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Ep. 127 Mourning Morotagh - Bellum Draconis
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The party finally gather to pay respects to the mighty Morotagh Brokentusk.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Shopping Desires and August Catalog
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I want to shop. I want to shop. I want to shop. I wanted to shop last episode. I did. It was closed. If the shops are open, I want to be there. Sorry. Seth, wait up.
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Speaker
Wait up. I want the August catalog too. It's my Christmas.
Introduction to 'Fellowship of the Tabletop'
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Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Belem Draconis. We are a live play 5E 2024 D&D podcast set in a magical homebrew world of Aerith in the kingdom of Dralak.
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Speaker
Joining you for this week's episode we have Darren who plays the high elf art Artificial Reigns hat out. Hello! We've got Pooh Bear who plays the human cleric Emron. Hello! The edgelord Calum who plays the warforged to artificer Alpha.
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Hello! who plays the tiefling war-saurer Nyx Karel. Hello! Will, he plays the dragonborn druid Balvalgon. My name is Mark and I am playing the human blade singer Seth Farrell Reaver.
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And last but by no means least is our barbarian booty boy, our putrid gender fluid druid, Dungeon Master Danny! Bonjour! Hello. Hello.
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Speaker
had so I've gone through all of them now. I did also find an old one. now I've just lost it actually. I'm just kind of high Drago and Noodle making an appearance at the start of this episode. I know. Drago's Noodle.
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Speaker
yeah we go. LAUGHTER
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Speaker
We've all been there. We've all been there. And speaking of being there. He's fucking massive cock. Let's be honest. Come on. That was it. I just found out our vegan that speaks and makes our whole week. That's my other one. i find That's me.
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Speaker
yeah That was you. Yeah, that would be you. That would be you. Still. All you. Except Ian's. his hole is tight. why would you How would you know, Ian? I will.
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Speaker
William. Yeah. Willhelm Pooh Bear? It's between me and poo Bear Speaking of Pooh Bearing We've all fucked in the ass For fuck's sake That's like that Blink 182 song I'm the dog Wanna fuck the dog in the ass Wanna fuck the nicks in the ass Could only find Ball And his ass I miss you Don't waste raise your time Oh, do you remember?
Nostalgia for Hidden CD Tracks
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Speaker
Hidden tracks, man. They were the best. That that's just doesn't happen anymore. CDs. They just used to have one, didn't they? At the end of their album. How did it go? can't remember.
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Speaker
But they have one. Hit us up. All seven followers still on X. Tenacious D isn't a thing at the moment. Are they not? saying russian lots marks one is my wife.
Dark Town Journey
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Speaker
so make um last week but like that's really good question ja making a hit in track Speaking of hidden tracks, we find a hidden track down a side alley within Dralak, a long dusty path that skews between two high rise buildings, ah leaning on top of each other, almost like a Victorian-esque London.
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ah Deep at the back of it, there's a door. The door opens to a cellar. The cellar opens down to a long sewer. The sewer leads up and into the street. The street leads, and now the start of Funny Bones, um the street leads to the dark, dark town. And in the dark town, you have the dark, dark...
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Speaker
old man. The dark, dark old man is sitting on a dark, dark rock. And on the dark, dark rock sits his dark, dark ass. And then, and on the dark, dark ass is a dark, dark arm. Dark, dark arm is a light orb.
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Speaker
And in the light, light orb, we see some long, long toes. and the long And on the long, long toes, we see the the large, large mouth. And then the large, large mouth begins to speak.
Seth's Inner Turmoil
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Ooh, almost everywhere is closed. Emron catches up with Seth, and it turns out that he can't quite forgive Nyx for what he's done. Seth's inner turmoil is revealed, and he's like, why must it be gray and not black and white?
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Speaker
Emron's like, Seth, you need to recenter yourself. We need a common enemy. And Seth's all like, yeah, that's a good idea, and I can't cast right now. Sheesh. He's got performance issues. That comes with age. Trust me, boy.
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Speaker
Seth begins to summon some sort of phantom horse, but he can't do without no verbal components, because he don't speak no more. And he looks at his spider, and he's like, oh, you're too much like a rat, you spider boy.
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Speaker
And he squishes a bitch, Reigns heads to the merchant's guild hall, and tries to, you know, look into his granddaddy issues, and he stops to examine our robot overlords. It's the Trade and Commerce Center
Reigns' Ancestry Investigation
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and it's still just continuing as if nothing had happened. Reigns starts approaching the Shadow Menians and he learns that he has been erased from Ancestry.com.
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Nyx calls Baal a boyfriend. Baal is like, oh, let's go collect our winnings from this here duely duel. He takes 1,600 gold pieces for himself, 1,800 for Seth, 1,100 for gets 80.
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Speaker
hundred for rains and andron gu eightyie And Nyx gets nothing because he shouldn't have lived. And they try to go shopping. Wait, no, it's all closed and fucked. So let's accompany Alpha to the Mystic Quarter. Wait, no, it ain't open.
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Emron gets his hammer out. and gets all sweaty, and he starts smashing it down and bashing it out, and there's slag everywhere, and it's getting those kinks out, and he's obeying his master.
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Speaker
He's smithing. It's smithing. That's all he's doing it's just smithing. And they make their way back to the pissed newt to find some individuals outside.
Gathering at the Piss Newt
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Speaker
There's a lot of people there, half-orcs, dragonborns, some sort of a Kriskrup person, a halfling, that's all gold port.
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Speaker
Ooh, baby.
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Speaker
It's first light on a new day in Goldview. Your diaries today contain two activities. At dusk today, Sparrowhawk has instructed you to make for an abandoned library in Old Town to attend an emergency meeting with the Winged Watch.
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Speaker
At dawn, however, in these waking moments of the day, you were decided on a memorial to your fallen friend, Marota Broken Tusk.
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Heading out of your secure lodgings of the Piss Newt, you enter into the common room in this familiar, but now familiar, public house. And you see a number of figures in travelling garb.
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Speaker
An elderly half-orc woman in this sort of sand-worn, sand-stained poncho, grasping tightly on her walking stick and her sort of spine is curved as though she spent an entire lifetime in physical service.
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A broader, much younger half-orc. His heavily scarred body and elongated tusks strike caution in all of you. A white-scale dragonborn that has these immaculately polished horns that draw to the centre of a head where these piercing, striking and brilliant yellow eyes almost hypnotise you.
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There is this dwarf, stocky and grizzled with silver and black hair in dark leathers and the purple cloak and heraldry of the Kriskra on his shoulders. There is this strikingly tall drow with black armours and glowing white tribal tattoos that Nix would wouldn't even have to roll a check to recognise this that resemble really closely some of the tattoos that Marota wore.
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Then there is this halfling of complete familiarity to all of you. Well, no, to most of you. For Reigns, for Emron, for Alpha and for Nyx, your once taskmaster, Orla Goldport.
