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C1 Ep 109 Rising Tides Chapter Two
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Eberron Renewed this week features the party coming face to face with an old acquaintance, though her intentions and motivations are suspect at best. Will the party agree to this shaky alliance, or will they stand their ground?
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Introduction and Sponsor Acknowledgments
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00:00:31
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D20 radio, your game is rolling.
Character Conflict: Forced Combat
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Speaker
Listen, you hired me to come out here to give you food and water in the field. But now you shove a sword in my hand and expect me to stab realish soldiers with you? Keep up that attitude, bucko, and you're not getting your sandwich. A member of House Galanda. Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. What happened last time?
Barrick's New Rune Discovery
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Uh, we all split up and went to separate places in sharn. Barrick went to the, a monastery of the order of the broken blade, uh, learned what the new rune that appeared on his sword without him killing anyone can do, which is summon very confused and polite spirits, uh, out of Diller that will fight.
00:01:45
Speaker
That actually probably is not something Barak knows because mostly that person seemed confused and lost and a little helpless. That will fight for you four rounds later once they get over the shock of being someone. Once they're not bewildered anymore. Wasn't a particularly threatening person that was summoned.
Booyah's Visit to the Silver Flame
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Um, Booyah went to a local church and did a little praying and meditation. I wanted to read his book to a little girl who
00:02:12
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Just, you know, the side of the goblin and crazy looking outfit just kind of turned her off. She had no idea you were a goblin. That's like, I guess that's true. I guess that's true. Uh, but I think he kind of befriended the, I guess the cleric that runs the price, the priest, the priest and got a lesson on the silver flame and then went on his merry way.
Dex's Training with Solana
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Dex went to the Black Dog in Sharn and met Solana, a tiefling. That's all he knows, actually. She's a tiefling and most likely a lycanthrope. And she very quickly and efficiently put him through a bit of training that helped him up his ribbon weave game. And I realize I should have asked her, at the very least, what she turns into, but I didn't.
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You don't know if that's polite. That's the thing I don't. In like and throw up circles, is it polite to ask that question? Is that something you let them tell you? Yeah. And Eric is like, well, I guess we'll do the pleasantries at the end. I'm like, well, I got halfway through my story and she tried to kick my hair off from under me. So yeah, I guess we'll do the pleasantries at the end. Halfway through my reason for being there at all. Eric didn't do anything. Solana said.
00:03:30
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That's true, it would be funny if Eric had kicked your chair in front of you. There would have been a fight. Because my back is killing me and I would not be standing up quick enough to not hit the ground.
A Cryptic Encounter and Pursuit
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Alright, so picking up where we left off, also something happened as you were leaving the Black Dog Inn. Yes, a man that I thought appeared drunk, stumbled into me, said that she wants to meet, died, and I have a note from
00:03:58
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the coin lord lord who is lady shell chakra shell chakra yeah that's what i said well down by the seashore so that's where we're picking up so dex
00:04:13
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I want to look around. This guy can't have been stabbed, sent a message, and then walked 200 meters. I mean, people are looking because there's a corpse in front of you, but give me an insight check. An insight check? Yes. OK.
00:04:36
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It's a five. Yeah, everybody just looks concerned that there's a corpse. Okay. Does it look like the... I mean, you have blood on... Right. This is what I'm saying. Am I pursued by a police officer all of a sudden? Nobody is approached yet, so... Okay, then I'm going to beat feet back to Barrick. Okay.
00:04:58
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I'm gonna say, somebody stabbed this guy. Just for the sake of formality, go ahead and give me a stealth check to blend in with the crowd. Okay, no that's not formality, my stealth's good.
00:05:12
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get to 21, yeah. So yeah, you take off and easily blend in the crowd just as members of the City Watch get onto the scene and begin looking around.
Monastery Reunion and Sword Practice
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So yeah, it takes you no time at all really to get back up to the middle ward where Beric's monastery that he is visiting is at. And you see a very simple building that you drop Beric off at with a open archway at the front.
00:05:42
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I suppose I'll just walk in. Okay. Um, you see this, uh, older, uh, elf man kind of look you up and down. I was like, Oh, can, can we help you? Yes, sir. I dropped my friend off here earlier. He's a blind man.
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Okay. He keeps glancing down at your chest. Oh, this. I was a party to something unfortunate. A man was stabbed and he fell into me. This is, I am... Onto your blade? No, no, no, no, no. And I show that, I guess I do have Leliana, so I show my dagger that it's like super clean and put it back. I'm like, uh, no.
00:06:31
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Yes, your friends in our training ground, please. This way. Thank you. You're welcome that way. He leads you out to the training yard. Beric, are you still just working on?
Cryptic Message Discussion
00:06:48
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The sword. Yeah. Barak is sort of finding his way to the Pell and then moving away from it in different directions and trying to through. Visualizing where it where he felt that it was strike out at it successfully and for those of us probably more often than not failing.
00:07:12
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For those of us that don't know terminology, a pell is. It's just like something you hit with a sword to practice, to practice cuts. So in this case, I assume it's probably a post maybe wrapped with rope on it in one end or something like that. Gotcha. So yeah. I assume as much context, but I also get things wrong all the time. Like a punching bag for sword fighting. Cool. And yeah, that's probably what you see him doing. OK.
00:07:45
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Um, I guess I just kind of go. Like I wait if there's a lull in the exercise. Let's go. Hey, Eric. Eric had just sort of lifts. How's it going?
00:08:04
Speaker
Well, I activated that rune on my sword and accidentally pulled a great, in some degree, uncle out of Dolor. Wait, like you, what do you mean you pulled somebody out of Dolor? Well, his spirit or a portion of it was here.
00:08:27
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briefly. Oh, okay. Briefly, like you didn't bring I dismissed him. He's not that he didn't bring him back to life or anything. Gotcha. Gotcha. Um, it was quite unnerving, actually. Yeah, I mean, I, I can imagine. Are we where I can
00:08:48
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Say what I need to say. I mean, yeah. I mean, people are doing their training and everything. Nobody's really paying you much money. All right. Listen, uh, a man just died in my arms in the pursuit of sending a message from lady Shell Sadra that she wants to meet us. That's literally all I know. And I have an address to meet her at. How does she know we're here? I don't know. I don't know how she knows who this, who I am right now. Cause she hadn't met Vern, has she?
