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C2 Ep. 156 Mirrored Past Chapter Eight
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Introduction and Sponsors
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
Meet the Hosts
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Hello and welcome to Ever Under Noon actual play podcast at the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another
Recap of Previous Episode
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episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Fight. Fight. Win. Yes. It's true. We killed the D'Shor and stole what was left of his stuff. Iris killed the D'Shor. Iris killed the D'Shor and we escaped before the Forge exploded. Yep.
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and now you have gotten out.
Debating Journey Details
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So yeah, you all are able to crawl back out into the cogs and you tell me how granular you want the trip back to the cauldron to be in terms of beat for beat conversations. Once we get back to Tasha, Eris is just getting up by the controls and flying us back towards Highwall. Yeah, and Hobb is not making Eris confront anything.
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We wouldn't know, would we? Anything extra other than... I mean... I would. The olive stuff would be fair.
Reflecting on Mission Outcomes
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Hob knows the best thing for him to do is let Aeris get us home. And then maybe we can talk.
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Okay. But I feel like the things Eris screamed at the dashour by the time we killed him. Yeah, I was right there. Yes. We're sufficient. Probably. I think I figured it out. I don't know. No, you don't know. Just thinks you're angry. He's not wrong. You didn't take to that guy for some reason. The job was to kill him or to get rid of him. So what's the job to kill him or just
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Make him not a problem did do we have to meet up with those guys? Not tonight we don't okay They're not paying us. They're not there we that's true. It's your job
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I feel like it turned into somebody else's job at some point, as it should have. It was my job, it was her...something. Unless at Deliverance, but I don't know if that's true either. Closure? Probably closure. Eventually. The War Man told you to meet back up in three days. For either...
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As long as it takes. I does not care what the warband told us right now. I'm just straight up. Warband said we'll see you in three days. We may be there at this point. We did your job. We'll let you know when it's time. But they do have a bad track record. They perceive us having wronged them. But honestly, come on. That's where Hop's at. He's taking notes. Take it back. Take it back. Hop didn't say that to the warband.
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We'll be there in three days if we can, but no, we're not running to them tonight. We have so much to do, or to deal with. That's all I was thinking. You don't need to meet up with them tonight. They're not expecting you tonight. They're expecting you in three days. I know what you were saying. Was that three days from when they gave us the job, or three days from when we finished the job? Three days from when we met them last. When you all last left, they said, we'll be back here in three days to meet up with you either for the report that the job is done, or if you need additional stuff. That wasn't today, was it?
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Actually, I think it was. Or last night. I think it was yesterday. Yesterday. It was last night.
Coping at the Soaring Spirits
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Here's the thing. Oh, wait. It's got to have been, because we definitely spent some, we spent time making stuff. Yeah. We did do that. And that's what got interrupted by Milo's funny, happy dream time.
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Yeah. And then we spent a day, then we spent time tracking. So it's probably tomorrow, I assume would be the meetup is when we're supposed to meet them back up. Then we'll either go tomorrow or have sent word to, Oh, what was his name? Our gruff, demanding waiter. That was a good talk. And send a message to good talk that says, tell them we did it. Not will you tell them we did it or can you tell them we did it?
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Man, this is all gonna go so well for you all. If we can't make it. Eris will drop anyone off anywhere they want. Eris intends to take Tasha back to the cauldron and then Eris is going to Soring Spirits. I don't know where Hob is sleeping right now. I don't know that either. Because it's not as obvious. It can't be as obvious. It's not at the cauldron. I'm not. I got bunk beds.
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Wait. He may be crashing Milo's moms. I adore the notion of Hob sleeping in a halfling house. He's done it before. When he first moved it. I know. The Boromar had the regular sized bed for him. Yeah, Hob may be like crashing on the floor at Milo's house.
