Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
C2 Ep. 31 Eberron Reduced “Market Research”
268 Plays4 years ago
An ally of the crew comes to them for help with a mounting problem. But can the party help in the way their ally needs? Or will the ally find themself in greater danger of losing everything?
This episode is brought to you by the generous donations of our amazing Show Sponsors: Laura Pickrahn, Darrin Katzska, Irene Viorritto, Ryan Royce, Darrell DeLaney, Jessica Smith, Charles Compton, Richard Cree, Danielle Bramhall-Smith, Nastasia Raulerson, The Kamm Family, David Scrams, Elizabeth Clark, Andy Dossett, Rebekah Gowman, deviouspoptart, Eðvarð Arnór Sigurðsson, Michael Clark, Eric Witman, and Shelby Johnson.
Recommended
Transcript
Acknowledgements and Introductions
00:00:00
Speaker
The following episode is brought to you by the generous donations of Laura Pickron, Darryl Delaney, Darren Katska, Deavius Poptart, Irene Villarito, Ryan Royce, Andy Dossett, Danielle Bramhall-Smith, Elizabeth Clark, Eric Whitman, Jessica Smith, Charles Compton, Natasha Rallerson, Richard Cree, The Cam Family, David Scrams, Dustin Troop, Edvarth Arnoff, Michael Clark,
00:00:25
Speaker
Rebecca Gowman, and Shelby Johnson, as well as all of our generous patrons.
00:01:18
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Ever On
Recap of Previous Session
00:01:19
Speaker
Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. And I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. And I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? It all went wrong. Yeah. It was nearly a farce. Which could describe a lot of this group's endeavors.
00:01:50
Speaker
We did get the ledger, but in the process, we found out that the person that we took it from was an undercover dark lantern. Then when we got the book, we found a poorly coded message in it written by Milo's late wife, Kylie.
00:02:15
Speaker
And we did, I'll be honest, I have not finished listening to the episode that dropped a couple of days ago. Well, the Dark Lanterns have two of our names. Yes, that's also, they have two names and two very distinct descriptions of the other two people. And a grudge because we blew his cover. That's an interesting pronoun that you choose there, Philip, the we pronoun. As far as I recall.
00:02:46
Speaker
It was a gamble. Yeah. With all of our money. I thought it was a worthwhile game like it was going otherwise. It didn't seem to be going well in the room, so. Yeah. So we're going to pick up. No one wanted to kill him, so. We're going to pick up a week after the conclusion of the last arc.
00:03:12
Speaker
to pick up for a downtime episode. So that is happy. Hopefully everybody will enjoy it. But yeah, so tell me real quick, we talked a bit before the mic came on about what possibly you all could have been up to in a week after such a distinct job that you all went through. So does anybody wanna speak on that of what you've been up to for the past week?
00:03:42
Speaker
Eris is trying to work on a way for Tasha to travel outside of the confines of the skiff because Eris is convinced that we're going to have to flee the city and the skiff won't work outside the city. And so she's trying to work on a way to take Tasha with us when we inevitably have to run.
00:04:11
Speaker
Okay. Her
Character Downtime Activities
00:04:13
Speaker
room is tidy for the first time ever because everything is now kept in a bag by the door, actually by the window. Okay. Well, Hob has two goals, three goals. One is to remove the two critical injuries that still nag him. I suppose I have to roll for that shortly. And then he obviously wants to
00:04:42
Speaker
Partly just out of liking Milo and partially out of penance, he's trying to figure out ways to take this new information and figure out how he can be useful in helping. Because he's not dumb, but he's not an information gatherer. He's not a detective. And then with Randy's permission,
00:05:04
Speaker
since he's made some moves while talking with Milo about ways that he can help with his new information. He's put Milo through a bit of a workout regimen to buff him up a little bit. Yes, that is exactly what I was going to say. Perfect. I'll let you talk about it. Who comes to who? I'll let you make those calls. Well, Milo, first of all, Milo's wondering if he figured out what the vibration was all about.
00:05:37
Speaker
Well, uh, something notable, uh, because you all made a copy of it and you were also presumably there when Jason came to pick it up. Nobody else noticed a vibration. Nobody else remarked on it. Nobody else even gave the book a weird look. Um,
00:05:53
Speaker
So I guess my biggest question would be during that interim time that you all had it while you were getting copies made in that kind of thing, would you have asked or told any of your fellow compatriots here? I think I think I told them in that last session. I think I said that it's vibrating. I'm almost positive I did. OK.
00:06:16
Speaker
Question. Does anyone recall what we made in terms of cash? Seven gold pieces. Eris has given her seven gold to Ulfin. Okay. So, Hob has as well, but in exchange for food. I mean, he tipped well.
00:06:44
Speaker
Based on what Hobb has described as his eating habits, it's probably some stuff that often has some decently high margins on so. OK. Randy, go ahead and give me a. Arcana check, I'll go ahead and set the difficulty. It's going to be.
00:07:09
Speaker
Two purple difficulty. That is, for success, one advantage and a triumph. I think you did it, bud. I think you figured it out. You cracked the
Milo's Journal Discovery
00:07:18
Speaker
code. So, Milo, you, through spending some time looking at the journal before Jason came and picked it up and thinking things through, you realize that there's nothing arcane about the journal. There's nothing magical about the journal itself. Rather, it is a...
00:07:39
Speaker
physiological response that you have to holding the journal for some reason, as if some part of your mind was trying to hold on tightly to the journal and you eventually come to the conclusion and realize it wasn't the journal that was vibrating.
00:07:56
Speaker
Uh, something caused your hand to grip the journal so tightly that your hand began to vibrate with the pressure that you were putting on the journal. And in the moment you just figured that the journal was vibrating because you weren't consciously gripping your hand or anything. Um, so that's what you really, and why nobody else, uh, remarked on the vibrations or could experience anything like that. Um, now with the one advantage,
00:08:27
Speaker
I will say that you were able to with the, when you were really like kind of meditating and focusing on it and unlocked this knowledge, you begin to kind of feel Kylie's presence. She wasn't speaking to you, but you could kind of feel her near when you were really thinking about the journal and thinking about what was happening.
00:08:58
Speaker
And much to the point that you kind of made up before we started recording, when Jason came and picked up the journal, this is also part of the advantage, you heard a faint sigh in the back of your mind that you would have instantly recognized as Kylie's sigh, kind of a sigh of resignation almost that you heard.
