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C2 Ep. 203 Erin's Gambit Chapter Two
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The party finds themselves staring at potential victory, but will another party seek to undermine them at the final moment?
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Transcript
Introduction of Cast
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with the coach
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or D20 radio, at your game is rolling.
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Hello and welcome Debra on our Newton actual play podcast set in the everyone campaign setting I am your game master Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I am a player Randy Jeff. Let's do my thing Randy. Just a little bit. Just a little. Welcome to another episode gentlemen. What happened last time? We went. We began. We came. The die is cast.
Negotiation Avoids Combat
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We negotiated and avoided what would have probably been a really cool encounter. Pretty cool combat. It was still cool. It almost felt like a centerpiece combat encounter to represent the culmination of lots of abilities and powers that have been acquired over time. And it was the culmination of lots of abilities and powers that have been although I have had that particular talent since like
00:01:32
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Third time we got experience, but still errors made a really compelling case For why having become wealthy in our enemies service is an incentive not to mess with us evening Because everybody who messes with us almost almost entirely ends up dead or at least grievously maimed and disfigured. Where we left off you all had gotten your the other black lamps to draw ah the goals that were in the hallway away but three of them spotted Milo poking his little little smoky head out of the door and so they turned around and are rushing back to attack.
Milo Spotted: Combat Begins
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ah We already rolled initiative ah so PC slot first who would like to go?
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Um, we have three for company hub. Would you like to punch something? but Sure. Yeah. yeah yeah I'll go first. He steps past Milo, and as the first one runs up, Hob just runs like, Hob's jazzed, man. This is the first salvo of what could be a really big day. I want to know what their faces look like when they say, so this is a little big day, and then all of a sudden, Hob. Hob blasts the door open from behind Milo, and circles around him, and just comes fist cocked, ready to go. Cool. Do it. How hard is this? They have adversary, they don't have an adversary rating, so two purple. OK. I can get it in my hand. Yeah, that's right.
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Yeah, I get them. there's So it is three success and two advantage. So that's okay. Hang on. I'm sorry. Let's do math. I don't double anything this time. So that's double it and pass it on to the next one. Oh, it's 11 hits to 11 damage. Yep. Okay. rabbit fire fist pop up up up And with the four advantage, you could crit. Yeah, no, I think I'm just gonna key monk and do another 11 to him and okay see if that finishes him off. If not, we at least know they're pretty tough. They're pretty tough. Okay, they're pretty tough. So Hobb just runs through the door and just like the first guy that he comes up to, just a right and a left, and he sees him still standing, he's like, alright, you guys come on.
00:03:37
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and that's where we're at yeah he kind of the the one that you punch kind of smurts and spits out a little bit of blood and uh brings his sword up ready to hook us gross why why'd you do that another pc slot i'm happy to shoot somebody do it all right aris steps through the door and she will conveniently holding the door open Yeah, Eris comes around, brings the Fletcher up, and will shoot. The one that Hobb just attacked or enough? I will shoot. Well, actually, I don't have to worry about. I will use the incidental precision archery, meaning that I don't risk shooting Hobb anymore, and I don't upgrade. I don't increase the damage or the a difficulty. So, ha! Poppycock. Take that. You know what? I forgot to add... Let me double check. I forgot to roll a setback. Let me see if that changes anything.
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What's the range I'm at? Hello. Yeah, probably. Take away two of his wounds. And you actually have two boosts. You are a short distance away. Excellent. This is going to be very unfortunate for him. Are you hitting the one that hit me? Yeah. All right. So I have four success and four advantage. So the damage is then 13 damage Pierce two.
Ygritte's Powerful Attack
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Describe. Sorry. 15 15. Describe his demise. All right. Eris just puts a, puts a flash at right through his eye. He spits and he turns and he raises this sword and then just po he crumples on the ground in front of huggles. Nice. And he was going to hit me with that sword. And then as my maneuver, scream David. Oh yeah. There's going to be some of that.
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there's goingnna be of And then as my maneuver, Eris just looks back over his shoulder and says, ah go on. And Ygritte comes through the door and charges the other guy. There's two other guys, but yes. that Rips him in half. So Ygritte is going to make... Ygritte's going to really, really, really hurt someone. Ygritte can take two maneuvers. So he'll aim but and average. It's what have the end of the campaign round'm start aiming two purple, right? Average. Yes.
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Okay. Oh, I didn't spend any of my advantage, but I will heal. I will heal my three strain and pass the other one on to a boost. Okay. Here we go. yeah ye Yep. Yep. Yep. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. six success and for advantage Yup. Y thirteen damage with his big stone fist okay any pier No. It has concussive one. What's concussive, Eric? Concussive. If hit, two advantage to stagger the target for rounds equal to rank. Cool. I'm going to do that. And then it also has linked. So I'm going to spend the other two advantage to I roll again or it just hits him again. I hit the same target again with weapon based damage plus one for each. Oh, yeah. You just do the same amount of damage again. Oh, so another 13 as another of the big stone fists smashes him. He is literally staggered mechanically and spiritually. He's not dead, but he is on his heels. And yeah, I think he's just going to run. He just watched his friend get shot in the head. Can he? What? Being staggered. Can he? Cannot perform actions. OK. Can perform maneuvers. Cool. I'm going to go with that. So he's going to run. The other one is going to shout coward at him and rush hob.
