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C3 Episode 78 Agents of WAR Chapter Seven
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Introduction and Team Welcome
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with the k
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to Ever Under New Natural Play Podcast at in the Run Campaign setting. I am your Game Master, Eric. I'm mia I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm Jeff.
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Welcome to another episode, folks.
Mission Recap and Issues with Nyx and Valk's Investigation
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What happened last time?
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I, I, I, Kaz did like nothing. So I'm going to sit back and let you guys. We all kind of tried to learn some things in response to stuff that has happened either in the most recent adventure or just in response to some of those things that have been happening in recent missions.
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Nyx tried to learn about demonic things. Oh, Valky's just being nosy and trying to be helpful. Mostly just making sure that he's not fully involved with whatever weird plant stuff might trigger. All right, yeah. And we ended the episode with the red light turning on. So you all have been summoned to Javier's office.
Javier's Critique and Team Reflection on Mission Errors
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When you all arrive, you see Javier, Aurora, and Hendrik in there. They're all together.
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Can Valk open the door, see this, and then try to close it again?
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You can come in. I don't want to. what I know. like her. Once you all enter the room, Javier stays seated behind his desk like there are chairs set up for you all to sit in.
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So obviously, based on context of what I picked up, this past mission did not go the way look tu any of us would have hoped it.
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So I think it is prudent that we take some time to sit down and talk through what happened, why it happened, and how we can, what lessons can be gleaned from it.
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And this is the opposite of how Nick's, Nick's handles tro problems. So why that's why Javier is the leader. So go ahead and I'm not going to call on each of you to give me your, uh, different accounts, but just as a group, lay out the mission for me, grub down. Uh,
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made it We didn't really have much that we
Investigation Challenges: Jurisdictional Conflicts and the Mysterious Scroll
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did. We went straight to Olaf's and then started asking basic questions.
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Jaren and other people who with showed us to the group of druids that they apprehended. White to the druids.
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in the hold in their prison started asking the same questions that they had already been asked one of them was acting off i can't speak to determining how that was found out that would have been nix i believe yeah nix put it together And then after that, it just it kind of spiraled out of control. It was within minutes touchy of the investigation.
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We got into a jurisdictional loggerheads with another person. And it costs some time and some focus that I think otherwise we may... I don't want to say that... that was to the reason things went start, but that's when things started going south.
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When we had to spend more time defending our reason for being there and why people should listen to us that actually getting a job done was a real, it's the first time think I've experienced that.
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What was source of the conflict? A scroll that was not properly removed from imprisoned persons before locking them up. We didn't get answers for that when I i asked, but we didn't.
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Things kind of happened after that. There was ah a scroll that was still on the person of one of the druids. You know, I'm realizing now.
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did Did anyone tell... who Who realized that the scroll was the reason that Nix and Kaz lost sight of what they were supposed to be doing? And did anyone communicate that to Kaz? Yeah, I... Selena deactivated the scroll. Right. ah It probably got talked about on the boat. I think so.
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We definitely talked about what happened, so I'm sure it did. I just realized Kaz may not have said that part because he hadn't... But yeah, yeah. But already did, so. We recognize that the scroll...
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even before we knew the extent of it, was a at at the very least, contraband from Shadukar.
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And there, yeah, I mean, that was a custody, it was a chain of custody issue. was a custody thing. What is her name from House Madani? Channara. Chinara from House Madani wanted it and we were hesitant, reticent to hand it off.
Concerns with House Madani and Maintaining Relations
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And it led to kind of a stalemate that led to a fight that led to everything that happened. There was only conflict because there was an obvious negative reaction to the people in the room with that item and she wanted to further open it without taking any sort of precautions.
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It seemed foolhardy. Okay. We'd have never seen it again if we let it out let her take hold of it. How is that relationship resolved? Not so far as I know.
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Nope. We went outside and the everything was going crazy. And we had to i mean, you know that we had to retreat. We didn't get a chance to sit down and debrief with Shinara after that. I did speak briefly with her after things escalated to a point where there was There was really nothing left to do. um And so she did suggest opening the scroll. And so i went ahead and opened the scroll and was able to deactivate whatever had been activated with it. So so that was done.
