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C2 Ep 147 New Dawn's Return Chapter Four
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The party prepares to take on the Warlord.
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Introduction and Patrons
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The following episode is brought to you by Darren Kaczka, Devious Poptart, Elizabeth Clark, Irene Villarito, Laura Pickron, Nathan Stuller, Charles Compton, Natasha Rallerson, David Scrams, Edvarth Arnoff, Jerry Thunes, Mark Stanley, Rebecca Gaoeman, and Shelby Johnson, as well as all of our generous patrons.
Meet the Hosts and Podcast Intro
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D Quarantine Radio, your game is roll.
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Hello and welcome to Ever Under Nude, an actual play podcast set in the Ever Under campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode.
Recap of Previous Events
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Gentlemen, what happened last time? More food and drink. Yes, and we talked about this warlord. We found out that the job is going to be much more difficult than it seems like it should be for the last thing I'm supposed to do for BoomRite. Since my job was to recruit for him,
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And that was it, and I did that, but now I have to fight this warlord, and if he asks me for anything else, I'm gonna kill him. This is a recruitment effort, to be fair. You all, where we left the episode, we're on your way out of Ruska's Roost for to go, Eris is gonna go back to the cauldron to work on the tracking device, and we're gonna go recruit Kath and Sana for the job.
Planning and Recruitment
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Kyber's Gate is the district that Rukat told you that they had tracked down the location of Vuhler Goth. So who's going where, gang? Eris is obviously going back to the cauldron. I'll talk to Cath.
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I'm going with Hob. I was gonna tag along with Eris. Okay. Okay. Hob and Reynard, where are you all headed to talk to Kath? I figured I'd just go check as she said their apartment. Okay.
Visit to Kath's Apartment
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So yeah, you all head to Lower Memphis, which is obviously Boromar territory, but doesn't seem, they haven't moved in forces. You're able to find Kath and Sana's apartment.
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As you knock on the door, you hear rapid shuffling, like somebody moving stuff around, and you hear a, who's there? Cath's voice, obviously. It's Cath, it's me and Radard. Just a minute. And after a handful more seconds, the door opens and Cath's face poke out and you see a large bruise on the left hand side of her face on the upper left portion from her hairline down to just past her eye. And she's like, Hey guys, what's up?
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Hey, what happened to your face? Oh, just had some people on our turf, kind of you and I used to run around and do, just trying to show them what for and took a good look. Now you're doing it without me. Seemed busy. I am busy, but I would appreciate the opportunity to unwind a bit. Fair enough. I'll let you know next time. Is Sana around? She's at work for sales. It's lunch rush, so I'm sure she's running around down there. Speaking of work. All right, listen, do you remember
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That Dennis guy that they kidnapped me. Yeah. Yeah He's given I forgotten that part He's given us me another job if you want to come on it we could use your help, but I'm not gonna Hold any grudge against you if you don't How long do you think we're gonna be? I have no idea. It's honestly it's scary as crap. I
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There's some guy who they're calling a warlord, but he sounds more like some sort of robotic-type character. Super villain. Yeah, really. And apparently he's some master-level artesophilcifer and also a real dillhole. Yes, it's not good for the people who've asked us to help, and it's not going to be good for anyone else if we don't.
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Okay. Yeah. Can, yeah. Harris is working on a way to figure out exactly where he is or where his workshop is. And I'm figuring out a way to be punchy. Okay. Yeah. If you all, I'm assuming you're going to go ask Sana also. That's why you asked where she was. Yes. We're talking to everybody. Yeah. If you all just want to head down to for sales, I'll meet y'all there here in 10 minutes. Everything good. Yeah. Okay.
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You're more than in your power to make a perception check to see... Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. I forgot my perceptions. It's one red,
Secrets and Tensions Revealed
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one purple. Is it difficult? My perception is worse than that. And thus I can get like a blue for being so close to Cass, which I'm not lately, so... Hey! You know, it says success. Yeah, so one threat, one success. Okay.
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Yeah, you can tell that Kath is lying about where she got the bruise and how she's doing lately. The threat is that she knows that she can tell that you don't conceal the knowledge. And you get a sense that she's not happy that you noticed. Yeah, so. Never had the truth before, so I don't know how to start now. Classic Raynard way. You are the charming character in the group. The most charming never uses it.
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Can I do a charm check? Sure. And I'll say something like. Always. Say something like, Kath, you can be honest with us. We're here for you. Okay. We're not going to judge you on anything. And we want to help you if we can. Okay. Yeah. Is that charming? Yeah, that was great. Yeah. I like that. So yeah, do your charm. It's over yellow. And you get to add three advantage if you succeed. The difficulty is too purple, but out of black from the threat.
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That actually went as poorly as possible. Five advantage and three failure. Okay. So you see Cath process your words and go, yeah, I know Reinard. And as soon as I need your help with something, I will, I'll let you know. Appreciate the words.
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I don't know what frozen meat on that eye. Gross. Jeez. You didn't have to say the laugh. You know what? We're going to go find Sana. You have five advantage. What would you like to use? She laughs and does that. No. Five advantage. She goes back inside and we can catch a look at something going on inside of her place.
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That kind of might give us an idea of if I don't know I that's actually exactly what I was thinking also I was gonna say that or she actually does show up to where she said she was gonna meet us because I feel a little suspicious But yeah No with your perception you got the sense that like she intended to meet up She wasn't lying about that like you all came and asked her for help. She's absolutely gonna follow through on that It's just all the other stuff that she was saying. She was definitely keeping a wall up then. Yeah, let's
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try and see something. She's talking to you, Rainard, and she shuffles uncomfortably. She lets the door swing open a little bit past her body. And what passed her over her shoulder is you see a kind of on a stand in the corner of her living room, like in the shared space that her and Sana share.
