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C2 Ep. 162 Slaughterman's Legacy Chapter Five
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Surely they'll Eldorin this time...
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Transcript
Introductions and Recap
00:00:09
Speaker
D20 Radio, your game is roll.
00:00:47
Speaker
Hello, welcome to Ever On Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Ever On campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trev on. I'm Randy. Jeff. What happened last time?
Club Meeting Plans and Mix-up
00:00:57
Speaker
Okay, so another party. We went to a bar. I said Trevor. Yeah, Raynard and Hobb set up for a meeting that may or may not pick up in the club. Raynard and glob. Drayneer and glob. Drayneer and glob. Whoop, whoop, it's Drayneer and glob.
00:01:16
Speaker
Oh, I did. I'm glad you said it because I had forgotten about it. You catch us in the funny papers. I was really hoping you were going to say his name was Bah, like B-O-H. Boo. Boo. The thing is, glob is a fake name. Yeah, that's true. This is big enough. This is big enough. I came up with that off the top of my head. I think I've heard it before. I don't know where. It's a real mystery. Anyway.
Shopping for the Gala
00:01:44
Speaker
And so we're just waiting to see what happens there. We're just in my private room. The hard part of getting special materials from Harbin turned out to not be the getting special materials from Harbin. It turned out the being able to be allowed to talk to Harbin. And we're going to a party.
00:02:07
Speaker
a fancy dress party. Well that would mean we get dressing costumes. That's Reynard's approach too. Every party's a fancy dress party for Reynard. So yeah, we kind of left things off with Sana rushing off with Eris and Milo to go shopping for the Gala and Draneer and Glob waiting for
00:02:28
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the server to come
Party at the Ebony Vale
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take their order. So we'll cut back to the Ebony Vale. Luthien told you that Thalia was going to be your server. So through the curtain, which is left open because it's a private room for nightclub standards, not for official business standards.
00:02:45
Speaker
We want to make sure everyone sees us in the private room that we paid 60 gold for, yeah. An elf woman, long, snow white hair that's braided and has kind of crystals braided into it with like bright, ice blue eyes, dark skin come through the curtain and she looks at you two. Welcome back, drain here. Nice to see you again. And glob, is it?
00:03:09
Speaker
Yes! It is glob. Nice to meet you both. Thalia's new, you don't recognize her from when you were coming around. What can I get you all started on? Let's hear the whole menu, Eric. Yeah. What does this place got? It's a fit in, I'm gonna have to drink. Yeah, you can do it moderately. Yeah, it's gonna be responsibly, maybe. We'll see. I don't know. And they'll thank you.
00:03:36
Speaker
What kind of drinks do you all like normally? I can curate the menu down a little bit for you. Oh, anything new? It's been several months since I've been here. Yeah, we have the Silent Serenade, which is a... It's a chamomile-infused mead with lavender bitters in it and just a little bit of honey, which is one of the new concoctions. Hob raises his hand on that one, like that one. Okay, great. I literally was about to say, I mostly drink water and tea. And then we also have a one called Starry Night, which is...
00:04:04
Speaker
Mix of its blue liquor with lavender infused vodka and just a little bit of lemonade with some edible silver stars in it. Oh that sounds lovely. I'll take one of those please. Great. Anything else that I can get you all?
Thalia's Service and Club Ambiance
00:04:21
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Um... Any bites? Anything? Pub cheese and crackers? I don't know. No, I'm set.
00:04:27
Speaker
If I get fries, will you read some? Will you be mad? Let's be mad. What is that, bro? Who is that? Life, man. I don't know. I'm sure it's some something. No, I think we're fine. Thank you. Just the drinks. Great. I'll be back to checking you all here in a bit. Thank you. Give me a perception check. The two of you. I just did two purple difficulty. I just spent money on this. Check what mine is. Me too. How difficult to try? Two purple. Did I take it?
00:05:01
Speaker
perception trevor went to go roll his dice but instead of having it loose to where they would roll in his hands he held them tight and just shook his fist without the dice moving at all within his hand oh my god i was like what is he doing
00:05:26
Speaker
I was just like entranced and he starts cracking up. Oh my gosh. I succeed three times and that's it. Success one advantage. Okay you both get the sense like
00:05:48
Speaker
Dahlia is a little bit annoyed that she, like, you all are the only table in here, and it's, like, inordinately early to be here kind of thing, but that's just a general vibe that you pick up off of her. One advantage, Hob. Yeah. Dahlia gets over it and realizes she has a singular tip of- tip of crewing opportunity? I don't know. Do I have any strain?
00:06:11
Speaker
I don't. I don't either shoot. Pass the boost to the next one if you want. Yeah, sure. Pass the boost. Okay, so yeah, after five-ish minutes, Ally returns with your drinks, and she also has a small, small glass to accompany it, that she sits next to each of your drinks and says, Kaylin, the bartender, also wanted to give you all on the house, one of our house drinks, the moonlit elixir as well, so there you are.
00:06:38
Speaker
Thank you so much, and tell him
Exploring the Club and Meeting Lirial
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thank you as well. Yes, of course. When she turns around, Hop takes a sniff first. Yeah. It smells pretty sweet and citrusy. Around the shot glass is like silvery, edible glitter around the rim. They love that stuff here. And Hop's gonna drink it. Okay. Yeah. Do you drink it? Yeah. Good. There we go. No. That's pleasant.