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But there wasn't a lot of debriefing after that. It was just trying to get out. Okay. And then the battle obviously hit a point where extraction was
Reflecting on Mission Pitfalls: Time vs. Hierarchical Conflicts
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needed. So it seems like it really just came down to time is what I'm hearing from you all.
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Like got hung up with the detective from house Madani.
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about how to proceed or who should take ownership of the scroll and that costs time to resolve things is that to be fair it was and really within like 10 minutes it was not a lot of time the start of the conflict with shannara was promptly for at least four minutes so there i died don't even think time would have been yeah i I don't know that the time the disagreement took really affected what happened. i I'm not sure the extra few minutes would have made a difference. Yeah, more than time, it was... I feel like there was a hierarchical problem.
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Everyone was trying to make sure... House Mandani has no reason to listen to us and we had no reason to listen to her and it made a loggerheads and that we, I don't know.
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The scroll also had been activated for much longer than we were even present. So that influence was already. Yeah, for sure. So the scroll was the reason for the initial incident that brought us in.
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Yes.
Lessons Learned: Operational Failures and Protocol Assumptions
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Okay. So guess my question to you all is, is there is there a lesson to be taken away from this on our end? Is there something operationally or tactically that could have, should have been done differently? Or was this just unavoidable?
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I don't really know. I had begun the standard investigation that I would have done in any other scenario similar.
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i also had assumed that they would have removed all items from the people poor from the of ah prisoners. So, I mean, I went under the assumption that Basic protocol. That's me. But basic protocol would have been followed. So I was trying to get to their actual items to investigate that.
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i would Do we know who that blade falls on for not... There was another person. There was a male. I think he would have acted more as a sheriff. We did not interact with him at all. I don't even know where he was. He was responsible for making sure that they were detained.
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And when I did ask, the responsibility of making sure that all I'd have moved were messed up to him. So that person was not even present in this whole interaction. And we learned about him in the interaction. so Anything else worth discussing? Is it too early to be having this conversation?
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Okay. What do you know about the state of Olath? Nyx, you told him that it was gone, right? In your... Yeah. Nyx made it pretty clear to me that there is no Olath.
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Okay. Strictly speaking. gone the same way as shadow car so and here's here's my fear and what i'm trying to get ahead of is you know we to your point cast hierarchically there there's no clear line about it when it comes to stuff like this it tends to be either first on scene or who can exert more power in a conversation that determines jurisdiction My fear is that House Madani is going to spin this as we interfered.
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If we hadn't, then Olat would still be here. I don't know how to change that. I'm trying to get ahead of it. I've sent a letter to Madani requesting the opportunity to talk about the situation.
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um But i i'm not I'm not putting this on you, but it's something to keep in the back of your mind. The more... powerful organizations that have a dislike and a distrust of us, the harder this whole thing is. We could do a lot of really good things.
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And I believe in you all and your capacity to do those good things.
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But the more friends we have, the better. Understood.
Trust, Relationships, and Caution in Operations
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Yeah. I'm not asking to be doormats for these organizations, you know, asking you to acquiesce their quest, or if you're out on the job that we have decided the best course of action to divert your resources and attention because someone else asked you just don't make people hate us.
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And I'm not saying you're doing that, but avoid that. and Is that fair of me to ask or do you all have thoughts? Okay, then yeah. Take some time.
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Feel free to talk to the doctor. She is quite literally here for this. But then I have some potential things brewing that we can discuss once you all are ready to go back out to the field. Any questions or thoughts for me before we end this meeting? You know all of our roughly backstory and and plainer influences.
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What are your... fail-saves should we each individually go too far? Do you have that? Are you prepared for that to happen? i You're correct in that I know um where you all come from and what you're tied to. To put it bluntly, Valk, I don't have kill switches for any of you.
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I don't have a if that goes too far, do this to negate Valk. The reason you all were picked for this.
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there There are other individuals out there that are deeply tied to planes and have a great deal of power because of those connections. There were personality concerns with those individuals and their capacity to stay back from the edge. I have a strong belief, as does Aurora, as does Hendrik, in a each of you in your capacity to stare the edge in the eye and step back.
