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C1 Ep. 124 Thrashing of Eras Chapter One
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The group finds out what exactly happened with Prince Adal, while beginning their preparations for the next battle.
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Introduction and Recap
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D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:00:48
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. I'm Randy. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? We killed a dragon. Yeah. Found a prince. Yep. And a whole lot of money. So much money. Did find some money. Damaged our ship. Yep. A bit.
00:01:13
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Um, yeah, the, the caging for the elemental didn't break, which is good. Um, so yeah, uh, you all have gone to see the elemental that's bound in a shard.
Elemental Shard Discussion
00:01:30
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So you can't really like, Oh, okay. I didn't realize it was bound in a shard. Yeah.
00:01:36
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I just assumed it was on a hamster wheel making the thing go. So yeah, you all have Prince Adal on board the ship. Where to now? Fairhaven. Yeah, I suppose back to Fairhaven. Okay. So yeah, you all left Charlie and Cassian with Gerald. Yes.
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record offers to put a doll up in a room and kind of tend to and make sure he's okay. Eric looks at him with true sight. Okay. You see a person. Okay. But Dex isn't there. But you see that Booyah is a dragon. Yes.
00:02:28
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We're supposed to save that for the end. He did true sight. What can I do? Um, so yeah. Um, are you all going to stop Rickard from that impulse or? I don't mind if Rickard tends to the Prince. That's fine. Okay. So yeah, Rickard takes in. I trust Rickard to not skill him. Uh, Rickard takes him down below deck. Um, so what are you all going to do while he does that?
Ship Damage and Gold
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I guess the first thing I'm going to do is notice that I'm going to inform Barrick and Booyah that we just got 50,000 gold pieces and they'll be in my bag and Booyah can pay you back for a couple of things if you'd like. Booyah don't care about money. That's kind of why I wasn't saying we got 50,000 gold pieces. Did we get anything else or was it just money?
00:03:23
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It was I would have been looking for like material scrap like items, not don't know that a dragon would have such a thing. Not a red dragon. Red Dragon is more about the accumulation of wealth and greedy and that kind of stuff. So, yeah. Now, I'm going to say the there were some like gold like items and stuff like that, but nothing that jumped out at you as being like magical or particularly powerful.
00:03:53
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i suppose we get underway okay yeah i can't imagine a reason we don't just head well you know okay is that
00:04:02
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Yeah, just kind of damage assessment real quick. While you all are on the ship, you can see that the deck has some pretty severe cracks in it. Probably if it were to storm some of the rooms down below deck would leak and take on water.
Returning Prince Adal and Political Implications
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The picnic table is... Sorry, that's just where Richard here. That's just where Rickard sleeps. The picnic table is damaged and not usable. So sadness and well.
00:04:32
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But I immediately go to the picnic table Cry fall on your knees How much time has passed is that swanky party going on if you had straight back I mean he showed up and it was maybe
00:04:55
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three or four minutes. That's what I'm saying. So, yeah, you could. I mean, you all could conceivably just drop a doll on the doorstep of this party and then dip out. I mean, no, we will be returning a doll to the royal home. We'll drop a doll off wherever a doll would like to be dropped off, probably. Yeah, but I would like to be seen doing it. If you like.
00:05:19
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I mean, I'm trying to think of the downside of currying favor with another nation's royalty. Okay. And I'm sure there is one. I feel like you're not trying very hard. No, no, I mean, I've thought of several. I suppose you're right, though. If the doll wants to be simply left somewhere, then we will leave him somewhere.
00:05:49
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I mean, it really was just a couple of minutes and we had a bunch of conversation before that. I don't. I mean, we, I mean, we flew here for a few hours. It was sure. So it'll take a little bit to get back, but, and.
00:06:06
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I mean, once we have a doll store stowed, I would just, I would say someone should go talk to him and find out where he wants to be dropped off, like where he would like to be taken. Sure. Um, I can do that. That's probably, that's probably not a booyah. It's probably a Dex job. All right. We, I mean, we do have to stop in fair haven regardless. Yeah. Yeah. We got to show proof that we killed this dragon and Oh yeah. The hunters guild. Yep.
00:06:35
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I mean, we're not really going to take money from the farmers. We should cancel the bounty, though. OK. Yeah, sorry. No, no, no, we're not going to. We don't need their 500 gold anymore, but we are going to show them it's done. Sure. Cancel the bounty. I mean, I guess we could just drop a dragon head in the middle of town and be like, no, I don't mind. I just. Yeah, no, we're not taking their money. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't think so. I just. All
Prince Adal's Intentions
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right. I should be doing this as a character. It's the illusion.
00:07:05
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Yeah, no, man, we're not gonna, uh, but, but I want to know the problem's gone. Of course. And not that anyone's going to be farming near there for a while. Not that anyone's going to be farming there for a while. I mean, that town is torched. Right. That is certainly true. Kind of makes you wonder what kind of kingdom they're running here.
00:07:30
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An entire town was destroyed by a dragon and it didn't seem like anyone was doing it. They were just waiting for some private contractors to come along and take care of it. I mean, it sounds like a pretty difficult government to me. Anyway, uh, yeah, so Dex will. You're Jason. Oh, technically we're in the LD and reaches so under has no, uh, sway over this.