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yeah yeah yeah I think someone should yell idiot at him. Yeah, come on dummy. My melee defense is four now because you need his XP to spend. I thought about doing another one too. You can go up to five tier.
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Did you just apply something and take it all the way up? so dude That's awesome. I mean, over time, yeah. yeah it was one of like Whenever I just needed something to get, I needed to fill the tier to get to the next one. Two success, three threat. So nine damage, Pierce three. okay so take ow and he rolled three threats so yeah like He could take it as strain. Like genuinely in his headlong flight, can the guy who just ran away, turn a corner, slip and bash his head and knock himself unconscious so that he has no opportunity to go and warn anyone. yeah Love it. It's like the the rug has been wrinkled down, down a ways. You just yeah can't take action. So you can still rearranging and everything. And so there's like, so not where it's usually all the butchering equipment has been moved in the hall. but Okay.
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And that is it for... imppe So PC turn, one of you two knuckleheads. I mean, I'll shoot an arrow. Sure. I need four yellow. He's engaged with me, isn't he? Yes. So a threat means I get hit. Yep. Yup. Hold on. So it's just one red difficulty. I think I have... I only have three ranged defense, so don't hit me. ah Sorry. Three yellow. So one red. Yep. Yep. That's it. Oh, it worked. Aim. No. Yeah, aim. Always. That's okay. So. One side away from that despair. Yeah. I'm going to keep you. So I've got two success. One, two, three, four. Advantage.
00:08:54
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Four. How many success? Two success. Okay. So how much damage is that? How much damage does your longbow usually do? And then add the leftover successes to it. You act like I know. I act like it's your weapon. I believe it's nine though. The base damage or the tilt damage? I think nine is where it usually is. Hold on. Nope. I almost got the wrong thing. That's still the wrong thing. Mabo. Oh, that's fine. Nothing is filled out. Cool. I think lungbows are seven base damage, so we can just call it that. So two success, so that'd be nine damage. So I was right. Minus their soak. Four advantage. Would you like to crit? Probably. Lungbow has a crit rating of three, I think. Yep. Have this memorized just because I always have to look it up for Trevor. Let's do it. Phil, do you have D100? I do.
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Let's create him. Okay. It's not sports here. 13. We've had higher rules. We have had higher rules, although they haven't always worked out for us. He says, ow. What's he say? Oh, my body. looks that's smart sudden jolt target drops whatever's in their hands hey actually works out pretty well the ground yeah you hit him right on his helmet like it doesn't doesn't get him but it just hits him right Milo oh gosh there's still time to change the road you're on say that in there but there won't be but there won't be in a moment think on that as I slowly kill you
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im in a mind player
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But flick the old wand, this couple black daggers are going to fly out. Okay. And vicious quality. Okay. And deadly. Okay. So what's the difficulty? Shows two on my little cheat sheet. With those qualities on it, it's a lot of advantage. There's a whole lot of advantage. I think it's enough success. No, there's two of those and there's two success, so that's canceled out. So one, two, three, four, five advantage. So yeah, the daggers fly wide down the hall of five advantage. Six advantage. I have a pitch.
00:11:02
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why One, two, three, four, five, six. Oh, yeah. I connected to what Randy said before he did that. You meant to do that. It was a threat. Now you're going to terrify him with all those advantage. Exactly. OK. The daggers fly out and just stop like inches from his head. I'll let him do a fear check. Just be a little somewhat intimidated. One guy's demolished. One guy's running. and It seems like what you mean. Just awfully brave. Just stop. Milo's arcana. That is just going to be three failure, one threat. So yeah, he'll take off running down the hallway too after seeing Milo's use of magic as he and runs away. And the hallway is
Strategic Use of Flashbangs
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clear. You can hear fighting off in the distance ah towards the left. You don't hear any noises to the right.
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Alright. Yeah. So, you just got like a whole bandolier of those things, right? I have three of them. We just take the whole bandolier and just chuck it through the door? Yeah, I mean, it's gonna get loud. It'll be big. It'll be three times the biggest one of them. Should we like, possibly check the door before we just go barreling in there? What, you mean check it? I'll make sure there's nothing booby-trapped on there. All right, fine. I'll box up fine. I'll check it for, oh, oh, her. Fair. I mean, I don't know what the, what's the role to check for traps in, it hasn't come up very often. Yeah. Perception. I would also take skullduggery. I'm good at one of those things. I don't know if I'm the best at one of those things, but I'm i'm pretty good at skullduggery. I have. Talk to them, not me. I have three, I have three yellow, one green for skullduggery.
