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Cloud Walking Ep 2
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The Crew begins to plant political seeds and things get interesting.
Content Warning: May contain explicit language, triggering descriptions, and Fantasy Violence.
Featuring Kent Rawlings, Dean Balter, Zach Stubbs, and Alexander Crutchfield
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Introduction and Content Warning
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This podcast contains explicit language, alcohol references, and fantasy violence descriptions. Viewer discretion is advised.
Episode and Host Introduction
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And then now he's dead. It's perfect because I have no context. He's not alcoholic, all right. Hello and welcome to Ursarite Clawwalking.
Character Introductions
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Today I am joined by Kent Rawlings.
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Hello everyone, Kent Rawlings. I'm playing Rollin' Blacksteel for this, and yeah, it's been a good time so far. I am also joined by Dean Balter. Hey everyone, my name is Dean Balter. I play Torbenese, a high elf bard, and he is super excited to ah to get into some politics today. And I'm joined by Zach Stubbs.
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And I'm Zach, I play Enzio, a rogue warlock human. Definitely excited to see what happens here.
Recap of Political Intrigue
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Last time on Ursula Cloudwalking, we started off the chancellor is dead. The senator goes to a meeting where he we get a little glimpse into how some of the political stuff works around here. Enzio goes to the political power, which is a restaurant and hotel right outside the capital to do some snooping.
Enzio's Investigation
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ah There's a weird glance shared between him and the bookkeeper, who is the most knowledgeable person on the constitution.
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Then the whole party reunites there. They have some little interactions with each other, ordering drinks, things like that, ah before Enzio goes outside. He talks to Eren. We find out that Eren is the one who poisoned the Chancellor for Enzio, and he gives them back a bottle of poison.
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And Enzio tells Aaron to run away. So Aaron is running, he gets on a train leaving the cloud.
Roland's Conversation with Mayek
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While Enzio's coming back in, Roland goes over to talk to a lobbyist who is actually very sad about the Chancellor passing, which is kind of weird in this ah particular setting.
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We're just gonna jump straight into it with Roland going over to talk to Mayek So Roland is carrying his whiskey and coke and he's gonna walk up and sit down. He's just gonna say ah so what a wonderful day I I don't know if
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i I don't know if I'd call it wonderful. mean no i just I meant the sun outside. It's bright, shining, it's wonderful. and Kind of.
Business and Political Dynamics
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um You look familiar. I'm sorry. Do I know you? um I'm Roland Blacksteel. Torbenese's bodyguard. Oh, right. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah.
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actually the meeting I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. I just didn't I didn't catch your name. Oh, ah my name is Mac. I am a lobbyist for our locks nutrition. We you you don't really see our product up here. we We make this product called goop. That's like this little package that you can ah put a bunch of like nutrition and all kind of tastes like chalk, but ah it sells well on the surface and the under.
00:03:49
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Oh, OK, so is that you you from the surface? No, no, I'm I'm from the rise. Oh, yeah, go rise. Yeah, ah the company is in the rise and we that we export down, whereas most companies in the rise export up. So we're we're a little bit less known up here, but. Got to got to get our paws in where we can. Yeah, yeah. i fear you So ah what do you think happened?
Suspicions and Insights
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Um, I don't know. hey I was actually talking to him two days ago and I didn't seem to be anything wrong with him. It's interesting. Why the chancellor was talking to all of just a random lobbyist? Um, yeah, it oh shows you what I know. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I mean, I,
00:04:51
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I don't know about the other lobbyists, but I always try to talk as high as I can, you know, skip the secretaries and things like that. ah Fair enough. I mean, did, did you know him pretty well? Like, seemed like a nice guy. Yeah, he, I think he also, he also seemed like a interesting person from when I talked to him.
00:05:21
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what What do you mean? like How interesting. I didn't know him very well, so. He seemed very enthusiastic about things. I'm not quite sure if I didn't find them important, but like he was very particular on like how his desk was and things like that. Very organized.
00:05:48
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But also, he was organizing things that didn't make sense. Like what? Like, does it really matter if your pencil holder is slightly ajar? Oh, so you mean like he was like obsessive compulsive? I guess so. Yeah, because that's a good way to describe it. ah Are you thirsty?
