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C2 Ep. 169 Slaughterman's Legacy Chapter Twelve
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Milo agrees to go to the Mror Holds to find Garen's magical hammer.
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Transcript
Introduction & Episode Setup
00:00:09
Speaker
D20 radio, your game is roll.
Recap of Previous Events
00:00:44
Speaker
Hello, and welcome to every I don't even actually play podcast, sent me a broad campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Fight, fight, fight. A lizard fight. Oh, a lizard. A people fan lizard fight. Yeah, Kath and Sana put aside their differences. Kill a lizard. And now we're all going to the sorting spirits. Is it plural?
00:01:14
Speaker
I think so. Yeah. And Ace might be a demon? Oh yeah, that also happened.
Is Ace a Demon?
00:01:21
Speaker
Because of his triumph. My triumph, not your triumph. The fact that you have to clarify that shows that you know you've done a dirty in the past.
00:01:34
Speaker
I will admit no such things, and you're a liar. Okay, so... Okay, the second part's true, but that doesn't change the fact that you've done as dirty in the past. You all had done the high wall? Is it high wall or high walls? I think it's high walls. But that sounds weird, so I'm gonna go with high wall. Yeah, I like high wall too. So there's one wall but several spirits. Yes. Yeah. Okay, on the way...
00:01:56
Speaker
I think Hob, you look over, Cap has not put her mask back on, but she's leaning back, eyes closed as like the wind kind of whips around her head. I think he just says he's a talking kind of ride, or no. Nope. We keep driving. And Sana is also sitting in the back of Tasha, or at the front. Whatever gets her the furthest away from people. So. She's clinging to the underside. The underside. Like a cat.
00:02:22
Speaker
But yeah, clearly just not engaging, not really wanting to talk to anyone.
Addressing Grievances with Humor
00:02:26
Speaker
So. Well, Raynard does not pick up on that. Okay. What does Raynard say? Did I spend the triumph from that perception check? You did. No. I don't think you did. The episode's over, man. I let you carry over his 13 debate from the last session. Yeah, that was us. This is you.
00:02:43
Speaker
I can't think of what you spent it on. I thought I did. No, you did spend it. She notices that I... Oh! That was just a success though. Yeah, her success was noticing that you didn't... Oh, it was... We got a call from Verla. Alright, alright. There we go. Boromar was coming too. Thank you, Randy. Pay attention sometimes. What is Raynard saying to Sonic? Raynard says... So an attempted punch, a successful tiger attack,
00:03:12
Speaker
I just want to ask, I'm assuming I was invisible because of something you did. Why? Because I didn't want the tiger to kill you. You also regained consciousness because of me, but I'm not sure if the scales are balanced in your mind or not.
Sana's Magical Abilities
00:03:40
Speaker
We can see Trevor's face. Unfortunately, listeners cannot. Was it all just circumstantial or do you have an issue with me? I don't... Trev... or... Raynard. I cannot... No, I don't have a problem with you.
00:04:08
Speaker
All right, then I forgive you. Two steps forward, two steps back. Three steps. Ray Nart's progression. Felt like a personal attack. You all don't know this, but Sana's finger goes towards the rune to summon more tigers and then stops and listens. Wait, she has an unlimited supply of hot gold running tigers? And she can cast the Conjure spell. Yeah. So yeah, she effectively does have an unlimited supply of tigers.
00:04:41
Speaker
Remember that. What a very good way to express the Conjure spell. I have an unlimited supply of tigers and I'm not afraid to use them. I think that's the best way to explain the Conjure spell. I should use that thing then.
00:04:57
Speaker
I don't know why you don't conjure things. Given the flavor of his magic, you don't know what he's going to conjure. He has conjured things. That's true. Not on purpose. Because the important thing to remember is, Sana conjured those tigers while she was still invisible. They were not allied with her. She just summoned three ghost tigers. They were just as likely to attack her.
Discovery of a Creature
00:05:20
Speaker
That's a whole other increased difficulty to make them friendly. Milo's just sitting
00:05:28
Speaker
closest to the front as he can and his back is Toussana specifically but he's just minding his own business. Eris is at the controls. Yeah, so all of us standing next to Eris at the controls. So what's going on? Oh, right. Do you know who these people are? Yeah, I met Catherine Sauna. They've come to the cauldron. Okay.
00:05:55
Speaker
but I've never seen them kitted out like this and trying to kill each other. The third creature that we were searching for when you still worked at the school and that's where we found out about the lower division and all that stuff. Obviously that was that lizard creature. You remember that there was a
00:06:26
Speaker
big angry growly orc with us. Yeah, Faroo, Kath's brother. Kath the lizard killed him and Kath has apparently been hunting down people who worked for lower division.
00:06:45
Speaker
to try and find the creature and then the creature just found us and we were trying to stop her before she got herself hurt or in trouble and i guess sauna also was trying to do that and they just all collided that seems bad
Debate over the Corpse
00:07:10
Speaker
Yeah, also, there's the remains of a very mangled corpse on my ship, and I don't actually know what to do with that. How much respect do you have for the body? Not much. He did some very horrible things. He had, he was kidnapping shifters and draining them of their life to give him these powers. Look for a good cemetery.