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you see a completely black outfit that seems to be like built for Cath's body that goes down and extends and I think you were around when Aeris gave them to her the the gloves that Aeris gifted with like the claws built into them
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kind of attached to this armor and there is a mask that is form-fitting or like a helmet essentially with a very passive featureless visage on the front of it and hanging off the shoulders is a purple cloak cape
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hanging off the shoulders of it that you see there. With the additional advantage, you also see you get the briefest glimpse and you're not sure.
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Reynard, like you, in fact, in your mind, you'd probably go, surely not. You could have sworn you saw what appears to be like in one of the chairs around like their little shared space, living area, like table, like a breakfast table. It's more that you saw somebody sitting in the chair, but there was like something over their head. Probably not, though. Cath, she wouldn't have somebody like tied up in her kitchen, like with a bag.
Kath's Actions and Sana's Awareness
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You didn't interrupt an interrogation.
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But she's closed the door, I'm assuming.
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I'm more than happy to say that she was suggesting she's going to close the door. Like she hasn't closed on your face yet. And we would, even just knowing about the gloves, the assumption is that suit amplifies her some way. You, you all have been, you figured out that the gloves were associated in some way with the murders that have been happening with the lower division people in house Kenneth. So this is just pretty much large confirmation. And yeah, she has a, an outfit that she wears. It seems to be.
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the intention is it would be effective at stalking through the dark but have a distinctive feature in the form of the cloak to like strike fear when people see it kind of thing so yeah i want to be like bring that but so what does reynard do probably says bring that you you reference the suit that she's going to close and she like stops and like
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You see her eyes go wide and like a little bit of the color drinks her waist. Bring what? No. Jeez! Okay. All right. We're here now. And she steps out into the hallway and shuts the door behind her. Know what? It crosses her arms in front of her. I got the gloves. The gloves were in your living room. Oh, the gloves that Eris caught me. Yes. Now they're a whole suit. Bring it.
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It helps you. Oh, you saw the suit. Was there something else to see? I want to see Hob's face. Wait, wait. Kath, what's going on in there? I didn't see anything, but you said you only saw the suit and Hob is a man with a brain. What more is there to see, Kath? Nothing. Nothing you need to be worried about.
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That's not untrue. I'm surprised Sana is complicit, clearly. That surprised me. Yeah. Yeah. That part of me was like, I guess Sana doesn't care. We shouldn't care. Also probably the smarter person to talk to you about it. What do you mean Sana doesn't care? Every interaction you've had with her, she's been on the verge of a meltdown and panic attack. What are you talking about? Happening here!
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I guess it's happening while she's gone. Yeah. I don't think Aria's walking on Sana in the bathroom and Sana had a meltdown. Bob hasn't had any interactions with Sana yet. Notice that yet. But Milo hasn't has failed. So. We're just going to need all the help we can get. So you think you should bring the suit and serves in your favor. Yes. It helps you.
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Yeah. We're going to go and talk to your sister now. Okay. We'll see you at the time we get established in canon off mic. 10 minutes. She said she'd be down in 10 minutes. Okay. Okay. And she slides back into the door and shuts it behind her. He'd still look up. Not suspicious at all. You nailed the whole chill vibes thing.
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You idiot. Yes. Okay. Let's cut to the cauldron real quick. Chris and Milo arrive at the cauldron and walk in. Olive is working on the harness up, working on the backside of it where the arms attach to the harness. Oh, welcome back. You too. Oh, hi. How'd the warlord business go? Haven't known it yet.
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heard from the people we're, I guess, doing it for. Oh, it seems real bad, basically. And she slings the big thing that she's dragging behind her. Oh, actually, no, what she definitely does is she calls Ygric over and walks and has him pick up the thing out of off of the deck of Tasha and carry it over to a excellent work spot. Okay. He made this.
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He makes other things as well. Olive climbs down and walks over to the workstation. That doesn't look friendly. No, it's got some sort of life training capacity and it's very stealthy and he uses it to hunt people. Yeah. What can I do to help?
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I don't know. You're here.
Eris and Milo's Workshop
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We could see if we can get the harness going and I can come with you. Be effective in combat. I think it's ready. Milo's looking back and forth between them. Has she mentioned a neural link for the harness yet? It could be fine. Yeah, they tested it with Tasha. Oh, that's right. Oh, that's right.
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Milo's insights were valuable. I think I've got the runes figured out. I think I've... The intention is to get a minor fire elemental into the harness. You just make it seem dangerous, and I want... It is. That's why I didn't want you to be in danger. I appreciate that, but...
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I appreciate that, Eris, but I also... I want to help. And I'm capable of making that choice for myself. If you'll have me. If you don't want me, I'm more than happy to take that at face value. No, it's not that. We just really don't like the idea of... For a long while now, it's just been the four of us, and we don't like putting others in any sort of danger at all. Especially you, Ollie.
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I guess if you want to, I'm not going to stop you. Let me hear your, what did you come back here to work on? And we can table the harness discussion. I'm going to re-engineer this thing to let me track it back to its point of origin so we can find the layer of this artificial. And I was thinking of working on some
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sort of weapon option to just destroy constructs. And then I was thinking about seeing whether I could find a way, install a way for Tasha to pilot Ygric and use him to smash things. It's not a bad idea.
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I know. Cool. Okay. That also would be hilarious because of course he crickets her familiar then. It's funny, I promise. Milo, what are you doing here to help? I think I can assist. I've been watching Aeris occasionally when I'm around do her work and I feel like I've picked up some knowledgeable tips.
