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C1 Ep. 106 Recovered Kingdom Chapter Eight
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The party finds themselves face to face with an old acquaintance, and they have some questions. But what are the next steps? Where does the party go from here? Find out all of those answers and more on this week’s episode of Eberron Renewed!
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Introduction to Everon Renewed Podcast
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The following episode is brought to you by the generous donations of...
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
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He drew the shadows around him like a cloak, disappearing almost as soon as he'd struck, then striking again from somewhere else. By the time we got to them, the four centuries were dead on the ground, but though we searched for the drow, he had faded into the jungle, waiting. Excerpt from an unnamed explorer's journal.
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Hello and welcome to Everon Renewed, a D&D fit that should actually play podcasts at the Everon campaign setting. This thought came into my head as right as you were, right before you were going to say that, I was going, hey guys, let's not try this time. And it really tickled me. This is just staying in, definitely.
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Yes. Hi, everybody. Welcome. We add for fun. Let's play. Hello, everybody. Welcome to ever under new D&D fifth edition, actual play podcast set in
Recap of Previous Adventures
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the abroad campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. Jeff.
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And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened previously? I think we kind of skipped your adventure. You did. Well, we are, I am averse to being put in the position to being potentially turned into a slot. How many times a day can you do invisibility? It's a spell slot. And how many times can you do pass without a trace? It's a spell slot. So you all can just make it back out. Okay. Just curious.
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Let's wander about the city. No, no, no. No, I y'all are fine What happened was we? Dinked up Eric's plans as players are want to do but just totally fine managed to stealth past all of the slot encounters and Vorpal a purple worm He got us where he wants us in the end.
Drakir's Vorpal Sword Triumph
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I mean we are trapped behind stone walls separate from each other and
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After having solved the puzzle. And Beric used a 20 to incite a Besmurtni attack on the city. And Drakir used two 20s to do what one 20 is supposed to do in a Vorpal Sword and behead a creature. Oh my gosh, you would have made the same.
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Um, anyway, but here I am on the other side of the screen.
Magical Communication Between Characters
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Um, so, uh, yeah, where we left, uh, Drakir is just in a dark room, uh, faintly illuminated by magic rooms on the ground and is stuck. Uh, the rest of you, um, I'm going to say just for the sake of ease and auditory pleasure. Um, somehow magically your three rooms are connected. So you all find yourself standing next to each other. What?
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Oh, he's he's powerful. As soon as we like a conference call where we can hear each other. But you do you.
Confrontation Over Broken Promises
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So he's standing in front of the three of you. He's like, I can explain. This is not good faith. No, I that's why I'm here right now. But this right here is not good faith. Okay, Drake here would would kill me.
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Instantly, I won't try to at the current moment. I might be alright with that. Well, the new the new lid Was not part of the that thing was like a mile away. I didn't realize it was here. I Didn't realize it was protecting the elder brain tank. That wasn't part of my plan. And then what did you promise to get rid of the death slot out front? Where do you think that drought came from? Wait, so you're saying
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That's what you promised me. In a moment, he's like all of a sudden that young draw that had the rock sling is standing in front of you. So you. You promised both of us the same thing. I promised all of you the same thing. That that what he say Booyah. So if one of us had broken the rule. Then I wouldn't have gotten rid of the death log, but clearly you all could have gotten past him anyway.
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Why? What's the tension here? We just all momentarily forgot how much we can't trust anything. What? If I had not said your name, but Booyah had said your name, would the death slot have been there? Yes. Then you would have broken your promise to me. No. Yeah. Cause you said, if you don't say my name, I'll get rid of a death slot.
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It was a trust exercise for the three of you and me. You all passed. I don't understand what the problem was. Well, the point is that you behaved deceptively to all three of us as part of a trust exercise. Yes. And here I am now possibly friend of all three of you. Okay. Why are you here on your plane of madness? The word trust has a different meaning.
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How many of his eyes roll? And it just sounds so gross. I didn't have an auditory.
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No, the episode that just dropped yesterday, I made the point to say, earbuds sit very close to the brain, and it's not nice to put those sounds that close to the brain. Okay, so here's the thing. You all held up your end of everything, and I held up my end. In fact, I even tried to help with the neophyllid, but it's got a good brain. Oh, that was that green thing.
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Yeah, I tried to cast fear on it, so it burrowed back down its hole. Where's the Glaive? It's in the sarcophagus. Now that you all stood in the circles, it'll be unlocked once the walls open up. But we have further plans to make without Drakir being around.
Negotiations and Offers of Magical Enhancements
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I am not pleased at all with this right now. Yeah, I don't like this either. Is frankly one thing for you to contact me in a dream. It is a very different thing for you to lock my brother in a stone chamber, trap us somewhere, but not where we were a moment ago.
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This is very different. You have abducted us and trapped my brother. I can let your brother out right now if you want. But if I were to present myself in front of him, he would attack me. You say that, but it has in fact not happened twice in the past.
