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C2 Ep. 171 Cursed Legacies Episode One
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Hung up and hung over
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Introduction and Recap
00:00:09
Speaker
D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:00:46
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed Natural Play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. As you all can tell, we are sans Trevor slash Reynard, who's going to pick up his sweet new armor and get some intel on the dad's itch. So anyway, what happened last time? We had a really chill conversation. Further recriminations, dueling recriminations.
00:01:14
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Yeah, everyone was really good at expressing their feelings and concerns. That's true. We made no progress with Cath or Sauna, I don't think. We might've lost progress. Yeah. And then we all left. And then everyone left. Went home. Yep. I think Milo had one
Character Morning Routines
00:01:40
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too many mornings and braces.
00:01:43
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I think the first time Milo ordered that drink, it was one too many. Raynard, I think, hung around to talk to Nessa Moon Shadow. Oh, yeah. After you all had left.
00:01:52
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and her friend. So he's probably not on his way to get the armor. He's probably been kidnapped. We'll tune in when Trevor's schedule frees up and find out. Trevor has time for us. OK, so we're going to jump to the next morning where presumably Eris is stirring a massive hangover, I would imagine.
00:02:17
Speaker
Honestly, if something wakes Eris up, then it's probably the next morning. Otherwise, it's sometime the next afternoon. Bob is stirring a massive bowl of oatmeal because he did not drink.
00:02:30
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Yeah, Hob, are you getting up to anything in the next morning? You got a couple of things on your plate, but biggest two things would be the Reynard's dad situation, which you'd want to wait on Reynard to hear back from. I feel like we could go handle that. We could go murder him. Yeah. It'd be very narratively satisfying for everyone.
00:02:49
Speaker
Raynard might prefer it that way. I think Hob understands that the Raynard thing is on hold until Raynard, or Eldorin for that matter, says something. I think Hob's biggest thing right now is making sure that his friends are dealing with last night appropriately. Particularly Aris, since he took Milo home. And I assume he'll probably reach out to Aris about
00:03:18
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how things went with, he hasn't talked about how things went with Harbin yet. Are we getting this or a Calcum? Are we floating this boat? So that's what he's thinking about now. Okay. Milo, even after a night, just a tad excessive drinking, Milo didn't go crazy or anything. Would Milo sleep in pretty hard or would still be, would the internal clock still get him up?
Milo's Brunch Rush Adventure
00:03:41
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No, he'd sleep a little, he'd sleep a little late.
00:03:45
Speaker
OK, I don't what's a little light to my mid afternoon and probably mid morning. Ten, ten. Yeah, nine, ten o'clock somewhere. No more than a week for sure. OK, so what's Milo's plans for the day? Still same stuff that I just mentioned to Jeff on Milo's plate of the Reynard stuff, but Reynard's kind of dealing with that and then also the or a Calcum, which you don't really have an update on yet. Do we?
00:04:12
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Does Milo know what's going on with Raynard? Does he know Raynard's out of pocket? I wouldn't think he would. So I'm thinking maybe he would go see if Milo wanted him to tag along to get some armor or something. Okay. So you're heading to Raynard's place.
00:04:35
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Yeah, why not? Trevor's not here, right? Yeah, I know. But Milo doesn't know, but Randy sure does. Wait, where's? Oh, crap. Trevor's not here. So I don't know. I don't have anything else for Milo to do, really. Raynard leaving as you approach and he just leaves you off and says he's got it under control and he's fine. Thank you. Goodbye.
00:05:00
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Well, I was just fine. Just be like sauna. I get Milo's just. Taking a walk, basically, and just happens to go by Reynard's to. OK, so he just going to take his little walk, probably end up at the for sales sooner or later. Yeah, you're. Milo's just strolling around lower Memphis. That's right.
00:05:28
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Lost in his thoughts back, back alleys trust. Okay. Milo, you're walking around and you, you see some familiar faces that kind of nod at you as you're walking about and
00:05:50
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Yeah, you don't really encounter anybody of note, just some familiar faces. If you end up at the four sales, then they're doing breakfast right now. So a little bit of a rush as you walk. Do you enter the four sales? Do you head there? Yeah, no, yeah, I'll go in.
00:06:05
Speaker
It's pretty busy. It's not the busiest you've ever seen it, but it's definitely late breakfast brunch rush. Eberron doesn't have a 40 hour five day work week. People work when they want to. So they can go take brunch whenever they like, even if it's on a Wednesday, you see often rushing around the dining area. And after a beat, you realize sauna and ace both are not here. So often is the only person in the four sales right now.