00:09:24
Speaker
I knew I didn't want to get that journal in. Now this, now this triumph, um, let's talk about this. It's very early on. Last time you did this to me, I gave you a magical item that saved your bacon. Well, I'll say if this has anything to do with it or not, I don't know. But during this tie this week, I mean, Milo would have been pouring over that journal. He would have been trying to communicate with Kylie to get her to
00:09:53
Speaker
if she was able to communicate with him like, he wants to know what the world's going on. Yeah, and you probably wouldn't have gotten any kind of overt instructions from Kylie like you do when you use your heroic ability, but rather you kind of find yourself
00:10:14
Speaker
understanding the the logs in the journal in the ledger uh far better than you would expect since you're looking at this for the first time with fresh eyes and you
00:10:30
Speaker
you feel like you understand what you're looking at in a certain capacity and can see that there was somebody within the Black Lamps section of the Boromar organization that was very clearly taking money, very clearly shaving some off the top. And it seemed like they were getting bolder and bolder over time. They were becoming more and more brazen as they were going without getting caught longer and longer.
00:10:59
Speaker
And it seemed like Kylie, who presumably was the one looking at this ledger, finally felt like there was enough being taken that could have warranted the
00:11:18
Speaker
the clan or the dark lanterns taking notice and having some action being able to be taken. So that's what you're able to glean with the triumph is you have a very clear understanding. You don't know who. You don't know that the only thing, the only connective tissue you can put together is that you know that Grum was kicked down to the Delvers because
00:11:43
Speaker
he was discovered taking from the clan, is what Satan told you all. So whether or not this was Grum's doing, possibly. That's the only real lead that you have at this point, but that is what you've got. Okay, and also in that week's time between him trying to, you know, pour through his copy of the ledger, he was also
00:12:10
Speaker
basically asking Hob to help train him, help him get rid of his little beer belly, kind of toughen him up a little bit whenever they had time to do so. Yeah, you know, he's using... Hob and Milo jogging through the streets of Sharn. Yeah, punching Hob on his thighs, kicking him in the shins, you know. That's exactly what it is. Well, Hob just sits there and laughs at him. Yeah, that's it.
00:12:41
Speaker
Awesome, punching him in the thighs. Raynard, what have you been up to? Just hanging out, really. I don't think Raynard has too much to think about. Fair enough. Just drinking, eating. Raynard was not deeply affected by the last job. No. Just living life. How nice for you.
00:13:09
Speaker
A lot of people say you live and you learn. For Raynard, it's just, you live. Inexplicably continue to live. Okay, perfect. Well, after the week, you all are in the for sales. Raynard is at the bar drinking. Do we need to resolve the critical injuries? Oh, yes, yes, yes.
00:13:31
Speaker
Probably in exchange for the training, since Milo is the only one of you trained in medicine, presumably he would be the one trying to do the healing on the critical injuries. So do you have the severity written down of those critical injuries, Jeff? I have it right here, like 71 to 75. The difficulty is what we need, not severity.
00:13:56
Speaker
Heiress is a difficulty two, for example. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Is that the dice pool? Yeah. Yeah, they're both difficulty two, then two purple. OK, perfect. OK, so I apologize. No, that's fine. I used the wrong word. Milo, give me a medicine check with a difficulty two for Hobb's first critical injury. Five successes, two threat. OK, Milo, go and take two points of strain. And which critical injury was that that we just healed, Hobb, the first one?
00:14:26
Speaker
Yeah, that was hamstrung. Okay. I now have my maneuvers back during encounters. You gave Hobbes a nice hamstring massage with your little punches. That's exactly what it was. His tiny percussive therapy. Okay, Milo, give me a second one for Hobbes' second critical injury with a shoe difficulty. Is there any mechanic by which I can absorb this strain that he's getting trying to heal me?
00:14:54
Speaker
One success, three advantage. Well, he can heal the two strain with those three advantages. There you go. Yep. Sounds like a plan. Okay. And you can have a boost die on your medicine check to heal Eris's critical injury for that extra advantage leftover. Two difficulty as well. This would be done in spite of Eris.
00:15:22
Speaker
She is entirely absorbed in doomsday prepping. Yeah. And what's your problem to stop her and like sit down, let them fix you. All right. To success and a triumph. Oh, my God. Go Milo. So critical injury is healed, Eris. And for the triumph,
00:15:51
Speaker
Milo goes ahead and heals his two critical injuries as well.
00:15:57
Speaker
Oh, you have two critical injuries. Oh my gosh. I'll say that, yeah, with one of those triumphs, you can heal one of your critical injuries. How many can we do in a week? What's the time that this takes? I'm doing basically one a day is what I'm allowing for. One check a day. Okay. So Milo, go ahead and roll for your last critical injury. Now you are going to have to increase the difficulty by two because you are doing it to yourself. So this will be a four purple difficulty.
00:16:30
Speaker
No one's gonna get mad if you want to upgrade yours very true Yeah, do you want to use a story point to upgrade? Sure, and that will give me to boost I because I took a talent what talent did you take I took You had to go and ask didn't you I
00:16:51
Speaker
You had to bring it up. Just take our word for it, Eric. I can fly now. Brilliant casting. You may spend one story point to add, yeah, I'm not casting a spell, to add boost.equal to your ranks and knowledge. Okay, so yeah. Yep. All right, so. So you should be two yellow, two green, and four purple. All right. One success, three threat, and a try. What?
00:17:22
Speaker
I like this server. Okay. You're going to get, we're going to pay for this so hard. Well, don't worry. I will eventually have to roll a red and I'm sure it'll be a despair. Go ahead and take your, your three strain Milo. Um, as, uh, yeah, you, uh, what was your critical injury that we were just healing Milo? Um, we healed. Let's see. Was this the agonizing
Mission to the Consistent Bird Tavern
00:17:47
Speaker
wound?
00:17:50
Speaker
I had an agonizing wound and then I was winded. Okay. So yeah, the triumph got you unwind when.
00:17:59
Speaker
winded unwinded. It rewinded you. And yeah, you you you take some strain because of trying to do trying to fix your own agonizing wound. The triumph. Good lord. Three say I took three really get going. Do you say I took three strain? Three three strain. OK.
00:18:27
Speaker
The triumph here. Okay, so part of this downtime is that you are going to be going somewhere for a meeting. And initially I was gonna have it play a certain way, but this triumph I will use, or I will let you all use if you want, basically you are expected for this meeting. It was going to be that you were going to have to try to talk your way into a meeting.
00:18:56
Speaker
we can alter the fiction with this triumph to say that you all will be expected for the meeting. So you won't have to try and chase somebody down, essentially. Is that acceptable? That's fine with me. Anybody else have anything they would like to use it on instead? No, we haven't done anything yet. We're not knowing what we're doing. It's hard for me to suggest. OK. So get another drink. So Raynard's at the bar.