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And I just recalled I did pick up a skill in Artifice, so I have a yellow. That's my reasoning, watching Eris, learning from Eris, with her being unaware. Okay, sounds like we have a lot of different projects to get started on. So Eris, where can my hands be the most useful? I don't know which of these projects is most likely to benefit from all those assistants.
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She is there willing to help so you can have a blue on your relative checks as she goes around helping. So what would you like to do first? First thing would be figuring out if there's a way to undermine the ability of these things to sneak up on us, either by creating some sort of detection system, either specifically for them or just
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in general that would enhance awareness more broadly. So some sort of, well what's, I'm trying to work out what the mechanical version of that is. Is it just enhancing perception? Is there a, oh, actually, no, okay. So the amber effect bane, but applied to something that improves perception would be,
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specifically targeted at detecting the presence of these things because any perception check would be essentially opposed by their stealth. And so something that improved perception specifically against these kinds of constructs would have, yeah, okay. So that would be the mechanical form that this would take. So which of us has the best perception? Which of us is most likely to be Lookout-y? It's definitely not, Eris is very cunning, but she doesn't have any pranks.
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So I think Reynard, because Hobb said that he has worse than... I've got two yellow and green. And you're not perceptive. What's Eris's? Eris is just four greens. But you also get some blue from your goggles, right? Yes, so Eris is four green, two blue on her perception. Okay, so then the first thing Eris is going to do is sit down and start working on
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Something. Okay. So Trevor, regardless of how much Eris, what Eris thinks about a person, we've been getting a little, we have actually Eris and Eris and Rainard have been getting along much better recently. But when making something for someone.
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she has a very strong aesthetic feeling of the style of that person. So if Eris was going to make some sort of eyewear for Reynard that would allow him to detect these things, what would it look like?
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Like Aeris wears big chunky goggles. I would say some kind of like steampunk goggle thing that might also resemble an owl or something. Loves an owl. He's dressed up as an owl. Very well. So the golden brown feel. Yeah. So there's a bronze and leather thing to it. So yeah, so Aeris sits down and begins work on a set of goggles. She's got an old set of goggles that
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Broke during an explosion and she just pops the lenses out and begins sitting down tinkering with them. She makes these The main thing is to make the lenses. I just have to point out you managed to no scope an actual dnd magic item called goggles of night by the way like It definitely doesn't have a beak. Yeah
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Eris can't bring herself to add a beat. But definitely yeah. Feather motif along the edges of the frames. Night visiony greenish blue lenses. I have three charges worth of dragon shard right now. I have cash so we can acquire more if we need it.
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I guess we'll probably want to recharge that invisibility knife. That's true. We also have a good bit of recharging. That would definitely be a thing. Oh yeah. Okay. Remind me because we haven't had actually, we haven't actually done this in a while. We've been going through things and not recharging them for a while now. How easy is it to simply go and buy a dragon shard?
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We've established at this point that it's not horribly difficult, but that was when Eris had all of the connections with the client, like you had since there were resources to be able to find them. So I will say that you can either try too much like you did with pebble fist.
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try to utilize some of your previous resources and hope that they don't immediately snitch on you or You can try to seek out a new source of dragon shards to Make this pitch. I no longer have my Boromar connections, but I do have all of connections. That's fair
00:21:00
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So, which are probably substantially more legal and legitimate than Boromar Connections. So yeah, if you want to say that's what you how Olive could help in this whole thing as you send her out to go get some more dragon shards at the store. So who has something they've just they've used up and the invisibility dagger. I don't have anything that depletes. I think your tattoo can deplete in order to but you haven't. It's because you can I think that because I forget I have it.
00:21:29
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I think you can deplete the tattoo to just add successes. If you fail a check, the strength enhancing tattoo that your harness, you can deplete once per encounter as a maneuver to reduce all damage and wounds involuntarily suffer to zero for you and all engaged allies until the end of your next turn. That's right. And have you done that? He has not, but he said he didn't have anything. So I forgot it. Okay. So you haven't, you don't have anything that needs to be recharged.
00:21:55
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Okay, so it sounds like we need four Dragon Shards for just recharging stuff that everybody has depleted. Okay, so then we need, so Eris will shell out 20 silver and send out for some Dragon Shards just for the recharging. Actually, Eris will shell out
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52 silver and get a couple of so all it takes off to go Okay, acquire some dragon shards. So then Eris begins work on these goggles. So yes, so feathers coming off the feather etched into the frames this feather mode feathery
Project Enhancements and Team Preparations
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motif
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As Eris reaches for her first tool, Milo just automatically hands it to her before she gets to it and says, this one, let me assist you please. While you concentrate and focus, I will hand you the tools and you can devote all your attention to the work. Put a hat on. Put a hat on. Put a hat on. Very well. What kind of hat would Eris have in her workshop nearby?
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No, there's got to be some sort of protective equipment that would be needed for some kind of work. What's on the front of his head? OK, so there's definitely a welder's mask somewhere in here. He's going to fog up. It's fine. He doesn't have to see. Yeah, yes. OK. All right, so. He makes a bag of holding. Don't put that on his head. Put it on his head. OK, so the check for the goggles would
00:23:39
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Eris is applying two conditions here. So it's going to be, it's going to take two dragon shards. Okay. Starts out hard and she's adding one additional effect. It's true. Blue from Milo? Yes.
00:24:00
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Olive's not here, so. But Harris gets a blue from her, gets a blue from her gloves. That, that, and I think that is where the pool sits right now. Upgrade one. Upgrade one. And I am going to focus intensely, which is a talent I have. I'm gonna take a strain to upgrade my check. Okay. You can still flip a story point if you want to make that a yellow, if you want.