00:06:31
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Oh, so often rushing around and he sees you and just nods and Milo and rushes back to the back room to grab something. Yeah.
Ace's Mysterious Vehicle
00:06:41
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So Milo follows him back there, says, thought about having a bite to eat, but I guess it looks like you could use some help.
00:06:48
Speaker
Uh, yeah, that'd be great. If you could take those three plates to table four, that'd be awesome. And he brushes out the door. And yeah, Milo, what check to see how competent a server Milo is doing a brunch zero experience. Yeah. You ran out, you ran keg bottoms. That's right.
00:07:10
Speaker
Yeah, how many tables were it was Milo 10? I guess it was the family business so Milo had to start somewhere Give me a charm about charm. I take a charm check You present the options and I'll tell you yes or no
00:07:29
Speaker
Street what? I take street wise. Coordination. Coordination would definitely be an option. I'm not sure if Milo wants that one. Yeah. What do you want to do, Randy? I think the size. I think they're both the same. Streetwise and charm are both the same. Either one of those. Could you arcana and summon a bunch of. Yeah. That's never gone wrong for Milo. Hey, we're not there. Let's do what he wants.
00:07:59
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Yeah, let's do let's do charm. Look how that kind of makes sense running a business. You want to. OK. Be customers. Yeah. Give me this. We're just going to say this is an average check. So two purple Milo has some experience in this field, though. So take a setback or a boost. And in fairness, Randy, we can't say that keg bottoms is a booming business.
00:08:22
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But it was. It was a pretty good business. There might have been a film or two when it was on fire. No one's in there. And I am going to flip a story point to say that Table 4 is the really drunk, annoying brunch people that are very loud and abrasive. Drunk in a brunch on Wednesday. Hey, so it's one red, one purple. I'm here for Momotha.
00:08:50
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So anyway, I was just at the ship. I don't eat pork, so I need bacon. No sausage. I'm serious. That morning's embrace. All right, Randy, roll away. I did. Oh, gosh. One failure, two advantages. So we're off to a grand start.
00:09:12
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I put $5 on the edge of the table and every time you mess up, I'm gonna take it all away. So because it was the upgraded die that kind of did you and Randy, as you're approaching with the tables, or with the plates to the table, one of them gestures wildly and knocks one of the plates out of your hand and goes scattering on the floor and they like make a big uproar. You do have some advantage. What do you want to do with that?
00:09:41
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oh boy you just dropped my omelet the food lands accurately on the plate no harm done yeah with a little flip of his little quick little wrist mileage is bingo got it what was that sound effect again randy i don't know
00:10:03
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When Milo's on his own, he's in an eight bit video game. Exactly. I don't know that. Now, wait, did he sound like he was blaming me because he blamed Milo because it got hit? Like he's disgruntled and upset or he's sorry. Yeah, they're annoyed. You dropped their food. Oh, boy. Idiot. Oh, hey. That's not how I ordered my omelet. That's scrambled on the floor.
00:10:31
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Milo makes- Oh, I'll eat it. I got it. Milo apologizes and says, get that next omelet right out. And the next omelet will be the best omelet he ever had in his life. It will make him happy. Okay. To advantage to make the patron happy in spite of my- Sure. I don't know what else I could use it for. Yeah, but it was worth the wait, even though one got dropped.
00:10:57
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Okay. Based on your check, Milo, brunch rush doesn't go great with Milo assisting, but Milo sure is trying his best and people don't seem, they're not about to like flip tables and start a fight over the poor ish service. It's just one failure. It's not a boring, but my other thought was like the rest of brunch goes okay. That seemed too easy.
00:11:23
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So as you are, as brunch rush is starting to die down a little bit, people are starting to filter out. It's getting to be about 11 30 ish to noon. You hear a loud noise from out in front, a rumbling sound, and it stops and ace come rushing in through the doors like open. I'm so sorry. It was late night. I slept in. What do you need? And like noise.
00:11:53
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Ophin just gestures to the back room and Ace walks by you. Hey Milo, thanks for helping out. And Ace rushes to the back. And then Ace starts grabbing plates and busing and doing his normal gigs. You're freed up to... Alright, so Milo's going to go up to Ophin and say, is Ace normally late? No, he sometimes disappears. He's getting better, but he's not the best worker I've ever had. No, he's later than normal, but
00:12:22
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And Ulfin just doesn't seem very affected. Yeah, okay. No concern like this is something unusual and really out of the ordinary. Ulfin, I don't know what that noise was before he walked in, but that... Yes, I'm on my way to investigate that. If it's anything that's gonna burn down my restaurant, let me know. Certainly.
