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C1 Ep. 78 The Brelish Job Chapter Eleven
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This week on Eberron Renewed the party comes face to face with the image of an old rival, but what is actually going on? Who can be trusted? And will they make it out this time?
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Introduction and Acknowledgements
00:00:01
Speaker
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Podcast and Episode Recap
00:00:50
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric.
00:00:57
Speaker
And I'm Philip. And I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? We made it back to the party. We did. And Beric and Three, the war-forged paladin bodyguard of King Borano, had a conversation. In which I explained to him that he wasn't currently bodyguarding the King Beric.
00:01:21
Speaker
You did a good job. It was a solid explanation.
Chaos Unleashed
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Speaker
And then, um, as I was getting ready to go over and talk with, um, Strint and Merrick's De Caneth, a giant portal opened up and a lich stepped out because why not? Because no one wants to hear you have a conversation. You suck. And I just flushed a 20 down the toilet.
00:01:53
Speaker
Yes, so Six shadows and a lich exited the the portal he had a and the bartender says Bartender says that's gonna always be funny guys. Don't worry about it Okay, and the
00:02:22
Speaker
Chaos ensues, the shadows begin attacking. So, I need initiative from everybody. So they just start attacking? Okay. Everyone give me insight checks real quick before you do initiative. Okay, so insight checks from everybody real quick. Barak has a 16. 16? I also have a 16.
00:02:51
Speaker
Okay. Dex and Beric, you notice while the shadows kind of stood there for a second and then took off to go start terrorizing people, the Lich has not moved. The Lich seems to be observing what's going on. Looking about. So, initiative. Twenty-eight. Twenty-two for Beric. And it's nineteen for Drakir.
00:03:20
Speaker
Okay, Dex, you are up first.
Battle Strategies and Attacks
00:03:23
Speaker
Okay, so the six shadows are spread out. They've all kind of gone different directions attacking different things, right? Yeah.
00:03:31
Speaker
Nearest one to me? Um... There's one running in your general direction towards, uh, Merix and Strength. Okay, I'm gonna cut it off. Okay. And I'm going to use one of my three per day radiant damages. And I'm going to rib and weave it up the butt.
00:03:53
Speaker
No, why not? 14. I mean, shadows are pretty low level. Yeah, low level unarmored enemies. Yes, you hit. Okay, so this is all radiant damage I'm about to roll. Hey, hey, hey, good start. 13.
00:04:23
Speaker
That's 30 points of radiant damage on one shadow. I feel like, wow, I heard it. So you spin around with the flourish and radiant energy just flows down the ribbon weave as you extend it and backhand swing through this shadow that just dissipates in a moment, exploding in radiant light. And right after you make that noise, everybody in the room hears in a booming voice, there he is, kill him.
00:04:51
Speaker
and you see the lich pointing at you. That makes sense. And all of the shadows stop and turn. Um, Beric, it's your turn. I would like to use my once per day casting of a moonbeam. Okay. And drop moonbeam on the lich. Okay. Needs to make a constitution saving throw. And if he's a shape changer, makes it at disadvantage.
00:05:24
Speaker
With a DC of 17. And it's what saving throw? I'm sorry. Constitution. 18. He rolled a... Disadvantage? He rolled a 15 and an 18 naturally. So... Well... Anyway, he's still going to take the question.
00:05:59
Speaker
He is going to take
00:06:11
Speaker
He's going to take 8 radiant damage, because he takes half, and I'm going to make him vulnerable to radiant damage. As a bonus action, I will place my Hexblade's curse on him. Okay, so you see a rune from your... a rune that was previously on the Sword of Erebus glow brightly on the cheek of the Lich and it...
00:06:35
Speaker
Lets out a howl. It is now Drakir's turn. What's going on around me up on the balcony here? What kind of chaos is up here? I don't know how many people were up here with me. Thank you for that reminder, hold on.
