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C3 Episode 48 The Voices in the Trees Chapter One
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How do you solve a problem like Barnaby Finch?
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Introduction to Eberron Renewed
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D20 Radio, your
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radio
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I am your Game Master, Eric. I'm Nia. I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm Jeff.
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And welcome to another episode.
Mission Recap and Reflections
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Folks, what happened last time? We succeeded. Sort of. It was kind of a bummer, though. Yeah, like, the town's back to being in a real awful place to be, so we did it?
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It was not replacement theory. Yeah, it wasn't not an awful place to be while we were there. It was definitely an off-putting place to be while we were there. Yeah.
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And they were, you know, planning to export that to the rest of the world, so... It was a net positive, and we never have to go back to Pella's Watch, so it's probably fine. <unk> true.
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You say that now. We stopped an invasion of of body snatchers, basically. And we got a lot more information about the bunkers that I meant to re-listen to before we recorded.
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True. and not Indeed. We did find another bunker and heard a whole radio play. You didn't have to tell on yourself, though. but None of us knew that.
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Well, the review that came out today also said that pretty explicitly. Correction, Jeff, the review that should have come out today. If it came out today, it wasn't on Spotify because I tried to listen. i I've been at the theater since 9 a.m., so hopefully it will come out. Whose fault is that?
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Nerd. My life.
Discussion on Orphanage and Character Doubles
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um Anyway. yeah So, those are that's the amalgamation of what happened last time. Yes, you all learned a lot more about, well, got a lot more aspects of the bunkers. i don't know if you learned a lot, but.
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Yeah, I guess we we learned nothing. We found some. got more vibes. Yeah. I got a fancy sword. I got a rock. That's not as exciting as a sword. Yeah. I was thinking about that afterwards.
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Oh. I collect literally collected dust. but Oh, well, I guess that's... don't know. I don't think and' think I have anything from that.
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ting bunker No, because you loot bodies and you get swords from looting bodies. This time, man. There was no bodies to loot in that one because there were robots. Don't worry, Phillip. We'll get you some bodies soon. That is concerning.
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But yeah. So ah you all... Moving on. You all are headed back to base. You all have successfully navigated the adventure. And so, yeah.
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Any, you all are able to get to Vataron and hop on the lightning rail to head home with that issue. Just like the border crossing to get there. You didn't have any issues. So any, any conversations or anything that you want to, ah have on the way home?
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I, no, I don't think on the way I want to have a conversation, but I think I want to wait till we're back. Okay. Valka's gonna chime in and say that there is ah replacement Barnaby still at the... Just one in. Okay.
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Everyone should be safe. No. You don't think it shut down? i't know Like the rest of them did? Did they shut down? All the orphans did.
Barnaby's Clone Dilemma
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Yeah, and I assume anything that we saw... Well, no, wait, because the... It was in the manifest zone. Well, the... Orphanage director. I don't know what to call Sister Hoosie wants it.
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She was still up because she's the one that was like, I don't know what happened. she She was a person. play She wasn't replaced. Oh yeah, she wasn't replaced. It was just Marcus, Barnaby, Matilda.
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And tim Timmy. That's right. No, we did not do any investigating. Yeah, we just left. No, we popped in. we I mean, we sent the other people away to do, figure out their own replacements and have that kind of existential crisis, seeing themselves.
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We did go to the orphanage that Timmy, no, he lives at the school. oh Yeah. but I get a character right now or not. Sorry. In character, Cass says, I feel like we just kind of have to bank on he collapsed and figure out when we get there, what to do about that.
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I feel terrible for Kor, because I can't imagine they like, autopsied him to figure out that he was not a real person if he collapsed.
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Do we know if any of them have that sort of medical skill to like try to fix him if he collapsed? They would have, oh boy, I didn't think about all this.
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The weight of this is hitting me now. Yes, we have two very capable people who would be able to figure out some sort of magical mechanics and or. Right. I guess if they tried to do anything, they would realize he wasn't good person.
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And they would try to do something because they're good people, all right? So far. far as I can tell. Our are good, right? As far as I can tell. i don't like the silence. Was that a direct question for me?
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No, no, no, no. No, I was polling the group to see if they still thought our bosses were good people. i think that's it. I'd probably ask Selena if I can see her sword and I'm quickly told no by her and Nyx, I would assume.
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Absolutely. That's exactly what happens. All right. Well, you all arrive back in Kalzart pretty late at night and are able to make your way back to Athelhampton Manor without any incident in the town.
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As you arrive to the front door, you, of course, see your faithful manservant opening the door and awaiting your arrival. And Alget Frisk says...
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Fruitful trip, masters. Yes. I just, I don't like that name. Are you required to call us master? Or are we allowed to tell you you don't have to? I feel like I should be able to tell you not to call me master and rather that you didn't. You are allowed to tell me whatever you desire.