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Let me double check. Three yellow, one green, that's pretty good. yeah I've got two yellow, one green. And two blue. Okay. Sounds like I'm best at the skullduggery. Two yellow, one green. Yellow, one green, two blue. Also, I have one yellow and two green in stealth, so I'm really not that bad. What's the difficulty? The difficulty is going to be one red, one purple. This is the main office, after all. Two success, four advantage. ah you are You can see where there are traps, but you can also tell they are deactivated with the security system being shut down. Is it locked? No. Four advantage? Four advantage. and Think of something we can use four advantage for to ease our way through. Crit the door. None of us accidentally flash bang ourselves.
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um
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Yeah. I mean, I don't know. i don't Four advantage. I would like to bring up, there was something about that prophecy that I was told not to kill Salman Callaway. I don't know if you recall that, but how much stock we put into that. but I recall Aeros saying, try not to kill. Try. You do not. Some capital letters, I believe. What? Well, I mean, what? You'll be taking advice from... Also, yours is very different. Try not to kill and don't try to kill are extremely different directives. Well, I'm not really sure how, how I feel about that or how much stock I put into it, but they seemed pretty adamant at the time. The other, pardon me, but the other Eris. So I have four advantage to spend. Eric's making rolls over here. What's the highest perception at the table? You all have a conversation. I didn't want to. Yeah. No, I. I know what happened. I'm not happy about it. I didn't want it. Also, I cursed. I apologize. I'm two and one. Two and one. Anybody else got a better? I got four and two blue when I roll perception. One and two. Four what? Nine and three. And you have two ranks. You have two yellow. Wait, you got a weird pool there. You described more yellows. I think you meant to grab reds. Oh, thank you. Cheeky damn. This is someone trying to sneak past us.
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No, it's someone's walking up to the door and is about to yank it out of my hand because instead of throwing our flashbangs in, stops in the hall. More language. Great timing, Milo. Yeah, you hear footsteps approaching the door. Hobb, are we here? Yeah, they they didn't succeed on the the check too. Hobb rips the door open with those flashbangs and shuts it again real quick. If they're walking up to it, he's going to try to beat it. Yeah. Okay. So what do flashbangs do? So I have stun grenades on mine that Aeris made a while back. So I assume that's what we're talking about. A stun grenade does eight damage, but it has the stun quality. So I think it does strain. I think is what that means. Blast eight disorient three crit rating five short range.
00:15:41
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Okay. So Hob, I guess make that check. Yeah. What do I get to it's a ranged attack. I'm not a ranged guy, but I am. yeah Well, I didn't have those flash bangs offer to throw any, I'm only two greens. I didn't know it was a range attack. I didn't even rearrange attack either. or I would throw them. I thought it would be a, like they would have an inherent dice pool kind of thing, but all right, we're screwed. What is my difficulty short range? So it's one purple. Yeah. There's two green and one purple and awesome thing spend a story point or something. Yeah, I will aim is Is this an aim boost or you give me a boost? That's an aim boost Yeah All right. All right, you did it yeah quite handily 10 damage 10 damage, but no anything with disorienting. So we through running or right? Yeah
00:16:31
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So we threw three of them in. Yeah, so yeah, you hear a very loud blast to the point where your ears kind of ring a little bit just from the sheer noise of it. Are you then immediately like I tell Ygric door. OK, I want Ygric to just charge through the door and whoever just walked up to it, hopefully. OK, yeah, you you see a barrel through the door rushing. There's still like smoke and just the faint aftermath of the stun grenades. As you see Nessa, the head of the goals, kind of like staggering back, like holding her head as she was, you know,
Confronting Alira and Solomon
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close to the doors. We tried real hard to to not have to kill her. The other two figures that you see is Ygric. It's just Nessa, Allira, and Solomon Calloway are in the ring.
00:17:21
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And... Perception checks. If you want to make a perception check, but... What's the difficulty? That's why I think nobody might want to make it. Four red. It's five red. Oh! Word. I'm gonna go invisible if we go in the door. I'm invisible. Yeah, five red difficulty if anybody wants to make a perception check. You don't have to. i see anything of i There's no way I would succeed. I see i seen very little chance of success, so. Okay. So yeah, you see Alira, Nessa, and Solomon Callaway all kind of reacting to
00:17:54
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the the blast and yeah what Eryth barrels through like but once Eryth's in the room just stops. Did we damn like does it look like we've hurt Nessa with all the blasts? Oh yeah Nessa's rocked like. You're the coercive one. Yeah I'm down to coerce our way through this. I don't need these people dead but Eris's list of people who need to die is mostly checked off. What is the play then? do i Would you like to peacefully relinquish your power to Aaron? I mean, or we shoot you. Yeah. I mean, yeah. You have your gun up. Yeah. Yeah. I have your bow up. I have your wand out. And I'm invisible. Sure. No, I still got it. Like on arrow surely we stacked up on the door before throwing. I would imagine my bow would be invisible. If I'm invisible. I think it's our battering ram and the rest of us come through the door. All right. We come in.