00:07:42
Speaker
bad so I mean we could could make a detour over fallen and drop it that way he wouldn't hit anybody wouldn't be anything left but do you so we've had this conversation a little bit before I need to rehash the entire thing but do you think that
00:08:09
Speaker
Any part in your life before you and I had a relationship, you would have said those words for any reason? I mean, can I worry about that? No, but not in the way that I think you're worried about. I would never have been in a situation where I would have had a corpse on. That's pretty much the way I'm worried about it. I thought that you were more concerned about my wavering morality, which isn't the case. It's just circumstance rather than
00:08:38
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Yeah, the circumstances are mostly what I worry about. If you wouldn't have started crashing in my classroom, then I may have been dead by this point because somebody would have come after me. Given those two options, I like where I'm at. I've given a lot of options I like where I'm at, but you get what I'm saying.
00:09:10
Speaker
Okay, well... I'll figure that out. I'm gonna let you all go into soaring spirits.
Arrival at High Walls District
00:09:17
Speaker
I'll take Tasha back to the cauldron and let you all... I can go take care of the body. That's what I can do. No. Please no. Why not? It will make me feel better if you don't. Okay. Okay.
00:09:34
Speaker
Are we flying over Fallen to check TARDIS for Tither's body, or are we headed to Highwall? He's in any way, shape, or form on the way. You would have to go out of the way. Okay. Fallen and Highwall are on opposite sides of the scene. Do it later. Highwall's. And it's two words. God, that's awful. That's worse. Yeah. Do it later. Okay.
00:09:56
Speaker
Okay, so you all arrive in the High Walls District. It is, oh, it's nighttime. Which means the gates would be shut. But we're flying, yeah.
Navigating the District
00:10:06
Speaker
So we just come from above the walls. And we've got the, what is the changer? What is the nickname?
00:10:13
Speaker
The Fixer. The Fixer. This is the Brieleish army man's the gates because this is a refugee walled off section. Yeah, so they probably don't like her. So I'm trying to think of how they would monitor sky skiffs flying in and out.
00:10:30
Speaker
probably pretty closely he says as he flips a story I thought I'd been going in and out this way all the time but now it's narratively interesting for it to be a problem first ever goes through the gates they would ask for paperwork we got an ass potato man okay I'm so unhappy that you said that
00:10:53
Speaker
somebody could give me a skullduggery knowledge underworld to try and make so as you all are approaching Eris that the normal like smugly bah out of the way route now has a platform with some breather soldiers on it for frick's sake uh and hob i'm assuming you're following so you see them divert course i'm i was wondering if we were actually in front
00:11:17
Speaker
Yeah, you could make it through without a problem. Yeah, I think we do. Okay. I'm pretty skullduggarous. I got four green on the underworld stuff and one and two green on the underworld. Eris, give me a skullduggery check. What's the difficulty? The difficulty check is going to be based upon these guys. One red, one purple based on their perception.
00:11:40
Speaker
I will spend a story point and upgrade. And it's nighttime, so take a blue one. Or, yeah. Cool. Okay. You realize that by your choice to have gotten in easily, you have made it impossible for you to help us out of this situation if I roll just... Okay. I think... I'm not actually sure.
00:12:06
Speaker
Uh, oh, okay. Yes. We're all right. Yeah. Just a success, which is also a triumph. Okay. You are able to divert your path about drawing any suspicion from the posted guards and you're able, you are familiar enough with other ways to get into the
Catherine and Sana's Tensions
00:12:23
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district. What would you like to spend the triumph on? I'm open to suggestions, everyone. An easy suggestion I can think of.
00:12:31
Speaker
that we'll just get it taken care of is I'm aware of a good place to stash, to get rid of the body in Highwall without having to make any detours. Yeah. I think that's fair. Yeah. That's good. It's the king of shard up, too. See? Not posted in Highwall. I should be ready to move to Highwall.
00:12:55
Speaker
Yeah man, if you want him there... I should absolutely get the King of Sharn to move to Highwall. As long as you're willing to... The King of Sharn to totally get rid of this body for me. Declare his suffering to you then. Or the Triangulae Unosamon who will pay you a million dollars for a crushed up horse. I think that's fair. I think that gets it taken care of. Sure. So I'll go back to the Cauldron and I give the sack to Ygric who will take it to...
00:13:25
Speaker
There's a dump here somewhere and get rid of the body there. Should we tell his family? Nope. Don't figure it out. I'm trying to remember what kind of... I know there's a creature... Surely they're already assumed he's dead. Ben gone. And there was a giant monster attack at his lab. You never know. You're right. Maybe he doesn't have family.
00:13:54
Speaker
That also takes care of that problem. Is it too weird to say that there's a neutrally chill oatyug that is like the garbage disposal for Highwall that people have just... I love that. They're chill about it. Yeah, absolutely love that. A space that people come and just dump. And so the oatyug's fine because I'm eaten, I'm good, so yeah. Looks like the pig's in Deadwood. Yeah, yeah. So, Ygric, as you all are going to Soaring Spirits, you're walking over with this sack and just chucking it down this little crevice to be here.
00:14:22
Speaker
Wait, so now it is canon that under Highwall is a garbage disposal. It's like a little creature that's got like multiple mouths and just like devouring, right? I mean, it's a very large creature. Oh, it's a large creature, okay.
00:14:37
Speaker
I'm trying to think of what's, it's just large, yeah. Yeah, this has Ygric take it over to Francis. Okay. Okay. Yeah, as you, you get their first hob, so do you go to the cauldron or do you just pull up to part by soaring spirits? We said soaring spirits, right? Yeah. That's where I go. Okay. Kath, how do we look?