00:07:57
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Well, I mean, yeah, Barrick. That's why I was, that's what I was thinking. But on the draw, it would have been out here slaying a dragon. Now that's true, but also born only tried to do it by himself and would not have been King much longer. He might've done it. I can't argue with that. He might have any who, uh,
00:08:22
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If there's no more pertinent conversation to be had between the three of us, I'll go down and see. Okay. Right. So I'm going down to see, uh, Prince of doll. Yes. Um, I assume Rickard took him not to his closet. He's probably somewhere. One of the, one of the empty bedrooms. Um, Rickard has set him up on, on a bed and has some warm water and cleaning up some of the, the small wounds. I mean, he, it's not like the dragon bit him or kind of open or anything.
00:08:53
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but just mostly making sure you have some food, have some water. Oh, you know what? I grab some food to go down, just in case Rickard didn't. Yeah. And so I have some food down there when I go down there, but if it's already, if he's already been fed, I'll just start eating it. Fine makes me peckish. So I say, who?
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Who are you? Oh, right. Uh, my name is Lyle and, uh, you're on a boat called the borrowed time. We are, we're kind of here. Okay. We're kind of here from Breeland, but only in the sense that that's where we just were. Uh,
00:09:41
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I'm not from around here. Um, one of our buddies is from, uh, uh, Zendrick. Um, but, uh, we were asked to come and take care of the fake you by some people who knew that it was a fake you. Um, and you know, I guess I'm, I'm glad that you're all right.
00:10:01
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No, I'm definitely glad you're all right. I guess it wasn't part of what we knew that you were in that cave as well. So, great to see you. Well, I thank you for your assistance.
00:10:18
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in my rescue, even if that was not your intention. I think I can speak for all of us when I lie to tell you that it was definitely in the back of our minds that we hoped you were there the whole time. Fair enough. I don't say the lying part. This assistance talk. Who sent you? Who knew?
00:10:48
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We were contacted by representatives of some organization that knows the whereabouts of dragons and who's doing what. I'm sketchy on the details. I'll be perfectly honest. They were clearly in disguises when they were talking to us, so I don't really know much about them. Give me a deception roll. Okay. Fellas? I don't know. Oh, no, wait, yeah. I think we're all right.
00:11:16
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That's an 11. Unless you roll badly. Then I roll badly. I rolled a dose. Then you're not good at this. He narrows his eyes at you and... I don't know that I was necessarily lying. Representatives of an organization that knows where the dragons are. But you said you don't know anything about them. You concealed information. I did conceal.
00:11:37
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he you you can tell like he's not going to press the issue but he knows that you're not being forthcoming and also you're welcome um yeah no crap so
00:11:56
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Where do you, what do you intend to do with me? Oh, Oh, we're going to, I mean, you want to go home. We're going to take you home. You want to go elsewhere. We'll take you elsewhere. You're, you're the Prince and of the country we're in, in a few minutes to an hour. Uh, and so I kind of feel like I have to defer to what it is that you would like for me to do. We don't have plans for you. You're a guy we just saved and would like to take home safely is all.
00:12:24
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Did you do any sort of investigation over who may have put the dragon up to this? Nope. I had no idea. I always assumed he was acting rogue. That's, I mean...
00:12:38
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He kept me alive for a reason and he kind of adjusts and holds his ribs. You know, I got to tell you, and this is weird. You're not the first Royal person that we've killed the imposter of. So it's just kind of like I didn't.
00:12:56
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is the first real person we've killed the imposter of that's true we had some compatriots who killed there was a fake borenelle for a while i don't know how long you've been gone uh... there was a a changeling who uh... disguise himself as borenelle and
00:13:10
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Some of our buddies, uh, ended up taking him out, uh, while the real, uh, Borneo was, you know, quickly brought back to the throne. So I guess I never really dwelled on it. I don't know how to say it. I think there may have been some connection between two Monarchs being replaced. Well, yes, but I think part of the reason, I think part of the reason that I didn't, uh,
00:13:38
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well too much on it besides the fact that we got here real quick after we heard about fake you is
00:13:47
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We are decidedly on the, uh, opposite side of the battle from the, uh, that let's say, let's just say the Sarlonans. Who are doing things like making fake boring. The idea that they had dragons working with them scared me to where I peed a little, and I didn't want to think too hard about it until after we'd, uh, accomplish what we came here for. Does that make sense?
00:14:15
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But you're right. Obviously there could be a connection. There are smarter men than me who we can all have this conversation with. Well, I can begin conducting an event. Tell your pilot to take me to Arcanics. That's why I would like to be dropped off. Arcanics? Yes.
00:14:38
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Assuming, just in case, our pilot's not entirely certain where that is, can I get a- Flight to Lake Gallifah and look for the floating tower in the sky. They're just the one.
00:14:49
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All right. And I go back up. I say Jace. Sorry, it's a cluster of... It's a couple. There are multiple photo towers. Gotcha. And I... The big one is where I would like to be dropped off. And I get them on my stone. And I just say, hey Jace. Yeah, what's up buddy? Hey Jace, do you know what the Arcanix is? Yeah, it's a village by the lake of Gallifar. And I kind of look and a doll gives me a nod. The big tower.
00:15:17
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Uh, well, there's apparently a big, several potentially, well, not potentially us, we were all still there. There are several floating towers above it, which works out great for our ship being that it also does the float floaty bit. Uh, so, um, we need to go there. Does Jace know your background or have you fed him the Thrain story?
00:15:38
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I don't know that Jason has ever asked Dex much more than the beginning of the Dexanbaric and Draconos saga. You know, I kind of, if anything that comes up with Dex, I mean, I would, I would imagine just over the course of traveling two weeks, where'd you grow up? Yeah. Like, Hey, so where are you from? What's got any siblings, which touchy subject, but.