00:19:27
Speaker
Hob Milo Eris, what are you all doing down in the dining area of the for sales? Eris is trying to assemble something. Okay. Is it safe to say that Milo feels as if he's gleaned everything he can from the
00:19:48
Speaker
from the ledger or... Yeah, studying the copy that you made. I mean, there's always gonna be more that you can glean. You could probably study it further. So we can say that you're sitting there studying the ledger if you want. Okay. Hob, what are you doing? I think Hob's reading the paper. Okay. That's something we...
00:20:10
Speaker
I've always just been eating and like, hub has a brain and stuff. The two things I've established he does are play music on his whatever instrument, giant mandolin, and eat. And he never plays music in front of people, so the answer is always eating. So this time, he's reading the newspaper, not the inquisitive, a good one. Okay, the Kornberg Chronicle. Okay.
00:20:37
Speaker
So yeah, as you all are doing these things, Ulfin comes out of the kitchen with a rag over his shoulder and he
00:20:48
Speaker
sees sees you all hanging out as you do. No customers in the the dining area, unfortunately. But it is in between lunch and dinner rush. It's like three thirty in the afternoon. So kind of reasonable that there's not a whole lot of people looking to eat right now or drink except for Raynard. So often with kind of a raised voice, just so he can ensure that you all you all can hear him, says, I
00:21:20
Speaker
I have a favor to ask you all if you could come up here. I don't want to shout it across the room, but yeah, I have a favor and he seems kind of...
00:21:33
Speaker
humbled by the fact that he's having to make this request. Um, and Sana and Kath and Sigil are all there as well doing their normal thing. Uh, Sana is going around doing odd jobs to just try and help with upkeeping cleanliness. Kath is drinking next to Reynard and Sigil is in their booth studying, uh, the schema stuff. So he did say it loudly enough where Hob heard him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he was intentionally trying to get everyone's attention.
00:22:04
Speaker
Yeah, then Hobb's up and walking over towards him. Ulfin's good people. Hobb would obviously give him a hard time because Hobb is me, but he's gonna be there when he can. So Ulfin takes the rag off his shoulder and kind of wipes down his hands and says, so I've been trying to think of different ways to either cut costs or drum up business with the whole Galanva.
00:22:31
Speaker
stuff going on, trying to get enough money to afford the license and lower my prices. And I think I might have found a possible solution. Rather, somebody who might be able to give some insight to a road. There's a new spot that recently got added to the Galangia registries called the Consistent Bird.
00:23:00
Speaker
which is a tavern up in Hasten's Folly in Middle Dura. And I was wondering if you all, or Harith's Folly, apologies, Harith's Folly.
00:23:18
Speaker
I was wondering if you all could go there. I reached out to the proprietor, Raphan, to see if she would be willing to meet with a fellow proprietor and give some insight onto how she does what she does, because the size of her establishment is roughly the same size as the four sales, and her business is booming at this point, and obviously she can afford
00:23:47
Speaker
to charge in line with Galanda prices and pay for the license since she's on the registry. So I was wondering, I've set up a meeting and told her that my representation would be by to discuss things because I can't leave this place unattended. So
00:24:09
Speaker
So I was wondering if you all would go meet with her at the consistent bird, talk to her, figure out how she does what she does, and just take a look at the place, see what it looks like, see what's going on there, why people are coming in so much. Because there are two very well-established and very good taverns in Harris-Folly already, the Hollow Tower and the King of Fire.
00:24:33
Speaker
She is doing a great job of taking their business. I mean, Hollow Tower, you have aerial sporting events that go on, so I mean, she can't really replicate that. But anyway, you get what I'm saying. Well, if it involves meat pies, I'm right out. You don't like meat pies? I just... The stories I've heard of meat pie shops becoming suddenly successful. I'm not interested in a... Argh!
00:25:03
Speaker
I gotcha. I won't do that. Phillip is so Sweeney Todd. It's all usable folks. At this point, Kath and Sana speak up and go, crap, we can't go.
00:25:27
Speaker
Sana says. We have a thing. I think my favorite part of every episode is when Eric reveals the NPC loadout. We have a match in the burning ring tonight. We have a food in the oven. I give, I think I give it to Sana. I give her five silver and I say, put this on your for me. Oh, okay, thank you.
00:25:56
Speaker
So yeah, we can't go, we need to, presumably you want me back in time before we need to leave. And Sigil, they just kind of look at everybody and I don't like talking to a lot of people, so I don't know how helpful I'll be, so I'm going to stay here. Is that okay? He's looking at you. We're not your boss.
00:26:23
Speaker
We're collective. I'd like to, you know, share my thoughts and get opinions and... I think Hobb looks directly at Ray Yard and says, well, it is commendable to ask the group.
00:26:40
Speaker
Listen, we're going to go sample their drinks. I'm fine with this. No, I wasn't asking if you were going. Is that what we're doing? That's what I heard. Secret shop, right? Is this like a secret shopper? No, it's a thing. We go and try everything on the menu. It's a restaurant that's open. But he wants to know why they're successful, so we have to try it all. Right, but he's not free. I've got seven gold burning a hole in my pocket.
00:27:10
Speaker
0% chance that lasted you a week. Not all seven. Not a chance. You don't know where I got this seven. Milo's first check in his pockets.
00:27:27
Speaker
So you all are able to, I'm presuming you all take Tasha since you have a boat. Yep. See, I called it the right thing. Middle Dura is obviously a little bit nicer. It's in the middle section of the city than where you live. And Harrods Folly is actually the, you all would probably know this having lived in Sharn long enough.
00:27:50
Speaker
Um, Harris folly is actually the start and end point for the race of the eight wins, which is a big annual race around the city that happens every year. So if I'm, any of you have ever attended the event, probably you have been to Harris folly before. Um, and who all folly. What? Who's Harry? H a R E T H apostrophes off by one. Same thing off by one.
00:28:18
Speaker
I had too many oars. I had an eye. I mean, I did have six, so I should have known. Yeah. So, as you all, fine parking inherits folly, or docking, rather, since it's a boat. I guess you can park a boat.
00:28:38
Speaker
Who's to say? You all see a building that has the general tavern sign over the door of what looks like a clockwork bird, like made out of cogs and levers and all kinds of stuff. And under it, it has the phrase, the consistent bird. And there is a line out the door to get into this place. The other notable thing,
00:29:06
Speaker
is that the bird on the side moves and kind of responds to people in almost like a 2D kind of way, like the cog shift and like look down and like chirp at people. And you see...
