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C2 Ep. 51 Grave Providence Chapter Two
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Things escalate quickly as the party tries to move on.
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Podcast Introduction to Eberron Renewed
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode.
Reflecting on a Comrade's Memorial
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Gentlemen, what happened last time? Sadness. Whoa. Conversations. What are we doing here? Surprise. A memorial for our fallen comrade. Yep.
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Yes, it was it was for his memorial service. I was like, I still know his name. We briefly knew you. It's on the pamphlet, right? Yeah. That was heartless. I'm sorry. Good night. All right. You held it together through the actual funeral. Yeah, we went to for his memorial service. We met some of his friends, colleagues, colleagues, colleagues from the demon wastes.
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I'm sure they've got a term for it. Yeah. Nice. They're probably the Ross Kloskogosh. His plan would be lost. That's all I heard every time. Nice words were said.
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Yup. Then other words were said. Yeah, other words also were shared. Yeah, then other words. It was a memorial and we each handled it in the way that our characters would.
Post-Service Plans and Exhaustion
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Apparently, new Reynard is very compassionate, which is cool. It's a little bit after lunchtime when ever, like you all probably feel comfortable leaving. People have started walking out. So where do you all go post service?
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Just like to say that at some point, Eris does manage to go through the receiving line and say the appropriate things very quietly before escaping again. I don't know. That was exhausting. Eris will go wherever. Eris will take the party wherever they want to go.
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I'd say it's, say it's right around lunchtime. Yeah. A little bit after lunch, but you were eating. Yeah. Milo probably ate whatever that was there. Wonderful seafood. Milo would probably head home. And as soon as Milo walks in, he goes to a mirror and he looks at his top of his head.
Hob Seeks Help with a Lizard Issue
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And because previous day he had noticed that his scar seems to be darkening. Interesting. Gross. Raynard. I'd say Raynard just headed home as well. Okay. Um, I think that,
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Hob asks Eris if she's going to the for sales or if she's going to go ahead and go. He probably didn't say it to all of us. He wants the. Yeah, we get it. It's a secret thing. He says, or you're going to where you're staying now. There's probably a slightly like caught expression that goes over Eris's face. Milo has kept your secret.
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I think we would all notice you've moved out of the for sales, even if we don't know where you went because you're no longer coming down from upstairs, you know. Well, I mean, it's it's closed now, so I was just probably. I don't know, I might. Just. Fly around a little bit and go back.
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Right. Um... Why don't you just drop me a Soviets, then? Alright. Um... Eris, are we... are you... I'm at a point where I can't not... be a part of the resolution of
Eris's Relationship with Olive
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this lizard thing.
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are going to be a part of that with me. I want the others as well. But I'm asking you right now, because our first step has got to be understanding more, learning more, meeting more people. And Olive and Aransas are our ways to doing that, I think. And Aransas is a bit of a long shot, so
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Orance, this was the one who actually worked there. Right, but she has no affinity for any of us. Oh, right. Yeah, I don't know exactly what. I don't recall. Do I know why Olive considered her a recommended contact? Is it just this is someone Olive had gotten information from? Yeah.
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It felt to me like it was just someone that all of new worked there and trusted enough to put in the path. Aransas had come to Olive with information because Aransas had grown concerned. So and I think that's that's kind of how Olive put it. But yeah, so Olive Olive has been brought into the fold by Aransas. Gotcha. Gotcha. Coming to her. All that to say.
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If we're going to do this right, I think we need to bring your friend, Olive, more into the fold so that we can learn from her. And the step, the first step of that is on you. I mean, yeah, I want to I want to. Want to know that it's got rid of
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Um, that's the sort of thing our, that's the sort of thing our employer is going to make room for. I genuinely don't know. Well, it's got all the documents we stole. Today who all of all of us got all the documents we still still write.
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I'm sure if she's made anything of it, she won't mind saying. Great.
Interrupted Work Discussion with Harbin
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I just know how I would feel if I had a friend who was not already involved in all of this, that I felt like I was about to need to get involved in all of this. And I know that that can't be fun or easy.
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I just wanted to see if there was anything I could do or any way that we could work together or any comfort I could give you. She knows what I do. Because I accidentally told her. And... For some reason she doesn't care.
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I don't know what to make of that. But it seems like it's okay. Well, all right. Why don't you go ahead, run me home and on your time. And of course, all this time, we'll start making those inroads. All right.
