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C2 Ep. 191 Uneasy Roots Chapter Two
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Lots of familiar faces at the garden party
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Introduction and Recap
00:00:10
Speaker
D20 radio, your game is rolling.
00:00:48
Speaker
Hello and welcome to everyone reading actual play podcasts at the Abraham campaign setting. I am your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I am Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened previously? A party. It got weird. It got weird. The whole thing was weird. Milo got an early, early visit from Verla, essentially accusing him of killing prima fit.
00:01:15
Speaker
He was followed and then he went to a pre-garden party. There you go. That's my birthday. Yeah, Eris picked the wrong restaurant for her. I just dragged myself out of bed breakfast and then started to have a weird conversation about what to do today. Come on, you got to have the balloons and cake. A lot of things happen. Yeah. All that stuff is here. But you all sounded like we're, well, you were in the middle of a conversation, so I'm not going to presume what you all were going to be doing next.
00:01:44
Speaker
I mean, Eris was trying to arrange drop-off for the teleportation things and then... Yes. And then it got weird. It got a little bit of a snip. Right, I was just trying to say it would look better if you delivered them yourself.
Mysterious Teleportation Plans
00:02:01
Speaker
Yeah, but what Eris was saying was a bunch of weird cryptic stuff about not pissing off the house. It's kind of a murdery house. I mean, they all are, but... Mm-hmm. So wait, you haven't locked anyone in the house until this morning.
00:02:12
Speaker
I wouldn't say anyone. That is what I would say. Hob knows. What? What does Hob know? What are you dragging me into? You were there. You know. When? The tension. Where? When you were glob. Oh my god, are we seriously talking about Aldrin right now? Hob just tucks into his food. That's like buddy. I need help interpreting this.
00:02:34
Speaker
Yes, Eldrin, what is going on? We don't need to go inside. Rainer has a crush on his boss's son. Rainer has a crush on his boss's son. That is the extent of this.
Relationship Tensions and Decisions
00:02:45
Speaker
Rainer's got to cry. I did not see that out of Milo. Wait, that is why you're being this way and you're suddenly concerned about whether or not I want to maintain a lasting professional relationship with the Dragon Marked House.
00:03:01
Speaker
Well, you're associated with me, so it might look bad on me. And there is the crux of it. Look, I'll deliver them, but I'm going to be honest with you if they ask. Do you know how many times you have offended people I respect or care about? Oh, when? Name, name, name them. How many times? I mean, are we going to count the number of times? Does Verla count as one or does she count as 18?
00:03:28
Speaker
I am, look. Or Kath, who we don't say anymore. When did I disrespect Kath? Oh, no, you know, I think oftentimes you do these things and you don't understand or realize that that is what you're actually doing. Yeah, get some self-awareness, man. Well, then what will be your excuse in this instance when you have self-awareness? I'm confused again.
00:03:53
Speaker
What's your excuse for not delivering them on your own, and you have this self-awareness? Why do they want to see me? I don't understand. I don't understand this. Why wouldn't they want to see you? You're the fixer! Well, you'll definitely want to see these poached eggs on toast, Uralyn says as he sits down another flatter and walks away, trying to get away from the weird tension as quickly as possible. Can we talk about Uralyn for a second, guys?
00:04:18
Speaker
He could just put it down, right? He doesn't have to insinuate that we're upsetting him by talking in his restaurant. It's very weird. You're an influential person, Eris. People like you. I am not. People like me in one tiny neighborhood.
00:04:38
Speaker
I'm sure word has spread. And that's an accident. I really want it not to have spread. It is important to me that word has not spread. I fix things because I like fixing things and I don't ask people because I'm bad at it. And in this case, I have become noticed. Previously, I've successfully done this anonymously for all of the time that I have spent in Sean. I do not want
00:05:06
Speaker
to be noticed, or for word to word spread, and I can think of no reason that Alistair wants to see me instead of this nice box of excellent artifice. But fine, if you're going to be a tot about it, I'll go drop it off.
Journey to House Fjarlen
00:05:22
Speaker
and she gets up and goes over the balcony. Hey! People shout his hair, it's too impressive. She left before I could tell her. I told my brother she's the fixer. She's going to be sorely upset. All right, I guess I'm walking you home too, because Eris might try to kill you. Should we go after her? Eris, are you-
00:05:44
Speaker
Eris is going back to the cauldron, Eris is going to get in, get aboard Tasha, and Eris is going to, apparently, fly to the palatial home. Are you all going to make an attempt to join Eris, or are you going to let her do this on her own? I am going to go with Eris, if she is going, because, yeah. As you all get to the bottom of the stairs, you see Ophin sitting in a table waving at you like, hey!