00:24:29
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Sure. Yeah. I need a yellow. I've used all of my yellows. All right. This looks like a nice pool. This is a nice pool. Okay. So we're rolling five proficiency dice, one threat die, three difficulty dice and two boost dice, triumph and despair. Ah.
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but I'm fairly certain I have succeeded. Oh yes, I've definitely succeeded. I didn't roll any failures. Except for the one, except for the one. Yes. So that goes down to just an advantage, which is canceled by that. Okay. So what we've got is four, six, five success. One of which is a triumph to advantage and a despair.
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I'm gonna use another talent called I for detail to convert two of those extra successes that I've got into advantages. Oh, nice. Okay. So we end up with three success, one of which is a triumph, four advantage and a despair. Okay. Can I see the. Yeah. Are you about to use it? Everybody's using the keyboard here. I'll, I have a digital version. Okay.
00:25:50
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How much money, real money will it take out of my pocket to make you not get errors to hate my little more? I don't think I'm going to utilize this to... Maybe hate's too strong of a word, but... Distrust. Distrust. Be an easier round. I'm going to use it to increase my Artifice skill by one rank for the remainder of this session. Oh, okay.
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since I'm doing a lot of crafting. I'm just looking at the despair options. How dare you. Okay Eris. The despair. The despair. So in Keyforge this makes sense with the way it works but we'll just because I really like the despair itself especially given what's been
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going on in this episode unbeknownst to you because you would have no way of knowing this as you're working on this and your mind is working you're dealing with the art artifice magic and the dragon shards and infusing magic into this something with the magic swirling around
00:26:54
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the memory of the check that you made to understand the inherent dangers of the box that you got in Milhatch's lab washes away from your mind. Like the innate concern that the lack of control about what type of elemental could get infused into it. Good thing I explained that to my highly responsible friend, Olive. Like that! But the goggles are great, and you're not mad at Milo.
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What next? You have a triumph. Oh wait, you use the triumph. You have how many advantage or four. What would you like to do with the event? A memory washes into Milo's mind and he gains some sort of insight into our current situation. Okay.
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a memory washes into Milo's mind.
00:28:09
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working on egric and what's the other the construct bane arrows or weapons or whatever and you're recharging a bunch of stuff inside into the currency also be the current situation in the sense of what we're making all the stuff for i kind of figure since we're working on constructs and about constructs maybe something that we haven't noticed yet occurs to milo okay
00:28:36
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yeah as you are looking at okay milo looking at the construction of the shadow stalker that aris is referencing to build these these goggles you examine them see that they're built on a chassis essentially like you you have a base model
00:28:58
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of this kind of construct that then whoever's working on it builds off for specialized functions so obviously this one is built off to be the shadow stalker like super scary hunter thing but you can see how the base of it is a small mobile construct that you you see how it could easily you see how it could be utilized for an arcane sentry like they talked about like he would have defenses and alarms and stuff like that
00:29:28
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And so rather than what a lot of people would do of like setting up a rune or something to be an alarm or the scrying stones that you've seen, it seems like he would have mobile alarms like going throughout his hideout crawling around that can be easily hidden, but they are designed to be in his hideout and be all these things like scrying, alarm, trap, that kind of thing. So that is something that you see he could
00:29:55
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In fact, this seems more difficult than the application that you're concocting in your brain. That would be the simple beginner's version. Yeah. That this bad guy has done at his... Yeah. ... hidey-ho. Okay. Okay. Milo, do you communicate all that to Eris? I can communicate it when she's gonna start working on that. She's been referencing it this whole time. I'm the chassis on this thing.
00:30:23
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It seems like that's a base model to build off of. It's like a small mobile construct. Right. It seems this, the one we're after, could use this to create like arcane sentries, scrying alarms, but mobile, where they could move around. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Interesting. All right.
00:30:53
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And in fact, with that kind of inside areas, you like presumably would have one of the scrying stones that you've built or torn apart or something sitting nearby on a wall station. And you can take it. And once you like get the chassis out, you see how a scrying stick could fit in one of the exterior faces of this base chassis pretty perfectly. It would be very easy to do that. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Like the scrying stone that you built fits pretty well into it. So... Milo, you totally redeemed yourself.
Regrouping and Next Steps Discussion
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Thanks to Phillip.
00:31:22
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Okay, let's cut back to the four sales. So you all walk in, it's lunch rush, it's lunchtime, so Ulfin's behind the bar, Ace is busing tables, running back and forth, Sana is running around doing everything she can. Just send him as like a canary in a coal mine. I was thinking that would be egric, but you probably were comfortable doing it, Ace.
00:31:44
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Ace wants to do something. He thinks of himself as an expert burglar. Ace needs to stay for sales going while Sana is gone. Yeah, that's the scene that you see. You see a bunch of the regulars that you've seen from For Sales before sitting around. What is Sana doing right when we walk in? She is rushing an order out to a table and then running to another table and grabbing a couple of empty cups and running them back up to the bar.
00:32:08
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I think Hob, based on the 15 second picture that you get as you're like approaching the doors that are propped open because it's a nice day, Sana is just on a circuit. Like she is not stopping. Hob busts in and starts clearing a new D-table. Like somebody that just left and he's gonna start clearing their table. Okay. For her. Okay. And Reynard goes to tables and says, can't you clean this up? She's having an issue. She's very busy. You can help. Turn veil, not help. Excuse me? Who are you?
00:32:39
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That is a great question. I'm going over here. Run some fresh food out. I take in fresh water if it's not too much trouble. No, don't get him the water. Go get the fresh food and bring it out. I'm very thirsty. Yeah, I can tell. He's too far gone. Water's only gonna taunt him now.
