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C1 Ep. 69 The Brelish Job Chapter Two
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The party decides what the next step is on their adventure after surviving a very harrowing night. But what is next for the group? Where will the winds of fate take them next? Find out on Eberron Renewed!
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Opening and Introductions
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D20 radio, your game is rolling.
Meet the Hosts
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to the next episode, gentlemen.
Recap of Previous Episode
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What? I mean, it wasn't a very eventful episode, but just go and recap what happened last time. You rolled on a random table. The truth is not a lot happened, but so much went down.
00:01:06
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We fought a thing. No, we didn't. We kind of did initially. I did hit it. We did briefly. We did smack it a few times. Each of us struck it at one point. This thing tried to steal Barrick and just knocked me straight out of the fight pretty quickly. I think I hit it twice. I know I hit it once. And then we tried to take another plane. Luckily, everybody's back and I'm assuming we went to bed after that.
00:01:35
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Everybody's in one piece. Well first watch is done. Dex's watch is done. I'm laying down and taking my long rest. Who's going on second watch?
Erebus and the Raven Queen's Vision
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We will take second. Oh, you're still possessed. Haven't passed that save yet.
00:01:55
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Erebus, nothing happens during your watch. No, we don't really. Can I. Reach out and attempt to find out the name of the target I can feel in Roet. Um, sure. Sitting here.
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Erebus's eyes which sort of glow above the hard shadowy mask that covers the bottom of Berwick's face just sort of dim briefly. Yeah, so you sit there in the darkness surrounding you and close your eyes and after a moment you see the figure
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of the Raven Queen. You close your eyes surrounded by the dead of night and you see the Raven Queen begin to come into focus before your mind's eye, but you note that she's sitting on
The Raven Queen's Throne
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what has become almost an elaborate throne made of shadow. And whereas before she wore simple robes, you're starting to see some pieces of armor incorporated into her attire. And she locks into focus with you and says, Hello, what do you require this time?
Target Revealed: Adith Iwanan
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The phone is done. I know. There's another in row.
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That is. What do you wish to know? A possible. Else you can tell me. You you see where is last time to get the information about the thorn required a lot of energy and exertion. This seems to be far less this time. She just quickly closes her eyes and kind of extends some fingers up and you see some shadow wrap around her fingers and then
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form before her. And she says, this one would be tricky, heavily guarded, capital of a nation, and an important name, Adith Iwanan. Righteous. You did say next time you see her.
00:04:36
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Good. Now go. And then your eyes are almost forced open back into the hill, the rocky hills. And Barrett collapses on the ground.
Night Watch Routine
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It's your watch. How long did that take? I mean, you get control again.
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Um, I mean, it was the entirety of, or no, it was just your watch. Cause we went straight from there to there, but it would be, well, no, it was, Oh, yes. Cause that happened. Um, so I would say our in some change. So I have a level of exhaustion. Yes. Okay. Um, so yeah, Barry, you're tired. Yeah.
00:05:25
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Um, and your watch is coming to a close. So you're gonna wake Booyah up. Good timing to be tired. Parrot does. He wakes Booyah. Oh, you look tired. You need rest. Yes. Yes, I do. Okay. Booyah, take watch now. You, you take easy. Thank you. Okay. So during your work, watch Booyah, nothing happens. Um, anything you would like to do during your watch?
00:05:56
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Booyah would probably walk the perimeter and just in his thoughts and keeping an eye out and an ear out. Nothing special or in particular. Okay. Keep his thoughts to himself. Um, cause there's no one to listen. Um, okay. So you finished the book? I didn't think so.
00:06:23
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Did you bring it? Is it on the ship? That's what I thought. That's why I thought you weren't reading. It's hidden on the ship. OK, so last watch belongs to Bornell. You can see the sun beginning to creep up over the mountains, but. You still got a couple hours sleep left for a long rest, so during Bornell's watch, he's just chuckling contentedly to put such a good time. King, King B, you wake now your turn.
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King B. Thank you. Thank you, Booyah. Rest well. Yeah, rest. Nothing go on. Pretty quiet. I think we have enough excitement for one night. I don't know. He said pointedly. Okay, so you can go ahead and take your rest and
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The rest of you all wake up once the night's rest is through and you
Journey to Graywall
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see. Was that, did we get a full rest out of that? Yes. Okay. You see Borenel kind of as you all roll over and wake up, everyone give me either perception or insight. You're very tired. Very tired.