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Um, I've, I've had quite a few already, uh, Roland at this time, I am going to go ahead and let you know that because of your passive insight being a 27 ever since this guy accidentally said that he was talking to the Senator, everything else has been kind of like half truths. Like he's backpedaling. Yeah, I could, I could tell you. Yeah. Okay.
00:06:41
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Well, ah you seem... I'm not gonna lie, I saw you from over there, you seem a little upset. and I'm not too great at this this whole talking thing, but I just wanted to come check on you. You know, you're a rise man yourself, go rise. And I just wanted to make sure you're doing alright. Yeah, yeah, I'm doing fine. as a Does Nomayak?
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Uh, yeah. OK, how well would he would he know Mayak? Only in a professional setting. you You wouldn't know super like you don't go to his office. He comes to yours. So any glimpses of personality or just through him trying to talk you into adding something into a law or you know ah distributing money from.
00:07:38
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wherever, you know, trying to get things like that. I think last time you talked to them, you guys were trying to get goop to be a interplanetary product instead of just exporting down, trying to get some of that up and putting it onto ships to go to other places that are like mining colonies and could use the goop.
Magical Interrogation
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Alright, I think Torbenese has been walking around this entire time talking to different people, just trying to bre spread some rumors and stuff, but he's going to see ah Roland talking to Mayak, and he's just going to walk over and and look over at Roland and say, oh There you are. i haven't I haven't seen you a little little bit. I was catching up with some friends. Hey, how you doing, Mayak? You're nutrition nutrition. Yeah, that's right. No, you coop. Okay. how was ah How's the business going?
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um I haven't really got to check in, like go down and actually sit in and on any of the meetings in a little bit. But i I would assume they're going well. People people have to eat something.
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No. Roland at this time is going to scoot closer to Mick and he's going to kind of put his arm around him and he's going to pull him in and he's going to say, I know you no more.
00:09:14
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No know more about what? So we were conversating and You said, since you saw the Chancellor two days ago, and then after that, you started getting a little wishy-washy, and then he's gonna, Roland's gonna lean over to his ear. Tell me everything you know. Hey, while he does that, can I help him out and cast Friends? I can go.
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ah Yeah, you can you can cast Friends. All right, so I'm going to cast Friends, and ah so I can... but so Is there a DC for it? It says it needs to pass a wisdom saving throw, but I don't see for some reason. It'll be your save DC. Yeah. I'm actually not sure where. I think if you click on spells, it'll show it.
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It should be at the top of your spells. So for you, your spell save DC is 20. Yeah. ah He got 18. Ooh, those close. ah Yeah, he is now under friends.
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Mm-hmm. What was the question that you asked one more time, Roland? Just said, tell me everything you know. It wasn't a question. I know that he has been talking to a lot of the lobbyists because they're one of the lobbyists informed him about some
00:11:08
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shenanigans happening in the under and he's trying to figure out if it's just that one corporation that is failing or if it's all of us um and yeah i'm
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I, I, after I talked to him that time, <unk> I've been going back and giving him updates on what's happening in the rise.
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Interesting.
Goop Discussions and Political Plans
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And then, uh, I'm going to see like some people kind of passing by and I'm going to I'm going to kind of just, uh, you know, take my arm off and be like, so, uh, what, uh, what kind of stuff, uh, do you think nutrition needs to, you know, get, get better, you know, to export more goods and bring more revenue to the rise, trying to play off this, uh, this situation. Um, I think it would help if it didn't all taste taste like chalk. i i I hear that, you know, it's.
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People kind of like to chalk, though. I'm sure you can fix the flavor at some point. I think that you have a great business venture, though. And I think if you guys support the rise, as you say you do, you know a support for the rise is a support for Torbenese. So just keep that in mind in the next coming up elections. Go rise. Torbenese is going to walk away before her friends end. Would you like to try some goop?
00:12:48
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No, all right. Thank you, though. You already walked away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, not no, i I really enjoy whiskey and coke. Oh, OK. I appreciate it, though. Go rise. And he's going to turn and just kind of start like talking to people that were nearby. like You guys kind of isolated him a little bit, but like there was that group that he was with.