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Oh, okay. I might be wrong. but I would rather cross that bridge when I get to it than assume the worst. Call me an optimist. yes
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I'm just not entirely sure if it's morally fair to leave the decision of potentially having to neutralize each other on us in the moment when you you're not there.
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We have no sort of plan or general agreement or any sort of preparations. We were brought together, told to go. And this is the first time this has happened. And my instinct was to try to so stop it. But what if the scenario was different and it was a different person and a different commandment?
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i I think this sounds like conversations that if you want to say it's morally unkind of me to leave the decision to you all in the moment, that's fine. I don't, I've never had any interest in keeping any of you on a leash or having a way of
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pulling on your power or tethering you. If that's something that you as a collective group or individuals, I suppose, would have an interest in Hendrick trying to come up with, we can have that conversation.
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But I would much rather you all have a conversation with each other about what you would prefer happen should one of you begin to go
Mission Improvements and Upgrades: The Forbidden Library
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too far. Because ultimately, it will be up to you all to make that determination, as you're saying, Balk, based on the situation, based on the person, based on what's currently happening.
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Is that fair? Or do you think I'm pushing it off on you? I think it's fine. I don't think there is a right answer to that.
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I think I just think about what if one of us did not come back? What would be the repercussions of everyone else? Especially if it was at the hands of one of us. That's fair.
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And I don't want you to think for an instant that I don't think about that and whether or not there's a possibility that one of you may not come back or all of you may not come back.
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That's something that I reckon with, but I'm very glad that you all came back and I'm confident that whatever we choose to tackle next, you all come back from that too. Dismissed. But before you all leave, we're going to answer some questions.
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Did you play at least one scene at the headquarters before heading out? The answer is yes. Did you encounter a new type of planar creature? I've never met a dredge.
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Yeah. was say, I don't think we as a group have encountered Shabaroth fiends before. Did you visit a place of magic? Does Olaf count now?
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let's i think I think the fact that you all basically got sucked into Shavarath for a bit would count. Is it yes? Okay. You were subjected to magic as well, ah quite heavily.
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I'll say. ah Did you bring any important items back to the headquarters? I don't, Selina. We have the scroll, right? I think the scroll ended up with the, with. how selenas I used it.
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I honestly don't know. I think Shamara ended up with the scroll. I think that was part of the cost, the narrative cost. is this Okay, yeah. Because you both were like handling it back and forth.
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Yeah. Did you make any important contacts? Do they have to be positive ones? They're mostly dead. Was the adventure particularly difficult and epic? I'd say so.
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In the last one, did you solve the problem? Nope. No. no no no So five upgrade points is what we end up with for that adventure, which does give you exactly enough for that forbidden library. I was about to say.
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I'm fine. every every like Three quarters of us went looking for books. I have no objection to the forbidden library if that's where we want to go Yeah. I don't have any of them that I specifically...
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want right now? i mean, obviously, I'm interested in upgrading the armory, but that's just because that's Nyx's jam. The Forbidden Library certainly sounds fun.
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Any objections the Forbidden Library? No. No, you know because I don't remember where I put the list or the link. We got to get that chef sometime. The tactile mechanical benefit of the forbidden library as a reminder is once per arc, a player character who preps here may gain an automatic success on a non-combat check based on their research here.
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This may be used after failing the check. The success always comes with a complication as if it were a use of an iconic relationship because it's dark knowledge.
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Spooky. Kind. Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves. So funny. I forgot how early in the series that one gets dropped.
Seeking News and the Absence of Church of the Silver Flame
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It's like season one, episode five or something. Okay, and then the last thing we need to do is roll icon die for the new arc.
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I got a six with Lady Bolt. Heck yeah. Nothin'. I got a six with the citadel. and then Vauk. Never remember. We roll a d12 to see randomly who you have a relationship with.
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Mia, roll a d12 for me. Oh, 10. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. The 12!
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The dragon marked houses. We just made friends with one. ah Best friends. Okie dokie. Now that that's all been established, anybody going to do anything post debriefing with Javier?
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I would like to see if any of the newspapers that we get, it may be too soon for word to have reached a newspaper, but if any of the newspapers we we receive, say anything about the Church of the Silver Flames response to what's happening in Olaf.
