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Ep. 14 Tapper - Bellum Draconis
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Our band of people finally make it into the Half-Hoof INN.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Transcript
Dilemma of Honor and Success
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If I'm successful, we can talk. If I'm unsuccessful, my honour is at stake and I will not take up any. No win, no fee.
Introduction to the World of Eryth
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live play 5e D&D podcast set in the magical homebrewed world of Eryth in the Kingdom of Sleetguard. My name is Mark and I am the Dungeon Master. And also with us for this week's episode we have Will who plays the human cleric Emron. I would like to hit things please. We have Darren who plays the high elf Artifice of Rains, hadao.
Character Introduction and Combat Styles
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I would like to not hit things, please. Callum, who plays the Warforged Artifice at Alpha. I would like to shoot things, please. And Ian, who plays the Tiefling Warlock, Nyx Carell. I'm dead. I can't hit shit. We are knee deep in combat right now, stuck on the streets of Goldjubit to fill us in properly. Fill us in on last week's episode. We pass over to our rules consultant for an update on what happened last week.
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There is no rules consultant, only epic voiceover guy.
Street Fight Recap
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Previously, on the fellowship of the tabletop, Bellum Draconis, our not-quite-heroes went all West Side Story and got into a street fight. Nix, wandering off for some retail therapy, encountered the mysterious man from the sewers, whom a rotor locked in a chest. With the man recognising who Nix was, the signal was given. In the main street, three men appeared as a crossbow bolt whipped past Emron.
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words were exchanged as testosterone-filled posturing occurred.
Escalating Combat and Strategy
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Then, Nick's got the first shot off, much to everyone's surprise, and it all kicked off. Emron surged down the street. Alpha shot his pistol, and Reigns just stood there. Alpha fell, impaled by a crossbow bolt, and was healed by Reigns, who continued to stand there.
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I'm dying right now. Nix destroyed Stuttwood's roof, courting an enemy to face punt on the floor. Emron fought with one enemy and couldn't hit him. Morota was downed and dragged away by the street folks.
Survival Questions and Episode Setup
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So Nix ran away. And Rains just stood there.
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The fight escalated, more foes appeared with one commanding all to stop if they were allowed to take Marota away. Then Nick decided to take a dirt nap, and Reigns just stood there.
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Will Mick survive? Will Alpha stop hugging One Street Hutt Thug? Will M1 hit something and Reigns will just stand there? Find out on today's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop.
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I mean, I'm giving you inspiration straight off the bat. Thank you. Bravo. That is... Sorry, Darren. Out there right now going, this has got to be your next character. This podcast has just gone to another level. When I was writing this, I was just like, this has got to keep reoccurring.
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Sorry Darren. I'm aware I just stood there. You healed me Darren. You healed Alf. And I healed him. You healed your son. But it's still funnier that way. There we go. The wind whips up. Oh that went quite very quickly. The bunting flaps. Chris is bunting by the way. I don't know why this but I know it's bunting. Everything's better with bunting. It is just flap flap flap flap flap.
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The thin film of rain continues to fall, but kicked up and swirled by the gusts of winds heading north, south, east, and west down the streets of Goldview, through the buildings. The streets are deserted, save those on the two sides of this west side story, this Romeo and Juliet, this, I can think of a third example, Blade versus vampires, no, anyway.
Alpha's Logical Approach
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And basically, it's a standoff.
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There's a moment's silence, a minimum's pause, as everyone seems to just look at each other. Our initiative order is Nick's alpha reigns, Emron, and then our gang at the base of the order. We had Nick's turn. He had his death saving throw. He passed. He's on one pass so far.
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We were just about to pass over to Alpha. Alpha, who is still currently in the grapple with the axe-wielding maniac, has been named him with two axes. Reigns has stood 10 feet in front of him to the north alongside a red-leathered, not like Deadpool, but just kind of like cooler red leather, like, you know, Prince Hal from Henry V with a short sword.
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To the short sword wielding's diagonal, there's Emron facing off square off with a man with an axe and a butler. Morota lies unconscious, tied to the floor just 10 feet in front of them, with the corpse of the treasured chest man lying next to her. Nyx is around the corner, out of view at the moment of the others unconscious and making death saving throws, and on the roof of the building to the north stands the crossbow bolt man, along with the man who shouted, stop, and off around the corner is yet another of the reinforcements.
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Alpha. The axe wielding maniac you're currently holding struggles against your neck choke grasp you have on him. But does not seem to fight much more. What would you like to do? Or what would you like to say? Alpha's going to slowly relax the grip.
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if on the bandit that's kind of, he's had hold of, if it's, if he's calmed down a little bit, he's no longer outsmealing, Alfred does not deem it as a threat now, and Alfred's kind of processed a little bit more now about what's going off, and to a certain point, has become more logical again, as opposed to,
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like this almost rage induced combat machine that he was originally designed for.
Rains' Tactical Decision
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He's going to walk forward again, he's putting himself up next to Emron just behind Marota. He's going to look at the new bandit captain that's come in. What is it that you acquire her for? She is with us.
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and I am just gonna, as an action, take the dodge action. Okay, thank you. We will run this through initiative just for now because I'm not sure if one of you might attack or anything. If everyone does fall out of it, we'll drop initiative. But if we don't, obviously we'll pick it back up. Reigns, you watch Alpha as he releases the grasp of the axe-wielding man in front and move away. What would you want to do? Reigns is gonna compose his breath
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He's going to walk up the street and come level, or as close to level as he can with this new bandit who's issued the
Emron's Defiance in Battle
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order to stop the fighting. He's going to glance right and see that Nix is down. He's going to say, he's going to take a moment to find his breath and he's going to say, they want her alive. Nix is down.
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We can't die here today. And as he says that last line, his eyes will just raise level with alphas. Take her and get lost. All right, thank you. I'm Ron. The man you stood opposite is staring at you, but his axe is lowered. His buckler is still in his hand.
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He's in a ready position, but the act is much lower down as he realizes that who the voice behind him is. And he listens to each, but he doesn't move. He doesn't flinch his eyes, still locked on you. Okay. Everyone will have seen all this happen. I've heard reigns is word saying taker. Everyone will look over to him, over to reigns,
Rains' Justification for Strategy
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look to the man.
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And I'm going to hit him with my hammer. Yes! Yes! I'm going to add my inspiration to this, please. Do it. Hit him. He's at a D6 as well. That's a D6, yeah. Right, well, let's roll the Warhammer hit first. Oh my God. Hang on, let me just add the D6. Okay, add the D6. Come on, Will. So that's 13. Yeah, that hits. Yes! You hit him, finally.
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And that's eight points of bludging damage.