00:16:02
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You know, I if if if J's were to straight up ask, I think that Dex would expect.
00:16:12
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he could do something to increase buy-in on Jace's part and tell the truth. Okay.
Barrick's Dilemma with Erebus
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So I think Jace probably knows that at the very least that I am, you know, a changeling from Sarlona and my brothers got caught up in this crap. Yeah. No, that's totally fine. Just if he had asked, if you're saying he probably would have asked, then yes. Yeah. I mean, I was just trying to gauge if it would come across as odd that you didn't know what the floating towers of Arcanics were being from Thrain. Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure.
00:16:39
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Yeah, yeah. Well, it's important to remember. One thing that's consistent among all of Dex's stories is he's an idiot. Yeah, yeah, the towers above Arcanics. Go to the big one. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. You got it, buddy. All right, pal. All right. Well, Your Majesty. How do you prefer? How do they do it in your country?
00:17:05
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Cause I, after a while, I just kind of started calling King Borino, Borino. And, uh, he didn't tell me not to. Which... Highness is standard for a prince. Highness for a prince. Got it. Highness or warlord adult. If you're being formal about it.
00:17:23
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I mean, I'm going to be formal about it till they tell me to stop. So your highness is because I am not calling him warlord a doll. Um, the warlord's a doll. Okay. What's, what's happening elsewhere on the ship? Anything? Uh, Barrick will go.
00:17:50
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to the front of the ship and find a spot he's used to sitting down. He will produce Erebus. And stab it into the deck in front of him. And then sit down to the deck been through enough. We're going to have to repair it anyway and sit down cross legged in front of it. And he says. All right.
00:18:22
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12 out of 13. What are you? I am the conflagration. And what's that? A powerful collection of magic that can be
00:18:50
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influenced by the light and the darkness. Um, I still don't know what brought me into being or a whole lot of my history before the pacts began.
00:19:17
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But I do know that putting me back together has the potential to unleash a lot of magical energy and exert a lot of power in this world. And
00:19:43
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If wielded in the wrong hands, a lot of people would die. I've also begun to, when I exert myself, be able to see through my other half, the raven's implement, a cloak.
00:20:18
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Are you... Are you the same thing as what humans call the silver flame? I think there is some level of connection.
00:20:41
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Forgive me, that's kind of a non-answer. I am giving you the best answer that I have right now. How are you not used to non-answers? Dex shouts over your shoulder. By the way, what's in Arcanics? Hope springs eternal, Dex. Hope springs eternal. He was telling me if I collect more, he'll know more. I feel like I've told you quite a bit more than what I knew before. Well, but nothing I hadn't figured out from other sources.
00:21:10
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That's not my fault. It's arguable. Because here's the thing. What I've known as the Silver Flame all my life. Spoke to me through its mouthpiece. Told me what I needed to do. And then some other nearly omnipotent creatures came along and told me that doing that
00:21:41
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might very well destroy the world. And before that, another impressively powerful being told me I had to put all the packs together in order to stop the quarry. And now you're telling me that if I put all the packs together,
00:22:06
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I might destroy the world. I never said destroy the world, and also I said in the wrong hands. I'm merely inferring that this power can be used for great healing or great devastation. And I think that you've heard all of these stories and that they need not be
00:22:37
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mutually exclusive. Like I said, well, if I have to do the thing and it will possibly destroy the world, if I have to do the thing and it will possibly kill a lot of people, then either the beings that are advising me are ill-informed, not as powerful as they have claimed.
00:23:08
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or malicious no what I'm trying to tell you is that what Jayala told you the flame told her that you have to collect these weapons in order to resurrect I have to take them to the plane I have to use them on the plane yes they're used together they had to be used together and then I'm told using them together might destroy everything
00:23:37
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But, like I'm saying, because of the immense power, that is a universal truth. When you have that level of power, you have the ability to possibly destroy the world. And that is what Orgev and Barasha were saying. They are having a conference now to determine the legitimacy of their claim and also figure out what the next steps are.
00:24:05
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If what Jaela told you is true does not mean that what Orgev and Barashev told you is false. It's merely them saying this power wielded in an improper way, wielded... That's not what they said. They didn't say in the wrong hands. They didn't say if you do it wrong. They said if you do it. It might. Yes. So there's no certainty in that.
00:24:34
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If you willed me, you might destroy the world. I would tell you that, but I trust you that you're not going to. And what in the world is the point of seeking advice from all of these beings if they're going to speak to me in riddles that might be true from every single possible angle, no matter what they say, it's somehow true from a certain point of view. What in the world is the point of all of that? Of hearing any counsel. If it's going to be given to me by every being that I would like to trust
00:25:04
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by every power that I would like to trust, if it's going to be given to me in a way that I can interpret it as a prophecy of doom or exact instructions on what I have to do to save the world. The point is without me, without Graham, without Jaela, without Orgev and without Brasha,
00:25:35
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You would still be in Miss Marsh oblivious to all of this going on and no steps closer to fixing the problem. Or destroying everyone. How so? As far as I can tell, everyone's told me it's a toss up. Either I'll save the world or I'll destroy the world. And not a single person has given me any suggestion of how to do one rather than the other. Well, I
00:26:04
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You've been putting me together. I'm trying to suss out all the information. Yes, but you've also told me that the more I put you together, the more powerful she becomes. Yes. So if I put you together, I might destroy the world. Or given Baratia. Or having conversations, trying to figure it out. But it's not their problem to figure out. They don't care if all the humans die.