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Remember that time he said that if we made a bargain with them, I am not currently making a bargain. Okay. That's the other, the inverse of it is if he's around, then we can't conduct business and I'm trying to help. What further business do we have? You have two other weapons you need to find.
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And you know where they are. I know where they are. And I promised one of you the ability to track them, to know exactly where they are at any given moment. Well, then it's time to pay up and let us be on our way. Okay.
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Um, I mean, I have offers for all of you and, um, he snaps his fingers and all of a sudden you all are back in the original rooms that you all were in. Uh, and Bella share is still in front of you. Like, okay.
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Um, so again, you're going to separate us, make us all the same offer and see how many of us you can screw with. No, it's totally separate offers. And Dex says, so what the hell now you're going to separate us and make us all the same offer and see how many of us you can screw with. No, it's totally separate offers. So, um, real quick, I'm going to do Booyah first.
Booyah's Armor Upgrade and Trust Issues
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So Booyah, um, Bill Shears there's like, thank you for keeping the secret. In exchange, I want to assist you in your fight with plainer justice specifically. I want to beef it up a little and help out with your suit.
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Thank God finally planar justice will do some damage, right? So basically pull your weight what what I'm offering to help moving forward Is essentially I can
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with my, and he kind of spreads his hands and purple magic appears. He didn't have a word, it was purple. He spreads his hands. Eric was just doing jazz hands. Many purples. For the visual among you, Eric was doing jazz hands. I can manipulate planar justice to where it will be mounted on your shoulder and you can fire it using your suit of armor. And you can cause it to tuck back in.
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but yeah like hold planar justice you could always dismount it if you want but then just let the arch aberration mess with your aberration killing weapon so just going through mount there
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yeah and you'll be able to use like your hands will be free so you can just shoot it have something else jazz hands and then he shimmied his shoulders your hands will be free to do jazz hands he said your hands will be free jazz hands to just shoot it and like kind of shimmy his shoulders back and forth as though to stimulate you have to kind of coquettishly cock your shoulder forward to fire the weapon we got aimed this way we got aimed this way over here no it would be able to aim wherever you want it would spin and everything it's you know
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It's what I'm offering as a thank you and to help you moving forward. Because there's four weapons, there's four of you, so you could, you know, use your weapons in hand and shoot that crossbow once. Gets a third attack. Oh, you're gonna regret that offer. Let's see if he takes it.
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Well, yeah, Booyah is not going to turn down, notice something because he, in Booyah's mind, he thinks the guy has kept his word to him. That's true. Which he did. Yeah. So Booyah is going to agree. Okay. Here, let me see. Booyah don't know he wants to hand too.
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So he looks when you're just over guys, we can't mind. We can't mind. We've
Strategizing for War and Trust Debates
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been doing this for over 100 episodes. It is an audio medium. So he looks it was like interesting construction. You got a heck of a mind in there. Don't you? Yeah, we are good make thing. Step up here. Let me see your shoulder. You want right or left shoulder?
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Uh, left shoulder. Okay. So he places a hand on your left shoulder and you feel some tugging and moving. And then he sets back and like, okay. I think we're good. So when you make, when you use your action, attack action to make a melee weapon attack as a bonus action, you can fire planar justice one time.
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Okay, bonus action. You can also take player justice off your shoulder and use it normally. So very situational, a melee weapon attack with your action, you can then take one shot, not an additional attack action, one shot from player justice as your bonus action on that turn.
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Now, with the melee weapon, okay, I get two attacks normally. With a melee weapon, right? Yeah, or with planar justice. If you're using the bonus action, you use planar justice on your shoulder. I just get one attack with a melee. One shot, yes. You don't get to take the attack action as a bonus action, you get one attack as a bonus action. Gotcha. And it costs you eight hit points.
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And on a natural one, you are petrified, no. Okay. Dex. Yep. So, seems like things are tense. I don't feel like I did anything to betray your trust. You didn't do anything to betray my trust because we all kept this singular promise we made to you. Yes.
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You would have, how do you not understand that you, sorry, how do you not agree with me? That if Booyah had betrayed the promise he made you, but I kept the promise I made you, I don't, you would have broken the promise you made me. I don't need one of your help. I need your collective units help, but that's not the end this war.
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The promise that you made me would have been broken. Okay, that's fine. I'm sorry that there was deception.
00:14:41
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Dex did not believe for a second he's sorry there was deception. With your changeling abilities, how many middle fingers could you produce? That mind flayer thing was kind of a goof him up. I can only actually mimic actual creatures. So what's the most arms we got in a medium sized humanoid? That's fair. I guess just four, right? Probably. There's some Goro somewhere. Probably. So.
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Um, here's as recompense and assurances moving forward that our relationship can be mutually beneficial. It's like gratitude or recompense. Um, I want to give you some abilities moving forward that'll be helpful in the fight, specifically the ability to, with a word, if something's weak enough, uh, blind it.