00:06:08
Speaker
Didn't know that you all were here. Oh no, what do we do when the guy, our other restaurant boyfriend sees us at our other restaurant boyfriend's house?
00:06:16
Speaker
Well, your other restaurant boyfriend is partaking in your other restaurant boyfriend, so I can't imagine there would be too many hard feelings with this very strange metaphor. I can't deal with that right now. I don't like this. Hey, Alvin, what do you think of the quiche? Delicious. Love it. What are you all doing? Celebrating Aeris. Oh, Raynard. Raynard still has the balloons. Just dragging them behind him. Sana looks very confused. And like, is Aeris the Fixer?
00:06:44
Speaker
And the table next to her goes, the fixer! And we saw this, yes, despite the fact that occasionally Aerys is also the causeer in our lives around here, she's very much the fixer. Yes, this whole to-do is for her, don't you think she's so excited? Actually... Garden.
00:07:04
Speaker
And that's why they were celebrating. Yes, that's part of it. But, you know, honestly, though, Reynard, I don't think Eris is overly excited about any of this. I'm just saying you all better get a hitch in your wagon if you're going to catch Eris before she leaves in Tasha, because you all are standing around chatting. It's all right. I mean, my bike's here, so fair enough. I'm hopping on it. I'm in the sidecar. It's got a sidecar, right? Oh, rude. You're just leaving. OK, fine.
00:07:33
Speaker
I guess I'm what? You just told us to go. I thought I did. Oh, open it. No. Eric did. The timeline. Your friends are trying to talk with you about what a fun day this is. We have to catch Eris before she leaves on her own. We will catch you later.
00:07:50
Speaker
Where are you going? Ace says. To catch Eris to follow her to wherever she's off to. To my house? No. And presumably you all are off. So is everybody hopping on Hob's bike or are some of you trying to get to the cauldron? They certainly can't. One person can sit behind you and the other person can be in the sidecar. I have to allow that.
00:08:09
Speaker
The drag of the balloons keeps us from getting there on time, and rips Radar's arm from his body. The visual of his motorbike, Milo in the sidecar, and Radar behind him holding the balloons with one hand. God, and just how loud they're gonna be beating against each other in the wind the whole time? Sound like that dog from earlier.
00:08:30
Speaker
And the cake in the other hand, I guess, so it would just- This is the dumbest show. No, Raynardo leaves the balloons in the cake with Ulfin. Okay, uh, thank you. Congratulations, Ulfin. You're a burden to bear now. But still has the gift bags. Okay, Aerith, pretty quickly you clock that Hob, Milo, and Raynardo on your tail on Hob's bike.
00:08:52
Speaker
I mean, Iris storms into the cauldron and looks over at Olive and says, would you think that's for me if I murdered Raynard? Yes, definitively. Yes. 100% would be. Okay. We'd all come around eventually. Everything okay? I will be back in time to make myself presentable. Apparently there was already a party at my breakfast place. So. Really?
00:09:16
Speaker
I was not presentable. Sorry, you had to deal with that. I, I guess I imagine it makes sense that businesses would take advantage of the festive atmosphere. It is absolutely the sort of two things that I should have put together in my head and gone to the for sales, but I did not. I mean, I didn't think about it either. So well, what are you headed off to do now? I'm going to go drop
Negotiations and Community Preparations
00:09:39
Speaker
off. These things are made to the professionally shady people I aforementioned.
00:09:44
Speaker
Okay, well, good. Do you need help? Are you going by yourself? At which point, apparently, my goofy friends burst into the room. Yeah. On a motorcycle. I guess not. I also guess not. All right, well, good luck, everyone. So, you all head up to House Fjarlen, and no issue getting there, and
00:10:09
Speaker
Yeah. We weren't followed. Not that you can tell. Some of us weren't, or nor. Uh, but yeah, there's no incident with you all getting from high walls to house, Carolyn, or the home of now Alastair and his family. So unless you all are making any pep talks or prep plans before you enter, then knock on the front door. Yes. Yes.
00:10:34
Speaker
Yep. The door is opened and you are gestured to towards Alistair's office. He is in there. Aris walks into Alistair's office. Alistair's sitting behind the desk now looking over some papers and kind of looks up. It's like that was quick. I'm very good. Seeing the bag that you're holding.
00:10:51
Speaker
walks over, sets the case down, turns it around, opens it. Alistair pulls one of the pucks out and inspects it. Are they one use? Like are they charged one time or are they reusable? I need a new dragon shawl after it's used. Any particular kind?
00:11:07
Speaker
I explained that we never got into which kind of dragon shard these particular things use. So, yeah, I answered accurately. Yeah, that's so cool. And the way you describe these errors is that basically you have an anchor point that you can teleport to. So are these like five sets, like five pairs or what do they look like, I guess?