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would you consider that actionable? i will not listen because I already said this last time. Perhaps. Okay. We did what we set out to do. Yeah, ohll get we did.
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Very good. Your beds are waiting for you. Hey, is Barnaby around? How's he? Yes, he is still residing here. ah That seems to be of surprise to you all.
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ah alive? If he is dead, he is certainly loud beyond grace. He has been. has turned in for the night. I told you so. Nyx turns to the other says, we are not keeping it.
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No. No, absolutely not.
Return to Athelhampton Manor
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It seems awful. and Okay. What do we do? ok but Marcus... Go tell Javier. Marcus definitely immediately destroyed his well-meaning double, right?
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Like, he was just like, oh, hey, you're hitting me there, pal, and just, like, got the crap kicked out of him, right? Like, that definitely happened back in Pillow's Watch. I don't think we can confirm that. I believe we left them all squabbling and wrestling under the city, didn't mean No, but that i was i told I told Marcus that is he he gave away his workage, and then he sprinted out.
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So at least that's taken care of. Likely destroyed. Marcus is either beating up his double or Matilda's double who is running his old joint. Yes. Or the doubles have won those duels to the death and are now you know'm residing happily in town.
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Not our problem anymore. Yes, veryic sure we're not even getting paid for the problem we did solve, so... I don't think so. Technically, Barnaby is still up and running. oh yeah, we should make him pay us first. We don't have turn him off yet.
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yeah he would have to have... I don't know that he has his is counterpart's riches ah on his person or a bank card. i don't know they... House Condrack does operate systems where currency can be ascertained from a distance.
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Well, we can certainly talk about that in the morning.
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We should tell Javier. Okay, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Shall I go fetch him? is he in his office? Yes, if you wish to go there. We know where that is. We'll just go, thank you.
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Very good. Go do something fun, Algit. I have been having a delightful time speaking with all of you. You know what? That's nice. I like it. And you hear the door creak shut behind you as you make your way to Javier's office.
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Do the doors always creak or just when Alcatfrisk is opening and closing them? It's an old house, but they certainly creak more. It's a different kind of creaking. He knows just how to hold it.
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Yeah. ah Yeah, you all enter Javier's office. You see a small lantern lit on his desk. He is sitting there in a white button down with suspenders on and he looks pretty disheveled like he's been up for a while. He's looking over some books like ledger books and looks up as you all and turns like, hey, welcome home.
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How did things go differently than we figured? Oh, that's kind of the gig, isn't it? He says with a smirk. He's not wrong. Who takes the lead on this?
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Parnaby is an automaton. The one we have here? Well, that's okay. Being from Donvi was replacing people in Pella's Watch.
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the The real Barnaby is fine. He's still in Pillow's Lodge. He's unpleasant. I don't think he deserves that description. The real Barnaby is unharmed physically.
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And acting in character, apparently. He was engaged in a fistfight the last time we saw him, so I cannot vouch for that either. ah Okay, Nix. Did you start fistfight, Nix? No.
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Oh, good. It's just their natural state there. They're awful people, Javier.
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Well, they're awful people who choose to be that way, I guess. So... I guess at least they've contained to themselves in their town. so So, we have a construct clone?
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Copiest thing. Which owes us money.
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He's more... Barnaby than the other copies were of their originals, though. That's for sure. I guess, did you find out why this copy went off script?
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I don't think we found specific things, right? Like, it's just, know, Barnaby's just that awful. Yeah, he was so strong-willed that he his even his copy was kind of a butthole.
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The other copies were pleasant. Thank which Cassian. Pardon me. They were they were kind. boring, if boring
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The original Barnaby was failing the assimilation process, so he was always kind of copying his nasty version, which
Ethics of Constructs and Clones
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meant he didn't quite like how everyone was acting nice, and then probably left to try to get home because everyone was acting nice.
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there was a at the john machine and There was an machine under the town that was yeah manipulating the minds of the citizens and those who were too strong-willed, they kidnapped and replaced with automatons.
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Right. So the Donvi resident wasn't copying everyone. It was like brainwashing and just the ones who could dodge brainwash.
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The ones that failed the brainwashing got copied. And they were also creating a bunch of new people, specifically children, Yeah, they were going to export them. Uh-huh.
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That's what the orphanage was. Okay. Well, ah what happened to the creature from Don V? We returned him. killed the right word? I don't know if that's right.
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I think it just went home. That the impression I was... Depends on the nature of the creature. If if you all found a Modrin here and stomped on it, then it would probably just kill it. But something called an inevitable probably requires a bit more to kill than just stabbing it.
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Yeah. he he called himself anyway He called himself the Harmonizer. If that... Interesting. Something you'd like to put in the records. Yeah. I drew it.