Bar Scene & Emotional Undercurrents
00:14:55
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I'm still beaten. Kath's gloves are literally covered in, if the guards would have stopped to do an inspection on you, Kath literally has blood on her hands. Kath can leave the gloves in the sidecar.
00:15:06
Speaker
But would she? Yes, she's not an idiot. She's not going to drink in flawed fighting gloves. There's probably all over. Yeah, we're gross, but at least you can leave the gloves in the sidecar. She has a bag that she stashes them in. I had a bunch of wet wipes. Yeah, but the saying is blood on your hands, not blood all over your body, Randy. It's fine. No blood on my hands, Steve.
00:15:30
Speaker
And yeah, Kath just hops out and wordlessly makes her way to the front door of soaring spirits. And as you all walk in, Yorlan sees you, Hob. Hey, Hob. How's it going? Who's your friend? This is my friend. Okay. Well, it gets it. We don't give out each other's names. That's their choice. Table upstairs.
00:15:54
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, there's yeah, there's gonna be the usual of us plus cap and sauna here Okay, all you all want anything you know what you want to drink before you head up there I can come up there and get your drink quarter here in a second um You want anything? What do you got that's strong
00:16:19
Speaker
Are you wanting to go down or come up? Down. Alright, I gotcha. Yeah, uh... I'll take it up. And then we go upstairs. Okay. And then...
00:16:35
Speaker
It's a couple minutes until you all arrive. So, Hob, are you just sitting there? I'm waiting for her to start. I've already made... I've already let her know that I'm willing to talk. And if she decides to start, then we will. Hob's not pressing it. Hob's not Jeff. He doesn't need this to be resolved right now. Yeah. Okay, so you all just sit there in silence. You all walk in. Jorland sees you all walk in. He's like, hey, Hob's already got a table upstairs. I'll have the strongest, please.
00:17:05
Speaker
All right. Just wine for me. Thank you. Okay. Do you ever get a call about stuff that I keep asking about a chance? Wait, what? No. Okay. No, that's Eric. Oh, Eric just has made a habit of asking if they have the most alcoholic goblin drink that she knows of on a regular basis. And you've asked that consistently. Yeah. Yeah. When you say that this time, you only goes, actually,
00:17:35
Speaker
I think I got something for you. That thing. Okay. Anything for you? And Thanos is strong. Going up or down? Down. Okay. They head up and you all sit at the table. New Orleans comes up with a tray of drinks and puts them in front of everyone. Yeah, Aeris or Phil, describe what this concoction looks like. It is...
00:18:04
Speaker
Not very see-through. Fiscus. It's still sort of amber color, but it's not as transparent. It's kind of a thick beer. Yeah. And extremely alcoholic. Okay. No meal stout.
00:18:28
Speaker
Uralin also puts a couple of drinks in front of calf and sauna that are also very dark, not quite as thick as theirs have much more of a dark rich amber, like a whiskey based drink. And then wine, what did you get, Hob?
00:18:45
Speaker
I ordered an up. But he gave me his energy and not spirits. He took the up as trying to lift your spirits and you also wanted something strong. Milo didn't specify, he just gave me... Yeah, but Jorlin knows your order when you want something strong. So he puts a morning's embrace in front of Milo. Milo takes his and walks out of the room.
00:19:06
Speaker
You think I recognize the morning's embrace? Probably. That was an important thing that you said. I'm going for a walk. All right.
Humorous Statue Discussion
00:19:18
Speaker
Yeah, you would recognize the morning's embrace. I think I'd take a second to decide if I want to drink it, because I did not mean my spirits. But then I'm like, you know what? Honestly, yeah. I just take it to the head. OK. You feel kind of going up.
00:19:35
Speaker
All right, so Milo gets up and walks away and, um, Catherine's on our sitting on like not even opposite sides of the table because they don't want like, it's like caddy cornered from each other facing slightly away. Yeah. Yeah. So tortoise is dead. That's cool, right? I think so. Yeah. Good. Hob is not here to make these two women reconcile. We just had to get out of the, where we were. Like, I'm not going to say to be like, no, we're not leaving until you two get nice to each other. Sure.
00:20:08
Speaker
They're drinking. So this is the this is the bar I go to now. For now, working on something for sales. It's pretty good. Sometimes they don't charge me. Kath just kind of nods. She's known as the figure. Right, but that's not and it's not necessary.
00:20:37
Speaker
It's pretty funny. Hob, did we tell her about the statue? No, there's not a statue. Is what now? Okay, hang on. Well, there will be. It's not made yet. What? Oh, you'll find out. When you tell me. Right now. What was that person's name? Oh gosh, it was the guy starting the garden. I forgot the old Hobgoblin, right? Durgoth. Durgoth.
00:21:07
Speaker
Do you remember Dear Goth, who's making the garden? Yes. There's been talk of there potentially being a statue. Talk from whom? Not talk from encouragement from me. It's not going to happen, Eris. It might. It's not going to happen.
00:21:35
Speaker
But if you want it to happen, why would I want it to happen? Did you have a statue that looks like you? Also a fracking criminal. Oh, that. But they like you here. So I think an entire criminal organization in the city that wants us dead.