00:11:27
Speaker
I think five pairs is what the agreement was, if I remember correctly. Yeah. So yes, there's essentially their little, you know, kind of chunky discs and they, they create a linked teleportation.
00:11:44
Speaker
they're really obviously marked. One of them is really obviously marked home because there was probably a mix up at some point in the experimentational process. Yeah. Well, excellent. And Alistair closes the box and says, service is rendered. We will have Vigo for you. I mean, what's the urgency level?
00:12:07
Speaker
as soon as is feasible. All right. Again, giving us a heads up when you're about to move would make our lives better. I mean, we could we can make it happen tonight if you want. Eris looks at Harb probably. Do we want that to happen tonight? We haven't seen suicide. I don't know if that's going to work out. Yes. Do we want that to happen at a time where it might be difficult for us to assist or be with the other with the other preparations?
00:12:34
Speaker
Yes, I mean, we were waiting to confirm that she would accept Vigo in the transfer. I mean, what is the short-term difficulty of Vigo being off the street mysteriously? Like, it could be a problem. Someone looking for him, yeah. Right. Or just like, Illira? Illara? Illira.
00:12:57
Speaker
immediately assumes we've killed him and comes after us even redoubles her efforts because she is both not thinking clearly and really hates us. Right. Yeah. No, it seems like the less time we have to keep him on ice, the better. Yeah. So I guess probably not tonight. Okay. I don't want to assume you're gonna be at our like,
00:13:20
Speaker
on retainer for us either, though. We'll give you plenty of heads up for when we need it to be done. I think we should be able to. Is that acceptable? Yes, that would be acceptable for now. You're going to love those teleporters, brother. If things begin to get busier on my end, I may let you know that we need to do it now or never. So I might give you a deadline at some point, but for now, it's fine.
00:13:45
Speaker
Fine. Okay. Anything else? Great. Well, thank you for this. And once we wrap this up, I will, once you let me know, I will be in touch and we can make a transfer. Right. Thank you. Great.
00:14:02
Speaker
See, aren't you glad you came? I never would have gotten all that information. There's no arguing with that, actually. True. Okay, so you all head to back to Highwall's? It's the only thing Aeris has got if we're not working on the murder. Are you working on the murder? Apparently. What time is it? Do we have a quick 30 minutes before the ribbon cutting? It is about...
00:14:24
Speaker
1230 at this point so you all Eris told Olive she would be back by one to get ready for the garden party that starts at two and it's you all know that for Eris specifically there's a certain look that Olive instructed her but for a proper garden party
00:14:39
Speaker
you'd want to be dressed Connecticut casual is what you would want to be dressed Connecticut
Community Garden Party
00:14:45
Speaker
casual I hate it I'll be wearing what I wear every day I'm not throwing a shirt for an outdoor party get out of here geez so yeah you all head back to high walls and you see that yeah people have wrapped up their
00:15:01
Speaker
They're brunch and they're just kind of out in the streets. There's some vendors that have set up stalls and things like that. Kids are getting their face painted. It's got a very outdoor festival kind of vibe to it. They're not getting Eris's tattoo painted on their face, are they? No, no, no, no. A real problem. Enough hirens understand what that is. OK. That would be very gross. This year, I assume Jurgos is like, oh, no, no, no.
00:15:29
Speaker
One kid gets it and Durgoth runs, we're like, okay, we're washing this one off and you cannot do that again. Are you new here? One guy from Metrol was like, what if we did her tattoo? I understand why you don't get it, but let me explain why that's a terrible idea. Yeah, so no, it's, yeah, it's,
00:15:48
Speaker
like butterfly, tiger, ghost, tiger, face paint, that kind of stuff. Just, you know, fun, fun, kitschy. Oh, gosh, this is a red fair. I mean, everyone is dressed kind of like it's a red fair, but not like this now. All of a sudden, Reno just turns on it, expected to be a bit more refined. None of these people are Connecticut casual. They didn't take any of my planning ideas at all.
00:16:12
Speaker
Reynard shows up in a pair of chinos and a polo. Reynard shows up very overdressed. He was golden owl again. Absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah, I mean, Aeris, you can head back to the cauldron. Olive is already kind of getting ready, has cleaned yourself up. But yeah, nothing nothing notable happens while all of that is going on. Unless there's anything additional you would like to add to Aeris getting ready, Philip, then we can just presume that it. Yeah.
00:16:42
Speaker
I mean, does Eris dress the part, I guess? I mean, Eris's general needlessly defiant side tempts her to put on one of her other outfits just in defiance of expectation. But no, she's been asked to dress in the clothes that she is most comfortable in, so...
