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C2 Ep. 98 Eyes of Stone Chapter Two
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Saiden has called the party together, but no one could have predicted where this conversation would lead.
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Introduction and Patrons
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Hello and welcome to Ever Under Need, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Hi, everyone. What happened last time? Conversations. Yes.
Milo's Concerns and City Politics
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Scenes. Down time.
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Milo's getting a call about hiring Harbin, or not hiring, training Harbin, Millhatch, because Norsen has mysteriously gone missing. Yep. Um, Hob had an unproductive conversation with Savia about the city council. It'll, you know, it, it established a relationship that will be productive. Talked local government. Mm-hmm.
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and then Milo made a new friend. Yeah, Joseph, the building contractor, getting a new bar. Give me a camera crew next time you show up there. Just everyone's equivalent of HDTV. And then Milo had an uncomfortable conversation with Aeris. And then Hob had a conversation with Aeris.
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Um, Eris had a waffle. Uh, okay.
Lunch with Satan: Discussion and Steaks
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So you all arrived at Boromar HQ to the site. Uh, Satan invited you for lunch and Satan is in the process of making your lunch. Uh, he's, uh, got a couple of, or not a couple, a handful of really good looking steaks, uh, over the fire right now. And, uh, yeah. Uh, come in, come in.
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I have some chairs set up over here and he has like a little seating area near the open wall. Sitting area near the open wall, thousands of feet in the air. Well, the grill is like on the ledge, like the seating area is like a little bit back facing where he's standing.
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I see. OK. And there is a railing. So we have the upper hand because it's not Star Wars. So there's a railing. So just push Satan. Yeah, go have a seat. I mean, I appreciate you all joining me. I I've been meaning to do this for a while is a sign of my gratitude for all the work that you've been doing, but also, you know, just we haven't had a chance to visit in a while.
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How are things? Difficult a lot of the time. Man, what? Yeah. Things have been, I would say, very, very difficult recently.
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I mean, we've just, it seems like the jobs are becoming a little more out of our wheelhouse. And I know that it's, I think we've done, we've done well. I mean, obviously you've invited us for lunch. You know, I always love a good lunch, but
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You and Renan, I know that about you too. You love lunch. This last job has definitely proved difficult for us. And he's pulling the ribeyes off of the grill onto a tray. And you also see that there's corn and potatoes on the top rack cooking.
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just eric's just been grilling a lot lately eris is really glad there's potatoes because i really feel like big old steak when you woke up hungover this morning is really what you want for lunch
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Is something different? I mean, you know, typically it's it's like a go on a snatch and grab, you know, to get something back. And but like this last one was essentially. Kill someone or.
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I've probably played that game at some point in my life and just don't remember if it was good or not.
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deliver him to be killed I guess but kill him if we have to and you know I'm when I first you know I just used to run run the you know chase money down you know go collect and now I'm doing
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there's these other things and I just I just don't understand sometimes because I never had killed anyone before and now I'm killing others and
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And I, you know, I guess right now I'm to the point where I don't mind defending myself if I'm being attacked. And if someone dies in the process, well, you know, I guess so be it, but, but to just go out and almost feel like I'm possibly being sent on an assassination mission. And I just, it's just difficult to do that.
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Everyone give me perception checks on Satan's active listening. This is gonna be- What's the difficulty? It is going to be a one red, one purple. Hungover, man. Hey! Hob comes in with the mental clarity.
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So, Milo was too busy talking, bearing his soul. That tracks, considering the morning, that very much tracks that Hob is the only one on point. Okay, so we will sort advantage here in a second, but Hob,
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As you're watching Satan, as he listens to Milo word vomit at him, he seems, he goes on a journey of concern, then confusion, then maybe anger, then more confusion, then resolved. Hungry. Righteousness.
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When did he look OK, when Milo was like, yeah, we're we're we're tired of the murder missions. How did he look at that point? He seems confused and angry about what Milo's saying. But not at Milo, the content of Milo's message. OK, that's what I'm trying to figure out. Yeah, because that. OK, interesting, like a lot of. Yeah. Well, I appreciate the concern, you evil man.