00:12:51
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Milo goes to the window, looks outside, sees if he can see anything. Parked out in front of for sales, a vehicle similar in shape to Hobbs without the sidecar, but the wood on the bottom, it looks very intentional, but it looks like it burns towards the bottom. Like it's really like good looking. And then towards the bottom, it looks like it's been driven over fire kind of thing. No, no.
00:13:30
Speaker
Oh no, I've been out to think Ace is kind of cool. Oh man, his head, his head wasn't on fire when he came in or anything. No, no, he looks completely normal.
00:13:43
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OK, he looked he looked exhausted. You could tell just from a passing glance, he it he looked wrecked from an exhaustion standpoint, but. Yeah, that's a good friend. All right, it's going to go help ace and as he starts helping ace vehicle out front. Yours. Oh, yeah, I got it last night. Got a good deal on it. So I.
00:14:11
Speaker
The cab fees are getting ridiculous around Charne, so I figured it's time to get something for myself. It doesn't really appear to be an inexpensive... It looked like it caught on fire, like it's not in the best shape. Yes. You can afford that bike, are you? It kind of wails when you drive it. Why does your bike seem to be filled with a deep angst?
00:14:40
Speaker
You can give me either a perception or streetwise check, Randy, against a one red, two purple difficulty. Amazing. One red, two purple. Yep. Yeah, okay. Yeah, seems like Ace got a good deal on a speeder bike, man. Yeah, it's half burned. Why wouldn't somebody take more money for it? Zero success, one threat for those out in listening world.
00:15:05
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I have a proposition for the one threat, Randy, that, but it's a Milo agency thing. So you tell me if you're willing to accept this or not, I will throw something else out there. One threat Milo doesn't think this is worth mentioning to the others. You know what? Milo's current state of mind that could very well be true. He's upset about Sana and yeah. Okay.
00:15:28
Speaker
Okay. Cool. Wow. Now, Randy, you have to uphold this. Like you can't just. Ace got a new car. No, I'm just enjoying this. Okay. Yeah. Ace just tells you. Yeah. Got a good deal. Obviously it's seen better days and just wanted something I could write around town. I might try to find something maybe to muffle it.
00:15:55
Speaker
Seems awful loud. Yeah, I think whatever propellant is exposed to where it's really loud and sometimes it flares up like fire will. I think it's a like fire elemental propelling it because sometimes it spurts out a little bit, but it was cheap. Be careful on that thing. Oh, yeah, I've written one before on one, but same thing.
00:16:26
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I read the book.
Eris and Hob's Heart-to-Heart
00:16:29
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Inspiration, Eric. Thank you. Anyway, I got to clean up some of these tables. We'll have lunch rush coming in like half hour. Yes, I'm going to hang around and help some. OK, I got it at this point, Milo, if you want to head out. No, I'll stay and help some. I might grab a sandwich while I'm at it.
00:16:52
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and Ace goes about busing tables. Hob, what are you up to? So you're going to go check in on people. So are you headed to Highwall or are you going to call Eris? I probably would holler at Eris now because she's just asking, hey, are you home? If she's out doing something. Eris, your communicator goes off at an obscenely early hour. Yeah, I'm waking you up. Sorry. She turned it on silent. Why?
00:17:20
Speaker
Well, what do you mean? Why? We tend to wake up and do things the next day after we do things. Oh, yeah. I thought you might be there. Hobbs never really just looked like been like, so Eris, how are you? But that's a Pandora's box. You do not want to open. I think he tried. He doesn't know. Hey, listen, now that we've had the night to know it's all it's all. I'm sorry. It's all. No, I'm all. You're Eris. Why?
00:17:47
Speaker
Look, I'll let you go back to sleep. I apologize. What's going on? The sun has arisen, and it's a new day, and that tends to be when I contact you to see what we're doing today. But today, I'm calling to say, are you all right? We fought a friend last night, and we've never... This is not what Hop sounds like. I don't know what's going on. Where's your head at?
00:18:16
Speaker
Besides the pillow, please don't. No, I never made it that far. You didn't just fall once you got in the door, did you? No, we bottle a quarter of a heart. That's where my head is, it hurts. A lot. Right. Do you want to meet for breakfast? I will buy, we'll get something greasy in you, see if it'll fix you up a little bit. Sorry, you just said that and...