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And I wanna give you the ability to... Sorry. That fireball that you shot. I wanna beef that up. Not the knife. I'm not gonna touch the knife. Just your ability to manipulate fire. Just make it a bit punchier. Right. Yes, and? I mean, that's it.
00:16:03
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Um, do I get to pick the word? Sure. I mean, I, I have to do some magic. Like you can tinker with my brain. No, no, no, no. Um, basically I'm going to give you a source of power that you can draw from to do this. The source of power. You can't drop it. What are you going to do? You're going to have a mark. Where? Uh, wherever you like.
00:16:33
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Easily hideable. Do it on your butt if you want. I don't. Let me ask you this. How many more times are we gonna do this dance? I mean, I would like to continue working together to ensure that the quarry are destroyed. All right. Because I have a very vested interest in this.
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You're gonna mark me. I'm gonna give you a Kyber mark. What is that? It is something that allows you to cast magic innately from your person. This sounds dicey. No leveling. No slots. No limitation. Well, there's limitation. What do any of those words mean? Yeah.
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Basically for the sake of transparency, when it comes to your fire, um, you can ignore resistance. So if something's resistant to fire, doesn't matter. And anytime, uh, apparatuses that determine the amount of fire you would hit something with are at the bottom, they get bumped up by one.
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Yes, that all makes perfect sense. Well, here's what you need to know. I'm going to keep working to fight the quarry. Regardless of if I turn you down today. Okay. Me saying no to you, if I, if I decided to say no to you, uh, is not me saying you and I are on opposite sides of this. Is that clear? Yeah. Right. Getting marked sounds.
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bad. I assure you, I won't have any like compulsory control over you. I won't also have access to your mind. If I just one day, the fire thing, I don't think here would pick up on, but if I just blind somebody with a word, I mean, it is something that magical casters all over the land can perform. Right. But there's one thing that cares probably picked up about decks over the course of the time to know each other is that he doesn't do magical casting.
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grab something out of your bag and hold it up and act like that's doing it. That is a solid point, he's not so bright. Phil doesn't have time to react to that, he's processing a lot right now. I know. Now tell me this, once I'm marked by you, if someone were to do one of those Bell doohickeys where they detect certain things,
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Would I be evil? No, you're not gonna be evil. Would I be an aberration? No. I would just be a Dex. You'd be a Dex. You could look like an aberration, but you've always been able to do that. It's really cool. He turns into you and goes, I know. And I turn into a mind flavor and I go, whoa. We're having fun.
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So now Dex is talking to a mind flayer. Uh-huh. And the mind flayer sounds like this. I need you to talk like you have tentacles coming out of you. Oh, man. It's so hard to trust you.
00:20:24
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I get that a lot. I try to be this near him because he has literally covered in eyes at this point though. I've seen him enough times that I know where to look. That's the least off putting and that's up. Not this time, man. Look, I'm still fighting. I'm still working. We're still on the same side of this. That's the mark thing that the information trade that you getting rid of some bad guys just for me not saying your name.
00:20:54
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That felt like a win-win. Then we go back to that old chestnut where I find you difficult to rely on. What have I done? Well, I mean, you are the, my understanding, the creator of multiple things that have tried to kill me. Well, but I don't control them. Like if a father's son kills somebody, is the father responsible?
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If a mad scientist, you say, goes into a graveyard and takes parts of people and stitches them together and animates it and it goes out and kills people, is the mad scientist really responsible? That's not what we're talking about, Baron. Back to my father-son argument, which is far more compelling.
00:21:41
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Uh, okay. Well, and then there was that time that you, uh, locked my buddy in a, no, you didn't really do that. I didn't do that. He did that. He did do that. I don't know. Drake here made the wish and walked through. Oh yeah.
00:21:58
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I thought this time when he locked us in Stone James. Yeah, well, there's that too. The current moment when you're locked in a. I'm taking too long. I'm just I'm going to sit. It's the mark is too much. Now, that's where the power comes from. I get that. I'm going to sit this one out. OK, maybe I'll catch you on the next one. Hi.
00:22:28
Speaker
So my parents raised me not to curse. That's good. I didn't have parents. So I know I promised you something coming out of this. You seem very tense. I feel like our last conversation was actually pretty good. We made some progress. I feel like we've we've walked back some.
00:22:59
Speaker
I've had in a very, very short amount of time an immense amount of experience of immortal and near immortal creatures talking to me like they're the headmaster of a school and I've just been summoned to their office. I hate it more than I thought I could hate anything.
00:23:21
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And it makes me want to kill you. How, what am I saying right now to make me talk? Eric, we're having progress. Yeah. It says in a perfect mocking impression of Bella. I'm, I'm trying to talk to you like a peer. I'm not talking down to you. I'm not assuming authority over you. I'm trying to have a conversation.
00:23:41
Speaker
Like you work, you're working on the assumption that you've done absolutely nothing to lose my trust or you're acting at least as though you've done absolutely nothing to harm or trust in you or that your entire, that your history up to now shouldn't make it hard to trust you. What have I done to you? You know, uh, there's a whole lot of terrible people out in the world who haven't done anything personally to me and I still don't trust them. Okay.
