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C2 Ep. 65 A Performance to Die For Chapter Three
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Milo rejoins the group as they head to the scene of the crime.
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Introducing 'Ever On Renewed' Podcast
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Hello and welcome to Ever On Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Ever On campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. And I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time?
Billy Taylor Murder Investigation Update
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We continued the search for the murder of Billy Taylor. Yep. My mother and I went to a bakery.
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Okay. So, I mean, yeah, that's the long and short of it. Discovered some important bits of information and also discovered a little bit more about our potential people of interest. I guess they're not potential people of interest. They are people of interest and potential murders.
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Okay. So we had decided we were going to call it a night there and meet back up the next day at the forest sales. And look at that Milo is free today to help with the investigation. Hooray. Um, so, um, I guess the morning when you all are going to meet at the forest sales, is anybody doing anything before heading over there?
Morning Plans and Meeting at Four Sales
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Um, any, um, anybody doing any independent, uh, investigations or looking into things before meeting up with the group.
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Oh, I've got another. Okay. Um, this will not take any time. I'm just going to declare it. Uh, Eris drags herself in really tired, um, because she ended up spending most of the night, uh, removing graffiti, uh, around high walls. Nice. Okay. Um,
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Okay. Um, so you all gather at the four sales. Eris looks, uh, a little sleepy. Um, Sana is there, Kath is not. Um, and Sana shows up, it's like, Kath, uh, is resting. And she has smiles.
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Eris looks over at Raynard. Is it the way she said that makes me think it's not true? Am I reading that right? That is how sarcasm works, yes. I don't know what you mean.
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No, no, we also don't know what you mean. Good. What fun. So what's the plan? I've been investigating a murder. I, I've been here for all of that. I was, we, uh, we talked about Catherine's on Catherine's on a game. I thought a sigil came. No. Yeah. I thought it was Catherine sigil. Nope. Catherine's on it.
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Okay. I promise you. Okay. Well, we had talked about going to the apartment this morning, didn't we? Yes. Yes. That's right. We're going to look at the crime scene. Yeah. Yes. Well, we discussed going to look at the crime scene, both as a crime scene and as a potential real estate opportunity.
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I don't know what you mean. See there, that. That's what, that's what, that's what Sauna was doing. Good job. Okay. Uh, so yeah, we're going to, we're going to the, um, and it is what part of the city was it in?
Arrival at the Golden Horn and Meeting Mandiran
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Upper Memphis. So just straight up from where you are. Um, where now, where Catherine Sauna's folks live? No, they live in the sky. Farther up. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Floating Island above Sharn.
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Yeah, of course because they fancy Okay, so Yeah, you all are able to get to the Golden Horn fine. It's in the University District where all of the theaters are this is kind of the center of
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the theatrical arts in Sharn, where anybody who's anybody wants to end up. And you see a very nice looking building with an elaborate sign hanging above the door with a very fancy extra golden horn hanging on it.
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Uh, doesn't say golden horn, you know, they figure context clues. Um, but the outside of this building looks to have been newly renovated. Looks like it at one point looked like just another building of charm, but now the facade is much more, uh, elaborate.
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Which kind of horn? French. I didn't know if you meant the instrument or the appendage. It seems pretty quiet. It's morning, so there's people walking about, but there's not a whole lot of activity right now.
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All right. And we are looking for Mandyron. Yes. Yes. And he knows to expect someone coming or yes, not, or at least he, we know that if we say her name, yes, he knows that Verla is not done looking into this. So, yeah. So he's the proprietor of the golden horn. Um,
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And yeah, basically. I do not have his species noted. He is a dwarf. Already had that in my notes. Didn't just make that up. Moving on.
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So yeah, you walk in the lobby area or the central area still kind of retains its tavern in roots. It's a large gathering area, five different fireplaces all around the central area, large tables, very fancy rugs and paintings hanging, and also quite a few
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sketches of famous individuals that have owned apartments or stayed in the Golden Horn. Some of them with Mandiran also, so yeah. That's such a weird thing for an apartment complex.
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Well, and going in, you can tell that the bottom floor still functions as a hangout spot. Like, if you really wanted to celebrity watch and shine, this wouldn't be a bad place to go get a drink and see famous actors and writers also sitting around.
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having drinks and carousing and stuff like that. Okay. The upper level is off limits to the general public as that is the apartment area. So yeah. But yeah, so walking in you see that you see a few people hanging about. It looks like
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Nobody's like carousing, like people are sitting there maybe having breakfast, a morning drink, by the fire reading the papers, things like that. And you see a dwarf behind the bar working on setting up for the next round of people coming in, lunch, Russ, he's getting things ready behind the bar, stuff like that. So.
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The dwarf is fairly tall for a dwarf and has dark, dark black hair that's about shoulder length, long black beard, but very kind of grayish skin. And he doesn't regard you really as you walk in.
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Only in Sharn could this lot walk into a place and not be regarded. I think Hob, because Raynard considers himself the face and also is the one that actually knows Verlo the best, would wait to see if he did something before he did it on his own, but if Trevor doesn't think Raynard would, then Hob will go up to Mandiran.
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I guess then Reynard will approach. Okay. I'm sorry. I wouldn't try to force anything on you. I just, that that's what I would do. You wait to see if you were going to do it. No, it makes sense. Um, also, I think you're the only one of us with any charm skill points. I have a lot. I just don't know how to use them. Just talking. I door them to do the more looming I can do. And that's what I'm trying to get across here. Um, okay. Well then Reynard will approach.
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and say, oh, well, man, what do you say? What? Is that what you say? What do you say? What's the half, Marky? What do you say there, old Sean? How do you start this conversation? We need to look at this crime scene. Hello. How's your day going? Greetings.
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non-threatening greeting inserted here. Ah, I'm not good at that. Everybody will. Go with the threatening greeting. Hey, you ready to die today? Clearly state the objective that we came here to accomplish, I think would be. So, Rainard approaches the bar. And says, uh, hello. Ah, yes, hello.