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The entire floor like yeah across the entire floor Okay, so are you all asking Eris to drop you off or are your bike is at the cauldron? Yeah Yeah, I mean we put to the cauldron and Eris Will Are you pulling into the cauldron? Yes, so
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I assume my bike
Tense Interaction: Eris and Olive
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is parked next to where you parked Tasha. As soon as you're pulling in, Olive is coming towards you all. How is she coming towards us? I don't know how- She looks roughed up, but what's her manner of conveyance is what I want to know.
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Yeah, Eris is not looking forward to the impending interaction. Like Olive comes up as Eris is starting to get out and does like the not super forceful but still making a point like two hand like shove on the shoulders before then set like indicating I'm mad at you for not letting me help you and then immediately pulls Eris into a hug. Like it's a very quick check then comfort.
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Eris doesn't really react to either one. And after the hug goes on for a bit, she pulls away and says, I'll be back tonight. I just, I just need to think. And she sets the leaves of the Fletcher on the deck of Tasha and walks out of the cauldron and towards sorting spirits.
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If that happened while Hob was still getting on his bike, he would ask, like, do you want company? You can say no. Either way. Just... I'm gonna go drink. Either way. Yeah, Hob's gonna go and have one drink with Arias because he needs some clarification on what are the things that he heard.
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Didn't need it. Wanted. He didn't need it. That's a lie. He's purely for himself. He's not going to use this to help Eric. Well, he's your ride, so. They're not going to want Renard to go, but he's going to go. Look, man, I'll get you a cab. There's a...
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There's a rooftop section, right? I remember that. So we're in spirits has a second floor. There's a second. It's a rooftop, but it's like internal. Sure. I guess nothing's rooftop because it's yeah, because it's sharp. Nothing's rooftop, but there's like a second floor patio thing. Yep. Okay. That's where it goes. Okay. Because the people walking through the door will not see her. Gotcha.
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Okay. So yes. Eris walks in and vaguely hand gestures at any greeting and just walks towards the stair. How beat up does our assemblage look? How beat up are you? Or the manner of damage you took, how beat up do you look? Eris is probably externally pretty badly beaten up. She's not in terrible shape internally anymore because she got multiple health potions rapidly.
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She's very bad on strain. Though again, that's not surprising. Is there a cocktail that heals you? I'm covered in tiny cuts, I'm pretty sure.
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Eris has probably got scorch marks on her. She's probably still wearing her goggles. Like she's just, yeah. That's a very nice limping. Okay. I definitely have bruises from my two trips getting thrown into the air and crashing back now. And I am covered in small cuts from whatever pierced forward me. So yeah, as soon as you all walk through the door, yeah, you make gestures. You're Lynn who's behind the bar. Hey. Norm.
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Are you all okay? He just walks up the stairs. He goes, movie all right. And follows her up the stairs. All right. This seems like a place that has beer. You don't have to order because they have beer. And that's what they have. No, they had a bunch of weird things. I guess they don't have a wide selection of varietals.
Eris and Hob's Discussion
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Yeah. If three guys walk in and go to a table and don't order anything, they just bring them some beer.
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Don't remember what you guys know I don't remember what Eris drinks But it probably is the only thing she drinks here because there's higher and Sun rises what Eris had last time. Okay, that's probably not what Eris has been here enough that she has a drink then Jorlin and silver probably silver probably knows what it is No, they don't do smoking in here Anything just my vote
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Listen, we already did an episode where he was trying to smoke. It didn't go well. I was right. I forgot about that. I think Hob gets a beer because when he's lost his much blood, it actually has a little bit of effect on him. They have a house, Kyren, like ale that they are trying their best to replicate. And so, yeah, they can bring that to you as a standard in water. Maybe I'll just have wine because it's good for your heart. Okay.