00:18:44
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Guns up, fists glowing, and... Lira, here is your one chance to peacefully relinqui- WHAT?! Stop it! Go ahead. Good lord. I mean, listen, if you wanted to have them be act like they actually got hit by flashbangs, then they're on the floor and we win. Yeah, here's your third chance to peacefully relinquish control of the Bormar Clan to your Aunt Erin, or else we'll have to take it by horse. Alira once she gains her bearings like you see just the contempt and anger that she feels towards you and she looks at before you make a check just real quick she looks at Callaway and says do something and Callaway is regarding you all as you walk in like
00:19:31
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Don't think I will yet. And go ahead and make your check with a boost because Callaway is not doing what she expected him to do. And two more yellow, and whatever the difficulty is. Difficulty for Allira, this is going to be two red, two purple with three setback. Okay? Because you killed your dad. No, we didn't. You killed your dad. Yeah, not her at kill dad. we we are dadkiers I guess point I have a reputation. There's a lot of plural pronouns going on here. You definitely killed a dad. A hundred percent you killed a dad. You sentenced a dad to a fate worse than death to some people. you had to kill That goal in the hallway had two kids. We saw the picture, so fell out of his pocket. Last day until retirement. Well, he should have not turned around. opened that door they were chatting about
00:20:23
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man i can't wait to get home and just play like catch with timmy and i'm just saying there's no way there's not a reputation around a halfling with a smoking head so he made a choice that he did not have to make okay we're good all right i'm assuming there's no plausible deniability here i can't hopefully get calibrated just leave very funny no despair no triumph Alright, there's a lot of that was there. I mean I've succeeded. One, two, three, four, five, six success and three threat. Six success, three threat. Work.
00:21:00
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yeah diva she She glowers at you and then looks at Erin staying at the back. Wait, how is she looking at Erin? Erin has a cloak and hood. That was a very charming thing that Vormar did and I will not stand for this slander. I'm not a slander! L. Thank you. Whoever that guy was. Not letting that one go. Who cares? That's no Boromar. That's the twist. That sucks. I don't like that at all. I like that big puppy. He's just three halflings in a suit of armor. Pre-born. That's ruling over pre-made. We are in an important part of this campaign. This is is serious. Oh, Philip started this. That's true. Okay, so we coerced successfully. What does it mean? Can't imagine. Well, let's see what happens.
00:21:39
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She pushes the chair away from the desk that she was sitting at and stands up and have it. I was thirsty, thank you. Look over and Ness is just getting a drink. It hurts! Have it. Probably end up next to your brother anyway. And she she goes to leave. Eris looks at Erin who's in charge now. Erin kind of like closes her eyes and just gives a subtle nod of like it's fine and Who do we promise the goals to? Do we promise the goals to somebody? No. OK. That's right. And this is going to go with go with the authority. And so we this is loyal to the claim. gru Got it. OK. And yeah. And like you so three threat on the on the table. She walks out and is immediately shot by the citadel. Oh, I forgot three.
00:22:25
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Yeah, that's interesting. I've got a funny idea, but I'm not going to do it. I want to know what it is after we I'm recording. Do you all have any ideas? I know threats are normal. but Well, i I don't know because I don't know what what is happening right now. I don't know what our state is. Aaron is just going to leave. Callaway is staying. Nessa is staying. Don't know why Calloway is staying yet. I don't know how to spend these wisely in the current moment because either we just won or phase two of the boss fight is about to start. I think he's the lizard. No, we know the lizard. And the lizard's dead. And he's dead. There could be more lizards. That's fair. He could be a lizard. Raynard's got a lizard person conspiracy theory going now. Oh, no. Raynard, we've got to keep going. If there's one, there's more. Fine. But there's not one. What's hilarious about Eberron, though, is if you went around and started talking about there's lizard people that live underground, people would be like, yeah, probably. Are they cool? I think they're mostly in the jungles. What do they trade?
00:23:21
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Not those kind of bad Blizzard people. Yeah, I bet some of them are bad. Yeah, there's good Matt everywhere, brother. Oh, you don't get it. Not balanced. Rule the world. That's just manifestly not true. I'm just trying to think of something that is impactful, but not yeah right distracting. The Ram. That that's that was the funny idea. The Ram like lands on the balcony. We unload. yeah I will end myself. just Punch him right off the balcony. i just We'll pass and upgrade to the difficulty of the next check that gets made. Okay. Okay. And yeah,
00:23:55
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so after Alira walks out of the room, Aaron kind of steps to pass you all and don't believe I'm, I've had the pleasure.