00:29:20
Speaker
you see the occasional person in line, like throwing a stone up at the bird and it like reacts and like flaps its wings and stuff. So, um, very interactive, but it isn't, it isn't speaking. No, no, no. It doesn't talk. Not like an amusement park. Okay. No, no, no. Hello there. Welcome to the consistent bird. Um, so yeah, that's pretty on the nose. Um,
00:29:45
Speaker
So yeah, and you all see like multicolored lights in the window and not like ostentatious like doo doo doo doo doo doo, but just like slowly changing lights and just it looks like a good presentation.
00:30:02
Speaker
There is a, uh, an individual standing at the door, um, that is letting people in based on safety guidelines. Uh, you see that they're in full head to toe plate armor standing at the door. So you all are still a little ways off from the spot yet, but that's what you see as you kind of run the corner and get it insight. Well, um, I looks like this is going to take a while.
00:30:31
Speaker
Perhaps I mean, I tell you that you were expected for them. Yes, that's what I was about to say is that we are expected. Perhaps we could just go straight to the door and seek entry. I suppose worth try.
00:30:49
Speaker
Is this a follow in Hobbs wake kind of packed or is it just a lie? No, it's not a mob outside. It's a line that comes out the door and then immediately turns to the right and goes along the edge of the building. So they are being orderly. I apologize. I did not write it down. What's the name Ulfin gave us? Raffin. R-A-I-F-E-N. Raffin. It's entirely wrong.
00:31:17
Speaker
Yeah, you were here like LPH. Yeah, like Mr. Fiennes. Well, I suppose do we just go up to these armored gentlemen? There's one. This armored person. And ask to see Raphon? I mean, if she knows we're coming. Yeah, that...
00:31:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's the way to do it. Yep. I agree. Okay. And Ray not agree with me. So let's go. So you all are able to approach the, the door, uh, just going up next to the line. You hear a couple of people go, where do they think they're going? Um,
00:32:09
Speaker
because people are the worst. Turn it clear. We're going this way. And you see the person in the plate armor up at the door just standing there rather inertly. They don't even really regard you. They just kind of stand there. You would guess expectantly wondering, what do you want? But they don't say anything to you. Hobb's going to wait to see if the person in the group with restaurant experience says anything. If not, then he'll...
00:32:37
Speaker
then he'll, he'll, he'll go, but he doesn't expect Aerith to because, and he doesn't want Reynard to. I was just about to say that. But if, if, if Myla's not going to, then. Well, I definitely will. Pardon me. Yes. Down here. Yes. There you go. Um, we have a meeting with a Raven. I do believe she is expecting us.
00:33:07
Speaker
and it just does not move, does not say anything, does not respond in any way. Eris steps closer and begins looking and then reaches up and just sort of wraps on the breastplate. As you go to knock, it reaches up and catches your hand. Eris, is it clockwork?
00:33:36
Speaker
Being that close, you can see through the slits in the helmet. It's an empty helmet. It's not a person. It's a rather good automaton. Do you think you can get your hand free? I don't know. I haven't tried yet. I was looking at its hinges and joints. It's really quite good. Fair enough.
00:34:03
Speaker
which I don't really know how we talk to it, though. Well, it leads me to wonder if this is clearly the thing keeping these people from just going into the restaurant. Right. I assume it's not just order and societal goodness that's keeping them. Yeah. So basically this is a this is a
00:34:29
Speaker
A parking garage gate arm is all we've got here, decorative. Somebody can give me a milo because you were the one doing the talking. Give me a perception check with a two purple difficulty. One failure, one advantage. Go ahead and heal one of those strain that you took earlier milo, but you're kind of at a loss as to what you're supposed to do because the
00:34:53
Speaker
The door guard isn't responding to you saying, hey, we have a meeting, let us in. If we're expected, do you think we just walk in? Maybe it expects us.
00:35:09
Speaker
I think, I was gonna suggest the same thing. I think upon hearing that, I think Hob might just try to walk past. I can't imagine I'll be gravely assaulted for trying to enter a restaurant. That would be a bad yelp roof. Because somebody's done it, not knowing the rule, and just tried to walk in. As you try to move past it, it puts, it releases Eris's hand and puts a hand up like this to just block your path. It doesn't like,
00:35:37
Speaker
lay hands on you and then uses the other hand to point in the direction of the line. Eris high fives it. It catches your hand. Eris likes robots. I think Hob, uh, he's not offended by the, by that, but he just doesn't want to deal with it anymore. So he just kind of yells into the restaurant and he goes, Oh, right.
00:36:06
Speaker
Raphon, we're here from Oliphant. Do they all have Finn in their names? It lets go of Aerys' hand and turns to one side and gestures for you to enter. Okay. That was weird. Thank you. I want to know how it works. I try to high five it to see if it grabs my hand. It grabs your hand. All right. I yank my hand free. I'll roll if you need me to, but I think I do. After you all pass through, it pivots back to blocking most of the entryway.
00:36:35
Speaker
And you hear a couple of people upset that you all got to just walk in. Um,
00:36:40
Speaker
So you all see, as you are kind of assaulted with smell and sound as you enter, that whatever they're making smells incredibly good. It's a cacophony of sound of people sitting around joking, laughing at like four in the afternoon on a Wednesday. Does it look...
00:37:05
Speaker
Classy or like rainforest cafe? I'm trying to think of a good example because the only thing I can go for is rewind your mental clock back 70 years to the 50s and the idea of like the restaurant with the conveyor belt that you just get your meal off of and like the intercoms at the table, like the restaurant of the future kind of thing.
00:37:35
Speaker
so this is retro futurism set in shard yeah basically like okay i'm on board and so the the thing that you see like behind the bar you see another uh suit of armor
00:37:47
Speaker
making drinks
Raphan's Tavern Success
00:37:48
Speaker
and handing them out. And in the window to the kitchen, you see three suits of armor back there, one of them wearing a comically large chef's hat, like cooking. And you see the only person really moving around the dining area is a tiefling, a feminine tiefling with pink skin and elaborately painted horns. And
00:38:15
Speaker
She's wearing a long brown, little duster-style coat. And Eris, as she's walking around the dining area, you would immediately note that she, like, kind of proudly displays, has artificer tools hanging from her belt and kind of the gear of an artificer. And she's going around talking to the tables, laughing, what do you all do?