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So we're all up on the second floor? Yep. Just pulls off her goggles. I'm imagining scorch mark lines around the face with the clear skin under the goggles sort of thing. And her puts her jacket on the chair and pulls her scarf off and just drops into the chair. I think it's uncharacteristic for Hob to sit in a slovenly way, but he absolutely just drapes himself over
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Does Hobb enter all chairs using the Riker maneuver just because of his height? No. Hobb enters all chairs slowly putting more weight on the arms to see if the legs can hold. Yeah, to find out whether the chair is good enough. And by the time his butt hits the seat, pretty much his full weight is on the arms of the chair to make sure that it holds him. Once he knows it works, yeah, he Rikers. Of course he does.
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Okay, let me ask you this real quick, Phillip, just so I can. Sure. This is not a consequential question, but you said Eris has a drink. Is it like a cocktail? Is it a beer? Is it like what would be here? Like what type of thing would Eris be drinking on the regular?
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But they probably don't have the goblin liquor that she usually drinks. Certainly not. And honestly, drinks being Kyren wouldn't really mean anything to Aerys because she wasn't in Kyre anymore by the time she was old enough to be drinking. Yeah. What type of flavors would Aerys?
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Eris probably does like bright, fruity flavors. She's just embarrassed to order brightly colored cocktails, although she likes the chemistry of it. Yeah, I don't know, but she probably has. Eris mostly drinks when she intends to become drunk. So I imagine the mood thing, there's probably something Eris drinks when she's here eating, and there's probably something Eris drinks when she's here brooding. Fair enough.
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And it's probably fairly obvious to Silra which one this is. That's funny. Okay, so yeah, Urelin brings your drinks to you all and then reading the room leaves you, does not go through the whole menu. I knew Aerys' favorite drinks were either going to be very fruity or like one of those just ghastly, licorice, like Uzo monsters. Yeah, that's pretty much the range. Yeah.
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I think Hob, yeah, he's draped across this armchair. He assumes there's a, it's an armchair and he just cuts to the looks there and he goes, so that was him, huh? Yeah. All right. I just needed to know. We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, but I wanted to know who we took care of tonight. And if you don't mind my saying, I'm glad he's gone.
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I guess I he was he was a monster and he used me for his own ends and he but who I am only is because of him he's the first person saw what I could do
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and cared about it and he taught me how to do this and how to just bend a farm hand forever if he hadn't seen that. I understand what you're saying. Let me tell you how you should feel about this person who has experience entirely different from my own.
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He are close friends. I know. He clearly taught you how to do all that stuff in order to benefit him. And who you are is who you became when you decided to let it benefit you instead. I will not argue that he gave you skills, taught you things that are important, but who you are is what you did with them. And what you did with them was in spite of him.
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I'm not telling you not to grieve if you're grieving. But don't give that man credit for who you became. Because you've become something greater than he could have put together. Are you all right? That he's gone. I've been afraid of him for years. I, that night in the, we broke into the warehouse. It was
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on the job for Reynard that was haunted. I remember. I've been afraid of this for years, that he would find me. And instead, you found him. Not intentionally at all, but...
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He didn't find you. You were better than him at hiding from him. And then you were better than him at fighting him. He would have a better fight. You're better than him at fighting. You won. We won. You did it. I hope that the fear can go away now.
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I just don't know I just don't know what to do with this I've been everything I wear I wear gloves and sleeves to hide the brands they put on me and I wear my hair this way to hide the tattoo he gave me and I and I just put I put at least like everything I do when I make something ends up being some kind of
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homage to them and give everything names into our cool that I use to hate and everything and I love the music and I can't get over enjoying their food and I just I don't know I feel like I should be celebrating killing an enemy and I feel like I should be but what I want to do is it's like losing my parents again but
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worse because I don't want to feel that way. There is no statute of limitations on celebrating. If and when you're ready, we can handle it then. There's also no rationale to grieving. I can't. I won't deny that you probably had
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just by law of large numbers, plenty of good times or times that you felt good while in the presence of the dashur.