00:24:11
Speaker
But I regret the fact that I'm on the other side of a war from your brother. I don't hold any malice towards him individually, or your family, or even his people. But I'm not here to talk about that. What I want to talk about is moving forward to fight the quarry. That's already doing that. And I'm trying to help you.
00:24:37
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I'm trying to give you the ability to find them. Tell me where they are. And I'll have the ability to find them. One's in the middle of a desert, one's at the top of a mountain. Would you like to know exactly where they are? I would. I would like you to tell me exactly where they are. So I'll go and find them. Um, I will give you the ability to see exactly where they are. To follow
Trade-Offs and Magical Powers
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a path directly to them. Fine. Okay.
00:25:06
Speaker
There's a price. The price wasn't the. Not telling my friends and my brother about you. That wasn't already the price. The recompense was not having to fight the death slot, which I thought this was recompense. That's how you put it when we were all together. No, this is for the neo-thlet. This isn't a matter of me having to take some, well, this isn't me exacting a cause. This is how the magic works.
00:25:38
Speaker
All right. I can give you the abilities to track down. The destiny arms know exactly where they are at any given moment. And if another creature wields them who that creature is and pretty much everything about them. But. In order to see the arcane in that way. Yes. I need your eyes.
00:26:15
Speaker
Do you need my eyes? Yep. So you'll take my eyes and I'll be able not only to now I was once able to sense things at a distance, but I could just sense
00:26:36
Speaker
about how far and the direction of it. Are you saying I will in fact know exactly where these things are so that I could, let's say, I realize Zendric is a little weird with this, but let's say look at a map and I could point to it's here. Exactly.
00:26:55
Speaker
just a matter of getting there which as you said in Zendrick is right a little weird tricky yes and for that you need my eyes I will be able to see you'll see the magical force in things you're not willing to just tell me nope
00:27:23
Speaker
Could you explain why they're not just willing to tell me? Because I don't have a. A means verbally like I can see the location. And I could walk there, but unless I'm walking with you, I see. And also, as things get.
00:27:54
Speaker
more towards the end, I get the sense that you won't be the only ones looking for these things. So I could tell you where they are now. But with the gift, you would know where they're headed if they begin to move. Right. I see. Can you tell me the nature of each of the other weapons?
00:28:15
Speaker
I know one is a sword. Sword of magma falls. The one outside is the glaive of darkest depths, the spear of desert winds, and the maul of glacial heights.
00:28:36
Speaker
All right. They each have unique properties built to fight the quarry, and if all four weapons are brought onto the plane of Dal Kor, you can essentially undo the work that they have done to prevent the apocalypse. Their apocalypse, not, yeah. You understand my meaning.
00:29:03
Speaker
Um, one thing with the anti-quarry magic, uh, you have to have one of the red zones that you all have inserted into the slot. Right. This is going to cost me, I think in ways that you don't necessarily understand. And I'm not at all interested in sharing with you.
00:29:32
Speaker
So let me ask this, you're clearly able to move around at will and less to move us around at will as you have done. Can you provide us a path to the next one? I can get you out of Kyber. But that's where my power stops.
00:30:06
Speaker
So I can have you hit landfall on Kyber at the nearest exit point or hit Zendrik out of Kyber at the nearest exit point. On land, this isn't some genius wish thing nearest exit point to. To the one of my choosing, sure.
00:30:36
Speaker
I know it's worthless in reality, but I'm going to roll inside because it's just, Barrick would need to. Okay.
Exploring Magical Weapons
00:30:50
Speaker
14, 14. You could sense he's being genuine. Sure. I mean, yeah, I, like I said, I realized that there's no, I, that I would not be able to detect this thing lying to me by any means if I want to do.
00:31:11
Speaker
I believe that you want to destroy the quarry. I don't believe your reasons are altruistic. And I don't want you to for a moment believe that I see us as on the same side. You are your own side. You are not concerned with the safety of Eberron.
00:31:41
Speaker
or its inhabitants who you clearly view some sort of play things. He is still this deal and we are done. It's fair. Do not want your company. Do not want your assistance.
00:32:08
Speaker
That's fine. I never claimed that I was acting out of altruism. I know you didn't want vengeance. I just don't want you to walk away thinking I am anything but clear about this. Of course. Let my brother out right now. He makes a gesture. Do it.
00:32:38
Speaker
He reaches up and swipes across your eyes and there's just blackness. And then you hear rumbling as all of your doors open. Parrott sort of feels out.
00:32:59
Speaker
You all see Beric exit out of the alcove and where his eyes once were is just flesh covering eye sockets. What did you do? What happened to the eyes? What did I do?
00:33:26
Speaker
I mean, sorry, dude. That's how it would get played. Get the thing out of the sarcophagus. I walk over.