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Okay, Milo, you have three advantage. Eris, you have two advantage. With my three, that he's really receptive and not mad at me for what I said. Sure, I will say that you can use the three advantage to say that, yeah, to kind of up Satan's empathy for what you're saying. He will not be offended when Eris does not eat this gorgeous steak that he's about to serve her.
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Cook to perfection, I might add. I'm sure. No, it sounds awesome. You get hints of Applewood. It's 1045 in the morning and I'm like, you know what? I would eat that. Yep, right now. I want to right now eat that. Yeah. So yeah, as as you finish talking, Milo, Satan is placing the plates in front of you all with, yes, this very like large 16 ounce ribeye, just massive
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with a grilled corn on the cob and a potato. And he puts a plate of butter in the center of the table as well. And he sits down. I cannot wait to dig into this. Reynard does not know what he's missing. I mean,
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Yeah, yeah. You don't think he's unknowingly kidnapped again, do you? Say like, what? OK, starts on her potato. Remind me, and Kath is just tearing into the stake.
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Give me the details of this job in question. Who, what, when, where?
Mission Confusion and Clan Politics
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Milo, are you talking about the most recent job, the El Salvador job? Yes, yes. If Hobb wants to speak, I'm cool with that.
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And Satan is also cutting into his own steak and eating as well. Or fill in any gaps if necessary. Well, you know, Viggo sent us to, uh, apparently a shipment of, uh, what was that drug again? Abstentia. Abstentia. Yes. Abstentia was, was stolen and we were to locate the,
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I guess the person who was hired to get it to, you know, to see what I guess had happened to it. And he's nodding along with you as you're saying this, like, yes, yes, this is the lighting with my worldview too. Yes. And then to, uh, try to find the person responsible and either
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kill them outright or if I understood correctly to deliver them to be tortured and killed. And then Milo kind of looks around at Eris and Harb like, is that, do I have it? Am I on target? Eris is not brave around Satan. She is looking at her plate.
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I mean, Hobb's not gonna leave you hanging or twisting in the wind about this, so he'll be like, yes, that is essentially... I'm sorry, not to insinuate that Eris is. No, it just occurred to me that that is exactly what it would look like, and that is perfect. So, Hobb is going to agree with you. I don't know if he's gonna add anything, because I think you said the most important parts, like we don't want that job anymore.
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So now again, this is two different ends. I know you're thinking that you're going to have Satan say, why would never send you on a job like that? And Hobbs just hoping that he says, I will never send you on a job like that again. That's I think that's everything. So and he the the cutting of his steak to eat it has become a little bit more aggressive as your description of the job went on.
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Uh, and he takes a bite and just as he's chewing it. So here is, um, my recollection of my conversation with, um, your boss, the head of the black lamps and my nephew, um, missing shipment of absentia that we paid for has gone missing.
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We hired the Carrion to facilitate it and bring it to us. He brought it to Dask. Send crew A, that is you all, to go track down the Carrion to find out where our absentia is and then they go get the absentia. That was your job. So.
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Clearly something has gone awry in the communication channels within the clan. Uh, yes, I, yes, I would, I would definitely agree because it was locate the carrion, find out who he, who he is and basically either capture him or go ahead and kill him ourselves.
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and I believe we even tried to say why can't we just find out the information and report back you know a location like where we know he would be if we could locate him and and then somebody else deal with you know the the rest of it
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Listen, part of the reason that I wanted you all to come join me for lunch is because I have this, I guess loose policy, as it were, with people that I dine with, that while we are dining, thoughts, information, feelings can be shared with an understanding that
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It stays around the table. So I'm gonna say something to you. Thank God he told us that after Milo said all that. I'm gonna tell you all something that I expect to stay around this table.
