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C2 Ep. 198 Dealing with the Devils Chapter One
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The party has to take their next steps while delivering hard news.
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Transcript
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D20
Introduction and Recap
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radio, your game is roll.
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I am your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? What didn't happen? Okay, so. Unicorns. Unicorns did not show up. Importantly, Raynard, nowhere to be found. Where was
Unicorns and Absences
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I? That's up to you right now. Only one of us who could have saved Ace.
00:01:14
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Yep, that's true. That's not fair Other other than Kath who could have intervened and said wait no, that's ace
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There it is. Philip got it on wax. He had to. Philip had to get that out there. Wait, is this coming out after the review? We're going to record later, right? Yes. So it will have already been discovered. Anyway, we killed Ace. He didn't look like Ace. Wait, hold up. You were an active participant in the initial hour. Yes, we did. We did kill Ace. It was not Hobb's fault. From now on, Milo was solely responsible for the things that happened to and around Milo.
00:01:49
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Hob, watch this, and crack it. We... That's literally true, crack it. Ace, dive by Hob's punch. And then we all kind of went our separate ways out of shock. No, that was the prior, so where we handled the Vigo stuff, right? Yes. Okay. Good. That's enough then. Hob killed Ace and done so great about it. Yeah. And where we kind of left things off, Eris was back at the cauldron.
Party Speculations and Mix-Ups
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Milo was sleeping in the storage closet of the soaring spirits with permission from the proprietor.
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Hobb was headed to for sales. What's Raynard been up to for the past few days? Man, good question. I would imagine. Because last we saw Raynard, he was at the garden party wild now. Yeah, I would imagine he has still been kind of schmoozing it in with her name. Nessa moon shadow? No. Oh, the queen. Eldrin's mom.
00:02:46
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Oh gosh. See, I don't feel bad for not hearing. It's also an E. Baron Aaron. I feel like I should. I feel like I should know, but I definitely should. You birthed her.
00:02:58
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It's on the tip of my tongue. No, it isn't. It's not. Maybe the back of my tongue. It's just swimming around in that punch bowl you call it brain. Elvinor. Elvinor. Elvinor Garland. Yeah. I think we were probably just. You made it so easy. I don't know how we could. I think we were just. Keith Baker made it so easy. We were just becoming better friends, you know. OK. We liked each other. Yeah, just doing house stuff. Well, you can dictate that you like her.
00:03:20
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I like to spend a story point that she likes me.
Raynard's Silence Explained
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Yeah. So Raynard's been vibing. So not murdering for once. So yeah. And the other, the rest of the group have been together. So they have not been using their communicators. So there's no real reason for Raynard to have been in on anything.
Hob's Dilemma at Four Sales
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So yeah, just jumping in. So you hob was headed to the four sales hob was going to get to the four sales when it opened. Yeah. Okay. He's not really headed anywhere. He's very much meandering.
00:03:48
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Okay. These kind of look like those Keebler fudge rounds. That's what they remind me of. Trevor's referring to the story points that are on the tape. Don't they? Those like fudge cookies? I mean, they're, they're circles. But they have little lines too. I mean, Hob would note it, like it's, it's early breakfast time. It's like 7.30 AM ish. So, you know, that often would certainly be there getting stuff ready. Sana may be there.
00:04:17
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so that's that's what you know right now if there's somewhere else that hob knows that soaring spirits is open for breakfast if he wants to go lay low there before everyone else is up he could go kill time there what would you like to hop to do jeff yeah we can go soaring spirits okay i don't know i mean he's just what he'd probably do though i mean i don't know
00:04:38
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that he would do anything but sit and wait for... Honestly, he might sit outside in the floor sales. Okay. He might just be there, yeah. I think he might, because he doesn't want to see people or go to people or anything, he may. Okay. Could he get into
Revealing Ace's Death
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the floor sales, do you think? He would feel comfortable doing that, even if it was closed. I mean, if the door was unlocked for, like, Sana and Ace to be able to get to work, then yeah, Hob could certainly walk through the front door, but Hob doesn't have a key or anything to get it if it's locked up. You can punch a window, but...
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Okay, then I guess you know, it's a boat he's up on the deck of the for sale so he's kind of out of the way Door he's up on the deck waiting and I've come down later. He took a speeder up there. That's funny
00:05:18
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OK, so yeah, I mean, after a little bit of time, you see Sana walking down the sidewalk a little bit, sleeping her eyes probably half hour later on 8 a.m. She's not looking up, so she does not perceive her being there. But you see her walking up to the four seals and climb down and go in with her. Oh, hey. Yeah, hey. You look terrible. Yes. I'm sorry. Is everything OK?
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Uh, no, come on in.
Emotional Confession
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I need to talk to you and Ulfin. You guys are fine. It's that. Okay. As you all walk through the front door, Ulfin's behind the bar and it's like, Hey. Oh. Yeah. What's up? I think he gestures for them to have a seat. Ulfin seems gravely concerned at this point. Look, I've got bad news and I'd like you to sit down. Okay. All right. All right. Uh, they sit down and he just says, when we left the party last night, as we were heading to where
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I don't want to just hand wave it, but I also don't know how we would say it. We talk a thing, a creature.
00:06:24
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Fiery had Norsen Millhatch and you know we Intervened Milo made the very good point that this is probably the thing that he's getting framed for you know Norsen's Harbin's dad so Eris was private ready he started talking about being really you know thousands of years old out of force and
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A being that long predates us and will
Guilt and Consolation
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long survive us and things like that. Eris attacked and he attacked and I attacked and you know sometimes you get a good one in. And as he was dying his form changed and it was Ace. And Ace is gone. I'm so sorry and I think Hob starts to cry. Not looking for sympathy from either of you. No, yeah, yeah. Often you can tell, well, give me a One Purple perception check. Yeah, he might not be able to tell anything right now. Perception? Yeah. Take a black for the tears.
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You can tell there's a twinge of shameful relief on Ulfin's face that with the success you can you realize the the preamble leading into it. Ulfin thought came to deliver awful news without Eris here.
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Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
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Not that Ofa would be relieved that Ace was dead. Right, I think Ace, I think, I think, I'm playing Ace now. Look at me, I'm the spirit now. I think, I think if Hop picks a little bit... That would have been interesting, the spirit would have taken over Hob's body. I'm sorry to have drawn it out like that. I should have started with, you know, we are all okay, but we aren't, is all. Sana, Sana looks crushed.
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Like, Sonic clearly is taking it much, much worse than Ulfin. And Ulfin, it's okay, we just, I knew that he had gotten caught up in something. Didn't know what, and tried to respect people's privacy, so.
00:08:47
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I went to Dorla to try and understand some, and so if you want to know more, filter through her beliefs and things. I'm happy to share what she told me, but I think the crux and the kind of looks at Sana, the important thing she told me is there's no repay in this. There's no vengeance to be had here against the creature, although I suppose there might be some toward me.
00:09:12
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through her, like, her whole body is shaking with the sobs and she, not asking Hob, but just putting the question out into the universe, just asks why Ace wouldn't have asked her to help. Like she was clearly, her and Ace had obviously, from your own observations, grown very close over the past few weeks. And so it's just confusion as to why he would keep this from her.
