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C3 Episode 72 Agents of WAR Chapter Two
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The investigation ramps up!
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Introduction to Eberron Renewed
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D20 Radio, your game is rolled. www.d20radio.com
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Hello, and welcome Eberron Renewed. An actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I am your Game Master, Eric. I'm Mia.
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I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Folks, what happened last time?
Recap of Previous Episode
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We ate breakfast. We made it to... Navajo silence. We made it to our town, our destination of Oloth.
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So that we can begin investigating ah the situation with the orcs. And then instead we went and had breakfast. And instead we ate breakfast.
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Valk demanded breakfast. Then Valk left breakfast. Then Valk came back to breakfast. That pretty much covers it, yeah. The hardest liquor. Vinvalc almost lost
Name Spelling Humor: Chinnara and Chinnar
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his breakfast. We got a little bit of of basic, of base level information about the incident, and i think we're going to go talk to the orcs and this Madani investigator.
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Yeah. Hey, real quick, speaking of, for my notes, how do you spell Chinnara? I didn't hear you give us that one. C-H-A-N-N-A-R-A. Chinnara.
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yeah ahra I went see why thought you were being fancy with it. Like Chinnar, the liquor, as it were. No, I went basic with it.
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Not that basic, though. so I had CHI because you said Chinnar. Chinnar.
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Anyway, that's where we're going. Talk to her. Yeah. Okay, so you all finish up eating breakfast and head out. One of the twins thanks you for coming in.
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No way of knowing who, though. I give it a shot. No problem, Kelm. We'll see you. Karis. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Karis. Kelm's tied up. Somebody go help him. i Probably by Brother Mathis. Does Brother Mathis also make furniture?
00:02:29
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There's something weird going on in the back of this tavern, and let's leave and not find out. just What do you think the mattresses are stuffed with? You've lost all of us. Got so quiet here. it was it's like I don't know if it's moonshine people or storm man well something. thatrackle That was a unison dumbfounding that you just put on your entire playgroup.
00:02:57
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well done we peaked it took us hit almost those eight years but i did take a bit of psychic damage editing the last episode where i'd only put my audio track into the sequence and the mark was just a random spot and i hit play and i heard myself laughing solo and it was like uh get me get me out of here so anyway i'm sure everyone else was laughing loudly with me at that point in the episode You all head to the town hall.
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Yeah. You all walk in through the front door and you see a small table set up with quite a few bits of parchment and you see a half elf woman sitting there.
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She looks up. She has a very short, dark, short haircut, dark hair, and she is in... Pretty simple black and blue attire. It looks to be very well tailored.
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And she looks up. Hi, can I help you?
Arrival at the Town Hall
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Suppose we're looking to be directed to the holding cell.
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Oh, and why is that? We were directed here by Jaren. Oh, yes, the leader of the town. Very good. think she starts taking some notes.
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And who are you? I'm beginning to think you're not the receptionist. Certainly not. And she's looking down blindly as she... Nix is looking around for an actual front desk. There is a larger desk, but there's like nobody seated at it. There's some things like scattered route on it. And there's just, this is clearly, you get the vibe. This is a temporary thrown together setup off the side.
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Has she just taken over Town Hall? i i mean, you get the sense that if J. Rune were in here, like J. Rune could get work done. She has just kind of set up a space to work in this front area. And who are you all? We are the lighthouse. We're here to insist with.
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and We're investigating the incident. How fortuitous. I'm also investigating the incident.
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The lighthouse, you say? Yes. Very good. So you're wanting to speak to the orcs?
Investigation of Orc Incident
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I presume that's why you want too good to get holding? Yes. Yes, please.
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Great. Nyx, is your face doing what your face is doing? Obviously? It's probably less obvious than and Philip's face. Well, she rolled a natural 15 on her wisdom check. So she looks at Nyx and says, is something the matter? Is something the matter? Well, I take it that swords fly through the sky here and people go berserk unexpectedly. So apparently. i was just wondering why you were making the face you were making.
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Do you often ask questions like that to strangers? When I'm conducting an investigation, yes? Speaking of your investigation... I'm getting flashbacks. Down to business. When these people start fighting.
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ah Is there anything that you're willing to share to help? I mean, we are here to assist, and it wouldn't be b optimal to withhold information from each... Certainly not.
00:06:21
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What i have so far. The group of orcs led by Karag went to the shadow marches in an attempt to assist in cleansing the space using their druidic magic since holy magic had not worked up to this point.
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um They went down into the heart of the city were unsuccessful Left, came to Olaf to attend the festival Baldrè, and then the incident occurred.
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There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason with positioning the moons or the time of year, with planes being coterminous based on what I can tell.
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So it's quite insplitable why something like this would occur if it was extra planar in nature. The flying swords are an interesting wrinkle, but nothing to verify their actual existence of then eyewitness accounts. The orcs do not recall anything of what occurred while they were in the altered state, but they do occur they do recall everything up until the moment that their mental states were altered.
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based on the timeline that I got from various witnesses. And where are their belongings? They're being held in a locked cabinet near the coping cells.
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Would we be able to have access to that? Yes, I could get the key. Jaerune has the key to that, but I can get it for you. Yep. So, I suppose I should ask the lighthouse, what is that?
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And what is your interest in this incident? Swords fly through the sky and people go berserk without explanation and and people get injured. That would more or less sum up our interests.
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We are...
Purpose of the Lighthouse
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It's interesting. It is interesting.
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But you mentioned yourself, the potential planer anomaly, and that is that is our purpose. That is the what the lighthouse does. We investigate and occasionally mitigate those sorts of things.
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Interesting. Do you have a lead on which plane you think is involved? I think it would be important to have more information than the last...
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not asking you to make a direct accusation. I'm just asking you have a lead. We have, well, we have the information you have, apparently, because everything you told us is what we were told by others, so. I won't.
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Let me take you back. And Chinari gets up and leads you back to the holding cells.