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Seventeen. Seventeen. You two get the sense. Dex and Booyah that like when you first open up your eyes, you could have sworn that you saw Borenel like recreating a fight with his hammer, like standing near the campsite, swinging his hammer about and the faint sound of trash talking. But as he saw movement, he put his hammer up and walked back to camp. How about you?
00:08:16
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Um, so yeah, uh, it is now morning. Uh, Borenel during his watch had started some oats boiling on the fire. So, um, breakfast is breakfast is ready. Here you go. Thanks King B. I have a particular set of skills and they involve putting cinnamon in oatmeal. Um, so yeah, uh, continue on the road to gray wall.
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Um, you all don't encounter anything out of the ordinary, just normal caravans, things of that nature. Um, you all begin to pass the gray wall mountains officially crossing the quote unquote border, uh, between Breland and Joam. Um, and nothing in particular happens. It's by, by early afternoon, you can see gray wall in the distance.
00:09:14
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Excellent, yeah, let's press on or. We want to ride ahead. Anyway. So once you all get a bit closer, you can see borrowed time docked with one of the airship towers in Graywall.
00:09:35
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It's not hard to spot. And with its signature black shield, shield sails. So, yeah, you all arrive in town. Where are you heading to? We should get some shields and put them on the railing. They can all be black, too, with the
Bounty Board Discovery
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cooler. We should fix the railing. We should also adjust the line of the ship and make the railing higher. Something that strikes you in particular, Barrick, because you wouldn't kind of know this off the top of your head.
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Graywall typically has a population of six to 7,000 people. There's a lot more.
00:10:12
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Oh, good. Here. And something that's notable via reputation for you, because you know, Joanne, Monster Nation, all that stuff. The majority of people that you see are humans, elves, smattering of dwarves, some half like. I think we got a refugee situation here, maybe. I mean, do we recognize any? Do they look like?
00:10:38
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are they all dressed like pirates you do get it like you recognize them like faces that you maybe saw on the street right in storm reach but you also see a lot of people that are not dressed like the typical attire you recognize them as wearing um
00:10:53
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Breelish clothing. But the interesting the people wearing Breelish clothing, you know, are half orcs, tieflings, like people that belong a bit more, but they're not dressed as droam citizens. They see more done up. Right. So, yeah. Do I I mean, I would recognize British clothing as well, wouldn't I? I lived in Miss Marshall. Your Majesty better keep that hood pulled tight. Oh, right.
00:11:29
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Oh, yep. That is precisely what it is. Nobody knows that I'm the king now. Well, we keep saying that some people might figure it out. All right. I mean, do we go to borrowed time first? I mean, do we have anywhere else we need to go here at all? I think so.
00:11:53
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I mean, not really. So let's go to borrowed time. We don't have a shopping day.
00:12:01
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all of the gold that we have. I, we have a, well I have on my person 1400 gold. Oh wow. I think I have, I still have with my thousand leftover and we got 14, 400 off of, I've got most of my thousand left actually. So yeah, no, but we don't. Booyah's got a couple hundred on him and the rest of it is stashed in various places upon borrowed time.
00:12:25
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You're just gonna come back and Cassie is just gonna have a bag full. Go found this. Awesome. Yeah, let's just go. Everyone give me perception checks as you make your way throughout the city.
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22. 24. 25. Now you all roll well. You all spot as you are making your way towards the tower that Borrow Time is docked with.
Return to the Airship
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You see what appears to be a large bulletin board on the front of a tavern, but what draws your focus is in very large letters
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at the top of what appears to be like a flyer of some sort is the figure of 20,000 GP counties.
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So do we recognize any of the people upon the on the bounty board? If you were to approach and give it a closer examination, I'm gonna. So the the 20,000 gold piece flyer has the image of what appears to be a warforged juggernaut.
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And it describes this thing has attacked villages in the surrounding area, even been so bold as to attack Graywall at some point. It says for more information to contact Governor Zor-Chalik.
