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C1 Ep. 131 Thrashing of Eras Chapter Eight
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The party tries to wrap their heads around everything that has happen, and they need to begin making decisions on what they will ultimately do to finish this fight.
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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Meet the Hosts of Eberron Renewed
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast at the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode.
Recap of the Chaos: Booyah and the Dragon Turtle
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Gentlemen, what happened last time? Booyah was hungry. It's true. We chased down Booyah, found a dragon turtle, ran away.
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discovered the, I mean, I'm not the extent of Booyah's issues, but definitely gained some insight into how bad it was. Mm hmm. Also, barracks worldview is built on lies. Yeah, I was gonna let you handle that one.
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Okay. Well, um, I mean, uh, it is an, it is an apt summary of the conversation. If you're jumping in now, I have 130 episodes for you to catch up on, to understand the context of that. Thank you for, for at least, at least start at the beginning of an arc, man. Yes. We appreciate you being here.
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Perhaps chapter eight of an arc is a bad place to start. So, yeah, I would like to kick off this episode. You all are on your way to Pilas to lair to return the dragon horn.
Dex's Dream Begins
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Um, Barrick and Dex are both in their rooms, laying on the floor, staring up at the ceiling. Uh, Dex is definitely on his bed on his bed. Okay. Um, Dex, you give me a constitution saving throw with disadvantage. Oh my gosh. Well, it's time to say goodbye to your old pal. It's not as, it's not as bad as all of that. Everybody calm down. Okay. So with disadvantage, that's a 12. Okay.
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So you're laying there with your dark thoughts and, um, your, your eyelids get heavy and you fall asleep. Okay. So, uh, it's a couple hour flight. So, you know, quick power nap. Um, so, uh, as you're sleeping, um,
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you begin to have a couple of fitful dreams here and there. And then you kind of find yourself in a very vivid dream where you're on your bed, but you're no longer on the ship. And your eyes are shut, you're kind of groggy, and you feel something land on your chest.
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OK, as you open your eyes, you feel some like wetness seeping through your shirt and you see. You see Chance's head has landed on your chest. What?
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What are my surroundings? The train looks like Sarlona, specifically a D.A.R. where you grew up.
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Um, I'm just outdoors. Yeah. Like you've woken up and, and this is kind of the scenario. Um, and then you also see setting on like the footboard of your bed. Um, you see, uh, basically it's like a, um,
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a small basin, a medium-sized basin. Chance's head does have a crossbow bolt in the back of it that he recognizes Booyaz. And you see this medium-sized basin kind of sitting on the footboard of your bed, and you hear a voice from your left say, you might not recognize him, but that one's Connor.
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and you see to your left Strint sitting on what looks to be a tall stool just looking at you. You do notice as you look over at Strint that he's
Confrontation with Strint
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in his pure changeling form.
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and half of his body is scarred, charred, and mangled. Including the structure of his face is just burnt away and it's hard to look at.
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What the hell is going on? Oh, by the way, I think I. I probably in my panic batted the head off of me, so it's just it's just gone. It's not a going concern on my person right now. Oh, I mean, I thought you would want to see your handiwork. What are you trying to prove with all this? Yeah, I'm aware.
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that my brothers are dead. You want to work on that sentence, you killed our brothers. I literally didn't kill either of them.
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Oh, get off it. You know exactly what I mean. Your actions led to both of their deaths.
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I'm sorry but like your will and desire to be able to kill other people and watch people starve and I mean just continue to see the world devolve the way that it has. It's a noble, noble cause I'll grant you but I feel like there's a better way.
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I mean, it's certainly not as noble as just giving yourself over to somebody else's wills and desires to kill people. And that's what you've done. So I guess, again, I'll ask my question. What are you doing here? What do you want from me? What is all this? Kill other people. I got no blood on my hands, brother.
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If I have their blood on my hands, then you certainly have blood on your hands. I'm not going to pretend I haven't killed. I've killed a lot. I mean, like a lot, a lot. And recently, but again, I ask you, what is the point of this?
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Because I'm not here by choice. And so I'd prefer if we skip the pontificating and you just get to the point of why you chose to invade my mind and wake me up in such an abrupt manner. Because I want to save you. I've lost two of my brothers.