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Yeah, that sounds good. I think we go to obvious. Yeah. Get dropped off. Okay. That's the thing he does with the ablutions and the music and the laying down. Just lick his wounds. Otherwise no wounds this time and emotional ones, but okay. So Eric, you're going to drive around for a bit before going. Yeah. I mean, it's the middle of the day. I assume that she can't like that all of has classes and things. So yeah.
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I mean, yeah, the for sales is closed. Right. All else is unavailable. That's literally the entire list of places where Aeris hangs out. So yeah, she drives around until classes are out. You could go to the concentric chicken or whatever. What is that? Clockwork bird? Consistent bird. Yeah. So yeah, you're you're able to
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to head back to Olive's after a bit. And as you enter, Olive is not there. But you do see Harbin there. Harbin Millhatch. What is Harbin Millhatch doing there? He seems to be awkwardly waiting. So Eris always goes in through the window.
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He's just... So Eris would...
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The only gadget Eris has got is her boots and maybe a flash bomb in her pocket for emergencies. I should have used that conversation. Since you were starting to come in and notice that somebody was there, give me a stealth check to see if Harbin hears you and notices you.
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First real
Olive's Torn Note and Eris's Concern
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dice roll. You better shake them into that microphone, baby. People want what they want. Harbin's perception is going to be the difficulty will be one red, one purple.
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Gooey. Ay, yay, yay. Perceptive little. He has one rank and perception. That's fine. That's one more rank than I have in stealth. But I am coming from an unexpected direction. I'll let you take a boost. Absolutely. Boost die there. Would you like to flip a story point? I do, because I really don't want to get caught. OK, so now I know. Blue is you and Orange is us. Oh.
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Oh, bollocks. Well, I've failed with three advantage. OK. So how would you like to spend those three advantage as Harbin looks up? Hard to severely near sighted. There's just a blurry shape. There's a displacer.
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get in here big bird boy ah gosh I don't know it's such an awkward place to have a substantial amount of advantage to spend he doesn't kidnap you sure that can be a condition that you well my planes again maston man
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Harris would really be very comfortable with someone that she feels confident that she could win a physical altercation with trying to trying something right now. It would really make her feel better. Just beat the heck out of this kid. Not because he deserves it. Harvin was perfectly nice to Harris, but just for someone to give her an excuse would be cathartic. Um,
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I don't know. I get to upgrade whatever horrifying social check I'm about to have to make to get myself out of this situation. OK, because so you're not good at those. Yeah. Harbin Harbin was kind of leaning back in the chair sitting in and hears the noise and kind of falls back and lands and like looks up as like. Eris.
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No, no, no. What do you mean no? There's some cool boots. Yeah. You make those? Yes. Awesome. Why? Why are you here? Why are you here for?
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And he realizes he's still laying on the floor, looking up at you and stands up. And I'm waiting for Olive. We're supposed to have a tutoring session. And he kind of stops himself. I need some additional guidance to excel in my artifice studies.
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I know that he knew he had transferred. Yeah. Because he wants to follow in his dad's footsteps. Oh, right. I did that with air quotes for the people. Can you come down? Come back later then. I mean, if you're looking for two, we can wait together. It's not a big deal. Yes.
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I am looking for Olive. That is why I would be here. Okay. And Eris descends. God, I want them to date.
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So having been our first campaign to shipping, I think they're there. Yeah. The first one said out loud. Okay. First one stated by a player at the time. I've been shipping Holo since the beginning.
00:16:37
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Well, you keep saying really funny things, right? You too. The really funny things right when I'm having to be awkward as Aeris. Fine. Yeah, everything's fine. Okay. So are you studying a more group too?
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Heiress considers saying yes and then realizes that would be very easily verifiable. No, I do odd jobs for... Olive. Oh, okay. Cool. One thing that you do note that is not in the workshop as you kind of get your bearings, A, Olive, but B, Olive's harness is also not here. What about the...
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table of stolen documents. I mean, her desk is there with lots of documents on it. But as a cursory glance, you can't tell whether or not she left stolen, stolen millage industry sitting out in the open. Paris puts herself between Harbin and the desk. Okay. Okay, so you kind of work for Olive helping her out.
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Yeah, you know, I just do, um, just run errands. It's, it's kind of, um, an assistant thing. Okay. So where did you learn how to do like the boots? Yeah, the boots. Cause I can't like, you know, I built the boots. Um, I tried to make a sending stone and I couldn't get it. Like, I don't know what.
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I, yeah. It was a majorite where I grew up and he taught me the basics. Okay. Cool. Sounds nice. I tried to learn stuff from my dad growing up, but didn't seem very interested.