00:18:46
Speaker
okay yes all right i'll come to you and i'm gonna go to the look i'll meet you the soaring spirits okay hob gets in his decidedly not burnt all the hell bike and it's gonna drive over fly over to the soaring spirits to buy breakfast for aris and he assumes all of may also join so he's willing he's he's got enough scratch in his pocket to go and cover all of his well
00:19:14
Speaker
Yeah, Eris, as you come downstairs, Olive is making some adjustments. I think Eris climbed off of the horrible, gross sofa that they found in an alley. So yeah, you roll over and see Olive tinkering with the arms like, oh, good morning. Why are you not? How? Water, lots of water during the day helps. You only drink, calf and booze, it seems like these days. Fine.
00:19:44
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She's saying it playfully, like in good jett. Eris is in the midst of pouring an enormous cup of cap from the machine. How are you feeling this morning? Not well, not well. I feel my head is in a lot of unpleasantness and she must have breakfast and we're having breakfast for sale. Are you sure he didn't say soaring spirits? Since that's right across the street from where we are and he said it this way.
00:20:12
Speaker
What did I say? You said for sales, which is Ophin's place in Lormont, this where people are hunting. I need to move that. Oh yeah. Yeah. Harbin said he was going to get you the word Calcum though, right? Yeah. He said it was in the middle of a lot of other things and then our friend burst through the door and kidnapped some of his employees. So I'm not entirely sure whether he'll remember that given how the evening went.
00:20:39
Speaker
You talked to him just last night, so give him at least a couple days, but you come for breakfast. If you want to work, that's fine. Oh, I can take a break because my head's going to explode. She pulls the goggles up and takes the dragon shard out of its housing on the arms and sets it in a little case. She just affectionately taps it and says, be back cinder. And she shuts the case and turns. Yeah.
00:21:06
Speaker
Can head out. Eris opens the door and then immediately pulls her goggles up over her eyes because the sun is right outside. Yeah. Oh, I think the garden opening is in a couple of days. There's not a statue, is there? Have you been by? Why? Who? Who would be? Raynock keeps. I don't know.
00:21:32
Speaker
Reynard and Milo had a conversation with the gardener whose name- Durgoth. Durgoth. And I don't know. They threatening me with a statue. Threatening me with they've been ministered by a statue. Interesting. And as if on time as you all are exiting the cauldron, Durgoth in kind of a
00:21:59
Speaker
black pants and a black cloak carrying another, no, carrying like a couple of clay pots under his arms. Not enough time for a statue. Sorry. Thank you. I wonder if he does anything else. All it says is he walks down the street. He's probably very good at that. Yeah. Breakfast.
00:22:25
Speaker
Yes. So, yeah, you all walk into soaring spirits. Let's say it took Eris long enough to build up momentum to where Hobb is walking up as at least once while crossing the street. Eris inadvertently activates her mag boots and falls. I was actually thinking Hobb was getting on the bike when he called Eris. I was thinking if he beats them there, he probably knows Eris's hangover. Probably. Yeah.
00:22:53
Speaker
And maybe just ordered a couple of things and all it can pick what she wants. And he leads, what he leads, what he'll eat, what's left over. That works. Yeah, for sure. So yeah. Aris, all of you walk in and you're letting waves and gestures up to the second level, ha, ha beat you here. So he's got a spot up there. Save for you.
00:23:12
Speaker
Eris's collar is up vampire style and her head is down between her shoulders and she's got her mug of coffee and she just waves vaguely in the direction of any noises. So that's the site as Eris and Olive around the corner at the top of the Stairs Hop is Olive looking normal and perfectly pleasant and Eris looking like a vampire with a caffeine problem. Probably part of her hair is like stuck just straight up from whichever side she slept on. Not unexpected.
00:23:42
Speaker
at all in fact yeah i know hob hob saw her leave i think hob gestures slaps the table there's a there is a spread on this table because hob takes breakfast seriously that's why he only eats a chicken at dinners because he did all his eats at breakfast we've just never talked about it how many how many fowl are a part of a a good square breakfast for hob several there's it's actually it's a turd duck and hob prefers a grouse breakfast there
00:24:12
Speaker
Yeah, that was just a lot of breakfast food. A lot of eggs, big bowl eggs. Anyway, big bowl eggs. And yeah, he likes his food in bowls. I don't know. That's never changed. And so he says, as they sit down, he says, we didn't really have a lot of opportunity to talk about everything that happened before we started fighting our friends last night. I'd love it if you could fill me in. Even though the listener just heard you fill all of it.
