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C2 Ep. 200 Dealing with the Devils Chapter Three
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Calling in favors and rejecting advances
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The Lissa and Dell Conflict
00:00:10
Speaker
D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:00:47
Speaker
we call hello hey boss just trying it out hi hop so we're about to meet with lissa and something that we mentioned that she was having some sort of conflict with second del who's apparently very nice but stupid and we'd like to tell her that you're willing to transfer del just somewhere else sure yeah that seems like a very
Lissa's Background and Family Ties
00:01:15
Speaker
easy ask. We wouldn't come to you with it if it was going to be a problem. It's really an, it's a, it's just a thing to do. You know? All right. Excellent. Can do. You and Lissa are family in some capacity. There are a lot of bormos and I do not have the family tree memorized. She's my, um, Oh yeah. That would make sense. Other things we should know about her. We've only had one interaction really. I,
00:01:40
Speaker
She was very young. Her dad was running the Ravens when I went in. She likes that thing where you put your feet on her stomach. Yeah. She likes playing airplanes. She may have grown up out of that, but not a fan of vegetables. So no, I, I don't really have a good sense of how she runs the Ravens or what her asks are. So you would have a better understanding of that than I do.
Office Visit and Dell's Identity
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Speaker
Okay. It says hello by the way. Right. Hello. And on we go. How'd that go? Good. Great. We're in the middle of it. Oh yeah. They're great. So it should be a problem. Cool.
00:02:10
Speaker
Let's go tell Alyssa that Dell is finding a new house. All right. So you all go to Alyssa's office. You see quite a few in the street leading up to it. People playing three dragon ante and lots of street games. Shifters primarily running it. But yeah, it's a very small little office that Alyssa has. Dell is sitting in the front area though as you all walk in. He's like, hey. Hey, Hob. Dell. No, come by my last name. No. Please?
00:02:40
Speaker
I'd love to. I'm going to call you vague enough. What was his last name? Hob. Oh, that's right. Sounds like, sounds like a really strange restaurant. Hello. Well, I suppose one of those has to be hob too. Well, I was home first. And I suppose it will have to be me. This is awful. Hey, number one, number two. What can I do you for? We need to talk to Lisa. All right.
00:03:08
Speaker
I think her schedule is free and he looks at a very empty ledger like, yep, you can head on back.
Lissa's Accounting and Book Skills
00:03:15
Speaker
Lissa, the folks, the former black lamps are here to see you. We have names, Hobbs. Hobbs here. Not me, Hobb. Number two is here. I don't recall officially being fired. You know?
00:03:32
Speaker
That's true. Would you like me to refer to you as current? I don't recall being paid for a while though. I don't have something we should talk about. You cannot see her, but you see her for the love of the gods. Just come in here. She loves us. Let's go. And you see Lissa sitting behind her desk, uh, lots of like ledgers and like, obviously she does a lot of accounting in this role. Closing door binders. Yeah. Hi. I assume this is related to our previous conversation.
00:03:59
Speaker
How do you tell which books are legitimate and which books are not? There's special symbols that we use in the writing that can only be really detected if you know what to look for. Certain loops in the A's, the ones have a certain tail, things like that. Wow, that requires a level of attention to detail when making the books. That's why I'm good
Plans to Transfer Dell and Enlist Shifters
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Speaker
at what I do. I would not have. So here's the thing, you want to tell elsewhere, we can make that happen.
00:04:26
Speaker
Great. Not specifically where you ask necessarily, but God. Is that... I suppose that'll have to do, but... Speaking. Speaking frankly, like I get why you wouldn't have gone, but I don't understand why you want him dead. He seems like a real decent guy. I don't want him dead, huh? You know as well as I do. Come now, Alyssa. We're not other people. He's gonna be gone. All right? All right. All right, thank you. So, when are we doing this? Eminently. Soon.
00:04:50
Speaker
We're just kind of getting everyone setting readiness to be very honest. I'm not actually sure What we need you to do well, I've got plenty of shifters under my employ that are good in a scrap if need be more than happy to enlist them in whatever kind of occupying force that you're going to muster additionally if we had more time I could even slowly starve a lira of
00:05:18
Speaker
financial resources, but it doesn't seem like our timeline is. You know what I didn't consider is could this just be an opportunity for us to warn her it's about to happen in case, I mean, Alira could say we're gonna shore up our satellites, and all of a sudden they're overtaken by goals just trying to be there in case something happens. Maybe this would just be a good, hey, protect your place thing and be ready to state your allegiance when needed. I don't know, that might be a good heads up at least to give her, this might happen. Wait, to give who?