00:13:16
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um and And he's just going to go back to talking to them. And then after like another 30 seconds, you just see his head kind of like you know trying to figure out a little bit ah like what's going on.
Enzio's Secretive Actions
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um ah
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Enzio, what are you doing? So I was talking to the bookkeeper. He was he told me yeah that. Nobody's going to follow the Constitution and it's going to fall into anarchy.
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um Do I gather that? This guy is actually going to be able to. It was trying to tell me something when he walked in and saw me and looks weird. Or if he's just a weird old dude.
00:14:12
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Mm. It was more like he was trying to process something, OK? I gotcha, so I'll probably after talking to him, I'll probably just give ah either probably both of them a heads up using the awakened mind. I'll just communicate in their heads and just tell them that I'll meet him back at the office and then I might go. OK.
00:14:41
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Uh, cool. Torbenese, Roland. Um. Yeah, no, I'm pretty much just hanging out, just drinking whiskey and staying close to Torbenese as he mingles. I guess I should clarify. I'm not going actually straight back to the office. I'm going to go. I've got that gaze of two minds so I can see where Aaron is going and I'm going to go catch up to him. Alright, he's currently at the train station.
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OK. The one that goes down to the rise. It goes down to the rise. OK. I would like to get on the train, but not. In view of him. o Is that you're just going to hang out on the train and follow him down? No, once we get off the train, I'm going to do the same thing and just pop into his head and I'm going to start giving him directions to.
00:15:41
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follow basically like turn left here, go up, turn right. And I'm going to lead him basically away from other people. I'm going to tell him, I'm going to try to find a secluded area where we can talk sick. Uh, Torbenese, what were you doing? So how, how late in the day is there right now? Um,
00:16:06
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Or is it like you are? So we I know we we started off wouldn't like when I was in the office and then we went over to to the meeting. How long did that take? I guess are we kind of like in the middle of the day or like towards the end of the day? ah So you guys have like a flex schedule thing going on because it is always daylight here. Yeah, that's true. But it's like, I guess waking hours. Like a week. I mean, it's kind of like.
00:16:35
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When you're when you want to go to sleep, you go to sleep when you're awake, you like you do stuff. OK, how long has it been then? I guess then since we woke up.
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that um Six hours. OK, all right, cool.
Corruption and Support Strategies
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Yeah, I want to I want to pull Torbenese aside um and then I'm going to I just want to a a Torbenese so.
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That conversation with Merrick was kind of interesting. um I don't know if you heard what he whispered to me, but he was talking about the um some of the lobbyists talking to the old chancellor a lot about some sort of shenanigans going on in the rise. Do you think that ah think that there could be some undercover, you know, weird stuff going on? I think that could be a possibility. maybe Maybe a big good idea if we try to speak to some lobbyists that aren't here, try to get a little bit more of a feel for the lay of the land. Plus, you know we got ah we got to make sure that we keep spreading the good word. Yeah. i so It's interesting. Well, yeah, of course, go rise.
00:17:51
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and But it's just interesting that you know the lobby started talking to the lobbyists more about this like corrupt whatever. And then now he's dead. So I feel like we should ah should maybe look a little bit into this and see what might actually be going on. Hell, it could be even going on in the rise. We don't know.
00:18:21
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so Do we know if there's any more lobbyists like not in this area now, but like, you know, a central hub for them so we can kind of go talk to them and try to see if we can see if they know any more information and then also like for me to kind of like talk to them and see if I can get them in their companies behind my cause. So normally they would be hanging out in and like the Senate building. um by But. Would that being? Or well, yeah, like that's kind of like those three buildings are a little bit more locked down right now. ah Anyone who's not here is probably in the rise tower.
00:19:13
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Like where you normally work. Torbenese, I have an idea. maybe we can put posters up all around the city of an open door where people can come talk about their problems and we can, you know, we can help them and listen to them, be the ear for them as as we help correct these problems for them. And that could potentially bring lobbyists to us. You know, Roland, that is a great idea. We'll have
00:19:46
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Uh, Aaron do that. We can, we can contact him and, and have him set up a bunch of posters everywhere. Uh, also making sure that the logo of the rise is above it and, you know, tell the, tell the people to cast their votes when the time comes. Yes. I love propaganda. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Not don't, you don't say that he's going to get really quiet for a second. We don't call it propaganda, not in front of other people.