Eris's Growth and Independence
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Those things that you did together that were good, you're allowed to have an affinity for the culture you spend so much time in. Doing that does not betray your
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Doing that does not betray your self-worth or autonomy. In fact, it celebrates it. You picked what mattered to you out of a bad situation and chose to still honor it. I'm not saying this stuff to tell you it's time to be okay. I'm telling you this stuff to let you know it's okay to not be. Right now, I... I just saw it.
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I thought it would be different if we ever met again. I thought... I don't know what I thought would happen. I was afraid of it, but it took him seconds to see what mattered to me there and to try to kill it. It is not a flaw to show what you care about, and...
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We have almost comical, comically little control over what we're faced with day to day. Imagining how something will go is a fun activity. And it can be one we can grow from or find closure in, but it's a non-starter when it comes to reality. We have to accept
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the things that happen as they happen. And if you don't mind my saying, the way this happened looked quite good for your personal growth. I don't know what to do now. Now we drink, we heal, and with the clan behind us,
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We move forward in clearing our names, fixing what else has gone wrong. You find my way. And we continue moving onward. Okay. In the same direction for as long as you'll let me. And he leans back in his chair and takes a big swig of his drink. Yeah. I hear his drinks. I know our experience is not comparable at all, but
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you with a domineering authority figure above you it is it's all right to to both hate and love and rain aren't just drinks
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Yeah. Harris knows your dad's a jerk. Yeah, we've all met him. And with the deft expertness of somebody that has worked in the service industry, Jorland sees more drinks than talking and feels that's the appropriate moment to come in and take food orders. Oh, we have the Kyron stuffed peppers. I think at this point,
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In this establishment, I can order the hob and I get a cabbage in a chicken. Yeah, but as you all sit here and drink and do you all order food or do you just drink? I think like Jordan would come to check in when he felt like the vibe was appropriate to do so. I think we're super hungry. Super hungry. It's probably necessary to eat. If Aeris orders food, I'll order food, but I'm not going to be like, let's all hang out longer if she doesn't want to.
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We'll order something but not something complicated. Yeah. We'll order some calories. Yeah. Okay. And Havel will order some vitamins. New Orleans brings food, and as you all sit there, it's later-ish in the day, but it's probably still a little bit before, like, dinner rush. And so, as you all sit up there, you are alone on the second level, but you begin to hear the noise because it's open air. Like, you can see down over the railing if you were to lean over. Oh, I got it.
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Finally. You all can hear the thrum of people begin to get louder and you hear instruments begin to get played and laughter and as people begin to come into the tavern as their day ends to socialize and enjoy each other's company.
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We locked down this corner and make it pretty clear that we sit here now. Oh, you're upstairs. So yeah, this corner of upstairs if we need to. I was like, guys, when it's time to go, Eris leaves money on the table and goes over the balcony and down the wall with her boots because she does not want to walk through the crowded in. Okay.
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Yeah, I'll walk through the crowd at the end, because before we leave, though. Yeah. At some point, Hobbs, I've got to go tomorrow. And I've got to go tomorrow to let them know the job is done. I'm happy to do it alone. If you want to come, you can. If you think you need me, I'll come. I certainly hope I don't need you, Eris. I think I'm just going to be able to go and say it's taken care of. I think they liked me, so I'll go. All right.
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When the time comes for you all to leave, Eris, you dip out over the external patio out the outside of the building, and there's a couple little outdoor
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like tables. Fewer chairs now because some of them got wrecked when the whole world went sideways. This is Bud Light Umbrella still up in a tree so they can't get down from that. But I feel like Eris's demeanor in the soaring spirits has garnered her a certain level of respectful distance. Not because Eris is mean but just people can tell that
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she gets awkward and feels uncomfortable. Also is though. But also especially the demeanor that Aeris seems to have around her right now. Even the people seated outside as they see her descend the wall can tell like maybe not.