00:32:54
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So are you all jumping into help until the rush kind of dies down a little bit? Okay. So after about seven to eight minutes, Cath walk in with bags slung over her shoulder and looks and sees you all rushing around confused. And she goes and finds a booth and sits down. And yeah, rush dies down. Sana took note of what you all were doing and gave you very thankful eyes. And she disappears back into the kitchen for a minute, but the rush has died down. She hasn't come back out yet, but she's away from Cath. So I'm going to go talk to her in the kitchen. Yeah.
00:33:24
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Okay. And. Are you going to go to Raynard's day? Raynard gets Arthur. Okay. Yeah. Arthur. Arthur was. And then it goes into the kitchen. Okay. So as you walk back there, hob first, while Raynard's grabbing Arthur, you, you don't see anything initially when you walk into the kitchen, but you do see, you see the kitchen. Okay. And ace at one of the basins of water, like scrubbing some dishes and he looks at him. Hey.
00:33:56
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Oh, Ace. What's up? Oh, just getting some food. Okay. I need to have a conversation with Kath. Sauna. I need to have a conversation with Sauna? Oh, she's... And he nods to the large, elementally cooled box that Ulfin keeps a lot of the larger ingredients in. Sure. And he... She's in there. Hob grabs his tablecloth and wraps it around himself. It's gonna be cold in there. Sure.
00:34:25
Speaker
And he opens the door and he says, need a hand. Sana, like standing in the corner of the walk-in and you see her shoulders shaking and she stops him. No, I'm good. Thanks. Look, we both know you're not good and I'd like to talk to you, but I'm not one of those people that like ignores your hints. So can you just say that you're not okay and that we can talk for a second? Now this is about the time that you walk back into the kitchen. Ace washing dishes and Hobb standing halfway in the walk-in. Your bedside manner is impeccable, Hobb. I never claimed it was.
00:34:53
Speaker
in case you were ever unsure yeah just it's a lot going on so no yeah i'm not okay obviously but what can you do so look what do you need we have i hate that's what you asked but it isn't back to the case i do want to talk to you but uh yeah there is something that i need and we can get to that in a minute listen cat uh listen son of a gun
00:35:15
Speaker
Listen, Sona, I didn't know. Sorry. As you're starting to launch into this, like your conversation is projecting out of the walk-in. So Raynard, you can easily hear all this and Raynard is like hearing what the conversation is going on and he like sticks some of the dishes he's working on in the water and like wipes his hands off and he walks past you into the like main area. So yeah.
00:35:38
Speaker
You taking that hint? I was getting it. It's probably for the best. I say, listen, I don't know how to say this other than just to say, I didn't know that you were aware of what your sister has been up to, or we would have been talking about it. I haven't known for long. Let's be clear. I don't want to be ridiculous about this, but I'm sorry that you've been having to deal with all of that. And by all of that, I really don't know what the extent of it is. I'm going to shoot you straight.
00:36:08
Speaker
in order for this conversation to continue, I'm going to need you to be very clear about what your sister is hunting and attacking Milhauch industry employees.
00:36:20
Speaker
And I don't know what she's doing in your home, but apparently something weird because she wouldn't let us in. And when Reynard said he noticed her suit being out, she was like, Oh, is that all you saw? Which is not a thing. People say that was wild. And I'm not here to yuck your yum, but you have some sort of sort of mannequin or scarecrow in your living room. I wasn't sure. And that's when Todd was like, what?
00:36:45
Speaker
But you didn't see it. No, I did not see it. You saw it. It's very odd. Sana steps out of the past hob out of the walk-in into the kitchen because she is also dressed like she normally is in like the sleeveless like get up and... Okay, yes, she's been...
00:37:01
Speaker
I'd wrap the tablecloth around Sada. If she'll have it. Thank you. She's been seeking vengeance on the people that got her brother killed and she's trying to hunt down the person responsible for it and she feels like she's really close and she just needs a little bit more time and then she'll stop once that happens and so... Hob does not say sometimes I feel like I'm the one that got her brother.
00:37:27
Speaker
So, yeah, she's a vigilante murderer now, or whatever. That's my sister. There's nothing I can do about it. She decided she wanted to do it, and we support each other and support her in this endeavor. If that's how you really feel about it, the implication being that's clearly not how you feel about it,
00:37:51
Speaker
that I won't bother you about it anymore, but I think it's pretty clear
Helping Out and Sana's Role
00:37:54
Speaker
that it's been weighing on you pretty heavily. Yes, I mean- Yeah, so don't say it is what it is, we support each other. I support her, but it still- it still kills me inside, and I see she doesn't sleep anymore. She's like...
00:38:10
Speaker
investigating all day and going out and hunting people all night and she... Do you want us to... Us strong. Do you want me to talk to her about it? Two people aren't here. Radar, if you want to volunteer as well, you can. To talk, to try to stop this, to... No, there's not a lot of stopping this, but...
00:38:32
Speaker
My thinking was if I pushed her too hard against it, then she would just hide it from me. So it was better to acknowledge that she was doing it and try my best to support her in whatever way that I could, but in a way to where she wouldn't. She would at least tell me what she was going on and what was wrong and let me patch up her stab wounds and stuff when she would come home bleeding on the floor and so that she's not doing this on her own. No, I don't want anybody to tell her to stop because she won't stop. She's possessed right now with this idea of
00:39:02
Speaker
getting vengeance for her brother.
00:39:23
Speaker
Never mind. Roll something to get him to say what he was going to say? Sure. Or should the charm master? What do you think it would be? It's obviously not coercion, which is what I'm best at. Yeah. Tell me where I'll punch you.
00:39:37
Speaker
You'll be cold! Luck you in the walk-in. If you want to hop in, Reynard, this is going to be two purple and a blue, because she really wants to tell you, but she feels like she can't. And I'm going to flip a story point, so turn one of those purples into a red. Don't I get something from Hob, though? If you succeed, I'll get extra advantage.