00:24:42
Speaker
About the Orca... What is it? Mm-hmm. That's it. Orcas. I need Orcas. Look, I know you don't feel good, but you don't have to make me not feel good. I'm trying to make you better. I bought all this food. You're stronger, so you'll be able to pull me up before I pull you down. Or a Calcum is a metal I need. Harbin said a lot of things... that I didn't... Well, he's pretty mad.
00:25:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm sorry to say I, I get it. I don't think he's right, but you can't blame the man. No, I don't say you get for me. Importantly, he's not right. He, we only acted in. Yeah, I'm just gonna say we only acted in defense against in a cosmic sense. I.
00:25:41
Speaker
hid it from him. Of course you did. It's not how he sees it. Right, we all think we want to know things. But sometimes it's genuinely better to not. I know. You're not the only person that hid that from him. If he wants to be mad at somebody, he can be mad at his father, but he's not going to be, and so he's chosen you. The grace that we can give our parents. And then he trails off because...
00:26:08
Speaker
He remembers that we did just kill the closest thing Eric had to a father figure of late and the point is got. He said he did it. I don't know if he remembers because a master vigilante broke in through the skylight and kidnapped some of his employees right after that. I bet he remembers. Last night we
00:26:35
Speaker
You didn't look great after you realized what we had done, who we'd been fighting, or however you want to say it. I'm trying to remember, Hobb would not have known if you two had a chance to talk, you and Sada. I think he was busy with Kath. Yeah, you were on the speeder bike with Kath. Yeah. So I think he'd be like, did you get a chance to, you know, talk to or hash any of that out or do we need to,
00:27:02
Speaker
I tried. And she didn't want to hear it. She's done with us. Wait, no, no, the calf. So she's probably done with us. Man, she's not done with us. God doesn't know, but he's going to say that. What do you mean she's done with us? She's done. She's not doing this anymore. She's going to keep doing what she's been doing, what she's been doing. Going to keep vigilanteing.
00:27:30
Speaker
Oh, sorry. I meant Sana. Oh, sorry. Yeah, my bad. She's taking a break from us. Maybe it's healthy. Maybe we all need that. I think perhaps she's a break from her sister. I think that's definitely happening. No, I don't imagine she is. No, I know she's not actually. We talked about it too. No, I got that impression as well. Kath doesn't think she has anything to be sorry for. And we can disagree with her. And in a lot of ways I do.
00:28:00
Speaker
I. Nor you. Can. Judge. Revenge too harshly. But yes, the method. I agree. Was. Scattershot. She's got someone. I'm sorry. She's got someone. She doesn't need the revenge is not. It's not the only thing. She has son. She has family. It's hurting them.
00:28:30
Speaker
with this. Yeah, she is. And that is a decision that we are not going to get to be a part of. But now, because she did that, yeah, Sona's gone. Yes. I, Eris, I need you to tell me, are we going to, how long are we going to be upset?
00:28:59
Speaker
about the actions of other people we had no control over and little influence on it is we can't continue you all are the people that I have and she broke that because we're not all she has unfortunately if you want to go if you want to go you and me against the world and me
00:29:23
Speaker
Great, perfect. It's simply not gonna work. Because we have other people that count on us too. Sana doesn't care about that right now. Sana's deeply hurt and not thinking about us. And we can't expect her to. Kath is lost and not thinking about us. When I woke up this morning, the first person I thought about was you. I'm sorry, you've lost them.
00:29:52
Speaker
Have some breakfast.
00:29:54
Speaker
They might come back. And you got me and Olive. And I don't know, Milo's probably around here somewhere. He'll catch up later. I don't think I saw Rainard with Nessa, so he won't say anything about Rainard. That's probably best. Eris didn't really leave Rainard well either. I'm sorry, Eris. It hurts. I understand that. I'm hurt too. But I'm not going to let the fact that they hurt me today ruin the rest of my last night ruin my today.
00:30:25
Speaker
because frankly, we've got too much work to do to get this boat to fly, don't we? Don't have the materials yet. Yeah, I know. I was trying to say something to cheer you up. I'll just eat now. He takes a big bite of oatmeal as a metaphor. This probably doesn't add anything to the conversation, but Hob might observe that Cass gloves are in the big cargo pocket of her jacket.