Meeting with Orcs: Shabarath Connection
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You see a group of five orcs in a druid's robes seated.
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You certainly get the sense that these are not the normal accommodations afforded to like drunkards that they have to like round up in the tavern and throw in the hold for the night to let them sleep it off. There's Some more comfortable like beds set up in here.
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The chairs that they have in there aren't like lounging chairs, but they're certainly more than just wooden stools. And there's a couple of tables in there. Two of the druids seem to be playing a board game of some kind. Think chess adjacent.
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ah Two of them are reading and then one of them is just laying back with his eyes shut. And Shannara says, Craig. There's some folks here wanting to speak to you about the incident.
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And the orc with his eyes shut, he has a shaved head and a medium length beard, stark white hair and dark green, like forest green skin. um And he just says, we have talked an awful lot about what happens.
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I know. but these folks just arrived on the scene and they'd like your take of it and to talk with you. And she turns to you all. I'll go chat down J. Ruin about the key to the locked cabinet while you all talk.
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And Jannara leaves you all.
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Nix leans her head over towards her shoulder and says, See what she actually does. and Akron is gonna try and scurry off. yeah like just like super, super subtle just like that. Yeah. I was afraid you were talking to the cast. Wings croaks like the sound of doom and... yeah and You got it, boss. And it picks up.
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It's a living. I'm sorry that you have to go through this so many times. I can relate that repeating yourself is not particularly enjoyable.
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I don't think our focus is actually going to be on the incident itself, but your journey that brought you here.
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Krog opens his eyes and looks at you about.
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Well, there's a saying, the third time brings fortune. So perhaps since this the third time we have to tell our tale, that something will happen. That's kind of what we hope.
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Ask your questions then. How did you survive Shadukar? Let's start there. That is with, I do not say with our experience, that within what we have heard across our lives about Shadukar. Yeah.
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makes you remarkable. He kind of nods. We are members of an organization known as the Gatekeepers, and we have spent millennia honing our order to handle fairly unique threats.
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Thankfully, most of our magic is defensive in nature and also focused on expelling things that do not belong here. I've only ever heard of the gatekeepers in connection to problems relating to Zoriat.
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Did you have some reason to believe that was the case in Shadukar or was it just a matter of nothing else has worked? We had heard tales of what...
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kept happening in Shadukar with practitioners of the Silver Flame attempting to go in. And their obvious assumption being that there was something undead down there, given that Karnath were the ones that
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executed their city. We we sought to use our skills to investigate what actually lingers there if the Silver Flames tools were not sufficient and kept getting them killed in hopes of strengthening relations between our interests and the government of Thrain. Did you find anything?
00:13:42
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I assume this has been asked to you and I apologize for the repetition that no one has told us. No, it's quite fine.
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We traveled down into the heart of Shadowcar, where presumably whatever...
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It does not seem that Karnath pillaged Shadowcar, and that is how they killed 7,000 Thrain-ish people.
00:14:11
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It seems that they set something off. So we went to the point where it seems like Whatever they did originated, which was in the middle of the city underground. We found some arcane markings and things of the like, but it was fairly destroyed from the devastation. We did find a weapons cache down there that did not seem carnathy or Thranish in nature.
00:14:40
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We left it untouched. Because we did not trust what we saw. But it did seem there was a feeling that we were on the precipice of another place.
00:14:55
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That the veil was thinned after. But it did not feel like Zoriat. Yeah. What seemed wrong about the weapons? I'm sorry. We did not recognize their make.
00:15:05
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so We did not recognize what nation they originated from. and in our experience, when you delving in unknown places, you don't take what you do not know.
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Were they damaged in any way? You said e they said this was the epicenter. They did not seem damaged,
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but che They seemed freshly sharpened and ready for fight. You say you recognize them as neither Karn nor Thrain. Can you describe what you saw? Harsh.
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Brutal. Weapons designed to not only take life, but cause pain. Metal. Recognizable metal. Certainly was metal. Shined silver.
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but could not tell you what exact metal it was. And here, Nick's eyes sort of sweep the group. None of you brought back any of them, any item from this cache.
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Give me a wisdom check. Any of you could give me a wisdom a check. as i say I would like to also so have a so please other people. To detect truthfulness. Boy, I don't. Unless they teach you that at basic level paladin school, how to how to stare someone down and get the truth.
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They got spells for that, baby. They don't need to hone their skills in it. Oh, actually, I rolled real well anyway. Just on the base roll without any backgrounds, I have a 21. Jeff looked victorious. My natural 20 gives me a 28. If there's one thing I can do, it's tell when somebody's lying to me right now this particular time, not the last. two If somebody's...
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Go ahead. If somebody's lying about sneaky thieving, I will notice. If they're lying to me about their provenance and origin, don't know. but The discernment of 16-year-old boys. um I know what I know. 20. 20. With paranormal investigator or without?
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but Yeah, this is an investigator. That's a 26. Okay. That got 26. Selina got 20. What did you get cast? 28. Ultimately with the next got 21.
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Okay, you, you all see four of the orcs very emphatically shake their heads. No, including Karag one of the orcs playing the chess like game with his back to you all does not shake his head. No, he does not say anything, but he does not give an indication of yes or no.
00:17:48
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He seems to be, is he winning? Yes. Handily. Yes. He seems to have an eye for tactics.
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Yeah. Strategy. But since this is all silent gestures, no one else really clocked that. Like none of the other orcs. This room this is just a room, right? They're not actually in a cell.
00:18:11
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There are bars. No, there are bars. Yeah. So I can't sit down across from him at the board. is is it was I was trying to get the geography. When Shannara gets back with the one set of keys, she might be able run and get the other set of keys.
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is I guess Nyx would look to the others to see if they see if they're clocking what Nyx thinks she's seeing.
Nyx's Shabarath Form Revealed
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Kaz points directly at the back of this guy's head.
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Right? we all Right? Ace Attorney move, just like, yeah. Objection. No, that none of the other orcs really clocked that he didn't answer the question.