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um give me a perception check this won't count as your action but 16 16 you see uh general chaos people running down the stairs some people running back into the rooms um you see only one figure that hasn't panicked and moved and it's this blonde woman standing near you
00:07:24
Speaker
She's just standing there. She she is standing there It looks like she is grasping a weapon on her hip the opposite side of which that you're standing and she has a Menacing look on her face staring down into the crowd below interesting
00:07:48
Speaker
Okay. Well, obviously the Lich is the primary threat that I've got going on here. So I'm going to place my Slayer's Eye on him. And then as a bonus action,
00:08:10
Speaker
Yeah, okay. Yeah, as a bonus action, I will cast Shadow Blade, forming a sword out of shadow, which I fling at the lich. Sorry, noise. For 27.
00:08:34
Speaker
26. As a matter of fact, that is a hit. I hope so. I badly, badly hoped that it was in fact a hit.
00:09:06
Speaker
So he's going to take 20 psychic damage. And. Yeah, that's good enough. Yeah, he's going to take 20 psychic damage. OK. And then second attack, the blade returns to me and I throw it again. For 18. 18. That is a hit.
00:09:40
Speaker
426 psychic damage. Holy cow. Shadow Blade is a really great spell if you can keep concentration on it. It's a concentration spell, and so if you get hit hard, you could lose the sword. But the sword's really good if you can keep it going. Okay. We're going to put Incomitec music under all this? Yeah.
00:10:13
Speaker
All right. You, Drakir, you now see the blonde woman standing next to you extends her hand up and seemingly out of what should not have been a big enough sheath, a great sword comes out as she sprints down the steps and is going to make an attack. He has a Mary Poppins scabbard. No, she has a Hexblade.
00:10:42
Speaker
Don't ruin my fun. Okay, so she leaps into the air into the crowd with this blackish blade overhead and it comes crashing down, dealing... Who's she targeting?
00:11:03
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15 damage, so you see one of the shadows running for Dex explode as she slams her blade down into the ground. I was really not sure whose side she was on until you said she had a shadow. Yeah, no, I wasn't entirely either. Drakir, you saw this woman run in sprint, and she slams down, and she kind of disappears into the crowd, and Dex, you hear like this boom, and as you look over your shoulder, you see a figure stand up amidst the people running around in a panic, and you see a red owl mask staring back at you.
00:11:35
Speaker
It is now The shadows, okay, so there are four left So Dex Yeah Can I get to the lich without it? It's not your turn. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, four shadows are attacking me. Okay First attack is a nine
00:12:00
Speaker
Hey, that's a 19. Second attack is a 23. Yeah, I'll do it. That is eight points of damage. As one of the shadows manages to run up behind you and reach over and place a hand on your upper chest and you feel your strength drain as your strength score drops by two. Jeez. Okay. I mean, and one more or two more attacks coming.
00:12:32
Speaker
16, 17. Okay, so the shadows are all up there trying to attack you. One of them does manage to land them. And now the lich... ...needs to make a constitution save.
00:12:57
Speaker
Yeah, you rolled a natural 19. Is he rolling with disadvantage? Oh, no. Ha! You just told me. Oh, actually, it says it because I heard him do it earlier. Yep, you got me. I actually couldn't think of a way to remind you without also finding out. I probably should have. Yeah, I probably could have, but in the moment I didn't. No, it's fine.
00:13:27
Speaker
20 is with disadvantage the Constitution. Wow. Jeez. Okay. Well, he's got, he's got a plus nine to Constitution. He's so constitute constituent constituted. What are you doing? He takes 10 radiant damage. That's at the start of his turn. Yep. When he starts his turn in it.
00:13:53
Speaker
Okay. Oh, but he's vulnerable, so he takes 20 radiant damage. Ah! Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And hopefully he's about to take a whole lot more. I suspect not being stupid, he'll move out of the moon beam. Yes, ideal radiant damage in the large amounts. Oh, well, fair
Shifts in Battle and Strategy
00:14:14
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enough. Well, when I roll, I rolled like two sixes and an eight on my D8. On that one, that first shadow.
00:14:22
Speaker
The Lich reaches, moves up 10 feet, or to the side 10 feet, so he's no further away. He only has to move one space, it's a five foot radius beam. Pulls a rod off of his belt, and almost with a whipping motion, aims it at Dex. Um, candy dodge if he hits. Does that mean he just misses, or he has to reach? No, I take half damage.