00:09:18
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Yeah. In the Coliseum. That's right. I was. Yeah. I was. I was. I was. Okay. I don't know. I don't know how she knows we're here. I don't know how she I don't know how long somebody had to have been tailing me. I don't know if it was this guy that gave me the message or if it was somebody else. It was very weird that they sent a dying man
00:09:45
Speaker
Uh, I don't, I can't parse that right now. Uh, but I suppose we need to grab Booyah and, uh, figure out what to do about it. Yeah. I, I suppose we, I suppose we should. Are you at a place here where we can head out? I don't mean to stop you from doing what's helping. Do we know where Booyah is?
00:10:11
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We can holler for him. That's probably what we are to you. All right. I just didn't know if you were ready to go. Let's see where Booyah is. Hey, Booyah. That's Booyah. Yeah, I know. I was, okay. Where are you at? Booyah just leave church. Just kind of walk around, get familiar with part city. What part city are you in, bud? Close to where we stay.
00:10:41
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Okay. Okay. I guess we all are then right here in the middle of the city. Uh, what need Booyah for something wrong? Well, well, Barrick. Okay. Yeah. Barrick's fine. You okay? Yeah, I'm good. Um, no, although I've got to say the fact that those were the first three questions just really endear you to me. Uh, uh,
00:11:07
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Nope. We just, we got some place we need to be. Um, you cry. Want to come with us as well. And, uh, we got a meeting to make you
Meeting Plan with Lady Shell Sadra
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ready. You in a position for that. Yeah. Booyah already go. We're meat. Well, well, where are you at? We'll come to you and we'll head that way. Uh, cause I don't know where meat, because I did not get the address. I just got told I have an address. We Booyah know where N is where we stay. All right. Let's just move back there right now. Okay.
00:11:39
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So yeah, it only takes a few minutes walking. You all see each other approaching up to the Galanda Hall, which is fairly large. Are you all just gonna meet out here? Are you gonna go inside? What's the plan? Whoa, wait, whoa, Dex, you okay? You need heal? Oh, oh, I will have cleaned off my blood, sorry. No, I'm good, this isn't mine. And I wipe down the dragon's skin.
00:12:08
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not be bloody anymore. I could call though. I didn't think about that. I don't really have Barrick to tell me stuff like that's going on. And you have to be able to happen. Yeah, I'm going to do. Um, all right. So here's Dale Booyah. You remember lady Shell Sadra?
00:12:25
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Yeah, we see her in Stormplace. Yep. Stormreach. Yeah, Stormreach. Storm, Storm, Stormplace. Well, she just had someone, I don't think she did it herself, go to the trouble of killing a guy just to send home a message to us that she just wants to meet us. You think she has had him killed?
00:12:47
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I think that he died to impart a vibe along with the message when really just say, Hey, I need to meet you guys would suffice for us, for me, at least. Anyway, she knows we're here. She wants to meet. Okay, sound like we go meet. We really ought to tell power. Okay.
00:13:10
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I mean, you're welcome to. She's the another of the Stormlords is alive. No, yeah, I know. I think that makes sense. Do you want to hail the ship and she's not on. That's right. The ship. She's not on the ship. No. OK. Is she in Charne? Is she in Charne? No, that's Jeff asking because I do believe that's where they got off. Right. That's where she left. That's where your last conversation was before you left Charne. You know where she at?
00:13:37
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No, I mean she was she was here when we left the ship. We could.
00:13:55
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What sort of place would she stay at? I mean, does she have means still? I mean, I know she was a storm lord, but then also assume she had money in in a bank as opposed to simply just in a vault. Boy, I think no help this time, but maybe Booyah make sending stone. Right. Another time we could. We could stop by a civis enclave and pay to have a message sent to her.
00:14:24
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Sure. We knew that. I don't know any other way to get directly in contact with her anymore. All right. That seems fun. Let's do that because I think you're right. I think talking with her seems like a real smart move. Okay.
00:14:43
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So you want to talk to her before you try to figure out where the address is? If that's possible. Send a message. Well, House Galanda has Civis services available in the lobby of their business center. So you did say Holiday Inn Express. I did. I did. So, yeah, you're you are able to
00:15:08
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basically create a message and they will do their best to deliver it to the individual since you all don't have an address or you have a last known location, but that's about it. So there's no real way for two way communication right now, but you can send a message. OK.
00:15:35
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Does Barak know the sneakier element of House Sivus? Is that a unknown fact about Zalargo in general?
00:15:47
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Rumors. OK. Well, how much stock Barrett puts into those, you can parse out for yourself, but certainly he wouldn't know like the name of the trust or. Sure, sure, sure. OK, so the message. Message reads.
00:16:24
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Paolo. If you're in Sharn, we need to speak at Galanda Hall. Another storm lord.
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is alive and reached out to us. I have three words left. Love, babe. That's a bad idea. Exo, exo.
00:17:33
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Please be well. OK. So basically they take the message and you see them grab. They have a big spool of copper wire that they cut some off and wrap it around and person sitting behind the desk. They put the copper wire up to their mark, which is on their shoulder and they have their shirt cut in a specific way to where it's exposed at all times.
00:18:03
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uh the copper wire glows brightly and just and the copper wire disappears um and uh they look at you say okay so the uh standard services for sending the message is 25 gold pieces if you would like to wait
00:18:23
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Over to you, Booyah. Philip just snapped and pointed at Booyah. How much you say? 25 gold pieces. Oh, Booyah, no worry. 25. Thank you. There you go. It's like the cost of a cab ride. Yeah. Now, if you would like a potential response, that's 50 gold pieces. Now, how do we...
00:18:50
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What do you mean if we'd lack a potential response? Isn't it like if she wanted to respond, she could pay someone 25 gold pieces and then you would have to... No, basically, the service that you're paying for allows for two-way communication if allowed. You just won't tell me if we don't pay, essentially, right? Well, I can't guarantee that she will respond. It's also 25 words. Well, of course. It's a paid service. But essentially... We have come back checked.
00:19:16
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You can pay me now. And they she only has a couple of minutes to respond if she's going to. So we wait, see if you respond. Right. So you respond. OK. Booyah, no worries. Twenty five. No, that was another 50. So 75 totals. Oh, still no worry. Booyah got pays the rest.
00:19:47
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There's an awkward... I like that it's way cheaper to just shout at the world than to listen to what they have to say. It's profound, Jeff. Thank you. It should be your Facebook status. It's way cheaper to shout at the world than just listen to what they have to say.