00:21:59
Speaker
No one's gonna make the statue, Eris. Don't worry about it. Especially not quickly enough that it's going to be a concurrent problem with the Boromar thing, I hope. I really want to have somebody come up. Oh, you're here. Good. For the statue, I just need a... We're not doing the statue! I'm just yelling. Get out!
00:22:22
Speaker
Fine, I'll go cancel it.
Confrontation & Emotional Fallout
00:22:24
Speaker
I've got a return on my investment. The person is walking up, but it's behind Eris, and so it's just like gestures. People got a hammer and chisel in their hand. Kath, are you good? Do you need healing? Did you even get hit? You got splashback on the thing? All of my crap came from when I hit that guy and you hit that guy so many more times than I did.
00:22:50
Speaker
I'm good. Most of the acidic blood was dying down when he was transforming back into his human form. Right. I think so. Yeah. I'm not here to sugarcoat any of this right now. You really got him. How good do you feel?
00:23:13
Speaker
Um, have you ever read a room? Give me a charm check. I got a lot of charm. Let me just double check how much I have. I think I have four yellow. Trust me. Four yellow. I swear that was charming. You're totally charmed. One red, two purple. Then I'm going to flip a story point, make it two red, one purple. Eight setback, right? Take a setback. Yeah. I'm talking to my friend. In the least sensitive way possible.
00:23:41
Speaker
We all wanted him dead. You're right. Oh my gosh. What have you done? Well, there is a despair. With a despair. No. Yeah, I did. Four advantage. A failure and a despair. Okay. Five advantage. Five advantage. Probably five.
00:24:07
Speaker
Sorry, I have excellent character development All of our old enemies will come back and Kath and Sana will reconnect by fighting through our over all of our old So yeah your words Raynard you can tell like I
00:24:29
Speaker
It's not that they fall on deaf ears, but they don't elicit the response that you were hoping. It's not so bad as that Kath becomes openly antagonistic towards you, but just she lets out a long breath and says, I don't know what I feel right now. Just empty, numb, dull, but it's, it's done at least. And
00:24:54
Speaker
Why are you shaking your head, Trevor? We're waiting for the other shoe. The despair certainly can't be that she's just complicit. No. The despair is... Yeah. As Kath is finishing her sentence, you hear a table or the legs of a chair scrape as Sana stands up. Yeah. I bet she feels great.
Milo's Social Dynamics at the Bar
00:25:15
Speaker
Feels really great. And I bet we all feel really great for her and that this happened. I'm... Yeah. I'm gonna go. Thanks for the idrick.
00:25:25
Speaker
I just knew, man, Milo had walked out of the room, something bad was about to happen to Milo. Did you head downstairs or did you stay? Because they were like up on the way. Milo went to the bar. So downstairs. Milo went downstairs and sitting at the bar kicks Raynard really hard under the table. And you cast just face in hand, just cut to. So Milo, you get downstairs, you go to the bar while all of that's happening. And Silra.
00:25:55
Speaker
the quiet half elf bartender standing there making drinks and just looks at you and gives a nod and goes back to making some drinks. My own knots back.
00:26:08
Speaker
Next to you at the bar, you take an empty stool. In between there's a male dwarf. You seem a bit down. Yes. The dwarf sitting on one side of you, you know, is Garen. He's the blacksmith in high walls. The other side is Solara, the bard that performs in soaring spirits from time to time.
00:26:32
Speaker
As you just sit down with your drink and take a sip, that Solara is studying, it seems to be a map of Kire, but it's marked to designate kind of the destruction of the Mornland. She's examining a map of the Mornland. And Garak is reading a book that's like an endorphish. Garan or Garak? Garan, sorry. And Garan looks over and is like, Milo, how are you doing?
00:26:59
Speaker
Oh, hey, Karen, I'm okay. Just need a little alone time. I like alone time. What are you running from? Let's spend this alone time together. About running, just sitting here and enjoying a bit of morning's embrace. Um... It is so much. It is so much.
00:27:30
Speaker
What is your... My deception? Not that air. Two yellow and one green. Gary looks at you and says, I know you well enough to spill your secrets, Mylon. Sometimes you just need some alone time and enjoy a drink. As much as I see you enjoying a book. Oh, not enjoying the book.
00:27:57
Speaker
researching family heirloom that was lost in the mountains a while back, trying to figure out where it might be. Ah, sensing a side quest. No, I can handle my own business, might appreciate it. I don't think you're in the market to go to your holds any time soon. No. No! Family heirloom, though, eh? I am a bit curious.
00:28:22
Speaker
Oh, it's a forging hammer specifically that had some runes and magic attached to it that was able to make masterwork, magical items, that much easier, that kind of thing. A lost magic, lost art. Yes, that would have been nice for you to have on the show. Indeed. So what's going on with you? Not much, just
00:28:50
Speaker
hanging around, hanging about, and...
Sana's Emotional Reflection
00:28:53
Speaker
Just having a real chill time? Yes, just chilling out. Would you like one of these? Mornings Embrace? Yes, of course. Those drinks are for circumstances where I'm feeling a lot more dire than I currently am, so I'm good. But hopefully it pulls you out of whatever you've got going on. I just like the feeling it gives, it kind of chills.
00:29:17
Speaker
Fair enough. You hear footsteps coming down the stairs, Milo, as you... Do you glance over as you hear somebody... I mean, you were the only ones up there, so... You see Sana coming down the stairs. He is a curious cat, after all. She makes brief eye contact with you, but then goes to keep walking. You don't see much care in her eyes as she looks. Okay. Milo lets her go.