00:26:32
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No, but they're still having the conversation. Which... But I have no reason to trust that they're going to tell me what I need to know. I have no reason to trust they're going to tell me the truth. I have every reason to think they're going to tell me what they want me to hear so that I will do what they want me to do. Well...
00:26:57
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And apparently, that's what the Flame has been doing. Apparently that's what you have been doing. It's certainly what the Raven was doing. How have I been doing that? Because you still aren't telling me how to avoid the part where I destroy the world. I did. I told you in malicious hands. I'm saying I trust you and your intention so you won't destroy the world. That's what I just said.
00:27:25
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I said, in the wrong hands, this power can be used for destruction. Then tell me how to use the power to destroy the quarry, to defeat the quarry, to put the quarry beyond their ability to destroy my world. The part of the equation that Jael spoke to you about was resurrecting the plane, using the weapons to
00:27:55
Speaker
Reset everything. Now, I will grant you, due to interpretation, translation, whatever you want to call it, the communication from the flame to mortal ears, then communicated to you, that's probably the most prophetical information you've gotten. That's the reason Graham's information was so prophetical back in Miss Marsh.
00:28:22
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because yes, the flame is the least direct in the way it communicates. So do not take that as instruction because it simply said use the weapons on the plane. It did not say in what way or how or where or when. I know that the packs can either
00:28:53
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based on my knowledge, and I'm still putting it together, with the original pact as part of the conflagration, it can be used to decimate and destroy all of the quarry. That's what they did in the war. They used the power
00:29:14
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to kill the quarry in a way that the quarry are not normally killed. They normally resurrect on their plane and live to fight another day. When they are killed with the Pax, that does not happen. Now it has to be on their plane. It has to be their physical form, not their projection. Or you can use the power to forestall the cycle.
00:29:45
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essentially as long as the conflagration remains on Eberron, you can use the power and anchor it in some way. That's one of the final pieces. To ensure that after this cycle, once you resurrect using the weapons, the resurrections will stop, the cycles will stop, so that the quarry that we get this time
00:30:12
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will be the quarry that remain moving forward unless the conflagration is destroyed. But isn't... What Orgev and Virashia told me is that the problem is that the plane is not resetting. Exactly. But it's through their manipulation. It's through their... And so if I manipulate it to not reset, how will that be any better?
00:30:35
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Well, the problem is that these quarry, the part of the quarry cycle, just like with the configuration, is the light and darkness. Right now, it's all nightmares. And if I reset the plane and we get new quarry, I mean, do you understand the quarry and enough intimacy to say that the new quarry won't start out pleasant and then become nightmares? And I've just caused the entire thing to happen again?
00:31:03
Speaker
Well, I mean at some point down the down ages from now some vague descendant of mine is gonna have a shadowy figure walk up it on the street and ruin their life I I cannot guarantee anything Beric, but just like spring comes after winter the cycles of the quarry are Somewhat predictable then why should I want to anchor us in the cycle again?
Ondare's Ruling Structure
00:31:28
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No in you would anchor us in spring
00:31:36
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I'm simply telling you what your forebearers intended in the deal that they made is half of them wanted to utterly destroy the quarry and wipe them out of existence and the other half wanted to try and ensure a peaceful relationship with the quarry. Now, with any peaceful relationship, nothing is guaranteed, nothing is certain, but ultimately
00:32:06
Speaker
That's what the pact is going to come down to. And how you fulfill the pact is using the power to fulfill one of those desires. And why did the, why did the, the Cabalrine never do it before? They didn't know how to get to the plane. They cut it off. Well, the giants cut it off. The Cabalrine wanted to, but the giants acted.
00:32:42
Speaker
How do I do either of those things? Suppose I believe this. How do I do either of those things? Like I said, the how is the final piece. Yes. And how can I convince you to give me the final piece? I don't have it. That's what I'm trying to tell you. The final piece of the pact. The reason I told you to collect all of these. You can't do it without all the packs.
00:33:13
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or you convince whoever the other pact holder is to ally himself with you, give him your pact. Who is the other pact holder? I saw him in, Booyah saw him in the vision. It's some kind of dragon. I don't know where he is. I know that the Raven has located him.
00:33:43
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on Erenor is amassing a force because unlike the other Pact wielders she has gone after, the dragon and you are the only two that actually scare her. And once she gets the dragon's Pact, you'll be the only one left on her list. I would argue
00:34:14
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It would be best to not wait for her to arrive on the ship and ignore the problem. You know, you've been at 12th out of 13 for some weeks now.
00:34:41
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The last time I interrupted you and appeared in your hand, you got very upset, so. The last time you did it, you said, we're going to play by my rules now. I realized I spoke out of turn and. Eric just tickled himself and that was fun for me. Like literally, he just started tickling. Better him than me, I always say. And he did it.
00:35:14
Speaker
So instead of hunting down these weapons, could have just gone and sought out this dragon.
00:35:32
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Instead of no, I I don't think Jayala was lying to you and I don't think she was being obtuse I don't think the flame was misleading you I think it's both I think whatever Whatever the quarry have been working on that has prevented their cycle from resetting Has to be destroyed. Well, then we're bloody well out of luck because there's two ancient dragons that have no interest in leaving the weapons in our hands and
00:36:09
Speaker
So there's a dragon on Erenal. That the raven is going to kill. Yes. Fine. Eric gets up and walks away. Can we cut back? Yeah.
