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C3 Episode 66 Pilgrimages & Infestation Chapter Twelve
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Introduction to Eberron Renewed and Players
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to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron 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, what happened last time? We kept remembering stuff we had to debrief about. but And I forgot one. Do I still have that staff? is it If it's too complicated to not still have that staff, then you still have it. But okay.
Selena and the Interesting Offer
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yeah i good I need to see.
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need to go see Hector. Or Hendrick. Hector. You called Hector. Yeah. we Basically, we came home and reported back to Javier. Yeah. Would it? Selena got a very interesting offer. Yeah.
00:01:06
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Yes. to Because she's so rudely rejected. did i did I did say not at this time. That is true. Did leave the door open.
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It's true, yeah. you and it happen Okay, so let us go through our questions to see
Earning Development Points - How?
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how many development points you all screwed from this adventure.
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um Did you play at least one scene at the headquarters before you left? Yes. Did you encounter a new type of extra planar creature? Burrowing spiders.
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That is correct. Did you visit a place of magic? Yeah.
00:01:48
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Sure. Were you subjected to magic? Yes. Yes, I got brain burrowed. Did you bring books or other important items back to the headquarters? For this question, just to clarify, i I'm not going to count like magic items that you all got for the purposes of like improving your characters. These would be things like the acorn that Valk brought back, like interesting items from the adventure for study. Yeah.
Kaz and the Magic Goggles
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Which I don't know find... i took the and find some kind of office of the forge oh it's not magical is it and the bunker shards also don't count for this because they're kind of a mount yeah i have just a note that says annals of the forge yeah that's fair that was for the journey which so those were two of the empire and the founding of the roar holds So we collected some books. They're not magic, I suppose.
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The handles of the forge actually was the one, I think, with all of the different schema in it that... Oh, you brought the the forge molds back also.
00:02:58
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Nix grabbed those. So is Nix revealing that she brought those back or... Uh, yeah, I think so. makes doesn't Okay. So you need a reason not to.
00:03:09
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Okay. So then yes to that question. Did you make an important contact? Does it count if we probably don't ever want to see him again?
00:03:20
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i don't think that the definition of contact, I think is a desire to continue contact. That have contact with people all the time. I don't even want to see it again. Still. Oh, what about Lashawna?
00:03:34
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I mean, you all tell me, are you all adding her to the Rolodex of people that you want to call on later on down the road? It's the fancy airship hat lady. Oh yeah. The captain. That's, there it is. Yeah. Okay.
00:03:46
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Yeah. The airship. All right. Was the mystery particularly difficult and or epic? Some of the combats were. Yeah. Those, those combats were rough. Okay.
00:03:58
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And lastly, did you solve the mystery? I think so. You, you might have to tell us whether we actually
Mysterious Staff and Zoriat-infused Magic
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solved the mystery. We accomplished the brief. Short, short, just, just being transparent for my notes, short of something catastrophic and terrible happening in the Valk you all got about all the information you could have possibly gotten.
00:04:17
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So. I was real close on that one. Well, we'll try harder next time to have something catastrophic happen to Valc. If Valc would have stuck his head in the forge, then you would have learned a lot more information and maybe Nia would have made a new character. so If we were virtual, I was going in that forge.
00:04:34
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I was not going in I was head. So that is eight development points that you earned from this adventure. That's a pretty hearty amount.
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And we already have two. Mm-hmm. So you got 10 to work with for this downtime. You all, have your options in front of you.
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Okay. We don't have it. There's no new options for us to know. and No new options yet. No. Okay. Well, I know that last time Valk forwent the thing that Valk really wanted, which was the botanical garden.
00:05:15
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So but that was something I was going to do that ended up becoming something important. Oh, okay. So, I mean, don't have to have it. It's my idea got stolen from me before it even.
00:05:27
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yeah Rude. It doesn't back at you. You said to figure out something to do, and I did, and then you took du then there was the ah There was the pigeon cannon. We're going to get a pigeon cannon.
00:05:42
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Oh, right. And then there are there are also things we can upgrade, right? there are things we can buy multiple times. The alchemy lab and the armory can both be up to five times. And maybe another that missing.
00:05:54
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We don't have an alchemy lab yet, right? No. No. no But once we do... Five times. Sure. Yes. And there was a library upgrade.
00:06:09
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i don't remember what the library upgrade did. I just have a note that we, that there was library upgrade. And then there was a guard and a chef. We could get some people.
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Sorry. I'm trying
Drow Activities and Kyron Government Collaboration
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to find my document. Guard or chef. Yeah. I have garden chef as potential hirelings we could acquire. Send me, tell me what the name of this file is just up in the top, put the same thing. Well, I'm just gonna... We've just been keeping notes. hi i asked yeah like i thought i I know I shared a link to the document with you. You did not. I did.
00:06:41
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well all of us are saying no. for that on i will not let you all gaslight me into thinking. Last time you were like, yeah, I'll do it. I have it typed in my one in my one note for this character. mine still like it that ask that's Yeah, but I had already asked for my item. So want to make two demands of I made a whole separate tab in my spreadsheet just for this thing. So that makes tab number things. It's character. I assume that there were things in the document that we weren't supposed to have yet. And that's why you were right. So I was just keeping track of things as you revealed them. I can't seem to type to today.
00:07:12
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Oh, it's just, okay. That's a dumb thing that I did. Okay. Who's gaslighting who now, Eric? it ah No, the like, no, no. We have our answer.
00:07:24
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Here is again, the link to the HQ available options doc. And I've also shared with you, which ones you have purchased, which is a Google doc.
00:07:35
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Are you sure? Yes. Through what medium did you share these? I just shared, i shared both in the group chat, the the text thread. I will share the other one again as well.
00:07:48
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Both are now in the Zencaster chat. You're going to to like email those links to me. Sure thing, bud. Library upgrade is the forbidden library. That's what the library upgrade is. So thus far you all have purchased the map room, the armory, the annals of the lighthouse, the cellar vault, and the gymnasium. We got 10 to spend.
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Yes.
00:08:14
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Well, does anyone have anything they specially have been longing for? I mean, I would use the pigeon turret if we had it to start sending missives ahead of our trips.
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I think that was technically the plan anyways, was to get Kaz and I our spaces. because we Yeah. breathe then That makes sense.
00:08:38
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So, pigeon turret and botanical garden? Yes. Yep. All right, that's all ten. You all put in those rec orders with Javier. Okay.
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So. feel bummed when there's no cannon in the pigeon turret. Doesn't i mean we can't add a cannon to the pigeon. just didn' You make like a giant slingshot. You just fire him out the window. It's okay.
00:09:03
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They can fly. Yeah, hence the lack of a need for a cannon or a slingshot. But it's... give them a little distance. Oh no, I'm gonna i'm gonna get attached to these birds.
00:09:15
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listen youre into the first That's a bad idea.
Upgrading Headquarters with Development Points
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Just like, shh, listen to that call. carel Come see my birds. good Yeah, my voice will change. They can come on adventures.
00:09:28
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Keep Grubb company. have to get back. don't know if I trust that one. Okay, so the month of Ol'arun comes to a close and Therendor, which is March in Ebron terms, is on the verge of breaking a couple, probably a day beforehand though, you all. Sorry. Well, let me, I'm getting ahead of myself. What do you all start off doing with your downtime now that you are back? Like you all have the, uh, the man at your disposal.