00:07:07
Speaker
Citrus nectar like sweet citrusy little very boozy. Oh and then well citrus nectar
00:07:15
Speaker
Four ounces of grain alcohol. These are muscles I haven't used in a while. I'll just suck him in through his teeth. And then both of your drinks are delicious. So should I take a lap? Do you want to take a lap? We were literally told this guy is always here. And it feels like we're looking, were we the only patrons? There were people having drinks and sitting around. But based on their attire, it looked like they were like,
00:07:42
Speaker
Yeah, members of the staff just hanging out. Doing family meals. Yeah. You hear music begin to come. It's like tuning up, like warming up kind of stuff, music coming from the main area. Am I crazy or were we not told like he's always here? We were. I figured he'd just be sitting at the bar. Did you use his name at any point? No. I feel like we shouldn't ask. I don't want to draw attention to it.
00:08:07
Speaker
And you don't know what he looks like. I know. I don't know what he looks like. Yeah, Raynard would- Oh, you would run him in a crash. Then yeah, go look! I'll stand here menacingly, guarding your body. Alright, I'll take a lap. Alright.
00:08:22
Speaker
Granard, you hop up and as you walk out, up on the stage, the source of the music is an elf with a lute playing warming up, male elf with like fiery red hair and very bright, nearly glowing with like really warm amber eyes and making a statement.
00:08:41
Speaker
he does not match the attire like he's wearing pretty bright vibrant colors like he stands out in this establishment you see some other people that obviously work here sitting around you do not spot elder in anywhere though as you now know the name of the bartender calen behind the bar making some more drinks and chatting with a couple other people sitting up there it that is what you see just as you walk out there are other private rooms there are booths there are like dark corners if you want to like actively go like
00:09:10
Speaker
investigating slash snooping slash more intentionally walking around you can but just a casual cursory glance that's what yes snooping is a better word i wasn't gonna go like peeking in yeah everything but they're just walking out and seeing like trying to see got a flashlight yeah what are you doing i'm doing a top try to catch team you're making out okay then give me a stealth check okay how stealthy am i okay
00:09:39
Speaker
Okay, I get these. I'm gonna upgrade because we have all the points. Okay, that's two red, one purple. And you have a boost from Hobbs. One purple? Jiminy
Reynard's Tour and Suspicion
00:09:50
Speaker
Christmas. I should ask before I roll what the difficulty's gonna be. Yeah. No. A wash?
00:10:04
Speaker
No, I have two threats. You got it there. So as you're walking along where some of the other private rooms are set up and slowing down as you walk past the curtains to glance through, you're stopped by another elf woman with deep violet eyes, silver hair.
00:10:26
Speaker
and a very tall figure, a little bit taller than Raynard with a... Very tall. Like 6'4 or something. She's tall. Who's taller than that in real life? Yeah. Oh, he's very tall. Impressively tall even. Somebody give that guy a medal. And she's wearing like a midnight blue dress that is sleeveless and her arms are very well defined very much clearly like she does work similar to to Draneer.
00:11:06
Speaker
Sounds like an alarming presence. Be external in general, yeah. Yes, no, I was just, I haven't been here in a while, so I was just looking around. I was just seeing if anything was new. It's been a few months since I've been here. There were a few new drinks, so I thought I'd look around and see if anything else was new. Oh, if you want a tour, you could ask for one. Oh really? Sure. Are you getting tours? I could be persuaded to do- I would love one, thank you. Give me a streetwise check, Raynard. Okay.
00:11:17
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and she stops you looking for someone ah
00:11:37
Speaker
three purple difficulty yeah I succeed and I have two threat okay two success two threat okay so yeah after a moment of looking at this person and like asking for a tour and stuff you realize this is like the owner and operator of the ebony veil and with your street wise like you also know actually that's all she is
00:12:05
Speaker
Is there anything if I streetwise says Eric's lie? Yes, but if I'm the two threats have been spent everyone if I'm genuinely Watching from not too far away and see this you're in a three walled like Raynard took off and went around the corner Okay, cuz then I was standing in the
Gala Preparations and Ethics
00:12:23
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doorway. Okay. Okay, but I thought if he goes around the corner I may or may not follow I won't say I did because I want to but if I can see him from the
00:12:31
Speaker
doorway of our room I would like in the catch this conversation if I can make just pick up on something but yeah it's too far away so you're gonna just try to get close enough to listen or what do you know I am honestly if I can see it I'm trying to I want to make a vibe check to see if I need to get closer does that make sense okay giving you a perception with one red one purple and I didn't spend the other two threats so add a setback die you got it
00:12:59
Speaker
Alright. If it succeeds, just barely. That's a success out of advantage. Okay. So that's a two advantage. With the success, you can tell Raynard's been caught snooping around, and the person seems annoyed by it, but yeah, what do you want to do with your two advantage? I will pass the boost to the next person, and I will
00:13:25
Speaker
At that point, approach. Okay? I can tell that this person's annoyed that Ray and Redmay caught all approach. Oh, Draenor. Oh, Master Fjarlan. Our booth is back here. I know they all look very similar. Oh, so you were lost? I'm assuming he- I- Not that. Say which one. He had just given a different story. Yeah.
00:13:49
Speaker
I'm so sorry, this is my very overly protective security englob! Oh, dressed awfully fancy for security detail. But I have a little pride in my appearance in places, especially since I'm...
00:14:04
Speaker
I am an extension of his appearance. You're an accessory. You're an accessory. Especially since I'm in better graces with my family now, you probably know. So I just thought he should... I've heard things, but I'd love to have any false assumptions corrected. I guess there's just... There's no Philip in the room. I was going to say, don't look at Philip. Yeah, you gotta look right here. Don't face him. Because it just depends on what those false accusations are. I promised you a tour, so let's do a tour and we can chat while we walk about. Absolutely.
00:14:33
Speaker
And she turns to you, she extends her arm to you for you to take it. And she turns back over her shoulder and looks at you, hob, and says, I'll bring him back in one piece, glob. I look at you. Ah, I think I'll be all right for a moment. Just enjoy another drink on me. Right.