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Hot damn. He's not expecting this and just gets thwacked in the side of the head. Blood starts pfft, pores from his mouth, the tooth falls out, his nose is broken. He's still upright, but he is literally like half his face is in pieces. He really wasn't expecting that. Nice. It's their turn now. Can't believe he's still up. Fucking hell. He's barely up. I mean, he's literally on a couple at this point. Taking 16 hit points, damn it.
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Yeah, he's the heavily... No, no, no, no, no, no, it's fine. So, sorry, did you have anything else you wanted to do? No, it's probably an action if I want to try and pull the Booker off him, but it's fine.
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He's trying to rob him as he stands there. Well, he stood there dating him to take the fucking shield off him. Yeah, it probably would be an accident, actually. Okay, right. Let's work through this then. Bandit to the top east corner, comes around the corner, and he's going to take a shot after he sees the attack from Emeron. Take a shot at Rains. That's a 14 against your armor class. It's...
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Thank you. That's a crossbow. Three points of piercing damage as it slices through the kind of forearm just above the buckler that kind of controls your magic on your arm of your right hand causing a little damage there. The man that's on the roof to the north that's been taking pot shots the whole time is going to shoot at... Oh, hang on. Didn't you take a dodge action, Raines? Nope. Oh, sorry. I thought you had. Apologies.
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Taking a shot, Alpha, that's 18 against your armor class. Yeah, that hits. You took a dodge action, though. Alpha did take a dodge action. Alpha took a dodge action. Yes, thank you. I'll roll against, that's nine against your armor class. Oh, that's a miss. That's a miss. Well-remembered will. The guy that is the red
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leather man is going to move to Marotta's space now that the action's kind of picked up again and pick up the rope and he's going to start moving with it but he can't move anywhere yet because he's kind of penned in by Alpha and Reigns. He's going to take a shot at Reigns in the back. That's ten against your armor class. Rolling like dog shit. The actual maniac is going to run up behind Emron
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And the crossbow man is going to step into the centre of the alley of the southern crossbowman who fell off the roof and... Oh, sorry, Alpha, that's a natural 20. Ahh! Ooh. This is gonna hurt. Oh, he's making the face. He's making the face. He's making the face. That's the mouse face! Nine points of piercing damage. I'm down again.
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But not enough to insta-kill you mate, it's alright. Not enough to insta-kill me, but still. The guy that's behind you, Emron, the actual thing, maniac as we've called him, he's got an attack, he's gonna hit you. 16 against your armor class. Uh, meets it beats, but he does have advantage if he wants it. Uh, I'll take the advantage. Uh, it's 8. Because of the guy next to me just in case. That's true, thank you. Uh, 7 points of slashing damage. I'm still up.
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The man behind, so the main guy behind does, while this is kind of going on, shout something. But due to the attack, the fact that everyone is getting attacked at this point, it is inaudible to you. The scuffles of war, the heartbeat racing around everything as these bolts come flying and these people start moving in towards you. Second shot with his other axe with advantage. There's a 21 against your armor class.
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Yeah that hits. Eight points of slashing damage again. And Emron like crumples to his knees and he sort of tries to reach and then his hammer slips from his hand and he falls to the floor. The TPK to a group of bandits. The main man now looks at Rains, the only one still stood.
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And he steps forward towards you one step, not looking directly at you, looking at your friends around you. You've got some stupid fucking friends. And he looks around and nods to some of the other guys around him. We're not the business of leaving corpses in Goldview. We just came for one thing and one thing only. We'll take what we need.
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If you'd be so kind as to oblige and step to the side. Can I use my reaction to step to the side? You can use the reaction to step to the side. I'd like to think you said that in the actual. Well, we're out of our move to the side. He nods at you and then lets out a little whistle with his mouth, kind of like, um, blue dude from, uh,
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What's it called? Guardians of the Galaxy, sorry. Blue dude from Guardians of the Galaxy. I've forgotten the name of the actor he plays. Hey boy, get over here. Yondu. Yondu. You look like Mary Parpens. Mary Parpens's cool. Hell yeah, she's cool. She whistles. Oh yeah, oh man, I love that. I'm Mary Parpens, y'all. And all those around you, they kind of...
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shake their heads a little bit at it, and he whistles again with a little bit more severity. And they start moving towards the characters of Emron, Alpha, and Nyx as the red-clad leather figure and the three crossbowmen and Marota leave to the northern alleyway. And there's silence for a moment. The rain continues to fall.
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And Rains, as you look probably with some trepidation at each of your companions, you notice with a kick, a thud, and actually one of the characters, the one who, the buckler-wheeled man who got his face pummeled, spits on Amrom. They begrudgingly patch up the wounds and bring them all to stability, all three of them.
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The Buckler wielding man does go to nab the hammer from Emron and the actual wielding man behind in a very calm voice just says, he didn't say we could take that. Come on, Gethrake, let's go. The other one grunts in derision and nods over as the red leathered figure looks back at them.
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They head off in a column up to the north. And the last figure you see is the northern Boltzmann on the roof. Just smile down at your reins and then disappear over the rooftops of Goldview. You're alone. The rain is now falling relatively heavily. The streets are now quiet. Everyone seems to know this was an area to avoid. Next is to your right. Alpha and Emron are just to your left.
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You're stood on an empty street. What do you want to do? Fuck. Fuck! Am I aware that they've been patched up? Yeah, yeah, you've watched them be patched up, yeah. Rain's just gonna look around.
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and he's angry at them, Ron. So he's gonna go straight to Alpha knowing that everyone else is patched up and just give Alpha, I've got no way of healing him anymore. NC's just gonna fly around all three of them just in a panic daze with like a little emergency beacon flashing. And I'm gonna kneel down next to Alpha. Alpha, come on, buddy. Alpha! And just shake your shoulders.
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As I am stabilised but I have like zero health, don't I? So I don't respond. Okay. That's correct. That's correct. That's correct. There's no response. There's no response from Alpha. Windows 10 installing. Yeah, there's no response at that point at all. I've crashed. I like it. Blue screen of death. Is there anything else you want to do?
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Reigns is just gonna slump to a seated position and NC is gonna keep flying around and land on his shoulders making this almost kind of like a very faint whimpering siren. I know buddy, I know but she's alive and so are they and then like
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Eva Green and Daniel Craig and the Casino Royale when they just slumped there in the shower as the rain just falls onto him. He's just going to sit in the middle of the street until someone comes along. He is crestfallen, he's beaten, and he's ultimately just grateful that people are still alive. Time passes and William waves at me. Hello, Will.
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Just for reference. I had a lot of moment losing any reference. You're going to reference me here on that lovely moment. Go on then, you've ruined it. Depending on how much time passes, we will all wake up with one HP after one D4 hours. Okay, it's not that long, but thank you very much for the information. Okay, sorry. No, no, it's fine. You ruined the atmosphere, but it's fine. I'll take the information then, thank you. Well, Ian didn't know so. That was interesting as fuck.