00:30:52
Speaker
If you, I would have been there when you took him. Oh, were you there? Okay. I couldn't remember where people departed from. And I don't think he would say anything about them today, honestly. Yeah. No, that's fair.
Delivery of Orcalcum
00:31:04
Speaker
You all without any real issue because they're not making an attempt to hide themselves, see a figure around the stairs.
00:31:11
Speaker
And Harbin carrying a case and Harbin is in, it looks like best equivalent would be like a flight suit. Like it's like a one piece attaches up the middle of the suit.
00:31:28
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Yeah but fancy I guess for lack of a better way to put it with little bits of metal accenting it. He's hey somebody told me that you all would be here since I went by the cauldron and couldn't find you or went by your place and couldn't find you there.
00:31:48
Speaker
says Aeris, who says Aeris slightly defensively. There was the hobgoblin walking by and I asked if he knew where the people who lived here were and he just pointed at this building. So did he have dirt? No, big clay pot. We have plenty of food if you'd like something. Oh, I already ate, but thank you. And he sets the case on the table and
00:32:14
Speaker
I think this is, uh, what you've been waiting on me for. And, uh, yeah, so I'm gonna, was everybody okay?
00:32:26
Speaker
Oh, after last night. Yeah. Two people that got taken were recovered safely. Yeah. They're a little shaken up, but nothing terrible. And just some damage to the, the building, the windows, but that won't be a problem to fix. Are you okay? You all okay? Did anything happen to you all at the gallon? I'm okay. Okay. Face. You tell them what we did. You remind him that you're a good person. It was good things for people, but he's not going to say anything because he's hob.
00:32:54
Speaker
I have some other stuff to take care of today, but I wanted to make sure that I honored what I said. So there you go. And unless anybody's going to say anything to stop him, Harbin turns and sees the balcony that goes out like the patio. Oh, that's convenient and walks over. And if you need anything else, just let me know. And he hits something on his wrist and a sore sled comes up and he hops onto it and takes off.
00:33:20
Speaker
That's not in the least bit ominous. He puts on a helmet that seemed very efficient of him, Olive says. Yep. And Hob goes, oh yeah, he's mad at you. I don't, was helpful, Hob. No, I'm really trying to be helpful. Have the Orcalcum so we can go save Orphan's business and move it.
00:33:44
Speaker
Hob is wary of this briefcase. He doesn't know what this stuff is. He knows it's powerful enough to make a ship fly. Is that okay there? It's really close to the food. It's an alchemical component. It's an artifice...artificing component. It's fine. Artificial? Wait, that doesn't... Yeah. Until Aeris does her stuff to it, it's inert.
00:34:05
Speaker
Hob still leans forward and puts his forearm between the plate and the briefcase. Okay. I like the idea that Hob would try to shield his food from radiation with his body. Hey, my arm's not going inside of me.
00:34:20
Speaker
You're Lynn approaches the tables. Hey, I like the boot thing. Super cool. Do not mind you doing it, but I really don't want our balcony become an air dock. So could you tell your friend next time to not hop on a sore sled from the second story of the building? That'd be. It probably won't come up. OK, well, OK. Now I feel. Bad, I'm going to go. Yeah, it's fine. You're fine. Thanks for the food. It's all been great.
00:34:48
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. What is this one? Come up with it on the spot, Eric. Those are chyron cakes. They're a recipe from back home. Oh, you just made that up. What? No. That's literally what I told him to do. Oh, they're very good. Thank you. Thanks. Gerlin leaves you off. I think Hobb does want to say. My mom used to make those. You just fry leftover. You fry last night's mashed potatoes on a griddle.
00:35:16
Speaker
Hobbs got a man who's complaining. Sounds awesome. He says, I'm sorry that in one night you got hit by three people. Do you care about ditching you? He's while he's saying it, he's trying to think of a better word. I don't think it'll make you feel better, but I'm going to go ahead and say, I believe they'll come around. I really do.
00:35:45
Speaker
But I am sorry. Yeah. Let's see. So do you need me for this Corky album thing or? Maybe there's heavy things. Do I have to carry it? Yeah, I'll fix it up. Are y'all heading to the for sales?
00:36:10
Speaker
Yeah. Sure. Okay. So yeah, as timelines merging as Milo, as you are wrapping up, getting prepped for lunch rush and ACE is eventually hitting a point where he's, I really appreciate your desire to help, but having to talk through the processes with you is making things a little bit longer than they would be if I was just doing that. But I, once again, I appreciate the help, but I think I've got it from here.