International Threats and Alliances
00:36:30
Speaker
Okay. There was a question Dex would probably ask given that here's what Dex knows for sure that this man has
00:36:40
Speaker
earned might be the wrong word because he is a prince but has been given the title of warlord was just in a cave as the prisoner of a dragon and is now freed and has immediately said he wants to go to a floating tower
00:36:57
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Dex realizes this could be foreboding of a guy who wants to take the fight back to somebody that we don't need to be starting wars on even more fronts right now. So he's going to say, he's going to say, if you don't mind me asking, what's the arc in Dex? What happens there? Oh, that's where one of my offices is. I'm also the Royal Minister of Magic for one day.
00:37:20
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All right, I'm not. I'm not much for magic personally. Uh, my buddies, you know, they do spells and things. I'm not so much into that stuff. So what kind of.
00:37:38
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Here's my question. I hope this isn't too, uh, uh, presumptuous of someone like me to ask. I am, but a foreigner. Um, you're, you're a Lord. I mean, you're on dairy and waste, frightened and confused. Uh, uh, uh, but, uh, you're not gonna like jump right into retaliation mode about this, are you? Uh, here's the reason I ask.
00:38:03
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there are so many big bad things going on right now that honestly we need to start kind of maybe trying to work together us citizens of the plane uh abronians uh because uh all this stuff that's happening
00:38:32
Speaker
Particularly, I know for certain the thing that happened with King Bornell in Breeland. It's leading up to a big fight. It's going to be us and by us, I mean all of us. At least are on one side of it. We're not all going to be fighting versus them. And I'm afraid I do mean all of them. So.
00:38:54
Speaker
Again, I hope I'm not being too presumptuous if I am. I mean, I guess I'll just walk away and you won't answer. Um, but, uh, where are you, where, where's your head at as far as, I dunno, taking a fight back to some dragons, cause one of them kidnapped you or trying to find out through whatever sort of means, if this was some other country who's coming in, you know, where,
00:39:19
Speaker
Where are we at here? Lyle. Um, yes, that is me. I have been in that cave for an amount of time to where literally everything you have told me about the current affairs of Corvair is news to me. I did not know that there was a fake Bornell. I did not know that Sarlonens were in Corvair.
00:39:50
Speaker
Yeah. And so as you can imagine, I have some catching up to do, and I also have a very short list, one that I'm not going to share with you. No offense. Of course. Of people who would have enjoyed seeing me in a cave.
00:40:11
Speaker
with a dragon impersonating as me and potentially being an ally of theirs. I obviously do not think it's the people who sent you because, well, they wouldn't have sent you. But I... And I will say they knew enough about us. Just, you know, some of the things that they said, they know we were going to go in that cave if we killed the dragon. Just so you know, if they knew you were there, they knew we'd find you.
00:40:40
Speaker
Um, but I am going to use all of my resources to figure out who did this to me and then do something about it. Now.
00:41:01
Speaker
part of my list is the fact that I think your fears of Andere launching into a war and reigniting the last war is very, very, very, very small. So no need to worry about that. My fear is small or the risk is small? The risk is small.
00:41:25
Speaker
No need to worry on that front. And once, uh, my comrades in Arcanics know that it is me once again, and we get to work, we should be able to make short order of whatever has been going on. You mean whatever has been going on that puts you in a cave or whatever has been going on that I've been alluding to? The thing that put me in a cave. Okay, sure. And I want to spend about 15 minutes.
00:41:53
Speaker
really I'm just gonna open it up I'm gonna let him know what's going on he is he is the he is the prince of a country that I mean
00:42:06
Speaker
Frankly, do I think that Prince Adol would be helpful in this quest? Oh, I don't know. Let me give you some info that Dex probably would know considering you lived in Ondare for it. That's where the thief game was. Or you lived in Thrain. Thrain. It's neighbors. It's not unreasonable for you to know. Ondare is ruled by the Ondarian triumvirate. That is Queen Orala, however you pronounce her name.
00:42:36
Speaker
um lord daro irlane who's the second warlord and a doll the first warlord so he is one of the rulers okay okay he's just not the crowned ruler sure um underneath his sister
00:42:51
Speaker
Well, I mean, I assumed with Minister of Magic and Warlord that he wasn't just a prince, like he had some sway. You could make a reasonable argument that in terms of the structure of his country, he, especially now after the restructuring, he might wield more power than Boronel at this point.
00:43:08
Speaker
So so basically what I do is I explain to him about the quarry and what is happening in Sarlona and that it is leaking into it's not necessarily that Sarlonens are trying to take over Corvair in so much as it is the quarry are trying to take over Eberron and we are and it is it is happening and it is real and we've seen it and in a roundabout way it led us to him and just kind of saying hey look
00:43:39
Speaker
Just please, please, please don't make it harder for us to save the world. No, I. I appreciate you telling me all of that and laying it out and catching me up on what's been going on. I.
00:43:57
Speaker
No, I have no intention of making things more difficult for you in your journey. Um, and in fact, now that I, now that you've told me this, I can keep an eye out for potentially some level of external influence with, with an on dare and potentially do something about it. So thank you. Um, like I said, I definitely tell them not to let any giant pointy buildings be built.
00:44:24
Speaker
We have all over the city. Next to that floating tower. The tower that you're taking me to is a giant pointy building. And then he stabbed you.