00:20:14
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We, this day we're spreading the word. We should make the rise great again. Go rise, huh? I hate that you guys made who a cannon. Yo, he said it, not me. You said it first. No, you said it first. I barely, it came out as, what you still said it. You didn't say it though, man. Go rise, huh?
00:20:46
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Idiots. Hey, that's my character. Okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to send a, ah a message over my wristwatch to, uh, to Aaron and just let him know, uh, that we want him to start putting up posters for, uh, for the rise. And then also if you have any, I guess, if you have anything that you want to complain about, come talk to Aaron.
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so you're not even going to talk to him yourself. No, Aaron, and then I'm going to put underneath and I'm going to say, Aaron, let me know if there's anything important.
Enzio's Assassination and Aftermath
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he's going to He's going to check that when he's on the ah on the train. So, Enzio, you're going to see him. He like looks at his and goes, just smacks it.
00:21:44
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Kind of like goes back to stressing out about, you know, his life. Perfect, because I have no context.
00:21:54
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And. Yeah, he's he's going to follow your instructions. You're going to lead him to kind of a little bit more secluded area. um Yeah, so what is the rise look like? Like are we indoors, even though like is it the most of the area is indoors?
00:22:14
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ah So there's a lot of like walkways like think like a warehouse like catwalks that are connecting basically upside down skyscrapers. And so there's no roads here.
00:22:31
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um There are like hovercraft and things. Most of them are taxis. ah You guys probably own some, but you would have to go to wherever you guys store them at.
00:22:43
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um And but for the most part, like there's like walkways that cut between the skyscrapers like alleyways also like sidewalks. um But but those are fairly exposed. Yeah, except for like the ones that cut between two close together. Buildings. I guess I would. Basically like even just a secluded bathroom would be perfectly fine like I would be trying to just get him.
00:23:14
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Out of view where we can talk because like I'm not not walking with him. I'm trailing behind him and giving him instructions. Yeah, there's definitely like there's definitely public restrooms and things like that that you could go into and just lock the door. OK. And then, yeah, so. As soon as he goes in, say. Make sure it's empty. It's empty. It's empty. there Wait for me in there.
00:23:47
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And I'm going to go in.
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um
00:23:54
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Actually. Yeah, I think I'm going to. Yeah, I'm just going to walk in to talk to him. Hey. Real quick, just so you're aware, based off of your history with the poison, if he got a little bit on him,
00:24:17
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Uh, he has probably like three hours left. OK. Because it wasn't enough for like the instant. Kind of thing, but yeah, he's he's getting close and it it can. Get you through skin contact. OK. That's the most common way to like. To do it is like. You know, just.
00:24:45
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Have it like on your jacket and rub up against someone. This is very much like an assassin's poison. It's pretty fucked up. Yeah.
00:24:58
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So I'm going to walk in and just be like, hey, start start cleaning yourself off. You need to get that off of your skin. ah He's just going to like start vigorously like washing his hands, then like his arms.
00:25:13
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like trying to get like all of the exposed skin that he can. um And he he's kind of like keep looking at you in like the bathroom mirror like he's waiting for you to keep talking kind of thing. One of the times when he looks down, I'm just going to cast hold person on him. So that's going to be DC 21.
00:25:44
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I think it's a wisdom save, but let me double check first. Yeah, wisdom save. DC 21. 21. He fells. And then as a bonus action, I'm just going to pop out my rapier. um What it looks like is basically like a deep jet black.
00:26:12
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just very plain, nothing to it, but just they almost vanta black rapier with just the slightest purple sheen and outline surrounding all the edges and the hilt. And that's a bonus action. I guess he would have then a turn to save, or I guess we should actually, it would have to be initiative.
00:26:41
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After rolling, I realized that there's actually no way for him to get that. Gotcha. OK. Then I'm going to step up behind him as he's paralyzed there, trying to wash his hands and just jab the rapier directly underneath the that little soft spot in your skull and just Just quick in out. As fast as possible, just blink of an eye. Just one two. Um, let's see I can. So that is.