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You drew it. I drew it. I'll give you a right. Share that drawing. That would outstanding notes. So hominari harmonizer, inevitable from Don B. Was this a orchestrated effort or a single rogue entity?
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Do we know, or do you have an idea? So
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I don't have that in my notes. It seems like it was just one, but it was more of a test run because this place in particular was really messed up. he So see it was trying to prove something.
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okay Yeah, he's he seemed like the kind of guy that could probably convince HQ back at Donvi that this worked and we they should scale up if that makes sense. Gotcha.
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Okay. Interesting. Good to know. Okay, well, let me talk to Barnaby in the morning about payment.
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Because if you brought coin with him, then ah guess that would legally be fine if he paid us for something he asked us to do. Is it?
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That would be stolen money, though, right? Because Barnaby would have brought from... I would be perfectly happy like happy taking any of the money from any of the people that were block, to be perfectly frank with you, Javier.
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I think it's fine. Also, they seem to think of that as common courtesy. Yeah, they're Stealing. They're a thievery-based economy, it would seem.
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don't think they'll mind. too Good. Okay, well then, if you all will avoid Barnaby in the morning, please don't cause his mind to break by telling him that he's not who he thinks he is and I'll talk to him and yeah.
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Okay. Also, I'm, who's telling core? They put this hand on his nose. It says, not it. You're going to talk to core as well. That's her cousin. She's been. ah Yes, I can talk to core.
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It does present an interesting question though of what happens to, I can destroy it. I was told we can't keep them. It feels like not our problem, sir. I tried Sir Rod and I didn't like it, Javier, I'll be honest. and Here's the deal, gang. We have in our possession in this house now a extra planar construct.
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Barnaby was not built on the material plane and we could destroy it. Although it seems like he has the capacity for independent thought, which makes it feel like it might be an execution. I'm not disagreeing that it is a constructed entity, but so is Arumi in a way. And I don't think any of us would pitch destroying Arumi If they were dangerous.
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Well, if any entity was dangerous in the house, then we would need to do something about it. But to that point, is Barnaby dangerous? I think so. This thing created him specifically as a conduit by which to manipulate the minds of others.
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I feel like we have to find out if it's got surveilling capabilities. They were definitely surveilling the entire town of Pella's Watch.
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And now that I think about it, I don't know the- Tracking them around right the town. And I don't know the means by which they were doing it.
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The computer tablet. Yeah, that's right. Rock what? So if Barnaby is doing that,
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so just grab stuff if barnaby is doing that then it it could potentially be dangerous for us. That's true.
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That's a good Us being the ones that stopped them from doing the thing they wanted to do. Sure, but it would not also be wise to just let it wander. No, for sure.
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I also feel really gross about the idea of doing any sort of experimenting or prodding or vivisecting. I feel like it's just got to be like, end it or don't.
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Right? Good goodness, yes, I wasn't proposing to vivisect it. No, you weren't, but I didn't know where we were headed with all this. I certainly wasn't. Once it's disabled, I don't care if anyone studies it. that's that's That's fair.
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like don't guess it's an execution because it's a... He has sentience. Yeah, it'd be... I'll say this. If he goes back home, he's not going to survive. Home is quote, big finger quotes.
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But he does have sinches. That's definitely the truth. This deals like the sort of thing that I should not have to decide.
Resolution and Rest
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Play the minor card. Kaz, I trust you to put your life on the line in the name of the lighthouse. So I trust you to be able to voice your opinion on existential questions. Super jazzed to put my life on the line to be. I had and thought, but it's probably not any better than anything else.
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I'm open to hearing thoughts. Zarya, my former um employer, is a bit of a collector. You could just send him to her.
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what Given that this is sapient and sentient creature that we're talking about, how would they feel about being added to this collection? I mean, there were a great benefits. mean yeah oh here and Would he get a color? but He already has a color.
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Everyone has a color.
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You just can't you can't see your color. Well, I mean, you can see your color. You are your color. feel like this is referencing a conversation I was not a part of while you all were gone this time. Nyx has a look on where she's been like slowly piecing together this color thing, and now you've just like wiped everything off of her whiteboard and erased all the progress she'd made.
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Well, now I want to know what my color is. I'd say you're an Autumn. That is not a color. think Javier's referencing the ladies home journal from the seventy s hides It's an old house. Like there's just a stack of old magazines he's been going through.
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Is that a McCall? All right. So it seems like the consensus baseline is Barnaby cannot stay. stay
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if If he lives, he cannot stay here. Yes, true.
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The question is... Can he go? Right, sorry. Yeah, I mean, he could, if Kor wants to take him, or if... I don't know why she would, but... I don't think she will.