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Yes, how are you doing today? I'm doing quite well. How are you? Wonderful. It's a wonderful day. Yes. And he pulls up a little pad. What can I get for you? Oh, I do not drink anymore. Oh, good for you. I was wondering, we are friends of Verla.
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Oh, I see. And he puts his pad down. I suppose you're here about the unfortunate business with Mr. Taylor. Yes, quite unfortunate. But we have been... Oh, how much do I give away? Do I trust this person? I don't know. How much do you want to tell me? That was in my different voice!
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Yes, we have been charged to do a little more investigating. Ah, okay. So I'm assuming you would like to have me let you into Mr. Taylor's apartment? That would be wonderful. Thank you. Very well. He closes his ledger and...
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Uh, well, and he goes to the back wall and looks through, uh, on a wall that has several, uh, magical like key fobs hanging and finds one and pulls it off and follow me. He leads you all upstairs.
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And why are they always easy when I freak out the most? Every time I freak out the most it's the easiest conversation He knows we're coming To look at this thing go up there and say hey, we're the people who listen to look at the thing It's just me playing mind games with you Trevor as soon as you let down your guard I'm gonna hit you hard so And he
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stops before the door and looks at you all and Now just so you know the body is obviously no longer there But I tried to keep everything as it was as soon as the crime scene was turned back over to me Nobody else has been allowed into the apartment. I have told the cleaners to not take care of anything so it should be as close as possible to what you need and he holds the key fob up to the door and you hear it and He pushes the door open Do you all need anything else for me?
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I have a few questions. Uh, very well. Let's, uh, let's not stand in the hall and do this. And he gestures into the apartment. He enters and shuts the door and then touches the key fob again. You hear it. Philip before you begin, is this about real estate? Yes, absolutely. 100%. Hob's going to look around. I'm not interested in that. Yeah.
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In order to rule out financial motivations, what could you tell me about the rent of this place? Oh, well, you know, we tend to try and cater to...
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uh, certain type of clientele. So there is a bit of a premium on the rent, uh, here. Uh, so it is, uh, monthly. If you go month to month, um, it is a 158 gold pieces per month. Um, and then we do offer an annual lease, uh, that will get you a bit of a discount that gets you down to, uh, 1300 gold pieces a year.
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And then if you're willing to sign a longer term lease, then we can negotiate the price down even further. To make it clear, Mr. Taylor had signed an annual lease for this apartment. And unfortunately, you know, he still had eight months left on his lease here. Now Eris has become distracted by curiosity. What do you do about that?
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Oh, well, you know, if there is, uh, anybody that comes forward as next to kin or anything like that, then obviously, uh, we're more than willing to, after, um, any kind of security deposit detection, things like that, anything that needs to be done repairing the apartment, then we, we return the, uh, the leftover sum to, uh, the, the families. And obviously if somebody needs to move for work or things like that, then we can negotiate some kind of, uh, early termination.
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I see. Interesting. We have often found in our investigations that there will be secret compartments in places like this. Do you allow alterations to the apartment? I think Hob does turn around at that.
00:16:23
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Secret Compartments is an interesting choice. Wallpaper, also another modification that seems more normal to ask about, but we do allow... Why would wallpaper be relevant to a murder investigation? Well, just, it was a weird... anyway.
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Yes, we do allow modifications as long as they're not structural in nature. No taking down walls, nothing like that. So the layout of the apartment is as Mr. Taylor began his stay here. But obviously the decor, flooring, things like that is all within Mr. Taylor's purview to customize. So if there are secret compartments, I guess that would
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If it's not a load bearing wall, then is it? No. Yeah. That would still be structural. So no, no, no, no. I would, I would not be pleased if there were a secret compartment like holes cut out in the wall and then covered up in things like that. No. Right. Right.
Access Granted to Billy's Apartment
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That's all I can think of at the moment. Okay. Well, if you all have no other further questions regarding, uh, the incident, then I will head back downstairs.
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And he shuts the door behind him. All right. So while Eris was having that conversation, Hob, you said you were looking around. Yeah, I don't think I probably, I'm assuming this is a multiple room unit. I don't think I left the main room, but I was definitely,
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Well, I mean, where was, was the body found in the same room they were talking? Uh, the body was found in the entryway. So yes, near where they were talking. There is a rug with a large blood stain on it in the middle of the room. Okay. Um, so yeah, I guess giving you an idea of the layout you walk in, there's an entryway hallway that the various rooms branch off of immediately to your left is the kitchenette area. Um, immediately to your right is a small study, uh, further back.
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The next off the left is the living entertainment space, the main area. And then off to the right is the master suite. And there's also a guest bathroom off of the living area as well. One bed, two bath. How was he murdered?
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Oh, yeah, that would have been something that Milo wouldn't have been pretty fucking bloody. Stabby, stabbies, right? Yeah, multiple stab wounds to the gut.
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Although, uh, Verla did tell you all, uh, Randy, that, uh, somebody claiming to be a doctor was on the scene really early and claimed it was, uh, a stomach hemorrhage, uh, like natural causes kind of thing. Uh, and then somebody, the Sean Watt showed up later and rolled the body over and discovered technically not wrong, but missed.
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part of it. So yeah, there was a doctor early on that claimed natural causes and then left the scene like nobody really knows anything about them. Remind me, does Sharon have DNA identification available? No, they don't. They don't have. And why do we keep all this blood around? Who discovered the body? The valet.
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Um, uh, what was his name? I've got it right here. I've got it. Harold Anoivi. And he lives in a small building next to the Golden Horn. Yes. The new valet. Is Harold H-A-R-O or H-E-R-A? H-A-R-O. Yes. H-A-R-O? That's not one of them. That's Harold? No, I'm just kidding. That's how I spell Harold.
00:20:38
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I just thought maybe he also announced Billy as he came into a room. Harold, Harold. Harold, Harold's... Haroldling. Do we know approximately, like, what time of the day?
00:20:57
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I thought it was that he found the body in the morning when he arrived for work. I don't know if we've been given an approximate time of death. Do we know if the body was found here in the entryway? Was the body facing toward the doorway out or the other way? I'm trying to deduce if maybe he was leaving or returning.