00:44:37
Speaker
No, I thank you and it's good to know what to look out for. And if it comes to it and there is a full-scale invasion by the Sarlonans or the Reedrons, if Onda can do anything, we will be happy to stand with you. Cut to you. What are you doing, Booyah? Booyah was eavesdropping on Barak's conversation.
00:45:06
Speaker
Of course. No, he was not standing like a suit of armor nearby. Just but could only hear one side of it. Correct. Like we still can't hear it. No. Okay. Rusted decks to be fair. Barrick was shouting at one point during the conversation. Go crazy. Oh, we all heard Barrick talking to his soul. I'd like to say, let's see Booyop in his workshop with his armor off. Okay. Realizing there's no time to do anything with his
00:45:36
Speaker
The smell is so, so bad. Why? In that armor? Yeah, that trash. The guy cleans his armor. Throw some odor eaters in there. He just hates soap. No. Yeah, it doesn't smell any worse than anything else because I put on TV fair. He's examining the armor. He's just trying to look for some way to what he might confine if it was possible without messing with all the wonderful little tricks it does.
00:46:04
Speaker
you find a way for it to offer just a little more protection. Protection. Okay. But he's just examining it out, just looking it over, checking it out, realizes in what, what kind of, how long is our trip? An hour, two hours. Short. Yeah, it's short. He's not going to do anything. Try to do anything. And it took him 20 minutes to get it off. Looking at it. Okay. Um, go ahead and give me an investigation role.
Arriving at Arcanics
00:46:34
Speaker
Investigation. Three. Yeah, but plus what? Investigation plus one. Yeah, you can't figure anything out with the armor. You're kind of clinking it around and trying to like flip it over. It doesn't clink. But yeah, there's no way some of it doesn't clink when it's off a body and rattling around.
00:47:02
Speaker
Because you don't walk. It's metal. It's not metal. It's I thought you said it wasn't made of metal. It is made of metal. It's just it's just very quiet plate armor. But it's for some reason it's quiet. Yeah, you don't get the penalty to stealth with it. So. Anyway, so yeah, you can't figure anything out with your arm, unfortunately.
00:47:30
Speaker
So, after a bit, you all see in the distance, those of you on deck, the floating towers of Arcanics in the distance, as you all approach quickly. Anything else you would like to do before dropping off a doll? Oh, yeah, actually one thing. I'd like to offer him, if he's around the size of Barak or Jace or I or somebody, I'd like to offer him some clean clothing. Barak doesn't have clean clothes. It's clean. It doesn't, it's not a good repair. So, it's black.
00:48:00
Speaker
It doesn't mean it's in bad repair. Not naturally black. It's dyed. Fair enough. Anywho. Derek's t-shirt is black, but it's in fine shape. Yeah, and he looks terrible. And the t-shirt's a problem. Anyway.
00:48:16
Speaker
I like his t-shirt, he looks very handsome. No, is a doll around the size of somebody on the boat that I could offer him some clean clothing. He's a little bit taller than anybody else, so you could get him clothing that would fit reasonably well. It just might be a little short. I take off my cloak and I say, oh, not this one.
00:48:36
Speaker
No, yeah. I tell him, I say, we've got some clothes. They may not. Look, they're not going to fit you perfectly. I assume you might have some clothes at your office. But I don't want you to have to walk in like this. I appreciate that. Yes. If you had a change of clothes, I would happily take that. And I point to my own outfit and I say, not like this. It's all right. Thank goodness. And as I walk out, I say, you know, I'm fly.
00:49:06
Speaker
So yes, you can find a change of clones for a doll that fits decently. It just seemed like decent hosting. Yeah. So yeah, Jace brings you all in. It's obviously easy to dock with a floating tower. And you see a man in robes begin to walk out very inquisitively as Jace comes out of the steering place. Helm. Helm, thank you.
00:49:36
Speaker
It's called the wheelhouse. That's where that term comes from. And approaches the individual and you see him like waving his hands and trying to shoe Jason. Yeah. And Jason's like feverishly pointing back and then he doesn't have a sending stone on him. I get over the loudspeaker.
00:50:04
Speaker
um are you bringing a doll up onto the deck like yeah i well and i was actually gonna ask if we had stayed down at some point in that open like he was right like he slept for any portion of that trip that you all were not talking okay sure but he was tired he hadn't moved for a long time
00:50:23
Speaker
nerd. So yeah I say hey uh we're here and they're trying to kick us out you want to come make a make your presence known. Yes yes sorry and he walks up on deck and the road man reacts. The clothes don't fit as poorly as we thought by the way. I'm injecting that into the story.
00:50:41
Speaker
Okay. I'm all about the important parts of the game. Yeah, thank you. And a couple other robed individuals come out and a doll walks off the ship and passes Jace to go talk to them. Are you going with him or are you just kind of... I'm going to ask, I think I'm as Toa, is this where our...
00:51:05
Speaker
companies part ways or do you want to be around do you. Require any supplies or anything for your journey do you need anything i need to run an inventory with some of the guys who take care some of that stuff i would be alright if i check with the with our pilot and with our. I don't know if i'll say quarter master with our check with our quarter master left in fair haven.
00:51:30
Speaker
I think we can go. You know what? He's in Fairhaven. You know what? Let me check with our captain. Is that all right? Can you just tell these fellas? Give us what we need within reason and we'll... Yeah, sure. Well, it was a genuine pleasure to meet you. I'm glad that we were able to get you back here.
00:51:46
Speaker
Yes, I'm glad you're able to as well. Thank you for the clothes and the food and the hospitality and the rescue. And he signals to one of them and one of the robed individuals and hands him a piece of parchment and he begins writing something down on it.