00:05:48
Speaker
let, listen, no, when this happens, we don't know how Lyra is going to react. You may want some of your tough guys here in case people show up. I didn't think about that with the Dell. That makes sense. But if they're all gone and all that stuff is there is also part of the plan is the Delvers to call the goals to come down there. So, right. But there's enough Delvers that, and we were going to screw it. We're sending elite fighting force anyway, right? In our small, what was it? Carnathy goat. Yeah. Carnathy goat.
00:06:14
Speaker
maybe being ready to keep any other interested parties from interfering would be good. I don't know. Well, I mean, obviously we're hoping this is carried off as quietly as possible, but there's always a chance some of the other gangs or law enforcement or something like that tries to interfere. Perhaps you could be stood by to disrupt that to the best of your abilities.
Diversion Strategy Against Black Clamps
00:06:40
Speaker
Obviously you have
00:06:42
Speaker
You're having forces on your payroll, but you're not, your organization is not primarily Marshall. Yeah, we're not a fighting force. Well, I mean, something that we could do, I mean, our initial, not direct introduction, but your introduction to working with my folks was, you know, the, the black lamps are both a burglar ring thieving, but also
00:07:05
Speaker
fixer-esque branch of if there is a specific problem he's dealing with that a hammer wouldn't be the best approach then the black flames can be brought in. I could always put a call out to Alira that I have a similar situation that you all were called in to help with and see if
00:07:22
Speaker
some of the Black Clamps could be diverted to deal with a situation where the Ravens are being harangued, then they wouldn't be an HQ for you all to deal with. They'd be here. That would be great. Yeah, that would be very helpful. So if we just, because we don't yet have an exact timeline, if we gave you a little bit of notice, you could put that message out, send out that alert, draw some of Illyra's resources away from their current positions.
00:07:48
Speaker
Sure. Give me a negotiation check. Just represented with this conversation. Phillip difficulty is one red, two purple. Okay. I was been watching her very carefully trying to get a read on her this entire time. Okay. What kind of check is this? Negotiate negotiation. Loom applicable. What does Loom do? And you get to add three advantage to your role. If you're not making a check yet, Randy. Cool. You got a boost for shoring things up with Aaron beforehand. Oh,
00:08:18
Speaker
Cool. And I will spend a story point upgrade. All right. Here we go. Wow. Okay. So I have rolled a crazy amount of dice and somehow ended up with zero successes and five advantage. Oh my gosh. Okay. Hey, we still have an advantage. I had one advantage from my last roll. Oh yeah. We did have some lingering advantage. Roll a boost. Come on. Success. Blank. Roll another one. That one doesn't count.
00:08:43
Speaker
Five advantage, gang. So, yeah, Alyssa is sitting there listening to you talk and nodding along with what you're saying. Milo, go ahead and roll your perception check as you've been closely observing. One red, one purple. Oh, we get our story point back. You do.
00:08:59
Speaker
Flip one to turn a greeny to a yellow. Sure. Two advantage. Nope. Okay, so we have six advantage on the table.
Lissa's Neutral Stance in Conflict
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Speaker
Ayla, you don't get a good read on. Alyssa, she has a pretty good poker face being the head of the gambling. Yeah. Well, I'd like to propose that with all of that advantage, she's decided that she doesn't know which way this is going to blow. And so she's going to
00:09:21
Speaker
essentially just sit this out. So while she's obviously not going to be very helpful to us, she's also not going to call a Lyra and say, guess what I just heard. Okay. Yeah. I'll accept that. Yeah. Great use. Frankly. So she's going to be jumping in on either side when the time is right. She will be excited once the fight is over. She's going to wait and see who wins, Randy. Shut up and give Eric loopholes. Confident in our abilities.
00:09:50
Speaker
Why? I don't know. Me too. I just don't want her to do anything until it's over. All right. So Alyssa Nod says, sounds like a, sounds like a good plan that you all got. And I appreciate Erin's willingness to get Dell out of my hair and I eagerly await the go ahead from you all. Great. You sound forlorn, Eris. Seems like you should be elated with that response. Yep. Dell might not be going anywhere. All right.
00:10:18
Speaker
What now, gang? Do we have anyone else? Or do we go pick up Aaron and head to- What about the Citadel? Get in the goat. Touch. When you talk, talk, touch. And we need to, I don't know, see if Koldor ever wants to talk again. Yes. Signal, yeah. Koldor talked to you all right before you broke Aaron out. He proposed the plan of the changeling switcheroo. Oh, that's true. Like Koldor, yeah. I think Koldor might've done his part in this one. Slandering Koldor this whole episode.