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My dad was a farmer. OK. Didn't do that kind of craft.
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after kind of an awkward beat, you hear the door to the workshop open. And she puts her hand in her pocket. And you see Figure walking and kind of scan and like brightly smiles because he was looking for his son. There you are. And he walks across. Harbin, I've been looking for you.
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I had a tutoring dad. Oh, oh, and he sees you like Eris, right? We met here not too long ago. Yes. Nice to nice to see you again. Norse and Millhatch. Yes. Yes, I remember. He extends his hand to shake your hand.
00:20:07
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Eris shakes his hand. Well, Harbin, we have some family business to attend to. So whatever appointment you may have had with Oliver, Eris here will need to wait. We need to go. Okay. Good to see you, Eris. Bye. Goodbye. And they exit.
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Oh, it busts out of a closet? No, since you position yourself near the desk, you don't see any of the mill hatch industries stuff like setting out. You do see a piece of paper on the ground near Olive's desk, though, that's kind of crumpled up. That's the only thing that seems to be out of place. I reach down and pick it up and uncrumple it.
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Eris. Oh. I think I may need to lay low for a while. It may be safer to return to your home and lower Memphis for the time being. I'll be in touch as soon as I can.
Milo's Magical Scar Discussion
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I wish I could. And then the letter is torn. What? Nothing. You won't let us have anything nice. Not one good thing exists in this world. Rolled his obligation. What do you want from me? I have to get all of involved. The dice spoke it. The dice hath spoken.
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Okay, so cutting away from Eris seeing this note, you all have gone home to your various places. Milo, you're at your mother's, you know, around the house. What are you doing there? Is it the same day? We're still the same day?
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You've been there not very long. Probably maybe an hour. Okay. Um, Milo's went to his mother and said, mother have check my scar. It, it's, it's getting darker. It's almost like it's, it's turning black.
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Oh, that's weird. I said, man, his mom has never been in this. I'll tell you what. Cannon, that's the voice. I am extremely glad his mom is not some base situation, though. Mother nook. My mother is sweet and lovable. You all see Milo talking to a skeleton in a rocking chair. Oh, I got to get mom into this. What's her voice going to be? I don't like it.
00:23:02
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Booyah's no longer with us, but the chaos reigns. What do you think's happening? I'm not sure, you know? It has to be connected to Kylie some way. Oh, you keep talking. She's gone, Milo. No!
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Cause Milo sounds like a distinguished character from the very Poppins ensemble and you sound like some Brooklyn troll. I just love the idea of Milo being like, well it's time to head home then and just walk in. Hello mother, why are you like this?
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It's just the juxtaposition. We've started out great. Yeah, that's you. I know, it's me. Figure it out. Get it together. I should have gotten more coffee. She could even just be the homeless lady. Mary Poppins.
00:24:14
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That's weird. What do you think? Oh, Kylie's gone, Milo. I know. I know she's gone, but as I've told you, I hear her.
The Ram's Aggressive Search
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I hear her in my head. And the magic, you know, I never use- I hear your father sometimes too. Yes, but the magic- Gentle breeze against my hair. I know that he's looking after me, but-
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Yes, mother, I know, but I never was able to do magic until after she passed. Where did it, it's just all of a sudden? Well, you always were a late bloomer, Milo. I mean, it's fine. All right. You hear a crash outside the shop in the streets, like a...
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stay here mother let me i'll go see if there's a window milo can
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looking out the window, you see there's some stalls and stuff set up on the street that your mom's house is on. We're in a residential area. Yeah. What were you going to say? I was going to say, we live in a residential area. Yeah. But you see a very large imposing figure who is just like slam somebody up against a wall that you recognize. You see the ram walking down the street.
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And just continues walking, seems to be going up to the next like person on the street, grabbing that, you're looking through a window, you can't hear what they're saying though. But just, and after a second just flings them up against a wall and continues walking down.
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So just like one to one, just... Yeah, anybody that he sees, he picks up, says something to them. After a beat of them saying something, he discards them. Milo opens the door and pokes his head out as he's passed. Okay. To try to hear what is he saying to these people. What is he... Why? Give me a perception check with a two-poipal difficulty.
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that, you know, there's already some shouting and people running away from this giant warforged that's... And you're ever onto the mouths of warforged move when they speak, or does sound simply come out? Sound simply comes out. Jerry? Yep. Yes, that is... Yay! Yes!