00:27:29
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That's going to be a. 22 to hit. Yeah, 22 to hit. OK, well, so he's paralyzed, so. Yeah, so that makes it an auto critical. Which basically, yeah, yeah, so I'm going to dump a. Eldritch smite into this as well. Which is 4th level. ah Let me make sure I get this right. So 4th level is 1d8 plus 4d8, so 5d8 for the Eldritch smite.
00:28:06
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And 1d8 for the rapier is 68. And then 66 for my sneak attack. Doubled is 12 and 12. Let's do that here. All right. I think he's dead. Yeah, I mean, he's been poisoned for the last few hours, so. Yeah, but why would I skip the opportunity to to hit him with it.
00:28:41
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<unk>s like i could This could be a really clean kill, or I could just basically blow his brains out the front of his head with a knife. yeah Well, so the interesting aspect of this is because it's my packed weapon, this is psychic damage. So with this, it doesn't actually make any wound on his head. It just slides in there and is going just straight for the brain and only the brain. Just precision in the highest form. I rolled an 87 on damage. Actually, sorry, I need to add 8. I need to add 8 to that. So I rolled a 95 for damage. ah Yeah, ah you tripled his current hit point value. Well, that is unfortunate. So he's in death saves, right? Yeah. yeah
00:29:30
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Yes, I can I can finish off his death saves if need be. Oh, no, no, no, there are not. So just clinical another day at the office going straight to work, taking the that bottle. I don't so it I assumed that he had like poisoned a drink of the Chancellor. It's just you just get it on you. Is that how he poisoned him?
00:29:58
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he like had a jacket on that he like applied with like obviously like with a glove to like the outside and when the chancellor was entering the building he just brushed against him was like a messenger boy in the capital and was running around and then bumped into him okay uh and then about 15 minutes later he would have died okay I'm going to carefully, because I know how dangerous the substance is, just pour it on his face and just leave him there. ri And then I'm going to sneak back to ah i'm go to sneak back to somewhere where I could be seen. And then I'm going to go to a corporation that I know
00:30:52
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exist within the rise that I'm familiar with and go have a meeting with somebody that I know and can talk to you about making sure that they support Torbenese. Okay. Then we're going to send you to Jagex Manufacturing. So they... Manufacturing.
00:31:17
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Yeah, Jagex Manufacturing does a lot of like the transportation stuff. So the interplanetary travel, the vehicles that operate as um like taxis and things here as well as like probably your own vehicles. um It's either like ah you guys have several vehicles that just kind of belong to ah the senator and all of them are either Jagex Manufacturing or Atticus. So ah you know that this is like one of the two big players in like transportation. And so you're going to dip into there.
Torbenese's Election Strategies
00:32:04
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Yeah, 100%. But before I do that, I'm going to sneak to somewhere where I would be coming from if I were just coming straight from the cloud.
00:32:15
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and then I'm going to make myself known and okay traverse. Cool. I don't want to be seen coming from where I just deleted Aaron. Will you give me a solid and throw down a stealth check?
00:32:37
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I was thinking either stealth or deception. um It's up to you. So if it's stealth, it's like your ability to like avoid cameras and things like that. Deception is like how well you just fit in after you get done. I do not want to be seen and I just got a 27 on that one. OK, that's going to succeed then. um Yeah, you're going to just appear and like. You know.
00:33:05
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You basically do that cool little movie trick where you just like dip into a cab and then walk out the other door like you would just yeah in the cab. um And just fall into a crowd and walk into Jagex. Jumping back. Roland.
00:33:25
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ah
00:33:28
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Turinese to Torbenese. That's your that's your ship name.
00:33:35
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i Yeah, that's a rough name for me. ah to to or turny torah for but Torbenice, what are you two doing? So whenever ah after we sent after I sent that text message out, I was going to go see if we can try to go meet up with ah some of like the higher up people um that I would I would know like maybe some companies or like people I could like lobby with to try to get them on my side for the upcoming election okay is there any type of business or anything like that that you're aiming for yeah I was gonna see if I can try to talk to like whoever kind of runs like the
00:34:35
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the, like the wristbands and stuff. I'm trying to think like, like i' almost like, you know, how like Verizon runs the telephone business or runs like telephone business stuff. And then there's like AT and&T and stuff like that. I'm assuming there's one for the wristband stuff, right? Like, uh, yeah. Like whoever provides service. I want to try to go talk to that, that guy. Oh, uh, gamer on.
