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C2 Ep. 166 Slaughterman's Legacy Chapter Nine
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Introduction and Supporter Acknowledgments
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
Reynard's Attack and Visibility Debate
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You are going to be attacked, Reynard. It is very important you be not clever right now, Reynard. Just answer the question with no... I mean, we're trying to help her. We're trying to stop her, though. I'm going to flip a story point to add an upgrade. So the, and we'll say a maneuver has already been used with the whole moving towards you thing.
00:01:28
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for, for yellow versus two purple for a melee check against Reynard. Reynard, you have melee defense though, right? Yeah. You have melee defense one. Was he, did he drop invisibility, I guess? Is that part of the triumph? When he got in. I am invisible. Yeah. They could see you. Easy enough. There you go. I think you should have to spend a story point to say they can see me. DM is prerogative. They can see you. Move on.
00:01:56
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Oh, a zero success three advantage. So Raynard, a fist comes down at you and smashes into the wall right next to your head, leaving a hole. But with the three advantage.
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You all can hear this. There was no design to be stealth. So you hear a voice that none of you recognize. And then a smash. You hear voice, smash voice crashing into wall. And with three, go ahead here from Raynard, Trevor.
Chaos, Accusations, and Unseen Adversaries
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Raynard, what do you say? Raynard, do you say anything after the punch? Capture that for your soundboard. God, do I say anything after the punch?
00:02:38
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Will it miss you have a punch line? So I'm probably not going to taunt. That's probably not a good idea. The person asked you a question, right? There was a question asked, I thought. What do you mean helping her? And with the three advantage on the check, I'm going to say that they are able to snatch the papers from you. And they look at them and they just and they you see them like
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disappear into the shadows. Of her bedroom. Not they like go into a corner and hide, like they manifest into shadows that like magic. Magic. And that's, and then it's quiet in the bedroom, Reynard. Okay. And you, Kath is out and turns away from you, Hobbs, like, what is going on in there? What are you all doing? I can't get out, right? The door is paralyzed.
00:03:32
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that's very true i guess i just yell check the sink check the sink the kitchen sink i think i say i don't know what's going on in there who do you have in there that's my bedroom i don't have anyone in there that is a lie that window raynard why are you in my bedroom why is there another person that is a tiger thing they look it's white and it's very aggressive but look at the sink kitchen sink
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What? Reynard, are you safe? What? Wait, is someone attacking? Unlock the door, Aeris! Oh, Roy, sorry. I will drop concentration on the spell. Now you can come out, Reynard. I badly want Reynard to come spilling out of the door. Well, absolutely. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Milo goes and looks at the sink like, okay, it looks like a sink. There's a trap door. There's something... What's Kathy doing? After that is said.
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Okay, so Aeros went to go unlock or unparalyze the door. I would just have to stop concentrating. Yeah, okay, fair. Was Hob making any movement to see what was going on with Raynard or is Hob staying right at Cath? Hob is staying between Cath and the closest way out. Okay.
Encounter with Tiger-Suited Intruder
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Hearing Raynard screaming like a Raynard makes me think that he wasn't hurt that bad, whatever happened in there. So, Milo, you go to check the sink. Cath is...
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Yeah. So, Raynard, you say go look under the sink, right? I just say check the sink. Check the sink. OK. Because I didn't really get to look at him that long to know if it was under or in or how to do it. Kath just throws her hands. OK. Stop. Ask me questions. What's going on? Yes. Who's in the bedroom? I don't know.
00:05:24
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Is someone still clearly in the bedroom, Rainard? Is someone behind? If you open the door, you don't see anything. But where did they go? Is there a window? No, there is shadows. There's a window. OK. Yes. All right. I didn't think there was a window because I was imagining that not being an exterior wall. And so I was trying to figure out how did Sana, I'm assuming, teleport into the room? Well, the windows is shut. Take that for what you want.
00:05:53
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All right, Cath, first question, what's in the sink? Okay. You saw the blueprints. But we need her to tell us. First request, Reynard, can you not be invisible? Oh, sorry. Yes. I can see how that might be a little unnerving. However, your tiger friend could see me. I don't know who you're talking about. I don't know either, but they were in your bedroom. Is it a real tiger?