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All right, so one success and one advantage. Is this a social encounter, or is this just my perception? The ram is unaware, unless you want it to be a social encounter, in which case the ram can come talk to you. No, I don't. You hear the ram go up to the next person that's a halfling, and just scoops them up, and the halfling's fighting against the ram's grip, and you hear the ram go,
00:27:16
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Where is Eris? I don't know, I don't know who that is. He continues walking down the street. Okay. So he's not like mangling people and killing people. Picking people up, asking him a question. If they don't answer, he tosses them aside. Tossing them aside. Okay. So Milo's not going to attempt to intervene at all. Okay. And all right. So.
00:27:46
Speaker
Oh, this would have been a good time to establish. Did you distribute the thing that you made, Eris? We didn't actually discuss it. Well, yes, probably. But my intention was this is like short-range radio contacts. So maybe a hundred yards from each other. I'm just we never brought it up before. Yeah, we can't we can't be doing cross-country calls. Yes, yes. Eris inspired by
00:28:14
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Boy, wouldn't this have been good to be able to communicate with Raynard when he was trapped in the basement of the laboratory? Eris has copied, has reproduced the shortwave communicator, the short-range communicator that the watch uses. And so we all have one. So. So we're about what, two o'clock? Kiss? Yeah. And what time does the restaurant open, opens?
00:28:44
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I mean, normally it would be open now, presumably he would be getting ready to open shop back up because he would shut it down to go attend to the service, had to bring everything back, put stuff away, that kind of thing. Do prep work. So Milo is, tells his mother that it's just some roughing people up in the street and nothing to worry about. Nothing to worry about, mother. I need to leave for now. I will see you later on this evening.
00:29:14
Speaker
What? How is the wound on your head? Okay. Bye. Yeah. Milo's distracted now. It's like, um, he's gonna probably, he's probably thinking that Eris is at the university. Okay. Um, gonna get a cab and head that way. Head that way. Okay.
00:29:35
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Um, so you hop in a car or a boat, uh, and start heading up to the next level up. Uh, and this was kind of happening in conjunction with the Eris Harbin-Norsen scene. Um, Reynard, what are you doing at home? I'm having a hard time thinking about what Reynard would do at home because he doesn't drink anymore. Um,
00:30:02
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So I would imagine, let's say he's restringing an instrument. That was a guitar. That's not a thing. A lute. Does Milo play anything? Because I feel like we got a band going here. We would have a band if we weren't all secretive about the fact that we played it.
00:30:22
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No, no, Milo does not play an instrument. Yeah, something like that. He used to hire those. He used to hire, that's probably how he knew. Yeah, he could be the manager for the band. He knows
Preparing to Confront the Ram
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the business world. Yeah, he hired Raynard. That's probably how they met. Raynard came in to play the... Okay, Raynard. So while you're restringing this lute, you hear some commotion going on outside your home that when you go to investigate, you see.
00:30:50
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the ram walking down your street. You see him every every few people are so picking somebody up by the scruff of their shirt. Talking to him and then tossing him aside. I don't know what to do. Yes. I think that
00:31:18
Speaker
Well, I mean, I guess radar doesn't have any reason to feel threatened at the moment. Okay. So it's going to be like.
00:31:28
Speaker
That's odd. Weird, peculiar. Shouldn't my employer be doing something about that in their turn? And he's also newly sober, so it's kind of like, you know what, I think I know that guy, but I don't know. He left a pretty big impression on you. I mean, he did almost kill Hob and almost kill Eris on one of the darkest days of your life in terms of your relationships with your coworkers. True. Probably have that one earmarked a bit.
00:31:58
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Okay. So, Rainard, you just go back to what you were doing?
00:32:03
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I think, I think Raynard would quickly finish up stringing the loot and then probably think, I'd probably head to the sales and see if I can meet up with anybody. Meet up with anyone, so. Okay, and then what are you doing? If the, Savvius? Yeah, if the word sales is closed, I'm standing at Savvius. I'm probably, you know what, I'm probably actually fulfilling the duty that allows me to stay there and actually kind of being on security right now. Okay. Which is pretty easy in the middle of the day. Okay.
00:32:30
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Um, while, while you're there in the main area, you, you're working the main room of Savvy is making sure nobody gets out of hand or anything like that. Um, and you see a few people come sprinting in through the front door. Um, like clearly not there for patronage or business. Um, and you, uh, you hear one of them kind of say loudly to the bartender, somebody's got to call, got to call the watch or something. There's, there's a war forage out there, like terrorizing people.