00:17:02
Speaker
yeah it's it's hard to justify being defiant about that yeah i will not be comfortable because you told me to show the party in a tuxedo like you can't tell me what to do right no no aris cleans up yeah what's everyone else doing while aris is getting cleaned up are you waiting in the cauldron are you walking around the festivities like what they're not waiting in the cauldron okay what are you all doing while aris gets ready oh right now i've changed
00:17:30
Speaker
None of you offered Eris the opportunity to stop being mad at you. So she needs that. I don't know what I did. Nothing. You all got Reynard on you. So we're catching strays from Reynard now. Hob probably goes back to the, the,
00:17:44
Speaker
Sorting Spirits and just sees who's there. I mean, if essentially like Ulfin and Sana are still there. If they're just waiting on Aeris to change, she's like, fine, I guess I'll go have a drink. You see Sana and Ace still there. Ulfin is not there when you walk in. Gotcha, sitting at the table. Milo, are you also sticking around going to the Sorting Spirits? I know Raynard's going home to get changed, so. Milo would be all about whatever's going on outside the booths, the vendors.
00:18:11
Speaker
just trying to be as inconspicuous as he can be okay so milo as you're walking around you see olfin has actually set up a little booth in front of the soaring spirits where he is
00:18:26
Speaker
He has a bunch of little like, it's once again, very kid based. He has a bunch of wooden swords and eye patches and piratey stuff. And as you see, he's like sword fighting one of the kids in a very like exaggerated manner. And yeah, just creating an air of fun. No, he has has. Oh, he still has two arms. Yeah. Doesn't have to. He's missing a hand. Yes. So yeah, he's he's trying to trying to do fun piratey things with the kiddos.
00:18:56
Speaker
Yeah, Hob, you see Sana and Ace sitting at a table having like, there's a drink in front of each of them as they're chatting and you see, they see you walk in like, hey, Hob, Sana says. Hob takes just a second, just long enough for his own processing of, are they friends?
00:19:12
Speaker
And then he sits down. What if we missed here? She's she lost Kath and went rudderless like buddies with Ace now. But instead of thinking or saying any of that, he has a seat. This is wild. Yeah. Ace says I it's it's very the humor of this all being about Eris is not lost on me. But
Personal Reflections and Changes
00:19:34
Speaker
yeah.
00:19:34
Speaker
I think Hobb does take a second because they don't really know, even Sanaa doesn't really know, and like explains that Eris really has been fantastic for this community. Like the fact that they're celebrating her being here makes sense, but the way they're doing it is clear they don't actually know or care anything about Eris. And they laugh about that because it is funny. Yeah. That's sweet, but also I feel bad that Eris is having to deal with that.
00:20:02
Speaker
As long as they don't, Raynor doesn't actually manage to make it an annual thing, I think we'll all be fine. It'll all blow over and Aeris will be cool in a couple of days. He says, I mean, that dwarf guy took that petition and ran out the door to get everyone to sign it. So I wouldn't hold your breath. I think the community might be bought in to, uh, to fix your fest. 2025 coming soon. Sorry. $9.99. Next year we're getting Nickelback. No, sorry. He read that rock. Next year we're having Nickelbeers. But.
00:20:31
Speaker
Yeah, and Ace says, so since all the stuff, I mean, Sada and Ulfin told me about moving the ship, everyone doing okay mentally from that? And what have you been up to since? Hob, you are definitely clocking a lot more air of like,
00:20:48
Speaker
Confidence and self-possession off of ace that you picked up on before there. Well, there is a lack of Seeking approval that's the big thing that hob clocks off of ace is no longer actively seeking Hobbs approval with everywhere that comes out of his mouth
00:21:04
Speaker
Yes, Ace has found his font of affirmation somewhere else. Okay. Yeah, no, mentally I'm good. Thanks for checking in Ace. How are you doing? Good. And he kind of looks over at Sana. I mean, we'll probably be able to open for sales a couple of days once all the repairs and everything is set back up. But no, it's good. Nothing really exciting to report. Just go to work, go home, go to sleep. Yeah, great.
00:21:33
Speaker
Yeah, so for sales, like how's Hoffman doing with the new location? Are you guys comfortable here? Sauna is the one that speaks up. It's like, it's tough because losing his hand, he works with his hands all day. So he's reckoning with that quite a bit and getting frustrated when he encounters something that he can't do as efficiently or as effectively as before.
00:22:01
Speaker
But he's, he's learning. And I mean, he just doesn't know the clientele here yet and they don't know him. So there's a lot of stress about once we open, if people are going to come. So we'll just have to, he is very stressed, but doing okay. I mean, okay. So people are going to show up to the restaurant. One, they've been Jones in for seafood.