00:10:06
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He, workers have come in to start fixing up the pigeon turret and getting the structure for the botanical garden built. But yeah, what, what do you all get up to as you start?
00:10:19
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Settling back. Probably the day we get back. Nyx is going to come back. Kaz says, um, I recovered these in the facility we were in. And she pulls out this set of goggles, a description of which I don't have other than they're just goggles.
00:10:37
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Um, and my understanding of them after a bit of study is that they will
00:10:47
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Allow one to manipulate magic and fate a little bit. And eventually once you became more attuned to them, to mimic the magical abilities of foes we encounter in battles.
00:11:11
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That'll seem like the sort of thing that you might do well, or at least enthusiastically. and i check In any case, I think goggles would hinder my peripheral vision. i don't like that idea in a sword fight. so Thank you.
00:11:25
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No, I really like the idea of having an idea of what I'm about to do. And if that means that I can, even if it's just doing something right back to somebody, that sort of certainty is comforting.
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And so I, I think I take the goggles from him and, uh, obviously hat cast puts them on immediately to see if something is crazy when he looks through them.
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And if not, he just kind of pulls them down. So they hang around his neck. Yeah, as you pull them down, you don't notice anything. Like, it's not like there's heads-up display or anything like that that immediately becomes a apparent, um, Kaz.
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Uh, but you do see kind of like, it's, it's almost like like everything's a little bit blurry. Like you see Nyx, like you see a version of Nyx, like as Nyx goes to like move or even just shift her weight, like just a second before she actually does it, like almost like it's predictive.
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Like there's a little like hint of Nyx doing it before she does it, but there's also a trail behind Nyx. So like, she's kind of blurry to your vision, you know, okay weird way.
00:12:41
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But that isn't just, you know, uh, bad eyesight. Right. Is everything just just creatures or like, if I look at like a bookshelf, is it also kind of blurry and It is creatures that you can see right now. Okay, gotcha.
00:12:57
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Yep. And Jeff, in your notes, will you just write down that these have a quirk to them of um you're never convinced that something can't be improved? Okay.
00:13:12
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Something that I probably should describe about the physical nature of these goggles, I don't have a strong like physical description other than as you all were leaving, The temple, probably after Nyx picked these up. Nyx, you may have clocked this since they were in your hand.
00:13:24
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They look very similar to the goggles that were on the statue of the figure four times that that figure was wearing. Cool. So. Okay. After that, Nyx wants to go see if anybody's vandalized the chapel any further. The first day that you're back? No.
00:13:40
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Cool. Oh, good. It's only happening while I'm there. I don't know. It's worse. Well, Nyx will be on the lookout for that. Yeah. Other than that, I don't know that Nyx has any, like, special... Specialized tasks during during this particular downtime.
00:14:03
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i suppose, yeah, not really. Okay. Forge is ready, everything's good. Anyone else? What are you what are you doing? I have a staff to show to Hendrix. Okay.
00:14:14
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I think i I just take it. I take it to him. And as you walk in the lab, Hendrick kind of like starts as he turns around and you can describe how Kaz would respond to this. You see that Hendrick on one of the walls of his lab seems to have set up a murder board.
00:14:29
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He has a bunch of documents and sketches ah connected by string. He's like, are they? Kaz. Mm-hmm. I think I, I, I mean, I just boldly look at it for a moment to see if it is things related to what we've been doing, or if this is his own personal side project.
00:14:47
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You see most of the sketches or quite a few of the sketches seem to be drow. So that doesn't immediately collect anything that you have been tracking. And Hendrick sees you looking at, and he like looks back at it and like is kind of embarrassed I'm We can get into this.
00:15:05
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What's your thing first? Sure. i just don't want to be rude and immediately overtake this conversation. My colleagues are allowed to have hobbies outside of work. And we all live here, so they've got to be here.
00:15:17
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um i think i It's just an escape room. He like bought a box with an escape room in it that he's like, I really want that to be true. I show him this staff. I tell him we got it from one of the dwarven sages and that was down in the mines. I think that's as far as I go. I don't, because if this didn't have the elvish writing on it or anything like that. That was just the box.
00:15:42
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And I believe they are, it is incidental that he had both of those in the same way it's incidental. I have both the goggles and a ring now. So I don't think they're necessarily related. So I don't, I don't bring unless it comes up. So that's all I say.
00:15:56
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No, i mean the big thing with the ability on this guy was,
00:16:05
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um Like he, yeah, he, he could like the, the notable thing with the abilities that Kaz probably would have remembered is that this, the spells cast from this offered a lot of choices. It was like, the target could lose a recovery or roll a save and potentially be confused or like, so there's a lot of like imposing. It just happens that they got all three choices both times because you rolled natural 20s.
00:16:32
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Right. Right. Okay. Okay. That seems terrible. And Javier filled me in that we're dealing with some Zoriat infused dwarven magic. So I will examine this and see what I can learn about its abilities and how much we should be tinkering with it.
00:16:56
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Yeah. It initially, to my eyes, it looks like it was dwarven made by casters in the muir holds, but, and he kind of flips it over, there's a lot of scratching on it. It looks like scratching at first blush, but I know that some of the languages of Zoriac can appear to be nonsense at first blush. So I will examine the writings on here and see what I can learn, Cass, and get back to you.
00:17:22
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Okay, great. do you Do you want to potentially be able to use this or you just bringing it back as evidence to be examined? Just so I know what my goal here is. If it could be not dangerous to do so, having seen, maybe he doesn't say out loud, having seen the effect Zoriad has had on my friend Valk. I've got enough freedom.
00:17:43
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I can't think of a reason not to try to use it right now, or at least have it in the cellar ready to grab if we think we might need it for something. Here's thing.
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The scientist part of my brain, the engineer,
Personal Backgrounds and Mental States
00:17:58
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loves the idea. of your magic that is infused with Thelanus and the chaotic age of magic, pairing with the magic of Zoriat, who knows what would happen as somebody that has developed a personal relationship with you.
00:18:11
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I am dubious about that idea. So we will take some time to examine this and figure out what would be best. Yeah, that's why I brought it here. Otherwise, I would have just kept it in my room and grabbed it and something terrible would have happened one day.
00:18:24
Speaker
Yes, that was a wise wise call. So you said we could get to this as I gesture to the murder report? Yeah. You kind of blitzed right past my thing by saying I'll tell you later. So let's talk about your boar.
00:18:38
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Yeah, sorry, I just don't i don't have good answers for you right now. I'll need some time to examine this. But sure ah i I've been working on this side investigation for some time that I have found some evidence that... Are you familiar with the Sulitar Drowkaz?
00:18:55
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They are a faction of Drowkaz that live on the island of Zendrik that are... Their line goes back to the age of giants, when the giants ruled that continent and they were subjugated by the giants.
00:19:10
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But these drow have maintained the art of elemental binding in some capacity that the giants taught them. They're very powerful, have killed many adventurers that have been wandering through the ruins of Zendrick in their time.
00:19:27
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Some of them have come to Kyre. And I don't know why, but, and he's like gesturing in different documents. There are documents indicating that Sulachar drow came into the nation, but through backdoor channels to keep things quiet.