00:33:00
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Which, to be fair, given the heightened tensions recently, Hob may not totally believe that there's actually a warforged terrorizing people. This guy might just be a dillweed. Yeah, Hob's first thought is, oh sure, terrorizing, what's he doing? Walking around. Asking for directions. Working a job. Yeah. So I guess,
00:33:27
Speaker
I mean, I was going to stick his head out the door. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm security for Savia's unless he comes in here. It's not my problem. I mean, poking your head out the door, you see the Ram walking down the street, picking people up, discarding them too far away right now to hear what he's saying. But yeah, so what does Hobb do?
00:33:54
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I don't think Hob walks there. I think Hob, I mean, I get it. He's tossing people around, but it's like he's killing them. Yeah. He's going to need to know these people. Yeah. He wants to wait and see what is actually happening in its natural habitat before he decides what to do about it. OK, so I guess he kind of waits. OK, go ahead and give me the same two purple perception check to see if you can hear from a distance before the Ram would reasonably notice you.
00:34:20
Speaker
That's three success and two threat. Okay. Oh dang, I set the parameters as do you hear him before he notices you so the threat can't be, he sees you. Oh, it's not your own baton, dork. The threat is you trip on a trash can. And he looks at the trash can. I lose for a second, I just lose myself and I go. And he hears me. I know what the threat are. He's got those two dumb painters with him.
00:34:50
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No, that's not the threat, but that's very good. You're in firelight right now. The two threat is you hear somebody, or you hear Ram pick somebody up and say, where's Eris? And this person's like, I think I've heard that name around downstairs sometimes. I don't know. And he tosses this person in the side and kind of stops and,
00:35:19
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points at somebody, wears downstairs, and then he turns down the street and starts walking that way.
Eris Strikes the Ram with Tasha
00:35:27
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Okay, okay. So the threat is? He now knows what digit. Something a little, a little narrowed. And as far as I know, Eris is down, in the downstairs right now, like. As far as you know, yeah.
00:35:48
Speaker
Because Hobb genuinely doesn't know that she's staying in all this workshop. Slash classroom, is that right? Yeah. So, think what Hobb does. I think Hobb just says to Sabia, he says,
00:36:12
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Well, it's time for client business. I'll be back eventually to also stand here. I think he's going to be
00:36:26
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the RAM to the for sales. OK. And on the way, every once in a while, try to ping to see if anybody picks up is it in range? And I don't I he doesn't go past more grave to get there, but he might go past where one of these two is. Milo hopped in a cab. So basically following the Rams path through lower Memphis. So I got to know a quicker way to get there. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're absolutely able.
00:36:51
Speaker
Eventually, you'll hit a point where you start pinging Raynard, who is also headed to the for sales. Great. Cut to Eris reading this letter. What do you do? Boy. I want to. Okay, so first she panics. Okay, good old panic. And
00:37:22
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then she's going to try to figure out what happened. So I wanna investigate the room and try and understand what went down. Okay. If I can. Okay. Go ahead and give me a perception check with a... Let's do two purple. I'm gonna flip a story point and upgrade you.
00:37:52
Speaker
I also would like to clip story points that I have. And I know the room really well. I've been here a lot. I know where everything should be. Okay.
00:38:16
Speaker
I have one success and four advantage. Wow. Okay, so the success? Yes. It is very clear to you that there are no signs of struggle, no signs of it does not seem like somebody took Olive from this place. It would seem that and also where the harness was hanging where you saw it before it doesn't seem like it was ripped down or anything, it seems like it was taken
00:38:43
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in a controlled manner. Your guess is that Olive left this letter, this full letter, somewhere for you. And somebody found the letter and is now, but it doesn't seem like they found Olive.
00:38:58
Speaker
Does it look like a really big warforged stomped his way through here? You know, that could be one way to interpret what has happened, potentially. I mean, obviously, Eris doesn't have anything, but I mean, is there any evidence of some really big person whose apparent only way of working something out is to smash stuff?
00:39:19
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Yeah, I mean, does the place look like it's been roughly treated? Yeah, you could, you can see some like very heavy like footfalls where somebody would have gone, something very large was stomping about me. Right, because would the RAM, maybe I'm overestimating the RAM size now, would the RAM easily go through the door of office? Yeah, I mean the RAM, the RAM is like hob size basically is what the way we described, maybe a little bit wider than hob, but yeah.