00:20:07
Speaker
That should be Facebook's mission statement, actually. And this service is free. Okay, I'm not expected to have to. Sorry, it's okay. She responds, K. No, not really. Not in sharn.
00:20:39
Speaker
Meeting with King and Rookan. Making plans to head south. May reach out soon. Be well too.
00:21:11
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X O X. Oh, not be well as well. She has five more words left, but nothing, nothing left to say. So say hi to Dex. But what does she mean by, no, hi, hi to the kids for me. All right. Well, I, I suppose we'll have to bust. Let's go see. So, so, so.
Journey to Upper Central Plateau
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Must we? I have a feeling that if we don't go see her, she'll find a way to get us there. We're very powerful. I mean, that's true. I'm sorry, there's a lot. Can you all have this conversation elsewhere? Did you hear me say we're very powerful? Yeah, it'll be 25 gold pieces. No, we move out of the way.
00:22:12
Speaker
What? What do you propose we do then instead? I don't know. I don't know what she wants. Neither do I. So what I said, go find out. I've got an address. Should we send her a message? Well, I don't want to pay to send her a message. Well, you mean you don't want to pay. It's true, though. I don't. I don't and therefore I haven't.
00:22:43
Speaker
All right, fine. All right, so I've got this address. I mean, you could probably ask the person at the front desk. They have a concierge. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Hey, where's this?
00:23:00
Speaker
Oh, yes, this address. There's this address, not this road, not this, oh, I know this area. Yes, this address. This address. It's a blue home. There's a halfling behind the front desk that you walk up to. Oh, yes, this is, oh, who do you know that lives here? We're interested in knowing where it is. Yeah, I need to know where it is. I mean, it's in the upper central plateau. It's in the fancy part of town.
00:23:28
Speaker
But that's just fine. So, all right. And she gives you directions to this. She uses the word astict. Right. Great. Well, happy hunting. Thanks. Where was Garnoth? Garnath? He was a lower part of the city. Oh, he was below that? OK. Yeah, he was not in the upper. OK.
00:23:59
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Okay, so we go to, what she say is? Upper Central Plateau. Yep, the Upper Central Plateau. You know, we probably could have just handed the address to a taxi. Yeah, that's also true. She hands you a little pamphlet with, in case you need some literature about the place that you're going, and it's a little upscale downtown, fine dining, finance districts. Barrick holds it in his hand and grimaces.
00:24:31
Speaker
This place look very strange, Booyah. Yeah, okay. We get in a cab. Hey, how you doing? Yeah, pay the man. Booyah pay. Here we go. We're going here. As we ride. It's in the upper central place. Oh, it's swanky part of town. So, y'all from here? As we ride, Barrick says. Got any big plans for the weekend? Oh my god, let her talk. We've ridden to the driver.
00:24:58
Speaker
I'm quite certain that we've ridden in your cab at least five times. So I'm just going to ask, I'm not, you know, I'm not going to complain or threatening. You're, you're scamming us, right? It can't possibly cost this much to get around the city. You've been at their own fans. What can I say? Right. But you've been charging us like a week's wages.
00:25:24
Speaker
Every time we get in your cab, there's plenty of the methods of getting around the city. Just sky cab is the luxurious option. So people expect to be more. It keeps the riff raff out. I don't understand why we don't wave this guy on wait for the next cabbie at this point. Well, he does have that hand print on his cab. Right. I mean, that's what I'm saying. Like we know him. We could wait for the next one seems awfully rude. I think next time we will.
00:25:51
Speaker
So what planes do y'all have in the upper central plateau? We're not sure. None yet. Let me get my eyes unstuck. My skull. I always just assumed that the same way that all pilots sound the same, all cabbies sound the same, but that's what I was like. They're, they're all cousins. Um, it's like, uh, I think I've said it before, but it's like nurse joy. It's a family business. Barrett, Barrett lifts his head a little bit and says, we're going to appreciate the architecture.
00:26:22
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Booyah go to appreciate building We've got a meeting let's just head up all right. Oh you all been going the whole time okay cool It's a long drive. I like to make conversation with my you have never made conversation with us before I've never seen you before that's not true at all
00:26:44
Speaker
You didn't even ask about the tiger the last time we were together. And now you're interested in why we're going up. That's true. We, we kidnapped a man and rode and used you as a getaway. We've ridden in your cab with a tiger. We had a demon throw up twice. We are an extremely memorable customer group. And now you're like, Ooh, nice town. I mean, you got fancy clothes on. You had to do a fancy pot of town.
00:27:12
Speaker
He's been wearing, he was wearing that the last time you were in the cab. I've never seen you before in my life. That's absolutely not true. Anyway, we're here. Yeah, this podcast blows. Okay, so yeah, you pull up to the upper central plateau, which is the swanky part of town. Lots of nobles, people dressed very fancily. Dex, first place you fit in.
00:27:36
Speaker
They really dressed that garishly up here? It's like the Capitol in Hunger Games. So yeah, you are pretty easily able to follow the city streets and you find yourself standing in front of what looks to be a miniature mansion, like not like itty bitty doll house, but like
00:28:04
Speaker
A very nice, but not as large. A well built Bluth home. Gotcha. All right, I want to look around. Are there guards? Are there? Do a perception check. Yeah. 20. Oh wait, so that counts as a 27. The lowest I can do.
00:28:28
Speaker
You glancing around as you approach, you see a person sitting on a nearby bench reading book that kind of glances up at you. You see another person a little bit further down the street leading up against an Everbite Lantern post, talking to somebody and they kind of glance your way. You see a lot of, a lot of people. And magical auras.
00:28:53
Speaker
fleeting glances. Um, you see some small magic orders, like some people may be carrying magical items, magical weapons, nobody that's like whack. So I pointed out to Booyah and I say to Beric, I say, got a lot of people failing to blend in right now. Keep stealing glances our way. A lot of people carrying magic. All right.
00:29:17
Speaker
Could be nothing, I mean. Sure, I mean. It's a rich part of town. A lot of magical stuff that ain't gonna hurt. Yeah. Sure. I guess. Up to the door. Yeah. I'm gonna walk up to the door, y'all. Come along, I guess. Knock with my stick. As you reach up to knock, the door swings open. And I apparently, and I guess I hit somebody right in the middle of the face. Right, he's making deck checks so I can grab the stick before he hits the stick.