00:21:29
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Obviously the body was faced down due to the fact that the stab wounds went unnoticed. I'll say just looking at the rug, you can actually give me a perception check. There we go. Figure this out. Yeah, let's do some checks instead of me saying, yeah, probably. Give me an average difficulty check, so two purple.
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Zero success, two advantage. So you can't quite ascertain from the bloodstain what the configuration of the body was. And unfortunately they didn't chalk it out for you. It's hard to do that on rug. Um, but with the two advantage, uh, any thoughts, uh, about what the two advantage could be for, I have something, but what's your something?
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Take the easy way out. Okay, so with two advantage, while you're like intently looking at this blood stain, you out of the corner of your eye below the door, you can see two feet that like you hear somebody approach the door and stop and somebody is standing right outside the door. You would guess potentially trying to eavesdrop on whatever you all are doing in the apartment.
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yes and hob is still in the room so milo looks up at hob they are eavesdropping so if you say something no i am they will hear it and points at the door and kind of like points at the door and like telling hob open the door you know with this
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He's signaling, like person, door. Hobbell knows the Navy SEAL signs, Milo knows the Marine signs, so it's confusing. And then puts his hand up to his ear like somebody's at the door listening. To which Hob goes and puts his ear to the door. Do I hear someone listening? Do you hear someone listening? What a sentence. When Hob goes to the door, Milo's going to go and open the door.
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OK, the signals that Randy did physically were looked like go listen at the door. And so I did. And if he opens the door, I'll be like, oh, I get it now. Someone's listening at the door. Yeah. OK, so as you open the door, you see a halfling woman kind of stumble back like.
Eavesdropping Neighbor Encounter
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Can we help you?
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No, thank you. And she goes to walk away. Can you probably help us? Stop. I just wanted to see what you all were doing in. I thought that you might be moving into Billy's apartment and you might be new neighbors and I was coming to say hi. Did you know Billy? He was my neighbor.
00:24:31
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Look, you got a weird way of saying hi. I'll just start there. We opened the door, and your ear was pressed to it, and you looked very startled. I didn't expect the door to open. Oh, I suppose you didn't. Wouldn't you be startled when a door opened when you weren't expecting it? So you wouldn't be leaning against the door trying to figure out... Sounds like you're the spacious one. Well, that's not quite the case at all, is it? Hob's a bit smart to get bamboozled by that ear. Oh, I know. Where were you two nights ago?
00:25:03
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At home? Any witnesses that can corroborate that? My husband, thank you. Ma'am, we've been asked by the City Watch to investigate this murder and...
00:25:18
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If you could be a little more clear with your answers, it would go a long way towards exonerating the woman who was listening in while we were in the victim's apartment. I know you're trying to... It seems that you're highly interested in your neighbor, so maybe you are highly interested in anything that he does, and perhaps you could infer some information upon us about what may have happened. I'll allow Randy to swoop in and do the charm check instead of Jeff.
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I got a rank in it. No, that's what I was saying. Jeff is like, I know you're trying to avoid this, but you're talking to her. So you make the check, but no, Randy came in. So Randy, go ahead and give me a charm check, um, with a, uh, one red, one purple difficulty against her willpower. And because of, she's on her heels, uh, because of the nature of what she was discovered, go ahead and take a blue. Yeah. So that was, what'd you say, a red and a purple?
00:26:15
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red and purple and you get to add a blue as well. Add a blue. Okay, here we go.
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One failure, four advantage, and a despair. And he doesn't get the two advantage because it has to be a successful role. So it is just four advantage. But still, four advantage is a lot. So she's not receptive to what you're saying, Milo. She doesn't feel like she owes you people anything. Four advantage.
00:26:52
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She feels like she owes Eris something. What? But the blue haired one, I'll talk to her. No. Yeah, Eris is totally built to put at ease someone of an older generation.
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blue-haired one with the face tattoo. That's the one I want to talk to. That's the trusting one. What'd she do? Well, I was... I know the despair. I'm waiting on to hear what you all want the four advantage to be. It can be related to her. It could not be...
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related to her. There's no way she's going to tell me anything, obviously. Or me, no. I mean, she's not put off by you all. She's just not compelled to hang around it.
00:28:09
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It's not like you failed and therefore she hates you. Like, it's just- No, but we failed on the ask, will you tell us anything? Yeah. So it feels like now she won't tell us anything. Call me crazy. I have, boy, I have no idea if this would be at all useful, but I have an idea. This might be entirely fruitless. She notices, she notices the toolkit
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that Eris carries, like she notices Eris's tool roll up and has some sort of maintenance issue in her apartment. Okay. That she now wants
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that she's gonna try and enlist Eris to get so that we've still got her on, my thought is we still got her on a hook of some kind, but I don't know. I like it. I don't know if she's at all useful to us, but there she is. So yeah, as Milo's talking, she kind of like leans around Hob and sees Eris and her toolkit and says, you, with the blue hair. Hello. Eris looks around.
00:29:23
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Um, mandyrene is, uh, incredibly slow when it comes to repairs as a landlord. And I was wondering, two of my Everbright lanterns have been flickering in my kitchen and my bathroom. Could you potentially come fix that for me real quick?
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Eris looks at everyone else. Absolutely wild request after fully withholding and eavesdropping on us. I can't reach people. I swear the entitlement. Yeah, I guess so. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. Come, come. She's sort of walking backwards at the others and gesturing.
00:30:12
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and finding apparently blank stares and no help. So is just Eris going in there? Hob's not going to let Eris go anywhere by herself if she looks concerned or confused. So I guess Hob will go with her.
00:30:33
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to this woman's house. Okay. Who thinks that everything she sees is for her consumption, therefore she can just ask a random stranger to do things for her. Raynard and Milo continuing the investigation in the apartment. Yes, I am.
00:30:48
Speaker
Okay, so we'll follow the absurd scene first. Do we have a despair on the table? Yes, yes, yes, yes. That will come into play shortly. I'm stuck with the despair too. I'm here in the apartment. Or she's luring me and Hob to kill and eat us. Yes, that is precisely what's happening. She can give it a shot. Okay, so you all walk into her apartment and
00:31:18
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It's very similar in layout to Billy's. You hear voices coming from the living room. It sounds like a broadcast of some kind, like a radio playing a show. What's on?