00:52:06
Speaker
We are hereby protectors of the realm. Whether he writes the paper or not, we are the protectors of the realm eventually. He hands it to you and says, if you ever find yourself in Arcanics, The Village Below, or Fairhaven, or any other cities in Ardare, please feel free to present this. It's not
00:52:33
Speaker
buy one, get one free on a large pizza. It's not much. It will cover all docking fees that people might try to incur upon you and basic supplies from the Royal Quartermaster rations, things of that nature. Nothing fancy or anything, but something to get you by in your upcoming conflict. All right. I take the paper from him and I thank him and I look at it.
00:53:00
Speaker
this is jelly of the month club it's actually a punch card well you have to buy 12 sets of rations and then you get the 13th one free it's free shipping on orders of 150 exactly and if you're docking for five nights or more the sixth night is free i was unclear no kids yeah sorry no pets some jokes uh so i go
00:53:26
Speaker
I'll fill up over the rack like he's not laughing. So I, I mean, I guess I hit the... Are Beric and Booyah on the deck? Can we, can I just shout?
Debating Dragons and Pacts
00:53:41
Speaker
And I mean, so if you guys have anything you need to say, then you can just say it. I don't need to check with you. Beric has nothing he needs to say to the prince. All right.
00:53:50
Speaker
Now, looking at the tower. How's that thing stay up there? We got one tour. You've seen floating towers before. They have an elevator or stairs? Both in case of emergencies. I mean, I suppose we never really left the deck. So he walks off. Yeah. And I turn around and I look at Barrick and Booyah and I say, shall we go collect our friends? Yeah.
00:54:23
Speaker
Dex using his canonical, keen emotional awareness. Notice is Beric. Not in the best mood. How long is it from Arcanics to Fairhaven? Like minutes? It's a couple hours. It's further away than Meryl's board was from Fairhaven. So great. Couple hours. Well strap in listeners. We got a couple hours.
00:54:50
Speaker
Hey, Barrick, you appear to be in... Sour mood? No, bad spirit. Case of the grumps. You doing alright, bud? I mean, I know you're not doing alright. Aside from... Did something new happen?
00:55:20
Speaker
Not something new, more just repetition of old. Let me put it this way. You've got the demeanor you get when something mission critical happens. What's going on? And we all heard you yelling at your sword. So it's clearly something, you learn something major.
00:55:46
Speaker
Well, apparently. I've never asked you to tell me everything, but I feel like this is something we're going to end up needing to know. Well, apparently, all the great and powerful beings that have told us what we needed to do and that have been proven to be incorrect, have been telling the truth, despite the fact that the things they tell us conflict. It's all true and it's all a lie at the same time. And what's more, the raven is going after the last pact and if she gets it, apparently she'll kill everyone we all.
00:56:17
Speaker
Or something to that effect. Do something horrible. Destroy the world. I don't know. It's hard to remember when the number of different people who are looking to cause vast and terrible destruction on the planet I live on... It's hard to keep track of which one is going to destroy to what degree. Including apparently us. We might just destroy our entire planet if we do this wrong. And I can't tell you what the right way is.
00:56:42
Speaker
So yeah, you're right. Nothing really new. Right. Uh, but I do have a question about that one bit in the middle. Uh, the Raven Queen, the Raven, pardon me. Uh, I just so much royalty around. I get confused. The Raven, uh, is trying to get the last packed. Yes. And if she gets it, regardless of the fact that you carry, she'll come and kill me. She'll come trying to kill you. Right. Which.
00:57:09
Speaker
will be difficult for her probably because there's one there's you and then two there's me there's a great deal of people who shall kill in the process and that's not good however
00:57:21
Speaker
under the assumption, I'm not suggesting this is a course of action unless you think it's necessary. We beat her to pack 13. Right. But then what happens when all the packs are reunited? Does she get super strong again? Anyway, that's what we were kind of leaning towards at one point, right? Don't know. Okay. Just don't know. Just don't know. No insight from apparently it'll be really bad if she gets it, but if I get it, it might still be really terrible. And there's really no one else who can get it is my understanding. Not anymore. Well, I suppose.
00:57:51
Speaker
Someone would think, right? I've been told several things which conflict. I think Eric might feel misunderstood about something he was trying to convey to you earlier. His face was so good. He was like, is that what he heard? Is that what he heard me say? Oh, no. OK, back in.
00:58:13
Speaker
Well, that's I've got conflicting information on that too. At one point I could give the pack to anyone. And then another point I couldn't because it had to be me. And at some point anyone with the proper bloodline might be able to claim the pack, but then we learned that wasn't true. So I don't know. Theoretically, if someone killed all the right people, but no, I think in the simple form it's me or her. All right.
00:58:41
Speaker
dragon killed you and her then potentially he could you're on the other end of the ship and i'm not talking to you yeah no one's talking to you uh i just i assume there is a sword stuck in the deck at the front of the ship and barrick is not talking to it we are curious what no if raven come kill barrick she'll have all the packs and can do whatever she wants so if she gets
00:59:09
Speaker
and come, what is way we can find the Raven? Kill Raven first? Oh, I know exactly a good way to find the Raven, and I'll happily step off the deck if you'd like. That's the quickest way I have to find the Raven.