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I mean, two of them are reading, Karag is looking at you, and the one playing chess is looking at the board flummoxed because how is he losing this bad? So... Are the others unwilling to speak or unable to speak?
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more No, you just get the sense that they, like... they all have the same story so it's easier for Kharag to just speak for the group. Like, it's not like they all silently, like, looked up and, like, shook their, like, m- like, the two reading just kind of shrugged and was like, no, like, didn't take, like, very natural in their lack of speaking.
00:19:25
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Strange. But hey, there. Eric doesn't want to do five different voices in a conversation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nix looks at Karag. You're the one. Forgive me. The one that did not answer your question is the very clearly the youngest one of the group as well. Please don't hear me being accusatory, but your young friend there at the chessboard.
00:19:50
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Doesn't seem to have heard me. His name is? His name is Nardum. N-A-R-D-U. Was he always an avid chess player? Or?
00:20:01
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Was always an avid, a close approximation of chess player? It's pronounced charse.
00:20:09
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Stratego. Love that game. It's Conqueror is the name of the Conqueror. Of course it is. Oh, it really is just... after play line a checker i'd see it che It's just chess. so that It's played on a checkerboard. Pieces include a king.
00:20:27
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Chancellors. The pieces can be carved from ivory and ebony. Anyway. anyway Create a gathering. But not in harmony, because it's a... He, Krag, kind of looks over, and we don't have this game in the Shadow Marches, so I presume... I wondered. You might just have a mind for it.
00:20:48
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Nardum kind of looks at her. That was my thought. Nardum. It could be a simple game. it does, doesn't it? Nardum, did you take anything from the cache of weapons? It's... Very important for reasons that have nothing to do with theft or honor. Give me... Give me a kid give me a check. What do you... Like... Yeah.
00:21:09
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yeah Yeah, she's not trying to intimidate him at the moment, so it's not really any of her backgrounds, i don't think. Turn on the charm, Nyx. Can I look in the back? Can I just observe from the back?
00:21:22
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Yep. o No. don't know what those keys are. not Not amazing. Well, I mean, I guess I get to add. So charisma plus my levels plus seven.
Tensions Over the Scroll
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Gets me to a 16. I would be willing to throw my Lords of Dust icon die into this because we obviously I feel like this this guy and Nix have some have something in common that.
00:21:54
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Yeah. That she is reading. how How would you like to manifest that mix? Talking to Philip, not Nick.
00:22:06
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Sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, i'm trying like I'm trying to think of a way that it's more that it's more interesting narratively than than that it's just... A vibe check?
00:22:18
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That it's just a vibe, yeah. I mean, like, like he iss he's not responding. He's reading the game. He's reading that board just... just you don't, I mean, you don't pick up chess just suddenly. yeah like Get two in chess. And since it's not like the other guy taught him, why was we were just told they don't have this game. So, but so I mean, i yeah, I don't have a good dramatic way that this manifests like visually or or as a particular narrative. It's just, it seems fairly obvious to Nick's.
00:22:56
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that this guy has touched shavaroth in some way yeah and
00:23:04
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so that's so there's a couple different ways that we can manifest okay i i go ahead okay i so we don't really have like languages defined on my character sheet anywhere like yeah i don't remember like it's not really the thing this game worries about yeah before the ritual nix nix didn't speak infernal yeah and so nix will say something just very similar
00:23:41
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say you play with great skill, ah but she'll she'll drop into Infernal, but which she does not speak in polite company. It's unpleasant. but Just for ah ah that sentence to to see if if he also seems to recognize what she says.
00:23:58
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Or Abyssal or whatever. Demon talk. Yeah. No, I think for Shavarath, Infernal would make sense. So, yeah, you you drop into it
00:24:13
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And he does not speak back in infernal, but it's very clear that he doesn't even clock that you switch languages. He just nods. it like, I appreciate it. He says back in common and cry, kind of like raises an eyebrow that that's odd, but also like.
00:24:35
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Yeah. Are you wanting to use your, are you wanting use your icon connection with Lords of Dust or feel like, yeah, I want to, i mean course I want to get truth out of him. Like yeah is what I'm trying to do. i'm trying, I want to get truth out of him.
00:24:49
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And, and I say, i think, think what I say is it will only get worse. What did you bring out? So is this you attempting to use your Lord of death's connection? Yes.
00:25:00
Speaker
Okay. cook Yeah. So do you have an idea, fill for how this manifests or do you want me to kind of come up with how, how it manifests? Cause generally it's like put into your yeah yeah hands, but i don't,
00:25:15
Speaker
I don't think Nix has ever met anyone like her in this way. Yeah. Maybe there were other Shabrath touched tieflings at, at relic or, but I don't think, but Nix Nix the nature of Nix's connection is different. And so has, he's ever met anyone who, where she just recognized that the way this recognition is, is just there.
00:25:40
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and okay. Yeah. So I, I, yeah, I'm, I'm happy to leave in your hands for this. Okay. First off, go ahead and roll a d twenty and see what the result is. See if there's a twist.
00:25:53
Speaker
Is this evens odds or what do I want to know? If it is a six or higher. Okay. That's good odds. That's pretty good odds. It is a five though.
00:26:05
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Okay. So we will. Woo. Great. Have it. This is good. That won't. That's that. Yeah. Boy. i mean Okay. Couldn't possibly be bad.
00:26:20
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Right. What did go wrong? So what happens, Nyx, when you speak to him in Infernal is you feel kind of a thread connect to you all in a way. Mm-hmm.
00:26:37
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And this is, everyone can see this. Basically, like, superimposed over Nyx is Nyx's full Shabarath form.
00:26:52
Speaker
Oh. and imposed over this orc. And it's it's clear that like the wasteland that is Shabarath, like the the eternal battlefield kind of like superimposes over this whole area.
00:27:06
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But you and the other orc are the only ones that manifest in form belonging there no one else has their shavarath form shown and for him you see so this is a like i said a pretty young orc so no grain hair he does have facial hair it's cut into a pretty tight goatee and then he has like long hair that drapes over his shoulders, um, that is black.