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I mean, honestly, if i haded after meeting the original, if I had a chance to start over fresh with a different Barnaby, I might take it. But it's not a different Barnaby. It's not the same. It's enough of the same Barnaby decay.
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could also try sending it back to Donvi. Henrik whip something up. I don't know how to do that. I feel like ah we would need to... Ritual, i again, i took a piece of the weird machine computer thingy.
00:21:30
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I was just going to keep it, but I guess I could use it. Do we have to nail down that whole, was it surveilling us thing before we send it back to Donvi? shru That's fair.
00:21:41
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Well, even if it wasn't surveilling us, it's at least able to report on us. Right. Erase its hard drive. So. What? Who has strong... resistance to disabling slash killing the Barnaby clone. Anyone?
00:21:59
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Selina's not raising her hand. She is making a face. I don't love the idea of it. Okay. Unless he does have surveillance capabilities and then we have to for our own protection, but... It's... He's not a real boy. sorry and Trying to figure out how to wipe it.
00:22:17
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Here's the reason why I'm belaboring this point. Ah!
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What? What was that? I missed it. Sorry, I genuinely missed what Valk said. Valk suggested that maybe we could skid it. i i mean Yikes! Valk. Just make it not look like Barnaby. Well, because you have to take it apart to get to the internals to set it.
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I actually understand what she's getting at here. I just can't get over it. It would still look like Barnaby when we started skinning it. yeah then You don't have to be in the line. I will not i won't be.
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could take its head off. It's also it's it's it's a stolen consciousness. Does that change things for you, Selina? It's not like a movie that has grown his own thoughts and and personality. It's a stolen identity in all senses.
00:23:12
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The question though is, can it learn on its own now? Is it a divergence of who Barnaby was when the copy was made and now it can grow and become its own thing?
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Or I don't want to be responsible for teaching it. That's fair. The reason I'm belaboring this point is because this, in a way, sets a precedent because we've never had to do this as the lighthouse before in that we have a prisoner, essentially, yeah from another plane.
00:23:41
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What do we do? Is it from another plane? It was created by a creature from another plane, but it was created here but using techniques from another plane. Hmm.
00:23:56
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Yeah, we did you know we did we did have to they yeah i'll say you have to we did have to kill a different construct that was created here by that.
00:24:08
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And it just kind of stopped working. like it was not a It didn't go back to Donvi. He of fell apart into crystals, right or leaked some crystals. right That was what Jim Johnson did.
00:24:23
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Yes, though, Barnaby does bleed. Does he bleed? He turned black. I remember that. Oh, eden I thought I broke his nose. Oh, did you he not bleed? No, his his eyes black his eyes blacked, but he didn't bleed.
00:24:37
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That's easier then. Okay, great i I'm going to get with Henrik to speak about a way to humanely... shut Barnaby down after I've discussed payment.
00:24:50
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Boy, do I not love that this conversation? Yeah, was an interesting way to put it. here it's It's what's happening. I don't know how else to put it. And then we'll move forward from there after I explain to core what's happening.
00:25:03
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So sounds like that just for the record, it's being shut down and or killed and starts begging for its life. Which is why I think you should all just let me take its head off.
00:25:14
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If Henrik cannot come up with any better options, then we will call you a Nyx. I would just like to say, I don't consider this to be setting a precedent for how we deal with all creatures that we apprehend. I know. Like, this is not a creature. It's a machine built by a creature that is really thoroughly imitating a person.
00:25:34
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That's where I'm standing as well, Nyx. A Rumi is an intelligent weapon. It's different. All right.
00:25:41
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Let's call it a night there. Go get some sleep. All right. Okay.
Game Mechanics and Character Development
00:25:45
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okay Some fitful, uncomfortable sleep after this conversation. I'm sleeping, baby.
00:25:54
Speaker
Just crying all night. Okay. Let's go ahead. And while you all sleep and kind of fully put a button on this arc, roll for icons for the new one. Right.
00:26:11
Speaker
It's a d6, yes. It is a d... Yes. It's d6 per icon point. Oh, right. Oh, right. Wow.
00:26:22
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I rolled nothing again. ah Two twos and a one. Which means that you get one with a guaranteed complication. Correct. It's just randomly determined by me, though, right?
00:26:34
Speaker
That's what you decided. I think you get to determine it. Yeah. sit Same with mine. I can roll if it helps. I got it.
00:26:45
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I rolled a six with the Platinum Concord again. Five and six is all that counts, right? Yes. Yeah, okay. Guess we're going get a visit from... What's her face?
00:26:58
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Oh, man, if she pops by, that'd be the worst, and also I'll redeem myself. Will you? It's actually happening.
00:27:08
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Kaz might not, but Jeff will. That's what I meant. Jeff might remember how to play the game this time. Oh, okay. I thought you meant Kaz. No, Kaz is going to keep digging that hole, baby. have confidence in Jeff. Kaz doesn't even remember the fake name he gave.