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And if it gets out to the rest of the clan, I will deny it. And, you know, not to sound like there will be some form of consequences. I'm not. So just don't send you to sleep with the salligan. Don't betray my confidence. My nephew is an idiot and he has a certain viewpoint of how the clan should be run and we
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Come into conflict over that on occasion. How he wants to run the black lamps, how the black lamps should be run within the larger clan. For example, I need to have you all clean up one of his messes. Well, the messes of another one of his crews. Um,
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So, Viggo has gotten more and more aggressive. As I'm sure you all are well aware. And drinks more. Yes. Oh, really? Sorry, I was just in agreement. He's been drinking more. Well, he was drunk when we went to talk to him last time. Yeah.
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Anyway, he sent another one of his crews out to take out
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a high ranking member of the Dask clan because he thought that that would be a good thing to do. And Keshta, who's the commander of the Knoll commandos in Sean, the Dask employees, they're like the goals for us. They are their military unit. So Viggo sent one of his crews out to kill their leader.
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going a bit behind the curtain when it comes to the, um, the state of Sean, as it relates to the Boromar clan and Dask and the tyrants and the other games. We try to stay out of each other's way. I know that you all have run afoul of Dask before, and you know, you all have defended yourselves. Um, they've gotten some licks in, you've gotten some licks in. Um, and that's fine. That's, that's considered cost of doing business in the city.
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but a targeted hit like Vigo did, it threatens to spark an outright war between Dask and the clan, which would be bad for everybody. I think we can all around this table agree that having to concern yourself with Dask rolling into your district and burning down the for sales would be something that you would not want to have on your plate.
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And that's where we're at right now, is Dask once retribution and a threatening outright violence against clan territories. I need you all on my behalf to go make nice. Kavala, the head of, Kavala, the head of Dask in Sharn needs, well, essentially,
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Dask membership is comprised primarily of people from Joanne. I know that that's where you hail from. They have need of a crew that would be able to operate more easily in a place where they can't access. So in exchange for them not declaring outright war on the Boromach clan,
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I am asking you all to go do a job on retainer for Dask for me directly. This is not from Vigo and Dask knows how we operate. I mean, here's the thing. Dask alone shocks primarily. They do protection rackets and they, they deal in drugs. Dask isn't going to ask you to put out a hit on anybody. That's not how they run.
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That's not how I run, but, um, that's, that, that is their ask is there is some kind of score that they want to make. It's, it's your, it's your typical MO. Go get something. I don't know all the details cause Kavala wanted to know that, uh, I would make good on the offer. So, um,
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You have a meeting if you are willing to take it. If not, I'll get one of the other Blacklamp crews if you're uncomfortable with this, but I trust you all the most, being perfectly honest. To A, be discreet about this, but also to make the right call. But you have a meeting with Kavala and Harash, Kavala's right hand, this evening, dinner.
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Um, I say no, or whatever I call him, uh, that not going to get him mad. I just, I just, I just, I just, I want to understand them. I want to, I want to know you, um,
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You heard our concerns about, as you put it, your idiot nephew. You expressed your own concerns. So I guess my question is, do we have to do what he says if he tells us to kill somebody next time? I mean, like straight up, I want this, this fear alleviated. Yes. Listen, you all are not assassins.
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you your your skill sets do not lend yourselves to being assessed well maybe Ray not he's somewhat inscrutable but um is that does that mean annoying um
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If I'm going to, I'm going to talk to Vigo, uh, you know, there's enough exposure within the client where he, he won't have to know that you all came to me. Uh, but I'm going to talk to Vigo because also he really screwed up with this desk thing also. So Vigo will be brought to heal as best as I can. Um, and once again, around the table.
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Uh, if, if new leadership in the black lamps is necessary, then that is a conversation that I'm willing to have. But at the same time, he is family. So that's a hard conversation. Yes. This is not the first conversation like this we've had. And the last time you said you were going to talk to Vigo and that we just needed to try harder to be nice to him.
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The last conversation, if I recall correctly, Eris, was specifically about your working relationship with Viggo and him being threatened to cut off my hand. Yes, exactly. And I did talk to him about that. And has he threatened to cause you bodily harm since then? This is a genuine question, not being facetious.