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to by where I'm sitting to my brother's hand. And I want it to stop. I want all of this to stop. I saw our people die. And I want it to stop. The
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The people you've made your allegiance to now are the aggressors in this. If you wanted to stop, you're speaking to the wrong party. They're trying to, they're trying to stop all of this Dex. What are you fighting for? My home, these people, the people I've come to know and love and care about. Okay. Why did I have to die? That's not our solution.
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I saw what happened in storm reach. Yeah, that was your people. A lot of people died. A lot of people needlessly died. You didn't stick around in storm preach though. See what it's like now.
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Well, if you had to destroy innocent people to build it up in something that you consider to be a better place now, I still don't think that's the noble goal. I mean, listen, it's fine if you don't see it now, but there's peace. How many thousands, tens of thousands of people have died
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in the past 50 years in your new home because of a big chair that somebody wants to sit on. Who cares? I mean, I care. We're talking about the fate of an entire world.
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Yeah, that's what we're trying to save. People are killing themselves. People are starving. People are hoarding. You got the people on top dictating what the people on the bottom get to do. How is that different from the structure where you are literally allowing yourself to be taken over?
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by another entity. It feels like they're dictating what you listen. I know that I'm not going to convince you of anything. You're a true believer and that's fine, but I am not. And from where I'm sitting, everything you're fighting for is dark and wrong. And I'm not interested in being a part of it. And I don't know. I don't know. Not I don't know. And there is nothing that you could say that would convince me that where you're at is where I want to be.
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But what about it is dark? That's what I don't get where you're coming from.
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The using the shadow plane as a means to facilitate this. There was a kidnapping of small children for a while and brainwashing them. That was bad. Um, there's the, there was the big obelisk that was dead. They were trying to build there in a, in shard. Uh, no, pardon me, not shard, but yes. Yeah. Yeah. In shard that was gonna, you know, kind of forcefully take over the minds of people who didn't want for that to happen to them.
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I guess that's exhibits A, B, and C of where I'm coming from. It's incredible how much of what you just said is just oh so very wrong and spoken from a place of truly ignorance.
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And I, listen, those of us that are, as you so inelegantly put it, possessed, do that of our own volition. We accept it and want that to happen, to act as vessels. The, I wasn't brainwashed, Dex. I got tired of seeing the people I care about starve.
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I got sick of having to scrape by, and the Sarlonans have a system where people don't go hungry. They allow everybody to thrive. I may not be the person I was when we grew up together, but are you?
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Oh, I'm hardly. No, absolutely. I was, I was never pretending to do B to say that I was, I've certainly changed and grown. And so were you brainwashed then? No, I was not. Or did you just learn more? Well, I learned more, but I learned it from different experiences from different people with different views. You were constantly bombarded by the same group of people with the same words over and over again. And until you,
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Let's, let's, let's, let's put it charitably to you until you came around to their position. Did it go down like that? Cause I don't know. I certainly don't recall it being like that. What your thing. Yeah. I mean, my recollection is.
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that over time, you and my brothers all became slowly more radicalized because you spent more and more time hearing from this same group of people these over and over and over again. Yeah, I see. I apologize. I didn't realize that not wanting to watch our family starve was a radical stance to take. I apologize about that.
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Um, I'm sure you're being wolf. You're, you're, you're willfully not processing anything that I'm saying just to, to, to pop back in with your next little dig at me for leaving.
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and you're not gonna get me that way, man. Try a different tack because I don't regret leaving. I have no remorse for it. You guys were already gone. That's fine. You can leave. You can do whatever you want. Then let me do whatever I want. Chance was a hothead. Always has been.
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But I was always the one content to let you live and let live. You know, that is actually an interesting tidbit, a little cog in this that we have not embraced in this conversation. Embrace is the wrong word approached. They tried to kill me. They're dead because I didn't let them kill me.
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Supposing they had killed me, would, would one of them be waking up with my head on their lap? Listen, Connor, Connor has a lesson from you trying to, we've had to come in here and say, don't kill my brother. Connor and chance never tried to kill you. And if you're going to recall it incorrectly, then that's on you. But I mean, the simple fact of the matter is that especially Connor never did anything aggressively towards you. And, uh, he got melted.
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He did get melted. Like I will never get to bury one of my brothers because of you and your compatriots. I'll never get to bury, I'll never get to bury Theradac or, or Draconos. Who? Oh, two people that both disappeared, lost their lives as far as we can tell, certainly are gone through from altercations.