00:27:39
Speaker
He's wearing his Druid robes, but his Shabrath form, you see him with a staff in one hand and glowing brightly in his other hand, the same way that like,
00:27:50
Speaker
Nyx would presumably be wielding the sword that she summons from Shabarath. That glows his belonging there. He has a sure I'm describing this correctly. A scroll in his hand that like clearly like held as if he could read off of it.
00:28:09
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And... It's called a scroll, but yeah, it's a scroll with multiple pages, like rolled up and like flapping down. Like he can look at multiple pages, but that is glowing brightly as, as though it is of Shabrath make.
00:28:26
Speaker
And then because Nyx is a curly wheeling her soul sword, you don't see the reflection of the sword anywhere on Nyx's person, but you do see under his robes, a cylinder tucked away, like strapped to his left thigh.
00:28:39
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under his ropes. And then after a brief moment of that, it goes away and Krog, but before any of you can like really say anything, frog like leaps out of his chair and asks, like looks at Nardum is like, what do you have? I'm gonna give Philip a second just so since Philip's in the scene.
00:28:59
Speaker
to finish this. And Nardum just says, nothing. It was a trick, an illusion. What do you have, boy? And he walks over and grabs Nardum around the throat and like slams him up against the wall as the other orcs come over and begin trying to search Nardum. Anybody doing things anything as this scene plays out? But how close to, because we all we we all saw this, you said, right?
00:29:25
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Yeah. How, how close Nix's full Shavaroth form have we seen not, I think probably this is more than what, what you've seen. This is like, ah think what you get here is, you know, like these these elongated horns that that curl back along her, along her head.
00:29:49
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um I think in the form that you see, she has, she has these sort of ragged wings, um, ah but the feathers are clearly metal and sharp.
00:30:02
Speaker
So cool. Her, her skin is, is much, much redder and, and scales running, run all, all down her, her arms.
00:30:13
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And, um, and I think she just looks, think taller and more imposing in that form, more, more threatening, as opposed to, I don't know, just,
00:30:27
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capable, like she, she can be threatening, but she doesn't generally try to lean in that direction unless she has to. And so I think that's probably what is, what is visible in that form.
00:30:40
Speaker
I guess... what we What you've seen up to this point is, is you know, probably just up a portion, a few steps along that way. Like, horns will elongate, the scales will go, yeah.
00:30:51
Speaker
Does she seem in control of herself? I think that's what Kaz would be concerned about more than anything else. Just... With obvious yielding to the GM who has a twist in his pocket. It's a question for everyone. For everyone. Yeah.
00:31:08
Speaker
I would say that when this passes, Nyx looks... i you know You all have have observed her in the aftermath of these kinds of things. She looks shaken, but is clearly reining it in because we're in something. like there is not There is not time for that to worry her right now. 100%. Okay. Can I roll for stress?
00:31:30
Speaker
Sure. Yes, absolutely. Roll for stress. e That's a six. Yeah. Only I hit one to six. there' just Does Valk have advantage for the boos? I think that that triggers the so resistance to weakened. Yeah, we we all we all react differently. That's true.
00:31:48
Speaker
sorry To answer your question, Eric, I think Kaz is watching just a little stunned at how quickly this went from zero to 60. yeah Especially inside the cell. like They immediately said, as though perhaps they already had reason to not trust Nardoon.
00:32:05
Speaker
Zao probably, despite the additional stress, would take a step forward and put his hand on Nyx's shoulder just in the same way as like, I'm making sure you're fine and not jumping into the Zory yet. Yeah, no, yeah, 100%. 100%, yeah. I mean, the twist is that everybody, including these orcs, saw Nyx's true Shabarath form. Yeah.
00:32:31
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That's a great relief. I was worried that her, I don't know, demon mom or something that exists on the other side is going to appear. i don't know. Yeah.
00:32:42
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I think a lot of older, I've given Eric a lot of leeway and I learned my lessons from campaign one and I'm not going to make Philip regret that decision. Okay. Yeah, no, I mean, the gatekeepers are now aware of... Nix, basically, is like kind of... Yeah. Yeah, cool.
00:32:57
Speaker
It's going add a negative icon relationship over here. Yes. And the gatekeepers also. We'll see what they think of you by the end of this campaign. It might be a neutral. Or conflicted, rather. Conflicted, yeah. Yeah.
00:33:10
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Okay. Nix... doesn't nick's previous starts slightly when fauk lays a hand on her but doesn't doesn't pull away she also does not move to intervene in in what's happening yeah she doesn't she couldn't ah she'd have to find some way through the bars even if she wanted to so yeah where did where's where is homegirl with the key Yeah, she's just slowly in this room. I'm fine that she has not come back yet.
00:33:39
Speaker
Two minutes have gone by. What are we talking about? Like, um um i'm good I'm good that she wasn't here for this. Gatekeeper is one thing. House Madani is another.
00:33:49
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say note
00:33:52
Speaker
So the orcs begin shaking down Nardum, and Nardum starts fighting against them. Um...
Chaos and Attack on Town
00:34:01
Speaker
And Nardum eventually shouts no and like lands particularly nasty looking blow on one of the orcs temples as he like staggers back.
00:34:15
Speaker
And then Nardum like kicks one of the knees of one of the other orcs as he like lets out a yell and stumbles back. And then the fourth orc, the one that he was playing chess with,
00:34:28
Speaker
um Nardum like headbutts into the nose and his nose explodes and blood kind of starts draining down. And then Nardum reaches down. um
00:34:46
Speaker
We don't have any way through these bars. Yeah, the key. Not just me saying. I could... can i i I mean, I have i have actually ah been able to unlock one door. And the fact that you're saying, well, there's a locked door.
00:35:00
Speaker
Nothing to be done. I was i was able to say, sorry, cast knock one time. I can try again. i don't think Nyx can kick down the but like metal bars. If we were... we could just shoulder through a door, that's one thing. This is...