00:31:38
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it's it's a it's a rebroadcast of the last what's the wins race the wins four wins yeah yeah it's like a it's a classic one it's like from 40 years ago
00:31:55
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CSP in classic. Yeah Watching the bird magic 80s 86. That's all right I care Jeff Then what is it? I have no idea so she walks in similar like I said similar layout kitchen to the left study to the right except they have
Conversation with Grace and George
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a
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their little study area set up like a guest room. There's a bed and an armoire in there and then living space and master suite, a small bathroom off of the living space. And she immediately turns to her left and gestures and you can see up there, it's just, it's nonstop. And you do see an ever bright lantern that is flickering. It's not going fully out. It's just the, the brightness is constantly fluctuating.
00:32:45
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Um, and you then hear from the living room, uh, a deep male voice kind of shouting over the recording, like go, go get him. Yes. And then he kind of stopped. Grace, are you back?
00:33:07
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a name. Uh, yes. Yes. Um, I just have, uh, some people over to fix the lights. Like, Oh, good. If you need anything, let me know. Um, and, uh, yeah, you just hear him continue to provide his own unique brand of commentary in the living room over the, uh, rebroadcast. How, um, how high up is the light in question? Uh, you'll need to probably stand on the counter to reach it.
00:33:38
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So. Or ask Hob to get it. Or ask Hob. It is mounted on the wall, is the thing. So if Aerys isn't using tools. Hob, can I get a boost? Oh, right. You describe it. Aerys is the one being boosted, being touched, so you can tell me how it works. I think Aerys would sit on Hob's shoulders, essentially. He would allow that. Sure.
00:34:08
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I assume that Eris's weight is insignificant to Hob, so she would just sit up. She unslinks the Fletcher and sets it on their kitchen island and then swings herself up onto Hob's shoulders and uses him as a cherry picker.
00:34:27
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And Grace starts to play with the Fletcher. Oh boy. And, and Hob places his large hand on it. No, she is not messing with the Fletcher. Um, um, okay. So go ahead and give me a easy artifice or mechanics check. Easy mechanics check. I appreciate this. Thank you. I just, it's been going on like this for months.
00:34:57
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Right. A lot of mechanical malfunctions in this building. Oh, just typical wear and tear. You know, the enchantments only last for so long, their potency begins to wear down, so they need to be tweaked every now and then, but it's nothing too serious.
00:35:17
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Um, boy, boy, that thing fixed. I'm really bummed out that there's no advantage for us to do something with here. Um, I mean, all the lights in the house seem to shine better. She, she, she is just very impressed that while you're talking, Iris, you're not even looking and you're just, uh, like, yeah, absolutely. Like, Oh, you're extremely handy with things like that. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I am.
00:35:46
Speaker
You never know. A lot of people have those tools and they know barely how to use them. It looks like you're quite adept.
00:35:53
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There's the other one in the bathroom as well. A lot of people have these tools. And so she then guides you all through the living area, down the hall through the living area. You see an older human man with kind of the horseshoe white hair. Yep. How high are the ceilings in here? Does Eris have to climb down off of Hob? Or can Hob just move into the bathroom?
00:36:22
Speaker
What do you mean? How high are the ceilings? Hobbs very tall. Can I walk with her on my shoulders from the kitchen to the bathroom? Oh, no. Yeah. They're not that tall. They're slicing. The right answer is yes. And also it requires us to walk between this man and the thing he's watching. He's just listening. There's no visual component. But you see, yeah, in an olderish human male sitting in a comfy chair, feet up,
00:36:47
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Um, listening to this broadcasting device that's, uh, sitting in the corner of the room and he kind of sees you all enters like, Oh, oh my. Hello. Just maintenance box by with it. Are you new hires of mandarin? Nope. Outside contractors. Hmm.
00:37:13
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Okay, okay, and and and hob thinks that's cute and funny, but then he says We're doing a favor for your wife because she asked us to we're here We're here to get to the bottom of the murder of Billy Taylor. Oh Unfortunately is that Is there a
00:37:35
Speaker
Seems dumb to walk, well, I gotta fix your toilet. So I think. The bathroom light is almost certainly not as high up. I agree. If Hob wants to stay and talk to this person whose name we don't know. Hob do want to stay. Yeah. So what would you like to do first, Eric? I mean, Eris can go ahead and make the check while we're, yeah, just for success. So once again,
00:38:05
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Fixed bulbs, man. So, yeah. Oh, apologies. My name's George and he stands up out of his chair and shakes your hand. Thank you. Nice to meet you. And he's also halfling, I assume, so he stands up on his chair and shakes my hand. Okay. She was halfling though, right? Yes. Okay. So did you know Mr. Taylor much?
00:38:31
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We were neighbors that saw each other in the hallway. My wife and I work in the theater industry as well. Mr. Taylor is a relatively new addition to the district. So we were still in the process of getting to know him. Hadn't invited him over for dinner or anything yet. You work in the theater as an employee of the theater or are you a creative?
00:38:54
Speaker
Well, we are freelance, but we aren't on stage individuals. I'm more of a handyman type. I can help you build a set, help you set up lighting fixtures, just kind of anything, anything anybody will hire me to do. Had a hard time getting off the couch for the Everbright lanterns though, did he? Okay. Yeah.
00:39:19
Speaker
as somebody that has done theatrical lighting domestic lighting is a different thing entirely thank you um it's all magic here it's different kinds of magic jeff don't need to diminish this world
00:39:38
Speaker
So yeah, just whatever kind of odd jobs that I can get at various theaters. My wife's the real star of the house, both of you are. She was an actress and now is a director.
00:39:52
Speaker
Hmm. Oh, it's just not pertinent. It's it's it's fine. I'm not a star or anything. It's fine It feels wildly pertinent. Oh Really they're not they didn't give us your last name. So hob would just call them by their first soul grace. Um Did you ever work with Billy?