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Uh, I guess the only one was for an altercation with, with one of my brothers, wasn't it? No, both were. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Through altercations with my brothers when they were playing dress up, uh, the same time that both of them attacked my people. If they thought, if they, if they really thought, well, I know if I kill his friends, but just talk crap to him, he'll understand that I mean him no harm. That's not how this works.
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And the fact that they thought it would, that's, uh, that is a failing of their reasoning. And I don't have any remorse for that either. Well, I guess if, uh, wow. All right. Well, um, if you don't have any remorse,
Dex Awakes from the Nightmare
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then I guess there's.
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I wish to any of this, but I wish I wish it hadn't come to it. No, you said what you said. So we can just mean what I said. I have no remorse. I wish it hadn't happened, but I don't feel bad that it did. It was not. I didn't instigate it. I didn't try to prolong it. They kept coming at me and at my friends. And this is how it ended for them. It is.
00:18:35
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All right. Well, I was really hoping that they hadn't gotten to you like that, gotten their claws in that deep, but I guess, uh, it is what it is. So, um,
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All right. Well, I'm going to go ahead and hold on to this and you see him like kind of materialize a large mall that seems to be made out of glacial ice and best of luck to you and your new kin because certainly it's clear how you feel about your original kin.
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I'm sure mom and dad would be real proud. And then you wake up in your bed. Oh, no, I don't get to say something. No, you do not. All right. All right, when I wake up, I check to make sure there's not blood on my clothes. No.
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What time is it? Oh, I was basically made asleep. So the odds of the rest of the crew being awake is good, right? Yeah. I mean, yeah, you were, you were out for a little bit. Um, Jace, in fact, shortly after you wake up, conveniently, uh, comes over to the intercom and says, all right, we are, uh, coming into PLS to layers. So might want to start getting that horn ready. Yeah. The horns in the case. Um,
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Hey, Berwick. Sorry, I guess I go. Well, yeah, I guess we didn't say when he said to get the horn ready. I get out up and I go and I knock on Berwick's door. Yes. Hey, I need to talk to you about something. It's not
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It's not great news. It's not the worst news. Would you like to deal with it? But it also isn't super pressing. Would you like to hear it now? Or would you like to hear it after we see what they can do for us about Booyah? Maybe get a little sugar and get hit with a little more word I can't say on this podcast. Might as well hear it now.
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I think I don't know where the Mall of the Glacial Plains, what's it called? Glacial Heights. That was close. I think I know where the Mall of Glacial Heights is and who's got it. Well, I don't know. Based on my conversation with Erebus just now, all I have to do is activate the pact on the plane. So we're back around to maybe not needing the weapons.
00:21:35
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Okay, who fun thought do you think if we tell the dragons why that sounds? That sounds very promising. Okay, by the way, where it is. Okay, so I had a dream just now I was coerced into a dream and strength was there and he doesn't look great, but he does look alive, which is something that's interesting to me.
00:21:57
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But he also had them all with him. That makes sense. It started moving a while ago. Yeah. Yeah. You mentioned that. So that's where it is. Beric has not gotten up off the floor just at the scene. He's still just laying on the floor. Dex gets down there. What are we doing here? No, I was kidding. All right. Well, you know, I think that's something we need to figure out.
00:22:27
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Yeah, it's I if it turns out we actually don't need it. I mean, I'd love to hear what you and Erebus had to talk about. If it turns out that we don't need it, then maybe we play around with the idea of telling the dragons who's got it and they can go get it for themselves. I don't have the idea of sticking the dragon on. And man, I got to tell you, like Strand is just a real deal weed.
00:22:56
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Like, it was never good, but man, it was not pleasant. That was my impression from my limited conversation with him. Well, I don't know what you did to him, but whatever it was, it roughed him up real good. I dropped him off of the ship. Yeah, it'll do it. Yeah, it looks like he scraped a couple buildings on the way down. Well, there's volcanic magma at the bottom of Sharn.
00:23:24
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Yeah, that's actually more what it looks like. I was going to go with friction burns as a joke, but yes, he landed in the man. Anywho, we're almost at the last layer and I got the horn boxed up and I guess I'm going to go check and make sure Booyah didn't know his way out of his room. So. I guess as you were, don't we, Doc? All right. All right.