00:38:47
Speaker
Hobb looks around to see if there's a stage with a band of clockwork. Perhaps Ye Olde Rockafire Explosion has a concert tonight? Sure, yes. There is a stage with a set of a five-piece band with animated armors up there just
00:39:12
Speaker
rocking out, but one of them is a gorilla inexplicably. Nobody is singing though, nobody is singing, it's just instrumental. I'm sorry. I think Raynard turns to Milo and says something like, well, I can see how part of the success would come from not paying any employees. This is very, very true. Point of order, have we ever met one of Orphan's employees?
00:39:39
Speaker
That's a fair question. I mean, presumably if both of them was this busy, he would need help. I'm sorry if I cut you off, Randy. Well, I just said very true. So she's like under a host, under the host stand or whatever, trying to figure out how things work. Yeah. The seating chart. What section am I in time?
00:40:05
Speaker
So she doesn't appear to be like busy. She's just going around. She's going around talking to guests, shaking hands. OK, that's asking how the food is, all that kind of stuff. Well, that must be her. So I perhaps we should go make introductions. Milo starts heading that way, I think.
00:40:30
Speaker
I think Hob has learned in these sorts of situations, like it's different when we went to that party we were invited to or are at the for sales. He knows not to be the first person to walk up to somebody new when our whole group is together. So he kind of hangs back and lets Milo make introductions before he lumbers up like some giant idiot. Although I know Tiefling's probably, she's not sure I got small, but. No, I mean, and she's a little bit taller than Aeris, but not,
00:41:01
Speaker
Certainly not by a lot. So yeah, Milo starts leading the way across the dining area, and she stops and sees you all, and it's like, can I help you? What an amazing place you have here. Thank you. I really like it. Did you all have trouble finding your table, or? Well, actually, we're here on behalf of Olfen.
00:41:31
Speaker
He said that you were expecting us. I'm Milo. You're both people. Yes. Excellent. Okay, well, yeah, I have a back office area that we can go talk in and we can talk shop, as it were. So, yeah, if you all want to follow me, we can head on back there. And I didn't mention, but she has
00:42:00
Speaker
dark chestnut hair that once it gets off of her scalp basically she has in a long braid that goes down to her mid back. And she has cogs and thieves tools and things sticking out of them as like
00:42:19
Speaker
She leads you all back and you all see at various points another set of animated armor is walking out with a tray of plates on one hand and like five mugs by the handle in the other and just walks through the dining room and is serving people.
00:42:39
Speaker
Yeah, and one other noted thing is the mugs all seem to have a fine sheen of frost going all the way up and down them. So yeah, there's something going on there as well. So she takes you back to her remarkably
00:42:58
Speaker
kind of modest office, like it's, it's not decorated in the same manner as the rest of the place. Um, and it's, it's a rather simple desk. It seems almost as if this goes largely unused. Um, but there's some benches along the walls and a couple of chairs, plenty of seating for everybody. At which point you notice you don't have Eris. Oh, I think hob
00:43:27
Speaker
Exactly what happened. Hob assumed she was following because why wouldn't she want to hear everything this person who likely created these has to say? Because talking to a person and examining a machine, you know. Right, understood. That's why Hob thought that. But then he turns around and he goes to Eric and he says, Eric, I understand your interest here, but we have one opportunity to speak with the woman who
00:43:53
Speaker
who created it all. That seems beneficial, right? I mean, this is like talking to her. You can see that there are extensive notes in Eris's notepad already. Right. And genuinely, Hobb cannot relate to that thing. He's like, no, this is staring at things. So he goes, all right, and turns around. And if you follow, you follow. And if not, I'm sure she'll talk to those of us that are there.
00:44:26
Speaker
Because, I mean, honestly, he has no comeback to that. If you feel that way, he's gonna be like, okay, I suppose it must be.
00:44:36
Speaker
So yeah, Reynard, Milo, and Hob are in Raven's office. And she sits behind the desk and kind of flails her jacket back and lets out a sigh. It's a busy, busy mid-lunch dinner rush. So yeah, Ulfin sent you all down here. And I guess the question is, he just kind of mentioned wanting to
00:45:04
Speaker
talk through best practices and kind of our growth and sustainability and things like that. So I guess much more specifically, what are you all looking to find out? Well, Ulfin has taken notice of your success, obviously, and has always run his establishment to be
00:45:31
Speaker
able to open again the next day, but he's reached a point now where he has to significantly ramp up his income. Would Hobb know, and all of a sudden Jeff doesn't remember, would Hobb know if it's safe to say like, we've begun getting leaned on, he's begun to get leaned on by Galanda. Yeah, I mean, needing to register with Galanda is a common thing that a lot of places go through. Okay, then Hobb probably just says, you know what we are.
00:46:02
Speaker
gone to cut up to him and he has to register now. He's got to step it up. And then, and that's the extent, once it starts getting into restaurant talk, he's going to shut up and let Milo and Raffin talk about it. Yeah. Um, so obviously I just recently went through the same thing. Uh, I was not on anybody's radar, honestly, in terms of this establishment, uh, up until, uh, about a month ago when I kind of retooled
00:46:31
Speaker
everything being perfectly honest. I ran things very similar to what it sounds like open setup is of one lone employee behind the bar, cooking food, serving drinks, talking to the regulars. There was this group of like five people that just hung out all day and didn't buy anything. But yeah, so what I did basically is I started using the tools at my disposal, which I
00:47:02
Speaker
I opened this place once I decided to settle down. I used to be, I don't know if you all have any experience with the Adventurers Guild, but I used to go out and do jobs and quests and go from country to country and do all kinds of crazy stuff. I have stories, but I just kind of decided I wanted a simpler life. I wanted to have a place of my own and I had acquired quite a bit of gold.
00:47:27
Speaker
through my time adventuring and so I went to settle down and I realized that doing things the way everyone else does them was never going to yield me the results that I wanted. So I started using my artificing skills and I had the, I mean you all came through the front door so you saw one of the animated armors but they're all over the place. When I went adventuring one time there was this ancient tomb that I was in
00:47:56
Speaker
and had all these sets of animated armors trying to kill us and rather than destroying them I just reprogrammed them and brought them back home with me and they were in a shed just gathering dust and I realized I have a workforce. So I retooled their runes to perform different tasks and now they they run the place and it allows me to a get to know the clientele
00:48:21
Speaker
do a bit of marketing on the side, but the big thing that I do is I go out a couple times a week into the British countryside and I go hunting and foraging, which keeps my food costs down because I don't have to pay a supplier. I can just go hunt for deer to be the meat in my recipes and bring them back because the staff that I have allows me to leave pretty frequently. So I don't know
00:48:50
Speaker
And we also have amenities that very few other places have. Our plates can either be heated or cooled based on the rooms that I inscribe in them. The mugs can be cooled as well just by having ambient cold magic in them. And so yeah, that's kind of one of the other big things that sets us apart is your ale never gets to be room temp, which presumably Reynard's ears would perk up at that.