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you through like moving different flyers aside, you actually, funnily enough, see a face that you almost have forgotten a bit in that it is the Miss Marsh version of Beric Rowan on a wanted poster with a bounty. Beric classic. Yes. And then you also find one with Lyle and Theradak and Krast.
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So you see those, they're kind of way far in the back though. You get a sense that this thing is in heavy use. How much, Dex wants to know how much they're given for them? It's only 5,000 gold pieces for body, 10,000 for capture.
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I turned you in and then you escaped. I was thinking the same thing about you. Booyah thinks same about both. Let's just make a pact that we're not going to do that. That's a bad plan. OK, so continue on.
00:15:17
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I mean, these fires are not magically attached. You can take one for later examination if you want, or you can just I mean, I'm not chasing paper. Let's just come back for it if we need it. Yeah. The board's not going anywhere. If we if we see the juggernaut in the passing, we may see what we can do about claiming it. But I just want to take a minute and concentrate.
00:15:38
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Have I become closer to a different ping in my sensing? Also something that you note with the juggernaut flyer. One of the cities that it mentions like this thing has attacked
00:15:59
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You thought was a legend. You see listed the city of lost, which like is kind of a fabled place in Corvair since you've been in here of like a self-sustaining, wholly exclusive changeling society that you never really thought was real, but according to this flyer is actually a thing.
00:16:26
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If there's nothing else, you all continue on to the tower. There is an elevator or stairs options, whichever you would prefer to take. Is it on fire?
00:16:45
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So you all 200 feet of stairs. Yeah, I'm definitely taking the elevator. So after a few minutes of rising, you reach the top of the tower, which opens up and there's a few airships attached to this with like walkways going off to each one. So yeah, there's no nobody standing guard at borrowed time or anything like that. So you're able to just walk on board. Cool security, guys.
00:17:25
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Stop right there. Cassian. So, yeah, what are you all going to do now that you're back on borrowed time? Booyah goes to Dex and elbows him. You still have rock. You you give weighty friend. She like Booyah. You trust Booyah on this. I. Yes, I still have it. That's a good call there.
00:17:41
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I like to assume we'd have been able to walk on board if one of them was standing guard.
00:17:52
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I mean, we need to have a talk about if we're going to charm or row it. Booyah, go wherever. Booyah, go say hi to all friends. I love that about you, Booyah.
00:18:10
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So Borenel. And I assume there's people moving about the deck. We're presumably noticed. Yeah. Yeah. And we give out handshakes and high fives as necessary. So yeah, there are warm welcomes all around. Borenel goes below deck fairly quickly. So some work.
00:18:35
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Who would you like to just this conversation exclusively amongst you two or anybody else you'd like to bring into the decision making process?
Revelation of Hataith Iwanan
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Well, uh, I need to, well, I was going to inform the two of you, but apparently Booyah scuttled off. So you see him and Gerald doing some elaborate handshake thing. Before we go on, Barry snags, Texas sleeve says,
00:19:05
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While I was, while I was Erebus, I, I know who the next packed wielder is. I know who the packed wielder in raw is. All right. Um, I was getting ready to say we were going to talk about when I was Erebus, but, um, let's stick a pin in that. It complicates the decision or perhaps it's haters. The bread owl. Yeah. Is a packed holder.
00:19:36
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It appears so. That's big. Yes, we can't. Well, I can't. I mean, can we tell Bora now? I don't know. Yeah. But that's going to be a. That's going to be a big. Yeah, I mean task. That. Like getting to her. Well, yeah, and then we have to kill her.
00:20:05
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It is theoretically possible for her to give it up peacefully, but I think you're probably right. Well, you did promise to. Well, I was very angry. Fair enough. She is still.
00:20:20
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Real, real sack of crap. Yes. Um, geez. All right. Well, then do we need to, um, maybe put a stronger consideration to the charm column? Well, we need to find out how we get into the party, whether or not we can get in. Right. Let me ask you this. Is your pinging and knowing where the next packed wielder is for the sake of this particular pack? Is it like in real time or do you have to think and ping?
00:20:50
Speaker
Let me think in pain. Let me find out what the rules are. It just says I know. And it doesn't say I have to pause and concentrate on it. It just says I know. OK. Through discussing going to Rowat, you begin to kind of note that the direction of the next packed wielder is moving. She's going to the gala.
