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C2 Ep. 172 Cursed Legacies Episode Two
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It's only a small curse
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Transcript
Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:09
Speaker
D20 Radio, your game is roll.
00:00:48
Speaker
Let's start with this.
Tension Among the Group
00:00:49
Speaker
What does Ace say? Yeah, Ace, here's what Hobb says. And I'm trying to think of how. Yeah, you say what you say, Hobb. And Ace pauses for a second and you can see a vein getting a little bit bigger near his temple as he takes the... And it's dead. It's in between. Lunch rush has not started. The container of lemons that he's just brought, he like throws it against the wall.
00:01:19
Speaker
and says, fine, go look at whatever you want. Sorry, Elphin. I'm the one that has to clean him up and chop new ones anyway. So I felt fine doing it. And he storms to the back. I already looked at the bike really closely. Can we do more? Because I rolled for it, you jack wagon. I feel like I really understood how that worked, that bike. Fine.
00:01:46
Speaker
that I'm going to I'm going to go look at this bike.
Unique Skills and Contributions
00:01:50
Speaker
I mean, I closely. My thought was that like Eris, all of short Milo really assess this thing and see how evil it is. Milo brings a different skill. Like Milo brings a different skill to it. So Milo, Milo walks outside, looks like Mike. Don't you get too far ahead of yourself, sir? We saw that you can get a third despair.
00:02:13
Speaker
no i'm fine with you making the check i just want to resolve all the other stuff happening oh i thought the pissiness was the threat he's i'm trying to be nice and he just gets pissier at me but that that was the threat is that his reaction was negative so no the triumph and the despair rather so what do you want for the triumph there's i'm of two minds a part of me would love to use this triumph to
Debating Strategies and Threats
00:02:34
Speaker
Give an upgrade to Randy or whatever it is. Yes upgrade, right? Yeah for it when he's checking out the bike Another part of me wants to put use that try have to put a little note in that briefcase to Eris from Harbin saying just give me some time So she chills the hell out for a minute Milo's not gonna need an upgrade Okay, our Connor is insane. So then Eric it unless it ruins too much I would love for there to be some information
00:03:00
Speaker
Indication ruins his hobgoblin scheme that he's been building up to with all these despairs convinced he's putting them in his back pocket, saving them up to ruin to just cut our hearts out later on. It would not be against Eric's nature to use my triumph of Harbin saying we can talk later to turn that into a trap. Oh, I kind of become a pirate again. I
Emotional Struggles of Eris
00:03:23
Speaker
thought idea. The other one would be to make Eris's check to get the Oracalcum
00:03:29
Speaker
whatever modification to the URL needs to happen to upgrade that check. Was that something you would need, Eris? I have already upgraded mine with my second one. Yeah. Sure. It will create yet more that I roll a lot of dice for artificial already. So I'm. I'm open to ideas then. What do you guys think?
00:03:49
Speaker
I'm assuming that's not extended to me in terms of ideas. You sit there with your mouth shut and wait until we tell you what we're doing. I want no indication that you're even listening to us talk, Eric. Take the headphones off. No, yes, Eric, if you have a suggestion that. Because that's what's been in my head is I'm trying to.
00:04:10
Speaker
I would like to do something to make Aeris' day better because I feel like Aeris' day staying bad is going to bite Hob in the butt because it does be bad.
Group Dynamics Under Stress
00:04:20
Speaker
Because the less filter Aeris employs, the more Hob has to cover it when they're together. Do you have any thoughts on that, Philip? Let's see, Aeris'
00:04:35
Speaker
Desire is safety and her fear is abandonment and her flaw is recklessness. And yeah, three, three people who were important in her life have to her mind walked out on her in the last 24 hours. And her usual response of we should flee this place she abandoned a while ago, so she doesn't really know what to do with. I feel very bad and unsafe.
00:05:05
Speaker
but also I'm not gonna run away from this place. Not sure how to do that. And so she's hurting people. Right. So what do we do with this triumph about it? How can I triumph at that?
00:05:23
Speaker
if an option would be to for the tribe to have sauna come into work to show that there is still a level of normalcy like that sauna hasn't abandoned everything and it's just maybe
00:05:37
Speaker
heat of the moment talk and sauna just needs some time but this is a step towards that i don't know if that would reassure aris in any meaningful way the note the forged note from harvin thing or there being a note from harvin that's what i thought jeffman initially was like i want to try to get hot to put a note to a forged note from harvin i mean that would definitely make things better in the long run it made sense to me that harvin would be more comfortable writing that than saying it when he delivered you especially with that option as well
00:06:06
Speaker
Either of those two, Kath doesn't really make sense in this scenario to show up. And it feels I think I may be wrong here. Aeris would be least likely to be assured by Kath still being a part of the group right now. Yeah. Aeris told Kath to buzz off. So I don't think the Doshure coming back into Aeris's life would be reassuring in this moment. So I would just say, no, no, I can see that would probably not be reassuring. Viggo. It's been a while since we have Viggo. Obviously the Ram.