00:49:21
Speaker
I don't know if Reynard would let his ale sit long enough to- Reynard's never given it the time. Nope. So, I mean, I don't have any easy solutions for Ulfin.
00:49:37
Speaker
because I don't know his skill set. If he's an ex-adventurer as well, then he might be able to do it himself. But I imagine the cost of hiring somebody from the adventurer's guild to go hunting a few times a month is cheaper than whatever he's paying for food. And then just find
00:49:57
Speaker
You got to find your hook. My hook is we are the artificer's establishment. We have the animated sign. We have the animated armor going around everywhere. We have all kinds of unique things in the dining area that make the guests excited to come here. And you have to find that. You have to find your hook. A clever name a tavern does not make, basically.
00:50:23
Speaker
As you can tell, my tavern name is awful, but people still come in.
00:50:33
Speaker
And then in terms of our beverage costs for the bar, I'm actually part of a co-op that puts in large orders together so we can get the bulk level discounts that Galanda normally is the only one who puts in orders that big to get from the various wineries in Andere and Karnath. So I can see
00:50:57
Speaker
If I can get Ulfin in on that, it'll take some time. I'll need to put out feelers with the other members and see what they think about bringing somebody else in. But I'd be more than happy to get back with Ulfin once I have that info. Eris is crouch walking along beside one of the waiters, examining the servos in its legs. Does it try to shoo her away at any point? It does not regard her in any way. If Eris doesn't touch it, then it's not gonna do anything.
00:51:28
Speaker
So what you're saying is the secret of your success is creatively using your resources, working harder and minding your expenditures. I can't imagine that's what Olfin sent us here to learn. And I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I actually, I don't know what Olfin's skillset is. I mean, we all know he was a pirate, right? That's what we all know?
00:51:58
Speaker
Yeah. So perhaps a pirate themed restaurant. Which, which he has, I think. Which it already is. But in a more elaborate manner, maybe. We just need to go dig up his buried treasure. Well, if he's a pirate, then I suppose if I must, I can begin to wear an eye patch as I'm sitting on the for sale. I would do that, but no more. Aris could make you a better eye. Oh God.
00:52:27
Speaker
Well, I mean, if he's the next pirate, then surely he would know how to fish. Like he could go more pescatarian with his menu and spend some time fishing. That's the thing, is that part of my success is my ability to not pay a staff. I can continue to grow and I can just go find some more armor to animate. And that's a one time cost. Yes, I clocked that when we walked in.
00:53:00
Speaker
We could have left as soon as we walked in, fellas. You're very protected. So I don't know how often can replicate that unless he has some capacity to awaken animals sometimes. I've seen that work for free labor. Some badger brings you your food. Thank you, I'm good.
00:53:28
Speaker
some ostrich or some terrible attitude. Once they're awakened though, is it ethical not to pay them? They're still available. But you've made them sentient. The ethical implications of D&D spells aside. But yeah, I mean, I, like I said, I can get him in on the beverage thing potentially. I'll need to get back to you in that regard.
00:53:55
Speaker
If you don't mind, we'll let Ulfin, I don't want to make that decision on his behalf. It's not about restaurant, but I'll tell him you offered and let him talk with you about it. Good. And then just finding the biggest hurdle for any, and I know Ulfin's not new at this, but I'm still going to call it a startup because he's looking to grow. Based on the numbers that he sent me, he might as well be opening a new restaurant.
00:54:21
Speaker
The cost of food is going to be the most prohibitive thing for him. So he needs to figure out a way to get food without going through the traditional suppliers. Because even without my staff, I could make this place work paying people to work here because my food cost is so low. Because my currency is arrows that I have to spend to kill my food.
00:54:51
Speaker
So that's the big one. If he's a pirate, then have him dock at the hilt and throw nets out. That would be my biggest piece of advice for him, is cater your menu to what you can get for the lowest cost, which I know is restaurant 101, but it bears repeating. If you're not being successful, time to change something.
00:55:20
Speaker
thank you for listening to ever I'm renewed a restaurant tour advice podcast from a man who's never run a restaurant from someone with zero experience I was just gonna say I think sourcing your own food like that's pretty illegal but almost certainly not in this world can't kill the king's deer
00:55:47
Speaker
Did we crack the code? Did we finish it? I mean, do you guys have any questions for? I think there's something sus going on. Raphan? Aris, what are you doing out in the dining area other than disturbing the guests? Just disturbing the guests. Aris is following around the wait. The wait.
00:56:07
Speaker
robots and getting under any machinery she can see and without breaking anything and taking a whole lot of notes and examining how it all works. So Milo has noticed at this point that Eris is not here. So I'm offended that it took you that long. Well, there was a lot of talking going on. So I actually noticed a long time ago.
00:56:38
Speaker
You know, it would have been rude to interrupt Rifa. Where is Eris?
00:56:46
Speaker
Eris has, uh, decided that she could be more good or she would, I don't even know what that, she just would rather, uh, examine the, uh, the clockwork armor out there. Yes. Yes. I can see how she would be fascinated by that. I'm surprised she did not wish to come in and, uh, meet Raven. Wait.
00:57:10
Speaker
You have somebody out there while I'm in here looking at stuff in the dining area? Well, I'm sure she's quite intrigued by your armored knights.
00:57:27
Speaker
I mean, let's go after her. She's not a spy by any means. She's just painfully curious. I can assure you that any interest she has is not towards the ends of replicating this for Olsen. It's simply she can't not stare at something like that. I don't care about that, but if she's following the waitstaff around, then it's going to make the guests uncomfortable.
00:57:51
Speaker
No one said she's following the way Steph around. None of us know she's following the way Steph around. She was looking at the hostess stay-in when I left her. And that's what I say. That's what I was going to say before you began that thing. She was checking out your host out front. I assume someone directs people to tables. I'm making an assumption.
00:58:17
Speaker
Yeah, there's an animated armor that is standing there that takes people to their tables. OK. I mean, if she still wants to go out, she can go out. I'm just saying, no one knows that she's following around the waitstaff. Yeah. Which I agree, she shouldn't be. Everyone agrees. Raven asks you all, do you have anything else for me? Do you have any other questions? Any requests from Ulfin directly that I can help with?
00:58:47
Speaker
He didn't give us anything I've forgotten, did he? No, no, not really. Okay, I don't think so either. I do have one question for you. What do you recommend? Off the menu, the implication there. Oh, okay. Well, my personal favorite is the boar meets pie. We found a way to...