00:27:23
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You gave the name Kaz. You gave the name Kaz. It's your fake name. wasn't a fake name. Again, i know that. But Kaz thinks he gave a fake name. Kaz's gonna be like, oh no, what did tell name was?
00:27:38
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Barnaby, shoot. Selina, did you roll anything? I got two fives, both with Lady Bowl. Lady Bowl. Double and down.
00:27:50
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Yeah.
00:27:53
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Great, that vampire's i'll show up again. Well, I almost called you Eris. Nyx, you have a complication with Lady Vol.
00:28:04
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and Good. Good. Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. We really, most people do. You know, damaged British accent, social problems. I get it. And Valk, you have one with the Arcane Congress.
00:28:19
Speaker
Slide. Cool. Okay, you all wake up the next morning and we need to do our upgrades check-in. So, little questionnaire to determine how many resources you have to spend. Does anybody have note of how many leftover you had last time? but Zero, we spent them all believe we spent them all, right? Like, we we we were real efficient with it.
00:28:44
Speaker
Because you get got the tower right. No, yeah I have down that we have the gym, the cellar vault, and the map room. Yep, I have too. Gotcha. Okay.
00:28:55
Speaker
All right. The gymnasium costs a lot. Okay, cool. Well, I have some new options for you all. Ooh. So I'll go over those once we determine how many development points you have.
00:29:08
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Did you play at least one scene at the headquarters? Yes. Yes. Did you encounter a new type of extra planar creature? Yes. For sure.
00:29:19
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Did you visit a place of strong magical convergence? I think the space underground was, yeah. Were you meaningfully subjected to extraplanar magic?
00:29:31
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Oh, boy, weren't we? Yes. Stupid combat rules.
00:29:37
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Did you bring and some kind of important item back to the headquarters related to your extraplanar so the stuff you find in the bunker doesn't count? We it's the we do have Barnaby. Does Barnaby count? Does Barnaby count?
00:29:49
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No, Valc did actually bring back would be a shard. That's true. But we also have Barnes. Did you make any important contacts on the mission? Well, I mean, we met Kaz's dad's business associate and Giselle the vampire.
00:30:09
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was the Was the mystery particularly difficult to solve? I thought Apparently so, because we didn't figure it We completely failed to solve it. In the sense that we were wrong the entire time, would say, yeah.
00:30:23
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not Not all of us. card was I it was orphans. I thought was mostly there. i And did you solve the mystery? Mia was a lot farther along than i than than the rest of us. I just specifically mean that we thought Jim Johnson was yeah over it all.
Headquarters Upgrades
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Was not just a robot. I was only right in that I thought we should go just kill so kill Jim Johnson from the beginning. but I was just along for the ride. But that wasn't because I had clued in. That was just Nyx.
00:30:54
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So you all have eight development points. soo the new The new options that you have, in addition to all the ones I've laid out before, is the alchemy lab, which costs four.
00:31:11
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but can be purchased up to five times. And that gets you, if a spellcasting character preps here, they can create one adventure level potion of energy resistance per time this upgrade is purchased. Neat.
00:31:26
Speaker
What, you say adventurer level? what What are those distinctions? Just so I, adventure level. Magic items have tiers, just like adventure champion. Champion epic. Epic. it wass Okay, gotcha.
00:31:38
Speaker
Okay, the next one.
00:31:42
Speaker
is the armory, which is the exact same in all ways, except it is if the armorer preps here, they can create an adventure level rune per time this upgrade is purchased.
00:31:56
Speaker
Yes, please. But that could let me. That would let me upgrade y'all's gear. Right. Cost four up to five times also. Sorry. Yes. Yes. The annals of the lighthouse cost two if the librarian preps here.
00:32:12
Speaker
they can record the recent exploits of the lighthouse. This allows the librarian to roll a d20 and save that roll for the entire arc, replacing any d20 roll they want to with that roll.
00:32:25
Speaker
One time. okay How much did that one cost? Two. Two. Could replace anyone's roll, anybody's, or their own. and any because if they roll natural one they can hold on to it for an enemy enemy's roll sick nice and then so those are the facility upgrades that you can do you got some additional parts of the manor that you can uncover the pigeon turret that's where we shoot the pigeons up from yep what
00:32:56
Speaker
That's exactly what I want it to be. From quince we blast to the pigeon. An old tower off an abandoned hallway with the echoes of bird calls even when there are no birds present. It costs five.
00:33:08
Speaker
The shadow maker can prep here. Excuse me. And when they do, they can send correspondence ahead to your destination. The party will have a positive relationship with a representative of a randomly deterred icon upon their arrival.