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Okay. As Nyx finds it odd that this happened and we didn't encounter a single paladin. Yeah. In Olaf. Why was Madani there and not a a paladin?
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Yeah. If Nyx says the paper thing out loud, I will take her to Rene and see if there's anything on the newswire that hasn't come out yet, too.
Hidden Knowledge: Amulet Creation and Secret Libraries
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I think Nix would, yes, Nix would begin with whatever papers we have, we receive at the house. So Nix, obviously the the papers that you're getting that day, it's it's the headline on all the papers. An entire town got wiped off the map.
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yeah um Obviously based on the source of the news, I imagine, yeah, Javier is subscribed to like every major publication just to keep a pulse on yeah the news cycle.
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So go ahead. Uh, obviously like, uh, some publications are blaming Karnath for it being like a terrorist attack of war.
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Um, because shadow car, like that. because car that Other organizations are saying that's an internal, like a false flag to gain sympathy for Thrain.
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Most publications, though, aren't being so sensational about it. They're just talking about the tragedy of it, saying how avoidable it is You don't see any direct statements from the Church the Silver Flame, but this is all very, like, you know...
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It happened and they got something out straight away. The think pieces haven't really started yet. So if you, uh, if you express something to Kaz and you all go into talk to Renee at the kalazza Cal's, Cal's art crier, um, she may have more insight on what's going to be published in the coming days. Nix might do that. I don't know that she would do it the day after we came back from this. Okay.
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it is odd like it does strike you odd yeah silver flame has not put out a single statement on it and i'm right that it's odd that a paladin hadn't showed up before we showed up like yeah no one no one for from the church yeah okay what are others i would like to try to make a remia do amulet Okay.
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Give me a intelligence check with any relevant ah backgrounds. Or any whatever is the most relevant background, rather. is I mean, there's my own personal ability to shapeshift, but then there's also maybe running into a similar item with parentable paranormal investigators.
00:22:53
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Yeah, allow Oh. Okay. Oh, well, that's a natural to you. Wait. But I have so many bonuses. So. sixteen 16. 16. The target number got lowered because you found the book and had something to reference the crafting of it. So that that is enough with the 16. Okay.
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okay I'm assuming it's... I didn't expect it to be, like, long-term. It was just, like... Yeah. don't maybe, like, four hours or something. Yeah. So he you can get out and then get back. Okay.
00:23:30
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Then if I deem it as successful, I will find a roomie and... Patrol on the grounds. Like a roomie do. Excuse me. Hello? Huh?
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Hey. ah I'm just going to just straight up just hold up the new... film of It it is purple. ice Because there was an assumption that it was going to be for Valk.
00:23:56
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It was not. But... it is It matches your clothing well. No, it's for you. So that you can... Oh....shape shift and go into... Oh.
00:24:10
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You mentioned that you... We're getting antsy. I appreciate that. um Thank you. that's it It doesn't last long.
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I would estimate under four or a five hours. Okay. Oh, that's great. Thank you. Is it their limited number of uses or just it needs time to recharge?
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It would be but a recharge. So, I mean, you wouldn't be able to do it like twice a day. i mean, i you'd probably take it to Hendrik and maybe no get it upgraded. I was just curious. I'm not complaining. No, thank you. I don't have anything for you. I'm sorry. This is very kind.
00:24:58
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It's fine. Most people don't. I was not expecting anything. i You had a problem and a concern and I could help. so Thank you.
00:25:09
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Carry on. Very well. Thank you, Buck. Goodbye. Selina, what are you doing? I don't know. She'd probably go to the library. she didn't go at all the day before, I feel like she needs to to get back to being productive.
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Okay. As you're putting a book away near the back of the library, you i think that I did notice one of the books a skew and you try to adjust it and it doesn't like, it's like so tilted slightly.
00:25:41
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you go to try to like stand it up, right? It doesn't want to move. And so then when you try to pull it out, you hear a click and the bookcase slides into the wall and then swings open.
00:25:54
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Heck yeah. And just the the smell of dust and stale air and mildew kind of comes rushing out and hits you in the face.
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But once you have a second to look, you see more ah rows of shells behind this wall of books that have clearly not been touched or tended to for a very long time. All right. Well, she's going to go in and have a quick look around and then probably go get Aurora.