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Time, but no, it doesn't feel the same anymore, guys. Time part, time part. Don't cut me out. Keep it in. No, it's down and built in. No, it's fine. You can't cut that eye. Uh, full on head down range is dripping off, kind of around the back of your head and dripping down of your eyes onto the puddle, a puddle that forms below you with your homunculus on your shoulder and your friends unconscious around you. Time passes and you're waiting.
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And every now and then, perhaps, you look up and down the street. No one. You had returns down between your legs, watching the drips slowly form a larger and larger puddle beneath your feet. And then from the right, you hear the clanking of heavy armor in a pattern that must be almost militaristic.
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It's too well timed. It's too clipped down the cobbled streets. Cling, cling, cling, cling, cling. Getting closer and closer. A single set of footsteps. Cling, cling, cling, cling, cling.
Arrival of the Mysterious Knight
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As they come to a stop and you can hear the pitter of rain on metallic pauldrons. You look down and see feet standing near you.
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And this voice seems to come from miles above almost. Ah, what's happened to you? You look up, you start to see the large hulking figure of what can only be described as a knight of some description. A large,
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kind of a scratched shield, like it used to have a sigil on it, and it's been scratched off on one hand, held down to the side, and in a scabbard seems to be something that would be described as a bastard sword, held but on the wrong side. The right hand holds the shield, the scabbard is also on the right hand side, this is a left-handed fighter, which seems odd. And this person looks down at you, and as you look up towards the eyes of this person, it is a
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A tall, gauntly, thin, pinched cheek, pale-faced man stood in front of you with wisps of black hair with gaps and a thick mustache. But his hair seems patched together like only certain tufts like grass growing in a battlefield, only certain places seem to sprite up. It looks weird, it looks unnatural. He looks friendly enough as he smiles down at you, wets through just as you are. Friends of yours,
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you part of the sleep guard guard or whatever it is that keep feasting this shithole i'm one of the knights of the purge yes it's not a body is my name that's wonderful i'm gonna reach into the bag of holding and pull out a scroll the pedigree my name is rain's huddle i am the crown prince of shadow man
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And by the accordance of the amending, when my father fought with King Leopold Sleetgard, I demand refuge, aid. I don't demand a request, a request, a request. I request refuge, aid, and substance from the every series of Princess Regent Herr and the Sleetgard. And Raines, he's just going to hold out the scroll of pedigree, but everything else is still just slumped.
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He shakes the shield off his right hand and kind of flicks his fingers to get him clear of the rain and rubs it on the kind of cream colored jacket he has around his neck.
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And he reaches out and takes in his gauntlet hand the note, the scroller pedigree, but holds it with some deference as well. Doesn't just grab it. He takes it gently from you and just has a quick look for it as if to check. And then he calmly re-rolls it and wraps it with a small leather bound that sits around it and hands it back to you with two hands. Well, you got a very long way from home. Are these films of yours down here?
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They are. I'd like the protection afforded to me to apply to them for what it's worth. No need to pull rank. I was going to help them anyway. I ain't pulling rank, friend. I'm a, I'm a soft streak of piss sad on the street. I'm asking for help. He plonks down heavily, bang, the ground almost shakes below, down on one knee, not as a wet way of bowing, but just to get more on your level and just said, I'm a man of the people here.
Knight's Healing Powers
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I look out for those. Doesn't matter who you were, I was going to help you anyway. Just what happens, I might be able to make some coin out of you as well, that's a very good thing. But either way, I was here to help. Now, the chief link here, friend of yours, yeah? I suppose he is. We have a strange relationship. He lets out a wry smile, as you will with many people here in Goldview.
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Let's get the blighter up. I'll get him. You'll find your other ones. And he wanders over and very quietly lays just the middle of his pulled hand against the center of Nick's forehead and presses his palm against the forehead. His eyes shut as he starts muttering under his breath and a slight golden light appears underneath the palm of his hand. Almost like he's hiding the light of a candle and he casts.
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Oh, and you get four points of healing back next. As you burst back in, mouth gargling almost with a bit of water. Imagine your face up with an arrow jutting out of your shoulder. He, whilst you're coming to and you see this massive hulking human stood over you in this massive arm of a gaunt face standing over you. As you also come to, you feel a hand on your shoulder push you into the dirt.
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hard into the dirt, pushing your chest into the dirt hard. And then you just feel this excruciating pain as you realize, as you look round, he's held your shoulder down and removed the bolts from your shoulder. The person who was doing that would hear in their mind, inaudible.
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When you're trying to do something you don't want to do unwittingly, that's it. Unwittingly, Nix would have used Awaken Mind. So as soon as the pain reaches that, because it's quite a powerful level when you're having a fucking bolt taken out of you, Nix's scream would not only come out of his voice, but would enter the mind telepathically into the chap who's doing this. So he would hear my scream, like double the sound.
00:26:54
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You barely noticed this bit. He just throws his brow slightly at this. And then... What are you... I'm alive. He's on our side. He's on our side, Nick. He's going to smile down at you and just double tap your cheek with his big gloved hand. Good as new. Oh, yeah. Am I still beautiful? No comment. And he stands up slowly.
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and starts moving over. He moves over towards Reigns. Who's next? This one and I'll point it alpha.
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Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, as Nick starts to get up. I can help, I can help with that. Nick will start to move over to Alpha's body and just kind of go, Alpha, I got your body. And I'm going to use sleight of hand to take the gem that he took from the room way, way, way back again. I'm going to take it off. Way back, it's like two episodes. Two episodes ago. All right, give us some sleight of hand now. You need to know where it is first.
00:28:01
Speaker
I know that he's had it, but that's about it. So I'm gonna add you just yeah, you're gonna have to do That's be an investigation Okay, yeah, that'd be a visible thing physical physically see where it is. Give us an investigation check first, please Please be good. Oh, it's a natural one It's okay your your You have no idea
00:28:28
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I'm trying to get your hands off him if you want. Yo, yo, back away, back away here. I'm just trying to help, okay? And Nick's all hands up and just walk away. Just calm yourself, Reigns. If you could get him up on you, I'd be much obliged. I was going to say to the friendly chappy piss be helping us. Turn the body.
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at your service. He walks over to Alpha. Interesting chap this one. I'm not here to ask questions though.