00:09:37
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Here is where Jeff is at an impasse, because Jeff doesn't want Hob to tell her about Cass, but what Jeff knows is one of the other ding-dongs in the party will, Eris and Milo do not have the filter for that one particular thing. Hob also does not exempt himself from being a ding-dong in the party. He said other ding-dongs.
00:09:57
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I was not listed, so, who? Hob doesn't consider you part of the party. We had a pretty big deal. We weren't there for your biggest thing and you weren't there for our own. We stay out of each other's murders. Well, we can't testify against that. That's what friends do. Anyway. I mean, yeah, no, Hob does not say, well, he was working with Kath. Yeah. I think, I think he might.
00:10:24
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No, I don't. He wouldn't say anything like he didn't want to be stopped or anything like that. He doesn't want to speak ill of Ace's judgment right now. So he'd probably just say, I think he knew what he was doing was more dangerous than he let on and perhaps thought he was being noble and not getting you involved, yeah.
Concerns About Kath
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Sana kind of shout cries at Hov like, what was he doing? Like...
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What was he up to? Hobb explains to the best of his ability the overlords from Dora.
00:10:57
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That's as much as I know. He wanted to help. I just don't know that he realized how to, and he thought, get strong, get powerful, and he cut corners to do that, found himself in the debt of this thing, or in the thrall of this thing, or
00:11:19
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Orla said that when he was changed, he had some agency, some control, knew what was going on, but not completely. So I think there's a chance that he was possessed as too strong over. But I think that might have something to do with why he didn't reach out to you also.
00:11:36
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But as far as what he was doing, as best I can tell, he would have said the last words when he told the story. Ace just said he was trying to help at some point in there. I think he was trying to do what he said and didn't know how to. And this thing that was possessing him or using
00:11:58
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people at this point and Eris saw Norsen and Harbin's dad. Eris saw Harbin's dad. Eris saw. So I'm very discombobulated. I think he does like he does a meander some while he's trying to tell like yeah because he's still processing he did not process when he was drinking the calf. He zoned and drank coffee. He melted his brain in some way. At this point in the conversation
00:12:26
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Randy, Philip, Trevor, you all are empowered whenever you think that it makes sense for your characters to show up, if it makes sense for them to show up. I can't remember, and I didn't listen, did Hobb say you guys can be at the for sales or did Hobb kind of make it seem like, because in retrospect right now I think Hobb would have kind of made it seem like he wanted to do it by himself, but if I actively
00:12:48
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Cobb walked away from the group and I don't think Cobb said anything. We had initially been on the way to Highwall because we'd agreed that staying closer to one another was smarter, Reynard. But I don't think we had made firmer plans than that. If Hob had said something about
00:13:09
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not being there, then maybe he would get on a communicator and say like, I'm at the For Sales if you guys want to join
Waiting and Responsibility
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us. Hey, you more than have more than welcome to do that regardless. Yeah, right. Yeah, he probably does then. He probably just radios and he says, Hey, you know, it's an open channel. So even the Rainard's like, I'm sorry. The way I left last night, I am at the For Sales. I've spoken with Ulf and Insana, if you would like to come by. Rainard, I think you should come to the For Sales if you're here in this. We've got some things you need to hear.
00:13:37
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I think radar walks out of the bathroom. Hey, canonically fine. Yeah, go for it. I heard everything. Are you okay? If you actually walk out of the walk-in, you got me. Oh my God. Sit down. No, I won't make this serious moment funny, but I'll be on my way.
00:13:57
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I mean, as you're on your communicator talking to everyone else, when your focus shifts back to Ulfin and Sana, Ulfin has an arm around Sana's shoulders and you hear Ulfin saying, just take the day, go on home. We were unsure if we were going to open the day anyway, so take the day. And Sana just kind of meekly nods and gets up and starts to gather her things to leave.
00:14:21
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I think Hob gives meek. He starts to say, I'm sorry, is not going to apologize, but wants to make... He does this weird meek thing almost like a face to make Sana realize. He doesn't know what to do. He's like, hey, I'm sad too. I know I did it. I promise I'm sad too. I'm not sorry. I'm not going to apologize. It's just a very weird feeling that Hob has. He doesn't want to apologize to Sana for this thing.
00:14:43
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and he thinks she'll understand that but he wants to make sure I'm here I'm here for you if you want to talk about your friend that I killed is not the sentiment he's trying to put out but it's the way he ultimately does yeah that's all I mean make you feel better about that thing I did that make you feel bad yes if you need to talk about your friend that I killed I'm not going to apologize for it but if you need to talk I'm here
00:15:04
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There was a whole thing last time was Hob was able to justify it for himself. He cannot stray from that right now. He will break if he starts to think that he could have done something different, should have done something different.
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So yeah, a sauna kind of just gives a meek nod to Hob's face that Hob makes and walks past you and exits the for sales and often
Reynard's Return and Reactions
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gets up and do you need anything to eat or drink? No, I tried calf earlier and my stomach feels awful. I think it's probably a combination of things. Can I help you?
00:15:39
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around here, if you want to open, I will take Sana's place today. If you don't, I'll help you get things put back where they need to. I'm not much in the mood to open up today either, so. Yeah, of course. Yeah, I mean, if you want to. And Ulfin just kind of meekly gestures in the direction of the kitchen before he walks to the bar back and turns his back to Hob. You get a sense that there's a lot of, Ulfin's a proud,
00:16:07
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pirate captain like he's he's feeling pretty raw and vulnerable and would love to not be perceived i want to hob wants to know so tell me what i need to roll to try to get a vibe that i'm actually perception if olefin doesn't want anyone to be around or if olefin doesn't want hob around because if olefin doesn't want anyone around hob's gonna take care of some things and go and like maybe catch the people if olefin
00:16:33
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Give me one purple perception, no black this time. One success, two advantage. The X's are failures, the circles are threatened.
00:16:47
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So, yeah, one success, two advantage. So, oh, and you should have had, you had one advantage from your previous role that we didn't account for. Okay. You have two advantage on that role. Do you just want to pass two boost? Yeah. Okay. You can tell, yeah, often, often wants to express some very strong emotions right now, but does not want to do it around people. Okay. Like he, he wants to be alone so he can do his own processing and emoting. So yeah. But he also.
00:17:17
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understands that Hob is probably an emotionally raw place, and so it's not going to tell him, get out of here, because if Hob needs to be around someone, Ophen's willing to put his own needs on the back burner. Yes, we are both being very, yes, we're both doing that thing. We're both being insufferable friends to each other. Then I think what Hob will do is find something immediate that he can tidy or move or put away and be like, I'll talk with you soon. And he's gonna wait outside for the rest of the crew to get there.
00:17:41
Speaker
Okay. None of them gave an affirmative they were coming. So he's just gonna be waiting and seeing what happens. Two of them were asleep when you hopped on the communicator. So and sending stones don't have voicemail. That'd be a handy feat. Aeris, write that down. As soon as you get out. Aeris creates a small time loop in a sending stone. You walk out the front door of the forest hills and probably after like
00:18:02
Speaker
10 seconds he wasn't on your heels but like once you're through the doors you hear the doors lock behind you. Give me one last perception check except this one is going to be one red one purple. If you would like to not chance perceiving this thing you're more than happy or more than welcome to not. Oh Eric what more possibly could you do than me? Two boots from your previous role. Boost it up baby!