00:35:18
Speaker
what what What do I have to do to try to unlock the door with magics? I mean... youd have to say It happens once. You'd be able to use your Feytouch background like any other skill check, so... Right. Depending on what base skill... Yep.
00:35:33
Speaker
to To buy him time, can i try to recall some sort of abjurative magic from 101...
00:35:45
Speaker
pallid in one oh one to essentially to to compel to hold him to compel him to to like stop him from doing permanent injury to the other people in the ah I don't know protection against good and evil or hold person or something you know of that nature yeah that or within the realm of i can make a skill check to make that happen i guess I guess I have another. I have a a silver flame icon thing if I need to spend that to get access to this. But I mean, that would be very funny. like Just switch. Inside of Nyx, there are two wolves.
00:36:19
Speaker
it's At least. One's dusty and one's silver. Yeah, i mean, you can certainly try that Nyx. So here's the thing. You can make a skill check to try and do it. Or you can use your icon point to do it.
00:36:32
Speaker
Right. Let me let me make a skill check. it's It's more interesting to me right now if it's possible for if it that it might fail. Okay, so this will be a... So Paladin's magic is charisma based. so Okay, so charisma and relic or runaway i think are the things I've got right now.
00:36:48
Speaker
Because Nyx does not want to try and reach at him the other way. Okay. yes Please. Natural 20. my.
00:37:00
Speaker
yeah oh bowy For a total of 29.
00:37:06
Speaker
twenty nine Okay. So i kind of want to describe all this happening at once. So Kaz, go ahead and what's your check going to be to try to unlock the sun? So my magic plays off my charisma skill as well.
00:37:20
Speaker
And and i I would like to add fey-touched ants as I'm trying to unlock a door by mischief. backgrounds. I think you can only add one background to a skill. Oh, can you? Okay. Well, they're the same, so they're both four.
00:37:33
Speaker
Okay. That's a 25. Wait, um no, that's not a 25. That's a 29. Nice. Twinsies. Give me just one second.
00:37:46
Speaker
Yep. Yep. Heroes cannot apply multiple backgrounds to the same skill check. Makes sense. It just had never really come up before that I've been able to use both. So well, and in my other game that I run for you, we play City of Mist where the entire system is adding multiple background elements to it. As much as you can.
00:38:02
Speaker
If that was a successful role, can I say that in my heightened state, ah I just blast the lock off of the door? Like it shoots through and like hits ah it's this wall on the other side of the cell?
00:38:13
Speaker
Yeah. Great. I have a question. I might have an answer. Well, I would hope that I'll make something up. um I'll take that. If anyone's going make something up, it'll be Madison.
00:38:27
Speaker
Yeah. I'll take that. That's more in my favor. yeah Because I get to swap spells, is the feat that I take tied to that spell? Or can I swap?
00:38:38
Speaker
Like if I take out that spell, can I swap the adventurer's feat that it's also tied to? Yeah, you can totally do that. See? Okay, Madison. I said if someone else did. Zarn. I tried.
00:38:50
Speaker
I think which occultist feature is that? what feat it is in general. cause It's not like a special ability. It's just... i just take so I can just take feats on spells, but I can also swap spells.
00:39:05
Speaker
Yeah. Sorry, I'm looking for like official answers to see if... you right do color at cloudy When you swap out spells, you can redistribute the feats you spent on it. Sick.
00:39:18
Speaker
What a good question I would have never thought to ask with my feats. I'm greedy, so I want all the stuff. I'm greedy, I'm just not smart enough to make it work for You never know until you ask.
00:39:31
Speaker
Then I usually just bully people into rossa saying yes. con Conversely, he might never know if you don't ask. You just kind of do it. guess it could have paused. Okay, so, yeah, Nick's got a natural 20 on the abjuration spell, while Kaz got 25 on your roll to unlock the magic.
00:39:52
Speaker
29. 29. Unmatched. So, but let's describe all this kind of happening at once. So, Jeff, you said that Kaz just kind of, like, punches through the lock with magic?
00:40:03
Speaker
Yeah, essentially. It's a bump lock. What does it look like? I think... So I've been playing with this idea that Kaz has been... Whatever he's been projecting has been what he's been scared of at the moment, or what had just attacked one of them.
00:40:22
Speaker
So not knowing what that is this time, I think just a beam blasts from, again, like kind of the sleeve underneath his arm. er And... I think it just shoots the lock to the other side of the cell.
00:40:35
Speaker
Like it just awesome through the door and the lock slams against the opposite cell wall, provided there's no one in the way. Can we make that the case? Yeah. Okay. It's fine. Through a guy against the wall.
00:40:46
Speaker
since I'm sad that it's not a tiny Shabrath version of Nyx that just barrels through the lock. Actually, you know what? I think it's, I think it's a, I think it's a pair of metal wings. That's a great point.
00:40:57
Speaker
I think it's a pair of of metal wings and something kind of indeterminate attached to them blasting through that lock. Okay. What does it look like what Nyx does to Nardu? I think Nyx, Nyx reacts instinctively.
00:41:13
Speaker
She, instead of, because she, she can't deal with the situation physically, she grabs the, the, the silver flame holy symbol. That's, I guess probably,
00:41:27
Speaker
hangs on her on her belt and then her other hand just comes forward in this warding gesture and this ring of of silver fire sort of spirals around her hand and then a a matching one spirals up from the ground around him just holding him back a little bit and as the as the fire wraps around nix's hand it very clearly burns her hey Yeah, Kaz, as the cell door goes flying open and Nyx is painfully holding this gesture to hold him in place, you do see that he was able to reach under his robe and he has a rolled up pretty thick scroll in one hand that he is struggling to bring up and open to read to do something with.
00:42:16
Speaker
It matches the look of the scroll that you all saw in his Shabrath form. It, yeah. So is anybody doing anything at this point? Because Nyx can only hold this for so long before the pain becomes unbearable.