00:06:37
Speaker
I'm up for whatever you guys think.
Return to Normalcy with Sauna
00:06:39
Speaker
You'll pick. Okay. It is your triumph. Okay. It's your triumph, brother. I like Sauna coming in. That actually does make more sense, I think. Yeah, I think so. And gives us something to do. No, it doesn't really. So yeah, the doors open and Sauna enters and sees everyone. Oh, hi. Oh, sorry. Overslapped. But here for lunch. Hey, guys. How are you feeling?
00:07:07
Speaker
tired, sore, but fine. How is everyone? Because I'm a bit tired and a little sore actually. So yeah. Iris has just gone very still. Hob didn't really talk to sauna last night. So he's just answering the question she asked. Milo puts his sandwich down that he was chewing on and heads for the door and says, I'm fine. Gonna go look at a check out the
00:07:38
Speaker
bike out here. Yeah, did you see that crazy speeder out there? Yeah, whose is that? Ace says he bought it last night. Oh, he definitely stole it, right? So, okay. Okay, you're, you've gotten, are you like close with him now? I haven't really been paying attention. He doesn't say the second part. I mean, we work together basically every day. So, yeah, I know him, like. The smart money is on him liking you more than he likes us.
00:08:05
Speaker
So if you maybe want to figure out where the heck this thing came from, you've got a better chance at it than we do. Because he clearly stole it, right? Yeah. Who was there? I think it was Haben Reynard with the four sales when Ulfin told you all to convince Sana to take his money because he was trying to pay Sana and she wouldn't take it. Is that right? I can't remember if I was there or not, honestly.
00:08:33
Speaker
Okay. Sauna says, uh, well, and often was insisted on paying me. I didn't need the money. I didn't want to keep the money, but I felt like ACE probably needed it more. So I just was like, I handle the finances. So I'm just putting my pay into ACE's coin purse and told ACE that he got a raise. So he has money. Um, but that's a really nice bike. He said he paid 25 gold.
00:09:00
Speaker
Oh, you're not, he didn't get that sort of raise, did he? No, no. Yeah. Yeah. No. So I don't know.
The Mysterious Bike Acquisition
00:09:10
Speaker
I'm good, but I'll get you, please. I think I have some prep work to do before lunch. Russ, if you all don't need anything else, but try to eat him, it's probably for the best. I'll see if I can find anything more out over lunch rush, but good to see you all.
00:09:31
Speaker
Puts her head down and walks to the back. The despair, though. We don't need to worry about that. I'm going to add a upgrade to the difficulty on Milo's check. Because you might want to save that despair. For something else. What do you mean? Milo's going to go outside. Look very closely at this bike, very carefully.
00:10:00
Speaker
all around it. And Milo just for whatever reason knows everything about this bike. Cheeky little okey dokey. Flip a story. It's one story point. Oh, only one. Okay. Yep. And we get a temporary.
00:10:21
Speaker
Oh, right. Okay. So Milo looking down, you feel your scar pulse a little bit and you feel a voice in your head, Kylie's voice saying, Oh, this is
00:10:37
Speaker
I think the only word that I could use to describe it is in magic. That's not good. It's not a good kind. Infernal magic is used for a lot of things, but yeah, no, the people that make it you don't want to deal with. Yes. But this seems to be part of a pact of some kind. Like this was gifted.
00:11:06
Speaker
This isn't something that could be bought and sold, only something that could be brokered for with something other than gold. I see. So whoever's riding this bike has made a pact with someone or something. I'd probably lend it out if you really wanted to, but yeah, probably whoever is in ownership of this bike has made a pact. So if it's stolen, it's real trouble. All right.
00:11:35
Speaker
We really need to have a conversation one of these days. It takes quite a bit of arcane energy to communicate like this, Milo, but yeah, one day we should. Yes. Thank you. Of course. It's talking out loud. And then, okay, for the despair, Milo, you feel like... I knew it!
00:11:59
Speaker
As you are ending the conversation, it's not anything like intense or immediate. It feels like there's a fishing hook on the inside of your scar. Something's like pulling
00:12:11
Speaker
on it and it hurts. It's not like somebody put a fishing hook through your flesh and like the pain of that. It's something's pulling. Sorry, you said it was exactly like that? Uh, but yeah, it's in addition to the headache and kind of the sensations that Milo gets with that scar to begin with, it's just an additional thing, but it's something that, yeah, is going on. So inside, after Sana's walked away while Milo's having this conversation, Ulfin sees the case as like, oh, are we doing that today?