00:35:05
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are these ah are these Are these wristwatches pretty much universal, like everyone has one? Oh, yeah, every everywhere. Gotcha. Including the under and surface and rise, or just everywhere in the cloud? Oh, no, everywhere. So I'm going to i'm going start making my way over to Dameron. I'm just hop skipping along behind them. Hey, Roland, follow me.
00:35:36
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Torbenese, I told you this like 50 times. You don't have to tell me to follow you. I still still got to give reminders just in case. Whatever.
00:35:51
Speaker
So how how far is it from ah us to Dameron? Dameron is the lobbyist? Yeah, that's what I'm saying like how far is it from like us to where he would be at like his I guess office building So his office building Is not really ig like doesn't really exist you guys just kind of poke your head in on the 14th floor, which is like a lounge um Of your building and and you're gonna see him in there All right, so I'm ah
00:36:29
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Torbini is going to start walking over to Dameron and have a big smile on his face and say, Dameron, good buddy, how how are you doing today? and
00:36:42
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ah You know, just another day. Can't drink at my normal spot, so I decided to come here and um see what new alcohols are coming from the rise. What's ah what's wrong with your normal spot?
00:36:59
Speaker
It's in the Senate Tower. ah that could That could be as a little unfortunate. But ah I do say I have a very, very good old bottle of mead back in my office that I'll send your way at some point. I think you'd enjoy it. Okay. ah Well, I'm free now.
00:37:24
Speaker
Well, you'd like we can we can go to my office. I've got a got a couple things of meat and give you one of the bottles. I've got a few whiskeys that I think you might enjoy. From i greatly appreciate that, because the seats here aren't as comfortable as they are in the Senate. Oh, you know, we have the most comfortable seats. And he stands up. This is like a humanoid, like very large dude, ah a bit overweight, just, you know,
00:37:54
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Uh, then he's he's wearing like a blazer with like a button up shirt, but he's got on like more.
00:38:07
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Like slacks that don't match the blazer. um Probably just, you know. The style that he's chosen or what he could get his hands on and he's going to ah walk with you two to towards the elevator.
00:38:26
Speaker
All right, so I think during the during the journey, I'm going to try to make some small talk with him, ask him about you know himself, see how the business is going, that kind of stuff.
00:38:42
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um so He's going to talk to you about crew infrastructure.
00:38:50
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um Which is communication platform. It's not actually native to Ursa Red. um But it's been brought here. This is like their local office. um And he's just kind of talking about like ah data infrastructure role things that they're trying to do. um And he's like.
00:39:16
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Asking if you've seen ah Landon um who works for like a biotech company. um They make artificial limbs and things like that. Apparently ah the company hasn't. Or has reached their like maximum data.
00:39:38
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every month for like the last month or a couple months and so he's like trying to go and talk to that lobbyist and see if maybe they can figure out a way to get them some higher numbers because that's going to help that company you know get what they want done and it helps crew infrastructure. So he he's kind of just like talking to you about you know just basically like the politics of the corporations that he works, or that he works with. Well, Demeron, I think that's it's a great business strategy that you have. And I think I'll ah i'll try to take a take a stroll over and talk to Landon next. But I wanted to ah wanted to talk to you about something once we get to the office. Make sure, you know, it's just just you and I. and
00:40:29
Speaker
um And I guess most of the rest of the ways, we kind of like chit-chat until we get to the office. Okay. Yeah. Uh, and you remember like the basic arrangement of the office?
00:40:44
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I've got my my desk um and then behind it, I'm also going to have some bottles like underneath the desk and kind not underneath the desk. He's not an alcoholic. All right. But he's got he's got some special bottles in the drawer. um And then he's got some decorative bottles that are up on the bookshelf that he's got.
00:41:03
Speaker
and he'll pull out ah i'll pull out two bottles. He's gonna pull out one bottle of really fancy looking mead and then another bottle of ah of like a brown liquid. So it's probably some type of bourbon or or whiskey. And he's gonna ask, you know, what's what's your poison?