00:36:37
Speaker
That's fine. I think I'll go have me something to eat now. Great. And Ace goes back to work. And as you enter the dining area, the front door opens and behold, Eris, Hob, and sure, Olive, she has the acres. Does Hob have to roll notice the bike out front? Yeah. No, you all walked by it as you entered.
00:37:02
Speaker
OK, I want to know what is what in the I want to roll artifice. I want to know what is what with this bike, because I just like it looks like it was half on fire. And as far as Aeris knows, no one else has worked out to do this thing that she's done. Hobbs, just also, why would you pick a fire elemental? Who's got the bigger motor? That's what I want for a wooden bike.
00:37:25
Speaker
So you're inspecting this with artifice. It's going to be. Yeah, this makes sense. One red, two purple. None of this has ever made sense, Eric. It's not why we're here. Oh, you've broken the session, Philip. Four successes, two advantage, one triumph, one despair. So they just cancel out, right?
00:37:48
Speaker
Yeah. I would like to use my four successes to negate the despair and let's go. Eris, you, what you know with the successes is yeah, you can tell this bike is not, or this speeder bike is.
00:38:04
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powered by
Ace's Bike Revelation
00:38:05
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something wholly different than what powers Tasha. This is not an elemental bound to a dragon shard put inside some kind of means of propulsion. As you try to examine to see exactly what it is, it seems to not be born out of artifice. It seems to extend into the realm of some other school of magic, but from what you can tell, it is very potent and very powerful.
00:38:35
Speaker
And is that to go so far as to say it doesn't look like somebody built this? It looks like somebody took an existing speeder bike and did something. So like the body looks built, but whatever engine is powering it, no, it does not look like it is a thing that has been built. There's no elemental. Oh, odd. There's nothing to power it.
00:39:04
Speaker
So did it just burn? I guess if you had a powerful enough that you could with Arcana, you can shoot fire at someone. So presumably if you attach that to a thing and it shot fire and it was light enough, it would go forward. That seems very inefficient and dangerous, but. Sure. Sure. First law of thermodynamics.
00:39:28
Speaker
Hob hovers his hand about four inches above the seat to see. I wonder if it's hot when he's riding it. That's all. And if it looks faster than Hobbs, you feel a good amount of heat coming off the seat. Yeah, you do have to advance faster than yours. Say what? It definitely looks faster. It's not cooler or bigger. It's not bigger. I bet Mike could out toe it. That's all it really matters.
00:39:55
Speaker
Two advantages. Yeah, I could give you a bit more if you want in terms of information. I mean, I'm curious. I'm worried that too much information will compel me to do something, but I'm so sure I would like more information.
00:40:13
Speaker
sure okay the markings the like runes and sigils on the interior of the bike so you're looking down where you expect the engine to be and the inside of the wood is just lined with arcane markings and you through your work with the box that olive used to summon cinder and your work with tasha and all this kind of stuff that you can tell that these markings are drawing on
00:40:40
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or the magic originates from two planes. You see a mixture of planes of Fernia, Sea of Fire, and Donvy, which is perfect order, law, et cetera. I don't know what something from both fire and stringent laws would be, but yeah, that's what you can tell. That's really weird. I don't know why this works. You have a triumph. Yeah, I have a triumph.
00:41:10
Speaker
Don't let Eric do it because he's already got a despair. Right, yeah. I have an idea. So the only thing I've got is, for some reason, in the way that creativity works, in the weird pathways of creativity, something about this has, something about examining this object
00:41:33
Speaker
This piece of infernal artificing has sparked something by which Eris has suddenly worked through a problem that she hadn't solved yet in the process for the process of moving the for sales, transferring into a free upgrade when the time comes to begin making those checks. Sure. Can you do that?
00:41:57
Speaker
Okay. The despair will become relevant once you all talk to often about moving the ship, but often changed his mind. That's the oldest fair. Tough. You better change it back because it's bad.
00:42:14
Speaker
Yeah, now, after examining the bike, you all walk in and mileage the fearsome, foursome, Eris, Hobb, Ygric, and Olive enter the four sails. How used bike is that? They spot it.
00:42:33
Speaker
No, who's Mike is that? No, really. He said he saved his money, had enough money to buy some transportation. So he was tired of paying to come to work every day. It's really his place. Who'd I steal that from? Yeah, hop last year. I bought mine too. I'm just telling you what he told me.
00:42:55
Speaker
It rumbled up this morning very loudly as soon as it stopped. As far as I can tell, that thing is unique. I've never seen anything like it.