00:24:02
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Gosh, he said so many horrible things and I'm trying to remember if he has actually implied threat to us at any point. I don't think he has. I think at this point it's been more of a, I simply don't care if you live or die kind of attitude from Viggo. Now I suppose not directly.
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This is different to me. Anyway, like he is good. He is, he is well, he is becoming somewhat he would appear. Um, so, um, I talked to him last time. I hope it made a difference in one regard, but clearly he is less suited to his current position than I had initially thought. Uh, but
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why this needs to stay around the table, he is a Boromar. So this would need to be handled delicately, deftly. Because if something were to just happen, he is already within the strictures of the clan picked who would succeed him as head of the Black Clamps if something were to happen to him.
00:25:19
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And I don't think you want Jason as your boss. Absolutely not. Speaking of Jason, we're around the table. Yes. And boy, oh boy. And you know, over half a milo steak is gone at this point.
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Yeah. Hob took it. And, uh, Eris, Eris, uh, Kath, I'm saying is sitting there. So she nudges you and kind of points at your stake. And like with the race, like slides her plate slightly over. Kath has eaten all of hers. I'm not starting it on Eris's. Um, speaking of, uh, Jason, um, he yes, he's been trying to have me killed.
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I have been shot at.
Jason's Revelations and Accusations
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He's been following us. I'm about to ask a very important question, Milo. Forgive me for interrupting. For how long? I don't know.
00:26:36
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the last the last couple of jobs. So he was he's been following us the last couple of jobs. And it is true that on those jobs where we have seen him following us, someone has tried to kill us. Yes, I'm just going to repeat back what you just said to me just to make sure that I am clear.
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because I don't want any misinterpretation or misunderstanding in this exchange, okay? Yes, sir. You were telling me that for some time now, at least the past two jobs you have been- The past couple of jobs. I thought he had been following me before and- Milo. And I have seen him, yes. For the past couple of jobs,
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the second in command of the head of the branch of the organization that you work for within the Boromar clan has made attempts on your life. And you are just now thinking in a somewhat passing manner, honestly, that I should know about it. Well, I wanted to be
00:28:09
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We figured you knew. Actually, no. You figured I knew, Eris. No. You know what? You figured I knew. You're the boss.
00:28:21
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I honestly did not think you knew and I tell my my whole head in my whole life is just I don't know I'm I will freely admit that I am a mess and just with things going on with losing Kylie this newfound magic ability trying to learn to control it and then all of a sudden here's Jason and
00:28:51
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Yes, you're right. I know where this is going. You're absolutely right, Satan. I should have immediately approached you. And I should have also told you that he has the mark of shadow, if you're aware of that.
00:29:12
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And I, I think he's, and I, I honestly think he, in my mind anyway, that he, he's the one that killed Kylie. That's what I believe. And maybe I'm a little, Milo's in a bad place guys.
00:29:39
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I like that Milo's brain died and it all just is defecating out. Oh, I love everything about this. Okay. I'm sorry, were you not done because I cut you off and I'm sorry. Milo's just, Milo's kind of hanging his head and just kind of fiddling with the steak. He's scared to look in Satan's eyes. Milo. Yes, yes, Satan.
00:30:08
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can I express to you how upset, confused, and just, there's a lot of things going on in my head right now. When you say Jason has the mark of shadow, he is, to my eyes, a human man. So you are saying that he is, in fact, an elf who is not as he appears.
00:30:37
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How do you know this? Because I was fairly sure he had been following me. So one day Milo, I saw him, I followed, I followed him and he did not realize I was following him. He went down an alley. When I peaked around the alley, I saw him change.
00:31:04
Speaker
OK, well, and since we're doing this, there have been a lot of elves around on jobs. And I don't think Eris knows enough about the houses to say I saw the I saw house, the Ronnie elves, but in black ups and. They've shown up on. Multiple. They're usually the ones shooting at Milo.