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Within a moment of announcing herself, she visibly releases tears from her eyes and rushes to grab the hands of both Rains and Emron.
Orla's Reunion and Gratitude
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She collects herself for a moment, looks at you both with this unfiltered joy and just says, Thank you.
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I don't understand how the people I have misfortuned so much...
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Speaker
have such warmth in their hearts. And then within a second, she just sort of hides her face and her emotions take over. She begins to come around again.
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Speaker
What do you all do? Yeah, yeah it's all good. And Rain's not knowing what to say. We'll just put his arms around her.
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Speaker
She just sobs for a few minutes. Moments. we are We did what we said we'd do.
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Speaker
What happened?
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Speaker
I arrived in this city in a prison cart. And then I was just free. You were imprisoned?
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Speaker
ah Hold on. that They imprisoned you? Yes.
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Speaker
Born down.
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Speaker
Born down. For the debt, I assume. Then he just... his
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Speaker
His crew just said that the debt had been resolved by friends of mine. and I'm looking at the only friends I have.
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Speaker
When we set out, we said we'd try and sort out. We went out to find gold and money to try and sort out the debt. Turns out it took us a bit longer than we planned, but when we had the chance, we fixed it.
Marota Broken Tusk's Funeral Preparation
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Speaker
One time, the others. ah glad Everyone else, the goalkeeper, we left behind. What about them? They're there.
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Speaker
I sort of asked Fondan for an audience and he sent an armed guard to escort me to... Scorch Helm. I had a plan to pay things back after didn't hear from you all again and...
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Speaker
Well, I guess... I guess I don't need to exercise that plan now. On the road I... I met these folk and, um...
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Speaker
They said they were traveling to Scotch Helm for a funeral.
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Speaker
They're a curious looking bunch.
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Speaker
They said I was going to Scotch Helm too. It was only this morning that I learned they're here for the funeral. wrote a broken tusk. I mean, I can't believe they heard about it so soon.
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Speaker
yeah Yes, they all... um and she One moment. She walks back to the elderly half-orc, whispers something, and then comes back to you with this sort of small piece of card.
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Speaker
And it just says, in loving memory of Marota Broken Tusk, and then today's date and this location at this time, and hands it to you, Emron.
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Speaker
Well, it's a bit... Weird, because we only planned to do this, like, yesterday.
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Speaker
She knew. All it can mean is, um, Merola knew that either one of us didn't leave the game or she didn't leave the games. Yeah, but it's not just about that, Reigns. fact that this has a specific place and time and all that kind of stuff, that's, you know, she can admit that she needs knew that, i mean, she didn't even fucking know us, given what Bal and that lot told us about when they were talking to her.
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Speaker
She didn't even know who we were. She did at some point.
Reflecting on Marota's Life
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Speaker
She could have, um perhaps she knew us better than we thought, and this is a...
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Speaker
I think. But who sent them this? No, this is someone who knew exactly, not just like, oh, I might die, so I'm going to tell people. This is, I know exactly that these people are going to do this then. That's someone knowing the future.
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Ola just sort of points to the dwarf.
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Speaker
Hazan.
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Speaker
He's had this invitation for almost three weeks.
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Speaker
And who sent you this invitation, Hazan? They're sort of on the other side of the bar at this point. You'd have to sort of your shout about this if you wanted to. That's before Marota even left us.
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Speaker
That's before even the Oasis and all that kind of stuff. Three weeks.
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Speaker
Hazan. Three weeks to the day that you left Goldport Keep. Exactly. ah So Reigns has shouted to this dwarf. And sort of looks up with confusion and you see this really scarred face, not as desperately and life-threatening as Seth's, but but but someone who's seen a lot of battle.
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Speaker
And he just looks whilst he's got this very fresh tankard in his hand at you with confusion. He doesn't know recognize you in any way. What? Sorry for your loss.
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Speaker
um Just wondering here who informed you about Marauders. person
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Speaker
was, uh, and delivered by this, uh, this wood elf, my name on it.
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Speaker
Interesting fellow. He didn't say much.
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Speaker
Do you have a name? No, but Sam,
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Speaker
And he just sort of raises his hand to Orla. And Orla brings over an exactly um identical invitation to one that the the the half walked the elderly half-orc woman was holding.
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Speaker
You have two invitations written in a particular penmanship and cursive. She flips it a couple of times as she's just sort of showing them to you and then you see on the back of this the house stamp, if you will, the the insignia of Prager the Majestic.
00:15:59
Speaker
Right. Then I'll hand that to you from while you're studying it just looks and ah, Alpha. It's good to see you.
00:16:12
Speaker
As is you. Um... I don't know if you know this, Alpha, but you've lot of friends near Goldport Keep, and, um... Yes, I, um... I do apologise for the, um... friends arriving most unexpectedly.
00:16:34
Speaker
Yeah, we were certainly surprised, um... But they they werere very they're very kind and um eager, let's say, ah to to help you specifically only.
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Speaker
um Will they be leaving anytime soon?
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Speaker
and If I tell them to leave, I suppose they would. but does This is hard to get the place tidied up when you've got a hundred goblins just shitting everywhere.
Alpha's Unexpected Guests
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Speaker
I would like for them to have a proper home.
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Speaker
Maybe this isn't the time to ask for more resources after what you've all just done for me. And then just looks and smiles. Nix, it's good to see you too.
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Speaker
Nix would have walked away from any discussions here ah pre um around the Marota time. He would have like made himself scarce.
00:17:36
Speaker
He's not one for this ah funeral. So he's trying to find dark place where he can drink or would just outright um walk out.
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Speaker
sorry to right your options would be that you, you stayed in the secure sort of penthouse below that. You've just taken yourself to a quiet corner in this. Yeah. There were, it was a very, um, wholesome reunion between, ah everyone there.
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And, uh, yeah, that's, that's not his scene at the moment. Okay. Then to retrospect, we say for a passing moment, it was, it was good to see Nick's too.
Seth's Emotional Breakdown
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um
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And just sort of marks Barl with unfamiliarity.
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And then sees Seth, looks away for a second, and then almost like a comical second glance, and then a third.
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Speaker
Ferrariva?
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Speaker
Is that... You under there?
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Speaker
ah Seth would have been just kind of sat down, obscuring himself from the conversation, looked up at the name Prego um and then looked back down again. but then at the mention of his surname, kind of head would dart up and look over to the Woods Halfling.
00:18:56
Speaker
And it would look like the corner of a smile would start to form and he'd just um stand, aching body under this wiry frame, large coat over his shoulders, weighing him down and would slowly hunk over, step at a time, heavy boots across the wooden floor towards Orla and just almost like just collapse into her arms, like just down on his knees because she's a halfling and just kind of like just bury his head in her neck.