00:19:44
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And there have been some of these drows spotted in Metro. And I think they may be working with the Kyron government, possibly any he gestures to another document alongside house Anis on a secret project of some kind But what's terrifying, and he follows another string down to the bottom, is that... Kaz's eyes are growing and growing, but also kind of glazing over as they do. Like, this... huh Based on the materials that they're importing into Metro since the drow's arrival, and he's gesturing back up the drow, is it it can't be an infantry infantry weapon. They're not making swords. it's something... and he just turns look bigger. Yeah.
00:20:26
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a lot bigger. Is this the sort of thing that's going to come ah How do I say this? Is this an extra planar anomaly that we might have to face here in our professional capacity?
00:20:40
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Well, the sword just do elemental binding and he follows another string over to a completely opposite side of the board. And most elementals are not natives to the material plane, but they come from other planes. And so if they are working on some massive scale elements binding that has the potential to rip a hole in the material plane to whatever plane they are binding elementals from sending forth a intense amount of energy that has the potential to be disrupted and somewhat related to our jobs but mostly the disruptive thing he will keep me posted but he doesn't see that is really interesting and also scary the parts i understood and the parts i didn't understand even scarier
00:21:27
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yeah I think with a war that's been going on for as long as this war has been, people are starting to get desperate to end it. And I'm scared about what that, any gestures back to his board might mean.
00:21:44
Speaker
Oh, sure. oh I'll leave you to it. It looked like you were in the middle of connecting when I came in. was just, i I was staring and just trying to think through it.
00:21:57
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So I haven't found much new information in a couple weeks. So is there anything, you know, we're kind of the go team. Yes. So is there anything, maybe any buzzwords or key phrases I need to keep track of while we're traveling to that you might be interested in for this extracurricular activity?
00:22:17
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I mean, if you encounter
00:22:21
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If you encounter any
Kaz, Barsha, and Planar Anomalies Collaboration
00:22:22
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Sulitar drow, like on this continent, that is something that should be absolutely noted. I could see how that would be Jermaine. Yes. I mean, anything related to elemental binding, and that's the big thing that you would want to bring Sulitar drow in for. So if you hear anything about gathering Are you talk... is Is this elemental binding different than like the lightning rail or the airship I was just on?
00:22:50
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That... I'm very mad I did not get to see that. Javier should know better. But yes, the lightning rail, whatever this airship thing is, i those are instances of elemental binding, but they're very small. We're talking about an elemental.
00:23:05
Speaker
This seems to be a lot of elementals potentially. Okay, that... I will admit at first I thought we do that. How is that? Weird. But now I'm... It's a scale issue. Yes. Understood.
00:23:20
Speaker
Yes. Imagine if somebody took the magic that you cast and amplified it to cover a nation. cash shutters that's the right reaction um so that's my concern in what i'm thinking through and working on so if you get word that there's a large amount of dragon shards being shipped to metrol or any sulitar drow those would be the two things that would be very helpful for you to point out okay oh yeah you're the head of our spy network i forgot about that yeah but yeah yes yeah i'll find out all kinds of stuff put your contacts to work finding an information
00:23:55
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but We do have a bag of dragon shards also I forgot about. probably would have given those. Oh, yeah. Those need to be given up to somebody. I can't do anything with them. This is case realized, like, oh, I do have all of these. Yeah. But don't worry. They came through. nefarious Not less nefarious.
00:24:13
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let's do it I brought them. And I don't have anything to do with any of this. And I have...
00:24:20
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know some lulaar sulaar There's actually three different kinds of drought. If you're interested in learning more about and Hendrix. Okay. Is there a book? that you can see I'm sure there are lots of books that you can read. Also, in like a week and a half, on the 5th of Therendor, I'm just setting up a little lunch outside. it's It's a holiday.
00:24:44
Speaker
i don't know if you don't know what religion everyone is. It's a Silver Flame holiday called Tira's Day. It just celebrates the birth of Tira Myron, really important figure in the Silver Flame faith.
00:24:56
Speaker
Sure, sit there. I'm just setting up a small outdoor lunch and nothing big like I did for the other holidays, but just something, if you want to come have some feet outside with people that join.
00:25:07
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So I love the Hendrix, just a festival guy. Like on top of everything else. Yeah, man, I'll be there. I barring something crazy happening. I would love to come. Right. So you can, what can I bring? He's just knowing full well, you can't make anything.
00:25:22
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I just, your company will be more than enough. Great. my My presence is the present. Valk, Selina, are you all doing anything particular? I have a side question.
00:25:34
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Yes. Did, in fact, because this was presented as a potential thing when we left, took is does Dr. Varesch work here now? She will be arriving, yes. She's, she's yeah.
00:25:46
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Yeah, she's not quite there yet. I have two things, so. I'm going different days, but there are 30 things. What's your first one? So Valk is going to leave his little garden with two baskets full of flowers. Aww.
00:26:06
Speaker
These are flowers that he's grown. was going to do a little delivery. A little refresh. I think probably unless you've actively been paying attention, there has been plants and flowers being refreshed around the grass.
00:26:22
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um And that is without doing. um They had meetings and then I didn't write them. only read them and then i was like, that's good enough.
00:26:34
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So... Valk is outside of Javier's office. Javier gets snapdragons because we're not going inside of his office because I don't want to get jumped. For the the ladies at the library, they get lilies. Now they will be two different colors. There's going to be orange and then there's goingnna be pink. And panic room because Val has no idea where goes. That's where he goes. He's just wearing treads between the panic room and the pigeon turret.
00:27:06
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Like a real normalistic state hero. There's going to be lavenders. Lovely. um And the foyer... Because I would assume Hendrix's nose is too sensitive to have flowers.
00:27:22
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He might get a little smeazy. We're going to put sunflowers in there. i And then the last one in the church,
Selina's Dangerous Past and Motivations
00:27:30
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a place of works worship and devotion, we're going to put the roses.
00:27:35
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And then Arumi is going to get tulips for friendship. That's the only one I wrote down. hey So where I think we're just going stick. the flowers on a ruby thanks i'm imagining that nyx doesn't see you do this and so initially it's like just added to nyx what is going on in the chapel are you bucking me with flowers so there's that i mean you can notice if you want to notice but you don't ask no yes and I assume she would figure it out when there are also flowers everywhere else, but I'm imagining the initial moment of like, what does this mean? Yes. Yeah.
00:28:11
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And then Nyx realizes everyone else got flowers, but all different flowers, and so Nyx goes, what does that mean? This is related to my color. in The next, I ironically, i think I also need to see Gendrix.
00:28:24
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Okay. Thank you. Vauk, yes. Hi. He turns away from his murder boy. Okay.
00:28:35
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Strange question. As you know, i come with strange questions. You have been known to do so. Yes. Go on. Do you... We have, by chance, a schematic for the compass or a defunct compass. We had the first one that got used and was not powerful enough to impact the Mabaran ritual circle. also have a schema for it, whatever your preference would be. I would love to know to what end, though.
00:29:08
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Well, I think it's it would just be smart if we're out, far away, to be able to do any sort of immediate were repairs if needed. I mean, I've already been observing and kind of watching.
00:29:22
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i I know I won't be able to recharge one, but... in No, that's fair. trying to If the it gets slightly damaged, something goes off-kilter, it gets stuck in between two different realms. ze Sure. Like, just wait.