00:39:48
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But yeah, something large was in here and, yeah. Or for advantage, can I find the other half of the letter? Sure. So yeah, as you're
Strategizing Post-Impact
00:40:02
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looking about. And to make you improvise it now. Yeah. I always assumed it was like, pencil scratch to the bottom of the page. Guy's torn, he said it was torn. Yeah, torn after that point. I guess in the Ram, read it and tore it in rage. Yeah.
00:40:15
Speaker
You can, I'm perfectly acceptable with you summarizing what the content is. The first half of the letter cut off it, I wish I could, and the letter continued, tell you this in person and explain everything, but I think somebody may be too interested in the side work I've been doing that you're aware of. I will be in contact as soon as I can. I'm sorry.
00:40:51
Speaker
Okay. At this point, Milo, your cab has arrived at the dock. I see Tasha. Yeah, you would see Tasha parked. Sorry, is there anything else you want to do? Yeah, I mean, Iris goes up to her nest and kits out. Okay. So while Iris is up there, kitting out, Milo, you come into Olive's workshop and you see nobody.
00:41:19
Speaker
Well, I look out to see if she's up there. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, she's. She's up in the rafters, but she's she has actually I mean, actually, she's over a little bit in a corner standing with her feet pressed against the wall and her body leaned back against the wall and the Fletcher aimed at the door.
00:41:43
Speaker
So she sees Milo. Yeah. How quick is your trigger finger when you, when you see a figure walk through the door? It's too small to be the Ram. Okay. Fair enough. Might be Vigo. Might be Vigo. Eris wants to look in Vigo's eyes when she shoots him. Okay. So Milo, you see the barrel of the Fletcher pointed at you.
00:42:07
Speaker
Eris, please lower the Fletcher. Puts the Fletcher on her back and finishes strapping on the arm blade and then drops to the ground. Olive's gone and someone big was here. And I will tell you that was probably the ram he's stomping through neighborhoods picking up.
00:42:35
Speaker
and asking them where is Eris and tossing them aside. How would he know about Olive? I have no idea. He was obviously here, I would assume, looking for you. Eris is out the door. Milo's following.
00:42:54
Speaker
Um, so cut to, uh, for sales. Um, yeah, you all, you're, you're able to ping Reynard on the shortwave radio. So wait, so we've, we've caught up with each other and we've gotten to the for sales. Yeah. I mean, Reynard would have gotten there a little bit before you, well, no, he stopped to finish.
00:43:11
Speaker
stringing his lute so probably around the same time. Okay so downstairs is not small so it's not like when they said downstairs he went to the street the for sales is on. No um I mean downstairs um yeah I mean it's it's the tavern district so you know it's it's where all the
00:43:35
Speaker
the bars and everything are. So, you know, it's not small, but it's also not gigantic. The total, the entirety of Lower Memphis has a population of 8,400 people. So. Foursales open? Can I get in? Okay. Kofen would have eventually opened it by this point. Okay. I think I, I go into the Foursales and I just simply say, Olven, the ram's coming. You heard me. You heard me, yeah. You heard me, indeed. And, uh, I think perhaps,
00:44:05
Speaker
Maybe we just don't open up the rest of the day and perhaps we can deal with this. He's after Eris. Then rain out of accident says, Oh, Hob, I just saw your old friend, the ram, walking through the street. Oh. What do you need from me? Just shut down? Well, yeah. Right. He flips off the neon sign.
00:44:33
Speaker
He pushes a button. He pulls out the sails. Steel doors slide down. He pulls a shotgun out from underneath the, what do you need? So you can only get food when there's wind in the sails.
00:44:50
Speaker
I think the goal that's absolutely something he's going to put on the tables now for when people need service they raise it raise a little sale bring the sales down and then what was the name of that place mexican restaurant ponchos you know so in hob's mind right now because he's a little he's not panicky he has equal parts concerned about aris and really wanting to
00:45:14
Speaker
just end crap with the ram, like just put it to bed for good, that in his head he's thinking eventually the ram is going to come down this street waylaying commoners looking for Aeris. One of them's going to say Aeris hangs out at the for sales, and when he comes in here, he's getting a surprise round. Okay, and for real, where are the Boromar Tufts, whose job it is to keep this turf safe? That's a good point.
00:45:42
Speaker
So yeah, you all are there. You don't see the Ram on your street yet, but are there any preparations you would like to make other than just hiding out in the for sales waiting for him to enter? I think I keep trying to ping Eris and saying, and like, as soon as she's in range and hears it, I'm leaving it up to her, but I'm telling her,
00:46:09
Speaker
the, you know, the Rams say, uh, can we just say that she got in range before he gets here? When Milo and Aeris are in range. Yeah. Aeris, can you hear me? Yeah. Uh, the Ram has been looking for you. Yeah. He was in Olives. Right. Well, he's gone.
