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C3 Episode 77 Agents of WAR Chapter Six
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The party regroups and reckons with the aftermath.
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Introduction to Eberron Renewed
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D20 Radio, your game is rolled. www.d20radio.com
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Hello welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your Game Master, Eric. I'm Mia. I'm Phillip. I'm Madison.
Team Dynamics and Tensions
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I'm Jeff.
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And welcome to another episode. Folks, what happened last time? It was bad. was bad. was just bad. yeah We all rode home in our feelings and then Nix tried to quit, which I forgot about until Phil just reminded me. Yeah, it was just, we, no team building happened. That's for sure. We were all just kind of mad about it and at ourselves. And I think Valk was mad at Kaz.
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That's how Kaz feels. ah I won't answer that now I can tell you no but I can tell you that it's a time and place yeah so unless anybody had anything with the rest of that day after Nick's got talked down from potentially leaving ah we're gonna pick up the next morning i have one thing philip has it that forewarned you You did,
Nyx's Battle Reflections
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yes. Once Nyx has returned to her room on the second floor, she is going to... Where where is Akron?
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Akron was absent for a large duration of the trip home. Probably you realize that Akron is back around in your room. Like Akron manifests just up in the corner and rests on sconce.
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just have Yes. How very Polak. Quoth the demon. Yet again. Right. Nyx will look up at Akron for a a long moment.
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She's fairly confident that, well, no one said anything, so she's fairly confident that no one else realized that Acheron was present in the battle. Yeah.
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Though she doesn't know his certainty, but, and she has only
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vague bits and pieces of of what happened, but she's quite confident that she lost control. She's quite confident that she killed some people were not enemies.
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So she looks up at Acheron and says, who are you really?
The Beacon Artifact Mystery
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Acheron flies down to the, like, one of the posts at the foot of Nyx's bed and Gives Nyx a measured glance.
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I demon from Shavarath. But you were very different. I... Were we in Shavarath there?
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Very briefly. Yes. And Something happened. That place is not briefly anymore. I think it's complex. It is not fully a whole to Shavarath.
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But it's certainly the most potent manifest that anyone could fear to try to pull.
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And creatures from Shabrath would have a far easier time venturing over. Why did that happen to me? Again, I don't know why this happened. I think that that artifact can be activated as a beacon of some kind. It drew everything...
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To you, because you were carrying it, but the power emanating from it, it's unclear if that beacon would have worked only with Shavarath or any plane that was potentially coterminous with that area.
Nyx's Insight Check on Acheron
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or the fact that you were holding it resonated with Shavarath.
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And if one of your companions was holding it, a different plane would have been called forth. What were are you doing there? I would have... I was already there.
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You sent me out to go investigate in the town. And then... But what were you doing? Helping you.
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as I've always have, helping you hold your power. Then why don't I remember? Perhaps your mind is protecting you from what you did.
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Perhaps you're not ready to confront what you are. Okay, I would like to make a roll.
Nyx's True Nature Revealed
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Okay. To... insight basically is what I'm trying to do. yeah I would like to know to what degree i think that this creature is being forthright with me. Like I, yeah.
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Wisdom based check. Um, black marketeer probably. Sure. That makes sense. Read someone. Yeah. Am I being conned? Yeah. Good start. Okay.
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With level 23. twenty three
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you You are a fairly confident, Mix, that what's going on here is rather than deception, it's paternal censoring.
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Acheron doesn't think you can handle the full truth, so there is things being held back in the explanation. So being truthful but not revealing everything. Right. What I am, it is more to it than...
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That I am touched by this plane. You are sane. You, down to the core of your essence, you are a weapon. You are made to be destructive.
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Some would say made to be wielded. I, whoever would have the power, insight, guile to forge you.
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into what they need. Is that what you have been doing? I have been trying to guide you into how best to harness your power. I see. I do not wish to see some interloper come into your life and wield you. I do not know what happened in that town.