00:06:21
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No, it was very similar to Kath's suit. Raynard, please, for once, speak clearly about what happened. How clearly do you want me to speak about a mysterious tiger person who disappeared into the shadows after they attacked me? That was pretty good, man. That's what he already had said, though. Thank you, Kath. I don't know if you just weren't listening, Hop, or what? I've been listening. He kept saying, tiger person, tiger person, tiger person.
00:06:51
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Reynard is no longer invisible. What is in the sink? What is going on? I found blueprints of the apartment below. Is that where the tiger person went? No, that's... I don't know who the tiger person is. Just stop. Hob assumes there's a were-tiger somewhere around here now. Okay, Reynard, where are these papers? I thought Cath... It seemed like she wanted to actually tell us something. Or was going to, I don't know about wanted.
00:07:19
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But if they took the papers, then they know about what Raynard now knows. And Cass is about to tell us what Raynard knows, I think. Which no one else knows besides Cass, so let her say it. Okay. Yeah. I own the apartment down below me. That's where I do.
Kath's Secret Activities and Hidden Trapdoor
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I'm trying to figure out who's responsible for killing my brother and bring them to justice. So that's... Don't we already know that?
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The bringing to justice part is the elusive bit. We wrong about who did that? It's a subjective part. Kath, I need to know something. What? Listen, we all know these aren't the first people you've subjected to whatever it is you do to them. All right. We know, we've seen one in your home before.
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What are you doing to them? And what state are they in when you're done? Oh, I guess you all brought up corpses before. I don't murder them. No. I said bodies, but it was a mistake to say it. That's great to hear, Captain. I didn't assume that you did, but I didn't assume you would go to this point either.
00:08:33
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My question is, are they in the apartment below and are they safe because some person that attacked Reynard now has those papers and are they down there harming those people or what? Yeah, we should probably go down and check. Yes. This time I am going through the window.
00:08:57
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That's where you do so. Eris, I cannot explain to you how bad of an idea that would be. You should take the ladder. Great, great point. Show us the ladder. Let's go. Is it trapped? Yes. You'll show me the trap after? I'll think about it. Yes. Thanks.
00:09:17
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And Kath goes and opens up the drawers underneath the kitchen sink and slides a door to the side. And she reaches down and Eris and Milo, you will... Anybody that wants to can give me a perception check, Eris, or a mechanics check to understand what Kath is doing. The difficulty is going to be three purple.
00:09:47
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If she's doing anything more than flipping a latch or turning a doorknob, no perception is going to help Hava understand what's going on. Five, six, purple. Nice. Yep. Three purple. Okay. If nobody else is making the check, Milo and Aeris, you can both tell she has this rig to where it will
Exploration for Clues in the Basement
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open freely. If somebody finds this trap door, more power to them. She's reaching down to deactivate the trap that would activate if anybody other than her climbed down the ladder. And then she begins descending the ladder. Okay. Wait, when did you learn to do things like this?
00:10:18
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from my dad. Yeah. I'm not anywhere near your level, but I know enough to get by and she begins to descend. Can I just get a read on her demeanor? Is she suddenly like defeated or cooperative or
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It's the why bother keeping it a secret. What is she doing here? Cause this was a light switch kind of. She is concerned like Milo's point of somebody else seems to be interested in the secondary apartment and they might be down there. She's not.
00:10:53
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It's not the same concern that Milo has if they might be getting harmed, but it might be like, I really don't want whoever this is to mess up what I got going on down there. Right. Sure. While we're in this transitionary phase between places, I just thought I wouldn't know. We definitely lost her, but Ellira did try to follow us here in her skiff. So she's on to some piece of this. Oh, dang, it was her. Oh, dang.
00:11:19
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Oh wow. Oh dang. Or she's just upset with us in general because of her father. But let's get down the ladder. Sure. I'm going down to that. I just thought it'd be interesting useful information. Like maybe we're about to walk into the tiger assassin person that the Boromar was hired.
00:11:41
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that would not be good at all. And as you all descend the ladder, Cath gets down there like ever, Brightlanders come on automatically as she hits a certain point. And as you hear her fans everywhere, hit the ground, you hear her like dragon below. And she begins to walk. And as you all get down there, there are no hostages down here.