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Part of this is like, Dex is just real hopped up on adrenaline and anger right now, so he's just sharp to move. So he's going to go open Booyah's door and see what our feral creature is. Booyah's not in his room. Yeah, yeah.
00:24:14
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We had to have locked the door. There's no way we didn't just, there's no way we just shut the door. So I want to check. Yeah. Yeah. Good. So I want to check the lock, see if he somehow like, or I want to look around, see how he might have gotten out. So we have an idea of where he might be. Do these doors lock from the outside or like?
00:24:35
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I don't imagine Booyah's room is the brig. We would have done something to secure him in there. I guess it's a better way to say it. I mean, we might have assumed that he couldn't lock the lock. Did you guys put me in my room or below deck? Because the last one, what I'd heard is you were just going to get him below deck. That's all Barak said. I don't think we specifically described him. Okay, fair. We never said him. I'm surprised we left him alone, frankly.
00:25:04
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But you could say you left him with Rickard. Well, I don't want to I don't want to wreck on something that like. Yeah. In my head, taking him below deck, securing him somewhere.
00:25:19
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And his room made the most sense to me, but you're right, we never did elucidate that, so. We didn't specifically say, so let's have Booyah again. Mm-hmm. At least we know he's on the boat. At least I just wander around shouting for Booyah. I wander around shouting for Booyah, looking and hitting the cargo hold, checking the rooms, going to the... Oh, I'm definitely going to the galley. Randy would, like, what's Booyah doing?
00:25:47
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He's actually sleeping. He's found a place to sleep. When you hit the cargo hold, you hear extremely loud snoring, like amplified somehow. Amplified somehow? I follow the sound of the snoring. I mean, the case of the horn is kind of shaking a little bit. Oh my god.
00:26:14
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So I don't have the horn cased up is what you're telling me like I thought I did. The case is shut. I mean. I I open the case. You see a booyah sleeping in the mouth of the horn. Can I just grab him and pull him out of it like that roughly just get him out of there like one word with a pet when they see it's supposed to be.
00:26:39
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Like, I don't want to fling him across the room. I just want to pull him out of the case and set him down. That's his new den.
00:26:49
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One hopes he hasn't marked it. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I could have preserved in Jackford. It's hinting. It's not. It's not. I have no idea if I. I think I mean, I think he tried it. I think he tried to get out of that armor. He can't figure out how to get the dang armor off. Exactly.
00:27:12
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That's probably true. So something got marked, but it was already categorically booyah. That's a weird game. That booyah's in a good mood. He has no other mood to be in. And that was a rough talk. Boy.
00:27:41
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Just gonna do them all at once. Yeah. Now, Booyah needs a visitation by the ghost of his dead son. Oh my gosh. Well, he's in this state. He's just like... If he's dead, I don't even know. As the tone of the game exists, he's of course dead and horribly mutilated. He'll come and visit you in your dreams tonight. Pretty easy one for Booyah.
00:28:17
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The question is, is we are going to remember all of this when we inevitably fix him? It seems like he would, right? I don't know. Yeah, no idea. We've never seen this spell work. Well, that makes me feel good. It's working now.
00:28:41
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I've genuinely never seen it successfully cast. What is it called? Feeblemind? Feeblemind. I've seen it attempted a couple of times on Critical Role. Both times it was resisted. It was attempted in my game and I blocked it with legendary resistance.
00:29:04
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So, yeah. OK, so, yeah, you all feel the ship begin to slow and descend towards the airship power over Pilas to lair.
Preparing to Dock and Reflecting on Events
00:29:15
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What do you do? Eric is laying on the floor in his room. Dex Booyah.
00:29:34
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I've got the horn now in the case without a Booyah in there. Can I coerce you to come up on the deck with me, bud, and just wait until we dock? Because that's something I can do. Can I tempt you with a piece of meat? Definitely. There's other people on this trip. You can get help.
00:30:01
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Okay. Okay. Uh, I think I would. Yeah, I get on the sending stone and I asked for record and Orianna with, with me down to the cargo area so we can figure out what we can do to corral of some stairs and onto the deck and keep them calm. Okay.
00:30:25
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So yeah, Rickard has a lot of experience with taming and dealing with less than intelligent creatures. So yeah.