00:21:21
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Well, that makes sense, don't it? Well, I don't actually know, but she's on the move and it does make sense. Is she moving towards Shorn? Uh, can I tell? She's moving southwardly. Generally. Yeah. I mean, there's, that's towards a lot. Yes. South is towards a lot of things. Yeah. A lot of things are south. I can't tell her. I mean, if you got me a map, I could, I could work it out because I can tell how
Gala Plans and Disguises
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far she is, but it doesn't seem to a whole lot of, it seems like a reasonable assumption to make that she'll be there.
00:21:50
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Whether or not, listen, whether or not she is, it may or may not be the time to do that. Right. We don't necessarily want to kill two birds with one stone. Right. Waka Waka. If we're going to the, if we're going there to grab strength, I think that's.
00:22:08
Speaker
That's a bigger win for us if we can, if we can get information from him. Let's go. All right, let's make that the plan. But I mean, we have to find out if we can get in. Yeah, yeah. I suppose that's a talk to have with the lady Omeran. Yes. And I will let you handle that. But I mean, you don't want to come? Huh? You don't want to come?
00:22:30
Speaker
You know, I didn't think about this. If I, I, I can be Varen last night or an evening. That's very true. I'll have to leave him a knife at home. Varen did not have four foot long hair. Um, that's also true, but I could do that. Uh, and if it's just a name on the list thing, right. Me and my.
00:23:01
Speaker
But that come to that, not as effectively as you, but both Booyah and I can alter our appearances temporarily. Let's not talk about it. Or you could just be last night's new retinue. The trick with that being.
00:23:16
Speaker
Last night's still somehow alive. Oh no, he's definitely dead. We saw that happen. If word of his death, if word of his death reached. I don't know. I don't know whether, whether they'll have catalogued or not, but we could, we don't know who all was invited. Let's, let's talk to someone who, who knew something about it and get some more information. I mean, if you want, I can accompany you to this conversation. Yes. Anyway.
00:23:48
Speaker
I mean, I don't know how she wouldn't want to talk to you with that rock you got from Booyah. I love it. Last night, everything. No one was injured. Yeah, no. Well, I took a hit, but it's because I jumped in the middle of it. Can we? Can you?
00:24:13
Speaker
Uh, there was a point where you started saying things like we'll take the next watch and you didn't sound like you, you sounded like something else. It was when you were in that weird shadow armor. Um, what's going on there? Mark my laugh. Yeah, it was loud and sending me back.
00:24:44
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the nature of the pack. Erebus is keeping me alive. Okay. And, uh, that's, that's what's powering me. So are you saying that your barrack, when you're this and your Erebus, when you're that I'm saying,
00:25:14
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that there's some of both all the time. I can let go and let it take over. I don't know if it can force itself out. It has not tried yet.
00:25:45
Speaker
That's what that was. Well, that's, um, that's certainly interesting. I guess I will have an opportunity to talk with your sword after all. Um, but that's, if, are we, if you start straying too far from his mission, do you think he'll try to take over?
00:26:15
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Possibly. Cause we're not sure how far we're going to have to stray from the packs to, you know, fight the Armageddon. I don't know. I don't know what, I don't know what he'd do if I began to act contrary to it, but listen, I, I don't act.
00:26:44
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towards the pack. My family's trapped there forever. So, Oh, I mean, I still fully intend on completing it for you or with you. So that's not, there we are. All right. Well, I mean, that's one of those things. That's just, that is the way that it is. And little, nothing can be done at this point. Eh, seems to be the case. All right.
00:27:15
Speaker
Well, who's talking to the lady? I'll go see. All right. Cool. Um, uh, Dex goes to the galley. Perfect.
00:27:34
Speaker
And Booyah's going to now to his room to hopefully finish his book. Well, he's still got two hours left of it. So one hour, one hour. OK. Booyah saved best for last. Hopefully last story, good story. Booyah loved good stories. Inspire Booyah be better.
00:27:58
Speaker
we are consumed by the book and it just ends now you are mine it says kill all humans also as you close the book your fingernail scratches the back cover and you realize that there was just a white cover over this terrifying black cover and the book begins to bleed is that how to cook humans how to cook for humans how to cook 40 humans
00:28:22
Speaker
Um, okay. So you're heading down to talk to Paolo Omoren Stormlord. Um, so yeah.