00:14:58
Speaker
and she begins to pull Raynard away. Have fun. You're all going to. She walks you back and she, so these are our private areas, but it seemed like you were familiar with those before since you rented one for you and your security team. Are you expecting anyone else to join you tonight? I don't know tonight. I was hoping to maybe run into some old friends or something here. I haven't seen many people. Oh, who are you on the lookout for? Oh, just anyone.
00:15:26
Speaker
Anyone? I'm not gonna say his name. He doesn't know me. Say his name among other names? Yeah, I couldn't think of any other names. You got one? Try Trevor. Trevor, Jeff, Philip, and Eldorin. My friend. Francois.
00:15:44
Speaker
And she moved fast. I was just waiting for you to listen to names. There's so much stress. As you reach the end of the line of private rooms, the rest of the seating area, everything is to the right and there's a hallway that goes off to the left and she actually begins to turn you to the left away from the main area. Oh, what? Is there something, another event space or anything? Yeah, there's some more secure rooms. There's the kitchen, there's the administrative areas. I assume that the son of Calvert, if y'all would want the full tour experience.
00:16:13
Speaker
My life. I do like to be treated like everyone else, so... I don't know if I need to be quite so extensive. Thank you so much, though. Then I'm afraid that your reputation is sorely misaligned with your actual intentions, then. See, those false accusations? Like what? I'm a very nice, humble person. Ask Glaub! Glaub, be sure to. So if you're so nice and humble, what caused such strife between you and your father? Like I said, we'd heard things, but...
00:16:42
Speaker
family drama. You know how it is. I don't. Not everyone's happy all the time. You can't make everyone happy all the time. And what did you do to make people unhappy? I spent a little extra money that I should have. Unfortunate. Yes, but money is so material and we've risen above it as a family. That's what I've heard about Calvair and his family, yes. So close.
Logistics and Concealment for the Gala
00:17:05
Speaker
Indeed. And give me a perception check.
00:17:09
Speaker
Don't know what sound that was, but... How hard. This is gonna be just too purple. And you have a boost from... Meanwhile, I'm downstairs, anybody Elvran-looking? Hey, buddy. Those are mine. Man, I just cannot succeed today. I've got three advantage.
00:17:28
Speaker
from a third person perspective. Reynard's like chatting and looking as they pass by a door that says Eldrin's offensive. He's always here! In fact he's an assistant manager. Three advantage. So you don't notice whatever there was to be noticed but you have three advantage. Great.
00:17:45
Speaker
I guess I will use it to pass to the next... Pass and upgrade? Yeah, sure. And then I have one advantage to that? No, that would be three. Okay. Three to pass and upgrade. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so she takes you back to... she walks you through the kitchen and she's very much probing for more information about
00:18:05
Speaker
Draenor and Draenor's family. So I guess the question is how much is Reynard going to let slip is the big thing. But you can make me a charm check to try and divert her. You can make me some other kind of deception check to try and feed her false information. Like how would you like to play this, Trevor? I think Reynard is going to get a little annoyed.
00:18:31
Speaker
and say something more along the lines of, I'm so sorry, do you normally probe your patrons this early in the evening like this?
00:18:39
Speaker
and she kind of stops for a second and smiles like, oh I'm just, you said you hadn't been around in a while and I'm just somebody that's gone through such things as you, Drenia. I figured a welcome and warm ear would be something you'd enjoy. Yeah, just all the drama makes my evening so much less enjoyable than I was hoping for. Fair enough, fair enough. Then I'm more than happy to take you back to your private room. Thank you. Yes.
00:19:05
Speaker
and she begins walking you back towards it. I would make a great rich person. Meanwhile, what outfit does Milo get in the shopping montage?
00:19:16
Speaker
We don't need to go through the actual process, but what does Milo end up dressed as? No, dressed as. How does Milo end up dressed? Astronaut. Milo thinks it's a fancy dress party. This cool looking armor that's really flexible. Oh wait, that's another story. I don't know. Milo would try to pick out something classy. Classy. Like black slacks.
00:19:43
Speaker
And... That is nothing else. Call it the hob. Call it the collar, black pants. Pastel orange shirt. Trade class A. Love it. And he would sauna, what do you think about this one? Do you have any ideas? Like some sort of a tie maybe or something? A hat? That's what it needs. How married are we to the color, Milo? The black or the orange? The orange.
00:20:12
Speaker
but not married, I just want to look nice. Orange is one of my favorite colors. Do you think I should lose the orange? We'll just take it down a couple notches in terms of the vibrancy of the orange. Is the pastel? What do you suggest? And Zana takes you back and gets you just a little bit more muted. She gets you a white shirt and then an orange coat to go over it that's more of a burnished orange, a little less bright in your face kind of thing.
00:20:40
Speaker
It's nice. Anything for the neck or do you think this looks fine? This can be a little bit more casual. It's not done up. You have a coat on so you can go without the tie. Okay. I think it looks fair. Or a kabat or anything like that. Yeah. Okay. Very well. You're sure about the other orange though? Very.
00:20:56
Speaker
All right, I trust you, Sana. You know a whole lot more about this than I do. Thank you, Milo. What is Eris? Milo's decisions are so atrocious that Eris escapes. And by the time that Sana has gone through all of this with Milo, she comes back and Eris is wearing pants.
00:21:19
Speaker
that are loose fitting but definitely still have pockets and a nice jacket and blouse basically. I know like the visual that we have for Aeris in terms of her hair is like the undercut. Has she maintained that or has it grown out and filled out a bit more over time? It's probably mostly been maintained.
00:21:45
Speaker
Okay. But it's probably a little longer. She probably has not had time to maintain it in the last several weeks. Aeris looks nice. Looks good. Good. What shoe do you just have the Aeris boots on? Aeris is wearing boots. Could we... You know what? Never mind. And Sana gets herself a dress and puts everything on her tab.