00:14:49
Speaker
Okay. That's fine. So 27. Yeah, that's a hit. Four is the normal damage for this, so you take two points of damage. I'm assuming this... I need a Constitution saving throw. There's another something. Come in here. Hang on, let me subtract two first. I want to keep it fair. Okay. Constitution saving throw? Yep. You.
00:15:26
Speaker
Okay, so you are grappled as this tentacle shoots out and wraps itself around you, but you are not moved. So, yeah, you're grappled. And it tries to pull you back, but you stand firm. It is now Dex's turn. How far am I from the Lich? I was thinking like 20 feet. Okay, and I can't move because of the grapple. I will say this, you could move closer.
00:15:44
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19. 19? Um...
00:15:56
Speaker
I want to move five feet, so I'm within ribbon weave range. Okay, closer to him. Yeah. And I'm going to attack him with said ribbon weave. Again, this will be a radiant damage attack to my two of my three. Oh, that is a 26 to hit. Yes. Okay, cool. Uh,
00:16:26
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That is 29 points of radiant damage so 58 points of damage.
00:16:42
Speaker
because I will let it hug me as long as I get to hit it. So yeah, your ribbon we've wraps around it and deals radiant damage and there's this really cool visual moment of you wrapped in a shadowy tentacle and it wrapped in a ribbon we've made of light. And now it's barracks turn.
00:17:03
Speaker
All right, Eric's bow summons, but as he draws it back, the bolt is of silvery golden light, and I'm going to cast Guiding Bolt via the amulet. So that's, I think, 22 to hit. That's a hit. Awesome. Gather up some d6s.
00:17:52
Speaker
27 radiant damage, so 52 radiant. 54. 54 radiant damage, math. Those extra two might count. Okay. Oh, plus my Hexblade's curse, so plus four. So that last four is not radiant, so I guess. I love this game. Some days, sometimes I love this game. Okay, it is now Drakir's turn. Um...
00:18:27
Speaker
Well, Dracure's pretty attractive to that lady who pulled out the giant sword. Uh, let's see. He's... I was just trying to see if I could get Jeff. Jeff's making a weird face at me. I don't know what I've done to Jeff now. Well, let me tell you. Give me a quick moment to learn what Dracure's into. Power, apparently. I mean, I feel like that's been obvious.
00:18:55
Speaker
Say slow down Casanova, we have to kill her.
00:19:04
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Yeah, Drakir... Drakir's gonna stick to the Shadow Blade since he's got it going here. So he's gonna throw the Shadow Blade a couple more times. So first attack with Shadow Blade is 24. Hit. And second is... Natural 19. So...
00:19:34
Speaker
And Drakir is still up on the balcony, right? Yeah. Okay. How far am I from the thing? I guess I should ask that. I'm... I was thinking it would probably be like 30-ish feet away. Okay, I'm still good then. Yeah. So first attack is... eight... Oh, let's...
00:19:59
Speaker
14 psychic damage. Second attacks hit is 21 psychic damage. 21 psychic damage. Okay. And the first one was what? I'm sorry. 14. Okay. Um,
00:20:30
Speaker
The red owl is going to sprint up to another shadow that's moving towards Dex. And that is going to be a 21 to hit. She kills another shadow.
00:20:52
Speaker
This means no difference. We will not spare a pact bearer. Um, next up are the shadows. So the three remaining shadows are going to sprint up to decks 13 16 and a natural one. Hooray. Anything y'all'd like to do with that?
00:21:19
Speaker
Yeah, I want him to lose his grip on me. I mean, that seems reasonable to me, if that's an option. Yeah, if that's too much to ask. Okay, yeah. The Lich brings the rod back as the tentacle slides off of Dex and now it's the Lich's turn. No, the Lich turns around and walks back through the portal and stops as it's moving and looks back at Dex and says,
00:21:48
Speaker
You killed him. I'm gonna kill you. And walks into the portal. Smell you later. And the gate shuts. So now it's Dex's turn. I didn't... I didn't kill him. Okay, so it's shadows now? I'm sure he's open to a conversation about it. It's just a couple shadows are left.
00:22:13
Speaker
Yes. OK. I'm not going to mess with radiant damage on these last couple of shadows. They don't seem particularly tough. 25, 26, 26. Hit. I just only want to stop. That's 9, 12. Stop.