00:22:26
Speaker
Two, it's the Fixer's favorite restaurant, come to town. Fair enough. It's gonna be fine. Fair enough. And Ace says, so you sticking around for the garden christening and the after party? We'll definitely be here for the...
00:22:40
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna stick around for all of it, I think. Milo, for Milo. And then he stops talking. He doesn't say alibi. Ace says, yeah, I, you know, I got a small place a little bit closer to Lower Memphis when I was, started working at For Sales and I asked around about getting a place in here and got a very cold reception. So I'm probably gonna have to find a place in the neighboring district. Yeah, I think they're becoming a bit more open-minded
00:23:10
Speaker
about that sort of stuff as well. There was a big, how do I say this? It's difficult to trust the outsiders when the outsiders forced you to be on the inside. Does that make sense? Yeah. And I noticed that they closed the gates at night and stuff. It's still, yeah. But you know, maybe you'll build some rapport if you still want to find a place here. It's certainly cheaper. Yeah. And a shorter commute. They're great people. They really are. Yeah.
Unsettling Encounters and Realizations
00:23:35
Speaker
I'm gonna, and Ace kinda looks at Sana. I'm gonna go check out the stuff out there, but I will see y'all out there. And Ace hops up, and Sana kinda looks at Hob, and do you wanna go out there too, or are you coming in here to get a drink? I think Hob does order the rare ale. He decides to have one. And he goes, Sana, do you need to hang out sometime? Are you kicking it with Ace a lot? He seems like he's, you know,
00:24:01
Speaker
mellowed out a lot but i mean yeah ace is fine i i mean it's just you know i i see him in olefin every day so there's naturally a rapport that builds there and he's like you said he's mellowed up the past week or so and just become a lot more i don't know less less ace like as mean as that sounds but yeah no it's fine if you want to hang out i'm i'm happy to hang out that you
00:24:31
Speaker
does not require a perception check for Hob to clock the pause before happy. But yeah, no, it's fine. You don't need to worry about it. And then there's an awkward silence that falls over as Sana just trails off. Cool, want a beer? Why don't we get a beer? Sure. Hob was kind of making a joke that didn't land with Sana, and I get that. So he's going to get a beer, get one for her, go back over and be like,
00:24:56
Speaker
so look if you don't want to talk about things we don't talk about things but like I do want to check in on you and you know if she doesn't clock that I'm asking about Kath then I guess I'll say it outright but if she were to it would be a very easy perception check for to figure out what I'm talking about no I mean nothing really to report or talk about and you get the sense that she picked up on what you were putting down and
00:25:22
Speaker
Doesn't want to. Very clearly. Has no interest in catching that ball. Tossed it right in the garbage. All right, great. Let's go outside and see what's going on. OK.
00:25:31
Speaker
Milo, as you're walking about, you spot a familiar yet unexpected figure. You see Sigil walking around, feeling very anxious with all the people, but observing and taking in the sights. Well, Milo walks up. Well, hello, Sigil. Oh my God, what happened, Milo? That, well, I'd rather...
00:25:53
Speaker
unfortunate encounter is that literally all you're gonna give me well yes yes that is all you're gonna get well we had an unfortunate encounter when we helped Eris when she moved olfans ship to this district
00:26:11
Speaker
and apparently the plane where my magic comes from. Why are you hedging your words with me, Milo? I feel like we're like... Because Randy's trying to think. Perfect. And I'm trying to... Man, I can't but... Never mind, I'm there now. We had a rather unfortunate encounter and the magic, the plane where my magic comes from, there's a being there who
00:26:34
Speaker
is absolutely not happy that that's where my magic comes from. And I don't know if you've heard of Belashira, but that's who took my eye. Took my eye and left. And apparently can use it to keep an eye on me. That's very strange. Yes. And upsetting. Very upsetting, yes. I'm very sorry that that happened to you. Yes. It's pleasant to see you here. Yeah. Some of the festivities.
00:27:04
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I was aware of high walls and just, you know, I obviously had other housing arranged for me that I wasn't sent here, but I had heard that things were getting better and had heard about a garden festivity happening. And so I thought I would come see how the other refugees are doing.
00:27:30
Speaker
Yes, well, I mean, I may as well tell you because you will find out soon enough. Most of this, if not all of it, is due to Eris. Eris made a garden? Eris has been very good for this community. She's been, you know, Eris likes to keep things undercover. You know, she loves to fix things, but she doesn't want any accolades for it.
00:27:55
Speaker
But it was discovered that she was going around the community and making things better. And this is the community's way of showing their appreciation. Interesting.