00:33:39
Speaker
push up the side of the lid. And it slides open. You find a set of bones in there that only you all would probably know is not Luca. Right. Right. You find three weapons laid on the skeleton. One is a glaive. And then there are there's a sword and a dagger.
00:34:07
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the the dagger looks very drow make but ancient like kind of like the cobble reading stuff that you all see and I'm gonna say the word seen a lot Philip please don't take offense and
00:34:27
Speaker
you find another sword that you swear the blade shifts a little bit every time you blink. Like anytime you break direct sight with it, when you look back at it, it's shift like just the curve of the blade changes a little bit or one edge is sharp and the other isn't. And then both sides are sharp. Like it's just constantly morphing. Hey. Oh, go ahead. Hey, Drakir. Drakir is just staring at Barak. Yeah, I know.
00:34:56
Speaker
Can you come here and detect magic on these things? This is weird. You might like this dagger anyway, so. He walks over and looks at them. Give me an arcana check for each of them. Ooh. For the dagger, we are... I...
00:35:23
Speaker
uh 14 14 okay and i apologize i um misread its appearance it is a serrated the dagger is a serrated blade and its hilt resembles a demonic head and wings um you were checking the dagger or the blade the dagger the dagger uh with a 14
00:35:40
Speaker
You sense that there is necrotic magic surrounding this dagger and you sense that it would deal extra necrotic damage when you hit it with something and
00:35:56
Speaker
You, as you're reaching out to it, you kind of even go with me on this, Drakir recoil is a little bit, because in your head you hear whispers, like haunting whispers, not a voice, like it's not like, oh, hello, but it's just. And like. That one is perhaps alive.
00:36:24
Speaker
you don't get a sense that's intelligent based on your economy check. I will give you that. Or at least it whispers to you. So you sort not as good 10. It is a long sword. That is magical. Worse on the globe.
00:36:45
Speaker
You and worse on the glaive. It is a glaive that is dark in appearance.
00:36:59
Speaker
It has a shaft made of an oily black metal with a spiral pattern running up its length. At the end of the glaive a broad silver blade ends at a wicked point and no matter what the light so it's fairly dark in here the blade flickers with a dull shimmering radiance. The only person that has seen this glaive is
00:37:20
Speaker
Currently blind. And there's a slot for like fist sized rock. So none of you will want it. I will take this dagger back to my people. What about the sword? I cannot I cannot read this magic.
00:37:43
Speaker
I'm sorry. The glaive also I am not sure. They are both clearly they have magical orders, right? The magic on it is transmutation on the sword, which probably for most of you transmutation, changing shape, that sort of thing. What you do, it's a changing sword. I do like that. I put it in the bag. Okay. And I take the glaive and I hold it trickier holds the knife and tucks it in the belt. Okay.
00:38:14
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And you get you sense that like there is intense magic with this thing. Like it's
Reflections on Choices and Consequences
00:38:20
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something something it does is devastating. So Booyah, can you even handle this thing? What? Oh, this guy was standing in front of a barrack just gaping. Told me what you have all been doing. Booyah. All right.
00:38:40
Speaker
I open the sarcophagus, there were three weapons in there, and somebody's bones. Drake here says, tell me what you have all been doing. Oh. Nothing happened in my alcove. I was in dark. It's like check against against my deception. Yeah.
00:39:10
Speaker
Seventeen. Twenty five. Booyah's walking over to see if he can handle that. Goblin, why? What were you doing in the dark? What Booyah doing dark? What were you doing when we were locked in the stone chambers? And he glances at Booyah, glances at Dex.
00:39:38
Speaker
What does he see any expression on? Well, you heard what that said to him. Yeah, I heard that, but he's kind of like, he kind of glances back and forth between the two. Uh, we tried to figure out the way to get sarcophagus open. And how are you able to do that in a dark closet? We, we stand in circle at light. You were together.
00:40:08
Speaker
in your alcove. And Dex is trying, you looked away from Dex. Yes. Yeah. Dex is shaking his head no. You worked together in alcove? I thought we were in separate alcoves. Yeah, we were. You've been saying we were trying to do things. Well, but yeah, we were meeting in separate alcoves. Like we were obviously trying to
00:40:33
Speaker
We all try to figure out how to open sarcophagus. Lie to me, Booyah. Deception. Booyah is not very deceptive at all. Oh my gosh. Three. Fourteen. You get the sense that Booyah is not telling the truth.
00:41:01
Speaker
We were locked in alcove. There are not doors in front of the alcove. The stone came from nowhere. Bu-bu-ya say... Barak has returned without his eyes. Talk Barak. What were you doing, goblin? Bu-ya say talk Barak.
00:41:35
Speaker
We have new weapons, Eglaive. You are lying to me. I know Booyah lie. Because you are not good at it. Booyah never good at lying. Changeling is good at it. Booyah no one upset Drakir. Changeling said five words. But convincingly. That's what I'm saying. What are you lying to me about to avoid upsetting me?