Erin's Leadership and Boromar Clan Alliance
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His name is Solomon Calloway. Pleasure to meet you. Excited by the prospect of working together and she well that's it not really taking meetings right now so more than happy to contact you when i have some time on my calendar oh man eris feels so good about that eris feels so good about that answer hob goes just erin so i'm clear the boromar clan no longer wants the four of us dead right does hob actually say yeah correct great okay well accomplish that
00:24:34
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You know, it's little things. And then he turns to look and just see what Solomon Callaway does. yeah Yeah. Sorry to force you to have a conversation with yourself, but we need to know how this goes. Callaway just kind of nuts. It's fine. I've got some business to attend to as well in some other parts of the city. Just invested in some property. So. Gotta go check in on that. What did you buy? I'll see you soon. And he... Come on, it's all... You brought it up! You want to tell us! Well... Are you still invisible? Oh, arrow locked. It's just right here next to... That's amazing. I touched him three times. It's like he keeps swatting an invisible fly that's tickling his ear. Oh well. Heard about a neighborhood in town that's on the up and up, so...
00:25:16
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Figured it was time to invest. And he winks at Aerys. Well, try the fear. And he goes to leave. Hob's not going to stop him from leaving. I was fine with... I'm also looking at Philip. Right, of course. Because Philip looks like he's agonizing over a decision. Well, Raynard wants to, too. He threatened him. Directly. What's Aerys do? I mean, he just wants to shoot him in the back of the head, is what Aerys wants to do. Is Aerys going to do it? I'm already aimed. Is there a way you could do it while also trying not to kill him? But before you even think to do that, though, Raynard, Callaway is he's taking a few steps so that his door stops and looks right at you, Raynard, and is like, Knock it off. You're embarrassing yourself, dude. I wouldn't say that to someone who's just knocked an arrow. How very punny. But we both know you're not gonna do it, so... Oh, should I? Now I want to. Real bad. What's Eric doing? This is called Eric has a stick and there's four bears in front of him that he's just... Oh, yeah. It looks like you were just rubbing your head. Where'd he go and do this bear? Is there shooting? No. Is this Raynard shooting? I can shoot to not kill. That will lead to a fight, I bet.
00:26:14
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big do Do we think he's strong? Unbelievably so. Yes, I think he's strong. I also think he has people and also, yeah. Yeah, he's probably also, he's probably a stronger than Hob and also a magical. He just hasn't shown that yet because they did, he did something to him. Like there's a whole thing. It's, it's a mess. Fine, I won't do anything. Once he sees. I'm not saying we can't take him, I'm saying. Once he sees that Raynard, that's what I thought, and he now goes and walks out the door. You know, it always drives me nuts. Someone choosing not to hit you doesn't make you tough. Gross. What a dork. hope he heard me. I bet he can hear me. So, Aaron. Yeah, that seemed tense and weird. Yeah, that guy sucks. His name's Solomon. Don't work with him, please. Noted. Yeah. Why, what's his deal, I guess. and You mentioned that name briefly when you were catching up to speed, but... Like, the scariest thing is I don't genuinely know what his deal is.
00:27:09
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Yes, but he has been... It's power accrual right now, but to what end? I don't know. Yes, he's been placing people on the board, I guess. Sharon City Council. He's got a hand in the PTA. He's everywhere. Hopefully that's going to change soon though. Why do you say that? Things are in place too. I've planned to have them all killed. i Yes. Don't tell me. Nessa, are we good? And Nessa finally getting to her feet just kind of nods and goes to stop the fighting. Yes ma'am. And Nessa walks out of the room.
00:27:45
Speaker
Hey, so sorry about the... I'm sorry. Why? The other option was to punch her. That'd have been worse. Fair. I don't know that it would have been. I think we did a lot of damage to her. um
00:27:57
Speaker
Um... What do we... What do we do now? I need to go home. yeah Okay, hang on. Are we... Did we do it? Like, I just need a moment to debrief here. Yeah, it seems that Nessa's going to go get the goals to stand down and Alire left. I'll reach out to her probably in a week or so once she's cooled off and she's family. So see what bridges can be mended there. So do we need to reach out to, you know, A.D. Briar and say, like, it's done. You stand down. Don't worry. Isn't that her job now? I guess.
00:28:31
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Presumably the goals will be on their way back up since it was a diversion and there wasn't actually anything down there for them to fight. We only lost one, right? For Hutch. He or Hutch only lost one. ah We killed one guy. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Go bring the skiff around. Are you all right, Terrace? No. What's wrong? He's doing something in Highwall. Yeah. That's why I feel bad. I started feeling why I felt bad. This wasn't satisfying. I mean, I appreciate the effort that you exerted to make it happen. Obviously, there was a lot of legwork, given how if you all just would have stormed without any planning, I imagine this would have been much harder and a greater loss of life. Yes, it went rather well, all things considered. Too well.
00:29:13
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Um.