00:33:26
Speaker
Oh, okay. So you'll have, you'll have a friendly face on the ground, ready to greet you and give you lay of the land. But they might be vampire or druid or a rakshasa.
00:33:38
Speaker
Who knows? days True. And then the botanical garden. The weeds are cleared away from the stone planters to reveal gorgeous flowers that were once stifled by the overgrowth.
00:33:49
Speaker
It also costs five. The groundskeeper can prepare here to grant the party resistance 16 to one condition of their choice for the entire arc.
00:34:00
Speaker
Wow. So anything I would jump out to y'all. Obviously I would enjoy having the armory and it would allow me to upgrade our items.
00:34:11
Speaker
Yeah. I don't hate having a known role in our pocket for when when we need it. And that would be six of our eight. I agree the armory is good, and that but that knocks out the garden and the turret for now. so True.
00:34:28
Speaker
Which is for fine with me. i don't know if me is cool with waiting another arc before the garden. think me is still writing everything down. Now I'm looking back at the other upgrades we didn't ever get.
00:34:39
Speaker
Gotcha. Because those are just the new ones. Because there's still the tavern, the med room, the dungeon. There is a library upgrade. and Yeah, for the forbidden library.
00:34:51
Speaker
And then did we technically get a guard? You have not gotten the guard upgrade. Arumi is taking on the role of security for you all. Got But that...
00:35:04
Speaker
only one Only one guard right now, so hiring someone else to help would keep you all from and being potentially beset upon. and see. I'm fine with whatever that actually threw a wrench in my plane because I was going to hit that.
00:35:21
Speaker
Stop. Okay. Well, I mean, share share your plan. We're not negotiating. We're discussing things. hasn't happened yet. oh Oh. It was part of the work. It hasn't happened yet.
00:35:32
Speaker
Understood. One time I do my homework. Remind me the dog. so but Remind me the meditation gardens boot. I know it costs two, but I can't remember. Player characters who prep here can reroll their iconic relationships.
00:35:47
Speaker
Players must accept the new role. Got it. So you reroll all of the dice that you rolled for your iconic relationships. Understood. and that's the only.
00:35:59
Speaker
The library was an auto success center an on combat check with a twist. Yes. I was just thinking if we did the armory in the lighthouse, if there was another two, could blow everything we had, but I don't think there is besides the meditation garden.
00:36:13
Speaker
Okay. So, yep. The meditation room was also two? Yeah, there's room, pardon me, yeah. Can it be a meditation garden? That'd be nice. Put some place in there.
00:36:25
Speaker
Gardens all over this place. I mean, we... We could blow them all and get all three of those if we want to. Yeah. That's true. i' i'm not I'm not necessarily partial to the meditation rooms thing if we wanted to save two.
00:36:40
Speaker
I don't think. Yeah, because keep in mind, a lot of these things, you have you only get to prep once for an adventure. So, you yeah. It sounds like we're buying the armory, so I'm happy. so Yes. The armory and the annals are getting bought.
00:36:54
Speaker
And the question is just, do you all use the last two on the meditation room? I think we save them. All right. Yeah. Okay. If we save them, then next time we can get the turret and the potato, regardless each of our jobs, have their prep space. Assuming we get all eight points again.
00:37:07
Speaker
Yeah. So cool. Okay,
Supernatural Events in the Library
00:37:11
Speaker
cool. So you all wake up. Javier obviously asked you all to give him some space as he dealt with the Barnaby situation. Uh, so I guess.
00:37:23
Speaker
do you all honor that or do you try to eavesdrop i guess is the the primary question can i unsuccessfully eavesdrop like i just said i'm like i'm just sitting now outside the door respectfully yeah respectfully there i i think this is something that kaz would like to be told about later uh Yeah, maybe by Valk. I'd love to hear his side of it Okay, so Valk, you are sitting in the little like bench across the hallway from the door to Javier's office where when he's in a meeting, he has people sit and wait and the door opens and Javier kind of jumps as he sees you sitting there. like, hello, good morning.
00:38:06
Speaker
Yes, don't mind. What can I do for you? No, don't mind me. ah Don't mind me. As you were. all right.
00:38:17
Speaker
And Javier turns and walks down the hallway ah to go, I'm coming right back. If you just want to wait. No, not real.
00:38:30
Speaker
I just want to listen. i I'm going talk in my office. I'm just going to go retrieve Barnaby and then come back with Barnaby and talk in my office. That's okay.
00:38:41
Speaker
I'll sit back down. Thank you. And Javier turns and walks back down the hallway. he returns with Barnaby in tow and Barnaby sees about sitting there and is like, what did, did you fix it?
00:39:00
Speaker
Is my wife Maine again? Barnaby, let's talk in here. Yeah. Good invitation to a door closing. sure So you hear muffled voices, uh, Barnaby raising his voice from time to time.