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right now as you all go down the stairs inside the tavern are you all just making your way out the door yeah i assume so unless something is acted upon us yeah we're just going to the car to take him up unless that woman finally stabs reynard actually finally that you mentioned
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As you all come down the stairs, you see an elf woman leaning against the bar, and she's looking in Reynard and Hobb's direction. And as you all get close, Sheik's Merc's at Reynard's. Silra told me that you were hiding somewhere. No, I had to just have a quiet dinner with friends. Lovely. You still haven't come by my shop yet. We've been a little busy, excitement at all.
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Still limping multiple times And she looks you up and down seems like you've seen better days Yes, a good night's rest is will be very much needed. I'm gonna pause to carry. I'm a healer. I could help I'm just gonna sleep my loft. Thanks Ray not over nine nights I think
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For the sake of content, let's do it. Okay. I'm not going to turn it down. I think we're both being true to character. Yes. And she says, great. Let me just finish this real quick. And she like takes the last tip of her mind. Follow me. And.
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She leads you out of soaring spirits towards her shop, which is nearby in the neighborhood, Lunar Essences. So, Hob, where are you headed as you part ways with Reynard? I may not part ways with Reynard. I may just not be involved in the Apothecary. Is that okay? I'm trying to remember if I didn't see any this last time, did I?
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I think so, because it was all of us. Yeah. Okay. I'm just catching a vibe that I don't like and Raynard's in a compromised position and I don't really have anywhere to be. So I will probably go with them just to see it. If anything, I might get a kick out of it. Yeah.
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Oh, that's right. No, I did see it because I was like, radar, has no one ever flirted with you before? Yeah. So yeah, I did see it. But I think I'm going. So is Hob reading this as flirting or nefariousness? At that point he was reading it as flirting. Now he's not sure and he needs to know.
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Okay. I mean, you can make a perception check to get a read on her if you want. I would probably do that because I do actually care about Reynard. So let's do that. Okay. How hard is it? It's an opposed check to a skill that she is exerting to try and be sociable. So it's going to be two red and a purple. Does my ring fight her? Two red and a purple? Yeah, it's going to be hard. I'm not going to pass this.
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because it's based off of one of her social skills. So she has to be. We got story points to give. Let's do it. Because she might be trying to be charming to you, Bernard. It might be. Oh, I read that wrong. I'm sorry. I don't want to make it where we have zero story points. Never mind. I thought we were.
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You want me to give you one? No, okay. Frankly, I do not. Wow. You succeeded? No, you didn't. I did not. I failed with one threat. Failed with a threat. Okay. I thought I did two at first. Yeah. With the threat... Yeah, Hob, you're catching a real bad vibe. Okay, I'm following. Like, you're concerned. Are you making your presence known? Like, you're coming along? Or are you gonna try to like... I'm his ride.
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Okay. Yeah. So I'm like, sure, we'll meet you over there. I'm his ride anyway, so we'll be there shortly. Oh. Very well. This just got so much funny. Don't keep me waiting too long. And she says to Reynard ignoring Hob and leaves. Buddy, we can't go there.
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Actually, Reynard, you give me a perception check against her also because it's going to be even funnier if you all disagree on her intentions from an informed point. Does he have a different difficulty than I did since she's laying it on him? No, it'll be the same deal because it's the same skill. I think you have two yellow on your perception. Two yellow and green. I think I get a despair. I didn't know it. Well, she was a evil.
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Unreal. I didn't succeed at all. I have three advantage or two advantage. Okay. Now I feel like this is ruined. We're doing it. So you didn't really, you can pick up one way or the other. Like just what do you want to do with the advantage?
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I don't know. If it might be good to heal some strain in case she poisons you. Okay. Yeah. I think what Hob says is, listen, man, I just, I don't know. I don't trust it. I don't trust her. I don't trust herbs, but if you want to go. Well, she's waiting on us. So we have to go. I don't trust herbs. She said, don't keep her waiting. I'm not dead yet. So spinning goes south. I,
00:28:23
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Should we meet Eris on the outside wall? Absolutely not. Let Eris go home and talk to Olive. All right. All right. Two of us off to the Apothecary. Eris left us. So I don't feel compelled to go back to get Eris. OK, so you all head to lunar essences and you walk in. Hov, radar walks in. Hov stands at the door with his arms crossed just to watch. OK. So Nessa sees you walk in.