00:29:16
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Alright, let's get home. Why does this feel so weird? Aeris, we'll figure out what's going on. Aeris waits for the skiff. She's just waiting by on the balcony by for the skiff. I mean, we can figure out what he bought pretty easily. ib I mean, I feel like we can figure out what was recently purchased in Highwall. That's not, you know... a hot, volatile market. i mean And keep an eye on it, I guess. I now have access to our research. I can look through paperwork and bills of sale to see exactly what what he purchased. it Sure. I'm sorry that you all seem let down by victory. No, we're super pumped for you, Aaron, genuinely. and
00:29:53
Speaker
you know The clan's gonna kinda keep on that Satan trajectory that it was on. And no longer actively trying to kill you. Yes, I am extremely happy with the way things have turned out here. I think the rightful person is now in place and things will be better for the clan. We'll leave you to it, I suppose. All right. Yes. Milo, just come by and we'll talk about location for Kegbottoms and your role moving forward. Very well. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you all. And I will talk to some of you later and yeah. As soon as Tasha pulls up, Eris climbs aboard. And then anybody who wants to has about two minutes to be on board.
00:30:35
Speaker
Milo's getting on board. Yeah, I mean, we're all gonna get on board. Heading to high wall as quickly as possible. Rainard's still invisible? I guess not. Okay, you all take off to high wall. On the right there, Milo, you hear... Something. You hear a voice in your head that is Kylie's voice. There's a sense of relief and kind of... It's like you... Once again, it's not the overt, like, voice in your head. You just kind of get those those feelings of the sensations, and it's one of, like, good job, and, like, its it's done. Like, what Cassian referenced is, like, you needing to stay here to accomplish. You don't need to be here any longer.
00:31:19
Speaker
How much time do I have to get my affairs in order and decide what I wish to do?
Callaway's Business Investments
00:31:26
Speaker
I mean, you recall that there's a card that Cassine gave you with a location in time and it's about a month out and the card that Cassine gave you has the same location in time. you all make the high wall without any incident it i'm assuming you're heading straight for the cauldron and yeah i mean it seems frustratingly normal aris drops off the skiff and begins begins the process of finding out what's happened does aris or olive own the cauldron we've talked about this yes okay just making sure you didn't buy your building i mean for all i know you can bought the piece of the tower under the building or the church the tower the whole tower that our building that are that the cauldron is built in
00:32:05
Speaker
Nothing. Like, are you just running up to people like, what day is it? No. Eris is going about investigating what has happened in the neighborhood. no You don't see anything overt. Like there's no... but She doesn't expect to see anything overt. She wants to find out what Callaway has bought and what he is doing. So what skill are you trying to employ? Skullduggery? Streetwise? Okay. And what, I guess what avenue are you going down to try and figure that out? Eris knows everybody and everybody since feels this sense. That's not true. Everybody knows who Eris is. And so Eris can act as if she knows everybody and everybody feels a sense of indebtedness that she wishes she wouldn't. And so she's calling in every possible chip that everyone imagines they have towards her.
00:32:51
Speaker
Okay. So give me a, the whole town is at air twenty here to help. Yeah. Give me a a yeah a street. You want to use Skuldugger street wise. I mean, they're the same role. So whatever is appropriate. I have a true triumphs. Great. me That's true. Okay. Take them triumphs away. I have four uncancelled success, one advantage and two triumphs. Okay. So as you are rushing around, yeah, you encounter the dwarf that when you were fixing the water rooms and Eris everything. Okay.
00:33:25
Speaker
I have no idea how Eris would go about asking these questions, but Eris is trying to find out what actually what's been what's been sold to to Solomon Callaway. Oh, I, there was some guy that came, that has been coming through and talking to folks and he had, he's, he hasn't bought, ah he's, I don't even know the word. Uh, he used some word, started with an I. Invest. Invested in a lot of the businesses here, like gave them a bunch of gold. Which ones? I, soaring spirits, moon shadow spot, the library, that he went around just offering people money. When? He's been poking around. He's been sending representatives a lot of the time. He hasn't come himself, but he was here yesterday, or he had a person here yesterday. Okay. Aeris goes to every business in Highwall. I don't know how long this takes, but this is what Aeris is doing until she's done. Okay. Aeris goes to every business in Highwall. She wants to find out where he's invested and if anything, ironclad legal has happened.
00:34:22
Speaker
You can put some of us on this, too, if you want to, or you can put me on it. Sure. I'm here. I came to call in with you. Yeah, I mean, I'm like, OK, what's going on? Yeah, essentially what you learn as you are going around is that, yeah, I mean, contracts were signed. Like, he he basically invested in the overall majority of businesses. And what, like, obviously, Aris is not a financier, not a banker. but Aeris can smell bull crap. Yeah. And the description that like Jorlin gives for like, they're not, they're not predatory loans. They're not like, like it's, it seems like pretty favorable investment terms. He doesn't own any of the businesses outright. He didn't like get a controlling stake. In fact, everybody
00:35:12
Speaker
Everybody seems like maybe Eris doesn't quite hit this point, but Eris is on the path of thinking maybe I'm the crazy one because everybody seems to be really happy about this news and nobody seems to understand that this is a terrible, terrible thing that's occurred. But once again, Eris can't articulate why it's a terrible, terrible thing that's occurred. So that's kind of what's that what is learning from these people. Okay. Two advantage and a triumph. Two triumph. Two triumph. Triumph the first. Eris calls Koldor. Hey, I hear things went well. Sort of. What happened? it's like There's this invisible force in the universe that would very much like to pull the rug out from under my any sense of happiness that I could possibly
00:35:56
Speaker
have in my retirement. I need you to do that. Yeah. and should I need some property records to disappear. Okay. And basically lists out the summit. I mean, you have to file these things somewhere. Okay. Eris wants this thing to disappear. So Callaway is invested in your neighborhood. I want that to be unenforceable. Okay. I'm happy for him to get his money back. I can arrange that. I'll see what I can do. This is, this is a complicated ask, Eris. Like I would rather you just ask me to kill someone, but it's just, I'm not supposed to try to kill Callaway, right? It's also a triumph. I also told you that I can't kill the Callaway is an untouchable figure right now.