Intel Gathering Strategy
00:28:32
Speaker
How do you, so where are they staying now? Did, were they still in barracks chamber? They were in whatever room who y'all was going to put Charlie. Yeah. Uh, Charlie's trying to put Rickard in there and yeah, poor Rickard went back to his closet. Um, okay. So you go, uh,
00:28:54
Speaker
knock on the door. Yeah. The door cracks open and you see Oriana kind of cracks the doors like, Oh, we're back. Hi. Um,
00:29:08
Speaker
Come in. And you see the spear that you left, Orianna kind of spread it on the bed covered in blood. There's not like a corpse on the floor or anything. And Paolo Omerin's body is... Oh, God. And you see Omerin sitting on the bed with her rapier across one of her legs with a whetstone in one hand. And Orianna, there's a whetstone on the nightstand next to her spear.
00:29:37
Speaker
You two are absolutely turning her into a just full-on assassin. Yep, it's gonna be awesome. I'm gonna play her in the next campaign. Keeping me more powerful than any of us. Okay, so, Pablo looks up and is like, oh, welcome back. Thank you. We're all back. Everything was fine.
00:30:06
Speaker
But we need to talk about the gala. We have a reason to think that, well, we know there's an agent of the inspired that will be present there. And we might be able to get closer to why they're doing what they're doing, why they attacked Stormreach, why they're taking children, if we can grab him. But Baron had the invitations.
00:30:38
Speaker
Well, both our names were on the list, so I could come with you.
00:30:47
Speaker
But they will ask where Varen is. You can tell them that he's dead, but. Surely news of what happened must have. Oh, the attack on Stormreach, I'm sure, is well documented. But the casualty list, it's only been a few weeks. So I don't imagine that they have declared anybody dead for certain.
00:31:13
Speaker
But I would be allowed to have two guests in attendance with me. So we would need another invited party if you wish to bring all the companions along with you.
00:31:31
Speaker
you don't know who was on, well, you had a chance to see the guest list, do you know any of the other guests? Oh, we had seen a, I had glanced over the guest list just to see any notable names, obviously royalty from a variety of nations, high ranking members of all the dragon marked houses, yada, yada, yada, just the important people.
00:31:59
Speaker
And also the, of course, dignitaries from Reidra. Yes. All right. Well, obviously we have a changeling with us and that can be useful. Some other, we have magical means of altering our appearances. So perhaps.
00:32:24
Speaker
One thing, if you do have your changeling friend turn into Lassite to attend the party, this will not be the first time that I've attended one of these, nor will it be the first time that Van Lassite would have attended one of these. So there were people that know him and his family and his uncles and all that sort. So you would need somebody to accompany him who knows the Lassite estate.
00:32:49
Speaker
Well, we do have Charlie. Exactly. Well, and Dex's stellar memory. That sounds promising. Everything well here? Finally mundane. I hear that you went gallivanting about with Bo and El. Well, it didn't occur to me that he would
00:33:18
Speaker
Listen, he basically ordered me to take him. And it didn't occur to me that he would do that. But yeah. Hope you all had a fun time. We most assuredly did not. He did. But it sounds like him. I don't know that he ever isn't. I don't know.
00:33:47
Speaker
But we did not. That's a shame. So are we going to this Gala event? Perhaps I will need to talk with Dex and Booyah. Well, let me know as soon as you can, because there are obviously preparations to be made to confirm our attendance, gain appropriate passage, appropriate clothing. All right.
00:34:14
Speaker
And we have a week. Right. And are you, are you all simply wanting to attend to gain information? What, what is your ambition through attending this event? Well, we want to find out what strength can tell us. That's the magic he's going to want to tell you on the dance floor. No. So we may, we may be attempting to extract
00:34:44
Speaker
with him. Well, part of the initial plan last night had began putting together for you all when we offered you this job was there is a contact in Sean that you can speak to who is the only living soul who helped design Merck's to Kenneth's estate and vault.
00:35:14
Speaker
Um, it's a bit eccentric, but you can make contact with him. It could be very useful. Yes. His name. Um, his name is Gurnoth. In case you couldn't tell from the name, he is a gnome.