00:30:43
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Drakir or Drakir, Rickard. That's right. It's finally revealed. Even though they've been in the same room multiple times. There's magic for that. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, Rickard helps you coerce Booyah up on the deck. Easily.
00:31:11
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So, yeah, the the ship docks. Decks with your remarkable perception, you're able to pretty easily spot the governor of P list to layer is, I guess, saw your ship coming and is approaching via the dock towards your all's deck. I mean. I greet her and invite her
00:31:41
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board. Oh, that's not necessary. Just wanting to, I have some people that can get the horn off of your ship and secure it. Okay, that's fine. But I do have something I need to speak with you about if you have a moment. What is it? Well, you remember Booyah.
00:32:09
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She looks at Booyah in regards, yes, I recall meeting him. Okay, well, in the course of us taking care of this dragon, and we did, by the way, the dragon is very dead. We'll cause you no further trouble. He was hit with some sort of magic, and I mean, the best way to say it is that he is a
00:32:34
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It's like he's walking in a coma, but also following his most basic desires and is a danger to himself and others. What I'm saying is something hit him with some magic and it's scary and we really would appreciate it if you have any way of fixing it or know of anybody who might be able
00:32:56
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Um, she muses for a second. Well, what, what type of, um, what type of solution are you looking for exactly? What type of spell, what type of map, and she stops mid sentence. Uh, Dex, you also understand why she has stopped mid sentence as a, a foul smell.
00:33:14
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begins to waft through the cool coastal breeze of Arenal that you recognize, and Booyah has a content look on his face. Listen, man, the player Facebook messaged me that it happened, so I just gotta roll with what I'm dealt. Really? Do you know? I mean, that's you, the GM. Aren't you supposed to be refereeing here? I can dictate player action. You said no more than once.
00:33:48
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If he said I poop myself and turn into a dragon, then yes, it would have been a no to the package deal.
00:33:59
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All right. Um, do I need to further explain now?
Seeking Aid for Booyah's Feeblemind
00:34:03
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Uh, uh, but I just, I, I, I would be more than willing to assist you. I just need to know what, what type of magic you're looking for.
00:34:20
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I mean, restorative healing. I would like to see Booyah become the Booyah that he was the last time we were in your fair city. That included a Booyah who knew how to use a restroom. All right. Orianna walks over to whatever the intercom station is on the deck and says, Derek, Dex is trying to explain magic. You might come up here.
00:34:53
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And Dex gets on the Cinex tower and says, I mean, he's doing fine. It begins to make his way to the deck. I think the spell is known as feeble-mind. I'm not familiar with that spell. Did you know what can be done to undo it?
00:35:19
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My understanding is that it requires particularly powerful restorative magics, not being a cleric. I'm not sure I have the particulars of the names, but
00:35:37
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It needs to be very powerful, more than just, you know, curing diseases of sorts, but a very powerful, perhaps a greater form of a restorative magic, as it were. Settle.
00:35:56
Speaker
Hmm, all right. Well, we do have some healers here in the harbor for ships that come in that need some assistance. We would of course be more than willing to
00:36:13
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compensate any material costs associated with the spellcasting. Well, I regret to tell you that you'll be dealing with House Drasko, so you'll be compensating more than required materials. I apologize, I didn't know the Dragonmarked Houses had enclaves here. Yes, they all do. Yes. Well, that's... Except for Orien. They know what they did.
00:36:46
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When he used to find joy and things would have been very curious.
00:36:56
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Uh, if you could just direct us to the enclaves, I suppose. Oh, yes. And she kind of gestures off of the dock, uh, down towards the city. Um, you see that, that courtyard there with the, uh, buildings in a, uh, circle facing inward, uh, all of the, the Dragon Mark enclaves are, are those buildings there. So, um, I regret to say we were not able to return with.
00:37:20
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the other dragon horn, as was requested by the Undying Court, when the dragon died, it sort of dissolved whatever necromantic magics were
00:37:36
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keeping it intact, I suppose. It was not whole when we encountered it, and with its death, it seemed whatever had been maintaining its body was withdrawn, and it just sort of dissolved. So there was not really anything we could bring back that would demonstrate it, but it is gone. Interesting.