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Speaker
not in a sexual way, but just in like, ah in like, in a, in a, in a and ah close embrace. And we'll just hang on, um for a little bit longer than is comfortable. Not as long as the, the, the, the previous hug we had in the other episode where they hugged for about 25 minutes, but you know, this is a, this is ah it's a, it's just a, it's a collapse.
00:19:45
Speaker
doesn't cry. just, it just kind of holds her. And if she was alive. She sort buckles under the... You sort of overwhelm her in that approach and the the the way in which you fall with that bigger mass.
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Speaker
She sort of buckles under that but receive receipt of all your weight and just falls the floor with you and says, okay.
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Speaker
and Struggles to breathe for a second, but then eventually musters the strength to hold you. to see you again, friend.
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Speaker
He just there um pe himself sorry um peel himself off her and kind of hold her face, smile, like tap, like a, not like a ah heavy slap, but just like a slightly heavier than a caress.
Nix Seeks Solitude
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Speaker
It's like a pat, pat on the side of the face, like a smile, um big pat on the shoulder.
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Speaker
And then he would stand himself up and look towards the door, look towards Nyx. um wherever Nyx has gone and will still with a smile on his face walk away from the situation and try and Nyx
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Speaker
um so I'm assuming Nyx is just like in a far corner of this room Yeah, just away from... yeah yeah Like, if if the room is full of noise... It's it's not it's not open yet. There is this these two parties that are huddled around the bar.
00:21:13
Speaker
Grumbar is just sort of preparing the space. There is the smell of food cooking. um But it's easy enough for just make decent... It would be somewhere near the bar. ah yeah ah such Just solitary.
00:21:24
Speaker
um Not in a... like fuck off way just hearing conversations that make him feel like uncomfortable oh okay i'm going to distance myself from this i'm not a part of this reunion okay i'm going to distance myself from this so it's not like emo nicks just find it in some space thanks
00:21:44
Speaker
And Ola sort of has to prop against Reigns. When it takes the full weight of Seth, she's sort of reaching out around her for any sort of support to to hold that weight and sort of grabs it. And Reigns is booted almost and uses that to help Seth get back up.
00:21:58
Speaker
And next where you're propped against, you sort of... You're you're looking... You're taking in the room but not wanting to be a part of anything. And you notice very clearly that there is this this drow sat the other side of the bar equally is not interested in being in this social sort of bubble that's existing now. you you clock eyes a couple of times, but you you see that she is exactly where you are, not wanting to make conversation, not wanting to um associate yourself with the sort of emotions that are in this room, just is there. The one second that your eyes linger on each other in that awkward looking between your glass and looking elsewhere,
00:22:42
Speaker
for a second, just for a split second, you feel like you're looking at Marota.
00:22:49
Speaker
Just because the space and placement of the tattoos, it's a different person entirely, but just physi the the hulking way that she's haunched over the bar as well, and the way these tattoos are glowing,
00:23:08
Speaker
It's just like for a second, it could have been her and then reality sort of catches up and and it's clearly not. She knows nothing about you. which there that there's She's not like looking, um sensing familiarity in you at all and then continues to awkwardly look around.
00:23:26
Speaker
Val, what are you doing at this time?
00:23:29
Speaker
So, Biles kind of been standing there semi-awkwardly, like he has no fucking clue who this person is. um But he knows that there's an Akriska with them, so he's still a little bit, even despite everything, a little bit on edge.
00:23:45
Speaker
um Because he knows... Well, he knows what he knows. and so ah Yeah, he's he's not engaging himself fully with the the conversation there. He's kind of just watching, really, seeing what's going on, seeing what Seth is doing, ah more so than what Nyx is doing at the moment. and You see Seth kind of make his way off towards Nyx.
00:24:06
Speaker
He's kind of stood there semi-awkwardly, kind of nods to himself, and probably goes to place himself, not next to um the other two, Seth and Nyx, but near-ish to them,
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Speaker
um to try to overhear, not like purposefully like, oh, what's everyone going to say? but But just kind of get himself nearby so that if conversation sparks up, he can jump in there.
00:24:31
Speaker
Does anyone have anything they want to say to anyone? Yeah, range is going to sound cool. This just sense of awake that's sort of happening, this this um this room that's filled to people that
Seth's Military Trauma
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Speaker
are associated with a memory of someone and that's all.
00:24:50
Speaker
Reigns is just going to turn to Orla and say, is there any... Because I have never seen that emotion in Seth ever. what what's the context What's the context there, Orla?
00:25:03
Speaker
You're not a soldier, Reigns.
00:25:08
Speaker
Seth and I... Seth and I served the Hailstorm search. Seth and I ran shoulder to shoulder into the blight, into one of the darkest hours I've ever seen.
00:25:27
Speaker
It's a trauma I carry with me now, and clearly Seth too.
00:25:39
Speaker
It's one thing to fight an enemy in war.
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Speaker
to lose loved ones, to lose your brethren.
00:25:51
Speaker
But to see them come back to life moments later as some monstrosity, everything about them gone, a husk of the person they were, and you have to destroy them all over again. one should have to suffer that.
00:26:15
Speaker
He's seen a lot.
00:26:19
Speaker
We all did.
00:26:26
Speaker
But alas, this morning is not for our stories, but for someone else's, I think.
00:26:39
Speaker
Reigns will glance up at that and just look at the other people in the room and say, It probably stands to reason that some of you here knew Mirolda longer than perhaps what I did or what anyone who's... Does anyone... how how do you want to How do you want to pay your respects?
00:27:07
Speaker
as the start of sorry At the start of Reigns saying that and the feeling of it like becoming more... kind of formalized almost in terms of remembrance. Seth is, ah from Nick's and Barr's perspective, going to become incredibly agitated and um ah quick of movement. He's going to quickly scribble out um a note, half write it, scribble out and close his book and then just walk out um and walks out of the at the door into the into the morning morning light. Yeah.
00:27:39
Speaker
And he he he leaves the space.
00:27:44
Speaker
The white scaled dragonborn sort of stands at this point and says,
00:27:55
Speaker
we were invited here.
00:28:00
Speaker
you mean to tell me there's nothing planned?
00:28:08
Speaker
Just quickly, whilst whilst that's going on, Battle's going to stand there, look but between Nix and Seth, see se Seth go, and he's just going to follow after him. He's going to follow him outside. and So Battle's out of the picture as well.
00:28:25
Speaker
Great then. um
00:28:29
Speaker
Well, there was something planned. Well, we had a plan. We didn't expect everyone to turn up. um You've all been invited through um arcane ways of knowing this was going to happen in the future, which is, you know, bit weird.
00:28:41
Speaker
But yeah. There's there's a lot of confusion around the room as you say that.
00:28:48
Speaker
We all knew Marota. Yeah. I'm not nodding. Or it's Remembrer. And as I start speaking, Daniel, I'm going to use um this to cast um Ceremonies Ritual.