00:29:38
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And hendris Hendrik goes over to where there's rolls of different parchment stuck in like a bin over in the corner and starts like, uh, shuffling them around and pulls out one of the smaller ones and comes back over to the table, scoots Kaz's staff over to the side and rolls it out.
00:29:56
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Um, just turns into bugs. They just fly away. could have told you that was to happen. Wow. i coulda told you that was to happen wow And he examines it. Yeah, this is the original schematic that, well, not the original, but the the final of the original schematics that I drew out. So yeah, if you want to take this, just so you have a reference for it, please don't let anyone else get it though, because this is a personal creation.
00:30:24
Speaker
And while other people may be able to figure out if they see it, this would let the snake out of the box as it were. Okay. i That old chestnut. Nah. Yeah, in Eberron it is. Like, I sometimes make up phrases. This isn't our world.
00:30:38
Speaker
Cats in bags, snakes in boxes. It's fine.
00:30:44
Speaker
The snake out of a box is far more dangerous than a cat out of a bag. don't know how long is the cat the bag. Depends on the cat. feel about it? And then it will attack the goose you give up. Oh. We'll bring this back.
00:30:57
Speaker
Like, Vax is going to grab it. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Okay. And I'm going to leave now. I know we've had this conversation before. when it You could just say, I'll see you later. Goodbye.
00:31:13
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that That also works. actually Oh, wait, no. Liar. Yeah. Because it went out of order. Because Kaz doesn't have dragon stones anymore.
00:31:23
Speaker
um Do I see the dragon stones? The dragon shards? yeah there so the bag is so Yeah. The bag is on another table. Can I take two You want a couple?
00:31:35
Speaker
Can I ask why? i like shiny things.
00:31:39
Speaker
There are other shiny things that have less inherent danger within them. Are you working on a project of some kind? Can I help? Would you like some to share some knowledge? Yes. No. No. Okay.
00:31:50
Speaker
And he walks over and grabs two of the smaller Eberron shards and brings them back to you and places them in your hand. There you go. Now I'm losing. Goodbye.
00:32:02
Speaker
Okay. And then, I mean, nothing else has to happen. I think Valk is now just going to head to the the creepy base. Okay. He's going to be working on on some some smart people stuff.
00:32:17
Speaker
and Cool. I have a plan. I just don't know if it's going to work. Awesome. Selena? awesome yeah selena I don't think Selena has anything specific she would be doing. i think she would just be going to the library and catching up with Aurora and seeing what needs to be done as well as starting to document everything that happened on the adventure.
00:32:40
Speaker
and Okay. So Selena's not doing anything specific? No, just just going to the library. Okay. One day when you come into the library, you find Aurora sitting in one of the chairs in the library reading a book that you have not, like, it's clear that she's like about halfway through it, but you haven't seen her reading this before. It's titled The Throne of the Holy Dragons. That looks interesting.
00:33:07
Speaker
it is hey it' i always struggle with adventurers accounts and she like does air quotes that sometimes feel a bit too fantastical and you see the the title or the the author's name is on the cover and it's Boramon Eardane and she says this gentleman is the founder of the Wayfinder Foundation which is an adventuring guild it's very very big deal but this covers his exploits in Kabara when you all just came from
00:33:43
Speaker
But he claims that a tribe of lizard folk, the twilight walkers took him with them as they visit an ancient shrine dedicated to holding powerful, of great creature and overlord in fact.
00:33:56
Speaker
So it's his account. I'm only about halfway through. He's just arrived in the shrine, but Based on your interaction with lizardfolk, it seems dubious that a tribal lizardfolk would just welcome and an outsider with open arms and take them to a ancient holy place. But... And she shrugs and rolls her eyes.
00:34:15
Speaker
Yeah, it does sound a little suspicious. Yes. Maybe it's good for you to read this when I'm done, just since you are the keeper keeper of our annals to know how to not write things in such a dubious manner. Great. i I don't want to be that person. Rora's a snob. I love it.
00:34:41
Speaker
Most sentences only need one adjective. Well, I would love to read it when you're done. Yes, i will I will mark it a aside for you. As long as our little friend doesn't come and take it. but He has not mentioned the blood of wool yet, so it should be fine.
00:34:54
Speaker
Great. have Has things still gone missing? Yes. Even while we were gone? She holds up the S, but one of the snakes on her head also hisses as she says yes.
00:35:07
Speaker
Even while we were gone when there was nobody to play jokes on? No, it seems like he is genuinely interested in the Blood of Vol. Like, the pranks also, a level which specifically against Kaz, is a level of enjoyment for this being, but this they also seem to just want to know more about the Blood of Vol.
00:35:27
Speaker
shi so Interesting. Yes. We found something related to the Blood of Vol that you may be interested in.
00:35:39
Speaker
Likely. She closes the book and sits on the table next to her. We found what we believe was a wedding gift. It's a, bone altar here. I'll show you. It's in my bag.
00:35:53
Speaker
so I'll pull it out and show her. She looks at it and like, there's a level of text confusion is the wrong word. It's like the look on her face is like, surely this isn't real. Surely this can't be what it seems to be kind of thing.
00:36:12
Speaker
And It seems to be from Eredol.
00:36:19
Speaker
What...
Wrap-up and Community Invitation
00:36:21
Speaker
These are your people, not mine. What do you know about this or the word Minara? Well, my knowledge is that Minara is the the first name of Lady Vol.
00:36:37
Speaker
Lady Vol's mom. made Lady Vol's mom. Sorry, I'm not familiar with this. Yeah, you're good. You're good. um And it seems like this was maybe a a wedding gift or something. Interesting.
00:36:48
Speaker
Terrifying, but also very interesting. Yeah. What was it doing Kabarin abandoned temple to Onatar?
00:36:59
Speaker
That's a great question. And we're not sure. Very interesting. Well, I'll look. I'll do some research. You can hold on to this, obviously, but I'll write down the inscription on here and do some research and see if I can find anything out for you. Okay, great. Thank you.
00:37:18
Speaker
I'm going to hide it so our friend doesn't. Yes. Yes. Okay. A few days after you have returned, once things are really starting to settle back into a rhythm, a new resident arrives. Yay. Tashaun is here, everyone.
00:37:36
Speaker
You see a few people from Kalzart walking in through the front door, carrying some boxes. followed by a older looking half elf.
00:37:48
Speaker
Um, and Javier is standing in the foyer to welcome. And Javier says, there's a door. It's the fourth one on the hallway to the right, gentlemen. And he passed them on the back as they walked by.
00:38:04
Speaker
And yeah, Tashauna has arrived. And probably, does anybody reach out to her upon her arrival? Like Javier lets you all know that she would be arriving and... Oh yeah, I'm getting my stuff scheduled. it's There are only benefits if you use them, gang. Yeah, they're in my deductible, so we're going to...
00:38:26
Speaker
Get those going. i like I let Valk go first. Tashauna won't be able to talk to anyone else when yeah she's going inside Valk's mind. Tashauna, first day sleeping there, wakes up and like heads to where her office has been set up and Valk is just standing out outside the door already, just waiting.
00:38:42
Speaker
Let's go. Oh, hello, Valk. Hi. Are you wanting to talk to me? Yes. Great. i mean that's like that's the well i'm like that's that That's your job. its silly you the you know yeah And as she's walking in, she says, i I'm thrilled. I was scared that I was going to have to do some convincing to get you and your team members to want to talk to me.