00:42:29
Speaker
I mean, I've opened the door, but I'm certainly not going to be the vanguard rushing into the cell. I guess, though, yes someone has to be. Someone get him, please. Or get them out of there.
00:42:42
Speaker
One or the other. You don't need to cast a spell or anything. You can just describe what your character is doing. Yeah. Yeah. I guess a mouth is going to go in and start pulling people out. But would I also be able to use like a mage hand as well?
00:42:57
Speaker
Or am not to be able to do those? Doing both would be tricky because like casting spells requires some like somatic like hand wavy stuff. Slayna, are you doing Yeah, I can do mage hand. Okay.
00:43:09
Speaker
Okay. So Valk is pulling people out of the cell. Selina, where are you having Mage Hand bring the scroll? Is it being, you bringing it to you? To me. Yeah.
00:43:20
Speaker
Okay. So, um, yeah, the, ghostly hand grabs the scroll and then kind of like comes back and forms into Selina's hand. The other orcs are injured.
00:43:33
Speaker
Kharag kind of backs up out of the door as Nyx holds. Hmm. And then Krog, uh, kicks the door, the cell door sh like pulls the cell board cell door back shut.
00:43:48
Speaker
Um, and you see him places hand where the lock once was and a rune appears and like the door kind of locks into place.
00:44:02
Speaker
Slayna, you have your sword. What other magic items do you currently possess? think just the sword who has the goggles from last i have the ring and the goggles okay who has the bone altar oh i have that okay sorry just reminding myself what the quirk rules are in terms of number of quirks versus at your level yep i thought we were safe to three are we not
00:44:37
Speaker
If they're particularly powerful, so you all are an adventurer tier. If you have a champion tier magic item that counts for two and an epic tier item counts for three. ah ah Everything you've gotten thus far is adventurer tier, though. So you don't need to worry about it. Gotcha. That.
00:44:52
Speaker
And this is also an adventurer tier item. So you're right on the cusp, Selena. Okay. You instantly know like that your hand wraps around it and it's this like...
00:45:06
Speaker
slightly oily leathery material you're from arenal it's skin uh it's it's leathered skin yes uh the backs of these scrolls are you have a brief flash in your mind setting of it's it's flashes of images That Selina would recognize as what, what you would traditionally understand is agents of the dark six, just causing harm and devastation with at the head of the dark six, gotta make sure I have all my proper nouns. Correct. The, the devourer.
00:45:47
Speaker
kind of at the vanguard of them causing utter destruction so basically while you possess this selena good news you have a bonus background it is worth three points is this good news you said good news this is i feel like the the lead up to this description was not good news a free three point background i mean called revelations of the dark six ah oh Whenever she does something evil, she gets to add three. I'll get on that. The quirk, I'm going to go ahead and read to you just because I love it and i don't want it go unread. So if you gain one more magic item, this quirk ah will activate along with the other quirks on your magic items.
00:46:27
Speaker
ah Not so much a quirk is a health and safety warning. If this item takes you over, then you'll be sacrificing virgins on altars in note but no No Kaz. Yeah.
00:46:40
Speaker
That's saying that you guys didn't already through fear. this It is not on my list of priorities. this No. admit It is on Kaz. It has been for a couple of years. So, Selina, that's the magic I'm going to possess. Okay. At this moment, Shannara comes running around the corner.
00:47:00
Speaker
What's going on? Why are the abs at the cell? Oh, we found something you missed. been gone for four minutes. And look at all the conflict. Is everybody, the cell is locked now, right? The cell is locked. Yeah, locked himself. Okay.
00:47:12
Speaker
Nyx lets go of the spell and ah schools herself so that it is not clear to Chinua how incredibly unpleasant and painful that was. Yeah. This one brought something out of Shadokar.
00:47:27
Speaker
Slayna, are you kind of like obviously holding? Right. I have the scroll. It looks like, may I? Because she extends her hand to Slayna. Yes, I'll hand it over.
00:47:39
Speaker
Give me a wisdom. Nyx takes us give me a takes a step, Madison. 14. 14, you hand it over. And she you see her kind of like have a moment of how many magic items has she got?
00:47:56
Speaker
Seven. yeah She's got house money, man. Yeah. just That is unpleasant. when She walks with it down i think she walks over to the storage locker that is locked and pulls a key out and unlocks it.
00:48:14
Speaker
And... says here the items that we confiscated from them. We we should found the item I was going to look for. i don't really think the locked possessions. I'm going to take a look.
00:48:29
Speaker
Nyx walks over because she wants to make sure there's nothing else. that Yeah, with the same, you know. Sure. I'll go look.
00:48:40
Speaker
It's my job. But Nyx is not going out of sword length of this person until she puts that down. Yeah, Selina's staying right by her. Okay. Kaz, what are you doing? Yeah, I mean, I also am and keeping an eye on the woman who just took the scroll that made the other guy flip out that we don't know or trust.
00:49:02
Speaker
I don't care what's in the locker. I simply don't. Nardum, White Snicks lets go of the spell, falls to the ground kind of in seated position, like seemingly out of breath as he sits against the wall.
00:49:18
Speaker
He doesn't say anything initially. He's about to say, She, Channara, like unclasps the scroll, but goes to open it.
00:49:31
Speaker
That is reckless. Seems like a bad idea. Yeah, I wouldn't that. You're looking in the locker, Nyx. You're looking in the locker. Uh, well, I said my part. Yeah.
00:49:43
Speaker
ah Yeah, until Nick's heard click, at which point the locker is forgotten, my friend. it i think it's relevant to know what's written on this thing. Oh, I don't know that it is. Well, if she kind of looks at the four of you, is anybody going to make an aggressive move to stop me?
00:50:03
Speaker
She doesn't say that. right Like, it's not like a, you're going to stop me, but just say like, what are we like? Is this, she is asking, is this a threat or am I good? Can I make a, can I make a reasoned plea to stop you? Give me a charisma check.