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If I'm wrong and get an opportunity to do a second perception check to fix this for right now, I do want to be able to do that, pal. And she looks at Rina's, just step this way. I have some various herbs and oils back here that we can get you fixed right up. All right. Hob, are you interested in healing as well? You didn't seem that interested. I'm just as right, ma'am. Okay. I'm going to take him back here and we'll have him back out to you in just a sec. Oh, can't wait. Let's see what's back there.
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No, I'm just kidding. I was like, who are you? Radar, if you need anything, you just yell, buddy. So she takes you through a doorway into a room and shuts the door. And it's got like massage therapy vibes. There's a stone that's playing like music and there's fragrances floating through the air. And she, as she shuts the door, walks around you and leans against the table that's in there.
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and she smiles and you say, your friend seems fun. Oh, one of the best. Oh, good. Not at all. And she like reaches to the table and there's like a small bottle of wine and a couple of glasses and a glass for each of you and hands you won, like best medicine I know of to start off. Well, I already have a head start. So what happened? Aww. That was an interesting noise right now.
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I honestly wouldn't know how to describe it to anyone. What's wrong with you physically? Yeah, I wouldn't know how to describe it to anyone. Very well, if you want to hop up on here and see Pat's on the bed, I can give you an examination. All right.
00:30:33
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And she indicates for you to lay on your stomach with your back up. And she begins like applying pressure on different points, stuff like that, and hits your hamstrings. Ah! Seems like we found it. All right, let me just give me a second. You couldn't have pointed to where it hurts. I can't seem to walk. She's gonna make a check. What's your melee defense? I don't like that.
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Yeah, when Eric has to look something up, it's not usually good. Puffs burst through the door. Three success, two advantage. I don't know if that's good. I don't either. I hope we find out. You feel a very intense pain on the back of your leg that causes you to wince and then a warmness spreads throughout it and you realize that, oh, and your critical injury is healed.
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and you can recover too straight. She leans down as you make that noise. She says, oh, I'm very good at what I do. Yes. Thank you. You're most welcome. And she proceeds to patch up some of the other wounds and stuff like that. Give me a perception check, Reynard. Okay. Same difficulty, two red, one purple. You can have a boost die. Interesting.
00:31:58
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This is the best case scenario, honestly. One threat, one advantage. So those cancel out. That can't be it. Oh yeah, so nothing. Nothing.
00:32:09
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This seems like the most routine medical care you've ever received. Nothing weird, nothing special, like just totally chill. Great. Whatever she's putting down, you are not picking up. Sounds about right. And so as she's finishing patching you up, she lets a hand linger on your shoulder and says, anything else that you need?
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No, not that I know of. All right, then. I won't let you, I don't want you to keep your friend waiting too long, so. And he really missed out, thank you. You're welcome, Reynard. Do I pay you? Cause she just... No, no, it's fine. Reynard, you can go. Oh, thank you. I'll tell all my friends.
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Hob, Draenor, walk out without a
Reynard's Social Encounter
00:33:09
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limp anymore. Hob's gone. Hob heard a couple of those sounds and he goes, oh, I was wrong. No, just kidding. By the way, I do think I make another, like I said, after I start hearing some of the sounds it's making, oh, I think she's actually helping this guy. Can I move past this or do I need to roll for him? Sure, you can give me another perception check. Let me put this delicately.
00:33:31
Speaker
Hobb's most recent place of business would give him also some insight into what this was. That's right. Yeah. What am I rolling? Perception? Yeah. I get a boost. Yes, you get a boost. Two red, one purple. Because he's also thinking, is this romantic or is this transaction? Transactional. Transactional. Transactionistic.