00:39:12
Speaker
well chief Everyone else? Yes. Now I've done this before. Patched it. And she gestures to the chair on the other side of her desk from her. So I am only broadly familiar with you based on what Javier was willing to share with me, which the tight lit lout was not willing to share a whole lot, wanted you all to be in control of your story, but So, after the nerve, tell me about yourself.
00:39:44
Speaker
Yeah, about that. <unk>s What do you think this is? I'm not really, had something else planned and now I've like thrown myself. What did you have planned?
00:39:56
Speaker
I was going to look for Nyx, but this is different. I don't know how, where do you want me to start? I would just start wherever you want to start. Hello, I am about...
00:40:11
Speaker
vouch
00:40:14
Speaker
30. Okay. I'm from Kaya.
00:40:21
Speaker
What part of Kaya? South. South Kaya. We have like an area. We don't really have like a... before We were just kind of like put there. They're like expanding and they're like, well, we need somewhere to put you all. we're just going to put you in.
00:40:36
Speaker
Who else? Who was with you? My family, my people, the changelings. Some of the changelings, not all are changelings. They wouldn't all live there. Some changelings live in communities without the changelings. Others integrate into other cultures. So I was just getting a sense of who you met when you said we.
00:40:54
Speaker
Yes. My whole family, community, larger. it just
00:41:04
Speaker
So where were you before you were moved to Southern Kaia? I was a working. In Norse. I don't actually, I don't think that's in Valk's stuff. I think that's in her stuff. even me But it was a, oh yeah, I was working in Ondere. I was like, what type of work do you do, Valk, before you join the lighthouse?
00:41:24
Speaker
All legally? Part of my profession in Oath is a certain level of confidentiality, so you can transparent. I was a co-director of the museum, but it was my job with quote-unquote paranormal investigation, which is actually more of sourcing of supernatural and and magical items for a collection, personal collection.
00:41:52
Speaker
Very good. Why are you here? Yeah, so about that, there's a portion in my brain that just kind of like doesn't exist if I try to go to it and it feels like I can feel it crawling, and expanding. If I do try to talk about it, there was one person from the RT in Congress who we kind of convinced to try to like tap in there like psychically and they were incapacitated for like a month. So aye you're you're here I am. I don't literally poke around in brains, but I do help people look inward.
00:42:27
Speaker
as How much time do I have left? Amazing. So when you say part of your brain doesn't, it feels like it doesn't exist. I'm assuming you mean there are memories that are locked behind something.
00:42:40
Speaker
You can't recall certain aspects of your mind. I feel like that would be the closest thing to it. Chronologically, I can get to that point.
00:42:55
Speaker
And then it feels like maybe a couple minutes, if I'm thinking about it, then it just disappears. And then I pick up leaving where it's not an unusual story, but.
00:43:12
Speaker
It's gone. and the more I try to remember it, the more that it feels like it's exchanging. And the attempts to try to breach it, it continues to take away in other places. I want to establish something with you, Balk. While we're in this office, in this space, you can ask me questions.
00:43:33
Speaker
I will frequently ask you questions. And oftentimes we ask questions that might seem obvious or some may call stupid. for the sake of clarity and making sure that we're not leaving any details out so I'm about to ask a question that you might deem is stupid but I'm asking it to make sure that I have full clarity on the situation am I allowed to say it's stupid you are allowed to say whatever you want to say that's fine react without do you recall when this began yes when was that I think it would have been about a year ago
00:44:12
Speaker
Whenever we were trying till get somewhere it felt like there were two options and I i i think the options changed when I, if we're talking, it's like if there were, there's like a door, but the doors options kept changing depending on who would have opened the door.
00:44:38
Speaker
And I stay there because I opened the door. Something went wrong and I don't quite remember. i remember entering that door. okay And then after the door, that's, that's, I'm not allowed.
00:44:54
Speaker
Interesting. Access to that. Okay. One last question for our session today, just so I have a good baseline to start looking into what's going on with you and start developing our relationship relationship together.
00:45:06
Speaker
Why did you join the lighthouse? I didn't have anywhere else to go. I'm sure now that you're Like, you want to come with me? That's not how it happened. He doesn't talk like that, but yeah.
00:45:20
Speaker
Just... Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:24
Speaker
But surely out of any of your companions, you would have had the most options available to you for avenues out. There must have been a reason that you chose this particular wine. i think I needed to be further away and I needed it to be more detached to have a space that is my space with my top 10 list of friends.
00:45:51
Speaker
But it's just... It was easier to try to start fresh and it was going to be difficult to do that no matter where I went.
00:46:04
Speaker
So I just kept going until someone stalked me. Okay. Thank you, Valk.
00:46:12
Speaker
Let's plan on talking again in a few days. A few days. you want to come back tomorrow? I was thinking maybe once or twice a month. That's a real, that's intense. How about we settle on once once a week?
00:46:30
Speaker
Would that be a fair compromise? I mean, i do't I don't feel like I have the option to say no, but okay. You always have the option to say no, Al. You are not compelled be- That doesn't mean that that no is accepted. i would accept it.
00:46:43
Speaker
I feel like that's a little... But I will be back next week. Okay. I'm going to leave. Of course. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Okay, I need to find Nyx.
00:46:56
Speaker
That was just a Nyx. I need to find Nyx. Nyx! I don't know. She's probably in the gym. i don't know. Pretty.
00:47:08
Speaker
but we're where I guess I'm gonna check the gym. Using my super Nyx-sensing ability.
00:47:21
Speaker
Nyx is in the gym. Nyx, hello. Nyx stops. she's in She's got a sword. Probably she's working on, you know, she's working. You don't have it. The book the book that you found? You had a book?
00:47:35
Speaker
Which... which We found several books. Yeah, but you had a book. You don't really carry books. Forge book.
00:47:47
Speaker
Oh. Animals? Yes. Animals of the Forge. Yes. our should it to fifty Because I asked for it. That is actually a good reason, but can you say more?
00:48:04
Speaker
I can. Where is it? What do you need to do? I'm going to read it. It's a book. All right. It seemed urgent when you ran in here.
00:48:16
Speaker
Yes, because you don't keep books. I don't know what you do with your books. I have a bookshelf slain out green library. but Sometimes. That's right. trying I thought you were going to eat a book.
00:48:28
Speaker
Fuel for a fire? out of You got a whole secret basement. for it's now it's not a It's a forge. It's not a secret. It's a secret to me. That's your choice. It's called respecting your boundaries.
00:48:46
Speaker
hi Didn't know I had placed a boundary around the forge. So whenever people have places that they typically control over, that would be their bubble.
00:48:59
Speaker
i try not to just go into people's bubble, unless it's a public space like a library. But I think there might be, no, there might be, it looks like there's a secret room back there, but again, that's not my space.
00:49:11
Speaker
So I'm going to go back there. Nyx hangs the practice sword up and starts walking towards the chapel.
00:49:23
Speaker
I should just went there in the first place. I thought you respected people's privacy weren't going to go through my thing. The chapel is the public space before Denise's talk.
00:49:35
Speaker
That's actually useful information. Nyx walks into the chapel, Also, whoever's been painting in here, the plant.
00:49:48
Speaker
you I can paint. i was i diet that was I did the flowers. I did not do the painting. Which, by the way, those were very difficult. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. I meant to use magic to try to grow all these flowers in that one. The roses were a little bit picky. The first ones just turned blue when they died. And then the second ones turned the stone and then they died.