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I saw myself with an immense amount of power that I have not touched for some time, and I used it to help
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You got lost in the fight for some time because you were so in touch with the plane. It overtook you. And then your friend got overtaken as well. My friend? Kaz, he joined you in the fight as an ally and lost sight of where you were.
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Much like you did. i see. Very well. He seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. He was cackling the whole time. I understood. Thank you. Nyx will stand up and sort of just aimlessly walk out of the room.
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Okay. And pace for a while in what I assume i have i have I have internalized our joke and assume that the front end of the second floor is like a grand dining hall with windows along one side. And so Nyx is just sort of pacing up and down.
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Yeah, that for for quite a while. Don't forget the halls lined with mirrors to reflect the light. of Right. Yes. But yes, she will remove herself from the room with Acheron because she doesn't know how much is being hidden from her there and she's not comfortable with the hints right now okay anyone else doing anything before bed no no i mean just reading more of the book of songs and stuff i know we said i didn't quite finish it so
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Maybe trying to find some comfort in it, forgetting that it's mostly songs of war and woe, but just like, I don't know. Give me a wisdom-based check. Check. Any applicable... but down Just touched.
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Yeah, I would take Fae touched. Okay. Wisdom, you say? I may have juiced that one up a bit with the old... Oh, no, it just went from 14 to 15. modifiers do not change.
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Add it to 15. 15? You find some comfort in the stories. it's 19. I forgot to add Fae Touched. So that changes things. You find some comfort in the stories.
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You find a sense of... It's weird because these are not... Like we talked about, these are hymns of war and stories of remembrance of those who perished as a result of war.
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But yet you find yourself finding the comfort of home almost, even though does not feel like home, but that, yeah, it's the the sense of belonging somewhere that you've never been and experiences you've never experienced. Okay.
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All right. You all go to sleep and then you wake up. And I know we've had a couple of rolls, but you are now level four. Do y'all want to share with the people what you gained as part of your fourth level?
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Sure. Then do it. I was actually going ask you about a feat that I found on the, on the SRD that's say a third party feat called thrill of the kill. Okay. When you kill a non-mook enemy, you gain temporary hit points equal to the enemy's level.
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Okay. I feel like since we have unlocked some new layer of connection to the plane of battle, that seemed chart narratively right. Yeah.
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Sounds good.
Character Level-Up Discussion
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And I got that, and then I got to to look at those. Yeah, you can always look and then I boosted he is still learning what a pushover i am is it that's very true. yeah Yeah, yeah I boosted my We got this is our first ability score increase and I got rid of all of i did I did the the obvious thing and got rid of all of my odd numbers and made them even so I boosted my strength my constitution and my charisma And I get a new spell but I haven't picked it yet because I'm indecisive Fair enough. Okay
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Jeff, what did you do? So I also, i boosted my intelligence and then I boot and my con. so I know how I'm going have a zero modifier and con, but I boosted my wisdom, which hasn't changed anything yet, but will eventually.
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And then I'm going to re assign my feats generally, but the one that I added, is along with my talent where I get to choose one cleric spell every time we do a full heal up, I now daily get to pick one cleric invocation that I can do as a quick action during the first round of battle.
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And there's some pretty cool ones. Like one of them's just like, hey, everybody does triple damage on a crit for the rest of this battle. Like I have to roll it. so I don't know what it's gonna be every day. I roll a D10 and get what I get. But I thought that was pretty pretty dope. So awesome.
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Madison. Oh, and I grew three inches. i Not really, Mia. You don't have to redraw. With Kaz's magic, that's very true. Changes cost money. I got to add some stuff to abilities, and I don't remember which ones I did, but they're on my spreadsheet.
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And then I got three more third-level spells and another adventurer feat. Sweet. Mia.
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Does it matter? i guess not, because I'm terrible. This happened? Fine. TBD on me as she respects Valk the Grim. Tune in next time for Valk the Barbarian.
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Valk's gonna be so tough. um In addition to your level up stuff, you each got something as a lingering effect from your exposure to Shabrath in the battle and the fact that Shabrath is now even more...