00:10:44
Speaker
Well, he has had high expectations when the, when the CIA shows up and says, we would like to help you with a coup. You expect a certain level of quality. And so far we've done not the cold or has done nothing. He hasn't really drug that we have. It's all behind the sides. He's provided one idea that we didn't use.
00:11:03
Speaker
We have stoked no Kunta. There is no CIA supposed to be. I know the playbook. I've seen, I've read the Wikipedia article. All right. Hutch. Okay. So here's the tricky thing. Hutch is going to be at goals HQ. So are you all going to like wait for Hutch to like, like scout it out and wait for Hutch to head home or are you all just going to roll up to the goals?
00:11:24
Speaker
Well, I don't want to just roll up to the goals. That sounds like a very bad idea. Yes. Do we have a way to reach out to Hutch? You don't have a way to communicate with him. No. Old Snazz Guntham might be able to go in there undetected. Oh man.
Meeting Arrangement with Hutch
00:11:36
Speaker
You know who we figured out knows Hutch? Durgoth knows Hutch. Oh, that's right. They're old friends. Yep.
00:11:44
Speaker
I got no problem exploiting that. You know how much soil I move for that guy? Make a phone call, Dorgoth. Sam, you head back to High Walls, you see Dorgoth tending to some of the plants, like, trimming.
00:11:57
Speaker
has his pruners, and it seems like as you all approach, he's in a very zen-like state as he's going from leaf to leaf and pruning. Thank you. Come, friend, join us at the for sales, or at the sorting experience. Eris, clear as her throat. Oh, hi, friends. How's your day going? It's been very busy. I'm sorry. Yes. Ooh. We have a...
00:12:19
Speaker
Small favor. We need to speak to Hutch and the current circumstances prevent us from approaching him directly at his place of work. And so we were hoping that you had a way of getting in touch with him and could, it's fine if you tell him why, but could arrange for him to meet us somewhere. Yeah. I mean, we ran into each other at the
00:12:46
Speaker
garden party and we actually made plans to to catch up. It had been too long. So I can reach out to him and ask him to go grab a drink after he's done working today and relay a message. That would be great. Yeah. So what would you like me to say? You can tell him that we need to talk to him. I guess soaring spirits be easy. Okay. Like tonight.
00:13:12
Speaker
That would be perfect. Yes. Tonight would be ideal. All right. Sure. Let's I will reach out to him and then see if I can get him the soaring spirits by seven o'clock tonight. Sound good.
00:13:24
Speaker
Sounds perfect. Great. All right. We'll leave you to it. Thank you. If you all seek a break from your busy day, he gestures to a set of tools over nearby. You can be busy over here instead. This is therapeutic hub. If you like it, have you ever tried it? And now so much dirt for you.
00:13:46
Speaker
Calling, and now calling Koldor. Eris calls Koldor. It's Eris. Go for Koldor. Oh, hey, what's going on? Oh, well, so many things, but the only one I'm going to tell you about is we're ready to do that thing. Oh, okay. How can I be of assistance?
00:14:04
Speaker
That is a very good question that you have not yet answered. Wow. I've got, you want this thing to happen and we've kind of made some deals about it happening and so I just don't know what the answer is to that question because I don't have a very good understanding of what you do and therefore what you can do
00:14:26
Speaker
What is your current plan? Okay. Well, our current plan is essentially we have a back way into the headquarters of the clan. We are going to move in with a small force while a rather more large brute force sort of thing makes a display of attacking the place from the front and
00:14:54
Speaker
Hopefully we get in quick and relatively quiet and can take neutralize a lira. Okay. Yeah. That all sounds like a solid plan. Oh, good. I have no idea what a solid plan sounds like. We're not very good at making solid plans. That sounds like a good one. Oh, hold on just one second Harris and you hear kind of like muffled. No. Yeah. We're going to transfer them out.
00:15:16
Speaker
We have, yes, we have an airship waiting to take him to the, yes. He'll end of day. He'll be locked up. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Sorry. Go ahead. That was it. So what can the Citadel do that they're willing to do quietly to help with that?
00:15:37
Speaker
Because obviously it's important from a perspective since you seem to understand the value of this sort of thing. From the perspective of a lot of people in the clan, it would be very bad for it to be obvious that Eren was helped by the Citadel. Well, I mean...
00:15:53
Speaker
just to go over kind of the menu of options for lack of a better term. We can obviously clear out Sharn City Watch from the neighborhood so that you all aren't harangued as you are marching in a potential fighting breaking out. I know that there have been players making political moves against the plan in terms of the city council if you'd like any of your
00:16:14
Speaker
political adversaries no longer in the way. That's obviously something that we've been known to do and can do it quietly. If you have any other power players that you would like to see elevated or brought low, we can do our best. So are you talking direct action in you trying to seize Boromar HQ or are we talking big picture here? Eris covers the communicator and turns to the others with a slightly large eyed look and says, I think he just offered to kill anyone I ask him to. Callaway.