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right then you little one let's get you up on your feet and he does the same thing presses a hand against the cold forehead of alpha a light starts to shimmer oh and again four points of healing for alpha as your eyes open and you are awake the same thing happens and a bolt is removed from your uh your your thigh i think one of the bolts you got earlier on
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Speaker
Oh no, you snapped that off, you pulled that out yourself, it's fine. There's no bolt removed. He just quickly checks over and just has a quick check of you. And then, again, you wake up to see this huge, tall, he's taller than you, he's almost seven foot in height, but human. Slowly kind of stand up, big hulking figure. Just as my eyes kind of focus and I see him step away.
00:29:54
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Mine or my processor just takes a little bit of time before everything kind of twings as to what happened a few moments ago. And Alpha's just going to kind of spring up and just kind of sit up quite quickly. And he's just going to add, you will not take her! Easy, easy, Alpha. It's gone. It's over. Really, really glad to see you alive, Alpha. I was really worried about you. There's a puzzled look that Alpha gives Nick to that comment.
00:30:22
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And your warrior friend here? The one with the hammer? Or the corpse over here? I'm not very good with resurrections. Which one is your friend? I need the damn corpse. The corpse is your friend? No. Good. I didn't have the... I don't have the components right now. If you could help him around the one with that hammer, I suppose that would be useful.
00:30:49
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Yes. Alpha, will you do me a turn with your inquisitive way? Can you see what you can find on that body over there? Of course. This is a man mode of my liking.
00:31:04
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He's seen many a battle, I can tell you that. But no doubt you know that, he is friend of yours. Come on then, fellow warrior, let's wake you up. He reaches down and the same action takes place again. Sorry, the three points of healing, but you come round all the same. And as you come round, he's quite, again, quite visceral in his control of you, realizing you want to kind of jolt quickly. Quietly now, the battle has ended, my good friend.
00:31:33
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I am here to help. Do not attack me. So, Emron, his eyes would have opened. He'd have been scrabbling around to find his hammer. He'd have heard the voice in your turn. Where is she? And you look.
00:31:55
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Where did they go? We've got to go after him. He scrapes over through the mud at your hammer and kind of places it in the palm of your hand. I don't know who she is. Your friend over there might have some more information. The wet one. Mr. Haddow. Prince Rains Haddow. Rains.
00:32:20
Speaker
Which way? We can catch them. They score. Brains wouldn't have let them take her, surely. She's just... She's down in another alleyway. Like I was. She's gone and you're alive because of it. Now they have taken her alive and we can deal with this in due course. But for now... Hold up, hold up, hold up. You let... You let that happen? Yes, I let that happen. You would be dead had I not done so.
00:32:57
Speaker
This ain't the time or place for us to unpick this. We're all wet. We're all hurting. And I'm sure that all of us have got out we want to see. So let's
00:33:21
Speaker
Find somewhere else to do this. Yeah. Farm by me. You're my patron, what you say, I follow. Next, just... Not right now. I'm just saying how it is. No. Thank you. Everyone, we're linked, whether you like it or not.
00:33:45
Speaker
Thank you. Whether I like it or not. Sir Knight, I've not got out. I can give you, and he's grabbing around to try and find his money pouch. He holds up a large, potent hand. No. I was here to help those in need, and that is all I am here for. As a Knight of the Purge, that is my duty. What was your name again, friend? My name is Tanner.
00:34:10
Speaker
T-A-N-A. Tana Barry is my name, not Barry B-A-R-R-Y-B-A-R-I. I hate when people missmell it. Thank you, sir. Tana Barry. We... Not bad. We owe you. That's a great name. Thank you. There's no... I know you don't want our money, but we owe you debt. You do, and one day I will call upon you for that return.
00:34:39
Speaker
I know I'll hold myself to it. This is I'm going to pull out a shadow menu in silver and go. This is a shadow menu in silver minted because it has been through the royal family. You ever find yourself in great hado and I ever am successful in what I want to do. You you hand that in to any garden. I'll give you an entire wing of the great palace of Vermont's fall. You can do whatever you want with it.
00:35:08
Speaker
He nuts his head, impressed. Your highness, offering things you don't currently own. That's a bold move, he smiles. But I accept the, I understand the generosity of our offer. I don't plan on owning it by the time I'm finished either. No. But for what it's worth, you're a good man. And shadow man needs to be rebuilt by good people.
00:35:37
Speaker
And she said, I am not a good man. I am a fair man, and I am a loyal man. It does not make me good. Now, sir, you call upon me for lodgings and protection, both of which I can offer you within reason.
00:36:02
Speaker
Where are your lodgings? Where are you currently staying or where are you looking to go? I will escort you there and make sure you are kept safe with board, ale, food and warmth. Where would you like to go? Excuse me, we don't have lodgings as it stands but go for it, keep it somewhere where we may be welcome.
00:36:30
Speaker
He looks around. Why? Who is it, you know, at Goldfort Keep? Monster Hunter. Goldpan named Waller. Goldport Keep. I'm sorry. It's been quite a fight. The rain in my ears. I once got clubbered round the head by a skeleton during the blight and I've never heard properly since. So apologies.
00:37:00
Speaker
Yes, I know roughly where Ola keeps our wares. It's quite a way out of town, though. I'm not gonna lie, you all look like shit. How would someone look close at home? Somewhere close at home, perhaps. Well, now you're a best friend we got. That sounds fine by me. Very well. We haven't arranged lodgings yet. It will be arranged wherever we go.
00:37:28
Speaker
You pick a place, they will find room, or they will make room. All the places all me favours, all of them need favours from Tanabari. We were heading to Arfu Fin before this, but I don't know if there's a place closer, probably more convenient.
00:37:49
Speaker
Half of it isn't too far from here. I know the city like I know the back of my hand. And I can get us through there relatively quickly avoiding many of the main streets if you so wish. Half of it is. Follow me. And he stands up high, reattaches the shield to his right hand again.
00:38:13
Speaker
stretches up a little bit and just checks the halt of his broad his bastard sword by his left side left hand free right hand with shields scratched from and looks at you all anything else to do before we move on
00:38:31
Speaker
Just as a thing, Raines told Alpha to go and look at the corpse. Absolutely. So I would have gone over as per his request and just done an investigation onto it.
00:38:44
Speaker
Aside from clothes and general things, if it's carrying anything, I probably would have just grabbed it.
Loot Discovery and Investigation
00:38:50
Speaker
So if it's a weapons or gold or whatever, and I would have just started taking it over to Reigns. Yep, there's a regular iron dagger. There is a little pouch of 15 silver pieces. And the note. A small scratch of paper with some words etched on it.
00:39:09
Speaker
I wouldn't open the note, I would take everything straight over to Reind. This is what the enemy was carrying. I'll open the note. Bring me the Valkyrie. Let us end this. Horak. Which is H-O-R-R-O-C-K. So it's written in a way which is, that's the note, signed off by Horak.