00:39:17
Speaker
like that yeah and and after a bit of time Barnaby goes huffing out of Javier's office muttering to himself don't even let me go back to see my town before payment is expected proper to pop up up and he goes stomping back down the way Javier went to retrieve him and Javier walks out with a not small coin purse and just waves his hands like well good thing he came with money on him yes And he levels a gun at the back of his head. Blast him. Think about the rabbits. I'm going to go get core now.
00:39:54
Speaker
And so Javier goes down the hallway, retrieves core and comes back. But yeah, Valk you after the conversation with core Javier walks back out, looks and says, going to go talk to Henrik and deal with the situation.
00:40:08
Speaker
Core is fine with it. And core is headed back home now. So. they Okay. Um,
00:40:17
Speaker
but
00:40:20
Speaker
Nix, when you wake up in the chapel where you, the, the image of the sovereign host in the chapel where you reside that a couple of adventures ago, you saw, um, the traveler be graffiti added to the lineup.
00:40:41
Speaker
you now wake up and see, it would be common knowledge enough, something akin to the fury now added to image of the sovereign host, but less like less monstrously drawn.
00:41:01
Speaker
Like it's, it's a softened version of the fury. Nick's shoots a glaring look at Acheron. Akron shrugs.
00:41:12
Speaker
Nyx looks at her hands to see if there's, like, paint under her fingernails. Hands are clean. That's strange. Yes. Akron says. It's just painted on the wall, basically?
00:41:26
Speaker
Yeah. Cool. In fact, in kind of, like, perspective, like, the like they're standing... like Like it's the back row of the image. Like you have the sovereign host standing there and it's like if it was like but a row of people. students Yeah.
00:41:44
Speaker
Filling in the gaps between the sovereign host in a way. Okay.
00:41:49
Speaker
Is the paint wet? Do you go up and touch it? Yeah, absolutely. It's got that like slightly tacky feeling of uncured but not wet. Still needs a solid 48 hours before you can walk on it.
00:42:03
Speaker
Oils. Yeah. Are there drops of paint on the floor? No. she Okay. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. helena as you get up and about aurora catches you in the library and says i had a thought that it might be a good idea for us to have a running record of ah what you all up to out there i know javier notes things and i take his log and
00:42:35
Speaker
i' trying my best but i figure you spend enough time in here and you have a way with words that you might want to and she hands you a large blank tome that is now the mechanical annals of the lighthouse.
00:42:53
Speaker
Yeah, that sounds great. Good. Thank you. Just in case this becomes something, I imagine that the actions of the first team of the lighthouse will be of some note down the road. I'm happy to get to record it.
00:43:08
Speaker
Glad. Entry one, disposed of Barnaby. humanely for now humanely have any more of the books moved while i was away yes they have do we know a couple like which books are moving are there certain ones each time funny enough that you asked that a couple have gone missing outright instead of just getting moved around so they're missing specifically ones related to the blood of Vol as a religion, which is odd. But yes, and outside of that, whatever entity is doing this just does not like our new filing system for the books and keeps putting them back where we are taking from.
00:43:50
Speaker
So quite annoying. That is frustrating. Yes, it is. Yes. but to du like
00:44:03
Speaker
When is the last time that you saw the books that are missing now? The first one went missing um about three days ago that I noticed. And then another one went missing last night.
00:44:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:19
Speaker
And I forgot. Anytime you all make a purchase and upgrade, I'm supposed to roll to see if any threats arise because you all are living in a creepy manner and doing construction. so oh Oh, I love that.
00:44:32
Speaker
Does mean you roll three times? Or two times, I mean? Two times, yeah yeah. Okay, as you were. Yeah, sure, it's fine. It's totally fine. So yes, if you see any books about the Blood of Old Lake around, please return them because something is taking them.
00:44:46
Speaker
I'll be looking for them. Thanks.
00:44:51
Speaker
Kaz, you wake up and there's a copy of a book related to The Blood of Ola on your nightstand. I think I just pick it up and like look at it. i I mean, I leafed through it for a second and then realized it does not interest me. ah Because it is not immediately relevant to my any of my situations.
00:45:06
Speaker
But I doubt I take it back to the library right now either. Okay. So you just sit it back on your nightstand? No, because I didn't put it there and stuff's moving. My dye disappeared for a while. I...
00:45:19
Speaker
so i' In light of that, I probably actually do probably head towards the library with it. Okay. So, Selena, as you're walking down the hallway, ah pack of dogs emerges. Five small dogs.
00:45:34
Speaker
and As you're walking down the hallway, you see Kaz walking towards you with a book about the blood of Olinna sand. and Where did you get that? It... from my well okay From my room is like the answer, but I... You know how stuff has been moving?