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And she like walks up to one of the chairs and like where there's restraints that have clearly been cut and she like throws it across the room. Okay, somebody else obviously knows what you're doing, Kath, and apparently they're releasing your hostages. Thank you so much, Milo, for the insight. I appreciate it.
Debate on Intruder's Abilities and Teleportation
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Yes, so I wonder who that could possibly be.
00:12:32
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Is there more to that? Milo, are you trying to be helpful here? Or is that a genuine question for me? It's just more the more people who know what you're doing, maybe it's might be a good time to think about stopping. I'm not trying to spread what I'm doing. I'm trying to keep it a secret. And people keep coming to my apartment unannounced and trying to get into my affairs when I didn't ask for anybody to be here. I think we need to before we yell at each other, search the room.
00:13:03
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because someone came down here really fast, freed the hostages and took them out here. So even if that person's really stealthy, you'll beat up hostages probably aren't. And it was definitely magic. What did they look like?
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Rainard. They looked like your suit, but a different kind of print, a different cat print. It was like a ghost tiger. And they disappeared in like a shadow. They actually disappeared. They didn't go out. Oh, I saw wispy shadow mist thing. OK, that's weird. In his head, Hobbs thinking, oh, tiger person.
00:13:52
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Now I get it. That's all I needed. I still think we should search the room. Perception check. Yes, less difficulty. Difficulty is going to be one red, two purple. Hobb asks before they start searching the room, where are we not try to go, Gath? Just don't try to open the window at the door.
00:14:17
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All right. Is it too purple difficulty? Yeah. OK. I failed with one advantage. A strained upgrade. Whoa. With two triumphs. Jeff, you got to roll one more red for me on that. Oh, I didn't hear the word. My apologies. Oh my gosh. So it's. Gosh. Two failure, one threat, two triumphs. Two failure and three advantage.
00:14:46
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You two triumphs to you, please roll for Kath. Sure. The Vrainard roll. Yeah, Vrainard did roll. I failed and got two advantage. Oh, my gosh. This isn't even the odds are against us here. We have several really advantageous pools that were just rolled and no one succeeded.
00:15:09
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Two failure, one advantage for Cath. So we have a clearing. Well, OK, I'll clear strain unless we got something we need. Yeah, we have an advantage from Reynard. Two threat from Hob, a threat from Milo. Three advantage from Eris and an advantage from Cath. And two triumphs. And yeah.
00:15:33
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Clarification real quick. You said that the calf told us not to open the door or the window, right? Correct. Yes. Okay. I'll tell you exactly what happened is Eris got distracted examining her traps. I just have a clue what to look for. Okay. Confused of how they could have got in and out. If you got threat, Hob and Milo just take equal number of strain.
00:15:59
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Kath will pass a boost die to the next check made with her advantage. Chris, yeah, you can just clear out straight into one. I'm just clear straight. We got two triumphs, so I don't figure my advantages are... Rainard, you just want to pass a boost as well with your advantage. Yeah. Okay, two triumphs. This is a big one. Do they stack? Yeah, you can use them together, yeah. Something huge? Team? What's huge?
00:16:24
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We look out the window and there's a tiger person running. I was going to say, this is the problem. They ran out. They ran out of strain and had to walk out the front door. OK, let's. Just intuit the situation for a moment. Or deduce or whatever, but. That there's a trap on the window, there is a trap on the door, and neither of these have been deactivated.
Teleportation Detection Efforts
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Cath, you say these traps, the only
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could you walk through the door? Or is your only way in through that ladder? No, I have and she like pulls her sleeve back and there's a bracelet around this gives me looks God knows. No, I'm the only one. Okay, just have you had more than one at any point? Have you lost one? Okay, okay. So the only way for someone to walk in safely is if it's you.
00:17:20
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Which means that barring something just wild, this person didn't walk through the door or climb through the window. So this person has to have teleported out of here because we were coming down the ladder so they couldn't go up. So this person came in, teleported down from the roof, from the floor above, freed the ostriches and then teleported out.
00:17:44
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Yes. With your accent though, Eris, it sounded like you said ostriches for a second. I just need to point that out. What's that? Weird bird. I'm glad that you haven't lost your hands.