00:33:55
Speaker
And he's gonna find out this time. It's one success. That's what's on the table. This woman seems super into Raynard. Like she genuinely likes him and she wants to spend time with him. Okay, so Raynard comes out. For murder. Raynard comes out and goes, okay, I don't know how to say this. I think I might've been wrong. Have not what? Are you all standing in the doorway of your shop having this conversation? My being here?
00:34:23
Speaker
Rainer, I think she's interested in you. Yes, she just helped me. Romantically. Oh. And the one with that was really nice. And so up says, so I'm going to go and you can come or not. Oh no, I offered her money. You need to go back there and apologize right now. She's not anymore. Explain to her the extent of your cranial damage this evening.
00:34:53
Speaker
That means head wounds. Yes. Or alternatively, we all walk this one off and you try again on another day. I hate to think I might have had something to do with it. I don't know what to do. You have literally two options. Go back in there and tell her you're sorry and dumb. And so is your friend. I'll take that one.
00:35:19
Speaker
or alternatively, don't. I guess I'll apologize. That's a great idea. All right. Okay. And the place where you're like, frickin' Dr. Hob, fixin' everybody today. So, Raynard, you go back into the room that you just exited. Yes. She looks up. So sorry. Yes, I'm so sorry. Make him let you roll your significant charm. Yes, let me charm her. Not manipulate her. Phrasing, yeah. I have four yellow.
00:35:48
Speaker
It is going to be a two purple difficulty with a set back. Yeah. And I'm going to get you one back. So upgrade one of those purples to a red because duh. If you try to be charming, you might be able to petition for a boost. Get away. Do I will something or do I say something? Say something. And then here's what you do. You flip both of these to activate your heroic ability.
00:36:15
Speaker
because its charm is your heroic ability. And so now, you get to remove both a purple and a black of your choice after the roll. Since there's only one of each. So say something and then roll. What are you going to say to her? And then we'll roll. It's just been a very long day and I think I misunderstood what was happening. You are quite lovely.
00:36:43
Speaker
He's not here. No, but his face, his face is right next to me. I think this is so far the most charming that Reinhardt has ever been because it's very aw shucks. Yeah, you're doing great. You're quite lovely. And I would, would you like to have a meal sometime?
00:37:03
Speaker
Go ahead and roll. And you didn't insult her. Nowhere in there did you insult her appearance? He totally also didn't apologize. He did. He said so sorry. Oh, he did. OK, I'm so sorry. But I didn't hear it. Ed came across as excuse me. Yeah, but technically. OK, that's what I heard. The word did happen. A court record will show that sorry was said. Three successes. Three successes. So she did remove these and not. Yeah, OK. She chuckles at your demeanor.
00:37:33
Speaker
It's fine. Probably picked an opportune time to approach you. So I would love to whenever you're free.
00:37:43
Speaker
Oh. Wonderful. There's many meals. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Give me three more. Can you try? Which one would you? Tea. Brunch. Snack. Afternoon tea. Snack. After recess, we have snack. Yeah. Late night. Fourth meal. Can't forget about fourth meal. Second breakfast. Eleven C's. So we will be in touch on a meal. That will happen soon.
00:38:13
Speaker
Excellent. You know where to find me. Oh, I love that very much. Yes. Have a great evening. Nessa, was it? Yes. Yes, it was Nessa. Just got to drop that right up till there. I had Sederne. Is that short for something? No, just Nessa. No, wonderful. I'll probably clean up here and then go back to soaring spirits for the night. If I see you there, great. If not, I'll expect you to come calling soon.
00:38:43
Speaker
I almost died twice today, so I better get some sleep. But fair enough. I will contact you. Thank you. Good. Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Thank you. Love that. The use of the word contact in that context was also very just, I will contact you. Okay. Aris, you returned to the cauldron. Aris does return to the cauldron. Let's do a totally seamless time shift. So Aris, you returned to cauldron. Yep.