00:29:47
Speaker
Oh, no, he hit. That's a that's a it's just now. I mean, yeah, that's a 12. Well, I mean, you the door swings open and this person is about to speak and you grab barracks risk just before. Oh, hello, lady. So Chandra has been expecting it. She also. I assure you, it is not.
00:30:17
Speaker
And you see this very, uh, fencely dressed half elf, uh, standing in front of you, very, uh, style, like well done hair, five o'clock stubble, uh, ruggedly handsome. So.
00:30:32
Speaker
All right, I guess we follow him in. So he waits for you all to enter and shuts the door. My lady is very, very excited that you all have accepted her invitation to meet as he's leading you up this grand staircase. At some point earlier, I just realized that Derek would have, or Dex would have asked Derek if he wants to be physically led or if he just really wants to practice just following my aura around. Eric is trying to just follow your aura around.
00:31:00
Speaker
Um, she's very excited that, uh, that you all are here and, uh, meeting with her. Um, yeah. How does she know we were here? Oh, the, my lady has eyes and ears all over town. Um, too soon. She knew that you all had arrived, uh, shortly after you arrived before you, uh, hunkered down for the night. Eric says,
00:31:26
Speaker
You know the old stereotype about how everybody out of Zilargo shares information with each other? Yeah, I'm very aware of that old stereotype. Well, I would assume there's probably some people out of Zilargo staying at our hotel.
00:31:43
Speaker
That would make sense, yeah, yeah. Anyway, just through these doors here, and he leads you to some very, I mean, the interior of this house is bordering on garish, like, sorry, Barry, like, lots of white with, like, gold accents, and, but just his...
Meeting with Lady Shell Sadra
00:32:03
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Decks stand really still against the wall.
00:32:07
Speaker
This is the first one she did. That's the first set of Blend In. He swings open some double doors and you see this gnome woman sitting in a big comfy chair and she's just lounging and looks to be some very comfortable robes and she sees you all and is like,
00:32:28
Speaker
My friends. Does she have a long cigarette and one of those little cigarette holders? No, not that far. Hello, darling. My friends, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. Well, you made a pretty compelling case for us to come. Oh, I wanted to make sure that you got my message. Who was that guy? Oh, I don't even know what guy you're speaking to.
00:32:54
Speaker
You know how I found out about this, right? Like I assume you made that dictum to have a dead, a dying man give me a piece of paper. I don't like to micromanage. I just sent somebody out there and said, make sure he gets this message. All right. Well, whoever you sent out there is an absolute sociopath. You may want to reconsider not micromanaging him.
00:33:12
Speaker
Fair enough, I'll take that note. Appreciate it. Have a seat. And there's some sofas and comfy chairs. It looks like she is more than well-equipped to host three people in this room. All right, deck sits. Yeah, Luya goes to sit. Bear doesn't sit.
00:33:35
Speaker
Well, all right. Seeing that Barrick does not sit Booyah. Booyah will stand back up and go stand by Barrick. So I see that you all are a little worse for the wear after your travels since I last saw you all.
00:34:04
Speaker
But I'm glad that you made it back to Sharn in one piece. So how has the city been treating you? I'm not wearing my white cloak. I think that should be remembered. Look, everything sucks. Why are we here? Barak has his foot still down over his face. We all go church. This is good church. Good. It's good to have faith in things.
00:34:31
Speaker
You're a businessman, woman, right? You're a business person, right? Yes. All right, let's get down to the business. Why do you want to talk to us? Small talk is important. It builds rapport. It's literally making me angrier this day, right now. And the other day, maybe we could have had a conversation. Right now? I've had my agents keep me an eye out for you. And when you return to Sharn, because I have found another inspire.
00:35:02
Speaker
or what? How do you? How do you know? Oh, I mean, same old same old obelisks strange behavior reports of glowing purple eyes, you know, the gist where in in this part of the city actually actually know a couple couple plateaus down just on the edge of the senior part. But it's somebody named caster. If I were to guess
00:35:33
Speaker
This caster person, is he someone of some power and influence and just might be involved in the same sort of thing that you are involved in or want to be involved in? I mean, he's a gnome, but if you want to paint with a broad brush like that, I guess you can.
00:35:49
Speaker
I was specifically talking about nefarious activities, not what species they are, race they are. People have some negative things to say about gnomes. I'm sure they do. I have some negative things to say about, you're killing pits. That's what I'm talking about. Or the fact that the last guy that we took out because he wasn't inspired, your general opinion of it was good, less competition. Well, also good, inspired dead. OK, but that's not the one you said out loud. You said the quiet one loud.
00:36:20
Speaker
Listen, I inspired, took my home, took my city, took most of my power. I have money, as you can see, but I trade in power and intelligence. And so, yeah, I don't like the inspired. I figured you didn't like the inspired. I figured you wanna kill him. Oh, I don't like the inspired. And we do plan on killing a lot of them. But the thing is, we,
00:36:49
Speaker
have a better way of doing it on, uh, what you might call a larger scale than, than one by one, uh, off of tips from someone that you'll forgive me is hard to trust the motives of. There's no obelisk in the person's home. Uh, reports that I've gotten from agents, it's hard to get close enough, but, uh, below their home, like a level down. So, um,
00:37:18
Speaker
Obviously, they wouldn't be somebody that's even on my radar if they weren't somebody of some import. Sure. Now, are they a large influence in the city? Depends on what parts of the city you're running in. Which criminal enterprise are they a part of that you're trying to hedge your way in on? Oh, I'm not trying to hedge my way into this organization at all. I'm much more comfortable as a freelancer. Which organization is it? Boromar Clan. All right.
00:37:44
Speaker
How, how high up in this organization is this gentleman? Um, they may or may not be the intelligence expert for the Bormar clan. Right. Oh yeah. Yeah, sure. Because if I'm not mistaken, you literally just bragged about how your stock in trade is intelligence. Yeah. You understand the trepidation here, right?
00:38:15
Speaker
of us just. What's the address? Oh, Jerome can give it to you on your way out. Alright, so if you've got people saying they see things, they've seen purple eyes, they've seen obelisks below. Have they seen how well protected this guy is? I mean, he's the intelligence expert at the Boromar clan. So
00:38:42
Speaker
No, that's not an answer to my question. Oh, right. You're not from here. Boromar Clan is probably the largest criminal organization in Sharn. I mean, Dask is coming up on their tails pretty quick. But, but yeah, I mean, pretty well protected. The out of fiction, the Boromar Clan is like halfling mafia, basically. Okay, so. All right. So you have the, Jerry will have the information.