00:46:30
Speaker
Okay, well, I have a feeling I heard someone tell him that you spend time downstairs in the downstairs and he was heading this way. I assume someone will tell him you spend time at the for sales. I'm already there. You can come or you can not. Get out. I don't want to wreck the for sales. Well, I mean, we can fix anything that happens at the for sales. Poorly, but he knows that we
00:47:05
Speaker
I like to think that Han would help. I tell you this, he can bring all the lumber home in one trip. You suck at tongue shot. You uppity schmuck. Okay. Another do it in here than on the street. Now you can come join us or you cannot, but if you see him before he sees you,
Debating Ram Confrontation Location
00:47:35
Speaker
Don't confront him, please. I know you want to know where Olive is, but you know we'll do better with all of us. Put another fracking hole in his face. Yes, I would also like that, but perhaps we can wait until we're all together. We know he's coming here and you know I can keep him here until you get here. As you all are flying in, having this conversation, um, both of you can give me perception checks. What's the difficulty?
00:48:03
Speaker
Um, two difficulty with a boost die due to the Ram size. Boy. Two advantage or two success, three advantage. Okay. Two advantage. Okay. So Milo, you don't see anything.
00:48:22
Speaker
Uh, but you do have two advantage that you can use for something. Uh, Eris, what you see, cause you had. I had two success and three advantage. Um, you see, as you're flying in towards the docking near the four sales, the Ram is one street over in downstairs, like headed that way. Um, but headed in the general direction of the four sales, you can see him. Um, what would you all like to do with your advantage? Running him over.
00:48:48
Speaker
That is an option. This was a conference call. You heard what I said. The room is going to punch Tasha in the back. He's coming up the street. Like he's almost here. He's almost there. Well, he's one street over, but yeah. But he's coming on. He's like... It's parallel. So if the Four Stales is here, he's coming up this street and we'll eventually loop back around. Okay. I think I say yeah. He's one street over. If you can't beat him here,
00:49:18
Speaker
Let him get in first. Don't race him. I don't want him to see outside. You don't want... He's after you. I want him in here. Why? And this is where Hobb realizes he doesn't actually know why. It's just the thing that came to him at the time and you're sticking with it. He says, because. It's not a good answer.
00:49:46
Speaker
You're gonna smash up Orphan's place. I don't think it'll be that bad. Look, I mean, you have to dock when you come through the door. He's as big as you and won't care. He's gonna smash the place just getting in.
00:50:07
Speaker
So what, what, what, why not take it to the street then and get the drop on him that way? Because there's no drop on him in the street. There's got to be someplace to, to...
Hob's Direct Confrontation with the Ram
00:50:18
Speaker
I think I literal. There's got to be someplace to seek cover. Go out in the street and get him looking at you. You all see that he's now reached the end of the street and is about to loop around. He's coming around the corner.
00:50:36
Speaker
Maybe in an alleyway. Go out in the street and get him looking at you. Apparently, there's no watch. OK, fine. You know what Hob does? Hob steps out and starts charging at him from down the street. OK, so you can run down the street. You want him looking at me? He's looking at me. Hob takes off at the door. I mean, we're going to blow surprise. Let's blow surprise. We let him come here and there's three of us inside and two of us outside and he's surrounded.
00:51:03
Speaker
Well, we still have advantage though. I still have. Yeah. You all still have advantage. So. I would like some of the advantage that we have to spend to go towards not seeing Tasha. Okay. He sees Hob and not Tasha. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. Doesn't see us.
00:51:22
Speaker
And I would like to put however much, I don't know how much advantage does that cost? I mean, if you want to prevent him from being able to make a check, to be aware of Tasha's presence, I would probably use all five of your collective advantage for that. Okay. If you want to put stock Tasha in stealth mode. Okay. I'm going to get the drop on him. So, Reynard, are you following Hob out? I guess. Hob just turns and takes off down the street. So. Well.
00:51:50
Speaker
Raynard turns to... If this is shortwave radio, it's open channel, so you heard the conversation. Yeah, you heard the conversation. Well, I'm also standing next to you. You heard both sides. You heard Aeris's portion of your... Aeris and Milo's part of the conversation. So Raynard turns to Ulfid and says, well, I guess I'm going outside. All right. Have some soup waiting when I get back.