00:29:48
Speaker
Garen kind of follows her as she walks past. Problems? You know, friends sometimes get a little upset with each other, and what's not that big of a deal will... It'll be fine. It always is. Hmm. Well, if that's the attitude you want to have, then don't know it's my place to
00:30:19
Speaker
We're leaving you with that foolish notion, so I'll let you stick with what you got. Thank you, Garen. He may not know, but we all know that it's not. Whenever we cut back, Eris is pursuing. Eris goes over the railing and just scales down a wall to wait for Sana to come out.
00:30:49
Speaker
Oh, it's on this headed for like the front door. Yeah. Oh, okay. So yeah, I get what you're saying. So yeah, Sana. So do you, are you on the ground or are you still up on the ground? Okay. Well, unless she moves faster than me. So Sana comes out the front door and sees you standing there. What? I just.
00:31:10
Speaker
Okay. I would not have shot you if I knew it was you. And I'm really sorry. It's okay. You also should not have thrown tigers at Hob. Eris is no longer as certain that you should not have thrown tigers at Reinhardt. I wasn't gonna let the tigers hurt them in any meaningful way. I just didn't- It killed Reinhardt! And then she brought him back!
00:31:38
Speaker
That's still being heard in a meaningful way! No. Not mechanically. Right, I just... I couldn't know that. I didn't know. I got it. I don't want this to be like how everything goes apart. This is... This is like the only thing I've got left is like a family.
00:32:10
Speaker
I get that we're not necessarily a very good family. Cath got what she wanted. So I'm sure she'll be whatever now.
00:32:31
Speaker
What about you? I don't know, Eris. That all of this, and she just vaguely gestures, working for the clan, working with Kath, working with you all, I had this notion that there was a normal life at the end of the road.
00:32:51
Speaker
that we just do stuff that didn't matter and do stuff just because we wanted to do them and people wouldn't get hurt and people wouldn't get killed and I'm just... People have been getting killed for a long time. I wanted to not be involved in the killing someday. I wanted to be involved in not punching and stealing and I wanted to just be able to
00:33:22
Speaker
I don't know, but... I mean, it's not like you need the money.
Themes of Vengeance & Relationships
00:33:33
Speaker
I always thought that I was the lifeline for especially my sister, but I like to think to a certain extent for all of us back to
00:33:51
Speaker
the real world, the not crime world, the not, it's normal on a Wednesday night to go break into a research facility and steal documents and see a brilliant artificer get transformed into a monster kind of life. I always had hoped that I could be the one that, I don't know, had fun.
00:34:13
Speaker
dragging you all to a party that you didn't want to go to but at the end of the night it still was worth doing and I don't know if I don't know if that lifeline exists for Kath anymore after all this and if that's the case then what's all of this for and I don't know if you all have even wanted me to be that for you not necessarily about the parties but the rest of it
00:34:42
Speaker
And we're trying. I think there's a job that maybe let's just get there, but it's only a job we have because everything else has gone so wrong. She, she'll still need that.
00:35:11
Speaker
Because now what? She was looking for the lizard and found the lizard or found her or whatever that he's done and now what's she gonna do if she doesn't have someone? I don't know what she's going to do but over the past months I'm just I'm so tired of carrying everything. She's still gonna hate me for it
00:35:40
Speaker
Hey, for what? Trying to stop her getting in her way. I... I think she'll... I think she'll see eventually. If she... Frank, if she'd asked any of us, we could have done it better. There are better ways to do that than just beating up random people till you find the right one. She'll see that eventually.
00:36:12
Speaker
You can't just walk away. You can't just walk away from family. It doesn't work.
00:36:27
Speaker
I need some... I don't know, it sounds silly to say I need some time. I feel like I've been just putting everybody else's wants and needs, and I don't even know what I am doing anymore. And I need to go, and I need to think, and I need to just... I can't be what Kath needs me to be right now. I can't be what any of you need me to be right now.
00:36:58
Speaker
I'm not saying it's forever, but I... I just can't, Eris. I'm sorry. Eris does not know what to say to that. Sanna takes a couple steps and stops and turns back and looks at Eris and says... I'm sorry.
00:37:28
Speaker
I'm sorry for not coming to you all sooner. I'm sorry for not being truthful when you all expressed your concerns. I'm sorry for all of it. I was trying to protect my sister. And I didn't see what was happening until it was too far gone. And I need to own that and I need to
00:37:57
Speaker
atone for that. I'll see ya. And Son returns and walks away. Hob looks at Kath. Up to the restaurant. Don't forget Reinard's there. Yep, Reinard's here too. Hob looks at Kath. He goes, so are we done?
Emotional Climax & Confrontations
00:38:21
Speaker
TARDIS Vitizer isn't hurting anybody anymore, so.
00:38:27
Speaker
So yes or so no. The point was going after him and avenging Faroo. In that sense, yeah, it's done. The gear's good. I've got skills. Who knows what's next, but this is done. You did a real number on your sister. I tried to keep Sun out of it. How hard? You brought them to your home that you share with her.
00:38:56
Speaker
I'm not trying to make a judgement call here. I'm letting you know what happened. Because it seems like you didn't really care if you noticed at all. Listen, she's been practically living at the Four Sails for the past couple months. I've had free reign of that apartment for most of the time. She walked into the wrong time on the wrong day.