00:39:13
Speaker
Jerome, uh, and that's it. I mean, I'm willing to give you all something in exchange. I mean, what do you want? Gold favor intelligence. All three are at my expense.
00:39:42
Speaker
I know that I'm, I'm not asking you to do this pro bono, just out of the kindness of your hearts. Well, it's like we're asked to set terms on what we want. We haven't had a chance to think about what we need. I mean, we already have a pilot. Listen, if you want to give us something
00:40:10
Speaker
for taking this meeting. It's perfectly acceptable. I have no interest in setting foot inside your house again. Yeah, I kind of feel like we are out of fiction.
00:40:30
Speaker
Was she at the place when last night told us, when we basically told last night we're not murderers for hire? No, that was him and Paladin. Because I was gonna be like, we already... Because she wasn't aware that they hired or they were the ones that got you to kill Monka. Early she didn't tell you that she was aware if she was.
00:40:59
Speaker
All right. Here's the deal. Uh, lady sells out shodra. Um, we got a couple of days. So we'll, I'll maybe we, I don't know. I'll find out more and then I'll decide whether or not we're going to act on.
00:41:19
Speaker
That's the best I can tell you. Okay. I mean, uh, if you want to collect something for services rendered, feel free to come back once it's done. Sure. Eric begins moving to the back towards the door as best he can. He's not really worried if he breaks anything. Dex, the half elf jumps in front of you and opens the door as you're walking. Thank you, Jerry.
00:41:47
Speaker
Dex hops up and shuffles away to be in front of Barry. Booyah follows along. OK. Tell me when we're out of earshot of her spies. I don't think we're going to be out of earshot of her spies until we get back to the end. And even then, not until we're in one of our rooms, it seems like. Well, if you can identify any of them following us and point them out, I could try out some of these options I have. Sure.
00:42:18
Speaker
I will, let's say that we have begun walking. We're not going straight down. We're walking around a little bit. Yeah. It was this part of town. And yeah, I turn around. Do I notice anybody? Give me a perception check.
00:42:37
Speaker
Yeah, I noticed somebody after there. That is a 35.
Being Followed and Confrontation
00:42:42
Speaker
You see somebody that it takes you a second because they are remarkably good at walking through the crowd of people because you are in a busy part of town. Yeah, they're bobbing and weaving and not following directly, but you kind of spot somebody that you've looked back quite a few times and you're still seeing them, so.
00:43:03
Speaker
All right, Barrick, here's the thing. I see somebody now. How do I describe to you how to get to them? Um, cause I have a feeling if I go, is there a magical aura following us? Um, Yes. I mean, but there's magic. I mean, he's describing someone bobbing and weaving through the, through the crowd.
00:43:30
Speaker
Is one of them that I in in looking at the auras that are there am I able to pick one out that's moving around erratically Sure. No is an acceptable answer here. No, I'll say yes Okay What if we turn down an alley And are there alleys here are there alleys here
00:43:54
Speaker
I wouldn't call them like they're, they're well lit and they're well traveled. There's not really like alleyways. Yeah. I didn't mean like some dark place. I just mean, if we're on kind of a small side street or some more main thoroughfare, we get on a less populated. Yeah, sure. Okay. And if he follows us, turns down it. Sure. It will be a lot easier for us to. Well, Booyah hide somewhere. Booyah tackle. I mean,
00:44:25
Speaker
That definitely gives us a third option. That is an option. Give me a check to hide. Yeah. Stealth. That's 16.
00:44:37
Speaker
Okay. So yeah, you, Booyah ducks into a little alcove and, uh, after a second of glancing back, you see the. The line of people walking and there's one or two that turned down the street as Booyah said, you know what? I don't know that would work because Booyah doesn't know who the, which guy it is. Yeah. So he would have to rely on decks to point the guy out somehow. Unfortunately Booyah is already hidden after about the time he realizes this.
00:45:06
Speaker
But I can yell Booyah red hat. There you go. So someone turned. I mean, you have to tell me if someone's. Well, I don't know. So yeah, you see the the flow of people and you see somebody stopping at like the the person stop at like one of the stands near where the side street turns and one or two other people turn down it as well. And then he just kind of glances up and like shuffles in with a couple of people that are walking down the side street.
00:45:33
Speaker
All right, he's following us. Is there an aura? There are fewer auras. He is the only aura in the group that he's walking with now. I can't even see the other group. So the group. So all I've got is the aura. Here's what we're going to do. Is it moving towards us? Here's what we're going to do. We're going to stop right now and I'll tell you when he stops. That way you'll know which one is. All right. So we bear just sort of.
00:45:57
Speaker
stands very still with his head slightly down, focusing. And I stop and I turn to Barrick and I just talk some BS stuff to... Are you glancing towards him though? I'm gonna keep taking... In fact, can we do it where I'm looking over your shoulder at him or you need to be facing him to... I don't think I have to be facing him. No. He can just sense the aura? Well, I mean, you can have a sense that there is an aura behind you, but to...
00:46:21
Speaker
I mean, I kind of don't have the impression that I'm seeing auras. Right. So you do need to kind of. Right. Well, no, I don't think I need to. I mean, I'm just kind of perceiving them. OK, so if I'm looking over your shoulder so I can physically see him, you'll be able to. And I think so. And I say it stopped. You'll know which aura just stopped. I think so. It's up to Eric to do this. And have they passed by Booyah?
00:46:44
Speaker
Not yet. Okay. So try to block escape once you all stop and you're looking over Barrett shoulder you see this person stop in my head they had passed. So let's say we walk into the he's passed where Booyah is.
00:46:58
Speaker
If, if the goal was, yeah, for Booyah to hide and tackle him, I want him to be past him. Okay. Um, so yeah, I hit the whole time. Okay. Um, so as soon as you all stop, he stops and like taps a woman that's walking near him on the shoulder and he has something in his hand and he's like gesturing and she points back the way that he walked like, and turns to start walking back towards the main street. How far is he across? Um, 35 feet. I'll say he's the one that just changed direction. Okay.
00:47:26
Speaker
So I, at this point I've got a picture of, of which one he is. Yeah. Okay. Uh, I, I turn and begin following to the best of my ability that aura trying to close some distance with it. Okay. Um, and let me know if I successfully closed to 20 feet with it. Okay. And are you, what are you doing? Cause he's about to walk back by you.