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Okay, give me a wisdom check as you quickly look around. 27? 27. twenty seven twenty seven Okay. you see something that strikes you immediately, like, as you're kind of quickly glancing around because it's like the, the writing on the cover is almost luminescent. Like you're not, it looks like it's reflecting light, but you're not sure where the light source is from.
00:26:56
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And it just says, Atreides on the Arcane Blade. And the author is Commander Cyrellis Vane. Here's what you see. Do you snatch it off the wall before you go get Aurora or do you just mark where it's at?
00:27:09
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Probably mark where it's at and then go get Aurora. Okay. Aurora is astonished, aghast, and confused as to how it's been here and not been noticed for this long. Me too. You notice that the book that you ended up pulling is like a census from like 732 or something. So a completely unremarkable book that no one would want to pull down off the shelf.
00:27:33
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So that's part of the reason why it's probably gone on notice is nobody's touched this book. Makes sense. Selena would go back in and get the the book that caught her eye and probably take it to a table and start looking through it.
00:27:47
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Okay. So... This seems to be a very, very old text from a commander in a war that you don't really, well, it doesn't get into like their service history, but clearly this person was a sword mage and this is a treatise on the discipline and its history is just giving it a quick cursory glance what you're seeing. Ooh, awesome. The only other, well, give me one more, give me an intelligence check.
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That's not quite as good, but 13. 13. There's a lot of big proper nouns that you don't recognize, so you don't nothing
Kaz's Spiritual Exploration and Chapel Changes
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really jumps out at you
00:28:43
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Kaz, what are you doing? Okay. I've really been thinking about this, but this is like, I probably should have given you some time to prepare for too. Like I mentioned in my level up, I'm kind of leaning further into the cleric bit of things.
00:28:57
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Kaz is realizing that like a lot of things could be mitigated if he was better at doing the healing part of all this magic stuff.
00:29:10
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And so there's a big part of me that wants to take him to the chapel. And just kind of commune a bit. There's the whole bold ray of it all. There's the fact that he just turned into a demon for a while.
00:29:24
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ah He just kind of I think he, it and and the fact that he has at best a cursory actual relationship with the religion he purportedly follows, yeah you know, you know, he had he he had a very secular upbringing inside of this church of the sovereign idea.
00:29:42
Speaker
Yeah. So I think he's going to go to the chapel and just kind of fumble around with the idea of prayer and and meditation for a while. So something strikes you as soon as you walk to the chapel, Kaz.
00:29:54
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Because you probably have... What's up? Kind of. So the big mural that is on the wall that has been getting defaced and added to and things like that.
00:30:07
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One of the gods is missing now. You see the image of Doldorn... is gone.
00:30:15
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Like, has been painted over or looks like it has, like, can I make that determination? Do I need to roll something? or Or should you get to finish your narration before I start asking stupid questions?
00:30:27
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Vicky, you're good. It's not been painted over. It's like the paint has been removed. Okay. even Even the old paint that was there, like, when Nyx first moved into the screen.
00:30:39
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Okay.
00:30:41
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So all that's left is the rest of the sovereign host and the version of the fury that had been painted and added to their host and the traveler was also added on the floor of the chapel.
00:30:54
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There is, an addition. In the center of the chapel's floor, there is a large depiction of Eberron, the celestial body that you stand upon in the center.
00:31:09
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To the south and slightly to the east is a detailed image, not the... broad strokes graffiti that's on the wall, but rather a very detailed depiction of a large half-elf painted on the floor.
00:31:25
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His face, male half-elf, his face is filled with rage as his skin seems to be covered in a Sybaris mark of the storm.
00:31:35
Speaker
He is in chains and fighting against them. I would imagine this image would have stuck in Kaz's mind just given the novelty of it all, so I'm not going to make you roll for it. the depiction of this half elf matches perfectly the person you saw in the very first log that you uncovered in the bunker that had the visual component to it the one yeah the The large half elf, ah the one that said they're catching up. The the the solo report.
00:32:03
Speaker
Hologram. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Now you can chill and commune if you want. What's the vibe? was but What's Kaz feeling right now? is there Is there someone watching? Is there an imminent danger? Shall I roll a thing?