00:41:23
Speaker
ah Go for the the dark liquor. Good choice. Good choice. I'll pull out two glasses put them down Pour them kind of slowly and then he'll take the bottle of meat and hand it over to him and say, you know Just here's a token of my gratitude for you coming and talking to me at the office today You can just take this with you. It's a pretty pretty expensive bottle um Q he he kind of like ah Because he has like a little factual that he like carries around with him He's just gonna slide it in there and you hear it clink up against like Like not like a full bottle, but like several little shooters That are just kind of in there because this guy is an alcoholic and so he like puts it in there ah He's good nice he's gonna ah he's gonna look over and and say so You and I have
00:42:22
Speaker
been on good standing, correct? Um, yeah. I mean, you're my representative. And how, how badly would you want to bring your business up? How, how would you like to expand? Um,
00:42:46
Speaker
not sure. I, I, I don't quite understand what you're trying to say, Torbenice. Well, you you own the community innovation communication devices that everyone uses every day. every Every day they use it for communicating with their friends, family, and they always has it always have it on them. So how hard would it be for you to send
00:43:20
Speaker
mass update messages that are for the cause it could be done and to what degree like to everyone in the cloud to everyone in the rise or just and everywhere look if i become the next chancellor i can make the rise great again i can make Ursa read great again, and I can make you even greater. We just need a way for everyone to see my name. Every time they open up their communication device, every time they've sent a message to their friends, their grandparents, their parents, they see my name. So
00:44:21
Speaker
for the election, that might be kind of hard to push by my bosses, ah the people who own the company or the the branch in the rise. um But what if we made it a public service announcement where you say who you are,
00:44:51
Speaker
you say something about general safety. you know um don't If you have a heart attack while you're working out, stop working out. um if you know Something along those lines, just like, oh, yeah, this is for your safety. And then at the end, you just vote for me for Chancellor. and then you know Because then we can pitch that as, oh, we want to show that the company cares about the people who use our product. And then we just sneak in the little election thing. What do you think about that? I like this. I like this. How how many of these can we do? Mm hmm. Roland comes over and sits down in the in the seat next to next to dan Damrick. Dameron. He comes and sits down next to Dameron. Well, Torbenism, I don't mean to interrupt, even though I'm interrupting.
00:45:48
Speaker
But maybe this PSA announcement could be wonderful for a rally. Maybe we can get a mass message out and we can hold a rally where you can speak your message to the people. We can talk about how the cloud feels as if they are entitled to the chancellor's seat.
00:46:16
Speaker
and how they feel as if no other branch or a layer of Ursa red should be chancellor. We can slander the under, especially if we find more about this corruption possibility going on in the under. we Well, maybe maybe not the under. we the and yeah okay yeah yeah you Maybe not the under. the clo I mean, the under can't even vote. yeah Okay, yeah, don't even worry about the under. Like I said, didn't mean to interrupt, but we have a we have a chance to use this platform to get our message out, to get ah people here or wherever we decide to hold a rally, and then we can speak directly to them.
00:47:10
Speaker
i I like where your head's at, Roland. All right, Damaron, this is what I'm thinking. Send out a few mass safety messages at the end. Explain that Torbenese is here for them, for their welfare, and After a few of these messages, the last one I want you to put out is that there will be a safety convention that will be held outside of the Senate.
00:48:02
Speaker
You're only going to get people from the cloud because most people from the rise aren't allowed up here.
00:48:09
Speaker
We can do it at the rise, Torbenese. You're correct. i think I think that would be a better spot. I think I've been in the cloud for too long. Fair enough.
00:48:21
Speaker
um I will go talk to my boss. um It should take just a couple hours for me to get a meeting with him. but He's going to demand something for this. I don't know what. If you'd like to make an offer ahead of time, you can. Or I can go and talk to him and then I will message you with what he would like in return. Tell him. Because we can't guarantee that you are the next chancellor. We can help and we can both benefit if you do.
00:49:01
Speaker
But right now you're the one benefiting and there's not a lot in it for us. So just expect me to message back with some kind of um demands too strong a word. Let's call it a mandatory request.
00:49:17
Speaker
lead Let your boss know that as a sign ah as a sign of good faith, I would like him to meet me at a location of his choosing and we can discuss this further.