00:18:25
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It's a success and advantage to failure, so. All right, so. That's a failure with an advantage. Just two advances. Two advantage. Right? Yep, keep those two boosts rolling. So yeah, Hob, you do not see anything out of the norm or see anybody watching you or anything like that. I can't imagine how he'd notice. Right, yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. The two boost, yeah, or two advantage, just keep the boost rolling. Yeah. So. Except for Reynard. Yeah, so yeah, I mean, Reynard, you were on your way, so. Oh.
00:18:54
Speaker
Good morning, Hob. Yeah, good morning. It's a beautiful day, isn't it? Look, I need to tell you this before the others arrive so you're on the same page as us. I'm sorry to be blunt about it. Alright. But you weren't there, and I'm not pleased with that either. You didn't say never. Last night, when we left the party, we...
00:19:11
Speaker
You said that to them. You left the party. It was after you did the errand swap. Oh, that's right. So it's a day later the morning. You're right, you're right. Yeah. Okay, thank you. No, you're fine. I have a lot to catch up on, so you want to just spill behind on everything? All right. First things first, errand's out, and he goes in. Hooray. Oh, good. Yeah. You know what? You know what? How fantastic is? When we left, we came across this fiery guy that
00:19:38
Speaker
We were fairly certain was... Who's been causing Milo's issue? Yes. He had Norton Millhatch. Oh. We fought and killed him. And when he died, his form reverted. And we had killed Ace last night. Raynard, and you need to know that. Oh. Let's go to the Sorting Spirits and have a drink and we can talk more about it. Yes. But I needed to let you know before the other two showed up so that I wasn't rehashing the story.
00:20:06
Speaker
Again and again and again. I don't know if Hob knows. Did he run off? Hob left before. Verla took him into custody. Verla was there. Don't bring it up to her, please, because of your tact issues with her. I'm not trying to be nice right now. Does he not know that Ace is dead?
00:20:29
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No, right, yes, I just, you know, it's one of those things where, like,
Group's Next Moves
00:20:32
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I know you to be the kind of guy who might be like, oh, Verla, good to see you again. Weird about Ace, right? And I don't want that. All right, well, I'll just avoid... Just avoid talking to Verla today. Might be best.
00:20:46
Speaker
That's some self-awareness. I know if I talk to her, I'm not going to be at all with myself. That's exactly what I'm going to do. You told me not to. It's like she's somehow trained to get information out of me that I didn't expect to give her. It's weird. She shouldn't do that for a job. Lots of stuff. She doesn't want me to give her makeup tips. You all get to. She rips the bandit off with radar because, well, honestly, because the radar has done some stuff, too. Are y'all walking and talking towards the soaring spirits? This one's over. And radar never truly cared too much for Ace.
00:21:16
Speaker
Sad day. Nice boy. Jesus. So, you all get the soaring spirits. The only time we talked was when I told him he was a bad- You're not wrong. Like, he was a bad- Burglar. Liar. Where- Oh. He was- What's the word? Oh my gosh.
00:21:29
Speaker
I have no idea, but. Cat burglar. Not impersonating. Oh, when he was pretending to be the blind. Yeah, clear. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yes, I forgot. Oh, God. We're not reaction. Good ace moments. We're not doing the ace moment. I told him it wasn't. OK, so you all walk through the doors of the touring spirits. You're Lynn is there and sees you all walk in and you see a look of mixed concern and relief on your land's face. Ponce seeing the two of you is like,
00:21:56
Speaker
Hey, guys, what's going on with Milo? What do you mean? We don't have the time. Brother, sit down. He's asleep in my storage closet. He came in looking like death, honestly. We had a rough night.
00:22:11
Speaker
difficult night. I hope you're okay, Raynard. My night was less difficult but still bad. This is a great night. It was a really really bad commute. Fairly early early morning. This is an exclusionary week. Raynard's not part of the bad night but he's here now so it's gonna be a bad day. Well, I told Milo he could told Milo he could rest up uh as long as he needed to but just just so you all know where he's at. He's I appreciate it. Yeah. Thank you.
00:22:38
Speaker
What can I, y'all just gonna go up to your normal table? I think so. All right breakfast, calf, towel, something stronger? I'll take a calf and just I'd like some eggs.
Processing Ace's Impact
00:22:49
Speaker
All right. You make eggs don't you? In many forms. Okay I'll take them in whatever form. Oh chef special. Just several please. You're gonna get a plate of caviar. Why can't I wear eggs? Like you didn't specify what kind of eggs so here's some eggs.
00:23:04
Speaker
one hard-boiled ostrich pop goes i'll kind of put his hand on his stomach and he goes i think i need toast or okay yeah yeah i think i need i think i'd like some toast toast all right he's feeling queasy yeah i'll let grumbly know and he lets you all go seat yourselves since you have a table
00:23:23
Speaker
About five minutes after that, Milo comes out of the back and he's headed to leave toward the door. Milo, are you okay? Crumley says. Well, as to be expected, I guess. I'll be on my way. Thank you for the use of your facility back there. It was most kind.
00:23:43
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Uh, we need anything else. Let me know. I certainly will. Okay. Is there any chance that you're there to stop him and say your friends went upstairs? Cause we're upstairs. I mean, Milo's in the kitchen. Like that, that's where Grumley was. So yeah, as, as my little, you walk out to the main area, you're like, you're hobbing. Rainard are upstairs. Milo, if you want to, excellent. Thank you very much. You still got calf from earlier. Well, I'll make you a new cup, obviously, but, uh,
00:24:12
Speaker
Yes, that would be good. Waste not what not. Port at once, not gonna port again. Could I perhaps get an omelette? Sure, yeah. Stuff it with whatever you will. Thank you. As you're walking up the stairs, you hear Grumley shout at Jorlin, like, what? I asked him if he wanted anything and he didn't say! You see Milo reach the top of the stairs.
00:24:36
Speaker
Mallow, over here. Only people in this restaurant. Morning, Rainard. And it's our table. We sat at dozens of times. I have to assume at this point it's kind of understood this is the fixers table. Yeah, you're the insufferable friends crew. Oh, it's roped off. Somebody else is sitting at the table. You're a Lincoln Smack. Except for no one liked the awful people in France. Everyone loves the fixer. So it's more, they've given us a table. Give me this, Eric. But who's not here right now? They understand my importance. How are you?
00:25:06
Speaker
How am I? I'm wonderful. Come on, man. I know it's not a good question, but I had to start the conversation. I'm sorry, Hobb. I'm also not good, but we need to talk. Yes, I know. I know. I guess we're both as well as can be expected at this point in time. It
Eris Informed and Reflects
00:25:25
Speaker
was just an insane crazy night, and it did not end well. I don't know if you heard through the communicators. I swung by for sales.