00:32:21
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i mean, I will say Kaz certainly doesn't get the sense that he's being watched. Okay. Okay. Holy crap.
00:32:33
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go Wow. Okay. Kaz is going to... i do want to know, when you say is a painting of Eberron, it is... you Is it like a map or is it a painting of the being that was once Eberron? Is it... Like the globe. Like the globe Eberron. Okay. not like a flat map. It's just like if somebody were to paint the earth... just I'm with you. I'm with you.
00:32:57
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Okay. Holy crap. I think Kaz...
00:33:03
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looks back up to the painting of the host that remains. Yeah. Which is what he came here to do. If he stopped feeling imminent danger from all of this, he's going to finish what he came here to do before he goes... Nyx!
00:33:17
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Someone's been in your room! Because again, he's like, no. Nyx runs to the second floor. Yeah. du I knew it! I'd be hearing things. I think, is are there like is this are there tech texts in this chapel? Or is this not that sort of church?
00:33:33
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Probably be some books. I think, so again, Kaz has no idea what like a real prayer is supposed to be like. outside of the kind of whatever the, the equivalent of of, hail Mary. And now I lay me down to sleep and i don't know, good, good bread, good meat, good God, let's eat or whatever. you could click on That one is in ever on.
00:33:57
Speaker
So I think he's just kind of like those of you that are still here and can hear me. My friends and I are trying to do good and it would be hopeful.
00:34:12
Speaker
If I could focus some of this...
00:34:18
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New blessing of mine to helping them.
Discussing Chapel Changes and Their Implications
00:34:22
Speaker
We find ourselves in a lot of dangerous situations and it would be pretty great if I could keep us from getting too hurt too much too all the time.
00:34:33
Speaker
And I know I've already taken the feet, so it's not like I'm rolling to be able to do this, but I just, I wouldn't, I want to know if some sort of understanding comes over Kaz at this moment or either Either related to what he's asking or just related to the the host and Boldre and the the songs he's been reading. you ah Kind of all kind kind of confluencing here, if that's possible.
00:35:00
Speaker
Yeah, you... So Kaz says all that and then like waits... A long beat. Oh, yeah. fully Head bowed, eyes closed, constantly looking up, though.
00:35:14
Speaker
Like... um And then like Kaz looks up one last time without like feeling anything or hearing anything and probably like lets out a breath and shoulders slump.
00:35:29
Speaker
And just before he goes to stand up, you feel like a, a soft warps in your chest. yeah and then a shark pain in your left arm.
00:35:42
Speaker
And no, no, you feel, you feel a soft warmth in your, in your chest. Um, that brings Kaz certain level of at least sense that he was heard by something.
00:35:55
Speaker
Okay. And now you cast divine magic, but a little bit. and I mean, obviously Kaz is a believer because it would be a bold move to not believe in gods in this world where they demonstrably exist. Um,
00:36:07
Speaker
So I think he then says, thank you. that i've i That was comforting. I'm going to go get everybody now and bring them in here so we can see what happened to your house.
00:36:20
Speaker
And I think I take off in search for, honestly, whoever I see first. If I had my druthers. Hello. Nice. You know what? Fine. You seem to always be around.
00:36:33
Speaker
Did you see anyone go in here while we were gone? no I think Arumi, Nyx,
00:36:40
Speaker
Ori, I mean, any honestly, anybody who was here while we were gone, but... These were Xavier and Derek and Aurora were all here. Right, I'm saying, this is a highly detailed painting that clearly must have taken a bit of time without magic.
00:36:54
Speaker
I think I just run, who do I run into? I'm running into the house, towards the house. Probably not a roomie then. And if this is all happening concurrently, not Valk either, I guess, but Selina.
00:37:05
Speaker
Great. Hey. Hi. Sitting there, minding your business, reading a book. Great. Hey. So I just went to the chapel.
00:37:17
Speaker
to pray and some crazy stuff is going on in there you know how nix has been talking about the vandalism and stuff yeah okay so the vandal talented because i went in there and they painted do you want to sit down can't okay who i want you actually what i'd love is for you to get up because we got to go find some other people okay unless you want to handle this no not at all let's go And I explained what I saw on the walk. And I assume when I explain what I saw, the urgency, that's what the slayers really picks up a bit too. Yeah.