00:29:01
Speaker
um There's no actual effect because technically Funeral Rite requires a body, but I'm just going to be using um the power to channel it into a a ceremony of some kind. um And Emron takes out um the pouch of um some of the dust that he collected of Morota.
00:29:18
Speaker
and he's going to place it on um on the table and sprinkle around it the ah powdered silver, which is required for the ceremony for the ceremony spell. We've all come here to remember.
00:29:32
Speaker
We all have different memories.
Honoring Marota's Legacy
00:29:36
Speaker
And the best way sometimes to do this is for everyone to take a moment.
00:29:45
Speaker
to share the life that we're here remember, to share memories so that the one who was passed can live on within our memories and live in this moment as we use our voices and our memories of her to send her on to whatever is beyond this life.
00:30:12
Speaker
And as Emman does that, the the silver powder starts to um glow as it starts to channel the the the energy that he's sort of casting and with his words. I'll begin and then i invite each of you say as much as you want or as little as you want.
00:30:29
Speaker
What matters is what you feel in your hearts.
00:30:33
Speaker
When I first met Marauder, I didn't quite know what make of her. She was this feisty, woman who just knew she had her way, didn't she?
00:30:46
Speaker
She knew what she wanted to do. She knew what she wanted to say.
00:30:51
Speaker
But you know what? I remember of being able to and willing to stick with this crazy journey we started going on. And she was dependable when it really came down to it.
00:31:08
Speaker
she spilt blood she shed blood and there were moments when marotta had a real connection that's neutral bond that is grown through combat through strife and though we didn't see eye to eye on everything she was a friend And she was there where everything needed to be done.
00:31:40
Speaker
And it turns out that she had one last thing to do, which was to give her life so that others might live.
00:31:52
Speaker
ah Nix is going to walk out.
00:31:57
Speaker
Can you make a wisdom saving throw? Me? Yep.
00:32:03
Speaker
The fuck is in that ceremony, Emerald?
00:32:08
Speaker
You're hypnotized.
00:32:11
Speaker
Oh, oh. So ah I'm exhausted level two. i rolled a 24. Looking at that, I'll need help with this because you'll know. You minus it by the number of your exhaustion levels. Yes. its So is it, ah it says when you take a D20 test, the roll is reduced by two times your exhaustion the level. So is that a four that I'm taking off of that? Yeah. So I got a 20.
00:32:39
Speaker
For a moment. You attempt to walk out and your legs don't respond. And then you try and lift your hands off the bar and it's like they're glued.
00:32:54
Speaker
And it takes a couple of tugs and you need to just take a deep breath for a second.
00:33:01
Speaker
And then your faculties are entirely free. But for a split second, your body was resisting that urge. Can I follow that urge arcanically and make an arcanic check to find out what it was, the spell?
00:33:14
Speaker
Arcana check is not the appropriate thing. Arcana is... Some check to find out what the spell is, if there is such a thing. To detect magic on where you think it may have come from? Or a perception check to see if anyone's casting anything?
00:33:28
Speaker
I will take the...
00:33:33
Speaker
Just check in my spells. Because I've got detect something.
00:33:44
Speaker
Detect syphilis.
00:33:47
Speaker
It's rife. You get a big ping. get a ping. It's rife and it burns. What have you been doing? um I'll make a perception check if that's cool. Yep.
00:34:05
Speaker
I can perceive you. 13 minus 9. You
00:34:14
Speaker
get 9, mate. It's hard to tell who's looking at you in that moment that needed to be able to see what they were casting ah Okay, cool. um I'll look around a bit confused from that as I become more channeled with ah magical ah presence and power and knowledge.
00:34:34
Speaker
I'm aware these things are unbidden. Regardless, I'm free to move. I'll walk out. Imagine you'll see... Clip-clop on my boots on the wooden floor.
00:34:46
Speaker
You'll probably see Bal and Seth as you do just sort of sat on the docks looking out perhaps at the scorched bay nearby. But we'll return to that in a moment.
00:34:57
Speaker
Yeah, cool.
00:35:00
Speaker
Who wishes... sorry
00:35:05
Speaker
Who wishes to speak of their memories, of their connection with Marotta? Within seconds... this very old aged half-orc sort of lifts herself from the table and then the the younger half-orc and the dragonborn sort of prop her up either side help her.
00:35:28
Speaker
And she staggers towards the table with her cane that you've laid, this sort of ceremonial centerpiece. And from the small satchel,
00:35:41
Speaker
She just puts a small bundle of wheat wrapped in a leather cord onto the table.
00:35:54
Speaker
I knew Mirota as a young woman.
00:36:00
Speaker
After her mother was killed,
00:36:05
Speaker
i took her in for five, six winters
00:36:13
Speaker
I taught her how to tend to the land to honor it. And
00:36:22
Speaker
she was good daughter to me, I suppose, during that time.
00:36:30
Speaker
We didn't leave on exceptional terms. And I never saw her again.
00:36:40
Speaker
for six, seven years, she brought me nothing but joy.
00:36:50
Speaker
And she sort of, that's an uncontrolled smile that sort of breaks into a whimper and then moves back.
00:37:01
Speaker
And your memory of her brings us joy. And the the the the powdered silver sort of gives the glow And then gestures out for the next person to speak.
00:37:13
Speaker
Helping her back to her seat, this male orc, older, scarred, with these immaculately intimidating tusks, battered tunic and these really heavy boots, just steps straight in and says, I've never known for a long time.
Sharing Memories of Marota
00:37:37
Speaker
Well... It felt like a long time. She used to run in the fighting pits with me.
00:37:48
Speaker
ah my goodness could she fight.
00:37:53
Speaker
I gave her the name of the Valkyrie. Because she fought like something. Angelic at times.
00:38:05
Speaker
I kept this. And he produces this bronze medal.
00:38:12
Speaker
First time she ever competed. Against seasoned warriors.
00:38:18
Speaker
Veterans of wars.
00:38:22
Speaker
Barbarians of folklore.
00:38:28
Speaker
She was the third meanest thing. Amongst giants.
00:38:34
Speaker
As a wean. as a teenager.
00:38:43
Speaker
I've trained better fighters since, uh...
00:38:49
Speaker
but none.
00:38:52
Speaker
None that make Goliath cry like she did.
00:39:01
Speaker
then he spits on the table, slams his fist down, and sort of runs it through this broken glass that he was holding. Reaches out his hand, a couple of the drops of his blood just sort of fall into that ceremonial table as well, and walks back.
00:39:30
Speaker
There's awkward silence in the room as people begin to look around. i
00:39:38
Speaker
Can't stand here and say that Mirolda liked me much. I was aware that we had very different perspectives on the world
00:39:52
Speaker
and come from very different backgrounds.
00:39:57
Speaker
I've lived a life of privilege. I sometimes sulk and scowl about it, but in reality, compared to what I suspect Mirolda had to endure, my big fancy palace on the far side of the world probably wasn't that difficult.