00:28:08
Speaker
Yes. Interesting. And, of course, Eris is not thrilled in the least with it, but she's bearing up and doing as they expect. That's kind of her. Being around this many people gives me a certain level of anxiety, so I cannot imagine if all of their eyes were on me as well. I might melt. Yeah, yes. Have you been by Orphan's booth? I have not. I'll need to go see him and say hi. Yes.
00:28:35
Speaker
Well, I was headed back that way. Let's see if he's super busy and might lend a hand if he needs one. Okay, sure. Get it, lend a hand if he needs one. I don't get that, but why? Why would you say that? I didn't say that. It just popped into my head as soon as I said it. I just want to go lend off a hand if he needs one.
00:28:57
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, I'll go say hi to Ulfin. And once we, once you all get with an eye shot of Ulfin, as he is putting a pirate hat on a small child and Sigil sees the state of Ulfin, Sigil looks at you.
00:29:10
Speaker
Linda, and Milo, really? Why would you say that? Oh, yes. Well, I was not thinking, Sejal, but that is... You should think about that. Yes, I absolutely... Like, if I were to say, don't worry, Milo, I'll keep an eye on you, that would be a very... I'm saying things for me. It's just hard at this point to think of Orphan without his hand, you know? That just hasn't stuck in yet. You should adapt the language that you use about people as their life changes.
00:29:39
Speaker
Yes, it was yet another unfortunate casualty of placing the ship over here. Okay, is Eris, Hobb, and Reynard okay? Like, are they? Yes, they're fine. Okay. Reynard's doing great, apparently.
00:29:55
Speaker
it's great thriving as we get there milo goes well open you appear to be pretty busy can i can i help you often kind of looks like oh uh yeah that'd be great milo i the wooden swords they come in two pieces so you just have to like
00:30:18
Speaker
screw the peg into it. So the cross guard sits right. If you want to do that, it's kind of difficult for me to maneuver that. Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:30:28
Speaker
Sigil and often exchange greetings and I'm not going to role play with myself. So Eris, you finish getting ready. Yeah, Eris has put on the cleanest clothes she has under her jacket and pressed to digitated some cleanness onto her coat. She's wearing her hair more up.
00:30:52
Speaker
than previously less across her face, which is something I've been for her to be doing for a while now, but there's not really been any call to describe what Eris looks like. And otherwise, as requested, she is in her work clothes. She has the hand Fletcher on her thigh, but she foregoes carrying a rifle to a party. And that's what we call growth, ladies and gentlemen. She's still armed. Bare minimum. Yeah.
00:31:21
Speaker
And Olive said, you look nice. Good job. Thank you. Olive is wearing also very kind of casual work attire. So yeah, as you all exit, you see much of the same thing that Milo and Hob saw, lots of booths set up, grownups chatting and like having drinks. It's very clear that Sharn does not have a strict, no booze on the street policy, lots of cups. And yeah, there's kids running around having fun, having a good time.
00:31:51
Speaker
get thinking back on the first time Eris came to high walls to talk to that mom in the middle of a murder investigation. It seems like a very different place and energy than than those days. So yeah. But and all and any kind of warm feelings that Eris might be feeling in that moment is disrupted with Raynard entering the scene dressed like a golden owl. Oh, sovereigns.
00:32:15
Speaker
I'm walking on sunshine. Hello. I'm so sorry. The fixer. Good evening. Why is he acting weird? Olive says to Eris quietly. It's been apparently he has a crush on his boss's son. And that explains all of this somehow. That does not seem to be okay. Hi, Rainard. You look vibrant. Thank you.
00:32:38
Speaker
a lot i like that you're not wearing your arms those arms are awesome for work yeah yes but i'm not working right now so yeah an owl a golden owl that's any particular do you only have one party outfit well if you knew what went into this one outfit you wouldn't know
00:32:55
Speaker
he has six identical outfits this is my this is my rose gold owl costume so it's just it's slightly lighter it's got a warmer tone than the typical gold chef just quit ah well you you look vibrant alive glowing literally glowing in the sun
00:33:17
Speaker
Thank you. Do you know when everyone else was going to change? This is what we're wearing. This is what I'm wearing. No one else is changing. It makes sense for her to look like herself since that's what people recognize her in. So I'm overdressed. This isn't the costume party. Yeah, this is just, you know. Enormously, aggressively overdressed.
00:33:40
Speaker
I mean, people might think that you're part of the inner they might think that you're like an owl mascot that the children can play with if you're up for that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well, apparently I have public, so I'm going that way now. Yes, let's go join the party. Rainard, are you going to make any effort to change or are you just committed to the owl costume? Nope, this is it.