Knight's Offer of Aid
00:39:37
Speaker
One final thing before I go. I hate to leave the street dirty like this. And he just quite gently reaches down and grabs the with his left hand and picks up one of the ankles of the dead band on the floor and very almost like picking up litter from the street.
00:39:55
Speaker
quickly turns and lifts the entire body up with a single hand and just pushes it into the alleyway behind hiding it behind a couple of crates to the alleyway that Nix was near when he went down like to keep the streets clean especially from vermin like that so heading to the half oof in are we? indeed I can't go
00:40:26
Speaker
You can't call. It's not that I can't go, but I... And Nix is looking at everyone here. I can't go. Why not Nix? I don't... Do you wish to return to your ship?
00:40:54
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, probably what they want me right now. I just. We, we left her. We, we didn't leave her. She was taken. We will find her. And I don't doubt your intention, but it's better to start hunting as soon as the kidnapping has taken place. Otherwise you run the risk of the trail going cold.
00:41:23
Speaker
No, next, next. As much as, as my heart's in it, will you? And I'll, I'd gladly do it. But let's think, are we going to do Marotta any good? Now you tell me now, you think in our fit state, we can do her good. Then I'll follow you.
00:41:53
Speaker
And we'll go. But we have to think, lad, none of us are our strengths. You're just finding your power. Are we going to do her a favor if we try and follow her now? I guess not.
00:42:24
Speaker
you know, just doesn't sit right. And I'll agree with you. I know Nick's it's, you know, it's why I want going to enter over when the guy asked it won't go out. You know, they would have had to have prized her from our cold dead hands and that nearly happened. So we didn't let her go. We didn't let it happen. We didn't give up. None of us gave up. We
00:42:51
Speaker
Of course. You're right. You're right. I don't even know what I was. I wasn't. You know what? The blow to the head. I'm not thinking just right. I'm not thinking right, everyone. As you were. Yes. Yes, of course. My big handsome Goliath friend, not even a Goliath. But yeah, lead on to where we're going. Absolutely. I'm fine.
00:43:16
Speaker
Tana Barry looks at everyone in the group and trying to read the situation of that conversation as he's watching, almost a little too close to the conversation, doesn't give you any room as he looks from person to person. Your friend that has been slighted has been taken from you.
00:43:32
Speaker
If you require assistance in that, I am prone to my own bout of rage from time to time, and have killed many a person. If you need me to kill some more, I am relatively free and able and cheap to buy as a sellsword. I am not often in combat nowadays, but if you need me, I am quick and violent, despite my speech.
00:43:57
Speaker
Well, actually, that's, you know what? I'm picking up what you're putting out there. How much would it be if I said that I could give you perhaps a location somewhere in the sewers of this fine city? I can't give you a name, but I can give you the person that we're trying to look for. There's a big, big half-orc called Marota.
00:44:23
Speaker
and she's got like plaited red hair, her face is full of piercings and oh she's she's tattooed like all over a pretty face it's got a mean stink look in her eye if you to look her in the eye you'd be like whoa she's a she's a killer and you'd be right um is that an app description enough with some coin like how much coin and could you do it with that information
00:44:48
Speaker
I could do it for that information. Not all orcs that I know, especially female orcs, don't tend to have as many tattoos as you have described me. I would be able to find at least some information on this person through the sewers. Then we have a deal. We have an accord. We have an accord. He takes your hand and your wrist and your forearm with the size of his hand. Okay. Yep. Definitely an accord there. How much?
00:45:18
Speaker
Let's leave the numbers for after. How about that? If I'm successful, we can talk. If I'm unsuccessful, my honour is at stake and I will not take up any. No win, no fee. No win, no fee. We knew you were going there. You see that Nix is visibly comforted by this.
00:45:41
Speaker
And, you know, there's more of a pep in step. Yes, absolutely. Yes, we've all got to make our coin some way or another. But the quicker you find information, the more gold there is in it for you.
00:45:56
Speaker
He slowly shakes his massive head. He's getting bigger the more way to describe him. He's just, he is a, let's just get some cannon stuff down. Six foot seven, okay, he's that tall. And he's just, the armor he wears makes him just look bigger than he probably is underneath his arm. He's got, you know, anything, like American Football pad style, shoulder pads almost on his shoulder. Everything looks big, so he looks hulking and large and the metal armor is heavy and clanking in the rain.
00:46:25
Speaker
He lays a hand, a heavy hand on your shoulder, Nyx, which kind of weighs down your arm, and then does another little cheek pack twice, clink, clink, on the side of your face. And says, we already have our first clue. Have you not seen? He lets you go and starts to walk off. Nyx just turns 360, trying to find the...
Seeking Refuge at Half Hoof Inn
00:46:51
Speaker
No!
00:46:53
Speaker
As he starts walking in the direction of the half, he points down to the corpse in the alleyway and continues to walk. It's just a body. And Nix will look through it. As in what you're looking at the body? Yeah. Give me an investigation. Because I don't think I knew that Alpha did his thing. I think Alpha's already looted him, but yeah. Give me an investigation check, please. Nix. And nine.
00:47:22
Speaker
And they're quite obvious. So I'll give you this. Um, and because you've been directed towards it, what you have to do when you scan over the body, you realize he's got nothing on him. And as you look up over his body, you're looking around and you notice something through the blood spattered, um, effect on the side of him from when he has been killed. Um, on the left side, left side, where did I put them?
00:47:44
Speaker
I wonder if it, there you go. Oh yeah, on the left side of his neck, there are three basically tattooed three red tears or three red blood drops tattooed in a line. One, two, three into the side of their neck. Ah, I see what you're saying. Yes, we know the gang is three tears blood.
00:48:07
Speaker
He shakes his head and chuckles slightly as he keeps walking in his erection. Yes, of course, you meant the jade blood drops and continues walking. Obviously, I was just testing you very new past work done. Emron's going to be following. Righto? Yeah, I've gone.
00:48:27
Speaker
Everyone's following us. We're heading up and just put a boot to the face of the guy that he's just looked at and then carries on. Brutal. Nice. And we head off through the streets, the wet streets of Goldview. Alley after alley, the city starts to come back to life again as we start to move into the early evening as the sun, somewhere hidden behind the grey summer clouds, starts to lower down into the deep mountains to the east of the city.
00:48:55
Speaker
You approach a small square where standing in the middle of the square, something used to be, but all that remains now is just some very old ash marks around a grate on the floor. You notice the large oak doors and Taribana turns to them and points, this is the half-hoof and do you need me to go inside and speak to the owner or would you like me to go to the sewers? No.
00:49:23
Speaker
If you're fit by the unable mind, go straight to the silvers. We will deal with this bit ourselves. Very good.