00:40:12
Speaker
Oh, no, no, no, Billy, Billy hadn't done any shows up here yet. Um, you know, we, George and I have been fixtures of, of the university district for quite some time now. Um, so no, Billy was like, like George said, a new addition to the district and, uh, uh, hadn't hadn't gotten a show up here yet. He was still working down in the lower districts.
00:40:31
Speaker
So am I getting the impression that in the hierarchy of this theater world, they're actually above Billy? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Billy is a hot new entity that's still like on the indie scene, whereas they are established fixtures of the mainstream. Okay, okay, cool. Should we put on any works by Ciara?
00:40:58
Speaker
Um, no, no. Oh, that's, uh, Billy's partner, uh, Luca Ciara, correct? Um, well, I mean, she's played right in her own, you know, she's not attached to him. She has been very insistent that Billy is the only one capable of directing her work is at least the word on the street. Um, so, um, no, no. And, and, uh, Ciara's material hasn't really been, um,
00:41:29
Speaker
published up here because she has an exclusive contract that's about to expire with the Diamond Theater. So we're hoping to see some of her shows up here.
00:41:38
Speaker
Heard nothing but things. I was listening, but a bit has happened. Are we on the same floor still? Yeah, you're right across the hall. It is right across the hall. Okay, that's fine. So I guess, I think Hob will ask George, since I don't know if the Grace not wanting to answer questions for us holds, so he's gonna just ask George. So the night that Mr. Taylor was killed,
00:42:04
Speaker
Did you see anything? Did you hear anything? Any people you didn't... I'm sure you've got people you don't recognize in the building regularly. People haven't yet sold for one night.
00:42:15
Speaker
anything that sticks out in your mind, anything that caught you off guard at the time. Typically, and Hobbes just making this up because he's not an investigator. He goes, typically, if something struck you as odd at the time, it could be very relevant to us. Lots of things seem odd in hindsight. Anything seems odd at the time.
00:42:34
Speaker
Yeah, go ahead and give me a check. Yep. We'll have it be average difficulty, so two purple on George. And it's going to be, I mean, based on what you gave me just then, it's going to be a charm check. It's got to be charm, yeah. And unless you want to add, or I'll punch you at the end.
00:42:59
Speaker
Hate for anything to happen to this place. You said it's, uh, it's hot. Yeah. Okay. Um, we have plenty. I'm going to flip the story point just cause right now we're at a two green, two purple party and I don't like it. So. And you can have a blue since Eris did a nice thing for them. Eris came to their house and fixed the lights. I like it. Let me double check.
00:43:22
Speaker
I looked at it, I don't think I took it. And as soon as this check is over, we'll hop back over to Milo and Reynard. The Milo and Reynard show. Unfortunately, I did not take the thing I was going to take to help my job. Okay, here we go. Two success, the ret. Yeah, that's. Okay, so George kind of
00:43:45
Speaker
Um, well, uh, you know, people have visitors and people coming in and out. So, uh, nobody have note that we saw, we were at home all night behind closed doors. Um, just spending a nice evening together. Um, at one point during the night, I would reckon about, what did you say, dear? What time did we eat dinner? 7 30. So a couple hours after that, um, do recall here in
00:44:13
Speaker
a thud, but some people drop things, you know, something like that. So we, a couple hours, a couple hours after you'd eat dinner at seven 30, like nine 30. Yeah. Okay. Um, we, we heard a loud thud poke my head out in the hall. Didn't see anything. Um, certainly not going to go knocking on people's doors because of a, they, they dropped something on their toe. So, uh, you know, just let it be, but that was the only suspicious thing. Right dear. And she kind of nods like,
00:44:43
Speaker
I think at that point, since it is an auditory clue, I think Hobb looks at Grace and says, let me see how you would word this. Not knowing how her husband would feel about her sticking her ear up to somebody else's door and listening in, like that might be the kind of thing that would annoy him, as it would annoy me if my partner was doing that to strangers or neighbors. I think he says something,
00:45:12
Speaker
You know, Grace, I've noticed you take a bit more interest in the goings on around here.
00:45:17
Speaker
Did you hear anything different? Just put it out there and see what happens. Don't know what that means. The circumstances of our introductions is all. I thought you were new neighbors. I wanted to come say hi and be friendly. He's not going to say anything. Just wanted to see what happened. Yes, Grace likes to check in on our neighbors and make sure everybody's doing OK. And she's the one that arranges get togethers and
00:45:45
Speaker
having people over for supper and things of that nature. That's correct. Oh, I do have one more question and then I'm happy to... Did you ever meet any of Billy's visitors or friends? Even in passing. Luca would come over frequently, you know, presumably talk and shop.
00:46:08
Speaker
There was a younger woman that shortly after Billy moved in came by a few times. Don't know what that's about. But grow up, George, I'm older than you are. That's the sad part, sir. No, Billy, Billy had collars. He was also occasionally would host
00:46:34
Speaker
Casa Faire, uh, presumably talking about, uh, potential workings, uh, at the art temple.
Alibi and Mysterious Doctor Discussion
00:46:41
Speaker
Um, I noticed them, uh, down in the main area and then going back up to Billy's place, uh, after spending some time down there. Um, and of course, you know, uh, Harold would come by frequently and then before Harold Eddie would, uh, would come by frequently to, uh, tend to, uh, Billy's needs and, uh, do you know why Eddie got fired? Hmm. Um,
00:47:04
Speaker
I, I personally don't know, uh, why he, he got let go. Um, I don't really pay much mind to what people say though. I just an honest man looking for honest work. Uh, so. Do you happen to know, Grace, have you heard, have you heard any rumors of, you know, how people talk? You had any rumors as to why Eddie was fired? I, it was just seemed like an odd thing in what we were looking at. Give me a perception check, Eris and Hob if you want.