00:36:37
Speaker
He's in with the King. We're the King Citadel. Now I can muck with... Kings of Moron. Please don't, don't, don't do that. Don't, don't do that. Don't put me in that position. He's like, he's the King. I got it. Yeah, right. Yeah, we got Kings. I got it. We got Kings. So you can fix this. I can try. Like I said, I will try. But this, this what you're asking is a complex, complicated mess. And Calloway's involved, which means it's more complicated. What's it like what's the problem here, though? like He invested in a bunch of businesses in your neighborhood. He's a predator. Are the arrangements predatory? No. No, he's a predator. All right. He's been involved in every single step of this, from Millhatch Industries to the Klan. He was in the fracking room with Aaron. Not Aaron. Alira. Alira. He was in the room with Millhatch when Millhatch
00:37:27
Speaker
turned himself into whatever he turned himself into. He hired the freak with the wings. I don't know if he was somehow attached to the ram. He was funding low of lower division and the lizard monster thing. thing he He's been at every single waypoint along the way. He is a predator and he's just good enough for the stupid system to not get any on him. your friend kidna my You insist that he didn't. so yeah That's true. Well, now I'm on board. Yeah, i'll I'll do what I can. But like you said, it might take time. And the more that he knows about the maneuvers that we're trying to make, the more complicated it's going to be. It's like going to be a fire after dark at the archives.
00:38:12
Speaker
there's not a singular copy of these things like they especially somebody as smart as Callaway is going to have copies and redundancies and contingencies and also these people that took the money are obviously going to have copies like we're gonna have to go through and do this I can take care of that are are you going to make them aware that their arrangement is null and void and that the money that they took from Callaway has to be given back yeah I'm gonna arrange that okay but I can't stupid papers are the problem All right, I'll work on the papers. Next triumph. That could have felt more triumphant. It didn't feel very triumphant. Before you use that, can we say that Milo has also been going around but looking at these documents and about the third one he looks at. It spills jelly on it. Flip a story point. For what? For Milo knowing all the facts about anything and everything on these documents. Oh, your ability. What do you want to know though?
00:39:06
Speaker
I'm just, if there's anything on there that is unfavorable, you want the loophole. Yeah. I'm looking for, there it is. I'm looking for the loophole. Okay. I had this really good lawyer in high walls. Doesn't see well, but seems like someone who wouldn't like Callaway. Yeah. Maybe Milo knows somebody. I mean, if it's not something that Milo is just going to know, he knows somebody that he can get all the facts from or something. i mean here Or Milo's connection to someone who knows the future. Before you spend your story point for that, like you read the contract.
00:39:40
Speaker
right And Milo has a, I think, four intellect. yeah Like, Milo's literally one of the smartest people in the world. He kind of dawns on you realizing, he doesn't act like a buddy. Like, all right, all right. When were you going to start that? Like, literally, like, yeah, you're supposed to be charming. thing though Like you're overlooking your lens contract for soaring spirits. And Callaway's agreed to invest like 50,000 gold. in soaring spirits for yorlin for just like a 10% stake in the the net profits of soaring spirits which is to milo's estimation purely insane like from this you would not get a return on investment from a restaurant of that magnitude milo's intellect calaway did this just to like
00:40:29
Speaker
unassailably steal the joy that Eris would get out of this neighborhood getting better because he will profit off of it. And so any efforts that you all make to make these people's lives better is going to make him rich, which he knows is going to poison that effort. Like he's not legitimately not trying to mess with any of the people I'm trolling. He's just trying to ruin your all's days forever By knowing that he's making money off of these people's happiness and none of them are gonna have a problem with it
00:41:02
Speaker
But I mean, if he's given him like 50,000 gold and he's getting 10%, it's going to take forever for him to see any kind of a profit. Yeah. So. I mean, you can try to convince Callaway that, but I bet he knows. yeah Yeah. So, yeah. So as Milo comes walking in and soon as Eris is done with Coldor and explains all of this to, he's just, as you would say, Eris, he's just doing this to be a taught. yeah i got that but it's not it's very favorable to the people that he is invested with it's extremely favorable to them i get it but i didn't think aris got that all the facts all the facts there is a contingency in all the contracts that the people
00:41:50
Speaker
that received this money at any time can return the money and it's null and void. Like there's no, they're locked in or anything. Like they can they can choose to opt out if they want with no retribution against them. They just have to return the money. So. And they can opt out with no penalty. Which means we could buy them out for just several hundred thousand gold. Easy peasy. Did you have an idea for your other triumph that you wanted to? Yes, I'd like several hundred thousand gold. I would like to cash in all of Eris' good will to make that happen. What, for them to buy their contracts out? Yes.