00:49:30
Speaker
And in a really strangely quick motion, he turns, ducks down, removes the grape around this kind of charred entrance to the sewers and just disappears down. The great kind of just falling into place. It's almost like in a second he's there and then he just disappears almost, um, definitely quick, um, down into the sewers and he's just gone. This, this huge hulking night has disappeared and the four of you are left outside. He looks like a good man and all.
00:50:00
Speaker
That lad. That was fortunate. Reat. Our foof in. Let's get ourselves some bed and board and we can hopefully say Barry will come back and if you don't, we can start our own investigation.
00:50:44
Speaker
with a man stood behind it. To the right there's a set of stairs going up to a kind of mezzanine area and it turns a corner and you can see stairs going down into some kind of basement. You can assume the rooms are background there. It's really busy in here now and you can hear these light clink rings of a fiddle somewhere in a corner of a room and as you look to the right you see a small
00:50:52
Speaker
I'll go into the pub.
00:51:07
Speaker
a small person, not poor, small person, a kind of a child, a human child playing a kind of little violin in the corner, keeping a couple of punters and detained, probably family members there. As you continue to look around, you see a number of patrons filling the space. There were a couple of spare tables and there was a man, a stoic man with shifty eyes and black hair and pinched features, cold and pale face sat behind the bar.
00:51:32
Speaker
He looks up and over at the four people who comes in and lifts a hand in waving salutation and then returns to speaking to a rather rather flabby large man at the front who must be in his late fifties sat there bold bold no kind of hairless man chatting around.
00:51:49
Speaker
to this guy behind the bar who just kind of nods his head and puts up with what he's saying and he kind of beckons you forward almost as like a come on please get me out of this conversation as he continues to pretend to be interested in the fat man as you walk in. It's warm, it's inviting, the rain has left you and you leave drip marks on the floor as you realize now you are soaked pretty much through and shivering. What would you like to do? I am. I haven't heard your kind of accent in a while. It's an exotic accent.
00:52:21
Speaker
with like board, food and rooms. What's your name? Good friend. Just out of interest. Why have I forgotten it? I had it in my head. I couldn't remember it. Yeah.
00:52:45
Speaker
Ah and then the jokes can return. I couldn't bring you know who back in this earlier. Voldemort. Yeah absolutely. I didn't want to bring Voldemort. I'll be honest, it was so nice to hear Kennard's voice again. That was fabulous. Just describing the half event, I was like this feels like home, I know this. It does feel like we just shift back in. A little memorial in the corner for Tali who
00:53:10
Speaker
It took a lot of restraint to remember that Reigns has no idea or gives zero fucks who this person is. Yeah, 100%. For those listeners who have joined us in Fresh for season two, the half hoof in did hin hin. The half hoof in and Kennard featured in season one of our story. So that's why we're feeling a little bit of the nostalgia feels.
00:53:36
Speaker
That's why we all described, I described everything that just happened with a slight smile on my face. If you heard that, that's why. He looks up at you for a second, forgets his own name. Ah, Kennard, sorry. It's the whiskey tonight. So bored, bit of food you say? Four rooms or just the one? How many to a room have you got? Fit as many in there as you want, but it depends if you want a bed or not.
00:54:05
Speaker
Well, the bed's been nice. We need two for two. I've just put it out there, Emron and Reigns, and I'll bunk him with Alpha. No, you will not. We'll have a room each. Reigns, can we afford a room each, or do we want to... Watch you go on, Ray. We can double up. Three and eight per room. Gold.
00:54:33
Speaker
I'm sorry, but we're a very popular establishment these days. Hey, no, it's fine. You have Alpha, I'll have Nix, it'll be fine. Sounds like a fun night. Sorry, not my place, don't know you yet. No, you don't. Six gold for the room, for one night, just the one night. Do we need to pay in advance, or can we... First night in advance, the rest we can have night by night.
00:55:02
Speaker
Drinks of food you pay as you buy. That'd be a, that'd be cracking. Reasonable. Six gold then please, lads. Well, if we, well, we could have all, we'll chip in there. One, two, three, four, five, six counts through them, patches it up, writes a little note about it down. Fantastic. Find the room where you want. I'll be over in a sec for drinks and food. Cheers. Probably by the fire. You look wet as fuck. We are.
00:55:32
Speaker
Um, anyone will ease bulk towards the fire. I shoot my space or is there not?
Reflection and Tension at the Inn
00:55:39
Speaker
There is, there's a point towards like a table quite near the fire. It says six around a large round table. Um, that sits in amongst four round tables that are around the fire in the middle. Um, one of which is, is empty and free and just been wiped down. Oh, good. Been cleaned. Cool, but secure. Um,
00:56:02
Speaker
Everyone else sort of ease his boat down. Great. Any look up? Have the others followed him? Yeah, I've sat down. Yeah, Alpha will be following you too. Yeah, absolutely. I was going to get some drinks at the bar. Was that being taken care of? Yeah, it's being taken care of. I think he said he could be taken care of. Yes, absolutely. I'm coming on over. That's right. I want to explore a downstairs room. I'm going to stay with you.
00:56:33
Speaker
Sharing a room. So a few ground rules. Look, my tail goes where it wants to go. Okay. I can't control that. Right. You keep your tail to yourself. Can't promise. No promises. Otherwise, your tail will meet my hammer. Oh, now hang on. Come on. I know you're my patron at all, but I mean, you might like it.
00:57:03
Speaker
And everyone will look to Nick's. I'm dead serious lad. Don't fuck about. And everyone will look to the other two. Right. Anyone's got anything to say. Let's say it. Can I understand? Sorry. Four drinks. Four ales are just placed on the table and he walks away. Sorry.
00:57:34
Speaker
Nix will grab his and just immediately level it. Go on, and then raise up the empty glass. Another, please, and keep them coming. We're good for it. You know, I know we've not faced odds too different from that. I mean, things down in Suez seem to be about that, but what happened, lads?
00:58:03
Speaker
There were more of them than you saw. They were about to kill us and take her anyway. I kept us all alive. You know why we left Shadow Man's, Emrom. We are not at liberty to die in a godforsaken sewer halfway across the world. We were above the sewers. But also, if your back's against war,
00:58:32
Speaker
and you're fighting folk, it'd be nice to make sure all of us are fighting 100%. And things went south. We all do what we had to do. We die in that street. Marauder is lost, and we're all dead for the consequence.
00:59:01
Speaker
now she is alive they do not want her dead they made great efforts to take her out of their alive if they wanted her dead she would be dead already and after a while it's worth so would you we have no idea what they're gonna do now I've lived in cities and before I met you I've seen what people do when they take folks away
00:59:30
Speaker
just because she's alive does not mean she's safe and does not mean we've done any goodbye by letting her go. I would rather die knowing I've tried to keep friends safe than not.