00:22:40
Speaker
Okay, it is now Beric's turn. All right. Oh, it's an action to do it. Okay. What's left? Shadow? Just one?
00:23:18
Speaker
I'm making a charisma saving throw. Okay. So what does she need to roll? That's what I'm checking. I think it's a wisdom saving throw.
00:23:47
Speaker
It is a wisdom saving throw. Wisdom. She got an 18. Okay, so she's unaffected by it. But she is aware that you did that. That's fair. And then bonus action.
00:24:14
Speaker
No, I don't really have a bonus action I can use for anything particularly good here. I'm sorry. The. The portal does not disappear. Oh, weird.
00:24:37
Speaker
Uh, this particular version of a portal you can't dismiss at will, it lasts for the duration. Hmm. So. Um. Well, I'm not going in. I guess we can poke our heads in and see if it's actually my bar in there. Um, Drakir's turn. Okay. Trying to work out.
00:25:07
Speaker
How well Drakir knows what we need to do here. Okay, Drakir definitely knows who the mark is. Where's Strint? Strint is largely standing where he was before. He hasn't panicked and started running around. He just kind of stood and observed. Interesting. Give me an insight check. Sure.
00:25:33
Speaker
A whole lot. 20. You can follow his gaze and see that he's burning a hole in Dex's back with his vision. How far is he from me? From you. I'm gonna say since he was like on the other end of the hall, probably like 45 feet from the balcony. Okay. He's only about 20 feet from the bottom of the stairs though. Right.
00:26:08
Speaker
Sorry, I have one of these character sheets with my tablet and one on the phone, and it's walking back and forth. And now that they both have Warlock levels, I keep having to double check that I'm on the right sheet. So, Dracure knows that we're after him. Six foot range. And apparently Dracure can also do this. So Dracure is going to cast Hold Person on Strint. Okay.
00:26:38
Speaker
Strint got a nine. Strint is paralyzed. And then, so that was action, and then Drakir will move towards Strint. And I can go, how far can I go right now?
00:27:03
Speaker
I guess if I had a short rest, I can be shadowy again. So Dracure, Dracure is able to move 40 feet. So Dracure just drops down off the balcony. I'll do acrobatics if you like, but it's going to be good. Dracure drops off the balcony. Actually, I don't have to. If there's a spot of dim light within 20 feet of me, I just teleport to it. OK. And then move towards strength. But I can't get close enough to actually do anything to it. OK.
00:27:33
Speaker
I do try, knowing enough about concentration, I do try to not get close to any of the shadows that draw their attention. In fact, with the Umbra wrapped around him, they might mistake me for an out.
00:28:03
Speaker
Okay, it is Hadith's turn. Hadith looks at Eric and exasperates, I'm trying to help. And she's going to attack another shadow. Um.
00:28:30
Speaker
She kills another shadow. There's one shadow left standing. Um... At this point... Um... Um...
00:28:52
Speaker
At this point, you see a rune on her greatsword glow, and she looks up to the balcony, and she jumps up to the balcony. How many does she have? One. Okay. So, yeah, she makes a, well, I guess she'll make an apple of the shoulder to make sure that she can't make it. Yes. So, yeah, she leaps far higher than any creature should be able to leap.
00:29:20
Speaker
And now she's up on the balcony. It is now the shadows turn. Last shadow is going to try to attack Dex. That's an eight. Okay. So the shadows gone. That one missed. Um, it is Dex's turn. Um, there's only one shadow left. Yeah. I don't care about it that much. Uh, somebody else can take care of him. I'm going to start walking to sprint as well. I think. Well, wait.
00:29:49
Speaker
Where's the shadow in relation to it? I mean, it just attacked. Oh, that's right. So I could, I could kill it. Theoretically first and then go to. Yep. So I was striking at it with my ribbon. We've 19 hit.
00:30:07
Speaker
And that'll do it. That's 15. I'll go ahead and roll another one. There's 20. Okay. So yes, the last shadow erupts in brilliant light and you see people beginning to applaud feverishly. Although they are still concerned, the gate stays open for another 30 seconds or so. And then it blinks out of existence.