00:50:09
Speaker
Then the third one kept feeding me. And I was like, I'm not keeping a sentient plant. What idiot keeps a sentient plant? Because then that kind of leads to like feeding it humans. I'm not keeping a plant. i you Oh my gosh. That's stupid. Why? So I cut it off and I burned it.
00:50:24
Speaker
Why are the plants... This is the fourth one. can't you grow roses? Well, my magic has been altered. Yeah. All but so couldn't you just shouldn't you just plant them?
00:50:36
Speaker
Well, it does they don't quite grow in this environment with the weather. It was during the winter, so you have to kind of influence. We didn't have a vegetable garden at that time, so you have to like magically manure.
00:50:48
Speaker
But this one... Is there anything cool about this one? You know... well laugh It's just, all right, well, thank you. I'm sorry that I assumed it was part of whatever thing is painting in here. Oops, it's fair. That's fair. That's fair. If it does start biting you, don't burn it.
00:51:09
Speaker
I don't think it'll do that. I waited at least three or four days to make sure that it would stop at be like, free and murder. Very large. Very large. think it'll be all right. Oh my God. Nyx goes to the... don't think it's built for human sacrifice, so I have the book.
00:51:25
Speaker
This is why I don't want to talk. Amazing. No, that's, um... Yeah, it usually stuns people. stu usually say It's Usually it's their gift for a presence. So. No, i I'll get the book. Nyx...
00:51:41
Speaker
Nix goes up the little spiral staircase and rummages under her cot and comes down with the book, um which is just sort of, i don't know, it's wrapped in ah in a bit of cloth just to keep anything from getting on it because it's old. I brought back a few of their molds. I'm just going to try and understand what they were doing and if there was any
00:52:07
Speaker
non-contagious use that could be made of it. So I would like to have whatever you needed to do is not going to destroy this, I assume. you No, I only write the books. I don't... don't destroy the books.
00:52:24
Speaker
I'm going to write in this? Well, I'm so used to annotating in my own books that sometimes I forget it's not my book. ah Aurora's already yelled at me for it. it's okay.
00:52:36
Speaker
It would be better if you didn't write in this book. Yeah, I said I wasn't going to write. You then made it sound as though you might forget. Nick's offers Vaux. You're not wrong. Vaux's a book.
00:52:50
Speaker
um I might take book. i Try to use a strange color of ink so I can tell the difference if you forget. think should have colored ink?
00:53:01
Speaker
ah Well, it would allow me to tell the difference. If you end up making annotations, I'll be able to know they're your annotations and not a part of a schematic that I'm trying to work with. Just if you forget. Cool.
00:53:13
Speaker
I would remember to use a different colored ink, but not remember to not write in the... I don't know. if I'm trying to be accommodating.
00:53:28
Speaker
yeah Okay. e Nyx is obviously thrown. Ever since the the human sacrifice comment, she is not. She is just very thrown and is trying to figure out what is happening here.
00:53:42
Speaker
On the off chance, Eric. Me? Would, yeah. This is the first time I've been in the, well, technically not the first time. But regarding the, have I looked, have I examined the painting?
00:53:56
Speaker
The painting? The painting? so Chapel's a public space. Would Valsh have done... Like actively. I don't think I have. You've not said... I don't think we've done a scene of it. No. Would I be able just like at a glance be able to see if I could detect anything weird or like any sources or trails or anything like that off of the the vandalism?
00:54:20
Speaker
Give me a wisdom or intelligence with your paranormal investigators. It costs psychic damage, so maybe I could try to give something back.
00:54:31
Speaker
That is a 19. 19? Wisdom. Yeah. With the 19, as you kind of glance up to where the painting has taken place and where, like, there's there's been quite a bit of painting at this point,
00:54:47
Speaker
the The thing that strikes you is that there is no scaffolding and there yeah are sections where the painting has taken place that somebody could not have been standing and painting.
00:55:00
Speaker
So whoever is doing this would need to have some means of floating or flying or getting up there because there's no rigging or scaffolding for somebody who would be traditionally be painting a chapel to get up there by mundane means. Or they might be using Mage Hand on a paintbrush.
00:55:15
Speaker
But... Sorry. I was going to say that. Yeah, you got some weird stuff going on there. That's not helpful. Painting up there? it's the Weird. and A little weird in my books. It is stranger now that I can't help thinking of them as real people.
00:55:33
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I can't help you with that one. But I do you think you are definitely encountering something magical.
00:55:45
Speaker
I mean, have you seen any traces, any tracks or anything? oh like No. I mean, the actual work and the the little bit of information that the strange little ghost was able to tell us.
00:55:58
Speaker
bill Oh, yeah. i I would assume that whatever you're dealing with here does not necessarily have a physical form.
00:56:11
Speaker
I would feel... It has certainly evaded trip lines. Oh.
00:56:17
Speaker
going to make a note that the church is no longer public space. It's not while I'm sleeping. While I'm sleeping, it is not a public space. The most recent note about the chapel is public space. That's literally what I did.
00:56:34
Speaker
but Perhaps I shouldn't live inside. i don't know. I mean, there's a lot of runes in there. The second fork, it's pretty bright. I think we're still trying to figure out if we're going do, like, drapes or, like...
00:56:46
Speaker
this is it Something like that. I think Kaz is up there now. I can't really tell if he lives up there. Oh, so I'm getting friendship senses. He's on the third floor.
00:56:58
Speaker
So the second floor is still not... Oh, you shouldn't......not inhabitable. You could... You guys are friends. You couldn't move up to the third floor.
00:57:11
Speaker
we deal with the blinding light up the second floor. I think the first floor is full. And you can't take my basement. So it is good to know. Yeah, because you need help losing. You just let me know. Thank you.
00:57:30
Speaker
And for the flower. Yeah, no problem. That's for the building. Notice. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going leave. All right. let's Go into the basement. And that's it. That's all I got. Okay. Selina. Selina.
00:57:43
Speaker
Later on that same afternoon, you're working in the library and Tashana walks in with a little notebook. Hi, Selina. Hi, how are you?
00:57:55
Speaker
I'm doing well. How are you doing today? Pretty good. Good. I was hoping that you and I could have a session if you have some time this afternoon.
00:58:09
Speaker
Sure. Yeah, we can do Great. Is now a good time or should we schedule some time to make sure on? Oh, uh, I guess now is fine. Okay.
00:58:22
Speaker
Psychiatric pop quiz. Yikes. She leads you through the halls to her office and closes the door behind you and gestures to one of the chairs on the other side of her desk as she sits down.
00:58:36
Speaker
So, Selina, in these initial sessions, I'm just trying to Good to know all the members of the field team. I'd love to start off broadly and just ask you to tell me about yourself. Okay. What do you want to know? i know All I know right now is your name and what I'm looking at. So I would love whatever you feel comfortable sharing about who you are.
00:59:02
Speaker
Okay, I'm Selena. My father was a diplomat, so I grew up in Karnath for most of my life. I do magic. What type of magic? You know, magic.
00:59:17
Speaker
with With a sword, too. I can use a sword now. Interesting. Your father was a diplomat in Karnath. Now you find yourself here using magic alongside a sword. I can't imagine that a diplomat's daughter underwent a lot of martial training.