00:12:39
Speaker
Do you want me to do that today? Based on our last conversation about the Boromar coming to burn this place to the ground, probably sooner rather than later, it looks like I'm going to be getting a whole new clientele.
00:12:54
Speaker
So no real point in worrying about making these people mad. One thing to tell you though, and nobody else is in here besides you four and then Milo whenever Milo reenters, but it's probably not going to be anything because we're not taking it on the water.
00:13:12
Speaker
but it is moving and airships are a thing. So I feel like it's worth just putting it out there. The reason I stopped being a pirate to set up this restaurant was not for a lost love of the sea. It was because I- You said after we found Captain Bronzebeard's treasure, that was the last voyage. Yes, but the thing is- I'm really glad you just went with me on that.
00:13:43
Speaker
Captain Bronzebeard, turns out, was a very powerful magic user who would put a curse on his treasure. And me being the captain of the vessel, I got hit with the curse. Basically, it's really vague because nobody who makes a curse can just be straightforward about what it's gonna do to ya. If I sail again,
00:14:11
Speaker
I will be hunted by the souls I've damned. Don't know what that means. What? Basically what I've gathered because I'm still on the ship. I think if I'm on a boat that's sailing, then something involving the souls I've damned is going to happen until I stop sailing.
00:14:32
Speaker
Which of the which souls have you damned? I was a pirate heiress, so a lot of people have died. And so I would imagine it's probably people I've killed coming to haunt me or something else. I don't know. I tried. If you're not on the ship, it could not. There's a question we move it. It's either me or the ship that's cursed. If I'm not on the ship, that might be fine.
Ulfin's Cursed Past
00:15:00
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Or it might be irrelevant if I'm on the ship. There's a cursed bike parked out front with a possibly cursed ship. This is a really great. Arcane situation we've created here. Yeah, I just I never intended to sail again or have the ship move from where it is, so I never thought it was relevant to discuss or bring up. OK, so Milo, your idea of making it a food truck is not
00:15:32
Speaker
Eris says just after Milo has re-entered. Yeah, that would be a really bad idea. Why not? I thought it was a great idea. It's the curse of Captain Bronzebeard. Who of the what now? I went out with Milo. Yeah, if I or the ship sail again, then I'll be hunted by the souls of the damned. Oh, oh, the curse specifically says that I will be hunted. So even if I'm not on the ship,
00:16:01
Speaker
If you leave me behind, I might just get attacked while the ship is moving. So you're suggesting that if we move the ship from one neighborhood to another, while we're doing that, we'll be attacked by undead pirates. Possibly. We're not going on the water. So I don't know. Hobbs mind is racing. Never an undead pirate.
00:16:32
Speaker
Well, in step, no, you best believe in ghost stories, Hop. This was terrible news, often. This is a really weird day. Yeah. And he shows you, he pulls up his sleeve and says, yeah, I had tattooed like marketing. And he's got, amongst his other tattoos, there's a tattoo, a skull with a, even the tattoo looks metallic of bronze metallic beard on a skull with a snake going out of one eye and into the mouth hole.
00:17:02
Speaker
Yeah, not really my thing. That's really nice work, though. Yeah, the detail. Don't know how to get rid of the curse. Never really looked into it because I was resigned to not sail anymore. So I figure the only way to get to solving the curse was to sail there. So yeah, it seems unfair. I find curses to be that way.
00:17:26
Speaker
Are we cursed also from eating here so much? Cause some things have been going not great lately. Um, I think that's just the results of the decisions that you've made in your life, hob specifically my decision to eat in this cursed restaurant. Yeah. I'll, I'll close, I'll lock up the doors and put a sign up saying that we're closed. If you all want to get started on the whatever. Yeah. Button down to hatches.
00:17:54
Speaker
Yes. In the other news. Oh, good. Is it good news? No, it's absolutely not. It gets worse. Great. The bike outside the speeder. Yeah. Yes. In order to be the owner of that vehicle, you have to have made a pact. Whoever owns the bike has made a pact with something or somebody.
00:18:23
Speaker
Stole the bike. They still say he had, they said he got a good deal. Yes, but. Yeah. How about us to clarify real quickly? The person who owns it or in order to operate it? I think just the person who owns the bike. If it's stolen, somebody's going to be after it, obviously, because if it's a pack that they have made, they have to have the bike. So they wouldn't sell it?