00:45:52
Speaker
Yes. It moved there. I was on my nightstand and I promise I was not reading this. I know. I know you can't read. Wait a minute. Hey, I could be reading it.
00:46:03
Speaker
I know you didn't take it. have it It keeps disappearing. I mean, yeah, sure. And I to hand it off. i'm like, when you find the ghost, could you at least tell them that I'm more interested in things like Thelonis?
00:46:16
Speaker
you Sure, I'll let them know. Thank you. Wait, do you have another one? We're missing two. I didn't see another one. I can go... Can you go look?
00:46:29
Speaker
Well, I was going to offer to help you find it, but sure, I'll go look. And I go back to my room and look for another book. You look in your bag and you find another book about the blood of all stuck in there. Holy here. Thank you.
00:46:42
Speaker
And I yelled to the ghost. What are you trying to tell me?
00:46:47
Speaker
And stop moving books. That it was lying in your bed, reading a book last night. Yeah. Yeah. Also stay of my room when I'm gone. but You took it to him. You weren't gone.
00:47:01
Speaker
I've been gone. I'm assuming right now that I was too tired to notice the book on my nightstand last night when I got to my room. But it was in your bag, too. so It's a different bag. It's my house bag. I've got my house bag and my adventure bag. And that's canon. And no one can tell me it's not.
00:47:20
Speaker
Rich boy. Yes, exactly. As Kaz and Slaynor having this delightful conversation, Hendrik rounds the corner with the body of kind constructed Barnaby over his shoulder. And he just kind of nods at the two of you. he's He walks by, presumably Valk in tow, I would guess. Yeah. Oh, I absolutely. Thumbs up. I try to stop Valk. Like, what'd they do?
00:47:45
Speaker
so Thumbs up. You didn't want to be there. i didn't want No, I wouldn't be there, but I wanted to hear. We'll talk later. he sees He's going to keep going, so I'm going to going. Yeah, no, for sure. We'll talk later.
00:47:57
Speaker
Selena just shakes her head and says, I'm going to the library.
Conclusion and Call to Action
00:47:59
Speaker
I'm not going back to my room.
00:48:04
Speaker
In fact, I'm putting in for a transfer. And i i I may be sleeping in the danger room again for a while. gonna We've apparently got a basement. go That's my spooky spot. don't want to go anywhere Grub might be. so Grub resides in the secret tunnels in the walls.
00:48:21
Speaker
Valk's creepy friend of indeterminate shape lives in the basement. Yes. And I crash into the danger room when I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to explode overnight. Or a tentacle is going to shoot out of me or whatever the heck else happens to me.
00:48:36
Speaker
Apparently there's a graveyard. You could camp there. That definitely seems less scary, Nyx. Thank you. As you're talking about potentially transferring to another room to Selena Kaz, a voice from behind you says, is there an issue with your rooms? Selena's cracking up.
00:48:50
Speaker
Yeah, I'm so jumpy. Like, I almost swing. Like, that ineffectually swing like a 16-year-old kid. I gotta remember 16-year-olds are not tiny children. I think I spin around like,
00:49:03
Speaker
Is there another room in the house that is move in ready? There innumerable rooms in Athelhampton Manor, sir. Did you say innumerable rooms?
00:49:16
Speaker
In a way. That's so many rooms. Would you like to move up to the third floor? Do I know if anything else is on the third floor? No one else lives on the third floor and you haven't really spent much time exploring the third floor.
00:49:30
Speaker
I would like to stay closer to the ground level, please. Unfortunately, all of the rooms on the ground level are occupied, sir. And you do not want to live on the second floor with any kind of permanence.
00:49:43
Speaker
I need you to explain that. With the hills, the way the the sunlight comes in right through the windows and is quite blinding in the morning, sir. Oh, okay. You know what? Actually, that does sound awful.
00:49:55
Speaker
Go ahead. cut Go ahead, Philip. Is Algon a vampire? I mean, you have seen him in the daylight. Like, he, he like, so if he... Okay.
00:50:07
Speaker
ah We met him during the daylight. Yeah, that's true. Maybe it was gloomy. I don't know. I think Kaz is going to say, I think I'll crash in the, what are we calling it? I know it's not actually the danger room. That's what I've been calling it. definitely the danger room. Okay. Yeah. I think we just call it the danger room. And I definitely have slept in there many nights. So i I think I'm going to crash in the danger room for a while and maybe go acquaint myself with the third floor.
00:50:35
Speaker
it' so Very good. Yeah. In the back of his mind, he's hoping there's just like some dope huge room on the third floor. Mistress Selina and Alligate walks away. Bye. Goodbye.
00:50:46
Speaker
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00:51:05
Speaker
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00:51:21
Speaker
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00:51:34
Speaker
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