00:40:15
Speaker
I never claim to be spiritual or to even consider the prospects that beyond the horizon between the moon and sun, there is a ah glimmer that leads into the celestial worlds where we depart to when we leave this world, but I, I really hope that's true.
00:40:45
Speaker
And I hope that for everything that Marauda did,
00:40:52
Speaker
that she gets to carry on doing what she does best, which fighting, which is
00:41:05
Speaker
moving, never staying in one place, I suspect, and and and pushing for what she believes in.
00:41:15
Speaker
I can't say, or even pretend to say that I understood what Merola believed in, or what it was she was fighting for. that That was, is, and always will be a complete enigma to me, but...
00:41:30
Speaker
There's a lot of people in this tavern and on that dock outside who can...
00:41:36
Speaker
stand here today in the light of soul because of the fact that Marauda selflessly, selflessly gave her life so that we may continue.
00:41:52
Speaker
Ah, we arrived
00:41:59
Speaker
in Sleetgard without purpose, without direction. And I think seeing three people from the other side of the world,
00:42:07
Speaker
move around aimlessly probably frustrated her. I think she gave us purpose and ah think deep down we're older and knew that what we were or what we have to deal with was bigger.
00:42:20
Speaker
Bigger than anything that we individually carry as burdens and
00:42:28
Speaker
she literally, I saw it, gave her life to those among us. Her body literally parted this world to dust to keep some of us, one of us, probably all of us on this plane for a bit longer.
00:42:49
Speaker
So whatever Marolda knew ah didn't know or whatever Marolda was fighting for, however she's worked up in this, this is it's ah
00:43:03
Speaker
it's a legacy to those of us that remain. To either keep her memory going, he'll glance around the room, pass on the training that she had, the tender and care for the land that she had.
00:43:18
Speaker
And then he'll glance at Emron and Alpha
00:43:25
Speaker
or to keep fighting her fight. And he'll then glance at the old orc and if possible to spread her name so that others who come from similar backgrounds can
00:43:39
Speaker
can know what it is to do heroic deeds and selfless deeds despite the harshest and perhaps most difficult of backgrounds.
00:43:52
Speaker
I am truly sorry that Marola is gone and I wish for what we had to do next that she was here, but I don't know what I'm personally capable of.
00:44:11
Speaker
But for Moreau's sake, whatever this is that we're in,
00:44:22
Speaker
we're going to see it through.
00:44:26
Speaker
I don't know her, but Reigns will just then...
00:44:32
Speaker
just go to the bar and just take a tankard, ah go to fill it up, realise that the bar is still drained of alcohol and we'll just... No, it's restarted. Okay, Reigns will just fill a tankard up with an ale and he'll just place it on the desk and say,
00:44:52
Speaker
sit this one out, Maraud, or we got it.
00:44:55
Speaker
Thank you.
00:44:59
Speaker
When you started to talk about...
00:45:03
Speaker
showing others or being a hero and these heroic acts, the drow scuffed, not deliberately, like, audibly to interrupt you, stood back and followed Nix's um pathway and beelined for being out of there, as though she didn't believe the story.
00:45:26
Speaker
But everyone else took it as expected and Nick, Seth, Bile, wherever you are, if you're out on the dock right now looking out, just having your own quiet moments, this drow with glowing white tattoos has done the exact same thing.
00:45:45
Speaker
And Rains, once you finish that gesture, the white-scale dragonborn
00:45:54
Speaker
sort of holds her tankard and sort of cheers is the one you just put down. and says,
00:46:11
Speaker
i didn't know her for very long.
00:46:17
Speaker
We worked together in an organization known as the Mirage Brotherhood.
00:46:23
Speaker
And
00:46:27
Speaker
she was one of the Finest strategic minds, I think. Her attitude for...
00:46:36
Speaker
taking no bullshit, taking no prisoners.
00:46:41
Speaker
Understanding the task at hand and executing it.
00:46:47
Speaker
And her ah flair for opportunity made me very rich over the years.
00:46:56
Speaker
And I'll miss, and I have missed, a business partner partner of the same cunning and ambition as her.
00:47:12
Speaker
And she just flicks this coin from her pocket. On one side has K, D, and near the other N, B.
00:47:24
Speaker
And it lands next to the tanker that you put down, Reigns.
00:47:33
Speaker
Sits back down. There's a beat of silence.
00:47:39
Speaker
And then this dwarf in the of Criskra Cloak stands.
00:47:49
Speaker
And he is tearful entirely. And has been audibly sobbing through all of this.
00:48:00
Speaker
Names hasn't.
00:48:06
Speaker
Marota was my wife.
00:48:10
Speaker
For a time.
00:48:16
Speaker
We served in the Criss-critch together. For a couple of years. out together I rejoined once we parted ways
00:48:39
Speaker
so
00:48:42
Speaker
for the happiest part of my life she made me better man
00:48:52
Speaker
I better fight her.
00:48:56
Speaker
And taught me so much about this side of the world.
00:49:02
Speaker
And he puts these pair of manacles down on the table.
00:49:09
Speaker
No, this isn't a kink thing.
00:49:15
Speaker
We caught some fucking dangerous bastards with this.
00:49:23
Speaker
Aerith would have been in a lot more of a shit state now, were it not for her.
00:49:32
Speaker
Ten years in the Upris Gramee, she's the finest person I've ever fought alongside in that organisation.
00:49:45
Speaker
And she was the greatest wife I could have ever hoped for.
00:49:52
Speaker
And uncontrollably sobs at that point.
00:49:56
Speaker
Until the Whitescale Dragonborn sort of consoles him.
00:50:04
Speaker
At this point, the people that haven't spoken would be Alpha and Orla, because the Drow walked out.
00:50:21
Speaker
Ola just looks at you, Alpha, for a second to see if there is any
00:50:27
Speaker
motion. there's a She can't read any motion on Alpha's face. um But he will take a step forward.
00:50:42
Speaker
I'm afraid i didn't know Morota as long as some of you.
00:50:50
Speaker
And you all have so many wonderful memories of her and the influence that she had.
00:51:00
Speaker
The only thing I can ever take away from Morota and her time with myself was some of her teachings and a few soul adventures with her and another friend.
00:51:17
Speaker
She taught me and encouraged me to follow my own path, to be true to myself and to what I deem to be right in my own eyes.
00:51:34
Speaker
She sometimes did things that were not agreed upon, as has already been said, but she believed in what she did with her whole heart.
00:51:47
Speaker
And the only hope that I can ever have is that I can take these lessons that she has attempted to teach myself and carry them on in her name.
00:52:00
Speaker
And the only thing that AlphaKinder has that has any emotional or sentimental attachment to Marota is the boomerang that she left with Alpha.
00:52:20
Speaker
I had always thought that I would carry this with me as a memento of our time together. But now I understand after listening to all of your amazing stories.
