeah, but I think Booyah would probably allow himself to be hit some. Yeah, that's going to help too. Well, yeah, but maybe you wouldn't know that. I'm blind if I hit you. I think I know it.
00:59:16
Speaker
Anyway, after a while, Beric, the next day, I guess, when Booyah has prepared the spells, Beric has a couple of symbols, or a couple of sendings he'd like to make. The first is to Daedric Benar. Okay. And it goes as follows. This is Beric Rowan, looking for Daedric Benar.
00:59:50
Speaker
I don't know if you're alive or dead or where you are. Got it. It would be good to know you're alive. I think I need your help. I think there's two or three words left, but I'm not going to. I don't need that. Yeah.
01:00:19
Speaker
Okay. Beric out. My understanding is he can respond instantly if he wishes to, if he's there. I just did math. If I click my heels in 10 minutes I can be four and a half miles away.
01:00:45
Speaker
Please start, meet me. I think that's how you click your healers. So because Booyah is the one casting the spell though, you basically have to give the message to him and then he does it. So Booyah, you send the message off. And Booyah, frankly, probably writes it down. Yeah, so Booyah says it while Booyah writes it down. I mean, Booyah could do it in half the words.
01:01:07
Speaker
But he takes his time and does it slowly. After you say that, Booyah, you hear a voice in your head say, good to know you're a liar. And Booyah saying this, as I said, good to know you live. In Lazar principalities. Lazar principality.
01:01:38
Speaker
Did you say you were in charge? No, I was trying to find out if he was alive. That was the answer in the moment. Alive and well. He live and well. Where should we meet? Where we meet. I don't think so. Unless you have unless you have also arrived at the monastery.
01:02:06
Speaker
You guys are at the monastery. No, Dex is eating his continental breakfast. A second cast. You have you have two third-level spells lots? Oh, right. We're back to the next morning. OK, another another casting then. Cast it again. I'm in Sharn. Only for a few days. And I will have to go back to Zendric. In Sharn, few days go Zendric. Back Zendric.
01:02:36
Speaker
There's, there's no time for me to wait. No time to wait. There's a lot more words left, but I don't really have anything to, I could just, I could just spin them out, but um, Hey, what song is this? Um,
01:03:18
Speaker
You hear a voice in your head. Can use house orient. Can use house orient if needed need.
01:03:33
Speaker
before you leave for Zendric. Why are you going there? Why you go there? This time around. This time around. Friend. Friend. Do you have another spell slot? I think so, yeah. Yep, one more. Okay, cool.
01:04:05
Speaker
Zendric would take too long to explain. Zendric, take too long, explain. Let someone else count boogal's words. I'm just counting my need to be able to fight without eyes.
01:04:34
Speaker
need be able to fight no eyes. Can I can explain more?
01:04:58
Speaker
If you are able to come, that's all I need to say. Can you explain more if you able come? How many words is it? 25. Thanks to the Booyah Myth, you got six more. Please be well. You get a message back, Booyah, immediately.
01:05:27
Speaker
Stating. Meet me at House Orion Conclave. Meet me. On Middle Central Plateau. House Orion Conclave Central Plateau. I'm on my way. On my way. Okay.
01:06:00
Speaker
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