00:59:47
Speaker
and I would rather live with the chance to make my friends safe than die in a fight that we can't win. Yes, you are right, Imran. I am not a fighter. And given by the state of the way that fight was going, neither are you. We cannot win by playing in fights that we have no business trying to fight. We were outnumbered.
01:00:17
Speaker
We have to be smarter than that. You know what is at stake. You know what happens if we do not put right the wrongs. Another ale, please. As Nick's just down to say. We ain't gonna agree on this. You're my friend, you're my brother, and I love you, and I'm sorry for what I just said. No. We can save her, Imran. We can't.
01:00:47
Speaker
and I hope we get that chance. Just if it were you, if it were, if it were, if we're Alpha, there's no way short of me dying that I'd let them take you. And me for you, friend. Marota's, she's, we've been through stuff and I know you weren't there and you've not seen when we went to whatever place we went
01:01:18
Speaker
in between going up that sodding ladder. But, you know, I know she's got rough edges and I know she can be a pain in the ass but, so can Nick, she needs to lay. Yep, yep, yes, yes I am. Lovely deal with another, anyone else? Another drink? You want my honest opinion? That was one of her, she the leathers go in a heartbeat.
01:01:46
Speaker
I don't know. I'd like to think that she would have had the weirrafall and the decency to try and save us, but she would have let us go. I don't know. Because she would not choose to die in a gutter. We can't die in a gutter. We've got things that we have to do. I know. And you're right. I never reckoned that we'd be in this much shite
01:02:16
Speaker
as quick as we were. So maybe I've, maybe I've overstepped. Maybe I've done. Imran, Imran, you're the best man I know. You don't need to apologize for wanting to do the right thing, but you have to understand from my point of view that there is more to this than what we are currently doing. Okay. I mean,
01:02:44
Speaker
You can see long road reigns you've always have. I see what's in front of me. I see what I can touch, what I can feel, what I can grasp.
Reconciliation Amid Tensions
01:03:02
Speaker
You don't have to apologize. I owe you my life. Sounds like you love each other. Really?
01:03:18
Speaker
You are right. Life is too short to not declare your love for each other. You know what I could do with another beer? I'll go get one. Nothing means more than us you go. But he is right. Nothing means more than me. Than the bond between the three of us.
01:03:34
Speaker
Excuse me, everyone in this bar that we've just frequented. I want to let you all know that these two right here, they love each other so much. And it is a beautiful thing to witness. And I want you all to witness it with me. So everyone, everyone in the bar, raise, raise a drink. Emron's going to look over there. He's going to place the horseshoe on the table. He's got a lucky horseshoe. Hey, wait, that's my horseshoe.
01:04:04
Speaker
They won't just put your drinks down. I mean, I would. I know, Rains, and you're right. I need some time. No, and I agree. We both need to find our way in this rainy, cold,
01:04:28
Speaker
Grim City. It's called Golf Youth, not Grim City. I've not seen it shine apart from when we arrived and then it was in flames. So, you know, not doing so good. But maybe we need to be better. We need to be... You're right. We do. And we will. We will then, run.
01:04:46
Speaker
Look, I'm going to go with my room. I got some things I need to figure out. You don't have to leave now, Nick. Oh, no, no, no, no. Honestly, Emron, Emron, there ain't no bad blood between us, and there never could be. Okay. For what it's worth, you're the best fighter I know. And for what it's worth, I'm not a fighter. Not yet. Tell him.
01:05:11
Speaker
I'm gonna just walk right past Nix and go straight to my room. Emron, he loves you. He won't tell you, but I'll tell you for him. Alpha is going to stand up as Reigns goes, but just like a couple of seconds behind and Alpha's gonna follow, unless he gets told to stay. He's such a good lap dog. Where did you get him? You have to realise that Reigns and I have, we've been through
01:05:41
Speaker
out, you can't imagine some of the... How about you tell me? I just knick sits down and he puts one leg over the other and both hands on one knee. Just tell me. Tell me everything. You know, when we fled, we fled Shadow Mend and he, in doing so, he set aside his life a privilege and I've
01:06:11
Speaker
I've known that we both did it for the right reason. But even before that, when we were threatened, we knew what we had to do, we moved, we knew we could potentially be killed for what we were doing. And we did it anyway, because we knew we had an objective. And since coming here, it's all gone to shit. Sounds like you've been really brave, if you ask me.
01:06:40
Speaker
Well, brave and stupid. Do go hand in hand. Without a bit of stupidity. Let that be a lesson here. Brave and stupid. Hold up, hold up, hold up. If we're doing lessons, I need to write it down. Anyone got a pad and a quill? I'm getting a lesson. Anyone in here? No one's talking in this bar. Everyone, I feel like I'm talking to my Sen. Sen, you say that. I've learned of you.
01:07:08
Speaker
Oh, it's like we're connected. Of course, we are because you're my God. And that thing there, as he points to the horseshoe on the table, that is everything to me. And you're in charge of it. Can we barely know each other, right? I feel like you don't even like me. Everyone puts it away. Nick, you're a strange bloke.
01:07:35
Speaker
Don't, you know, and you're growing on me. I mean, I'm deciding whether you like that bit of fungus that you brush off or whether you think it's going to grow into some mushrooms, but, you know. I mean, does that mean you're going to eat me? No. I'm confused. You look a bit tough to be eating, to be fair.
01:07:58
Speaker
I still don't think we should have left her behind, though. I know. I don't have a lot of friends. In fact, in fact, you could call the people on my ship. They're more like colleagues, really, than friends. And you know what? When I came to Goldview,
01:08:19
Speaker
I tried to be something that I wasn't. And say that this is the real me, I don't know, but she was my first friend and it didn't feel good. What? Just knowing that we didn't save her. I know. And it won't until we have. It won't feel right.
01:08:44
Speaker
until we ask questions. Don't pretend that it's okay. No, you don't have to. Next. It's not okay. Hope that we find a way. Don't break the horseshoe, though. No, I won't. And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to... I don't like, you know... I need the power. I don't have a lot of power.
Intriguing Encounter at the Inn
01:09:07
Speaker
I don't like the attention. It's quite good. I don't know if you know, even I don't know what power I have. Like I could shout really loud and watch the windows go. Thermaturgy comes out and all the windows in the bar go.
01:09:21
Speaker
As you do that, you feel a hand grasp hold of your outstretched arm and it feels cold to grasp, like it's freezing cold in your hand. And as you're slowly just put back down, you look up and see the face of a hooded figure hidden under there seems to be the light
01:09:45
Speaker
Features of a woman you can't make much of it out Just this is the shake of the head as a small plait of ginger hair falls as it moves quietly out towards the door and exits followed quickly by Kennard who brings a letter hands it to this figure nods points and then the figure is gone Kennard returns to the bar That was mysterious as fuck
01:10:13
Speaker
Alright, and Emron's got a pint now, and he's drinking as well. Yes! We will find Marauder. Huh? We will find her. Who? Marauder. What? Where is she? I want another! What are you having? Another two beers? The Ale's friend.