00:52:36
Speaker
The best thing I can carry with me is her memory.
00:52:42
Speaker
And he's going to put the boomerang down on the table with all the other bits and pieces that people have put down. So a few drops of blood, the coin, and just take a step back.
00:52:58
Speaker
There is a din
00:53:02
Speaker
until Orla clears her throat.
00:53:06
Speaker
Fuck.
00:53:10
Speaker
I really shouldn't have done this last.
00:53:17
Speaker
shouldn't get up from a chair.
00:53:25
Speaker
The last thing, last time we spoke, she threatened to kill me. There were a couple of chuckles in the room.
00:53:37
Speaker
No. She sort of readdresses them.
Orla's Remorse and Ceremony Conclusion
00:53:42
Speaker
This was recently. She threatened to kill me because tasks and opportunities that I extended to her and her friends kept getting people killed or in trouble and
00:54:00
Speaker
there was one contract.
00:54:03
Speaker
This creature She looks at you, Reigns and Emron Alpha. I don't even know the outcome of that roper. But you live to tell the tale.
00:54:18
Speaker
But she told me stop doing this because people are dying and next time I see you all, it's her.
00:54:34
Speaker
I'm really not good at this. This life post-blight.
00:54:42
Speaker
I'm really not doing well.
00:54:47
Speaker
And I really let you down.
00:54:54
Speaker
And I'm sorry.
00:55:02
Speaker
I'm really fucking sorry.
00:55:08
Speaker
And she goes to walk out.
00:55:16
Speaker
then Emron's eyes just slowly make their way back to you. But before you speak,
00:55:29
Speaker
the dwarf just looks at you and says...
00:55:39
Speaker
We celebrated our marriage
00:55:44
Speaker
under the church of Lido.
00:55:50
Speaker
Thank you for this.
00:55:55
Speaker
He leaves.
00:56:02
Speaker
And so, with everyone's memories, with everyone's shared connection.
00:56:14
Speaker
I bring our voices together, bound within this ceremony. Though we do not have a body here, we do have what remains of her.
00:56:26
Speaker
And so with these spells and with the power of Aledo, I bid this magic, these memories, this...
00:56:37
Speaker
love, this connection we all had, helped speed her spirit on its way to whatever plane is her destiny to go to, to reside.
00:56:57
Speaker
And with that, I close this ceremony. And the silver sparkles and brightens and glows. you And then the silver is gone.
00:57:10
Speaker
Take inspiration there. Thanks. We rewind a little bit in time to outside the front of the Pisnut where chronologically, my apologies, Baal and Seth, you sort of find yourself in the sort of jetty of a series of docks, looking out amongst
Seth and Baal's Heart-to-Heart
00:57:34
Speaker
the Scorch Bay. The city itself is sounding more like it did when you first arrived.
00:57:41
Speaker
the sense of industry and purpose is sort of reigniting. It's still a little bit tepid. There are still sort of places in scaffold. There are still...
00:57:53
Speaker
um ah people in mourning, but it's it's not the most immediate reaction. People are beginning to carry on. Business as usual is starting to resume.
00:58:04
Speaker
It's just you two at the moment. We'll rewind a little bit and Nyx will appear imminently before this this drow does. there anything you two want to say in that or perform, let's say? This might be more appropriate, but Seth's vow right now.
00:58:21
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. Is is Seth, are you storming off somewhere? Are you kind of popping yourself down? what What's Seth doing? Yeah, he's pontificating, looking out over the bay um and just taking in what was so eloquently described and just now kind of book open, not writing anything, just kind of looking out.
00:58:38
Speaker
Okay. Bile is going to walk up behind and just stand there for a second or two. before placing himself down next to you, just sitting down, staring out ahead, looking across to you.
00:58:59
Speaker
I appreciate the irony of what I'm about to say, but we need to talk.
00:59:06
Speaker
and kind of raises an eyebrow looking at you, Seth. It's like a slightly ironic half-smile and they' kind of a side-eye glance over to you but for a second and then he continues looking out.
00:59:22
Speaker
I don't quite understand
00:59:27
Speaker
what's going on. We haven't had a chance to talk since the boat. And you haven't talked since the boat.
00:59:38
Speaker
What's gotten into you, Seth?
00:59:43
Speaker
He takes a second just kind of like to process what you've asked of him. and so It's like this big exhalation of breath and then begins to write.
00:59:58
Speaker
And he writes and in a way it's very similar to what he had written to Emron the previous day, but
01:00:08
Speaker
It's ramblings, really, angry ramblings of of um disunity within himself with
01:00:18
Speaker
things being wrong, nothing feeling right, the curse, the past of the curse, Nyx's loss of curse, his gain of curse, his dislike ah being directionless. He's a soldier. he doesn't have, he doesn't deal well without an enemy. And now he's been told that the enemy, other people entrusted with the egg and with everything and suddenly they're not the enemy anymore and that doesn't sit well.
01:00:50
Speaker
And he finishes it with, ah he kind of writes, read, writes, and imagine he's kind of reading it over his shoulder and he rips the page out and slams it down and then starts a new one. He writes this kind of block capitals a little bit almost.
01:01:03
Speaker
It just says, I can't be in there when I killed her. It feels wrong. It all feels so wrong. What do we do now?
01:01:19
Speaker
but was going to kind of raise his eyebrows and go, fuck. Okay. That's a lot to unpack.
01:01:28
Speaker
Let's start with this and he'll motion to the the new tattoo that you have on your arm. You need to understand, i did not know that was going to happen. I didn't know that it was going to to to even stop being on me.
01:01:43
Speaker
Seth nods to that, like with ah closing his eyes like ah he understands the Yeah. i
01:01:51
Speaker
I've been thinking of it through and the deal was about the egg which
Reassurance and Unity
01:01:58
Speaker
I got and when I got the egg, as soon as it happened, my curse left me which got me thinking about you and what you had asked for.
01:02:12
Speaker
Which, if I remember rightly, was a small loyal army. so Seth nods to that and then writes the word Legion. Legion?
01:02:24
Speaker
Is that a lot? He nods to that like, him yeah.
01:02:31
Speaker
Doesn't say it, but...
01:02:34
Speaker
The deal was we keep most of the group alive and you end up with that. I mean, my deal was ended sooner, perhaps, because of the egg. Can we try to find you a legion that is of I don't know, strong loyalty to to to you? is is If we can do that, we can end what we have there. and It also got me thinking as well. I know that we were both really, really fucking stupid.
01:03:05
Speaker
But we both agreed to this with Prego ourselves, didn't we? He didn't force us to to make that agreement. It was a choice at the end of the day. And as far as I see it, with regards to purpose and direction, mine has not changed, even though my deal is done.
01:03:22
Speaker
I do intend to keep that group alive. And if I'm not mistaken, that that's the deal that you also have to do. So you keep bringing yourself away from them.