00:16:44
Speaker
I wasn't quite ready for that. Yeah, that's a lot. He made all these sounds about like taking care of political opponents or elevating or bringing low certain people. A political adversaries on the council is that would definitely be advantageous. That's a lot to ask. I agree. I was just thinking City Watch ignores any calls about what's going on. He did also offer that.
00:17:14
Speaker
He did also offer that, yeah. But I don't want to waste this whole, I'll murk someone for you thing if we want to try to, who, who, who shall we have them kill, friends? As, as you're talking with the group Eris, you hear also, Koldor is talking away from his communicator to someone else while you all are taking a break from your conversation. You hear him say, yes, payment is cleared from Sharn City watch.
00:17:35
Speaker
He is ready for transfer, yes. We can't hear this, right? We can't, errors can. House Condirect has approved, yes, they got them. Lee, you can ask about it. Hey, hey, Coldoor. Yeah, what's up? Just because, you know, as you know, we just made some adjustments to it.
00:17:57
Speaker
population. It kind of sounds like you're talking about the Dreadhold. Oh yeah. We've got a new prisoner being transferred from shirt. So you watch custody to the Dreadhold. Oh, right. Yeah. Wait, what's he saying about the Dreadhold? Is that Norse and mill hatch by chance? I'm going to need an honest answer from you right now, Eris. And I promise I won't be mad. Did you bug my office? No, I'm listening. I haven't been to your office. Well, I haven't said Norse and mill hatches name during our conversation. So,
00:18:26
Speaker
Well, I have a lot of interest in what happens in Milhatch from a variety of reasons. Several times he's tried to kill me. I have great news for you. Oh, cool. He won't be trying to kill you anytime soon. Okay. Hey, why are you talking about Norse and Milhatch? And thank you. It's really nice that you feel like I could bug your office successfully. I, I mean this in the kind of way possible. After the moment that I met you, I learned to not assume anything about you. So, and you're,
00:18:55
Speaker
what you're capable of. So I'm glad that you're taking it that way. So yes, that's just being sent to the Dreadhold. OK, so first of all, the thing where the science that you watch ignores calls from around here and so doesn't interfere. That sounds great, mostly because we aren't sure which of the watcher on the take.
Citadel's Political Influence Plan
00:19:13
Speaker
But also, you know, honest watchmen that might show up and get hurt would be bad.
00:19:19
Speaker
So yeah, just the watch clearing things out. Oh, could the watch like, there's this thing that happened, I don't remember the word for it, the police word for it. Can the watch like not let anyone else come into an area or like cordon off?
00:19:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's it. According to the help couldn't arrive suddenly and unexpectedly. Yeah, we could do that. That would be really good. Big picture is the main problem I think we have is Solomon Callaway. I'm not really sure we want to ask you to murder him exactly, but he's definitely the problem on the city council in terms of the Boromar. Yeah, that would also be Solomon Callaway would be probably
00:20:01
Speaker
not possible ask right now, so. Yeah. Talk a big game, don't you, Cold War? Well, you can't hear me. To your other point of off the block of Bormar HQ, that is possible. We don't have direct influence over the Sharn City Watch to tell them, hey, do this. We can create a situation to where they will do it, if that makes sense. You can't. Is that situation likely and was us getting arrested?
00:20:30
Speaker
No, we will basically have to create a sense of danger that the Charon City watch would not want to allow anyone to get near. So I will probably just put out a flag of some kind of a disease poison infestation of some kind in that area and then they'll block it off.
00:20:49
Speaker
Okay, yeah. There was a lot of meat hanging up in that place last time I was there, so it could just genuinely be unhealthy. This is an hysteria outbreak. What? Is it not? Wait, is it not known that there's like a functional slaughterhouse in Boromar HQ? Every time I visited there, Satan was chopping up a side of beef. The Boromar abattoir, you're not, that's a thing.
00:21:15
Speaker
It's a known thing. Forgive me for presuming your... I hear Hob yelling in the background. Is he trying to talk to me right now? Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I may have gotten distracted. What's up? I grabbed the frog. I've been using context clues. Jesus Christ, you don't have to yell into a microphone. I have to yell into all of them. I'm sorry. I'm recording this and your waveforms are off the chart, Tom.