00:39:15
Speaker
What happened first? You tell me. Eric. Did sauna start this, or did kath start this, or did sauna start spending a lot of time at the for sales? What is causal? The timeline is factual that like, olfin was struggling financially, sauna was starting to pick up more shifts to help ease the burden for olfin, and yeah. It's not, kath is not lying in saying that. It's a terrible reason, but at least it's chronologically true.
00:39:44
Speaker
And I think I'm just like, look, as in as despite the danger it put me and all of us in, I don't begrudge you your vengeance era. But now that it's done, it's time to fix what you broke during it. You know that I'm not telling you something you don't know. But I also think that you
00:40:13
Speaker
As much as you know it, doing it is different, isn't it? Yeah, but I mean, just think about it. We have spent how much time you and I just going out to rough up people that were making things worse for people that we care about or just people in general in the city and shoving them into the system and they
00:40:43
Speaker
come back out and keep doing what they're doing and the tithers isn't gonna be a problem for anyone ever again you're defending something different than what I'm accusing you of no I'm saying I'm cool with what happened to the tithers I'm cool with what you did to get to where we got with the tithers
00:41:03
Speaker
All of this that you did in service of your brother has ruined your relationship with your sister. And you're not hearing what I'm saying. All right, what do you think? That you asked me next steps. Sana's never gonna be okay with what I've been doing. What I've been doing objectively has made this city better and safer. And I'm saying that maybe TARDIS Vittiders doesn't need to be the last.
00:41:33
Speaker
one that no longer is a danger to anybody. And Sana's never gonna be okay with that. This isn't over. You've gotten your vengeance, but now you've decided that this is your... path. This vigilante... night... cat... thing. The display, sir. I don't know what she was going by, but that's pretty good. I don't know. I don't know what it is, but I'm just... I don't know. I'm trying...
00:42:02
Speaker
being perfectly frank and honest, Hob. I was trying to talk to you, frankly and honestly, about my thought process of where I'm at, and I feel spoken down to a little bit after I express that. I'm not trying to speak down to you. First, I was trying to understand. I thought that you were going back to this Vittiter's thing when I was asking you about your sister. Now I understand what you were saying. I'm not trying to talk down to you, but also, you're not
00:42:29
Speaker
responding to what I'm asking. You're monologuing. No, I'm saying that repairing the relationship with Sana. If I repair that relationship and then I go do what I think might be best for my skills in service to the city, then she's gonna view that as betrayal because I'm gonna have to promise that I'll never do it again and that I won't be doing what I'm doing, etc, etc, etc. Yeah.
00:42:53
Speaker
I acknowledge that, yeah, this has been awful on Sana. I tried to keep her out of it, and obviously things escalated way beyond what I had hoped. I have to go have a very long conversation with my dad based upon Sana's equipment, but... Go ahead, please, sorry. I'm gonna come back whenever the opportunity is arrived. Iris will climb back up over the railing whenever enough time has passed already. I don't know, Hob. Maybe Sana's life would be better without having to be tangled up in what I've got going on.
00:43:24
Speaker
and that you can hear the tail end of that sentence as you climb up over the road. So Eris walks over the table. She has converted all of the sadness into anger, which is the healthy thing to do with sadness, and walks over to the table and stands there and looks at Kath and says, give me the gloves.
00:43:45
Speaker
And Kath rolls her eyes in her bag and tosses them on the table. Harris snatches them up and says, and frack you for caring more about your dead brother than your life's sister. And then she turns around and knocks Reynard's wine
Milo's Drunken Comic Relief
00:43:57
Speaker
into his lap. He says, frack you for being a taut and I'll see you tomorrow. He walks. Typical Tuesday. Nope, it's not. That was big. No, for how she shoots Reynard. Oh, right. Han does not say that she said what he was trying to say. I'm not saying anything to that. That was Arya's talking.
00:44:16
Speaker
Guess I'll have to go get some new gloves. I honestly wasn't sure if Eris is going to do something to them and toss them back or not. Yeah, it's back over the railing where I'm at. I'll shoot my fin down the stairs. Okay. Milo, you hear... Stomping. Yeah. I swear to the big boots that she's taking. See, Eris stomping. I suppose that if you plan to continue doing this, then yeah, you're gonna need some new gloves. Looks like Eris is not willing to let you use hers.
00:44:45
Speaker
Look, I want to be clear about something that apparently I wasn't. I don't hate the idea of you getting your revenge on TARDIS. I don't hate the idea of you... What you want to do is take an active role in defending the defenseless of this city.
00:45:05
Speaker
I want for you to be in less danger while you're doing it. I want for your sister to not spend the rest of her life concerned about you. And regardless of how you feel about whether or not she should, she will. But if you're not willing, or feel you're not able, or whatever, if you think Sana won't listen, or whatever it is that you're gonna say,
00:45:33
Speaker
about why you won't go talk to her, or try to make something right, or figure something out. There's very little of me talking my way around that with you, I'm certain of it. Give me a check. What? Unless you add a, or I'll beat you up, probably charm. I'm never going to threaten to beat up Kath when we're talking like bros. But my charm.