00:34:10
Speaker
okay so as soon as as soon as you get within you know as soon as you get amongst the crowd yeah definitely a couple kids run up and it's like you're an owl what's your name ah no no no no no the owl no no can you hoot no no those children run off and start shouting to their friends there's an owl named no no mom i want to
00:34:39
Speaker
Can they draw? Do my face paint like no, no. And one of the kids runs to the face painting booth. And now Reynard has just an ounce of the feeling that Eris has had since this party was announced. Eris is going to be so disappointed. I'm getting more attention than she is.
Eris's Impact and Community Appreciation
00:34:55
Speaker
Eris, anything in particular that you're doing, are you just trying to lay low and accept things as they happen?
00:35:02
Speaker
Eris is trying her best to be gracious about this. She is actually capable of understanding that what people are trying to do is nice. So she is trying very hard to be gracious at the much that is being made of her.
00:35:25
Speaker
It might be a bit of a relief to Eris looking around. There doesn't seem to be any children are not getting their face painted like Eris. There is, there is no actual like infrastructurally Eris themed stuff. This is about the garden in spite of a Reynard's best attempts. So people recognize Eris and walk up and try to shake her hand, give her drinks, that kind of thing. But the party doesn't seem to be about Eris in any meaningful way.
00:35:54
Speaker
So excellent. That's that's significantly improves Eris's mood about all of this. Yeah. Lowers the degree to which she intends to do harm to Reinhardt. Worked out for everyone. You do as you're walking around Eris and being gracious, you spot a somewhat familiar face as you see Hutch kind of looking around and walking about and give me a perception check, Eris, with two purple difficulty.
00:36:21
Speaker
I will spend a story point and upgrade just cause.
00:36:25
Speaker
OK, why not? You want to take it back? I do. My freebie. And I'm really glad I did, apparently, because in spite of my significant advantage in dice, I got one success. You noticed two things. The first one you would notice anyway. Hutch is devoid of any kind of bormar or goals insignia. Fascinating. Well, he is wearing his Chiron like uniform. He put on his his kind of Chiron dress.
00:36:55
Speaker
And the other thing, out of curiosity, what's that like for Hutch? So yeah, it's not a full shirt and pants. It is much more of attachments that kind of fix over some of the metal plating that has his accolades on his right breastplate.
00:37:18
Speaker
and then his his rank on a shoulder so it's kind of like fitted metal attachments that hook onto his body in a way so yeah but you with the perception check Hutch is a little bit on edge Hutch is kind of very intentionally scanning the crowd he has his sword on his hip and he has a hand resting on it like it's
00:37:41
Speaker
Hutch is not vibing. Is it Hutch is not sure how people here will react to people like himself? No, it's a much more external... He's in... He's scanning for threats. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Eris will go towards Hutch. Once you get within a few feet, Hutch kind of scanning spot. Eris. Hi. Hi. I'm Hutch.
00:38:05
Speaker
You don't you don't live here, right? I haven't somehow failed to know that you live here. No, I I live the the goals have a barracks. No, I just the worded kind of spread amongst the the refugees. This was happening. And so and him saying that heiress, you kind of realize like there does seem to be quite a few more people here than you normally encounter in high walls.
00:38:32
Speaker
I've received mixed information of mixed reliability throughout today. What's what's the word that's spreading? I mean, what I was just a party just there was a party today. Yeah, what I heard is that there's a courtyard garden that is was finished and the community was celebrating that. Excellent. That's great. Yes.
00:38:58
Speaker
Why do you ask? Raynard's a tot. I mean, don't know why that would change anything related to this party. Cause that's just kind of an everyday occurrence. Yes. Raynard was giving me bad information about- As you're, as you're saying this, a group of like young halflings kind of walk by and it's like, Hey, fixer. And like head towards you. It was like in the distance Raynard thumbs up.
00:39:26
Speaker
What was that? Do you have a nickname? Not on purpose. I guess you usually get those on purpose. I'm a majorite. I fix things. And I try very hard. Look, this place was awful. And the water didn't work. And the houses didn't want it to work. And the street lights were broken. So I just started fixing things. And then I was bad at hiding it, apparently.
00:39:55
Speaker
I imagine people would notice if things just started getting magically fixed. I didn't mind them noticing that things got fixed. Just that you were doing it. Right.
Festivities and Conclusion
00:40:05
Speaker
Yeah. But anyway, here it is. I mean, I- Raynard gave me the impression that he was attempting to spread the word of my non-exploits. Hmm. Well, I mean, people do seem to be aware of it. So I guess Raynard is your- People here, I guess. PR department.