00:39:58
Speaker
on Charm Check. Hey, here we go! This is good, yeah. So, had those go away? Two success, four advantage. It's seven advantage. Seven advantage. I took another rank in our quarters. So what do you say, Reynard, to Sana? Okay, now I've forgotten where we left off. What? She was about to reveal, like, something more, and she went, nevermind. It felt like she was about to say something about the victims to me, but I don't know if that's what it was. Okay. Reynard just says something like, it's fine, who better to tell than us?
00:40:28
Speaker
I will say, if you pull on the thread that you alluded to earlier about the other thing you saw, that would, from a roleplay standpoint, help in this scenario. Okay. Well, I call it a mannequin or a skirt, because the only thing that comes to mind is... So what is with the thing... It wasn't a mannequin. Once again, you've talked yourself out of a... Surely she wouldn't have somebody tied up at her breakfast table, but what you're hearing from Sana is making that on Shake of Your Grounds. Okay.
00:40:57
Speaker
So the person-shaped thing, not a fake person, doesn't seem very charming. Yeah, at this point, Sanaa just fully breaks and is like, yeah, I woke up this morning and there was a guy tied up in our living room. Yeah, but in there. Sorry, could you do it again? Put it back!
00:41:23
Speaker
There's a man tied up in a chair at our living at our breakfast table and she was torturing him trying to get information out of him and I've never seen her do anything like that before or the look in her eye like she I don't know what to do but she's not gonna stop until she gets
00:41:46
Speaker
the person that killed her brother. And she has a name, but he's gone underground now. And so she's having to hunt down anybody associated with- He was underground when we found him. So she's just going to keep hunting down people associated with Lord of Vision and torturing them for information until she gets this guy. So she has the name of the right person. Yeah, it's TARDIS Vittators.
00:42:10
Speaker
Yeah, of course. That's true. Yeah. See you again. The lizard. The lizard. Yeah. So we didn't kill him yet. He was the one on the train still at large. We decidedly ran away from him. Yeah. Because on account of the lizard bit, we have had several run-ins with TARDIS fatizers. I know. I was on the train. You were on the train. Oh, that's right. You were on the train. And we would like to see his reign of terror put to an end as well.
00:42:42
Speaker
Do you think you know that better than I do? If one of us, he obviously means himself, were to talk with Kath about putting a hold on the torture since she has plenty of information
00:43:01
Speaker
And we will help her get vengeance on TARDIS Vitarters. Baby... What? TARDIS Vitarters? You made the dumb name, okay? I don't know, sorry.
00:43:13
Speaker
Do you think she might cool it? Or is she broken by vengeance? If she has something else that she needs to work on, then that will obviously provide a stopgap, but she also knows that people know that she's after this person. Solomon Calloway knows that she's after TARDIS Vittator, so I'm sure that's part of the reason why he's gone underground, is that Calloway's providing... Wait, they know...
00:43:37
Speaker
They know that she's the one doing this. Who knows? They don't know that it's Kath, but they know that somebody is coming after TARDIS and Tithers. And so the longer she waits, the more chance that they're going to get him out of the city or something like that. I have great news on the something else for her to do front. And if you would like to be involved as well.
00:43:53
Speaker
What is it? It seems like you might have some aggression to get out. Okay, hang on. Yeah, you know what, yeah. Sorry, before we get to your far field, you all also have seven advantage. Oh, gosh. What are you gonna do with that? Oh, she does it. She joins us. I don't think that's- Okay, yep, that's a solid use. I don't think that's it. Again, Arthur is an unstoppable god. Guys, seven advantage. What do you think? That we can use? Okay, I can't just pass them to Eris to be like successful on her stuff. Can we use them to have Kat be cool for 24 hours?
00:44:21
Speaker
No, I want her psycho. You can use it in relation to Cath's vengeance question. You can absolutely apply it to the scene with Aeris and Milo if you want. Let's do that.
Harness Test with Fire Elemental
00:44:31
Speaker
Let's make sure Aeris and Milo get their stuff taken care of. To the bad guy we're about to go fame about his lair or something? Yeah, you can get information about the lair. But yeah, if you just want to apply it to the checks that are going on over there. We split them like three and four. Seven is a lot of advantage. Yeah, that's true.
00:44:43
Speaker
Like three would just be giving an upgrade to the next check today. There's his next check. So that's three and you still have four left. And that can be about Morgoth's house. Sure. What do you guys think? I'm happy to have bonuses on crafting. We're definitely getting various crafting bonuses. You said that'd be three of them. That's at least four advantage. I'm just at a loss for... Yeah. I don't think...
00:45:13
Speaker
the path's demeanor is going to dawn. No. I'm going to give you some more information about the Warlord, if you want. Yeah, I feel like that's what I want. I can't figure out how to do that narratively. And we can just say that you got some additional information from the Hobgun from the Warlord. Cass has been pretty sneaky-sneaky. She might have found something and not realized it would be helpful to us. Maybe. Let's have some very specific information that would be helpful for Hob in relation to this job. Go! Okay. And Hob's tools and skillset. Hit it. Do that.
00:45:41
Speaker
They mentioned that the Mirror Mask that the Warlord wears has arcane runes etched into it that basically makes him impossible to track via scrying or any other means. So you get the sense that this would be extensive enough to where probably your harness wouldn't be able to track him. He has like, or it's against that kind of tracking. So when you go for him, if he gets away, you can't rely on that to track him back down. Okay.
00:46:12
Speaker
I was for advantage. Yeah. To no limitations. That's good. Everything I say is a dig on your hair. Gotta get tough buddy. Loser. Okay. Hate it here. Okay. So yeah, do you all tell Sana about the job? That's the next thing. Yeah, that's hardy. Said she's in.