00:45:57
Speaker
Sucks a butt. You want some help. You are sitting there. As bros, can he charm with... That needs to be a talent. You need a bro's talent, where you can charm with brawn. Like, gear head for me. How difficult. One red, two purple. I am not... I could get a despair on this one, man. Roll upgrade. We got him. You had four advantage from Traverse Check, so take an upgrade and a boost. Five advantage. We didn't do anything about that.
00:46:27
Speaker
Okay, clearly this is asking a lot.
00:46:35
Speaker
Is any of this getting through to her enough to get a boost out of this? I don't know why this is what I'm rolling for, but the thing is, Trevor Raynard didn't pass the charm check before to get the ball rolling is the missing component. How does frack you for caring about your dead brother more than your living sister? Dude, get me. This is who I think she is. It doesn't help. Yeah, but the generosity is not putting a black in it. But it's in her head. There's no way that didn't hit her heart. I hope that didn't. It was a jerk thing to say.
00:47:06
Speaker
That is a success. No, it's not. No, I failed with one advantage. I somehow failed to charm the person that I'm not particularly being kind to. Well, she just kind of shows her palms. I'll figure out what I want to do and what that means for me and Sana.
00:47:32
Speaker
I mean, you all, I guess. I don't know. Did you think we wouldn't help you? It's not a matter of thinking that you wouldn't have helped me if I would have come to you to ask. It's, I don't know, it's my thing. It's my deal. You all are out doing stuff, dealing with your stuff. I was just trying to deal with my stuff and snagging and bagging.
00:47:58
Speaker
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Oh, he did that on purpose. Low-level Milhatch people. That's my thing. Low-level Milhatch people wasn't the biggest danger. Once I found out where Vittiders was, probably would have come to you all and been like, hey, let's go kill the big lizard thing. But up until that point, I didn't think I needed your help, honestly.
00:48:25
Speaker
And that's not an indictment of your skill, it's more about the targets that I was going after, if that makes sense. I wasn't going after the big fish. So... Well, I just... I can't speak for Hob, even though I often do.
00:48:43
Speaker
But I want you to know that I supported what you've done, just maybe not the way you did it. It's fair. I've never done it before, so I didn't really know the best. Looked to it better. I had a daily struggle for me. I know that push come to shove.
00:49:09
Speaker
you all would have had my back and if I would have come to you and asked, hey, I want to track down the person that was responsible for crew's debt, you would have helped me. But I didn't also didn't want to put that on your plate. I'm capable. I'm like, I can take care of my own stuff. And then when I need your help, I would have come to you. But I just wasn't at a point where I feel like I needed that.
Reflection on Past Actions
00:49:31
Speaker
And then it became this weird. You all started showing up at my place unannounced and it just it became
00:49:40
Speaker
the environment became one of you all it felt like you were investigating me with I don't know you just you were acting suspicious we only showed up unannounced because we were checking stuff out one time and it was the time that everything came to light because the other time we were there just to get pick her up for something else we were all going to yeah but you didn't call ahead like you just pop by to get her and talk to her about the job
00:50:08
Speaker
I don't know if I need to roll. I am trying to make this more of a buddy thing than her feeling attacked by Hobb. One red, two purple. Not that you were attacking, but she said she felt she was being talked out to. One red, two purple? Yep. Okay, come on. So you had that advantage, do you want to pass a boost? Oh yeah, sure.
00:50:31
Speaker
Unbelievable. Did I fail? I think you did. Oh gosh. With just all the advantage. Yeah. Did I just... So this becomes... That. I'll just do this. There you go. Yeah. Six advances. And two failure. She did not want me bad either. Kat's just gonna nod. Appreciate all you've got to say right now, but... Maybe give me a minute before...
00:51:00
Speaker
Cut to, Milo you hear stomping down the stairs and because he's a curious little cat, Milo looks and sees Eris coming down. She pauses just like half a step as she realizes that she didn't take her drink off the table but isn't gonna go back because can't go back. So she's actually going to stomp over to the bar and
00:51:24
Speaker
ask for the bottle because she's planning to leave. Sorry. Yeah. I ran on each other wine. Silra at your request for the bottle and looks down the bar. I'm not going to drink it all at once. What are the open container laws? She doesn't want to take his classware. She always forgets to bring it back. Milo is talking. He just wonderful bar.
00:51:54
Speaker
No wait, it's actually burned to the ground. Oh yes, with the Akali also. Ah, what wonderful
00:52:05
Speaker
Dinner parties on a regular basis with your two close friends. You might want to take it. A rare commodity at this point. They're no longer close with them. They're no longer even close with each other, it seems. Can I get another one of these? He's just been going like that for a couple minutes now. Please don't give him any more. Garen, let's go get your hammer, please. Come on, let's go. Chip? Chip?
00:52:34
Speaker
I'm going to get the hammer. Oh, Aeris! Would you like to go with Garen and myself to get his hammer? You hear
Milo's Departure & Closing Remarks
00:52:43
Speaker
a whisper down the bar, Aeris just briefly of Garen leaning over to... I don't know what to do. Balira, the gnome playwright. Her name's Aeris. That's the... Aeris. She finds you both reacting to something.
00:53:05
Speaker
Let's get your home, Milo. Let's get your home. We've got the hammer to go. Eris is just pointing at Milo and looking entirely at a loss. This is not new. This is happening recently. Garen, you point me in the direction and I will acquire your hammer. And Hoblox already has a Milo wheel on. We'll get started on that in the morning. Hammer? Yeah, hammer in the morning. Hammer in the evening all over this land. Let's go. And he takes me.