00:31:36
Speaker
Eris. I want to make something perfectly clear to you, because you are relatively speaking new to this organization. I had my first meetings with the heads of my various branches of the clan, including
00:32:08
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Milo's grandfather in keg bottoms. Milo's father was one of the most loyal, kind, understanding members of this organization. If you ever for a second think that I would wish harm on Milo,
00:32:49
Speaker
Well, I had hoped that I conducted myself in a different way, but clearly I have not. So your concern and vision of me is noted. Okay. So I have a lot of work to do now, um, and a lot of conversations to have.
00:33:17
Speaker
Is the dash job something that you all are willing to do or no? Well, what's the thing they want us to do? Sorry. What's the thing they want us to do? They have dinner with them.
00:33:30
Speaker
The dinner is to lay out the parameters of the job and what you're actually going to get. It is a, it is what the black lamps are meant to do. You are, you are going to go steal something for them. I have a follow up question regarding that because the whole, the first thing about the whole carrion stuff that came up. Do we sell drugs? Cause I didn't think we did that. No, we don't do that.
00:34:00
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then at least according to my understanding who the hell knows what's going on in this clan apparently right but you didn't seem surprised by the we had a shipment of absintia and this guy was supposed to facilitate it that part of the of the story didn't seem to surprise you no because the reedrons were bringing absentia into the city we had paid the carrion to intercept that delivery and bring it to us
Job Negotiation and Clan Safety
00:34:29
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right and then like just to get it off the street and then we were going to stick it in a warehouse somewhere and let it sit yeah i mean abstentia isn't the
00:34:42
Speaker
It's not Dragon's Blood, what Dask deals in, but at the same time, it's an unknown entity from an unknown source, from an unknown continent. I don't like it being in my city, but I'm not going to- I mean, it's not like it allows dream demons to control people. Yeah, that'd be ridiculous. But I'm not going to go to war with the country of Riedra over it, so I'm going to do what I do and I'm going to pay somebody to go steal it.
00:35:13
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until my friends on the city council can get whether or not Riedra is allowed to ship things into the city sorted. I'm going to do what I can do. Well, I'm up for the last job. Thank you, Milo.
00:35:35
Speaker
I've been clear to them that, you know, they they know what we do. This whole thing is a peacemaking operation. So it should not be difficult work for you. This is merely me showing a sign of good faith that Vigo was not operating. As a as a representation of the Boromach clan, he was a bad actor, acting in bad faith. Hob will
00:36:04
Speaker
Right. Well, if he's made up his mind, I suppose I'll go with him. Okay. Uh, Catherine's on a shrug like, yeah, we're in. Eris.
00:36:36
Speaker
Are we doing this individually now? Yeah, okay. I've fought. I mean, I just went with Milo. I don't know what to tell you. Okay, well. Does it pay? Yeah, they will pay you for your for your labor and efforts.
00:37:07
Speaker
Now, actually, I do have a question. They know this is a one and done sort of thing, right? Like, we're not on retainer with them now. Not even a little bit. You all are doing this one job, once again, is a act of good faith on my part to ensure continued peace between Borma and Dask when it comes to outright hostilities in the city.
00:37:36
Speaker
And anything more than that, if they ask you to do something, you can come and talk to me. Also, if Tarvel shows up on the job trying to murder you, you can come to me. He's the head of the smuggler division. He's just making a point about the whole Jason thing. Wait, is that an issue? Is there a chance Tarvel's gonna come after? No. Okay. I just never know anymore.
00:38:08
Speaker
And that's a problem for me, Hob. That is a disturbing thing for you to say as a member of my organization. Yeah, I don't know what to tell you. Why didn't we come to you when Jason came after us? Because Jason is above us and works for you. I don't know. Right, right? I mean, doesn't that make sense? Also the first time that someone threatened violence against us in our organization, you told us, be nicer to them. So that's why.