00:35:41
Speaker
Gurnoth Ikltarn. Gurnoth Ikltarn. That wasn't a random name generator. That was just throwing some Scrabble tiles on the ground.
00:36:08
Speaker
Yeah, Barrett kind of pauses awkwardly for a minute and then says, oh, also, you'll perhaps find this amusing. Booyah and Dex observed the
00:36:27
Speaker
The black eye you gave me and Booyah suggested that the way, the best way to demonstrate my contrite-ness was with a gift and what he thought would be really good. I fished around in my pocket and I find this weird black stone with a creepy smiley face. He thought this would be just perfect. He said I could take credit for it, but I thought I would give credit to the creator.
00:36:52
Speaker
You see in spite of kind of the cold demeanor that Paolo's been trying to keep on through this conversation, the corners of her mouth curl upward as she takes the rock and examines it, says, well, if you wish to pass along the message, tell Booyah thank you and that he advised you well. Yes.
00:37:21
Speaker
I imagine Orianna just rolls her eyes so far into the back of her head. Gross, gosh. Just laying. Just laying. So, yeah. Eric finds Gugan index and relays this information through them.
00:37:52
Speaker
I assume we were both having a sandwich. I was reading. I don't know. I was finishing up that book. I walk in just as Booyah is turning towards the last page. Booyah, stop what you're doing. Almost Booyah, almost finished. You give Lady Rock? I did, yes. She liked. She did, yes. Well done. I know she liked.
00:38:20
Speaker
So you've relayed the information to both of us and we're all together. And I mean, I can.
00:38:27
Speaker
I can be Varen. We can talk to Charlie. I can only be Varen if Charlie is willing to carry out his part because I don't know that stuff. I forgot Varen's name half the time. Please call me last night. How am I doing? Sure. I will have to remember his voice. Charlie may want to go party. Get out. Do something. Yeah.
00:38:57
Speaker
We have keep safe though. Right. And she's sure that nobody knows or that it's likely that nobody knows Varen's dead. She seemed to think that the, in the chaos that the, who's alive and who's dead was not out yet. Unsure. Or not there yet. I mean, it's not a place that kept a census. And it wouldn't be hard to say, well, why wouldn't I let people think I was dead for a while? Sure. I mean, I can, I can play that card.
00:39:24
Speaker
Clearly I'm not. Hello. Um, and, uh, yeah, so you get in with her. Carly gets in with me. Booyah and can't take crass. And as much as he'll want to go, we should not take board. Well, absolutely. Can't take corner. We can't, you see Borneo hiding behind a crate. I mean, we could recruit someone. I don't know.
00:39:51
Speaker
Yeah, that juggernaut looks tough. What about we take Rickard? Yeah. Well, I mean, the only thing I can think about Rickard is he's Brie-lish and we're all Zendrichian. Rickard is not Brie-lish. Oh, he's not. Is he equated infiltration or seething? Yeah, you talk to him. I have to find out.
00:40:21
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And Booyah, you'll probably at least until we get to more clandestine stuff, have to disguise yourself. Uh, but yeah, be halfling. How long, how long, how long can you have work? There are goblins in China. That's fair. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Nevermind. Uh, there's a, an engineer.
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Gurnath Ikletarn, who designed Merik's Decaneth's vault. He lives in Sharn, and apparently was the contact that Varen and Paola were using.
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parties in like a week, right? Yeah, in a week. We need to go in already, right? So we have time to find Garin Ithaca Tarn. We ought to do all those things that we'll do in flashback when we, when we, when we high stuff. Right. Uh, but we got to get, I mean, cause we got to find him, make, gain his trust and or purchase it. I believe Paola indicated, correct me if I'm wrong, Dan.
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pal indicated that he was a contact of hers and variance. She knows where he is. Okay, so she doesn't already know him like she's not already in correspondence with him or you get the sense that they may have like made contact or at least attempted to but he's not a contact in the sense of a direct out. He's not already an ally. Yes. I mean,
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Sound and like you said, uh, real good chance that hateth is going to be there as well. Not saying we should attempt that. We'll have to see. We'll see where it takes us. Okay. All right. Um, well,
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Alright, Booyai, you can read. As you all adjourn this meeting, Booyai, you return to your room, sit back on your bed, and open up the book to the final page as you read the final words.