00:25:36
Speaker
And I let Ulfid and Sana know what happened. They've closed for the day. Sana, I assume, gone somewhere. Yes. They took it exactly as well as one hope. Yes. I don't know that. Well, I know Sana had started to form a fairly close relationship with Ace from what I could tell. Yeah, she really cared for it.
00:25:57
Speaker
Well, that's where I was headed this morning, so I guess I don't need to go there now. Reynard, what have you been up to? That's been public, oh crap. We're at the story experience now, just if you were on your way. Well, I've just been securing relations with Elvinor and not the clan. The house. The fan bam.
00:26:22
Speaker
Wow, where did that come from? Is there something else? The Bormar clan. We worked for the clan. I could not have just made that up. Remember all the meat? That was clan meat. I just spent the last day or so securing relations with Elvinor and the house and making sure I'm in good standings with him. I see.
00:26:42
Speaker
Call it him her I'm glad you were there rather than with us. Yeah Sorry, I think I tried to say them at my accent got in the way. I'm not British if you didn't know or Jack Sparrow I'm glad you were not with us last night. Yes. I heard it's quite unfortunate. Yes but at least You've been cleared of being
00:27:07
Speaker
Bernie Murderman. I suppose that's true. I'm Bernie Murderman. Hi, my name is Bernie Murderman, and I am once again asking for your financial support. I cannot believe you didn't change his name. It is not hard. My father was a murderman. My grandfather was a murderman. My children will be murdermen. Listeners, we will never let a serious moment just be one. Not when I'm here. I'm sorry. It's because I'm emotionally broken. Yeah. It's because the people playing at the table also do not process negative emotions well, so. I mean, if they just want to hear me cry for 10 minutes,
00:27:37
Speaker
Okay, I have a kind of metatextual question that I'm considering spending a story point on, but I don't want it to break something pretty fundamental to the campaign up to this point. Well, okay. So what a preamble. Well, no. Okay. So Philip, Eris has come back to the cauldron pretty
Debate on Handling Kath
00:27:56
Speaker
frequently, if not on death's door, pretty darn close. Like Eris has gotten her licks in and all of us had to witness Eris in that state many times.
00:28:07
Speaker
and helped patch Eris up a couple times. It's true. How massive, like, would Eris be able to contextualize if Olive, while Eris was sleeping one night, made a copy of the sending stone frequency of the party's sending stone so that Olive could listen in to make sure that Eris isn't about to die and be able to jump in if necessary?
00:28:32
Speaker
would that be a massive break of trust to Eris or would Eris understand that Olive is just trying to protect Eris? Eris has grown enough to understand that
00:28:46
Speaker
whatever kind of breach of trust that might be, she would have precisely zero legs to stand on on that particular kind of privacy invasion. Gotcha. As Eris has listening devices and a couple of recording devices scattered around the city in places that like Eris still has a recording device in that theater manager's office. Yeah. And she sees them.
00:29:12
Speaker
hacked, hacked Verla's communicator, like, so, no, that would not, whatever Eris's feelings on it would be, she would probably not fall into the hypocrisy of that with Olive. It's exactly what Eris would do, and she's living about it. Precisely, yes. Okay, then I'm going to flip a story point to say, Eris, Olive shakes you awake, gently. Okay. Olive's clearly been up for a bit, and... Eris looks around, gets her bearings, works out where she is. Hey, good morning. Okay.
00:29:42
Speaker
I just thought that you would like to know. And if you want to talk about with me, I'm obviously something happened last night, but your friends are at the soaring spirits. Hob made out a call that he was around and it sounded like he was not in the best state. So if you killed ace.
00:29:59
Speaker
last night why he tried to kill me it wasn't I don't know what happened to him it wasn't himself he turned into something don't it's all somehow it's gotta be tied in with that stupid speeder he's got but he's the he's the thing that's been burning people
00:30:17
Speaker
that had Verla chasing Milo. And he was about to do it to Norsen. She couldn't ignore her. I didn't want that to happen to Harbin. And then when we stopped him, it was Ace, but it was too late. And Calfs mixed up in it. Egged him on. Now he's dead. It was going really well yesterday. Everything, like, nobody got hurt. We made the switch. Erin's out. Viggo's gone. Every time we get close. Fracking every time we get close.
00:30:44
Speaker
I'm sorry, Eris. Yeah. I have to go up in the city today to get some supplies and some dragon shards. So we need out for till later in the afternoon. Careful. Yeah, please. Of course. You should go. You should go be with them. All right. I already made some coffee, calf downstairs. Thanks. And Olive gives Eris's shoulder a squeeze and grabs her jacket and walks out of her room.
00:31:07
Speaker
Eris retraces her steps, putting back together the pieces of her outfit. She takes her time, drinks the calf, and then steps out and crosses the street. Yeah, and this is probably around the time that we had hit the point in this conversation because Olive would have woken Eris up shortly after Hobb's initial message. So yeah, the point of the conversation where he left you all off, you hear Eorlin
00:31:31
Speaker
greet Eris downstairs. Hey, they, everyone's upstairs. Can I, do you need anything? No. Okay. She goes upstairs. You all see Eris emerge. I mean, we don't wave. I don't have to wave her over. She does. We want her to come sit with us. Honestly, this is her table. Morning. Yeah.
00:31:48
Speaker
I mean, how are you? I- I'm here. Yeah. I spoke with Sana and was often- Good. It wouldn't like you, I'm certain, would imagine it. It would. They're both sad, and at least right now, before opportunities for contemplation, not angry with us. Oh, did someone tell Kath? What's Sana think of Kath? Oh, I'm sorry, what did you say? What is Sana think of Kath?
00:32:13
Speaker
Right, so I left that part out right now. I, right now, Kath knew, Kath was there, Kath was watching. We don't know what's going on. Oh. She became visible or she came from around. What's going on? She was just hiding in the shadows. She was hiding while we fought. She was egging these stupid schemes on. She was encouraging him, it appears to follow her path.
00:32:37
Speaker
So she knew it was safe? Yes. Yes. That's the part I'm having my hardest time wrapping my head around. Is that she could have said something sooner, potentially. I don't know. There's not a good way to say I ended it quickly that makes me feel good. There wasn't a lot of time, but there was some jaw flapping where she could have come out of hiding. Or, you know, any of the previous murders he committed.
00:33:01
Speaker
I suppose I'm not mentioning those because I'm not surprised she didn't stop those given her recent extracurriculars. Yes,
Strategy Meeting with Erin and Tarvel
00:33:08
Speaker
and you say you did not tell Sana at this time. Sana doesn't know Kath was there or is involved right now. It's kind of a double-edged sword there. It's good not to tell her but then of course she's going to be upset when she does know. Right now. It's kind of no-win situation. Right now the death of her friend is terrible tragedy and
00:33:30
Speaker
One thing at a time. No accident. Soon as we mentioned, Kath was there. Suddenly, Ace's death is Kath's fault. And while that may or may not be true to those of us sitting here as well. I think perhaps focusing on her grief first was what I was thinking at the time. Yes, no, absolutely. First one to deal with.