00:18:00
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So there's no way to track them. We can't. Like they've got nothing to contract a teleportation. She looks at Milo and Raynard, but mostly Milo. And begrudgingly. Yeah. They didn't do that unless they did this with a device. Possibly detect the magic, but I don't know. Yeah. Is there something?
00:18:21
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If you're just trying to magic in general, there's going to be a lot of things that light up in here is what Kath says. But you all could make a I don't know if there's anything like.
00:18:32
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I don't know, after effect or residue or something like that. Yeah. There's goo from teleportation. Teleport goo. That could be read to confirm our guess. Yeah. You all could. Yeah. We'll do a utility spell that you all can use your relevant artifice and arcana. It's a spell though. So two strain inverse if you want to, Reynard, to try and detect a residual teleportation magic. What is the difficulty of our choice? Utility spells are always easy. So one.
00:19:02
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Yep. Is it just a basic arcana check then? Yes. Barris has two success with five advantage. Okay. Are there people making the check also? I'm not. It's one purple. Nothing to lose but strain. That's true, yeah. I'm gonna do it, what the heck. It's a wet check, I'm sorry, I wasn't even listening because it was magic related. I feel like I need to have a success at something today.
00:19:30
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It would be casting a spell. It's casting the utility spell, Jeff, so you'd be using your magic skill. Three success, five advantage. I could have divine. Almost exactly what I got. Yeah, you could use your once per encounter. You cast a divine spell. OK, but I actually do have a decent looking pool back here.
00:19:51
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Okay, so we have a grand total of 16 advantage off of these rolls, but yeah, you all succeeded. You all are able to use your magic and you spot near the window a faint marking on the ground.
00:20:08
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It's a marking that is indicative of, it seems adjacent to slash related to the mark of House Orion, who does teleportation, but it's not carved into the ground or anything like that. But you also see that the
00:20:31
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Milo, you would know an Eris also deals with the planes a lot. The two of you would recognize that Mark can also be associated with the plane of Tiraniya. That's where the magic is drawn from. So that's what you spot. OK. Oh, sorry, Kithri, not Sirianna, Kithri. Oh, that's very different. Yeah, sorry.
00:20:56
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That's just chaos, right? Yeah, the churning chaos is just chaos. OK, so someone teleported right there. Why would you teleport by the window? Why not just teleport past hostages? I would love some of these advantage to. We never used two triumphs, did we? Oh, that's also true. Two triumphs and 16 advantage. So like so the building is free of strain.
00:21:22
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Also like within reason for something like two advantage, if you all wanted to do what like you hate when I do of doing a third party cutaway of something else beneficial for you all happening in another part of the city. That's also within that's also available to you. Okay. Who, who do we want to affect elsewhere in the city? There's a lot of options. Well, isn't all of still on the scale.
00:21:47
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Yeah, I don't know what could all if not see someone leave saw some magic happening or. OK, here's how I could imagine that being true. Great thinking, Trevor, by the way. Yes, that's a great idea. Yes. If you had to teleport by the window, perhaps suggests that you needed to be able to see your destination. Which means if that's true,
00:22:14
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that the destination of the teleport was within view of this tower and all of his sitting in a skiff parked outside this tower.
Pursuit Plans and Group Dynamics
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So being vigilant. Olive sees the other end of the teleportation. Olive sees where the teleportation ended. OK.
00:22:42
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Yeah, Olive is sitting in Tasha, just like waiting patiently, looking around, and yeah, she sees a shadowy, I'll give you the whole, she sees a figure appear on the building next to it in like a wisp of shadow, and she looks up and sees a figure in ghost tiger looking armor that then pauses for a second and looks down the building and then disappear again.
00:23:11
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And then after a beat, she sees them appear on the same spot on top of the building with two like arms over, or two bodies over each shoulder. Oh yeah. That have like bags over their heads. They're like, they're not struggling or anything. And then, yeah, but it seems like this person it's night crawler esque. It's bam thing from one spot to the next. So then, yeah, after a moment, the wispy shadows.
00:23:40
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up here as the figure disappears again. And all of just do you all want all of to take any kind of action or agency? Tell us. No, pursue. Olive. Yeah, after a B is. Hey, are you all OK in there? I think so. Yes. OK. Yes. Yeah. Just saw somebody teleport out of the building with two people. It looks like a tiger. Yes. All of song.