00:42:31
Speaker
I mean, the money can't be gone, right? Like, this has been happening recently. All the facts thing that Milo, as you're parsing through and like, understand this, there is part of the current legal code. Wait. What? Isn't there some, there's something weird about Highwall. What is it? They locked the gates at night to keep the refugees. One time the whole thing went like this. Does that count? It's a refugee camp, so... It's a refugee camp with a top tier seafood restaurant? Well, I mean, you could make an argument. I was gonna say, therefore it's not... That's what's weird about it. It's not an investable property. Therefore none of the businesses are legal. Interesting.
00:43:06
Speaker
It's a refugee camp, therefore none of the businesses are legitimate. None of them are registered with the city. I mean, the cauldron certainly isn't. Eris just put up a sign. Yeah. None of it's registered with the city. None of it's in the Chamber of Commerce or whatever Sharn has. We definitely didn't file anything when we moved it for sales. Yeah, we we did enormous structural damage to the city without any zoning permits. Yeah. So he's invested in... business I want to make the argument that he's invested in businesses that don't exist. I'm a really good lawyer with red glasses that will argue that... Go ahead. the Algorithm his name. Come on, on the flyer. Do it. I can do it. I can do it.
00:43:52
Speaker
that will argue that because Highwall's never actually been an established part of the city, it doesn't have a seat on the city council. None of the, none of the district, the district, legally speaking, just doesn't functionally exist. It's unseen and quarantined off. And so none of these businesses exist in a legal sense. So all Callaway has done has given a whole bunch of people money and invested because Callaway's probably bureaucratically adept, Callaway has invested in businesses that simply do not exist. Okay. That's, screw that's the argument I want to make. And if the businesses are on the contracts, then they wouldn't really be valid. Right. So all that has to happen is the, is the businesses all have to be registered under a slightly different name. Sat cymore. Well done. They got into the algorithm. I don't know what the algorithm is. this like This is the argument I would like Sat Simor to present to Eris because there's no way Eris comes up with this. That's my triumph is Sat Simor is conjured into existence yeah to present this argument about the strange
00:44:59
Speaker
legal limbo that Highwall exists in.
Campaign Finale Live Stream Announcement
00:45:02
Speaker
hey everyone it is eric by himself real quick dropping in a little disclaimer ah that wasn't available when we were actually recording this in real time this is going to be the last pre-recorded episode of eberon renewed Outside of the finale, which we are going to live stream, the evening of the day this episode drops. June 14th at 7 p.m. Central is where the live stream will occur. ah Twitch dot.tv slash The Geek Pantheon is where you can join us if you want to experience the end of this campaign in real time with us.
00:45:42
Speaker
It's going to be a lot of epilogue style content. Obviously the party accomplished their goal of getting the Boromar clan off of their back and installing Eren. So we obviously have a couple of loose threads like Callaway mucking around in Highwall as well as the end of the player characters and notable non-player character stories. So we hope that you all will join us for the livestream to find out what happens to the characters and then we will obviously release the recorded content from the livestream in the same hour-ish long chunks that we release episodes in normally. Thank you all so much for your support during this campaign. I know Genesis has been a tricky system for a lot of people to wrap their heads around in terms of an audio format.
00:46:32
Speaker
So a huge thank you to all of you who have stuck with us and stuck with these characters in the story. And we are very excited to see what's next. So I hope that all of you can join us for the live stream. And ah yeah, thank you all so much. Thank you for listening. And now for the regular outro. End of episode. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to any be part of the conversation surrounding this episode in the campaign, head on over to our Discord link to which you can find on all of our socials, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter. We have a YouTube channel, youtube.com, slash the Geek Pantheon. If you want to listen or watch TTRPG videos made by myself, Phillip.
00:47:10
Speaker
Another YouTube channel with a campaign that's entering its endgame is The Laughing Tree where we have a live show called Kyber Shards using 5th edition. Eric's a player. I'm a GM. Sorry, I used all of my brain power thinking through some sort of legal loophole to this situation by which Eric tried to steal my joy. That's me. Yeah, go go check that out. And yeah, we have Patreon, patreon dot.com, slash e-pantheon. If you want to financially support the shows, you can do so over there. Or if you can buy some merch at e-pantheon dot.com. Philip and I still wearing merch. It's true. Yeah. Thank you all so much for listening. I've been your Game Master Eric. I am Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. Jeff.
00:47:49
Speaker
We'll see you next time. Jeff's not sure whether he's Jeff. I'm not sure how I feel.