00:47:32
Speaker
Uh, yeah, sure. I hope Hob want, um, I've been putting thread all over the table. Maybe we'll throw a couple more. There's going to be one red. Hey, well, is your success three advantage? All right. This is not going to, this is not, this is not, this is not one advantage. So grace just goes. So if we combine our five advantage for one success,
00:48:01
Speaker
Uh, no, I, I don't know, um, anything in regards to Eddie's employment or why Harold was hired to replace him. I mean, it seems based on the frequency that Harold comes by that Harold is a much better valet. Um, but other than that, no, no idea. You can tell she is telling the truth. I think Hobbs gonna take one last dig at
00:48:24
Speaker
He can't, whether it is true or not, because honestly it doesn't, it, it does make sense that one would try to eavesdrop on a bunch of people just walked into your dead neighbor's apartment. Jeff sees that, Hobbs sees a nosy person, uh, because it was his business that she was listening in on. So he goes, uh, okay, but Grace, um, you know, trying to appeal to this, he goes, but what do you really think a hair rolled? Oh.
00:48:48
Speaker
Harold's wonderful. Okay. Well, fine. Harold's a very sweet man. He seemed really broken up about Billy State when he found him. I mean, we were straight out the door. He seems put off by the body with the stab wounds in it. We were straight out the door as soon as we heard Harold shouting and yeah, we were there. Did you see the doctor?
00:49:16
Speaker
Oh, yes. There was, uh, there was a human. He was human, um, little bit shorter than Harold. Um, that, yeah, he, he showed up shortly after, went over and took a look at the body. There was some blood coming out of Billy's mouth, like a little bit of blood out on the corner of his mouth. And he looked at that and said, ah, yes. Uh, that sounds like grace took a close look. Um, there's a stomach hemorrhage. He, he coughed up blood, natural causes. And then he left.
00:49:45
Speaker
Is it is it not strange that he just left and didn't wait for the watch to give a statement? Yeah, I mean, it seemed like he wasn't there in an official capacity. Like he wasn't. It seemed like he was sort of like I'm just on the scene. I'm a doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like somebody's. Could you tell us what he looked like other than he was human and he was shorter than Harold? Dark brown hair had a beard.
00:50:16
Speaker
Um, well, you start me as an observant person. Thank you. Um, he was trying to look well dressed. What do you mean by that?
00:50:27
Speaker
He was wearing, he was wearing like suit, waistcoat, tie, all of those things that to just somebody looking at him and passing, he would look like he would fit in here. But the actual make of his attire is, was rather cheap. You could tell. And she said earlier human, yeah. Yes. Interesting. You sure it's anything more distinct and rare that would help us?
00:50:56
Speaker
Did he give a name? No, he did not give a name. He just said, well, and honestly, he didn't even like, he didn't step forward and say, I am a doctor. He just, you know, looked at the body and said, ah, it seems to be stomach hemorrhaging to me. Uh, and then, and then left and who else would know that? So no one asked. He took it upon himself. Yeah. By the point he arrived, there was probably, um, probably about a dozen of us in, in the apartment.
00:51:28
Speaker
In Billy's apartment, there were about a dozen people in Billy's apartment. Right. Neighbours, people that were in the building, things like that, people that live in a couple of buildings over. It was such a striking thing. Sure.
00:51:47
Speaker
What would you like the five advantage to be for? Boy, that's a lot. Yep. Or you could also separate your three advantage and two advantage into two separate things. I feel like I'm happy. If you think of a good five or if you think of a good three, I'm happy to target a boost to... I mean, I have something, but I will let you all determine if you want my thing or want to come up with your own. I'm always happy to hear your thing. Yeah, I would hear your thing.
00:52:18
Speaker
I don't know how I let you hear my thing without just telling you what the thing is. It's information. Oh, okay. Yeah. Let's have information. Sure. Yes, absolutely. That sounds great. You can find advantage worth of information. Yeah. Yeah. As far as you can tell, she was not being at all dishonest when speaking about Harold, Eddie, that whole situation. You can absolutely tell.
00:52:40
Speaker
She is not painting the whole picture at all. Like she is holding back. Oh, like she's, she's tap dancing through a minefield right now, but you also, yeah, without an overt threat, you don't really know what you can do to this woman at this point. Um, I have an idea. Okay. You know, it's a, so we realize our characters realize that. Yes. You know, it's a real shame, um, with this sort of thing. Uh,
00:53:10
Speaker
A lot of times what I've, you know, I've got a lot of handyman work and, you know, it's just, it seems like when this sort of thing happens and there's no resolution to it.
00:53:25
Speaker
The place just becomes really touristy. And you get a lot of people coming up from the lower city or tourists from outside Sean coming through to see the place. And since no one really wants to, and it's sometimes very hard to rent out a place where there's an unsolved murder, a lot of times the guys who own the landlords will have to sort of
00:53:53
Speaker
lean into it and turn the place into a bit of a destination. I guess it just gets very, very tacky. That's what I found. And honestly, I mean, he died during the production, the debut productions of his first
00:54:11
Speaker
Big play it's going to become huge people are gonna be singing it for years regardless of the fact that music is probably no good and next thing you know there's gonna be pilgrimages to your building and There's gonna be just littered with teddy bears in bouquets and that's not the sort of thing that I would want It's a it's a real shame
00:54:30
Speaker
Okay. Uh, go ahead and give me a check to see what kind of impact that will have on her. Um, I'm sure he just needs to make the checkbook. Can I have added a boost? Sure. I have, yeah, I have better presence than you. Um, but I don't know that I have skill points in any of the useful things. Uh, I mean, it feels like we're being manipulative. So I feel like it's probably deception. Yeah. Deception. Yeah. Oh.
00:55:01
Speaker
Good. What is your deception? My deception sucks, but if you do deception, I get to add two advantage to it, provided you succeed. Yep, I will spend a story point to create one, and I have a boost. And what's the difficulty, Eric? One red, one purple. Okay.
00:55:34
Speaker
A complete and utter wash. Yes. That does seem to be a possibility, but I trust Mandiran to keep out the riff-raff.
00:55:51
Speaker
I suppose as long as you keep paying rent, and then I can put a pin in it, I can move on. Have we rolled any successes with her at all? No, with George you did, but not with Grace. Grace is impervious to your attempts. Are you kidding me? A woman coming up in the theater world, she's tough. She's done it all. She's dealt with it all. Actually, that's no time for our bullcrap.