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coterminous with F. listen Aren't I a lingering effect of contact with Shavarath? Isn't that what Nyx is? And now you have more of that. Oh no. This was not discussed beforehand. I will be taking this to the players union. I'm ready to go on strike. It's fine.
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Cool.
Shabarath Exposure Effects
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Yes, players, you've unionized. Nyx, you now have an aura of despair. Good. Good. More so than previously.
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Once the escalation die reaches three, you can no longer contain your battle lust. Your form shifts and enemies feel despair when engaged with you. Despairing characters suffer a minus four penalty to attacks.
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So you can flavor that however you want. But once the escalation die reaches three, enemies that are engaged with you suffer a minus four to their attacks because they are so terrified of you.
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Okay. Okay. I'm going to put this in my character sheet as anti-feet. Why? It's positive. It's all good. Literally negative. It's minus four. Yeah. No. Despairing care.
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I know. I know. It's positive for have hard time. Selina, demonic rage. When staggered, so less than half your hit points, you add double the escalation die to your attack voice.
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love li Heck yeah. That's crazy. No.
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Sense weakness. When you miss a target with an even attack roll, you can use their lowest defense score as the target for all attacks and spells. Moving forward.
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That make sense? Yeah. was thinking, is that similar to warped flesh? Targeting?
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Don't think so, but I'll double check. because that one I get to choose if which one I would hit. So that is when you cast a spell that targets mental defense and the target has a higher mental defense than physical defense, you can target physical defense instead.
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This would allow, if you're doing something that targets um physical defense to go for their mental defense, if you're doing something that attacks AC, like using your sword, you can attack mental defense.
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So this opens it up a bit more to where you can include AC and you can also move off of mental defense onto something else or off of the more physical defenses on mental defense, et cetera.
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Can I deobnoxious? Can you just text that to me? Yes, I will. I will send this in text form to you all. Cast. Yes. Curse aura.
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Whenever a creature attacks you and rolls a natural 1 through 5, that creature takes 1d12 psychic damage. All right. So that's that's on you. You got to remember you to let me know. how You can't just go, and he misses anymore. Okie dokie.
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You have been cursed. So you all wake up. He does what to start their day? Not everybody at once. I'll go. I don't remember if Valka just did the flowers yet. And that's an important thing that's being built on.
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Okay. So I will just make sure that those are still fresh. So that would be visiting the the five locations. Five locations, question mark.
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Five locations? have that written somewhere. Yeah. So I need to make sure that they are alive in order for secrets of things. Okay.
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So Val will spend some time in the the gardens. Don't think of anything. Not at this particular moment. I think Kaz wakes up earlier than... I was thinking about Kaz going into town, and I still think he probably will. But I think he wakes up earlier than things get moving in town. And he is going to go up to the pigeon turret and compose a letter.
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He's going to make one for sure, maybe two. i'm trying to figure off i want to do one. But one of these pigeons knows how to get to Volaira's ship, has been there before, knows what they're doing, recognizes it.
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And he's just going to write something, you know, kind of saying, that he appreciates the crew and that he's sorry that things went so pear-shaped this time. He feels responsible and doesn't know else how else to absolve it since he knows that he changed sides, right? He also doesn't know for sure that he didn't attack anybody that was a friend of his. So he's just kind of writing because he didn't get a full report because ask for one.
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So I think he's just going to write a a thing to Valera and appreciative for bringing them home and glad that they're all safe and just something to that effect. Keep that relationship solid in his eyes.
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And then he, he thinks long and hard about trying to write a missive to Olath and ends up absolutely not like he sits there and stares the same way that Jeff often stares at his phone thinking if he should send an apology text message for something that he may or may not have actually made somebody upset about, but this time Cass very much knows people are upset and decides not to.
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And heads back down. Okay. Actually, I had a question. Yeah? What is the layout of the grounds?
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So you have the manor, then you have the church, and then you have the greenhouse, so the the gardens into that, and then there's- The church slash chapel is an extension of the house. It's attached to the manor. The greenhouse and the gymnasium are back behind,
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The manor away from the road. does But they're physically separated. Yes.