00:50:18
Speaker
Yes. Okay.
00:50:24
Speaker
I cannot. Let's see. Well, I mean, plus Carissa just brings it up to an 11 from a four. So she like starts to open it. Nyx stands up.
00:50:36
Speaker
Nyx draws up to her height and which I don't know if I overmatched this one, Nyx is not extraordinarily tall. Nyx is tall, but not. Anyway, Nyx puts it down.
00:50:48
Speaker
I'm not going to be casting spells from it, but it seems relevant to know what's written on- I don't think you have any idea what you'll do once you open it He certainly didn't. Then how about you stand at the ready while I investigate what's written on these scrolls, in case I do something that's outside of my character.
00:51:04
Speaker
I have no intent To don't um your character. i have no intent to harm you or to do anything to harm anyone in this village. Right, and i don't want and I don't want to have to deal with your house after I'm forced to harm you after whatever happens next. Yeah, it doesn't feel like a winnable situation for us, and i shouldn't have said and.
00:51:24
Speaker
And there's probably proper procedures to... Speaking from experience, there are more proper procedures in how you investigate and handle an unknown magical object than just opening it in the random, in the wild, with other people who have obviously been infected by it.
00:51:43
Speaker
But, you know, who am I? Not a professional. I don't know that's kind of weird. She hey yeah hey it dog is actually professional. Don't sell yourself short, Valk. You are, in fact, a professional. I feel like technically I'm on sabbatical, so it's not... we is You need to put that down.
00:51:58
Speaker
I will refrain from reading it for now, but I'm not going to set it on the ground. And she... There's a table right here.
00:52:07
Speaker
There's another locker right here, and you already got the... I assume you got more than the one key. What's up? Valk! It seems that we've gotten to the bottom of what caused all this trouble.
00:52:17
Speaker
We still don't know what triggered it or why. Actually, it seems like we've gotten to the bottom of what caused all this trouble. You were looking for a key. man. So what happens now, then?
00:52:29
Speaker
You put the scroll down. Please. but All right, then. And she sets the scroll on the ground. Now, we saw that he had a cylinder strapped on his thigh, right?
00:52:43
Speaker
he He basically had like leather straps that were holding... Oh, there it wasn't a scroll case. Okay. i was yeah Now, the head of this town is a cleric. I would be willing to hazard a guess that she possesses a scroll case. All right. That we might use to contain this dangerous artifact. Okay. So that's my next step, is let's get a scroll case and put it inside. Okay.
00:53:08
Speaker
Go get a scroll case then. We can all stick together to do this. It seems like we're having a trust issue right now. I know what that looks like. I can go find one.
00:53:21
Speaker
Thanks, Val. Okay. Don't let them kill each other. I'm not threatening to kill anyone. I'm not threatening to kill anyone either. Well, I fear for the ax and accidental killing of people by reading that scroll. To be perfectly frank with you, Chinata. The request to set it down seemed fairly loaded.
00:53:41
Speaker
You're right that it wasn't a request. It needed to happen. And yes, if you start reading things, take your mind.
00:53:52
Speaker
I don't want it to end with one of us having to harm you. The request to put it down seemed... appropriately inverse to the cavalier nature with which you planned to start reading the scroll that caused the havoc at the festival.
00:54:05
Speaker
Is that... That was an extremely polite way to put it. That's what I'm shooting for, Nyx. All right. What next? Stand here and wait until Valk gets back? That's what I intend to do.
00:54:17
Speaker
he's quick. going stand right here. going to stand right here by this scroll until Valk gets back. And I'm going to make sure that it's contained so that no one is touching it. With with all due respect...
00:54:30
Speaker
We don't know if it is not compelling you to want to read it. And therefore, if we were to turn our backs, you would give in to that.
00:54:42
Speaker
You may not know if it's compelling you to do something. It is clearly powerful and and magical and dangerous. Can we agree on that?
00:54:53
Speaker
So it seems maybe the best thing to do is be accountable to each other until it's locked away. Very well. Kaz is standing, like, firmly, but sweating. he's he's He's having to do so much diplomacy right now.
00:55:11
Speaker
So, the lighthouse. How long have you all been investigating extra-plana threats? A while now. Quite successfully, actually. four of our a while The four of us have been working together as a unit for a few months now, but we all have... it has't It's been a couple of months, right?
00:55:36
Speaker
Four months, yeah. More than that, I was going say. But we all have extensive... I'm trying not to lie. I'm trying to be above reproach.
00:55:47
Speaker
We all individually have extensive experience with extraplanar anomalies that led us to working together in this in this venture. All right, then. How long have you been an inquisitive? Painful small child.
00:56:06
Speaker
Come here often? Twelve. Twelve years. Thank you all for your insight.
00:56:14
Speaker
Now, can you find J-Ring? Yes. Yes. Fy, we need a mediator. We need you it's be a scroll case that can contain an intense magical property, like now.
00:56:28
Speaker
Don't ask questions. I'll show you what on the way. Time is of the essence. We are trying to beat a four-minute timer. there a threat? What is happening? yeah What's the threat? Do I need to bring people? What? Four minutes? We only have four minutes? not To save the world? You did it. Music you fill in the background. on yeah Oh my gosh.
00:56:48
Speaker
We gotta get going. Valk's immediate threat is being called slow. Valk's being a hypocrite. Thank you. We found the issue. One of the the youngest orc had a scroll that he took that he shouldn't have. Everyone's going a little crazy.
00:57:03
Speaker
Tensions are a little high. We just need something to contain it so nobody's touching it. Alright. And like Jairun has a scroll page. She pulls out of her case as you all huts it over to the town See, I like when people are prepared and not searching for... She's got a scroll case case.
00:57:20
Speaker
you know I mean, you see her she dumps like a couple of scrolls out of the scroll case. sure yeah, yeah, yeah. but use We'll pick it up on the on the way back. It's okay. Just leaving fireball scrolls in the... yes that' right It'll be fine. be fine.