00:33:49
Speaker
And she's gonna be like super mad at me when she finds out, I'm sure, but we'll deal with that when it happens. There we go. Hobbs knees is on your guitar. It's a cheesesteak. So I think we have a lunch meeting today. Get out. It's an a cheesesteak guitar. Yes. I don't think Philip heard that so he doesn't know why we all just- What happened? Trevor said it's an a cheesesteak guitar because Jeff sneezed on my guitar.
00:34:08
Speaker
Look, y'all can act like you're mad, but that's good. That's pretty good. I don't like it either, but it's a solid pun. For the very, for the one, once in a lifetime situation of somebody sneezing on an acoustic guitar. You nailed it. Yeah. All right. Aeris is bringing up narrative things. I think we have a lunch meeting. I legitimately don't remember. With who? With who? Aaron.
00:34:34
Speaker
the big thing well I wasn't there for that either so I'm so sorry it was not in my schedule we have noticed yeah to be fair Raynaud holds up empty piece of paper my schedule is quite empty I happen to be free that's a counter if you all would call I might be there Trevor no listen if Raynaud's gonna get black for Trevor's schedule Raynaud's allowed to clap back empty I don't know what you're talking about Trevor's is full
00:35:00
Speaker
Fine. On air, we're calling Reynard for help. Next time.
00:35:06
Speaker
And it will become part of the narrative that you ignored our calls for aid. Then you can be mad at me. I can mad at you whenever I want and don't you ever get it. I think we've demonstrated that heiress can be mad at Raynard whenever and for whatever. Right. Fine, every time they call now Trevor Raynard will be in peril and I'll make them start rescuing Raynard every time you can. Perfect. Too many brunches. I know. And nobody liked it so I stopped doing it. But if it's gonna be a thing then I'll keep doing it. What were we doing? Going to see Aaron later. It's still breakfast time.
00:35:36
Speaker
Yeah. Did our food arrive yet? Yeah. Okay. Urelin comes up and silently sets the food down. Hobb says, you know, Urelin, I'm actually feeling better. Can I get in? What? It's like one of those, but bigger. Sure. Urelin punches you. What kind of eggs? What kind of eggs did I get? What kind of eggs did I get? You got a quiche. Oh, nice. That was fast. Quiche's take time. It's made with, but it's made with crow eggs. Okay.
Erin's Vision for the Clan
00:36:03
Speaker
That's how we do it. It's fine.
00:36:05
Speaker
It's a Misago. Just a Misago quiche. Just orange goo in a... We will never give the listener a moment's rest. We will constantly be doing this. We used crow eggs and quiche were out of regular ones. Nope. Nope. Just the one. Just the two. Okay. I get the one. The one good one. Jorland nods and goes to putting your order. Thank you.
00:36:23
Speaker
Thank you. It looks good. He also checks in with Aeris again. You still good, Aeris? Fine. Alright, look. We have to focus on the fact that there is some light at the end of this unbelievably grim tunnel.
00:36:40
Speaker
kind of dug ourselves down into so let's we're meeting with Erin we need to strategize we need to tell her what's been going on and what we think she needs to do about it i guess why would she listen to us is something we might want to have in our back pocket we rescued her yes but we have already made arrangements with all the other under bosses
00:37:03
Speaker
Yes. Plus, Tarvel, obviously, will be a great assistance in this endeavor. Sure. Remind me, does she know any of us? She does my luck. Sure, of course. But no, the other three of us. You know, we did save her, but she doesn't know us from anything. So, by the way, I think you might need to take... You and Tarvel probably need to do most of the talking. I think it might behoove us to go over it all together.
00:37:30
Speaker
Popcorn heiress. Popcorn radar. What do you think radar? Oh, my advice on social settings. You're supposed to be good at it. Yeah, it is your expertise. Surprisingly ironic. Well, I think, yes, of course, Milo and Tarvel taking the point on the conversation might help ease a sense of what I'm sure will be a difficult lunch.
00:37:54
Speaker
she's had time i'm i'm sorry that i'm thinking this is gonna go poorly but i'm not in the greatest place right now she's had a lot of time to process that we just put her son in the dreadhold so i'm thinking we walk in treading lightly and let tarvel take the beginning of it um should we make a list of all the reasons he's a terrible person no you don't that's not how that doesn't make things better when you do that
00:38:22
Speaker
Eric remind me. What is Aaron's? Where is she in the Boromar? She she was Satan's sister sister. That's right. I couldn't remember if it was a sister Yes, she's supposed to be the know that does she know that exactly I don't know that she will in about an hour Maybe maybe not
00:38:45
Speaker
She's supposed to be next in line, right? She was supposed to be next in line, but she was in prison. She would have had a reasonable claim, but Satan's daughter
00:39:03
Speaker
also obviously has a reasonable claim. Except
Goals and Intentions
00:39:07
Speaker
she's a terrible person. She's grieving. Yeah. That's a criminal organization, so that's fine. It's been long enough. We're already over Ace. Perhaps sister needs to get over it. Ace wasn't your dad. You got over your dad very quickly too, but... Well, who? That was my dad? Look, is there planning to be done for this meeting or do we just need to go and talk? We can talk so much about what we're gonna do once she's out.
00:39:30
Speaker
I think that's what it is. We go and talk and see what she wants to do. We have a lot of potential resources with the different underbosses and house tuck cannon. And well, frankly, the King Citadel is supposed to call us at some point any time. And they have an interest in this as well. So in theory, there's a lot of cards that we can offer.
00:40:03
Speaker
Okay. I do not know what to do next. Yeah. I mean, if you all just want to finish your breakfast and then start making your way towards the bilge rats HQ where Tarvel's Arfus Arfus. I am going nowhere near that for your meeting with Aaron. You're more than welcome to do so. I suppose that's what's next. Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. So ordered. So yeah, you all presumably hop up into Tasha and take off across the city and you all arrive unmolested.
00:40:33
Speaker
Ooh, that's unusual. Let's try again. Let's take another loop. Yeah, you all get to gray flood. Sorry. And, uh, yeah, you all don't, don't notice anything as you approach and are y'all just walking to the front door or what's the plan? You weren't told to be cagey about it, but is there an alternate entrance? Is there a loading dock? You were told that there are tunnels that lead into Tarvel's office that Aaron could navigate the city from.
00:40:58
Speaker
but you have no idea how to access them, but you can figure it out and pull all kinds of things that don't help provide any clarity. And yeah, I guess we walk, we walk in the point of access. We know about, we walked into the door before. Yeah. You all Tarble opens his office. Uh, yeah, Tarble's office is locked. So he comes and unlocks it and kind of, well, actually there's a window on it. So he pulls back and sees you all and unlocks it. Password.
00:41:24
Speaker
Ushers you all in shuts and locks the door behind you all and walks over to one of the bookshelves in his office. And he nods like, glad you all making it. Thank you. And excited to chat. And he slides the bookshelf over and there's a small little like safe room for lack of a better term. And you see Aaron sitting on the bed in there reading and she looks up and shuts the book. Hi. Good morning.
00:41:50
Speaker
Thank you all for coming and everything that you've done up to this point. Tarvel has briefed me somewhat on the plan, I guess, for lack of a better way to put it. But I would love to hear your perspective on what comes next.