00:21:35
Speaker
Yeah, I know, man. I don't know what to do about it. It's just who I am. I've been listening and I quit. I don't presume to understand protocols of your thing. But if you said you were doing an operation in Boromar HQ tonight and could use
00:21:51
Speaker
Sharn City Watch is helped by cordoning off that part. Would that not be enough? Without them thinking they needed to act? The watch would call Ellara. Ellira. The watch would call Ellira. Right. The sneaky ones would do that. You're smarter than I am, Eris. I've always said it. Why don't we give the phone back to Eris, Hob?
00:22:09
Speaker
And he does not say that. He does not just throws Aerys's communicator off the tower. Hobbs had a day. Yeah, no, that was my thought. And yeah, I know you're right. I wanted to do it out of character, but suddenly I had to do it in character. Was he going to do anything about the council? Is Milo talking in the background? He said Solomon Calloway was too big an ask. It's not too big. It's politically complicated.
00:22:33
Speaker
but there are members currently on the house. He's in good with the Citadel, so it'd be hard to- Wait, what? Wait, what? How? Why? He is making moves with the King and Parliament. To do what? Just ingratiating himself. He's a weapons manufacturer.
00:22:53
Speaker
I'm a weapons manufacturer. Not Callaway's on a bit bigger scale than you are Eris. I'm better. Oh, that's not up for dispute. Bespoke stuff is usually better. He is mass producing weapons. If you set up an operation the same scale as Solomon Callaway, give me a call and you might be able to get the contract from it. Oh, it'd be so many people. I was really worried about your pause. I was being facetious, but go ahead.
00:23:16
Speaker
I've got like a bunch of favou- Wait a minute. Oh god, what have I done? Like a lot of people owe me favours is the thing. I just was calculating. Okay, okay. I think I understand. What about like his influence on the city councilors? Anything you can do about that? If you give me names of the city councilors, then yeah. What will happen if I give you names of the city councilors?
00:23:41
Speaker
What would you like to happen? I don't want them to be killed.
00:23:48
Speaker
Okay. We could identify potential political opponents to them and provide funding to them, elevate their campaign, elevate their status, send out a smear campaign of the current person residing in the seat. I mean, we can, we can rig an election if that's what you're asking to me. That's not to be involved. So what do you want to happen here? I don't know what I'm not. And I'm not going to be in the clan anymore. So it's like, what did he say that he could,
00:24:17
Speaker
Well, you kind of implied that if I asked, he would just murder the members of the city council that are a problem for us. Yes. And I heard that's what we call the quiet part and we don't say it out loud. There's not very many people around. Yes. Well, I heard you say that you did not want. It's not lunch, lunch, lunch for us yet. You're in a restaurant right now. How we already ate. Well, I already heard your reply saying you did not want anybody killed. Can he just somehow
00:24:45
Speaker
Yeah, he basically said he could rig an election and just get them taken off the council. Well, that's definitely beneficial to what we need to have happen to assist. But he's still gross. At least nobody will die. Just democracy. And these people are in Callaway's pocket.
00:25:05
Speaker
And that's not a good thing. You explain that to Koldor. Hello, Koldor. Milo, hi. How's the forehead? There's got to be a switch on this thing. Well, you know, it still does its thing. Eris is saying something about you could rig an election. I think that would be most beneficial. All right. Milo, you could be on the council. Milo, you could be on the council. To Eris, who is shouting into the mouthpiece for me on the council.
00:25:34
Speaker
get me names of the counselors that need to be gone. And then we can start moving to identify people that reside in those districts. If the district you live in has one of those counselors, then we can talk about, or you're willing to move to a district that has one of those counselors. Cause he's going to build you a restaurant so it can be whatever policy you want. You whisper so loud. You said to stop saying the quiet part out loud.
00:26:02
Speaker
So we get you the names and then you will take care of it on your end. We know the names, right? We have heard the names. I don't think I know the names, but we, we had heard about this. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we've heard the names, but I don't know them off the top of my head. Yes, you do. We, we, we know the names. We've given the names. Now the question is,
00:26:22
Speaker
Here's the morality question of the Bioware game. Do you give him the names of the new additions that Callaway has obviously coerced and fixed into taking those council seats away from Boromar? Or do you give him a list of names of all of the counselors that don't align with Boromar interests? I leave that to my... This is why Eris handed the phone to Milo. Because you could make the council wholly Boromar owned.
00:26:48
Speaker
I'm a clan guy. Okay. I know. Yeah. So, I mean, I was going to do what he feels is best for the glance. Okay. So Milo lists out the names, hobby or ears perk up when you hear Savia's name as one of the counselor names that.
00:27:01
Speaker
Koldor needs to move against. And that's when Hobb says, Milo, she's cool. I'm assuming you're talking about Sarvia. Yeah, that's why I said that after her name. Well, Koldor keeps Sarvia. All right. Rest of them, though. Gone. If there are no objections amongst my friends. But not dead. No, not dead. Just do your political maneuvers. Yeah. No. We'll put out stories. We'll get them involved in scandals. We'll ruin their names so that they can't possibly hold off a skin.