00:18:53
Speaker
No, absolutely not. For a bargain price. No, they're not going to sell that bike. Randy, are you intentionally not telling them the school of magic that the Pact is fueled by, or are you building to it? You know how Milo likes to beat around a bush sometimes? Yeah, okay, just making sure. Continue beating. Yes, the bike would never have been stolen. And if he could not have bought it, so he's either made the Pact,
00:19:21
Speaker
Or he's stolen the bike that belongs to somebody else who's has made this pact.
Infernal Magic Warnings
00:19:26
Speaker
And the magic is with its infernal. So he's made. So wait. He's made a pass at the devil. Devil bike. It's a devil is handing out speeders.
00:19:41
Speaker
If he has made a pact, then yes. This is really weird. And if he's stolen it, then whoever made that pact is coming for that bike.
00:19:54
Speaker
As you all are talking, Ulfen has gone around and shut some of the windows and gone in the back room. And as you all are talking, Ace comes out of the back room and is like, sounds like you all are moving this place, so no lunch rush. So I'm gonna head out for the day unless you all, yeah, you don't need me. So I'm gonna head out. Quick question. What's up, Milo? What? I'm just going to ask something. What? I figured when you said you had a question. Yes, did you make a pact with anybody or a bargain with somebody?
00:20:23
Speaker
I made a bargain to buy my Peter bike. No, see. I told you that though. Yes, you did. But in order to own that bike, the person who owns that bike had to have made some sort of a bargain or a pact. You may have given some money for the bike, but
00:20:46
Speaker
I mean, bargain, whatever you want to call it. With the devil. You literally made a deal with the devil ace. Did you know that before you did it? That's all I want to know. Yes. There will come a price. There is a cost for this. 25 gold. Yeah, I know. All right. I need you to sit down for a second, please, and just listen to what we're saying. That's all I ask. It's all I ask. And I'm also not asking you.
00:21:15
Speaker
I'll stay, but if I can stand, that'd be preferable. Fine. I feel like I cannot help with this and I'm going to go start making preparations to move this ship that we might need to defend from undead pirates. So if Ace has recently acquired superpowers from a devil, we might keep him around. I'd like to keep him around regardless, Hoblai. Because he might now have useful skills for defending the ship against undead pirates.
00:21:44
Speaker
and the ghost of Captain Bronzebeard. I am standing right here. I'm going to tell you all about that. I said you might now be useful. Aeris go work on something about me. Try these walks out. You try complimenting people. And this is just. Ace, do you have some newfound abilities or how are you talking about? Do you have any magic on a speeder bike to come to work on time?
00:22:10
Speaker
That's it. But you don't. You're not in the room, Aris. And I don't know that because I came in after him. And I was here. Weirdest episode of Cheers ever. I was here working before you got here. Yeah, I overslept. OK, it happens to people. Both of you can give me either a a perception or. No, let's just go perception. The red involved. Yes.
00:22:40
Speaker
I'm not sure I'm going to do it. There's one red, two purple. My perception is terrible. I have two. I have two yellow and a green. What are you talking about? One yellow and two green. OK, it's not as bad as I thought. So a red and two purple. I have two yellow and a green. If we want to mitigate the reds rolled, I could give it a shot first. Game. OK, for success.
00:23:11
Speaker
Okay, so you, Hob, you can definitely tell that Ace is lying, but the three threats, Hob is really hung up on the bike thing. Like the, that's what, that's the area that you think he's lying about. Like the superpower thing, not part of the equation right now. Okay. That's all three threats. The bike as it relates to making a pact with the devil though. I'm not just jealous of his bike, right? Okay. Thank you. No, I'm just saying. Otherwise what am I doing? Yeah. All right. Hob's going to say,
00:23:41
Speaker
Because I haven't said anything since I threatened him with bodily harm if he doesn't stay here. Ace, cut to the crap.
00:23:50
Speaker
You are lying to me and I do not like it. Now you can say a lot of things about the way that you have perceived the way I've treated you. I've dismissed you, you feel that way and I understand that, but I've never lied to you. And that's true. If you made a pact with an infernal creature that can do things like gift you this bike, then you have potentially put
00:24:16
Speaker
All of us in danger, tell me the truth about how you got this bike, Ace. I'm really worried that we're going to learn that as in his life as a burglar, Ace is not a very good warlock and really genuinely the only thing he's gotten in return for his immortal soul is his bike. OK, yeah, there was strings attached to the deal.
00:24:44
Speaker
Yeah, I got the bike from a guy who had a job for me. So he hired me to do the job. I'm still doing the job and.