Threats and Alliances
00:42:05
Speaker
Yes. We're going to discuss it here or did you have someplace you wanted to go? Here's fine.
00:42:11
Speaker
Alright, well, I'm sure Tarvel has explained quite a bit of it to you. We do have several underbosses that are willing to assist. The King Citadel is very interested in how all this plays out, but I suppose that we would really like to know how you feel about all of this and you becoming the leader of the clan. The circumstances obviously are less than ideal.
00:42:41
Speaker
Loved my brother, but I understand that Aliro wants vengeance on you all for your perceived involvement in my brother's death. Right, but it's not just that. She's looking to go to war. Yes. She seems to be extremely volatile. Yeah.
00:42:59
Speaker
Your brother seemed poised before his death to try to move the clan in a less violent direction. Yeah, I mean he was continuing the will and ambitions of our dad for the clan of...
00:43:18
Speaker
moving into a more legitimate space, having less blood on our hands, and attending fewer funerals quite so early for our family members. So, no, it's something that, based on the Alira I knew before I went in, something about her father's death broke her. So, I was very much in alignment with Satan's vision, but as far as I knew through knowing her, so was Alira. She was a member of the Sharn City Council, she was a legitimate
00:43:47
Speaker
face of the clan so I don't know what's happened to her well I obviously know what's happened to her but if she is seeking to go to war then it is it is because of her father's death not an excuse her father's death an excuse for her to do something she's been wanting to do I hope not to seem naive in saying this we would like for this exchange to be
00:44:12
Speaker
as peaceful as possible. I understand it won't be void of bloodshed, but our goal is not to destroy your clan to save it. No. I want to make sure you know that. I appreciate that. And no, I think unfortunately the only circumstance in which Allira, without having had a conversation with the woman, based on what Tarvel's told me, the only circumstance in which we might have a peaceful transfer of power is
00:44:38
Speaker
you're all's head on a platter which obviously is not i don't want it that badly yeah i have my limits erin i'm sorry no no and you all seem like good folk i know milo um i know that oh yeah i'm hob by the way and he extends a hand she shakes hob's hand it's been a weird day i know for you too so i apologize for not beginning that way it's fine in fact and he's gonna make the he's i'm making an executive decision torvald's the one who gave me the nickname hob
00:45:06
Speaker
she kind of rolls her eyes at Tarble cute and he gives a proud smile that is also yeah my my nickname didn't stick so what was your nickname glob oh right for i tried to you know hard left but hob hob is better there's also another entity in the city that
00:45:28
Speaker
Oh great, I just lost his name. King Calloway. Calloway, yes. There's Salmond Calloway, who very well may have her ear, and he's become quite powerful in a very short time, and I just feel like he's definitely involved in this in some manner. Salmond Calloway. Yeah, that name doesn't sound familiar. It was new to all of us, fairly recently, but he has certainly established himself in the city.
00:45:56
Speaker
in what manner crushing heads making money buying guys he's a criminal and a powerful one and he's also particularly strong and scary yes and seeking to sway the council in a direction that he wants it to go
00:46:14
Speaker
I realize now we've put very little effort into finding out his endgame. But so much of it's been present issue that we haven't really had a chance to consider. It's more like, I know it's important what he's doing in the future, but what he's doing right now is trying to kill us. And we need to stop that kind of thing. Oh, he's trying to kill you. What has he done? It's more that we've been in situations where we might die while... How do I put this? I don't think he cares so much about killing us as no one's stopping him.
00:46:41
Speaker
Yes, he seems to be like lurking in the background, and sometimes he comes to the foreground. And I thought we were friends, but we're not, so very confusing. This is Raynard. Or Drednier, whatever you want to call me, I don't need, you know, nice to meet you. Sorry about all the things that have happened to you. Thank you, Raynard. Appreciate the subject. Raynard greets everyone.
00:47:09
Speaker
Okay, so Solomon Callaway is a powerful entity in the city. New player. Once you dead but not actively trying to kill you? We have crossed paths with his ambitions enough times that we are known entities to him. Is that a better way of saying it? Sure. No, he told me he would kill me. Yeah, okay, fair, but a lot of people have said that's a radar. That's bad. Aeris is a radar. That's true. And Aeris, okay, last one falls in place.
00:47:42
Speaker
I knew all of your names, it's just the faces to them. Tarvel had mentioned you in some of the communication. So obviously, depending on Alire's current state, the incident that she knows that I'm free poses a threat to her position within the clan. I like to think that there are still other than the representatives of the various segments of the clan that you all have already gotten on side.
00:48:06
Speaker
I certainly know that there are members of the clan that align with Satan's vision for the future and would not align with Aelira's bloodlust. So hopefully once my freedom is known, others will cross the line to our side. But we want to make sure that we're ready to move before we make that note.
Clan Dynamics Discussion
00:48:23
Speaker
without trying to interrupt her, I think Hob and whomever else kind of filter in on which members of the, which of the under bosses are on board with us. We didn't tell any of them. How did we tell any of them? Like we're breaking Aaron out or were we just saying we're working on stuff who's on the hard side? No, Aaron was brokered as the new leader of the clan. Right. Okay.
00:48:44
Speaker
Yeah, Aaron was presented as the alternative. Lady Briar is a probable yes. Lissa seemed like a probable no, but her deputy, Dell, was a probable yes. And there was something where people were trying to transfer Dell into the cogs specifically so that he would die. So I can't remember why. Lissa was a yes if Dell got transferred to be the new head of the Delvers because Lady Briar wanted to take over the Blacklamps.
00:49:13
Speaker
because. And Tar will kind of fill you in that. Lissa is a recent new head of the Ravens and some people like Del. So.
00:49:24
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. And then Nessa was a definite no, but we worked out with Hutch that if we could arrange like a, a fake job for the goals to do, then we could probably keep them. He could, Hutch could probably keep them occupied long enough so that by the time Nessa knows what's happening, it's a, it's a fatal complete.
00:49:50
Speaker
If worse comes to worse, as long as we're able to minimize goal death as much as possible, Hutch will be with us in the settling dust. And what Hutch said to you, Nessa is loyal to the clan. Right. So like Nessa's loyalty isn't to a Lyra, but she is going to respect the position of the head of the clan. Right. And also, House Tarkannon is willing to remove any Boermor officers who are not with us as well as not kill us.
00:50:18
Speaker
What was the trade-off with that? Was it just a financial interaction? They wanted to be on the winning side to protect their deal with the House. That's all I was, just protecting their own deal with the House. Okay. I think so. Well, and just to clarify, House Turkana, they actually have a rule that they won't kill any high-ranking officials of any organization. So they are more than happy to take out some of the rank and file, but they can't,
00:50:45
Speaker
they're unwilling to take out a Lyra for you all. Sure, sure. Just like they would be unwilling to take out Eren for Lyra. All's fair. They'll take out us, though. We are low level enough. Absolutely. Probably you all aren't important enough on the scale of the Sharn city landscape. Yeah, except for maybe Eris. She is. Well, they honestly aren't listening to this podcast. And Rainard is being for a high position in House of the Arts. So basically, Hob and Milo, they'd be. But if they find out Milo, just Hob, they would kill Hob Glack.