00:27:29
Speaker
I can't imagine there's a problem with that. They're on the Sharn City Council. They can't all be... The odds of them being good people are very low. Sabi is the only one. She's not a good person, but she took care of Hop. Wait, what about the owl? Leave the owl. I like the owl. Who's the owl?
00:27:44
Speaker
There's a giant owl on the Sharn City Council. There is a giant owl. Who? They're not even up for election. They just get to be honest. Don't make Sharn a less magical place. The owl just showed up one day and we were like, City Council, get in there. You're in. I hear your type is wise. All right. Milo, I'll start moving on this. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. When the conversation is over, I just want to say. Yeah. Anything else?
00:28:09
Speaker
Do you have anything else, Eris? Oh no, I already listed a whole lot of demands for all of us. So that's that part's yeah, already good. Very well. Like I, I believe we are done here. Cold on. Great. Then I will get to work on it. So farewell. Later visual communicator. Milo, as you amass more power, can I ask that you not make me stop you from ruining the life of someone who's taken great care of me since I've been in this city?
00:28:34
Speaker
Well, I wasn't sure it was the same Savia. I know that. I know that in that moment, Randy would not have thought this obvious on there. He would have said something. So it's fine. Yeah, man, who knows? That could be, that could be the Melissa of Sean. Yeah. Hey, when he said Savia, I knew, but I wasn't going to say anything.
00:28:50
Speaker
to give you a chance to play. Okay, so you all have a few more hours before Hutch time, so anything else? I got nothing until Hutch. I guess, well, since we are literally in downtime, Aeris would just call to make sure everything was okay with Olive.
Checking in with Olive for Updates
00:29:06
Speaker
Yeah, Olive said it would be like mid-afternoon. She's just gotten back to the cauldron when she picks up like...
00:29:13
Speaker
Oh, yeah, everything's good. Nothing. How is everyone doing? Busy. We're staying busy. Good. So we're not really talking about it. Reynard's great. Doesn't surprise me. Hoppe's going to spend a bit of time topping off a ceiling potion.
00:29:30
Speaker
sharpening his fists, I don't know how to even prepare this. So at some point, I'm assuming you all are not locked at the hip over the course of the hours that you all are waiting for. Sure. Time to come. So yeah, Hob, when you're topping off healing potions and like going to a shop or something by yourself, a figure kind of just regards you and looks like something's waiting on your mind, friend. Oh, oh no. This figure is in like,
00:29:57
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a very well tailored kind of bluish outfit appears to be an elf with blonde hair. And they're, they're also like wherever you're topping off your healing potion stuff, they're in the same shop. Just browsing. Well, if we're in high wall, it's definitely like Nessa moonshadow. She's the apothecary, right? That's true. Yeah. Okay. I'm in Nessa's then. Yeah, sure. Not, not really. Hmm. All right. Must've misread you.
00:30:22
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I can't imagine Hobbs gonna open up to this dude. You know what Hobbs says? Because I think Hobbs says, just, God, does he just lie to this guy? You're gonna have to roll for it. I think he says, you know what, just top it off, you know. All right. Word on the street is that last night there was an altercation with a spirit of preservation that somebody might want to punch back at.
00:30:45
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thought it sounded like somebody looked like you, but if I'm wrong, I'm wrong friend. I don't know that we are friends. If you're going, you clearly know something of me. Like let's not pretend like that. So if we're friends, what are you talking about? Talking about one of my colleagues was obviously meddling in this city. And it seems that they got your friend wrapped up in something that they didn't fully understand. And that led to an unfortunate circumstance where you were fighting
00:31:14
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one of their minions, but unfortunately, like I said, your friend got wrapped up in something they didn't understand. I have the means to
00:31:23
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afford you an avenue to vengeance if you so desired, which based on my reads seem to be something that you might want. I've spent the greater part of my adult life practicing the discipline of eschewing my wants, and unfortunately I am in a moment where I must do that again. I don't know what you mean by colleague.
00:31:46
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but it doesn't engender a lot of trust and the cryptic language contributes to that. I get it, you can't just openly say whatever you're trying to tell me here, but right now I have several other friends who are in as grave of circumstances that I need to attend to.