00:59:36
Speaker
Nyx is helping me with that. Ah, that's good of her. Yeah. And you said you grew up in Karnath for most of your life. where Where else did you grow up?
00:59:48
Speaker
Arenal. What... Why did you and your father decide to move to Karnath? He was told to go to Karnath. Wasn't really a a choice. Fair enough.
01:00:01
Speaker
Diplomats oftentimes are told where to go and where to live. So... Yes, yes. So, Selina, why come to the lighthouse? Well, I wanted to...
01:00:15
Speaker
Kind of be out on my own bit. It seemed like the best option at the time
01:00:24
Speaker
or my family and me. Did your father tend not to offer you many opportunities at independence? No, no, not really. You say that you think coming here was best for you, which I understand are seeking independence, but why do you think it's best for your family as well?
01:00:41
Speaker
I think it's safest at the moment for me not to be with them. You know, I'm going to ask, feel free to only share what you are willing to share. Would you care to elaborate on why you think it's unsafe for you to be with your family at this time?
01:00:54
Speaker
I'll, I'll share a little, I guess. ah Shortly before I came here, there was an attack that was targeted toward me. And it just seemed like it maybe in everybody's best interest for me not to, to be there anymore.
01:01:11
Speaker
My goodness. Who are you attacked by? Just some people. She kind of gives you a ah knowing smile and nod and says, fair enough. Are you not worried that these people are going to come after you here? Well, I am now. No, it it it feels like a safer option to be here.
01:01:34
Speaker
enough. So obviously, Javier assembled a team who is um influenced and impacted by different planes. You find yourself in kind of a unique position, Selina, in that you have a plane within your body, but then you also have an external implement of a plane within you.
01:01:57
Speaker
Correct? Yes. Do you, how does that feel? Having the Mabaran influence within you warring against the Irian. Do you notice any results through that?
01:02:11
Speaker
think sometimes it makes my magic feel a little more powerful or more like it like it comes easier than it did before. Interesting.
01:02:21
Speaker
I can also sense if we... Anytime there's a Mabar-related adventure that we're on, i can kind of sense when we're in in the area that maybe we need to be in. Interesting.
01:02:36
Speaker
Well, I appreciate you taking the time to talk with me. um You all had quite a bit of contact with Zoriath on this last mission. Do you feel like that's had any impact on your ability to sort your own thoughts or keep track of what's going on during the day? I don't think so.
01:02:55
Speaker
I haven't noticed. That's good. A supposed jute Zoriac can be a dangerous proposition. So if you notice any symptoms along those lines, please let me know.
01:03:08
Speaker
Okay, I will. I will to keep you any longer than I need to. This has been a good initial session. i would love to talk with you again sometime soon. um I'll set something up.
01:03:21
Speaker
Okay, sounds good. Thank you, Selina. Thanks. Kaz, you're heading into town. that what you said? Yeah, yeah. I am going to go try to meet with Barcha. Oh, I cannot remember what what what he is. He's the celestial sixteen watchtower.
01:03:41
Speaker
He's a Warforged. Yeah. He's a Warforged. Okay, thank you. yeah Yes, the Warforged who is in charge of keeping an eye out for more Celestials who might come and ruin the town like they did in the past.
01:03:52
Speaker
Yes. So you head into town, into Kalzart. You see along the route, it's not super frequent, but we are in the first couple days of Therondor, so the first couple days of March.
01:04:04
Speaker
So it's still pretty cold, but it's starting to be a bit sunnier, warming up a little bit. You see... like bonfires starting to get built, like the actual wood.
01:04:15
Speaker
ah they're not lit, but like something is getting built. And as you get into town, you see that there are a couple of like projects going on, people setting up booths and things like that around town.
01:04:28
Speaker
Kaz would probably know because it's something that would go back well into his time on the material plane that on the 15th of Therondor, there is, it is a holiday called the sun's blessing, which is marked as the, the, beginning the breaking of winter and the beginning of spring.
01:04:49
Speaker
Um, it's typically celebrated all over Corvair and it seems like Cal's art is no different in that they are setting up a, a festival for sun's blessing. It's the holy day of Dol Ara, the sovereign of sun and sacrifice. So, but based on the information you got, you are able to find kind of on the, the opposite edge of town of Kalazart.
01:05:13
Speaker
Uh, you find a small, it's almost like a toll booth esque structure, yeah on the road going into town and you see a warforged sitting in it. This warforged is very broad, almost like if you were to put like five of him together, you would put a, you would create a very effective wall in the middle of the battlefield.
01:05:36
Speaker
Um, he's, he's much broader than roomie is. Okay. He also has a very square head as well. It's not rounded off like a lot of warforged are.
01:05:47
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And he has the markings of Chiron military on his chassis. And as you approach, he looks at you and holds a hand up and, or hello.
01:05:59
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Hello. My name's Kaz. You're Barsha, correct? Oh no. People have been talking about me again, haven't they? and Not in a bad way by any means.
01:06:11
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Remind me, Bamani is who told me about him, yes? She had talked to him about the dragon thing, or was it? I think it was, why am I forgetting your name? Ruby? re like Renee?
01:06:21
Speaker
Renee. It was Renee, okay. Yes, I think so. I have it in my notes right next to Bamani, but can't remember who told me about him. Okay. i think you ran into Bamani right after talking about Archa. Yes. Okay.
01:06:33
Speaker
Sick. Hi, my name is Kaz, and I was just hoping to come and talk to you a little bit about kind of you your your job that you do here.
01:06:47
Speaker
Oh, all right. Yeah. Haven't seen you around town. Are you new? I've been here for a few months, but my work requires me to travel a lot. Oh, and actually, like clocks clocks your age, not in a year child way, but just like you are a 16 year old. Typically, these jobs don't require a lot of travel.
01:07:08
Speaker
Yes. No fair. In fact, my work is kind of what I'm here to talk to you about as well. um All right. I can't travel, though, so I don't know if I'd be a good fit.
01:07:18
Speaker
Oh, no, understood. your Your job here is very important. I get it. I work for an organization whose sole purpose is tracking down and so far neutralizing planar anomalies, things getting here from other planes that shouldn't be here.
01:07:40
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And my my understanding is you are sort purpose then the watch point for such the same sort of thing. but Do you know Renee at the cry? Pear sets up the front. Yeah. yeah Well, yes, she is also a a reporter in her own right. um But yes, she's the one up front. Yes.
01:08:02
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She told me about you. When I told her what we do, she said, you might want to talk to Barcha. I was not here before. during the, I don't know what term you guys use for it. What do you guys call the time period where the Celestials wreaked angelic assault?
01:08:19
Speaker
Right. I was not here during the assault. So I don't really know much of what you're here to safeguard against. Well, I have communication tools here to you let the, uh, basically every army fort between here and Metro to know that we're under attack.
01:08:43
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And then I also got this button here. If we have a large amount of celestials descending upon the town, this will send out a large wave of negative energy directly. that weve been over the shots Holy cow. And that just, it's very important that no one else is standing in the range there.
01:09:00
Speaker
I'm looking around for like skeleton a cannon or something. Like, what is it that blasts this energy and what's the radius? No, you know what? I just ask him that, actually. He like gestures into his booth and then he like thinks for second. It's like, I'm going to give you the broad strokes. Not going explain how to turn it on. um No, for sure. I just kind of want to know what's considered in the way, Barcha. There's some implements in here that will activate. If you look out there and he points to probably like 20 feet away from you.