00:38:36
Speaker
Thanks for the help. If we can have this conversation, if apparently this is a table where we had had these conversations, that's why. That's why. Also part of that conversation where I told you to, you know, be patient as I tried to correct Vigo's behavior. Also you, uh,
00:38:58
Speaker
figured out why Vigo had become your boss because I thought that Grum was stealing lots and lots of money from the clan. Did I kill Grum? That seems like something that, like, a heartless person would kill somebody over, right? If I were in the business of killing members of my clan. I never insinuated you wanted to have us killed. I want to be clear about that. I didn't. My impression was
00:39:29
Speaker
These people are free to run things how they'd like. Because- I mean, Eris thought that I knew about the whole thing, so... Right, I'm not speaking for Eris, I'm speaking for me. You're speaking to all of us, so I wanted to clarify. Because... I don't need to be told that you were fair to Grum. I watched it. More than fair.
00:39:58
Speaker
So, right. It's not that we thought you wanted us killed. It's that it's starting to seem like in this organization doesn't really matter if one lives or dies if they work in the Boromar clan. And I wasn't gonna come in here all hard and tell you that, but at this point, it just seems like that's the thing to say, I guess.
00:40:27
Speaker
Well, I just hope that you know that. Did I love you? Know that I, and he kind of looks at Harrison Hobb that, and that, you know, as I've said, Satan has always been good to me and my family. That's all I have to go on.
00:40:56
Speaker
So that's why I decided to that I needed to tell him about Jason, especially. And once again, said, and I, I, I'm very sorry. I should have told you sooner. Okay. Um, you all can be my, uh,
00:41:18
Speaker
my Zendric pigs for this experiment. I'm just trying to think of a good guinea pig analogy. Okay. I was like, what? What? Zendric pigs. They're going to find out about some weird scythe that happened in Zendric with the- No. Zendric, the pigs down there, they're a little furry and they- They're penny gigs, penny gigs. Yeah. You could have said zinny pigs. Okay. So, and he kind of squares himself to the table in front of him, pushes the table out of the side.
00:41:50
Speaker
If a member of the Klan
00:41:55
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tries to kill you, cause you bodily harm, interfere with a job that you're on in an adverse way. Any of those things. I have an open door policy. Come to me and tell me about it immediately. If it's Vigo, if it's Jason, if it's anyone, if it's somebody that looks like me, you know, there's a lot of weird people out there. Apparently Jason is not who he appears to be.
00:42:20
Speaker
Um, come tell me and I will help you deal with it. Okay. Because no, I don't want you to feel like if you are a member of the Bormar clan, who cares if you die. That is not the type of organization that I want to run.
00:42:35
Speaker
And hopefully that's not how the Ravens and the Delavas and the Gulls and all the other ones feel. Hopefully this is just a V-Go problem and not an actual like organizational wide problem. But from now on, if you have a problem like this,
00:42:55
Speaker
You have open door, come talk to me, okay? When I said, try to deal with Viggo as best you can, I was simply talking about your internal strife with his management style. Not, oh, we think you put a hit out on us. Well, Satan told us to just be nice to him. I feel like that is a gross misrepresentation of what my ask was in that conversation. I'd rather think it was Jason who has put the hit out though.
00:43:24
Speaker
Either way, Milo. Anybody. Get over, Jason.
00:43:32
Speaker
Let's just go kill Jason so it's done. Yes. Randy's just been waiting on somebody else to say that. Yeah, Doug. And please. Eris has suggested violence multiple times and has got and has never been supported in in propositions of violence against our oppressors. So and please communicate this to Reynard and Sigil as well so that they know
00:44:00
Speaker
Yes, this is not a good way to run an organization. I agree. So, yes. Are we clear? Well, I guess since it comes up to Sigil, then we should probably not mention that Viggo was part of a mob that tried to burn down Sigil's house quite a while ago. I think Satan actually knew that one.
00:44:25
Speaker
Already. That that that was part of the stop. I mean, yeah, that that was a whole other. Yeah. Yes. Just. Yes. Vigo will cease to commit acts of domestic terrorism against Sigil and his people, as I hope he has already done so after I had that conversation with him.
00:45:05
Speaker
Anything else? For the love of the sovereigns, is there anything else? I recognize that you've had a difficult day now. Gods, Milo, what now? How does this conversation end with us apologizing to him? That was Jeff being sarcastic. Milo, God help me, what is the one more thing?