00:43:18
Speaker
Ace walks out with- He's got a bunch of planar magic to it. Oh, really? It's more than- I did not go out and inspect it. I just, I was busy helping Ulfin because Sana did not show up and Ace was late. Okay. I'm begging somebody to stop Eris.
00:43:37
Speaker
As soon as Ace enters, Eris turns on him and decides that her bad day is his. If you want to go stealing things, don't park them outside the sales. I didn't steal anything. What are you talking about? Hi, nice to see you, too. The obviously stolen bike. OK, not obviously stolen, but Ace, pal, if OK, if you bought the bike, you bought it with.
00:44:02
Speaker
Stolen goods. Hob has to have looked up how much the bike he stole is worth. So he knows these things are unbelievably expensive. Your bike, as I am loathe to admit, nicer than mine. And mine costs more money than I've made since I've been in Char. Listen, the guy was looking to get rid of it. He gave me a good deal. Like it's half on fire. It got burned up. It's covered in fernian runes.
00:44:28
Speaker
Okay, it's not on fire. It is fire. Well, I need to give these sliced limes and lemons to open behind the bar and carries the containers as he's talking to you all. Why didn't you slice them behind the bar? Because we keep them back there. All right, I'm gonna have to talk with all fun about his work.
00:44:50
Speaker
It often says her by there. I don't tell you how to punch people. You don't know how to punch people. I know a thing or two about hospitality. It's not true. He was a pirate. That's right. OK, I'm a superior puncher. And a sitting containers. Listen, I he wanted twenty five gold for it. I've been working here for a bit. What? I had some money stashed up from before. Yeah, I bought it. OK. From who?
00:45:18
Speaker
Okay, then the version you bought it from obviously stole it from someone who was trying to kill him for stealing it and will now be trying to kill you. And he made 25 gold.
00:45:35
Speaker
Genuinely, I think you might have been a party to someone offloading a cursed bike. I think maybe Eris should take a closer look at it. Would you be comfortable with that? I'm not saying you got tricked. You got the bike and you wanted it, but let's make sure it's safe and stuff. Some bike in this chain of events is lying. I don't know. It's not me. I'm just eating my sandwich. No, no, let's think you were lying to us, Milo. Sorry, pal. We kind of... We're obviously not lying to us.
00:46:02
Speaker
We jumped right on you there, didn't we? And unless a check is being made, Ace is going to say, no, I don't want Eris looking at my... Listen, you all told me. No, I already did. You told me, he says looking at Hob, to stop doing what I was trying to do before, get an actual job and try to find a different skill. I do that, I start earning money, I go buy myself a vehicle, and now all of a sudden I'm getting the
00:46:29
Speaker
20th degree from people who've told me to do this thing. And I don't know what your all's problem is. All right, here's the thing. I'm not upset you bought a bike if it seems that way. I'm trying to make sure the bike you didn't get screwed, pal. I was worried about for sales, but I'm talking about me here. Here's my question. If I make it clear that if we don't
00:46:59
Speaker
make sure this bike is safe, he could get hurt. Can that be coercion? You will get hurt, potentially, if you don't let us do this. That's not changing. Because I'm not going to tell him, let us examine your bike or I'm going to punch you in the nose. That's ridiculous. I'm trying to make it seem like I care about the little twerp. Yeah, sure. You can do it as coercion, but
00:47:25
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Go ahead and take two setback die on the check. In addition to the one red, one purple difficulty is against aces will power. Yeah. Or supplant. I think this one because willpower is the attribute, not the yeah.
00:47:44
Speaker
The two setback is because in Ace's mind, Hob has not, at least to Ace's perspective, given two craps about him until things are finally starting to look up for Ace and now all of a sudden Hob wants to be a stick in the mud in his life. So that's where the two black are coming from. Ace is like, what is happening right now? Absolutely. And from Hob's perspective, Hob has only ever looked out for Ace. Not in a nurturing way, but in a, I'm trying to make sure you don't get your own self killed you moron way.
00:48:11
Speaker
Okay, I am rolling. One red, one purple, two black, yes? That is three success, a threat, a triumph, and a despair. No. End of episode. Thank you all so much for listening. We ran long on this recording again, so we're splitting it up into two episodes. But be sure to tune back in next week to see how things continue with the attempt to move the four sales alongside Raynard's attempt to deal with his dad problems.
00:48:38
Speaker
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00:48:54
Speaker
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