00:30:36
Speaker
In that time, things are gonna happen. Okay. Mainly, I'm gonna start... Can I roll a perception check to see if I can see Drakir making his way towards Trent as well? I mean, I'm gonna say that, yeah, like, people have stopped freaking out and sprinting around, they've kind of stopped and are looking at you, so it's easy for you to see Drakir is moving across the... Okay, I am going to...
00:30:59
Speaker
Flanking or I'm gonna position myself so that we're kind of flanking strength together Maybe we can each come up on and grab each grab under a shoulder or under an armpit. Yeah If people start to make a fuss about the fact that I'm grabbing the dignitary, I'll just say he's in shock. We're gonna take him someplace Attend to him. I just saved your lives. Please allow me to do what I do
00:31:23
Speaker
Really, I didn't do a whole bunch of life saving. I heard a guy that ran away. Is it a barracks train yet? Hold on just a second. I guess we're still in initiative order?
00:31:34
Speaker
Well, I mean, if you all are going to try to kill Hadith, then yes. Oh, fair enough. Go ahead, do your thing. Yeah, I failed a charisma saving throw, so yeah. As we're walking past Hadith with Scranton, I say, that was a tough fight. You want to mint? And enter the poison. We haven't moved yet. I'm just kidding. I want this weird black gelatin mint.
00:32:05
Speaker
It's tasty. OK, Barrick, it is your turn. Barrick is also perpetually under the effect of the jump spell. So he jumps. OK. And follows Hadith. And. Hmm.
00:32:34
Speaker
I feel like he should say something here. I'm just trying to work out who's talking and... There are so many characters in my head now. I realize it's my doing. As long as you're aware. So he also makes this unearthly leap.
00:33:05
Speaker
And. As he lands. Says. We must join the packs. And I'm going to try to knicker with that poison knife. OK.
00:33:34
Speaker
That's very disappointing. I mean, that ends up a total of like 11, so. That's a miss. I kind of worked that out. You know what else is disappointing? I just can't trust Erebus anymore. One thing I said was, you're not going to go running off trying to take care of hated heroin, are you? Well, Erebus studied that we would be better off not starting a fight. And in fairness, we didn't start a fight.
00:34:03
Speaker
but a fight happened. That's a real letter of the law, not spirit of the law kind of argument there. Yeah. Erebus is definitely a lawful neutral entity. Fair enough. Drakir, it is your turn. Uh, yeah. I mean, Drakir follows Texas move, um, and says, come my Lord, we must get you to safety. Uh, and sort of begins to, yeah, my Lord, we must get you to safety and takes, takes strength by an arm.
00:34:35
Speaker
And begins to, you know, I mean, trying to move with Dex, so however you want to manage that in the initiative order. In one of his hands, he's got tucked one of the other poison knives in case he needs to render him just straight up unconscious. Okay. And begins to move him towards a door. Are there people move? Are there an exit at this point? There are still people credited around the front door desperately trying to get it open, but cannot.
00:35:08
Speaker
Wouldn't it be cool if Booyah, who's always successful at unlocking doors, went over and unlocked the front door so people could get out of here? It'd be neat. Wouldn't it be cool if we had any characters with conventional D&D skills in this party?
00:35:33
Speaker
No one heals, no one can cast knock. Aren't you theoretically good at unlocking doors? Isn't it just been bad rules? Yeah, I'm supposed to be good at. I think I got like a plus nine. No, I can't be right here. Yeah, I mean that's pretty good. Assuming you're proficient, which I think you can't not be. No, I am proficient.
00:35:54
Speaker
It should be at least a plus nine, and I assume your tax is a 20. Booyah runs up with a handful of Thieves' tools and just shoves them into the wall.
00:36:07
Speaker
We always got to unlock doors and he shoves them in with no, no finesse or skill and just just turns them as hard as they can and the door unlocks. Do you do the Fonzie thing? Yeah. Is that that three hours methodology just walks up? He just does a flying spin kick through the door and people just start
00:36:26
Speaker
flying out of the front door, screaming and calling for guards. And I think we probably try to fall into the crowd. Oh yeah, we get lost in that tussle. Can we find our cab? Okay. Hadith is going to try to continue what she was doing. Okay.
00:36:54
Speaker
She looks at you and says, if you want to join the packs, then let us join forces against the enemy.