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And on which side is the chapel attached to? If you were looking at it from the road, the left side. Okay. Thank you.
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You're welcome. yeah Still works. Normally, Selena... To sit there and silence for that long and then start talking at the exact same time is crazy. One of you speak. Normally, normally Selena would like go to the library, but I think she still wants like some more time to herself.
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So she would probably like grab a book of just like something kind of mindless reading yeah and probably go back to her little little secret room in the tunnels that's kind of darker that she kind of hangs out in sometimes with Grub and just kind of read in there.
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love it. Nyx. Nyx is still up on the second floor in the morning. She doesn't... Doesn't come down early. She's kind of focused on on thinking through what has occurred. she has...
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not slept much probably um and has mostly been pacing through the night at some point in the night she's started like moving all of the furniture out of the way in this big giant great room just to make it more open and probably in the morning is blowing off steam by by doing sword forms by doing exercises in this big wide room because she doesn't know how to interpret the things that Acheron said and she doesn't feel confident that Acheron is going to give her a more straight answer right
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Fair enough. I realize Kaz is now in his room and he's cracked open the latest purchase that he made. And he goes, I cannot believe my first entry in the journal has to be about this. And then writes... helpful Oh no.
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And then writes down his experience. you know The first thing they failed on together it' the first entry in his new journal that he was told to keep. Wow. That's rough. Actually, remember what I was doing.
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I actually need to go to the library. and I like needdi Aurora is there. i need to find Aurora. Hello, Valk. a I have an odd question that requires...
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minimal swallow-up. Well, we'll see how much I can help you you without asking you any questions. Do you recall or know if we have amy books where the writing is illegible to the point where it can really only be interpreted as bugs crawling across the pages. And I'm assuming you're not talking about like a foreign script that you have a hard time to reach. No, this is, this is not. Then, I mean,
00:21:51
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Honestly, no. I have not come across a book that's illegible scratchings on the page because I probably would have pulled it out of the shelves and gotten rid of it or investigated it further.
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But I do not have anything like that. Okay. Well, see thank you for no follow-up questions. Do we have... You're welcome to look through the library if you want to see that.
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trying to end this on something that's not as unsettling
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go ahead just you do you have just a basic book on you know two wards magical wards and i forgot the word forgot the Who's Mia? but It's it's not compartmentalizing. I need this to attach a spell to an item. Like ah artificing but or augmenting or enchanting. as Yeah.
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It's for a roomie.
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For a roomie. Wow. Well, yes, I believe I do have a And she turns around begins walking through some of the ah the shelves.
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how How advanced are you looking? You said a basic book. So read a minute. I would at least need or the at least like ah a spell that were or an attachment that will last just a couple of hours. but Well, there we did get our hands on a training manual from, and she snatches down.
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From a House Canis curriculum for some of the new initiate members. can She hands it to you and it's got the mark of making embossed on the front. And it it does say for House Eyes only inside the front cover. So this is what you all should not have.
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And then for the warding, i believe we also have... Yes. And a very similar house Kundarak book comes getting pulled out.
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That is, has mark of warning front. And once again, it's very clear that this is for internal house use only. eddie found copies should be returned to the nearest house member that you can pick.
00:24:19
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All right. We have more advanced stuff, a bit more ancient if you have need for it, but I don't think I should be messing with any sort of ancient magic.
00:24:31
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I mean, all magic is ancient technically. Okay, we're going to get technical. What I touch is unpredictable, so we're going to keep it simple. Sounds like a great a great attitude, Val. I would say I'm going to go, but I am going to look in a different row.
00:24:51
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Feel free. I'll be putting books away if you need me. Okay. And there Valkyute, you see the cart that Aurora is pulling books off of to be put away.
00:25:05
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Far more books have been like taken out of place than the population of this house could possibly account for. Interesting.
00:25:16
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are are you Are you getting bullied by the goblin ghost too? he is a jokester, it would seem. see oh we have more than one. That's also a possibility I've been exploring. and Okay. can...