00:24:10
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What did I see? We don't really know, but a person in a tiger outfit just came into this space and tried to punch. Reynard, which I realized that's not itself without comprehensible. Did they have to wait in line? But they. Did the. That's also unclear. It's nuanced.
00:24:39
Speaker
Yes. Do you want me to follow them? No, maybe with us, though, with the rest of us. They teleported away. So. Oh, OK. Oh, oh, we'll we'll hurry. Can you see where they went? I would need to fly Tasha up. Hold on. And she flies up and I guess I'll have her make a perception check. Perception, not one of all the strongest suits. Yeah, actually, Olive doesn't really strike me as the cunning.
00:25:09
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Have we ever discussed what animates my speeder? It's like a regular sky skiff. It's just, it's, yeah, there's no crazy elemental. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't, but I just realized we've never talked about that. Yeah. We talk about Tasha's vote a lot. Tasha, the riding and magical waves.
00:25:28
Speaker
OK, the. No, that would be boosts to the. So all is going to have two boosts because this figure is carrying heavy cargo dressed in white, apparently, but they do have a good stealth score. So it is going to be all this perception of one yellow, one green and two boosts against three red. Come on out. We got most of them. Spend a story point. Yeah.
00:25:57
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Do we have any, how many advantages do we do? Did we have leftover to upgrade or to, Oh yeah, we've still got 16. You can give her another upgrade to get her up to say, can we give her another upgrade with three of our 16 advantage? Sure. Let's just all come to terms with that. We're not using all 16. And then 13 boost die. Is that okay. I'm going to roll two yellow, one green, two blue, three red.
00:26:20
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Good. Two success. So, yeah, she flies up a little bit. Yeah, I can see him moving. Hurry, please. Where are they going? They're as we're hurrying, I assume. Headed north and up. They seem to be moving into the upper part of the city. Can Kath dispel so we don't have to go back up the ladder and we can go out the door and run down the hall? Yeah, Kath. She touches a rune on her bracelet like you can go out the door now.
00:26:47
Speaker
Because if we're on the ground floor, my speeder's right there. Yeah. Run. Now what's that one try on for two? That was two. Okay. Just make it sure. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Anybody that's taking a beat to notice, Kath is not like in step with you. Kath deactivated the traps and is letting you all go. Kath, you coming? No, I'm good. Eris wants to argue with her, but
00:27:12
Speaker
She's put all of in this situation. And so Eris turns and runs. I'm trying to figure out what we're doing if Kath's not going. Trying to find out who's trying to stop Kath or do anything we're trying to stop Kath from doing. Well, their method of stopping Kath could be the one we don't like. It could be going to the police or taking these people back to mill hatch industries or. Sure. That's fine. I was just trying.
00:27:36
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This is not thinking through that. I understand that as well. This arc has been Hob getting to a point and then not knowing why we're still doing it. Like we got to elders like, why did we come here? I've really forgotten what the point of this conversation was because it's gone off the rails. Kath, you really don't want to stop the person who's trying to stop you. They took what I needed. No, I don't care. And I'm not totally uncertain that you all showed up and then they showed up right afterwards. So I'm not sure that those three things aren't connected.
00:28:06
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We are not connected to that person.
Final Decisions and Episode Conclusion
00:28:08
Speaker
We don't know that we're connected to that person. To be fair, most of my friends want to hit me. So I think you might be closer connected to that person than we are. He doesn't say so. Timeline wise, Eris is climbing into Tasha at this point because Eris took off out the door. Milo, did you go with Eris? Are you? Yes, no, I followed Eris. OK, I OK. Hob has a motorcycle. So Eris goes.
00:28:31
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Yeah. And hob, hob was getting on the motorcycle or standing by it when they were having that little snippet of conversation. Is Raynard hopping to my sidecar? Yeah. Kath, Kath did not leave the secondary apartment. If you all were still talking to Kat, like she DIed the door to let you all go. Then I'm running to the speeder and I can get to Aeris. Okay. Same. Run. Hop in.
00:28:53
Speaker
OK, you all take off heading up away from Cass apartment after this mysterious figure who's just taken retaken to hostages. Like Jeff said, there's nuance. End of episode. I'm trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen.
00:29:09
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00:29:37
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00:29:58
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00:30:13
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