00:47:56
Speaker
Well, once they walk past Booyah, Booyah comes out from behind. Okay. Cool. So I can see Booyah stops. Okay. Um, so yeah, I mean, he looks like a statue walking at a quick pace. You're able to close distance with him.
City Guard's Intervention
00:48:10
Speaker
I'm moving with the stick in a way that should make it fairly evident that I'm blind and hoping that people are courteous enough and aware enough and awkward enough to move out of the way. Um, but just as he's about to turn back onto the main street, you're within 20 feet. Okay.
00:48:28
Speaker
Barrick feeling like seeing magic.
00:48:34
Speaker
Barak is essentially, the only perception Barak now has is that he is able to perceive what is essentially, in Eberron, the underlying fundamental element of reality. Because in theory, the world is built on the corpse of giant dragons. And so Barak reaches out through that, and I need him to make a strength check.
00:49:03
Speaker
Just a strength check, it's opposed by my charisma check. 12, 19. So Barak just sort of reaches out with his left hand, and the man stops. And Barak turns his hand and pulls.
00:49:30
Speaker
and the man is pulled toward him. They're the gnome, I assume. No, it's a human. Okay. Is pulled towards him and then... I mean, he immediately starts screaming for help. And then lifted just a couple of feet off the ground. People are starting to look and take notice and run. And Beric says, your mistress is a bad person.
00:50:01
Speaker
And I want you to understand, one of her henchmen killed a man for no particular reason this morning. If you're one of her henchmen, I conclude that you are also bound up in that. So if you and your kind do not stop following us, the next time I move you, it will be off the road.
00:50:33
Speaker
I let go. Okay. Go away. During that amount of talking, Dex had plenty of time to catch up.
00:50:44
Speaker
Okay. Um, he is like pulling on his clothes and backing away just as two members of the city guard around the corner, uh, with swords halfway out of Hill. What's going on here? This man was following us. I'm giving you a message. He used magic on me to pick me up. And then he threatened me. It wasn't exactly magic. People are witnesses. I did threaten him. Why are you threatening him? He was following us.
00:51:12
Speaker
Were you following them? No, I was just walking through the city. False. Yeah, he was absolutely following us. Okay. You all need to make perception checks. He will make a deception persuasion. Persuasion. Persuasion. No, perception. I would really rather make a perception check. Yeah, let me make a perception check. Booyah hasn't tried to persuade anybody of anything.
00:51:31
Speaker
Not really surprisingly, based on the way that he has approached this situation, Beric is not successful. Beric has rolled a nine. I rolled a 17. I think I hadn't said a word. Okay. He actually got a 17 as well. So the city guards are looking back and forth. It's like, okay. Well, clearly there are two sides to this story. So we're going to take all of you in for to get this sorted out. He's unharmed.
00:51:59
Speaker
Just because he's unharmed doesn't mean you can't, you can use magic and physically hold him against his will. I mean, you realize that, right? I mean, I didn't do anything. Okay. Are you one of his associates? He's one of mine. Okay. Then you all come with us. This is perfectly fine. I actually have some, I actually have some business in this direction in any case.
00:52:29
Speaker
All right, I guess we'll go with you. Okay. I love, man, cops flexing on us like we couldn't just put them in the ground in a second if we were so compelled. Barret's not going to kill cops. Are they flexing on you? I mean... Booyah still is not part of this group. What they're not yet doing is condescending, which is why they're still alive. No, they're not condescending. They mean they're not flexing on us.
00:52:57
Speaker
Don't see how they're flexing on you, but fine. Barrick waits for decks to be, I don't know, do they have auras? They got magic on them? Yes, you sense some very thin pieces of wood on their belt. Oh, wands, yeah, okay. So, yeah, Barrick will follow their auras with his stick. One of them is walking ahead of you and one files in behind all of you, and they begin leading you to the district station.
00:53:25
Speaker
Okay. Uh, as we're walking, Barrick will speak to the other one, to the one head. Um, I've been away, uh, for a few days. You read the papers much. Uh, not particularly why I was just curious how things were in the Capitol. Uh, since the chaos died down a little bit.
00:53:50
Speaker
Oh, it's still chaos. Talks of war, invasion, changing governments. It's all above my head in pay grade. Fair enough. I turn to the back when I go, you know you've got two protectors of the realm, right?
00:54:09
Speaker
kidding sure I do I'm the Lord I'm the Lord of Mistmore we're the Lord of where just trust me oh it's a place it's got a railroad stopping everything stop we're getting a target soon
00:54:32
Speaker
bar and an extra planer gate. There's really gotta be more in Miss Marsh by now with the lightning rail stop. Yeah, the lightning rail stop is there, so there's definitely, I mean, you know. We had a vampire infestation. Yeah, I mean, you know what's his name. Gregor's Bar is out of business, because now there's an Applebee's. No, there's a Galanda. There's a Galanda Inn. There's a Ye Olde TGI Fridays.
00:55:04
Speaker
So anyway, yeah, you all, it takes a few minutes and you find yourself to a station and there's a few rooms and then some cells off to the side and say, all right, you two in that room, you and this one, and they take the other guy. What are you doing? Weirdly, they put Dex and the other guy in one. Maybe I'll follow it at a safe distance and he's just hanging around outside.
00:55:32
Speaker
Barrett cannot see which way he gestured. And so begins moving in a random direction. They stop you and just to find a slight way to have a little bit of fun with his current condition. The fact that he knows this man gestured at him meaninglessly. Uh, he grabs you by the shoulder and leads you into the room that he intended for you to go in. Well, gesture to blind man. That's what you get. Uh, really you should ask before you just grab Adam. There are, um,
00:56:03
Speaker
people that you'll need to contact who will vouch for us. Very well. One of them is Borenel Ir Winarn.
00:56:15
Speaker
ear or an art. Okay. Also, uh, Rook and ear clarn would be able to his secretary for is my brother, my half brother. Okay. Uh, Bala is not back in her position in sharn. Did we know? I got promoted. Right. Who is in sharn? His thorn in. Yeah. Also the craft, the current, the current head, the current commander of the Citadel, the current, uh, um, station chief of the Citadel here, uh, Thorin,
00:56:46
Speaker
You don't remember? Stone Knuckles. Thorin Stone Knuckles. We'll also know who we are. My name is Beric Rowan. If you've got any decent issues of the Sharnan inquisitive and you look back.