00:42:03
Speaker
What you are trying to do, not upsetting me, is clearly not being successful right now. It's true, upset Booyah too, because Beric lose eye. Yes, and why? What were you... Booyah, I don't know why Beric lose eye. What were you doing? Booyah get... Sword comes out. See Booyah on back Booyah.
00:42:32
Speaker
Booyah have no... See Booyah on back, Booyah. More words in that sentence. On Booyah's back. Poor Flustered Goblin. Booyah see Planar Justice on back now. I do see Planar Justice on your shoulder. So walk in and magic happened and Booyah now have on shoulder. How did the magic happen? Magic circle. And the other sword comes out. Another roll. Yeah.
00:43:02
Speaker
I think Philip's using what Philip knows a little too. 17. No. You rolled a three on his deception check. He's lying. That was deceptions ago. I rolled a 17 on this one. What did you get? I didn't roll the seven. No,
Tension and Distrust Among Group Members
00:43:20
Speaker
I didn't roll as well. I struggle on the, oh, now I believe you.
00:43:28
Speaker
Well, it's a different deception, though, I get. Like, you don't have to believe everything he's saying, but the magic circle aspect maybe, like, makes enough, like... Booyah just worried because Beric no have eyes. Why you no concerned about Beric eyes? That's what... I'm extremely concerned about Beric not having eyes. We need to find out about Beric. I am extremely concerned about Beric not having eyes. We need to check on Beric.
00:43:57
Speaker
also concerned that you are lying to me. Both of you. Are you saying me? He is lying. I think you are lying. He and I
00:44:20
Speaker
are different people. So you think that you can have a singular experience inside your alcove, but if mine was the same, I'm lying. What the hell happened in your alcove then? Nothing happened in my alcove. Yeah, same. Something happened that made the sarcophagus able to be opened again, changed his crossbow and took away Beric's eyes. And here I stand unchanged.
00:44:50
Speaker
Nothing happened. And Beric.
Planning Future Quests
00:45:02
Speaker
Beric says, it's for the war. I gave them up for the war. I know where the other weapons are. We're going to be transported.
00:45:22
Speaker
as near to one of them as I can manage. And I will know where they are. I can find them. You're blind now. Yes. I
00:45:50
Speaker
You are both being dishonest out of loyalty to a creature that does not deserve your loyalty. I was being dishonest out of loyalty to you two dummies. That bully I think too. Tell me who else we could have asked. What? Tell me who else we could have asked to know where they were. You tell me what the other thing I could have done was.
00:46:20
Speaker
I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm saying I chose, I said no. What did he offer you? Oh, he didn't, he didn't offer me something nearly as, as, as important as what you're saying you got. That's why I was able to say no. I might not have said no in your situation. The reason I'm lying is because if I said,
Rest and Reflection
00:46:40
Speaker
I mean, now it's all out there. So whatever. I was hoping that I could say nothing happened.
00:46:46
Speaker
Give the idea that it was unavoidable, as opposed to making deals. If nothing happened to me, it's because nothing was offered to me. Not because it was an avoidable consequence. But here we are. I didn't do anything out of loyalty to that. Fine. But we kept faith with him the first time. He is not repeating kind.
00:47:22
Speaker
and not telling other people about deals we've made has gotten us into enough trouble. But me. You tell whomever you want, whatever you want. Right here, we made a deal with Bela Shira. I believe I'm not one tell no one be upset.
00:47:53
Speaker
No one be upset with Berwick. It's for the water care. And it's over. And they've paid their consequences. And we're getting out of Kyber. You have way a way out of Kyber now. That's what Berwick just said.
00:48:24
Speaker
And you need the weapons for the war? Absolutely. And this is one of the weapons? He holds up the longsword? Yes, it is. Fine. Good hunting. And he throws the sword on the ground. And he turns around and he walks out. He becomes invisible as he exits the door.
00:48:49
Speaker
Well, at least he didn't stab you, he says to Booyah. That's a good thing. But I thought you stuck the sword in your pouch. No, I put the transmuting sword in my pouch. This is the flaming long sword, which I also pick up, and I put in my pouch, or my bag of holding. And I turn to Beric, and I say, or to both of you, and I say,
00:49:19
Speaker
I didn't think what he was offering was worth what he wanted for mine. Good. You did. And I don't begrudge either of you for that. What did he offer you? He offered me basically, I could have a little more oomph in my fireball and the opportunity to, the way he worded it. I'm ready for, go ahead.
00:49:42
Speaker
The way he worded it was, with a word, something that's not too strong could go blind. Is that what you said? Yeah. Yeah. It's too soon. Too soon. Nope, sorry. No regrets, all right? Big boy made decisions. Well, what was the price there?
00:50:11
Speaker
I mean, here's the thing. He said he needed to mark me, but then he was vague, and I don't know what that means. I frankly can't recommend letting him shape your flesh. Right. A fair point.