00:46:34
Speaker
Obviously the four of us getting the band back together. Okay. Yeah. I'll just have to let Elfin know I won't be available for dinner rush tonight, but... Yeah. How's Ace doing? Okay. He's good at busing and cleaning and he's stopped disappearing to try and go scout or case places to steal stuff from. So it seems like he's actually making an honest go of food service work, which would not recommend, but...
00:47:04
Speaker
Yeah. Right. So let's go. Where are you meeting up with Eris and Milo?
00:47:12
Speaker
We didn't really talk about it. I assumed back at the cauldron though. Yeah. I don't think we'd stay here. Okay. Let's just go touch base with Cass. We gotta go back there to get Ygric anyway. Okay. So let's cut back to the cauldron. What next? The next thing I'd like to do is try to get, make it possible for Tasha to be the pilot of Ygric instead of Ygric's own little intelligenciness. Gotcha. I don't really have a set way to do this.
00:47:41
Speaker
Yeah, so this is just going to be very much an artifice check since you are interacting with the magic directly, like a magic. I suppose there's a sense in which this would be like adding the mind of its own effect to your brick. Yeah, adding a level of sentience or just providing the slot for it. I don't know if there's, hang on, let me.
00:48:05
Speaker
I don't know if this has rules for the rarity on construction of constructs or modifying a construct. I didn't see that droid book from the Star Wars. That's probably what this would be, but I don't think there's rules in here for building robots. Oh, let's see. There's vehicles. That's not what I'm looking for.
00:48:24
Speaker
I'm fine with just saying that it's an artifice check with a, you are adding the mind of its own effect, basically. Okay. And that is what's the standard artifice check is a hard check. Yeah.
00:48:39
Speaker
And then if you're adding additional things, like that hard check for the first effect. And then if you're adding additional things, it adds on from there. Okay. Due to the fact that you're modifying, let's upgrade one of them just to represent the difficulty of you're having to remove something and then replace it. And that's reasonable still functions. And yeah, that's probably good. Okay. And then Milo's helping. So we'll say, Oh, we'll get back after this check. Okay. Yeah.
00:49:08
Speaker
All right. I think we have a good odds of succeeding here. Milo's handing you your tools as you're up, up behind and above egric. I imagine the top back of his head is where you're moving. She's probably essentially just sitting on his shoulders and working on it. I guess. Sure. Why not? Okay. Roll me another. Milo was no help. Wow. Those boosts were useless. I've definitely succeeded.
00:49:36
Speaker
because there were a lot of blanks and luckily some of them were on the negative dice. Okay. Wow. Four of those boosts and the red dial came up blank. So what we end up with is still very good. What we end up with is four success, three advantage. Okay. Because this is an artifice check, you would suffer two strain just for winning. Right. Thank you for winning. Yes. Yeah. And
00:50:02
Speaker
Actually, I've suffered a lot of strain in doing all those art of this, so I'm gonna use those advantage to recover three of the five strain I've spent so far.
00:50:11
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. You're able to make not only a spot within egric to where Tasha can pilot, but you even make like a casing to where you can put the, cause Tasha resides in a dragon shard. So yeah, I remember that correctly. So yeah, you have a casing with which you can put the dragon shard and then just basically slot her into egric's head, like a VHS tape, like the.
Conclusion and Credits
00:50:32
Speaker
Yeah. And I would say basically the limitation, one limitation here would be the,
00:50:36
Speaker
Stat block we've been using for egric has multiple elemental options that you can switch through. But Tasha being an air elemental, I would assume we would just locked into that.
00:50:47
Speaker
Awesome, yeah, so Eris is up there, and then she finally gets it, fit it into place, and Ygric's eyes just glow a little differently and begin to do that sort of arcane blue smokey thing that magic eyes do in animation. And he stands up a little stronger and taller and looks around as Tasha messes around with him. Yeah, and Tasha begins to get used to the body and walk around. Wonderful Eris. Eris cackles maniacally.
00:51:16
Speaker
Yeah, it's hard. Extremely evilly. Yeah. At this point, Olive walks in. As Aeris is cackling the knife. And Olive looks at Milo, like, with a raised eyebrow. Success! It's probably fine. Good. I have the other dragon shards that you requested. It seems like it's going well.
00:51:38
Speaker
Tasha now? Yes. Interesting. Okay. What's the other project? I'll have, doing this many things may be a multi-day process, but Eris wants to build some anti-construct ammunition for Reynard's bow. Okay.
00:52:01
Speaker
which I have all the, I know what the role is. I'm just, yeah. If we want to go and make that role real quick, we don't need to get too deep in the weeds about, I envision it is as like a, and you being an actual Archer, don't at me about this, but some kind of attachment that can like be added onto the bow that the arrows would pass through to give them actually. Okay. Once they get back.
00:52:24
Speaker
Eris is going to take Reynard's fancy quiver. Okay. And load a new kind of arrowhead into it. Okay. There you go. Okay. Then while... Yeah, go ahead and roll. You doing anything to this? No. Oh, I'm... Olive's here to help. Another blue, though. I think I have the blues for that. Okay. Because I've got one for my love, one for my glove, one for Olive. Okay.
00:52:52
Speaker
Yep, four successes and four advantage. Okay. So you make the arrow heads that we'll be able to slot into the fancy quiver easily, especially thanks to Milo and all his help. Cool. I will say I got that done very fast. Okay. With the advantage, that's an option. Okay, cool.
00:53:15
Speaker
So as you all are wrapping up that project, Olive kind of looks between Eris and Milo and says, since we have a little bit of extra time, maybe she points her head to the harness. Give it a shot while you all are here. All right. I think with Milo's help, the contingencies are in place. There's not really anything that can go wrong.