00:25:31
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i can check if I would like. I'm trying to keep an eye out for it. And I also think that perhaps some of it has to do with small furry friend, shadowy furry friend. And she holds up a picture book of bugs and insects that she suspects a grub may have just enjoyed looking. We should encourage educational growth.
00:25:53
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So. Indeed. I'm going to go over here. I know. You told me that. And I told you if need me, feel free to come get me. Okay, I don't. So, Valk is going to try and look for suspicious looking books that might have similar binding to ah the tome that I have.
00:26:21
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Yeah, you are looking around about, unfortunately, like this, this library is pretty clearly like being curated by Javier, Aurora, Hendrick. Like they, they know what they have here.
00:26:37
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Now, Mia knows that there is an upgrade to this manor that unlocks a section of this library that you all have not been able to explore yet. So probably until that upgrade is purchased, you won't be able to find books that they are unaware isn't here. Why are you shaking your head at me?
00:26:55
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I didn't know that. On the dock, the dock has been shared with all you. I will hear no ah aspersions towards me now. There's a question, Eric.
00:27:06
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There's a forbidden library that has been on there since day one. Should we gain any upgrades for a job we failed? Y'all are about to meet with Javier here in a bit and do the debriefing. okay Wait until 4-bit's review before we can learn about our upgrades.
00:27:20
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Sorry, i just jumped in there. Yep. Okay, then that is... trying to remember how many upgrade points you all have currently, because you have some in reserve. I believe I have it written down some.
00:27:34
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I only have... I have that we have zero points. I think we spent all of them last time. I think we did it, yeah, we got because we got two things last time. Yeah. We had saved up, and then we were able to get two things. Well, then.
00:27:47
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We ordered a pigeon turret and found out it wasn't a cannon. yeah Okay. Okay. Not as advertised. well We shouldn't return it. um um I think somewhere in the morning, Nyx will come downstairs.
Nyx Seeks Understanding of Her Nature
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And I'm trying to decide who she would try and go find first i think nix will go looking for selena she's in the walls yeah i'm sure she'd come out at some point to to switch books or something yeah so if she wanders around looking for selena for a bit but yeah i think eventually she knocks on selena selena will come out of the walls i suppose oh but
00:28:37
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Be-behind, Nyx? Ugh! Oh, am I interrupting something? No, you're- you're good. I was just reading. I- I have room to come up the stairs.
00:28:49
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She said, silence me?! have two questions, and on one of them I know you can answer, I don't know if you will want to. But I- and need to know what happened. It's honestly a little bit of a blur, but... as I mean, as far as I can tell,
00:29:08
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You, i guess, kind of lost control. And it seemed like you weren't really able to tell who was on your side anymore. you you You did hurt Valk, but Valk's okay. So it's it's all good. And I i think maybe maybe some townspeople, i I'm not sure. It was it was kind of crazy.
00:29:32
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right You have been... You know the library very well. And you know the books that we have. And you have done a lot of research about magic and weapons and things. Koran said something to me recently that has unsettled me and would like to try to understand it. And I'm
00:30:03
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no longer entirely certain that Acheron will answer me forthrightly about it. Acheron recently said that I, at my core, am a weapon meant to be wielded.
00:30:21
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And I don't think he was speaking poetically. But I don't know in what sense it was meant. And so I am wondering whether you encountered anything like that in your reading and in your research about interactions of weapons and magic. I mean, i I've encountered things about weapons and magic, but more in the sense of, I mean, of kind of what I do and using, you know, physical weapons and magic in in tandem.
00:31:00
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i'm I'm happy to help you try to try to do some research. Honestly, Aurora would probably know best if you're comfortable bringing her into it. If not, that's fine, and i I'm happy to still help you, and we can we can work together and try to find something. I just don't know what I'm going to find, and...
00:31:23
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I, depending on what it is that I find out, I might prefer to limit the number of people who find it out at the same time. Sure.
00:31:34
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Sure. Well, I'm, I'm happy to help, help look for things or let you know if I come across something that I think you might find interesting. Yes. I don't mean to, to interrupt whatever you are about today. It doesn't,
00:31:51
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have to be this moment, but I would appreciate it. Okay. Do you want to just let me know when you're ready to do that? Sure. but Yes. Okay. Nyx will nod and retreat.