00:24:55
Speaker
That's what it is. The bike is part of the deal. He wants me to be able to get places quickly. It's a very fast Peter bike. That's what it is. As long as I keep, there wasn't even any kind of, if you don't do what I want, I'm gonna come after you, thing. It's just contract. It was there. I just don't think it was said. Ace, I got no problem with warlocks. I got no problem with you making a pact.
00:25:23
Speaker
But you got to be upfront with us if you made a pact with a devil. You understand that, right? Listen, I don't know if he was a devil. He had a contract. He needed a job done. It's like people signed contracts to have employment with people. I don't know what he's a paper and the words burned into it like you do. I signed it in blood. I know a contract. It's screamed when he unrolled it.
00:25:49
Speaker
Yeah, if I do turn the ignition while the bike's already on, it does let out a maniacal laugh. Is that a thing? That's a starting noise. Man, I get it. It's a cool bike and you got a job and you've been wanting things like that. I'm concerned for your safety and ours because the job you signed on for my guy, I don't know how to tell you this. It's permanent.
00:26:11
Speaker
Let me ask you this, Jeff, how much would Hob know about warlock packs and because like devils are a thing and everyone like people would know it's not like this like Faustian thing. No, sure. Yeah. No, I know the devils are a monster for better.
00:26:26
Speaker
they're a type of extra planar denizens. Okay. They prefer extra planar denizens. I will say this. One thing that will determine that is if you think there would be warlocks in a blood of vole sect considering they don't really have a deity. Because if that's if there would be there, he would know a lot about it because he lived among those people for a long time. If not, it would be passing from what he's met in other places.
00:26:55
Speaker
Yes, and I will say that yeah in that vein Especially in something like a blood of vole sec the type of packs that would be made warlocks lose their packs all the time like okay warlock. Yeah, like it's a thing where Not all warlock packs are a Faustian deal with the devil. Sometimes it's a Relationship of hey do this thing for me. I will grant you this power and then once that relationship goes sour. It's okay cool You don't get the power anymore. Bye. So yeah, it's not
00:27:22
Speaker
Yeah, there there is potential for it to be that dire but not necessarily. Okay, that's good. I'm going off of the warlocks that I've played with or seen played and they've always been like
00:27:33
Speaker
Yeah. You were born it and you're going to die with it. Deal with it. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. OK. I genuinely didn't know that it was I guess like how a paladin can that does make sense. And to be fair, Milo probably would not. He was a dadgum barkeeper. But also I would know that if you sign a pact with a powerful enough patron, they decide when you're done, you don't get to. And I have to assume Hob knows Ace doesn't have that card up his sleeve. Yeah. He didn't sign an exit clause because he's yeah.
00:28:05
Speaker
But yeah, listen, I feel like I'm hitting a place where I appreciate the concern. It's my life. And if you're concerned about how my decisions will affect you, there's a remedy to that. Your job doesn't involve hurting anyone. I wouldn't expect that of you. I haven't been asked to hurt anyone yet. It's mostly information gathering.
00:28:33
Speaker
information on us no suddenly paranoid what's a devil with me exactly you tell that devil leave me alone hop says listen I'm not only concerned about how it's going to affect me ace I don't want whatever you think I think about you I don't dislike you
Confessions and Denials of Danger
00:28:56
Speaker
I don't want you to be hurt. You're a part of the for sales and I care about this place. I'm not only saying this. I thought maybe you, when I said all of us could be in danger, that might change the way you looked at it. That's not my main issue. Does that make sense? That's all. Okay. I just want to make sure you understand that. I don't know. Jeff doesn't know why, but for some reason he felt compelled to have Hobbe clarified.
00:29:26
Speaker
Listen, I'm just, I have an employer, often treats me well, pays me, never hurts to have more. And so I got an offer and I took it and I doing well at it so far. It's only been one day, but yeah. And it comes with a really sick bike. There's no denying the sickness of the bike. I'm on, I'm with you there. So no, I, yeah.
00:29:54
Speaker
Milo, you are more than welcome to also make a perception check if you want. I know Jeff made one, but if you want to, you are welcome to do so as well. If you don't want to, that's also fine, but. Yeah, no, I think we're good. Okay. Good luck. Be safe. Yeah, you too. Good luck moving. Where, where in the high, do you know where in high walls you're taking the four sales just so I know where to come to work tomorrow?
00:30:23
Speaker
I don't know where. I imagine for the ship, it'll there'll be a bit of hubbub about it. If we make it there, you'll be able to find it. Yeah. OK. Do you or do you not have any special abilities now that you're aware of? Always had special abilities. You know what I mean, Ace? What? I got a cool bike and I like I have a new job. Yeah, that's it. OK.