00:37:47
Speaker
And sky is falling through the mansion. Just chicken lily my way around to gather whoever I see. eat You managed to gather everyone. Okay, great. Just running around shouting.
00:37:58
Speaker
Like a fool. And I'm like, this happened while we were gone. This happened while you were here. And I said, and I like, you guys looking at my, because we haven't found a way to play the shards that we bring back yet, have we? It's like Javier has not seen or heard any of this stuff, just have our recollections of it.
00:38:19
Speaker
So I look at my compatriots. I'm like, do you recognize this guy? You all would recognize this guy. I can do. I do recognize this guy. Yeah. I am. This is wild. We live here and this happened in our chapel.
00:38:33
Speaker
And... I was sleeping in here and it was happening. Yeah, no, i I'm with you now, but i what this is crazy. like Okay.
00:38:47
Speaker
The addition, remind me how particular to things we had done the previous vandalism was. It wasn't necessarily i the, the, the God of the forge being changed was something that we had just experienced. Was it okay? I forgot. It did.
00:39:02
Speaker
I just remembered that to somehow connect. yeah Okay. is Because in my head, part of reason Kaz was freaking out is because I had forgotten that there was something as specific to us that had already happened. The distinction being, though, that all of the changes have happening up on the wall were like, if I had a bucket and a like really thick paintbrush and was like doing it up there, this is like Sistine Chapel has been painted on the floor of your chapel.
00:39:26
Speaker
Yeah. Same. Some highly, high high realism stuff here. And if I've got a roomie, I'll get you guys didn't see anyone come through here? No. Goblin Ghost says it's being done by a figure in a long-headed cloak.
00:39:43
Speaker
Right. They are not susceptible to physical security precautions. Speaking. speaking to Does anybody want to remind the listener if there's a why Dol Dorn being gone might be significant?
00:39:58
Speaker
I can think of a couple of possible reasons. Dol Dorn is the sovereign of honorable warfare. So if it's connected to our activities and it maybe is, but if it's connected to our activities, we went on a mission related to the plane of war and failed. Whereas previously we have succeeded.
00:40:26
Speaker
could. also relate to the fact that Nix killed people. We weren't supposed to kill, which would be dishonorable warfare. I'm not sure.
00:40:44
Speaker
That's more of a reach, but I can think of those as possible reasons why, the Lord was i erased. It is strange to me because it wasn't like,
00:40:57
Speaker
we completed a mission and stuff stayed. We completed a mission and stuff got added were i changed. So for Doldorn to be completely erased is interesting.
00:41:08
Speaker
There are other... The Sovereign... Or the Seven, or what what are they called? The Sovereign Host thank you is... The Sovereign Host is usually referring to the Seven Gods that people are comfortable with, but I think technically it's all...
00:41:28
Speaker
13 and like half of them are war related though. Right? So three in particular, okay. four but related I know so little, I know just enough to be so wrong.
00:41:39
Speaker
It's the three doles. It's doldorn, dolara and dolazar, which is also called the fury. And there's none in the host, not seven. Oh, my bad. You're good.
00:41:51
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:57
Speaker
I'm sorry. I freaked out. If I'm being honest. This is very strange. Okay. It's very strange. I just, I have been freaking out about it since we moved in.
00:42:07
Speaker
And so my reaction to this escalation is not sure going from zero. I kind of just got on a roll of gathering you guys at a certain point and I ended up bringing all of you.
00:42:20
Speaker
Sorry, i Aurora. know. I see kids buying you thinking about this thing. And I think I make just a point like, because I know Javier has not seen him be like, Hey, this is the guy from the first bunker.
00:42:34
Speaker
And this is exactly what he looked like. This is not a representation or kind of close. Like, This is what he looked like. I don't know if that helps anything. I know it was a long long, long, long, long time ago.
00:42:47
Speaker
So yeah, for sure. Javier nods and is regarding the, just regarding everything and kind of like, holy crap, uh, disbelief as you all are looking around. Everyone give me a wisdom check to notice something.