00:45:29
Speaker
I met a building contractor named Joseph this morning and he had plans for a new keg bottoms. So thank you for that, sir. Of course. Yes. I thought it was the least I could do. Did he go over the plans with you?
00:45:51
Speaker
Uh, yes. Yes. Great. Great. I look forward to the reopening. Also, just real quick. Yes, Hob. Is this, is this for all I'm tasting? This is fantastic. Thank you. Had it brought in from, from the Eldean reaches. Yes. They, they, they do things right up there. Okay.
00:46:22
Speaker
You see, Satan just take a beat and a breath. Anything else? Are we good? Any other concerns? Not at the moment. Okay.
00:46:41
Speaker
Sounds like you are on board for the desk job. So please go have dinner with them. I'm sorry that it's going to be not, I've had dinner with them before. It's not a great experience, but, uh, thank you for doing this. This will not, uh, your, your acting, keeping the peace in the streets of Sean will not go unnoticed or, um, unmentioned. So thank you.
00:47:11
Speaker
and he gestures at the door behind you. Milo takes one last bite and hops up and heads to the door. Heiress leaves. I also go. Okay. Catherine's on a stay. No.
00:47:32
Speaker
As you all are walking out of the meeting, Sana just goes, so that seemed cathartic, is that the word? And Kathy's like, it seemed weird.
Reflections and Dask Meeting
00:47:45
Speaker
I think it was for Milo. Yeah, I don't know how that's all gonna pan out. I'd love to take him at face value, I'll say that.
00:48:03
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Says Eris. And says Hob, I said I'd love a two, not I do. I don't, this attitude, the one with everyone else, not this guy. Not this guy right here, right? Okay. Not with your chib. So does anybody, Sana says, know anything about the desk?
00:48:33
Speaker
Kavala? Not a thing. Well, I mean, do I? Pretty, the only thing that you know is that Kavala came up through Dask due to his expertise in aerial combat, like skiff fighting in the streets and stuff like that.
00:48:57
Speaker
We're pretty good at that too. Hey, maybe you'll have a common thing to talk about over dinner. So what you know about the leadership structure of Dask in sharn is that Kavala is leader of Dask in sharn. His right hand is a male Medusa named Harash and that
00:49:24
Speaker
There is another, uh, leader of the clan, um, Zarena, or sorry, no, Zaren, Zaren, sorry. Zaren, who is a, um, an elf werewolf that is in sharn. Spell that one. Not werewolf. Don't be cute. Uh, Z A E R A N. Zaren. Mine's cooler.
00:49:56
Speaker
So anything that you all want to do to prepare for your dinner engagement or anything that you all want to do before your dinner engagement or anything at all.
00:50:06
Speaker
How shall we prepare for the mystery dinner of mysteries? I suppose I steal my resolve. Do you all want to go buy anything? Do you all want to go talk to anybody? You got money? You go buy stuff? Milo would go home and tell his mom all the news about keg bottoms being rebuilt. I'm sure he would want to let her know.
00:50:31
Speaker
That's wonderful, Milo. I remember we established that as her voice. We did. We did. We did do. Well, I don't know about we. No, we did it. Um. Um. Should I. No, I was going to take as Hobbs advice and does not harangue anyone about how screwed up that meeting was. Hmm.
00:51:03
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What were you gonna say, Jeff? Oh, just, Hob ways the pros and cons of taking his new motorcycle to a meeting at the desk place. Decides against it. Yes. I think Milo feels a little vindicated in some ways. I know. And that, I just hate it. I just hate it. And honestly, like right now, Hob feels like Milo's vindicated as well. Like, Hob understands that it may be that Satan was just lying to us to save face.