00:32:04
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all right but i also have to tell you that you're not wrong yeah i mean it wouldn't be a long arduous road that spirit that you tangled with is weak and still in the city can't return home until it builds its strength back up so be a pretty easy peasy go kill it kind of gig but not asking a lot of you just offering you a chance but if you don't want it not here to pressure anyone
00:32:28
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Just step into my Lincoln sky car. I don't, I mean, this is the second hook you've given me that I'm about to issue and I don't like doing that. But Hobbs mission focused and his real friends, they're actually his buddies could take a lot of danger if he does not stay that way. And he wants vengeance selfishly, not to avenge Ace.
00:32:49
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He wants his friends to survive for their sake. And I think that that is going to look, man, I'm not not interested, but I can't like, you don't seem to understand the timetable I'm working with. And I don't understand the timetable you're working with. So why don't you elucidate how much time I would have? How long is this guy going to be weak? Because I'm going to be free by two days. Hopefully we're dead. I was going to say, you know, it's going to be weak for another day. So it would be kind of a tonight after dark kind of thing. So busy tonight after dark.
00:33:21
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Yeah, no, I... I blame your timing, Eric. I also blame myself for killing Ace. A little. Look, man, if this is something we can link up again later, I am interested, but I can't do it now. I don't know why... Like, if you know so much about me, you know that I've got a lot of irons in the fire. How can I find you? I mean, if... I'm assuming that you came to me... Pardon me for making an assumption about you, but...
00:33:49
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You're not a 100% altruistic individual. So my assumption is there's a benefit to you of me getting rid of this guy. Me and my friends. Can I contact you when I'm free? I'm doing some pre vengeance right now that I need to take care of before I can get rid of my post vengeance. Sure. Let's establish a time and place to meet. When would you be free? Hob's going to have a better understanding of the timeline than did Ben.
00:34:18
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Yes, I mean we are doing this this evening and the fallout could probably last a Day of actual like running and fighting and stuff. Look, I'll do my best to catch you in like 48 hours. All right 48 hours back here. Yeah, sure Sounds good. Nick sends his hand. I'll see you then. I don't know your things man. Shake on it. And what? Just a gesture of kindness and
00:34:43
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Intention. Like I've seen touch spells. I'm not interested in hurting your friend. I'm interested in you doing the hurting. With respect to you, my word is my bond. Alright. We met today and you're... you said he was your colleague, my guy. Just asking for a handshake. And you'll get one when we're done, how about that? Alright, while you all are meandering about as well, Reynard.
00:35:06
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Oh. I wanted to be like, yeah, let's go. Jeff doesn't want to play in the space and it's fine. He walks up and shakes his hand. You picked the wrong character to deviate from the plan, they may. Raynard is what what is Raynard doing when you all kind of like venture away from each other? Oh, man. Running back home or like. Oh, I want to say, sure, let's do that. But that sounds like I'm walking into something.
00:35:29
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I mean, I flipped a story point. No matter what you do, you're walking into something. Okay, cool. Sure, then I guess I'm gonna go, well, I'm just gonna go to Elvinor and Eldrin. Okay. As you get out of the sky cab on your way, you feel a hand grab your upper arm and you turn and see Cath.
00:35:54
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And Kath has giant bags under her eyes, looks, her eyes are like very red. And she says, you're gonna come with me right now, okay? What is wrong? Come with me, please. And you don't hear, you hear desperation, not threatening. Okay. In her voice. Do you need help? Yes, please, come with me. All right. And she leads you to a nondescript building
00:36:23
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Like, one of the abandoned, like, sections of a tower and sharn and leads you into a room and you see Ace's body with a hole in his chest. Oh, no. Oh, no. And she kind of shoves you towards Ace's body. I saw you do it with the ram. Bring him back.
00:36:44
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Kath, that was- Do it! That was completely by accident. Raynard. It wasn't purposeful. I don't know if I can do that again. Try it. Also, we don't know what the RAM is now. Try it. Look, I was about to go meet with- He doesn't deserve this. But maybe we could ask the people I was about to meet. They might have better resources to help. Raynard, I'm asking you as a friend to please do this. Oh, no. I'll never ask you for anything again. Just please do this.
00:37:10
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I don't see this going well, Kath. Give me a charm check if you're gonna try to talk her out of it.
00:37:17
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I got to check my charm. Actually, I don't have to check my charm. It's for yellow. What is the two red difficulties? It's going to be hard. I'm going to flip a story point to add a purple to it. Cool. And just circumstances add to black because she is on a knife's edge. Can he get a boost for being right? Well, I must spin the story point, I guess, to get another green. Great. Any advantage on the table, gang?
00:37:41
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I don't think okay. Well, we got these guys. Looks like you did succeed. These go away. So I have one success. No, because that just cancels out. So it's just advantage, right? Because the no, those are also so they cancel each other. So three advantage, one success, one triumph and one despair. What a time. What a time. Well, there's a triumph we've been looking for.