00:32:06
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Selina's going back in the walls. Is that new no no and we just haven't talked about it a lot like she doesn't spend a lot of time in there I don't think but only what she really needs a minute to the manor when we were first building it is like crawling through the walls that's where she found grub right Yep, that's right.
00:32:26
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But you don't phase into the walls. No, there's like secret passageways. Yeah. I just needed to be sure. You like step on the grandfather clock. So like Nyx is knocking on Selina's door and then like behind her a bookshelf moves in the frame over Nyx's shoulder and Selina steps out, closes the bookshelf.
00:32:45
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<unk> like It's like Webster. That sort of thing. Yeah. All right. Then until something else happens, Nyx will probably...
Exploring Fiendish Magic
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go to the library and browse the stacks for Things about fiendish magic and this sort of thing.
00:33:05
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there a moment move where Nyx rounds a corner and bumps into Valk? Is Valk still skinning? It's entirely possible. You can roll. i don't know. i think you would be kind of... I'll say yes.
00:33:15
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We all bump into each other. um But yes, Philip, give me or you're just looking for stuff on fiendish magic. Okay, I'll come up with something, but you all do bump into to each other. could to be more z hello Nix knows that Valk does not want Nix to snoop into whatever Valk is trying to gather.
00:33:36
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Like, that is universal truth for for Nix's understanding of Valk, is that Valk does not want people to poke into what vox's Valk is trying to figure out until Valk has figured it out.
00:33:48
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And so Nix kind of glances at the books or whatever Mok has in his his arms, whatever he's he's found, if anything, and doesn't doesn't inquire as to the strangeness of them or don't know if Mok's found anything yet. It's for a roomie.
00:34:10
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They were cramped and locked up. So I'm just going to see if I can The amulet. So that's capable. It's cramped and locked up. Yeah, because you can't, like, leave. You used to have a... I see. You used to have an amulet. I'm scared of his form. Yeah.
00:34:32
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So I'm just going to... That's very useful. Let go do that. Excellent. Excellent. I don't think I can help with that. No. I don't want to do any part of that.
00:34:45
Speaker
Neither the jewelry making nor the spell casting. Well, I mean, i bought I bought the amulet, so yeah. Are you feeling okay today?
00:34:58
Speaker
No? Oh, should I leave? don't want to repeat. Right.
00:35:10
Speaker
I'm trying to understand some things right now, just in case it could possibly be relevant. I'm going to ask you something we've asked before, and you keep giving me a vague answer. Love a straight answer. What color is mine, Ura?
00:35:21
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Why do the powder? i don't know. I don't... I don't know. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know.
00:35:31
Speaker
But there's something wrong with you. I don't know what it is. don't know... how to explain it. I already answered this. I said do you wear your color. Ma'am, what color are you? I think of myself as a sort of tan.
00:35:52
Speaker
I was not lying. Tieflings tend to resonate with their color and they tend to... I have not met one that does not align with their physical. thought you were purple.
00:36:02
Speaker
I'm also not a tiefling, so that's a concerning chieflings observation if you thought I was one. You were briefly.
00:36:15
Speaker
um We don't need to talk about that one. But to be fair, I was also purple. That is true. Yeah. You know I'm not. Teethlings radiate an aura of their color, but other species don't necessarily.
00:36:34
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He is.
00:36:37
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Do you know why? no Right.
00:36:43
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Thank you for answering me. I had already answered to you though. I thought you were being more poetic than you were being. I really don't know how to do that. I still- I'm fairly direct. Yes. Okay. Are you are you you- did that help you? I don't i don't think so.
00:37:03
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i don't I don't think it did. like It's all right. um It's a question I don't have anymore. I get, I mean, okay.
00:37:15
Speaker
We about get into you. You had that answer, but I didn't think that was complicated. Okay, yeah, going to, okay. Nick's as you continue your search, you find a book titled the Grimoire, uh, Maleficarum.