00:51:17
Speaker
So we got black lamps also. Black lamps are not on your side. They tried to kill you. Oh, that's
Political Shifts and Warforged Issues
00:51:23
Speaker
right. Yeah. Yeah. And my house has already aided us a little bit. They might again for the right price. Yeah. So we, right. We relay all that to her. Yeah. And do you know, ragtag team of misfits. Do you know of any one else who we might perhaps approach when the time is right?
00:51:41
Speaker
I mean, if you could make some assurances regarding the well-being of the Warforged who live in clan territory, we might have some more contacts because Vigo was a right tart to the Warforged and that created some problems for them that some of them might be willing to help. I don't know. There's some weird things going on with the Warforged right now that I don't quite understand not being one, but it's
00:52:15
Speaker
The thing that is going on is weird they are not weird the thing that is going on is weird Do you have any further details about this weirdness? But detail like with a lack of understanding can you elucidate what is happening?
00:52:29
Speaker
In the War Force community around here, from my decided the external perspective, it seems like there is a large amount of frustration with the way they are being treated. And there is a, some sort of internal disagreement going on about what the right way to make that good is.
00:52:53
Speaker
Do you all have a contact with somebody that could represent their interests that I could speak to in private? Well, I mean, we are a member of our little band that worked for the clan for so long. And they're a large part of the movement now. Right. I mean, if you all wanted to bring Sigil to the table, as it were, I'd be more than happy to sit down with them and have a conversation around securing warforged support for whatever
00:53:23
Speaker
encounter might come up with the clan as we have this transition of power. I mean, we'll talk to him, but you got to promise to make it in Eberron reduced. Or you just talk to yourself about it for a while. All right. Oh yeah. Hobbs meta. He knows about the, Hobbs, Hobbs like the daredevil. Well then Hobb would have known what the identity of ACE is. Oh, so then Hobb is culpable. Hobb has limited, Hobb can address the audience, but he does not have, he gets all the benefits, but none of the accountability. Got. Oh, so it is a choice.
00:53:53
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the Warforged in the city, obviously, or some of the Warforged, obviously, they're not a monolith. It would be a huge boon, but obviously they'd want something. We'd have to make sure it was something that we could provide as the plan. You mentioned Callaway meddling with the Sharn City Council. Obviously, Lyra gave up her seat to claim the clan.
00:54:15
Speaker
Have has the clan lost further influence in the city because that might be part of the negotiating Tactics with the war Forge is our influence within the city. We I would need a reminder on yeah Events that we have not been a part of
00:54:30
Speaker
Yeah, we don't have the front seat. I'm kind of thinking the answer is yes. Yeah, Callaway has gotten a couple seats to flip away from Klan backed people to people that he backed to whatever end. So yes, probably Eris probably would have heard about this, especially all of would have brought it up. So just to kind of catch you up on what's been going on in the city that you would have like tangentially found out about as these moves were happening. Shawn City Council, as these seats are being flipped, began voting.
00:55:00
Speaker
to allow more power to entities in the city like House Caneth and removing regulation and restriction in terms of what they can do within the city. But this also extended to, and this was kind of the surprising thing, the deregulation extended to independent major rights and artificers. So like the cauldron could start doing
00:55:29
Speaker
more things with less oversight from the city and stuff like that. I don't think the cauldron could do more things with less oversight. Well, there are fewer things that an inspector could come in and ding the cauldron for. I'll put it that way. Get away with doing. Yeah. The other houses probably- I have a history of dealing with inspectors. And Raynor, you probably would have heard this, especially with your recent buddy budding with Elvinor and Eldoran.
00:55:51
Speaker
The same lack of regulations and loosening of laws surrounding activities did not extend to all of the houses, though, including House Fairland. So there's some annoyance that some houses are getting preferential treatment from the city than others. So kind of tensions amongst the houses are getting heightened. So, yeah, I guess I share that information. And why not? Just to add a narrative element to the current top track or the recent top track.
00:56:20
Speaker
as part of the House Caneth loosening a restrictions thing. They're still not, like, the Shard City Council cannot supersede the Treaty of Thronehold. Caneth is not allowed to make war war forged. They're not allowed to claim rights over war forged. But restrictions around augmenting war forged were loosened. They have to be willing, according to the letter of the law,
00:56:44
Speaker
But there were some restrictions on how house Kenneth specifically could like metal with warforged and like experiment on them that have been loosened. Well, we certainly mentioned that as a thing. The warforged might want as a bargaining chip is that we can get our influence back on the council. We can probably.
00:57:04
Speaker
Mitigate that for sure. I don't know if this is the sort of city council that just spends their time undoing the previous council's work So they're pretty active council. Yeah, then we explained it Yes, we've the plan has lost further influence as one might expect when their leader is killed Yeah, you know regardless of a power vacuum or not new leadership, you know People sell their stock.
Preparing for Leadership Introduction
00:57:26
Speaker
So I guess the question is
00:57:28
Speaker
Obviously setting up a meeting with me and Sigil, but what preparations do you all want to be able to make before I make my presence known to the larger city? Because once that happens, things will need to start moving. An afternoon to let everyone who's on our side know that it worked would be nice, but beyond that. Do you want us to try to arrange a meeting between you and some of the faction leaders?
00:57:54
Speaker
No, I would prefer. It's not that I, I believe everything that you all and my husband have told me. At the same time, the more people I meet with, the more potential leaks there are in the ship. So I would rather
00:58:08
Speaker
you all be empowered to go give the go ahead that we're moving and then we go as opposed to meeting with them and things slipping and all that. Would you like to meet with a warforged that we trust to keep you silent so you have something in your pocket when you do go public to tell them?
00:58:27
Speaker
Just one meeting with them. With Sigil. Yes. Yes. Yeah, you wanted that before you go. Yes. Yes, great. What about, what about the Citadel? They had, well, I mean, so first of all, they're supposed to like call for like the last six months. So who knows whether they're even paying attention anymore. But the Citadel had expressed a distinct interest in not having Illyra running the clan and saw you as a
00:58:55
Speaker
Better option when I come when I had a conversation with them, but I don't know How comfortable you are with that kind of? connection if if the Citadel wants to assist in the transfer of power, I'm not going to block them from that I Know for a fact that many people that would support me as head of the clan hate the Citadel and so if I were to if it were to be found out that I was actively
00:59:23
Speaker
involved in attaining their help, that would compromise my claim. So once again, I am giving you all the green light to enlist any resources that you may have access to, but I do not want personal involvement with the Citadel. Understood. Yeah, that makes sense. Anything else?
00:59:43
Speaker
But there's this group of kobolds. Like I said, whoever you want to enlist, I'm more than welcome to do so. We can't promise they'll be hopeful, but it'll be fun. They may be thoughtful. We're not sure. Why wouldn't you want the King of Sharn on your side? Right? Do we have an extra communicator? I mean, I still have one of Tarvel's coins, but it might behoove us to give her a means of communicating with us. Erskine's whip up a closed channel. Give me a perception check. Too purple, Milo.