00:30:53
Speaker
Well, can you make any kind of check on this or are you just? Yeah, I'm going to definitely check that. I was I was looking for a reason. Yeah. One red, two purple, and I'm going to flip it to make two red, one purple. Come on, Milo. Yeah, two red and one purple. How many story points do we have? Eric wants to see you suffer. Don't give him the satisfaction. Flip a story point. Flip one and turn one into a yeller. What are you what's your skill you're using?
00:31:22
Speaker
Uh, perception, I thought. Yeah. So yeah, you just use the temporary one. So that one's gone. Yep. You don't got failed at everything. I'm a failure. Come on buddy. You're a great magician. Yeah. Can I throw a spell at him? No, I guess I go and take a point of strain Milo, because this has been a heck of a morning. You had to serve brunch rush. Then all this a stuff.
00:31:53
Speaker
your scar feels weird. In that case, we're about to try to move the ship and there may be a whole lot of trouble here with potentially undead pirates. So I'm trying to leave. Yeah, yes, go and be safe. And please be careful. Yeah, I will.
00:32:18
Speaker
You're sure you don't want to kick it and see if undead pirates show up. It sounds cool. It sounds cool in theory, but I don't want to be here when an undead pirate is trying to stab me. Fair enough. All right. You could find out if you got any superpowers. That's all I'm saying. The alternative seems like that's a heck of a gamble. Unless you all want me to stay, then I'm going to head out. I want you to do what you want to do, my guy. I'm not going to. OK. Yeah.
00:32:48
Speaker
and Ace walks out the doors as Sana exits the back room. Ulfin's cursed. He goes, now you we can use. Here's what's up. And he explains, we're about to try. There might be undead pirates. Are you in? You're here already. Yeah, I'll fight off some undead pirates.
00:33:09
Speaker
Look man, I'm sorry. I don't want there to have, I don't want the, Ulfin didn't tell us till we were like, Eris is really set on this and she's away. No, I get it. And Ulfin probably doesn't want to abandon his ship, even if it's here. Yeah. Just in case I am not an undead pirate, just so you, oh gosh. I'm sorry, Sana. I apologize. Just last night was trying. I'm sorry. I'm sorry too, Milo.
00:33:38
Speaker
Okay. So do we need to have all of them leave? Wait, Harris, are we ready? What's going, what is going on? Harris has been outside this whole time. Just sat back down. And so I asked, give me a break. If often leaves and he's attacked by these undead pirates, we won't be there to help.
00:33:57
Speaker
But if he's the one that's cursed, and it's that he can't sail on a ship again, and he's off the ship, then we avert the curse. But we won't know if we're averting the curse. Exactly. That is... Okay, so here's what's up. There's not a good way to do this, it would appear. I think it's safer to just keep Ulfin on the ship. If there's a curse, and Ulfin on the ship, we definitely trigger the curse.
00:34:27
Speaker
Yes, if there's a person opens off the ship, we may not trigger the curse. How fast is this bad boy flying?
00:34:35
Speaker
But it not based on Eris's estimation, not fast. It is going to float the gap. Is it like Macy's? Are we going to put, are we just going to tie ropes to it and it's just going to float and we're going to walk it? No, no. I, but if often is not on the ship and the curse is like on the ship, but the curse says he will be attacked, then he's just going to be attacked while we're floating over the city.
00:35:00
Speaker
And I don't want that, either. Yeah, same. Okay, Eris, what are you doing outside the ship? Now I'm making it fly. Okay. Done and done. Give me an artifact in the air. I'm gonna wait. With an upgrade from your previous triumph and seven setback for the sabotaged ore account.
00:35:26
Speaker
You should at least get a boost nice from all my failures this evening, I think. What is the difficulty of doing this? Boy, howdy. What is it? You've already passed the initial check to confirm that it can be done. True. Which was very difficult. So I am going to put it at a formidable. So three purple, one red.
00:35:55
Speaker
Would you like to flip a story point to give yourself another upgrade? You have all of them. Sure. And then give it back. OK, let's see. What? OK, so listener. I just rolled one, two, three, four, five yellow dice, one green die, one blue die.
00:36:25
Speaker
against three purple and one red, and I have rolled zero successes, three advantage and one despair. I left for two minutes. Come back. That was that. Wait. Hold on. I didn't include my two ranks of inventor. Ah.
00:36:52
Speaker
Get to roll two more boost dice. OK. OK. Ha. So now our final count is one success, five advantage and one despair. OK. Aeris, we're getting under pirates. No, I already did that. That was that was the despair from looking at the bike.