00:40:25
Speaker
Is there a way to make that stop? I mean, in traditional sense, you could fire him. But if you didn't hire him, then it just sounds like a friend trying to hype you up. So I don't think he would let me fire him. I mean, anyway, like looks better than last time I was. It does. So it's it's gone. It's got a lot better. There's a lot of people here that I guess don't live here. It's it's cool to see you here and not in normal context.
00:40:51
Speaker
Yes, it is good to see you here in spite of what might be coming in the near future. Yeah, I'm going to spend a story point to do something. Okay. Yeah, the game. Yeah. I'm spending a story point to justify something with the most non-manipulative intent, even though I can imagine ways in which it might help. But Eris, looking at his, the correct word is decorations.
00:41:17
Speaker
It just sounds odd, considering the context of a hutch. But Eris, looking at his decorations, nods at one of his service ribbons and says, my dad was there. Yeah, I remember seeing your jacket the first time that we met. Yeah. What was your dad's name? And Eris has this moment where she realizes that no one asks that and doesn't have this conversation with people.
00:41:49
Speaker
Um, oh, uh, uh, is, well, Carlin, my dad's name is Carlin. Carlin. It sounds familiar. There were a lot of people, but yeah, that's funny. The connections that you find.
00:42:04
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I thought I would say hi. And also standing here talking to someone has prevented more people from running up to me. And that is also nice. This is Olive. I'm supposed to do that too. That's another thing with normal interactions. This is Olive. Olive, this is Hutch, who I know from work. Olive, in Hutch, shake hands. Pleasure to meet you. You as well. And don't, I mean, this is nice. And I'm sorry that you're uncomfortable by
00:42:34
Speaker
some of the aspects of it but good job and yeah and then you hear a voice from behind you say hutch and hutch kind of turns and dorgoth is there looking like glaring as and hutch kind of squares up is like i'd heard that you were in town
00:42:57
Speaker
Oh no. I told you next time I see you, you better be dead. And Dorgoth says, you really thought what happened at White Hearth wouldn't go repaid. And he steps up to Hutch and Hutch kind of puffs his chest out. Well, I'd hope so. But now's the time. Eris puts a hand on her pistol. And then in a rapid flash, the two of them hug each other and start laughing.
00:43:22
Speaker
I didn't know you were in the city. Laying low in high walls, you know how it is, especially Hobgoblin, Kyron refugee isn't the most common thing to roll off the tongue. And Hutch turns to Eris, and Dorgoth turns to, like, they both look at you and is like, Eris, this is, wait, you know. Hello. Hey. And Dorgoth's like, how do you know Hutch? From work. Don't you work. Okay. And Dorgoth kind of pats Hutch on the shoulder.
00:43:51
Speaker
Well, Eris, how are you finding the festivities? It's very nice. The garden is beautiful. You did a lot of very good work. I appreciate that. Thank you. Hopefully it will continue to serve its purpose here. Yes. The rest of you are just walking around vibing anything in particular you all want to do at this party.
00:44:10
Speaker
Okay, it is becoming more carnival-like as we describe it. So is there a test of strength that can just go blast for fun? Sure, yeah. Watch me fail the roll. Watch me fail the roll. Just give me a simple, so no difficulty. Just give me a athletics or brawn check. Or brawl check, I mean. What is the game? Is it a lever and bell at the top of a thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm about to send this bell into orbit.
00:44:40
Speaker
with a simple check. Five success, two advantage. Okay, I didn't see it, so I'm glad you did. You know, as the timeline is kind of murky, we're just saying that people are hanging out. Hutch runs into Hobb as he's doing it and it's like, well, we're doing this then. And Hutch walks up after Hobb and two success, two advantage. So, and Hutch does the predator handshake with Hobb.
00:45:05
Speaker
You know, the whole time, Hob can't not think. The one guy who was like, I'm not sure about all this is the one that we can shake hands with. But that's cool. That's cool. Yeah. I just got to remind him I'm a little stronger than he is today. OK. And we're going to wrap up the episode there. Kill everything. I'm so sorry. Why? But unless anybody has anything else they'd like to do. No. OK. Well, then.
00:45:33
Speaker
He's not enjoying himself, why does he need to be here? It's just so mad he lost now.
00:45:45
Speaker
He can't even be proud he won. This sucks. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversation surrounding this episode, you can head over to our Discord, the link to which you can find on all of our socials, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. We also have a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash the geek pantheon. If you want to view any TTRPG videos that I make and Phillip, go. And if you would like to watch some more Eberron actual play, you can find the show Kyber Shards over on the Laughing Tree YouTube channel. I'm the GM. Eric's a player. It's set in Stormreach. We play D&D.
00:46:15
Speaker
Indeed. Thank you all so much for listening. I've been your Game Master. Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. We'll see you next time.