Negotiation and Moral Reflection
00:37:02
Speaker
And she is going to, um,
00:37:25
Speaker
I mean, she's going to try to jump again off of the balcony into the crowd. So you get an opportunity attack. Sixteen. Sixteen. That is a hit. OK, then she has to make a constitution saving throw against whatever
00:37:46
Speaker
carrying crawler or the crawler poison, the crawler venom was. Let me find that DC 13 Constitution saving. She passes. OK. Yes, she takes knife damage. Seven slashing damage.
00:38:20
Speaker
Okay, and she leaps down into the crowd and begins trying to make her way out the door. It is now, shadows are dead. Dex. You see the sky cab that you all had hired waiting outside and the driver is looking confused and trying to figure out what's going on. Alright, and he's actually, people are trying to crawl onto his cab and you're dealing with some very affluent people so they're offering bags of gold and he's
00:38:51
Speaker
There's a timer on... Alright, as we're pulling strength up, I want to... What's the crawler venom do?
00:39:01
Speaker
Uh, it's paralyzes, but he's currently paralyzed, so... Oh, it doesn't make unconscious, it paralyzes. It paralyzes, yeah. Okay, how long is it paralyzes? I thought it was unconscious, but I guess the one we picked was paralyzed. Okay, how long is it... Okay, um, because of all this stuff, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna reach over and I'm going to close the eyes of... Strint? Okay. So now he just looks like his head is lolling, whatever, whatever. Um...
00:39:29
Speaker
run to the cab say this was ours get in look at the cabbie and say just go can we assume do you guys come with us yeah okay and then I say oh well just get away from these people just go up or something for right now
00:39:43
Speaker
Oh, okay. What's going on in there? Man, it was the craziest thing. This big portal opened and I thought it was just gonna be like something crazy, like, you know, cover band, it's a party, whatever. But I'll be darned if a lich didn't pop out and try to kill us all. What? It's like a, it's like, okay, so like, okay, they're like wizards, right? Cut to Beric. She's back into the crowd. Yes. Left off the balcony.
00:40:17
Speaker
I thought you crawled her. No, I tried to, but she passed the same. Oh, okay. I leap down after her and I'm going to try whole person again. Okay. That's a wisdom saving throw. Okay. She's going to use an ability of her packs to reroll. There. Eight.
00:40:52
Speaker
Philip really didn't want her to steal that. Um, no I asked. So, Hadith just freezes in the crowd mid-stride. Okay, the crowd presumably is continuing to pour out around her. Yes. Beric catches up to her and says,
00:41:17
Speaker
This vessel made a promise. We will ignore it if you will your pact to us now.
00:41:38
Speaker
I would really like this to go well. Um, we'll see. Go ahead and let's start things off with a role rather than building up something and potentially intimidation. I assume is the relevant thing here. 26. Oh, why must you take my pact? Our mistress demands them to complete the great pact.
00:42:13
Speaker
Well, I suppose if I say no, you'll kill me. That is correct. Like you said you would. As this vessel promised. You know not what you do. Take it.
00:42:45
Speaker
All right. And. I don't know, what does this look like? So essentially she like. She can't do anything as long as hold person is on her because she's frozen, so you would need to release that before she could. The willingness is not all. No, there's there's a physical component to it like.
00:43:22
Speaker
You can make an insight check to see if she's genuine. I will. Well, you believe she's genuine. Let's see what happens. He releases it. She kind of exhales as she. Repositions herself since she was mid stride when he froze her. And. She looks at you and
00:43:54
Speaker
You seem different. We are stronger. We do not yet kill innocents. She
00:44:23
Speaker
extends her hand and her great sword appears. I take it. She she hasn't. Do you try to rest it from her immediately? I lay a hand on it. If nothing else, it makes it easier to forestall treachery. She
00:44:53
Speaker
gives Erebus a pitying look. You still have a lot to learn about this war. And then she releases the great sword and it stays in Erebus's hand. It just sort of melts into his hand. An Erebus comes striding out through the crowd and with one leap leaps out onto the sky cab.
00:45:29
Speaker
What happened? We have another pact. Oh, we do? All right. Cool. Hi, Erebus. Well, everyone give me perception checks or I'll wish you. I was about to say some really poignant things and I've forgotten them all now. 25 for Drake here. Nine for Erebus. 31.