01:03:35
Speaker
But it's something about us being with them that is going to solve this situation. So don't lose sight of that. um And he's going to trace his finger down the book.
01:03:48
Speaker
Next on the list, next on the list. Oh, fuck me. Yes, of Kriska. Okay. Now, I still feel shitty about that. In fact, your reaction made me feel even shittier about that. i In all honesty, one of the big deciding factors in me giving that over to who I did was you.
01:04:10
Speaker
You hold Lucian in high regard. I've heard you talk of him. And looking me in the eye, Seth, if Lucian had promised you that no harm would come to it, that he is not harming and will make sure that no harm comes to the other eggs in his possession,
01:04:40
Speaker
and he will on his life ensure it is looked after, Would you have denied him?
01:04:52
Speaker
Seth thinks for a long seven seconds and then shakes his head. No, he wouldn't deny him. you see Ba kind of exhale and his shoulders drop a bit. He was relying on that as a response, and he just kind of... There's almost like ah like a half sob comes out as well, and he goes, oh, thank fuck.
01:05:14
Speaker
Oh, thank fuck, Seth. You have no idea how much I needed to hear that, because I have been double-guessing myself. I know it seems like a really fucking stupid idea.
01:05:26
Speaker
It does. I'm not saying we suddenly trust all of Kriska, but...
01:05:33
Speaker
I think there are some we might have aligned goals with. That is not to say that the people we fought in the desert, your old captain, yore and the undercover work you were doing there, I'm pretty sure those were the evil fuckers, and I will ensure that they burn on this plane and all other planes. I will follow them into the depths of all of the planes of hell and fucking burn them again. He's getting more and more irate and kind of slows himself down.
01:06:01
Speaker
Calm. ah I haven't forgotten it. Please don't think I have.
01:06:08
Speaker
um
01:06:11
Speaker
And finally, to do with Nix and what he did.
01:06:21
Speaker
Put yourself in his shoes, Seth.
01:06:26
Speaker
Imagine, if you will, the one thing you hold above all others was a ship that you fucking love and tell all sorts of stories for. Make up fucking goblin stories about, apparently.
01:06:39
Speaker
Imagine that you have a friend whom you treasure above all others, a captain whom you treasure above all else, and then some person that you know is important to others but don't really give a shit about.
01:06:58
Speaker
He could do nothing to save Marota. I know that, and I know you hold guilt for her death. You could not have changed it any other way. She was not making out of that tournament in any other way. I think she knew that.
01:07:10
Speaker
And seeing what I've seen within there, I think Prego knew that. It was his signature on the invitations. He had some foresight, like he's done with the egg, like he's done with us, that we were not in control of. That was a certain point in future that he must have known about.
01:07:30
Speaker
You need to hold on to that. Your actions may have put an end to her life, but it was predetermined. If it wasn't you, it would have been one of us.
01:07:45
Speaker
But back to Nyx. Imagine you had lost everything. Absolutely everything. Three of the things that you hold dearest. Your captain, your best friend, your ship.
01:07:58
Speaker
The things that you've been fighting for for God only knows how long. And then there's this other person that means a lot to other people and maybe the future.
01:08:10
Speaker
If I was in his shoes and say it was the egg on that list, I wouldn't have thought twice. I would not have brought anything else back. I would have saved the egg.
01:08:22
Speaker
He didn't.
01:08:25
Speaker
He chose... And Baal quickly looks around. is that Is there anyone directly nearby? ne Okay. He'll kind of lure his voice a bit. He chose Sebastian.
01:08:37
Speaker
For us. For Aerith.
01:08:42
Speaker
Maybe even for you.
01:08:47
Speaker
Don't cast that aside.
01:08:51
Speaker
He's not blameless. But he is not the same tiefling that we met weeks ago.
01:09:01
Speaker
Through that last section, Seth's just been lightly shaking his head. And as you finished, he scribbles down another page. Another note another page just writes, i hate that you talk so much sense.
01:09:17
Speaker
LAUGHTER
01:09:20
Speaker
I don't know what is right or wrong now, but you seem to. I will follow your lead. I need a list.
01:09:31
Speaker
One, bracket, kill the mechanics in the sky. Two, bracket, remove the curse plus get an army. Three, bracket, kill Prego the Majestic. And he looks up at you like, hmm?
01:09:49
Speaker
Oh, fuck yes. Thumbs up. And it doesn't have to be in that order, Seth. and Double thumbs Bar will tap the army and look his way up to the sky as well. That could come in handy.
01:10:02
Speaker
He nods. He then has like a, oh, like ah a reminder and then quickly scribbles down. Do we still have those scimitars I could do with a weapon about now? I can't cast anything.
01:10:14
Speaker
Bar will kind of... nod, ah look in his bag of holding, circle, look like kind he'll pull out a potion of water breathing. ah He'll pull out like a fistful of gold and look at you and go, ah by the way, you're rich.
01:10:29
Speaker
um This is yours. and And he'll hand over to you 1800 gold pieces. And just kind of spill it out onto you.
01:10:40
Speaker
And just be like, it's all yours. It's all yours. I mean, people fucking wanted you to win. Seth's just going to push it back into the bag of holding while looking around. Like, he's just got normal pockets and he's just to like... Good point, good point. I'll take it back. I'll take it back. Like moth to flame.
01:10:56
Speaker
Like moth to flame. The moment gold is produced. Oh no. Nyx exits the
Nix's Reflections and Lightened Burden
01:11:02
Speaker
pissed newt in... Hello!
01:11:05
Speaker
in in in his own emotional circumstance nix you take out you take that deep breath in for a second you see your two friends removing the themselves from the situation on the dock the city around you is beginning to have a pulse again after a couple of days of just being in shock what do you do in these moments uh nix is just taking in the we're close to the sea again aren't we yeah right in front of the bay and your two friends are there and they're smiling and they're in that moment they are not matching the emotions of the room you left.
01:11:38
Speaker
Oh, that's lovely. Seth like he's actually happy for for for once in ah in a few, and in a hot minute. Nick will take that scene in for just a heartbeat of the sea just kind of glistening in the sun and the smell of the salty air and then Baal kind of making Seth smile. Cause the last time Nixon Seth, uh, is like, it's almost replaying vividly in Nick's mind. The, the illusion, but Nick know that of the shadow blade coming down on him and then the storm off, um, after the big reveal.
01:12:17
Speaker
ah so the next time seeing Seth, seeing that he's smiling, And it doesn't take a genius to know the result of that. um Just makes him, just makes his heart little skip a little bit more for Baal as he takes in just, and he just takes that in for a moment and kind of this weight.
01:12:37
Speaker
and It just feels a bit more weightless, weightness, weight, takes a bit of weight off his shoulders. Yeah.