00:37:20
Speaker
You ring up. This is some whole new thing. You use the Oracalcum in your your markings and your artificing on the exterior of the ship. All of us out there helping you with the arms lifting stuff. Yeah. Go and describe what. Yeah. Basically, Tasha is hovering at various spots under the hull of this vessel and egric is lifting plates of Oracalcum into place while Eris and
00:37:47
Speaker
Olive bolt them onto the ship and Eris scores runes into them with her tools. And she is basically.
00:38:03
Speaker
plates that will hover, that will harness the Aryan manifest zone that fills the area of sharn and allow this vessel to travel by the same means that the average sky cab travel. Cool. Five advantage. Yep. I could tell you what the despair is first, if you would like to know that, because I do know that. I would like to use my advantage first. OK.
00:38:31
Speaker
I'd like to say with whatever portion of my advantage you would like to take for this that by some stroke of good fortune, even though we're definitely going to be attacked by undead pirates, we will not also be swarmed by the cops. I'm going to let manifestly illegal thing that we're about to do with the with the despair being what it's going to be. That's not going to be relevant so you can save your advantage and use it for something else.
00:39:03
Speaker
That's ominous worrying. Yeah. I would like there to be a long dead before the cops. I would like there to be a lot of cops along our path. Verla and half of her precinct show up. Yeah. Our cops, good cops. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Verla and that, that very patient police medic that tried to fix Aeris's hand. Yeah. Okay.
00:39:31
Speaker
I don't know. What do you what do we want to buy, guys? I got five advantage to spend. And the thing we have to worry about is apparently not the cops. Yeah, that just did we ever scout out a place to put it in high walls? Do we need to use some advantage to say we've got a pad? Thought we established that. Yeah, there was an empty lot. OK, I didn't hear that part. I don't. And did I understand correctly that.
00:39:55
Speaker
The curse only occurs as long as he's sailing. If he sails and then stops, the curse goes away. I think that is what he said. Once you get the ship to where it needs to go, then it'll stop. The spirit of bronze beard will rest easy. How about if as long as he doesn't sail again? Yeah. If he did such an amazingly good job on this, that maybe the ship moves a little quicker. So if the curse does occur, it won't last as long. If.
00:40:24
Speaker
Yeah, that is a possibility. Speed would be fine. Inadvertently summoned a lot of Irianic angels who will battle the undead crew of Captain Bronzebeard. OK, but what do we do with the other three advantage? Because we got a speedy boat, we got some angels now. Right.
00:40:51
Speaker
I can do something with that if you want to say that's the fall for all five advantage, like a an extra planer ally. Why not have fun, Eric? Yeah. So the Rams. I'm John the boat. Paul is forgiven. Throwing off the boat. We're getting him out, getting him airborne and we're throwing him off the boat and we're watching him hit the ground and then we're taking him down to the cogs and we're melting him.
00:41:17
Speaker
Yikes. So the taking his melted corpse and I'm making it into something else. The pin for the despair. Eris, what does it look like when this thing takes flight? So you've got it all rigged up. Eris has no idea what's going to happen. Eris has worked out doing this over the course of several days in which she's had no time to practice this on a scale model. Yeah. Got the material this morning. She's hung over.
00:41:46
Speaker
And angry at the world. Eric is just counting off. Open has put on his his pirate captain's coat and hat, though, to mark the occasion. So that's that doesn't mean for Aeris. Why would he do that? Why would he do that? How would that help?
00:42:05
Speaker
It just makes it more like he's sailing. No, I think Eris finishes the last stroke on. No, I'll tell you what, it's much more awkward than this. Every time Eris finishes a stroke on one of these plates, they immediately activate. And so the repulsors activate one at a time.
00:42:24
Speaker
And so every now and again, inside a portion, sorry, a portion of the ship just lurched slightly as the ship gradually gains weightlessness a little bit at a time. That rules. So finally, it just drifts away. Aeris is obviously forgotten to unmoor it. And so it tears off whatever was holding it to the side of the tower. Hey, should we have got a boat, Hobb?
00:42:53
Speaker
Ophin is up on the deck. Ophin went up top and he announced that to the rest of you. I'm going up top. I want to see this. Do the rest of you go up there as Eris is finishing up working? I think Hob asks, Eris, where should we be? Eris is still outside under the boat, marking. Oh, yeah. Then I shout, Eris! Into your communicator. I imagine you stuck his head out the window at one of the, at one of the portholes. Hey, Candid's only go here, right? Cool. Yeah.