00:49:30
Speaker
And while you're at it, and he's going to walk over and grab it like another really fancy looking bottle, give this a this to your boss as well. OK. Will do. Well, it's been nice meeting with you guys. And he stands up. He looks at you like he was going to shake your hand. He's like, bodyguard. And then he walks over and he short shakes Torbenese's hand. Roland just keeps his hand out.
00:50:03
Speaker
He he walks out of the room. He's gonna go. He's gonna get on the elevator probably going back to the bar But he may you never know he may go to the train station ah We're gonna jump over to Inzio Inzio We can talk about what's going on at Jagex or if you're just going in just shaking hands talking to people like Uh, what's your goal
Conclusion and Promotions
00:50:30
Speaker
there? Is it just to blend in and kind of like make face that you're here for a reason or is it? Are you actually trying to accomplish? Well, my I'm also trying to accomplish. I want to see. Um. If they'll join the cause for Torbenese's ascension. So kind of where you guys like after talking to him for a little bit what? They are 100% down to
00:50:59
Speaker
join the cause um but Torbenese's vehicles are both manufacturers like in order for just to just show like a sign of support they would want Torbenese to switch to them full 100% yes I'm I'm looking to establish some sponsorships on this campaign ah ah yeah So yeah, that that's that's like their their opening thing is like hey we can. We can start supplying like transportation for him to go on tour. And like talk to everyone, but we need to know that. He's dealing with us and not Atticus. You know, kind of like a. We we need a sign of good faith from him and then we will. Just. Once that's done like.
00:51:54
Speaker
he will not walk anywhere. He will, we will do everything we can, we'll finance stuff, we'll, you know, they're very, they're much more willing because they are actually like a local RISE company. Whereas Damaron is like, This is a branch of the big company from a different planet. So here they're like, oh yeah, this is us. like we really We really want to be in on this, but we need to know that he's with us, not with the other guys. You have yourself the easiest deal ever. We're going to make this official. We'll get it all drafted up in writing, and I'll be very much in contact with you in the future. Sounds good. Sounds good.
00:52:43
Speaker
ah are What are you what are you doing next? ah Next I'm gonna go I'm just gonna message them like hey headed back to the office Jagex locked in I'm messaging Torbenese Roland's not in on the group text. Just to but ah He'll just match the whole message you back ah and say ah
00:53:12
Speaker
How do I say this? Not being army. What's another way of saying Roger? yeah Okay. Sounds good. Yeah, it sounds good. God damn it, dude. He's going to message back saying, sounds good.
00:53:28
Speaker
I like how the brain literally can't get around that one. It's not like, yeah, you have to say it. This is what you say right here. You have to say, I can't get around this podcast that's still left in the army and can't figure out how to say Roger in a different way.
00:53:45
Speaker
that ah I'm going to say, sounds good. Um, let's, uh, let's meet up and and regroup.
00:54:01
Speaker
and So I'm going to head back there. I'm going to immediately suggest we like just go sit down and eat and talk.
00:54:09
Speaker
There are restaurants like in your guys's building and then there's also the political power. I mean, if you really wanted to, I guess you could go to one of the other executive buildings and get food there. What's the most like fancy? Yeah, like the fanciest place. They want to be seen.
00:54:28
Speaker
Yeah, like where people people who are like all the people that are there. Yeah, like all. We go to the Senate, which is all closed right now. it It'll open and probably probably next game, it'll open. But for today's game, it's still closed. Where is the alternate?
00:54:49
Speaker
That's unfortunately really the the big options. There's not a single nice restaurant outside of the Senate building. Well, everybody has their own nice restaurant. So you guys have your own nice restaurant in the rise building. We would only be seen by rise people there. Right. So where people go to show off is at the Senate building. um But for like, yeah, for today, like there's not a lot of options there just because of the security and stuff like that. Does the under have a decent restaurant in their building? The under? Yeah.
00:55:28
Speaker
Pretty decent. Yeah, I mean it's not as good as what you guys have. But I'm going to compare to what the under like was it Chuck or Xander that it was Xander, right? The one from the the Chancellor from the surface. Yes, Sanders is it is. Yeah, but he made the the wink deal. With him of trying to get his support. I believe so, yeah, let's go there.
00:55:57
Speaker
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00:56:30
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