00:22:10
Speaker
as you all walk in. So where are you all getting ready for tonight? The cauldron? The cauldron? Okay. Is where I am getting ready. I figured I would just go home. Okay, so where do we want to meet up before we get there?
00:22:30
Speaker
You mean to set the cauldron or we can pick you up? No, we can meet the cauldron. That works for me. Okay, great. Be fine. See you all there. I'm excited. Yes, before you go, there was something I'd like to speak with you about. I used to own keg bottoms. I'm aware.
00:22:49
Speaker
We take pride in our business of being able to pay the people who help us. It is like a blessing to us to reward people who are helping us make our business a success. I appreciate how much you appreciate.
00:23:09
Speaker
what I've done but shopping with you is a reward unto it. I don't need you to pay me to go shopping with you. I'm speaking about you accepting payment. I'm speaking about you accepting the payment that often tries to provide to you. And I understand you
00:23:38
Speaker
certainly don't need it, but you're providing a great service to him, and he appreciates it, and he wishes to show his appreciation. Did you all get a chance to tell Sana about moving the four sails? I can't remember. No, I tried. Okay, yeah, she was just running around, so she has no idea. She was real surprised when it starts moving. Milo, I'm assuming Ulfin
Captures and Consequences
00:24:02
Speaker
asked you to speak to me about this.
00:24:05
Speaker
He'd mentioned it and I understand from his viewpoint and running an establishment. I don't just wait tables and clean and put in the stock orders and everything. I also, because my family has a fair amount of money and I've had to have a budget and things like that, I also do Ulfin's books. I help him with that part of the business as well. I see. There's a reason I don't
00:24:35
Speaker
take Ulfin's money. Obviously I love Ulfin and I want For Sales to do well, but also... How about this, then? Since you are taking care of the books, why not accept the payment and maybe creatively return it some way? That's interesting. Just reinvest it without him knowing? Yes, that would be better than him finding it.
00:25:03
Speaker
He keeps setting traps for me when I try to sneak into his bedroom too, so that's been good for keeping my skills up, but... Yes. Maybe, especially since you are already taking care of the books, you could perhaps creatively return it some other way. Yeah. And that would make him exceedingly happy. I could do that. Be lying to him, but... He'd just wrap it around a brick and throw it through the window every week. Okay, yeah. That's a good thought. If he ever says anything, say you're reinvesting it back into his business.
00:25:31
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I can't imagine things getting any worse. That's... Oh, you're not aware. Of what? Not aware of what, Milo? You know... What if Alphen were to decide to move at some point?
00:25:56
Speaker
The clown's gonna try and burn down for sales and take out people that we care about and all this nonsense because we're being framed for Satan's murder.
00:26:10
Speaker
So we're gonna We have to get people out of the for sales, but I'm gonna try and move it That's why I need to talk to Harbin because I need special materials Oh What nothing? Okay. Yeah, good to know I said I have to see Harbin, right?
00:26:28
Speaker
Yep. Okay. Thanks for keeping me in the loop. And if you need any other help in keeping the clan from burning down the four sails or moving it, let me know, I guess. Is all the stuff going to be safe when we move it? Like the dishes and things? Are they going to... If I do it right, yes. Okay.
00:26:49
Speaker
I'm trying to think of a time where you've tried to do something right, and you haven't been able to, and I'm coming up empty right now, so I'm going to just- I'm pretty good at covering them up. Yo, Hob's out there. Okay, I'm gonna go get dressed, check in with Cath. Things that I try to do right. Is this gonna look alright? Is this gonna look alright? My hair's okay. Everything's alright. Yes. No, I think you look great. It's gonna be fine. Yeah.
00:27:14
Speaker
Okay, I just don't want to walk in and then everyone notices me because I look all wrong and then it's all much harder to do any other thing we need to at... It's at the university, which gives you a bit more leeway. I would go for a bit more understated shoe if I were you, but if you really don't want to, that's fine. Because last time I told you to not wear your boots, it didn't go well, so... We got attacked by pirates. That's what I said.
00:27:39
Speaker
Yeah, because of the boots. If you have all Galas, if you have more concealable
Final Preparations for the Gala
00:27:46
Speaker
weaponry that you can hide, that's gonna be what you're able to take in, because they're gonna check weapons at the door. So, just a heads up on that. Okay. I don't need to worry about that, but she says that she playfully brings her fists up.
00:28:03
Speaker
All right, I'm gonna go check in on Kath, get dressed, and I'll meet you all at the cauldron here in about two-ish hours. Good. All right. And Sana takes off. Are you all just heading back to your respective places or? Yeah, Eris is heading to the cauldron. She will drop my law off if my lawyer needs to go home. Yes. As you walk into your home, your mother is not there.
00:28:27
Speaker
Okay. Hob. Yeah. Glob. You're sitting in the booth. Not you too. Value returns before Reynard does. And she pops in and says, oh, where's your... I guess employer? I don't know how that works. He's on a tour of the building. Oh. It sounded like I only caught the tail end. Who's giving him the tour? A lady.
00:28:54
Speaker
I did not catch her name, I was only there for the tail end. You are capable of giving a physical description if you so desire, but I, okay, yeah, I know. I'll be perfectly frank, I did not hear your physical description of her. Silver, long hair, deep violet eyes. Oh, I did, yeah. I did, I did hear that. Taller than radio. Yeah, the whole deal. She's like, oh, he ran into Laryll. Alright. How are you doing? Do you need another drink or anything? No, I try to keep it sharp when I'm working.