00:56:18
Speaker
Okay, so Milo, Reynard, what are you all doing in the apartment while, so Eris and Hob leave.
Search of Billy's Apartment
00:56:28
Speaker
So, so what are you all doing?
00:56:34
Speaker
I would like to go into the living room okay and just sort of you know look and see like what's there okay see if anything there looks like it doesn't belong maybe go look at the shelves and see if maybe anything might be missing you know how sometimes dust collects on shelves and when you pick something up yeah that spot's clean you know that kind of thing
00:57:00
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Going to me a perception check. Uh, this is going to be an average difficulty. And, uh, I'm going to flip a story point, make it one red, one purple, because lots of people have been through here a lot, like lots of, this is not a, uh, a reliable crime scene. All right. So perception, one red, one point. Mm-hmm.
00:57:28
Speaker
Um, is that three story points we have? Yep. Yes. So I can flip it. Yep. To upgrade a green to a yellow. Yep. Woo hoo. Three success, one advantage. Nice. Okay. So walking into the living room area, uh, it's a mess.
00:57:54
Speaker
There's a console table up against one of the walls that all the drawers are pulled out. It's disheveled. You can't really tell why. One bit of info that you would know, Milo, given the full rundown from the rest of the crew, is that they ruled out robbery.
00:58:19
Speaker
because Billy had his coin purse on him that contained 75 gold pieces. And it was not taken. So if it was just a run in the mill robbery, obviously that would be gone. Because it wasn't hidden. It was literally just attached to his belt. So yeah, you see drawers pulled out. Things kind of shuffled about. Furniture has been moved, not toppled over. It doesn't look like the place has been upturned. Just messy.
00:58:47
Speaker
One big thing that you do notice is that there is in one of the drawers that's pulled out of that console table was clearly locked and the lock has been broken. Like somebody just pulled as hard as they could to break the mechanism, keeping it locked. And that drawer is completely empty.
00:59:17
Speaker
Which would strike you, why would you lock an empty drawer? And additionally, you do... Yeah, that would be the big suspicious clue-esque thing that you would notice from checking this room, is that there is a locked drawer that has been completely emptied of its contents.
00:59:41
Speaker
Would you like to just pass a boost to Raynard with the advantage or is there something else? Yeah, let's do that. Okay, Raynard. Milo's looking in the living room. Where's Raynard heading? You got the study, kitchen, master suite, and the guest bathroom off of the living space. Are your available rooms or the entry way? You could try to examine the bloodstain and where the body was found to determine more about that situation if you want to go full forensics artist on it.
01:00:11
Speaker
No, I'm gonna think about maybe what could have been overlooked the most by someone else. Okay. Like what room? Okay. And so I'm thinking maybe the kitchen. Okay, sure. So I'll go to the kitchen. So take a look in the kitchen. Okay.
01:00:37
Speaker
So go ahead and give me a perception check. Um, I'm going to flip a story point to make it one red, one purple, one red, one purple. Okay. Would you like to point to sure. Why not? People seem to be doing it. So I will too. So I got one yellow, two green, one red, one purple. Yep.
01:01:05
Speaker
Okay. And a boost from Milo's check. So that's blue. Awesome. Here we go. To success. I saw everything. So yeah, looking around, Raynard, you can tell
01:01:20
Speaker
This room, like you kind of suspected, has not been touched that much. It's not as disheveled. It's actually pretty clean, pretty tidy. If this is the baseline for how Billy kept the apartment, then the other rooms are huge red flags because this place is really, really well kept.
01:01:42
Speaker
thing that you notice is everything is in its plate. Like Billy has pots, pans, all the typical stuff that you would need for a functioning kitchen. Um, and they're all put away. There's no dirty dishes sitting in any kind of receptacle or anything like that. Um, you do notice that in the knife block on the counter, um, the large chef's knife is missing.
01:02:10
Speaker
Cause he bought it secondhand and it wasn't there to begin with. Right. Cause he was, he was trying to smash garlic and if the blade broke and he had to throw it away, that's honestly what happened to my chef's knife. So, um, I got it. It was cheap. It was a cheap knife. Yes. So yeah, that's what, that's what you noticed, Reynard.
01:02:37
Speaker
is that knife is missing from the kitchen. I guess I should tell somebody that. And it's right, like the kitchen is right off where the body was found.
Discovery in Master Suite
01:02:48
Speaker
So there is some proximity. Well, you and Milo are in the apartment. So yeah. Okay. Well, I'll, I will tell Milo all of that information. Okay. Milo.
01:03:01
Speaker
Can I wander back into the entryway and go full forensic? Sure. Milo ignored me and walked away, so. Interesting. Also, also more. Ray, come with me. Did not share his information with you. Uh, with Milo, it's a one way street, baby. Um, uh, so this is going to be an average difficulty check to purple.
01:03:31
Speaker
Okay. Would it be what? Medicine? Can I use medicine? I'll let you do medicine. Yeah. Get a little bit of red ink on a blade and fling it around to see where the blood splatter would be. All right. We're going to ruin this apartment. To success, what advantage?
01:03:52
Speaker
Okay, so, Milo, looking at the blood stain, you can kind of start to piece together a bit of a scene in your mind based on the configuration of the blood and kind of where the blood's not.
01:04:11
Speaker
since the body was laying on the rug. You can tell that Billy's body would have been configured to where the feet were closer to the door. So his body was laying parallel to the hallway, like feet towards the door, as if, yeah, if you were to walk in three steps and then just face plant, that would be about where you were. Additionally, it seems like
01:04:39
Speaker
Billy, when he fell, you can tell his arms would have been above his head. Whatever configuration. Which, with your success, it may indicate that either Billy was in duress and trying to keep his hands up before he died, or he was embracing somebody and got stabbed while being embraced and then they stepped away and he fell.
01:05:07
Speaker
Those would be the kind of the two circumstances. So either somebody that he was actively threatened by or somebody who would not have all suspected of stabbing. Um, so, um, I relay that to Ray, not in saying, you know, probably that knife, of course. And also in the living room.