00:51:32
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It may be that Satan was lying to safe face, but also maybe not. So right now I was like, okay, Milo, I see you. Okay. Eris just cannot fathom how that conversation between Milo and Satan ended with Milo apologizing and saying, thank you. Oh, I can imagine that fruit. That's the most Milo thing I've ever heard of. Philip can imagine that. Okay. So, um,
00:52:01
Speaker
But yeah, this is an opportunity if you all have anything that you would like to to buy or because I know. Yeah. I know I give you all money, but you don't get a whole lot of opportunities to spend that money. So I assume Milo always spends it on making sure he has something to drink when he gets hurt. Yeah. That is that is fair. OK, well, if there is not anything going on,
00:52:30
Speaker
between now and dinner, we can do a cut to. So you all head down to North Market, which is a in lower north end. It's where you all initiated the shifter murder investigation is that district. So you pass by the shrine of the fallen of faith in the martyr. You head to a tavern called the horse and hearth.
00:52:58
Speaker
that is the location for your meeting? The horse and hearth? Yep. All right. It is, as you all approach, it is clear this used to be a house Galanda, like cookie cutter spot.
00:53:25
Speaker
that has clearly been taken over by Dask. Like Dask ran out.
00:53:30
Speaker
House Galanda out of this establishment. So, you all enter and you see the tavern is full of people that you would normally see in Drowam. You see a couple of harpies sitting at a table nearby. You see three gnolls playing cards. There is a troll tending to-
00:53:57
Speaker
Yes. There is a troll tending bar and just hunched over because once again, this was built by halflings. And so this troll is just going to have the worst back problems in like five years. But, you know, working in food service will do that to anybody. So, but so everyone kind of turns and like
00:54:20
Speaker
especially Eris, Milo, Sana and Kath feel eyes on them. Possibly for one of the first experiences of Hob walking into a spot, Hob you
00:54:35
Speaker
you seem to go, not unnoticed because you're with these people, but you are not the oddity in your group of compatriots walking into this place. And one of the harpies looks at you and is like, I think you got the wrong spot. No management.
00:55:02
Speaker
No, we're here on purpose. Thank you. Suit yourself. And goes back to her conversation. Right.
00:55:17
Speaker
I mean, Hob understands that this is the sort of place where he ought probably take the lead. So, he goes up to the troll, and we are to meet Kavala here, right? Not the other one, Sarah? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, he just goes and goes, um, hey there, pal. Um, we're, yeah, whoa, hey.
00:55:38
Speaker
Right, we're supposed to meet someone named Kavala. Yes. Hello Gorm. Kavala? Oh, now we're using all the words. Okay. Oh. Meet with Kavala? Yes, we're here to meet with Kavala. You work for tiny people, like him, and he points at Milo.
00:56:05
Speaker
Milo nods. Yup. That dorms. And he points to the back door. Hob grabs a complimentary water off the counter and you don't want to drink. It tells you that you look very nice today. Hey.
00:56:27
Speaker
Waka Waka. Because it's actually a water elemental. Don't drink me. I'm alive. So you all open the back door and you see a private dining area and it's a large circular table.
00:56:48
Speaker
with enough empty seats to accommodate you all plus two. And on the other side of the table, you see three figures. One is what appears to be a humanoid wolf sitting there just tearing into an entire
00:57:06
Speaker
side of lamb on a very large platter. On the other side, you see a strikingly like, to pardon the pun, features seemingly chiseled from stone of this male Medusa that is just very strikingly handsome in the most piercing eyes and in between them. But hopefully none of us notice.
00:57:29
Speaker
his piercing eyes. I specifically read the Medusa Monster Bot. When you see their eyes, they can petrify you. It's not an automatic thing. Right, but hopefully all of us are smart enough to not notice his piercing eyes in case he's in a bad mood. And in between them, you see a literal large figure, like an ogre size, sitting in a very large chair of this figure with
00:57:59
Speaker
blueish-green skin and seemingly lidless yellow eyes that have feline slit, white hair, and just the most like, twosome monstrous smile. It's an oni sitting at the table, grinning at you. It was like, good. Welcome. End of episode.
00:58:30
Speaker
None of you seem pleased. Thank you all for...
00:58:34
Speaker
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00:59:02
Speaker
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