00:29:20
Speaker
He let me have one, which was very kind of him, and it was delicious. Thank you. Fair enough. I'm not. I don't want to undercut what you do, but there's very little danger at this time in the bar. So if you wanted to maybe enjoy yourself a bit more than you normally allow yourself in a more dangerous situation, that is something that you could. I understand.
00:29:48
Speaker
But alcohol is more of a cumulative thing. And there's nothing happening now when I drink three ales, and then in two hours when we leave and something happens, we're all boned. So I'm just gonna keep it easy. Thank you. We do have a aft, like, it's a drink for the end of the night kind of thing that it's the opposite of an alcoholic beverage. It actually restores, restores you, removes the
00:30:13
Speaker
For lack of a better way to put it the poison in your system to make you sharper and able to to not be drunk We had a lot of problems early on with fights and things like that out in the streets and we came up with a solution It feels like I don't know that this is the right time after everything that's gone on in our lives
00:30:34
Speaker
I did instruct you to have another drink. I will have one more drink. I was informed by my boss. He said glob. Glob. He says glob have a drink. So I'll have one more of the thing with the chamomile. Thank you. You don't want something a bit more fun? I really don't. I really don't. Thank you. Okay. So she walks away and probably in that time is when Reynard
00:31:00
Speaker
Lirial takes you, like, back in the general area of your room and then leaves you. If you need anything else, ask Thalia. And she walks off. Thank you so much. Hob says, you know what? Bring a spare. I'm sorry? Go ahead and bring two. That way you can stay. You don't have to come back all the time. This is a different person. This is Lirial. No, I'm saying two, Thalia. Sorry. As she's leaving. Okay. I didn't find anything out. Oh yeah, no kidding. No kidding.
00:31:28
Speaker
Did you ask anything? No. I find. One precedes the other. She kept asking me questions about my family. Sure. To be fair, I told her to. But then I told her not to. Do we have any idea where Eldrin is? No. Are we any closer to Eldrin? Do you remember Eldrin? Yes, I know that's why we're here. Okay. I can't do this part. I just got a tour and I didn't see anything though.
00:31:58
Speaker
I rolled for it. Did you see? Alright. I am going to go to the restroom. I am going to get lost. Well, if you ought to know that, shouldn't you prevent it? Where did... what's the name? The... Lariel? Lariel.
00:32:17
Speaker
Which way did Liria go? So she went down to the end of the private rooms and then to the left through the employees only kind of into employees only section. Is there a right? Is that a T intersection? So to the right was basically it.
00:32:32
Speaker
If you turn right, they were just going to be facing the main area. Now there is like an employee area back to like behind the bar and the bathrooms, sure. And like another connector to the kitchen. Like it's all a circle eventually, but yeah. I can go look. The issue is I don't know what I'm looking for. And frankly, there's not a lot of distinction among the elves.
00:33:01
Speaker
A young elf with long silver hair. You're not, you'll know. I assure you I will not. All right. Porcelain skin, flawless, chiseled features. Oh, and yes, you'll hate him because of his skin. You'll see the skin and you'll say, that son of a biscuit has perfect skin and I need to not like him and you'll know that's him. Okay, with that in mind,
00:33:31
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If we spend two episodes here and we don't meet Eldrin, I will not be pleased with us. But I don't
Anticipation for the Gala Event
00:33:41
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know what to do right now. That's like a great plan. Okay. Who knows who you're gonna be. I'm gonna go look for a really hot pale elf.
00:33:51
Speaker
I don't think hot. This guy is just perfect. Hob at a time. He's hot. He is very hot. Okay. She's very hot. I knew the guy. There's lots of hot. Lots of different hot. No, this is undeniably hot. This is the hot. Everyone's idea of hot. Everyone's into this. When you see him and you think, no, I'm not into that. You'll say, yes, I am. That you'll know. That's the one. Dahlia walks through the curtain with the two drinks. Oh, welcome back. Thank you.
00:34:21
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Cobb opens his throat and drops one and he walks up and he's ready to go try to find this bathroom now. Okay. You're going for the bathroom? I'm going to the bathroom. I'm doing air quotes. Inverted commas if you're a British listener. Air inverted commas? Who cares?
00:34:37
Speaker
I've just heard Inberg comments. Please excuse him, he's gone to find my very hot acquaintance. I just saw the queen! Yup! Here's the thing, if I see him on the way to the bathroom, that's what we talked about. If there's a hot guy between here and the bathroom, I'm gonna try to bring him back to meet Raynor. Dranier. Apparently, the plan now. Sounds like a not convoluted plan at all. Anyways, Dahlia, it's been great having you here.
00:35:05
Speaker
I'll have another drink, too. Thank you. You brought me one. Oh, there's one in front of me. I can bring you another one. No, thank you. That little one you brought really is hitting. Thank you. I'm glad I can show you to the bathroom if you like. No, I would love to pick your brain while he does whatever he's doing.
00:35:22
Speaker
Oh, okay. Yes. This menu. You just can't sit okay. You're right. So, glob your off values. Sure, drain your way. The food, I think I will need food. Okay, great. Anything in particular that you're looking for or? Something, something light but filling. Maybe a little, like, little, some breading. Do you have any breading, anything with a breading on it? Just breading.
00:35:45
Speaker
No, nothing fried. It's fried the thing in this world. Yes. But you asked for something light and then you're like something fried. Like a fried vegetable. I need something light. That's light. Like fried bread. That's filling. Fried zucchini. That's light, right?
00:36:03
Speaker
Yeah, no, you nailed it. In relation to other things. Yeah, asking for like little sliders or something. Yeah, don't be ridiculous. All they have is deep fried pads of butter here. Just every vegetable but fried. No, elves aren't really big into frying stuff. That's more of a human thing. Oh, I would know that. You would. And halflings also fry a lot of stuff. We obviously have the garden salad, which is delicious. We have, oh, we have a new menu item if you're interested.