00:57:03
Speaker
a days that filth or any paper frankly that dealt at all with what happened in the capital i have to assume like every major news outlet probably covered i think our names will probably come up um and listen to me sir i i assure you that i'm not
00:57:20
Speaker
this sort of person to make things like this up and I realize that what I have just told you probably sounds like nonsense and that's fine if you don't believe me but I just want you to understand if you don't check it will be a source of embarrassment to you later.
00:57:39
Speaker
Let me ask you this. Let's say I contact these people if I even had a way to contact half these people. And God, I wish Bornell had a sending stone. Be like, oh, I've got a way. And they do know you and they vouch for you. Does that change the fact that you used magic to hold a man against his will and you threatened him in the street?
00:58:05
Speaker
Well, do you know anything about, you'll, you'll want to know something about that man's employer, um, probably. And I recommend that you invest, do some investigating of curious, who's living just down the street. Okay. Um, she's a essentially a crime lord out of storm reach. Yeah. She, she literally had a man killed this morning just to deliver a message to me.
00:58:27
Speaker
Yeah. So, uh, no, it doesn't change the facts, but, um, and also it should change the fact, cause we have people vouching for our, our character and our honesty. And we said he was the whole reason that we're here is cause you didn't believe that he was following us and we were acting in a defensive manner. So, uh, perhaps it would raise our cred a bit when the King says, Oh no, these are my boys. I'm
00:58:56
Speaker
Like I said, everything sucks. I understand that you're attempting to do a job and I frankly just, we don't have time right now, but I need to speak to, uh, commander Thorin in any case. I really do. I actually, I, before I realized that he was, before I, before I remembered that it was Thor and I did actually, so can contacting him would deal with, save me an errand, frankly.
Resolution with Thorin Stone Knuckle
00:59:24
Speaker
Well, whatever I can do to help, whether he stands up and whether he whether he orders you to let me loose or not, I do actually need to speak to him about a matter of some significance.
00:59:36
Speaker
Well, they didn't read you rights as they were taking you in. Which is why this is all going to get tossed out in court. Well, I'm clanking my coffee cup against the bar. You're not necessarily. I found some bars. To be fair, Booyah is outside waiting patiently for them to walk out. They have not walked out. How long it takes depends on if Booyah thinks he might need to go break somebody out.
01:00:04
Speaker
so how long but I need to know this how long or at least go in and figure out what's going on what's Booyah's timetable how long before Booyah gets freaked out I would say he would start getting antsy at about 30 minutes okay because as soon as we're alone in the room we're gonna because Booyah is obviously not with us so Booyah where are you? Booyah outside waits you need help uh no not right now um we've
01:00:35
Speaker
We've suggested that he should contact some people. Uh, I'm not sure that he will. Um, but it necessary, it might be worth you contacting, um, uh, Thorin who's the current commander of the Citadel here who I need to talk to anyway. Uh, you might tell him where we are and, uh, have him come down. Um, I mean, if you can send us sending to the King and tell him he'd probably be interested to know.
01:01:06
Speaker
But so Thorin or Thorin, Thorin would probably be the very smart person to talk to. Okay. But you're on it now. This Thorin have us. Does he have a sending stone? No. So I need to go hunt him down. Um, you could try to go hunt him down. Yes. You are near enough to the district. But before you do that, um, cut to
01:01:34
Speaker
you're sitting in your very modest office still drowning under a pirate pile of paperwork. Um, you just had a meeting with a couple of agents, um, who have reported some, uh, some dire things happening in the city. Um, and all of a sudden, um, your,
01:01:56
Speaker
executive assistant, a halfling man pokes his head in through the door and says, sir. Yes. You have a message coming in through the sending from some city guardsmen in the upper central plateau about some people they've apprehended. Is it important? Well, they're claiming that they know you.
01:02:25
Speaker
All right. What are they saying? Who are they? Well, I wanted to see if you wanted to even take the call. I know you're a very busy man. No, I've got him. What if I was just like, nah? No, I suppose I can make a bit of time. Gosh, it's almost there. Yeah, you're almost there. It's almost there. OK. And your door shuts and just let me patch it through. And then all of a sudden, you're sending stone lights up.
01:02:55
Speaker
Go for Stone Knuckle. Yes, is this Thorin Stone Knuckle the Citadel Agent in Sharn? Yes. You called me. I said go for Stone Knuckle.
01:03:15
Speaker
We just wanted to hear you say it again. Yes, we have some people that were reported having, well, one of them committed assault in the street and they're claiming to know you and can vouch for their character and one of them says that he wants to talk to you. Does the name Barak Rowan mean anything to you? Absolutely.
01:03:46
Speaker
Yes. I mean, you met in passing. Well, first off, Drakir several times. Yeah. Drakir talked about Barak a lot. But also Barak was a part of the group that helped put the king back on the throne, justifying the wild leap of faith Thorin took two days earlier. And then we all rode through the town together and there were tigers involved. Thorin knows Barak. So do you know this person, sir?
01:04:14
Speaker
Barrick, absolutely. Wait, did Barrick get assaulted? No. You got that backwards, sir. Oh, Barrick did the... Okay. Is anyone seriously hurt? No, it appears that there were no serious injuries sustained, but the presumed victim is wanting to press charges. Or minor.
01:04:36
Speaker
What did Barrick do to him? I used some kind of magic in the street to hold him against his will. I'm sorry, to hold him against his will. Yes. And so he's... And he threatened him. Oh, sure. I mean, if you're gonna hold him. I never hold anyone without threatening him. Is he pressing charges over his wrinkled tunic?
01:05:06
Speaker
No, just being held against his will. Listen, I don't know what story you heard from any, but you said there were two. Who's the other one that knows me? We didn't get his name. Okay. He was just singing the whole time. It was very strange.
01:05:23
Speaker
You know what, honestly, that sounds more like a booyah thing. Did he threaten to kill you in every one you looked? Right. Oh, yeah. It's not a drow, man, is it? Oh, no. Oh, thank God you're going to be OK. You need to get out of the building right now. Burn the building to the ground. Hide your family. Oh, God, look behind you right now.
01:05:54
Speaker
Well, I'll say this. Whatever you were told by all parties involved, in my experience, I would err towards trusting Beric. Now, who wants to speak to me? It was Beric that said he wanted to speak to you. Oh, in that case, you should send him to me immediately, with antisered.