Booyah's Divine Insight
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It's just like filling your heart full of hope and goodness affirmation about how
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Literally anybody, whether it be a high angel or a demon, can have a good impact on this world. It's all about the choices that you make.
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A person's a person no matter how small or how evil. Okay, so as you read the final words, all of a sudden you just see this blinding light begin to erupt out of the pages as your room is just filled with this divine energy. You're blind again. And in fact, even from like the outside on the ground, people can see light shooting out of the windows of your
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your cabin in the ship and you hear faint angelic like singing in celestial. You kind of look around confused and your wisdom
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Just the divine energy radiates throughout your mind and you gain a clear understanding of the universe and the goodness within it and your wisdom score increases by two. That would have helped earlier.
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I didn't know the way we were rolling, it wouldn't help much. Yeah, true. You also gain a greater insight into the casting of divine spells and divine magic and calling upon your fate to be realized in the world. And so you now have a form of enlightened magic where any spell slot that you expend to cast a cleric spell counts as a spell slot of one level higher. Whoa, that's nice.
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You also... I'll save that one. You also can now cast Shield of Faith. After you cast it, you roll a d6. On a 1 through 5, you cannot cast again until the next dawn.
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You are now proficient in knowledge religion as the mysteries of the nature of the gods reveal themselves to you. You cannot be stunned, petrified, or blinded.
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so you can just leave that crossbow behind whenever you want now. That's hilarious. So funny. And lastly that I'm gonna tell you right now, once again, same property, roll a d6 after you cast it one through five, you can't cast again until the next dawn. You can cast heal. Whoa. Heal, he gets to pick a target and they heal for 70 hit points.
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Wowza! And it also ends blindness, deafness, any disease affecting the target. But, heal has absolutely zero effect on undead. Womp womp. Look who's gettin' killed!
00:46:06
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It keeps falling and battle also constructs so warforged can't benefit from it either How you can do that how often or that's just one of the spells now that's he gets to do it Then he rolls a d6 on a one through five. He has to wait until the next dawn Oh, so it's the same as shield of faith. Yeah in that regard. Okay, and the just Roll a six every time and just keep casting away man pounding it and the angelic singing is loud enough to where you all hear it and
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I mean, Dex goes... I think everybody. There is bright light shining in Booyah's room. Half the town is running up the tower right now, Booyah. Dex's head is... Oh no. He's found me.
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I'm not ready. I'm not ready for Gabe yet. So Booyah, you're having all this knowledge unlocked in your mind and you truly finally understand what you've read in the book. And then the door to your room comes crashing open as just everybody on the ship kind of pile into your room. As you all run into the room, you see Booyah startled on his bed, closing the book and looking at you. But as he looks at you, there's a halo above his head.
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Uh, Boop. Booyah, how you feeling, bud? Booyah, I feel different. Booyah, I feel really good. The halo is casting bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light 10 feet beyond that.
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you can dismiss it or manifest it as a bonus action. While present, the Halo gives you advantage on persuasion checks made to interact with good creatures and intimidation made to interact with evil creatures. Also, beings and undead within the Halo's bright light make attack rolls against you with disadvantage.
Closing and Acknowledgments
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Wow. All undead?
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Against, so if Beric tries to attack Booyah. Oh, not compelled to attack him. So when I finally decided to kill Booyah. Sorry, sorry. I was thinking they are compelled to attack you. No, I see. No, I see. Undead and demons? Fiends and undead, yeah. So yeah. Okay. That is the book of exalted deeds. Man. The book is awesome. That book did some things. It did. Can you extinguish your headlight?
00:48:39
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We are not sure. Hold on. Let me think about. You know, you just hear a slight thing as it goes away. Oh, this is pretty good. Hold on a sec. Harp chord. We got to turn off for now. Yeah, thank you. This book make Booyah very happy.
00:49:01
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And thank you all once again so much for listening. I am your dungeon master. Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Angelic. I'm Jeff. We'll see you next time.
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His good cholesterol is low, his bad cholesterol is high, and his BMI is borderline presidential. He stands before us like Hercules himself, albeit a fat bald Hercules at an eating contest.