00:59:17
Speaker
No, no meat pies. Hob made it clear. It's a boar meets pie. It's a three word sentence. Boar meets pie. My assumption was it's the meat of a boar. It's the meat of a boar that has consumed a cherry pie.
00:59:34
Speaker
No, it's just a, it's a pork chop paired with a cherry pie. There you go. Anyway, I like that. Hob does actually want to eat something to see if quality of food is a factor here in her success. Yeah, because while Hob doesn't care about quality, he does recognize it.
00:59:51
Speaker
Yeah, anything with the boar, I would recommend because we figure out a way to tenderize the meat to the point where it eats like domestic bovine, but has the unique flavor of boar. Because the thing is with active animals, it's always like the meat is too tough to really enjoy, but we've cracked the code, so I'd recommend that.
01:00:19
Speaker
Something here has
Applying Tavern Insights
01:00:20
Speaker
to be sinister or suspicious, but I'm not picking it up. I'm getting, I'm growing weary of these disturbing set pieces involving meat that Eric has thrown at us so far. At the point that all becomes germane, I'm really not gonna be happy. But yeah, I'm more than happy to get you all a table, probably in the corner just based on what we have available.
01:00:50
Speaker
I mean, I'd be happy to take it to go, honestly. Just based on appearance. And we can get you all kind of a tasting menu if you want and a few drinks, if you like, just to... No, no, I'll have one of every drink. Thank you. No, no, he won't. I'll get you a flight and some shots. How about that? We said we don't have that sort of money. It'll do. Some shots?
01:01:17
Speaker
Well, like shots of the cocktails, not just pure liquor, like a tasting. Well, now you've taken the fun out of it. So, Raffin takes you all out of your office and sees mortifyingly Eris duck walking next to an animated armor walking across the dining area. And she is taken by the like, oh my god, oh my gods.
01:01:45
Speaker
Can somebody please go deal with her and I'll lead the rest of your party to the table? We don't have the time nor the energy. It would take forever. I think Hob asks Milo, would you give it a shot? I just think more things going around everywhere, it will be the smaller of the two of us. Yes, of course, of course.
01:02:13
Speaker
So Milo goes up to Eris and says, Eris, we have a table and Raven... It's the middle of the afternoon. Yes, but we're going to sample some of the food and I think Raven would prefer that you not follow her animatons around.
01:02:41
Speaker
Am I stopping him from working? What? I... Oh. Yes, there you go. Was the interval out there? I'm being annoying again. Like, genuinely, I'm wondering, is that kind of with the... Something to that effect, yes. Yeah, probably not annoying. You know, I don't think she made these.
01:03:12
Speaker
Actually, you're correct. She did not make them, but she did tweak them a bit. If you would have come into the room with us when we talked to her, you would have found this out. But I understand your curiosity. I found out more things by looking at them and all the other machines.
01:03:38
Speaker
Except in the kitchen. I was going to go back to the kitchen, but I thought that might not be. Yes, that that would have been a little much. Milo and Eris, you both notice the couple sitting at the table for two right next to where you're standing and having this conversation is just kind of glancing out of the sight of their eyes. Eris looks over. Hello.
01:04:00
Speaker
and back to Milo. Come on, let's go, let's go have a seat. That's why I sent Milo. Can you imagine you're sitting in a seat, well first off, let's all imagine a movie theater for a minute. Let's say you're a person sitting there, and then let's say the five of us, lined up in increasing mass, have to sneak pie.
01:04:30
Speaker
OK, so you all sit at the table, and one of the animated armors comes out with a tray full of tiny plates that they start sitting down on the table as Raphyn's standing there. She grabs the drinks out of its other hand and starts passing them out, slides a flight in a series of small, quarter-full shot glasses of different cocktails in front of Reynard.
01:05:00
Speaker
for the discerning palette amongst you. And I also have selection of wines, ales, anything else that you all might want to sample. And- Did she just direct discerning palette at the person who bought burp liquor to a party? And drink lighter fluid or whatever it was. And- I said I'd like to try everything. And she has- That's the opposite of discerning.
01:05:30
Speaker
She has one plate that's a little bit larger than the rest and asks, like, it has a very large pork chop, it looks like, on it. And she stops and says, how does everybody prefer their meat to be cooked? Yes. To an internal temperature of 145 degrees. Excellent. Renard, did you say yes? The error said yes. Medium.
01:06:01
Speaker
What meat is it, really? That depends. It's boar. That 140. Our specialty. And so as you all give answers, she takes smaller plates off the tray and pulls her artifice tools out and kind of twirls them and like
01:06:19
Speaker
changes the inscription slightly and slides them in front of you. And you can feel a little bit of heat rating off the plates based on your preference. And then she cuts the pork chop and puts the different pieces on your plate. You hear a small sizzle and it's just like, get those plates. That house is going to cook on one side. No, they won't. Did you give Raven a last name? Raven is not giving you a last name yet.
01:06:46
Speaker
Okay. I wanted to ask if I could give her one if you hadn't. Oh, okay. Sure. Sure. What's your idea? Rafen Luger, L-U-G-E-R. Why is that? Because famously Peter Luger steakhouse in Brooklyn brings your meat out undercooked with a really hot plate and slices it in front of you and you throw it on until it's... Okay.
01:07:07
Speaker
Um, and so that's what I thought of, uh, refund says, give those three to five minutes, uh, before you try eating them, but feel free to sample, uh, the rest of the stuff. And if you have any questions, let me know, uh, but feel free to just, uh, make your way out when you're done and I'm going to go back to, uh, to it. Uh, thank you all for coming by and, uh, let me know, uh, let often get in touch with me on the, the beverage stuff and hopefully we can work together again and hopefully maybe you'll, you'll come back.
01:07:37
Speaker
Well, what do we owe you for this one? Oh, we didn't. On the house. Well, that's too kind. And as soon as her back is turned, Eris scrapes her food onto Hob's plate and begins examining the ruins. You will get no protestation. It's 3.30 in the afternoon. Eris is not eating a meal.
01:08:03
Speaker
Or give him drunk. Or give him drunk. Yeah, that's Hob. Hob doesn't like, I don't know if any of you have picked up, like Hob doesn't like to drink. He prefers not to, but he also does not hand his drinks over to the ones that do, right? He just decides to keep them in front of him. And every once in a while he'll take a bite of something and be like, no, Aris, really, you have to, just a bite. You gotta try. It's really good. So, Aris, give me a artifice check.