01:06:25
Speaker
We, we have an investigation, sir. You're going to spend time and police resources to investigate the non, non hurtful, slightly, um,
01:06:48
Speaker
slightly annoying thing that this guy was temporarily held up in the street. A man was killed today on the lower level. We're the city watch of the upper central plateau. It's mostly shoplifting and improper use of magic up here. Oh, so you're hoping to get to a better position down the road. Something with some real police work.
01:07:20
Speaker
Guess who can make that happen. We'll have them escorted to your office immediately. Wonderful. Goodbye. Stone Knuckle out. Meanwhile, Booyah is asking for directions to get to Thorin Stone Knuckle.
01:07:49
Speaker
Whereas these people are looking at this weird little short warforged and very confused. Give me a persuasion check. 16.
01:08:04
Speaker
And four. So 16. 16. Assuming these are good people. Assuming these are good people. Because we do have advantage on good. But 16 was still the first role. So I'm assuming they're good. Yeah, you find this couple walking through the street. How do you ask? There's got to be a way you can make that mask pull back.
01:08:28
Speaker
It's specifically called out in the thing. It does not open. How do you get in and out of it? I thought we opened it. At one point. We may have said it as a goof, but it specifically says in the flavor that the face mask does not open. Excuse please, Booyah. Booyah need help. Booyah look for a place. Is this a warforged child? Are you lost? Maybe a little bit. Booyah look for Citadel.
01:08:56
Speaker
A war-forged child. Like, they grow. That's why they're confused. Yeah, these people might not know that. They don't know. Um, you're looking for the Citadel? Yeah, we're... I look for... Like the King Citadel? No. Maybe. You are not a part of this conversation. I know, I know! You know... You know name Stone Knuckle? Stone... Stone Knuckle, in charge of Citadel.
01:09:26
Speaker
There's a stone knuckle in charge of the Citadel. Yeah, but yeah, look for that place. Um, it sounds like a dwarf. Have you tried? Um, there's, um, your holds embassy, uh, a little, no, no embassy. He, he like, he like agent. A Citadel agent. Yeah. Well, uh, the King Citadel is in Proat. It's not in Sean. No, they're, they're place here. They have a place here. Like their home.
01:09:58
Speaker
Philip is dying. Wait, Booyah thinking. Booyah sit on the floor. Do you need us here for this? So no citadel here?
01:10:25
Speaker
I'm about this time. Come on. You're being escorted. I need you to give me a perception check with disadvantage. 26. And disadvantage would be 20.
01:10:54
Speaker
20. Okay. Um so you fortunately you're thinking and you happen to look around just as the police escort is taking Barrick and Dex past you walking down the street. Oh excuse excuse people. They try help Booyah but Booyah no said they'll go these people friend.
01:11:16
Speaker
Do you understand? No, I do. And they just walk off. Is it the same two guys escorting us? Yes. Okay. As we're going, Barrett says, now, listen, maybe I didn't know what regular watch procedure is, but I just have a question. Do you, does you mean to put us in that room, like enormously armed?
01:11:34
Speaker
Was that was that deliberate choice because you hadn't actually arrested us or did you not realize we were armed? Well, I'm not actually obviously armed at all. Actually, I'm not obviously armed. You got a fancy dagger in your belt.
01:11:49
Speaker
Yeah, if they'd taken the time to get behind my cloak, I could've seen my- And that's just a fancy dagger. No, I'm not- People walk around with- I'm not criticizing, I was just curious about- General procedures, you were not under arrest, you were being brought in for questioning, and so- Fair enough. No, we're gonna take your possessions. Booyah walks up in front of one of them and stops. You're done- Out of the way, and he kicks you. Oh, hey. Wow! You're no kid, Booyah!
01:12:15
Speaker
Why are you, are you done with Booyah friend? No kick Booyah. He's, he's with us. You just kicked him. And Booyah, and Booyah puts his hand on his crossbow. No kick Booyah, Booyah no do nothing. Gentlemen, we're all going the same way right now and it would be a really, really unnecessary for there to be a fight. Also, it would be an enormously bad idea. Booyah no one fight, but Booyah no one be kick.
01:12:45
Speaker
on both of your parts. You jumped in front of me. You still don't kick people. Yeah, you just kicked him. Like, you just kicked him. I have to say this is going to end up in my report. Boy, I listen to Beric. You lucky.
01:13:03
Speaker
That's actually accurate. I realize he looks extremely silly, but he could really, really harm you if you wanted to. I've watched him send somebody to literal hell. You'll see Halo! No, I realize that's not a compelling argument. What are you?
01:13:27
Speaker
Booyah, Booyah. He's a goblin. He's a goblin. In a canyon. You're done with Booyah, friend now. We are taking your friends to see Agent Thorin at the city. Oh, good. That's what Booyah tried to find. The king gave him the armor. It's very strange armor, but.
01:13:47
Speaker
but work good. This way, and they start leading you and you all they they take a small skiff from one platform to another to the more government buildings, bureaucratic offices, things like that. You see that they didn't even blink it. The king gave him that armor. I mean,
01:14:16
Speaker
It's like somebody, the president gave him that tie, like, okay, whatever. I mean, he gave us all stuff. Gave me a guy named Jace. Dex, I keep trying to tell you, I don't think Jace was a gift.
01:14:31
Speaker
I mean, I don't know how to read it. He knew Gerald. So, yeah, you all find yourselves in a familiar district. You're walking past the the ambassador building is almost complete completed. The ambassador offices. The roof is being put on. Wait, that's the the horrible obelisk building. Didn't we tell the king about that?
01:14:54
Speaker
Well yeah, but you all, the stuff at the bottom was the primary concern. You all told them about the runes and everything, right? They still need ambassador offices. The infrastructure's there, might as well use the bones. Fair enough. So long as it's not still a horrible obelisk. What? Do we know it's not? You don't know for certain, but you did inform the king.
01:15:19
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We couldn't have made some simple design plan to just change the shape a bit. It's got bay windows now, so it's not really an obelisk. It's got a balcony. But yeah, you all approach a building, and the guards walk in first. The halfling man is behind the desk like, oh, he's ready for all of you. And you all walk in to see Thorinstone Knuckle behind the desk, drowning in paperwork. End of episode.
Conclusion and Listener Appreciation
01:15:47
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01:16:14
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