00:37:34
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Awesome. It's in our stacks. Therefore Nick's assumes that opening it is not going to summon a hell mouth. And so, yeah, she, grabs it immediately and finds a a table in a corner and just flips it open. And she's just going to start reading.
00:37:53
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It is written by, um someone named Veldrin Thule and giving just a cursory glance, like the, the preface has ah ah quote that says, this magic is not evil.
00:38:08
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It's hunger given form, a purpose given teeth. Um, And so that's just kind of the whole vibe of this, uh, is that it's, it's, it's an attempt to demystify.
00:38:21
Speaker
It's trying to take fiendish magic and put on the same level as the arcane, the divine, the primal, and just saying it is just another form of magic that has some unfair stigmas slapped onto it Well, when you describe it as hunger given teeth, I would not say that the stigmas are unfair.
00:38:39
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Hunger given form, purpose given teeth. Thank to you. Oh, better. You know, that Rick Warren book, purpose given teeth. I
Nyx's Overwhelm and Reflection
00:38:48
Speaker
had to read it in a ministry class. Outstanding.
00:38:51
Speaker
Yes. Well done, Jeff. Okay. So yeah. Nick, are you looking for anything in particular and as you flip through it, are you just kind of starting your journey on reading it? I think she's probably going to just read it. Probably the thing that she is focused on is I don't know, like, because she has a lot of questions.
00:39:08
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Um, but i think it's, she's probably goes to whatever segment there is on Tieflings. Okay. And she looks for, she, she gets flips to the index and she looks for Tieflings comma.
00:39:25
Speaker
Why? What's that about? Okay. So you find a section on Tiefling's lie. Um,
00:39:43
Speaker
it It speaks to whoever this Veljong Thule guy is, thinks that be the implications of mortal blood tied to feendenish fiendish ancestry is ah a vulgarity of ignorance in its simplicity.
00:40:06
Speaker
And that They are, his estimation is that it is not that tieflings are descended from fiendish entities, but rather they're very essence is entangled with the powers of um he says kyber something that you pick up on reading this book is that it seems like this author had a very narrow view of fiends specifically talked about like the overlords and that kind he wasn't really expanding it to the fiends that you would have
00:40:44
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fine on shabber, but like, yeah, so that that's kind of the, the lens through which this author is writing, if that makes sense. okay But some of the principles makes this fairly confident could be expanded with a greater like definition of fiends and demons.
00:40:59
Speaker
If that makes sense. Okay. Then if, since this author is all about demystifying, I assume he doesn't consider it dangerous or horrifying to write down descriptions of various fiendish rituals.
00:41:12
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And so Nix will find that chapter and read through them and see if there are any that suggest any clues as to what Acheron was on about.
00:41:22
Speaker
And so she's going to have a very bad day of reading all of the horrible things you can do with demonic magic ah um and see if that clues in anything about what Acheron said.
00:41:36
Speaker
Maybe it doesn't. i don't know. give me a Give me a constitution check because reading this for a long duration is really going to be taxing on the brain.
00:41:47
Speaker
Yeah. so That's okay. her She's in a really good mental space right now. Yeah. She's ready she' got some some resilience. Well, that's a natural. Two.
00:41:59
Speaker
My con is plus four plus my level, so I get a 10. Okay. okay
00:42:08
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You get to the section pretty early on in the seventh chapter about of rituals profane. And you get to one titled minor right, the brand of invitation. And you're just like, I can't. i mean, right now, like I'm, I got it. I got to take a brain break.
00:42:25
Speaker
So you have found the section, but you haven't found any specific rituals related to what Acheron was saying. Okay. Nick closes the book, puts it back and, uh,
00:42:37
Speaker
go Goes outside to touch grass until the red light inevitably comes Yeah. Anything else anyone's doing? I just want to say yep I just want to say it took all my self-control when they were talking about auras to not have Selina yell out from the walls, what color is mine? think you would have scared me. wanted it to so bad. have one more if
00:43:05
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I actually need to go all the way up to the third floor. Oh my. That's where I live. Well, not for you. i wanted a go I didn't say, hey, i can't wait for you to come see me. I said, that's where I live. Yes. I want to try to see if I can find a little old ghosty guy.