01:09:28
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There's a large kind of like curved line curving away from the town though. Okay. That has a lot of markings in it. And basically says when that gets activated, all of those runes will activate and a huge wave of negative energy will shoot up and out kind of like a tidal wave of nephrotic energy.
01:09:52
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And basically anything. between that line and about 500 feet that direction is gold, including all the grass and trees and everything you see out there right now.
01:10:05
Speaker
who came ah Who built and sanctioned this particular defense? I mean, after the Angelica Salt, the Kyrie government came in and set up the protections. Estol also has a one just like this. They also got hit, and we don't know why. That's the that's the main reason for the big like boom option, is if we had any kind of motive as to why it happened, we could understand why it might not happen again, but we don't know that.
01:10:30
Speaker
says Sure. Sure. So honestly, hearing about your communication setup gives me even more reason to have come and talked with you. Do you also receive alerts from other forts for similar issues?
01:10:44
Speaker
I'm assuming. I mean, it's two way communication. If someone were under outright attack, I could hear hear it. But we're not a fort here. So nobody would call for me directly.
01:10:56
Speaker
Here's what we do. We try to nip those sorts of things in the bud before they become large scale problems. We're not equipped to take on an angelic assault and again, but we are equipped to capture the rumblings that might lead to something else and take care of those problems before they become big enough.
01:11:20
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Did you hear about the zombie issue in... Oh, goodness. Where was that? Kernsville. karns Yes, thank you. Did you hear about the zombie problem in Kernsville when they were attacking the fort there? did that Yeah, there was a lot of paper about it. Yeah.
01:11:35
Speaker
Well, we were the organization that kept that from getting worse than it already was. Right. We sent our field team out and we stopped the... In that case, it was it was it was a um manifest what's the ring called I can't remember I'm so sorry I shouldn't manifest zones better it was a manifest zone yeah in that case it was a manifest zone we needed to close but it was poised to get out of control and create even more of the walking undead I'm coming to you Barsha because I would love to count you among the number of people who help us catch wind of these things to stop them before they get mad
01:12:21
Speaker
Yeah. No, that'd be... When I definitely want to protect people, I want people to be safe. That's what we try to do. Are you the ones that caught that... Taurus guy?
01:12:32
Speaker
The one that was doing all the business down in Cairnsville? Yeah. Yes, we were. Alright. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I've just heard about him over the communication channels, so... In what regard...
01:12:50
Speaker
but Before it happened, you mean? Or since? No, you all were the one discovered who it was. Yeah, it has been after that. What's what's what's been going on after?
01:13:02
Speaker
Give me a charisma-based role to see if he'll... Okay. Relative backgrounds. I mean, my relevant backgrounds are fey-touched and I guess maybe...
01:13:15
Speaker
I would like to think that some of my background in just general mischief has made me able to ingratiate myself to things like guards. I'll allow it. yeah Okay, great.
01:13:26
Speaker
So charisma? Yep. That's a natural one for for a 12. he Best of us. Bartra like stops and is like... i I want to work with you.
01:13:39
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This is our first time meeting and these are like official Chiron army channels. So I can't, I can't speak too far to turn, but y'all did good work. Chiron government's happy that you got them. Uh, so that's good.
01:13:52
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ah But yeah. What do you want me just to give you information that I hear that might be relevant to the work that you're doing to give you leads? Like what, what are we talking about? Definitely leads. Definitely. i I will be honest at the moment we're still building resources. So we're,
01:14:07
Speaker
trying to find paid work, but we also are trying to be diligent in making sure that nothing gets too far out of hand. does that make sense? So yeah.
01:14:18
Speaker
Yeah. That makes sense. here Also, perhaps if you have an opportunity to mention that, you know, of an organization that does these things, if, if something comes across your desk or your wire, that seems too small for, I don't know, an obliteration wave.
01:14:36
Speaker
Maybe you say, I know some guys here but in Kalazard that might be able to assist with that. Yeah. um week there is we like I'll put one on your radar, just out of the gate, because it's one that I don't want you all messing with.
01:14:52
Speaker
Don't want got you anything. Well, it's you don't need to protect, but if you all try to deal with extra planar things, I just want this on your radar so you don't think it's something that we need protecting from.
01:15:04
Speaker
There's actually a
01:15:08
Speaker
entity being. I know it is Shan Siara. That's what I've heard her referred to as. She's actually from Thelanus. She's like an archfey that's fighting in the Kyran army.
01:15:20
Speaker
So she's helping us. So don't mess with her. That is interesting. I thought so too. You said it in a weird way, but I think it's interesting. Yeah.
01:15:35
Speaker
so Do you know, Ciara, do you know maybe what her domain is in Thalata's? Just wondering, just because I'm interested in such things. I've also heard that she introduces herself as the Diamond Voice. That's the only other... I, if I was called that by people, I would also introduce myself as the Diamond Voice. You know what i mean?
01:15:53
Speaker
If I could get away with it, I'd be the diamond whatever you'd let me have. oh and it's S-Y-A-R-A. He says as he points to your notes. S-H-Y-A-R. You jerk. I had C-I. S-Y-A-R-A.
01:16:06
Speaker
Thank you very much. I appreciate that. By the way, I realize now, i I wasn't trying to be secretive. I'm just bad at this right now. We are called the Lighthouse, and we are over, and I just kind of tell them where we're, you know, the you know the River Piddle?
01:16:23
Speaker
You know the weird old house by the river piddle? Yeah. That's where we're at. We're working on it. It's a diamond. I thought just the creepy old guy lived there. Well, the creepy old guy and the changeling, they're the ones outside all the time.
01:16:36
Speaker
yeah They do, in fact, live there, but they're not the only ones. There's also me and some others. All right. Fair enough. Yeah, great.
01:16:47
Speaker
He thinks like a split second, and he's like, also, there's a guy named Arumi you might like, but he's learning not to make those sorts of assumptions, and he doesn't. And he says... alllthough this cast Probably would remember that Arumi defected from the Chiron army, and this guy works in the Chiron army. I forgot. Yes. Yes. In fact.
01:17:07
Speaker
but I remember that he was a defector from the war, but not specifically. Yes. Yeah, there it is. Okay. Okay. Barshay, it was great meeting you. Good to see you too, Kaz.
01:17:18
Speaker
I'll try to... Do you... Okay, pardon me if this is an insensitive question, but do you just kind of do you just kind of always be here? No, I mean, i'll I'll go socialize and things like that. We we have some detectors for celestial magic set up to where I don't need to physically be here. During the day, I mean, a large wave of necrotic energy will also take out a regular army. It'll just be really effective it gets an angel army.
01:17:45
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so But no, typically in the evenings, I'll go to the tavern and just like, I'll be around town. Okay. I was going to offer to like swing by sometimes and fill you in on stuff and chat, which I'll do anyway, because I like it.
01:18:00
Speaker
Like you two, Kaz. Good to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Bye. Farewell. they she it the shook with put That's how you do it.
01:18:11
Speaker
You forgot to preface it with, I'm going to leave now. You're going to now. Yeah, thank you. That was fun. All right, great. Barcha. Got him. right, we'll call it an episode there. Thank you so much for listening.
01:18:25
Speaker
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Speaker
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01:18:50
Speaker
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