00:38:04
Speaker
Well, the courts, knowing that a powerful, necromantically-fueled dragon is gone, should make up for the fact that no physical evidence was returned. It is to be helped. I will send word their way that the mission has been accomplished on your behalf. I appreciate that.
00:38:31
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And Eric begins to make his way towards the UNESCO enclave. A few elves board your ship and we get heading down below deck. Why? They're retrieving the horn. Oh, I assumed it was up here with us. But that's fine.
00:38:55
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to blow up your ship, of course, that's why. You know, you know, it's that kind of day. I'm a purveyor of more existential threats than that, Phillip. Blowing up a ship is just so, you know, sure. Sure. I mean, it's our home. It's our home. So, you know, you could just burn our home down. That's that's act two level stuff. That's eighth level at best. In addition to the entire world. Yeah, walking.
00:39:25
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Okay. Who's wrangling Booyah? I let him climb up on my shoulders and. No, no, because he pooped. Orianna just sort of.
00:39:46
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nudges him back onto a straight line. Yeah, like one in front of us and with the with the staff of her spear whenever Booyah strays. You all have rope. You can make a system. I'm not going to tie him. I'm not going to make a Booyah leash. Just not there. Yeah, I don't like it either. If we get to that point, we're just going to have to abandon Booyah.
00:40:16
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If we get there, we're just finding a nice place that will take care of Booyah. Oh. Give him a big yard to run around in. Oh. And we'll just move on. Oh, that's funny. Cold-blooded. I disagree wholeheartedly. Just move on.
00:40:35
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Okay, so yeah, you all find yourself, probably one of the busier parts of Palastilaire is the Dragon Mart courtyard. You see people entering and exiting buildings. This is also probably the most diverse section of the city. You see half orcs and half elves, humans walking around freely, entering and exiting various buildings.
00:41:05
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You see the recognizable mark of a house Drasko House of Healing above one of the doors and you see quite a few people entering and exiting that building. Once we're inside of it, Barrick will turn to Orianna and say, Orianna, would you run back to the ship and locate whatever
00:41:29
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of Bria's gold stashes are in the walls and gather as much as you can and I'll call when I know how much this is going to cost.
00:41:42
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So and into the enclave we go. So as you enter the the first room of the enclave, you see quite a few benches and chairs can figure around lots of people sitting around waiting. And you see a a desk near the back next to a wide set of doors, but the the desk has a halfling
00:42:09
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behind it that sees you all enter and kind of waves you over. Eric approaches. What's the element? I believe my friend has been affected by the spell of fever mind. Oh, all right. Well, that will require significant healing magic from one of our finest healers. Now, do you have a membership with House Drasko?
00:42:40
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Does Barak have a family membership or a pension from his mom's service that does anything with this? Probably not. Okay. No. All right. And who's the patient?
00:43:02
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Barak gestures to the goblin whose helmet I think we have established has been opened by this point. Yes. Right. One goblinoid. Non-standard race fee. Does he say that out loud? Yeah, he kind of mumbles it under his breath. Barak says, is it not the case that goblinoids are in fact the
00:43:33
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indigenous race to Corvair and us would be the most standard race in these parts if I don't mistake myself regarding the general anthropological history of our continent. Um man I'm trying to think of the words I can use to convey the look he gives you. It's just
00:44:01
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It's utter befuddlement as if you had grown a second head out of your shoulder and that head started singing a mariachi song. It's just like, I'm sorry, I don't understand your point. You described him as non-standard.
00:44:25
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Oh, for the filing system. You see, uh, standard races. I would be substantially more non-standard than him. Um, well, I mean, you're what, half-elf? Yes. You're very racist named after Corvair. Um, no, you see, it's just the, the dragon mark. Except I'm actually a half-elf, uh, not properly speaking Corovar, as my mother was human.