00:57:35
Speaker
They don't know how to read it. fine Exactly. Valk and J. Rune return. Why are the orcs out of the holding cell? That was the part where for the youngest one took the scroll and then he went crazy and he started feeding up. Why are they out of their cell? Not why are they grievously injured? So, thank you. Nyx holds out a hand for the scroll case. Selina, you can mage hand this, yes?
00:58:00
Speaker
Yes. Good. I probably best person in the room to touch it, but I'd rather not. I've got it. ah So Nyx will, I don't know, reach down with, lean down with the scroll case and kind of scoop one end of the scroll into it and allow, make it so that Selenna can push it in.
00:58:19
Speaker
Yeah. And we're going we're going to pretend it doesn't take like three or four tries to get like, cause it's, it's opened. And so it's like partially on a row. Yeah. Yeah. It does that thing where the center starts to poke in the wrapping paper.
00:58:34
Speaker
Kaz has to also cast Mage Hand to try and like get two hands to We're going get it. It's two hands from two different bodies. so yeah But Kaz's hand is wacky because Faye. so right It's just a satyr who is like... um fuck watching you so We do it.
00:58:50
Speaker
Cool. Nick closes it and stands up holding the scroll case. Shannara extends her hand out to take the scroll case from Nyx. Nyx does not move to hand over the scroll case to Shannara. Why would she? I was asked to be here. I appreciate you all coming and wanting to help, but this is my, and by extension, House Madani's investigation.
00:59:11
Speaker
And you're welcome to hear all of the evidence that you gathered. That is evidence related to this case. That we gathered. Did not realize that investigating crimes was a competitive field now. The evidence just goes willy-nilly with whoever finders keepers it. I mean, there's not an actual jurisdictional thing here, right? Like we would all know that.
00:59:29
Speaker
Just, I mean, the the jurisdiction is that like, you know, and since Louis, she's saying his house Madonna was hired to investigate this crime and solve it. So they would like have jurisdiction over, right? They failed to get. So yeah, but there's still like chain of custody demanding. We give this to her.
00:59:46
Speaker
We, except for the fact that we'd have a powerful house. member or a member of a powerful house angry at us, which I feel like will happen. You realize it doesn't have to. like Right.
01:00:01
Speaker
I think with us it does. Nyx is open to any number of solutions that don't involve handing the scroll over to her.
01:00:13
Speaker
Nyx doesn't actually particularly need this woman to be her enemy, but There's just no... there's not yeah There's not a version of this where Nyx just hands the scroll over.
01:00:24
Speaker
Because there doesn't seem to be a version of it where she doesn't read it at her first opportunity. Exactly. he tried that, it failed. Might I ask a question in this moment of tension.
01:00:37
Speaker
ah If you took their belongings, how did how did you miss yeah the cylinder? he didn't It was like a body search.
01:00:49
Speaker
Shannara looks at J. Rune and she says, I Haldin handled the taking of possessions and assured me that it was done well. Which was communicated to me as well.
01:01:03
Speaker
How long have they been in holding now? It's been a week since the incident occurred. No. Okay. Okay. While this conversation goes on, Nyx moves back over to the holding cell now that no one's going to grab the scroll case to see what's up with Nardun. He actually is unconscious, like sleeping, not like...
01:01:28
Speaker
Yeah. Like, it seems like he's passed out. Karag and the other orcs are having, like, a hush conversation in the corner amongst themselves. Can I try to sense whether his connection to Shabroth has been severed by the removal of this item, or if it's deeper than that, or if there's still a problem here?
01:01:49
Speaker
Sure. Give me a, I'll take intelligence or wisdom. Okay. Let's see. That's a nine plus one plus 18. eighteen 18 you are relatively certain that like the possession of the scroll is what was like tying him to shabarath.
01:02:11
Speaker
So Nix basically just crouches down the other side of the bars and and stares hard at him for a while. And then looks up to over towards the orcs. I think your friend will be all right now.
01:02:28
Speaker
It doesn't seem to have gone any deeper than holding the, possessing the item is what endangered him. I suppose I don't have any way of knowing whether he read it or used it in any way, or if he just...
01:02:48
Speaker
Had it, would you have any way of knowing? I suppose you would have seen it if he had. I did not see him use the item at any point. So, um and he, we stick together there as a group.
01:03:01
Speaker
So I'm relatively confident he didn't use it. It's more of the the fact that he took it rather than concerned about whether he used it at this point. Well, if it is any consolation, I imagine that he's, once he reigns consciousness, he'll be as baffled by that as you are. Perhaps, but it indicates a lack of mental fortitude needed to do what we do.
01:03:24
Speaker
That may very well be true. I'm sure you know perfectly well that proximity to things of this nature will play tricks on our minds. And at this point you all hear screaming from outside town hall and J rune and Shannara and the orcs immediately take off to run out the front door at the sound of the screaming. Nix puts the scroll in her satchel.
01:03:48
Speaker
Yeah. And we, I I'm, I'm running behind them. You all, as you all meet the open doors, you see people running about in fear as they are being chased. You see Acheron. Nyx, you would instantly recognize like multiple creatures, just a handful of creatures that seem to be Shavaroth-like native creatures.
01:04:16
Speaker
running through the town and a cloud of swords sweeping overhead what does akron look like in full shavarath form does akron's form change oh yeah is that is that happening Yes. You see Acheron approaching you in Acheron's tree. Is he just terrifying?
01:04:35
Speaker
Okay, so you and I talked about this a while back, and you may not remember this. It's very likely that no one else but Nyx sees Acheron and knows that it's Acheron.
01:04:46
Speaker
Yeah. Because what we are seeing, if we're seeing through the veil to the other side, is is it ist is an erinyes, is a feminine looking demon with wings and wearing armor and wielding some, presumably some sort of weapon. Um,
01:05:18
Speaker
So probably no one else sees that that's Acheron. Yeah.
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01:05:23
Speaker
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