00:36:32
Speaker
It's our elven take on a traditional tiefling dish. I'm trying to remember. It's pizza. Two Z's. They pronounce it oddly. Oh, she's talking about pizza. It's a big flat piece of bread with sauce and various toppings on it. Ours is like really thin, crispy, with a tomato sauce and then mushrooms, roasted garlic. Oh, you had me with mushrooms. All right.
00:37:01
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Second to last things she said.
00:37:08
Speaker
Hi. All right. Okay. I'll go get you the pizza and... Maybe extra mushrooms. Extra mushrooms. Okay. Absolutely. All right. I'll go put in that order. And do you want another drink as well? I would love one. All right. Great. Another Saturday night. I have nothing else to do. A Saturday night? Or do you want something a little bit... Spice it up. Tell that wonderful bartender of yours to just hit me hard. All right. I'll let Kayden know.
00:37:36
Speaker
This is going so far south. All right, Hob, you take off towards the bathroom. That was Raynard's version of distracting me. You nailed it. From Klob going to wander around. So you see the elf on the stage, a bit more warmed up, starting to play some music. Hey, does the elf on stage have flawless skin and silver hair? No, fine. Let's keep going. Bright red hair. For a second, I thought about the two. Maybe it's in disguise as the musician.
00:38:02
Speaker
Or this is his like rich boy Flinder thing he does. This holds people captive. Listen to his... I'm going to have to assume bad music. The tables are less empty. It's clearly like the staff are getting up to start doing prep work and get ready for people to actually get here. Yeah, you're able to find the bathroom. You walk past the bar. Cailin, the bartender watches you, not in a menacing way, but just in a like...
00:38:25
Speaker
You're you stand out from the normal clientele and you're a big presumably dangerous person. So just keep an eye on you. I'm a little handsome too. Sure. Yeah. And muscles just everywhere. So yeah. Are you do you actually go to the bathroom to start off or are you I am going to go to the bathroom. OK. But I am going to.
00:38:46
Speaker
Do it as a meandric. If I turn down, there is a hallway to the bathrooms, yes. If I turn down that hallway and I'm the only person in the hallway, I may walk past the bathroom and see what's at the other in the hall. So the hall to the bathrooms have three doors at the end. If you walk down to the right-hand side along the right-hand wall is one bathroom, straight ahead is another bathroom, and then there's another doorway that leads to the left. And these doors would be so explicitly labeled so as to not make sense that I would get one of them confused with another one? Correct.
00:39:15
Speaker
Fine. In fact, the other one says employees only. Look, I'm gonna poke my head at it. But I'm not gonna go into it. Like, boom! Yeah, sure. Curious guy. I've never been here before. Give me a stealth check. That's gonna be an issue. One red, one purple.
00:39:34
Speaker
And sorry, if I ever ask you for a check and I tell you the difficulty and then you don't want to roll it, you don't have to. You can decide. I actually don't want to take that course of action. Now remember, hold the dice tight and shake your face. Shake everything but your face. Just waggling my head like an idiot. You know what? We haven't done it. We have them all. I'm going to flip a storyboard for this. And I'm going to give myself a yellow. So we're even really matched.
00:39:59
Speaker
whatever happens no that is a failure that is what that's a I guess it's a wash on how one threat with one threat but the failure isn't despair no failure no success one threat one despair so I'm seen is that what I'm gathering who see me someone real bad let me it's fitting at this point
00:40:26
Speaker
No, no, cause fall's the conference room. We don't know where the despair is gonna fall in the room. Probably on us. Milo, your scar's gonna end up. I was gonna say, it's gonna be me and Milo. The Rams at the Cauldron. Right. No, he's looking for me. Bring me Raynard Turnvale. Ygritte, get him. Raynard. Is it me again? It's about to be. No, it's very much me.
00:40:55
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actually cut to Raynard sitting waiting on your pizza and sipping your drink you all of a sudden hear it's not like a klaxon it's not like a but you hear like the faint sound of an alarm like having been triggered
00:41:12
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Hob, you open this door to like sneak it, poke your head in and with the despair you feel the floor shift slightly and your feet slip out from under you and you hear like a crashing sound behind you and you find yourself you stand up in a gap commercial like just a white void. This has happened before to me!
00:41:33
Speaker
Jeff. No, hello. Look, folks. I was in a gap cover. I was swing dancing with Dwight Yokem or something. What? That's a thing that happens. There was very much a Dwight Yokem gap cover. Oh, I was like, you swing dance with Dwight Yokem? And also, I love that Bakersfield sound. So yes, I've looked at Bakersfield. The alarm turns off after a second, Reynard. And you, the curtain opens and Lirial.
00:42:02
Speaker
Oh. We need to talk about your security detail. Alright. How well do you know him? How long has he been employed by you? Oh, I've known him for a few years. We were acquaintances and friends and I employed him. How long ago did he become an acquaintance of yours? Hello. How long have we known each other?
00:42:27
Speaker
years yeah we've been doing this for a while that was the premise five five years six years it feels like we've been doing this just this campaign for about 13 well it's regrettable that I need to inform you that it seems like he may have gained your friendship and then you employ with nefarious intent he was caught sneaking about and we have security measures to make sure that he wasn't able to see anything or get away but obviously
00:42:57
Speaker
this being a house establishment, the house will need to deal with it. I'm sorry, what exactly happened? There was a door clearly marked as an employee only area that he tried to sneak into and obviously we can't have, there's an establishment for House Fjallen, we can't have people sneaking about trying to gain secrets.
00:43:20
Speaker
It's no excuse, but the big brawny ones aren't the best at reading, but that's so unfortunate. I apologize. Indeed. You didn't hear that. I'm killing everyone in this movie. Obviously I can't imagine the dress that you're going under right now with this knowledge. We've taken care of your tab interest. Enjoy your drink, enjoy your food, and if you need any recommendations for security details.