01:12:48
Speaker
a Yeah, I think Nyx is just taking that all in. He's okay. He doesn't need to engage in the conversation. i think he's a little bit wary. He's still a Seth and he doesn't want to rock the boat, as it were, to disrupt any um merriment.
01:13:08
Speaker
So he's just going to and just take it in He just needed to get out there. It wasn't a storm off or anything like that. He needed some air. He's happy-ish.
01:13:19
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And taking in that scene of your friends, about a minute of just breathing, this drow slams a door behind you, sort of walks past you with purpose.
01:13:36
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sees that Seth and Nix are occupying that part of the dock and just sort of moves down a couple of jetties and just goes out. Sorry. Sees that but Seth and Bala are occupying the immediate sort of overlook into the Scorch Bay.
Baal and Nix's Dockside Moment
01:13:51
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So knocks you on the shoulder again, um not purposely, but just like wants to move through some people and goes like the next jetty down and just finds her own space and looks out at the bay and is looking angry, like really angry.
01:14:07
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just stares out at the sea. Sorry, just just to clarify, were there some scimitars in the bed? I think they were sold, if I'm not mistaken. have no scimitars on my person. I'm pretty sure they were I don't even have Nyx's dagger anymore.
01:14:25
Speaker
yeah I don't have any weaponry on me other than the cane, the navigator's cane, but that's not really a weapon. and I'll make you one, babes. You are super rich. That'll take too long. I'm going to go buy some. I'm going to go to the shops and then he'll just... That's where he'll be for the...
01:14:41
Speaker
Cool. Feel free to buy two scimitars if I can. Feel free to browse through that in the player's handbook to get to get a price, et cetera. Can I have super powerful ones? Please.
01:14:52
Speaker
I want to shop. I want shop. I want to shop. if I wanted to shop last episode. I did. It was closed. If the shops are open, I want to be there. What about the trail? Seth, wait up!
01:15:04
Speaker
Wait up! I'm on the August catalogue too! It's my Christmas! It's Dawn, you've got a couple hours before anything like opens for reals. But but yeah, but we can honour that today for sure.
01:15:15
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Thank you. But Nick, in that moment, anything you're doing? Yeah. ah
01:15:25
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ah a lot of noises. That was a lot of noises. and Yeah, it was a lot of noises because Ian and Nick's got two different approaches. Like, Ian wants to go and sniff out this drow. I'm just making sure that's what Nick wants to do in this situation, given it's the wake of Marota everything that's just transpired.
01:15:43
Speaker
just think, I just think, unless provoked, he's quite happy in that good moment, that was just, he just viewed, um, I don't know if I can know what that drow is doing though.
01:16:00
Speaker
So yeah, Nix is Nix is. Yeah. Uh, He's cool. he's He's chill. He's just watching. He'll watch Seth get up. um If there's a space next to Baal after that, he'd sit next to Baal.
01:16:13
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um Just for companionship. Yeah, just just make a perception check for me for something that happened during that. I can perceive. Motherfucker, she stole something. I'm killing her.
01:16:25
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Straight up.
01:16:29
Speaker
ah So, that's a three, because I'm exhausted.
01:16:37
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Yes, Barl's there. Just looking out at bay by himself. Great. Shit. Then Nick's knowing nothing. Ian inside, just squirming and uncomfortably.
01:16:49
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ah Yeah, Nick's will just walk up. He'll try and... if it it like ah watch Seth walk away first. If Seth didn't make any motions or anything like that, he'll just kind of like eyes up, eyes down, eyes up, eyes down.
01:17:04
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Anything? Eyes down. Towards Baal. That's the play.
01:17:11
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I do want to shop though. shot Do you do two do anything?
01:17:18
Speaker
It's public. There's people watching. We shouldn't. Baal kind of looks up. Ha ha ha ha!
01:17:26
Speaker
see you approaching, just kind of tap the floor next to him. His feet are dangling off. He's looking over into the Harbor. Uh, what I imagine is still part destruction from, um, a few nights ago. Um, and if bar kind of sits down next to him, he'll just rest ahead over on his shoulder and just stare out.
01:17:47
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Uh, yeah. Nick's all pop his head on top of bar's head. And, uh,
01:17:56
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I'd didn't think I'd see him smile again so soon. So, well done.
01:18:05
Speaker
He's not there yet.
01:18:08
Speaker
But... You have a way about you. your You'll get him there.
01:18:17
Speaker
ah Thanks for not running a mile um and saying some
01:18:27
Speaker
some rather lovely things. Uh, during my big old story, you know, means, ah means more than unfortunately you'll probably ever know.
01:18:40
Speaker
Uh, but yeah.
01:18:48
Speaker
In all honesty, if me frying someone in their own armour hasn't scared you off, you've probably seen me at my worst. Ah, no, that was like that was a turn-on.
01:18:59
Speaker
Let's go buy some scale mail. You're resistant, right? Oh, yeah. I'm joking.
01:19:09
Speaker
in this in this question i In this moment are where you're just like... Physically warm with each other, but not like not necessarily like embracing. Just tell me what you're doing with your hands, Nix.
01:19:22
Speaker
Tell me what you're doing with your hands. Just in this moment of post-awkwardness, discovery of what your relationship is now, just that when you where do you place your hands? In between his legs. No, no. I'm sorry. No.
01:19:35
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No.
01:19:37
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no
01:19:43
Speaker
Don't need to make a con safe. They are just hanging loosely in Nix's laps. Laps. Lap. Over his trousers as, because it's the head contact, as...
01:19:54
Speaker
and They're looking out into the harbour. um It's all very just nice. PG. Yeah. And as you exchange a few warm words with Baal, your hands are in your lap, your forearm on your right hand side Just notices your pocket's a bit thicker. hair Dangerous territory.
01:20:20
Speaker
your Your pocket has a slight bulge to it so on your hip.
01:20:27
Speaker
Oh, damn. Uh, Nick's all just kind of, but as he feels that kind of look a bit confused and, and look down, break the the head, um, uh, and just slightly shift his shoulders. So that ball's head would just kind of instinctively just pop up, um, almost like after a long rest.
01:20:47
Speaker
And, uh, this is, uh, this is new and Nick's will venture into the bulge. but It's the invitation again that was written in Prego's hand for this moment in time.
01:21:03
Speaker
As you study it and flip it over. faint blue glow appears on the card for a split second.
01:21:17
Speaker
Bala, you see none of this. If you're looking at what he's doing at all, you just see the invitation. Next, you just see a faint blue glow. Sort of like an automatic writing moment.
01:21:29
Speaker
And it just says four words.
01:21:38
Speaker
The tusk isn't broken.
01:21:46
Speaker
And that's where we're going to end this week's episode of the Fellowship the Tabletop Bellum Draconis.
01:21:54
Speaker
oh bump bump boom Oh! Cliff Hangger. It's coming up, Nicks! Speaking
01:22:07
Speaker
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