00:44:57
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Fine. Just since we're being technical. No, it's hard for the layman to understand, but dragon marked magic can interact adversely with certain non dragon marked races. So those that belong to the houses of the 12 are for the purposes of categorization,
00:45:23
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and safety measures considered quote-unquote standard races and those that fall outside the purview of the Dragon Marked Houses are considered non-standard purely as a safety precaution. We have to take some extra measures to make sure that both our healers and the patient are given the best care and treatment when they don't align with the standard races. Can I make an insight check to discover exactly the degree to which that was in fact
Negotiating Healing Costs
00:45:52
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Oh crap. Sure. You can give me an insight check. 21 21. Yeah. I mean, you you may feel like you get a sense that maybe at least part of this this halfling has bought into
00:46:10
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Uh, but your knowledge of magic certainly gives you the insight to know that like, no, none of that, like healing magic is healing magic. Like it doesn't interact with different races differently. Like, um, so yeah, you know that all of that is bull crap. Eric sort of leans down and says, listen, I'm not actually looking for you to charge me differently because I can afford it. But I've had a bit of a day.
00:46:41
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I just want it to be clear between you and I. You know that's nonsense, right? Like that's just tower spit.
00:46:54
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He kind of regards you and I'm not a healer. I was not blessed with the mark. I'm simply acting upon the orders that the tower sends down. I know. You're a bureaucrat. I understand and you're doing fine. If you do have some objections, I can send you the way of our complaint department.
00:47:24
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reaches up and removes the mask so that so that the halfling can see the nature of the smile barracks face. I'm my my family's in the British government I I think we all know how well that would go that's just you just I mean
00:47:53
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I just want to know that you understand and that I know that you know what you just said is insane. Again, I'm not looking for a discount. I'm just, I would like for my peace of mind to know that you know that I know that that's absolutely insane. If I agree with what you're saying, will this conversation be over?
00:48:17
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It will. Then I agree with everything you're saying. Have a wonderful day. We will get your friend back as quickly as possible.
00:48:29
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Um, the total fee for greater restoration on a, and he clears his throat, non-standard race, um, and make some calculations that will be, uh, 1500 gold pieces. Right. And I touched this ending stone. We're going to need 1500 Ariana. Um,
00:48:57
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And she only found 50. Yeah. Meanwhile, Cassian is somewhere Scrooge McDuckying in a room. OK, so it is a little bit of an oh, go ahead and absurdly petty gesture that just expresses how low Berwick is right now.
00:49:21
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I'm going to use telekinesis to just pull on one of the back legs of this halflings chair as he tries to scoot back to get up. Okay. And cause him to follow. Yeah, he fails his check. So yeah, he tumbles back and kind of embarrassingly stands up and straightens up. You all right. That's probably one of those
00:49:51
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non-standard chairs give me trouble all the time, too. Well, walk away. All right, so. Oriana has plenty of time to get there with the money because it is a very long wait as they are seeing people as they arrive in the room.
The Threat of Untethering the Silver Flame
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So a variety of people are brought back. You would
00:50:21
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Anything you all would like to do during the wait? Other than just sit there and twiddle your thumbs? I mean, we don't have to do it again because everybody's heard it now, but I have to assume Dex would have said, so what's this about none of it mattering anymore? What Erebus and Eric talked about. Well, Erebus said that the thing I needed to do was beyond the
00:50:51
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plane of Dal Kor and simply invoke the Pact, and all of the power will go and do what I wanted to do on the plane, and what I very much did not want it to do on this plane. So, maybe. I'm again also back around to, I think we may be being tricked by a demon. Back around to that one, huh?
00:51:22
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He says it will untether the silver flame here. What does that even mean? Who, who has the silver flame tether? Thorlak. Thorlak. Yeah, we're ready for you. Come on back. The manifestation of the flame in flame keep will be gone.
00:51:49
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Well, what does that mean for, you know, all of the followers of the flame? Groosbane, the destroyer. Groosbane. Oh, yes, yes. Oh, the large doors around back. Yes. Do you remember at the beginning of the last episode when I said I'm not a jerk, so I didn't do it, but Dex would have been yelling for Booyah in the background.
00:52:18
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Well, if, again, if Erebus is not in fact the shadow in the flame and simply deceiving me to do its bidding, which, again, I actually feel that possibility became stronger recently,
00:52:38
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The silver flame would still exist, but the point connecting it to Corvair would cease to be. That would not seem to mean it would be unreachable.
00:53:00
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But I don't think that I will get very far explaining that to the millions of people who follow that. Right. If it's even true. So that's a hand down in Eric's pocket. Look at the bear slaps. He has hand away. Tim. Tim, yes, we're ready for you. And.
00:53:31
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So as to what that would mean here, I would think mass panic across Corvary and revolution in Thrain. And then that assumes that none of the neighbors of Thrain take advantage of that to restart the last war. So that's what it means.