00:59:27
Speaker
Yeah, I've never liked that way. Right. Uh, cause also cause you get to her real quickly. Right. The rest of us aren't, I noticed that last time too. Aren't privy to that. Did you notice the last time that happened? Oregon robbed us. You know, I think I've actually said it in character. Yeah, I did. I did notice that. Well, actually, you know what, though, that's not even true. That's not the last time you saw the Raven.
00:59:55
Speaker
This is the last time you died to do it. Oh, also we need the weapons. We actually do need the weapons. According to Erebus, we have to have the weapons and I have to have all the packs. You know, I guess you told me that because you said everything we've heard has been correct, but I didn't think of it in those concrete terms. And so they're not going to let us keep those weapons. When the two nigh immortal, all powerful beings come back to collect the weapons, we can't give them to them and then we'll die.
01:00:21
Speaker
I will say, I have always, sometimes in the forefront and always, at least in the back of my mind, thought that I would die. I just thought we might win first or in the process. But instead it's just, I think we're just going to die. Now, unless we're ready to revisit the Feywild idea.
01:00:43
Speaker
You know, you keep bringing it up and I'll tell you this time, it is more intriguing. There's nothing in their dreams. The thing that sucks is I don't gather from the last conversation that we had that these are the sorts of dragons that can be reasoned with about why their plan is so wrong that we need to renege on the deal that we made. I don't know. That part sucks. What?
01:01:20
Speaker
Besides also the other thing that has a pact is a dragon. I don't know if I've made that. No, we knew that point. We already knew that one. Yes. From to remind you because of our excellent experience with dragons so far. Boy, I see dragon. Yes. I mean, to be fair, we we did all right against the one we had to fight. But I don't know about this new one. He's bigger, stronger, faster, greener. I don't know. It is greener, as I understand.
01:01:45
Speaker
Well, uh, that information. Yeah. Booyah shared that information with everybody. He's trying to remember if the dragon was in fact, agreeing. Well, then we've known it was a dragon since who was trying to make the deal with us to work with him to take it down. Was that Lucan? Lucan. Yeah. So anyway, did, did, did Arabis happened to have
01:02:10
Speaker
any insight on how of any of this well apparently if i collect all the packs i'll have the power to do one or two things neither of which is particularly the thing i want to do i can either destroy all the quarry which we were advised would probably kill everyone
01:02:30
Speaker
by the two dragons. The two dragons definitely said if we destroyed all the quarry we'd probably kill everyone. The dragons didn't actually say anything about how necessary the quarry were for this. Now this is something Dex was going to say to you before Eric jumped in I swear because I do remember that bit because it was frustrating. Well for all I know when I'm told I'll be able to destroy all the quarry
01:02:56
Speaker
It could mean you should shut it shut us off the alcohol, but in any case yeah destroying all of the quarry permanently. Doesn't necessarily sound like the right thing to do as I understand as I've been made to understand that sometimes there are in fact good quarry or I can reset the cycle and then freeze it.
01:03:17
Speaker
the next cycle, which will in theory be all good quarry. But of course no one can tell me for sure that these quarries didn't start out as good quarry and have gone bad, and that's not just the cycle. They start out as good quarry and then they turn into nightmare quarry and then the cycle restarts and they start out as good quarry and so forth and over again. But when you say freeze it, the cycle will no longer
01:03:41
Speaker
Reset or this like we'll freeze it in this iteration or we will freeze in the next iteration I'm sorry the next iteration, but that iteration could still turn evil. Yeah, I don't know I Erebus thinks I'll freeze it at springtime But you know what an excellent idea it is to pause the fundamental workings of creation
01:04:02
Speaker
I mean, I don't. I don't either. Oh, there you go. I see. I see where you're headed. That was good. Good bit rhetoric. I don't like either of them either. But none of it's really relevant if the Raven gets the pact first. So the place where it is is either she gets the pact. She comes here with I don't know.
01:04:21
Speaker
500 of those horrible, weird freakish things that keep trying to grab me and drag me off into the door and kills everyone on the ship. And then a whole bunch of us, a whole bunch of the people that we care about on the ship die and the ship is destroyed. And maybe we're still alive at the end, but who really cares if everyone we like is dead.
01:04:41
Speaker
So the point is we have to go find this dragon before she does. Yeah. We got to go kill a dragon. I said we have to go find this dragon before she does. I'm not interested in murdering more people. No, no, no, no. I apologize. I don't know that my voice and face conveyed that. I don't like the idea that we have to go kill a dragon, but you're right. I guess we could potentially. It might be that there's a reasonable dragon out there in the world.
01:05:02
Speaker
I'm sure there's a reasonable dragon, but what I do know is a thing about dragons and possessions, not easily parted willfully, but I'm hoping that won't be the case with this. And you know what? Maybe a dragon's better qualified to handle this. You want to give your 12 packs to the dragon? I don't know. Here's, here's, here's right now.
01:05:32
Speaker
What I want to do is extremely ill-advised. I want to do several things and each of them is more reckless than the last. The thing I apparently have to do right now is go find a dragon. And it's just on Arenal, which is real fun to visitors. And the one person that we used to have who had an orb that could summon a nearby dragon
01:06:02
Speaker
I burned that bridge unnecessarily. You may recall. Oh, no. I remember that. Yeah. So things are fine. End of episode. Okay. Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversation, head on over to the Facebook group, The Geek Pantheon. We're also on Twitter and Instagram at The Geek Pantheon. If you like what we do and would like to join our amazing Patreon community, head on over to patreon.com slash The Geek Pantheon.
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01:06:29
Speaker
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01:07:16
Speaker
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