00:43:29
Speaker
ghosty gay Okay. I don't know if I can or not. Uh, with enough permanent residence or he's constantly sneaking around. Thank you.
00:43:41
Speaker
Hello. Um, x friend. I have question for you. The book that he's holding slammed shut and he tosses inside. Okay.
00:43:54
Speaker
it I feel obligated to say please do not throw the books and slam them down. That's not what I needed to tell you though, or ask you Last time we interacted, you vaguely gestured.
00:44:15
Speaker
That there was a weird plant or plant lady or entity that might have led to your demise on this very property.
00:44:27
Speaker
Yes. Very scary. Lots of plants, but one big plant lady. let me Do you know the name of such?
00:44:39
Speaker
pri che Let me see if he would know the name of such a creature. Don't. Well. Well.
00:44:49
Speaker
Well. Let's see. other He thinks softly and I heard other warriors curse her name and the name that they would curse is Avash. She came here with her ilk and invaded Killed many of us. A follow-up question. Do you feel the same type of energy or concern from the greenhouse outside?
00:45:27
Speaker
the same type of magic that was involved in the invasion. Like not. And he like has a moment of revelation and then disappears as he falls through the floor.
00:45:42
Speaker
that how it's like when I walk away? Into Nix's roof. No, you announce it politely. but kpta Then you see him come up outside the window.
00:45:55
Speaker
And he's holding something and he's like waving through the window and pointing at it. Open! But open the window.
00:46:08
Speaker
And he like flies in holding a very real like non incorporeal candle in his hand. And he says, it's like this in greenhouse.
00:46:22
Speaker
When I die. Like that, and he points at the sun. Are you only talking about the intensity of the magic and not the kind of magic? Yes.
00:46:34
Speaker
Feels familiar, but not dangerous. so Still don't like it. Don't go to the greenhouse. Don't bring danger plants.
00:46:45
Speaker
I'm not bringing danger plants. They're that they're not... That was one. And I killed it before it started eating. Thanks. So, that was handled.
00:46:57
Speaker
Thank you. throws the candles to the side. Okay, we can't be just rolling things. Where did you even get that? Selene is in darkness in the in between the walls.
00:47:09
Speaker
shes Okay. Thank you and goodbye. and that's all I needed. He holds his hand out, expecting something in exchange for the incognition.
00:47:20
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:47:23
Speaker
This is awkward. Only because you don't have anything. i have many things. It's what things am I willing to get rid of. Will you take a thimble? I have thimble.
00:47:36
Speaker
What about a really shiny hair clip? Fine. Silver. Okay. i will i will give i will give my my hair clip. He takes it. Statches it away.
00:47:49
Speaker
She's expensive. Okay.
00:47:55
Speaker
That's it. okay
00:47:58
Speaker
Kaz, you said you were going into town? Well, I did say that. I'm rethinking it.
00:48:08
Speaker
i have I leave notes for myself as to what to do next downtime based on previous downtimes sometimes. And I'm interested in going to, I just don't think it's the right time considering what just happened to us in Olaf. Yeah.
00:48:21
Speaker
I want to learn more about Shantiara, but I don't think going to read war correspondence about what she's been doing is something Kaz really wants to do right now. Fair. So.
Episode Conclusion and Farewell
00:48:30
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Okay. Well then, as you all are going to make your business, the red light turns on.
00:48:38
Speaker
indicating you need to report to your office and we will call it an episode there. Thank you all so much for listening. you want to the conversation surrounding this episode, you can have it to our discord, the link to which is the show notes to this episode. ah we also have a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash pantheon. If you want to check out the new TTRPG videos, I post them over there. Phillip on Spotify and YouTube. You can find tales from the laughing tree where we have another actual play called blades and banners. It's pirates in Eberron.
00:49:09
Speaker
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00:49:20
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We'll see you next time.