01:05:31
Speaker
There was a locked a drawer that is opened and, uh, totally been emptied out. So we should, we should share that with, with the others as well. By this point, um, yeah, anything else that you all want to do besides relaying information to hob and Eris, Renard and Milo, any other rooms that you want to check while they're gone?
01:05:57
Speaker
You got the study, the master suite, and both bathrooms that you have not checked. If not, that's fine, but... Save both bathrooms? Well, the master suite has a bathroom and... I want to go in the master suite and see if, if the bed's been made and if not, I want to see if anybody else has maybe been over to like, you know, say maybe spend the night or... Okay. See if there's evidence of somebody else being here.
01:06:25
Speaker
Sure, so the bed is not made and the covers are kind of tussled, pillows are on the ground. So not just actively not made, but like not even in a state where somebody has slept in it. Once again, the nightstand, the drawers are open. You do see that there are
01:06:50
Speaker
There's clothing all over the floor, is what you can kind of see as you initially walk in, but it's like piled, like people were pulling clothes out, maybe. That's what you note. And you can give me a check to search the room if you like. Yes. Perception. That would be perception.
01:07:19
Speaker
two purple, and I'm gonna flip a story point. Make it one red, one purple. Okay. Success, one advantage. Nice. So as you're kind of looking around, you spot, as you're going through everything on the floor, all the clothes that have been thrown around, you do find a nightgown.
01:07:42
Speaker
that would belong to a woman. So presumably, yeah, not a piece of Billy's wardrobe, as far as you can tell. And that, because it sticks out, it's the only thing like that that you find in all the clothing in here. In addition to that,
01:08:04
Speaker
The nightstands, like I said, the drawers have been pulled out and there are only remnants of a couple of things in there. Once again, more empty than you would expect somebody's nightstand to be, like stuff was taken out of here. Raynard, anything else that you're doing? The study has not been checked and the guest bathroom has not been checked at this point.
01:08:31
Speaker
Well, then I guess I will check the study. Okay. Largely the same, um, disheveled, uh, the, uh, the stark contrast to the kitchen. Um, go ahead and give me a perception check to look around the study. And then at that point we'll say that the timelines have matched up. Um, is it a purple and red? Yeah.
01:09:01
Speaker
Well, two advantage, two advantage. Okay. So Milo, you had an advantage on your check and Raynard, you have two advantage on your check. Uh, Milo, would you have just passed a boost to me? Yes, probably. Then roll a single blue Trevor, just to see if that influences your check. Okay. No. Okay. So, uh, two advantage. Um, anything in particular you'd like to do with that Trevor. Um, can I just.
01:09:33
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know if that would be a success or not. I was going to say, can I just tell that there's probably anything that hasn't been discovered in here that. I mean, that's, that's your current assumption based on the zero success on your perception check. It's like, no, nothing in here.
01:09:54
Speaker
to advantage. Everything I'm thinking of seems more of like a success. Gotcha. Well, okay, let me ask you this. Before we resolve your advantage, Trevor, Hob, Eris, is there more lines of questioning that you want to go down with Grace and George? I said one more thing I wanted to ask. It's pretty inconsequential, but just to know. Yeah.
01:10:19
Speaker
Since George said he was kind of a journeyman with it, you know, on the way, I was like, oh, so, you know, Harris here is really into the theater up. No. I'm getting there. I was wondering what you guys are working on now. You know, are you working out? Do you have shows? Are they good? Should we check them out while we're up here? Um, I'm between- Or pardon me, sorry. Should we check them out while we're up here? I forgot who I was for a second. I'm in between jobs right now. Once the show is up and running, then typically I'm, that's when my contract runs out. I'm more of the,
01:10:48
Speaker
in like pre-production.
01:10:52
Speaker
kind of thing and then when we're getting stuff ready. But Grace just had a show open at the art temple, right? Yes, yes, I did. Yeah, it's a classic. It's not a new playwright. It's from the time of Gallifar and ancient work, you know, morality show, people like the classics. And she's already said she's not on stage anymore, right? No, she's a director.
01:11:20
Speaker
Are you primarily at the art temple? No, no, no, no. I, I, I go, I go where I am. I am hired to go. I don't, I don't do exclusive contracts anymore. They're exhausting and you give up too much of your creative, uh, uh, freedom, uh, when you're locked into one theater, I can go where I want, do what I want, do what I want. Well, I hope those lights hold up for you. Um, thank you. Yes. I do appreciate it. Thank you so much. You mean you hope.
01:11:53
Speaker
i know and you know but there's pleasantries pardon me i know those lights will hold up for you my friend aris is real good at lighting bye okay um i mean let's aris has more that was a joke
01:12:12
Speaker
No, I think all of my angles came up dry due to the dice hating us. Grace does say as you all leave, if I think of anything else, I'll be sure to be in touch. And as you all enter the apartment, Billy's apartment returning, Raynard, your two advantage. You hear the door open.
01:12:38
Speaker
and Hob and Eris re-entering. You can see them actually because you're in the study, which is right off the front door. Your two advantage is you hear, because it's a shared wall, you hear kind of a doo-doo in the wall that's adjacent with the room that you thought Milo was in.
Assassin's Escape and Conspiracy
01:13:01
Speaker
Um, Milo, you see the, uh, door to the master bath come swinging open and trying to sprint past you to a window is a figure in kind of a half mask hood. Like your, your typical fantasy thief assassin and get up as they try to kind of shoulder past you, run across the bed and jump out the window.
01:13:27
Speaker
And that's where we are going to leave this episode. It looks like a fantasy assassin, but his name is going to be Ted. Yes. And Raynard, the way that'll manifest is you will get a free upgrade on your initiative check to this chase scene that we're about to enter.
01:13:49
Speaker
If you all decide to give chase to this random person that's in Billy's apartment, so he's already out the window I'm sure they have nothing to do with this look He's we have severely harassed his neighbor for coming and checking things out If you don't think we're gonna chase the person who's actually in the apartment
01:14:06
Speaker
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Speaker
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01:15:05
Speaker
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