00:43:25
Speaker
Where do you want me? Oh, if you don't have an answer, I'm going to protect often from the dead pirates. Was it? Wait, where in the conversation did Eris leave? Did Eris hear about the undead pirates? Yes, I did because I introduced Bronzebeard. OK. Yeah. And then I'll just don't worry about that gift. Guess undead pirates would come from outside the ship, right?
00:43:53
Speaker
I mean, I don't know how ship curses work. Neither do I. I've never been on one. And it's not true. You've been on this one several times. You know what? We're not doing this right now. Oh, but you are. And then the ship lurches slightly and several tables slide across the interior. Hub flicks are in the temple because he's hungover, so he wouldn't like it. That's true.
00:44:22
Speaker
All right, I'm just gonna go be with Olphin then, all right? Hit the communicator if you need me, and I go up to the top. Milo, are you going up top? Yeah, Milo's up top. Does this thing need headlines? Sonu does as well. So all of you on deck, Eris, as you finalize the last in it, like, lurches, as soon as, like, the tide off, as soon as the mooring breaks, all of a sudden, something envelops the ship, and the world around you all goes monochrome.
Entering the Realm of the Dead
00:44:49
Speaker
You can still see Sharn around you and below you, but it seems like a warped, twisted, and not even twisted, ruinous version of the city. But all the markings, everything is still exactly where you expect it to be. Just some of the towers are crumbling and stuff like that. And like,
00:45:12
Speaker
Small to your eyes, they would be sky cabs, but they look a little different, floating about much more slowly and lazily. You all can give me a knowledge lore check if you like, or acknowledge adventuring. Hey, what's the radius on this? I'm not technically on the ship. If you're not on the ship, then you wouldn't see any of this. Oh, cool. So.
00:45:40
Speaker
I assumed that you would have been magbooted to the ship as it pulled up. I was on Tasha underneath it. So y'all are just staring at him as a communicator. Oh, the frack, it worked! No, Aeris. Okay, Philip, you tell me. Because basically, the way this is functionally working is if you're on Tasha and not attached to the ship in any way, then the whole ship disappears.
00:46:02
Speaker
but that also eliminates Eris from the rest of this situation. Yeah. If you want that to be done, there is a certain, Oh no, I don't like it. Is anybody going to make a knowledge lore check? I'm out. My one green. It's a four red. Okay. That's not what was supposed to happen. I'm working on it. Two purple.
00:46:32
Speaker
Two purple. I feel confident that surely I will not fail this one. Okay. One success. Three advantage. Three advantage. Yeah, Milo, you pretty quickly recognize that you all are in dolar. Oh, great. Okay. Three advantage.
00:46:58
Speaker
We're not in. You also see in the middle of the ship, though. No, like coming. So, Eris, are you on deck or are you attached on the side of the ship? I'm still on the bottom of the ship. Like, Eris just finished the last rune.
00:47:13
Speaker
Eris, out of the last rune that you just carved in, the Aryan rune, a figure is attached to it and you see they are glowing with bright radiant light, long luxurious blonde hair flowing in the dead air as they look at you. Hello? Who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who,
00:47:37
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. We're supposed to be in Sean. I don't know. I'm supposed to be an Erean. My version of Sean, but... The version of Sean in Erean? It's complicated. We are getting very up topic.
Encounter with a Radiant Angel
00:47:51
Speaker
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00:48:06
Speaker
Well, you might. We have one. Well, probably thought that was hilarious. I was just trying to make this restaurant fly. Perhaps there is a language barrier and he looks around. Where did I send this? Where did I send this? What's this place? We are in Doror, the realm of the dead. Oh, that's not supposed to be where we are. I would imagine not. Milo, you have three advantage. Yeah.
00:48:37
Speaker
I'm really sorry. Oh, wow. That's clever. Ulfin says. To only where Hob and Milo and Sana and Kin here. The dead don't come to me. I come to them. That's... Give us another angel. Did you know that the whole time? No. I would tell you that. You didn't tell us. Fair enough. It wasn't an issue until... Okay. All right. There's just a lot going on, man. Sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you, Ulfin.
00:49:07
Speaker
Three advantage, Milo. Any ideas? I have no clue what would, we're in. Lots of boost eyes. Yeah, me too. Or an upgrade, three advantage can be an upgrade to the next check, if you like. I mean, yeah, that's fine with me unless somebody's got a better idea. Okay. Upgrades are good.
00:49:33
Speaker
And yeah, Aeris, as you're looking at this angel, one of the portholes opens and Reynard's head pop out and you take a nap in the walk-in. End of episode.
Conclusion and Promotions
00:49:45
Speaker
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00:50:04
Speaker
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00:50:32
Speaker
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