01:00:12
Speaker
Anybody can make it. My perception is not good. It's too yellow and a green. Do it, Milo. I mean, we can have multiple checks is what I'm saying. Like, not only Milo. Oh, I'm going before he says too purple. Yeah. Can't hurt. Mine's really good, I think. Yellow and too green. Let me find it again. I'll pay you a fee. That's some advantage. That's four advantage. What is that? Two success and one advantage. Two advantage.
01:00:42
Speaker
Okay, so we have like six advantage on the table as a result of all those checks. So before we decide what we're doing with all that advantage, Milo, Philip, did you roll for Eris? Oh, I did not. You can if you want to, but you're not. What was the difficulty? Two purple. Two success,
Supporting Erin's Leadership
01:01:01
Speaker
two advantage. So eight advantage on the table. Eris and Milo, you all clock when Milo says I have one of Tarvel's coins,
01:01:11
Speaker
Aaron glances at Tarvel and is confused as to what that means. Tarvel is not aware that Aaron looked at him because Tarvel is a goof.
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I mean, if there is a mean for you all to communicate with me, then that would certainly be a boon. The more you all come and go from here, obviously, the more suspicions are going to be raised. Pulls out a lot of copper in a spell screw. He says, this is called the message. It's called the old copper point. That's right. Could be a stone, could be a coin, could be a cat. We'll see. I guess we'll send you messages by cat.
01:01:46
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Eris is happy to try to jury rig a communicator. She's not interested in her having access to our group channel. That's a lot of advantage. Could we use it towards that? Towards jury rigging? Yeah. Eight advantage.
01:02:04
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I would say five advantage could hand wave and say that Eris is able to she Eris has made enough communicators by this point that Eris can pull out some material. I was gonna propose eight advantage and Lyssa got hit by a truck earlier today, but okay. Sure. Head of the Ravens. Eris has been tankering. Yeah, Eris grabs random items off of Tarvel's desk and starts
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geode paperweight and starts carving roofs into it. He's got some heavy tech in there. I mean, he's been teleporting stuff to the Dreadhold for several years. Yeah, so you're able to create a large sending stone with a specific frequency that Eris can dial into. Well, that was quite quick and efficient. Eris is quite good at what she does.
01:02:54
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We all are. And something that you all note, probably you would have caught this immediately, but just to to put it out there. Tarvel is standing near Aaron. Aaron has taken the seat behind the desk in the office while she is talking to you all. Right. And so as she finished the communicator, you still have three advantage.
01:03:18
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Do you just want to pass an upgrade to the next check or is there something specific you'd like to do with it? I think that feels fine. We didn't have to roll to convince her of a thing, didn't we? There's been a lot of roles leading up to this point. And also, you know, there is a certain level of indebtedness that she feels towards you. So, and you all also haven't asked, you all haven't really asked anything of her. Like you broke her out of jail and said, Hey, do you want to run your family's clan? Sure. Like if you all make an ask of her, then she might. Sure. Require a role.
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But at this point, she does lean back and say, so obviously you all have a vested interest in Alira not being head of the clan. You all had a vested interest in my son, no longer running around the city, haranguing you all.
01:03:59
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once i'm in power if all goes to plan what do you want what where do you want to land in the city obviously i will owe you quite a bit i already do owe you quite a bit but i assume that part of me paying my debt off to you is getting my murderous niece out of a position to come after you i think the first thing i would need is a few days off to think about that question all right i just wasn't sure if you all had any um
01:04:26
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Ambitions
Eris's Personal Growth
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within the clan in the city that you'd like to see realized we're not coming here with anything other than trying to stabilize What's breaking in the city? I think I'm sure we all have things that we wanted if you're offering to repay us We will take you up on that but we're more concerned with stability right now. Is that how everyone here feels? I think we'd all could use a clean slate. Well, whatever whatever's manageable For that on your end. Well that
01:04:53
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That is something that Eris mentioned was part of the deal with the Citadel for doing all of this, is the Citadel would wipe your all's records clean. And I assume we will have a, you know, copacetic clean slate with the Boromars once we get Eris involved. We won't really be worried about the deal. Well, never mind. We already have that. A second cat. Get! No, I could get that. Hey, I don't get you all the cats you want, buddy. Just quit asking power for people, Borom. Yes, you all choose. I'll be happy with it. You steal my money?
01:05:17
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Yeah, the whole wallet, everything. Let me just ran into the studio and grab my wallet and took off. Well, I've been a member of the clan for my entire life as my family before me. I say didn't always treated myself and my family very well. I was very, very interested in the floor.
01:05:39
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I was very loyal. And I don't see that swaying from you. Thank you, Milo. The keg bottoms have always been good to the family, so I appreciate that. And as I understand it, you're my aunt. I thought he was your dad. Almost like a son. Almost. Yeah, Milo, we all know. No, Milo. You are the last person to have found him.
01:06:08
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Obviously whatever, whatever you need in terms of the clan. I, I imagine this has been especially tough for you stabilizing force in your life being thrown into turbulence like this. So, yeah. I didn't think about that. I don't know. Also because she obviously would not know if Milo knew at this point. So, and if it was a like.
01:06:31
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a desperate secret, then she's not gonna start blabbing if she does know anything. Or she might not know anything. Who knows? Only me. Guess what I asked you? Perception check on Eric. Eris, do you have any ask of the clan? Or of me, specifically?
01:06:54
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The
Episode Conclusion and Future Outlook
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only thing I really ever admired about the clan, no offense, was the garage. And so I wouldn't mind being paid quite handsomely and then being out. That's fair. I can certainly. There are too many bodies at this point. That's fair.
01:07:13
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I don't, my friends need this to happen, but I don't, I don't want to do this anymore. All right. Yes. Obviously that can, that can be arranged and the protections that the clan afforded you in your independent unlicensed major ed activities would continue to spite you being out. Apparently that's not a problem anymore. All right. Well, I think about if there's any further requests and she taps the geode, call me.
01:07:43
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Let me know when it's time to move. You can get toggle to explain how to use it. Probably the last time you used one, they only worked once a day. It's been a few generations of them. So how convenient. I also have a planner built into it and it can play music. Wow. Impressive. Well, that would be helpful. So I'd have to carry on this piece of paper. Just type it in. All right. Well, thank you for everything and be in touch. But I have some preparations to make.
01:08:12
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Very well. Milo gets up to leave. All right. And we'll call the episode there, gang. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want part of the conversation surrounding this episode, you can check out our Discord, the link to which is on all of our socials, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter. We also have a YouTube channel, youtube.com, slash The Geek Pantheon, where I post TTRPG videos.
01:08:30
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And Phillip's going to plug a thing now. Oh yeah. There's also another YouTube channel called The Laughing Tree, where we have a, another actual play using 5e set in the city of storm reach called Kyber Shars. It's getting spicy. It is. We also have Patreon, patreon.com slash the geek pantheon. If you want to financially support the show in any way that you're able to do so, you can do so there, or you can survive some merch at the geek pantheon.com. Thank you all so much for listening. I've been your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And we will see you next time.
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