00:53:40
Speaker
I hate you. I hate you too. And you've got Tasha set up in eager and that'll be helpful. Okay. Good thing I picked up an extra dragon shard while I was out then. And she, so she pulls one out and walks over and places it into the box that you all were investigating. And then she likes. Right. Which I have no concerns about anymore. And she stops and looks at you. Why? She points at the like at her own face.
00:54:06
Speaker
Sometimes it seems here lately machines have been trying to interact with my magic. It's definitely not the machines trying to do anything. The crazy magic in your head interacts with the machines. The machines are just machines. Technically, same could be said about what you do, Eris. What? The magic in your head interacting with machines. That is not my head. Where do your ideas come from?
00:54:35
Speaker
ideas aren't magic they're just awesome. Olive begins to climb up the stairs and she directs Tasha now to pivot the stairs around to where the platform at the top of the stairs she lines up with the harness as she gets herself strapped in and then tells Tasha okay pull them away and the platform goes out from under her and she's like in the harness kind of hanging
00:54:58
Speaker
up above the ground. And she's, okay, Eris, Milo, if you all will go to the box, and there's some runes on there that it should be programmed for Fernia to get a fire elemental into the Dragon Shard. Milo, can you just double check that for me? So Milo, give me a- Milo, Milo double checks and knows everything there is to know to make this successful.
00:55:25
Speaker
Give me a knowledge lore check to check the runes. I mean, he doesn't. He has ability to call all the facts. Okay. Okay. Yes. We're at the end of the session. All the facts, man. Okay. So yeah, Milo examining this box. Yeah. The, I'm going to actually do it the way it's written in the book for this round. The first fact that you get is that based on what you can see, yes, the runes are currently like tuned into fernia correctly. That is what you can tell.
00:55:56
Speaker
Yes, it looks like it's tuned in perfectly. Okay, great. Alright, Aeris, if you will just use the tools there on the workbench to rotate the mechanism at the front of it, that will actually bring the final runes into alignment to activate the box.
00:56:13
Speaker
So I know I made it sound really simple, but go ahead and give me an artifice check to activate the machine correctly. What's the difficulty? The difficulty is going to be one red, two purple, but make it two red, one purple. And we have a temporary story point to use. Oh, right. I spend it. Okay. Makes it easy. I don't have to keep track of it. That looks good. Okay. You know what? I'm also going to focus intensely. Okay.
00:56:44
Speaker
you do that Eris thinks this box is totally fine okay boom I say triumph I imagine the lack of despairs is also the boom that feels there is no despair okay there is a lot of threat except I'm gonna make there be less threat
00:57:03
Speaker
by spinning some strain to use my eye for detail to turn some of my extra successes into, which will get rid of some of these nasty threats. So what we end up with is five successes, one of which is a triumph and two threat.
00:57:27
Speaker
Do threat, I mean that, threat. Did you flip a story point for mile the fact usage? Yes, I did. Oh, you're right, it's four successes, one of which is a trap. You're correct. I realized that that leaning forward to look at that, I was saying am I counting my quietly directly into the microphone, so sorry about that.
00:57:45
Speaker
Okay, yeah, Eris, you are able to activate the machine correctly without any issue. You see the runes internally fire up with one of the runes that Miley, you instantly recognize as the rune for Fernia, fires up brightly, whereas all the other major runes, the other 11 major runes in there, the runes encircling them are the ones that fire up really brightly, negating the magic coming in from the other planes.
00:58:09
Speaker
So we have two threat and a triumph. The threat lets Aeris take a couple of points. I'm real stressed out. Aeris is stressed. It's working perfectly. Okay, so now I normally try to avoid the NPCs being the ones to take a role, but all of it essentially has to make a resilience check or discipline check for the apparatus. Okay, upgrade to that. There you go. The triumph.
00:58:39
Speaker
Let me build a pool first. Yeah, I assume this is the important role regarding the resilience of her brain in these.
00:58:51
Speaker
This is the don't become Doc Ock role. We'll see. The current pool is three yellow, one green, two blue, one red, two purple. You all are more than welcome to flip a story point to upgrade, or you can use your triumph if you want. Or both. But I'm trying to understand what is the role for in this
00:59:09
Speaker
Yeah, it's both the mental and physical strain that she's undergoing with all of this happening. Now, the measures are holding properly in place due to your successful check and Milo's successful check through using his all the facts, to where the danger of all those mind being taken over isn't really present right now. The measures are in place to where that is actually functioning correctly. The big thing is at this point, if she fails this check, it's like,
00:59:38
Speaker
mental, psychological and physical damage that she will undergo. So no, this isn't the prevent Doc Ock check. This is just all of my get hurt really bad. Okay. Then I upgrade. Okay. Really proud. That roll just right into your hand. That's good. Okay. What are we sitting at? Four yellow, two blue, one red, two purple. That seems pretty good. Okay. That's ready.
01:00:07
Speaker
I don't know much, but I don't know what that looks like. Okay, so that is one, two, three, four, five, six, success, one threat, one triumph. Nice. So you hear Olive let out like strained, it's not a scream, but it's like, like that kind of thing. Like she's groaning.
01:00:29
Speaker
but then accompanied by giddiness and then the the magic in the box begins to grow more intensely and you see the box fill with fire as it swirls around and you see a face in the fire the face of an elemental roar as it like swirls into the box and then infuses and then you see the
01:00:52
Speaker
the dragon shard in the box fall down into the stand that it's in and a little orange light go up some tubing that all of is connected to the harness as the dragon shard into place.
01:01:05
Speaker
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01:01:32
Speaker
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