00:52:22
Speaker
OK, you want to pay in advance. OK, we're going to look at a fight. So, yeah, you all take off down the street and you run the corner and see the Ram just as he's tossing a halfling to the side and he stops and get ready to duck.
00:52:49
Speaker
he gets ready to duck stops and looks at the two of you seeing you around the corner and he starts laughing like what are the odds I mean I came for you so pretty good dummy and the frame is you see behind him the blue painted hole of Tasha swerve into line behind him and begin a dive down the street straight towards the back of the Ram okay
00:53:18
Speaker
Hobb does his best not to cheat that by looking beyond the ram. Given the five advantage, I'll allow that without a check. Right now it is not subtle. Just scoots to the side. Yeah, because I'm going to stay there as long as I can to keep him in place. So I guess do I need to do an athletics check to see if I don't get hit? Sure. Let's have Eris make her driving check. So Tasha pilots her own self.
00:53:45
Speaker
I almost said Amaron. Wow. That's a blast from the past. Wow. Milo, braces for impact. Yeah. Yeah. This isn't going to be good to Tasha. Yours can fix Tasha. Yours could have fixed dolphins.
00:54:01
Speaker
Maris is a mechanic. She's not an engineer. We were trying to revamp orphans anyway. Demo is a big step. We were proposing alterations in his business plan. It's about to be a really simple design. We're never going to have those cool boat tables.
00:54:24
Speaker
Like the pirate ship beds at Disney. Oh, yeah. I don't know. Like the car food cord at Balespring small. What's the difficulty, Eric? I just realized I didn't ask you for that. Pasha's handling is zero now, correct? Correct. So no, no setback or. Silhouette.
00:54:49
Speaker
Well, and what's the silhouette of Tasha? She's still at three, three. And how fast would you say she's going? Max speed is two. So that's what she's going to. Yep. My intention is just to drop level on the street and just yeah.
00:55:12
Speaker
Let's do a three purple difficulty, or driving, piloting, whatever, yeah. That's a weird roll. Okay, so, I end up with one success, a triumph, and two threat.
00:55:38
Speaker
Two threat. Okay. So yes, that is what, what silhouette did you say again? She's still about three, three. So silhouette times speed times two would be 12. Um, so yeah, uh, plus one success. So 13 damage is what you deal to the Ram. Um, so.
00:56:08
Speaker
And I would like to critically injure him. Okay. I've not read these in so long. Um, percentile dice? Yes. I haven't used percentile dice for anything. Oh my gosh. Uh, 73. You just add them, add them together, man. I don't know why I couldn't do that.
00:56:27
Speaker
There's a 17, there's a three, it's just 73. I just say them in succession. So Tasha comes flying in and just clips the back of the ram's leg and he kind of does a backflip over Tasha into the street and he is hamstrung. So he loses his free maneuver on his turn until the critical injury is healed. Now I need a hob to avoid being hit.
00:57:02
Speaker
And that check's going to have an upgrade on the difficulty because of reckless driving because of the threat. So that's fair. Do I need to account for any strain or hole trauma to Tasha? Probably. Probably some hole trauma. Since it's wood hitting metal.
00:57:29
Speaker
Ophin's silhouette is, or not Ophin, you hit Ophin. The room's silhouette is one. Speed two. So yeah, let's do, do vehicles have soak? They can have armor. As a Sky Cab, you did not give Tasha any armor. So let's say, what's the max hole trauma? Her threshold is three. Three? Yeah. Okay, so take one point of hole trauma. I wasn't sure how it worked. It's been, okay. So, Hob, athletics check to avoid being hit.
00:57:59
Speaker
It is going to be a three purple difficulty with one upgrade because of the threat that Aeris rolled, like the recklessness of her impact, so. Can I get a boost for knowing what's happening? Yeah, absolutely. Okay, cool. You can also flip a story point if you like to. I mean, I'm feeling good. Does that count? It fell out of my hand. That's fine. I mean, I...
00:58:26
Speaker
all right we've succeeded yeah um looks like it is three success and no that's it okay three success okay look i read the dice eric you didn't pull the threat out of the pool so because i did it wrong last time doesn't mean i did it wrong
00:58:44
Speaker
Okay so yeah you're able to dive out of the way as Tasha goes skidding on the street past you as the ram is like flipped over onto I mean he lands but like the back of his leg is clearly injured from the impact like uh should have saw that coming. All right that's how we're gonna do this. Where's Olive?
00:59:07
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