00:45:54
Speaker
Drake here and Dex here the following Erebus is being too self-satisfied right now to pay attention to anything else. You all begin to hear Borneo's voice echoing from out of the Great Hall of America's house and you all are able to pick up enough words to discern that what he's saying is, ladies and gentlemen, I
00:46:22
Speaker
This was supposed to be a happy night and clearly treachery still exists in Breland.
00:46:33
Speaker
The dignitary that I invited here has been kidnapped by enemies that invaded this party. And it's clear that this unity is needed more than ever. And the crowd begins to cheer and drown out the voices you all presumably begin to pull away.
00:47:06
Speaker
I say, you know, after what I saw, you know, what was the name of the building that they blew up that turns out as a giant obelisk? It's just a place for ambassadors and things like that. After I saw when they were rebuilding that place for ambassadors,
00:47:26
Speaker
I'm a bit of two minds. I'll be real honest about you killing the red owl. I think there might've been some crosswise, uh, goals after all. She did not, she did not require us to kill her. Well, well, wait. All right. But she just gave it to you. I mean, I assume you coerced her a bit. She yielded. Well, fine. All right. Um, to the boat.
00:47:57
Speaker
Hey, um, you know, Eric made the plans to get Bornel to church. You going to follow through on that? Are you going to let him do it? Allies are useful. Gaining more would be beneficial to this mission.
00:48:20
Speaker
Right. Also useful answers to questions asked. Are you going to do it or are you going to give up and let Barrick have control again because I'd like to talk to him about that plan. But it's up to you. I'd talk to either one of you about it.
00:48:42
Speaker
I don't know, Eric, can I just narratively allow that? Or do you want to play that? I mean, if you think that Erebus would ever just willingly give up control, then... I mean, the crisis part of this is complete. So it seems like the boring things that Erebus is less interested in.
00:49:04
Speaker
Yep. Sure. Okay. Herbus sighs long-sufferingly. That's very well. And Dracure kind of blinks. And I'm glad that's over. Yeah. Hey, he didn't kill her. That's... Oh, I know. I know you know, but now we can say that's good, right?
00:49:33
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He would have.
Future Plans and Engagement
00:49:34
Speaker
I know why nobody didn't. Which is, you know, baby steps and stuff. But... If you think it's learning, I think you're mistaken. No, I don't think it's learning. I think it's... I chose to not be as awful as it could be. I don't think that's a sign of growth. I think it's just a sign that that sort of thing is possible and that's not bad. And Barak looks straight at you and says, I would have killed her.
00:50:00
Speaker
Crap yeah, I said I would have killed. I know you promised you were gonna kill her though, and you're a man of your word Anyway tomorrow Do you want? Backups not the right word, but just I think backup is exactly the right word. All right. Yes you okay cool Then I'm gonna come and I bet we could get crass to come in some sort of disguise again
00:50:29
Speaker
I don't feel like you're using to bring the whole team. Boop, boop. No. Smaller party will be better for this. Booyah. I don't normally say this, but Booyah needs to probably stay back. Booyah help. You know how you can help, though, Booyah? Be a friend to Gerald who's scared to leave the boat. Spend some time with Gerald because he's scared to leave the boat.
00:50:55
Speaker
Do you think about Gerald as he's scared? He's the scaredy god. Okay so yeah you all fly through the night sky of Sharn back towards borrowed time. Oh at some point he would have woken up.
00:51:13
Speaker
I mean, we can, we will, we will definitely restrain him over. Try to set up these cool like little vignette. I was going to let you go because I was going to let you go because saying it meant that we made it back without incident. But now we restrained him. I'm just saying I wanted to put that in there. We restrained him. I'm going to roll on a random table and see what happens because you all wouldn't let me in the episode. You wouldn't let me use a 20.
00:51:41
Speaker
Yeah, I did I did like you used it poorly You took away my opportunity I said here he is Trying very hard to make it up to you by letting us get back to the boat without incident. I know and I'm gonna let him I Didn't realize we're getting close to the end of the episode. I'll keep track of time. I don't know how these numbers work End of episode
00:52:11
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00:52:28
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