00:54:00
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So if this isn't all a cheat to release Bel Shalor, then I have the choice between our world falling to dream demons,
00:54:32
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destroying the faith I was raised in. Also, if it's true, it means that everything, the thing on which I have actually based my belief is just false. So it's been a bit of a morning. You know, my dead mother making an appearance.
00:54:59
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killing the raven failing to stop the dragon killed obtaining god-like power and having all the packs and this so that's where I am as to the weapons unless Erebus just failed to say something meant to say something that he didn't it didn't I suppose I don't know if it's a gendered being
00:55:30
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Uh, then I am the only thing that has to be on the plane. Maybe the dragons have learned something else. So I suppose when we, that was better. We should contact the dragons one way or the other. Yeah, we need to do that anyway. So yeah. I mean, here's the thing. You,
00:56:02
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Like, clearly you have a decision to make and I'm going to be here, you know, running back up for you. But the dream thieves taken over the world seems like the greater of the two outcomes to me. And as far as your whole thing about you need to be the only one on the plane, as true as that might be, I'm not letting you go there by yourself.
00:56:32
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I know. No, I don't think the dream threes are fake. There's too much corroborating evidence from others and your people. Right. No, I mean, I leave your people. I destroy mine. So it's Yeah.
00:57:01
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the the the the
00:57:25
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Oh, I can't identify people's fit names by their own. Oh, yeah. That's us. Oh, are you sure? Bye. You see, it gets there, it gets up and begins pushing towards the. You see a tiefling stand up. My name is Reginald Boy. Yes. No. Yeah, they take you back into a small room and
00:57:56
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the halfling woman that called you back. Case of feeble mind. Yes. Need of greater restoration. All right.
Booyah's Restoration
00:58:09
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The healer will be in to see you shortly. I'm sure she leaves the room after probably another 10 to 15 ish minutes.
00:58:22
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A halfling in light blue robes walks in with a rather chipper disposition says, All right, Mr. Bouye, we are dealing with a case of feeble mind and meet greater restoration.
00:58:39
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He can't understand you. I think you probably know that. OK. And he goes over to a series of drawers and opens up a small one and pulls out some dust and sprinkles into his hand and kind of just as you would imagine somebody like cleaning like.
00:58:56
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trying to spread their hands in this dust very mundanely. And then he just kind of places a hand on Booyah's shoulder, places the other one on Booyah's other shoulder, closes his eyes. You see a faint glow from underneath his robe. And then Booyah's eyes snap and he says, all right, well, have a good day. And he just walks out of the room. Booyah, you understood him saying, OK, have a good day.
00:59:26
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Oh, does me remember anything? Yeah, you remember everything. Okay.
00:59:38
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Uh, what do I say? Thank you. The door opens. Another halfling walks in and says, hi, I'm with the administration's office. Uh, yes. Uh, 1500 gold pieces is the bill that's due today as Oriana arrived. Oh, Oriana has been there for a while. She was there for conversation and everything. Barrick turns over the coins. All right. Thank you. Have a good day. And she walks out. Oh, but, but, but I want to go get clean, please.
01:00:08
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We are sorry some sort of trouble. You know, in the scale of things, guys. As you are talking a halfling, the halfling that calls you back there says, excuse me, but your appointment's over. We need the room. Boy, Derek walks out of the room. Yeah, we got leaves. Yeah, Dex goes as well.
01:00:38
Speaker
Oriana stays. Yeah, I need you to send a sending to. I guess Barasha, since I don't know, or gives name. OK, that work we do. Tell him we need to meet and.
01:01:07
Speaker
I mean, they've obviously been capable of tracking us. So there's occasion. OK, so we are contacting. There's Booyah. That's two words. You have 23 more. What you say, Barry. We need to meet. We need me.
01:01:37
Speaker
But who is going to be important here, will you? Well, it just looks at you like you didn't hear that. Please say, say, please come to our ship. Please come ship. Good enough.
01:02:03
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It's going to drop a cow on your deck.
Conclusion and Listener Acknowledgment
01:02:08
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End of episode. Sometimes we have good ones. Sometimes we have this one. Wow. Just wow. Why do people listen to me?
01:02:37
Speaker
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01:02:48
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