00:43:05
Speaker
So this would be anything that like, uh, yeah, backgrounds related to perception or insight, just being able to sense the nature of things. 26.
00:43:19
Speaker
26 from Kaz, what did you get, Philip? 15 with my level. up Well, I should say, 26. We have talked in the past, Privileged Mischief can help me with some of those sorts of noticing checks. Is that one?
00:43:33
Speaker
If not, it's still a 22. No, oh I'll take it. Mia? 30. Dang.
00:43:39
Speaker
Madison? 13. 13. thirty hang madison thirteen Okay. Twilight to me is how achievable 30 is in this system. Yeah.
00:43:51
Speaker
Like the number of things we get to add to the die. Yeah. What was your natural roll, Mia? 16. Dang. So... saying um so kaz and valk you two notice in clock the configuration of the painting on the floor like the position of on as it relates to the picture of the half elf it's very clear that there is room for expansion for like other images to be placed around the world of emberon if that makes sense the with 26 and 30
00:44:27
Speaker
twenty six and a thirty You all additionally note that the portrayal Eberron, you notice something that goes beyond the naked eye when you're examining it is that you can see other celestial bodies faintly painted in the, on the ground, but like the pattern of the tile and stuff kind of obfuscates it. Um, but this seems to be like a cosmological depiction of Eberron.
00:45:00
Speaker
And so in terms of piecing the other, what all this means, that's probably a thread worth pulling on is like the cosmology of, of the world. Okay. And get a hint lastly, Valk with a 30.
00:45:15
Speaker
As you were looking at all of this, um you see Javier look back down at the image of the half-elf, and you see his jaw tense up.
00:45:36
Speaker
as he looks at the image and you are 90% sure that you see um tears start to form in his eye before he blinks and ah turns away.
00:45:53
Speaker
He does not notice that noticed this, but. hu
00:46:00
Speaker
Ror and Hendrick are talking constantly as they're looking at all this, trying to parse through us. Sorry. Can I just yeah sidle up beside Hobbier? Just shut.
00:46:12
Speaker
Hey, bud.
00:46:16
Speaker
Oh, Fab. Yeah? Strange. What was that? What was what? I was looking up because I'm wondering why they just hit it up ceiling. No, you're not. You were looking. I'm very good at redirecting So you were looking down, look had a bit of a strong emotional reaction there.
00:46:38
Speaker
I am trying to keep this as confidential, but addressing it.
Javier's Personal Connection to the Mural
00:46:43
Speaker
i love
00:46:45
Speaker
Give me a charisma based check yeah whom with any background relevant to convincing Javier this up. No. That is a seven. 15.
00:46:59
Speaker
fifteen Fifteen. Javier kind of glances around and nods in recognition at what you're saying. i He glances over his shoulder back down at the floor. That's the figure.
00:47:12
Speaker
I recognize that faith. I don't know why, but it fills me with a deep sense of sadness to look at him. Would I be able to know if that is... yeah truthful? I guess Falc wouldn't even really question if it was deceptive or not, so think they would continue with this isn't someone in your past or someone you might recall having a c close connection or resemblance?
00:47:45
Speaker
It's just a feeling. i i feel like whatever that whoever that is was was very close to me and I feel a great sense of loss when I look.
00:47:57
Speaker
Javier, plus are you connected to a plane? Yeah, i
00:48:06
Speaker
I am. Similar to you all, I think. But I've always been a bit of a lucid dreamer and occasionally i will see things in my dreams that sometime later they'll happen.
00:48:19
Speaker
None of the times I'll see things in my dreams and then years later I'll be reading a historical account of something I've never read before and it rings eerily similar. So I'm fairly certain I'm tied to Dalcour in some way, but not sure about All right, this kind of conversation did not happen.
00:48:39
Speaker
food there's a Smoke bomb. but That is what you would like. they where did you get to Smoke bomb in a tight circle and you just keep up running out of the room. it just It's a wall instead.
00:48:51
Speaker
And we will call it an episode there. Thank you all so much for listening. If
Conclusion and Connecting with the Audience
00:48:55
Speaker
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00:49:06
Speaker
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00:49:21
Speaker
Thank you all so much for listening. I have been your Game Master, Eric. I'm Mia. I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. Jeff. We'll see you later.