Eris and Olive's Heartfelt Talk
00:39:09
Speaker
Aris returns. Kat, Son, and Milo went back to...
00:39:12
Speaker
Homes. Oh, good. They're not. That's where NPCs go. Just fade out of the scene. Yeah. Eris walks through the door. All is at her workstation, looking over some of the components of the harness. She looks up and sees you enter. She knows that you asked for space, so she's not rushing over to talk to you, but she's acknowledging that you're there.
00:39:42
Speaker
Eris.
00:39:44
Speaker
puts her goggles and other gear probably just drapes over the seat or something and goes to the goes to Tasha and takes the Fletcher off and unloads it and sets it in its space and probably pauses by Tasha for quite a while just looking at the gauntlet and
00:40:13
Speaker
Fletcher that were left behind by the Duchour, and then she'll pick them up just to get them off the ship and sets them over near her workstation. I would like to just declare that at some point, the Duchour's arm is not in the gauntlet anymore. Yeah, that's take- Hob took care of that. One of those beetle bins, they clean bones.
00:40:43
Speaker
And then she goes over and then leans against one of the workstations, her hands stuffed down in her jacket. Pockets. I probably should have asked you before I did that. I just, we had to get out of there and I couldn't, I just couldn't think about anything else. Olive nods. I understand why you did it. But I'd be pretty mad if someone did that to me when he didn't ask. So I should have, I'm sorry.
00:41:14
Speaker
It's not even about that, Eris, it's you sent me back here alone to wait without knowing if you were going to get out. If you needed my help, I would have done a lot to me if that was the last time that I saw you. I wasn't there to help.
00:41:45
Speaker
I couldn't send me back because I had to get Tasha out and I had to, I just, I know, there was just too many things and I just, I couldn't think about anything else. And I just had, it was the only thing I knew I could do. It's okay, I understand. And Olive kind of stands up from her seat and leans against the workstation next to you. Do you want to talk about the,
00:42:15
Speaker
rest of it. The answer is no, that's fine. But I'm here. I just, I don't know. It's like something you wear every day. And then you rush out and you forget to put it on. And then all day, something feels different because you're just noticing that it's not there.
00:42:42
Speaker
It's never not been a day where it wasn't somewhere in my mind that he might find me. And now he's gone. Gone. And I don't know. It feels like that should change something. There's all these things I've done just automatically.
00:43:09
Speaker
to make it harder for him. And then when it came right to it, he knew me immediately. I changed my hair, I hid the tattoo where these cockles were just, he just knew me. And so it's like thinking back on all those things, the ideas and all those things that I avoided doing to
00:43:38
Speaker
hide it isn't even just that now i don't have to but also i look back and i think that didn't really none of them met anything in the end and i mean there's a lot more to it but because i don't know i just talked that part out with hob and yeah right now and i just
00:44:06
Speaker
But, so I don't know. I wouldn't say it was all for nothing. You came to this city in its size to hide from him. You stayed off the grid in terms of where you lived to hide from him. You, sounds like while maybe the motivation behind the decisions you made had something to do with him. So you have a lot of things to show for those decisions.
00:44:37
Speaker
and now that he's gone, I don't know. It doesn't mean that where you are now holds any less meaning. I like the hair. Yeah, kissing my face is the point, but... Makes you Eris. And if tomorrow you decide that it doesn't make you you and you want to change it, that's fine too.
00:45:05
Speaker
I just think how different my life would be now if I didn't have some strange person nesting in the rafters of my office. Yeah. I swear that you were cool with that. It was endearing. Lucky me. I can't promise it'll be better tomorrow or next week or a month from now, but eventually. Yeah.
00:45:32
Speaker
She nudges you like into your shoulder. I just leans to the side and just lays her head on Olive's shoulder. He Greek did well. Yeah. Worked really well. We've got to figure out more contained test runs though. Yeah. Yeah. End of episode.
Closing and Thank You
00:45:54
Speaker
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00:46:16
Speaker
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