00:50:28
Speaker
And I didn't know, I was concerned, I don't trust the guy. And with what he offered me versus all the things running through my head of once he marks me, can he control me? Can he keep tabs on me? Can he do this? Can he do that? I decided it wasn't worth it for that much. You had a different offer. We need those weapons. You make great sacrifice for him. I don't begrudge you that. I'm not, I don't, but tell me this. To put a very fine point on it,
00:50:58
Speaker
How good are you blind? Not much at all. I think I can see magic now. What is that? Like, does that mean you can you see me? No, I can see. I can see some of the magical things on you. But even though I myself am a magical, what do I do? Well, you're not magical. Come on. OK, you know what I do, though? I shape shift in front of you. Do you see any of that?
00:51:25
Speaker
I see the aura of your armor. My armor? Armor. Armor. Yeah, I realized that the accent didn't kind of garble down. I thought you belched in the middle of it. See, I see the aura of your armor. All right,
Journey Back to Safety
00:51:40
Speaker
I can. It's it's like when I was detecting magic, except there's just the RS. It's not great. I don't understand.
00:51:56
Speaker
don't understand how blinding you may, how he thought that blinding you was going to do in any way, help our fat down the road. He said that was the price of knowing. That was the price of knowledge. There's no one else we could have asked. No, no, I know. I killed the only other person we could have asked.
00:52:21
Speaker
No, again, I get why you did it. Yeah. I'm sorry that that was. Did you know that was a cost before you agreed? He told me. Well, at least there's that. Now, how are we getting out of here? Well, he offered to send us to the nearest exit to Kyber to one of the weapons. All right. That's agreeable. No sense. They're here.
00:52:52
Speaker
Yeah, it's fine. Does anyone have a... Where's the... Hang on. A stick or something. There's a... In the bag. No, that's not there. I gave that to her. Yeah. I put my ribbon weave in his hand.
00:53:22
Speaker
We don't have another one. We're not carrying a spear or a stick or anything. Well, I've got this glaive, but there's a real pointy end. I don't think you want to accidentally grab onto. So maybe for now you just can see the glaive. Well, I can see the ribbon weave, but I can see them both. I have an aura. They're magical. Fair enough. I don't want to disarm you.
00:53:40
Speaker
I mean I've got this glaive and I've got two pretty cool swords in the bag and a glaive look I have a fairly good understanding of weapons and I understand that a glaive is not what one might call a finesse weapon right that's true and I I recall that somehow or another you stopped being really strong I can't quite remember what caused that to happen but
00:54:05
Speaker
Why don't you look back in your memories a little harder, see if you can remember. Right. Yes. Jump. All right. Fine. I mean, there's no sticks on the ground here, right? This is all stone. So hold on to it until we get there. I'll find you a stick, pretty stick, uh, outside of Kiber. It doesn't need to be pretty.
00:54:27
Speaker
Okay, you wouldn't know would you? That wasn't Dex. That wasn't Dex. That was Jeff. Okay. Barret picks up the slave and uses it to sort of stand up. Once we're clear here, we should stop for a bit. Figure out what we're doing.
00:55:01
Speaker
All right, here's, we all had a hard day. At least we can say that we're 50% of the way to getting the things that we need. And it seems like the other two are going to be a lot easier than most things we've done. Finding them at least. This sucks.
00:55:31
Speaker
Let's see what's next. Um, I assume you're still here. Yeah. Let's show some of this legendary good faith of yours and, um,
00:56:00
Speaker
do something pro bono. We need a space to be safe. I don't know, maybe a few days. I don't know what exactly we're going to do about this problem at the moment. And then we need to go as close as you can put us.
00:56:28
Speaker
To the spear. The Alco behind you, Eric, that you walked out of.
00:56:39
Speaker
The wall slimmed shut. And then after a moment, it reopens. And you you all said you turn around and see you all can see behind Barrick, there's a very well appointed room with fire and beds. Where is that? I was going to say it's a pocket plane. The door will shut behind you. Nobody can get to you.
00:57:09
Speaker
What if, instead, since you can, I assume, put us anywhere in Khyber, what if you put us back at the bottom of Sharon? Because I think you'll understand if I don't really want to sleep in your guest room, and we'll come back and meet you
00:57:35
Speaker
in whatever the spot you drop us in, and you can take us to the spear. Fair enough. And in a moment, you find yourself at the edge of Kyber, looking in through the hole into the forge. And after that, the bear continues to talk because he doesn't know anything's changed. I was saying, stop. We're back in the lava room.
00:58:05
Speaker
where the bugs were. I'm gonna take your arm now. Yeah, you're probably right. The glaive is a little much walking through the city. I'll take your knee. That's not going to help. That's not at all helpful. So I'm gonna take the glaive and I will give you the ribbon weave to look a little more. That looks appropriate. So you got the ribbon weave, I got the glaive.
00:58:34
Speaker
I guess I mean, tuck it in the bag. Yeah, it'll fit the bag. I put it in the bag. I put it in the bag and I take out that weird shifty sword. Oh, yeah. And so I just have a weapon at the ready if I need one. Sure. Might as well use that one on the flaming broadsword. You see magic emanating, pulsing pretty significantly. Can I make an arcana check? Yeah, sir. I was actually going to say. Much better arcana check. Can you still check stuff?