01:08:32
Speaker
with a three purple difficulty. To success, one advantage. Okay, so you can recognize looking at the runes that she's basically using
01:08:46
Speaker
a extremely modified to basically be turned down to next to nothing version of some kind of spell that would create like a force metal to become abnormally hot. Heat metal, perhaps.
01:09:05
Speaker
Yes, heat metal perhaps. And basically the additional runes that she's able to manipulate allow her to regulate how dampened the temperature is. So it's like she's using the heat metal spell and an adjustable version of dispel magic. Aeris writes all the runes down in her notebook. Yeah. And then does the same thing on Reynard's empties.
01:09:29
Speaker
Um, yeah, basically, uh, it's, it's like an internal version of cone of cold is, is what is happening with the, the frost and mugs, the, a perpetual, uh, coldness shooting out. Um, so yeah. I mean, this part I could do, I could do the suits of armor too, but I had to find the suits of armor because I don't know where they came from.
01:09:56
Speaker
She did tell you all where they came from. She didn't tell Eris. I know. I was letting the other people know if they wanted to tell Eris. Yes, she acquired them during her adventuring days. That's not really any good then, is it? Not much help. We didn't really learn anything useful, did we? Just, well, to go back and tell Orphan that he needs to find his niche.
01:10:27
Speaker
But he's a pirate. Yes, he needs to find a better way possibly to capitalize on that, I guess. Well, I think the way you capitalize on being a pirate is by, you know, stealing ships. Right. I think he stopped doing that.
01:10:48
Speaker
So if he steals the ships and then lets people know if you want your ship back, come to the for sales, then that, that brings traffic in, I guess. So Raven did make an interesting conflation between pirate and fishermen that I've never personally thought about, but I mean, perhaps he does. When you, when you count in his, the value of his time, is it actually cheaper for him to go fishing?
01:11:16
Speaker
then to buy fish at the market. I believe that it might not be, you know, the reason that, that, that Rafa is able to go and do her hunting is because she has a staff. It's like the, the difference between it's, it's that absolute versus comparative advantage thing that I read about one time.
01:11:44
Speaker
I also read that book. Okay, so... Oh, go ahead. Yeah, I think I would say, you know, Michael, I'm embarrassed to say, I don't really know
01:12:04
Speaker
Uh, keg bottoms. Yep. You were relatively solvent the whole time. Yeah. What was your niche? Was it the mob? Was that the niche? Was it, was it, was it the mob and longevity? Longevity and reputation. Fine wine and ale and just, you know, bar food. Right. Do you, are you familiar with the co-op?
01:12:33
Speaker
Was that something that you took part in, or did you not have to worry about it because you weren't with House Galandhi yet? I'm assuming we did not partake. No, you did not. I would assume that Boromar connections would make it very easy to acquire plenty of stuff, beverages. Yes. Right. And apparently meat. Apparently, that's a really good meat connection. I mean, I was going to say, well,
01:13:05
Speaker
I know that we can't go asking Satan for things, but clearly there's a meat pipeline. A meat chance, might you say? Yeah. That we might be able to tap into. We just might take some brainstorming to figure out the right way to do that. I don't think chat with Vigo about it is on the
01:13:36
Speaker
On the menu? Whatever. I tried not. That's what I got. She was like, oh crap. At which point Eris, apparently apropos of nothing, says, you know, it really hurt. You know, if you just this room here, it would turn it up really high and that would really hurt if you hit someone in the face with it.
01:14:01
Speaker
In Sherwood. In Sherwood. I imagine not being hot would hurt to hit somebody in the face with. Or you put it on the table and you grabbed in by the back of the head and you smashed their face into the plate.
01:14:18
Speaker
And with that, end of episode. Yeah, we just learned something about, I feel like I learned something about Aeris. Yeah, so you all are able to finish your samplers and head on back, but we are going to call it an episode there for a fun-filled downtime episode. What? You all are looking at me so befuddled.
01:14:39
Speaker
I'm trying to pull in the scale of the downtime episodes so they don't feel as rushed. I'm trying to make them a little bit more comfortable. That's fair. I am interested to see where this leads. So before we send you all off, we need to deal with two things. First off, experience, which you all gained 15 experience for the past arc.
01:15:03
Speaker
and then figuring out if anybody's obligation is going to be triggered in the next arc. Point of order, I wrote down 20 at the end of the last session. Oh, did I say 20? I think so. I think it went well. Have 20. If I'm wrong, I'm happy to adjust it. That's what I have written down. I didn't remember saying it last time, but if I did, then that's fine. Let's do 20. We may have done it off mic. I'm getting an extra five, then.
01:15:31
Speaker
Yeah and then additionally as a result of the events of the past arc Milo your Obligation increases by 10 from 10 to 20 For that whole thing so I believe Eris and Milo are both at 20 Hob and
01:15:55
Speaker
or no, Eris is
Review of Points and Announcements
01:15:56
Speaker
at 10, Hobb is at 20. Yeah, Eris and Reynard are at 10, Hobb and Milo are at 20. So we're gonna do one through 10 is Eris, 11 through 20 Reynard, 21 through 41 is Hobb, well 21 through 40 is Hobb, 41 through 60 is Milo.
01:16:17
Speaker
Okay, 40, Hob. You guys ready to get some paint on you again? Okay, so yeah, Hob's obligation is triggered. So in the next arc, we'll deal with that. Thank you all so much for listening. Next week is the reviewed for this episode, which if you would like to submit a question for the reviewed, as you know, we take listener questions.
01:16:42
Speaker
Then we have a Patreon, patreon.com slash the Geek Pantheon. One dollar a month and up gets you the ability to ask any question. Five dollars a month gets you in the Q&A tier to have priority on those questions. We also have a Facebook group, the Geek Pantheon, and a Twitter and Instagram at the Geek Pantheon.
01:17:00
Speaker
We also have a newly active YouTube channel, youtube.com slash thegeekpantheon, where I put up a load of D&D and tabletop role-playing game videos. And we just started a new actual play show DMed by Philip on our YouTube channel called Kyber Shards. As of this recording, we have the first character introduction and the first episode of Session Zero up ready for you to watch over there.
01:17:26
Speaker
Yeah, and I think that's all the plugs I need to make. I also stream on Twitch, Twitch.tv slash newpantheon. If you want to come hang out and talk to me about Eberron and Nude over there. It's fun. I've been watching a couple of times and I think I ruined it once and I do apologize for that.
01:17:44
Speaker
Anyway, thank you all so much for listening. It is very much appreciated, the support that this show has continued to have. So thank you all so much. I, once again, have been your Game Master, Eric. I remain Philip. I am Trevor. I'm Randy. I am Jeff. And we will see you next time.