00:53:30
Speaker
He puts his hand in the collar of my lip and starts to walk out with him. Don't worry Garen, you're in good hands. So am I.
00:53:45
Speaker
Are you following them out, Reynard? Yeah, Reynard comes in a couple seconds later. Is it hammer time? I just heard yelling about hammer. Reynard has a supernatural ability to know about hammers. I was just waiting on the bottle. She's now standing awkwardly to the second shuttle. She pays for it. Yeah, I'm not just... Right, thanks. And she's gonna walk up.
00:54:11
Speaker
No, Aeris, I can help you with that. As you're saying that, as you walk past it, the hob takes you past the table, and a couple more people say, what's up, we're named Aeris. And yeah, as you all exit the front door, in the air, holding on to bottom of a sore sled, Cath taking off up to the different part of the city. Aeris, I didn't even look, just walks back to the cauldron. Didn't she ride it? That's a really good question. Her armpit must be very sore.
00:54:41
Speaker
I mean, the man makes good points. It's not wrong. It's not a bad point. One thing I was going to call her in. I'm assuming Oliver is still up and around. Yeah. All right. It was a really terrible day. And I think almost none of it was my fault this time. Have you ever had this? You talking about olive? Yeah. No. It doesn't taste very good, but it gets you very drunk.
00:55:08
Speaker
Sounds good. Is everyone else here? I don't know. Aeros walks straight back to the cauldron. I don't know what we're doing with... Milo. I'm taking Milo home. Okay. I'm taking Milo home.
Conclusion & Social Media Links
00:55:22
Speaker
That's probably a good idea. I think I'll... I might have one more drink since I didn't get mine. It's fair. Sure. Fine. I didn't get to lap it up because it's in my lap.
00:55:45
Speaker
They're not all good, but I do say them all.
00:55:53
Speaker
So yeah, Olive grabs a couple of cups, coffee mugs, and sets them on her workbench as Eris pours out of the bottle. And Olive just holds the mug up and looks at Eris. To tomorrow being better? Sure. Clinks and takes a sip. Are you just taking Milo straight to his place?
00:56:18
Speaker
Yeah, Eris is gone, Raynor wants to take another drink. Milo is not in a conversational position. Suna and Cass are gone. Yeah, I'll listen. I'll be more happy to listen to whatever Milo has to say. One side of the conversation. I'll be like, yeah. It seems to be talking to someone. Garen's hammer. He's coming home. You got it, buddy. We're gonna do it. Whatever. First thing in the morning. First thing in the... Okay.
00:56:43
Speaker
Let's just not set alarms. Like when we get up... Fourth thing in the morning. We'll get up and then we'll reconvene about Hammers. But we're not setting alarms. I'm not really tired... yet. Yeah, you sure aren't. I want to have a drink with me. Aight.
00:56:59
Speaker
Yeah. When we get to Milo's, Hob goes in under the pretense of having a drink with Milo and absolutely puts him to bed. He might even pour him a drink. Hey, hang on. I think you left something in your room. Let's go check that out. I was thinking about the war, but yes, I am tired.
00:57:24
Speaker
Rainard, you stay in soaring spirits. You see a few people hanging about near the back. Nessa, moon shadow at a table, chatting. We left him alone. Chatting with a- We got an hour to record. Chatting with a Calistar at the table and they're chatting and she sees you and gives a wave as she, and there's a bottle of wine that they've been splitting, pouring into glasses, and she just snaps her fingers and another glass appears in her hand. Oh, I was like, is she about to be calling me over with a finger snap?
00:57:55
Speaker
No, she manifests a glass and kind of raises her eyebrows. Raynard walks over to join. She sets it down and pours the wine and glass. It's like, this is Lirian. He looks at you. Hi, your Raynard.
00:58:10
Speaker
Yes, Redknot, yes. Ness has been talking about you. Oh! I'm here that you all have a date set soon. Yes, we do. And Ness is- Up here! Great place! Is it soon? Is there a time on this date? I feel like we made it yesterday. Yeah, I mean, and Ness is- Okay, enough about talking about this while we're- Cut to the shit you're doing. How was your day?
00:58:36
Speaker
busy what's going on just friend drama yes i get that i can't even lighten the mood rare really you don't know this yet but i'm a creative dad it seems like you would have a joke or quit for any situation at every situation in in every situation respond to
00:59:03
Speaker
Oh, they respond. Just not the way that you would hope. Not the way I'd hope, yes, exactly. I think it speaks to how close we are. They're just, you know, the jokes don't land as well. They're just used to it. Well, let's have some drinks and chat. Absolutely. What have you all done today? Oh, I gave some massages and sold some herbs. Nothing too exciting.
00:59:31
Speaker
And Larian says, oh, I run a, clinic seems too clinical, but I have a space here in high walls that I help survivors from the morning, contextualize and work through their grief and loss and all of that. That's what I do day to day is I work with people to try and process that through meditation, mindfulness, those kinds of things to just learn how to process those types of emotions.
00:59:58
Speaker
That sounds very important. I like to think so. It's not easy, and it makes for very long days, but I like to think that I'm making a positive change. The wine helps. Indeed, yes. But... See, I'm a great friend. These people get me. Great at parties. Wonderful. And we'll call the episode there.
01:00:24
Speaker
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01:00:45
Speaker
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01:01:06
Speaker
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