00:58:57
Speaker
uh yes all right that's much better 24 24 so transmutation magic this is what is known as a polymorph blade so oh this thing no it's a this is cool plus uh plus two magic long sword
00:59:18
Speaker
that when you attack a creature and make a 20 on the attack roll, so when you crit, a creature has to make a DC 15 wisdom saving throw in addition to suffering the normal effects on a failed save suffers the effect of a polymorph spell. You roll a d20 on this table to determine what it changes into, ranging anywhere from a natural one being a t-rex to a 20 being a rabbit.
00:59:42
Speaker
so it could get worse yeah um uh a creature is immune to this effect if it is immune to damage of the weapon's type is a shape changer or has legendary actions um but the weapon is also you detect a minor curse on it um
01:00:00
Speaker
When you're wielding this weapon, the curse extends to you. Until the curse is broken with a remove curse spell or similar magic, you're unwilling to part with the weapon. So Dex, it's your weapon. Whenever you attack a creature- Now does that mean I'm unwilling to not use it or am I willing to part with it? Part with it.
01:00:21
Speaker
is the specific language. When you roll a one on the attack roll, you suffer the effect of the polymorph spell for an hour rolling on the table to determine your new form. No save? Correct. Nice. I don't like it. I love that. That's great. What kind of weapon is that? You could become a T-Rex. That's true. But I'd be like, become a T-Rex? Or is it like, no, because you got polymorph and you kept your faculties. So it could be really good. It suddenly is really good.
01:00:53
Speaker
because you're not willing to part with it. Right. Until the curse is broken, and I don't know it's cursed. You know it's cursed. Yes, I explain all of this. And I'm going to go ahead and say that we're saying that the curse is not applicable to same immunities because you are a shape changer, but I don't want you to be immune to this curse, so. I thought that, but I wasn't going to bring it up until the first time it happened. Yeah. Kind of like the thing that just happened with the Vorpal Sword. So. Did you answer?
01:01:20
Speaker
What was the question? I asked what kind? It's not a finesse weapon. So I'm not. So I'm there's going to be some doinking of my stats. I mean, I will say because part of the curse is you're unwilling to part with it, that it can morph into the weapon that you most would like it to be. Yeah, it just shifts, doesn't it? So it's it's it's rape here now and.
01:01:40
Speaker
shoot me the stats for later. It's a plus plus two rapier in terms of the attack stats for it. Rapier does a D8. So it's one D8 plus two and my attack bonus is I never. Your decks plus your one D8 plus two plus your decks. One D8 plus two plus decks. Yeah. Wait, no. Yeah. Here's attack modifier. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were asking about your your damage modifier on it. Ten plus decks modifier plus proficiency bonus plus two because it's a plus two weapon. What? Say that again. Ten.
01:02:10
Speaker
Oh right. Your proficiency modifier. Did you leave again? Proficiency bonus. Okay. Dexterity modifier. Okay. Plus two. That's your type modifier. The damage would presumably also be identical to your, maybe it's also a plus two. Ribbon weave got a little boost with something at some point. I don't remember what. So, um,
01:02:39
Speaker
You all head up to take rest. Where? A hotel? I asked Barrick, say, uh, your grandpa's farm. I said, you tell me, do you want to go to your grandpa's place or do you want to find a place here? I don't need anyone to see this. Really. I understand. That's why I'm giving you the option.
01:03:15
Speaker
So I know some of this. And you could tell me whether it's something that's available in Sharn. Baker did a thing on his website about monastic orders. And he talked about the monastic order of the Kensei in Everon, which is called the Order of the Broken Blade. He said that it's present in Breland and in Karnath.
01:03:40
Speaker
Do they have a place in Sharn? I mean, Sharn's like the biggest city in ever. So yeah, I mean, I think they would at least have a small dojo in a strip mall somewhere. There's this place called Cobra Kai. There's a monastery I used to train at. They have rooms.
01:04:08
Speaker
you guys could stay at a more comfortable inn, if you want. But I don't know what we're doing next. We could also just find an inn. That's fine.
01:04:21
Speaker
How far is this? It's in, I tell him where it is in Charn. It's in Charn. Near enough that we could get there pretty easily. I mean, by skycap, you could get anywhere. And they'd house all three of us. I don't feel comfortable leaving you in a place right now. I tell you what, let's just find it in. Let's just find it in. All right. And we'll go from there. Okay.
01:04:43
Speaker
Booyah pays for an inn. And the skype. Hey, how you doing? Whoa, that guy got eyes. Right. Beric. I'm not really role playing this. That was a goof. End of episode. Strong.
01:04:59
Speaker
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01:05:30
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01:05:59
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01:06:18
Speaker
after an Everon renewed, because that's the end of an arc. Yay! I like it when we end on the upswing like that. Oh, and you all level. Yay!