00:38:10
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Yeah, the ramp comes in. Have we actually been looking for that? The ramp comes in and says this is not a good idea, Kev. Well, I don't I so I succeed in convincing her it's not a good idea. Yeah, I mean, you convinced her to not cause you physical harm if you don't agree to do this. Like she was. Yeah, she's not convinced that this is a bad idea. Right. Kath, I'm more than happy to try and find help, but I am not the person to do this. I had seen you do it before.
00:38:40
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But that was not purposeful. I don't know what I did. I can't recreate that. Your luck. I heard Hob tell you to bring him back and you did. But look what happened. And she just walks over to Ace's body and kind of touches his arm and just, okay, fine. But I can ask for help. I wanted you to help. It's fine. You don't want to. I'm offering it to help. It's just not the way you're asking me to help because I don't know if that will inevitably be helpful. It could be ultimately more harmful.
00:39:10
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What help are you offering them? I was just about to go see Elvinor and Eldrin, and maybe we could talk to them about what they could do to help. They're far more powerful and have much more resources than I do. They may know of something. I am. I'm going to take him back to my place and keep him there for a bit. If you find any help, you know where to find me. I will. I'll ask them to do whatever they can. Just go. And I guess I leave. You have three advantage, a triumph, and
00:39:38
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I'll deal with the despair, but man, the three advantage, I don't know what to do with the, I don't know what to do with the triumph either. Oh gosh. I don't either. I want it to be something like they would be amenable to helping, but I don't know if we should get their help with it. No, I mean, it can be related to any aspect of like what you're currently working on or.
00:40:01
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Any thoughts for Three Advantage or a triumph? Oh, we still on that? Yeah. This was the charm check to talk Cath down from physically harming Raynard. Right. I was there for that part. And then she told me to leave. So now I'm deciding what to do with the Three Advantage and a triumph. Okay.
00:40:18
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I mean, it could be related to the number of goals that Hutch has gotten on site. If you want to say that Hutch has gotten rather than a few, like it'd be a substantial number of the goals onto Aaron's side of things could be related to Lissa and the Ravens. And like you've already used some advantage to say that she's just going to be a neutral entity, but I mean, is there a concern that the conversation with Sigil didn't go well or?
00:40:43
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Do we know it went well? You don't know anything about the conversation with Aaron and Sigil, so you could use it to influence that, either in terms of what Sigil agreed to or what Aaron was able to offer Sigil reasonably. I personally like the goals idea.
00:40:58
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Okay? Yeah, I'm fine with that. I'm sorry that there's not a good way to use it to help you right now with this, but... Yeah. I mean, it sounds resolved. You have to leave, because Kat said so. Since I took a whole day and a half to be in the good graces of Elvinor and Eldra, maybe I'll get a couple of advantages when I roll things with them.
00:41:18
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I mean, you could certainly spend your advantage on setting up some boost or something. We're about to call end of episode. So I don't want it to be like passing an upgrade or something. So the triumph can be that Hutch was able to identify and get like 60% of the goals. Awesome. On to like Aaron would probably be better. I know Nessa is like ride or die for just the clan in general, but that's maybe not the best way to approach the situation. The three advantage.
00:41:46
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I mean, yeah, I mean, you could use three advantage to say that like, Sigil and Aaron's conversation went unequivocally well and that Aaron agreed to work with Sigil to find a solid place for the Warforged and in exchange, Sigil's Warforged forces are going to offer to assist in however they can with seizing the building. I think that's good. Sounds good to me. I like that. Okay. Yeah. Now the despair. Now... That is not for us, unfortunately. Despair.
00:42:14
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Oh, I got a splinter. Oh, no. It was fiberglass, so it's stuck in there.
00:42:26
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What? Something just popped into my head that made me laugh because I'm an idiot. Don't look at me. We've been playing this game so long and this is the first time despair has ever popped into my head. Very good. So I'm going to say that the despair is that while you all have been making moves on behalf of Aaron and the other segments clean and stuff like this, because this legitimately was not something that I'd even considered until all the different topics of this session amalgamated into this.
00:42:51
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Alira has been making similar moves with Callaway. So she has been getting support from Callaway and his forces. What a despair. I'm not saying it's going to be like insurmountable, but there are going to be some additional wrinkles that will be present.
00:43:07
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Uh, if y'all just want to let ACE continue on his path, maybe there would be fewer, but you know, Callaway still got some ACEs up his sleeve. So Jeff is just glaring at me now. So yeah. So that's, that's the despair is that Alira and Callaway have come to an understanding, an agreement that Aaron's not interested in continuing, obviously. So, and with that.
00:43:24
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00:43:43
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