01:10:37
Speaker
M. Ron. It's a funny name. M. Ron. And my featuring M. Ron. And as Nix continues to repeat over and over again the name to a bit of begrudging but a bit of enjoyment at M. Ron's name, we're just going to pass down this alleyway down, not alleyway, sorry, down the corridor towards the rooms as Reigns head down starts heading towards his room, followed by Alpha.
Alpha's Moral Conflict
01:11:05
Speaker
Is there anything you'd want to do, Reigns and Alpha?
01:11:08
Speaker
I'm just going to enter the room and I'm going to let Alfa follow if he's choosing to do so. Yeah, Alfa's going to follow. As we kind of get in, Alfa is just going to kind of, as he turns to shut the door, he's just going to kind of drop his head downwards and if there's a lock on it or anything like that, he's obviously going to lock the door as well. There's a small latch lock to pull across from the inside of the door.
01:11:35
Speaker
Yeah, so he's just going to do that. And then still looking at the floor, he almost felt like in the argument between Emron and Reigns that Alpha was kind of being scolded to a certain degree. He'd seen it as like parents bickering and he viewed a lot of it as his fault for what he was constructed for. He feels a little bit of a failure in regards to what he was supposed to be able to accomplish.
01:12:01
Speaker
So while you're staring deadpan at the floor, it's just going to try and talk to Rains. I am very confused, Rains. Dad. What are you confused about? Both your decision to let Miro to go and Emron's decision to stay and fight for her. It seemed both logical. It seemed both heroic.
01:12:30
Speaker
One feels worse than the other. Sometimes we only have bad choices, Alpha. Sometimes you still have to make a decision. And what if that decision robs evil? More bad choices, more bad decisions. What if a good decision is inherently a bad decision without your knowledge?
01:12:58
Speaker
How do you make that kind of decision? I don't know. Trust your gut. Remember why you picked the name Alpha or why I think you did? It's about leading the way. You are the first Nakavodo. You're probably not going to be the last I'll level with you.
01:13:29
Speaker
And the day is coming. And I truly believe you will know when that day is here that you will face a decision just like the one that you just described. And I think, I think you'll make the right choice. Don't beat yourself up over what happened with Marauder. You couldn't stop it any more than Emron next where I could.
01:13:55
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It is not just about Marota. I sacrificed a human life in order to try and spare my own. I have fought, resorted to violence while we have been in gold view. My actions, while I initially thought they were heroic, don't seem to be as much now. You remember how I said that that memory room and that chest cavity of yours, it functions as both a higher than brain?
01:14:23
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Well, I think you have more anthropological tendencies than I probably first gave credit for. That was you just... That was instinct, Alpha. It was you or him. And I hope you ain't ready to make that trip yet. I certainly am not. Alpha, you more than any of us are not at liberty to die. And I'm sorry that I put that burden on you. But that burden is real.
01:14:54
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Look, I wish that I could give you a stronger moral compass. I wish that the lessons passed down to me could be of use to you, but they're not. But there is one thing I can tell you that when I was a political prisoner and fatherkeep,
01:15:24
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The man, the man entrusted with my protection could have killed me and he chose not to. He probably should have to save his own life. But he said something to me that I'm going to say to you, word by word, a day will come when you have the power to order the world, such as your position in it. And you will have to choose whether you're going to order it for good,
01:15:54
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or you're gonna, you're gonna let evil. You're gonna let evil make that decision for you. That man went by the name of Freidzenrith, which is primordial, and it translates, and if I do this, I'm gonna start pouring out contents from the bag of holding onto the table. It translates to still defender.
01:16:23
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you face that decision, Alfred. Nah, he told me something else. You see, I like to tell people I was the first artificial, but that's because I wanted to protect the fact that, well, he was. Fred Zendrath, primordial, still defender. And for what it's worth, Imran is completely right. I am not a fighter. I'm going to tap the Rubik's cave.
01:16:52
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and this freely hologram of what looks like a suit of armour that appears to be buzzing with evocation magic. And Alpha, you will feel static energy starting to come off range as a person at this point. But I want to be able to help people Alpha.
01:17:20
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I'm just going to study the diagram in front of me and put a hand out on Alfa's shoulder trying to be reassuring but also looking for strength myself as I just stare at this almost like hologram that is just spinning around on top of this Rubik's Cube and almost in a parallel to that
01:17:46
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Alfa is just going to reach into his satchel and pull out the blue gem that was picked up by one of the other world and he's just going to kind of stare into this. This is his kind of first proper kind of moral decision for him where does he follow Morota's wishes
01:18:14
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as he would be aware, try and keep it from Nix for now and keep it on his person, or does he do what he believes may be the right thing and pass it on to Nix as it would rightfully be his from where we've actually taken it? As we leave, our two Artifices are staring into their respective items, the fire crackling warm behind them.
Conclusion and Rest
01:18:39
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As the night slowly draws to an end, Bob, the night draws in. That's how we're going to leave it for this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop. You will all have a long rest ready for next week's session. So enjoy the headpoints and these vel slots. Thank the Lord Emron that I'm getting a long rest because I need it. Thank you, Alito. That was awesome.
01:19:03
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Um, I like the happy thing. Yeah. Oh man. And we saw Kennard and we saw, we saw the smallest bit of Charlie, which might mean fuck all to you new listeners. And that's cool. That's fine because you know what? You're in a good space. So, um, you know what? Thanks for tuning in for listening to us making us a party every day week. We love you for it. Um, Oh, that was fun. That was a really good episode. I enjoyed that.
01:19:34
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What can you find us, Ian? I want to get in contact with the podcast. Lead me into this, baby. Well, you can find us on one of our various social media platforms. I'm still acting like I'm drunk. This is weird. What media platforms are they?
01:19:51
Speaker
Well, you've got Facebook. Interesting. What fellowship table? Ah, good. You've got a website, which is the fellowship at the tabletop.com or fellowship at the tabletop.com. COCCOM. COCCOM is a very different website.
01:20:09
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You have our Twitter page. We have a combined one, which is at fellowship table. And then if you wanted to go one step further and follow us individually, you can do so too. I'm at, I'm order one. Callum's at, TheD20Gamer. Will is at, Natural20Will. BigBoldDarren is at, Darren page A6. And our glorious, wonderful, awesome, majestic DM is at, hastily rolled DM. Until next time, guys.
01:21:05
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Bye! Bye!