00:43:45
Speaker
Feel free to ask and I'd be more than happy to get you some more reputable names. I don't know if this is a misunderstanding or not. He could be a villain, who knows? I would love to speak to him. Give me a charm check. He is a fiarlan, does that not get a boost or two? If it's house business, if the house is named after him. I've got Thor Yellow. The difficulty is going to be two red, one purple.
00:44:14
Speaker
with a black due to the despair from before, but sure, you can have a boost. I passed some boosts. Well that's right, there is, I think there is a boost out there. That's true, because Hobb didn't roll it on his check. And there was an upgrade out there, actually, so you can have a great upgrade. Upgrade, that's right. Good work, D.va. And then, hold on, don't I have a... You do have an Erokability if you'd like to spend two story points.
00:44:41
Speaker
Two story point, oh, that hurts. But I think you can do that after the roll, right? Yes, you can. Yeah, because this thing is you can change, you can ditch it, remove a die, right? You can remove a purple and a black. Yeah. Okay. After. Okay. Yeah. Okay. This is a good, this is a pretty good pool. It's a good pool. Yeah. Okay. Oh gosh. How fun. Those two go away. Those two go away. Well, it was nice knowing Raynard and Glob.
00:45:10
Speaker
I have four success two advantage one does that still count as a failure no so three success two advantage and one despair hold on but what is on the purple die threats they're both a threat the purple and the black so if you and what did you end up with in terms of advantage to advantage
00:45:32
Speaker
So if you want to end up with four advantage, you could use your heroic ability to remove those two die if you wanted to. Obviously it's not going to have a huge effect on whether or not you succeed. You have succeeded as the despair, so... Yeah. I don't know if it's going to help much in this situation. Okay, so you succeeded, two advantage, and a despair.
00:45:54
Speaker
she sorry i haven't been enjoying this session given the fact that you've known this person for so long it's reasonable that you should get to participate in figuring out why they would choose to do this and whether or not it was misunderstanding given
00:46:20
Speaker
Given the fact that you are recently returned to us, I think it would be best if we also brought your father in for the discussion as well, since he was presumably of the employ of your father and not you directly.
00:46:35
Speaker
Can't talk my way out of that one, huh? That's a despair, I'm assuming. Yeah. Cut two. Jeez. Am I just, I'm in a void? You're a prisoner. You've been captured, yeah. If there's anything I could be doing right now. Punching the wall. And I don't mean on the podcast because it's boring. I guess I'm just going through what I'm gonna say.
00:46:56
Speaker
Alright. Give me a pitch. What would you like Hob to try to do? I genuinely... Hob knows exactly what happened. Obviously. First thing Hob's going to say is this is a pretty hefty thing to do to a potential accident. Misunderstanding. And then he's gonna scream for a while and punch anything that's near if there is something near. But it sounds like I'm in a ceaseless void. So perhaps I won't be doing that.
00:47:26
Speaker
I mean, did you take the paladin talent to where you can cast a divine spell once per encounter? I could cast a divine spell once per encounter, yes. You could do something along those lines. Let me pull up my little cheat sheet and see what I can do. Could he go to the ethereal plane and come back into another location?
00:47:55
Speaker
What can divine spells do? I can... I can predict. That's interesting. Yeah? I predict things will work out okay. You know what?
00:48:10
Speaker
So it says I can ask a question about events that will unfold in the next 24 hours. Does that mean that I am... It is a divine spell. What am I asking? Do I have to be asking a person and get the right answer? Since... No, you use myself. It is precognition. Like you ask me a question about something that will happen in the next 24 hours and then I will give you an answer based on the results of your role.
00:48:33
Speaker
I suppose my question is, this is, that would be you and me talking. Does Hobb get to know the information? Yes. Because Hobb is the one casting the spell. Hobb wants to know what his trial is going to look like, basically. Okay. Who's gonna be there, what he's in trouble for, is it really just opening a door kind of thing? Yeah. So I think I will roll a...
00:48:54
Speaker
Okay, so average difficulty, I rolled the vine. I'll tell you what I didn't do was spin an exp on that. But this isn't so bad. Average too. That's not bad. Okay, so Hob is going to focus his mind on the gyms. Like the only color in his room. Because you were not allowed to take the gyms. The gyms stayed. Take the gyms! And knows he's in trouble, knows he's been caught doing a thing. Obviously there was a trap on the door and he's an idiot.
00:49:25
Speaker
So he is going to just petition the universe to learn what sort of trial he'll be facing. And that is a success with some advantage. Two success, one advantage. You have a brief moment of clarity where you clearly see yourself
00:49:48
Speaker
restrained magically in what looks to be a dark interrogation room of some kind, and the people that you see there are Lirial, Calvair, Reynard, and Eldrin.
00:50:05
Speaker
You see a person you've never seen before, but they are so hot. Yep, that's the guy. Snap back to my white boy. Found him. Cool. Great. Glad I get to meet him. All of them, except for Raynard, look very...
00:50:21
Speaker
Angry and agitated and I your question was specifically who was gonna be there, right? Yeah, what the trial is going to be like but with an emphasis on who's the assumption is You're a spy like that. They are spies. So they assume there are no accidents like yeah, and yeah, that's that's what you're looking at And your defense is Reynard
00:50:45
Speaker
Pop just hangs his head. Cut to. Too quick. I don't even know where the timeline... I mean, everything seems to be going okay right now, and so Aerith stops and gets her hair done. She gets it cut a little bit so it doesn't hang in her face so much. She has it done real short on the sides, like short enough that like the black
00:51:05
Speaker
roots of her hair show. Nice. Still blue on top and then goes home and takes her time getting dressed and she's in kind of punky green plaid pants and a black nice jacket. And then she spends a lot of time hiding weapons on herself. She straps the pistol onto the small of her back under the jacket. Give me a skull boogery check. Loads her dart launcher and that kind of stuff.
00:51:33
Speaker
What do you want? And it seems silly but the goggles give me two boosts on all cunning. Somehow the goggles help me. You look down at yourself and it highlights the best spot to hide it.
00:51:57
Speaker
I rolled a triumph. His hair looks really nice. Great. She's found all the best spots to hide things. Yeah, I've succeeded with a triumph. That's it. None of your weapons will ever be discovered. Not even by you? So yeah, you are really confident that... What weapons are you hiding? Aeris is taking the hand Fletcher that Renard didn't appreciate. She has a retractable blade in... No, she wouldn't be able to wear that.
00:52:27
Speaker
Can I take home that knife I stole at the last Gala? Yeah. Okay. Eris hides that in her boot. Okay. And then she has the dart launcher thing in her, it was built into the gauntlet and she has that loaded. Okay. That's it. Yeah. Cause Eris's main weapon is of course too bulky to be reasonably hidden. We have a triumph. Yeah. Gosh.
00:52:52
Speaker
I have a pitch. The wrong side of the story. You can spend it on their side of the story. It's so bold. I'm interested to hear your pitch.
00:53:00
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My pitch would be, given that he's a member of the House, he would have a certain level... Raynard would have a certain level of familiarity of the security systems in a place like Ebony Vale and could potentially, like... He would know how to get Hob out, potentially. Not that he... It's not like automatic, yeah, he gets them out, but Raynard knows if he wanted to try to bust Glob out, he could.
00:53:25
Speaker
I'm so sorry. Yeah, I don't think you could. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so angry, so that was a perfect call and response. So Eris has rolled a triumph on her check to hide weapons on herself, which is what we're working on spending here. With the triumph again? Yeah, I know. It's been a really great balance to your scene. Some sort of bizarre despair. Yeah. Some good things happen.
00:53:53
Speaker
My initial thought was going to be to say that no one at the Gallo recognizes Eris, but that seems likely anyway. No, I know. I realize I'd like... Is there anyone specifically you would like to not be at the Gallo? Really love to not run into Solomon Calloway. We're talking Gallo. It's like a moth to a flame.
00:54:20
Speaker
I do feel like I should give something to the other side of this story just in solidarity. Hey man, you play your game. It's just going up in flames. I'm just gonna let you know. I might die tonight. I'm a little worried about that. Everybody's not gonna help anything.
00:54:37
Speaker
I would like to put an upgrade out there on the other side of the table as they begin to try and have to deal with this nonsense that there's an upgrade for that side of the story. Okay, sure. Available. Target an upgrade for that side of things. Okay. When we want to use it. When you say it's okay.
00:54:57
Speaker
That would be my preference. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's fine. Okay. Yeah, okay, great. I'm not gonna say no to that. As you're getting ready, as you're putting all the weapons in, Olive walks through the door. Aeris is just pulling the jacket on over all the weapons that are strapped around. Oh, there's definitely like a stun grenade or something also. Sorry, forgot about that. I definitely have stun grenades. Olive looks... You look nice, and that's new outfit?
00:55:23
Speaker
Yes, Sona disagreed about the wearing the same thing again. But then, Milo came out in, like, the ugliest shirt you've ever seen, and that distracted her, and so I picked out my clothes. Oh, nice. Dude, well, looks good. And then I had time, so I got my hair done. Looks nice. Yeah. I'm gonna go get cleaned up and changed as well. And yeah, I'll be down in a bit. Okay, I'll be here. Milo, anything that you're doing special
00:55:52
Speaker
He's just getting ready. He goes back for the orange shirt. Is this the first time that Milo's been in his house alone? For an extended period of time? Yeah, it could. It's a lot quieter. Like, feel the lack of another person in the house. There's not any fresh baked goods laying out that he's used to seeing. Grown man, feed yourself, Milo. Yeah, so.
00:56:19
Speaker
Just enjoying the solitude with his thoughts as a spot of tea brewing. Again, just a really relaxed afternoon. Aaron's getting her hair done while I sit down sipping tea. Reading the stress club. Reading the daily news. Yeah, the part of the news that doesn't concern us. Just reading the sports section. Doing the crossword.
00:56:42
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. I would like to point out that I think I have said it previously but since probably I think even before the really bad stuffs happened that Milo makes sure like the houses has wards around it like alarm triggers and stuff. Yeah totally. Okay the time hits for you to head over to the cauldron so if you want to if you're not gonna do anything major you can do that.
00:57:09
Speaker
Yes, Milo is wary as he makes his way. As you reach highwall, Sana is also departing a cab.
00:57:19
Speaker
And she's like, you look nice. Thank you. And you look as fabulous as always. Thank you. She's wearing a dress that's sleeveless, like showing off her, her arms. And it's, it goes down to just above mid-calf. So still showing off a little bit of leg, but not anything. And she's just wearing like a deep green is the color that she's wearing to the cauldron. Yes.
00:57:46
Speaker
Really looking forward to a low-key, relaxing night. Yes, you know what? As am I.
00:57:54
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end of episode. I want to change what my triumph is and I'll talk to you about it between episodes. Okay, thank you all so much for listening. You've won a part of the conversation surrounding this episode. You can head on over to our Discord, the link to which you can find all of our socials, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok. I was looking at Jeff and Trevor at the table, everyone, sorry. We also have a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Geek Pantheon. If you want to watch any tabletop RPG related videos, I do them over there. Philip. We have a
00:58:21
Speaker
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00:58:52
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